[ { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(gentle yet ominous string music) (light switch clicks) (gentle yet ominous string music) (gentle yet ominous string music) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(dramatic music) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music fades) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Auggie James, would you like to describe yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, that's me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, you need something, you call me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Great, and what do you look like here darting from the rain in the middle of the storm? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just a little scrappy, you know, clothes that don't really fit, messy hair, hat, dirty, freckles. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you trek through here, ending your days bit of work, the odd jobs and tasks that you've been taken since you were a youth among these streets, you're finishing the last of your long-run paper route amongst your other jobs. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Get your papes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There you see it partially ajar, the apartment of Donald. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(knocks) Hey, Donald? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Hey, hey, it's nice for you to come by, Auggie.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Got a good thick one for you today. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Lots of stories, lots of good shit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You want to sit down for a second?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, would love to. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You had a good route today?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Made a little bit extra. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He starts shoveling into his little furnace-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Let me get that, let me get that, I'll help you out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A lot of people out here don't really pay much mind or respect to those of us who used to work hard before the war, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I know how it is to be a hard worker, you know? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Let me tell you, you remind me of those of us who built this city, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Those who had respect for a hard day's work and for earning your keep here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "None of these scum suckers and the varnish and the eaves hold their noses high above the rest of us hard working folk.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The worst! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(coughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "They don't know how hard it is. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You, uh-- You got aspirations there, Auggie? You're going to be running the paper rest of your life?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Maybe be the mayor of the town. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Ah, see that, I like that ambition.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, I think I'd be good at it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "These are things that, well, things that we need in the political circles of this city.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Reaches over and grabs some more kindling and throws it in. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "How you been feeling? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Got a sister of mine is coming in town on the trains in the next month or so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Going to bring some teas from the northern sides--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"-- the Fairelands and hopefully that'll help clear me out a little bit, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I didn't know you had a sister " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Indeed, haven't talked to her in a long time.\" She's younger. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, all right, all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you please describe yourself and what you are doing. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "but some oddities and it's very pristine inside, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Don't mean to disturb you, Professor, but are you planning to sleep in your office?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What can I do for you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I mean...\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What's this meeting about, Dennings, what can I help you with? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You could use the, could use the relationship building experience of being part of a faculty.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is that all? You just invited me out for a drink? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, should you ever decide to take us up on such and offer, please do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right, thank you, I suppose. (chuckles) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "My apologies for intruding this evening.\" Reaches over and hands you a small envelope. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(sighs) All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There has been a phenomenon.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Where are we meeting? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I believe she wishes to meet at the diner.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Your Lightkeeper for the evening.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Instead now, Arlo Black, whereabouts are you this evening? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I'm sitting in my bedroom, actually. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Please describe the scene where you sit and what we see as we come into your personal space. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Not saying anything. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(knocking) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Come in. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The door lurches. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She turns around. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's locked. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I get up and unlock the door. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There has been a phenomenon.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The night is still young enough and time is of the essence.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mr. Tellbrook, tell Mother I'll be going out for the evening. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Will you be safe? Do you need assistance? Do you need an escort?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No escort will be necessary, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you wouldn't mind, Charlotte Eaves, what are you doing and what do you look like? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's about it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make sure you're okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I simply was falling into a reverie, remembering good times. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If there's any trouble coming and you're getting yourself into, you know you got friends.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Trust me, I'm not involved in anything I can't get myself out of. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay, well, if you're feeling you want a drink or anything, You know where to find me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There has been a--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I invite him into my back office. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Your Lightkeeper will await you the diner.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Holy shit! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Your vision's blurred and fuzzy, and you immediately watch as six people turn around and face you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As they lift you up-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, hey, hey, get your hands off me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see, in this moment, the ice that has been thrust across this room like it was flash frozen, all emanating from the center of where this now broken and twisted furnace is. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Donald? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He looks back in your direction, starts walking towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Where's my friend? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(authoritatively) \"What's your name?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What do you need to know my name for? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You were present for a violent event.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I didn't do anything. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I did not say you did anything, but you are the only witness to this and we need--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I wasn't the only witness! My friend Donald was here, now he's gone. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Your friend Donald is not here for now.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is he okay? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The closer he is to you, you can see his-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What did you see?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Then I look over here-- I don't even know what the fuck. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Understood.\" He gives you a very long look into one eye, then the other, reading your facial micro expressions before standing back up. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You said you're from the where? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm sorry for your friend and we will see to it that when we discover the purpose of this tragedy that when we discover the purpose of this tragedy has been brought to justice, any next of kin will be awarded in his stead.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "His sister's coming into town. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Regardless, it appears here there was some sort of fungal infection within the neighborhood that's been causing hallucinations.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ugh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What you saw tonight was indeed unique.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Am I going to explode any minute? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Now, if you wouldn't mind, we'd like to escort you to your home and off the premises to a place safe while we finish our investigation.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Where did you take him? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm sorry.\" Looks over to somebody else, then somebody grabs your shoulder and starts pushing you out of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Take the furnace, anything else of interest.\" The door closes behind you as you're pushed back out into the hallway that leads outside of the apartment complex. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I go to see Charlotte. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You glance over your shoulder and you see one figure that's stepping about 20, 25 feet behind you, hands in a long jacket's pockets, and just keeping pace. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to pick up my pace a little more. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And try to go parts of the street that I know are very bright. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The voice that comes out from their shadow as the gas lamp begins to light their features, \"I saw you talking to them, and I think it's good if we have a conversation.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Why? What? Who are you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She steps closer and you-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "A thousand people are coming at me right now that I don't even know and you're all telling me to-- Who are you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What's your name?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Um, Auggie? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Auggie.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Nice to meet you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I have to ask you, do you trust them?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't even know who you are. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Good.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "How am I supposed to know I'm supposed to trust you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Let's at least step out of the light for a moment, just so they don't see us talking.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She steps off into the nearby alley before turning once so that you're both in sufficient shadow. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to keep my space. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Because, unless I'm incorrect, it's not normal.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Me and a number of my compatriots have for a very long time.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I've never seen anything like that before. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I want to offer you an opportunity to work with me to figure out what happened to your friend, and if we can, stop it from happening to other people.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What's in it for me? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You don't look like a stranger to doing the odd job here and there, huh?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I make do. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Are you a curious one?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Never see us again.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Let's head to the Blue Derby Diner in South Soffit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, that place is delicious. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm glad you all have some sense and aren't too busy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Never. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Auggie--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "My name is Charlotte. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Who are you? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So Candela's recruiting fetuses now, are we? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Listen-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Arlo Black. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's a pleasure to meet you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Pleasure. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Howard Margrove. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's hard to-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What's this? What-- What is this? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Could somebody go ahead and help Auggie and contain...\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As I do, the bleed starts to almost pull itself into the vial. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I just walk up to Auggie? Do you mind? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Anytime. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it seem familiar, this substance? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you would like to make a Sense test to see if you can ascertain the nature of this odd, corruptive bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you rolled? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Two threes and a one, baby! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I need you to go ahead and mark one bleed on your character sheet. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Already? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How does this bleed affect you? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Fucking hell. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How how does it cross into your consciousness? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll close my eyes and see if I can push it back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "At which point, Alexandra reaches out and grabs your jar and quickly collects the rest of the bleed from the front of your coat before latching it and putting it within their pocket, handing you a new, unutilized container. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A little slow, Charlotte. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I didn't see you jumping to help, Howard. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Fair point. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Will you join us?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Hands?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"It is within my esteem and authority of Candela Obscura to forge this circle, the circle of--\" What are you naming your circle? What have you decided previously? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The Circle of the Vassal and the Veil. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You feel almost like you're holding every hand in this circle. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You'll get used to it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do us proud.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We need no heroes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Puts her coat back on, pulls out a thick cigar, and lights it and kind of-- \"Let me know what you find when you're done.\" Gives you a nod and she leaves out of the chamber, leaving the four of you to (laughs) catch up a bit, if you'd like. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "H-H-How do you all know each other? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And you, I wish you weren't here. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, that's not very kind, Charlie. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "However, if he is going to be with any circle, I would rather he be with mine. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Secrets at the outset? I like it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you work at the Sight Unseen? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, I've been-- W-W-We met-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "In a manner of speaking. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I've known Charlie since I was about 10. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So what do you do? You go out and then you-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "How does this even work? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So this happened at his apartment? That's what the envelope said? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I go in there and he's sitting by his furnace, and we're filling it up to get warm, and then he puts in a piece of charcoal and then it just explodes and everything's blue and there's ice, and-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Did you say blue? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Everything as in...? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It had a hue. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "An energy? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That was blue. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't think that was charcoal. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I was outside of my body and I saw my body and then, and then I woke up, and all those people were there and Donald was gone. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So they were still there when you left? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(sighs) We might be too late. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Aaron-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're familiar. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No good? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Did Donald have any other friends, relations, people that you knew of? To ask the obvious question, any enemies? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Not that I can think of, I mean, he was just a normal guy, and his sister was coming to town. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "When? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't know, I just, that she was coming soon. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And he lived in The Steel, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you know where he did his shopping? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, yeah, yeah, because sometimes I would help him out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He'd occasionally go shopping, and there's different marketplaces around here, fairly simple, but anything specifically, he had friends that used to work in the industry, or adjacent to it that would just find what he needed for a good price. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I was one of them. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And you've never met any of them? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Not really. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Not well enough. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should probably go home. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) I saw you dive to check, by yourself to check on this particular material we found on the young man. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I suspect this is not your first circle working with, right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no, actually, professor and I have worked together before. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, truly you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You're so kind. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But yes, we've had some experience in this department. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "In that case, I don't need to warn you not to do that again, do I? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you, Charlie. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Young man, do you have any education, by any chance? Did you go to school? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I mean, yeah, I have, I had education on, oh, on the street. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, your education goes far beyond book smarts. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are you familiar with the term, a hypothesis? Do you know it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Great, I'll help you, but obviously you know, and it's like a educated guess. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Before you have all of the information. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did you also need some help pulling that stick out of your ass? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Because I actually know what a hypothesis is. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult your intelligence, or knowledge. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(skeptical noise) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So, if you had one for this particular scenario that you experienced tonight, what do you think happened? Was it the charcoal? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(scoffs) I don't know, I don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you remember anything that wasn't as it should be when you were there at that moment with Donald? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So make a Focus test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How's your Focus? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I got one, so that means I roll how many again? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "One dice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "One dice, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You know what? I'm going to give you some help. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I also have a Resistance, so I can use that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can use two to add more dice if you want to, you just-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know what? I'll do another drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So one drive from you, or? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We need this, this is super helpful. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Urgh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Three, one, three. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "There was-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So I get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It was-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, the circle ability you chose for this was? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We chose Trauma Bonding. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Trauma Bonding, which means that if you help somebody and they fail, you both get your drives back, if I recall? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, so you get your drive back as well. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So, their drives were what-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "God, that's cool. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- gave her the extra dice roll, right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It was just like every night. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know? I was just sitting there, and then-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You need to take a brain mark for me. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player853", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I was just to-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We are so ready. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- get you to use your-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But I will say, as you do know as investigators, that often the first place to begin an investigation is the scene. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should try it out anyway, see if the-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "August. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You breathe. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Breathe. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(labored exhale) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's skip straight to observation, shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's start. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are you comfortable returning? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "With you guys, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Then I suspect we should go. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, well, I'll take you guys there. I know where to go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You leave the Red Lamp. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see no immediate signs of anybody bustling about. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can we see, is there a way to look in the front of the building to see if there's anyone stationed out there, or anything? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But no sign of anybody currently staking the exterior of it either. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you know how to get up? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, you want, I mean, up the fire escape, is that okay? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is that okay for you, sir? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Are you're going to, you know, mess up your clothes a little bit? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm, maybe, but I've got others. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, after you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Why thank you, what a young gentleman. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The person is just sitting stationed there. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Have they seen us yet? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They do not appear to be aware of your presence yet. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are we in full view, are we all in full view? If they-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "On the left is where that is, so you're out of sight, and just looking this way-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "On the T? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "To see where they are beyond the T. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He's the only one we can see in front of the door? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "At the moment, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is he, what is he doing? Is he just sitting there? Does he seem distracted, does he? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's just sitting there, twiddling his thumbs, lost in thought. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is it possible that you could help me? You look like you've been here before. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I don't know this apartment well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She's unwell, you see, and I just need to make sure that I can knock on her door, and make sure that she's okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and make a-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I guess it's a Sway. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It should be a Sway roll, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's to convince, command, or consort. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, make a Sway test for me, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And I have a gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh-hoo. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So, if I'm right, I have two Sway, plus a gilded, plus a gilded die, so three dice. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, two Sway, and one of them is gilded, so it's two dice-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Two dice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- one of which is gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Delightful. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I see. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I see. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I thought-- Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(whoops) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That is a success. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "On the gilded, or on the regular? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "On the regular. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But I haven't spent any, so I don't need-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, okay, miss. I mean, what apartment you looking for?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(stammers) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I can help you out here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh please, you could help me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He reaches for the paper a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Takes it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You can't possibly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Are you sure you got the right address?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And keep going with him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll, shit, turn towards me, and we'll talk, and-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, so they can't. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Distracted enough by your conversation, and his flummoxed experience with your, help me but not really, but please help, but not really (laughter) tug of war. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, you can't, sir, please, no! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You're so big and strong and manly! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll get you sorted, hmm? (laughs)\" Begins to lead you, or begins to walk with you down the staircase while the rest of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We immediately duck around them. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Duck around, and head over to the stairs, or start heading to the doorway, which is partially ajar. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there anybody inside the apartment? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is not, it is empty. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Walk, walk, go, let's go in. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, yes, we move in. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, let's go in. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What would you like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(uncertain noise) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to pull out-- " }, { "Role": "Player649", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to unhook my watch, and I'm going to hold it towards where the furnace was, and I'm going use my bleed detector to see if I can-- (interested oohing) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you can see there is definitely was at one point a heavy amount of bleed throughout this chamber. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there anything, an area that it seems heavy, but is farther away from the furnace? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can make a Sense test if you'd like to. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "See if you can sense any currently lingering strong emanations. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There, you can see there is a broken part of the wood floor that sinks about six, seven or so inches before it would break into the apartment below, but it just barely stopped before that. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I get down and inspect that closer, the area that's sunken in? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you would like to make a, we'll call this a Survey test. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Can, no, can I give her drive? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, does any-- yes, I am very bad at this. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Give you drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'd love to help, but I'm off flirting. " }, { "Role": "Player28", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Sure, you're helping me? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, I'll-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, so if I have none, then I would get a one. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's a low stakes roll on this one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, okay-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Presently-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know what? I'm going to use, I saw this coming, because three times per assignment, I can assist a member of the " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(clicks tongue) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "-- by saying how I'm going to do it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Because I was here. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Because I saw this shit, I want to help you out, and feel out in this area, it's right here. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This is where he kept his charcoal? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Potentially? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(nervous laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wait, can you roll an extra one? Because I was-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No. Because I was going to roll none, I would roll two, and get the disadvantage on it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, this-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Because you had none. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm not very good at seeing things that are here. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's more. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, glancing down, you can just see that pocket there, but you do sense there is a strong, there was a-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This is wood. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes, Arlo, it seems as though this is the center, or the epicenter of the explosion, so. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What a genius. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- it's about this moment the temperature begins to drop. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Even lower. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, it's basically-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And colder. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I didn't-- We didn't cause that, did we? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you begin to look at each other, and this faint pale blue light begins to glow behind where Arlo stands-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(gravelly gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Donald? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(groans)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Are you okay? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(spectral whisper) \"What happened?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Where are you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Where am I?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What, what, what? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Why is it so cold?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What do you see, sir? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You're so warm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm in the doorway suddenly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What have you done in this time, by the way? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I please buy you a drink at some point? Maybe even tonight? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Maybe tomorrow night we can do something.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, no, no, no-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Have a good night now--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'll meet you, I'll meet you at the, The Sight Unseen. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Very well, I'll meet you there when I finish my shift.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, no, no, no, no, no. (laughs) Why don't you head over there now? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) Make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hardcore, this is a high stakes roll, so I am going to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's starting to-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to use-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- feel a little weird about this encounter. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- a resistance, so that I can have three dice with one gilded. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh, is that one of your abilities? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, it's got a diamond and two things. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, now, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to use-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, that means you have two dice, and one of which is gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, but then I'm going to use a Resistance-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, you mean a drive, you mean a drive, not a-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm going to us a drive-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I knew that, a drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm using a " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Three dice. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Theoretically, because she's by herself, we can't help her, right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can't help at all. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's fine, it's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Come on, Charlie! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's fine, it's fine! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Roll them bones! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gently) Come on, Charlie. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You can do it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(claps) " }, { "Role": "Player853", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I did, so I get that bad boy back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It wouldn't hurt to take a couple hours off, I guess.\" " }, { "Role": "Player838", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Don't tell anyone.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This rain has gotten me so soggy and wet, and I'd like to look good for you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What's the name?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "LAURA, ASHLEY, " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) Believe me, I've been eyeing you for a while, this is--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Aha! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\" -- this kind of a surprise.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, darling, okay, well, fine, and since I'm so happy that I don't have to get that act on, listen, I really do want to offer you a drink. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I know your place.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) I've had my eye on you for a while as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) I'm going to see you there. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"All right, don't keep me waiting.\" He heads out the apartment complex. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Actually, yes, I go running up the stairs. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Running up the stairs and enter the chamber just as you see this spectral entity reaching out towards Arlo. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll instinctively step in front of Arlo, and put my safety belt hand, but I know it's pointless, but it's just an instinct. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You put your hand out and-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But in front of her to shield her, and it is an instinct. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, warm, warm--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Back away, back away. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As he does, you watch his arms stretch and extend, exaggerating-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh jesus, what do we do? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- the fingers spreading out like spider legs, these spectral claws that reach for you. \"(gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Donald! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ah, ah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Still reaching, what do you say? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I trip over my dress, and fall down on the ground, and start backing away. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I instinctively called his name to pull him away, but I obviously can't flirt with the spirit, so I don't know what to do. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Donald! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Donald, we can get you out of there. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's me, it's me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We can save you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You remember me? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As soon as you start speaking, the spirit \"(gasps)\" the jaw begins to subside, the form, the imagery, the features begin to return to a more human, less ghastly appearance. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know me, and your sister's coming to visit soon. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Auggie?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Bringing your paper? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What happened?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well, what did you put in the fire? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I buy fuel from the scavengers.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Which ones? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Mainly Layla.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"It's supposed to keep me warm. I'm so cold.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, no, move away-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Donald, Donald, Donald. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He begins to reach towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Behind one of us? I don't know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to hide, I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How are you hiding? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Get behind one of, a chair, a sofa, or something, I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I want to take that ability now. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, there is some scattered furniture on the side of the walls here, so you could try, and flee, and hide from the spirit. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "One, two, plus gilded, you can-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no, no, it's mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you do, you end up landing on the side where one of the chunks of frozen ice-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- is currently jutting out-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It sticks into your side. You take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ow! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ow! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So, one of my abilities is Let Them In. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But that's if I've taken a bleed in relation to that phenomenon. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Which I did earlier because of Auggie's coat. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes, yes, you did. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it possible to quickly remove my glove that I had, and feel my hand of where the bleed had hit it earlier? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In this instant, I'll allow it, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right, then with this ability, whenever I take one or more bleed marks, I also gain additional information about the phenomenon that harmed you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, first, I want you to describe what everyone sees when you take your glove off. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Deep gashes that look old, but not healed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "For a split second, you see something dark, and smooth with carvings in it, like an art piece or a capsule, before this release, and something shadow-like that is gone. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Does Donald seem to have any of the markings of that shadow that I saw? Does he look connected to it in any way? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You would guess that whatever may have caused this detonation is responsible for his death, so there's a connection somewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We have to get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Did you get what you need? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What floor is this on? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Leave him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is Donald between us and the door, or is it--? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Donald right now is between you and the door, and parallel to the rest of you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Want to go out the fire escape? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Does it go straight into his apartment? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you have a lighter on you? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I actually would have a lighter on me, yeah-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I look around Donald's apartment, is there a bowl? Is there anything metal? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, there is a tin cup that's over by the kitchen. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to run, and grab the cup, and rip one of his books, and crumble up a piece of paper, and will you light it? I'll set it in the ground, so that there's warmth there. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's, \"Auggie, help me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't know what-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "August. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Warmth. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As it does, the flame that's burning immediately begins to flicker out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "August, run, come! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Take off. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All of you dart out of the room just as you hear the \"(gasps)\" that weird baleful voice of the spirit of your friend that weird baleful voice of the spirit of your friend bound to this space, locked and left behind bound to this space, locked and left behind as you close the door to the apartment, and step back out into the hallway. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wha-- I don't understand. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Something was released when the explosion happened. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That was already in him? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's just a guess. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But a very educated one. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Perhaps we can help him, perhaps not, but this new information does change things a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Regardless, we should tell Alexandra that there is danger in this apartment, maybe somebody can guard it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And we should find Layla. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is there some kind of messaging system to reach Candela, like a post, or? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, there's missives you can send, and you know, short range telegrams that can be-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- dropped across the town. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay, cool. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Various code names for utilization. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll take this note that basically is a quick sum up about what we just experienced, and I'll-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Attach it to a little pigeon. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "To a little bird. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And send it into the sky. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But save it for a moment when I can deliver it for sure. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She definitely was one of those, one of those kids who was either going to eventually become the head of a criminal organization, or wind up in prison at some point. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They spend a lot of their time in The Clara House back in South Soffit, which is a shelter and soup kitchen for the various abodeless individuals of the city. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "But I can take us. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How well do you know her? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She's older than me, and she runs a lot of shit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The two of you at least are on good-to-neutral terms? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Eh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. Well, I don't suppose we have any other leads at this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It won't be the first time we've convinced someone to give us some information. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Arlo. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are you quite all right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "what happened to your hand? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh yes, that's very rude. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's just you took off the glove, and-- Does it hurt? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should go. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This way. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And that's where we'll go ahead and take a break. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "♪ New part of town ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "♪ Dee-dee-dee-dee ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Whee whee whoyo ♪ All righty! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, so we'll " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, all right! (dramatic string and marimba music) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So go grab the Quickstart Guide and follow along as we embark upon the strange adventures of \"Candela Obscura.\" (dramatic orchestral music) (dramatic orchestral music) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Heading towards The Clara House in South Soffit, you said? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Here at midnight, it looks like The Clara House is, for the moment, not welcoming. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are they open all the time? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It is pretty late, but should I knock? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is it a place that people are used to receiving visitors this late? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You've never been here that late, necessarily, but from what you know of Clara, she's never really turned anyone down. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to give a knock on the door. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see this vibrant red hair that is knotted up into a tight bun atop a head, and a somewhat tired-looking woman who peeks through a chain that's locked on the inside of the door and goes, (softly) \"Right, right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Clara? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"This is Clara.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, you might not remember me, Auggie, sometimes I've been here before. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's been some time, hasn't it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's been some time. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You're a bit older than I remember.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is Layla here? Layla Orens. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Aye, she's staying for the night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Would you do me a big favor and go wake her up? I really need to talk to her. It's real important. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just a moment.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thanks. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You all look like you have places to stay, right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you, ma'am, yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"If need be, there's always soup in the kitchen.\" Closes the door. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She's the best. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Steps away a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That was quite possibly the kindest person I've met in weeks. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She's a wonderful woman. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How many people usually stay here? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I mean, they got about-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A few dozen at any given point in time. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And is there a particular age where they let the birds leave the nest? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Anyone. I mean, if somebody needs a bed, Clara will take them in. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Incredible. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She looks a bit dirty in the cheeks, and you can see has dried, cracked lips a bit, and you can see has dried, cracked lips a bit, but has already a look upon your troop as she looks at you with complete mistrust and frustration and goes, \"What the fuck, Auggie, you're waking me up this time of night for what? To introduce me to all your well-dressed friends here? Is this a birthday? Is it my birthday? Is it my fucking birthday? Happy birthday to me, what the fuck?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I needed to ask you a question. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What is this shit? I haven't seen you in years.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I know. But I-- You know Donald? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, I know Donald. Why?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You were selling him some fuel. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah. Yeah, you know, just making a little scratch on the side. Yeah, why?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What kind was it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Stuff we had left over.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Leftover from where? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Why are you asking these questions?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I just-- Something happened. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I read her while this is happening? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Read test under your Cunning, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay. Yeah, no, I got them from work, that's--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Where you been working lately? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"All over the place. Look, I'm tired and I need to get to bed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I pull out a couple of coins? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I help at all? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Is she for real?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So she's paying up. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"So you hiring? What's this deal?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I need information on the fuel. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Sway roll with the coin in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Because you are offering coin, I'll add a die to it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How's your Sway? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "My Sway is not very good. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, I'll give you resistance for it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A drive you mean? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It says resistance-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So it would be adding a Cunning drive to that, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, I'm adding a Cunning drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to try to help myself out more and take one as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So I'm rolling four. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, shoot. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Drive, Drive, Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Two successes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Two successes? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, okay. Fives, successes with-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, so that's a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We need to keep ourselves warm here in the weather.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Maybe a little too warm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What, are you fucking eating or hugging the charcoal or something? Y'all are crazy. Look--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where on the outskirts, Layla? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(laughs) All right, this is an interrogation.\" " }, { "Role": "Player57", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I say this respectfully, you might have gotten had, friend.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is not a setup. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm putting my foot in the door before she closes it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It slams onto your boot and you catch-- \"The fuck is--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Layla, I don't know if you're familiar with me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see other figures, other younger teenagers and Clara start appearing in the distance hearing some of the scuffle in the front. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to pull out some coin as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ You bet I will, and I'll shoot a resistance ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A drive? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "A drive, a drive! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm going to keep pushing 'til you get it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to cross this word out right here. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There you go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I knew that, if you want to help out, I will be happy. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, I'm going to do Saw This Coming, and-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh nice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "-- add an extra-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thanks, sister-- brother. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She's fair, she pays well for loyalty and this is someone you want to have on your side. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So I'll take that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's awesome. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does Auggie get his drive back too? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Only if I-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh right, because you did the Saw It Coming, so you didn't actually use your drive, got it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Who the fuck are you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "They're associates of mine. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Not medical. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Doctor of?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "\"Of philosophy, actually.\" " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I didn't know that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"That's pretty funny.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's pretty funny. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What's so funny about it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Sorry, they're your associates and as a possible former employer, I don't mean to offend your friends, but this is fucking funny.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I appreciate someone who calls it as they see it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So grabs one of the stools and parks it up and Rikers over it and sits down at the tables. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"So yeah, I mean what kind of work you need? What kind of business are we talking?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Exceptionally good at finding goods in places where others might not find them. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We got a few secret paths here in The Soffit where we can find where the stairs go lower, if you know what I mean.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Might you have found that somewhere, or seen it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Especially during the cold weather fronts.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Have you ever burned any yourself? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She's got plenty of wood.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Have you ever seen one of your clients burn this fuel before? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They all seem to be--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you notice anything strange about it? Was it located anywhere different than usual? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So we just said it was a better fuel and sold it for a little bit extra coin.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And that was next to what you gave to Donald or that is what you gave to Donald? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I think we gave one to Donald and we gave one to the foundry originally.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Was it intended for the foundry? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Well, I mean the foundry's the one that usually pays for the majority of the fuel.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How recent was that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"That was yesterday.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should get to the foundry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you know her name? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "One of them hoity-toity artist types.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Have I ever been to the gallery before? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It tends to be a social hosting spot. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know if I can ask this of my GM or if I can ask of her, but would it be a place where they would show artifacts or relics or mostly paintings and sculptures and such? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I guess the question is how often have you been there? Do you think you would be a purveyor of this gallery often or was? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think I would find it to be an excellent meeting place to do business with people who-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They do have themes that deal with Oldfaire sculptures They do have themes that deal with Oldfaire sculptures and artistic expression, but there are a lot of places here that also study and talk of the lost history of Oldfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "To the Foundry? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If you ever find yourself, I hope you don't at this age, but if you ever find yourself near The Sight Unseen, drop in and hand this to a man named Stinson. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Pleasure doing business.\" Puts a hand out for the coin that you offer. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "For your time. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sorry about the whole laughing at you thing.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You don't know any better. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's fine. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Maybe you don't start with that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sure, I won't. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Look where we live.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I like it. You filled out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So did you. (laughs) Sorry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Fucking weirdo. Get out of here. Get out of here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, all right, all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Clara goes, \"Oh, I just brought the soup,\" and the door closes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa, whoa, whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Take it to go! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's all. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we know where this foundry is? Do we have a sense of where it is? Or could we have a map? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You know it's in The Steel. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So it's after midnight right now, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How comfortable are we going to The Steel at this hour? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Quite. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, I think we'll be okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Why don't you show them some of the backstreets, Auggie? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Parkouring! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Parkour! Parkour! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We all walk. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Unnecessarily parkour. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wee! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Through the slickened streets rising up through The Soffit once more, you begin to climb towards the more surfaced region of the city of Newfaire, heading back towards The Steel where you had encountered the spirit of Donald before. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Back and forth, back and forth. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should really think about taking a carriage. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You could take a trolley, if you'd like. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Trolley? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, we can take a trolley. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's a long walk. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Might as well. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So past the bridge, passing over the river at night, you can see the sheets of rain falling through the sky, the occasional crack of distant thunder that rolls through the evening storm, until you come back into the city streets once more, the rain splashing past people and faces just darting by until eventually you can see the large smoke stack columns that break the skyline as you return to the familiar site of The Steel. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where do you live, Auggie? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I live in The Shriveline. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "But sometimes-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sometimes I take care of him. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Always. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It looks like a small crowd is gathered alongside another set of buildings, not but three blocks away from the apartment complex where you had previously come from. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Auggie, do you know that building? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's Donald's building. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Where the crowd is? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The crowd is a little ways further down from that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do I know what it is? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It looks like it's still in the small clumps of residential housing-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A lot of people that work at these factories, or if they aren't going to the other districts, there are some places with relatively cheap housing, basically because of the proximity of the factories make them not the healthiest place to live. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it on the way to the foundry if we walk from that way? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's more like an adjacent journey. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. Let's walk by the crowd just to make sure. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'll hop off and check it out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you begin to approach, you can see they are currently carrying you can see they are currently carrying two sheet-covered bodies towards one of these carriages. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do I happen to recognize any of these gentlemen as people who may be on my, for lack of a better term, payroll? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Survey test for me, if you don't mind, under Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Six? Success. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Not on the gilded die. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you've been careful with not crossing anybody in that space necessarily, because you're not sure which ones are more or less keen to allow the business that you are purveying. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He doesn't see you there, but you just see him going about his business. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do I know him as in a friend or foe? Or neither? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You may have had a brief conversation with him once or twice, but you don't know him extremely well. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I mean, I could ask what's happened, but I'm wondering if we can glean it from where we are. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are there any, from where we can see among the hubbub and personnel, are there any OUP mixed in with The Periphery? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This looks to be just Periphery based. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They're coming from a house? The bodies were taken from a house? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You don't know if they're coming from a house or if they're coming from the street, you just see them moving these two bodies on carts and they're wheeling them towards the back of their wagon-like cars. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to run up to the crowd, run up to just somebody who was close. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, what happened? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He turns and goes, \"Oh, apparently they found two people dead in the street.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just right out in the road? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do you know them? Do you know who it was?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You didn't see? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I just got here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I was kind of curious.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "How you feeling? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I don't know him, yet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's weird seeing a dead body. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They've had a sheet on them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Have a good night. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, you too.\" You seem him trying to catch a glance over the front row of the crowd. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "They were just in the road. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I hope Donald didn't get them. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Huh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is Simon anywhere where I might be able to-- He's very much in the fray, right? He's not anywhere- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's in the fray, but he's about 15 feet from the outer edge of the crowd that's gathered and keeping a non-intrusive distance. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I just slide up to the edge of the crowd and try to make eye contact with him? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Because he is in the thick of it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ We'll find out ♪ Six on the gilded dice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Nice! " }, { "Role": "Player28", "Content": "Nice! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This is a good die. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There you go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You're doing good. Good job. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Miss?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sir, what's happened here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's not quite cold enough to put them in the state they were found in.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Frozen, you mean? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Aye. How'd you know that?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, you just said not quite cold enough to put them in the-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- state of this weather. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You're astute. I suppose.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "When did you find them? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, we were called down here about 20 minutes ago by the-- by folks.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "By folks. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's not anything we need to be worried about, is it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you know, best be safe.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Of course. Of course.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Who was it? Do you know who they were? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"We don't know. We just got here and found the bodies.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I understand. Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Based upon the dress, we could say they were probably either individuals that were working around here or living around here, not wearing threads quite as nice as the rest of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should get back then. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It looks like we have a late night ahead of us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Which direction was the-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You saw him pointing further in, in the direction where you were traveling towards the foundry. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh great. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Where did the dead bodies go? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see one of them under the sheet, the hand is exposed and it is blue, and you can see ice drifting off of it locked in place, slowly dripping with the rain. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If we go that way, I'm sure we will find more proof. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did we ever send that message? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "To Alexandra? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I assumed you have. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, good. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Probably on the way. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We tied it to a pigeon, remember? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's probably the shadowy terrible figure that I saw in my vision. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We don't yet know what to do about that, do we? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We go to the foundry. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Let's go to the foundry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's go to the foundry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I had a thought and then I didn't. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Indeed, you can glance over and see a scene of a woman in her late 30s, it looks like almost, who is on the ground arms out, aghast, but herself frozen solid-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- like her entire body has been cast in ice. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As we're walking-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, that's awful. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard, I hesitate to bring this up, but I must. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm an open book. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is this, by any chance, similar to the experience you had? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I just don't want to frighten the children. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The reason I'm asking is, was there anything in particular that you were able to do to stop that from happening? that you were able to do to stop that from happening? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Though, if I'm being quite honest, this feels somewhat different. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I doubt that this creature is particularly persuaded, particularly easily persuaded. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I have very little knowledge about what's happening this evening, but it seems now we have a time issue. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "On we go. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "On we go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it possible to use one of our gear? We can use it multiple times as long as it's on us, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "As we get closer to the body and pass by it, can I look at my detector and see if there was a trail from the other bodies to this one? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And beyond? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see as one of the officers comes forward and begins to inspect the body, they touch one of those areas of bleed-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(whispers) Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you remove your detector and see that there is indeed a continuous thread of corruption with bleed corruption being left in the wake of whatever this is. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it go beyond the body of this woman? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Best you can tell, as it strikes past the body, it seems to dissipate. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you'd like to try and make a Sense test to see if you could gather where that residual bleed energy might be leading you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You could attempt that. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The massive smokestacks, some of many throughout this district, but the black columns of billowing foundry smoke now replaced with gray-white smoke and steam. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, so the foundry? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "In our journeys throughout the evening, has Arlo shared their experiences at the apartment with us? Do we know what you know at this point? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you say it almost had jewels on it, the figure? Jeweled? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, not jeweled. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I feel like I remember some weird words, but that could have been a different-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did you say smooth like art? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Something. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh, the-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The box, you mean? Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, never mind. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It was smooth and looked like it was intentionally sculpted. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "With grooves dug into it that looked like some sort of intentional design. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So, at least we have a visual of what that kind of looked like. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We might be looking for. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there anything like an office or guards or anyone there? Because it's steaming 24/7, it seems. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do, however, see that two of the doors are open-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see two figures, two people come screaming out, just-- \"(screaming frantically)\" They come running out into the night on two different sides. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, hey! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What's happened? What have you-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's like, \"(gasping) There's something in there!\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What happened? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Whole place is filled with smoke! Oh god!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see it on him? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Help him, doctor! Help him! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You're a doctor? Help me! Help me!\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No, PhD, not MD. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is he burned? You're burned? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They're not serious burns, but there is some low-level burns on his body. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "As he's mumbling to himself, I'm going to pull out my safety equipment that I have and I'm going to see if there's any sort of chemical that I would know that would neutralize a chemical burn. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So it looks like this will be of help to him. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm just listening to him scream into my face. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, he's like, \"Help me, help me!\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm not good with feelings, but I'm rubbing lotion on his arms and anywhere that looks burned. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(trembling relief)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, all right, all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Thank you, thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It'll be all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is anyone else still in there? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You hear a gunshot on the inside. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How many people? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All the lights started going out and then this place filled with steam and then I heard screams and I had to run.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Keep running. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Huh?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "To the hospital. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay. Okay.\" He goes running off. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should go in. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to walk into the steam. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We're going to walk in? We're going to walk into where people are running out of there? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We're going to let the doctor lead. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can you try to find a safe path? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Muffled. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I duck to try to duck below any smoke and follow in after. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Upon getting closer and closer to the building, you hear two more gunshots and that ever-present (hissing steam), that odd sound of just massive moisture being turned to mist and steam-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It might explode in here. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- emerging from the inside. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe we shouldn't enter the building. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are we already in or have we been walking towards it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You hear another scream on the inside. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "There's people inside. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "As long as they don't shoot at us when we go in. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(trembling sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "This is one of those moments where we decide who we are. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "In or out? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Auggie, I want you to stay behind. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No, you're not going in there! No, no, you're not going in there alone. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Then stay behind-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I run in. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh shit. I wrap my scarf around my face and I run in right after him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Great. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I don't like the way you said \"great.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This was a dumb choice. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Great for the story ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Stories are fun! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So have all of you charged into the foundry at this point? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Did you detect bleed on him? We never asked. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm detecting bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "On him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sorry, on the gentleman who ran out? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, ran out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "None on him. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there another entrance? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can look for one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. For that, I would like you to make a Survey test for me-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I'm very bad at this. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- under Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to try-- Ah, I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I look for her? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What did you roll? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I rolled a three. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A three, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you begin to wander-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I rolled a three. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you doing at this time? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I was going-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you've already gone into the steam? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm trying to fold into the smoke already. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, so the three of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Stealthily. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You search on the outside. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where am I? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You watch as one of the smokestacks stops putting off steam. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard, do you still have your lighter? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You swear you can see a bit of frost appear on the outside of it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll turn around and run back into the foundry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, you run back, and the door they entered is currently closed and frosted over. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no! Split the party. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard, do you still have your lighter? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do with it as you wish. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If we see anything that requires us to, like a decoy, a heat decoy, I'm going to light that on fire and throw it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you glance over and look at the one to your left that's closest to you, you see the faintest bit of blue light begin to appear about three feet above where the frozen body stands that slowly begins to take the shape of a humanoid form. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(groans) This is the same. This is the same that had happened in the apartment, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well, I didn't see that thing before, but everything turned to ice like this. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Arlo! Oh, damn. Where is she? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Arlo, what are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Pushing on the door. Anything? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Uh, (laughs) If you'd like to make a Strike test-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- to see if you can somehow break the ice that encases the doorway and force it open. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I take the lower. It's a fail. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah, damn. Damn! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I do want you to take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are there any vehicles on the street? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "When you look around, there is a large, it looks like a hauling wagon with wheels for carrying massive amounts of materials, and you can see there is piles of ingots, like melted metal, ready for crafting, and utilized in all sorts of metallic construction, as well as stone, chains, and tools and such that are pushed upon it, but it's a massive truck-like vehicle. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I go see if it's open? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, you go to the side of it and it is open. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to try to turn it on. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) Okay, now, these sort of vehicles are relatively new to Newfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, but our family does have an electric carriage-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- so I'm used to driving. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I would like you to-- let's make a Focus test, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "See if I can remember how to drive it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "See if you can remember how to drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It says Control is in charge of driving as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's true, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Either way, it's the same roll. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Either Control or Focus is your-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's more about knowing how to operate something that is very different from what you're used to, but trying to allocate that knowledge from one to the other. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What? Which one was which? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I wasn't looking. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That one, I saw was a five. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This one? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But I don't know what the rest of them were because I couldn't see where they went. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They're all mixed in. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think that five was one of your rolls, on the right side there, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Then five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Five, okay. That's a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player848", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't see any major full successes, so we're safe. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(engine sputters to life) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's got this in intense vibration to it, and then even as you begin to try and shift it a bit, change the gears a bit, you can feel some of the stuff in the back of it that's not currently tied down shift. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's not ready for hauling. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to drive forward and try to " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's my girl! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Now I'd like you to make a drive test. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's my girl! ♪ Control ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Come on, come on, come on. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "There's airbags, right? We've got airbags? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She is the airbag. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She's going to drive! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to use my last drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Drive, drive! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Show them what a strong, independent, turn-of-the-century woman can do! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Drive, drive, drive, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ooh! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Three fails! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "One, two, three. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no. Such a brave, beautiful woman. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I only have resistance and Cunning and Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I can't even reroll it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No, my sweet student! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "However, as soon as the vehicle stops moving, some of the poles-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take a body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(sad whistle) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The door is partially damaged, but not fully open. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I can't get out! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "While that's happening, while that's happening-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I trapped everybody in. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- you all are inside right now, and you can see now from the various frozen bodies, the steam rising to the center of this foundry, and, indeed, that slowly apparating bit of ghostly blue. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see any of the others? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No. Just the one that's right next to you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It is funny, but oh goodness. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What do you do in these situations? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Light it on fire and put it in front of us and back up. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's a brief glimmer of nightmare-ish euphoria on its face, and as you all have backed away about 15 or so feet from where it is, you can see it look around, confused, and then slowly pull back, and become this faint, glowing blue orb above the body, just resting. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Go further in. Go. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you capture these things? What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "When you first mentioned that Arlo was not there, the first time I clocked it so there's no way I'm going to-- I'm not going to leave her behind. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(explosion) At which moment, you immediately hear this-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The whole foundry shakes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's going to get a lot of attention. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The door where we came in. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, you go back to the door and indeed, it's closed and-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you were to attempt-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- to kick it open or something, you could certainly try that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Drag him back to him. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, I'll kick-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you're doing this-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, sorry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sorry, you both do what you're doing. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll come back to you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, yeah, I'll kick a piece of rebar from off the ground into my hand and try to jam into the door and see if I can just muscle and pry it open. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, make a Strike-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Strike? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- Test for me, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(vocalizes) I'm going to spend a drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "♪ I would like our ghost person to be here with ghosts ♪ Fuck, all fails. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player933", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do you have resistance you want to spend or-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes, I-- ♪ Should be good at this ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player934", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "♪ It's the one thing-- ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can roll two on there then. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's not a disadvantage, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You still have two on there. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh my god! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Snake eyes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No shit? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This dice gods do want me to enter the building. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Wow, they do not want you in, girl. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just something (flutters) disappears through the steam, through the mist. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Keep moving towards him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A mouth opens up, \"(growls)\" As it darts towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You feel-- " }, { "Role": "Player935", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How does this bleed affect you? How does it strike its way into your perception? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And it's the worst experience. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You hear a voice ring through your mind, \"You fool!\" That memory strikes and you take a Brain as well. " }, { "Role": "Player57", "Content": "(gasp) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Uh-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, no! You did it to yourself! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You all, going, \"Snake eyes, snake eyes!\" " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You, turning around and seeing this shadow creature (whooshes) turn up and then vanish into the secondary floor, spectrally disappearing through the solid matter and return somewhere within the foundry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I run to him and-- Howard, Howard! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can we go? Let's go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's about this time that Arlo stumbles out of the vehicle, blood pouring down one side of her face. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh lord. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(painful gasp) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm kind of half out the door. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I sort of wave. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Howard! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did it work? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You're a man with a mind of your own. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We're just going to leave? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did we find it? Did we find the beast? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We don't know yet, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe we can find one of those-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- fuel things and capture it back inside of it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's exactly-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So we should find it within the foundry, right? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Was it within the foundry or was it someone around the foundry? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Isn't that what-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Layla did mention that one of them they gave to the foundry as part of their usual drop off and then one was given to Donald. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So we have to find-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I want to find the source of the cold. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Because I know what it looks like... " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is there anywhere I can do a-- Check out if I can see it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can if you-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "If I'm still inside? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Go back in? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- if you go back in, you can try that, if you want to. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is the door open enough that I can come in? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh, yeah, he bashed through the door. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm just going to take a peeksies. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are we good to go in or should we leave? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I have a theory if you're willing to hear it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I would love to. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are you familiar with the law of thermodynamics? Entropy? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(sarcastically) Oh, yeah, of course! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's a highly unsubstantiated theory at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So it's just a hungry ghost? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But if my theory doesn't hold and we can't trap it within the rock again-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We may. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try to just-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sneaky throughout? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Sneaky peekies, maybe take a quick-- Did you say that there was a little office area that-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's an office area where you all first entered through. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Then the back door of that opens into the foundry proper. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, I'll check in the office. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All the bodies are in the foundry proper. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All the bodies are in the foundry, correct. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, let's search the office. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, we'll check the office. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can't let him go in there by himself. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Survey test under Intuition for me, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can we both do it or only one? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hm? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can we both do it or only one? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, if one of you wants to do it, the other can help. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Your Survey is better than mine. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, you know what? Just help me. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do it. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Help ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to assist you by looking around and telling you what I saw, what it looks like, I know what we're-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You have such better vision. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Eagle Eyes, they call me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're starting to get frustrated. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We're so fucked. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Then as you're glancing by the doorway that leads into the foundry, you also see large containers, metallic containers that hold all sorts of coal and fuel that are often shoveled into the various furnaces to run the foundry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Grab one, just grab one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, what if we find the-- The whole container? You're just grabbing the whole container? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How big is it? It's like a barrel? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They're all filled with-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to just-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- combustible material. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can we dump them on the ground? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They're inside the foundry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, they're inside the foundry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They're inside the foundry. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "See, that's where it's going to be. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Quickie. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can't tell you what to do. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "If you see a shadowy beast coming towards you, don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Get the fuck out? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, don't go towards it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She may have just been in an automobile accident, but this is sound advice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, you're bleeding out of your head and you look a mess. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(sneaky footsteps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and test that. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, there's a Hide. We could have taken skills in Hide. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Or really anything else. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, wait. I already did that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So you have-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Come on, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! We need this! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, all right, all right, six! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, we got a six. We got a six. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Whoo! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got a six, that's a success. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Finally! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So as you're sneaking through-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Bob and weave, bob and weaves. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you feel safe at about a 15-foot distance from them. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You head over towards these massive containers with large small bricks and briquettes of fresh coal and other burnable materials. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to quietly try to start searching. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I would like-- I'd like you to make a Survey test to try and-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. I'm going to use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How big is this container of coal? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's four of them and they are six and a half feet by four-foot. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is this foundry-- I would imagine it's mostly made of metal, not wood. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Concrete metal. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Am I close enough that I could help him or no? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can try and sneak in to help, if you'd like. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "My Hide is shit. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are there furnaces around that we can see? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They're almost out. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "They're all ones. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "They're all ones. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All ones? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "They're all ones. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All ones. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Not going to touch those again. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I see him? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can you use a resistance? Can you roll again? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes, I can! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes! Oh, yes! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is like-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I keep forgetting those. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This reminds me-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We can't help! We can't give advantage on this. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Nope. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is like in \"Maverick\" at the end when he doesn't look at the cards. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Spoiler alert! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "On Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "One. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you get one dice to roll on this, to re-roll. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Unless you want to spend more drives. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Not \"Top Gun: Maverick.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Old \"Maverick.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The ye olde time-y \"Maverick\"? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, Mel Gibson, cards-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Not a spoiler, watch the movie. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Or you can just leave it up to fate. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to leave it up to fate. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I love it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do it, Auggie, do it! Let's go! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's my boy! Ah, that rolled over other dice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's a one. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That doesn't seem fair. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's a one. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It literally rolled over other dice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I know, it really did. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's not allowed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It was a wonky-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It was worth a shot. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I scream: Here! I light my scarf on fire and I throw it on the floor. Here! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You scream this at the same time that the creature runs its long shadow claws up through Auggie's body. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take a bleed and a body, and I need you to explain to me how you are affected by this bleed corruption. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I think I'm just really scared. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You, screaming out-- (growls) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is it possible? I would like to attempt to dive behind something to hide, dive and as I'm getting closer to him, some godforsaken way, parkour my way out of this. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The burning flame does seem to have caught its attention. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Now you could make a Hide test to see how well you can use it to distract enough to get you past it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm just trying to run towards Auggie and the fuel sources. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And you are? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I mean, if that's the most immediate threat to the group, for sure. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll go for Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm just trying to parkour, parkour! Sorry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I used the right word this time. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You did. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This is a high stakes roll, correct? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player49", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As it hits the ground, it looks like some of the scattered charcoal materials nearby actually catch as well and it becomes a brief bonfire about two feet wide. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The other two of you running across the way until you all meet up with Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Charlie, Howard, do either of you carry a flask? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Never been a drinking man, I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of course I do! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Next fuel source. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to use the bleed detector on the fuel sources and see if I can sense where that stone might be. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Good call. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you engage the bleed detector, looking in this space, in this brief intense moment, you glance around and I would need you to make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A Survey. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Or somebody make one, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I got it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Or a Sense? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe a Sense roll? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Actually, you can make a Sense as well because-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- that is where you are definitively-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is opposed to looking for it, more like using this to amplify your ability to feel its presence and guide you like a beacon. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Anybody helping? Just in casies? We're good? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I can't. Mine are all out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, I got a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mixed success, you got it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you focus your eyes, even behind your eyelids, extending this, you can feel your gray hand. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The glove is off. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take another bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it come close to my necklace? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It does. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "My ward soak, rather. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So it soaks one of the bleed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As it does, the hand withdraws and the creature pulls away and darts away, like it was burned by the proximity of this relic you have. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What do we do with it? How do we open it? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "May I? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't open it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to take it and I'd like to look over it for any discerning marks, even from Oldfaire, anything that I would possibly know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'd like a Focus test from you to see if you can ascertain the nature of what this is. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I wish I could help you! I don't have any more drive. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A four on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you get a drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(claps) Great. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And that is a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Something is meant to fill these grooves. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see those things? Do I see those things? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you all are glancing and you see this-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to immediately open the flask and pour a little bit of alcohol out and light it and... " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Back up? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- let's get the fuck back out of here. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The two spirits immediately begin to convene towards the alcohol fire that you've left behind. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you say that out loud, that you know something's supposed to be going in those runes? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to bite my hand as hard as I can and try to put some blood in those grooves and see if it does anything. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, you bite your hand, your left hand. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's stupid! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(gushing water) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hey! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just parts of it, not quite enough blood to completely encompass all of the markings that are drawn across it, but it seems to be almost absorbing what you rubbed across it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's warmer? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I want to look around at the apparitions and see if they're reacting to this at all. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Its jaw extends, its eyes go black, and the shadowed form becomes almost immaterial as it begins to dive through the mist in your direction. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I flip it open, I cut my hand open, and I put it on the... " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, mark a body. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The minute it is, the red begins to brightly glow into a reddish-orange color. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I certainly hope we're correct about this theory. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you hold it in your hand, the shadowed entity comes shrieking towards you angrily, its arms out in front. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Put it down in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It spins to go as the runes glow brightly and you watch as these red tethers whip out, like dozens of tentacles that wrap around it before pulling it back into this chunk of ancient obsidian before it just goes quiet. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I can't believe that worked. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Neither can I. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are there still blue spirits around us, little orbs? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(ghostly) \"Thank you, thank you, thank you.\" As they all drift away into nothing, passing to where other boundaries await them beyond The Flare. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to take off my jacket and wrap it around it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's still heavy to the touch, but you're not directly contacting it with your skin. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should get out of here before... " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't even look at you and I just take your hand and go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there a way to get out of here quickly? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Indeed, as you're heading towards the exit of the foundry, you can see a number of unmarked electric carriages begin to approach from the outside, that you recognize to be commonly used by the OUP. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We should go in a different direction. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there another exit? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there any other exit that we know from? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There are back exits to the foundry. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's do that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's go that way. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are currently heading to? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there a Candela safe house type thing that we know about? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I assume your assignment has been taking its toll?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Completed, I believe, for the most part. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We were part of an industrial accident. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Understood, well, who's your Lightkeeper?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Alex O'Neill. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'll reach out to Alexandra and you may clean up in the back room.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Closes his book, takes a puff off his pipe and goes and closes and locks the front door. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you understand? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm also very proud of you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That was probably the craziest night I've ever had. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You haven't spent any nights in the red light district then, have you? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well... " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is everyone okay? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And you? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) I crashed a truck into a building. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I saw. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It didn't work. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It did not. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll have to send payment to them, I believe. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "May I see the object? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's still wrapped in my coat. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to look around for-- what was his name? The older gentleman from the bookstore. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Reggie. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He's still in the back? I'm going to pull a larger tome off one of the shelves and lay it on a desk and take the object out and set it on the tome and roll it into the page so that it makes an imprint of it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Fucking smart. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Thank you, Arlo. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Aren't you a clever man. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "There's a reason he's a professor. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That was actually pretty cool. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you're alive and successful.\" \"So you're alive and successful.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Don't set it on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do you know the nature of what did this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A warrior spirit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ancient. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, definitely from Oldfaire. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Hmm.\" \"I wonder if this was either a burial rite or it was a punishment.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "He seemed like he did not want to go back in. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Well, poor boy. Hasn't been your night, has it? (laughs) We'll get it to our researchers and see if we can ascertain the historical connections to who this individual may be, as well as the incantation that binds it and if there are more to be discovered, so we can keep them from creating more mischief so we can keep them from creating more mischief and losses in the future.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Alexandra. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yes?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can you let Candela know that I would like some of my donations to be rerouted to The Clara House? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Certainly.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And a freshly-inducted member of Candela Obscura.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't know if I want to be a member of this club because this was a bit much. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, but Auggie, you were so wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I was? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Truly, you were very brave, and I've never seen anyone hide as well as you did. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I would say if you're going to learn about terrifying things, I'd rather you do it next to me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Even just your time tonight is appreciated.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll think on it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I think you can probably take some time off maybe.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, but you have a gentleman waiting for you, don't you? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He did have a nice frame. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But he did help us. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Reggie's not the worst company.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well, what's the rent going to cost? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I think you've paid it tonight.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hopefully, long from now.\" She pulls her coat up, puffs once more off her cigar-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She's so cool. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- and exits off into the night. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's a step up from a cot in an office. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, anything's a step up from a hard street. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What's the name of this bookstore again? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's The Gilded Rainbow. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The Gilded Rainbow. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's pretty. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think it's time we all found some rest. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You'll be okay, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. I'll be fine. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You always know where I am. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you believe you'll be staying here, Auggie? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, I'm going to stay. So if you ever need to find me, I'm just going to be right here. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I believe we'll be visiting. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I bet he's probably going to-- There's lots of books for you here, doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Certainly. And by the way, for the record, tonight, I would give your performance a C minus, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "There is room for improvement. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Trust me. From him, that's a compliment. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you, professor. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "under Candela Obscura, in the city of Newfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That being the case, let's take your Candela Circle sheet and mark your progress here. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, going through the Illumination questions. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you in charge? You're in charge. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm in charge. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll do it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You're in charge. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You're in charge. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll be bookkeeper. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Did you contain or destroy a source of bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Did you provide comfort or support for those affected? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You rubbed a salve on a man. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Someone rubbed Vaseline all over-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I slathered a nice man up. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Greased him well. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Delicious. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Straight to the elbow. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Did you bring something of importance back for Candela Obscura to study? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, we did! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's three points there. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's covered in blood, but-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As long as each of you hit one-- Raise your hand if you hit one of your XP triggers. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What was your XP trigger? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Making a Deal. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Making a Deal. Awesome. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Deceive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I Acted Bizarre. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. Great. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ally, not an Allie. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Come under my wing. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's one for each person. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's four additional points in the Illumination chart. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh, we're going to get a bold circle next! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Where's that? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't know what that means, but it's-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's a milestone, which can affect some of the abilities in the circle. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player934", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Now, that being the case-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We also have Candela Obscura resources to spend. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, these have to last you through the end of the track's going, which means-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, for our next couple games. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you got five of each to last you basically through your three-episode arc. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So how do you want to divide these? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How many of each? Five? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Five of each. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Five of each. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "For the whole time. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I would say each of us would get three of these things to use as we want over the next few games, but if somebody has a-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, if someone has more. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But it's one slot per die per person. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So we could pick half of us to have it for the next game and then have three, have a little more for-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The next, going into the third? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The third game, because maybe that's when we would need it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, I like that. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Or just give one out this time, and load up for the-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The next one? I feel like I definitely did not think smartly and I used all of my drives. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, you got to refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So I've got to refresh or else I won't-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Refresh! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did anybody else make the same stupid mistake as me? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I did not use all of them, but I certainly used-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I used three. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- some that I could really use back. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We have three refreshes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I will definitely be smarter with my usage in the next game, so. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm a little bummed I used one of my resistances, because we would get that back with a refresh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So, maybe I'll chill and maybe just take a dice for this round. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Take a train. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Maybe I'll take a train. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, so mark that on your character sheet somewhere that you have a train dice somewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And when we're playing, I could set it out to remind myself. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "If the next session goes as poorly as this one did, as far as body goes, then I will definitely be losing a limb or something in the next game, so maybe I should stitch myself up in this one. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You went, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I have two Body, but I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And one bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And one bleed and one brain. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You should probably-- Oh, you've got four marks? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You've got four marks? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Auggie, take a stitch! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You take a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, can we fix up the baby? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, take a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And that gets rid of everything? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, stitch and a stitch and a refresh? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'll take a refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You'll take a refresh. Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Arlo Black, how do you get stitched up and how do you refresh yourself after this venture? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, I go home. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I avoid my mother and father, but I do find Mr. Tellbrook and Ms. Thomas. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(Tellbrook) \"Yes, of course, dear.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ms. Thomas, would you mind drawing a bath? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Of course. I'd be happy to.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"My, you look a bit worse for wear, miss.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. Do either of you have any medical knowledge? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(Tellbrook) \"I can stitch you up on my own.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I was a field doctor in the war.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I knew that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Aged out, I thought, but they needed help, so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Sunny told me about that. Would you mind terribly? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'd be happy to.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll sit while he works on my head, and I'll tell them all about everything that happened, and don't tell anyone. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Of course.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Direct them my way before sending them to Father, please. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "An eventful evening.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It was quite an exciting adventure. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They look like they are happy to dive into the frivolities you speak of, and it's wonderful you have an active imagination, but you shouldn't hurt yourself anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "After I take a long bath, where I'm completely shriveled like a raisin, I will crawl into bed and sleep for the entire day, and just lounge about the house, doing nothing but staring at the ceilings. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That is my favorite way to refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I haven't done that in eight years. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How do you go about getting yourself stitched up here in Newfaire? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to cuddle up, hold my pillow, and try to get warm and sleep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Knowing that he's come back, I would like to speak to Stinson and have him bring over the doctor, the one who occasionally helps some of my coworkers the one who occasionally helps some of my coworkers stitch themselves up after fights. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Don't worry. I'll go ahead and fetch him.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Kind of looks like Brad Dourif from \"Deadwood,\" essentially. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And wanders in and goes-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hopefully a better doctor. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"All right. You need to be stitching up anyone? Let's see what you got.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Discretion, as always, but-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Always. It's how I operate. Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "For this time, a bit of gentleness as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(murmurs) Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I open the door and he's asleep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can you take care of him as best you can and give him something to rest? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you want me to clean his wounds and stuff, he's going to wake up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's fine, but then if you could give him something to rest. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Fair enough.\" He goes and opens up his doctor's bag as you close the door and-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, what are you doing? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I was just trying to help you!\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa, whoa, whoa, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm going to make sure you're all taken care of.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, that's delicious-- (slurs speech). " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) Exactly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This isn't going to hurt you much.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(snores) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Exactly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You feel pretty well recovered from the endeavor. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to get up right before the sun comes up, go pick up my papes, and get back to work. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hell yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Papes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And you, Charlotte, how do you refresh yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "everything. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll take care of it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The... All of it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's so difficult being a businesswoman, a proprietress in this day and age. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Watch your mouth. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So much to do. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Can't even begin to try and understand it, but we got you covered.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No worries.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sherman. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yes, my dear?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How is she today? Is she clear? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you'd like to give her a visit, I think she'd appreciate it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Not too long, perhaps. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Of course. Rooms are ever-prepared, just in case.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I knock. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yes?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Gertrude, I have a story for you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That sounds nice.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'll be here for a few days with you and perhaps I'll have some more stories for you, yes? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Please. I like your stories.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It gives me some peace for a few days. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And with that, we close this first episode of Candela Obscura. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(tense mysterious music continues) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Come the morning, you, Auggie, up early-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you step out of the room, looks over her shoulder towards you and goes, \"Morning, Reggie.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Good morning, Reggie. (laughs) What's going on? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Keeps you on edge. Good morning--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to say hello. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Glad we're both present.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What's going on in the stories today? Anything good? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Beyond that, it looks like there are a number of performances to be happening from local musicians as well as one who's traveled quite a bit from the Scarlet Wood above. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(gasping) Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Would you like some coffee?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well, yeah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Puts his cup down and goes over-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I thought you were going to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I've been here for a few weeks now. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Fair enough.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You go over and-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just how you like it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just how I like it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just a little bit too sweet. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(Alexandra) \"(sighs) How are you getting on here in your quarters?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you, again. Truly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Her one-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you have another one of those? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm not about to spread it to you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I've been smoking since I was eight. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Then you can find your own smokes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We're going to have a talk.\" She walks out the front of the library. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Reggie's currently grabbing his coffee again and looks back towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll tell you that " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She's seen some things.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I can tell. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you all gather within the center, Auggie, you greet them as you do. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Charlie. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Please come to my beautiful humble abode. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What a beautiful home you have, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I take it you're getting on rather well? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I may not necessarily agree with the politics, but whatever this is, we can only assume she's not the only one in danger the longer it's out there.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we know anything more about this chamberwoman or not? If she may be particularly controversial, if she may be someone who garners lots of enemies? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yes and yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She is deeply steeped in many unhappy business ventures within the city and is responsible for putting a bit of a bottleneck on opening wider trade with Otherwhere. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do you need anything for your journey?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you have anything that will defeat shadow beasts on you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you put that on the edge of any sort of blade or weapon, it will liable leave an impact on something between worlds.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Anything else?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you know the name of the institution where she was attacked? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Maybe you've passed by, maybe you've used its services.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I've never used it, but I know the place pretty well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'd recommend checking soon, for the longer we wait, the more interests will be garnered from other such factions within the city.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Was there anyone known to be with her there? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So prepare yourselves to rub shoulders with the local police.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Have we closed the establishment or merely cordoned off the room? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I think that would've changed circumstances.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So time is of the essence.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should go? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't mean to assume anything about the chamberwoman's predilections, but if that is the case, then there's a witness somewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A prostitute. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She means a prostitute. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(refined) Whores. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All kinds. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'll leave you to it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Good luck and once again, stay safe. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She exits. (bell dinging) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You know, in all my years-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We're in The Varnish, right? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you know in all my years here at Candela, I have never seen someone ask that question. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What question? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you have something to defeat shadow demons? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I didn't think she really would. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Speaking of which, I'll certainly give it back, but I'd love to take a look. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't carry blades, so-- I know you do, though. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(chuckles) Your directness is absolutely a-- That is a bonus. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But there's almost slivers of metal in there, like a liquid metal, like there's a mercury mixed in with it somewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you still have your bleed detector? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Always. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'd be interested to see what's in that vial. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, certainly. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you detect the exterior of it, it does not have any bleed signature on it, which is welcoming. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's good. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's just an idea, but why don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is that real? That's real. That's real? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Why couldn't werewolves be? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's quite interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, keep it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll put it in my pocket " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How far is The Getaway Grand from The Sight Unseen? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's not really well kept. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Not every proprietor is as exact-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You mean the fun district? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I mean, the chamberwoman obviously has her own home. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But most likely, she has a family. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes, and-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'd like, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe she's very shy in her everyday life and she looks forward to finding someone who will let her be herself for a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I like you more and more the more you talk, you know that? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Who's typically in charge of establishments such as this? A madam, or a--? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, would I know the Getaway Grand? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The owner, his name is Simon Terefon. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's not the same Simon that we spoke about last-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's actually-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "A police officer. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Different Simon. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Simon Terefon? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Simon Terefon. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It does operate primarily as a hotel, publicly. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Publicly. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But do I know him personally? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you haven't had many crossing of paths in the past, but like anybody who does a lot of business in this town, and you make it your business to know who does business in that part of town, you know of him. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, we're walking there right now. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Trying to find their business around-- Pardon the squeaking of the device behind me. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Stands there, arm in arm glancing up. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you think he'll let us in? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Good day, Officer. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"All right, good day, huh?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "May we pass? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's more just gleaning your business. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What'd you roll? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Double ones. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Double ones, oof. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Whoa, rough. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you come back in about an hour or two, we'll be done with our business and you can tend to it or find another venue out and about, but--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What kind of event? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, it's Periphery business. Hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "May we send a missive? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I can see what I can do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would you, if the GM would let me, would you write a letter to the front desk for me and let Matthew know that (laughs), yes, let Matthew know that-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- Miss, what's my name? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player49", "Content": "Charlotte. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I just-- It's a lot-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Charlotte Eaves! It happens to me every day. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There's a lot of-- As soon as I realized Matthew, ah, great! I need more caffeine. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Everything else just shot out of the head, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I just (tongue rolling). " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(tongue rolling) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would you please let Matthew know that Ms. Eaves came by and had been looking to meet in the regular room with their colleague? If he would possibly stay put and keep ready, that we would be by in approximately one hour and 15 minutes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay, I'll do what I can.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Now, go on your way.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "During this time-- " }, { "Role": "Player838", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "-- I will try to see, because I'm sneaky. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try to sneak on past. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sneak past while they're having this conversation? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Hide. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Because I have Born in the Shadows-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "\"When attempting to avoid security or detection, you gild an extra die.\" " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You gild an extra Hide die. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's-a my boy. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So we got this one, we got this one, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How many? How much? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So for Hide-- so it's two dice, but they're both gilded for you, unless you want to spend a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, they're both gilded? Okay, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm also a sneaky beeper, so I'm going to give you some help, because I'm going to immediately clock that you're about to make a sneak. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So I'll spend a Drive-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- to give you an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Y'all! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We have rolled like bad doo doo! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You guys have rolled like-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well, you get your Drive back, right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, that's good. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You get your Drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's our circle ability? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, we have-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You intervene behind her-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Trauma Bonding. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you're doing so (laughs)-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Fucking trip on my shoelace? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you bump into his arm he goes, \"Hey, hey, hey, hey.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't know what I-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"That's right, come back in an hour.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you, Officer. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'm fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know what's-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Charlie, is there another entrance? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "There's got to be. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A service entrance or something. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm more frustrated about losing my cool there. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You forgot your name for a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There should be another entrance. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The service entrance, of course, and-- Well, there would be a fire escape of some kind. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you would assume, and you know this area pretty well, from darting through the alleys here, there are alleys that wind in the back of a lot of these businesses as well. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I kind of know this area. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I can take us to the back and see if maybe there's another entrance? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're going to have to-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Or a basement entrance. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- sneak into the room, anyway, so I don't see why sneaking into the premises would be any different. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I agree, Doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Lead on. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, let's go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All righty. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(quick footsteps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Did Alexandra tell us what room it was? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "On the sixth floor. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sixth floor. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's all we know? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's all we know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's all you know. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's the sixth floor. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's a lot of stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Probably should have asked-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You look up the fire escape towards the sixth floor when you're making this notion, and you do see a window that is blown out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It looks like something bashed its way out of this chamber. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The guy that just ran off? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey, hey! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(grunts)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, what's up? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Hey.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Were you here last night? Like in the morning? Were you here all night? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You didn't see--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Saw what? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, why?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did you hear anything? Did you see anything weird? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does he have any glass on him? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) He does not have any glass on him. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He seemed holding something tightly under his arm and he's like, \"Well, I mean, yeah, you see weird stuff around here all the time.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I know we see weird shit, but I'm talking " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He shifts from foot to foot for a second, thinking. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I roll a Read on him to see-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes, you may. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- what he's trying to hide? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Read test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "One of us has to self-actualize here. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, sorry, sorry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can't remember my name, so don't look to me. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mixed success on the gilded. So. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "On the gilded, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All I saw was that one. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you're asking him these questions, and he's rattling off, his eyes are off in the distance a bit and he looks scared, and he's like, \"Yeah, yeah, no.\" What did you say you were going to do? Okay. He's like, \"Yeah. (laughs) I--\" He looks up and you can see a Periphery officer steps out of the large, holed window onto the fire escape and he's now keeping an eye on this area as soon as that happens. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Here, have some food. Have some food. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is a kind gift.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "As he holds his hand out, did I catch a glimpse of what he had under his arm? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Survey test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This is low stakes? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're just glancing at him. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I rolled a two on the low. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Aw. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No glance at it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He goes, \"Thank you, I'll go eat this over here.\" Gives you a-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Me and Skiddy and Enom were just out here, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"We got ourselves a stash,\" and he references the thing under his arm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(softly) Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The metal was creaking and shit, and we spooked and we all stood up and started to scatter, thinking maybe they were upon us, maybe some of the officers saw us and was going to try and bust us for, you know, having stuff. Then--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I get it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I think whatever it was, it got Enom.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What was the-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player933", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She's my woman. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We are quite betrothed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You can tell her anything you want. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I says.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, well, you know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"That's a good find.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Don't worry about it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The beast that you spoke of, he was flying or he was walking? Did it fall out of the window and land on the ground or did it fly through the air to the next building over? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It was on the ground.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So walking, then? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Sure, yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "When you say it got Enom, it got him as in took him? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I think Skiddy mentioned that he saw Enom get pulled away I think Skiddy mentioned that he saw Enom get pulled away when it ran through.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Pulled away where? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You'd have to ask Skiddy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where's Skiddy? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Stuff's getting weird these days.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, you may want to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(startled) \"Ah!\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hello, how are you? You may want to find a new place to rest, at least for a few days, and especially until the Periphery are finished with their investigation. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, you're right, you're right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Get a good night's rest. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I appreciate that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Auggie. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You Auggie?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm Auggie, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Auggie, Terry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, nice to meet you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Terry Bode.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, Terry Bode. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You know, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I feel like I've met Skiddy in the past. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Bit of a prankster.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I think I know what you talking about. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Once the pleasantries begin, Howard totally disengages. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "If it's glass, I'm looking specifically for-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, maybe something-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- blood or bits of some-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Focus test for me-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Blood bits of bleed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay, mixed success at four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) You-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How long have you-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughing) Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A game and a half! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hell yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You begin to-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I've got to search something! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You glance through and you don't see any blood-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see, they look like almost gray-- You ever see what boiled bacon looks like? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ew. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Look at it and it twitches. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(sharp inhale) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It twitches and you feel yourself like, \"What the fuck is that?\" As you pull away for a brief second, you feel your heart jump into your throat and you do take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no, do we have bleed containment vials? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We do indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't you have one? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see this happening? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do hear probably an audible gasp as you turn around and watch as Howard is backing away a couple steps. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would you two excuse me? Continue talking. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Some sort of flesh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What's that then? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you all right, Howard? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, certainly, certainly. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Professor, doctor? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I have moments where the new information makes me somewhat uncomfortable. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm watching his gaze. " }, { "Role": "Player936", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Point to what you're looking at. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't, don't, don't, don't. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to touch it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't do it! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't touch it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Touch it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(slurps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You grab it, and it makes that horrible slimy sound. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Why would you do that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It twitches twice in your grasp. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And then begins to climb your finger. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, this was a mistake. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm getting the bleed containment vial and putting it right underneath it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you look, it's pushing into your skin. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's pushing into your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ah! That's a unique sensation. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I pull out my jack knife and start, without touching it, start to try to carve it off the finger part. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You're cutting my finger right now? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, off the finger part, that's what I'm saying. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I need you to make a Control test right now. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Yes, you do. ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As this is now slowly burrowing its way into the top of your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to give you a Drive point from my Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, and am going to, because I'm Cool Under Pressure, I'm assuming this is a high stakes roll? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This would be relatively, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Please don't be stupid. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Three sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh my goodness. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Three!" }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Let's take her to Vegas. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Winner winner, chicken dinner. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's no pain and no bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Barely." }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Triple sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That'll never happen again, but hey. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you grasp and contain it within your vial, you can see it as you lock off the lid and glance at it, it (twitches). " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's unpleasant. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That was very interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Indeed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Hey, what's going on down there?\" You see the Periphery officer is now glancing over the top of the fire escape. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We're trying to find him new home, and trying to find him somewhere off the streets. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We'll be on our way. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What's going on? Is there a problem up there or something? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Nothing you got to worry about, get moving on.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's go and let's take Terry with us. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "If I didn't give him shit, he wouldn't have believed us, you know? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's take Terry and leave here. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to keep an eye on him. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you see any more of those gray, twitchy, fleshy things around here? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, certainly. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "On the ground, that would be bad if somebody else picked one up. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see the other one? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are there any more? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can it fit in my-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Couple of windows that are closed from the inside and the alleyway that goes to the right and left with a couple of offshoots to lead other complexes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Should we try to get to the room now or should we head to the Good Gravy? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I am certainly hungry after that experience. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Professor, why did you pick it up with your fingers? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, well, I suppose it was an experiment of sorts. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "With your own flesh? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, that's-- some of the greatest scientists of all time have used themselves as their-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- guinea pig. Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This may not be a time to worry about your reputation as a professor or aggrandizing yourself in terms of-- you have to be more careful. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, well-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Would a genius? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Good gravy, I'm hungry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to walk off to The Good Gravy. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The payoff isn't worth it, trust me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll actually note it. " }, { "Role": "Player838", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just clutching a mug that is steaming, looks almost untouched as he's staring down at the table. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Shall I come with? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I think that's him. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do we all go? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think after our experience with Terry, it might be best if it's you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Right, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We don't want to frighten the poor man. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, I'll give him a hello and then I'll invite you guys over? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, and why don't you order yourself a meal, Howard? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Bacon, bacon, bacon. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, get some bacon and some-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Some coffee. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Some coffee. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll go sit at the counter and order a bite. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no, I think we might want to keep an eye on the good professor for a little bit, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to stand in the middle of the room. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Perhaps a coffee for you, too? Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Pie. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, I'm going to walk over. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(startled stammerings)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, Skiddy, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, that's my name. Why, who are you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Don't worry about it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You look familiar.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you mind if I take seat? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I-- What?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you mind if I take a seat? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay, yeah, that's fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What are you drinking? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(slurps) Oh, it's cold, it's cold.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Let's get you a-- Hey, can we get two fresh cup of coffees, please? Hey, can we get two fresh cup of coffees, please? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Waitress says, \"Sure, get you some coffee, hang on just a sec.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And maybe some pancakes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Pancakes and coffees coming up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Maybe some bacon and eggs and-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Bacon, eggs, pancakes, coffee, coming right up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, that'll be good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's going to be tasty.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So hey, I ran into Terry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh yeah, talk to him?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, we was talking and he said you guys kind of had a rough night. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs turning to crying)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "He told us that-- Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(whimpers)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Here. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Thanks.\" There's a full on honking nose evacuation into whatever scarf you just handed him. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You can keep that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I will.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So did you see something? You saw something right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We were all kind of fucked up at the time, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I was really fucked up. I think I may have misremembered it, but it fucking grabbed Enom and took off with him, and I don't know where he is, and I don't know if he's safe.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, well, me and my friends we're going to try to find him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"How?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you mind if I invite them over to sit down? Or do you need some space? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Who are your friends?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well, we got, over there, pretty one in the purple. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay, yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She's kind of like-- She's family. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just automatically going into survival mode and just-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "He's been telling me about his night and everything that he saw and I told him that we were going to try to help him look for Enom. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, is there anything you can tell us about your friend Enom? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So I'm holding onto it for when he comes back.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Was he playing it when the creature arrived? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I was real fucked up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did you, not to-- A man of your age, did you all fight in the war together? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Once it was over, they just stopped helping us and set us on our ways and...\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, they seem to be pretty good at that, huh? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"It's hard to come back, and when you've seen some of the things that we have and just told to move on like nothing's changed, come back and the city's all bright and shiny and people don't remember who you were or what you've done.\" You notice this point, he keeps scratching the side of his forearm and you glance into the sleeve and you can see there's a gash that's starting to darken a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Skiddy, what happened to your arm? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I don't know what happened.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Might you have any salves or something that would work on something-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Like a gray, wormy flesh thing that's embedded itself in someone's arm? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, it seems unlikely that I would have that specific medication. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "May I take a look at your arm, please? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You're the doctor, right? You said he is the doctor?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay, yeah, okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "He's a doc. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That is not the muscles of his arm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure, make a Focus test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hey, that's a five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But none of the flesh looks like it's out of the ordinary, thankfully. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, this seems like a relatively ordinary-type of-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you winking because you mean it's not ordinary? Or are you winking because it is? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It is because it is ordinary. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, great. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It is ordinary, why would it not be anything other than ordinary? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's ordinary. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But I would suggest that perhaps if there's a shelter, you could go to on the Shriveline, a doctor, or a nurse, you might want to have that looked at. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay, I can do that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Perhaps, and when I say \"might want to,\" you must or you'll die of sepsis within a few days. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh goodness, doctor. Skiddy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Thank you, doctor.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The gentleman there, Stinson, tell him that Charlie sent you and you need a doctor. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay, I can do that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is there a place where he would frequent? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's usually where we go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So you can't think of anywhere he might be since his disappearance? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No, I mean, we all hop between the different hostels, if need be, and get ourselves some soup or a meal and meet up with friends if we need now and then, so-- but not particularly one place or anything.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I have a lot of questions. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Which side of the alley was he pulled from? If you're standing in front of the hotel in the alley, did he go to the left or the right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"That would be on the right-hand side where we were, but it moved so fast and that's when I reached out, try and grab him and he was just gone.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you see his body being pulled away or did it seem like suddenly he was part of the creature? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No, I just saw him yelling and being pulled away.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm sure it was some sort of... " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"It's kind of what I figured.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"A bear or something.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, so a bear. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"It was about a bear size.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A large, scary bear. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"With a lot of arms.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The scarlet does that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I got to get off this stuff.\" Just stuffs a big old chunk of bacon and pancake in one fistful into his mouth and chews. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Seeing that, and as he says that, Charlotte's face falls a little bit, thinking about the ramifications of some of the dealings that she has been making in this town. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, unless we have some more time we'd like to spend with Skiddy here, my belly is full. (chuckles) Perhaps we should return? Should certainly be an hour and a half at this point, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Skiddy, do stop by the Sight Unseen, yes? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, I will.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Stinson. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I will, I'll talk to Stimson.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Stinson. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Stinson.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Charlie, right, was what you saying your name was? All right, yeah, I'll tell him.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Good. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to take out some coins, put them on the table. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"It's very kind of you, Auggie. Very kind.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you for fighting for us and we care about you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Anybody else going to finish this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Coin as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, okay.\" Starts filling his pockets with the stuff he hasn't eaten. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, where are you off to now? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think we should find that store room. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, go to the store room and try to get up. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It might be worth me continuing the ruse to see if I can distract from the front. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But I believe he said we could just come in in an hour and a half, did he not? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah, yes, that's true. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We could just try and walk right in. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But if you fancied him, I would be delighted to be, what's the term? A wing man? I'll be your man, I'll be the man on your wing if you-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you return to The Getaway Grand? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you you approach the familiar exterior street-facing side of the building complex, the door is no longer guarded by that Periphery gentleman. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Shall we? Open the door. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's in the process of writing within, looks up, gives you both a look and then goes back to his business. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Perhaps one of the bellmen. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, let's just go to the elevator and see if we can just go straight. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's a great idea, shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just go straight up? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Just go straight to the elevators. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Has this Droopy dog sort of expression to his face as he sits there and says, Enter.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How big is the elevator? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh, it can fit the four of you and him very uncomfortably. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you all (grunting). " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Tight fit? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Push in. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It has aged perfume that has long set into the interior, mixed with that, never-able-to-get-out smell of ancient water damage. " }, { "Role": "Player10", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you can see to the right and left of you, the hall continues both directions and there are doors all across the hallway. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We don't see anyone from the Periphery in either direction? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The same Periphery cap on, looking to the side. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's not the same gentleman that was downstairs from before, is it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is not the same gentleman. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's good. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Damn it, I will find a Matthew! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, here we find ourselves again. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We've got a-- Is he sitting at the end of the hallway-- How is he blocking the door? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hasn't noticed your arrival yet, or seems to care. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "One way in. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll try something this time. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Be my guest. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll keep walking down the hallway and then I'll go: Oh! And I'll fall to the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Like you got the vapors? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The vapors. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is to sell just how deeply he believes and rushes to your aid. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) Six! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh dear, Miss, Miss, you all right, Miss? Miss, you all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Go, go, go, go, go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hold on, I've got something for this.\" Ah, so he's going through his pouches while the rest of you dart by and head into the room. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, definitely. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Three of you into the room, and he's like, \"I've got one here,\" and he pulls out a small capsule and opens it under your nose. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Are you all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What happened? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You look up and see this round-faced young potato of a man. " }, { "Role": "Player937", "Content": "Aw. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This proximity is, \"Oh, are you feeling all right? Do I need to get help?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What happened? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Are you feeling well, ma'am?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you have any water? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, I-I, not on me, but I can get you some water.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I would love some, thank you so much. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll go and get you some water,\" and he puts his arm out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I feel a little unstable. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll be right back.\" \"(panting) Oh my.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe the kitchens. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's taking the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Aw. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I get up and run into the room. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "While the three of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, that was brilliant. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is like a violent scene, but no blood. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No blood? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No blood. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, uh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The second thing you see is a man, about 6'1\"-- " }, { "Role": "Player653", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- who is standing on the threshold of the bathroom of this room, himself dressed in Periphery uniform, hat off, with a captain's badge on his shoulder a captain's badge on his shoulder and turns and goes, \"Excuse me, may I ask who this is and what the meaning of this is? This is a crime scene.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, Officer. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Charlotte, Charlotte Eaves. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No idea who you are.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Taking a shit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sick! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I mean, when in Rome. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Our first Victorian shit! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do you have any connection to Miss Onette? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to turn to the group and very-- How far away is he? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "At this point? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A room away? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Five feet from you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You burst into the room, saw the room, and then turned and he's right there going. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to turn to the group. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Have I, I haven't entered yet. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, you're not there yet? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, because I'm still in the hallway " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are either of you two averse to violence? (gasping) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That is a bad idea, bad idea. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You mean like, taking this guy on? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) Yes or no? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No, not at all. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- into my pocket where I carry my hand weapon-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasping) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- which is a set of brass knuckles in my pocket. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "As I reach out to shake his hand. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, he's-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Nice to meet you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Ah, I'm Chief Teren Roakes of the Periphery.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't you fucking-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I am going-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't do it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't do it, don't do it, please don't do it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I am going to pull my hand out of my pocket! And I'm going to try to put one right between his eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I love it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I need you to make a Strike test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to spend a Drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're punching a chief of the Periphery. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I know! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, I Saw This Coming! I Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Don't be mad at me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, that's right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You saw him reach into his pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You were looking over at me, and you were saying you were going to do something, so I'm going to help you, you get an extra Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I hope this goes well. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We're egging you on. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You're not going to use your extra? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You know you have an extra-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I already used one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(gasps) And, I've got my training die! I just spit a lot. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's all good. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Now, if we fail this five-dice roll, we deserve it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes, you do. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, you deserve it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I definitely deserve it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This is a terrible idea. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That is two sixes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Two sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player933", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm going to consider that a critical success, which means you get a little fun on top there. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't do it! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Slow motion. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Tell me I walk in right as, (punches). " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He begins-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) Slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The punch-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The punch is like this. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You know, it's just a straight jab. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is like a cartoon. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see a little blood trickle from the nose and he full on flat board, boof-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- onto the wooden ground of the inside right as you walk in! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh shit! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What happened? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hello, Arlo. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard went rogue. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This one's got a pair on him. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The young lady, the young lady-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The young lady who is now standing holding the, like, \"Oh, oh my god!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's all right, you're all right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He'll have quite the headache and maybe a stitch or two. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Who are you, what the fuck are you doing?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's fine, darling, we're friends-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Bleed detector! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So there is definitely, definitely some sort of magick and corruption has been afoot. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it look like any of the bed linens are missing or the curtains are missing or anything? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It looks like they're not missing, but they're definitely torn apart. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The bed linens have been shredded. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Someone's having a good time in here. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Like something specific that looks like it's been either placed or something that is out of the ordinary given the class-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Survey test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(teasing laugh) Six. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Dang! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's turning around for us! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't say it! Knock on-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Not anymore! Thank you, Robbie. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The other thing you-- The only thing you do note is there is one piece of fallen jewelry underneath the broken armoire-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- which looks like a simple gold chain. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can you use your, just on this, before I take it? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Just take it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there anything on the chain? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No bleed on the chain. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you do see that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Young lady, do you work here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No, I don't work here, I'm, um-- Who are you? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We're here to help. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can't help you with that-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You just punched the police! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, no, no, no, no, no, no! I should've said that I should've done that one! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're here to help. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It should've been me! It should've been me! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't know why-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You-- What? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't know why I jumped in! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's okay! It's okay! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, to be fair, you are all currently trying to get her attention. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So, can I-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you would like to make it-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I would very much like to make a Sway. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll give you a-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I respect that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I love that! So then I'll take another. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I respect that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "A mixed success at four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hey, three fours. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, and also, I'll take the gilded die, and get back my Drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Da da da da da ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do I get back my Drive, too? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Not unless I've failed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So unfortunately, no. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But good looking out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Not unless it fails. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Good looking out for yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Good looking out. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You're the best friend you could have. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, if we fail, we get our points back. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I mean, hey. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I love it! I genuinely love it! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm Chamberwoman Onette's assistant.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is insanity.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She was with someone, yeah? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see there's this immediate internal tension in her head, this moment of her going, like. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Kara, if there was someone here who could see what had happened... " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Damn it all! The chamberwoman had a bit of a paramour.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"His name was Wayland Threed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Wayland Freed? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Threed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Threed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"He was a horn player who--\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I bet he was. (laughs) Bad timing-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Doctor! Doctor, stop! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I mean, I was ready to say it, too. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And that's all I know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wait, you were making sure he was staying here? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is it-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I was making sure that nobody else found out about it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, yeah, yeah. We're not going to say anything. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We understand discretion is key. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Periphery know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "About him? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They've been looking for him, and he can't be found neither.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, they didn't find him? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It may sound like a strange question, it is a strange question, but in addition to obvious comforts that perhaps a paramour provided, did he ever play her music? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I mean, it's kind of hard to romantically play someone a horn in a private hotel room--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, no, no, no.. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"-- if that's what you mean, but--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I just mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sexual. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There's another musician. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sexual intercourse. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There is another-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sexual intercourse. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There is another musician, if you all remember. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm wondering if that might be related. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(gasps) Because he knew how to play, too. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's not so strange, is it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No. I see the connection. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, you were being literal. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I believe there's-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I was being literal, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "There are a couple concerts coming in town. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(gasps) That's right! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's right! That's right! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe we should check that out. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Performances. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's clever. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Kara, do you " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What I do ask though is, whatever you're doing, just don't tell her husband that I knew.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of course not. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Who's her husband again? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(sighs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just so we know not to tell him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's probably at their estate.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do they have children? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No children, just their home in Briar Green.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'm sure he's not happy about all this, because I'm sure the Periphery have told him.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Please?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We should go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "There's another place that they're coming. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, that's right. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No, no. Go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If there's " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, I did-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "To help cover our tracks. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What am I supposed? Well, I've already kept too many secrets! I'm not going to--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, it's fine. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You punched an officer in front of me! I don't even know you, really!\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He won't remember much for about an hour before we got here, if I had to guess. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What does Aaron Ferris do for business? Just one more tiny little question. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's just go. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You know them? All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"He used to be a writer, but he's just mainly a house husband these days.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Look, I don't want to be here anymore.\" She pushes past and steps over the-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "One more question, real quick. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No, I can't answer any more questions! This has already put me in a bad place!\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I've got to go!\" She leaves the door right as a officer steps out of the way with a glass of water. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to grab her arm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can we guide you perhaps to your room? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I brought you water.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I know! He fell over! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to just act like I'm waking him up. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just patting him, but I also want to take his badge. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What happened?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes! Lift it! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Hide test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, I get an extra gild. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Those would be the two you'd get to pick from. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to do Hide because I get an extra gild. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, wait! So it's two? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Two gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Two gilded? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you need a Drive? Are you good? I'll give you-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll do a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, and I'll give you a Drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I mean, if they're both gilded-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get it back regardless of what you roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, let's just do that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But you still need the extra dice, don't you? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, never mind. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The only dice you can pick from are gilded, so you get it back regardless. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Rolled a five and a two. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Get your Drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So I go. Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, so indeed, you swipe the badge, and pocket it as he's like \"(stutters) What happened around here? Did he just fall over?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He slipped and fell. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) I need you-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No, it's the one I'm worst at! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Why did you talk? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I need you to roll Sway for me right now. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Slow motion! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Roll Sway for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sway? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Why? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, I've got one in Sway. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, so that's one dice. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I've done a few lectures. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to spend a Drive to give myself two. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Smart. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to spend a Drive to give him one as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So three. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "This is for \"He slipped and fell.\" " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Get one more dice. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "One more. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ooh, who gave me help? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I did. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Charlie did. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Burn those Drives, y'all. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hey, I got six! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got a six. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excellent, excellent. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see him starting to come to a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I will take the water and get her down to safety. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We'll be on our way. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I take a sip and then I'll give it back. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Take care of him because he was talking about some nonsense about people coming in. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You can always throw it in his face! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh! That's right!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's get out of here! Let's get out of here! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Splashes it right into his face. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's just get out, get out, get out! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Walk faster. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Speedy McDeep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You rapidly exit. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do you take the elevator or the stairs? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Stairs, faster. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Probably quickest. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, stairs, stairs, stairs, stairs. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you (chugs) and rapidly exit The Getaway Grand back into the street of Red Lamp. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, Howard! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Should we go to the storage room while we're here? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We should definitely get farther away from here than we are right now. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How well do Candela lighthouse keepers cover up things like punching Periphery officers? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I've never experienced that before. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh yeah! You guys are above the Periphery, " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I suspect that they-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "-- or samesies? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's not exactly a hierarchy. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's not that they don't really know about-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Or we. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you are exiting The Getaway Grand. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We've left! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're having this conversation in the middle of a hotel lobby! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you are exiting The Getaway Grand-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- as you head out into the street, you see three figures approaching The Getaway Grand in their navy blue long coats. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Doesn't stop, but just-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try to just not make eyes at him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, you see him-- As soon as you first notice he's there, he's already looking at you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Nevertheless, what do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "He's one of the bad guys. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Would this be someone that we would've encountered in Candela like this, or-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Some of you may have encountered Officer Aaron Weimer. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Weimer. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's a head of a number of investigations with the OUP, and takes his job " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, a nightmare! Well, it's not good if he clocked any one of us. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Not in a good way, but it was just a quick, and I was like, \"Shit!\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "He seemed to be staring at you the entire time, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "He did? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh shit! All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Should we to the storeroom? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Store? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Or you mentioned that you know-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Should we check that storage room in the back, or we should get out of here? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't think the creature stopped into the storeroom, but we can always look. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, you mentioned you knew the Ferrises. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "My family knows most families. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you know anything about Mr. Ferris? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Some sort of house husband? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And I know that-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- Onette Ferris is a Chamberwoman for the Periphery. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "If it's just as well with you, I'd personally prefer to leave this area. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "For the Primacy. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "yes, yes, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Posthaste. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Let's walk and talk. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Wait, aren't we walking and talking? I thought that's what we were doing. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I assumed you were, but where are you heading to? Where are you walking? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We could either go to their house. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We could go try to follow the trail of whatever creature pulled-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- pulled Enom down the street. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We could go looking for Wayland. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We could look for where Wayland performed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm interested in the music side of these things because, I'm sorry, but the fact that there's a guitar, there's a horn player, I feel like there's some kind of connection. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's what she said. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Musicians have been coming in town. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Could we grab a paper to find, is there an entertainment section? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You need a paper? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You have a newspaper? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I got paper, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of course you do. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hey! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Apparently, I have a paperboy here! Oh, wonderful! Can we flip through and get the information about who? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, sure! Go ahead and make a Focus test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't make me roll for it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, this is going to be, I mean, perusing the information, we're looking for anything that might pertain specifically to what you're seeking. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I need help! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I am going to assist because-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's a low stakes roll, just so you know. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Then if you want to save your Drive, you can. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, I'll save it, because-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Although, if I fail, you get it back anyway. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll do it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I got a two, so I failed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you're doing it anyway, then? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You roll one more, so if you fail, then you get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "A five! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yay! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's good enough. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You're welcome. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Glancing through, there are a number of performances that are publicly printed within the newspaper. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What is it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In particular, the paper that you have on you would be the paper of-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The Herald Star. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yep, The Halen Star. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Halen Stars. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Halen Star, indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do catch note of what's called The Revisionary, which is an amazing restauwant, restaurant. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You know, that's phrase, with the restauwant. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Wovewy, wovewy! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(mumbles) And the westauwant. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I wove that westauwant. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do see in one of the notes there that mentions a small trio band, one of which, Wayland is noted as one of the trio. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, that's remarkable, isn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What are they called again? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I think we should go there. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The Revision? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The restaurant's called the The Revisionary. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did that say what the band's name was? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, it just had the trio of names. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's go to The Revisionary. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We're going to have another meal. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, delightful! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did-- Sorry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What's your question? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "There was a few concerts, right? Reggie said someone's coming in from out of town? Is that what you were talking about? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We probably shouldn't be looking for out-of-towners either, right? Like a touring band, if they're local musicians? I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think either one is a good lead. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Something. Let's start here. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It seems odd. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, it's weird! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There is-- Yes, but there isn't anything else about that out of town band coming in? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Nothing in particular at the moment, no. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you're mentioning this to the rest of the folks, Auggie, you glance over your shoulder, and you can see one OUP coated figure is trailing back about two blocks behind you, following you as you journey. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe we should not want to keep too close. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So we'll take a little break. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We got a tail? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll pick up from there. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Got a tail. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The problem with fail rolls is sometimes that letter doesn't make it to the intended person. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, right! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But I love that there's cost to the fails in this game! It makes it so much more, even when it's kind of a success, you could still get a creepy beeper in your skin. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And like here, succeeding in finding information to clarify what you want out of the newspaper, but now you're being tailed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(dramatic string and marimba music) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So go grab the Quickstart Guide and follow along as we embark upon the strange adventures of \"Candela Obscura.\" (dramatic orchestral music) (dramatic orchestral music) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Psst, psst, psst, psst. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The guy is following me. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Which guy? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The Aaron Weimer. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it Aaron or is it some other person? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is he a tall, lanky boy or is he a normal man? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, he's a normal man. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We should split up. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, let's get on a cable car. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you think we can lose him? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We could just meet him head on. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Plus, the cable cars come by so quickly, maybe we could just hop on before he can do it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Before he can even get on. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's worth the effort. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, let's give it a go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you begin to lean in that direction, seeing one of the cars, now beginning to catch up, " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Then we hop on at the very last minute. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just standing. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, so you're standing there. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm not doing anything. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Going by. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Having a conversation. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you see the figure begin to (running) go into a run to try and catch up-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Terminator style? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "T-1000? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's getting closer and closer and closer and is going to catch up with you and get onto the cable car with you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, is this worth it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know, and be like, why are you-- What? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's a bold day, right? All right, so as a practitioner of-- A practitioner of the entertainment art of magick, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Magick. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I reach into my pocket, and I pull out a hand of-- A handful of flash powder. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right as it's beginning to turn, I throw some flash powder down near the wheels near where he's running so it looks like something went off and hopefully will distract him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no! ♪ (nervous noise) ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll make this a Control-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Control ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player937", "Content": "♪ (sing) ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "To see if you can manage to hit in just a way that it's going to throw him off. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So, high stakes? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's just following you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, in that case, I am going to-- Oh, boo. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You asked me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This doesn't count, it's like when you said this-- So can't do that here. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sorry, repeat that for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "\"On any high stakes roll, you may always spend Cunning instead of the Drive the roll would normally use.\" " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Right, this would not be considered high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If anyone wants to help me? I could certainly use-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes, you know what? I'm going to use-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What's it from? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to use Saw This Coming again. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We've done this before. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We've done this magick move before. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, so how do you help with this, the flash powder toss on this? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Especially as the one who's used to jumping trolley cars, you know exactly where the optimal stepping point is. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There was a two, a two, and a one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A two, a two, and a one. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Jeez, that's a-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So I'll spend that Resistance. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Which means I get one die back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "One die to throw. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(groans) It's a three. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They didn't want it to happen, the dice did not want that to happen. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Damn! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "They did not want that to happen. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Wasn't meant to be for this one. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Damn it! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As he's holding onto the edge, goes, \"You must be careful with such dangerous materials in a public space, Charlotte.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do I know him? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do not know this person, but they seem to know you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can't imagine what you're talking about, Officer...? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm just here to keep an eye.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And pray tell, what exactly are you here to investigate? Obviously, since you're a member of such an esteemed organization. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just go about yours.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So if you're going to come with us to a service, is that what you want to do? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Teach me of The Ascendancy's majesty.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You want to go to church? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I thought that was going to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just quietly rides alongside you, as it cruises up the street. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So how long have you worked for the OUP? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Who said I worked for the OUP?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I only see them wearing that particular shape. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"So you deal with them often?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"The OUP, to recognize the attire.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I'm just a bit of a fashion girl. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Where are you looking to get off? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, not where we were going to. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Mm-mm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Go pay a visit to your-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How about-- Oh, no, I don't want him to know where I live. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What if we all get off in different places? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Meet back at the-- Where would you-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "At the place. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(mutters) At the-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(mutters) Yeah, that's what I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "He seems to suspect me more than anyone. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, but Auggie's really good at-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We're saying this quietly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I understand, but the nerves are getting to you and as it begins to build and the anxiety of him staring straight at you out of recognition of who you are, you do take a Brain, as the stress begins to build up within you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Charlotte. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So maybe Auggie should be the last one to get off. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, I'll stay here and meet you-- Where? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "At the restaurant. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll hop off. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Doesn't follow. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to stare politely at him. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where am I? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) You're scattered somewhere in the middle of The Varnish, at the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The restaurant is in The Varnish? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll say, about a block ago. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you're not that far away. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no, I feel faint! Then I'll step off the back of the-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Halfway through The Varnish now. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you want to get off? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's going to be shortly curving into either-- Probably towards Hallowharbor before heading over towards The Shriveline. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You're such a pious boy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Clocks you for just a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He gets back to looking at you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So tell me about you, Officer. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'd rather not.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I know you'd rather not, but it's going to be a rather long trip, if you're going to join me as I visit my former mentor. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'm not much of a conversationalist.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can see that. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Try to, at least. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, it's a sprint to keep up with it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Where are they? Would this actually go to The Eaves? Or is it going up? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So this one line is moving away from The Eaves, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hallowharbor goes across. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Officer, would you care to accompany me? I need to skip lines because you see, I have to visit The Eaves. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You go where you need to be.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So I'm going to skip whatever line I have to, to be able to get back onto something that would go to The Eaves. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just an attached accompaniment. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Wonderful. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You, like, (pants), watch as she steps off and the figure steps with her. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, I'm just watching from afar. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What can I do to lose this fellow? Where am I? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I've tried to work my way back around toward where Arlo got off since I've hopped off. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm trying to make my way to them. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Not a problem. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And where am I? Where have we gotten off? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "On the northwestern end. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would I know of anyone in the area, who I might have in the area? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm off at the border of one to five? I mean, of Hallowharbor to the Shriveline? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Of The Varnish to Hallowharbor. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Varnish to-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So you're probably pretty close to your place. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm right here. No, my place is way over here. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Closer to Sight Unseen. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But The Shriveline is where the churches are, isn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would you care to join me? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Be my guest.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "In our particular religious tradition at this church, do we have, say, a confessional? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes, I'd say there would be. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to head into the confessional. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Please do put your mind at rest and bring your piety and how best it suits your arrival upon our doorstep.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I need to-- I'm here to absolve myself. May I? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You, of course, are also welcome to join us in prayer or wait if you'd like.\" The gentleman just, \"I'm fine,\" and gives a fake smile. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Come to confessional. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is he staying outside? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, he's inside, he's about 10 feet from the confessional, just waiting. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That would be a " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Very high stakes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Please, I'm very lonely.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We have different rules in this world. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there any place that I can go, perhaps, to sit and wait him out? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, with a Sway roll, this one, I am going to spend a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And we can't help if we're not around. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I have two. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You have no means of helping her. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Just get me the fuck out of here, Father. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Dang! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Get me the fuck out of here, Father. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Big spender. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Boy! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There should be a door behind that that you could use to escape out the back of the cathedral.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you, Father. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there somewhere that I can donate to the church? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Feel free to come by any day and we'll be happy to take any donations you wish.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you, Father. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Very well.\" You hear (footsteps) (door creaks shut) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So he said exit out " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He said there was a-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Like a back room. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I feel like he's like, Sneaky McSneakerson. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I mean, you can try and make a Hide test if you want to go for all of them! Spend all the Drives, come on! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, so I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You won't need them later. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm just going to go as fast as I can. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You dart out and you can see pushing the doors closed, with the help of a few other hands, you do not see the other gentleman within the room. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going back into the office, and in the office, there is a-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's a desk, there's some furniture, and there is a back door that leads out of there. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do I have anything with me like that? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did I see him walk out? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She doesn't trust anything. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do see him walk out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, I don't. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, is he standing there waiting? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's currently, like, he gets pushed out and starts looking through the windows, which themselves, they're too opaque with the darker interior to see any daylight in the mid-afternoon. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The duder's looking through the windows? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm outside watching him. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, oh, oh, sorry, sorry, I didn't see that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Nope, what're you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there anything, a cloak, vestments, anything that I could potentially put on? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, it looks like a heavy cloak for rain and weather that is currently set upon a coat rack towards the back door. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excellent, what's the weather out right now? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's been foggy in the evenings, but it's a chilled afternoon. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is the Father coming to the office, or is he just out front? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You don't know. You just walked into the office. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And take a look behind me to see if the Father's coming or not. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see him walking towards the office. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Steal the man of the cloth's cloth! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "May I borrow these? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"If it aids you to stay safe, yes, of course.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Put it over, cover myself up as much as physically possible and-- Do I go out that door or do I go out the front? Go, go as fast as I can out that back door. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, right as you are leaving, the Father goes, \"And as a reminder, please, a donation would be greatly appreciated.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, well, Father, right now I'm happy to donate, but I can get you more if I can come back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Both would be appreciated.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I pop it on his desk. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Your initial donation has been accepted.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Great. I put everything on-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- and I bust a move out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I know that feeling intimately, it's a wonderful feeling. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Happy to keep it visceral. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But after a short time, with the help of those vestments and the bit of chaos at the cathedral, it seems you've lost the OUP officer. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's a bar to the farther back and there is a stage, a number of stools, and it's a nice place. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are there people there right now or is it-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, there's a few. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- full? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sorry, I was still-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are there any tables available, though? There are, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There are, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I guess while it took time to get back to us, the professor and I will have grabbed a table, waiting for everyone. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, hey, how's it going? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there a stage for musicians? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There is indeed a stage there. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "There's a stage for musicians. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, we are in the right place. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What time was the show supposed to start? Does anyone recall? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Excuse me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yes?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You have musicians here, correct? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Occasionally, yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are any playing tonight? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"They're supposed to be tonight, yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Who are playing tonight? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"That would be Kara, Wayland, and Theodore.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wonderful, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You're welcome.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are the musicians here preparing already? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No, they usually come here just after sunset.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You're welcome.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did he say Kara? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know if that's a, I mean, it could be a potential-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "A coinkydink? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Could be a coinkydink. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Have I made it here? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She was lying to us! I was trailing and making sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What if she was actually his lover and she came to check on " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And she's be-- No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, that would be weird. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, she was lying. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sounds like just conjecture at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It is. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All good ideas. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But just ideas, unsubstantiated. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see--? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are we wasting time at a restaurant? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It didn't have their last names? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, they were just known as the first name trio. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How long until sunset is it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "About four hours. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, jeez louise. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "About three to four hours. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We're not waiting here until they come. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ A next step ♪ Excuse me, how often does this trio play here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, the performing trio?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Take three nights out of the week.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I was wondering if this Kara, if you know anything about her? I'm a bit a fan. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We don't really, don't engage with the musical guests that often.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, and what instruments do they play? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, well, there's a horn, there's a bass, and there's one of those small pianos that they bring in.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They bring in a piano? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We bring it up there and they play it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What time do they usually get here to warm up and stuff, you know? Sound check. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"About sunset, I think.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, they get here about sunset, I'll start then. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe we should spend some time in another location until they get here. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think that is a great idea. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's a great idea. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We will finish our drinks and pay up and we'll come back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "My shift ends in hour, so I won't see you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I pay it and we should go immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Should we pay Ferris a visit? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, I mean, the house is close by. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The Eaves are a short trip across the bridge. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, it's not far. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I definitely know my way around The Eaves. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But they don't live in The Eaves, they-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "They live in the Briar Green, right? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "They live in the Briar Green? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "They live in Briar Green. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's how I know them. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you live in the Briar Green? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She does. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I do as well. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player938", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Briar Green's right next to The Eaves, so it's a short jaunt from there. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's a sort of hop on, hop off tour. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What's on your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I just don't know how much I glean from walking around talking to people, but I suppose it's the only choice we have at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know where else to go. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, suppose we should talk to the husband. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, I agree. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe he gifted her some jewelry that was left behind and there was something in the jewelry. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Magickal jewelry? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Should we check it out? Do you have the jewels? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I have the chain. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Have we taken a closer look at that? It's the only evidence we've actually taken, isn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "There was no bleed on it, but we haven't looked to see, does it have an engraving or anything? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Take a look at the chain. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Probably worth a decent amount of money for a piece of jewelry that was left behind. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We are still looking-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Didn't someone say that there was a thing coming in? Like something's coming in from-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There was a shipment coming in from port, and we did learn that she, that the chamberwoman had been sort of stopping up the works in terms of import/export from-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The guilds. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "From the outer areas. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Import tariffs, local and abroad. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Her area of expertise, I believe, was taxes and tariffs. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I believe there are some form of teamsters or something down at the docks. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, the docks. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But again, just pure conjecture. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's about this time that the initial-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I was about to sneeze. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I was like, she's having an idea and it hurts. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's an idea or it's a sneeze. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She's overcome. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It went away. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I was just checking in the back, and they were notified a short time ago that the band will not be playing tonight.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The whole trio? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Why not? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No reason, we were just told they--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Who told you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I don't know who told them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Who told " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Told me, my manager.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is that true? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"That is correct.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are any of the musicians coming? I so very much wanted to see one of them. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "One of them told me that they're canceling the performances for the foreseeable future.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Was he here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"She was--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Came by.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, where did she go? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It was the one named Kara.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Kara, what's her last name? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Belmon.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you so much. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you very much. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) She did it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That lying. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, so. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Piece of trash. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, we can leave, right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What if she wasn't wanting to answer any more questions? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It would be odd to leave out the information that she played in a band with the potential accomplice of her boss's disappearance. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, that's a little weird. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Methinks she's hiding something. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, you think? We have to find her. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe the manager knows where she lives. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you know where Kara lives? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I do not.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I read her and see if she actually is trying-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Test that Read. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A mixed success. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Best you can tell, she-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does not. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see she actually looks pretty perturbed that the evening's entertainment has suddenly canceled a few hours before they were supposed to arrive, which means either she has to find a replacement, or they are just not going to happen. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Where would the chamberwoman, where would her office be? Where would the chamberwoman's office be? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That would likely be in the-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where the Primacy is. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yep, which would be-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Silver Slip. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Silver Slip. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She said she was an assistant to-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "To the chamberwoman. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So maybe we go talk to the husband because maybe he'll tell us a different story? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I like it, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Going to Briar Green. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sounds like a plan. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "To Briar Green. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Would I know where the Ferrises reside? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's very, very nice. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Very, very nice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's very nice. " }, { "Role": "Player10", "Content": "(impressed sounds) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Jeez louise. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there any officer around or--? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're probably about an hour and a half from sunset at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Two hours from sunset. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, let's go knock on the door. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Can I help you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hi, is Mr. Ferris home? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yes, he's had a very hard day.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Will you tell him that Arlo Black of the Black Estate is here to pay a visit? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"He'll greet you in the study.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you so much. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Anything we notice other than the fact that it is very, very opulent around us? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you doing here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Um, well, I know you and I haven't had many interactions. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Pours into a glass that's on the mantle, sets it to the side, and takes the glass. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But you may have heard my experience with the Eastons a few years back? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Mm-hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm sorry to say I've heard through the-- Through talking today, about what happened with your wife. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Word's getting around, isn't it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It happens fast. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What all'd you hear?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Um-- What all did you hear? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And she might be missing with someone.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's great, that's fucking great.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We can't believe the rumors, can we? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Who are the rest of you? What are you doing? Who'd you bring with you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They help me find answers. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I hope you find them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We'd like to help you find some answers, too. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What can I do to help? I've been answering a lot of questions today, so let's just put them on the pile.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "When you said that it makes a lot of sense, and forgive me for being indelicate, but could you expand on that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You know, it all just kind of makes sense when you put it together, right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are there any people that you know that she works particularly close with that might, um, we might be able to speak to? Who might know, I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Like assistants or anything like that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yep.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What happened to your hand? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I just, I got some sort of weird infection thing.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Our friend here is a doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "PhD. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, I'm already taking pills, don't worry about it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Just a glance. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Just to say if he's ever seen anything like it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Have you heard about the recent shipments coming in from across the Vastchasm? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Why? Is this the kind of shit that people are letting creep into the town now? Is this some sort of like, after the war subtle cold war warfare against our people?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All we know is that this-- pull out the bleed container-- this-- This. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Maybe a foreign parasite or a-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh god!\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It was found in a shipment of plantains. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He pulls his bandage off and holds it up to you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Thank you so much for your cooperation. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You look at his palm, right there in the palm, the skin is black. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "For about the size of a heavy coin and you can see there's black veins that spider out from it in the middle. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How did you get such a wound? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It only just started about a day, day and a half ago.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A stigmata (chuckles). " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you notice if your wife had anything similar? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Not that I saw.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Go on an exotic evening out or do something you've never done before to celebrate the occasion? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Went and had dinner and then came home, and that was it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What did you get her, by any chance? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She runs the Alizarin Gallery in The Varnish. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I was going to say, yeah, your artwork, is any of this like-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, most of the stuff.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is this all from that gallery? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, I figured that be a good place to ask.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What did the jewelry look like? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So I paid a healthy sum to have it crafted into a necklace and held unto it until it was time to go ahead and give it to her, the night of the anniversary.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Had Kara, her assistant, ever seen the necklace? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I don't believe so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It was a type of pendant, this emerald, worn around a necklace? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, it was around a--\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Huh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He goes, \"Well, if I recall, Kara's the one that I think introduced her to Dorna originally.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Maybe you could bring your hand by, too, and I'll see if there's a few doctors in the community who might want to take a look. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Do you think this is like that thing you showed me?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Uh-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I look at the hand? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there any wiggling under the skin? Can I see any kind of movement? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can make a Sense roll, if you'd like. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She has a thing for bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh yeah, I guess I could pull out the bleed detector, too. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just whip out this massive device. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's so tiny. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, it's definitely, it's not subtle. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The room's going to glow blue! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm spending an Intuition die to get an extra die here. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mixed success with a four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And it looks like it's not spreading. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's localized in the hand? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But it definitely has corrupted the flesh in his palm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "A bleed containment vial wouldn't just suck that up, would it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How does the bleed affect you when it spreads into your body? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, I still have a hole in the middle of my hand from before that has not been fixed. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What before felt like numbness that would move into cold, now is like sharp pains of glass shooting up my arm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Is everything all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, but-- You should definitely, um-- Do something about that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"All right, I'll definitely come by.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I've been working on this really great YA novel--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Howard. Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"-- I think you'd really enjoy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, my absolute favorite. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Have you felt different at all? Lately. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, a little bit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Before you heard the news. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'm not quite following you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I would love to read your young adult novel. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's about this couple that meets outside of the Scarlet Wood.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Over a horse.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're trying to find her, right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Obviously.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sounds like a plan. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you by any chance know where we might be able to find Kara? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I actually don't.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's head to the gallery. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "How long has she been working for you guys again, Kara? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Kara, maybe five years.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Mm, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We know it's a hard time. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Well, just bring her back.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And then we leave. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think that we should be-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, remember when I said that your directness was an asset? Perhaps just among us. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "He should, though, he should. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "To the gallery? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As fast as we can. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We" }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, I'd be delighted! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Eh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Who knows what that burrowing thing could do? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think he has some time. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How do you know? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He should be fine until we figure out the more immediate problem. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You should've cut his hand off. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is that-- Is that what's on your hand? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I have a weird void inside of mine. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is just this black darkness. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's quite something, isn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Why is that there? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But I'd never seen the void before our last assignment. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What happened to your hand? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "As we walk to the gallery. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As we walk to the gallery, walk and talk. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Um-- My fiance was taken. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Eddie? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And-- Well, I pulled my arm back out and Eddie did not come back out. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But poor Eddie is-- I'm sure he's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "He could still be there. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Anything's possible. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe I'm turning into one. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Charlotte's just staring off into space with the shock of this news. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm just wondering, just seeing if like-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, I'm not single, Auggie. We're engaged. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You're engaged, you're engaged. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't you remember? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm very curious about exactly what this experience looked like. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Speaking of hands, have you ever heard of the Red Hand, or " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Operating by some of the same avenues and networks as Candela once and sometimes still uses, but definitely for the purposes of self-enrichment as well as selfish curiosity and power. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Why do you ask? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I've never been able to find out more. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We're going to the-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, we're going to the gallery. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're going to the gallery. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Specifically, the gallery entitled \"The Shadows of Memory.\" As you begin to step into the warmer interior of the Alizarin Gallery. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hmm! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A number of historians, one in particular that you recognize in this space to be Professor Errol Dennings-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah, yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- who is the professor of Halen history, is currently walking about with a very young woman on his arm in a long dark dress, long straight blonde hair. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do I recognize her as a TA? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She's an ex student. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But nevertheless, the room is yours. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do we see Kara here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do not see Kara here. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Scribbles. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If your Eddie had any dealings with the Red Hand, it's possible his disappearance was not entirely an accident. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And that might involve us getting involved with some people who are dangerous, but I'll be here with you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "He's been missing for quite a while, as well as his entire family, as well as his staff. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It was swept under the rug. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's unearth that rug, shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "At another time? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see Dorna? Because I now, with all of these things coming out, I want to know, I want to see Dorna. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do not know what Dorna looks like. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't realize which ones these are. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, which one did you roll? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Was it the two, or was it the four? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The four. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Why not? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's our channel. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm cursing. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) If that was a problem, we would've been wrecked a long time ago. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Just reroll. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Reroll it, reroll it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Five on the gilded die. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. So that's still a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And I get my Drive back! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You immediately tell from the other people that are listening in and paying the attention that she is likely the curator for this event. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are any other items on display jewels of any kind? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're not sure if they're legitimate or if they're just recreations for the purposes of the atmosphere of the exhibit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I feel that we need to talk to her, but I'm not sure the angle. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I can always put on my badge and say, I'm captain here and-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I believe in your powers of deception, my dear, but even you have limits. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Doesn't make sense. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The jewelry she's wearing. What's she wearing? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's like a small mantle that sits upon the top of her dress. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Duh! Do I see Eliza here? Farrington? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I would say you do not see Eliza here. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, there's no time like the present, right? I'd like to just walk up and join the crowd listening to her and-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Anyone else doing anything while-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Same. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- you're doing-- Oh, you're following? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just going to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "-- get in the crowd and just listen to what she's talking about. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll take that one.\" They all clap around a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is she very much holding court? Is there any way to like-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She goes over and shakes his hand and then turns to another figure. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excuse me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm very interested in this Oldfairen history that you speak of. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I am aware of you and I've not seen you within our fine gallery before.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I am intrigued to hear more about this theory on how they were wiped out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Each of these is an artist's idea of what those final moments might have been.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Fascinating, isn't it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So, just to be clear, none of these items were actual artifacts that were taken from anywhere? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is all representation.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I suppose if one were to be interested in procuring something a little bit more special than what you have out here, what then would be the way for them to do so with you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Focus test for me, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, in that case. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I give you-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You sure can. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to give you a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to use a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll give you a Drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "An Intuition Drive? Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You did one, too? Is that what you said? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, I did an Intuition Drive as well. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's how you count. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Make sure you know which ones are used. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That is a failure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Gosh, we get our Drives back. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You're welcome. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hate it, huh? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get your Drives back. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We hate it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I used to make the joke-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Good looking out. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's so funny. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As she looks towards you, as you carry this conversation on, goes, \"Well, I'm certain there are those that could be of service, perhaps the museum or if you have an interest in these.\" Just looking for some sort of a sign. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "They wouldn't want to be caught red-handed with something. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That would be ridiculous. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Sway test now. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Please, for the love of god! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Come on! Come on! Don't mess with me! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to spend a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do I do it? You are? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to give you a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You were so good to me before. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You can do it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, no! Six! Six, six, six! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sweet! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Six is a success. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Whew! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you looking for?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I was wondering if there might be a, I don't know, a piece of adornment or jewelry of some kind. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Unfortunately, the only such piece that I've had was recently sold.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"But, should you have interest in, let's say, statuesque collectibles, perhaps ancient writings, iconography, things of unique history.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You wouldn't happen to have anything here I could take a look at, would you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She glances past you and heads over to the office. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Did I see that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Puts his hand on your shoulder and goes, \"Ms. Black, I'm afraid you need to leave.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, whatever for? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Begins to turn you and push you towards the door. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I just love to look at art is all. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I understand, but you need to leave.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You're very tall. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Doesn't respond, but starts ushering you out of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Where's the bathroom? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Looks at you and looks at your clothing and says, \"You too,\" grabs your shoulder. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa, hey! Judgy, judgy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And begins pushing you both towards the door. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No, no, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's all right, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What, what, what, what? Does this guy-- I look like this on purpose. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(impacts) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Now, that is very unkind. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, it's very unkind! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"It is also my job.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't you throw me as well, Sir! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I would not do such a thing,\" and gently pushes you outside of the front. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Careful of the placement of your hands. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(gasps) Did you just touch her? Did you just touch her somewhere that you shouldn't have touched her? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No, I touched her shoulders. What, I--?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do I need to make a report here, ma'am? Do I need to go on inside and get mad at this-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's fine, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Where's his boss? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Put his arms behind his back and leans in towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What do you want? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I would love to thank Dorna for the, what was your first name again? What's your name? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Tecan.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll step outside here and have a smoke and I'll see you in a minute. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is all hoity-toity bullshit! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A couple people outside are like-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is not even real! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"How'd they even get in here?\" \"I saw them, was wondering how they walked around here.\" People start whispering. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's fake art, it's fake! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm just going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Please, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- move closer to the office. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She's still in there, right? Anything that we should do to lend her aid? As I'm talking, I pull out a little notebook out of my jacket and write the security guy's name, in my jacket and put it back in. " }, { "Role": "Player62", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did I see where they walked off? Where she took her and they walked off somewhere? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's like a back office. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're currently waiting outside of it as she's in there. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We could go around. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This is a very expensive place. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, certainly-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "[booming explosion] " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Jeez, my god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Boom, you hear this heavy-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You dick. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Some sort of a loud impact from the far end of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I just peed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "[rumbling booms] " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is it moving... " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The man you were just talking to gets pushed out in front of the street-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I run inside. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You run inside. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I duck and then run inside. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going, too. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I run as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is challenging and you hear this heavily on the other side of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Charlie? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see the door (heavy impact) and you hear screams from the inside of the office, as well as what sounds like heavy bricks falling, and another breaking and thrashing of materials. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, no, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Give me the bacon! The-the-the-- Give it back! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "There were two. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do have it? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, you have it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "[booming] " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(scraping) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I know. It's so scary. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's so scary. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to start kicking the door to try to kick the door down. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I need you to make a Strike roll for me, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Anyone want to be beefy boy? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll come over there and-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Beefy boy? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You push into the crowd, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "This is not a judgment, that you bought when we-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're fighting upstream as people are screaming and rushing out of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(whiny cries) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A Strike, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do I sense her trepidation about trying to kick this door down? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do. I'd say you do catch up as she's gearing herself up. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, thank god, please. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "May I? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, please. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player62", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "♪ I'm not good at a lot ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to unleash the bacon. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll spend a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll do, I'm going to help out, so you get an extra one because I'm going to kick, I'm going to help kick. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're going to kick together? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, one, two, three. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hey, that's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's good because everything else sucked. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, it did. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This shape looks like it is, what you can make out elements of gray, bulbous flesh with arms, many arms. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's absorbed other body parts. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And many legs. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's absorbed people. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The mouths \"(groaning gasp).\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do they look like people, or do they look it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "With that mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, because we're first in the door? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh my god, oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see, as it smashes through, bits of its body catch the edge of the splintered wood leaving strips of gray flickering flesh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You hear more screams from the hallway way from beyond where you can see as people see this thing that goes charging, (fast heavy footsteps) down the hall, past the alley, and out into the night of the city. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can we chase after it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you'd like to, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We don't see Dorna, I'm assuming. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do not see Dorna in that room. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see anything broken into, anything specific that looks like it took it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Most of the furniture's been pushed to one side from the explosion of the wall and there is rubble scattered around the room. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Does the portal remain? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The portal remain? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Does the portal remain? Didn't it come out of a portal of sorts? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, not a portal. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, an opening in the wall. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It bashed through the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, literally a physical opening. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A physical opening. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, I thought we had a tear of metaphysical space, but it's just a hole in the wall, got it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It just blasted through the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did, in the blob, did we see any flashes of red? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Was Dorna in the office when? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Dorna was in the office, but you didn't see Dorna, you just heard a scream. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Heard screaming. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Then the creature leapt out and then just cruised down the hall. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do see there's a strong smell, a strong immediate smell of sewage. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(yells) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ew! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Within the room. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It probably smells like poopy. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Going down in the-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Poopy. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What do we do? What are you supposed to do with something like that? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We chase after it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And then what?! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Like if there's a shattered-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh yeah. Okay, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- piece of wood or whatever. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As it's broken, one of them you can easily pull off and it's like a really nice looking bat. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is Dorna's office? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It was. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Are there any logs, you know, things of, sales, books, booking, or anything like that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you want to make a Survey, if you'd like to. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Can anyone look for this kind of stuff? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'll do it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I wanted to take off after it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm already in the alleyway. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. Let's go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to give you an extra Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you're staying behind the look throughout? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I feel like I want to go after the thingy. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Maybe we'll just real quick-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's up to you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We'll go after the thingy. " }, { "Role": "Player933", "Content": "Ah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We got it, party is split. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, gilded die, and we got my Drive back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, gilded die, and what'd you roll on gilded die? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As well as a pair of black gloves with red interior stitching on the gloves. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Take it all that shit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Take it all. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you do, you feel this weird tingling sensation on your arm, and you look down-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, no no no no! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- and there's a strip of flesh that was left behind in the middle of the rubble is now trying to embed itself into your arm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm using my knife to get this. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You didn't notice it until it was already trying to merge with your body. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do manage to pull it off and throw it, but how does the bleed affect you as you're trying to run in this dark alley? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's just completely discombobulating. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, you come back and, Auggie, you've watched as-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Charlie! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(gasps) Let's go, let's go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The low fog that has filtered into the city now is obscuring part of its form, but you now know what you're looking for, and it is slamming into walls and skidding as you see now it's running on seven or eight different pairs of legs. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Some of them are flicking in the air behind it, trying to go through the motions. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it look like the limbs are all separate and they're all part of a blob, or does it look like lots of bodies shoved together? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hard to tell this distance in the fog, but as you go charging after it who is keeping tabs on trying to follow its path? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's probably you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are either of us good at this? Yes, you should, that's a tracking thing. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So you should do that. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, I'm sprinting after it, and seeing if I can see where it's going. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. I'd like you to make a Survey test to continue to follow it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll add an Intuition Drive for you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You're going to give me one? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is that an extra dice for me? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, it is. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And that's Survey? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm good! I'm bad! " }, { "Role": "Player659", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That is a fail. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's a fail. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Two and two threes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Two heads in particular that are facing each other that turn and face you, a woman's head and a man's head, as they both pull apart their bodies like a mouth and you can see their torsos facing each other, like they were locked in the process of making love and where their waists are, their hips are fused, and out of their bodies these teeth have grown beyond their torsos and chest to form-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(shouts) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As they both go-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's disgusting. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You watch as Howard is now being pulled-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Howard! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take a body as it begins to pull you across the teeth, and the weird jagged parts of its extended fingers are-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Punch it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let us get there. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Punch it the faces. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll get there in a second. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We got a little bit of time. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(sobs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So what are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Am I restrained in any way? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're not restrained, but you're certainly being hurt. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What'd you scream? Punch it? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Punch it! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to reach in my pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You've got your-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No, no, no, no, I'm doing it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, good. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm pull my pocket out I take the little vial out as carefully as I can. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you're being Audrey II'ed into its mouth. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to do my best-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Howard! Quickly, faster. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- to sprinkle half the vial, half the vial onto my knuckies. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I will say, (laughs) given the circumstances-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How's it going? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- you can't be that careful-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I know! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The vial is used, but nevertheless, you sprinkle it onto your knuckles. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Don't attack me yet, give me like two seconds! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, it's just a smeary thing full of smear. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, make a Strike check for me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Strike test. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hurry, Howard! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Am I doing a punch? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Give him all the Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I got one left. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, I'm going to give you another one. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You're going to help me, you've got moral support? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to pick up a rock and throw it at the same time. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Try and distract it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right, I got three. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Come on, baby, come on! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Unbelievable. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, you failed? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's what I'm supposed to be good at. Three threes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(sighs) Thanks for giving my Drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I will reach back, and out of stress, take the biggest haymaker, even though I know that's the worst punch you can punch, and what happens to me? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) One of the hands, one of the many arms that are lining the outside of this awful flesh amalgam creature snatches your wrist, the knuckles unused, but grabbed in place, as another face emerges and goes (unearthly screams) into you, and you take another brain. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Another brain? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Uh-oh, uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is that your third? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "My mind snaps-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- absolutely beyond the realm of comprehension, and I believe I'm out? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're out. You're out for this scene right now. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That was your fourth? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's it, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's his third. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to have a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, but three? You take it on the fourth, right? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That was my fourth. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He just took his fourth. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That was your fourth. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's a scar at the end of the night for your boy, if I'm still alive, you nerds! Help me! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We're trying! We're running! Don't die! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "At the end of the scene, at the very least. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The creature (slobbery panting), it spits you out as you start freaking losing your mind, and then darts down the hall behind. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Was Dorna taken, too, or is she still stuck? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Dorna's taken, too. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ugh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I just run after it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Howard! Howard! Smack, smack, smack. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Catatonic. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(sighs) Goddamn it! I'm going to take Howard's arm, and as we're going, I'm going to try to carry him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there a car around? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're just running after this thing. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm running after it, and as I'm running, I'm putting on these gloves. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's this a breadth between the alleys, where you can see there's a big drain grate and what looks to be-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, it's heading to the sewers. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- a sewer entrance way as it immediately rushes over on top of it and flings the top of the sewer grate, (metal grate clanging) up into the air as it begins to push its way down. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god. Suitcase or flash powder? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does anybody have any toilet paper? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I open this briefcase? Can I open it? Can I get it open? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It looks like they're set intently in a row, but they're all different shapes, like they're all naturally pulled, like these weird obsidian nails, I guess you could say. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to grab, what, a handful of them and throw it at him. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. I need you to make a Strike throw for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Nobody can help me because no one's with me, right? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Jeez louise. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to use this Drive as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You also take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm, wow. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As the rest of you have managed to catch up. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(panting) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "W-W-What happened? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She's gone. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, we have to go down into the sewer. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What?! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, it'll come back out. It'll keep attacking. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She's right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are there any of the weird little gray, fleshy things on the ground as it tried to get into the sewer? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It seems to be losing bits of its mass when it catches on something. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do the bits seem to be thrashing more now than they were when we first saw the bits at the other place? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They are curling and thrashing, freshly shorn. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Freshly-- But it's not that-- If we take one of the vials out, are are they thrashing more now or are they thrashing less? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "By being in proximity? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The one that's in the vial is still an occasional twitch, so it seems like it's just the immediacy-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The fresher-- Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- of them being shed is showing more vibrance. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, maybe poke it with one of those things. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Poke the pieces. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "See if it does anything. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "With one of the obsidian nails, I'm going to poke one of the gooey pieces. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You poke it and you hear a sizzling sound, (searing) and you see it bend and flex and flex, and as you pull the stone away, the point where the stone was has now eroded, like it melted upon contact, but the strip of flesh begins to come to rest. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Does it look like, in any way-- I know they're shards, but does it look like, in any way, they can be fixed to this glove? Do they fit into the glove as nails at all? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No. The gloves just look like gloves. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "They're just-- Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But the nails do seem to have some sort of property-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- that interacts with the flesh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The bleed damage that I took earlier from touching Mr. Ferris' hand. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I look at one of the little gray bits and put my hand near it and Let Them In? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you'd like to. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Take knowledge from taking bleed from that thing? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In focusing on the earlier sensation of this corruption, and now looking at a source of this sort of similar corruption, you suddenly feel this hunger once again in your stomach, this awful, terrible hunger, this ancient, undying hunger, this ancient, undying hunger, this being older than anything you've seen or known that wants to eat and become everything, and then was broken into many, many pieces and forgotten. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Am I allowed to ask a question about it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does anything scare me? Can I sense a fear in it from anything? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you do sense that whatever this creature is that has been born from its hunger and corruption is extremely scared. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Anything? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can decide right now what your scar is-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- and how your points change. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He sets it on his lap and he removes a scalpel, and he removes his hat, and he makes a small incision in the top of his own head, about three inches or so wide, parts it with his fingers-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) Howard. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's got a circular drill bit in it, and he puts it on the top of his skull and begins to crank. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And crank. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard, Howard! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What's he doing? Is this normal thing? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And crank. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, of course it's not! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He just gave himself his own hand pan in his skull. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's fucking cool. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's fucking rad. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That was cool. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's his scar! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That is. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's a bit of a scar, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I feel like all of us took a bleed from that. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm not saying that. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're in a horror show, right? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Holy. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "God, that's cool. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So that happened. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What's happening? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Arlo, what did you-- What did you learn? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "There is so much going on at this every moment. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We don't have time to get-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We need to go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We have to go find-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Give me the book jacket. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We have to go into the sewer. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The creature went down into the sewer. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's always hungry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there any way for us to sate its hunger, for us to stop it, for us to save it, for us to do something to it? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How do you feed a beast? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wait, what's the music thing? Do we need any music? Should we be playing some music or something? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe we should try to play-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Bring it to the surface? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe the music was a-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You ever heard that one? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- a false thread. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to go down into the sewer. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm following her. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I avoid the gray flesh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, likewise. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do you know which direction it went? As it goes in two different ways. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can we smell more...? Oh, yes, follow the bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you place the bleed detector-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(whispering) It's adding to it now. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- into a gathering order, you look around and can see, indeed, there are streaks of corruption and bleed across the sides of the walls and you know precisely the direction it went. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we have a plan as we're following? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We have nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Then what the fuck did we come down to the sewer for? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This obsidian has some effect on it, but I don't think that it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We know it came from that emerald, and-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there anything else in this case, briefcase thingy? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're uncertain if it just affects dead flesh or any flesh, so you probably get the sense that you should probably keep the gloves on. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But that's all you see. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you see the emerald? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I did. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's still inside of the creature? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe if we can damage the emerald, the creature will no longer be able to accumulate. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What other weapons do we have on us? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "He's got a-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I got a-- Okay, so you can choose your gear. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "In the moment. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I do have, as a possibility, a hand weapon. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, as long as you don't have all three of your objects for the assignment filled. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Maybe I got it from the captain. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What did you pull from the captain? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "A gun! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, you got the gun. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's exactly-- I was hoping someone had it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Say it out loud! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I was hoping someone had it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got the Periphery captain's handgun. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, who, me? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Now that I have seen this creature up close and personal, I'm going to take out my occult text and look through it and see if I can find any research, any knowledge about a creature with this description from ancient times. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I would like you to roll Focus to see if you can go through this book to find something that could be specific to this. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think I could be able to help on this one. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll give you one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Spend a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right, that gives me four, because I spent a Drive as well. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to use my Resistance-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No way! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- to reroll that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You guys are rolling shit. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Rolling real poor. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I rolled three sixes at one point! We did have lucky moments! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, you did, you did! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You did. You did. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You used it all up. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "To save your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A mixed success. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A four. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, nice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You go through the book, quickly scanning, and you-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, but we Shared Trauma! We got one of our Resistances that we used back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you failed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Which I did, and then I used Resistance. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh, but then that made the roll a success. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But good looking out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's the final roll. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's what you find. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you do know that these shards were what were affixed to these prisoners. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I bet that's the emerald. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Then what are these? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Flesh eating shards of dark something? I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, they obviously have some effect on the creature so we have to use them wisely. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But they don't seem to kill it, per se. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How many did you throw, by the way? You said you threw a few at it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Three. She said three. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You said three. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So we have-- You said how many were there? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Five. So you have two left. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well maybe it starts an infection. You know? Maybe when we happen upon it, it's going to be dead. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe if you get it directly in the the mouth of the creature. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, we have these. Don't anyone else touch them. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Following the path of bleed with the detector before you, you trudge down the descending sewer tunnels, curving to the left and further down until you begin to hear screams, but screams in unison. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(discordant rasping) \"Sara, stop it! Get it to stop! Stop this! Free us!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just let me go! Please!\" They start pulling and screaming at her. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I feel like we should run in and save her. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. I-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Sorry, go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No, you go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What if I start singing? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's exactly what I was thinking, too. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But we should do it now before she's devoured. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's go before she gets eaten. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "ASHLEY and ANJALI: ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of all songs? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's the only one I think would make sense for this time. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't understand it at all. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "♪ Birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "ASHLEY and ANJALI: ♪ Birthday, happy birthday ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All the heads look in your direction-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "♪ Happy ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(lunging) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm throwing the other two shards-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "At the mouth! At the mouth! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "In the mouth. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I need you to roll a Strike for this. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It sure is! I'm going to use all my Cunning. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What is it? I'm going to assist you with my-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you're going for the mouth, actually this would be more Control. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So I'm doing Control. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to give you-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to give you a Drive as well. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is the time to spend. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Two, three-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh my god, I have no Drives. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is that all the stuff that I have? ♪ Come on, lady ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Four! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Great, that's a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How are we rolling so lousy? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is rough, y'all. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's big poop. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It begins to climb up and you can hear the shrieking of all the heads in unison-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You have a hole in your head. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get flung about 25 feet. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Take another body. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, I'm out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You're out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm out. That was my fourth body. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You watch as Charlotte gets thrown, hits the side of one of the heavy pipes of the sewer, and just lies limp. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Charlie? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Charlie?! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Was there only one way into this chamber? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "From where you are now? Yeah, the tunnel comes down and then opens into the chambers. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Right, and-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There are other entrances around. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "There are other entrances? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You just don't know where they're coming from. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The creature's still writhing and screaming and all that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, it's pulled back into the chamber now, it's back on the ground, and the weird alligator-like mouth of the two lovers' bodies is like-- (hungrily snapping) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can we see the emerald when it opens its mouth? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What's that? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can we see the emerald when it opens its mouth at all? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Knowing where it is-- She's the upper body of the mouth, so when it pulls open, you can see on the clavicle, the glitter of the green emerald. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try to shoot it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try to shoot it! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is going to be a Finesse-- Or a Control which is a Finesse type roll. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I can't help you, I don't have any Drive left. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, I got a Gilt, I'm going to use my last Drive, so that's another, that's-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Anyone want to help him? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't have anything to give! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm saving one Drive in case it doesn't work. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Keep it, keep it, keep it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wait, so I'm rolling-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We just glass cannoned it and it didn't work. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm rolling three? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Plus, you've used a Drive then-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And I use a Drive, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's certainly put it on its back foot, whatever you did to it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So you should only have three dice that you're rolling. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see now as it's backing up, an arm falls off inside of it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ah, ah, five. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you go ahead and fire! (sparking) You watch as the emerald suddenly shatters across the torso. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It doesn't seem to bother it, as the arms reach out and grab you and begin to pull you into its body. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh no! No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you pull on it, what are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to run forward and try to grab ahold of Auggie. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, you grab onto Auggie who's now being pulled in the mouth like you were earlier, but now it doesn't feel cornered, now it feels-- Well, no, now it feels more cornered than ever and it's panicking. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I feel like we got to lock this thing away and let it starve. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh god! Can we at least get Auggie out of its mouth? You pull on Auggie, I'm going to try something else. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. I'll pull. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm trying to push and kick my way out and try to help-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "-- any way that I can. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you're trying to move? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Unless, what are you all doing? You just did an action, so what are you guys trying to do? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So you're pulling yourself out? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm trying to push and I'm trying to help in some kind of way. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But what are you two doing in the interim? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm removing my glove. " }, { "Role": "Player649", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh gosh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to look at my hand and I'm going to start-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to slam my hand down onto it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to try to change the environment. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. This is-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This is Forbidden Ritual. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Forbidden Ritual here. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What is it? What is it? What's Forbidden Ritual? What's it do? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What does it mean? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm trying to shoot up some pillars in front of it-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- to trap it in. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The limbs and bodies are coming loose. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How do we know if it worked? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The rest of you definitely saw that. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I run over to Charlotte. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Actually, there's just enough space now where the two bodies were, you could probably squeeze through. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She's unconscious. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I pick her up, put her over my shoulder and I try to start getting out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is there a ladder up to that street? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "On the opposite side of the room, there is indeed a ladder that clambers up to a small walkway that encircles underneath where that exit grate is. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Lift Charlie up. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Arlo? Are you okay? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Arlo goes to stand and immediately falls to her knees. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I got her, I got her. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, I'll set her down, and I'll run down and help put an arm under Arlo. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll start helping her up the steps. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I do ask, what was the commotion down there? What were you all doing?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Gas leak. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, that-- That it's been a problem around these parts here.\" He covers his nose with a scarf and everyone else begins to give you a wider berth. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Keep walking, keep walking. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Someone goes \"I'll go get the Periphery!\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No, no, no! It's all right, it's all right, it's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Arlo looks down at her arm and the gray that has stopped here before has traveled all the way up her shoulder and is bleeding up onto her neck. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She takes an immediate bleed scar from doing the ritual. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Eee. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're moving what point to which? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(flaps lips) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She is going to lose a point in Sway because she's even less-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) That's valid. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- able to talk to people now, and she's going to take another in Sense. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So her Sense is now three? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Are we close to The Gilded Rainbow? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Where were we at again? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Heading into the bookstore, closing the doors behind, Reggie's immediately like, \"My goodness! What--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Get a doctor, please, get a doctor, please. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Right, no, of course, I'll fetch a doctor immediately.\" Throws his coat on and rushes out the door. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I set Charlotte down on the bed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, Charlie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I cover her up. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But the first thing you do see, a welcoming sight are the faces of individuals you call friends looking upon you with concern. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Did we do it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is anyone else alive? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Dorna, did she make it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You don't remember. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Huh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do we? Everyone but her? Do we remember? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Focus test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Should I make a Focus, too? To see if-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The only person that wasn't immediately focused on the chaos at the moment was you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Things are still a little fuzzy. " }, { "Role": "Player853", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's a three. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Who knows? Maybe time will tell. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So I am going to take, in terms of a scar, is that about the right size or can I mitigate that a little bit with half her arm doesn't work, or forearm doesn't work? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As my mom used to say, choose your own punishment. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, thanks, Mom. " }, { "Role": "Player507", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, if I get to choose my own, then it's her hand is dislocated and so she doesn't have the right hand, but she has the arm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, and how is that presented within the change of? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to take away a Move. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Because she doesn't have the reflexes that she had before, I'd like to add it to Survey, because she'd be keeping her eyes out for more danger. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You all look like you're a little worse for wear this evening.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We got our asses kicked. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "how much danger still exists out there?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We do have some samples of what it was before we-- before " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It was this creature. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I've not encountered anything adjacent to it, so that's unique and a bit frightful.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We can also be sure that these folks are the ones who released it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I wish that wasn't the case.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Might be a plausible story. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'll inform a few of my associates who are currently on the cover.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I know a good writer, maybe he can help you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How much power does the Red Hand have? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Whatever else you need to recover.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Howard. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm-hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You have some blood dribbling down your head. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Made of stern stuff there, Auggie.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you, ma'am. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll close this investigation and finish the second dark episode of \"Candela Obscura.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh man, was that a success? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That was a dicey one. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Dicey, that was rough! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Remember that time we said we would save everything so that we could use it after this one? Thank fucking god. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That was " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Them rolls were not in your favor tonight. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I couldn't do shit. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "One in Cunning and one in Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I've got zip! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I've got three. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is this the moment when we-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We can discuss then, but let's fill in-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Our circle sheets. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Did you contain or destroy a source of bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We did! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Did you provide comfort or support for those affected? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Duder being the husband and Stinky. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Stinky? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Skiddy, Skiddy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Skiddy. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Old Stinky. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Skiddy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Did you bring something of importance back for Candela Obscura to study? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, we brought them the samples. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Flesh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And the gloves. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Bacon, gray bacon. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And XP triggers, did everyone hit one? Starting from here, what did you trigger? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Deceive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did I do any of those? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, you took a police officer's badge. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, you fucking-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And stole his gun. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) And stole his gun. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oopsie, I did something illegal. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's pretty illegal, dude. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's kind of on the top of the list, from a lot of people's perspective. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Arlo? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Consulted My Text and Acted Bizarre. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, you got that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Bizarre is pretty-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mine's close, I definitely Made a Plan to punch that man in the face. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You sprinkled stuff on him. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I did, I did some sprinkles and when we were at a fork in the road, I suggested which way to go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I felt like I was being more planny, so yeah, I'm going to say Make a Plan. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So that's four XP down the track. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All righty. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right, now we have three Stitch left, three Refresh left, and four Train left. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, we should definitely take the four Trains. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't need Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't need Stitch either. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So we should all Train up because we've all got one game left, so everybody take a Train. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Everybody gets a die. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Choo choo! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are you tracking our hits along with us? I got twisted up, do you know if I have two bodies or one? Do you recall? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You had two body. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I have two body, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, so you should Stitch up, take a Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, but I don't want to be Greedy McGreedy because I need a Refresh for sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Here's the thing, we've got three, so three people get to take Stitch and three people get to take Refresh now. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I do not need Stitch, but I definitely need Refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So take the Stitch, Robbie. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay, I'll take the Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I have one brain and one bleed, I think that's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I have two brain and two bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I still have-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So wait, is that Stitch? Stitch is what? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Stitch wipes them all out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So yeah, you need a Stitch too, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right, I'm taking a Stitch. I'm clear. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I thought it was just body, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A Stitch and a Scar. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, I'm clear. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So Refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I will definitely, I don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you have any marks? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I have one brain, one bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So take it, I've only got one bleed and I can use a ward on the next game to mitigate that, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All righty. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So now we've got three Refresh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Spent all Stitches. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Refreshes, how many do you have? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We've got three Refreshes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I am sauced out on stuff I'm good at. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, because you didn't take one the last time, so take a Refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I didn't take anything but I don't want to be greedy. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Take it, Robbie. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm sauced out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, you take one too, Anji, and then who needs it more? You, how many Drives do you have left, two? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What do you have? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Two in Cunning and two in Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Can we split them? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Nah, so you take it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I get my Resistance back as well? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Take all your Drives back. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Fun. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So a Refresh and a Stitch. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Now that we've spent the resources-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You get them all back? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We'll get them back when we upgrade our-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, you get all your Resistances and Drives back because you're using a Refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh right, I forgot about those guys. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So who didn't get one, you? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I didn't take a Refresher, but I have almost no marks. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, you're looking good. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I've got four Drives left. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We're going to at least choose an ability. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A new circle ability? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "New circle ability. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh my god, fun. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh fun. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you still go into the last episode, with what we have. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, so-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "When you fill the Illumination chart, which would be like one to two sessions from now, depending on what transpired. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But we do get to choose another circle ability? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get to choose one more circle ability. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What are our options? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Once a die has been rolled, it is expended.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So that would only be one? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "One, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're one short, I think you max out one shy per session. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Got you, well, that's no fun. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So we got one on this round. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So we would all get one gilded die? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think one to share. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "One total to share, or we would all get one? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no, it's just one. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It'll give one, that one person gets it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's doo-doo. I don't like it. What else we got? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "\"Nobody Left Behind: When a member of your circle takes a Scar and drops incapacitated--\" which has happened, you guys. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Twice. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "\"-- any rolls a player makes in that scene to protect them or get them out of danger have plus 1d6.\" " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Plus one die, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Plus one die. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, that's a decent one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh wait, \"Once per campaign, each character chooses an ability from Character Specialty.\" Oh, so when choosing a new-- No, we don't get that, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You know what, since this is an example of this, let's level you up on this as well. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So what does that mean? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got to choose two of those. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So we can take two in anything-- Or wait, say that again. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "One stat point somewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, one circle. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "One in one action. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, one action. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can take a new ability on your character sheet or you can gild an additional stat. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh wow. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "These are all really good options. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But two of each of those options or just one? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Two of each of those. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "\"When choosing a new ability during Character Advancement, once per campaign, each character may choose an ability from a character specialty " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We can choose two from these four options, you said? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, two? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Two! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We can call them out before we begin the next session, if you would like to. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "If that's what we pick. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We would all have to take the same thing, or can-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, you choose. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Be like, \"I'm going to do two Drive,\" and \"I'm going to do--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "\"When you select this ability, the next time you fill your Illumination track, your circle will retire from service.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think that's going to happen anyway. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "\"Everyone takes all four options during this character advancement.\" Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, so we could take all four options, but we're going to retire anyway, so. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But we're going to be done. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But we don't " }, { "Role": "Player659", "Content": "You don't " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There might be options down the road to bring you back. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I feel like their luck is pretty good. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's do the OP one. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, No Man Left Behind. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I want somebody-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No One Left Behind, No One Left Behind. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Nobody Left Behind? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's not a value judgment. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We could've used that this time. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Nobody Left Behind? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's a great one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Which one did you want? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I want somebody else's powers and extra stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, you want to do Interdisciplinary? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, is that what-- Wait, I'm sorry-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Interdisciplinary means that as you're leveling up now, you can choose an ability from other sheets. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, it's like-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's the other-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We can look at all the other sheets and-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So I guess that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll research that a bit we'll decided what your levels up, and we'll work towards that for the next episode. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just playing around for fun, because it's our first outing on this system. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, we got to. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Let's mess around a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Y'all. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I want to see where this can go! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There's so much story to share. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Auggie, how do you get stitched up and refreshed? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(knocks) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, Mr. August?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes, August James. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Arlo's in her room. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, hey. " }, { "Role": "Player938", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I didn't see you there. " }, { "Role": "Player937", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Auggie, what are you doing here? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "May I take a bath? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Auggie, of course you can. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Here, take my room. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you so much. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "In fact, why don't you get cleaned up, and then we can go on a fun little trip. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll step out while a bath is drawn for Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Bubble beard, bubble hair. (blows) " }, { "Role": "Player933", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player49", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, then I get out, all fresh and clean. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Cleanest you've been in a long time. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You'll come back and-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Pink cheeks. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Immediately approached by one of your handmaid being like, \"Would you like some new clothes?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ms. Thomas, this is Auggie. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Hello, Auggie.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Very nice to meet you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I was going to take Auggie shopping for a new suit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"All right, of course.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank you very much for the offer. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe put on some of my father's clothes in the meantime and we can get you something that fits better at the store. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, that works for me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"They might be a bit large.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's big, but it works. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, it fits. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll take Auggie to the suit maker and buy him a suit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Aww. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Aww. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoo-hoo. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Quite refreshing. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Looking very nice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Very refreshed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As part of the process, too, you get sewn up in a little bit of the bumps and dings that you've taken, the same way that you get help at the abode as well. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, Mr. Tellbrook. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The best. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Charlotte, how do you get stitched and refreshed? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Tell me she's clear today. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She's somewhat present today, if you'd like to visit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would you call me a doctor? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Of course, yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ma'am. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Thank you for coming by. (laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Gertrude, ma'am. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Little part of us goes away each time we do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "When you were scared, how did you keep going? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What other choice is there?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "True. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"The longer you live this life, the more you realize, if you don't make the sacrifice, who else will?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm so sorry you sacrificed so much for me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm not at all.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, you'd be proud of him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Shall we take a walk in the garden? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hears the stories, or how much you wish to convey from your experiences and offers what sort of backseat wisdom she might've offered if she were in the same situation. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I feel like that's partly where my new Survey skill comes from. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I think I can put some tea on for us. (laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "My version of refresh is learn more, learn more, do more, because now I know I have a handicap that I need to work with. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So I want as much knowledge as I can possible glean in the next few days. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Dr. Margrove, how do you stitch and refresh yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(inhales) As he takes a big puff, that blue smoke goes (inhales) straight into his-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And I guess the rest is up to your imagination. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That was intense, y'all. " }, { "Role": "Player933", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's amazing! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(clapping) (cheering) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The Circle of the Vassal and the Veil: \"Assignment #447: The Collectors\" (ominous music) (ominous music) (ominous music) (ominous music) (ominous music) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hello and welcome to Candela Obscura. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Already? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They struggle but for a moment before the limb lets loose and pulls away, revealing the smooth, featureless skin surface of the now faceless head-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ugh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(Lycus) \"Good, there is much work to be done.\" Now, we come back to a morning about a week past the events of the last investigation. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Aw, a week. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "A whole week. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As I stop the cave sound, as it's no longer necessary in this sequence. (chuckling) Gentle wind blowing through. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We've got to do something about that leak. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I know it's been a problem around here. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We're outside, where's that even coming from? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is once again, following Auggie as you return from-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Eyy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- the morning route that you keep up, if anything, out of being a creature of habits and a means to connect with a number of the people that you've found friendship with over the years of growing up in this city. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Still got to make some dough. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Is young August available?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Good morning, Reggie. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Auggie.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What'd you say your name was? Edmund? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Edmund Hornsby.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Edmund Hornsby, all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Pleasure. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Would your circle be interested in some information regarding the previous investigation that's come to light?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes, of course. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Would you like me to retrieve them?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes, I mean, I can help you to save time. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes, yes, come.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Perhaps, perhaps we could learn more about each other on the way.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Excellent, excellent. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"After you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We can pick her up first. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Very well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I actually think that perhaps when you come to The Sight Unseen, you discover that Charlie is not there and Stinson would have informed you that she would've been at a particular address in The Eaves. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She's--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She all right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"She's visiting family.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, she has family here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In the Eaves, here, I'll...\" Pulls a napkin from the side of the bar and begins sketching out directions across the district, goes, \"That's about where you'll find her. Good luck.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I won't give this to anybody, obviously. Mum's the word. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"She trusts you, I trust you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This way, please.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And whereabouts are you in the abode? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Everything's just a little bit looser as if she hurriedly did everything to put herself together and then went straight to the library today. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Miss Eaves, you have visitors.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player933", "Content": "Hi. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "How are you doing? How's your hand? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So for now, we let it rest, hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What a-- what a home you have. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, my dear, this is actually not my home. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She is the one who brought me to Candela after a particular incident when I was about your age that I mentioned to you years and years ago. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I found myself without family and she took me in. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Who, what? How did you find yourself without family? What do you mean? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You heard our dear Arlo talking about what happened to her betrothed, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The whole home sucked through the crack and then it disappeared as if nothing had happened. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't remember how I got there, but I went back to Gertrude's and I told her that my parents had abandoned me and she took me in. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did you ever tell her what you saw? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How important it is for you to stay strong for those who cannot. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm sorry for your loss.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And I am happy for my gain. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, Ms. Eaves.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"We have some news to share with your circle, if you would come with us for but a minute.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Lead on. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "After a brief conversation with the servants of that abode, eventually you, Arlo, find your door opening (creaking) and the familiar sight of compatriots coming to join you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How are you all? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah, well. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I appreciate the-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "My new suit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- the goodness that you've shown young Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You look wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We've taken a few days to clean the tub out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know, you go years without a bath, that's going to be real interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player938", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Do you have a few moments?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Nothing but time. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll be along shortly.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Grab a little hat. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Now heading over to the Briarbank College, I believe, if that's where you're currently residing in this midday. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Campus housing. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's a beautiful thing. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll say this is maybe a weekend morning. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Within a short time, you hear a rap at the door. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Good afternoon, Doctor.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Afternoon? Oh, hello everyone. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"If--\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm so sorry, so sorry. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Now what does the inside of your abode look like? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Normally very like a bachelor, like a 50-year-old bachelor lives there. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Move away, put stuff away. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Well--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What were you doing, Howard? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think I've almost got it cracked. (laughs) Cracked, right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I think you might do some more damage. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Have you had it looked at? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I've looked at it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wonderful. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It seems a number of our suspected Red Hand movers and shakers have gone rather quiet this past week.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Was Dorna ever discovered? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So we do know that she is still amongst us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I, on behalf of your formal Lightkeeper, invite you for both good and closure to find Kara, and persuade in whatever safe means you can any info regarding her ties to the Red Hand and perhaps where its leadership may reside within Newfaire.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we know this uncle's name? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Vincent Belmon.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What does he do for a living, ostensibly? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"As far as I know, he keeps an orchard.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "An orchard, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Maybe contacting individuals in transit Maybe contacting individuals in transit or at your destination could guide you further.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is it just the way you said it or is it kind of a weird thing? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's not many cabins here in the city, and I have been told on more than one occasion that I have an off-putting presentational quality to my speech.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just a tad. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"My apologies.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's all right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"It's just how I am.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I run an excellent summer seminar on public speaking, if you'd ever care to come by. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Do you have a pamphlet?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I most certainly do. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, wondrous. Thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Here you are. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's not inexpensive.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, for you, you may certainly audit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But Alexandra insisted that you had first opportunity, given the rather personal nature of your previous encounters.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is Alexandra all right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's just other phenomenon being looked into, unrelated, with another circle.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I Read him to see if it is definitely unrelated? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes, you may. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and roll Read for me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You're going to Read the boss? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) Oh! I get a Drive back! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you have an empty space, you get a Drive back in that area. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Look at that. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Roll the hell out of those gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's how you refill the Drive, if you need to. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Good to know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, so mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You know, they wish they could be here, but I'm here on their behalf. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Doesn't seem to be worried or of a divided mind over anything. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we know where the Scarlet Woods is? Or is that-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There is one stop at the base of the Scarlet Wood as well. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How long of a ride is it on the train? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's not too terribly far.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is it particularly populated or would it be particularly obvious if someone were to get off a train there that they might be coming to this particular cabin, particularly? Can I say particularly any more times? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Particular-- Particularly. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Particularly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Particularly. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Particularly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Piccadilly. We are talking about trains. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Particularly (gibberish) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But, you know, always keep a glance over your shoulder.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(laughs) Anyway.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Best of luck.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We'll head out immediately, maybe. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So we can count on you to investigate?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Should you require any specific monetary aid from Candela, just let us know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What's the usual? What, are you just giving money out, or if you need it? I'm just asking. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We could go through an approval process with our internal auditors, and with everything properly stamped formally, we can provide you with the necessary funds.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I see, I see. Never mind. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I appreciate the hustle. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know, just checking. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Good day, everyone.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Good day, Edmund. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Takes his hat off the coat and turns around. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I love him. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Wanders off into the afternoon air. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(baby talk) A little walk. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Potato man. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, it seems that this situation that we thought was over is not particularly, particularly, why am I saying particularly so much? This one is not over. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "After the last time, I'm a bit rattled since our last endeavor, apparently. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it all right that I said we would head out and look into it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, certainly. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I got nothing else to do. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I enjoy farms. (chuckles) I grew up on a farm, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, you did? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'd love to go back. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you have chickens? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We did have chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I've always wanted to see a chicken. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You just grab their necks, a little twist and you have dinner. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The city's a bit stuffy these days. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know if speaking to him is necessary or if we just should-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I think we have that information. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Think we should just head on out? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I mean, we just are going to talk to her. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We're just going to talk to her to see if she can lead to anything new, right? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, and I don't suppose she knows our involvement in the previous endeavor. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I mean, not any more than us showing up at the investigation. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Would Howard know-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She did watch you punch out the-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- Chief of the Periphery there. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There was that. " }, { "Role": "Player659", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'd blocked that out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is she going to accept us? You know, if she sees us she'll be like, no, no no, you were the ones that-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's quite hard to run away in an open field, if it's just a cabin, perhaps. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Not to say that she would be screaming for any reason as if we were trying to get information out of them, or frightening her, only that-- I think we should be okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Just keep the brass knuckles in your pocket for this one, I think. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Certainly. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "How's your head? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ah, it is just fine, I think. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can we see it? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "My head? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Or is your hat attached to it now? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's rather private, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, then, I suppose off we go. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Unless there's any-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It bad that we're not preparing anything? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I know, I'm trying to think, I'm like, \"I know that they need to.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I mean, you don't think she's summoning anything at the cabin, do you? We're not going to walk in and she'll have brought a demon forth in the cabin, or whatever creature. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Am I correct? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What if she's the leader of everything? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, then, we will have tripped upon quite a find, won't we? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe she's hiding out from the Red Hand as well. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Now that is very possible. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What if she is the Red Hand? I don't know how that would make any sense. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If Dorna has been seen, I wonder how conscious she was of our presence at that final battle. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Probably very. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Very. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She was screaming directly at us, (as Dorna) \"Help me!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There was that. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "\"Pull me from him! I'm being eaten!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We did have her box and Red Hand gloves and obsidian. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think the long and short of it is we won't be incognito with pretty much anyone on this particular assignment for the time being. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Then, as Edmund said, best to keep our wits about us and walk in proudly. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Are there any particular items-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "To The Steel! No, to The Steam! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "To The Steam. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "To The Steam. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All righty. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think I have my standard bleed containment vial with me and I-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Select any items you want to bring that, you know, you can choose up to three, but you may leave one, you may leave a few open, if you'd like to choose in the moment what makes sense. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh right, because we don't need the same ones that we got last time, but I like my-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you like your spread, stick with it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I like my spread. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I still have the captain's gun, or do you think I probably gave that back? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The gun? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Where would you have given-- Would you have given the captain's gun back? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Then you still have it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Dude, that's pretty-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You still have a Periphery handgun. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm strapped! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "An illegal police off-- a Periphery officer's gun. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "A Periphery officer's gun. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And badge. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And badge. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And badge! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Get rid of it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well, we could probably use it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Wha-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Just, you know, you see someone with a badge, and you instantly listen to them. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm all for it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's true. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The more firepower the better, am I right? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's true. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll keep it hidden. I'll keep us safe. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is a nice way to travel, and I'd say probably for you, Auggie, it is maybe the first time you've been on the steam train. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ooh-whee! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see the glistening tall buildings, and the daytime somewhat fog-obscured skyline, though now as the fog begins to burn off, you can see the glittering tops of the multi glass and metallic top spires that mark-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, look at the spires! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- the beautiful city. " }, { "Role": "Player62", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I love you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I love it so much. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I love it so much! Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Otherwise, we will bring you to the next stop. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Then she shakes it off, and looks at Auggie's delight. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You look cool. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You look smart. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She does. It looks quite lovely. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It wasn't intentional, but there it is. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's very distinguished. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's everything a woman wants to be, distinguished. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Why wouldn't she want to be distinguished? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Why not that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get your first breath of the fresh countryside here. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(sniffs) Whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player936", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's clean, isn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's clean, and fresh, and wow. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we want to disembark here or further in? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is this the last stop before the? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is the last stop before it goes straight through the forest. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh yes, then. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The cabin is on the edge, so, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Off we go, although we didn't exactly plan to spend the night here, did we? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm-mm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, just clocking the time. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The conductor is just finishing up, checking out his pocket watch as you guys are leaving, if you have any questions. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "When is the last train back? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, last train here tonight, it's about, (clicks) about three hours from now.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But the last one, there should be a few more spots, if you're only staying for a bit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I should buy four tickets now for the train back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, very well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What are the shipments that are going south? Do you know what they are? They're just a bunch of shipments. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We're taking in a whole series of shipments for new construction out there in the city.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm mostly for the passengers here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would I have an awareness of where my sources come from in terms of shipments? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But there is one of the younger family members, a young cousin named Reginald, who, he's-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(silly voice) Reginald. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(silly voice) Reginald. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(silly voice) Reginald? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(gravelly) He's actually more a Reginald. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But he's up and running again, and you've been eager to have the returning flow of scarlet into your establishment. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, can I contribute a few extra dollars for the tickets? Perhaps so we'll take young August on business class on the way back. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, what a wonderful idea. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That way it'll be special. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Sir, I did have a question-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, yeah?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Someone in, you said, the ledger book and all that, that's somebody else that takes care of that? Who takes care of that? Just to know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I flash my Periphery badge. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) Go ahead and make a Sway test for me, please. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah! Impersonating a Periphery officer, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Do I help you? ♪ ♪ Yes, I do. ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I got a six. " }, { "Role": "Player936", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So, I didn't need to help you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Star of the academy. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Save it, save it. " }, { "Role": "Player28", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Go, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's the chief's friend. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, get back here. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, now, that'd be Tory Linz.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's fine. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Tory Linz was the one who'll be running the evening ledgers passing through here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Tory Linz. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We do have a rather extensive inspection process before it makes its way into the city, but you're more than welcome to give a once or twice over, if you're feeling, you and your Periphery compatriots here want to.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Sure, we may, thank you so much. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Course, course, don't--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You're a wonderful citizen of our city. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Hey, want nothing but the best for our folk here, and you know, I don't hate the idea that people are breaking the good laws of our township, so--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Me, too. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "His name is Vincent Belmon? I know he lives around here, but I'm not sure which direction. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I don't know Vincent, but I do know there's the Belmon and Schpell Orchard. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But unless they moved it or something happened, that's where you'll find it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you very much. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(softer) Sorry, safe travels--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, shh, we're undercover. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Whatever you're doing, I hope it goes well and is legal.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(clicks tongue) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Anyway, we're about to shove off here in a minute.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We'll probably see you a little later. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, gets back up into the steam train. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That guy is moving so much drugs! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What happened? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh man, so much. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Amateur! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Amateur! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All the stuff that we, you know, move throughout the city, hmm? To see the real where it comes from. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Huh, the source, as it were. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I make a confession? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I've never tried scarlet. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(gasping) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Have any of you ever tried-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But I know he spent a lot of time over in the Red Lamp district. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah, did he? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Have you ever tried it? Probably not, you're too-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Huh, what was that? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Have you ever tried scarlet? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) I'm going to Read. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Every single one of us Reads. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We all-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A mixed success on the gilded! Okay, I have a question. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "If I take the gilded, do I have to take a drive back in that-- in Cunning? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Aw, man. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It has to be of that section. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So a mixed success? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mixed success, mixed success. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Definitely a low-stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "With a four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So what does she? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So if you choose to partake, it is a personal choice, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So you have. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I enjoy it quite a bit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A voice over your shoulder goes, \"You best not be bringing that in our town now!\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Excuse me? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We got too many kids!\" You see, turn around, and you see this older woman, this motherly looking figure, a bit of a hood cap on, and a simple dress, and you see she's holding a small child in her arm that's just, \"Meh-meh,\" mewling. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes, ma'am, we do not recommend scarlet for infant children. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We don't want them coming into our houses, taking--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We're doing a little undercover work. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's been violence and shit going on there, been hearing my people been firing, and getting in gun fights, and stuff up north!\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ma'am, ma'am ma'am, ma'am-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You don't bring that up in here around kids!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am-- What's your name? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Just shut up. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What's your name? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see it's, old people nearby in the street are walking by. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, tell me, what's your name? I reach over, and I take her hand in between mine. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Virginia.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Virginia. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But do believe me when I say we are doing everything in our power to make sure that none of the scarlet goes into the wrong hands, or the wrong bodies, including those of your families. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What is that? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, well, I have-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you have made a little bit of a scene here in the middle of the street. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We" }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, I mean, you were accessory to a bit of a scene. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ugh! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think, perhaps, it's time for a nice walk in the woods. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, let's go, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I really didn't like that woman. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't know why she was screaming. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As we're walking away, can I Survey the scene, and see-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you looking for? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We know there was a scene, but I want to make sure that there's no-- I'm looking for anyone following us, or any nefarious something-somethings. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure, make a Survey test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mixed success with a five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Glancing around, as you're now coming to the end of the main street that divides into the two rows in the far end-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Scarlet. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So by the nature of your presence, both being this far into the town, and wandering in the direction of just open Scarlet Woods right on the cusp of night, there are a few odd glances, and a few individuals that watch as you go, and you can see that that look of judgment, that rise of the lower lid. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But as you all pass by, sticks the shovel in the ground, and looks over, and watches you as you all continue walking beyond the town. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I Read him to see what that look means? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You may, make a Read. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Now we're going to Read everyone. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I only have one, so I don't really have it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Read him. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's taken note. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You don't see him pursuing, but you certainly, you haven't kept yourself below the radar. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But he seemed to be simple town folk. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to stare at him back as we walk by. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(shoveling) Just goes back to work. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, the faster we move, I think, the better. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Heading out, going to see grandma! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You hear the occasional (chittering) (clicking) various critters coming out to hunt for the night. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did anybody bring a lantern? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I mean, I could-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do we need-- I mean, it's getting pretty dark? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's going to be dark in the next, let's say 15 minutes from where you are now. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, maybe there will be a lantern at the cabin we could get quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We could borrow? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "If you spend a lot of time in the dark. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to hold on to Howard's arm as I close my eyes and walk. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, not-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Just so my eyes adjust. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right, well okay. Do your best. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see anything remotely-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Eroded where we're looking for this patch? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see a little ways in from there, the warm light from the interior, the windows of a cabin. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The last time we saw Kara, I believe you were outside of the room for the most part, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, I was. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So then-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wait, no, you were. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We were inside, and you had got a-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "With the gentleman who was getting you water. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, I walked in right as Howard punched off the Periphery officer. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't know why we would be. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I just don't know how, knowing not-- I'm assuming that she's somehow in league with Dorna, but I don't know how. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I suppose it's a coin toss. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She did seem genuinely frightened when she was in the hotel room. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This is true. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I wonder if it was an act or if... " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, if we can find her-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Maybe she lied. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Sure, but she might have realized she was responsible for murder. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Good point, good point. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I suppose we should at least get on and head towards the cabin. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "If she's hiding and we found her this easily, someone else might be able to find her as well. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Very true. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(roughly) \"Hey! Who goes there?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Orchard's closed, it's night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hello, good sir. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Come back tomorrow when it's light.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mr. Belmon? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Aye.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is your niece here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Why?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, couldn't we talk to her? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(groaning) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So I should have waited for you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How many does that give you with hers and yours? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That gives me two. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll give you one as well. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Four! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Why? What's your business with her? How do you know her?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "He asked us to check in on her. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's funny how they come crawling back to the rural family when they need a little help, aye?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "When was the last time you'd seen her before this time? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"That'd be yesterday, last night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Before she came here. Couple of years? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, five, six years.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, wow. Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Did she seem sad or frightened? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You friends of hers?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We're friends of Theodore's, and Theodore's a friend of hers. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I mean, yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I don't have room for the rest of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's all right. We are-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We need to catch the train back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I picked up another book for her while I was in town, so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does she like to read? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm a reader. I know it might be a surprise to some of you more elegant folk. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm always intrigued by what people-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What the lesser folk read?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would you tell me what you're reading? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's very much like (reserved grumbles). " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mixed success, and I will take the gilded die, so that's a four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I will take a five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A four and five are the same, but it's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, I know, but isn't it a little bit better? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It does feel a little nicer. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It is the exact same. Oh, you don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "They're both mixed successes, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They're exactly the same. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't think I-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But still, five just feels better. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It does! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's just a little bit less mixed than the four. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's better for sure. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Are you fan of fiction?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I am. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"There is this author named T.C. Vellum.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You know of him?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, no, go on. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"He writes these very fascinating stories about these young college boys solving mysteries.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Aye, it's all scrappy young folks who worked their way into a fine education and start unraveling the secrets around society.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I love those stories. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Spooky stories, little ghost things, you know, that fun stuff.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "One young lady in particular, she has red hair, it's just a wonderful story, and it makes me feel like anyone from any background, from any place can be someone to solve the problem. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I may have an extra copy of 'The Variety Boys' in there, if you want me to grab it for you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I would love it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, I've got to finish my work, you go--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Should we take her book in to her when we see her? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What was that?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You said you bought another book for her, should we--? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I can send you away with it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, right, right, right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"But yeah, I guess, feel free to go inside, and just don't stay too long.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You're welcome.\" He goes off and grabs his basket and starts finishing up his work. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Walk right in. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What does it look inside? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's dark coloration, beautiful, simple, but elegant in that kind of-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Clearly, this isn't my first rodeo. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't want to startle her, just in case she's behind this front door, and so I gently knock before going in. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There is one set of switchback stairs that heads to a secondary floor. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we see anything that might be a portable light source? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, there are two oil lanterns. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are they large or are they? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "They're about that tall. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, so someone wouldn't notice us walking out with them? There's nothing smaller? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So we knocked on the first floor, nobody there. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We'll head on upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, I want to Survey the room and see if there's anything else out of order that we see. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure, go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Particularly anything that looks like Kara might have left it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Nothing's catching you strange about the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I Sense anything magically out of tune? Is there any bleed? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Sense test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, that was-- it's a fail. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's a failure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Should have used my bleed detector. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take a brain from the stress of recalling this. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Fudge. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I don't want to be all together. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, no. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're always a big four-person target. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Also, especially since you're the one who knocked out the police officer, it's probably best for you not to be the first face she sees. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Into the dark. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What are we doing? Sorry, I was holding that before we left the city. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No need to-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I had to pee so bad. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But should you enter a scene at some point, then we'll take it from there. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard is going to stay out. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to go pee in that bush. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Perhaps you and I should go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where's Howard? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You guys are gentle. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "He slipped out, so as not to be-- Not to startle Kara. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "If you need something, you can tell me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Be close. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, be close. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So the two of you are ascending the stairs and you're staying back on the first floor? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I should put these back on before we go upstairs, that would be smart. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There are two doors here to two different rooms. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We both open at the same time. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(uncertain noises) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No knock? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But do you have your bleed detector handy? Can we use it? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(beeping and booping) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No sign of bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Pretty solid. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Perhaps we knock? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ready? One, two, three. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh goodness. (knocks) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(knocks) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You both knock, no response. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe she's peeing. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Kara? Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is likely Vincent's bedroom, but it is empty. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I think this is Vincent's bedroom. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "May I come in? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No response. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should just go in. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I open the door, but I stay on the threshold. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's locked. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should push the door open. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Auggie? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yep? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Auggie? Come, come. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This door, it's locked, and we're not hearing from her. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Keep talking. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, you go into Vincent's room. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's locked? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you have any skill to? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I have burglary equipment. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Whoa! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Pick that-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You have what? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I have burglary equipment. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Why do you think I took him in? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Fabulous. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I can get into places where you need to be-- Shh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. So ahead and make a Hide test for me or Control, your choice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So \"when attempting to avoid security or detection, you gild an extra Hide die.\" " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, okay. So you'd want to roll Hide on this and you get an extra gilded die on this. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So I got one, two. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "An extra gild? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's pretty good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It doesn't mean an extra dice, it just means one of the dies-- It says it's plus one die or does it say an additional die is gilded? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Additional die is gilded. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, so it's whatever your Hide is-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So I think it's not gilded, wait. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Gild an extra Hide die, which means-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Gild an extra Hide die. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Which means, how many points do you have in it? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So in Hide, I have two and one gilded. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you could use drives if you wanted to add more. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(whispering) I'll be right back. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm slowly catching on. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's okay, it's a new system. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. Let me use a drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. So that's two gilded and one die. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, it's getting caught on my-- all right, a five. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Is that on the gilded? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's not on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you enter, you can see the bed to the right and across the room in a chair, you see a woman sitting, facing away from you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Kara? You're in the other room? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I was going to go in and see if Howard had any drawers I could open to see if there were keys or anything. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Vincent, Vincent, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, Vincent, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Vincent. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You start going through the drawers? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, just to look for a shiny key. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This is at disadvantage, so I'm rolling two and taking the shit one. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They're both equally shit. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Fair enough. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Threes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you slam one of the drawers closed, what you don't realize is the shotgun tumbles from the side of the wall and you back away just as it hits the ground and-- (gunfire). " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All of you hear collectively the sound of a shotgun blast from the top floor of the house. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Sorry! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I run around to see if she's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm watching Kara. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No response? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Doesn't move. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. That was very loud. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I need your bleed detector now. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I can't hear anything. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't go in, just reach out. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Turn the little knobby, so the little-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You realize it's turned up, it's just almost completely out of oil. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Almost out of oil? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, I'm going to peek around toward the front of her to the side, so I can get a little profile. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you come in, you see the interior of this chamber is suffused in bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Above her chin, just a flat-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- blank, faceless wall of skin, bereft of any features. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Auggie. Auggie, come back. Come back! What? I just don't want you in the bleed. You're on it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is she aware? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Her fucking nose is gone, her fucking everything is gone. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is she bleeding? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You heard the shotgun go off and at which point, you immediately see Vincent is like, \"What the hell was that? What are doing?\" He starts running back to the house. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, he's going to think it's us. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't do it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I am absolutely going to. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But as Vincent runs toward the house, I pop out from behind one of the trees in the grove, fully clothed and I pull out from my pocket, I have a little blackjack with me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to try to bonk him on jaw with the blackjack. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, roll a Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What's a blackjack? Because I literally picture a little-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Non-lethal, it's a little-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A club? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Like a smack. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's a little-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- smacky club to make you go to sleepy time. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Not overly horrible. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Not overly horrible. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A comfortably carry-able bludgeoning instrument. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll spend a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Fits excellently in a corset. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's a full six. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can can hear that sound, that (stifled snores), that horrible breathing sound. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He went to sleepy time immediately? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Aw man. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Onto his face where the air passage right now is a little obscured. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Then I'll run up the stairs toward where I heard the shotgun sound. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In the interim, what are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is she breathing? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "How am I supposed to tell when there's no face? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is she alive? I'm going to walk up to her and put my hand on her chest to see if there's a rise and fall. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's just a blank. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Like the skin's been-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What just happened? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "-- pulled off and everything's...? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's just skin? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's just skin. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Like someone erased the features. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "But-- (gags) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Don't, don't, don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there, where the nose bone was where it's raised or is it just smooth? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's no eye sockets. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Awful. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's just a blank. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "In my studies, would I have heard of anything of this in my library studies in Gertrude's library? Would I have heard of...? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You've heard of all manner of odd things but this one, this one's new. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(footsteps) Oh, you found her? (chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Stay back, stay back. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She's warm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They must be-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Near? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It was recent. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll try to take her pulse. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "On her carotid. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's a heartbeat. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She is alive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Her heart is beating and she is most certainly warm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How is she breathing? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I do not know. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Should we cut it off? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm throwing some stuff-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I want to look around the room and see-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We can certainly try, I don't see why not. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- if there's anything in the room that looks like glyphs or a cult or anything that seems not-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure, make a Survey test for me, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Her body isn't responding when we touch it or anything? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She's not turning her shoulders or anything? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Nope. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That is a-- Do I want to take-- I'll take a six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do notice that there is a somewhat, I don't want to say crumpled, but a weathered envelope that sits on the side of the bed that's tucked in the drawer in a small bedside table with no label on it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm so loud. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "My bad. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If there's anything like a letter opener or anything, anything that I can pull that out with. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, the envelope's open. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(gasps) Oh my. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is blank. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's a blank-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, it's a blank-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is a blank sheet of paper. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "There's no way. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Poops. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It's been jinxed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you still have your lighter? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I take this and check if, you know how invisible ink does the thing if you-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I want to try to do that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I will say, if you want to, make a Control test for me to try and hold the flame to the paper without igniting it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You sure you don't want to make a different roll? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Like a Survey roll since I'm searching for things? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll give you-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Nope. Nope, that's-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's specifically what this needs. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A six, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do darken it in places, but you do not see any text. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What about the bleed? What about the bleed detector? You think there's-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's a wonderful idea. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "-- hidden writing or something? I don't know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(gasps) (excited clamoring) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(excited yelling) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Indeed, some text begins to arise, which gives you-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa, that looks so cool. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "perspective, as this would be ink mixed with bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Intentionally so. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Dorna.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You were right, she's working with her? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She's working with her but-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you think Dorna did this? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think one way or another, she was involved. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll put it back for you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's so cool. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Six weeks, \"give it six weeks and then find me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "\"At the Brinewash 7.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We've got to go to the Brinewash 7. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Did she bring her instrument? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "\"...appeal...\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "\"...forgiveness.\" We need to remember how to write Dorna's name. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We don't know when this-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- letter was from. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's a good idea. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Pharos, who's The Pharos? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would I-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wait. Can I give it a look-see? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You would know. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I would know The Pharos, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Fourth Pharos is the term and the title of the base of operations for Candela Obscura. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "They know we're on to them. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's about this time-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- that the last bit of that oil lantern-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- flickers out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, it's dark in here. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In that shadow-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- you hear (chittering clicks). " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Back. Down. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Get out of the room, out of the room, out of the room, out of the room. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(disjointed, creaking gurgles) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard, the door! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The window. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's closed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The window. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(panicked pulling of locked door) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Break it down. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "There's a window in the room. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There is a window. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "There's a window in the room, but is it opposite her or is it-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She's facing towards the window currently. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She's facing the window and this thing-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It just closed the door and it's standing and just-- " }, { "Role": "Player49", "Content": "In front of the door? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It slammed the door. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's in front of the door and we're between. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Then go to the window. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's in the room above you and it just slammed the door above you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Back to the window, back to the window. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I am going to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It (heavy stomps) steps down from the ceiling, like it descends and as it rises up, it stands 12, 13 feet tall. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hello! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(disjointed, chittering gurgles) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's not doing anything? It's not doing anything? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Get to the window. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Get to the window, backwards. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to use an ability. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to try to make eye contact with the creature and I'm going to Play the Bait. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I can roll a Sense to bring nearby phenomena toward me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes, roll a Sense test for me, as the creature's arms-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- both hang at the sides, scratching the ground-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- with their length as it inspects you all. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Likewise, I'll give you a drive, too. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You look towards that glow in its face, that weird orange light that seems to be buried beneath the cluster of hanging roots that drip off of it like a weeping willow tree. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to take the full success-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Full success? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- on that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. Instead of the mixed success because I don't want to risk this right now. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(deep croaks) Immediately, it looks towards you and that glow brightens. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Get out of the way. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You all watch as Arlo seems to have caught its attention and as it brightens, that orange glow lights the room ever so faintly in the direction of its facing, centered on Arlo. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to pull my glove off-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(gurgling creaks) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Go! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Try to foot through the window, trying to get it open. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The window (stuck thuds). " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Just break it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(shifting creaks) Lifts up. (thud) You feel the colder night air began to rush in. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You guys get out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I want to be right behind her. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's not focused on your friends, but is focused entirely on you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Both of you-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(creaking gurgles) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Auggie, Howard, get out the window. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't want to leave you guys in here alone. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Go! Go, go, go! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll go first. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to start-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're second story, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are second story. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm down and out first. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to also-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm trying to. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's a little bit longer than it was and it has a set of strange markings on it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you are doing this and you are attempting to then leap beyond this window, I'd like you to make a Move test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Howard's strong, but he ain't exactly nimble. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Bad knees. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to use my train, my extra train die, and I'm going to spend a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I forgot those. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Going to spend my extra drive to have two. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That is a full success, that's a six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Full success. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Six and a five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You tumble onto your back, but you don't break or injure anything other than a bit of a sprain that you may feel in the morning. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oops. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(creaking groans) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You okay, you okay? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Everything's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You better come out this window. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm underneath to catch or help down, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, so make a Move test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So I have nothing. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Right, so that would be roll twice, take the lowest. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You know what, I'm going to use my train. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I still take the lowest? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, with the train, you just roll one dice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So I'm just rolling one dice? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, so normally you would roll twice and take the lowest, now it's just roll a single dice. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Don't worry, you're going to roll a six. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Catch me! Catch me! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I got you! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ow! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's some Looney Tunes big stuff right there. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I suppose my eyes did not adjust as well as I thought they would. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You were not even close to where I was jumping! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's foggy in here. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do mark a body from the impact. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh sure. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The arms slowly-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you the one that steals the features? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Arlo, out the window, go! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you the one that takes faces? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Go! Go! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to back, fall out of the window. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As she does, I am going to say a series of words that no one has ever heard before and my knife is going to glow with orange symbols on it and my ghost blade is going to come out and I'm going to strike at the creature. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ghost blade. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is trying to land properly and trying to keep this creature, which is on the verge of closing in on you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, I'm-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is a high-stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm taking my drive. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Can we assist and try to make a basket catch? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Got to get away from the baddie first, right? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She's falling out the window. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Got to get away from the baddie before I fall out the window. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You've got I Saw It Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm using my train die on this to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So you'll get an extra drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I will? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Or an extra-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is try trying to dodge the creature and will encompass the landing. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I can't help you, never mind. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you pull back and leap out the side just as the creature's arm (growling) reaches out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I grab a hold of Kara's body to grab something and end up throwing her over me as I go out the window. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So she ends up out the window with you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Double bodies! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The wind is knocked out of you and for a brief moment, you make that sucking sound, trying to catch it. " }, { "Role": "Player10", "Content": "(struggling) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Ow, ow, ow, ow! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ow, ow, ow, ow! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Can roll to Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ God, help me, it's my worst skill ♪ All right, I'm going to use some-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Can I help? Can I give her a drive? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are outside and downstairs, you cannot. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This is a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is very much a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm very Cool Under Pressure and on any high stakes roll, I may always spend Cunning instead of the drive the roll would normally use-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Whoa, that's a good one! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So, I will use two Cunning to give me one, two, two die. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I will pray to the great gods that this works. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You got this, you got this. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(sucking) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm out the window. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But it has grabbed you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, neat. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As it does, you feel this sense of darkness beginning to come over your eyes as one of his arms wraps around your face. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, no, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Encompasses your head. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But it has now held you, your vision is now dark and you feel like you are being slowly smothered by the forest floor. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I still have my knife, yes? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I start prying, trying to pry whatever is around my face. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is deep and vibrating the very wood of this entire house. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Have we woken up yet? Have I like-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're starting to catch your breath here, but all of you are looking to see where Charlotte's going to come. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Pointed up to the window. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Indeed, and all you see is shadow within the interior of this window. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Charlie! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hear the sound. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I get up and start running back into the house? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I be pulling towards, even if it's got hold on me, can I be struggling towards the window? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can struggle towards it, but this creature-- You weigh-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Whatever I weigh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can roll Strike or Control, your choice, to try and see if you can maneuver the blade in a way to carve yourself free from its grasp. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do mark a body from cutting yourself free. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you then run and leap from the window. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So now I would like you to make a Move test. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of course you would and I'm going to spend my-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I will give you an extra die on this because you now have two friends below that are waiting for you and have been patiently expecting your drop. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to use a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You can do this, you can do this. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, come on. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just as you enter the house and turn around, you see her drop just beyond that window. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Run! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Charlie! I'll grab one of the lanterns that was next to the door inside the cabin and come running out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(growling) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Run, run! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Kill it with fire. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is he coming after us or just staring? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I want to search the back of the farm quickly as I'm running, of course, to see if they keep animals and if they might have a surrey or horses by any chance is specifically what I'm looking for. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Survey test for me, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Kara's body's out here, too, right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, everything's out. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "For three. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Was one, one, three. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you have a resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I don't. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No, I don't have one. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(growling) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do I shoot it? Do you want me to shoot it, or we running? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to take the lantern and throw it at its feet, try to catch it on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "For this, I will say you can roll Strike or Control, depending on you're going for it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I will definitely use a Control. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I will-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Throw. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I will help. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How are you helping? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Don't you see it? It's right there! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm helping out in case. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "There we go. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take immediately a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Immediate bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's right in the face! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As it gets wrapped around. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "May I-- Maybe in helping shooting the lantern so it maybe tries to get a bit bigger. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We have to get away. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We got to go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Run, " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Fire. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are there any more lanterns that we can grab on our way out? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can go back in the house and grab some, if you want. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Going to go and grab all the fire, candles, anything we can find. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Any light, any fire sources. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's the two that you saw when you first walked in and there's one that's over by the fireplace that feels like it's a lot more empty, but there's some in there. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's something. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Just grab it all. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it possible to try to drag them with us? God, that sounds hard. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Vincent's a big boy? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Vincent's a pretty-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He's a farm lad? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's a solid 200. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Howard's going to do a dead man's carry, dip his arm in, put his arm over arm and put this guy on his back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "When I use an Intuition to make a roll, if I fail the roll,\" which I did miserably, I get \"any Intuition I used back.\" So I get my drive back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Get your drive back, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, that's great. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's great. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's fantastic. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I grab Kara, same. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, Kara's on your back. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Slow. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You all begin to trek in the direction where you came. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How far was this from the train depot to the house? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It was about a 20, 25 minute walk. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's a mile, mile and a half. All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I am going to, I'm assuming we're on an orchard, there will be sticks to grab. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh yeah, easy to grab. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Then I'm going to grab a couple sticks and light them on fire, try to make a-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Torch. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A torch. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, it's going to be a little challenging to do on the go, but you are carrying two bodies, which is about the pace to be able to do it, so I'll allow it, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to hold the torch out behind us as we're walking, just in case it is trying to follow. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I believe the two that really took it were you two, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I would like you both to explain how the bleed begins to affect you now that you've had a moment to think on the experience. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I immediately start seeing again that crack in the sky and I can't tell what's happening now and what was happening then, but I'm seeing the same kind of, I'm seeing, reliving the house being sucked through, but this particular creature, with its hairlike tendrils being the one grabbing the house and crumpling it in its hands. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "But it's not there all the time, but it's annoying. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "While that's stressful enough, nothing prepares you for when they all go quiet. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(creature deep growling) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Run. Run. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where's it coming from? In front of us or behind us? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Take another one of the lanterns. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It seems to be emanating from the nearby trees. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can we pick up our pace? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yep, yep, yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, who's leading? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Who's got good Survey? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I will, I'm leading. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It ain't me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm assuming. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm in the back. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're slow. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're leading? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Are you trying to keep everyone running quickly, or are you trying to keep an eye out for any danger? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Trying to keep an eye out for any danger and also making sure we're going in the right direction. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, make a Survey test, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see it just in time to dodge out of the way, but you feel something claw at your shoulder and you almost tumble to the ground as you take a mark to your body. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Dude, guys, that's three. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's three? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Three for you? Three body? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As that happens, I grab one of the lanterns. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You would have one in your hand because there's three lanterns. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I lash out at it with the-- as if to break the fire. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you're just, are you-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'll throw it, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Throwing it in that direction towards a tree? Towards the creature? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Towards whatever lashed out at me, the creature. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I need you to make a Control test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "High stakes, yes? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I will use my-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Only you can create forest fires. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I assist? Oh, no, I don't have any fucking drive to give her. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Smokey the Stakes Bear. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Let me give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Did you See This Coming? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Let me give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you See This Coming? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I did! I saw it! I see it! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you can keep that drive. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "\"He's right there!\" " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You did indeed See It Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All righty. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(cheering) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "For a split second, as it pulls back, you swear you see eyes within the deep sets of its roots of its body before it (creature growling) pulls back into the woods and for a moment, you see it recoiling from the flames and trying to brush it off of its body as it vanishes into the shadows below the cinders on its form beginning to dissipate for the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How many arms does it have? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It seems to be this mass that shifts and changes at times. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Run, run, run, run! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How much further do we have to go? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see the edge of the forest maybe about 300 feet in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "300 feet? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Run. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You go charging, running, running. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Running sideways because I'm trying to walk backwards as we're leaving. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's getting closer and closer. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We have to stop it before it gets, I don't know if it's going to stop at the woods. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm hiding behind him, frantically doing shit. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to try to play the bait again to draw it towards me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm trying give Howard a second. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Give me a minute! Give me a moment! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Then I'm going to try to play the bait again and step forward towards the creature. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, roll with Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ugh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(growling) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's a mixed success on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It goes from a humanoid run into almost a bestial leap. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to try to run away from-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh god, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So she's running away? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She's charging-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm trying to give it space from you to give you time to do what you're going to do. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you're doing that, it runs towards you and lashes out towards you and you duck out of the way and go behind some of the trees. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I take my torch and I'm swinging it wide to try to keep it back for me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(growling) With each flash of it, you get more view of its body, and the more you see, the less sense it makes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I've got a torch in one and a lantern in the other. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I pop up from Vincent. Ha! I've got this little vial, almost like beaker, like a half a liter of this really strange orangish liquid like a half a liter of this really strange orangish liquid and I'm going to run up to, I'm going to run up to Arlo and-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This creature (growling). " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(growls) This orange glow brightening and then darkening. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Fencing stance. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to put the vial into her hand. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Replace the-- take my lantern and give me the vial. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yep, and I'm going to spin her around almost like a dance move and thrust her back out to the creature and I hope you know what to do with it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm supposed to throw it at it? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I can't throw for shit. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, okay, I'm going to try to-- Would this be a Control? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This would be a Control. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. Then I'm going to, as I spin, I'm going to try to throw it directly at the center of the creature. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and make a finesse test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll help you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What was that one on, though? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's on Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Control? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, Control. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Spend wisely. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I only have one left. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No fucking way. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I failed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you have a resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't have a resistance! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No way! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What did you craft? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, fuck off. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I used my special ability and I brought my-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm so sorry I failed! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I brought my lab equipment out and I made a highly flammable chemical concoction. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Man. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Now-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Auggie! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It hasn't caught flame, but you are currently doused in a highly flammable chemical. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do not put any fire near me whatsoever! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm still holding her do-si-do hand. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She has the torch in her hand. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The face burns with a bright angry red orange. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(concerned noises) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The best-laid plans. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Scream. " }, { "Role": "Player652", "Content": "(scream) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I've used up everything. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That was my Kamehameha and we shot it into-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Since I'm doused-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm out of ideas. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to take off my jacket. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, Auggie! " }, { "Role": "Player938", "Content": "(cheering) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Give him a new coat, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You've got to do the torch, the torch. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try the-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "He's got a lantern, I've got a torch. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Put the jacket around the lantern and I'm going to chuck it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I still have his lighter. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I thought you were going to put the lantern, the coat on the guy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is a very high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Why not? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Drive it like you stole it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So this is Control? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This would be Control. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to spend drive. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What are you doing? Are you throwing it, or what are you going to do? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Light the-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I need to know. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you lighting the coat or are you throwing the coat at the creature? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try to throw the coat at the creature because I'm behind? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are, it is currently still focused on you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wait, so if I'm doused, is Kara doused? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm? If you're carrying Kara, then yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do what you would do, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to throw it near the creature and then tell them to throw the lantern at the-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Redemption, right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, as soon as, I have the torch, so if you do it, then I would give the torch to Howard and tell him to strike it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think you've got a lantern and I've got a torch. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, you can lunge for a strike, and I can throw with the lantern. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So as you're preparing for this, and as soon as you hand the torch over, one of its limbs reaches out from the roots and grabs around your head and you take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh, I'm going to Let It In, baby. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So explain how the bleed affects you, as you are currently getting your jacket ready. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Crumpling it up. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "His eye is directly in my mind. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get that its will is not " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I ask you a question? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do I sense that it is at all tethered to the portal that it came out of or is it free to roam? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Auggie, you're going to chuck this jacket. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So I'm doing this. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, so I'm spending two drives. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Its head (growling) looking over as you go to toss this, so roll finesse for me, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I am going to die. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, a four. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sure, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's better than-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "A four. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Sure, sure, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The heat seems to emanate from it as it goes (growling) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know he does that, but I don't like it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You hold the torch in your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to take and try to push my torch into the sticky goo. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Easy enough to do as part of your success there. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As the fire begins to crawl up the back of it, this bright orange, at times almost blue flame from your concoction, the creature immediately throws you to the ground (screeching) and begins to screech as it tears off back into the middle of the Scarlet Wood. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Pick up Kara, start running again. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Grab her hand and pull her up and get running. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And that's where we're going to take a break. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(groaning) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Only used up that much, you know. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did all of us just almost die? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, it could've happened, could've happened, but team effort. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Go team! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Proud of our team effort. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Good effort team. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Strong collaboration. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "One of us could be faceless. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, entirely. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's true. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I mean. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I was not interested in it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Another day, another day. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We'll see you then. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(Ominous Music) (dramatic string and marimba music) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So go grab the Quickstart Guide and follow along as we embark upon the strange adventures of \"Candela Obscura.\" (dramatic orchestral music) (dramatic orchestral music) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, as the Circle of the Vassal and the Veil, you crawl back into the village on the outskirts of the train station, carrying an unconscious orchard owner and his faceless-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh jeez. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This is not good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- niece. So what would you like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We obviously have to-- I don't know that we can bring her with us. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I think we should bring her back to Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How are we going to hide her? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll try to put her and I'll try to see if I can drape that hood over her face as much as I can. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, are we going to \"Weekend at Bernie's\" her? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Maybe. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We straight up are. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We got to. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We already bought, you already bought. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I bought four. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "In business class. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What about Vincent? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We'll make her ride coach. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What do we do about Vincent? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What about Vincent? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do we leave him? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe you tell the conductor that Vincent needs to go to-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Needs medical attention? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That they need medical attention. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, say-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Maybe? Anyone? Bueller? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's as plausible as anything else. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Should I still hold her like this or should I try to do like-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You'll have to make her-- She's going to have to look like, if she's in a coat-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We need to take her to a hospital. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hold her like this. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Perhaps it would be best if we-- I'm going to set Vincent on one of the benches at the train station and go: He'll figure it out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't you think he will come to and name us as the people who...? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We should be quite far away by then. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You can't just attack everyone and expect that your family will never hear of it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll do whatever you'd like, though. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I mean, we didn't tell him our names, right? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I mean, I feel like our descriptions would be rather incriminating. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Should we try to explain to him what happened? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I suppose we could try to convince him that something else happened if we woke him up. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Again, I defer to you when it comes to matters of people. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I am spent. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is a police matter. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I support that. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. I'm going to tilt his head back and start smacking him in the face. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(groaning)\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You all right, Vincent? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What? What are you doing?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(gasping) (wincing) (wincing)\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You slipped on an apple and hit your head on the steps. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We brought you here to the train station. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) make a fucking Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I will look pleadingly at Charlie. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I will-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "While I do this, I'm like, how many fingers am I holding up? Doing the whole thing. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you good on Sway? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I have two. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Sure, I'll give you one of my Cunning drives. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Come on, baby ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I accidentally raised one for the episode. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It is a six, but a five on the gilded, so I think I'm going to take the five on the gilded because I don't know that I-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, so you take a drive back-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Because you need it back. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I need the drive back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- but that is a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm so confused.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How many fingers? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I just see one, and your fingers, there are two.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there a hospital in town or do you need to come back with us? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"There's a local doctor.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You may very well be concussed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't go home, not until it's light. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What about your friend?\" He points to (laughs) the wrapped Kara. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Kara. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What was that?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She wasn't-- Ah, help. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What happened to Kara? What'd you do to Kara?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We didn't do anything to Kara. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We ran upstairs. I told you, we were concerned about her safety. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Kara. Kara.\" He gets up, reaches over and grabs and starts-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Don't make me do it-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to try to Sway again. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, don't, don't. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to try to Sway again. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Please. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you trying to say? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Show him your-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He pulls back the cloth-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Show him your-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- and sees her face. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh god dang it! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He goes, \"What?\" \"What in all the hell--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We don't know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Kara, what--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Vincent, Vincent, listen to me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Is she--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We are trying to take her back to people who know more about this than we do. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We're going to figure it out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Vincent, don't go home. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It could happen to you, too. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Please go to the doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Stay in town for the evening, at the very least. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know who you can trust. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We'll be sending someone to help you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We will. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It might not look like it, but we truly are the people to get her the best care that she can have. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We'll tell our emissary, whoever we send-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just get out of here.\" He sits up and is like, \"(winces).\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Just go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We'll tell our emissary to tell you that they enjoy \"The Victory Boys\" and that's how you'll know that that's from us, yes? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's processing what he just saw. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ugh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can't imagine. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But for the time being, he's not breathing down your neck or calling for attention. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's go, let's go, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Let's go, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll go up to the ticket agent and buy one more ticket, but all of them in business class, so that we get a little less attention. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So is that two more tickets or all--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Just one more ticket, but upgrade them all to business. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Here you are, miss.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you, Arlo. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A short, quiet ride back until eventually you can see the glittering lights of the still-bustling city of Newfaire before you, eventually returning to The Steam, stopping here within the city's train depot, disembarking, stopping here within the city's train depot, disembarking, and as the steam gathers and it takes off once more into the distance, you carry your limp companion as you return to the cityscape. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's go to the bookstore. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Exactly, we need to get her-- We need to get word to Edmund. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We really should tell Alexandra. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It should be Alexandra, but I don't know that she's available. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Edmund. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Edmund, we need to get word to Edmund and we need to get you in some new clothing. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "My new jacket. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I think it was worth it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Your new jacket saved our lives. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And whatever concoction you made. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You're going to have to teach me that. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'd be delighted. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Walking and talking. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Gilded Rainbow. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "While we walk, I want to keep an eye out for any unsavories, anyone who might be trailing us, might have an eye on us, anything like that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. Make a Survey test for me as you go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'll do that now. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And Kara's still dead weight, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's a six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Quickly hustle through the door, close it behind you and-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Closed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Oh, you've all returned, oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We need to get a message to Edmund immediately. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What do you need?\" He grabs a notepad. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This is much more than an-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's get it to both of them. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll summon them here as soon as possible.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll have propped Kara up in a chair in the corner, still hooded. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I pull up my-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Who's your friend?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- my text? Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah... " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I assume it's need to know only and I'm sure I'll know soon enough.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, better off without it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Put his coat on. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let them know that the Red Hand has released some form of creature. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I have said on the train ride, I would've consulted my text and seen if I could, my book on creatures we've encountered, see if there's anything like it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, I will say make a Focus test for me to represent how deep into your collected lore you can delve during the journey. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yay, smarty. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Six, fantastic. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's go! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Smarty, smarty. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So as Reggie is out, you begin to recall-- You didn't quite hit it on the trek, but you felt like you were getting closer and it's here as everyone's figuring out the space, setting Kara down, sending Reggie out to make this telegram, you find the part in the book that speaks of the Snatchers. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, come on now. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The only other term, only other phrase you pick up is they are vibrant and excitable collectors. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it say anything about darkness, lightness with them? Are they relegated to night? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You pick up that they are creatures that lurk in shadow and often hail from a realm where light is shunned. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We have brought one of their victims back with us and we'd like for Candela to retrieve her. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She needs help. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Very well. I'll go and--\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As soon as possible. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll lock up behind myself.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you wait and prepare, unless there's anything you wish to do in the interim. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Since I had to cut my hand again to do my ghost blade, but I cut the hand that I can't feel anyway, I look down and it's been bleeding a bit, so I'm going to wrap it in something that I see there to stanch the bleeding. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Staunch the bleeding. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's not long before-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(negative grunt) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Usually within the hour, we have somebody sent, if not sooner.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. We should head to the Brinewash, see what else we can find. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there anything else that we should bring with us? After that experience, I'm a little bit jarred by not having what we needed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe, oh, we can all get lighters or something that can create fire. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I have a knife. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How many of those potions can you make, Howard? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I can't role play my way out of this shit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Rule of cool! Rule of cool! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "There is no limit, I just need time. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is a few hours of work in the laboratory to do so. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, oh, oh, oh, to make the-- Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Just a quick retcon, I would have mentioned Dorna in the letter to Candela because we have-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Not a worry. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- her name. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Are you waiting for a Candela representative to arrive? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah... " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Should we also give the letter? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We can give that to-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, when they come. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "When they come, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Just a thought. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, that's true. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Tell them to use their detector to read it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"All right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's all. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to go to the front of the shop-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Vellum book, \"The Variety Boys.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, is it \"Variety Boys\"? I said victory, I said \"Victory Boys\" not variety. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to grab a couple. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll put them in her lap and try to take her hands and place them on the book so she can feel it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "but you do manage to facilitate a presentation. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well done, Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't know. Maybe she'll feel something. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, so I do remember one thing that is consistent with the last time that we came together, which is someone named Lycan. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you remember this? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Lycus. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Like a ficus, but Lycus, or like a lycanthropic ficus. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Perhaps it's a combination of the two and it's an evil plant. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It sounded like her boss. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Reggie's here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, Reggie has left to-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Reggie's left already to, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "To deliver your message. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Where did you say the place was that was mentioned? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Brinewash 7? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Brinewash 7. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do we know of the Brinewash 7? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You know what? I'll have you go ahead-- Well, somebody go ahead and roll a Focus to see if you can recall any information of what this may represent, to analyze-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You have a couple, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think it's all you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll try. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are you doing... " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The last one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Brinewash 7? Why do I remember that? I wonder if that's somewhere Eddie ever went. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hm, perhaps. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You recall, the number, you're not sure of, but in Hallow Harbor, which is the port center of the city, there is a heavy warehouse district there, and the Brinewash is the term you've heard used and the Brinewash is the term you've heard used for this or at least parts of this warehouse district. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's about as much as you can muster. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Perhaps 7 is an address of some kind. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "\"Meet us at the Brinewash.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I will appeal for your forgiveness.\" So there are others. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Give it six weeks? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What does she mean? What is that, like to cool off? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All I can-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there a secret message in there? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All I can conjecture from this is that it was a ruse to get Kara to be-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wait, the Pharos Four? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "\"The Pharos are on us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The Fourth Pharos, it's connected to Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "My guess is that she sent her there ostensibly to plead for her forgiveness when she returned, but whatever they released was going to be sent there to dispose of her as well. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Logical. I believe we are the Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We are. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know what? I think-- I think we're the Pharos. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Very good. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I think we are. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I think that's us. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Fourth. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Are we Pharoses? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Should we go? Or should we wait? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What time is it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "At this time of night, it's just past midnight. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Midnight at the docks? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should go before-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sounds like a great time. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Before the Red Hand find out that we discovered Kara. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I wonder if they can open multiple portals. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there any chance that we could go Candela, to our Candela headquarters, and there is a place there that we are allowed to go to for information, right? Like a library or something like that? There was a-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What you're speaking of is the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It is the Fourth Pharos. Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's challenging to get to because it doesn't exist in this realm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's between The Flare? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm, in the liminal space. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So there's nowhere we can really go to get more information. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Uh-uh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Uh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Does anyone have any coin on them? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, not for right now, but if we're heading toward the docks after midnight, it could come in handy. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How is your illicit gun? Do you have enough ammunition for that? You only fired it twice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, so I've probably got four left. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "29, 30 rounds left, I'm sure. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, sure, I got some. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Some of the damage. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it like a revolver? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I believe everyone carrying some form of weaponry would not be such a bad idea. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I don't have any weapons. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, your mind seems to be a weapon. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No time like the present. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Reggie, do you have any other weapons here? Is Reggie gone? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, he's returned. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see he's-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where's Reggie? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's making some late-night coffee, and you can see his hand shaking a little bit, looking over uncomfortably at Kara in the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Well, what sort of weaponry are you requiring? I'm not really an armory, by any means, but I have a few things for self-defense.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Imagine him being Q. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you have a gun? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He steps off to his personal quarters. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So good. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Our occultist is strapped. Good, good. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, I mean, she's got ♪ control. ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He goes, \"Now, how familiar are you with firearms?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I can shoot a gun. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I think I hold it with this hand, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yes, but don't cock the--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(sighs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You know what? I think I have three items already. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You got a blank space. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You got a blank space. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, but I have-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What do you need to get rid of? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Somebody else can use my bleed detector. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, can't you pick three and then write in one as a fourth? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you can drop one and then write in the fourth. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I guess I could leave my book here, but I don't think that works, because I used it once in the game, right? I can't leave the textbook once I've already used it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Switch it out? What do you think? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I always enjoy reading, and I do have some ability in that area. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Can I take something from her, so she can have the space? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll allow it. Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I've got research materials now. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ooh, fun! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And you have-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is yours the same-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, occult text. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "♪ Occultist's got a gun ♪ (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, then-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can you see it sticking out? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is very visible. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you have a cloak of some kind or anything, darling? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. I will put my coat back on. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She's just pointing the gun at me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Waving it around. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, whoa, whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Reggie, are there any bullets in here already? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I have some? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I've given you some, but I've not put them in there, and I would recommend not putting them in until you are ready to use them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Wondrous. Thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Reggie, have you ever heard of someone named Lycus? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sorry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If you would mention that name to the Candela representative that comes to pick up our friend. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Don't you worry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, Brinewash 7 or bust. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is awash in this thick, thick fog. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm keeping an eye out this whole time for shady characters. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What would you like to do now here in Hallowharbor? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Would I know which area is the Brinewash? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're not quite sure where it would be. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Given my import-export situation, would there be, say, an associate of mine or anyone that I would be connected with on the docks, like Deagan or any of the other-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'd say Deagan could be somebody that likely could, we'll say for the time being, be found in the docks, half the time running business as one of your go-tos, so you would know where Deagan stays in here, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I might have an associate that we can speak to here to get more instructions, directions. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes, by all means. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to Survey to see if I can figure out where Deagan would be. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He has a few places here in the city, depending on what business he's doing and where he needs to lay low. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It doesn't look like it's abandoned, but it certainly looks like it doesn't currently hold a business, but there it is. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's the secret. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I pull Auggie close to me, too, so the two of us in the lead. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Hello?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hello, my friend. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh, I se you brought friends, did you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hey, Deagan. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I brought some more welcome associates for our business. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What's your business here this late in the evening?\" He closes the door behind you as you enter. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We are looking to find another group of associates in Brinewash 7. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There's 12 of them specifically in the Brinewash district, so likely the seventh one.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Professional curiosity.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Of course, professional curiosity, and you'll understand professional discretion. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You know, it's always good to know what I'm dealing with and see if there's any opportunities in the future to make it a profitable bit of information for myself. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I get extremely dead serious and I say: Deagan. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "He will know what to do. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What have you gotten yourself mixed up in?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You understand? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Always have.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Would you happen to have any munitions on you? We could use a little bit of insurance. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Is that what you're looking for?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We would just need two. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Okay, if anyone needs-- What do you need? Axes? Guns?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, sure, certainly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah? You want to take that?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes, please. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I don't normally see that from someone so finely tailored, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, well, I don't make assumptions about you based on your appearance. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I appreciate that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's a nice, hefty axe, and looking at it, the rust and the stains across the hammered metal give you the sense that this has probably seen a skull or two. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Where do I-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where do you put it, right? I mean, where do you put it? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Where do you put it? The blackjack that I have on my hip on a little loop, I just: Well, yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You did take your cloak back, right? The one that you wear? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, so I now have an axe on my hip hidden underneath my cloak, and I'll leave my blackjack where it is. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Just out of curiosity, a hand weapon would be Strike, but a handgun would be Control, right? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Then I'll take the usual, if you have it, and, obviously, I'm asking for-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I know your preferences, love.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I know, you too. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He goes back and-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She blushes just a little bit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What is your preferred handgun? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, It's a-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's a handgun. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It definitely-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It fits in my hand. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you already have three items, you'll have to drop one to take it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, I don't. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Then you can take your third as your hand weapon. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What gun? Thank you, my dear. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Next time, just let me know if you need help.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Morning, remember. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "If you have Jimmy and Donny on any runs, can you take them off for tonight? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Yeah, I think I got a few whisperers Yeah, I think I got a few whisperers coming by here in a minute, I'll get the word out, yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Whatever you doing, you stay safe, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Always. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm going to fucking gut you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Scary. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Aggressive, but okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Deagan gave me this. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you married to Deagan? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "He's a sweet man as scary as he is. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "He's a good man to have in your corner. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As are you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You know it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, we are sufficiently strapped, literally and figuratively. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Everyone has guns but me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh no, I thought you-- Oh yes, well, you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's okay. I don't prefer them. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, you seem to be good with your hands. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't either. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, you have one, though. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What are you going to do with it should the need arise? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Shoot from it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So we know where it is now. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do we have any fire? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We still have your lighter. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You can make " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We have two? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, no, no, there's just one lighter. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We can set things on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We'll be fine. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You did change, right? Did we change your clothing? Did we stop? You changed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We don't want to light him on fire. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We went to Auggie's house. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you begin to find the pattern of their numbered appearance, it doesn't take long for you to make out which one is marked as seven. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know if we might be able to sneak in? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We could try. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it look like there's anyone on guard at this particular warehouse? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can go make a Survey test, if you'd like to keep an eye out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "If anybody, yeah, if somebody else wants to look. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) Sure, you can go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This is my job, this is my job. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should look for guards. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, and also looking for windows or anything that can function-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mixed success, and it's a gilded die, so I will take back a drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You also do see one individual that is patrolling from the roof. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The roof? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh dear. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh my. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, we might have been spotted already. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it seem like he spotted us already? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is also, thankfully, pretty foggy. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I suppose we try to stay in the shadows. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's head to the alley to the side. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, who's leading the stealthy charge? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You're Stealthy McStealtherson. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm pretty sneaky stealthy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, make a Hide test for me as you guide the rest of your troop as to the best route to get there unseen and unheard. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oops, it got stuck in my glove. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You got a gilded four. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I got a gilded four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Which entrance are you going towards? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We want to go in the side, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, so it would have to be alley and up and into the second entrance. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How do you intend to get up there? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "One of us could climb on Auggie's or Howard's shoulders. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is there a ladder, a fire escape ladder? A retractable ladder? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There is a retractable ladder, but it is up there. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That would make a lot of noise. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, so one of us would have to get up and then pull it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is there a discernible lever from up top? That you could see, if you were up there, could you release it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It looks like there is a metal hook that it's currently latched up there. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to try use my special that I pulled. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Which is Bending Spoons. " }, { "Role": "Player938", "Content": "(oohing) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It says in the room, but we're outside. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In the room is-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We're in proximity? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- within a room-like proximity. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay, \"Move a small object, knock something over, put out a light, et cetera.\" " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, do you roll for it? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I do, with Sense, which I have-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Roll Sense for me. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Great, I'll take one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "An Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well here we go. One, two, three. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Come on, baby, come on! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "a six. " }, { "Role": "Player934", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, that's great. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You also hear voice go \"Hey, what?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should hide. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hide, everyone. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Just in case he looks over the side. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll hide, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We shall hide. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Goes and grabs the ladder and starts beginning to pull it up. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, come on! Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Was a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That was a-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That was a full success. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That was a full success. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That was a full success? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Are you going to do anything? " }, { "Role": "Player653", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, I want to. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hold on! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I want to shoot him, but I can't. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Can I reach down and see if there's a rock or something? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh yeah, there's simple stones and loose cobble bits. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try to take it and chuck it the other way to try to distract him and see if he hears something. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure, make a Control test for me, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh! A six! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I got a six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What the shit?\" Drops the ladder again. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Climb up really fast and punch him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Goes and climbs over and starts-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, he's coming! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- lowering down the ladder. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, he's coming down? Are we still hidden? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We're hiding. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's lowering the ladder and is about to come into visual range of where you're all standing underneath it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard, I need you to pop up, come on, my love, now is your time. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Now's your time to shine. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We'll wait til-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What? Hey!\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, get him before he yells! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to reach out and grab him and I'm going to pull him into me and put him in a little standing rear naked choke. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, give me a Strike test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay, ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are you helping? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How do you help? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What do I get? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I distracted him! I distracted him, he's looking the other way because he was looking for the rock. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That's valid. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So do I get an extra? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, you do. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ooh goodie! That is a six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just reaching for the rifle on the side. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, no, I'm going to grab the rifle and pull it away from him. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(shushes) No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Goes limp in your grasp. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no, sleepy time. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I have a rifle. (gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "There we go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(impacts) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "My father used to take me hunting. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh, perfect, even better. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So up we go. " }, { "Role": "Player933", "Content": "(skitter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, you climb up the ladder, up onto the upper platform and there is that doorway there that leads into an upper portion of the warehouse. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This is really big, though. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It looks well on you. " }, { "Role": "Player838", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is it just an open door or is it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, it's a closed door. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, can you check it and see if-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did we hide the body? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I did, I put-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wait, are there any windows from where we're at? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, the storage warehouse doesn't have windows. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is the door locked or unlocked? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The door is locked. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Pull out my-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "While he's doing that, I'm going to listen at the door to see if I can hear. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it, so make a Control or Hide, your choice. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Five, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You got a gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Now I got a gilded. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is definitely a storage warehouse. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to hide the rifle in the boxes and under a sheet so that if he wakes up and tries to get it, he's not going to know where it is. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As there are three figures currently down below, in the center of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "When I was listening, I didn't hear? We still have the jump on them, they can't? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The third figure you see in a long brown dress, clutching a cane in one hand-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It's her. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- dark hair, and currently in the process of drinking a glass of wine, is Dorna. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Nobody sees us? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That you know of. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Blend in as best I can. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Auggie-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wait, are you going in? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You want me to sneak a little further? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think we both should go. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Can we try to sneak in and intermingle among the vagaries of the storage? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You may, on the upper level here? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hide in the storage. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But if you are helming this or you're helming this, someone should roll a Hide roll to represent both of you slinking about. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, I'll do it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm pretty sneaky as well. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So what are we doing? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm spending a-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If they're continuing to sneak on-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They're telling us where to hide? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, I would be following with them and telling them where to hide. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Since we're doing this together, let me give you one. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you have a Resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, so reroll two. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "One is gilded. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "One is gilded, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No, I rolled a two and a one. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You both get a drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Was it Trauma Bonding? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Because of Trauma Bonding. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You didn't fully take any damage, no Body on this point, but immediately you hear-- (metallic clinking) All of you notice that now Dorna has put aside the wine glass and is staring at you on your back as the two other individuals have pulled the guns. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa, whoa, whoa! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I walk over to the edge as I'm rolling up my sleeves. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Well, isn't this very interesting? Well, I guess I should thank you for saving my life.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You do seem well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(laughs) I guess seeing should be believing.\" She pulls the skirt of the dress up a little bit and where her legs are crossed, you can see right about where the knee is, they swell and twist into these slug-like extremities-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yikes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I guess it's living.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm sorry we couldn't get there faster. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The one now has one pointed to you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are there any stairs down or anything like that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you go around the other way, there's a second set of stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Was I still able to sneak, or did that screw the pooch? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are we all revealed? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll say you are both not revealed at the moment, but they definitely are. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I walk in. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The room is on heightened alert. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. So I have my hands up and I'm going to walk towards the stairs with my eyes on her. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"So what are you doing here? It's only important you tell me before we shoot you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(reproachfully) Auggie. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Let's not, you know, go to such extremes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(whispering) Pull the rifle back out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You know we came to you looking for an artifact in the first place, back at the gallery. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Not all of them are affiliated with your organization.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Dorna, if our organization already knew about who you were, do you think I would walk in here and speak directly to you? Do you think I would come in here if I were honestly associated with them? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Are you trying to deceive? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I am so trying to deceive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Sway. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I shall do so. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, what-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm trying to convince her that I'm double agent-ing, basically. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Why would I-- Look at me. Why would I be in whatever the fuck you're talking about? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Auggie, stop talking. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(guard) \"You shut your mouth.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, all right. Mum's the-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ha ha, it is a six! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I guess we have that in common.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "In my business, unfortunately, the product is not quite as interesting, as dangerous. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What do you want then, if you're not with Candela? What is your business here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "It may sound trite, but something to give a dear friend of mine who, shall I say, I've been trying to impress both with business and with pleasure. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Mm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can someone help me? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You're waiting for us to save you? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Who's drowning, I'm drowning ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get the sense that she doesn't necessarily believe you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What are we trying to do here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But she's certainly held at an impasse of curiosity. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I do get that sense? I do get the sense that she doesn't believe me? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get the sense that she's not suddenly relaxed and like, \"Oh! Well, never mind!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Because I can go one way or the other. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She's still guarded. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you need someone to also work for you? You know, bring in some-- I'm really good at picking stuff up. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"At sneaking, apparently.\" She points up to the broken railing. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But Dorna-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm usually better. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "After all, when I first pulled him off the streets, I did tell him, if you're going to work for someone while you're on these streets, make sure it's someone who knows how to get you off them. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "She's taught me well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Her eyes narrow a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You need someone to move shit? I can move shit. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Consider it a trade, perhaps, for-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Can you move people?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm intrigued. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's been done. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Tell me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Away?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Move them away or keep them away? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Move them away.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Like, forever? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's not a surprise to anyone. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"As do I, which is why we've had problems with the import guilds to begin with.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(hums in agreement) Clocking in my head, obviously not saying this out loud, but the situation with the chamberwoman? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In the meantime, what are you two doing? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Watching. She's a really good talker. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm hyperventilating. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can we, I want to-- He's mixing something. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm uncertain of our intentions. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm looking for anything around Dorna, something that can connect her-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So close to being out there. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Exactly what I intended. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Evidence that this is a Red Hand, evidence that they're doing something strange, something-- Is she doing a ritual of some sort? What is she just doing sitting in here? Is there evidence of any weird play at hand? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Roll Focus for me to try and analyze the situation. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hm, Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't know why, but I'm going to do it. No? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You sure? Shall I help you instead? Would you like me to help you instead? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Love that. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Double fives. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Doubles! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see notes, scrawlings, like a faint, hand-drawn map or an odd sketch. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We need that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get the sense that she is hiding here. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(whispering) Howard. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All that stuff on that table behind her. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should take it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All of it? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, at least that little mappy thing there. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What is it? (laughs) I would like to try to look at the table and see if there's anything immediately that looks valuable or useful. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "At this distance, unfortunately-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Nothing? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you were to get down there you could take a look. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are we still hidden? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You seem to be hidden at the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Damn it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe-- (gasps) Maybe you can send one of your-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(muffled) I'm getting great information, too. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(whispers) Maybe you can send one of your exploding potions or something far to the end of the warehouse, and that way, the guard will run that direction. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You want to explode the warehouse? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well-- Dorna will be left alone, and you can run down and get the stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "While I don't have time to make something as complicated as fantasy napalm, I do know how to mix combustibles. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So I've got a little vial of something combustible. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Loud, if momentarily damaging the vicinity of it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Would you be so kind? My arm isn't what it used to be. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where am I throwing it? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Away. " }, { "Role": "Player838", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Don't hit us. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "How far away are they from us in this current-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So she's about 25 feet across from that opening. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There is an entryway that goes to the large warehouse door that was closed on the opposite way that's about 40 feet across the way that's opposite from where you all are. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I want to send it to where all of the guards that are pointing on Auggie will be will turn the opposite, turn their backs to them. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. So you're going to throw towards the front door, which gets them looking adjacent away, or you can throw it below over on the floor, which means they'll turn that direction, but it'll be in the direction where you are, just below. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I throw it back into a corner? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I like the trying. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(bottle skittering) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Roll Control for me, if you don't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You got this, you got this. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Come on, come on, come on. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "♪ I've got two left ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ You got this ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can't help you! (nervous scatting) Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player853", "Content": "(cheer) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I think there may be some honesty to what you are saying, but everything about this circumstance to me is extremely fishy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What do you mean? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"As much as I try and believe you, I haven't gotten this far in my life by opening myself--\" (chemical explosion) " }, { "Role": "Player652", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She ducks down to the ground, her skirt blown to the side, her weird tendril legs now writhing on the ground as she almost snakes away from the sound. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ugh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you all doing? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Grab the maps! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I have-- I sort of dive in the direction to protect Dorna just to keep the ruse going? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are still-- You came down the stairs? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Uh-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Too far from her? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I would say she wouldn't let you get that close. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I was going to try to give that a go, too. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you want to. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "To try to protect her. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You have one down there. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, sorry, yeah, this would be to convince, so make a Sway. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you want me to give you one more or are you good? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "If it works. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you dive to protect her, she-- \"(pants)\" \"What is going on? What is here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll protect you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Stop them! Stop them!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Get us out of here! Let's go! Let's get out of here! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I have my gun out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Show us where to go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "One of them looks up in your direction. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I would say, I would've thrown it, and then we would've (sneaky footsteps) and try to move away from-- In the explosion and the noise and all that shit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Hide test for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Come on, you can do it ♪ ♪ Spend a Nerve, do a ♪ thing to save yourself ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is her guiding you both. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do you still have your train? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Nope, I used it already. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Does it have to be her? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you want to guide it instead, since the two of you are a pair. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Follow me! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm sorry I keep hitting you, Howard. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ah-ha! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Nice! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She gets the cane and goes, \"It's not safe here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We have to get out of here. Where can we go? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see she's weirdly caught in the moment of, what the fuck is happening between the two of you? \"I honestly--\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I do have my gun out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You said you can hide someone out of the city, right? Move people?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You have to get me out. I think-- I think Lycus has gone mad.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Lycus? Tell us more, somewhere else. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Who's that? Who's Lycus? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Get out of the warehouse! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I feel like we're dragging her in some direction-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Walk and talk, walk and talk. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- away. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She goes over and goes, \"Open the door!\" One of the guards is like, \"They're coming with us?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"We'll need to grab--\" Grabs up the map and a few things off the table while you two are hiding around the side. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You need me to hold any of those? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I've got it, thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As it rises up above Dorna and your friends, you hear that familiar-- (groaning) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Dorna, if there's anything in this room that can hurt this thing, now is the time we need to know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"No!\" As it grabs her by the head-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- and begins to pull her back. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try to grab the maps. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to grab her body. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You grab the maps, no issue. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll save the maps! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(growling) The guards go, \"What the fuck?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Shoot it! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(bullets thud dully) It just stands there-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, guns don't work! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- nothing affecting it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Fire, fire! If there's fire, we need fire! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Where's the fire? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "She clutches it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Who's got the fire? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Dorna is struggling and struggling and struggling as you're holding her there. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I pull my ritual blade out and I stab at anything that I can find. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Strike roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, god help us. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The only things that have flame that you see are the two lanterns that are on the ground floor, if you want to try and rush out of hiding to get to them. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player659", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god, this fucking die! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it walking close to the lanterns? Where is it in regards to the lantern? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's in the dark corner off to the side not too far from where you threw the object. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You start carving the hand free, and as they cut free, you can see, as she emerges from its grasp, the skin, smooth-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- lack of facial expressions upon her as her body limply (body thuds) falls to the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We're out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The lanterns are down here? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(deep, gravelly growl) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. Is there one near that I can try to take and chuck at it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure, if you want to. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I will shoot at it as you do. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. The two guards-- (guns firing) \"Fuck, it's not doing anything!\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Fire! Fire! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Get fire! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I'm firing! I'm firing!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No! We need fire! Throw fire! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Open the doors! I say from the top. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You said you're going for the lantern? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Is there-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Does this building have electricity? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can try and glance for some semblance of it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "If you do that, I'll glance for it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Just emerge, and I'm going to go to the table where all of the ancient looking stuff is. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Realizing that our firearms are useless, and see if I can look for anything, anything. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm looking for electricity. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, so make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll give you drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You rush to the table. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, and I got a six. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Looking about-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There are some books-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Which Auggie got. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You start grabbing those. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The books, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you start pulling that up, as the creature is now lurching towards, as it grows in size, it looks like it's still forming, as it continues to expand out in the shadow, the roots and vines that are tethering it to those mold packages in the side. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do I see the portal anywhere, an opening, there's no? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You rolled a six. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I rolled a six to find electricity. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You follow the line and glance over to the side of the warehouse, and there is a switch. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm running, is it, how-- Where is the-- Do I have to run through it to get to the switch, or can I just run to it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You would have to make a run roll to dodge to get to it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Fuck me! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You can do it, you can do it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to-- I'm going to try to throw the lantern to distract. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- and I'll try to run? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The switch! I'm going to scream out to whoever can, and point in that direction to whoever might be closest to it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So now with Dorna on the ground, the creature, focused in this direction, you shout, \"Switch!\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I've got the knife. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Right as its hand (slams)! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Grabs you by the head and shoulder, and begins to grasp you there. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I chuck the lantern. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Roll Strike or Control. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Save my face, Auggie, save my face! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm running across-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're running across to try to grab the switch. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Drive. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, the one guard is lifting up the door, the other one is now-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can't help-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Looking at chaos here, sees Dorna, and goes, \"Holy shit!\" Goes over to help with the door as well, and starts lifting it with his friend. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I roll for the switch? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's a lot of rolling going on. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Three, fuck. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Whoa, no! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "While this is happening, can I be trying to pry it off with my knife as well? Since, like it happened last time? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Explain to me how you feel the bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "The house is already crumpled and gone through, and I am starting to go closer, and closer, and closer to it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a run test to see if you can get there. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I have one die. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and roll. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No drives and no resistances. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can someone help him? Anyone, I can't because I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, can I give you, wait, I have no more drives left either. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Five! (cheering) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I knew you had it, I knew you had it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's my girl! You put on sensible shoes, after all. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I mean. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So the warehouse is now catching-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "My bad. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The creature immediately releases you. (howls) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I grab her-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And shrinks back. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "-- as fast as I can. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As it does, you also hear (thudding) as the front door closes, the two guards having pushed through, and fled. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What a bunch of-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's fine, can we still get out, and get at the front of that, yeah, can we still get out up top? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Howard's got a book in his hand and he goes: It might be averse to light! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Should we try to make it out? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, the whole thing is burning, right? That's a good, we want it to-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The warehouse is catching fire. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Great! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to grab the other lantern-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And anything that looks like it could go up in flames, I'm going to chuck the lantern at it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(flames whooshing) The warehouse is now brightly ablaze, and will begin-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Grabbing all the relics from that table. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Anything we can. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Running out the way we came. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, that's a lot of art, that's a lot of money. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, you got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Running out the way we came ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You dart up, up to the top of the window, you shimmy down the ladder, and there, you see there's the unconscious fellow with the pile of trash over him that's now resting aside the building with smoke, black smoke now starting to pour out, and be picked up by the fog, and moving-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to grab his ankles, and try to start dragging him away from the building a little bit, so that he doesn't catch fire. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What would you like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think the closest safe haven, if we have to get-- do we have to get somewhere quickly? The closest safe haven would be Deagan. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Unless we feel like-- Can I make a quick Survey, and see if anyone is noticing us? Are people, or are people just focusing on that warehouse as we're running? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure, make a Survey test. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can we pull up the map? I want to be looking at the map as we're walking, and-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, that's good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It looks like it is some sort of a subterranean cavern crawl. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Where you see it begins, it mentions the Van Helter Junkyard. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Which is in what-- Do I know where the Van Helter Junkyard is? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You do, you know that the Van Helter Junkyard is, it would be, my specification here. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "South Soffit? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I still have a face. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Right, you still have a face. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) We did it, we did it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I was like-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is within The Steam. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, oh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Too close, too close. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ooh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Too close, we come-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, we could be in this area. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So a little bit of a trek there, and you know, you do know of this, this region of this city, you've never visited it, of course, a woman of your esteem would have no reason to do so, but it is a massive junkyard where all manner of scrap, and old train and trolley cars, and derelict military vehicles from the recent war are all left to crumble, be pulled for scrap, refurbished, and in many cases sold by the person who runs this. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, you meant it's The Steel, not The Steam? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The Steel. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The Steel. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sorry, no, The Steam, The Steam is the one. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Wait, The Steam is where the train is? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There is a drawing of a train car, a little sketch. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I rolled a mixed success on my Survey. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can we run through-- Let's take side streets through The Varnish, we could stop into The Gilded Rainbow, and-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Regroup, and then head over to The Steam from there. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think Auggie should lead. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, follow me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Since we're sneaky sneaky. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Show them all the tricks. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You head back to The Steam, eventually emerge here in this junkyard, hidden away from the-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Did we stop, did we stop at the-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I mean, we don't need to. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh, did you want to stop by? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "It might be timing up. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You weren't here at the time, so they headed out, but they might return if I can call them back, if need be.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, no. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I know they're not a member of Candela, but it's very important. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"All right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Here's his location. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, he writes it down. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's all. And-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"All right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Is this Deagan fellow going to, like, pull a gun on me?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Not with this message, he might hug you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right, I'll get it to him.\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "If I'm right, we're going down. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let him know it's from me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The night is young. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Thoomp, more books. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Good luck. Did you say you're going to Oldfaire?\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Uh. Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Good luck.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mightn't have anything that would help us, would you? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"I am a bookstore owner, and I gave you my gun.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I keep hoping he's going to be like Q. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(whooshing) Look, killer to ghost. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Not so much. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, no. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Off we go to The Steel? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "The Steam? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "To The Steam. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The Steam. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The Musgrave car? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mustang. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mustang. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Sally ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But what would you like to do while you're here? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, we need to find a train car. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mustang car, Mustang Sally. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do we split up-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Who's helming the search? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Or should we stay together? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No, we should stay together. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I might as well do the search. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I will give you a drive to give you an extra one. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right, I will accept it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I know, I'm wiggling. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mixed success with a five. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know why I keep pulling them out, I'm like, \"Look, I just did a thing!\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You go to this one, and as you begin to approach, you can see, across the top of its roof railing, there is tarnished brass, a design inlay that emerges in these running horses on the front on each side. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Did we bring any sources of fire with us? We still have any lanterns, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Well, you still got the lighter? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I mean, yeah-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You recognize this figure, if only through reputation, as Maynard Van Helter, who is the proprietor of the junkyard. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I Read him? See if he seems susceptible to bribery, or--? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, make a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Or a deception, a deception-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Trying to see if there is perhaps--\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Six on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"What you are doing skulking through my yard?\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We're not skulking, we have something to do. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But is also a person that enjoys making a deal. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Maynard, is it not? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I whisper in her ear: He'll make a deal. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"You're not like the usual riffraff that comes through here at night, huh?\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Are you interested? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Always.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I have some goods that I'm trying to keep out of the hands of others. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"The less I know, the better.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'll pull out the little pouch of my coins, pretty much what I've got. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's the drama, it's the best part! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "♪ The tension ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Drive, drive, drive, please, drive ♪ ♪ Mixed success on a five ♪ Oh, and a five-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Make sure you got a gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I got a five gilded, yeah-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There you go, so you get that drive right back. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't hate this game, by the way, it's just my heart is (quick vibration). " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"That looks about a appropriate amount.\" He draws his hand, you can see the dirt, and grime-encrusted fingernails that are about a half an inch beyond the tips of his fingers as he reaches out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "As I'll leave it there with him, and I'll grasp his hand gently, and I'll say: If this works out, there's more business where this came from. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"Don't worry, I know who you work with.\" He puts it in his pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get the sense from your Read roll, he has misinterpreted who you work with. " }, { "Role": "Player653", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(whistles)\" And just whistles to himself. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I've always wanted to learn how to whistle. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "With that, you are out of money for this. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I had to work for mine! I didn't say that out loud. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What's that like? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So we see the Mustang, is there a door? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's open. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, it's wide open. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Parts of it are heavily damaged. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I look around and see if Maynard is watching us at all or are we alone? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No, he's wandered off. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Then I'm going to take out the bleed detector and try to get a vibe, reveal where the entrance would be. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can see the tarnished and damaged roof edges curling over from the front and you can hear the faintest bit of wind whistling. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "There. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What do you see? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to go over and lift the tin up. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You lift it and you can see indeed beneath it, mostly obscured by the panel, there looks to be an opening. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A tunnel that fairly steeply descends into the Oldfairean earth. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well done. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I think this is-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh wow. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, we might run into the Snatcher down here as well. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I jump into the hole. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- before you go in! Professor, do you have light sources, fire sources? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, is there-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Foomp! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there any fire? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm in the hole, baby! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Any fire sources? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, is there anything we can light-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Well, he does have a hole in his head. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- make a torch out of? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh my god, that made me laugh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Any lights, nothing around us? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You also have no light source. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We have the lighter. Is there a stick? Something that I can-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. You can scrounge a stick. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can makeshift a torch here, and you have chemicals probably still left over. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You could make a singular torch. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Excellent. We'll follow him. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(flames ignite) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "In the hole, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We were really dumb to not have grabbed any light sources on the way here. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I feel like we would have-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's really stupid. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "-- every single time and yet we somehow don't. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I have one in my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is there? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "We know that the guns are useless on him, them, it, correct? Never mind, it's too late. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are you coming? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I could wait for as long as you'd like. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No, no, no, in we go. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to jump down. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Me, too. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "A general moisture seems to be collecting along the rock, giving it a bit of a shine or a glisten as the light flickers past. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wait, what is the plan? Are we just going down here, and we're going to hope for the best? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "If we can close it, then it won't be able to. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "May I take the light as they're chatting and hold it up against these squishy, gushy walls and look for something? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm looking specifically for moss, any kind of lichen, any sort of fungal growth on the walls. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is stone and that hint of moisture, but nothing seems to have taken root from a fungal standpoint. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to keep an eye out for it as we proceed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is there bleed in this hallway? Whatever, this cavern? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to Sense, I'm going to look at the bleed detector. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(rings) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Indeed, you see the faint trail of bleed that seems to scrape across the wall and the floor in places, like something had dragged its way-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it feel like the same bleed that came from the Snatcher? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can make a Sense roll, if you'd like. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Did you say it was as if something was being dragged on the ground? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see streaks across the way in different patterns. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's a five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In that brief moment, your vision begins to fall and you tumble into this darkness, reaching out with your hand as it withers gray and you almost fall forward before you stop her with your hand out, but you do take a bleed from leaning a little too close to the abyss. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ooh, so close. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How you doing? Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I don't know how I haven't done this before since I have this damn piece of equipment I've been carrying around, but I'm going to try to take, if there's some on the dirt or whatever, put some of it, soak it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to use my ward to soak a bleed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There you go. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I just thought. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I somehow scoop some of this bleed into my little container vacuum. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, you got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(pop) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Shapes like massive bodies carved from the rock, partially crumbled and looming like long-dead giants stand 20, 30 feet above, leaning, about to fall or buried halfway into the stone itself. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Whoa. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you walk into this space in the silence, the shadow, the faint bit of firelight in front of you framing the very edges of this interior, what would you like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I want to scan to see if there's anything, any movement, any creature, anything that might catch my eye before we continue moving. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Here amongst the darkness, you actually push the torch back a bit so you can let the light not distract from you adjusting to the shadow so you can best make out the details and as you do, you see a little ways beyond, past an opening in the cavern where part of it shrieks down this massive, stalactite-type structure that combines to the ground to create a natural rock pillar of elements, you see a faint purplish glow, ever so faint, risen and in the distance, unique to anything else you see. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Just saying. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Are there are there any sconces on the wall or anything like that, no? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No sconces. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should move quietly, then. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I suppose. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I get a read from the bleed? Oh god, I don't want to try to read anything else. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You soaked that last one up. You're fine. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it possible to tell if the bleed is new? Does it seem like the Snatcher left here and has come back or is the trail of bleed only going one direction? Do you know what I mean? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Would you like to make another Sense roll to find out? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Why not? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What is it? For what? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Intuition. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Just all the dice. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Whoa, you guys. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All the dice. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You got it, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "My drives were out. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Seriously? No, I don't believe it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Every dice is a failure. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That's so trash. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Five dice, didn't roll above a three. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Do you have a resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We get a die back. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Whew. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player853", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh no, oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get down to the ground-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "None of you see this. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oy, damn it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But the bleed is encroaching deeper and you take a mark of bleed to your body. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm glad I soaked that last one. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "No kidding. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What do you see? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hard to make anything of it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm going to grasp her hand and hold it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Now, you can ask me a question about the source of the bleed, don't forget. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I can? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Whenever you take a bleed mark. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I can ask you a question. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, I'll do that. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You took that ability. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay! Then I want to ask, does it look like the creature-- " }, { "Role": "Player838", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- was going? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You can get what you wanted. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You can absolutely get what you wanted. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You can have your cake and eat it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As opposed to analyzing it, instead you let it into your body and soul and the information comes at the severe cost of a portion of you lost forever. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yikes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Indeed, you sense the creature has not come and gone as much as it was sent out once it arrived. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oy. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So it hasn't returned? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(whispers) Yet. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So we should move quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Let's go sneaky sneaky? Can we go sneaky sneaky with a torch? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, here. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'll try to sneak up ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do you want me to put this out? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No, it's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Should I put it out? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm pretty sneaky. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You can make it work? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "There's enough light from that glow, I think I can. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(whooshes) I douse our torch in my jacket. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's dark. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is pitch black beyond the very faint purple glow in the distance. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "That's not what you meant but it did it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So hand on his back and I guess the next person's hand on each other's back, yeah? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Follow me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Startled me. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Hide roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to close my eyes, so my eyes adjust. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is it working? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So it just evens out. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I know that wasn't-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So if I spend a die, spend a drive? No wait. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'm just saying I was going to add one anyway because it was so dark. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How many does that give you, one or two? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That gives me, I have three total. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, you have three, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "With the gilded, you got it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It keeps getting stuck in my sneaky-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sneaky hand things? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to help you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's a Hide. I'm going to give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! Two sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Two sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What would you like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is there anyone moving, anybody up and moving about? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Not that you see. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I would like to-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We have to break them up. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I want to see if there's anything on the bodies, anything of use. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Survey check as you go through the quick bodies. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to look for... " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh good. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "One of them has a heavy club, multiple firearms, bullets. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Anything like a flask or any, I'm looking for combustible materials. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are there any runes on the ground or around the portal that seem like they were freshly added? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's about that time that you see a shape in the middle of the portal. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "In the middle of the portal? Coming through the portal? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As a humanoid form steps through. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Fudge. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You would shatter, or join in this jubilance.\" (whoosh) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you hear behind you-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wait! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(snarling) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Shoot at the amulet. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Shoot at the amulet? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "At the amulet. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you are the first to act, go ahead and roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "At the amulet. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Roll Control, this is a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh wait, I have the thing! Any time that there's a high stakes roll, I can use Cunning! So I am going to burn a Cunning and Intuition-- Or which one, is it Nerve? So that I can have ♪ three dice. ♪ " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Boom, six! Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you all doing? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to try to go get the amulet. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I need you to make a Move test for me to see if you can beat him to the amulet. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to try to do a Forbidden Ritual. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are the effects you hope for this ritual? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Break it cleanly and destroy where the portal is open. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What do you give and how do you change in the sacrifice this ritual requires? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Like tendriling up the walls and around until it can reach the crack in the top of it and get down in it and rip it apart. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Good girl. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In that moment of tensile freeze, you hold, and give the physical motion. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(noise of exertion) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(screeching) You roll your Move. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god, I don't have anything to give you. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh god, I feel like I want to do something different now. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can adjust, if you like. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, so I have nothing, so I do two? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "In Move? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is that Moving or Surveying, because it's to search, can I help with it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This isn't search, this is trying to beat him to it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, got you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Because you're running towards it, so roll two dice and take the lower of the two. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But you have a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Can I spend a resistance to try and roll it again, or that doesn't work? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Just roll those two again and take the lowest. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You have to roll-- Both of them have to be above four? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Can you help on a resistance roll? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sure, I'll allow it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Would you rather roll two and take the lowest, or do you want one? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(grunting) I'll just roll again, I'll roll it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "D'oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That's a fail, that's a big fat fail. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take two body marks. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Two? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Hoo! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "From your proximity to this. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Get back up and you're covered in blood on the left side of your face. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "As I get up, I take out my gun, rolling, standing up, and then I put it on Lycus. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Holding it on Lycus? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Holding it on Lycus. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "From back where I am, I'm keeping an eye open. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He doesn't give a shit. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "He's trying to get away. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's trying to get the amulet. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I shoot him from afar? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you'd like to. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I would like to. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go ahead and roll Control for me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "♪ Control ♪ Missed. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you fire, it goes wide, but also the creature has finished screeching at the detonation of the portal and reaches over and grabs you and throws you into the air. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh no, you keep getting thrown by monsters! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You get flung as a high arch and then impact hard. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "And take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, I'm out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You hear a heavy crack upon the impact. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Charlie! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(stammering) He bewilderedly pulls out a skinny little cigarette. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "What happened? Oh, what? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "May I retcon? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's pretty high stakes, roll those additional dice. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You've been flung. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Just the one additional dice, not both of them? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, just the one additional die, not the both? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You've been flung. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(sighing) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Fate is decreed. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes, it is. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Good try, good try. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I did well when I was alive! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're still alive, you're just very badly hurt. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player649", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Sorry, Dr. Margrove. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(cheering) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Get it! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I take a big swipe at it with the axe. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I need you to roll Strike for me. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take two body. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Dos" }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Two body? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Eek, spicy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "My apologies. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, he has a ghost punch. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to take a shot at Lycus. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you have more? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, I mean, I feel it cut back and forth if the fight continues, I'm still going to fight this thing, so you do you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, we'll come back around here. All right, so. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Taking a shot. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Taking a shot at Lycus? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Lycus is now currently stopped and is currently scrambling and digging through a pile of stone going, \"Where is it? Where is it? (grunts)\" " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sorry, I pointed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No, no, no, you're fine, you're fine, you're fine. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm just excited. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I know, I know, help me, help me. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can't even use this hand, I don't know why I'm pointing at it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's all right, I need excitement. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Eos ad somnia mitte." }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It glows with the blue, but there's a very apparent crack from where you shot it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yay! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you're recovering from this ritual, what are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "When I lift my hand up, instead of the void that's been there, in the hole, there's now an orange eye staring out from the hole in my hand. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(gurgling) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm taking a point away from Read, because I probably can't interpret body language quite as much anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't know whether to take it in Survey or-- I don't know where to shift it to. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sense? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I guess I can put another into Focus. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can, if you like. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So I have three in Focus and three in Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I pull my gun out from my side and try to start loading bullets into it? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes, you may. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Calmly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(growling) What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I come off that last swing, and the faces are all on its front? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hidden within the tangle of hair-like roots that form most of its body, you can see faces deep, hidden within. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Can I look for Kara's face? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Survey or Focus, your choice. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, I lost a Focus, I'm going to spend a drive and do Survey. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Four, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Two ones. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Phew! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you glance in, indeed, you do see Kara's face amongst them. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "So it's just an axe, I'm going to do a Strike, but I'm trying to do something specific. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What are you trying to do? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm trying to take that face off the monster. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Just that one face. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's my last drive on Nerve. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take another bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Ah, boy! Oh, I am in trouble, bubble. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That was from the mixed success of the Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, that's right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "This is a high stakes roll, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Come on, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Is that a six? I can't tell. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you strike the face, you watch it crumble from the body. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "When it crumbles is it still a face? Or does it like disintegrate? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does it disappear? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Does it disappear or is it a face? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe Kara got her face back when you just took it off the body. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "All right, I'm somehow happy with that, as I'm getting choked out. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can I Play The Bait? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "If you'd like to. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to stand up and (gun cocks) and try to hold my hand up to the creature and shout: At me! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are combating the will of this amulet. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm-mm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to take a shot at the amulet. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Then we'll come to you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're going to go ahead and take a shot? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As it's now (monster shifting) (monstrous growl) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ah! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Auggie? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(sighs) Come on. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Make a Control. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(gun firing) The amulet shatters in his hand, as well as two of his fingers are now gone. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Ugh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It is now lumbering towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Not that it matters. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(gun firing) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Guns don't work against this creature. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(roots entangling) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "This is going to take me out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you take a scar from the bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I take a scar. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Her face, a barren, flat " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- appearance of skin. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You better kill him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(eldritch growling) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm out, too! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Set him on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm on it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(heavy running) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Maybe. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Goes running towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Auggie, what are you going to do? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughs) Oh, fuck! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Tick, tick, tick, tick. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm seeing if there's something here that I didn't see before. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Goddamn it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Where's Lycus? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "He's starting to move away, curling around to where the creature's lumbering towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How far away is Auggie from me? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So, he's about 15, 20 feet. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Don't get caught. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to say: Auggie! I'm going to try to throw my axe out to her. To him. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I'll just let you catch it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it still on fire? " }, { "Role": "Player659", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Catch it on fire! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right, all right, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(deeply) Cut her face off. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Cut my face off? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to take a swing at it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I don't know what the fuck to do. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Roll for Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(whispers) Tell her. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Roll for Strike? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(laughs) Oh no, I have nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You don't have any Strike? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe you can assist? Nope. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm out of drive. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "It's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Aim for Arlo's face! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Come on, big money! Two sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "A six and a one. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "But I thought you had-- Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's disadvantage. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(murmuring) You sure it wasn't Control? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take a body and a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "My body's full. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Uh oh! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Howard, save us! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So I'm out? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Set it on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Howard, I have-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, this is-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Take my original knife. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You already had three? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I already had three. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Is it the third? You take a scar-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "This is my fourth! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. It's attuned to you. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Is that the only way? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, it has to stay attuned to you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Set it on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to bare hand it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Set it on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "With what? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They have lanterns glowing. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "After a moment, they withdraw and it gently places Auggie on the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That's nice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are there? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can't I just wake up? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are there lanterns in here? There's lanterns in here. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can I burn a drive to wake up? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Aren't there? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Because there was fire-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're mostly fighting in the dark right now because you've destroyed the portal. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Do you have your lighter still? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Where are you? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm out. I got thrown against the wall, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You are literally the only one that's still up! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "The last man? No! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "You're the last man! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You're literally the only man who can save us. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "You have to save us! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I have nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Can you get my-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are we TPK right now? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Do you have a gun? You have my gun? Can you get the axe? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You have the axe. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Lycus is running off into the shadow. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Run. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And the amulet that controls the monster is-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is broken. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Shattered. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "It's shattered? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What was the chemical-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Wasn't there a chemical that you made? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Did they seem like they-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There was still a heartbeat. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are you running away? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Run away. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Run away. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm one hit-- Oh no! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "You can still come back and save us. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(groans anxiously) (screams) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Go. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(stressed groans) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Go, Howard! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I run directly at the beast empty handed and I am going to run-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "What are you going to do? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Howard's no coward! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Then we're all going to die! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to run-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "No! You're going to kill yourself! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I've got a couple of hits left. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Where the circle goes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The only light you have is the direction where it's facing, the orange glow that's throughout the chamber now that the portal has been-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Can you jump on its back because you see that-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "-- flailing. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- the light is facing another direction or something? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to strike at it and tear it at with my bare hands. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Try to pull the faces off of it? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you're rushing towards it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You are searching for a specific-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Just-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What face are you looking for? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, the truth? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Arlo's. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I can't do it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I get it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you now leap onto it, full on (latching) grabbing onto the heavy roots. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can feel it reacts to the impact. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, baby! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Indeed, over by where it would be the right shoulder of where it is, you climb up and then one of the arms tries to reach for you and you duck beneath and tear up and pull in and you see Arlo's face peeking out. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Just ball up that old farm boy fist and try to smush it through this body-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "-- and reach for Arlo's face and tear it out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Roll for Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, here goes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh god! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Come on, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A five and a four. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(gross heartbeat) You take a body and a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Goodnight, Irene. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh, no! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I only got three bodies but I'm out on the bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "As you fall to the ground, unmoving and without a face. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You're scared. You don't know what happened. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm laying on my back? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "My hands are moving on the ground? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, you feel the ground. You feel the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I am going to-- Draw Rituals, and shove my hand onto the ground again, and I'm going to try to change the environment and fill the entire room with light. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Whoa! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Fuck, yes! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(screams) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Love it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You take another scar. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Yes, I do. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What sort of light do you fill this with? Where does it come from? What intensity is this? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "They're back. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Are the sconces there? Are the flames there that would've been there in the past physically? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You see, as they glow in the light, they're mostly massive stained glass orbs that are lit from within, brazers and torches that give the light from the inside. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to reach out and grab one and as the creature's flailing against the wall, I'm going to throw the flame at the creature directly. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So the sconces, they're hanging quite a bit up in the air. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There is one above it where it currently is situated. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, in that case, I'm going to take the gun that I loaded, and aim up and try to shoot the thing connecting it to where it falls down onto the creature. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "There is a heavily rusted chain that holds it aloft. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I would like you to roll for Control. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "To aim for its weakest point. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I hear laughter from outside. " }, { "Role": "Player646", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I failed. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You fail. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(squeakily) No resistance? No special skills. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I have nothing. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(fires) It goes wide. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "So it's hard to fucking tell what I'm doing. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "They'll adjust. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Dust tends to fall a little bit, as the flames are still burning. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(angry growl) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "The creature is still shrinking, but it's starting to gain its strength, as the lights are beginning to lessen. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is it against the wall like that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's against the wall, nowhere to run, scratching and pulling away. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How many more bullets you got? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I mean, I've used two so far, so I can try again. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can try again, but each one of these failures is going to come with another-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(intense taps) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Come on, do the dice. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Another mark. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do the magic. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "When you take a scar, they go away. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(gleefully) Oh, really? " }, { "Role": "Player838", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Did you See This Coming, Auggie? Did you See This Coming? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) Auggie can't see anything right now. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, I got a five! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got a five. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "\"(stuttering groans)\" " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Love you. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Your face returns. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Hello? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, I-- (clears throat) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "What's--? Did we win? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I think so? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(painfully) Oh. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All you pick up are your voices here in endless shadow. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Does anybody have a lighter? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Charlie? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(pained) Uh, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'd have to look around for it, and I start pawing through the dark, looking for my lighter. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Arlo, you're speaking, does that mean you have a face again? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Is that because of you? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "My recollection is a bit foggy. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm looking around to see if I had his lighter, because I don't think-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I think you did, didn't you? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I'm trying-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I think I got it back when I sparked my thing. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Do I find my-- may I search for my lighter? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It takes you a little bit because right now you have time, and you can decide how long it takes, but you do eventually find it amongst the rubble. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(clicks) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(zooms) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "How are you, Charlie, are you feeling all right? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What, what happened? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I don't know where Lycus went, but the Snatcher is gone. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "You defeated the beast single-handedly. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) Not single-handedly, but I-- yes, he is gone. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And the portal? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should find the amulet, bring it back to Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hey, I believe it was destroyed, was it not? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Completely? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, I can go check it out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We should probably bring the remnants of it back. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, I'll try to look. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "What happens, pieces-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You find a couple of shards of it-- " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But the majority of it has been scattered amongst the rest of the stone around. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to pull out a little journal. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm going to write, \"Lycus.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "How much can we see? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Well, nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah, just the light, because I have-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "All you have is the lighter. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Four feet, maybe. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We have to use the lighter to get us out of-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right, so. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I kind of remember, can I try to retrace our steps, sort of feeling around, trying to remember? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I can certainly-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We have the map still. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'll, maybe we can rip one of my sleeves off, and make a torch out of it again, and then head up and out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "to the welcome, if chilly, night air of Newfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'm not one to imbibe, but I believe I could use a drink. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Same. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Should we go to The Sight Unseen? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Sure, I suppose I could call the doctor there as well. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "We do need to inform Alexandra. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She can wait. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think Stinson can help with that as well. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Howard, what is that around you? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Around me? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Something blue. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh, blue? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Let's go, let's go, let's have a drink. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "And shall we? Again. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I think that's a good place to end this. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh man! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yo! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Woof. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "No joke, I thought I was going to end that shit in a really, I mean, I was, oh man! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Yeah, I was like, \"Oh, this is a TPK.\" " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "This is what TPKs are! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I've never had a TPK! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I was one bleed away! " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "A first time for everything! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "God. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Holy moly. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Scary, scary. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "My boy, my boy. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I know, I've got a scar there, now I've got a scar! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hey, you have your first scar? " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I've got my first scar. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Auggie, what's your scar? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I have one, too. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "So when the obsidian sort of exploded, the rock, half of his face, you know, that sort of took the brunt of the obsidian shrapnel. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "And he cannot see out of his left eye anymore. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Because I probably wouldn't be able to shoot, and drive as well. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It's up to you. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Then I place it somewhere else? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Yeah, wherever else you choose. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "(tapping) I'm going to put it in Sense. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Because-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You can take things to a three, too, if you like. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "I'm going to put it in Read is what I'm going to do. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh, that's cool. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "So you got a three in Read now. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Charlie, how does your scar operate? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I think when she got flung against the wall " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) That was some rough luck, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She's like a ragdoll. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I know. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(whistles) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "So I'm going to take one away from Focus. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Now she just, now that she knows what bleed manifests as in herself, she knows how to harness it. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Arlo, we've gone through your scars. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm-hmm. I didn't change my last stat. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Oh, okay, what would you like to change? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm going to take, yes, it sucks because it's gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I would lose all of my dice in that, so how would that work if I did that? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "It would mean you'd roll two, and take the lowest if the lowest is gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But you can also move it from other statistics as well. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, I will take one out of Control. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And I feel like I can put it in Survey since she has a sight into another vibe now, maybe it'll help her see things-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I dig that. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "-- in a new way. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Hey, how many scars you got? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I've got three scars. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "One more and you're-- " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "One more and I'm a Lightkeeper, or I'm out. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "A Lightkeeper or out. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I'm out? " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, you're either retired or dead. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "But retire means Lightkeeper? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Can she be keeper? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "I can be a Lightkeeper. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, within Candela, that means you can no longer adventure as an investigator, and become a Lightkeeper, more likely than not. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Okay, well, that'll be fun. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) We've already done all of your scars, right? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Maybe I'll get to tell all of you what to do. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Well, not the bleed, I don't-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "How does this come to operate within you, Dr. Margrove? " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He has this literal blue scar that now just leaks sometimes. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And he has to wipe it away. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "That is heinous. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He is just a leaky boy. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "He's just a leaky boy. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Our beefy boy is our leaky boy. " }, { "Role": "Player649", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "Writing out next semester's syllabus for him. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "I'll add another Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "And I'll take away a Survey. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "He's slowly going from the logical to the weird. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I love it. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "The weird. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "I-- yeah, that's true. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Well, I guess-- " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "We adventure slowly? " }, { "Role": "Player653", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "(groaning) " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "And Dorna woke up, too. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, I was just going to, Dorna. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She didn't get roasted in the fire? " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "She got roasted in the fire. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She did, right? " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "She did get roasted in the fire. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "She did get roasted-- " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "You have no confirmation. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "We don't know. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But it's likely. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Bad news, the rest of it. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Roasted, yeah. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "But yeah, nevertheless. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That was so fun! " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "That was so fun! " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "That was really fun. " }, { "Role": "Player641", "Content": "That was really fun. " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "We did the accelerated lumination track, I don't think we really need to do it for this since it's the end of this three-point story. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Thank you so much for coming along with this. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Thank you! " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "I have been your humble game master, Matthew Mercer. " }, { "Role": "Player7", "Content": "Woo! (clapping) " }, { "Role": "DM", "Content": "Thank you so much for joining us, and is it Thursday yet? Good night. " }, { "Role": "Player37", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player833", "Content": "Yay! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(melodic string music) (melodic string music) (melodic string music) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(tense mysterious music) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's just a coat. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Stressed already? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The creature reaches into-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs nervously) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's when we see a crack of light in the doorway. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(gasps) Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's an eye looking into the room. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He drops the bear and runs. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, smart kid. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's where we're going to cut to all of you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That it was. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Just a little thoracic surgery. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my gosh, right? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's capitalism. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He has a very-- What's that, pencil thin mustache? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see that he is on top of the train, about four cars back from the engine car. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What kind of fucked Tom Cruise shit is this? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Who is it? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Me! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Secret robber hands. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just stepping in first. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sean, do you want to describe for us what you look like here as you are on the back of the train as well? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I got a coat. I think the second I heard the first crack, I jumped in between two cars, grabbed onto the ladder and I'm reaching for a piece in my jacket to come up over the top and get this guy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do we assume or do I know that he's a soldier? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Assume that he's a-- You would make the assumption, given his outfit, that he is a scientist. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Then I think this guy, firing from prone on top of a moving train is not going to be able to hit the side of a barn and I'm going to let him fire wildly in reverse while I steady my shot. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will set the expectations here for this, that this is one, a high stakes roll and two, on a mixed success or a miss here, you will take some body marks from getting shot. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So a six would help me not get shot, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Crap. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I know the rules! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A mixed success would not be as bad as a miss here, but you are just letting him shoot at you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to spend a Nerve-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "\"When you want to make a ranged attack with a weapon, you may spend one Nerve to steady your aim before shooting and add plus two dice to your next shot at this target.\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So are you just popping up and shooting at him while he's shooting at you? Is that kind of the thought? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm in between two cars. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to put just my eyes-- I'm giving him just the top of my head to aim at on a moving train, arm over the side, steadied on the ground, and I'm going to take my shot at him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, so you're making a Control roll here. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll go ahead, actually, and throw another drive on there for an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Everybody's dead. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a mixed success. That's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Your gun is completely out of use now. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can take a body mark for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "However, I see it coming. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So right under Sean-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I close my eyes and as soon as I have this premonition of what you just described flashing through my mind, you feel a tug behind you and you hear me say: Drop the gun! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I unthinkingly drop the gun and toss it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'll try to catch it with my vest, I'll catch it to protect myself from the heat a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "When an ally is about to take one or more marks, I burn an Intuition resistance to warn them about the coming danger, and then I soak-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So cool. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- one of these marks. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What happens here? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato! Here, here, here! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to kick the door to the train car in to move through the train towards the car that that guy's on. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We're going to cut away from that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Who do we want that to be? Who is that? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Unless, you know! (laughs) Oh, no, I'll-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's me! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Will you describe your character for me? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And is instead looking up and trying to wonder how he got in this situation and why he didn't bring a gun as well. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) Yeah, as you stare up at these two, you hear one of them yell, \"Hey, what are you doing here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is this not the dining car? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They say, \"Get on the ground!\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Now, you don't need to mark it because this was given to you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Beatrix. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She looks a little disoriented and, oh my goodness, is this not? Is this not the express to the Red Lamp? I, I just had-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) I fear I may have gotten on the wrong train. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) As you say that, we see that you're patting your hands down and Violet grabs your shoulder and then slaps you across the face. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ah! Did you just smack an old woman? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Will you describe yourself for us? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Surely, Dr. Boucher, there is another way. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"So, you first?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So to clarify. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "In front of me are kneeling Ms. Monroe and Dr. Avery Choi. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) Dr. Boucher wants me to shoot them. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Violet, Dr. Boucher, is holding the gun at Avery. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I also have a gun. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And you have the gun. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) Is there a way I can turn the gun on Dr. Boucher? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As she waits for a moment, watching you nervously hold the gun-- Do you whip it over? Do you slowly move it? What's the play here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I think perhaps we have talked about if a situation like this were to occur. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, we-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Some sort of distraction. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Which is one of my abilities. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So three times per assignment, you may add a dice to your roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So, Beatrix just takes the easy way and almost looks like she's going to go to run, but in this process knocks Violet, shoulder checks her out of the way. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're not taking the shot. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, I take that opportunity when I see Violet slightly knocked off course to whip the gun on her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She whips the gun back onto you, and now you're holding-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- guns at one another. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I am a doctor and I am very skilled about what part of my body can be injured without-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you're saying this, she pulls the trigger. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player941", "Content": "(gasp) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I turn away from my heart-- " }, { "Role": "Player941", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- so that the gun strikes me in my right shoulder. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. So you're going to make a Move roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will say, in the very least you're going to take a body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Could take more. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And add a dice-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Add a dice. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- from where we Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Try to get skinny. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A critical success you will not take any damage. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's your-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's my-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And it's called that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm also going to burn a Nerve drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) It's okay, those gloves are-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Six? " }, { "Role": "Player67", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You feel (air whooshing) across your shoulder. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She cries out, grabs Avery, and holds Avery as a shield in front of her. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "May I-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Look around, do a Survey check of this car. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "A lot of times these old cabooses-- And this isn't the car with the goods. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is an empty train car-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Because I'm standing by the gate in between and normally there's a lever that can detach the cars. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(chuckles) Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I look and see if I see anything like this? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going out the back of the car or the front of the car? You're going towards the engine or away from the engine? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Towards the-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can't just pull the lever and do it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But that doesn't mean that you couldn't try and force it, if you want to. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Uh-- Sure, I'm going to try and do it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Holy shit! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you're trying to detach the car? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're literally on the fucking train. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Time to go. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hanging onto the side. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can we say that maybe I have like a little bit of a tiny little dagger, or a blade, or something? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes, you should have a hand weapon on there as an option. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll take a hand weapon that I try to use to help lever. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, that's the plan? Okay, what are you using? Do you have a dagger? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, I have a little blade or something like that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a Control? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I would give you one of the two. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll do Control. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay, and I just have one in it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You could spend Nerve, if you'd like to add more. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This feels important. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're busy. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Could I assist you? How would I assist you? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you could. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, I would have to do it with a Nerve drive? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A Nerve drive. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm sorry! You can do this, Miss Monroe. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right, I'll take a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you standing on the car that's being separated or are you standing on the car that is-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I want to stay on the car that is detached and try and get Jeanie to do a little train jump. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you're staying on the car that Jean is on? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, I want to get on the one that's going to keep going and I want this one that they're on to go away. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "How do you do this? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm trying to reach and I'm a little bit torn to try and reach for Jean at the same time as I'm trying to go and use what little strength of my 55-year-old self I have left to yank it and hopefully hope this fucking harebrained idea works. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's getting wider and wider and wider every moment that you are not keeping it together. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Jean is more spry than I, so I'm going to take my opportunity. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Before it gets too crazy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So are you jumping back? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm staying on the one that's still going. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The gap is widening with every moment. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I sprint past Violet and Avery and my final words as I leap to the other car: Consider this my resignation! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Ho, ho, ho! So good. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Things won't go that bad, but just setting the expectations that this is very dangerous what you're about to do. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Believe that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So it's one die? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Four, mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I make the leap to the other car. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Avery tumbles over the threshold and disappears out the door as you leap across. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I try to grab her with what little bit I have to steady her balance. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Do you want to give us your description? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What you see is a man, Marion Collodi, about 5'9\", so he is, you know, the tall end of short or the short end of average. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He's focused on what's happening around him, but he's also focused on another layer of what's happening around him that the naked eye cannot see. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Sean, there's trouble in the back. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The guy we're chasing, is he moving to the front of the train or the back? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Towards the, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Did you say trouble in the back? I'm going to go-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's trouble in the front. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to say: You need to go get Auntie Bee and Jean? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to start to run through the train. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you're sprinting towards-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do I happen to know where Nathaniel is in the train? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So Nathaniel would be behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So everyone's behind me and I'm running forward. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're like four cars from the front, which is where all the passenger trains are. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, cool. I'm going to start to, that guy is, did I see that guy really hoofing it on the roof or was he struggling to make progress? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, it's hard up on the roof. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to move my gun around in my jacket and walk politely nodding to people through the passenger car. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "As they hear (heavy impacts). " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But the best defense is not opening your fucking mouth in the first place. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Hide roll for me as you do this, because there are people onboard that are, you know potentially people onboard here that are EONS members as well, that are looking out for people that they are not with. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a three. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Nobody seems to bother you here as you move to the next car, but as soon as those doors close, you take a look back and see one person get up from their seat and move towards the doors behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, so they're in the car I just left. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They are. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Is there anything physically that's like a bar out here? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But make a Survey roll for me, because that's to give a more thorough look at what's around. Maybe there's something underneath the carriage of the train or something. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "A three. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There does not appear to be anything around here and you notice the person getting closer and closer to you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to lean back as I see them approaching me and I'm going to light a cigarette to look like I'm just smoking out here in between cars. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We cut away from them, over to you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Ha! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you are not, then I would like to know. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "As I am doing that, can I survey the room real quick and see like, " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you're looking around in a hurry to do this, so. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They are being held by metal clamps so that in the vertical descent of the train where the liquid-- Actually, at this point, the liquid is pushing up against sort of like this, right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that's happening, they're being held in place by a metal device that has a-- What's that thing called? That steady cams use? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Gyro? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Both of them are not within an arm's reach, but you could make a sprint to grab one. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "They can't both reach me with the same amount of speed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "As I pulled out the notepad, there is a pair of brass knuckles that's underneath the notepad. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh shit! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll loop it, try to-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Incredible! I'll try and fling it towards the one that's closest to me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, I'm going to say this is either a Strike or Control roll here to do this. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "God, both of those suck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm sorry. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, a three! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you a scientist? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I am not. " }, { "Role": "Player942", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But now that you've wrapped the brass knuckles around the super hot glass, you realize those knuckles conduct heat. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player943", "Content": "(gasp) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and take a body mark for me as this happens. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You go to fling it and the vial goes-- Because of the burn, the vial goes wide left. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It starts to eat away corrosively at the metal of the train car. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That would have worked so well. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So I'm actually going to keep my arms up in front of me and try and wait until one of them does move forward, knowing that I will get cut and try and use leverage to swing them into the other to try and make use of the momentum in the car. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to use here to do that? That sounds like there's a couple of things that might work. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are we looking at? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is one of the other more aggressive than the other one is? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The other one looks as though they are answering to the first one. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Then I'm going to try and use that motion to bring him around into the other one, if I can. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Is that okay? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will say you will take some body marks here for this. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I entered a knife fight with no knife. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to burn two drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So I'm setting those, depending what the roll is-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Where the fuck is Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to get what you want, but describe for me how the blade makes its way into your side so successfully. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But the natural instinct to trap the arm is also made by the need to protect all of the organs inside of that ribcage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So I trap the arm and I will turn with everything that I have and try and whip him around into the guy behind him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and take a body and a bleed for me, because the stress of this situation is so much. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm coloring in a lot of slots, you guys. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll be there soon! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then letting go of the arm, they fall into one another, giving you an opportunity here to break free. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm actually going to follow on the guy that I threw him and try and keep that arm with the electric dagger and try and put it into one or two of either of them. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that. What are we using here to do that? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm just going to roll for it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, what action are you taking? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I do-- I'm going to do a Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You run over, grab the dagger. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ugh! It's a two. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You grab the dagger. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, when the GM has to pause. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me what you're trying to do so we get the visual of how this might work. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "They've slammed into each other and I imagine either the dagger is still in his hand or it's hanging from that electrode wire under his arm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But it seems like probably grabbing a swinging dagger from a hanging electrical wire is going to be tricky in a moving train car. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You grab the dagger, but you grab the wrong end. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(sharply inhales) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What does bleed feel like for you? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It almost burns, but the pervasive travel of that numb feeling as it moves up towards my shoulders is almost as if you've lost blood flow to an area, as if it's on pins and needles. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Your arms, my arms feel heavy, and luckily, there is a little bit of redness from the knife, and if I can, I'm going to try and flick my fingers to get anything I can in their eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to turn and run! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "My arms are just like-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You did wonderfully, dear. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I-- I-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And you still look fabulous. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Well thank you, Ms. Monroe, but I-- I promised I would do no harm, and I let Dr. Choi die. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come on, let's try and catch up with the boys. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "These are simply holding supplies that are coming down from the Bridleborne Mountains. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Before we move into the next car-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I look forward and see, just keep wanting to scout ahead of us and make sure we're not walking into a shitstorm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Four on the gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It doesn't appear as though there's anything nefarious in the train car ahead of you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Before-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That was a five? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It was a four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sorry, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Before we move forward, could I take a moment to see if I can Survey, Focus on these chickens? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "See if there's anything to be gained from their beady eyes? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Actually, may I have you roll-- Yeah, you can roll, Survey would be looking at a general place. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "These are chickens! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you want to Focus on them, that's probably what it is. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Those are two sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, it's two sixes! I thought it was a one! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The chickens are holding guns! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They're under my command now! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(clucking) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Good on me! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Bawk bawk, motherfucker. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What do you want to know here about this? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I want to know why-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Are they delicious? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I worked for EONS recently, and I want to know, why are there chickens on board? This was not part of the item list. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you come down to inspect them, you notice that there is, the waddle that's down below their chin, they have waddles, right? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Roosters do. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Roosters? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "These" }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Something's not quite right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Perhaps it's related to-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can they be used as a weapon? Distraction? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see you dragging a crate of chickens behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This is not video game rules where it's a crate of chickens and it goes, boop! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It just disappears into your inventory. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "In your inventory. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "In my skirt. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see you pulling this crate of chickens forward. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "With my shoulder that's not-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh yeah, with your other shoulder. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Did I take a body, by the way? Or I missed it enough, the gunshot? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh yeah, you would've taken a body. Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm glad I asked. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, so I'm hoping that I was actually close enough to their car to hear the gunshot that got my attention, because I'm worried about them. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Seeing Sean go ahead, I'm going back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One guy, a large man, gets tossed into another man, and they hit the wall of the train car and collapse, and then you hear commotion from in there, the scene that we just described. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "If I see " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So cool. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I guess it's more like (unfurling) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(unfurling) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm moving in, because if I see you messed up, then I'm coming in for backup. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you move into the train car, what does Marion see here as they enter? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "My eyes are telling the story. I'm like: (shouts) Help! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm rushing in and I'm clobbering the guy that's nearest him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. Two of them are on the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I fight dirty! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The other one is coming to their feet and has dropped it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The one then that's recovering? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Pop! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Strike roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "High stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me what this looks like as you hit him with this baton. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So as soon as I see the look in Nathaniel's eyes and I track everything that's happening, the sort of training from being a soldier in the war kicks in, and I've already retracted the baton, and I swoop in and use the momentum of my run and basically backhand this guy, pop, in the direction that he's getting up, hopefully to spin him away from the other two figures that are on the ground, Nathaniel being one of them. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, you finish that upstroke on him, and then you feel a searing pain with that five? Four? Four. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It was a four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and take a body and a brain here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That gets sympathy pain. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(painful scream) I thought you took one of them out! They're both still up? " }, { "Role": "Player944", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No, no! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Now that Marion has run past me, do I see anyone else coming? Do I see Sean? Do I see-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can see through the train cars, when the doors open, you can see Sean moving through the passenger cars, but disappeared very quickly as the doors closed. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "From where we are, do we know that if we're in the middle of the cars and Sean is further up north-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sean is further up towards the engine. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Then-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then back behind you is where these two are. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to grab Marion and say: We should try and-- We should try and regroup! Let's meet up with Sean! At least we'll have numbers, then! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How close are these two guys? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "These guys are about two cars back. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No, no, I mean the guys, you said that I was made and that people are coming. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's coming towards the train car where the doors would open. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Are the doors sliding doors? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So you need to open them all the way to be able to walk through. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to give myself another piece of equipment. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to handcuff the handle to one of the chains on the outside of the car. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So that you can't open the door. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So lock it, and I'm going to look at the guy who's walking towards me and go: Hey, fuck you! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He grabs the door and tries to pull it, and it is locked, and his hand immediately pulls out, his other hand pulls out of his lapel and he grabs the back end of a gun and starts to try and break the glass that is separating. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm up the ladder, after the scientist. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to say: Hey! Be reasonable! " }, { "Role": "Player945", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You're crawling on a moving train! Have some self respect! We gotcha! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I am going to-- He's holding this thing over the side of the train. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I am going to attempt to shoot the gun out of his hand. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, okay, so what I will say is that on a mixed success, this thing will go rolling. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It will not immediately fall off, but it will put it in danger of being lost. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I would love to come to these woods some other night when I'm not being shot at and look for that fucking thing. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sounds great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This piece of his super science-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- I'm going to assume that he likes a lot more than I do, so, you know, it's like-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, the assignment from Candela was to get it, but it's like, at what cost, right? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, buddy, I hate to tell you, they're not going to give that thing to me when we bring it back, so priority more for you than me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let's go one. I'll burn one for Sharpshooter. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Then I'll burn two more for four, so I'm going to be rolling with six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Damn, that's the most you can roll with. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The most I can roll with. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're up there. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sorry, it's just, yeah, I only have to burn that many to get six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right, because of Sharpshooter. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to shoot the gun out of his hand and be ready for a dead sprint afterwards. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, so good. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a five, and what I'm going to do here is I'm actually going to spend a resistance-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No sixes, that's a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's okay, that's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's at the engine car. You're one train car behind it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does that mean that we-- Do the rest of us feel a jolt? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's so subtle when these train cars separate that you definitely can't tell immediately, but if someone were to look out the front window, you'd see the steam engine of the train moving further away from the actual train itself. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What would you say our speed is? 12 trees a second? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're almost on a complete-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We are on a descent, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's very bad. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So we're still going fast because of gravity. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're still going very fast. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Away from the brakes, currently. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Everybody's got to make it hard! I'm going to start running, and I'm going to run and leap onto the engine. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "As fast as I can. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sounds like a Move roll for me. Make that roll. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. (laughs) We're-- We're going to burn all the rest of the Nerve drive down to the bone. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "First hour, down to the bone. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, that's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me how you get this thing from him. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "He's in the engine. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He is. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "As the cars start to move apart, you hear (thumping) whoosh! Leap, and I grab the lintel of the roof and double foot kick him in the chest through the engine car. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He goes flying backwards. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The thing spins up in the air and I catch it midair. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So good. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's cool. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right, and I'm going to grab the thing, and I'm going to go stand over his prostrate body. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, he's like, \"Oh god! Oh!\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to stomp on his head and knock him unconscious. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As we see the foot come down onto his head, we cut back to the two of you, I think. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Was that on your gilded die that you got the six? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, it was. " }, { "Role": "Player946", "Content": "You get that drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Thanks, Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm just looking out for you, Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Will you describe what we did so that people know? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So I rolled all these dice, my gilded die, because my Strike is gilded, on that die, I replenish one of my Nerve drive, which means all these resources I'm burning, a little bit come back to me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Little bit come back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are we doing here? We're dragging a chicken crate? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Dragging a crate of chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Crate of chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How far away-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Where are these damn boys? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah, are the boys anywhere up ahead within earshot? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So I think that, at this point, the two of you, have you left the train car yet? No. You're still in-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We are in process of-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Of leaving. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Following through with whatever that moment was. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We were going to go catch up with Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go catch up with Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What the four of you want to do? Because now you're all in the same scene with the two security officers still in this train car with you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Is the one that I clobbered, is he out? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's down. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So he took some pain, but it wasn't-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Are both of them down, or is it just the one? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So one of them is down, the other one was the one-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I get it now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- was that stabbed you in the leg. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah! (grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So we're walking into a situation. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're walking into a situation. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "With a crate of chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Fantastic! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This is going great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, we look across the car and we see a crate of chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Huh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What?! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You don't look good, Mr. Trapp. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So now we're all in the car together? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're literally on opposite sides. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're literally on opposite sides of the car and between you two are the two security. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Where's the shock knife stick thing that the other one had? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Still on the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He's right there. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I want that weapon now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you pull on it, you notice the line, what's it called, the wire, is attached to the man that you clobbered. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Strike roll for me against the guy who's got one dug into your calf. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm burning a Nerve drive because this is very scary! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So describe for me how you-- Well, actually, here's what happens. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You lunge forward with the knife. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You go to stab and get pulled back by the wire. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Because the cord is still attached-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, it dis-attaches so it's no longer electrified, but the knife sinks into the man. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's good enough for me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see the-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Help! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- three of you. What do we do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I see you boys have been making some friends. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(strained) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Like we do. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Some better than others. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What can we do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll run up as well and I think we'll try and give some jaw kicks to the gents that are down. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Make sure they're out. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We really should try and catch up with Mr. Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm actually-- With that, I'm going to try and poke my head ut of the train window. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "See if I can see any sign of what the hell is going on. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you see the steam engine pulling ahead of the rest of the train. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I have a feeling I know where Sean is. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Where? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "There he goes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Shit! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Can I see-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let me see that real quick. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Do you want to pass that? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We'll pass it down. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ooh! Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If you're seeing me from far away, it's just me in the back of the engine going-- " }, { "Role": "Player944", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It looks like it got the thingy, though. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The engine not only controls the acceleration of the train, but also in charge of the braking. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's how we stop. That is correct. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We should probably think about getting off. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Would these chickens be of any service? I hold up the crate. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh man! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "How do you mean? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "They possess magick in some of-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You found magick chickens? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The guy's unconscious, I've got this thing, and I'm looking and I'm like-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a-- What's it called? A driver of the train? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, engineer! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's an engineer, and he's like, \"The fuck is going on here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If I knew-- Listen. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You should slow this train down because we've just come undone from the whole rest of the train. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Oh shit!\" he says, and grabs the brake and starts to-- " }, { "Role": "Player947", "Content": "Oh, oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, you see that they're starting to come back together here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Boys, I have a feeling we should brace for impact. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh-oh! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to look at the guy and say: All right, I'm going to tell you when they're about to touch, okay? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I assume I just put the bolt back in through holes? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He goes, \"I don't do that part!\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What do you mean, you don't do that part? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I don't do that part!\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well, I do all the other parts either! I have some awareness! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I leap out of the train car and look in between the cars and see if there's any sort of emergency brake or anything that could be pulled? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you doing this from the train car that you're in? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, there's not. Not here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Cool! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But what you do see is the other train cars starting to slow, the steam engine starting to slow down. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We can work with that! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "People are starting to realize that there is shit going on here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Going down. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So looking down at these guys that I just stabbed and clobbered, I follow that same instinct and follow you back to the front of the train, but still looking back because I don't trust these two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you guys are running towards the front of the train? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm basically right on his heels, trying to figure out what to do about this next thing with these trains. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are we collectively doing this? So are we all moving towards the front of the train? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I think we would be trying to move towards the front of the train, at least if a re-attachment moment happens, and also scanning outside to see if there are any, you know, hay bales or creeks or rivers that we might be going over, just in case we need to ditch. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that! Yeah, go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm looking at the crate of chickens that I've inexplicably brought with me this far and I'm wondering, are there wooden or metal dowels on the cage that-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, for sure! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "--potentially could be. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What if we were to take one of these metal dowels, and I pry it and pull it-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- and use this to fasten, now that we've slowed down a fair amount? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's an excellent idea! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I move to do so. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Who wants to lead that action? Sounds like you were-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I was moving forward. Yeah " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What kind of roll is this going to be? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're in a passenger-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "A Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're in a passenger car as well? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you're in the EONS technology car right now, but you're going to be moving through the passenger cars to do this. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Everything is fine! (whispering) We're lying. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh-huh. I'm running. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I start to run and then take the cue and I calm myself down, sort of, and really, really, with urgency, move as fast as possible-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- towards the front. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So we're going to make that Move roll here to get to the front. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Anybody who wants to spend drive can, but you don't need to. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I don't have any drive. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Move. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's going to be very effective. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do we want to use one of these? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you guys have Stamina Training. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes! Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes, we do. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you have three gilded die at the beginning of every assignment that you can use. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "My Move is already gilded, so I can roll with two gilded because of that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes. Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "All right. Come on! Six on the gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Six on the gilded! So go ahead and take that Nerve back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Then this goes away-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That goes away for good. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just for the assignment. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "From there, we pull out of the train and we pan over to the city of Newfaire where the train is headed. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I was going to say-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, please. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I look at you and say: That's some quick thinking, doc, way to go! Hey, did you pass a guy trying to break through a handcuff on the way here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Did we? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, it was a broken window that we saw. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to whip my gun up and shoot straight up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah! You hear (grunts) and then a guy falls over. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Amazing! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Should've known that broken window was suspicious! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I mean he's dead now, but he was smart. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We get a shot wide of the train as a man falls off the top and the train continues into-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What are the pass- engers doing at this point? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It was kept calm and we're pulling out to the city and that's where we're going to cut into your home base in Hallowharbor. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I, real quick, before we go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. Please. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Auntie Bee wants to move through the passenger car and say: Surprise! That was a surprise performance from the Red Lamp Renegades. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sparse clapping) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's some claps. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Tips for the performance. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Sway roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Five! Yeah! It's a mixed success! You get a couple of pieces into your hat. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It goes to support an old lady. " }, { "Role": "Player944", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do we think this looks like? What does the chapter house, what's the exterior of the chapter house here look like? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "At Marion's insistence, we actually had a little half window, a little half dome of stained glass put in above the of the doorway of his favorite flower. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It is! It is a midnight-- No, a starry night petunia, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(awed) Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So good. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A burgundy starry night petunia! So it's actually got red and these white spots that look like stars. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Interesting,\" he says. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I'll say. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Do we know what it is?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No, I don't know what it is, but I named the little guy Johnny. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Johnny?\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is it moving in there? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What is it? All right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's like a purple little worm thing. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If I may, Johnny looks like something I may have seen before. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's a creature known as androphage. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Androphage? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Androphage. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Used possibly in an individual to induce a state of euphoria. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Euphoria? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Temporary euphoria. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Before, of course, the creature takes over their entire body and bloats them to death. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So it's like a parasite? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "In a sense. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But it gives you euphoria before it kills you? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "EONS would often use it as an anesthesia of sorts. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Why would you need that? What's that? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's less deadly. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm sorry, I'm a little-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A little less deadly than the thing that kills you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, it's less deadly. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. Sorry " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I don't think I've seen a purple one before. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How many people know about a thing like this? I mean, how common are these things? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'd say it's for those seeking more of an experience. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I feel like the least a guy could do is buy you dinner first, right? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Recreational androphage. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Draven reaches out his hand. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Here you go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Pass it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So the device, that's like a little cage or a prison or something like that? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes! He shows the the device and he clicks it and the thing pops down. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's to contain it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What do you think they were going to use with that? I mean, it seems-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'd never seen one, but--\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "They tend to grow in size inside the human host once they begin eating. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "How big? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How tall are you, Mr. Trapp? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's a tall androphage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is where you know they often keep items like this for safe keeping until they're transported back. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Are we going to tell him about the chickens? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Wait, chickens? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The chickens that she-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What happened with the chickens? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I go over and grab a chair and sit back, cross my legs. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We got to patch you up. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No, I'm fine. I'm fine. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Are we going to tell him about-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We will patch you up. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Tell him about Avery? Feels like we should, right? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, probably, right? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Avery's been loyal. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "There was one noted casualty in the mission. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We don't know that she's dead. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There should be a search and rescue, at least. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Sorry, but you couldn't have. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It might be worth confirming the fatality. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It was Avery, Avery Troy. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Dr. Avery Choi. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I know you two were close.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Jean says nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I know that this was an assignment that was not as easily accomplished as it could've been, but (sighs) we have a situation that I think requires you as part of it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Draven, with all due respect, you know we're always happy to volunteer our services-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We're pretty banged up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I, in the meantime,\" ruffles the hair of the child, \"will continue to take care of this one, but I don't want more to end up like him.\" \"but I don't want more to end up like him.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mr. Kingsley. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Yes, sir.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I look to the boy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He averts his eyes and then slowly looks back up at you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What's your name? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He says \"Lucas.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Lucas, that's a strong name. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He stiffens up, straightens his shoulders back. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I knew your mother very, very briefly. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "His eyes go wide. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I promise you will be looked out for. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I miss her.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You know the thing about people that leave us, they can always see what we do, remember that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Again, apologies for the quick turn, but I have some people to alert and some security to put in place for the rest of the team that was there that night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What'd we stop? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Sorry, will you say that again?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Johnny, little guy, androphage? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Androphage. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What'd we stop? What were they going to use him for? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Unclear, but I will say that the people of Newfaire Unclear, but I will say that the people of Newfaire and the Fairelands are safer because you brought that to us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Minus Dr. Choi, of course, but the rest, absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Any questions?\" He says and he starts to shuffle some papers and look as though he's about to return. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Honestly, I have a great deal many, but I have a feeling that by the look in these boys' eyes that they can answer them for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Everything we need to know is in these folders, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Sure is.\" " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You sure about this? You're not looking so good. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, I would need some care from the doctor if you-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, may we have a moment to take care of Mr. Trapp? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You haven't got access to any more of those because that could be good if we're containing a bunch of bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If there's more things you need to contain, you can place them inside of there. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A bleed containment vial? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's the best place to start.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What would we normally do with a captured EONS scientist? Like the one we had in the engine of the train? Would we have dropped him off somewhere? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So generally, Candela Obscura will come in to clean up messes like that, so they probably took them. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So yeah, that's not something that you would have to worry about. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to look at Draven before, as he slides the address over I'm going to say: These whatever, these worm dens where people do these worms recreationally, do they have them in Newfaire, or is this something that's only going on in-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Usually for those who are wishing to get some sort of high out of it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You got fiends running around looking to get this worm inside their body? All right, I understand, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Has Allison been made aware? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Mr. Trapp, as far as the child knows, Allison is no longer with us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You've told the child that her mother is-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"And Nathaniel, I'm sorry, and--\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Antonio? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm sorry, we're doing all we can, but she's not going home.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "There could be things that we discover a day, a week, or a month from now, and you've told this boy that his mother is unsavable? and you've told this boy that his mother is unsavable? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"It is a decision made above my head.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Shit always rolls down, doesn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Straightens his back up. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "If you'll give us a bit with these documents, I'm sure we'll have more questions. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, are you going to Patch Up? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mr. Trapp, I'm ready for you now. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "MARISHA and BRENNAN: (thudding) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Jeez! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So many questions. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Me too. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What the fuck? What the fuck? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Spenser, what the hell, man? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But before we do that, because we're on a new assignment, I'm going to refresh your stamina. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Stamina Training. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Training ability. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So I know you have three times per assignment you can do a thing. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Anybody who has gear marked, you can unmark that gear because the next assignment you will have three pieces of gear that you can take. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So if you ever want to mark that you have a hand weapon during play, you can declare that you have that gun, that it was given to you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you want to give us a little more in this moment of quiet, what you look like, what you're doing here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And gather himself knowing that he watched the men that he served with so many years save his ass once again. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As we pan across you and over to our wonderful Auntie Bee here, will you describe yourself for us? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "As we go over a bump she: Ah! Jeez, my fucking back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "On top of her ratty clothes that are falling apart, you see standing out against that backdrop a few select pieces of nice jewelry that stands out and has an appearance that probably has some sort of nostalgic sentimental value in order for her to have held unto it and not pawned it after all of these years. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, the juxtaposition between the very nice jewelry and the-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The completely torn up coat and clothing underneath. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Forgive me, I should have said Nathaniel Trapp, he/him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He/him pronouns. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Auntie Bee, she/her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She/her, great, thank you so much. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Anything that's easy to replace is clean. " }, { "Role": "Player10", "Content": "Mm! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But all the telltale signs of grooming and clothing around that are of someone who doesn't go home to anybody. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I like that. We pan over from Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "A single bead of sweat falls from her forehead as she continues to patch up Mr. Trapp. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make that roll for me, for Patch Up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'll come over to you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "\"When you have a few moments of calm, you can make a Focus roll to heal an ally one body mark.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to use one of my, I'm going to use a gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Can I assist? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Seeing as you did not take a single body damage during our ordeal. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The champ is undefeated. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's not a competition. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Inevitably. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So with the assist I take an additional die? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, and you'll spend a drive to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're using Focus, so you'd spend an Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Intuition, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Four is the highest? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is the highest. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, so what's the move say? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So the move says, \"on a four to five, spend two Intuition to do this.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "But this is a four, it is a mixed result. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, so you'll mark two Intuition if you want to do that, to be able to heal. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, I think Mr. Trapp needs it desperately. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As we see you stitching into the body, we watch as the needle pierces the skin. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And gets pulled through. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As we land on our last member. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "In this case I'm performing a ritual on myself to regain the spent resistance that I used earlier to activate my Premonition for Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What does this Ritual look like? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Then that settles as well. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "to answer the expressions on my friends' faces. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So forgive me if I am a bit unsettled by all of this. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You and Allison, she was an investigator for Candela? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "She was. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And you were close? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We know how important that is. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And what exactly happened on this mission? What were the horrors that you saw? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I just remember her screams. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You think they got her locked up in that Fourth Pharos over there? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I hope. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "GM, would I have heard any stories of an Allison that was sent to the grays? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Or not somewhere like that, they would be taken to that place and kept there. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "They told the kid she was dead? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Just tell them she's dead.\" " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Well, clearly we know there's things that are worse than dying, but. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But they withhold a lot. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It feels that way. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Would you have risked everything we did for what they explained was in that container? A creature that's used to get people high? That's all there is to that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "All I'm saying is maybe Candela isn't immune to some of these capital gains. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "However, I would still like to believe that out of all of the other capitalistic and governmental factions that rule our day-to-day lives that hopefully we're choosing the one lesser evil. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Have you ever seen anyone marked by bleed changed? Have you ever seen them made whole, amended? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Which is a little bit surprising, I got to say, Nathaniel, for someone who's quite the institutional man himself. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Force of habit, I'm afraid. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Well, speaking of Mr. Kingsley, what did he mean when he said it was someone above his head who made the decision to tell Lucas, was it, the boy? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Lucas. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That his mother was dead? Someone above a Lightkeeper's head. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Everybody answers to somebody else. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to open the folder and look in at the papers. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Is there anything in there that you'd like to ask a question about? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Seems like Candela Obscura feels like they have her under their protection and yet she's appearing, according to Lucas, in this room in some kind of spectral form. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sounds awfully familiar to that smoke monster you were just describing. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It was so dark that-- You've lost trust in your own eyes before, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It almost looks like an autopsy. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Could I Focus on the photo-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- of the body, and see if I can learn anything from it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Focus roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are you trying to learn here? What are you looking for? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm looking at this photo of the body, the crime scene, so to speak, with the, as Bee noted, a scar, a slice, an incision on the body. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A slice down the center of the stomach, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "A slice down. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's from the neck, the bottom of the neck down to the navel. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The thoracic cavity. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Was this surgical, was this bleed, do I see any evidence of surgical touch or is it more of a violent? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So with a four, two things happen. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's not a clean cut. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It doesn't look-- On the surface, even though it appears to maybe be surgical in direction, what you can tell is the intent appeared to be to open up the body. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm, rib cage and all. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That was just the method of parting the curtain, that is skin. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Parting the curtain. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "God. God! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) But the other thing that happens here, is you're staring at the picture of a dead man. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Your eyes, for a minute, shift-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- and you're staring at a picture of Avery. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(starts) I slam the folder shut. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take a brain mark for me, as the trauma starts to set in. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I can see Avery's face-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What do you mean? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Singular. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you say that, you feel the carriage lurch to a stop. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Auntie Bee, what happened to the little pillow? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(moans and groans) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, I should get a little pillow. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I thought we talked about you doing your stretches. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This journey has been real-- That train ride really messed me up, you guys. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm thinking hemorrhoids. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh, I was thinking something else. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I mean, a little lumbar support might not be bad, though. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No, that makes sense. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I don't know if you can stretch a hernia. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You can, but you don't want to know how. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let me tell you that right now. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, I'm also, I'm looking through the folder as this moment lightens us up for a second. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll give you a hand out of the carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Thank you, sweet boy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Door opens. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(moans) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Light pours over the folder you're looking at. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I have a hunch based on the story you told. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What I will say is that they note that there was a period, a gap of time, where those attacks stopped. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Now suddenly, something has happened again here that is similar to the attacks that were occurring before. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Does it say how long that break was? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, so after the attack on Allison, which I think we talked about was a couple of months ago. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then those stopped and then this was a similar attack that happened as of last night. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Fuck it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The notes only say that the attacks ceased and that it seems as though this might be-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This is the gap in between those incidents. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm sorry, how long was the gap again? Two months? Couple months. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Couple months. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's not that long. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm (throat clear) sure we'll be able to glean something additional inside. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They've stationed security there. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We're talking about vengeance, right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's vengeance. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's what they said. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well, let's stop this creature in seeking vengeance. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Outside the house, is anyone positioned outside of the residence, the door, any sort of guard or sentry? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you all exit the carriage, they nod at all of you and turn the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Well, it's safe to assume that it should be relatively secure but we know that's worth fuck all in our job. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Shall we? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Looks like it, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Is the old man in the suit coming in with us or no? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, when he saw you all arrive, he turned the corner and disappeared. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Left his post. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And I'm going to take a shotgun out of my coat. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Eyy! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to take lead and move around the corner with a shotgun. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Not shy, Mr. Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to take out the weapon that I acquired. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Ooh, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I pulled it off of it, but I would've liked to have tried to see if there was any way to repair it, or any way to make it-- I mean, I'm going to have a knife on me, at least. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But any way to see if there's something to make it functional in that regard. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, write down that you have a phase knife. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Hell yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(sneezes) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Phase. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Focus roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(sneezes) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Bless you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- for me. Bless you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Stop it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Focus roll for me to see if they're able to-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You stop that! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- figure out what it needs, how it needs to be hooked up. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Shame on you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I will use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I can use more than one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Five is my highest number. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You rewired it back together, but when you turn it on you notice it sparks at the wire. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yikes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So it is not super safe for you to use, but it does exist here for you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, I have that as an option. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you-- Yeah, go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How big is the house, roughly? When we were approaching-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure, yeah, it's a townhouse, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's pretty small? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Two stories? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So it's pretty small. Two story, but probably you would guess it's about a three bedroom. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to, if it's a small house and the guy leaves and I'm like: The dossier didn't say that there'd be anybody in the house that we're trying to rescue. Right? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Shouldn't be, but we should check. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If you don't and you feel confused or conflicted, understand you got a 10-second window before your only greeting is two barrels in the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Sway roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I would assist you, but I-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I don't think you need it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What he said. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's a two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a two. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oy. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, you got a five. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't have any dots in it, so it's a two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "When you don't have any dots in it, you roll two, and take the lowest. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's more for the moral, it's the moral-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's more about if you're human-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You're doing your due diligence. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Due diligence, this is a due diligence. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would like to see if I can sense anything. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, so nobody responds to you, but as you walk closer to the bedroom, yeah, you definitely can make a Sense roll here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What does it feel like for you? What does bleed feel like for you, in specific? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's a sense and then a sensation washes over me and I instinctively know. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's correct? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, I think we see a gathering of flies that are starting to swirl around your head. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hate that! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do you feel like it's a-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Don't shoot the flies! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Please, don't shoot the flies! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Don't shoot the flies. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You don't think I can hit them? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You can-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I have every confidence-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You'll hit everything. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Be careful in the bedroom, but w-w-what is happening? I-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(buzzes) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Doctor? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Perhaps you should sit down, dear. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I want to get in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I do so. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you do, the flies make their way back to the bedroom and they all fly up almost like, you know how birds fly in patterns-- " }, { "Role": "Player67", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then, they land on the wall of the bedroom. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is the bedroom on the first floor or-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The door is open? We could see in? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The door is cracked open. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ah-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is there-- Oh, sorry? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Well, because we did get a lot of information, I think, from what you recounted, are there any mirrors around here? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's what I was going to say. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I assist him in that? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I would love that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I assist as well or is it a single assist? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You would take a number of d6 extra equal to drive. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We spend a drive for that, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But all you do is spend the drive to mechanically add dice to the bowl. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you have how many dice to start with? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I start with one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you'd spend Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then you could spend Intuition, if you'd like as well. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, let's do that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you'll spend one. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A total of three dice. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Total of three dice. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Then wasn't there a situation where, if he succeeds, we get a drive back? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's only when, I think it was one of the circle abilities from last chapter. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "When somebody fails, you get that back. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you'll roll three dice. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got two sixes out of that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Amazing! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Let's go! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Got two sixes and a one. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "50 mirrors! " }, { "Role": "Player941", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player945", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I found this disco ball! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do we find phase mirrors? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Phase mirrors! No. So here's what you find. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ask for phase weapons every time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) On the first floor, you find with, with a double six, with the critical success, you walk into the bathroom, the first place you go to look for the mirror, and you see that the mirror there has been shattered. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Going up to the second floor, you find a mirror on the wall, hung on the wall in the bathroom, the bathroom there for the two bedrooms. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're able to pull it off. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm opening drawers to see if there's any hand mirrors or anything. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So if we want to put that on the circle gear, you can put mirrors. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Hand mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, hand mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But enough for-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Enough for, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll follow after-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does it look like the mirror is shattered like something shattered out of it, or is there an impact? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ooh. Impact. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Like I can see the source of ground zero, if it were, of where it-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go and make a Focus roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Which is ♪ gilded! ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you would be in danger of taking some bleed by doing this. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(grimaces) Three on my gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you look at yourself in a thousand different ways here, I want you to tell me what you used to look like. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(exhales) Right out of the gate, Spenser, with the fucking emotions! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(whispers) I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "As she starts to lose focus and it all starts to blur, and at first it seems like the ocean, and then she can see elements of her happy in her youth with bright, strawberry blonde hair and just happy, and simple clothing, but still nice and she's still presentable and ever so slightly, in the corner, it's almost like she can see images of her husband again as well, almost as if they're arm and arm again. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm going to have you take a brain and a bleed for that failure. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(groans) Are you in the room with me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You went upstairs and I followed in after you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "My Premonitions? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "How far or how near do they need to be? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can try and pull her out of this reverie before it does that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "While you are there, everything that you just described starts to flash inside of my mind as I have a vision-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You hear, hopefully loud enough, me shout down to you: (forcefully) Come back! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hearing Marion's voice, at first, it sounds like the Marion I knew when he was a young adolescent man as it starts to morph into Marion's voice today of a grown man, of a soldier, has, yeah, Auntie Bee is shaken out of it and she puts on a good face and pinches her cheeks, get a little bit of that rouge, and steals herself as she walks back out. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do we all hear that shout? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and erase the brain mark that you took. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The other one stays. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The other one stays. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's only one mark. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You all hear the-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I look to the others and I say: Don't go in there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Are we okay? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We're all right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Is she okay? Are you okay? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm all right! You sweet boy. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What time of day is it, by the way? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's getting to sunset. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The lights in the house, are there lights in the house? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Candles. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So keep an eye on the lights. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do you think we should go around and try to light them before the sun gets too low in the sky? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm generally a fan of more light in darkness, so yeah, that's a great idea. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The candles? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let's light them up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a couple of oil lamps as well throughout the house. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You said Allison the first time you saw her, before she actually got taken by the monster-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't know if that's helpful though. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The light, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "When you were looking at the broken mirror in that room, did it look, and I know it's not easy to tell, but did it look like it happened recently or a long time ago? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I didn't get a sense of when. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Was there blood on the ground, any sort of markings? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Clean? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "There were pieces all over in every corner of that damn room! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think the mirrors are going to be something that we'll need to use on it, I think. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And the lanterns-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, I was going to say, can I actually dislodge maybe a couple of the lanterns, of the gas lanterns, so we have them as a mobile light? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You said Allison had a lantern with her. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "She did. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well, maybe we want a mirror of our own. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We got the hand mirror that we found earlier-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We have, what, two mirrors? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. Two mirrors. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So those come off? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You got a big mirror, you got a hand mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Those are the two mirrors that we have? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Well-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Who would like to? Ladies? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Auntie Bee? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I've got my tiny blush compact. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Look-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This feels like this is hedging our bets because it's like this thing might have a specific vulnerability to mirrors, but I think most things have a broad vulnerability to shotguns. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If there is a corporeal body, your shotgun could come in handy. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You will be able to shoot that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "At this thing. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If I may, the flies that manifested around my head and are now parked on the wall in that room-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I feel like that warrants further investigation now that we are armed with some tools. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That wax residue has poured off of the candelabra or the candle holder, I guess, and has actually covered up the face of Antonio Suarez on the photograph, leaving just Allison showing. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Where are the flies? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Still on the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Are they in a certain formation of any kind? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're all parked on either side of the threshold. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "There's a dead body in the room and the flies are all parked on the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to look down and be like: Oh, customers don't like the sirloin, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(muffled laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I would like to pull out a bleed detector. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I know that bleed is going to be everywhere-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But I want to see specifically if those flies ping. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Like the chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The chickens! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Well, first of all, what's the bleed detector look like? What does it look like for you? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Mine looks like, it almost looks like a light. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's got a handle to it and then it's like a fluorescent tube-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But what you know is, as you scan with it, anything with bleed is going to ping. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The flies then start to resettle along the wall, and as you turn the bleed detector into the room itself, it obviously pings on where the body is, too. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So the flies are glowing? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The flies are reacting to your bleed detector. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "To the bleed detector. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Totally. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I move into the bedroom a bit, I'll pull out from behind me a very small camera with replaceable flash bulbs, and I'll move ever so carefully towards the closet. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is the door open or-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One of the door, it's a double door closet, so one of them is ajar and the other one's still closed. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I move to open the doors fully? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'd like to step back and take a picture with a flash. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As the light flashes on the closet, you see clothes that appear as though they've been melted and fallen off of their hangers. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "In the photographs in the file, were there any mirrors visible in the pictures? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In the photographs from Candela? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No photos of mirrors. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You mean the photos Candela took of the crime scene didn't have any mirrors in them? The photographs Candela Obscura took of the crime scene didn't have any mirrors in them. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Doesn't look like it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We still have the file on us, right? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So, what? Antonio Suarez gets murdered the day before the interior decorator gets here? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's just photos of the bedroom. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Right, and there are no mirrors in this room? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's no mirrors in the bedroom. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So the mirrors we got from other rooms in the house? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool, cool, cool. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That was upstairs that you got those from. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Because their main bedroom is downstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Their main bedroom is downstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to shuffle over to Lucas' room. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Since the boy said he-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm right behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The clothes melted off the hangers. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I imagine it would've been in the file that it had mentioned monsters in the closet? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Type of a thing. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see you go up the ramp to the second floor and the bedroom is there. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, any type of indication of also melted clothes in the closet? Were there any mirrors or reflective surfaces in the boy's room? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Survey roll for me here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Street Smarts! May spend any drive instead of using my-- I'm going to-- Yeah, why not? I'm going to spend a drive and hopefully get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I don't get the drive back, though. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, surveying Lucas' room, you see that that room in particular does not appear as though it's been disheveled in any way. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It seems-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Are there any mirrors in his room that would dissuade this guy? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There is a dresser with a mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. I'll report that to the others. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know what I'm talking about? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "100%. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You don't see a teddy bear in there anywhere, do you? I saw one in the photo in the dossier. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Any teddy bear? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, so the teddy bear was-- There were actually photographs of it in the dossier because it was left in the hallway outside of the bedroom. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's where he dropped it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's been taken. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "They must have confiscated it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What kind of heroes are we? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Poor child. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No five-year-old should see anything like this. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(heavy sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It seems like he saw the whole thing. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So this thing, right, how many phenomena are we aware of in the house right now? These flies on the wall, they won't touch the dead body. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Now they want nothing to do with it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "They're like, \"Bleh.\" Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And now, we know this thing won't appear in a room with mirrors in it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Because if it is on the hunt and it's trying to satiate its vengeance-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What did it take? Does the body look similar to the ones down in the metro station? Does the physical appearance remain the same? Or has the face gone gaunt and sallow and-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you looking deeper? Are you looking more closely at the body here? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to fall back on old habits and start to approach the corpse and actually peer into the chest cavity and see what's in there. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, make a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would like to follow behind to assist you because I would like to examine the body myself as well. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. Okay, so both of you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Please. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Focus roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) What's it taste like? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to burn an Intuition to assist you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Awesome. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So both of you are looking? Go ahead and make the roll. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Five, two fives. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One is that the area where the body was flayed open, it appears as though the skin was parted and the insides were exsanguinated, that all the liquid was taken out of there. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you also-- (laughs) You also see where the heart is, something glinting white-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's almost as if the spleen is growing fuzz or fur upon it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) That's really fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Man, it's real nasty, okay? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What?! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's the first thought that comes as I gaze upon this. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh yeah, I remember that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The second that-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That was crazy. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- comes upon me-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm curious if the anthrophage from earlier, do I see any evidence of anthrophage activity in the way the organs are moved about? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This appears as though there was an incision made. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Cut down and opened. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The organ movement isn't-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The organ movement is strange, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Does it remind me of anything I've seen before? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The shirt obviously has been torn open but the pants remain intact. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "With that five, both of you take bleed marks as well. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Doctor, have any forceps in that medical kit of yours? Tweezers? Something of the like? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I open up my medical gear. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Will these suffice? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mind if they get a little gunky? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Not at all. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) Gross. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I will start with the paper before I maybe let the surgeon go for whatever might be in the heart. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We'll start with the paper. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you're getting this close to the body, what does bleed feel like for you? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Similarly, already foreshadowed this with what Beatrix's saw in the bathroom, in the broken glass. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, cool. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, cool. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She pulls out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will warn you that a consequence might be taking bleed here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Two! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a two. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you pull that out, you see a hand start to reach out, and try and grab it back from you, and pull it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What?! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sorry, a hand from the body? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "From the pocket? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "None of you see this. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is it, this is in her head? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Only you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's all in her head. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a moment where you think it might pull the flap of skin with tendons attached to it back into the pocket and take you with it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to take a bleed and a brain here for that failure. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you do get this. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "They all see Beatrix for sure, the look on her face of sheer terror as she lets out a yelp. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I think would actually almost drop this towards Sean's direction. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Auntie Bee, you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Did you see that? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Are you all right, Ms. Monroe? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What's it say? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So your family used to work with a railroad company, right? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes, they were in very early in the railroad business in Newfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Trapp Transit. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's a train ticket? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Arriving Groundswell Station.\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's the newest station of your family subway that has just opened here two days ago. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Groundswell is the newest station in Newfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I know you said you first encountered this beast in the train station. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes, it was months ago, but... " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That ticket got punched, right? I mean, we know his ticket did. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs softly) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You know, it seems this, whatever this beast is, it prefers darkness and the shadows, and subway tunnels are real dark. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How many days ago was that? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That was last night. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Is that when the murder happened? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Did something follow him home from the train station? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But I think we ought to go check out Groundswell. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, that's where we need to go. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'd like to take a closer look at the heart before we leave. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I hand over the forceps. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. You have a bleed containment vial if you'd like to-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- try and do that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hate to give this one up. (sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This one's quite fancy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's really fancy. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Once we contain bleed, we get those back, right? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's my special vial. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'd love to go to the Fourth Pharos forever. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Is it like a big tank, you just pour it in, and you wash and bring it back. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just re-wash it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, it goes in one of those tubes from the bank that takes the-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Sandblaster. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hopping around, yeah. 100% " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would like to, as if playing a skilled game of Operation. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "From a distance-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's exactly what it feels like. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Dude, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Reach in and see if I can pluck the glinting object-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- out of the heart. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Worst game ever, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That horseshoe is a bitch! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Control roll for me, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's how I learned surgery. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "If you play Operation, you can perform on somebody. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Whoa, nice! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a six! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What does bleed feel like for you? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's a white agony in my head. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you turn it over, you see it's looking at you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Drop it in, seal it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's looking at her like an eyeball! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "An eyeball rolls around in your bleed containment. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What the fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You pulled out of where the heart was. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Give it a couple shakes for good measure before putting it back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It rolls around and then goes into your pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(clears throat) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "From there, we cut to the sound of carriage hooves as the door opens and you all emerge at the station, the newest station, the Groundswell Station. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Groundswell. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you imagine Paris, the Paris art nouveau, art deco, metropolitan thing. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So there are lots of people exiting here as you observe the entrance. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Has night fallen by this point? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's starting to go dark. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Nathaniel, come on. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I have that mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I brought it with me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh yes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, I have it with me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see it underneath your arm, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, I'm carrying it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We have the lanterns. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And the lanterns. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I would say we should spread out, but it feels like there might be safety more in numbers? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think we should stay together. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fair. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It already targeted you once. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If it's seeking vengeance, it wants to finish the job. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Where it seems to want to live. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(gags) God, I hate even having the thought of-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Being bait? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Me too. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Put a little garnish on top. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We're going to make him real delicious? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Put some parsley on the edge. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "See, this is why I keep you around. " }, { "Role": "Player948", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You just know how to brighten everyone's day. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What's the worst that could happen? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Are you just hungry? Is that what's up? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I mean, I could just be-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But at least the flies won't eat you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is there another way? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think we got to be strategic about it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I have three bleed, so. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'll try to be as out of sight as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep, yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm saying if we go in this train station, he's already bait. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He is the bait. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, fair. Fair. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I guess that's unavoidable. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I have led people into battle before. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, you have. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're on favored terrain, friends. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Home court advantage. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You know, you should explain that to the monster. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You say, you know, you're trespassing right now? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, right? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Maybe it doesn't know. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Did it pay its fare? I mean, it owes you money. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We got to get the police in here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Sure do. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Are you saying you think the monster hates nepotism? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(sighs) I head down the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But I can't-- I can't stop it every time and I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's highly likely the Trapps dug a little too deep. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Watch yourself with whatever you've got going on. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to get back my-- I'm using, again, my Ritual. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I'm getting my resistance back and I'm taking a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Would we know if the metro closes at a certain time? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, so the metro will run until about midnight. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's still early night. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Still active, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you have some time. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ah? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Ah! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ah? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Eh. (laughs weakly) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You know. All right, someone's having fun. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I was late. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We're having fun again. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Needle & Thread, best circle ever. " }, { "Role": "Player949", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you all like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Be like: Hey, pal, quick on the draw on this last couple assignments, huh? Good looking out. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Guess I had a little practice. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Got a question for you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You ever seen anything that you didn't want to stop? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Sometimes it just happens. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Making our way through all those trenches and you were just calling out to me, \"Left, right, stop.\" You know, you just knew, and then a mortar would go off. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Now I know a little bit more about it and I hope that our time together in Candela, I hope that it helps me understand that a little more. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I just think you should always be really careful about who you tell that you can do that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No one outside of Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's how it should stay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Are you okay? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If I wasn't, you'd be able to tell, right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "If you weren't, would you tell me? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Fuck out of here, come on. Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I let him walk ahead and I watch him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're left with the remnants of that look at yourselves, You're left with the remnants of that look at yourselves, all standing together in the station. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That means they know. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Your family knew? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear the screeching of subway trains. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "In that moment, can I look along the track, the deck-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is anyone watching us? I'm looking for eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a roll. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(calculating hums) Can I use-- Can I use Lie Detector to roll, to attempt to figure out a person telling the truth? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, if anybody's trying to keep themselves from-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "To hide their-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a great use of that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay, and what am I rolling? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Survey or Read. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Read, actually, would probably be more apt because you're looking to see if people are staring at you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Aw. Oh! A six, but it's not a gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But we'll take the six. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, we'll take the six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are alone. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "When is the last train running? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Midnight. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Do we know how much time we have? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's about four hours. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You mean in between trains? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "How long you have in between trains? Is that what you're asking? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I would say, you would estimate it's anywhere between five to 25 minutes, depending on where the train is coming from. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The tunnels are where we should go. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But we can't do it out here with anybody watching because we know what other organizations will do to those that witnessed. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If you say it's the tunnels, LT, let's go to the tunnels. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We certainly have enough light. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does there appear to be any type of a-- A lot of times these subway tunnels are equipped with fire escapes or other type of mining tunnels that we can maybe quickly run and tuck into a side tunnel? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Repair tunnels or something? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll assist you by burning a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Can I make a bid for a roll, a different type of roll? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'll turn to you while they're surveying, because I know you sense things too. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If you could call it that, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Three, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Two ones and a three on the gilded, so I get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take the drive. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I want to see if I can sense the creature. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What direction? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "If there is a tunnel that we found, a maintenance tunnel or something? Did we find-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You look around, you don't find any maintenance tunnel but you do know within-- You know within there's probably areas for workers to be in case things break down. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Enclaves and-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What I will say is that with that Sense roll, if you were going to roll Sense to do that-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, I'm going to roll Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- the two of you, that you would be able to tell which direction from the station you should head here and maybe how close it is depending on how well the roll goes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So would we both roll? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One of you can spend Intuition to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I imagine us going back to back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll take the other way. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You guys are on the train tracks? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So only one person would roll, the other person could spend Intuition to help them. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "To assist. All right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh, copy that. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll assist. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you'll take another die. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, do I need to go onto the train tracks to do it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, you can do it from here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The idea of stepping onto train tracks, just like-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Terrifying. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Warm it up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Here's what I will say. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will give you better information if you decide to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Five minutes? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You have five minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Are they electrified, the rails? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to jump into the train tracks. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You think me and Tony and Jimmy weren't down here all the time? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, well, it always takes one of you to do it first for me to do it, okay? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I know! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(grunts) I jump in and I start to turn red. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, I love that. Make that roll. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'll take the gilded four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A four, a gilded four is great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Did you give, actually, give me that? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Wait, did I? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me what it's like as you reach out, as you both reach out to forces beyond yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm still newish at this, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "[rumbling] " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "[rumbling] " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The one where the train is coming towards you, not away. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And this feels like a trail that it's just left. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This feels as though it's a trail of where it came from. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can tell that this, whatever this is, it's not far from here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's that way. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, that way. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I hop down into the tracks as well. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, before you go-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "There's still people in this train station, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just a few. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right. You got some identification on you? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Says your last damn name? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes, my press credentials and-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Trapp Management. We got to close this place down. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes, we apologize for the-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Inconvenience. Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Inconvenience, terrible maintenance this late in the day. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Don't want anyone getting hurt, you understand? So get the fuck out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Your rides will be compensated at the front desk. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(whispers) Thought you were doing it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "In all the place, you were riding it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see a couple of people confused-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Where do you live? " }, { "Role": "Player54", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They fuck off and leave. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you're traversing in, I'm going to have somebody make a Move or Control roll to help move or navigate you all in the right direction. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I will make a Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a group action. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I can't. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So all of you are doing this together but this will determine the macro of what this is. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll do Control. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You'll do Control, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So I'm going to give you an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do we want to use one of, how critical is this roll? Do we want to use one-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- for gilded die? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So what I will say is that this will determine how difficult the path towards whatever you felt is. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, we got three of them. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Let's use one. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Let's use one, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Use one, save two for when-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I think it's good. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- it tries to kill us. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I feel this is the pinnacle moment. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I will take the four on a gilded-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- to get a drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On a four. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh no, that's gone. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you can just, I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You're gone forever. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Bye. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You saved it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Damn you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you all like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "My first inclination is to hide or sneak, but we have light. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And we have mirrors. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll actually take out a Zippo lighter and (ignition scratches). " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It surges unnaturally here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I filled it up a lot before we-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll unholster the shotgun. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I am going to stay close about two feet behind Nathaniel and I have the mirror in my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "This preacher, how did we know it was a preacher's particular scream? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It didn't sound as though it was human. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "♪ Take me out to ♪ the ball game ♪ I'm going to shoulder it and start singing as I walk down the tunnel looking for the creature. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We get a super wide shot here of you leading out front your-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He's a preacher? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Creature. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How do we know this? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, that makes sense. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "A preacher. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That makes so much sense now. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You're like, \"Why a preacher?\" And Spenser goes, \"Other worldly.\" And you're like, \"Got it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm like, ah... yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hallelujah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hallelujah We get a super wide shot here of you leading out front with the shotgun being illuminated by the lanterns, as you hold a mirror, you all hold fire moving forward through this tunnel. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's not going to be exact, but a little bit of a second count in her brain as she tries to count the minutes between the trains. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "[clock ticking] " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, Jesus Christ. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's prepared. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you all like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Get out of the way of the train. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Priority one. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Are we on the tracks right now? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On the tracks right now, what used to be a maintenance outlet or maybe another hole has been blocked off by this metal. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We see eyes up in the-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see eyes up where the only entrance in. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And prepare a fiery bottle. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Its clawed hands digging into the metal, twisting it now that it's already bent. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I see the eyes of this creature. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Two and two. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do they look anything like the eyeball I plucked out of the heart? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're sort of-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "All pupils. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, all pupils. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This is the creature. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Not like what was described in the kid's book. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Not the description you all saw. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Still a beak. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's a Furby. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Still a problem. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "When you first saw this thing, I mean, a train is coming, so we better move. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Bee, how much time we got on this train? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We're at about-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How many? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Couple minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Couple minutes? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Maybe four. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It doesn't remind me of the thing I saw in my pre, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No. It reminds you of it in concept. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But it is not the thing that you faced, no. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is there a thin platform such that if we were to flush ourselves against the wall there would be any hope of the train passing without crushing us? Or is there no platform? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "There's only this tunnel. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's right up against the railway. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You would assume that the train almost scrapes it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Smash. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Just going to shoot in attempt to kill this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Control roll for me as you shoot at this thing. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Handy to have a gun around. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Use Sharpshooter. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep, love it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's double sixes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Double sixes, a critical success. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "There we go. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's going to die. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sean looks around, looks at you light the Molotov, says: How many minutes do we have? And goes bam! And before the creature falls, Sean, before the creature falls and hits the ground, I'm already unholstering rope because that problem is solved and I don't need to look at it and I'm going to throw a rope up into the hole to get us into the tunnel. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's pulsing with chromatic light and then immediately goes dark upon hitting the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "As quick as I can from the hip, I'll take a shot with the camera. " }, { "Role": "Player944", "Content": "(click) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hey Doc, you think I'm bad for the scientific community? I'm going to throw the grappling hook up into the-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's not difficult to get it to hold. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. I'm going to help whoever needs help to get out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You could help me first, this dress is very full. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Nobody look! I help get the doctor up the rope into the tunnel. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I would give you either Move or Control to make this whatever you'd prefer. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I am going to Move. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If it's possible for me to, I don't have to-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You don't have to spend anything to help-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I can help. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- but you can say, narratively, you're going to help here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "As I'm making my way up the rope. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So it would be-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "One. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You will make your way. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, does helping do anything for her? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So by you helping, what I'm going to say here is that you are going to make it up the rope. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And you peer through. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you peer in closer, you see this is a lighthouse. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A lighthouse that has fallen through during an excavation. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "A lighthouse of Candela? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It looks old, it looks ancient. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "An old light-- Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I tell the others what I see. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're hearing it over the train blaring its horn as it's approaching. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, skirts sort of get caught over the jagged metal edge, but I fling myself over and land on the ground with a bit of a thud. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is 25 feet down off of the metal steel plate. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I don't drop. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm just clarifying the expectations here. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And just feed her down the-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you pull them up, you feel it's like mucus on your feet. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Auntie Bee is almost in a daze staring down the tunnel and she's just still, she starts 30, 29. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Come on, you're up. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "28. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Go, go, go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, make a Control or a Move roll for me here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Four, it's not bad. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Today. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Which means when this ends, the train will hit. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is currently at three. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I am going to, who has good Move between us? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You have good Move? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Get ready to pull on the other side. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I'll help as well. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. So are you helping with the thing? Do I get another die to help? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Not mechanically, not die wise. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you're going to get over and then that could effectively make this countdown not go as quickly, so. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is it worth using a gilded? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We have two more people to get through this. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No, no, no, I'm good. I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to burn one of my own drives. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I have two in Move and it's gilded so I should be okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I hope! Four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a mixed success, it's going to tick down one to two. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. But I get over. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going, yeah, I'll say: LT. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It has to be you to go first. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to go through. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I can follow orders. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You got the shotgun, use it! Remember me! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Remember me! (laughs) I've got pre lit Molotovs staring in their faces. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We do have these more. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "There's two of us. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You take a gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, I'm going to burn a resistance to reroll two. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to burn a resistance to reroll two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hear the train coming. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What is it? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Miss? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I make it through. It's a three. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do in this moment? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The train is approaching. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The train is like moments away. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to, so I've used two of my items, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can use one more. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And say: Everybody inside, step back! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What?! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(shouts) You found a grenade?! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I've been holding on to it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But explosives are one of the things-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's going to be a Control roll or a Strike roll, one of the two. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I also know the metro tunnels, and in between where the wall and the ground hits, there is a very narrow margin-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I knew it! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- where if you hug it, it is just enough an angle between the wheels and the bottom of the train where there is a maybe space. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right, you will " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ugh! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, that is a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So describe for me what this scene is like as the grenade blows out part of the steel here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I get us all the way back because we need distance from the grenade for this to work, which means that we are going to have to run right in front of the train-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh, what! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Boom! I'm going to grab the back of your shirt and leap right in front of the train to get through the hole in the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You just hear Auntie Bee on the other side just scream: Sean! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're both going to take brain for this because the stress of seeing literally a train about to strike you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you just if it was a tenth of a second longer, you would not have made it through, but your heel clears the wall just as the train comes by and you're on the other side. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Also, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That was pretty fun. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That was pretty fun. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You and your brothers lived a very different life than the one that I had. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's not fun, Sean! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Holy shit. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's not fun!" }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's a little fun. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And Auntie Bee grabs Sean by the arm and pushes him up against the tunnel with a little bit of like, oh fuck, Auntie Bee still got, we didn't expect this from an old lady. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Old lady strength. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(quietly) You got it, Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And having fallen through the ground above. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Has it been toppled over? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, like they were drilling underneath it, the ground gave way, it fell and got trapped in the tunnels. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Trapp" }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you all like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Stamp it on the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, it's good shit. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You got to get worse shit if you're going to make molotovs out of the thing. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I didn't think. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ooh, ooh, pass that over here, too. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just what was available. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Wiping the blood. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm doing better. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Was that the first mark you took? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "First mark I've taken. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Holy crap. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow, what the hell? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What did you refresh? What drive did you-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Always Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And Nerve every time, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's Nerve every time. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to use my In The Trenches to once per assignment, you may burn one Cunning resistance to soak a body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's once per assignment? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, so a soak would happen as you take the body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "All right, I'll wait. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, keeps it clean. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Trying to get all preemptive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I take a moment to wipe the blood out of my eyes that the very shrapnel has carved delicate incisions onto my face. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Are you all right? There's blood on him as well. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, I got some. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Are we really doing this? This isn't, I mean, this is a broken lighthouse. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes, it is. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Marion, if we go back and tell somebody, who do you think they're going to send? We're already here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He's got a point. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They'll just send us right back. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "At least maybe we'll get some answers. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Would certainly explain why this place has fallen vulnerable to creatures. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How are we going to get up in that thing? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Looking at it hanging upside down, there's no clear path to get in there? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You will be walking through an upside down lighthouse to get there. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Very M.C. Escher. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh gosh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So we got to get the rope up and in there? Is that what we're talking about? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(whooshes) Up in the cage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Have you ever been to the Everglades? " }, { "Role": "Player10", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, have you ever shined a flashlight out at the water at night? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(pew pew pew) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Snipe hunting. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So many alligator eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you move forward, the lanterns reflect off so many eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "These are what all of you lovingly refer to as squid dogs. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Squid dogs. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Standing guard over the thinning. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you all like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "How many? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "20, 30. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I also just want to-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're like the size of dogs. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You don't happen to have a claymore tucked in between your ass cheeks or anything, do you? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Put some kibble on top. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's a good idea. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Arm full. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I love feeding all the ducks and the seagulls, and as one of the items that I'm going to pull out that I'm going to decide I have right now is little bag of feed. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, it's so good. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Little pouches out of my bag. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you going to throw it to them to try and get them distracted? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wait, wait. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Or yeah, away. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Away. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But wait, what do we know these things eat? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We don't. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We don't. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I'm going to take the fresh blood that was trickling on me from what has happened, and I'm going to squeeze a little bit on there and maybe we can shake it up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll do that as well. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I got a little shrapnel as well and squeeze it into the bag. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And just before we do this, I don't want to speak for all of us, does anyone have any particular knowledge about restarting or repairing ancient lighthouses? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, not at all. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I do have a relevant textbook. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You brought a book down here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I always have a book with me, Mr. Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I just wanted to make sure we had something before we, you know. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I pull open the book, and I flip to see if there's-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "How they function. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How an astrolabe moves. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What needs to be done for it to exist. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Well, let's get up in there first. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "At least we'll have something to use. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Kibble bum. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Beatrix Monroe pitching for the South Soffit Sidewinders. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Cinderella Story. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Like the-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Crowd on its feet here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ Take me out to-- ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Sway roll for me here to see how well you're able to convince them to follow that kibble. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That feels-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Important. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I feel like everything is. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Double sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Let's go! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You befriend them? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So now do we have squid dogs? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come here, my squid hounds. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We are the squid dogs. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We are all squid dogs. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They teach us their language. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Today, we are all squid dogs. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(howls) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(whooshes) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm just going to. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're booking ass. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "As fast as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's about 20, 25 feet up in the air. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "♪ Under pressure ♪ SPENSER and MARISHA: ♪ (\"Under Pressure\") ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, that's a four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you all like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Where we at, Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You're going to bat right now, Finnerty? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "South Soffit's own. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will also have you make a Strike roll to keep them safe. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Could I assist? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Totally. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I can ball them off and toss them. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Not your gloves! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll get new ones. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They have inside their mouths the beaks of squids instead of teeth, and it extends out xenomorph style, and then devours the gloves. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Come on now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Their head turns up and starts to swallow the gloves. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Those were my most expensive pair. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Who wants to make the Control or Move roll here? You're making a Strike roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I may need your help. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Anybody else helping mechanically? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, it's a group roll. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can spend Nerve to be able to help here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to spend my last Nerve drive to help Marion. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hopefully haul my ass up this rope. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Use this last gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, that's right because-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Because it blew up before. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So as they are starting to climb up, I'm going to have you make that Strike roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Keep that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That is a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So describe the scene for me as these dogs start descending upon you and you start going to bat. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I start to-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's so \"Evil Dead.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, it's out of the park! God, god! And slamming into the dog over and over again and just like truly. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As the squid dogs start, their own blood starting to pour, the dogs themselves start tearing apart their own counterparts. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's a feeding frenzy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to take a body and a bleed here as that happens, but you're able to shake that off, blood pouring down your arm as we see you still holding true as all of you are going to roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We're going to. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to roll. Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got an extra one from a drive that I'm using-- and then an extra gilded from the pile. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Those comic books, what were those? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Those damn comics. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got a six on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes! That's amazing! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So as that happens, you see Sean, all of you make your way up the rope together, climb into the top of this lighthouse and you see Sean down below, a dog on his arm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Finnerty, up the rope! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The ump's nowhere to be found! It's chaos out here, folks! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm going to have you make a Move roll to get to that rope in time. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Move it! Move it! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you trying to get to the rope in time? Is that what you're trying to do here? What do you want to do? I don't mean to overstep. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "With LT-- I think with my lieutenant yelling, \"Move it, move it.\" Something autonomic, my spine moves of so many drills over and over again. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I just stay here fighting dogs until I'm dead. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "To slaughter those-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's an order, Finnerty, up the rope! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You got it, LT! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make that Move or Control roll for me, whichever you prefer. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let's do Control. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Roll well, roll well, roll well. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That is a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a full success here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You feel their beaks at your feet, and as you do, you watch as the rope below you gets devoured. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You finally pull yourself all the way back up and you're standing with the rest of your circle in the top that is now the bottom of the lighthouse, and the pulsing gets worse. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "They got no batters, they got no pitching. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You did good, Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Well done. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Very good. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll see what I can do for you later. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Five for five, batting 1,000. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Taking care of that-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What's that? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- arm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What arm? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Aw, Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, that's them? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Did you even feel it? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) That was good. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I rip a piece of the bottom of my frayed hemline on my apron off and I just do a real quick wrap of his arm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No, not your nice dress. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, this old thing? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Let's figure out how to turn this damn thing on. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You know, if you need me to pee on it to disinfect it, I'm happy to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Why do you keep asking to pee on us? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just over a decade this randomly comes up sometimes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see the inverted-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I can't tell if it's a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- structure. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I can't tell if you need to go! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Why do you want to pee on it? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Just once. Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's jellyfish and they kind of think it's not even jellyfish anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Down because, well, it's technically up for you but it used to be going up the other direction. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Kind of generally. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, but it's upside down, so what it requires is you to climb it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, it's a little weird, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's upside down. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I don't if that's the physics of what we're doing, but it sounds cool so we're going to do it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's like M.C. Escher shit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, M.C. Escher shit. Right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Upper body strength. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I want to fall behind a bit before I go up to center because the astrolabe is at the top of the lighthouse, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The astrolabe is within the core of the lighthouse and the light at the top just indicates whether it's moving or not. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay, so the center is where the astrolabe is. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Then in that case, I want to continue to the core because my focus is what can I do to get this astrolabe back and running. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, you all push forward into-- Or you at least push forward in the group, right? Knowing that that's there. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I do a Survey and just check my surroundings for any shadow monsters? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Survey roll for me here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What I will say is that this is high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ Then I will-- ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are within the belly of the beast. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Tits. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) Oh shit tits. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Shit, tits, ass. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Two on a gilded, so I guess I get my drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But as the two of you lead the pack forward, you find yourselves standing, almost too late, before a rift in reality-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Everybody's going to take two bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I take one bleed and then... " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I-I-I-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I will drop. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I drop. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Take a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I take a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I have a vision of this happening, and as I'm starting to take this mark and take a scar, are we losing consciousness as we take bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're getting lost in the bleed so we're going to go through and see what happens to everybody here who is dropping. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I push you out of the way. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you get one of those-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's a full on bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you also drop. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But she knows it's futile, he's going to do it anyway. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What memory from your childhood plays? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Never came back up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see this happen, push her out of the way, feel yourself fall. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Another finger reaches out and plucks at the string to pull at you, and it pulls and it pulls and there's nothing to pull and it snaps! Its face grows wide and it says, (spectral, hollow) \"Ah.\" \"A vessel already prepared.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do the three of you do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I watch as the two boys go down and I just grab Jean and I go: We've got to get to the orrery immediately! That's how we help them. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You have the book with the astrolabe, right? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I do, with the instructions on how to, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm just going to look at you and go-- All the humor has faded from me and I go: Run! I'm just going to rush forward and fire into this thing's face. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to have to run towards the rift, which is towards the creature because that's where the astrolabe is. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I just tell her: Don't look at it, just run. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Question for you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Can Sharpshooter be used more than once in a single action? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right, rolling six dice. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Double sixes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Double sixes! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Double sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hell yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Baby! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What does it look like here as you line up? So give me, in this moment, you've seen something like this before in your time with the Echo or with the... " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "NoMAD. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, with NoMAD, with the Ghost Platoon? Is that what it was called? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ghost Platoon. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me what moment you've had like this before that prepared you for this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I've seen this thing before because when I looked up to make sure my job was done this was the face staring at me out of the mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You've already taken a scar, but you're back up. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Does that leave me with one in the new because it was two bleed, or does it just clear the bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you already had three, you took one as your fourth and then it gives you an additional one. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The two of you are making your way towards this astrolabe as quickly as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are we doing here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm flustered turning the pages trying to find the relevant section. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sweet dear. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You know this. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's just surgery. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's just surgery. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's your thing. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Circle of the Needle & Thread. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Circle of the Needle & Thread. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Let's patch him up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and roll either Focus or Sense for me as you flip through that book. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to roll Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This is just to find the book, or is this the moment? You Saw This Coming, so for sure take another die. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "This is a pretty critical moment, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have the book open in front of you, and you see the shape that must be drawn with your hands in order to make this, activate this magick. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "My hands are the needle & thread. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Your hands are the needle & thread. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Burning a drive to add to you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Shooting again, keeping this thing at bay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I have one assist, it's gilded, and I'm also burning one of my own Intuition drives. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And you have an extra die from me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So that should be six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Setting the consequences. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I take a breath. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Gilded six. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Two sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Two sixes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Two sixes! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sixes! Hoo-ee! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "How do you needle & thread this? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would daresay it's my finest work. " }, { "Role": "Player950", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And that's why she's my muse. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"That's my girl.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The severed hand of this creature sits above you like a cage, dripping black ichor. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Am I awake, or am I still out? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Your eyes open as danger has passed. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(gasping breath) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I go over and roll the hand off and drop down to lie down, hold him. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(gasping continues) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Marion, are you-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No, no, no, no, no! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hey, hey, hey, hey! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's nothing wrong with me! (sobbing) There's nothing wrong with me! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great work, everybody. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are we okay? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, good. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Holy-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just checking in. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What a Hollywood-esque-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I'm fine, dude! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I love it! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I'm fucking fine, guy. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighing) Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We got traumatized a bunch. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're in it now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I want to talk about what our scars are that we took. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So let's start here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Staring into that horrible memory that I've always tried to forget, Nathan Trapp has piercing blue eyes, but his right eye fades to white-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- as it just glosses over completely. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's cool! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Almost burned out. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "These blue veins almost looking like tendrils extending across my chest, and now a little bit up my neck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The other part about scars that we should talk about is you move one action point from one of your action ratings to another. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you erase one and move it to somewhere else that's because of the scar that you took. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, it would have to be something that is around my perception, so I'll take one from Read. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Can it move something beyond two at this point? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It can. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It can. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Does any part of the scar become visible on Marion? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It starts to move up my neck, just little bits of it, little veins. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think I'm holding-- I'm moving a thumb across your head and holding you so that you have someone there. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I bury myself into your chest. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The first time you look at it and see that I can see it, too, I'm going to hold you really close and look at you and go: You want me to pee on it? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Would you? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And I'm going to hug you so close. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I squeeze the hardest squeeze I think you've ever, ever felt. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I got you, bud. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Would you do it in front of everyone else? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "TRAVIS, SPENSER, and LUIS: (laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I hate you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But I love you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But I love you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to help him get up and get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're moving one from-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm moving one from-- You feel my body-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- less strong. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm moving one from Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Into Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Three in Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are we thinking over here? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to have to use my hands more than my eyes now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Damn. I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Also, to put a button on all that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Bee looks-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You should be proud. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm afraid I have a funeral to plan. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Auntie Bee is really good with flowers, if you need anything. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) I look-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We cut-- Go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- at the light that's emanating from the lighthouse, take it in, and say under my breath so no one can hear me: Goodbye, Daddy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Now, those nine resources, they will not-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Regenerate? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- regenerate. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you all like to use? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. So my bleed is now at zero because I took a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So if someone else needs-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Stitch? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- stitch, I will-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I would need refresh or train after that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Stitch will clear all of your marks. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "All of them? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes, correct. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I would love that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I also might. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But this is for the whole thing, so after the next session, whatever we deplete here, we won't-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You won't have it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That doesn't come back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you have three available. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Does anybody have an ability to get rid of bleed or no? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Because I have a body, a brain, and three bleed right now. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm in the same boat. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I have two body, a brain, and three bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm good on refresh, because I have ways to regenerate my drives. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I didn't use any of my resistances. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You guys need-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But I would take-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I wouldn't mind taking a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I have a way to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I can also do Patch Up on body next time to anybody who needs body help. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Somebody else was at three bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Me and him are the same. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm up at three bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, we're all the same. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You have three bleed as well? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm also one, one, three. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Refresh gives back all your drives? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "TRAVIS and ZEHRA: And resistances. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do we also get other-- Isn't there other stuff that we get to choose? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So those are your options in between assignments. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Train gives a d6. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I might just allow you to advance because we're only playing three sessions, but I will say that, given the parameters, this is the difficult part. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Does it make sense, I hate to use them all right now, but we're only going to be able to do this twice, so does it make sense for the three of us to all just refresh, because we're all at three? One bleed for any of us-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Or stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Stitch, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Or stitch for the three of us. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you take another bleed, you're knocked out. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You get incapacitated when you get a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You go down until it's safe, in that scene. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "12 bleed, 12 body, 12 brain to go (blows raspberry). " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm good to hang out on a stitch, I think. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm good on a stitch as well. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would love to take a refresh, though, so I'm full up on Intuition for the next time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Spend a refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You're not going to take a stitch? Is that what you're saying? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You know what? I don't want to get knocked out in a scene. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's my thing, too. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You're far too valuable. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You're so valuable. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Otherwise, nobody's taking a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If no one's taking a stitch, I'll take a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I already got two scars. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Because you came in with one. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I came with one. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I can take one more. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can take, technically, yeah, you can take one more, and then the one after that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's that fourth scar. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to heal your body next time. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Would everyone be cool if I took a stitch, cleared my shit? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Stay up. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Stay up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So there's two stitches being taken and one refresh? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct, and that will leave you with-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "One stitch, two refresh, three train. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So anybody wants to take train, can. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Train is just an extra die, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That you just get to use once. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you just get to use it on your-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So we get these three guys. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You do have three already, so that would give you each an additional one, which is great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We'll gain an additional circle ability on the next-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We'll come back next episode, and whether we do it that episode or at the end of the next episode, that's sort of on us to decide. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Anyone want to train, or do we hold it and frontload it for the next one? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Frontload? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I think so too, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's why it was harder. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You did do two assignments. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Very true. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh gosh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wowzers. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So Travis, let's start with you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm playing Nathaniel Trapp. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And I'm Marisha Ray, playing Beatrix Monroe. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm Brennan Lee Mulligan, and I'm playing Sean Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm Zehra Fazal, and I'm playing Dr. Jean Basar. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm Luis Carazo, and I'm playing Marion Collodi. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Thanks so much. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, man! (cheering) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "More information about Snag at the break. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Pushing his fingers in on either side of the spinal column, and splits him in half. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And that's where we cut to all of you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs nervously) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Boy. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So I sought out a well reputed optometrist and he said that there was something that he had worked up for some of the fellas that had come back from the war. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It might just be my brain trying to compensate for the lack of periphery on the right side or-- I'm concerned it could be something else. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So I've tried to mask that and I've taken up in our headquarters in the meantime. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a knock at the door downstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do I know if I'm alone? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This place is a labyrinth. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is there a window I can check? A peep hole in the door? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Outside the window you see a small boy holding a letter. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, I open the door. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Hi, sir.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Hello, young man. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Hello. A letter for you from your father.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Reach in my pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "His hand is already out for the money. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Good lad. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Now make sure you go back to the letter's origin and be sure to tell the man there to match it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Makes off. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What does the letter look like? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is ornate, bright scarlet in color. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It says, \"Mr. N. Trapp.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Doesn't seem to be poisoned. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It does not. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll break the seal and open the letter. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We have important business to discuss.\" Gives you a date and time. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What kind of father signs his own fucking letter to his son? Anything on the back? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Crumple it up, commit the date and time to memory, and I throw it into the nearby fireplace. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(flames incinerating) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Pour a glass, then commit myself to the armchair. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me what moment we jump in on with you here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This is in between-- Space in between the assignments? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct, though we can explore anything here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I am not in my own bed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I am on the sofa that is in the residence of my friend, Jean. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But I am somewhere else in my dream. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What is that dream? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Exorcisms. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Jean, will you describe what your father looks like, or looked like? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Green stone? Brass? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So I turn things to the two of you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do not be afraid. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Dad? Dad, who is he? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You must not speak. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Your father turns, disappears down-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Dad! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Child, be not afraid. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Get away from me, I don't know who you are! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I hold it gently to the nose of the boy and restrain him ever so gently with my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(resistant whimpering) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Breathe, child. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Eventually you got to breathe. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "When he is calm, I pluck from my wrist piece a green gem on a pendant and I hold it over the child's head, and wait. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "suddenly it starts to sway in a circle around your chest. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I become very concerned. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hmm, we push in on you here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I close my eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Another person, he thinks you're different. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The night was quiet and the garden stood right in front of me as if nothing at all had happened. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Where did we find you between assignments? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Well, she takes a little bit of the pocket change that she got from the train at the beginning and goes by a bakery, gets a few loves of bread, strikes a deal with them, does a little bit of a bargain, gets a few loaves that are maybe a day old but can buy much more. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We're going to throw them out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You know me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"No, you can just have them for free, Bee.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Well, then, at least keep this for yourself, and you don't go and tell the manager. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"A good one, Bee.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Then she makes her way around the block, goes and pops into Grayslate. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We get a shot of Grayslate here, the sanatorium that you do laundry at-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- if I'm not mistaken, for money? What does Grayslate look like? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just those certain inanimate objects that you can look at that you don't know why, there's just something a little off about it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hmm, are you talking about the thing, the inanimate objects? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The front façade. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The front façade, yeah, the architecture itself feels-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Feels sad. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Even though it's painted a bright yellow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Maybe if we paint the sanatorium a happy color, people will forget that we've relegated and pushed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I think we get a really interesting juxtaposition here too, as you pass by the brightly colored façade, as you turn the corner and they missed a plank. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And it's that old paint. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And for a moment-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Gray, chipped away. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- it brings you back-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- to Seasway. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And now it's just left dull. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Left dull. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What's a normal day for you at Grayslate look like? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "First and foremost, checking in with Miss Margaret Mary Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Peggy. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Peggy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, you've looked better, you old hussy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Mm-hmm, don't I know it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I appreciate it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Inform her of the status of her youngest son. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You talk about him like he's a hero.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Well, he is. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see her eyes start to well, \"Can you give him this?\" as she pulls a piece of parchment out of her pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You know I always will. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm going to miss you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Miss me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Yeah. I'm going to miss you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We're going to get you out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She looks around, \"Don't let them hear you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I forget how loud my voice can carry sometimes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Come here, piggy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I just nod. Miss Cynthia. To the woman by her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Rosa, an honor as always, Rosa.\" \"Rosa, an honor as always, Rosa.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(shouts) \"No, no! (screams) \"No! (intensely screams) \"" }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I shuffle off continue to tend to my laundry duties for the day, wash up myself, fold the linens, and then I end my day by shuffling down to the Hallowharbor, find my old lavender-painted house with the mint green shutters. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to Seasway? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Going to Seasway. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Going to Seasway, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No one's even living it in anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The man is left. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I just, little kiss to my old Blue. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And he's gone, too. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Watch the sunset over the Glass Sea. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sean, what are you doing here? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I had a sneaking suspicion that you might be back in this neck of the woods. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I don't know if it's good or bad for my mental health, but I can't help the sense of calm it brings me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If it brings you calm, you know, can't be too bad. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I imagine I thought you'd be drinking in the Red Lamp on your day off. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm pulling double shifts over at the chapter house I'm pulling double shifts over at the chapter house you know, helping them take care of, you know, storage all the artifacts, and cleaning up, and managing the armory and stuff like that, just because I-- I figure I got to pay for my room and board, sleeping in the side room like I do. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I think you're far too generous with your time, you know that? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm not one to judge, look at me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Did you stop by Grayslate today? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I did. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How's Ma doing? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You know her, always the optimist. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I know it's-- I know you got the moves, but it's not no danger getting stuff like this in and out of Grayslate. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "If you want to send anything back, you always know. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "She'll hear from me when we get her out. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's a strong woman. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But I know in Ma's case, it wasn't even that she needed help, it's just a place they wanted to throw her away. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do you, have you ever seen anyone, maybe, I don't know, even someone rich, someone with connections, get pulled out of there? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Isolation, it's not good for the mind. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You saying the clock's ticking? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I am. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well, we got to make moves. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You know what, though? We've happened to come across, gotten to know over the past few weeks, these few missions with Candela, got a rich friend. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I've been thinking about that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And I got to say, that Nathaniel owes you one. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What do you mean he owes me? Owes me for what? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He opened up the hole that you got kicked down, you and all of your brothers. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No, LT's not responsible. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Now, I'm not saying he did anything maliciously, but naivete can be quite harmful, my boy. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "With all my love, Mom.\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(muffled thudding) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(heavy breathing) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And just as quickly as it started, you're brought back, and you're holding a letter unopened in your hands. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to go find somewhere to be where people can't see me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You find a place alone in an alley. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to take my gun out of my coat and I'm going to throw it down a storm drain. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The gun (clunks). " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Until then, with all my love, Mom.\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You sit out in the alley for as long as you need. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I head back to our chapter house. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We land on you, Jean. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I go back to scrubbing at my tools. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "How are the tools at EONS different than the ones you currently hold? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's enough that every day picking up these slightly charged tools I shy away from using electricity in my private life. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear-- Oh! Go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I have to steel myself against the shock. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear, \"Are you okay, honey?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gulps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "in a basin next to your father laying in bed. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And I turn to look at him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She sticks a syringe into the top and fills it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Dr. Boucher, if you don't mind, I would like to do this part myself. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"So tell me, when you were there with me, did she say anything, anything about the Anitithenai?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm afraid nothing that I can recall. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She's still holding onto the vial or onto the syringe with you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I just need more time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"More time, more time? You think we have more time?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I am not talking about a matter of weeks, I am talk-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And she releases it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "By the next session, I will have something to report. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You know what will happen if you do not?\" She looks over at your father. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You have my word. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What what does he look like? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Wheezing. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(wheezing) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "and slowly begin to push the adjuvant in. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "His eyes grow wide. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Sleep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Within the confines of the chapter house, you pass by a sleeping Nathaniel Trapp on the bottom floor to make your way up. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do I see a bourbon bottle or anything else around? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "For sure. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to skulk in and try to get a whiff of LT's breath to see if he would still be hammered if he woke up right now. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to go in, take a drink. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(grunts) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hey. Got the drop on you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I heard you coming-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- and merely pretended to be asleep. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Now I guess you got me exactly where you want me, which is crouched over your supine form. " }, { "Role": "Player951", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "My master plan has steps two through five that will now be executed, but in the sake of conversation, I will put them aside. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll give you a hand up. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Thank you. (grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You sleeping at the chapter house? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I've been sleeping here, too. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You have? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't have a house. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You don't have a-- You don't? What-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And, you know, two months later with nobody there paying rent and the only thing that was protecting Ma was because she had sons in the military, but when she got put in Grayslate, the landlord repossessed our tenement. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No, it's not your problem. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Because Ma has always, you know, she's always been a worrywart, but you can't get put in Grayslate for that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But there are certain last names that if we got a doctor's note, could maybe jump to the front of the line and, hey, I don't feel great about jumping to the front of the line, but at the end of the day, I'll take my guilty feelings with my Ma by my side rather than with her in the sanatorium. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I mean, if you can't use a name like mine for something like this, what can you use it for? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "LT! I'm going to lean in and give you a big hug. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(strained) God, you're strong. " }, { "Role": "Player952", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well, I think you're also a little sleepy and drunk, but that's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll look and say: All right, I got to retool up. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Wait, how long has your mother been in Grayslate? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How long since I got back from-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, probably three years. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Three years? Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And Sergei Olaf. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Orlov. Sergei Or-lov. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Orlov. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Orlov. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You know that? " }, { "Role": "Player953", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "there's always other tactics we can take with Mr. Or-lov. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Continue. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Maybe we find a way to persuade Dr. Orlov. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Honest mistakes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If you were to get some piece of tangible evidence, an anonymous tip, something like that, that maybe Dr. Orlov makes a lot of money from Arthur Duffy for more than just checkups? Would that streamline your process Would that streamline your process for a noted reporter such as yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It certainly couldn't hurt. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to get a new gun from the armory and I'm going to-- Knowing that if our friends are on the way, we're supposed to be meeting up here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're coming soon, but you still have time. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's like an empty pantry back when this was a place that needed food in it, you know? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "There's a military bed roll on the ground and I'm going to go in there, grab a couple of things for whatever assignment's coming up next and I'm also going to grab a baseball and put it in my pocket and move this little letter to another pocket so that I can hold onto the baseball. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "As he leaves, I'm going to go over to one of the shelves in the chapter room where I was not sleeping. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, downstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Put it back, shut the box, exit the room. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Would you like to wait or would you like to do anything else? It's up to you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I had a couple little things left to do volunteering in the archives. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So I think I'll swing by the archives and finish that business up as well. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Draven approaches you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mr. Kingsley. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You don't have to do that, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What do you mean? Don't have to do what? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I know you're compensating for something.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't have anything. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But the truth is, spending a couple minutes dusting shelves is probably the nicest part of my day, all things being equal, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I lost my sister, so I know what it feels like.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm sorry to hear that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I want you to know you're not alone in that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How'd you lose her? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "All of you join and see-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Toodle-loo! Hello! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Did you get enough rest? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, how's it looking? Did you patch me up okay? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "No more worse for wear. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Marion, help me up the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. I immediately go to help you up the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How is your hernia, Ms. Monroe? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm more worried about this one. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You mean... " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What are you-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I feel okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What do I mean? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I slept all right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I feel actually pretty good. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The rest do you some good? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got a little rest. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would love to take a closer look at it when we have an opportunity. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Anytime. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Did any of you other boys go and have fun? Hit the Red Lamp? Meet some people, y'all? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Always money to be spent. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Good. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Does anyone need any medication? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, they're obviously calling us here for a reason, and I did pay you a visit to get a little patched up (laughs), so to speak. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) (clears throat) (retches) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "She just stares blankly. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see Kingsley holding folders in front of all of you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Tell them! They're too young to be wasting away their lives. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Nathaniel Trapp, what do you look like here? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- awkwardly in an armchair. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Auntie Bee is wearing the same old coat, same old shirt, freshly laundered, a few little extra stains from blood, from the kibble, from the squid dogs. " }, { "Role": "Player947", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "While she may be wearing it on her face, she's not wearing it in her spirits. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So it's whatever he has, you know, wearing the same shirt. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So I think Sean is looking sleepless and agitated. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And with three bleed marks, she's a bit distracted. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "When she starts to feel-- It's almost like this sense that kicks in when she's doing surgery is kicking in at random times now, and she has to really steel herself and focus to stay on that tight tether of focus. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Well, (laughs) Marion is doing great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Apparently not, it's quite visible my boy. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But he's wearing, he's got the same pants and the same shoes on pretty much all the time as well. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The shirt is another version of-- He's got a couple different shirts, but they all might as well be just the same version of each other. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's definitely a fresh version of the same shirt. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "All the same shirt. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"We had another incident recently.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Damn it, Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Nah, I'm playing. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Good boy. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(pants) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"A member of Allison's crew was taken out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "More retribution? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This thing, whatever it is, is still on the loose, and I would hate to see it track down anybody else.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "How many were there in her circle? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He stares at you for just a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One of our men, Adrian, was there, but was not able to stop him in time.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Especially you, Mr. Trapp.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I assure you we're in very capable hands. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I believe that is so.\" Looks around. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Did it seem suspiciously off? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. Make a Read roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is he a face-stealing monster? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Read roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I will assist you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That sounds great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Because he's all up in my shizz. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Because he's all up in your shizz. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And he had onions for lunch. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "In this moment where everyone's really focused on Draven, who's acting weird, can I grab the folder with my photo? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I rolled a six and a one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A six and a one. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So six. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, six, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "His voice is the same, but what you notice is that the scar on his head isn't quite the same shape-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, fuck this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear, from across the room-- (pounding) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) (pounding) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- in one of the cabinetry. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, you feel searing pain on your back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's moved around to the side of you and put his hand on your back, and he takes what feels like his nail, and he drags it all the way down your back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then you feel a hand-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- around your spinal cord. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Someone do something! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and take three body for me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So as all everything you described is happening in my my head, I see his arms wrap around him-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This is a good ability. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fucking yes, it is! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This is a good ability. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I see him about to get torn apart, and I rush right to you, and I pull you towards me and tell you: Run! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He didn't get his hands around your lungs, but he is holding on to your spinal column here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(groaning) Gah! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're able to soak one of those. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Finnerty! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct? So you take two body. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I drop. (groans) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We're in a well-appointed room, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to grab a, what is supposed to be a decorational double-handed claymore broadsword off the wall and chop his fucking arm off. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, yes! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I can't kick him out the window because he's got ahold of your fucking spine. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, I said I drop, but I think I just go like this. Just hung down. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Strike roll for me here. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you come down on this creature. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So one of these is actually gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This is a Strike roll, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Strike roll, correct. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, so I'm going to burn-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You took two, right? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I took two, but that filled with three, which is a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That means I take a new one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I still absorbed one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. Two was enough. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you see one hand grasp around the spinal column of your lieutenant here, who is now leaning forward only supported by this single dark, long spindly hand that has dived into him. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I've wanted to kill Draven Kingsley since the earlier conversation upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh my god! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Just moments ago? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think what to everyone looks like, \"Wow, Sean's always really quick to act,\" is always, \"Sean wants to kill a lot of people.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "He's thought about this. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's before-- As Marion gets up to grab LT, I'm getting up at the same moment to grab the sword. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So that as the length-- He's holding on to the spine, and as Marion pulls, he has to extend the arm to go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see it bends the wrong way as this happens. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's the natural way that it's-- (laughs) Fascinating. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's the natural way it's body bends. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "There's a moment where I clock and I go: Weakest at the shoulder or the elbow? I go for the-- " }, { "Role": "Player954", "Content": "Oh! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Bam! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Goddamn it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You watch as the hand lets you go, you go tumbling forward unconscious here as-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "As soon as he say that, I was like, \"Fuck you!\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "\"We're the same.\" " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He stumbles back, the tendrils of his arm starting to grow back as the ichor drips. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Goddamn it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It started growing back? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Tendrils. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I want to run to where that thump was heard to see if it's actually our Mr. Kingsley, we can enlist his help. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a cabinetry unit. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What the fuck is-- (laughs) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a cabinetry unit-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Stop! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "His eyes are bulging out of his head. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "His body is tucked into the cabinetry, all as though he was a contortionist, but he's not a contortionist. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ugh! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Can I check his vitals to see if he's still alive? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Read roll for me, a Read or a Focus roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So I'm rolling four for Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you go to touch him- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Wait, can I take the one as a gilded to get my drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to take two bleed marks here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And that's a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Black ichor on her hand. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "While all this is happening, if I may? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Please. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's looking for a silvered serving tray, or a mirror, or something reflective. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right then, Street Smarts. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We still have our hand mirrors. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We still do have the hand mirrors. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, oh, that's true. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You could put as your gear if you want to mark gear for this. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Bleed containment gear and hand mirrors. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Potentially, I'm going to spend-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "My sister died,\" stares at you, \"at their hands.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is the sister from... " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The creature starts to transform from Kingsley into-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sister. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Kingsley's head slides up onto the top of its head. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is from the description, very clearly, the creature that killed-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Antonio. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And was not like the description what you saw. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He said Allison is still alive, but if he doesn't know that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Well, Allison was-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Halved. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So he's staring at you going, \"They killed my sister.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That was there. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think this creature says this to me, and Sean's internal-- The inside of Sean's-- Ears hear, but the mind doesn't. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to drop the sword and take out the shotgun. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If this thing's trying to tell me a sob story, I literally can't hear it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I rolled a six for my Survey, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Amazing. So you were looking for a mirror here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mirror, silver tray or something. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know there's one downstairs in the bathroom. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I pull out the mirror from my fucking pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The hand mirror? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The hand mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, the tendrils of this creature's hand reach out and shatter the mirror in your hand-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, okay. Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- crushing it and letting it go. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What the hell? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This thing is far beyond-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's trying to convey to you, \"We are the same!\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) I'm hearing that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All I'm hearing in my head is the voice of Dr. Nero back in NoMAD being like, \"You may see strange things on these missions.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "They may beg you not to hurt them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And I raise the gun. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take a shot? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, take a shot. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, sounds great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fucking-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(snaps fingers) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(body trauma) This creature gets hit, too, in the stomach. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We're going to get her out,\" and then stumbles backwards and then falls out the window, the stained glass window. " }, { "Role": "Player943", "Content": "(gasp) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Not my window! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) Oh, fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The petunia. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Disappears into night. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So there's no trace at this-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you go look out the window, this thing is gone. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Damn! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to rush up to the archives where all of the dangerous magick shit-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh shit, yeah. Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Rush up there. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You all are already upstairs but there's-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What is missing? 100% " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "He's had a hall pass. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're already upstairs, but the archives are back behind where the meeting room is. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I say that to you and I'll look at Aunt Bee and I'll be like: Check to make sure this motherfucker's dead! Doc, LT's hurt! I'm going to rush into the archives. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. Yeah, you rush-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm hurt. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Doc is out. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm out. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Unconscious, unconscious. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm like-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Marion, tell Doc-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got it. Go, go! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You rush back into the archives. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughing) Holy shit! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's as though this place has been raided. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(drawn-out sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, son of a bitch! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You were fixing things that were in the front room, but as you enter the back area that you aren't normally allowed to go, they are-- It is raided. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We're in the room together? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Aunt Bee yells up to Sean and goes: Check the cabinet where the androphage was! Which was up there, right? He put it where we-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's in the room that you're in right now. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The room that we're in. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, because remember, he took it from you-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- and put in the cabinet. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I open the cabinet. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a hidden compartment back there. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "As well as the other containment vials and stuff? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He ransacked stuff that's more important than that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Can you? I'm holding her. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to get her up so she can get him up. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to run outside. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you run around, you see a spot on the ground where the creature hit a carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Crushed a carriage down. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see twisted metal and wood, but the creature's nowhere to be found. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to try to Sense to see what direction it went. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, that sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "See if I can get a ping. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Kill, kill me! (raspy breathing) I'm not done! Don't let me end up like her!\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can Auntie Bee hear this, too? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I see the horror on Jean's face and I snap her face to look at me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You got to get Nathaniel up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You just, you tend to him. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Huh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Uh-huh! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I grab the sack with my good hand, and I head back to Nathan to do some patch up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You took an additional body, is that correct? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I did. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to use Patch Up here to do this? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to use Patch Up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So I'm going to make a Focus roll to heal an ally one body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a body scar, right? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, I mean, he had his hand around my fucking spine so-- (sighs) When you run your finger along someone's back and you can feel the little nubs of the vertebrae-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(groans softly) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "They're a little bit bigger than they were before. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And what really hurts in the beginning starts to feel really strong in short order. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And for some reason, his right leg isn't quite working the way that it should. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. What action points do you want to move? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs and stammers) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can also think about it right now, if you'd like to. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No, no, I'm going to move one of Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Into (chuckles). " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Into-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you need to shift one as well. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Ooh, going full strike. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Good. " }, { "Role": "Player955", "Content": "Good, we're going to need it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I, fuck, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I lost my Strike last time. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Looking at, oh, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, please go ahead. No. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "From what educated experience I have from tending to wounded soldiers, does he look beyond repair? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's very hard to tell from your expertise whether this is something that's survivable. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is he still pleading for death? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We're going to cut back down to you since I know you rolled to Sense which direction this went. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'll roll now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I just want to make sure since I told you to make that roll. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you can tell that this thing just went up to out of the carriage that it crashed in, up the street, and then took off up on top of buildings. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Scurried up on top of the buildings and went out into Hallowharbor away from the ocean. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, so more towards the city. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Uh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I rolled a five on my Patch Up with the gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So I am taking-- I have to take two Intuition away to use this, but I also, it was gilded so that means I earn one back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One back, so you only spend one to do it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It only-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So I don't know if you-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It replaces one of the-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It replaces a die. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I will note that for next time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, you take that five. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That five is directed to his heal. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What's it look like as you patch this up quickly? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "There's very, very little chance at any infection even as the bone is pushing against this. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can we see any of that blue flame on your fingertips? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Then for added benefit, I cauterize it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I was going to-- yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah! So good. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes! (pats table and laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Dang! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What the hell? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And because I-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Wait, give me the bourbon! (groans) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's good, that's good. (groans) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That should do it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I give you some more of that bourbon or scotch that you were drinking. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Here, just-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I moved it to Control because I have to work harder and be more specific now with my hands. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's such a good shift. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you look over at him, hearing that voice, that familiar voice, you see for a moment your father's face in his. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "His body was all contorted and shoved and broken and just fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I move over to King--? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I move to Kingsley and say: Listen, with whatever time you have left, where did that come from? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(breathes raspily) I don't know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fuck! I shake him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(grunts)\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Who do you report to? Who is above you? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(inhales raspily)\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Allison is who they have to find. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do you have a key? Anything? The hidden parts of this chapter house. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(groans raspily)\" His eyes bulge and they start to fill with blood. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "From my bag, I pull out a vial of shining green. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We have to keep him alive. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We have to keep him alive! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "At least for that much. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I begin filling a syringe with the vial. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What is that, my dear? Is that from EONS? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And I plunge the syringe-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Fuck! All right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- into Mr. Kingsley's arm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's, for a moment, a sense of relief. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Finnerty? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm upstairs in the archives looking around. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I step back. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I want to tie him up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "If there's a chair, I'm going to sit him in a chair and I'm going to start to tie his legs. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I will take the officer's pistol out of it now and stick it in my fucking holster. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(shouting) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hey, oh, hey! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Jesus christ! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, no-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm so glad-- No, everyone, I was literally-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Like, \"I'm upstairs.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He was about to go night-night. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If Sean had been there it'd be like, \"Okay, this guy wants to die.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Amazing. All right, we'll be right back. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Whew! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(dramatic string and marimba music) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you all like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He is just emanating bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just emanating. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I want to see if there's a way that I can determine by just tapping into that other layer that I can experience how much time he might have before he becomes something else or just drops dead. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Unconsciousness, I should say. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That is a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Beyond that, it's hard to know. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I start to inspect this level? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Rooms, the folder, why Sean's picture was in there. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just everything. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What you find are that there are folders on all of you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I did. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What you would gather from this is that this creature, whoever they are, was trying to learn who all of you were before you arrived. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Did this look like Candela had the-- Also, I'll come back from the archives and say-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We'll come get you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I'll just come back and say-- Yeah. Got to him. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "They raided us? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's nothing left up there? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Anything that was juicy is gone. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The androphage? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That would've been in the-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And I'll take the androphage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You want to pass that? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Might as well. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Johnny, was it? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(gulps) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(shouts) Oh god! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How's Johnny looking? Is he all right? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(uncertain noises) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(high-pitched) Free me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Free me! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He's our new friend. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Looking at our folders, does this look as though these folders were being kept by Candela and the creature made use of them? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then there's also like address of where you live, as well as specialties that you would have. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do we see anything-- I think Sean will take a moment to read his. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Specifically looking-- None of this raises a flag? Like having the location and information, we have a dangerous job and the organization tracking us is in one way reassuring, but I think Sean is looking for anything un-reassuring and is looking for anything that would be more-- Also, if there's a section on personality, I think there's a moment where he's like, \"Yeah, what am I like?\" You know? Like, to look at it and read the personality section. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Question mark.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The list doesn't mention my keen sense of humor anywhere. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nope, it's not there. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Focused? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The hell? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Would we know where files like this were kept? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you wanted to make a Survey roll to see where the rest of the ones for-- What you do know is it's this chapter house that would hold the records for the part of the organization that comes through this chapter. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Figure out where they are. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "These files are just ours. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You are very convincing. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Uh-- Yeah, five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Five. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm looking for anything that we can wear that's going to protect us against supernatural powers. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's loadout time. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, I want to really raid this and hopefully look for secret compartments that may have been missed anywhere. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You're going to be going looking for stuff? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't know that I can convince him to do anything. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Let's please not beat the shit out of him. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If we're not going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I want to help.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Where are the files? Where are the files on the other members that this monster is stalking? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Second-- Second drawer.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Where's the kid? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He looks at you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Where's the kid? Lucas? Where's the kid? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's cowering in the corner downstairs in the bathroom. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, this poor fucking kid. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He's here! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Who is standing there with him? Who went to find him? Is that you? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I'll go, but if Draven says that he's in the house, I'm going to go find the kid. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So the shot that we get-- We see-- you're running off to go with the files. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "\"Mr. Kingsley? Is he okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to walk over. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He gets scared as you approach him. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Sway roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What did he look like? [gunshots] [siren blares] " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "[explosions] " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(whimpers) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hey, hey, hey. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Get off of me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come on, honey. Why don't you come with me? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm sorry, kid. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to let him just scoot by. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take two points of brain. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(whispers) Oh fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But with that five, the child looks at you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(aggressively) You understand? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Are you saving the world or are you hurting it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What'd you say? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Are you saving the world or are you hurting it? I think you're saving the world, but I think you think you're hurting it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Fuck out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come on, come on, come on. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mr. Suarez? Come with me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The child walks forward, keeping eyes on you the whole way. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(stammering) I leave the chapter house. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see you walk out the front door. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There is not a remnant of-- Sorry, forgetting the name. The guy-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Antonio? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So they were clearly in a chapter house that was not Hallowharbor. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Also if he can tell me anything about the nature of how did this creature overtake him? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(wheezing) I'm not going to make it, doctor.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mr. Kingsley. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"What did you use on me?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's not important. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(gruffly) \"What did you put in me?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Adjuvant. You know what it is. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"That's EONS tech.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It was developed by EONS to mitigate bleed in humans. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Looks down at his arm, which is glowing, blue, green, purple, blue, green. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "But may I ask, if I may, what does it feel like? The Adjuvant? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have to help them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Help who? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Duncan and Farrah and Allison.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Duncan? Fora? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Farrah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Where can we find them? Do you know? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"No, it's-- (choking)\" As he says that, you see his tongue starts crawling out of his mouth. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It goes down his neck and then falls onto the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(wheezing)\" He can't speak, but he's trying to reach out for something to help communicate. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I hand him a pencil. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And a piece of parchment. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He takes those in his hand as carefully as he can and though his hands are shaking, he writes, \"Silvers--\" And then it slips. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is this the other chapter house? Is this what he is trying to show us? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's where they would be at. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm getting nervous. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I know he's given us information we need to move forward, but we-- I cannot let him die. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "If anything, you may be doing more harm trying to keep him alive. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Bee, please. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That shot you gave him, does it do anything to take the pain away? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It seems to help mitigate certain symptoms, but I have not seen symptoms the like of Mr. Kingsley and the amount I gave him, it seems to be wearing off. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you look up at Bee, you see over her shoulder, Avery Choi standing there. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You don't see anything behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Jinnah, focus. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Avery's standing in the corner of the room staring at you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You have to focus in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I will not let him die. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Jinnah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Turn away from Auntie Bee, and I look back at Mr. Kingsley and consider options to help contain the bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So she uses it like a smelling salt to at least try and mitigate some of the pain. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The effect will be greater because you're using an object to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "His hand grabs your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's all right, sweet boy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and take a point of body for me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But he lets go, realizing what's happening, not knowing his own strength. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I try to just-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "His eyes start to swirl as they do when the hallucinogens. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So I think every, you're not here, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I ran out of the chapter house. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The three of you, you watched as Bee gets hurt. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm still nearby. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear her yelp as this happens, you're still here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Get-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's watching something floating by. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I've got to go check on Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I will heal you later. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Auntie Bee turns and-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll take a look at that wrist. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm fine! Then Bee turns and goes look for Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Any sign of Sean? Quick scan. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm happy to leave it up to the dice, or if it makes more sense for me to-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Let's roll Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Street Smarts. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You want to roll high. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I'll roll high. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We'll say tie will go to the initiator. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a four. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Five on my gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Where does Bee find you? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm counting it kind of like a rosary. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ Take me out to ♪ the ballgame ♪ ♪ Take me out to ♪ the ballgame ♪ Do you remember that time, shortly after we lost your dad, me and her mother? It's like you and I think Tony, I don't think Jimmy was with us from what my shaky memory can recall. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Jimmy was sick. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And being just the sweetheart that you are, you use that to buy a baseball cap for your brother. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "He was looking forward to the game. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He was. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I just thought if he had a baseball cap, it'd had been like he was there. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You're a good man, Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You can't say that to me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You're a good boy and I watched you grow-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You can't-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- into a good man. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So let's go take care of business and stop asking me how I'm doing. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And I walk inside. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are we doing here? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is there any sort of a call sheet for Candela? Anything that would allow us to communicate chapter house to chapter house or give listings of other areas in Newfaire that we could go to, knowing that there's no file on the other two members of Allison's circle. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What you know is you have the address. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We do have an address. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You were searching for-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm trying to sense any kind of magickal objects. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you rolled, did you roll a Survey for that? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I did not. I'm trying to Sense it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, yeah, make a Sense roll for me, knowing the expectations here that like anything incredibly powerful has already been taken. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm just hoping to find something. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The telegraph just started, right? We don't have-- Telephones are rare. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So telephones are very rare. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Here, I would say that you could have telegraph, but it would be-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Slow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It would be-- Well, electricity was just being implemented. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just coming on, right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's going to be like from the railway station to the other railway station, right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This place is pretty picked over, but I will give you an additional ward for your circle sheet. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So put it on your circle gear down there. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So it could be on any of us when we declare the use. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Anybody, yeah, anybody declares the use and marks the little box that is empty next to there and-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What is this? Huh? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's like a ward. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a ward. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Cool, cool, cool, cool. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, this place is pretty raided, but he was searching for, Luis was searching for, or rather Marion was searching for anything here that might be of use to all in gearing up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is it just one ward? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just one that is in the circle gear, but if anybody wants to use it, they can take it, then nobody else can take it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So that's what you have, you have the address, you also have the name of the-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Does that, do you know these? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But he gave you an address and he mentioned the Silverslip. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's not far. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We should go, but Doctor, I'm sure you've thought of this, we can't leave him here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is there anything I can do to at least keep him in a contained state so he's not hurting himself or others other than the hallucinogen that Bee administered? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He seems to be in pain. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is something you could-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He needs to feed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You'd have to be very careful to not let it burrow. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But, besides that, there doesn't appear to be much here that would be of use to that particular goal. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I have any sense of how much time is left? I know we were given an hour approximately an hour ago. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know he probably has half an hour, 45 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If we leave here, he won't survive. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "If we can't help him, perhaps we should be thinking about containment. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Containment. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I hold up the bottle of bourbon and take my Zippo lighter out of my pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That can't be my call to make. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I believe Mr. Finnerty is outside if you care to join him. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Come on, come on. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Young Mr. Suarez, should we bring him with us? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We should. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Go to fetch him from the room he's been sequestered in and leave with Marion outside. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Keep him away from Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The kid. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You got this, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Thank you, Marion. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He's still awake, right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I owe you one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Kingsley? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Kingsley. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He's hallucinating, no? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He's a little-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, watching. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Even through hallucinations, though, we should at least put him to sleep before we light him on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm open to suggestions. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She sits down and she puts his head on his lap. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Hold on, you're getting close? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She takes her apron and she's going to try not to touch him with her bare hands. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's going to cradle his head and she's going to give him a knowing nod. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Mum? Mum?\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's going to clasp her hand, one hand over his mouth and then the other over his nose and press real hard. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is not to see whether it works, it's to see how well you hold onto " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "On a gilded! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "On a gilded so I do get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(muffled groans)\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She just lightly-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(muffled screams)\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Rocks back and forth. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(muffled whimpers)\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(muffled whimpers)\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Shh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mark two brain for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you watch a man go lifeless in your arms. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's a flash of feeling and Bee, it's slow but feeling her take a hit and on impulse, I try to reach out and then it just fizzles out and I'm out of steam. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Are you in the room? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I was on my way out. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I say then the two of you can regain a drive from my Non-Combatant-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Agreed. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh okay, cool. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One comes back. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And then-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'll take that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll see you outside. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "All of you on the street soon joined by Nathaniel. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We should be quick about this. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I reach into my pocket and hand you the slip with the parchment that Mr. Kingsley wrote upon, \"The chapter house in Silverslip.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We'll hail a carriage or take our own and start to head towards the chapter house in Silverslip. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The door is ajar. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(frustrated groans) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We should have a code, a term, a word, something so that you know who you are talking to, even amongst ourselves. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Smart. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Petunia, perhaps? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The name of my flower? The starry sky petunia? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This kid is with us? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I was going to ask. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He's on my lap. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We've got a kid. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That carriage that dropped us off. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's not too late. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I don't want him here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Could have sent him away. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You have a family house, right? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I do, we can send him to the-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What's-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Are there any Candela members outside the chapter house? It's completely barren? All right, I can take him back to that house, join you all shortly. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "For right now, is it all right for him to stay with you until we can get him to Nathaniel's house? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So I'm going to shrug, get the shotgun out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And walk in. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Habits. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "On the way here, I would have done a Ritual. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Intuition resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I think I would've also done a Patch Up on somebody who needs it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Before we go into this next section. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "For sure, who would you like to have Patched Up? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You have two body. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I've got two body. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Nathaniel, you have how many body? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "His spine is exposed. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Actually I'm body, brain, and bleed, one. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "One each and then Bee, your wrist? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just one, but I'm all right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive of resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's gilded, too, so one of those are gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Remind me of the prison or the police force here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The Periphery. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The Periphery. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The Periphery are the police force. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's a five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Whew. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you'll spend two Intuition to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Only one because of Well-Read. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, because of your Well-Read. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I get one Intuition back. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got one, one, one, one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Remind me what that says again. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I didn't fail. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's why I was asking. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "\"Earn back any Intuition you earned,\" okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you fail, you get them back, but if you succeed, you don't get them back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So I've burned two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And you have one less body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm walking in right behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Before we enter, I will remove the officer's pistol and I will go to a darker place and I would like to burn a bleed to switch. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, you'll burn brain. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Brain, right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You'll mark brain to be able to switch into your other character sheet. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Have we seen this happen? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What does it look like when you transition? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I spin it, slick it back into the holster and I begin to chew on my lip. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see a physical change in the lieutenant as he approaches. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I walk up to him as I see this change and I look at you and I say: What's the flower? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(deeply) Petunia. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Any particular kind of petunia? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Stars all over it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So just so you know, you'll keep your marks, you'll keep the amount of drive that you've spent, but you will be able to use your role and abilities, sorry, your role and specialty abilities. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just to be transparent with everybody, you are switching from? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Journalist to Detective. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Journalist to Detective. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Except for you, you're staying in the carriage? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I am babysitting. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you staying in the carriage or are you taking the carriage back to The Eaves? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Let's not waste time, let's be efficient. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to go to the Trapp residence to drop off Lucas. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, we see the carriage-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Then you're going to come back here and meet us? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do we know-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "As fast as I can. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- how far away is that from where we are? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I hate it, but all right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The Eaves from Silverslip? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a district or two away. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Across the bridge. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The Eaves are, sorry, Silverslip is number four and The Eaves are number six. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Six, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay, just across the river and back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right across the river. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll also take out my little notepad that I have from the Civil Tribune and write a small note to give along with Lucas-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It'll say \"Father, take care of this one as if he was one of your own, if that's something you know how to do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "\"Signed, N.T.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh! Good call! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hell yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Jeez Louise. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We return to all of you, what are we doing? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll tap his shoulder, go behind as we roll in. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm right behind, I'm third. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Auntie Bee, count to 10. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to try to ping any paranormal-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do your thing. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- shit in here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "10-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- nine, eight. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Woo. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(gruffly) Mm-hmm! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What you sense here is very similar to what you sensed previously in the lighthouse. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's some sort of rupture here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's a rift in here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And the doctor who sewed it up before is the one we just sent away. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "One. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to nudge the door open and start to cover the rooms and sweep. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "He would take near side, I would take far side corner and sweep in towards the middle of the room, cataloging all of that, clearing the fatal funnel of the door and then we would move in edgewise. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Bee is going to fall into old habits of hiding from the Periphery and she's going to literally basically turn and crouch and I'm going to hide. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, okay, that sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And watch and wait until the boys clear the room. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You feel it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mirrors at the ready, we move. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, moving in further, what we see here is a plethora of creatures that are stalking on the walls towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Plethora? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A plethora of them. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's like two. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We're going to make a roll here to see how that goes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Anybody can spend drive to be able to help with that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to say, as soon as that door was cracked, as soon as we got into that carriage: We Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player952", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And add a die because we planned for this shit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would also like to call over from the Trapp residence: Maybe a gilded die would be-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, actually, it was a good time. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The doctor's power has grown. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "A gilded die-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just earns back drive. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But a gilded die also, does that add? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That adds. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It adds a die, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Those are particular, if you look at what the ability on the circle sheet says, it says that they add plus 1d to the roll and they are gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Gotcha. I can-- Because we have that Saw This Coming, I actually am already rolling with six dice. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Killer. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Groovy. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So we keep that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That is a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And that refreshes the drive I used. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I see it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What does that look like as you do this? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We know to move, we can hear each other breathe, we can see each other's demeanor shift and we would move in, covering our sections of the room and begin to sweep and move outward-in, and finish the job. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They're in the immediacy right around us as we're passing, and also behind us, making sure that none of them pop back up that they've already hit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What is it like for you being back in this moment with the two of them? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I get to just be someone who's doing what he's told and I don't have to think about what I'm doing, and it's the first rest I've had in a long time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The door is wide open. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, goddamn it! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Before you, you see what you would imagine to be an entrance to the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Well, do we have a rough idea of the ETA of our doctor? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On a four or five, it's going to be a little longer. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "This is not a rift to the Fourth Pharos, or is it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It looks as though it's positioned to be one, but that something came in and tore through it deeper. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) It's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "How are you getting this carriage here as fast as you can? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hyah, hyah! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see horses galloping across the bridge. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hyah, hyah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fucking crawl out: You're going too slow! " }, { "Role": "Player946", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Tell him: I'll take over from here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for us what your father looks like in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "He wears the finest finery, even at home, a coat that resembles tails, pleated vest, and an ascot of purple velvet. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We watch him move inside as we cut to you, booking it across. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I remove my glove and I touch my flame fingers to the horse's flank in an effort to get it to move faster. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeehaw. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see the carriage weaving in and out of primitive automobiles and other carriages. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "\"Tokyo Drift.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, that's true. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We cut back to all of you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How big is the rift in front? It fits in a doorway, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's about two stories tall, this rift is. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Two stories tall? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Once you enter that space, this area within is like an extra-dimensional space. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, looking at this massive rift, does it look like the rift-- As I'm looking at it, does it look like the rift anchors at any point to the material of the architecture? Does it look like there's any point at which, hey, because it's replacing this Fourth Pharos thing, and that Fourth Pharos thing was built by Candela Obscura members, that, in other words, it's not floating here in an abstract location that happens to be in a house, but it's actually anchored to something physical? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A Survey or Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, we're going to do Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think I'm going to go ahead and burn my last drive here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, it's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It doesn't appear as though there is an anchor for the rift, but what you do see is that, just beyond where the rift is, there is one of these. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Like what you saw in the lighthouse. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And is it active? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is what is essentially creating the-- It was modified, broken, changed to be able to let something through. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This has been corrupted in some way to open up a rift somewhere else. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Light a stick of TNT, and throw it through the rift. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "At the base of the fucking astrolabe. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Don't leave home without it! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Grenades, TNT. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So are you throwing it at the base of the astrolabe? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is open and completely free-for-all. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So it's not that destroying it would stop this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, I want to be clear about the expectations here before you make that move because you would know this. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We want to keep it running. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You would want to get it to do what it's supposed to do. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But blowing it up here, as much as we would love to blow it up, you are aware as you're going to grab that, you look up, and remember the training that you did get that tells you these hold these things closed or control the way in which moving through them operates. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Does it look like it's moving in the wrong direction? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It would be like if it was here and then suddenly down to there, and then over there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Something like, \"What do I notice here that others do not?\" \"What might be of use to us?\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So spend an Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to know here? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "From the one that we've seen last time, if there is a gear that's moving the wrong way or catching, can I analyze it and try and figure out what needs to be moved, flipped, put back, wiped, anything, and analyze it and figure out where the misfire of it all might be? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The added information that you'll get here is that it looks as though that piece is what is causing the major infrastructure damage. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Almost like it's come off the gear or track? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is literally glitching in that it is appearing here at one time and then glitching out this way and glitching out that way. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Does that make sense? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I want to be clear with how this looks because it's weird. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got something. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "How you-- I'm assuming that this information is passing between us as we're observing this. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, I'm calling it out. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I'm going to-- I've been using a different way of seeing things to interpret the other layer of the world that's not just this mundane world, and now I'm going to actually reach into it and interact with it, hands-on, somehow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will immediately give you a bleed scar for this. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Stakes are high. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Stakes are high. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And we're in trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Use your gifts and I will have your back. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You guys might need it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see you having to shoot and hold them off as you approach this thing, attempting to connect with it, attempting to take on, as a vessel, the bleed, that it is pouring out. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(cheering) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(cheering) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Holy shit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take back two drive. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Come on, dude. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Well done, well done, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And immediately take a bleed scar. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What does it look like here as you succeed? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Something that I feel like must have been tugging at me for a long time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You feel the pluck, pluck, like somebody's plucking the strings of a harp. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I grab it and I let this thread start to dance around my fingers. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You watch it crawl underneath your skin. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I start to remember back, seven years old, this thing getting pulled out of me and me reaching for it and trying to pull it back, in my soul. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you do, you see beginnings of a rift in front of you, a thinning, in that garden, just (whooshes) with a finger, a tear in the fabric of reality. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Just not wanting to let go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just like the rip that went down your back, just like the rip that went down Antonio's stomach. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I start to see flashes in my head of all of my friends, other moments of them that haven't happened yet, but claws on them, ripping them apart. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "and a finger scraping along the thread. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I snap back to what's happening right now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Speaking to the thread: Show me where you want to take me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are you all doing-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I instinctually grab the back of his, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Same. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, I'm going to have whoever wants to make the roll, somebody else can help, but this would be a Move roll to get there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll assist. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "First, you have taken that bleed scar, what I will say is this is a life or death moment for Marion. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Where's that last gilded? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, where's that gilded? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I feel he'd be even-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. I rolled an additional-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm trying to manipulate it and get it to work and get it to go back-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Are you assisting me, right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- in the direction it's supposed to go. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How many do you have? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I have four right now. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I have one more Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Double sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Tell me, how do you keep him from going through this rift? The two of you, or any of you who helped, what's this look like? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Just going like: I cannot lose another brother. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(deeply exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You know, Marion and Auntie Bee have talked a lot about his condition. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He's confided in me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I just, from the back, almost telepathically from our connection, I just go: You belong here, Marion. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But the pull in there is so strong. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(thuds) And the rift. (whooshes) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm immediately grabbing the suspenders of Sean which is attached to Marion, and I'm backward driving, driving, driving. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "the astrolabe (crackles) and falls apart, explodes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Auntie Bee immediately runs and throws open the door, looking for the carriage, looking for the doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "There's a light emanating, the explosion? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, there's an explosion of magic from the top floor here that you see as you pull up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What did I miss?! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's Marion! Get in here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I come in to the main room with Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He just closed the rift by taking it in. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(whispers) He took it in? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He soaked it, he-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He took it in. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That is, if I'm not incorrect, three scars-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Three scars. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are on your last legs here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The veins that were on my neck have now wrapped all the way up my face and now they grab around my eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Jean, be careful, touching him. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I go immediately to his side. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I pull out one of the extra bleed containment vials that we have. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I take it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just be careful, please. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "But just to glean any extra information. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make that roll. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "How many bleed do you have now, Marion? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Three scars. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I have three scars, but I think now my bleed is-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, wiped. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- is wiped. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We have that ward, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I put my hand gently on his left shoulder without thinking, I don't care about bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Am I out? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're coming back to as this is happening. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(staggered breathes) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And what do I sense? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But what you can do to help him here with a five, is you can hold him and he can clear one brain. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I just hold him and I rock him like a baby. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The consequence from that five, that brain that you're going to erase-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That goes to you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I take a brain, gladly, I'll take as many as I need to. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know your smell, and I relax and I take your hand and I relax and I take your hand and I put it right on my scar because I'll never forget the first time you touched it, and how gentle you were with me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Now it's changed. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's not changed. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "There's more of it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Sean, Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm right here, bud. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Come here. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I get down and just hug him. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You know, you're my LT. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Auntie Bee, I'm sorry I yelled. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Don't be. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hey, you look like shit. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I feel pretty much like shit, too, but I also feel kind of cool. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You like, what are you, some kind of magician? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Did I do it? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, you fucking did it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I fucking did it? (laughs) I fucking did it! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You're a goddamn hero, Marion. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Hey, hey, no, no, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I know that this thing is still out there. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You got to listen to Dr. Jean. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He's right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I feel okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I said, \"Because the best kid we know don't got no soul.\" And all the men that worked with Pop, the men that sent Anthony into that battle, no artillery behind him, the men that court-martialed Jimmy, me, we all got souls, what good does that do at the end? What I know is whatever happened to you didn't change the fact that you're the best man I ever knew. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Like you can't, you can't just, I didn't come, I didn't just be this. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I know it's been your deepest wish to be normal. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I don't care anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And we're all depending on that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Who do I get to depend on then, you? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Dr. Jean. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I want you to tell me, who, can I depend on you, Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm a pretty trustworthy guy. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know, but that means you got to stick around. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm very glad I did not witness whatever just passed. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It fucking hurt, though. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So is Candela Obscura done? Is this over? " }, { "Role": "Player956", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's two chapter houses in one day, bad day for Candela Obscura. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Actually if we set this one on fire, then we're two for two. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's not going anywhere. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Well, maybe we don't set it on fire then. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Were Duncan or Farrah here? Any sign of anyone? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, it's been raided. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know that there are folders here to find out where they are. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Let's turn it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "If the layout is any way similar to-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's similar. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If you want to check out what the files are. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mr. Trapp. Can I-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How'd you know I was looking at my pin? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- talk to you for a second? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes, would you accompany me to the location? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're laid out in front of you from The Circle of Silver Flame. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ooh, ooh, what a-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Duncan and Farrah? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That is-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Allison. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And Joshua. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Circle of Silver Flame. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We got Needle and Thread and they got Silver-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Silver and Flame? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I said Silver Flame, so we'll go Silver Flame. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Silver Flame. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That was-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Allison. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then Duncan Walter and Farrah Morales. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Morales. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Morales. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Duncan. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Duncan Walter. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Walter. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And \"Fahrrah\"-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Morales. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It has their addresses on their folders. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you all like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What's on your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But your actions today, and our last mission and our last mission, have shown otherwise, so I feel I owe you an apology. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "All I can do is try and make amends for my shortcomings, and of the shortcomings of my family, and that's why I'm here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's the actions in the hardest times, what we choose to do, that's what defines us. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "When we turn our back on our families, it's up to us to choose a newfound family. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Well, you can call me Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Auntie Bee. (\"Ahntee\") " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh. (laughs) You and your posh accent. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(overly pronounced) Ant-ie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "There you go. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You drop the T a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(slurred) Auntie, Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That was getting better, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I don't know if that's-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll work on it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Good job. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Both our chapter houses fell today. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Who do you think is next on the list? I think it's him. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Why? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It already tried to turn into him. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "If it hasn't taken them out, we do owe them the responsibility of at least trying to warn them. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well then you stay with Marion and the Doc, and maybe one of us goes to Farrah's and one of us goes to Walter's and we try to get to them as fast as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do we know if the entrance to the Fourth Pharos is compromised, broken? Does it work? I mean, this is destroyed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This one has been destroyed. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's not information that you would be privy to. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What are the addresses? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, one of them is going to be in The Varnish, which is the downtown district. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Actually, very close to here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, it's very close. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So very in the industrial-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "East. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So two separate directions. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Two opposite directions. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One will be going north, one will be going south if you're going to split up in that way. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "There's still a horse. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "If you want to take a horse and go down to The Steel, I know a quick shortcut through to the Varnish. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Please don't mind the burn marks on the horse. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The what on the what? The burn marks on the horse? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Just take the horse, Mr. Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Are you burning horses now, Doctor? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fantastic. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right, well, alternative medicine. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll meet you back here. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So we're breaking up three ways from my understanding. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The three of you are going somewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You're going to stay here? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're going to try and fortify here and see what we can glean-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes, hunkered down there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- from this chapter house, and y'all are going to run errands. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Try to warn Duncan and Farrah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you going-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That is the rule of TTRPGs is-- " }, { "Role": "Player10", "Content": "Split up. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Split the party. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Split up three ways. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Three ways. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Like a Horcrux. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll go to Duncan. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You'll go to Duncan. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to go to The Varnish to find-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Farrah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Farrah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are you-- You're taking it by foot? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I've got my Street Smarts. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There are street cars. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I know everything. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Call a street car. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I just want to make sure you know your options. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What is the fastest? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The fastest would probably be jumping on a trolley up on top of the-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll take the trolley. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm not going underground. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Cable car. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Dude, you're moving through this city no problem. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's no longer Candela Obscura Auntie Bee, it is old lady, bird lady, shuffling through the streets unassuming Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Like Drunken Master, holding onto vehicles as you-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, pretty much. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Flipping up. (snores) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yep, and then flipping through alleys where I power-walk and then back on the trolley and then power-walking through the alleys and then-- Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "How are you getting to-- You're taking the horse? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll grab a horse from the carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Leaving three out of four or whatever. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, or leaving one to pull the carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There'd be two-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is it the one with burn marks on its bottom? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Your appetite might get whetted. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I think that's what they-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Don't look a burnt horse in the mouth. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll get on it and giddy up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. So we have this scene where we're seeing you go through the downtown Varnish, you're going up through Silverslip here and then into The Varnish, breaking through from the government buildings into what would amount to this era of skyscrapers, right? They are not as tall as they would be. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's full Slink-level shit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She can just cut through buildings. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The smokestacks erupting with smoke here as the moon shines down and you're going to make a Control-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The three of you, what are the three of you doing inside of the chapter house as this happens? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If there's anything more medically I can do to help? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got one body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to roll a Patch Up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "How you doing over there? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm all right. I'm one body, two brain, one bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "One body, two brain, one bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to burn a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oy! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I at least try to put balm on the freshly-minted eye and forehead area. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That feels nice. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I pretend that I need her to do it longer, for longer than I actually need her to do it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I stand there rubbing it into his temples. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Hey, Doc. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm sorry about your dad. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Me too. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You okay? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I think I will be. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We don't know how much we got. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm just glad that your time has not yet run out here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I feel like a piece of me went through that thing. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What did it feel like? May I? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You want to touch me? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, other than your temples, I would like to-- If you will allow me, show me what you felt? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I don't know if I know how to do that, but I'll try. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We'll do it like we did it before. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Then you got to take the lead on that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It mirrors his new additions and it takes over my entire field of vision. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm going to have you roll Sense for me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's gilded, but that's okay. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I didn't gild it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you let her see? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We walk through that threshold. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I've been here before. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I step away from you, turn around, and ask you to follow me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You've seen this already. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I know what happens next. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I remember he brought his daughter. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm watching this boy writhe in pain, in agony and my father, beard flowing, smiling. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I want you to see everything. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll see. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And I let go of your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Time isn't running out for you, not while I'm on watch. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "My eyes hurt, can you touch them more? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I give it to Marion to hang onto while I return to my ministrations on his eyes, ever more gentle, ever more lingering. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The world, for once, here at peace, if only for a moment because we cut back to the two of you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(snickering) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What did you roll? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What did I roll? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That was so beautiful. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A four. What did you roll? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "On a gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What do you want from me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What did you roll? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No idea. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I was watching a movie. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Me too. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, exactly! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I rolled a five! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Four and a five. " }, { "Role": "Player954", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What do you people want from me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm here enjoying good entertainment. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. I know. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I got the best seat in the fucking house, bro. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We need popcorn. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Fucking calm down, dude! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you approach this third story apartment in The Varnish, we see you move up the stairwell, up to-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Keeping an eye out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Keeping an eye out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "New lights. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Electric lights? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Electric lights. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Kind of hurts my eyes a little bit, I'm not used to it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "All seems quiet. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's not ajar? It doesn't look disturbed? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Not from what you can see out here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I peek under the crack? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I look under the hinges and see if I can see any movement, any light flickers if it's dark. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you do that, we cut over to you. You rolled a five. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is a working man's, a working person's place of residence. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The door here is ajar. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Got you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to look around-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Just a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I hate that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You went after Duncan or Farrah? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I went after Duncan. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Are there any lights around? Do I see any lights, mirrors, reflective surfaces, or do I see any possibility of a lantern, a gas lamp from a street that I could light a rag with to have light going into the--? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No photographs right now with this level of impoverishment. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But it looks as though there's seven, eight members of this family from, you know, a grandfather down to some grandchildren. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The glass is reflective here as you open the door, but nothing else glints. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You're in danger. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see the glint of metal. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I drop my weapon. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Who the fuck are you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "My name's Sean Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I've heard you, boy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm here because you are being hunted by a creature working in the name of Allison Suarez. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He goes, \"You don't think I fucking know that? I'm waiting for him.\" We cut over to you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I rolled three on my Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Set us up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There is movement within-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Should have spent a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You just see somebody moving. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to take out a bleed detector that I got. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Put it up against the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does it sense any bleed through the door? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It twinges. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I just test the door handle. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The door clicks. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ms. Morales? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(soft, hesitant) \"Hello?\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Beatrix Monroe, Candela Obscura. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She throws the socks onto the bed behind her. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How's she look? Does she have any type of vibe like Duncan had? Like she's already been taken over? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "She's fucking with socks! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She looks-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "She's focused! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She looks worried that somebody's coming into her place. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I love that the vibe of this place is someone's like, \"Who the fuck are you?\" and we're like, \"I like your style.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This guy's safe! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Someone's like, I need to mend the socks. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm good with you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We're, kill them! Fucking kill them! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's sus, that's sus! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Kill them! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The gun is not sus. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I want to do a quick scan of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Those socks don't match! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does it look like there has been any type of struggle, any type of break-in, anything that would indicate that she's already been compromised? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The lamp is a little bit cocked here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's it? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "For Needle & Thread, that's enough to fucking ice you then and there. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Demon core. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm not waiting for a fucking notification. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ms. Farrah, you're in grave danger. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "and you can see the glint of a Periphery badge on her chest. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, is she a cop now? I'm going to say-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Puts it down. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ms. Morales, for the safety of you and me, can you quickly recount me with the details of the night that you all lost Alison? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Sway roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to spend a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to spend two drives. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Pat her down for firearm or tentacles? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She says, \"What Circle?\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's asking my Circle? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You tell me yours first. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You know about Alison? I've been worried about her.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What's your Circle's name? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(groaning) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This bitch is a facehugger! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? He just told you he knows that he's in danger. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Both chapter houses of Silver Flame, which is the one we came from, Silver Flame, right? " }, { "Role": "Player10", "Content": "Silverslip. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Silverslip. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We came from Silverslip at the-- But it was the Circle of Silver Flame. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Are you isolated, too, or are you still getting orders? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"We're locked in,\" he says, \"I, I always figure I'm operating alone.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If you feel like your odds are better with help, there's help, but I'm not going to make you take it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If it's my time, it's my time.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You want to unload my gun, and hand it and the ammunition back to me? It's a long ride back to the harbor. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Give me the gun, you can go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do I have a way of getting another weapon like this now that both chapter houses have fallen? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's ways, in the city, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll back slowly out of the door. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh good, there you go, (laughs) oh, whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you back out of the door-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We hear him say: \"We're the same, you and I.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And he unloads. " }, { "Role": "Player957", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take four points of body. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, what? Whoa, whoa! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Is there any ability I have that I can potentially roll to avoid this? If not, that's fine, I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Here's what I'll say. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, (laughs) four! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As the gun gets pulled. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Well, you weren't shot, but you almost were. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You knew that your life was over, and somebody pulled you out. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "With those instincts, I'm going to say you can burn a resistance in Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you do that, I'll allow you to make a roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are backing away from him, no weapon, he had perfect aim, he was right at you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you can make a Move roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "To at least avoid two of those body. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "To avoid two? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Two body. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Of the four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Of the four body. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I have, I have burned both of my Nerve resistance, I have an Intuition resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will let you spend Intuition resistance, that feels like it applies here. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Sure does. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Some of this shit, you just can't teach. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yep, analyze, remember? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's going to give me a Move roll to try to avoid two of this-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Two of those body marks. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So, Move is going be one, two, three. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Can any of us help him from afar? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Everybody is away, you all split up. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Well, why did we split the party? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Can the memory of our love of him-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- help him? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "In a horror game. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's sort of the heart of eldritch horror is that the memory of love is the most powerful. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right, that's-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Care Bear Stare! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's the most common theme of eldritch horror. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We'll go one, two, and fuck it, we'll burn all of it we got to roll six-- [thunder rumbling] " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh god! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Dice. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Damn it. " }, { "Role": "Player958", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's the rumble. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's the table-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, thank god! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me here what happens. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's, you know, he has, I assume, a shotgun in his hand. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So all the skin is gone off my chest. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Poof! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Just scrapes, I'm cheese gratered across the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(grunting) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "At the doorway, I grab a panel of loose wood on this shitty old house, rip it off the doorframe, leap forward, grab it, and I'm going to attack him with this just piece of wood. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What I will say is high stakes roll, expectations here are: On a miss, he will shoot you again. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Got you, great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On a miss, you might still take some more body-- or sorry, on a mixed success, you might still take some body. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(high-pitched, nervous laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm disinfecting my hands from a distance. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Question. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Knowing what's to come. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to read you the text of this ability. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do I, I mean, he's not with an earshot for me to warn him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But am I able to, even though he's far away, have a premonition, and be aware of him being in danger, even though I can't help him absorb, dodge any of those marks? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yuck. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Does something go off in my mind, and I see a vision of this gunfire coming at him in this doorframe? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You get the premonitions. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you are not within-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know I can't help him-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- communication, you know-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But I know he's in trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's the compromise I'll make there. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes, great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Burning all of my drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I won't make you burn a thing for that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can just have that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I also want to say, just for posterity, that I have three marks in body, brain, and bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(claps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Fives. Two fives. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Can you-- Do you got any rerolls? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I got no rerolls. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "He's all spent. " }, { "Role": "Player959", "Content": "All spent. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see around the wound (pulsing) chromatic aberrations, and its face shifts into you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to take two points of body here. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We hear the cock of the shotgun once again and that's where we're going to end tonight's session. " }, { "Role": "Player54", "Content": "(groaning) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh no! No! Wait, our pins like light up and go (beeping) because someone's down, like at a rave? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The power of love! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If we love each other enough, certainly no one can get murdered. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got the premonition-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This one is your Care Bear stare. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- and I couldn't help him. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's right, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, you know, to be continued. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "There's no way you can get to him in time. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But we know he's in trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He's too far away. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know he's in trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We don't know if my girl is a fucking day walker. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, ostensibly, maybe-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So you're saying she's just that weird in real life. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Were the socks matching?! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Put your fucking socks down, lady. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What're you doing with those socks at a time like this? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Like-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We just closed another rift. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So let's go around and figure out what we want to spend. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Who needs stitch the most? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I've just got one body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm one, two, and one. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "But I only have one scar. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Maybe the doc? Unless, how are you looking? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I have one body, two brain, one bleed and two scars. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I feel like you need-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I could use a stitch or I could take a train and take that d6. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We only have one stitch left, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have two stitches left. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We have two stitches left because he didn't take one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So two of you could take it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I mean, if no one else is taking it-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But it you won't have a refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I didn't burn a ton of drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So I'll take a train. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. You'll take a die? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "All right, I'll take a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We each just can have one, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do we have a refresh as an option still? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "There are two refresh left. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's good. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I have one more of these right? And you can't take one? I'll take the last stitch, I guess. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's not fair! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's how it goes, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Damn! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The cold look as you yelled, \"That's not fair,\" at a Candela GM. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Usually that works! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Fairness is one of the-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's called Fairelands. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Fairelands! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's called the Fairelands! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What kind country is this? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's the Unfairelands. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "N-O-T Fair. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Throw it all out. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. Are we out of-- Who took refresh? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I was like, \"The sock lady. No!\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I took refresh so we got two train left and one-- Well, we all took one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As long as everybody took one, that's what we're at. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's uh-- It's uh-- It's, it's-- No, no, no! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's been a few years. Give me a minute. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Do we have anything else we want to do? Anything else? I think that's the hold. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We're in Silverslip. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But there's a lot to happen before we get close to that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Get sleep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Start with you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm Travis Willingham playing Nathaniel Trapp and I have two scars. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Marisha Ray playing Beatrix Monroe, aka, you can all call me Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm Brennan Lee Mulligan and I had the honor of playing-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- Sean Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm Luis Carazo and I am playing Marion Collodi. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We'll see you next time. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Additional information about Snag will be provided at the break. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "reading the events that unfurled. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Lightkeeper Dolores Finch.\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Will you remind me what happened upon your arrival here? what happened upon your arrival here? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Well, we arrived at the Silverslip chapter house because we were tracking down what we thought was hunting the members of that circle. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Circle of Silver Flame. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "In there, on the other side through it, the astrolabe was through that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. Broken or covered in bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Covered in bleed, glitching and moving backwards. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Anyone else want to jump in? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Made it over as quickly as I could by carriage and arrived after a rather devastating incident had happened that Marion thankfully escaped from, but very nearly didn't. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Then after that, we figured out that we needed to get to the remaining members of the Circle of Silver Flame. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Duncan and Farrah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We sent Auntie Bee after her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. What happened when you got to Farrah's? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It was unlocked. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) Just barely. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Which is a bit alarming considering there were other Candela Obscura members posted guard outside of the other Silver-- ♪ Silverslip ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Flame? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Farrah was tending to some socks in her sock drawer. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But were they matching?! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But there was still a bit of a tense standoff moment as we try and figure out if each of the other one is legitimate in their claims. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sean, will you remind us what happened when you left for The Steel? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Will I, Spenser? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Please. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I believe the door was shut. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The door was open. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The door was open, the door was ajar. That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ajar, I hate that word. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We know that. " }, { "Role": "Player67", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I got grazed across the chest, grabbed a spar of wood off the doorframe to try to kill him and managed to injure him, but not before he shot me and I lost consciousness. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Well, at this point, I was-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I was-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Being tended to by Jean. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And suddenly, I got a vision of Sean in danger. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A premonition. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Where are you at this point? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Would I even happen to know who that is? Totally unfamiliar-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Not somebody that's within your chapter house, but you would guess that it's one of the Lightkeepers from the Silverslip chapter house. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Given the context there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "There also seems to be a leader amongst them and they speak of a Mother that they're trying to bring through the rift and-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The Mother. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Why, what's going on-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I don't know if he's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He went to Duncan's residence? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes. Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is that right? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "In The Steel. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I'm going to go, we got to figure out how to get-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's a neighboring area. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see you step onto the street and-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Can we get two carriages? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Two? Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What are we going to do with Auntie Bee? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "She's in The Varnish, she's not-- Should we send one for her? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think we should. We need to get together somehow. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If Sean is in danger, did you-- It's possible Auntie Bee may be in danger as well. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think so. Look-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Should we split up? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes, we definitely should. " }, { "Role": "Player942", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "This how we do this. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I should go with you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think you're the fighter that we have left. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Brave as a lion. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Just make sure Sean's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "No, you're going to Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Wait, what? Oh, Sean, Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You too Sean, I think, right? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, you don't want to go to Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I do, I just-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's the term. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "All right, let's go to Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Duncan's residence. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Turn of the century term. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Get Auntie Bee and meet us there, " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Supes fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I should go to Sean, too. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I feel like you should go check on her. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to raid the armory in the same way that my boy did. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I don't know if there are-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's no military tech here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But there are hand weapons here akin to your pistol that you have. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is there anything I can sense here that would be of use in this specific situation? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. Go ahead and roll Sense for me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's cute. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're reaching out to the chapter house to see if there's any artifacts that might've been hidden-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "My intuition tells me, ah, I'll need this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're taking-- It was gilded, though, right? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Gilded. Two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to find something, but to do it you'll be taking two marks of bleed from reaching out to a place that is " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "From that two. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to use Premonition. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You can't go too far into that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Thank you, Marion. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So you resist one mark. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Almost like it was a hiding place. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I head towards the sofa, I push away a cushion that's been mangled, and can I see? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The cotton and the foam looking like the internals of a body. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hmm! Very comfortable here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And you find this box. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Prop. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Prop prop, prop prop. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to open it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Inside the box, I find four-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Marks. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Five-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You die. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Bullets, bullets, bullets. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Just a snake hand. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That'd be so good. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Perhaps one for each member of our circle? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One for each member of " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh!" }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Dare I open a pouch to look inside at this moment in time? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes! Yes! It's an eyeball. Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You want to open one? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's two golden rings on a gold thread. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do we know what this does at all? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. Are we familiar with this? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So with that Sense roll and with that bleed that you took-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You realize that these are artifacts that are sometimes held by Candela Obscura members. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It allows you to push yourself magickally. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So these things are not typical for Candela Obscura to use, but they look as though they've been hidden away in case of dire need to be used. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "In case of emergency, break. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ha. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We definitely need them-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'd say this is rather dire. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep, yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you can take bleed to add an additional die to any roll that you make. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Lots of bleed to give. Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Go ahead and distribute two of the pouches to Mr. Trapp and to Marion. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Good throw. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh yeah, one for Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, one for Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But Auntie Bee is not there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I lost it in the dark! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That was scary to see. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(shudders) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wasn't much of-- Wasn't as coordinated. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I will get mine-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, you'll get yours when you-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "My one hand is out of commission. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "To not be tempted. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's so dark, it just-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll hold onto the last one for Mr. Finnerty to give to him when we see him again and heal him. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You just got to tell her how you've been because I think that might help you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Remind me, where did we land? Am I going after Auntie Bee or am I going--? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, you're going to Farrah's residence. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I am. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And we are going to Duncan's. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We are. I'm really worried about this because-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Time is of the essence. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do you have a gun? Can you shoot a gun? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Uh... " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "There was another pistol in the armory. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm taking it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll give it to you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think you might be a better shot than me right now. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "For Mr. Finnerty, I will take it. I take the gun. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mark a hand weapon. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "With that-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(slurred, repeated) We're going to be great! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(slurred) We're going to be great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We jump to Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It was the Circle of Silver Flame.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Circle of Needle & Thread. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"That's out of Hallowharbor, yes?\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Please. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, come on, bish. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do a pretty roll, bish. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come on, bish! I'm going to use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Train allows me to add a gilded die to any roll. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just a regular die. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just a regular die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "When you use that guy, when you burn the bleed, it lets you add a gilded die, not a regular die. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Sick. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That doesn't count for one of our three. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We went our separate ways, but she pulled me back into all of this.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's still alive. Do you know that? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I can only imagine if they're breaching Silverslip and Hallowharbor that they're looking for access.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We got Lucas to a safe place. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Lucas?\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Her son. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"God, Lucas. She--\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He thinks both of his parents are dead. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So I can only imagine this thing would want to finish the job.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As she says that, with that five-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come on, come on, come on, come on, please. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear skittering in the ceiling. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We got to go. We got to go, please. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She goes, \"Okay, give me a moment.\" She grabs the gun-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We don't have a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As she does, you see movement, shadow pass by the door, by the front door that you're trying to-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ms. Morales, we got to run. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(yells) It's yanking her? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, with that five they're trying to take her. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(frustrated yell) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She's fighting to come with you, but they're trying to take her right now. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Crack out the nunchucks! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does she have her pistol? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're seeing a massive black hand reaching in the window. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does she have any dressers, bookcases in between her and the monster? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see disappearing into the darkness two beady eyes, only reflecting the candlelight that's in the apartment here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So with that, the dresser, can I take the dresser and try and throw it on top of this creature? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you could try and grab the dresser and tilt it onto the arm if you want. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "In front of the-- Yeah, in front of the window? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That sounds like a Strike roll to me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ Not what I'm good at ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Unless there's something else that you think would be more fitting, but I think you're trying to-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, that's probably right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- attack a thing here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to burn both of my drives that I have left in Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I need this girl, five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and describe for me how that happens. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But seeing that, I want to try and cut off its path to her and Auntie Bee gets, like when she confronted Sean, just that kick of adrenaline, that old lady strength and she (grunts) hernia be damned, and then torques her back to throw the dresser in front of it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player954", "Content": "(yell) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's landed on top of me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I just want to try and get enough space between me and it, grabbing it by the throat and pushing and I'm going to look at her and I'm going to go: Shoot it! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Shoot her! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm going to ask you to make a Control roll here to keep this thing at bay as you try and position it for her to shoot. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Please be good, three? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a three. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ I got a drive back ♪ (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a three. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to take a point of body and a point of bleed here as this happens, as it's trying to force both of its hands into your mouth and down your throat. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to not look at her and just say: Run. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No, it's more like (babbles). " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(garbled yell) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She makes a calculated risk and goes running for the front door. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hoping this thing follows her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Things at reach, any lantern? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, the lantern with the sconce that was... " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, it broke my mirror remember? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It did break the mirror, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But yeah, if it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's that sconce that's on the wall, if you want to try and grab that and slam it into it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to exactly, try and grab it and bash it up against its head. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, what do you want to use here to do that? Strike would be the obvious one, but if you're trying to use something that feels a little more like you're surveying the room in between stuff, I might give you that because you're trying to use the room. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll take Survey if you'll allow it-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, you want to use Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- because I'm trying to reach and get it off. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So make that roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ Using a drive ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Crawling in your mouth now. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Using another drive. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Howdy. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "How do you smash this thing into it? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I imagine it's one of those moments where as it's trying to climb its way into me, I just, with the tip of my fingers, as I'm trying to just, and luckily Auntie Bee has those long old lady fingernails, she gets it just enough and I imagine that foreshadowing of seeing it a little off kilter on the wall, just allows to have that perfect leverage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, by being off kilter. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, to get it just enough to be able to smash it up against its head. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I run! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Run, great, make that Move roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Do I see what's with the creature in between me and-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It looks as though it's pulled its hand out and disappeared from the window, but... " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The second one that was following... " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It saw her running and disappeared out the window. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You would guess probably going down. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "On my way out, I want to haul ass is the priority number one, but if there is either a mirror on the wall, but if there is either a mirror on the wall, one of those how back in the day, they had the lipstick mirrors by the door, or if she sees a hand mirror or a lantern, something I can grab between here and my way out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will say that we will make this part of that Move, but I will need that Move roll to see with this thing ready to pounce on you if you're able to get there safely. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You turn to run. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's holding onto you, but it is going to cause one point of brain as you realize this thing has attached to you and it is on fire and your clothes are starting to catch fire as this happens. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Auntie Bee is going to take her big, quilted coat, throw the quilt off. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Let's go! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's just not going to stop. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Like a weighted jacket. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Linda Hamilton fucking-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Piccolo from DBZ. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No sleeves. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's been fighting with weights on. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Does the fucking Henry Cavill like-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(punches) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Click, click, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You fucked up creature. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's not going to stop coming after me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see you throw it under your arm as the creature in the doorway starts to pick itself back up, its neck popping and snapping, and you see the black ichor dripping out of its face as it's starting to heal its wounds. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is it looking towards me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you have a moment here, you have the jump on it here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay, I'm-- as it's down, I'm going to take the mirror and fucking shove it in its face, wherever it's trying to look, just full, and I want to use it to shield myself-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, that sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- as I jump in its line of sight. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Control roll for me as this is happening. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Try and line it up, so it's seeing itself under pressure. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ Three ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We got these dice in the middle, too. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Did you want to use one of those? You can roll one more, I'll let you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do we know the stakes on this? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I mean it feels-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Definitely high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Roll! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Figured. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Five! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a five, good! Okay, love it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Do I get another drive back, since those girls-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You do get a drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, Jesus Christ. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh jeez. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(roars) at you like-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I want to try and run away from it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "With that five, you know that you have the ability to run, but it's going to run after you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to toss it into the corner to try and throw it off its track. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's either going to be a Hide or a Sway roll because you're trying to trick it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll do Hide. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What is that? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Dual ones. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Duals. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Do you have a resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, I do! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I do! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Reroll those Hide dice. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Rise of the resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ Thank you for the reminder, GM ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's really great, but also it doesn't say great things when the GM starts reminding you about the rules. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "100%. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I know when I do that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "A one and a six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Six! Take that six, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Man, that, and it was not on the gilded die, but that six is more important. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me how this works so well. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I even want to try and aim for the direction that the overturned dresser is. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "To maybe-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Get it to run back into the room. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, exactly, maybe it trips it up a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "As it falls on wreckage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are riding through the Varnish. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(yelling) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The person who's-- what's that called, the person who runs the coach? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, the driver. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The driver? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Coachman? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You also hear a scream from inside, but we hear it from outside here with you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's me! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It does not look like a spider, but the closest thing you could imagine in comparison would be a spider, but the edges of the legs are all hands instead of points. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughing) Ugh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The creature's the size of about what? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The body is the size of an SUV with eight legs. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll say: Auntie Bee, who came to help you, where is she? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, make a Sway roll for me to get her to speak to you amongst the madness. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "♪ Amazing on the weekly top 40 ♪ (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The coachman goes, \"Fuck this!\" and takes off in the carriage-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- leaving you there. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Giddyup! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Goddamn. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I hope he survives. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to put my mirror in Farrah's hand and say: " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to run inside after Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She's unloading the gun in her hand. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I wouldn't just abandon her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll join and start-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You would have to run by it to be able to get up the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We'll both, both angles, so it'll have to pick one or the other. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ Hauling ass down the hallway ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How heavy is this mirror that I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Also, you said you're jacked, so I'll let you run with it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "My stats do not reflect that, but sure. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Big triceps. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll actually take the mirror, having my thick knit gloves on that wire that will hang the mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to have it behind me and have a back-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Like a cape? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Like a cape. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So if it's chasing after me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "As I haul ass now down the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It turns the look at you, sees itself and (eldritch screech) recoils back into the room as you look over your shoulder. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Flip the bird. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You made a Control roll here for me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It was a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can shoot it and it can come at you, or it can go to Farrah and that will open up a line of sight for you to be able to go and help. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You ugly son of a bitch who has six hands! I start shooting at it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm going to have you make a Move roll to get out of the way of its massive, spider-like appendage with human-like hand on the arms. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Threes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It takes you into its grasp and it brings you up and it starts to squeeze you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(choked gasp) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's opening its mouth as well. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Am I able to run and take the mirror and throw it in front of its face, cut him off between the two of them? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This thing is pretty high, but if you were to get in front and maybe make it look at itself, that would be a Move roll to get there in time. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to be like: Hey, dip shit! Then try and get it to look at me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You said it was a Move? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What I'm going to say is, in order to get there, you're going to have to run out in front of it and put the mirror in front of it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, get in front of it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can see the eyes that are built into its thorax. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ugh, two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's a two. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "While it's also choking the life out of me, can I try and fumble in my pocket to try and get fingers on the little Zippo lighter that I have? But as I'm looking into it, can I go: (strained) What do you want? What are you here for? Just to see if I can get it to talk at all. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a-- Make a Sway roll to try and get it to listen to you here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Double sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) (excited yell) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(lighter clicking) (laughs) I'll try and hold it, single little flick. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player956", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Maybe these monsters are-- MARISHA and BRENNAN: Flammable. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Well, we did see that one of them was, right? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's all I got! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Wouldn't be the first time-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Maybe he just doesn't like fire. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I've read a lot of penny dreadfuls about aliens that get defeated by colds and glasses of water. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah! (laughs) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Maybe a simple flame will do it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's going to devour this until you hear Lieutenant speak up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It drops you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(thud) (desperate gasp of air) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As it moves, you see the flame flicker outline disappears behind the building. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "As it was holding me up and answering, was its face contorting or moving at all or just staring daggers? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, it had 12 eyes that were all looking at you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Awful. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is not-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's 10 more than it needs. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, we see you and Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I just run up. Trapp! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(gasps) (coughs) I came to rescue you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wait. Farrah?! Where's Farrah? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She drops the clip out of it. " }, { "Role": "Player943", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I heard \"she drops.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're in it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're in it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She drops " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Dope. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Where we going next?\" We cut away from that to-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Good job. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice job. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(heavy sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Good job. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Woo! Hey! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What the fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(heavy exhale) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Are you okay?\" You hear it say. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I'm sorry I had to shoot you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't blame you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I know why.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to check my pocket for my baseball. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Oh, I didn't take your things.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "None of them? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I did bring you somewhere safe.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You got a lot going on in there, you know that?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(coughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Come off as a jughead, but a jarhead, but...\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's like a bandage? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Yeah. Yeah, like a bandage.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Am I dead? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We're both monsters, well, you said that right before you shot me, so it was payback.\" \"right before you shot me, so it was payback.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "respectfully-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Sure.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Why am I alive? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You want the same thing I do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What's that? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You tell me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Revenge? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Looks like you're just getting started.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What'd they do to you that you want revenge for? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He was part of it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Where you come from, right, it's on the other side of this Flare? it's on the other side of this Flare? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "When you've gotten your revenge, what are you going to do? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have to let me in deep.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What does that look like? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So tell me, who is it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Arthur Duffy, Sergei Orlov, and there's more after that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Okay.\" Nods. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I can tell you where they live. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I believe that takes you over. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Second scar. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We jump from there, back to the two of you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We're in the carriage, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We're heading to-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "On the way to the residence of Duncan. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm doing something on the way. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm searching for any pings, not of monsters, not of creatures, but of people like me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's got to be more like me in the city, there's got to be other kids like that seven-year-old that I once was. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right, go ahead and make a Sense roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to burn two Intuition drives. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I see you deep in progress and I would burn an Intuition to lend an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The highest is a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Another one dancing, normal people, those like you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "As soon as I got one ping, I don't think I would ever break it until we got to where Sean is. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I think being where you are. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm lost. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're lost. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm still... " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The driver peeks back through the curtain and is like, \"We going, or what?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Would it be possible to wait here? I ask. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You want me to wait here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, with him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Oh, with him.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Until he's ready. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Will you pay me for the time?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Please wait here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I'll do whatever you want, lady.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I burst out of the carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I look at the door to the residence. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Your favorite word. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But the door is open here for you to go in, if you'd like. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I think I need to sense, is there current danger if I were to enter? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What I can tell you is whether or not there are things that have bleed-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- within. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's what I could give you with that, if that works for you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But I will say you are in danger of taking a bleed if you roll a mixed success or a miss. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Could I Focus, then, and not use my Sense-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You just, I think the shot we get here is you standing in front of the door that's ajar, being like, \"What do I, how do I do this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "This is what I would like to do. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would like to hold my hand in front of my face and into the space where the door is open to see if I can visually see anything of immediate concern. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Got it, so you're going up to the door and lighting up the inside-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, as you move forward quietly, I'm going to have you make a Hide roll to keep yourself hidden. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I don't have a Hide. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is just to keep yourself hidden-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- from whatever's within, if there is something within, you're trying to be sneaky here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is this a rather high stakes? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is a standard stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You don't know if there's anything quite yet that would be bad. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Three and a five. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Take the lower. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, you take the lower, it's a three. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So it's a three. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You push in. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Rules are rules. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? You can tell that they've noticed something is there with that Hide roll, but I'll give you the opportunity to act. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I recognize the figures? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They are in complete darkness. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Complete darkness, just see their silhouettes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I look back toward the carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We've been still for a moment, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Can I see if that gives me a clue as to us arriving and us now no longer moving? Because I am somewhere else. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, I think that it being in the same place tells you: Oh, we're not moving anymore, and you come back to. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(reviving gasp) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Jean. Jean? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I see two figures inside. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Where's Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I get out of the carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I start heading right to the door. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You are severely, gravely injured. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know I needed a break, I needed some rest, but Sean's in danger and I'm going to go in there and I'm going to find him. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Just stay here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm not going to let you go in there by yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I know what you're doing. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You can take point, that's fine. I'm used to-- I'm used to somebody taking point, being my shield. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If you're not, Mr. Finnerty will once again be that point position for you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So I have the gun. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to-- (sighs resignedly) I'm going to enter with the gun drawn. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm three feet behind. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. As you enter, the door (hinges creak) opens wider. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear what sounds like lapping of liquid-- (wet lapping) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We need to get in. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's as if they were feeding off of the blood that was left on the ground here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I shoot! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) Amazing. Okay, make a Control roll for me as you shoot towards them. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I am going to burn a Nerve-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(mockingly) Ah, talk first, ah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- to get an extra. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) Not with these guys. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No, uh-uh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(cheering) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hell yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You unload a shot into-- Are you shooting at Duncan or shooting at the woman here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm shooting at Duncan. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. I'm taking a defensive position. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I step back a little bit. You got this! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I learned a thing or two from Mr. Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make that roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, so she slid and she's right in front of us. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, but she's out and just staring up. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She got shot twice. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I am pulling out-- I still have this phase knife that I got from a long time ago. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you do. Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I pull that out and I am getting ready to use it if they come closer. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They don't even have sight right now. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I point them out to you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're stumbling forward " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I reach into my medical gear and I pull out a bottle of alcohol. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I learned a thing or two from Mr. Trapp! And I light it on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player944", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "With your hand?! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "With my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I throw it at the men in the doorway, over Marion's head. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Burn clean! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One more Control roll to keep them at bay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to burn a Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, burn a Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This house is made of metal, not of wood. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're starting to lean their heads down and rush, but as they do, their body's deteriorating underneath them and they flump to the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs relief) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'd like to do a Sense roll to see if I get any other of these kinds of creatures. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I am going to-- Oh, I forgot-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Where are you all headed? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's where we left people. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know everybody's gone from Silverslip. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's right, we did all leave. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Right, because you guys split. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do you know of any other locations of the Fourth Pharos? The one that we saw was compromised, broken. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Goddamn it. No, they don't tell me shit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"But is Duncan okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I came to check on you. We don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Goddamn it,\" she says. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But wait. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But we-- We could go. We could check. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Should we go there or the train? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We'll head to where the rest of the group was headed, to Duncan's. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You said maybe they went that way-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Duncan Walters. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- because Marion saw a vision that-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That Sean was--- Yes, yes, yes. That he was hurt. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So I'm going to say: Ma'am, slim pickings right now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But he probably-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Don't hold your breath. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Clicks the gun in. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Did you serve?\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I did. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Good.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Have you always been a cop? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She hails a carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughing) " }, { "Role": "Player54", "Content": "Baby cop. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Coming the fall. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Baby Cop.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That baby. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That baby. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Voiced by Vin Diesel, \"Baby Cop.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Pulling a pacifier out, \"5-0.\" (laughing) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughing) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(\"Thin Blue Line\") (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What'd you roll? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I used a drive and I got a six, not on a gilded die, but I got a six on that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, great! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, with a six. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There doesn't appear to be anybody else here that is under that influence. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "To make sure that anything that's wiggling is going to remain still. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do we see here as this is happening? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "As I'm watching Marion make quick work of the creatures I have just downed. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That you have already killed, but I'm making sure they're dead again. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I recall that I heard voices or some sort of thunking to the door to the left. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Those were the two that had come from there, that was where the thunking was coming from. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Right, I am scanning the room, looking for any sign of Mr. Finnerty other than this blood pile. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see a shanty set of houses that are here and a door that's wide open. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, remind me, he lived in like a townhouse, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's very ramshackle, but yeah, you're pulling up in front of there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The door's ajar. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's not like an apartment complex. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's that kind of feel. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Took some shipping containers, kind of style? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep, totally ripped those up and built a house out of it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Sun is still in the sky, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, it's dark. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's dark, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The sun is actually probably going to come up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh shoot. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Go in loud or quiet? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(uncertain noises) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(groaning) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Finnerty, Marion! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, loud! I guess we're going in loud. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you two want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Looks like reinforcements have arrived, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I rolled a four on Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Well, it's blood left on the ground. You saw-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Is it where he fell in my vision? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is a map of Westwreck. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's where I'm from. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "An owler is somebody that you would know that basically knows their way around Westwreck, knows their way around the mines in Westwreck and takes people through as needed to be able to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I've had to fix many an owler's chest cavity when they accidentally happened upon a mine. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You find this. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Which is a map. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Prop! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Prop! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Prop, prop, prop, prop. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Prop! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Prop! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The both of you see the doctor holding up a map. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I share it with everyone, so everyone-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We immediately draw on both of them, though. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's a very good likeness. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do you remember the flower? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What's the name of the flower? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You first, because last time you stumbled. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I said it last time. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You said something kind of sort of like it, but it wasn't exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's a petunia, it's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Starry night petunia. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, that's right, burgundy! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Burgundy? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, that's my favorite one. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's a beautiful color! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What do you have there? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And I show them the map. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You two would both recognize this because this is where you all fought in Westwreck. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Is that blood on it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know from looking at it and from your time in Westwreck, that those red dots on that map are mines. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "These are where the mines are located. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This is the map to get through the mines. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "This is an owler's map. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What are those Xs? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I recognize these symbols? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They appear as though they're hand drawn into the map. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So what does that mean and how does that apply here? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Sean's no longer here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Would you like to see it? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Are they saying that there's an entrance to the Fourth Pharos in Westwreck? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I've never heard tell of such thing, but it could be possible. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sean's no longer here? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Whatever Duncan was got to him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What did you shift? Have you chosen? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Then one from Hide to Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Was the Hide to Focus this one? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This last one? As you're coming to, the dream that you're coming out of, how does it tell us about that shift for yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "[sirens wail] " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oliver Nero. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "William Clyburn. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Whatever this monster is that has put these men in front of me, do I sense that this is dreamlike or do I sense that I am in a real place and these real men have been brought to me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Focus roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's a two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Your own self stands across from you and lets go. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to check my belongings for the artifacts I stole from the chapter house. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We get a shot of you in the madness of the chapter house scuffle, running back into the archives. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Had to check. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Putting things into your pocket and them running out and saying, \"They took it all.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This bitch. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're carrying-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're all there. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If I can see everything I remember, it feels like some indication that I'm not in a dreamlike state-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- and that this creature has worked whatever it's been working in order to get these men here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see the creature where you stabbed it in the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It looks as though that part hasn't healed. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He \"(sickly coughs).\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You're going to be okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He sits down cross-legged next to you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to look at him, look at all those objects. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to smile at this creature wearing my face. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Say: Those dogs, can they think and reason? Are they like you and me, they can talk? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"The dogs from the lighthouse?\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I mean, I talk to them, but they don't talk to me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I talk to dogs, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're good, they're loyal.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to turn around and shoot Arthur Duffy in the face. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to pull whatever's in his mouth off. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Wait, no! I--\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I'm sorry, I--\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You're just trying to make money. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He paid me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You know, you got this old broad, two of her sons are already dead, probably the third one is in the wind. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Of course, of course.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Arthur Duffy's a powerful man. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"He is.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You get it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to feel in his pocket for if he has any kind of doctor's slip or writing or any kind of stationery on him or something like that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, he definitely has a notepad. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Just say, \"On further inspection, there was an error regarding the commitment of Mary Margaret Finnerty regarding the commitment of Mary Margaret Finnerty into Grayslate Sanatorium,\" and you get to walk out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Shaking, his hands are tied behind his back. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hold on, let me help you out, buddy. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to get a knife. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Go ahead and write it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hands it back to you, hands still shaking. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't break eye-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It says what you asked for. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Signature at the bottom? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I'm sorry about her.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So, you know, I never went to college or nothing, but maybe if I try to be a monster, I'll be a hero. I'm going to shoot him in the face. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Explosion. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Gentlemen, I think you all can see where the evening is headed. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oliver Nero, Douglas Vanderfeld, William Clyburn. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Brilliant doctor, was able to find out that they were developing a weapon, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's got stuff in his mouth, but he nods his head. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "They look like anybody. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(muffled agreement)\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Maybe even look like children. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(muffled agreement)\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You could have just told the truth, Oliver. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(whimpers)\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well, it was a surgery you recommended, so what's good for the goose, right? I'm going to shoot him as well. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The creature beside you, you, is laughing. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You want to get this guy? " }, { "Role": "Player54", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I mean, that'd be pretty nuts, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(whimpering breaths)\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So I'm going to pull the chair leg off and beat him to death with it over and over again in front of William. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"(strained muffles)\" \"(strained muffles)\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(\"Charge\" sports rally tune) ♪ Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ♪ ♪ Ba ba ba ba ba ba ♪ Batter's up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And sitting in a chair watching from the corner-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(gasping) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- is your mother. That's where we're going to go to break. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No fucking way! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(screams) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We'll be back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(dramatic string and marimba music) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Remind us what this place looks like back all those years ago when you lived there. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Instantly started chipping against the salty wind, but it was hers nonetheless, her and her husband, Blue's. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see a ship almost get pulled in and have to turn its engines to full steam and have to turn its engines to full steam to keep out of the pull of this great rift that divides the ocean. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Do the markings look Halen or-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She pulls a letter out from that sack, opens up the mailbox at the end of your driveway, pushes it in, closes the mailbox shut, gives you a wave and continues on. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "before she finally gets up the courage to check the mail. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you do here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The smell of vomit and bile and body and sick and death. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Look at me!\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's not working, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Look at me!\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's not working, Father! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He takes the pendulum out of his pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Don't bring that thing near me ever again. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Who's it with? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's with Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Auntie Bee, I don't know if I'm cut out for this, but I know that I want to keep doing it because I want to be here with you all, and I want to be here with Sean, but I think I got to get something off my chest. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She can't help but look at the scar when he references his chest. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I was there the day that they executed Jimmy because I got put on guard duty in his cell when they brought his body back. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You shouldn't have had to see that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I was glad to see it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How did he look? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He looked like they shredded his skin with all the bullets that they hit him with. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(rapid gunshots) The shot of gunfire. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "and I went into the cell and I waited. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see Marion waiting. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Did anything happen? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I was hoping something would. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But it didn't? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Body sits still. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Maybe that's for the best. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I wanted to take it from him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see Marion standing over the body. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I don't want to be an empty vessel. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I don't know if you are, sweet boy. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Even if it changed me somehow. I don't care. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Claiming the lives of so many innocents. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's nothing that could be done about it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But do you honestly think me or anyone else could convince you that the rest of the boys, Jean, anyone, otherwise? Jean, anyone, otherwise? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "All I know is that I would do anything for Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You think anyone could convince me otherwise? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We all make our choices. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Auntie Bee, do you think Sean would be mad at me if he knew what I'd try to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, I don't. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I don't think so either. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But there is a part of me that just hopes if you couldn't find his soul that means it's at rest somewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Her eyes welling with tears. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If I walk out of here with her, does that ruin her chances of getting out of here the right way? Staying out of here? I hold the scrap of paper with Orlov's signature that I need to give to Trapp. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I want to take her out of here right now, but I don't want that to ruin her shot of staying out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"-- to ensure her release.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So getting her through poses a bit of a challenge.\" \"So getting her through poses a bit of a challenge.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to embrace myself. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't care if you bring hell on earth because if they wanted to stop it, they wouldn't have let it become hell already for so many of us. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We are going to step behind this thing. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And we're going to talk. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(heavy exhale) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You have the option of saying yes to his demands here or of saying no. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On a one, two, or three he will kill you and will replace you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's what's going on. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We're going to step behind the table and we're going to talk about what the decision is here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What the fuck is this? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Replace-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You guys keep making a TV show. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We'll be back in a second. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you know he's coming back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "But we don't know who's coming back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You don't know who it is. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We're getting a Sean, we just don't know which Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What flavor of Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Son of a B. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What flavor of Finnerty. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What Comic-Con variant will we be getting. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You scoundrel. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mm, wild berry. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Rat mother-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Well-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So, how's y'all's day going? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Great until five seconds ago. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) (groans stressfully) (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I was just thinking, you know, without Sean, we could split the Candela wages four ways instead of five. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Huh. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We could \"Weekend at Bernie's\" him around. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Like a cab. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We could open-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Cabbing system? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yellow carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughing) Yellow carriage. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I like these business plans. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, you know-- (laughs) Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You know when you realize you set yourself up for something, like moments? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Now it's like, oh, fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So reflecting on all the choices you've made? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Literally this is the conversation we just had. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm like, why did I say that? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I think you'd love it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You know when you wish you had more mutant abilities than you did, and you're just trying to listen as hard as you can, even though you know there's no way? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Uh-huh. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(deep breath) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(flaps lips) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You all, the four of you, outside-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Who are you? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The four of you hear the clattering of hooves outside of Duncan's house. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's Brennan. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just Brennan. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Are you choking or did you burn your mouth? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I knew it! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is Sean on horseback. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This map probably means nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Do we go back to the Silver spire? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It could be plenty of things. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It is my home after all. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just Duncan's bullshit. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "There's a circle, though, there are triangles-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, you hear the horse coming outside and you see Sean on the back of the horse, looking worse for wear, black scars all over-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I rush out there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Remember the code. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Right, right. Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(clears throat) How's it going, gang? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Where were you? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Duncan's bad. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ask him the question. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What's the code? Do you remember? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Starry sky petunia. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh-huh, but? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Maroon? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Burgundy. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know people think they are, but they're quite different. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "They're really close. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They're barely. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- like hell. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This is my two weeks' notice. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "For? Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What happened to your pin? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "He just went to grab my suspenders and threw me into a wall. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Who? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Who? Duncan? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. \"Duncan,\" yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The monster? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Where did you just come from? We came here and we found whatever Duncan had become. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So they're already on their way there? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It sounds like there is a leader, and they're trying to bring a mother through and-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The reason I'm alive right now is that in the middle of being about to kill me he got the call from the other monsters to fucking take off. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "How are you riding? You're absolutely covered in blood! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Maybe you should-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do you need a Patch Up? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You know, I don't want to put you out. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I mean, if we're going to make a push to the Fourth Pharos and-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Why wouldn't he? How are you alive? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think he just took off. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What is-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "As I go to him, I notice-- Do I notice the black patch on his stomach? I'd like to focus on it for a moment to see if I'm familiar with that particular method of bonding the skin back together. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, make a Focus roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Truly, the amount of lives you have is absolutely incredible. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's like, no, we plug-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's on there. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, we plug you to keep you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Does it look quickly done? Not precise? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Doesn't appear as though-- Although the scrapes and bruises on Sean are very apparent, it doesn't appear as though physically he has any major damage bleeding out right now. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I have a body and a bleed scar. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And then three brain marks. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But my mark tracks are clear for bleed and body. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I sense any bleed coming from ichor this patch? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a Sense roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "On a success-- I'm going to also use Cold Read, which is, \"On a successful Sense roll, you know what ailment, stress, or loss a person has had in their life, even if they're " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "One on a gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The dice do sure tell a story, don't they? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Holy fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Boy! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Goddamn it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So with the one, you do get the sense that there is bleed coming off of it and as you touch it, you do get transferred that point of bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "On my person? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On your person. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I get a bleed mark. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you touch it, you feel that bleed, it rings in your head the way bleed does and you feel yourself have to stiffen up to keep yourself safe from it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Glad to have you back. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "How'd things go? You get walloped over at Varnish? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, I thought the bastard was going to literally crawl down my throat, but I'm all right. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Why is it-- It's always going to your throat or crawling up your ass or something. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I don't know why it's got to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It can be a little bit more straightforward, honestly. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We did manage to keep Farrah Morales, though, out of harm-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "She's here with us. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She's there with you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. So we know what they were doing. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Is there any other emergency way for us to let anyone know what the fuck is going on? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Should we ask Farrah? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Farrah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She says, \"I think this is a map to the Fourth Pharos.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"At least an entrance in--\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How do you know that? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She points to it, and then she pulls up some of the paperwork. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I don't have my cheaters. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I need you to meet me.\" But it never got sent because of that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "If you wanted a natural protection for an entrance to the Fourth Pharos, a war zone would be, you know, good spot to hide it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They look like something odd. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I, if you don't mind, take the keys and I'll make an inspection. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "\"When I make a Survey roll to gather evidence for what might have happened with an item or location I gain an additional gilded die.\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What are all these-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's one for you, too, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The doctor found them. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, I'll take a five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We're not supposed to use shit like this. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, we're not. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They tell us not to-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Desperate times. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Seems a lot is off the table. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well, given that you can make s'mores on your left hand-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, sorry about that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'll take this. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I hand the item over. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Caution. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I think we're just throwing the rule book out the window on this one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What you know with that-- It was a five? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a door to the garage connected to the house. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Please be a fucking tank. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That would be sick. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and, yeah, what do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I don't mean to be presumptuous, but perhaps we should check the garage? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, that's good. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We start looking inside the chapter house to see if there was a doorway into the garage from inside. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're new tech, but EONS was working on these when you were there. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "They certainly were. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is a blimp. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's used to fly in mine fields because it doesn't touch the mines. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Whoa. Oh, I like this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see six of these. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Fuck, that's cool. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Six? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In the garage. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Left by-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, it's (mumbles) to me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Best regard, Violet Boucher.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Looks like Violet and EONS have been working with the owlers. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So the broad on the train had the Johnny, she made these blimp cycles? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "She, of course, put her name on it as the principal engineer, but yes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Did you make make them? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I did not make them, no, but I did have awareness that some sort of transportation device was being developed at EONS. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you say that, you hear the bawk of a chicken. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ah, that's-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In the back basket of these owler aircycles-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wait. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- are chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The chickens? Are they the same chickens? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The magic chickens with the glowing waddles? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The magic chickens? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "When you go to inspect it, you see the waddles are glowing. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right, you guys. (cocks gun) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll tell you what, you guys save a lot of money on gas. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Corn is way cheaper than diesel, so there you go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh no, I insist. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Are they Care Bear staring their waddle into the air well? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, they're sitting in the back of the baskets. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's awesome. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a couple of them in the baskets on the back of these cycles. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How adorable. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What are these for? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Eggs are energy. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What are the-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to go over and hit one and be like: Oh, this one's got a bantam. All right, not bad. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you all are-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Look, the chickens? You made them, we're going to use them, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's what we call \"Yes, and,\" folks. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yep, yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's a call back. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's a call back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As as you all are inspecting the center, like, the chickens? You hear a knocking. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This is what breaks me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "This one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear a knocking-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This is what breaks me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- on the front door. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Who's going to answer that? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No one should answer that, all right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear, \"Duncan?\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) Is it a female voice? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is a female voice. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does it sound like Violet? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Didn't Dr. Boucher say she'd be here to pick up payment? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(frustrated groan) \"I'll be coming back with my crew tomorrow.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "With my crew? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I think we should go. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Our response is six aircycles busting out the back door? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Like fucking E.T., let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Maybe I should go try to talk to Dr. Boucher to try to maybe distract her. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Last time we saw her, she tried to murder you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Open the door, invite her in, jump on an aircycle, and then the lit stick of TNT that I have under the side table goes off. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You managed to carry your TNT through your ordeal? I'm very impressed. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Where I keep my TNT. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, there it is. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's a very provocative thigh holster. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's enough. " }, { "Role": "Player948", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I guess-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's your call. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "She would be shocked to see me here, I can only imagine, if it is, in fact, Violet. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is there anything we need to get out of her? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What do we need her for? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(Farrah) \"Why the fuck are we waiting around? We got cycles.\" " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see Farrah-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I try to think back to the Adjuvant. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The EONS-developed concoction that I used to keep Duncan Kingsley alive for all of 45 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Right. Yeah, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Well, you know what? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "But it might possibly have gone to the doctors. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Go talk to her. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Why don't we invite her to come for a ride? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We could invite her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Farrah's like, \"And what about me?\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You can have your own. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Fair.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do you want me to-- How about this? Talk to her through the crack of the door and if it goes south, I'll be on the other side of the door and I'll hit her over the head with a fucking frying pan. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That works for me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. Let me go to the kitchen. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It could provide a distraction. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You take a chicken. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(chicken bawk) " }, { "Role": "Player960", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I'll go to the pantry and get a frying pan. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll get a stick butter. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Make some eggs. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you go fry the egg, make an omelet. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Over easy, over easy. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can't make an omelet-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Are you calling me easy? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I can do this. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "If she's not alone-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You got this. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- make it a short conversation. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Noted. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Duncan!\" You hear another knock on the door. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is there any sort of window or eyehole I can look out the door and see what I'm working with? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The door gets (heavy knocks) slammed on again. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll look at you and say: The key word, you and me, for me to go, just say, \"Fascinating.\" Sounds like something you would say. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "As they're conspiring-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- can I move to the garage door? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is there any sort of side paneling, window, hole, crack or anything where if this does go sideways, at least I know some of our " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's horizontal, but it's just enough. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Could I see the shape of the door or the steps at all to see if she's alone? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Tell me about Stephen. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He's always been a friend. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see this same man has a gun behind his back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Piece of shit. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(suppressed laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Violet knocks on the door one more time. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "While we're here-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You're going to get the door? [pounding knocks] " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(startles) Yes, I am here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm somewhere where I'm far enough away, but I have eyes on her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Are the other members who, toward the garage area other than Sean and Marion? So, okay. There is a path for them to escape should violence enter this room? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There are some people still in those automobiles and there are people that are at the door. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just want to be clear about what you're seeing here before you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The note suggested something different. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Why would she be bringing so many folks here to collect payment? Unless it's a euphemism, which could be very possible with Dr. Boucher. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hey, if there's a small army out there, we could also just run. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's a small army out there. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "But what about the Adjuvant? There's no guarantee she'd be carrying it with her. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think the risk is really big. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know owlers. Owlers are-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ruthless. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So she probably thinks he's cut and run. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "[pounding knocks] " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Amidst the chaos, we make a break for it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Are the chickens not fueling the bike somehow? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I don't believe they are. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're just sitting in the baskets at the back of the bike. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "This is so strange. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They were meant to be delivered. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's what they want you to think. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. I think we got to run. Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Create a distraction? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Or just run? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll be sad to see those chickens go, but let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is there any way to open the window and pop them out of there and kind of-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That would be-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Let's just run and dump the chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you opening the garage door? Is that what's happening? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We'd invite them in and open the door at the same, garage door, at the same time. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Better have them go this way-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- while we're going that way. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Dump the chickens here, invite them in, we go. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Drop the chickens at the garage door entrance. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I go back to the front door, ready to open it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Let then make themselves comf-- You know, give it a whirl. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm afraid I don't have your gift with speech, Mr. Trapp, but I will try. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do we get the sense that they'll take the door? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're getting ready to come through the front door. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Maybe we just get on the aircycles, let them take the door. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's very fair. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "100%. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm already on the cycle. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm on as well. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Who's taking Auntie Bee? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Auntie Bee, you can come with me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right. Jump on. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Two, three, four, five. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I hop on a cycle myself. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Well, there's six aircycles and there's six of us. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I don't like driving when it's dark. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Floating bicycles, you just gave it up? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to bust it because one of them is going to jump on the one that we leave behind and they're going to chase us. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "My friend, Stephen, is here, Dr. Kabach, and I am just wondering if there's any utility-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You mean Dr. Ka-bawk? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ka-bawk bawk! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) He invented the chickens! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He's been a chicken the whole time! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll look at you and say: You want me to grab him? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll grab him. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Who, the guy? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Dr. Kabach. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We're going to grab him. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Brown hair, kind, warm brown eyes, glasses. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Auntie Bee on my bike, then, I guess. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're going to grab him and escape on the flying bicycles? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He's going to put in the middle? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Throw him on a bike? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(chicken bawks) He's with the chickens on the back, and then off we go. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I mean, it sounds-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I got a Glock, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- like a surety. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's what we call a Kabach-bawk-bawk-ba-Glock. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Bawk-ba-Glock? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Fascinating. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Get them! (ping!) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The door opens and they start, and Violet comes in with a gun, \"Duncan!\" What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think the garage door is going up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Flying. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm out! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going for-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Dr. Stephen. Yeah, I'm going for Dr. Kabach. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Love that. Okay, make a Control roll for me to grab him on the way. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're all holding guns. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Gilded? Save it? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I am going to use my little dude here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Get an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ho-yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I grab the doctor and go like: You make house calls? I'm going to throw him on the back of the bike. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, you feel him grab onto the back of you and be like, \"Where the fuck are we going?\" Then the cars just take off. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Technically, he's in between. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- the doc and Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can we say, Spense? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And picked that up on the way out. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The frying pan? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So I'm full on granny with a frying pan on an airbike. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Boom! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ready to clobber him? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "As he says, \"What the fuck are you doing?\" Granny goes (smack)! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But with that five-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's a nice pan. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- you see the rest of EONS running, scattering and running back to the cars. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I want to quickly, as we're speeding away from the scene, I want to quickly survey the EONS group to see if there's some possibility if Dr. Avery Choi is among them. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep, make a Survey or-- Yeah, make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "See the river right there? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "This here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We're still being tailed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're being pursued by, yeah, there are three cars and a motorbike, essentially, that are behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is the motorbike staying on the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Amateurs. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Like I said, fucking bust through a hotel lobby. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Go through the other side and get us across the river using-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you across the river into Westwreck. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- our airbikes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make a, what kind of roll do you think this is? It probably would be Survey? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Survey was what I was hoping in my head. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So this is the first leg of the challenge here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll take the five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What does this look like as you guide? What do we see, the description of the scene as you see it, as you guide Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(stammers) Auntie Bee is-- This is a lot, but she's trying to make sure that her brain is keeping up with how quickly that the surroundings are moving around her and as she told, she shouted everybody to \"Follow Sean,\" so I imagine she's holding onto Sean's back and she has her hands and she's like-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Got your feet in the pegs. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's literally trying to guide a little bit with her hand, thinking in realtime as she's trying to think reactionary and shouting: Left, right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Who is the farthest one back right now? Who's the one that would be the farthest back? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I think I would be. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You'd the farthest back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Because I stayed back to see if Avery-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They look at you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I know them? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But before they can, you know, before you have the chance to connect with them, with that five, you see a pistol be pulled out and pointed right at you side by side. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Rudimentary as it is, it is keeping pace with all of you where the cars can't. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Try and cut across a park or something where the bikes can't go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Anything we can do. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Whatever you prefer. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm just curious, how high can the bikes go with these-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The hoverbikes? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So they're only about maybe a foot off the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's the distance that they stay, because they're just being supported with buoyancy. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Just hovering. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, they're just hovering. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is there a possibility to go lower than the foot? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You'd have to manually let some of the air out of the-- I think you try and press it, and you see it won't go higher. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Dirigible above, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You, having knowledge of-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm wondering if I could duck slightly, and that would give me enough reaction time to maybe-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is going to be high stakes here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see a little switch, and we see you try and flip that in time as the pistol's being fired at you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to roll a Control, and I'm going to burn a Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a six! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hey! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You all can cross it because you're on hoverbikes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They're going to catch up to us on the other side. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They don't know the path that we know. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They don't. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We don't. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Born and bred in that briar patch. Should we? Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is going to be another roll to try and keep things stable. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm happy to roll Control. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Lead the pack. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We will just say this is a collective roll. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Six on the gilded! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Six on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you come-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Spense. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I ask a question? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Please ask anything. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Auntie Bee is in a weird fucking headspace right now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She is also incredibly close to Sean for the first time in a long time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But she is holding on, you know, around his neck-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, hugging him. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She is absolutely fucking terrified at the idea that we are heading straight for Westwreck, where everyone has trauma, and it has not been good for days-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does she sense any type of, I don't know, any type of anything from Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a Sean question. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's enough of a nurse. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does his skin feel clammy? Does his pulse seem erratic? Does his pulse seem calm, which would almost be more alarming if his heart rate-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- is regular and not intense. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So question here, are you trying to hide how you feel? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Why don't you describe for Auntie Bee what she feels? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I am-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Pounding heart? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "This is the same thing as hitting the squid dogs with the back of the rifle. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's the same thing as feeling like I feel-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You're in the zone? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I hit the water on the aircycle, and I call out, going like: (unhinged excitement) This is unbelievable! (revs bike) How many kids from South Soffit got to say they took a bike out on the river? (revs bike) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm like-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I was going to say, I think tears are streaming from Auntie Bee's eyes, but a different kind of tears. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's going to take this opportunity because she knows she might not get it ever again. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then you all feel-- Well, those who are closest to the ground in this moment, the airbikes going up and down, feel [thud] on the bottom of the bike. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Jesus Christ. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What? We lose the chickens? [heavy thud] " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear another bump. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What's this? (stammering) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Something underneath you keeps hitting the bikes here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That was specifically not supposed to happen. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But something from beneath, it doesn't feel like explosions, it feels like something's bumping the bottom of the bikes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "As we're moving forward-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- are we able to visually see objects that we would-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "So we don't see shapes in-- Are we still on water or are we-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're on the plains themselves. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The last stretch to it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you're hearing [heavy thud] boom on the bottom of the bikes as you're going forward as if something is underneath there. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Are we still in the air about a foot? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The ground is more sand-like here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I mean, can I-- I'll just do the obvious and try and keep one hand on the controls, and fucking lean over. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Focus roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Fucking what Dune-level shit-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to do another obvious thing. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- is this about to fucking be? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The other obvious thing, which is what I'm going to do-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Spend a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- is I'm going to peel off and create some distance so I can see what's bumping them from maybe 10 feet away. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you want to spend something to help, I don't know if you have anything. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, what is it? Is it a-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's a Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Focus? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That'd be Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Intuition? Sure, I'll give you a-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, I'll give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Awesome. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fives. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So what both of you see is underneath the sediment here, keeping pace with you is something rising and bumping. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then it'll dip down and disappear. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Jesus fucking I'm on a T. Rex Christ. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "100% (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's what you see. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "100%. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Here's Johnny. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "With that five-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mama! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "With that five, I'm going to have you take a brain mark because you're seeing this thing literally underneath you bumping your bike. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(groans) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's just-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's something large beneath the ground that is bumping up underneath Nathaniel's bike, but also underneath some of the others, too-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "At all of our bikes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- as you're looking at them. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So we already have a sense of the size of it? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sandworm, it's fucking Shai-Hulud. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Fucking Eldritch horror sandworms, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, I love it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll look at Auntie Bee and say: Hey, you got Johnny on you? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Can I see him? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sure, you think she wants this kid back? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay, okay, I mean we can relate to it. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Huck it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(whooshing) Off, I straight up take this and fucking throw it as far as I can. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Towards the cars? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Sway roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Towards the cars. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The cars are swerving up ahead, so you have to throw it in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Wait, this is a Sway roll? Can someone throw more persuasively than me? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I can give you something else, Control. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Control. Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, Control would work, too. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll do Control. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I was trying to say, you're trying to convince them to do a thing, but you're trying to-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I aid him in this? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to pop open the containment-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Or just, I'm not going to pop it open. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just crack it a little it? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to say: Every mother wants to be reunited with their kid. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Aw! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's a theme! " }, { "Role": "Player944", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, and you're giving me-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I aid with a Sway in that with drive? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So he's going to roll Control, but because you're aiding here, because we called for Sway before, I will allow you to spend a Cunning to help here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Normally, that's not rules as written, but because of the situation, I will rule it that you totally can do that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. He's got the-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Six on the gilded! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So you take that back, take back that drive. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "When it-- That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But only on the gilded, not on yours. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Only the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Not on yours, only on his. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Not on mine. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh, I'm thinking of the other fucking ability from the other group. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you do still have two gilded dice in the center of the table-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, you see breaching out from underneath the sand-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(nervous laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- a massive version of that creature. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As it happens, the person on the motorbike launches off of them-- " }, { "Role": "Player942", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see them flying over the top of both of you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wilhelm scream. Yow! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But then you feel the bump, bump [heavy thud] underneath you of more of these creatures that are here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's more? Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Want to pass this around to him? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But we gave them back Johnny! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm making a-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We think-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm making a countdown die that basically means that you will have cleared this area. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, jeez, oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm setting it to five, so. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How close to some of these mines? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can see Westwreck in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's probably another, you know, couple hundred yards to Westwreck-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then the one that's in front pulls a lever and skids, and now it's facing you driving backwards. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Can we direct them to a source to feed upon that's not us? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, like livestock in the fields or something like that? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, could we look and see if there's anything living nearby other than eat other people? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear a cluck in the back of the bike. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'd rather it be me than Gertie and Matilda, I refuse. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a reason. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This is where you draw the line? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This is, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This is the line for you? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You got to draw it somewhere, Marion! You got to draw it somewhere! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This?! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There is a reason there are chickens in the back. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Not the chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "There is a reason there's chickens in the back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Of all these bikes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This is maybe the reason. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm glad we didn't use all of them for distraction earlier. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Self-proclaimed murderer-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There are a couple. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- and monster, but he's a vegan! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I mean, I'll eat chicken. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Welcome to Los Angeles, right, I mean, right? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I named them. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "All these people are goddamn monsters, but they're vegans. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We have life plans for all these chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is he still knocked out? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "At this point, he's just back there doing this thing. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Right, we'll start with chickens and then move to Kabach. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Who's doing it first? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Dang. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Who's dropping them? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "All of, I mean, if I got a chicken, I'll drop this chicken. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Got one in the back. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, badink, bye, chicken. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You just drop it, you throw it in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What lever did you use? What's the button that does that? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that, I love there's a lever that drops the bottom of the basket, and it comes falling out. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, in my mind, I was just kicking the whole basket out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see you press the lever. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "They spent time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Blueprint it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see the gear turn in a very, what's that from the Sherlock films, where it's like it's close in on each-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Those machines? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We see it click over-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Whenever, like EONS' convention, the Javits Center, and some guy's like, \"This machine was a mental ray gun that will mind control at a time.\" The next guy's like, \"I've invented a basket that drops chickens off the back of a flying bicycle.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm also imagining \"Fast and the Furious,\" where they always hit the nitro when it comes into the carburetor. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(swishing) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "At the end of the track, the chicken just goes-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(clucks) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yep, yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So good, we see the flipped switch, the gears turn, the lever's pulled, and then-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's such a complex device for all of that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Chicken dispenser. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As it does, it tumbles, and one of it. (clucks) Then you see, vroom. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- of a glowing chicken! (lip-trills) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But it only glows when the head's going over. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's like, (rave music) little rave like chicken-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see the-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- strobing down the highway. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You watch as, for just a moment, it disappears, and then [heavy thud] underneath, it explodes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We need more chicken. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Chickens are bombs. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! These are bombs. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You guys think of everything! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Not possible. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We knew we needed that moment, you guys, the chickens. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We really did. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hey, we had a hell of a first half. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We got to have a little fun. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Our world's not very fun. Is it? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "These chicken bombs aren't-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But yes, I'm glad you're having a good time, Sean! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Is there a button that only does one chicken, because I feel like mine's double barrel? I don't want to lose both of them. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Press all the buttons. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can just do-- it's double trigger. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "There's eggs that come out of the exhaust pipe one at a time-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What are you saying, eggs are grenades? What's going on here? All right. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll take a shot at a tire of the car in the lead to try to like-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Oh, I love-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- spin out a car that's in front of the other cars. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, make a Control roll for me as that happens. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. Let's see here. Da, da, dum. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What time of day is it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's now the morning. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Dawn hit when you all were at Duncan's. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Another six on a gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hell yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Question. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "These are EONS' vehicles, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "These are, correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And we understand that they're the ones that are synthesizing magick with technology-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Some kind of other perhaps engine, I'm not sure, but I'd like to Sense to see if I can locate that part of the vehicle. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, sounds good, make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Look, I can't do anything physical anymore because of all the scars I took and all I can do is Sense shit now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Makes sense. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "On the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On that five, as that happens, you see-- What's up? You okay? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No, I'll have to wait to do this next time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But for right now, those cars have disappeared in that dust. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do y'all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Cars are out of sight? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It seems like they should have emerged, but something isn't right. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to try to go around it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, as you-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "If there's a way to, it's like little-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you curve around the edge of the dust storm you find yourself now headed straight for the car. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You and the car are about to collide. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, so now this is what I want to do. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to rip it to shreds. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Ooh, of the car? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What I will also say is that no matter what, reaching out to do this will cause you at least a bleed mark. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Even on a full or critical success. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You have three scars. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I have three scars, but I don't have any bleed marks. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, good. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "He said a bunch of-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I just had a rest! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just so you know, he said a bunch of marks if you fail. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You're at the threshold of death, not leaning in through it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I only got one body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is it worth a gilded, if it's high stakes? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I mean, yeah, he said if you fail, it's a bunch of marks, not a bunch of-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I will burn two drives. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah? Oh? Huh? Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That was an exhale. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Concerned. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! Ha! Come on, work, work, work. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Nervous exhale. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "One, two, three, four, five, six. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You roll your dice, you takes your chances. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I got a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A five. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wow, with all those dice. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's crazy, two, three, four, five, six. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You have resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "♪ The dice want to tell a story. ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I have a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I would-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Need a six. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Getting a six here is going to save you from getting " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But I can only reroll my original. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can only reroll your original. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, so I will use the-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But the other thing I will note, is that if you use the resistance, you " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh, I can't keep that five? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have to take the new result, if you-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So now-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Is that five on one of your original dice or is it on one of the gifted ones? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's not a gilded one, it's not-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's not a gilded one? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Damn, that's a big risk, it's a lot. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is a big risk. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I be a shitty meta above the table and say I don't trust him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And he might be trying to make you spend a resistance right now. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Or incapacitate you so he can crawl inside your body. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Save it for later. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That just sounds like a concerned friend. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think we should all be using our resources as I build my Nerve drive back up. " }, { "Role": "Player54", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's too much of a risk. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's too risky. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Because I'm only rolling three. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I'm going to stay with the five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You reach in and and do what you're looking for. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me what it's like to do this. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Just having it spread from one direction out to another, hopefully destroying it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, here's what happens. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And it's exhilarating. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You feel yourself collide with the car, moving at speed here behind you, you feel still. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you fly through the air, land face down in the dirt here take a body, a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I will face them, if I need to. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see one of the EONS members go and grab-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to patch him up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "My Focus roll is gilded and I'm also-- Oh, I can't burn Intuition to do it because I need it for the Patch Up! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You could also just grab him. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We don't have time to do it right now. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "My bike is gone, right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Let's punch that guy out and get on the bike. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That guy has already taken off. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He's already taken off, so it's just us. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Can we circle back around to try to grab them? Is there space on your bike? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He already took the bike. He's on the bike. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's already on the bike and off. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But you guys still have a bike. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "One of you jump on Farrah-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This one slammed in the car-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He's gone. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And sent him flying. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ah, I see, he took his bike. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, sorry, that bike's fucked. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Then I'll be coming in right behind the doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "There's a stolen bike, so we're down to four bikes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Down to four bikes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, I'll be cutting a beeline across, hauling her-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh right, we got Farrah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Farrah's with you as well. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "LT, grab Marion, you jump on Farrah's, and then we're out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We just got to get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I just give him a stern look. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Get your aircycle there safely. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's a five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have a-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Violet? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to look at Auntie Bee and say: Can you grab the handlebars? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I say: I got the frying pan on my back. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Going to take the rifle, put it on her shoulder and leaning aside, so we're like cheek to cheek. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I just try to relax, knowing what he's doing. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I go: Hey, Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And I say: Ain't that the goddamn truth? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And I'll burn a Nerve drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And that's going to be-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But now that the sun is up, I'm going to try and angle it towards-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Right in her eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Violet's eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In Violet's eyes, Yeah, I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Get her to, like, what the fuck? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make that roll. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That's a six! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It looked real bad for a second. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That is a six. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, it looks bad. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It looks bad if you look at it-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Well, there was the one that was hidden. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If I was rolling damage, that would've been really sad. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "When she dropped the gun, had we entered the minefield or-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I want to call out to her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is that a possible-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- action at this point? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see her struggling-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Her gun is gone. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go ahead and make that roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So, technical question. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "When I don't have any marks in that action, I roll two and I take the lowest? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What if I have a drive in Cunning? Can I burn that? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you spent two Cunning, you'd roll two dice, et cetera, et cetera. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Extra? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So right now you're rolling two dice and taking the lowest. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If you spent a drive, then you'd roll one die. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And take the result of that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "you can take bleed and add dice to your roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Because of your artifact. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to roll two and take the lowest result to start. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I have-- (laughs) I have a resistance in Cunning. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How high are the stakes of this roll? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're high. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, I swore to do no harm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And strangely, I feel I owe it to her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "One. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you say to her? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Turn around now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see, as you're tumbling, as you're moving through in space, her jacket open and bottles of Adjuvant inside. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can see her looking at you, afraid. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I try to convey reassurance to her in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I knew I couldn't trust you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I had no choice. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"How can they trust you? How can anybody trust you? Your father, he was so happy when I told him-- (breath catches)\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs)\" She smiles and you see her roll over and she's on top of one of the mines, and she rolls off of it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How far away am I from being affected by the explosion of the mine? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're within 10 feet of the mine here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You got to book it-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- if you're going to get out of the way. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I have anything spiritual on my possession that could provide any kind of shield or help? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You do have one ward that will soak a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But that is-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is not going to soak body. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is the opposite direction clear of a mine, if I were to roll away? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to have to get up and sprint. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Run. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Out of the way. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(mine activating) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "My last Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Life or death roll? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You might even still take some, you will take some on a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) I've spent this, as I'm thinking in the split second, as I try to get up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's a three. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "into the life of your boys. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "My husband. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What the three of you know is, when one goes off-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In the split second you have, what do you all do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No man left behind. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is a very high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Is this a Move, a Control? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is a Control or a Move, whichever one you'd prefer. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I try to think into the void. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm helping keep a lookout and helping guide him towards her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Can I burn a drive to give another die? Do you want to get all the way up to six? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. I can use Saw This Coming, and I'm going to say that another drive, I know that when one goes off-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- it can lead to a few more. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh fuck, I also have Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. So I'll throw another die your way. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's six. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll take the six. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Hell yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll take the six, not gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me how you just nab her in time as other mines start to explode. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "As the parts of Dr. Violet Boucher started to rain down, we collected Dr. Jean and booked it out of there just as it got really hot behind us. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I need everybody who was in the war to take one brain for me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm down. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm down, too. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I put the brain as well or am I-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're okay, you're already down. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So here's what I'll say. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'd like to do something. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "As soon as I see that those-- I'm assuming you're right with me, you're close by, because we all saw this happening, we're helping get her back up. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm just watching him go down in front of me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So what you see-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to use Death Defy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And I'm going to soak that mark. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Once per assignment I take one or more marks, you instead escape unscathed-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- from your quick thinking. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's awesome. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh wow. So you didn't get any marks from that? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just not the one brain. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But what other mark did you get? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's all he said, was one brain if you were in the war. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One brain if you-- Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you feel Sean go limp in your arms. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think just the-- I think there's, I just go, I just-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The brain just shuts off. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Shuts off. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's just too much. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think it's coming full circle. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Pounding in the ear. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The heartbeat goes so fast that it just flat lines and I pass out. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have the path to where you need to go. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Stick to the path. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Stick to the path. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So you're still up? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But you also, you went down? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No, I didn't go down. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh that's right, you soaked it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I was going to do something, but I'm not doing that. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, you're going to hold it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So these two, both of these two are down right now. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The spot with the circle is where you currently are. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We got to get them back up. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So give them a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Got to help get them up. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just starts humming to him, stroking his hair a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm doing a similar version of that here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see the parallels between the two. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, I'm giving, she has nursed me back to health and the same kind of tenderness and care that she has shown me, I have her sprawled before me and I'm holding her in my arms, and I'm just like caressing her forehead and just waiting tenderly, waiting for her to open her eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll go over to Auntie Bee and put a hand on her shoulder and say: I can see how much you care for him, but if I may-- And out of my pocket, I'll take a little flask and unscrew it and say: For you first. Offer a swig. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Bless you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll just hold it under Sean's nose real close so we can get the pungent odors, and I'll say: Officer on deck! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sorry, did I go, what happened, did I fall off? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You did. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Brilliantly. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Thanks, LT. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You find Marion standing with you, holding you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I killed her. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "There's no time to think about that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I killed her. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What matters is what's ahead of us. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm as good as my father. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You're not the same as him at all. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I killed her. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What are you talking about? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I killed her. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's not on you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Dr. Kabach, is he-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's on the back of your-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Your bike. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "He's unconscious. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(heavy sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What are we even doing here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Back to where? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I don't want to go back. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Home. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If we die, what stops them? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ah fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I, for one, would like to try to make a difference, especially after all we've lost. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Their deaths can't have been for nothing, Ms. Monroe. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So was positing the question, I suppose. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Working for Candela is absolutely brutal. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Hearing Allison mentioned, I think about Violet and her coat flapping open with the vials of Adjuvant and I think while Dr. Kabach is knocked out, and I think while Dr. Kabach is knocked out, I want to search him to see if he has any. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You feel a vial underneath your fingertips. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "This could be the key to helping Allison. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And that's not your fault. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I promise. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That was you, too. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just give her a kiss on her hand. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We got to get up this river really fucking quick, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's a little underground water system there. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ooh, spelunking. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Like, as a person. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As Marisha, you hate spelunking? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yes, it's why-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I know; it's such a strong stance. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do you just hate the word? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No. I just. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So, wait, there's a spelunking experience you need to tell us about right now? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's just the idea of, why not for kicks I'm going to put myself in a dark, cold, claustrophobic environment where if something happens, that's it! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You think you spend so much of your life avoiding going into the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No, not knocking anybody who enjoys-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's actually a sweet preview, man. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "If you enjoy spelunking, you do you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, look, spelunk your heart out, right? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Spelunk your heart out, it's just not for me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The next chapter will be all about spelunking. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yikes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A moment of sweet relief. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "A gift from on high. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Nah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well, I just got a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know, and you didn't have one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We couldn't have heard that saying before? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Could've done that-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "While we're in the water, I do have a question. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure, please. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is the surface of the water reflective? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is. Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What is-- and do I notice anything? Can I see his reflection? Is he a-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Does he have a reflection? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Does he have a reflection? Is he looking at the water? I just glance over. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Ah. Ah. Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I have my explosives and my ammunition over my head. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Up above your head. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) Love it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Because we've been just waiting for the right moment to see the moment that Sean walked back through that front door. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But the reflection looks like him. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is he averting his gaze? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player941", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's fucking suspect. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You fucking-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "My gaze is fixed towards where we are traveling to. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to move next to-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going next to Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do I notice the doc looking at me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll whisper to Marion: Think the doc is mad at me? I think she... " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Why would she be mad at you? Why do you think she might be mad at you? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I feel two scopes on the back of my head. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "She can kind of, when she get rattled, you know. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Well, kind of. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You get involved in a confrontation with your mother in a landmine chain explosion and all of a sudden. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Everybody's got something to say. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, does everybody have something to say? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So, are you really quitting? Are " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And that's the rarest thing in the world. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You got people that you need to take care of that you don't even know about. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "When we were going to the town I tried to sense more and there's kids out there that are like me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Then you find-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Then you find them. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No, " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You are more than, you're more than just a magick trick, my friend. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know, Sean, I appreciate you telling me, but I tell you what, you don't got to tell me anymore because you've been telling me that in so many ways ever since I met you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "When it comes down to it, what would make me the most happy, Marion, is to know that when the chips are really down that you have the ability to choose yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "There's a downdraft almost of the water that's pulling away from the surface? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That sucks. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, it does. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Are there any obvious handholds in the walls or pockmarks that we might be able to get some traction on? Or is it smooth? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you look down, you see there's a tunnel. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It is, oh, there's a tunnel that goes underneath. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see on the map-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Jeez. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- it says, \"128 feet\" with a line. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I was hoping that was something else. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wait, what? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Is there any way to protect my explosives or ammunition going down, though? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure, we can say that you have them wrapped up. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Wax wrapped. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They can just come that way. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Fuck, that sucks, how long. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's the distance? Or the-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "From what it looks like there, that is the distance to whatever this entrance is to the Flare to where the Fourth Pharos is underneath the water from what you can tell. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does it feel like this-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What the-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does it feel like this tunnel is completely flooded? When we're first coming through the tunnel? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It just happens to be below water level. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Because I assume it's very dark in this tunnel. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I have my-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I could put my hand in the hole and see what we can see. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Does your hand-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What happens? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Put your hand in the hole. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, does it still do an underwater flame sitch? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You dip it under the water and all of you hear the bubbling. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Cool! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "When fire's underneath water-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Could make tea. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The flame doesn't dance the same way it did, but your fingers glow like magma. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see Sean turn. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I set my own trigger word. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "New trauma. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Don't hit me! Don't hit me! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "All right. Alright. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Unless there are pockets of air on the way. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But that's going to be the current, right? I mean, we can probably make that fast enough to hold your breath, just getting on it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You hope. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to go straight down. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do you want the flame? Oh, he's-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will say that this is a high stakes roll depending on if you get caught on any of a myriad of rocks or stalactites or anything that's underwater that this could deal some serious-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Not our natural space. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Remind me what your marks are right now to just clear-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I have one bleed, and three scars, and nothing else. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I hate this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see Sean disappear below the surface. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Were you not an underwater kid? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I still need to keep my hand in here to light it up? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But it's spelunking! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We finished that part. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We were, no problem. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I watched. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "All of our knees stayed intact. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I watched so many videos over the pandemic-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No, don't do it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- of people who died scuba diving in underwater caves. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Was it fun? Why'd you keep watching these? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I love horror, I love horror. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We're going to get the tunnel roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Make the damn tunnel roll. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I will make the damn tunnel roll. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What I want you to do is I would like for you to make the roll and then I'd like for everybody to close their eyes and you to give me the number on your hands. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, what is with this private show? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. Not yet. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool, cool cool. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wait, what did you say? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "He's going to give us what number he rolls. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What? Why? What? Why? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just, ha! We don't know why! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "All of you see Sean disappear. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "All of you see Sean disappear beneath the surface. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Non-committal. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I guess we wait, see if he comes back? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I am going to light the flare and dip it under the water. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. It stays lit. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "See you on the other side. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll go in under him. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just in case it's complete dark, there's nothing to see him. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "He's got the only flare. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "He just can't go by himself. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Not a built pillar, but a natural sort of divider. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "A mineral deposit, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You watch as his body slams into the pillar and he goes spinning forward. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm going to try and use that pillar to grab him, and I'm going to throw one arm around his shoulder and neck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is probably a good, you know-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- couple, 10, 20 feet in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do I have anything for this? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Any marks for me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, it's going to be a body mark from you from that thing, which is the-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Not really. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know why. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll take a five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you take the five. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I mean, you feel yourself slam into the wall, and your whole body is scraped against the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're being left in darkness as the hole is starting to go darker and darker. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I have my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have your hand-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That doesn't produce light underwater, does it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's like a little ember. It's like magma. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, you can't, I see. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It produces a little bit of light, right? But-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's not strong enough. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "As soon as-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's okay. It's just not as strong as the flare. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "If you're turning back, then I get it. And I go down. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ugh, we can't let him go in darkness. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Go! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I dive in. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It reminds you of the sea. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The whole thing that started the war. (exhales sharply) She's going to try and steel her breath as much as she can. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In that memory, Blue looks at you and smiles. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Blue, what do I do? (shakily) What do I do? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'll see you on the other side.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Promise? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And the ship floods. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(rapid breaths) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take a breath. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Everybody who's going, make a Control roll for me or a Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Or a move? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "One of the two. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What did you say? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Control or Move, one of the two. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I had too much blood in my head. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep, nope, I hear you. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Control or Move? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "TRAVIS and SPENSER: (heartbeat thumps) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I need a heartbeat thing on here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm missing the heartbeat thing-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We don't need that shit. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm sorry. (laughs) You feeling-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Whew! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I feel my own heart beating enough. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, I can do the-- [heavy thumps] " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Okay! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "[heartbeat thumping] " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Two ones. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(screams) Wha? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What are the stakes here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs nervously) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, good to know. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Going to burn a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Stakes are drowning. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're not dying because you're going to end up on the other side with everybody, but yeah, you might take some-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Burning a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Six, six on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I-- So you're rerolling. Can I? Fuck-- Can I, you're bad, right? " }, { "Role": "Player954", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You're bad. Can I-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm not great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I Saw This Coming reroll for resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "♪ It's the final ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As long you want to burn that final one that you have. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I technically have two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have two more? Okay, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Two, because I-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then you can burn one of the-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Forgot about that ability for a hot second. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) No problem, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And haven't used any. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's right, okay, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Except for that one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can definitely spend one of those. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "so she's pushing so she would come up on a stuck Marion. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "And would grab him and try and guide him in the right direction. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So add a die to your roll. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Add an additional die to the roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Did you add a die? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I did. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And I got a four on my gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's better than-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's better than ones. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Than one. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Better than a one. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Whew. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I get back. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Marion, you're going to take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You rolled-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take a body. You already made your roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to need a break after this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You grab him. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A little patching. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Margarita. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you feel your body being taken, you almost run out of breath. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(wheezes) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do we see you doing to hold on here, to steel yourself here because of that help that Auntie Bee gave you? What's the place that you go to? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm ready to go if it's time. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "When you live your entire life at least since you were seven years old thinking every time you go to bed wondering if you're going to wake up because you don't even know what you are, every day that you wake up (gasps) is like a gift. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I just let go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I check Sean. Awake? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Whatever blood from hitting the pillar I'm like-- (laughs energetically) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs energetically) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I do not get the same enjoyment out of this that you do, but I'm glad-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That could be the last time we ever do something like that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You know, this has been real fun, everyone, but I'm not doing so hot. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Here, let me try to patch you up before we go any further. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That would be real nice. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Please. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So Doc, I'll take my Zippo and try and give you-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I see you light so many things on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're in a room where the walls are just obsidian. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In front of you, just a single doorframe and a wall that looks like it goes on forever to the left and to the right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can I make, while they do that-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- can I make a Survey roll? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I am sure we are all alone in here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, I want to see-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, I want to see what's up. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I rolled a two, but I'm burning my last Intuition resistance to-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "To reroll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six on the gilded! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So as I only take one Intuition, I spend one Intuition to patch up one body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would love to patch you up again if it would help. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You see me completely relax and melt into you as you start to put your hands on me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I give him a kiss on the forehead. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I should have done this a long time ago, and I plant one right on your lips. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "♪ Long live our love ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I might be taking out a body mark soon. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a four. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to take a brain to take the four-five result instead. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So I'm taking a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What's that leave you at? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I burn two intuition for the four to five? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's a four. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, it was a four! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm dumb. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You just got kissed. It's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It flustered. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "True. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Your welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player942", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to look at LT and say: Do they have to talk to a Candela Obscura HR department? " }, { "Role": "Player942", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So yeah, we'll be reporting this. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, tell our Lightkeeper, \"Hey, people are fraternizing--\" " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Our Lightkeeper is dead! Auntie Bee killed him. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "There's no-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We already killed him. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "There's no fucking rules, I guess. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Wild West. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "LT, you and me? What do you think? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Hey, hey-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And then I just plant another one because why not. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Aw. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So it was a four, and I've burned the last of my Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So is that another body mark you get? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You're looking a lot better. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I feel a lot better, too. " }, { "Role": "Player942", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I wish I could say the same. I mean, no-- I'm just a little woozy is all. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You look great to me, so I don't know what you're talking about. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "There is a faint rosy glow that emanates through, as tired as I am. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What did you roll? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I rolled a four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But what you do gather from what you've heard in your time with Candela Obscura is that the Fourth Pharos is a place outside of standard space and time. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hm, is any of this reminiscent to the feature that I stumbled upon in Oldfaire? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's hard to know. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But it definitely appears as though it is not unrelated to the kind of structure that would be built by the same people who would build the thing you stumbled into. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to hold out this little magickal trinket. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "If it is reminiscent of when the vault If it is reminiscent of when the vault in our chapter house started glitching out, if it rotates, if it has any similarities. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Nothing out of the ordinary. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Any sign of, heh, ichor, blood, bodily fluid of an undesired origin? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Just darkness behind you, a doorframe, lit from behind in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Should I, I guess, reach out and see if I can sense something on the other side of that? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Or should we just walk in? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, no, I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I would say, Marion, I don't know how you're feeling bleed-wise, but I would say maybe reaching out and sensing is something that, given that we're in-- The Fourth Pharos is-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Well, we know-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- in the Flare, right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But you look stupid, so I-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Hey, yo, no, that's enough. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I looked stupid as a kid, but then I grew out of that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "He's very handsome. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And I look-- thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I just said the guy-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You know what? You know what I hate about you giving me shit? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What's that? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I could reach out and sense, since I took my physical burn scar, I moved a point away from Move because I was piss poor at moving away from the mine exploding, and I moved my point to Sense because now I am ever more embracing of the spiritual part of me in the wake of my physical weakness. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, there's a pendulum in your pocket that starts to spin. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I hold up the Candela pendulum, and then from my pocket I pull out-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Whoops, doesn't count. " }, { "Role": "Player952", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "But there's a five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, up to you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(groans) How high stakes is this? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is not a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So, I will take the five gilded result. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, take the five gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Nice, Doc. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Way to go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What else would you like to know here? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) Specifically, how does my circle enter access to this place without doing us harm? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How do we safely enter and access the Fourth Pharos? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It will not harm you to go through this door. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I open the door-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "-- and step inside. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There are doors that are lining both sides, but the whole corridor twists-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- around in a corkscrew fashion. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(retches) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You look to your left, you look to your right, and you see this long corridor twisting through space-time here. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I've heard of a turn in a corridor before, but this is ridiculous. " }, { "Role": "Player952", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I punch you in the arm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "With that five, you also immediately notice something else, which is not the door that's straight ahead of you, but to your left. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There is a door where at the top, it's labeled, Silverslip. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Things were coming through here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But we don't see-- It seems like because we shut it down-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "-- it looks like it's not active right now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Got you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's not actively doing that. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do we see ours, Hallowharbor? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is low stakes here, as you step out. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, presumably maybe somewhere in Hallowharbor, but not somewhere you know about. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But the names-- They're the names of the chapter houses, right? They're not the names of-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Seems like it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The locations of-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The door in front of us is down this twisting hallway. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We'll say that one's The Varnish, right? Then if you look left and right, that's when you see the hallways twisted. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, I don't know if these are active right now, but there's, you know, it's nice to know that we're not the only ones left. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're passing by door after door. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I take out a notepad and I just start writing the locations down. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just in case. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Briar Green. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The Sidle. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "They do have those there. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Red Lamp. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh, that's-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Also, there's different indications of places outside of the city itself. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to look and say: The Red Lamp Circle, they got to be a bunch of bums. Red Lamp's all bums. " }, { "Role": "Player960", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That rivalry's still persisting, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "To this day. To this day. " }, { "Role": "Player942", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's just a game, Sean. God! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's not just a game. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see something that catches your eye, which is a sign labeled: Vault. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's labeled, and then it has an arrow, and you see a little inlet, not a door, but an inlet where there's a set of stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does the rotation of this hallway seem to mirror almost the pacing of the-- (snapping) " }, { "Role": "Player941", "Content": "Astrolabe? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Astrolabe. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's no astrolabe here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We don't see any astrolabe? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's no astrolabe in this space. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "But does it feel almost like the same cadence in pace? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, as you walk, you're noticing that gravity is keeping you on the floor, but the whole rest of the hallway is like-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's like M.C. Escher, you're walking-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It starts, the floor starts to helix. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So we stick with the gravity, not like those fun house-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, no, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(dizzily) Wah! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, you're just walking, and as you're walking, you're slowly realizing you're walking on the wall-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Everything else looks like it's wrong. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Uh-huh. Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "If we are first, then perhaps we have a chance to lay a trap, or an ambush, or even move Allison before. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "They got a concierge in this place, or a receptionist, or something? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A sign-in sheet, maybe? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "A librarian? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I don't think so. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do you think the vault is where Allison is? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I think that's what they said before. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "They're keeping her-- They got gravity magick, and I'm sleeping on a cot in the side room, and they got Allison in a sick bed in the vault? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Maybe it's the only thing that can contain Allison. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, maybe she ain't so sick. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Oh, you mean it's not a hospital, it's a infirmary-jail kind of situation. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You know, like that little tube that Johnny was in? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, like this is your habitat that you're not allowed to leave. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Containment. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Hopefully more of a body shop. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I see. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm dangerously close to fainting, and in case I go down, I want you to have it in case-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And how does it work? It inject, or-- (gulping) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I hand over the syringe. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "All metal action? How long a needle are we talking here, doc? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's about four inches. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Ah! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Directly into the arm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Or posterior. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Damn, that's a horse. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I will hold it like a dagger for the time being. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see that there is a staircase down to what looks like a sort of escalator, or not escalator, elevator kind of unit. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Can we press forward? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We can either go down or up, but it seems-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can see the lighthouse up above if you want. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It appears as though the area you've fallen into is a wing of the Pharos that is dedicated to Newfaire, to the Fairelands. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "But could I take out the bleed detector just as we start-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "-- to enter this and head one way or the other? Just to-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But because it's within the Flare, you would guess that it is more safe here-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "At least for the time being. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just in case, I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's a good idea. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We'll press on. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you look up, you see a set of counterbalance weights that are starting to lower, and the whole unit-- Or raise? It's hard to tell here in this place where gravity is different-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Is there anything that you'd like to do before we enter? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Reload my revolver. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(clicking gun) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see the shotgun, and again. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(sighs) What? I got, I got very little, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Everyone get together. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "For posterity. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What about you? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Just in case they-- Oh fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You got a-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You got long arms, right? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You have a timer on that thing, don't you? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Cheese! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Cheese. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(camera flashes) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You feel yourself hit the bottom here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I want to say something to them. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That's it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You have a moment standing here at the edge before entering the vault. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "To the Needle & Thread. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Get that booze out, we're drinking. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh, yes, sorry, Finnerty gulped it earlier. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "To the Needle & Thread. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll go last, I gulp. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, you do. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "To living big. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Don't drink at all. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We're doing-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We got to have a celebratory drink at the end. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Well, it'll be a very small little sip at the end for everybody. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Tastes like victory. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "By name, to your left, you see Bs, Cs, stretch on. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) I thought you meant there's just a cage-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Bees. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- filled with bees. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, no, no, things labeled-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "The bars are so close together. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're so little! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "To your right. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "They aren't even. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Ts and Us, we see. " }, { "Role": "Player946", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Great, squid dog bee. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is Bee, you're Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player961", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "There you go. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In front of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh yeah, you're Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Bee pin. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In front of you, in one of the vaults, one of the vault cages, you see something slam against the metal. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Repeatedly, over-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "God. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear, \"Help! Let me out! Let me out!\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(clicks, ignites) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A yellowish green. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What would you like to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The cells are open, the metal dividers are in between each of them, but it's open facing? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Like aisles of a library, essentially. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll step in front of the first cell to see what happens. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(whispering) \"Hello?\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Hello? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Your father, he didn't like you very much, did he?\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Stick to the assignment, Lieutenant. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Right. I'll try and push down the aisle. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see his form shift and change as he melds into the wall here, and becomes just a ticking clock. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear-- [clock ticking] " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We should take up defensive positions, and be ready to defend this place. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do I hear clock ticking as well? Do I see anything weird going on with the astrolabe? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make it with me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "One. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oy. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Within the holes in the wall behind it, these spinning bits, some of them empty here, you see a set of eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "A set of eyes? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Not sure what that means, but you know something or somebody is watching you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Defensive positions. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Corners, line of sight. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Distance. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is this the only entrance to this aisle? It's a dead end on the other side? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So it's long, like couple football fields long. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This place is massive, infinite. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll be quick. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to go with you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You have the Adjuvant? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "No one should go diving alone. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I push down the aisle. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I want to see if I can use my pendulum to sense where's the best place for me to set up with my handgun. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is there a specific spot? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Some of them are holding artifacts, some of them holding people. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The scale, the size is different depending on, you know, what the scale of the thing that it's holding is. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But there doesn't seem to be a best place as far as defensive position for shooting is concerned. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I see. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Unless you have a specific need that you want, right? Unless you're looking to stop somebody coming down the aisle this way, or if you're looking to see things-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I see. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- from the other aisles. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "In that case, I want to stick close to where these two are set up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I want to see if I can sense from what direction danger may come. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is that a possibility at the moment? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, roll a Sense for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's three ones, one on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "But I'm taking that result, so I get a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) I did this to myself. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Damn it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "How do you roll that? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Very carefully. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Like that. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Are you rolling with this hand, or that hand? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "This one. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, maybe, I don't know, maybe the burning hand is better for what we're trying to do. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "The bleed-scarred hand. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm going to have you take one more point of bleed for me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That drops me down. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are going to take the scar, but you do not have to drop, because there is no immediate danger. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You feel yourself overcome by this realization. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I feel it start in my chest. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're taking up a defensive position, we see you moving. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm doing-- well, I see this happen, and I look at you, and I think: This looks good. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(stifled laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Marion, holy shit. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Because that dark matter is what I want to focus on, and I am going to ping the antithesis of it, and if I can see it moving, then I know that there's people that are here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You've speared off to one side, you're going down the other side. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(groans) That is a one, a one, and a two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Incredible. So-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Fascinating, I should have said. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Fascinating, clang! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What you get here-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I know what it is. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you going to do anything? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, look, I think that I am-- I was distracted by what I saw her do, and I'm not perceiving this as bad. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm seeing-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "♪ It's my third scar ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Defensive positions, right? Where we going? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think I'm already, we're fanning out. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I asked that where you were, not even noticing that you had moved. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm just here for support. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(clears throat) Ms.-- Allison? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She looks you up and down. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do you--? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Why are you here?! No, no, no, no, no, no! First him, now this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "First--? Do you remember me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She says, (screaming) \"You're the reason I'm here!\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(stammering) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"You're the reason I'm here!\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I don't understand, you said, \"First him.\" Who? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see him slip between the bars. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Hello.\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Father? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"We call this a two for one, isn't that right, Lieutenant?\" Reaches out his hand, and attempts to pierce you through the chest, and also Allison-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What do the two of you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Those elongated vertebrae almost catching fire. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "With instinct, and knowing how important flanking can be in a military situation, I will use the Prestige. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's the first time you're using this, right? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What is it? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I pulled it from another class. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Fu-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll roll Sense when I perform it, and on a success, I'll take a bleed mark, and it will teleport me a short distance\" behind him. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I believe you take a bleed mark for that, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Pull out my revolver, stick it in its back, and pull the trigger. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She's coming and you can't stop her!\" " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Beatrix, run! I'll grab him and just start pumping the revolver into him. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Nice, nice, nice. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Beatrix-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You said there was still a little bit left? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "There's still half of it left, it wasn't enough to be able to, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I reach through the bars to Allison and I jab the rest of it into Allison. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She locks eyes with you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "First I yell: Sean! Then I go: What do we do, how do we beat it? You know, you are it! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You look shocked. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(stammering) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You look shocked, but you sent me a message. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Saying that I set the explosives. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes, you did. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(yell turns to laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You failed the roll?! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What makes you think I made the roll? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sean is-- So I go to the astrolabe, I set the TNT, I light it, and I immediately begin stalking in whatever direction it makes the most sense for me to be stalking in. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep, great. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Got my rifle in my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do I see these two first or do I see these two first? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Everybody stops, looks up for a moment and the creature with a thousand different faces flashing on it says, \"She's here,\" and the astrolabe stops. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "A rift four times the size it was before sits in front of you and you see her hand reaching through and you hear, \"That's my boy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to start-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm just, eyes down: ♪ Take me out to ♪ the ball game ♪ I'm going to begin to hunt the party. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep, sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I still have Allison's arm? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You still have Allison's arm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "We know Sean's compromised? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So make your roll here, what is it? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I will take the six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's not able to get a hit on you here because of that six. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm not moving away, it's just from the hip. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She's going to have revenge... everybody.\" And then it collapses. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You're just nothing but a disappointment, and I take my Zippo lighter, throw it on his body. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear, \"♪ Take me out to the ballgame ♪\" Reverberating. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm looking into Allison's eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How do we fix it? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"I'm scared. I just want my son and my husband.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What's the lock like on this cage? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Doesn't mean there aren't other ways. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll start jogging back towards the middle of where all this chaos is. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Their faces open in that weird multi-- Flang? Flange? What's the right word? Flange? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Appendage or phalanges? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah like-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mandibles. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are standing watch here, right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You hear this happening, you hear Sean singing. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, I pull out my phase knife and I call out: Lieutenant? Auntie Bee? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Can I hear him? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Over here! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "What's going on? Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do I hear these voices? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Do I have eyes on them? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make a Survey roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll use my thing. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, that's good. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Sorry, one second. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "We have no idea what caused it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, don't know what happened. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll actually burn an Intuition drive to add another gilded die to this Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, good. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As that happens, you see the creature parting the veil here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do we see that, too? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You all see it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's parting the veil. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You watch as flashing chromatic light comes down its hand. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Its son being--? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Sean? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No, the creature. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, the one that you shot full of lead. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A bunch of times. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's holding its hand out like this, and you see it (cracking) coming back to. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh god, I sucked at baseball, but I did play outfield and I'll crow hop and fucking wing that stick of dynamite as far as I can. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That sounds good, make a Control roll for me as this is happening. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(mumbling angrily) Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She looks as though she's trying to crawl through. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's trying to get its bearings and she's like, \"Come back, please come back.\" As she opens that wider, with that five, what we get here is an immediate eyes to you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "From her? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "From her. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So her son is now dropped on the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She's trying to get him back up, but he is not quite-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But he was dead? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay, I'm watching this happen and I want to try to see if I can understand the channel of-- I'm interpreting this as all magick. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And I want to reverse it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So whatever she's pushing into it, to imbue it with energy so that it can pop up again, I want to take that and push in the opposite direction, reverse the flow. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's going to take at least a bleed, even on a success, but more potentially. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, I'm going to use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Given that I have knit together a rift before, I want to Focus on it or Sense it and see if there's anything that I can bring and remember from that time when I sewed it back together that could assist in this reversal process. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You reach out and touch Marion, and you know by doing that, you're going to infuse that power towards this. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do I need to burn--? I mean burn up, you get an additional die. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A drive? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "A drive, a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Should I use that? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is this a turning point, a pivotal moment? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're trying to keep this being from coming back alive. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So whatever the stakes are-- I mean it's a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I feel like a roll later is going to need that gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "If we try to close the portal. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, oh you do, do you? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Are we doing collaborative storytelling here or are we playing Monopoly, you know what I mean? I can be a prick, but not be a prick about it, you know what I mean? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "It's trending in a unique direction, that's for sure. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The highest is a four. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Two, three, four, three. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This creature locks eyes with you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're going to take a point of bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But the consequence of that is that you now see exactly where Marion is and exactly where Jean is. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I have a question. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Based on what I just began to understand, is this what took my soul in that first moment? Or is this something different? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know here, that eye that looked at you through that split in reality all those years ago in the garden-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Was this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That thing that took your soul. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(groans) Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I can see the two of them, but Marion is the vessel. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This one seems to be holding off, seems to be helping. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(barked laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Do we have any-- Oh, we hear him singing. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You heard him singing previously. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Can we take that to-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And you're not hearing any singing right now. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm heading towards him, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The seventh inning stretch. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Can we interpret that we know Sean is dirty? (shouts) Because I'd like to shoot him! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "This is a very important question, because otherwise it's very meta, he's been-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "He hasn't shown us a " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, we haven't-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is to tell the hairs on the back of your neck that somebody's pointing at you. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Is this high stakes? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It is incredibly high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I am going to, thank you, roll, and I'm going to burn all of my Cunning drive, which is three points-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, okay, that sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me what Jean sees here as she turns towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "It's another day. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see this look. You've seen this look in soldiers before. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to shoot him. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, I raise my gun and shoot. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, it will be a roll off, essentially, whoever rolls higher is going to shoot, and then the consequences will be-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'll also, if I see the gun coming up, I'll be ready to dive into a row of cells as the-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Totally. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You know, vanish after the attack. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Totally. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Also, you have a pistol, right? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would like to say-- I do have a pistol. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, and he's got a fucking shotgun. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If I am not a six, I die on this roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "If what, what, say that one more time. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I've met three scars and three body marks. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And you got to take that gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I've got to take that gilded die, (shouts) or is there another way? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Hmm, she says to the table! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can take bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player962", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You have your golden thing, you can take bleed, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, my golden thing to add another die and take bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And it's gilded when you take it with that, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Can you use two charges of that at once? Take two bleed, and add two die? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I already did that. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay, I have to do this because he is going for Marion, and I am going to protect Marion if it's the last thing I do, and it may very well be-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(huge sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So, I'm going to, is it all right to take this gilded? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I feel like you're the only one who can close the rift. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So take it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So I have to survive this roll. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Because you've got the book, you're the only one who can-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I mean, I can try and sew some shit, but it'll look like I'm just conducting a ghost orchestra. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I closed a rift once. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And I think it's ability in all of us to be able to close the rift. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take the die. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "All right, so I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You can use two charges of this, if you want. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Two charges to take two bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And take two more gilded as a result. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to do it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So, you're both eye to eye, gun to gun, shooting at one another. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Pistol to rifle. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I will still head that way. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Make sure. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Soldier to doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, sounds good. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I will say that depending on the first roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Do you want to place side bets? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "We'll see how that goes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm rolling six dice as well. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I have five. Is there any other possible help I can summon from what I have, or from-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Hey, four to one. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Four to one odds? (laughs) Do you-- Right? Hundred percent. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I mean, I want to give you, I can give you a Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah, you can give a Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "While I'm seeing that happen, I think somehow, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Control rolls, right? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, I can give a Nerve drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Great, you steady her the way she steadies you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I see her pull her gun up, and my eyes go, and I start to reach out into you as well, and say to you-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Let's clarify what's going on here, because you're both rolling six dice. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We are going out-- we're bucking the system right now. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "We're off-road. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What does PVP mean? " }, { "Role": "Player10", "Content": "Player versus player. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What I will say is-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- that on a success from both of you, that both of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- will only take, what was it? Both of you will successfully get out of each other's way, right? That is how we're going to rule it. That it's a shot, but both of you miss. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "If somebody gets a six, and somebody gets a four to five, then we're going to say that person does not take any marks, but the four to five person does take marks. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Got you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Cool, is that fair? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh man, and this is some! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay, okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Whoo-hoo-hoo! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Fun times are had. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Friendly local game store. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Good times. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I see a six. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(shouts) Six! With the gilded! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "With the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Both sixes? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Both sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Describe for me what happens here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You get-- You get-- I can't talk-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Wow, wow! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But you did that thing-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "What do I get back? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You get a drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh, I get a Nerve! I get a Nerve! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "A drive back, a drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You can collaborate on this. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "The doc decides to do harm. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I feel steady, with my pistol, I feel support behind me from not only dear Marion, but the goodwill of my entire Circle as I (shouts) face this thing (louder shouts) that has taken my friend! And I shoot, steady as ever, at its head. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see Sean, the Sean that we've always known on full display here. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(mirthfully) Hoo-hoo-hoo! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You see this happen. You are running towards Sean here, towards this whole event happening here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As it's happening, you're seeing that there are these creatures headed straight for you, a giant beast. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Do I see him fire towards Jean? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "For sure. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(quick exhale) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm going to walk up-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's all on the table now. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sean? Sean, please, I just want to talk to you. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I run up behind Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Please let me-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You saw the same thing I did, that's not Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Trust me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Listen to me. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Get her safely to the rift. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'll catch up with these two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "They're, (creatures falling) overturn, we don't need to roll for it. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see its hand come out, leaving behind the child. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Realizing who you are, what you are, takes its hand-- " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I back up. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- as it starts to cage. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Mm-mm. But as it's doing that-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Mm-mm! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mm-mm! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-mm! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) As it's doing that, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I didn't want-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That will get her. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Okay, high five. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, holy shit. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Theater! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh, you know what? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Free the kids! MARISHA, ZEHRA, " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "As it's doing that, I see it happen-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I maintain eye contact with the kid. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Now, why couldn't you take the whole thing back then? I was just a kid, what stopped you from taking the whole thing? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You didn't.\" " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And you need me empty, right? If I still had my soul, you couldn't do whatever it is that you need from me? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see her head tilts. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I caught this because I gave her-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Sean, what's going on with you? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Sean has ducked around the corner, you can't see Sean, but you can call out to him. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Yeah, I just call that out. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's not Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "But I don't like that this thing took my soul. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "What, what? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Once per assignment, I can have an automatic full success on an action. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(excited squeak) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "When I do, I get a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I take it as if I've had the scar all along. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And now I'm supposed to tell my circle how I got it, and why the lesson I learned is helping me succeed here. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Why-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You feel a connection with it, and it says, \"I'll make you feel whole again.\" " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I take my hand, and I reach into the space right in front of me-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- and I tear another rift-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- into the past. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The scar that I've had on me all along. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I go back to the garden in front of my parents' house, moments before this thing took my soul from me. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I look at my seven-year-old self. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And I'm reaching into him, and I'm taking his soul out of him-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Before this motherfucker shows up and takes it from him. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Whoa! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are holding your soul in your hands. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm remembering all that now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh my god, I did this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I did this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It was your hand that was taking your soul. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And that's why when she showed up, she showed up to an empty vessel. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wibbly, wobbly, timey wimey. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But that is your fourth scar. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Or it's my first scar. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Or it's your first. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's always been right here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do I have any agency at all? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You watch from above as everything is happening here. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Can I move? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In these last moments, as your soul is drifting up. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "If this is-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Marion's first scar. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "But mechanically, we didn't decide what was happening in-game, correct? So, would it be possible for the roll that Marion has an automatic success on to erase his first scar off his character sheet, thereby not giving him his fourth scar? It would just be giving him his first of three. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "This is my first of three scars, is what I said. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Complete his third-- His first of three. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "GM on player on GM bargaining, let's go! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Care Bears Stare us-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Care Bare Stare! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You get a full success, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I get a full success on what I'm about to do, but I haven't decided what I'm about to do yet. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "This is some paradox shit. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah, a hundred percent. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It's as if I've had this scar all along. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This is why people hate time loops. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I just showed everybody how I got it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And it was the scar that I had all along. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "That's three to me, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's three to me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I mean, you get out a calculator, but that sounds like three scars! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The side of her face starts to sizzle as the Flare protects her from making an incursion here on her own. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Distracted by that, we watch as that soul floating above starts to drift back down. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(gasps) (thumping) That is your third scar. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Yeah, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Whoa, crazy! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Also, it's your first. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "That is the coolest piece of magick-- That is the coolest piece of collaborative fucking improv. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You just \"Time Copped,\" expecto patronumed, that was so-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Holy fuck, that was the craziest shit. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Time wrinkle. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You can't fire me, I quit! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I'm going to fire-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(sobs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(long exhale) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This thing is thrashing, trying to find-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you all want to do in this moment of thrashing? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "While it's distracted, I want to focus on this rift and see if there's a way that I can repair it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come on, girl! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "(drumming) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You steady yourself here. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm just on defense and counting the shrinking number of bullets in my pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see Sean here hiding in the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm looking for Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(disembodied voices) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know that repairing this is going to cost you-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "-- some bleed here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Some bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "But you might be able to close it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "How much bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Depends on the roll. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Are you trying to close it? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I would like to try to close it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How many dice you rolling? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I am rolling two on-- Was it Focus? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's going to be Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Sense! Great! " }, { "Role": "Player950", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Then I'm adding, I'm going to burn my last Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Your last drive. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "My last drive. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "How many is that? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll burn my last Intuition drive-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "-- to support this as I-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "You're the one who told me it's only surgery. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "As I say: You've got to do this. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yep. Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's only surgery. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You want a sixth die? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Take it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah? As we see you standing in front of the rift. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are standing there trying to-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So much is happening at once! " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You wanted to go talk to Dahmer? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Fucking time. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Go talk to Dahmer. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I see where he is. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Other side of the shelves here, of the vault here. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Auntie Bee. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Focus your rage towards me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Can-- can I just get one more hug from my boy before you do this, please? You're like a son to me. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I cannot honor this emotion and maintain what I need to maintain, so I'm just walking towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just one last gentle touch. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "And I'm going to crack the butt of the rifle over her head. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Are you trying to avoid this? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Does he get close enough to me? What I had, hidden in between my forefinger and middle finger, is my hand weapon, my blade, that I keep on me. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "So as I see that he's about to lunge, I want to take the knife and jab it in his neck. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's another PVP. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's going to be Control. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're trying to do this without being seen. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "You said, \"She's at Marion's, don't let her wash the ball\"? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "She's at Marion's? Don't let her-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Watch? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is that--? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Oh! Don't let her watch--? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Square up. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Wash. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Wash the ball. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Wash. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "The ball? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "The baseball? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I'm going to burn that one, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I Saw This Coming. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to give you my last Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So here's what we're going to say. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Then I have a Train die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We're going to reverse the results this time. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(rewind noise) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Meaning that on sixes, both of you take down each other. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On four to fives, it's less marks. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "I'm here for it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On fails-- " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Fucking gravity's weird, might as well. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "On fails, you guys don't hit each other. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm burning everything I have. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Because you're both going for it, we see the swing, we see the knife coming. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(cheering) " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Auntie Bee! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Came from hell! " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "What we averted. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Take four body marks here. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You know that you will, do you continue your strike? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I have to keep my end of the bargain, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You do. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Complete commitment from every moment. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Be mentally prepared if he's too far gone. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Three body marks. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That's my first scar. " }, { "Role": "Player943", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "His final moments, what do we see? " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I kept my end of the deal. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Safe. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I think in her hands she's got a baseball and a slip of paper saying that her diagnosis was wrong. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see her make eye contact with you in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "What happened out there, I don't think I could ever come home. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see tears well up in her eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I don't know where I'm going, but if I find Tony and Jimmy, I'll tell them you said hi. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "I can see you now, running in the field playing soldier.\" " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "I love you. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "We see the creature thrashing, looking for any source, another vessel somewhere here looking between you and you, looking at this one dropped on the ground and you feel a pull. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I'm unconscious, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You are. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Just took a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "All of you watch as that soul starts to rise out of Auntie Bee What do you all want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Am I awake now, too? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're up. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm at the rift. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're at the rift. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "If I close this rift, will it stop this creature? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's what you presume. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Maybe. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I have to try to mend the rift. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What do you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I feel like my soul is still like a ball that I'm holding, right? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see it your chest, spinning, moving. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Am I still in a cage? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It thinks you got, it thinks you died and got rid of, its vessel is gone, that's why it's going after her. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Ah, so my understanding is that it won't go after a corpse. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "It needs a living vessel. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's why it was after you. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm going to help you close it. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm wondering is there any way I can strengthen the thread I am using to connect this rift with the creature's own thread, taking it into me, and through me, and through my hands. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That sounds like a Sense roll to me. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "You feel a hand on your back, as I close my eyes and I'm going to give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You're attempting to strengthen the thread. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "So this is the original stitching roll. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Exactly, so what I will say is you feel that thread go into you, you feel it emboldened. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Do I sense that you are using this to close the rift? Is that-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Then yeah, I give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes, yes, I have-- " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Have as many dice as you can. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I have six. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "This is life or death for you for sure. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "It's just surgery. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Six! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "That's a six! " }, { "Role": "Player963", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "And all the rest are fours. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "We got to get something for that, no? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player54", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player866", "Content": "Shortly. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Do you take that? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I take it. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "The astrolabe stopped, but the rift closed. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "As I fade into whatever is next, I murmur: Now " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "I'm doing something. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You see Jean drop. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "That gives me an automatic success because you haven't had me roll anything. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Your success was getting, was doing the scar. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Was getting--? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Let's do this. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Either way, I have this soul of mine that's here. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "So I'm going to take it-- " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "-- and I pull it out, and I'm putting it inside of her. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "You start to fade, starting, your eyes flitting, you're starting to go, but you press it against her. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Is it gilded? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "It's gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Oh yeah, I lose that, because I had to, yeah, fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "No! She wouldn't want you to do this. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Five, on my gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "In the last moments of your life, describe for me how you put that soul in Jean. " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "And you see in your head like a movie, a collage of us together, getting older, having kids, and it's beautiful. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "(breathes shakily) " }, { "Role": "Player940", "Content": "Live as big as you can, maybe live for two. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Where are you? " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "That question would require an answer to where is Nathaniel Trapp? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Nathaniel, where are you? " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "And I'm standing in the office in the Nine Irons, visiting a very special lady and making sure that a promise is kept. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "In this time, I would've taken Sean's advice, gone and found the note wrapped around the baseball, delivered it to Trapp. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "After everything, it's all she has left. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She has a baseball in her hand. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Is this a vision or is this truth? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "At first you feel like it could only be a dream, but it is true. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I tell her there's a boy that I think needs her. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "She looks at you, eyes wide. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "It's not Sean. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Is it one of yours? One of the ones you take care of?\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "I think it is now. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "As you meet, Lucas grabs her hand. " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Mr. Lucas? " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(Lucas) \"Yeah?\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "This here is Peggy. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "\"Do you think that I'll be able to see my mom soon? I miss her.\" " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "You know, I think that's something your good old Auntie Bee can work towards. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Then he nods, turns away. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "Me and Auntie Bee will be there to help every step of the way. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "And finally, we land on a garden. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Starry night petunias growing. " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "What is Jean doing? " }, { "Role": "Player939", "Content": "I'm going to start a beautiful garden of my own. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Thank you all so much. " }, { "Role": "Player1", "Content": "So good. " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player2", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player932", "Content": "Make sure you take care of yourselves at home, and we'll see you next time. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You reek of my favorite flavors.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Who am I to question a god? (eerie suspenseful music) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "This circle is not broken, but it is most certainly bent. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I know you want this to be more than just one of your regular missions, but I've stopped trying. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So you can come out, but you're going to play nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(eerie suspenseful music) (eerie suspenseful music) (eerie suspenseful music) (eerie suspenseful music) (eerie suspenseful music) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Visit darringtonpress.com/candela to learn more. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Liam, would you like to introduce yourself, please? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(elderly) Yes, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Tell us what we're looking at. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I enjoy the field, I enjoy the hunt, I enjoy my own personal studies, and I enjoy my shop. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Cosmo?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are wasted in the field, and--\" He looks down at your legs and your chair and you can see him trying to figure out how best to broach the subject of your decreased mobility. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Surely you are staffed to the gills. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"There is no one here who has been around as long as you, and I know you know that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm spry. You know that as well. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But this has to be it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Nokari, what exactly is it you are charging me with here? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But this is it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I suppose we'll jump off that bridge when we come to it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"For what it's worth, I'm sorry I couldn't do more.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know it's not entirely in your hands, either. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A Dr. Rajan Savarimuthu.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, I do. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Good.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's a very bright young man. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'd be happy to have him within our circle. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Of course, you've been doing a great job of keeping an eye out for him, but I don't need to tell you that they are watching.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I cannot say I haven't had my suspicions. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I believe with all of my being that the work we do is good and just and necessary, but our methods are not always kind.\" \"but our methods are not always kind.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not always comfortable, but definitely necessity dictated our ends. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ashly, would you like to describe what you look like? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "My clothing is in the style of maybe two or three seasons ago. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Lightkeeper Nokari. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You're looking well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Dr. Roberts, welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I go into the back and-- I go upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, join us downstairs when you are ready. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Would you like to introduce yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Who? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Scars all over his face, neck, ears. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Are they hot? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "The one on his eye is. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Wild. Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He's a big guy and he looks like he's looking for any danger. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Would you like to make the first roll of the game? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I would love to. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me a Read. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I will roll two dice and take the lower of the two. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh, great! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Starting off on a strong foot. Chapter 3! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "And a three. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They gesture into the room, but very quickly attempt to move back into conversation with Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come in, come in. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Hi. Who are you? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will be handling your assignment and the creation of your circle.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Lightkeeper? What is that, like a general? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"It's a Lightkeeper.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sergeant? Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Not everything is a fight, Mr. Grimm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(sighs) Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I-- Oh I'm sorry. Can I hear this conversation from where I am? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oscar! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "How you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm fine. I didn't expect to see you here. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I didn't expect to come honestly, but I was summoned, so. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Summoned? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I showed up. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"The formation of our new circle.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Right. Yes, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, Oscar is being inducted into our ranks for the first time. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Congratulations. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's not really my choice, but I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Your skills will be put to good use, I'm sure.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "As long as I make it through this in one piece and the old man, too, I'll consider that a win. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oscar is good at adapting. Always has been. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And--\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "To wait? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"For the rest of your circle.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What do you mean? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"That's right, you're normally a part of smaller circles, correct? you're normally a part of smaller circles, correct? Just the Grimms?\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I assumed that you would remember. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So if you want to take up your grievances, I think you ought to look to your left.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's got their fingers in this pie, Nokari? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So you have Oscar-- Cary, what's your preference?\" \"So you have Oscar-- Cary, what's your preference?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I just don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So, Oscar? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't have a lot of friends. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "No one calls you Cary, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, I was trying to-- It was a thing I was hoping would catch on. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I see. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Would you like to introduce yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No doorman here. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Gramps, it's very good to see you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Raj? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Fancy meeting you here. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What are you doing here? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You know me, I'm not usually a team player, but this was too exciting to turn down. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hey, I think we're all friendly here, Rajan. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Can I get a physical description? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Rajan is almost 6'. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "He is brash when at his best and some would argue perhaps obnoxious at his worst. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I've been brought in because perhaps I can bring a little bit of perspective to this latest trial. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But Silva is here and available for deeper discussions once you all arrive.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Could we speak somewhere else for moment, Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you wheel me into my back room? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "And I do. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Elsie, as you wheel him, and you can feel the leather giving under the handles as you push, please take your first token. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So we are already in my study, but there is a door leading to my private home and bed chambers, the living room. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, what are you, like something higher than that? Something fancier? I mean, are you some sort of showman or what? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Well, I guess you could call me a consultant, if that helps you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It does not. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "And who, pray tell, are you? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm Cosmo's grandkid. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm just here to make sure none of you all kill yourselves. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oscar Grimm? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oscar Grimm. That's me. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm curious to see how you contribute to this crew. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Do you smile all the time? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What's not to smile about? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Just going through those. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "As you finally spot the name of the building and make your way in, will you please introduce and describe yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh! Oscar! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, hi, Madam Glask. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hi. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's nice to see you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I thought I told you to wait at the door. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Fine, but let me know next time. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Speaking of, where is Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He's in the back with Doc. With Doc Roberts. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm. Excellent, and-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, don't even with this guy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean-- Yeah, it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "The legendary Madam Glask. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I've heard many great things. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She hands out her hand to him. And you are? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Professor Rajan Savarimuthu. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How lovely. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "He knows this is when we make the most money. (sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We'll move slowly into the back chambers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What is the matter, child? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You know that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I trust them. All of them I trust. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do you trust what they would do if they saw me? I can't do this. (shudders) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Please take your other token. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Take me off this assignment. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Dear-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You can do it without me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've always, for all your challenges, been a steadying presence to me. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Especially around Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have always sensed a little bit of something in the air between you two, but I never wanted to pry. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We have history. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are a fine doctor and I have no doubt that we will pull together as circles do, as circles must. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I trust you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You warm a very old heart. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Then take him into the main room. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I didn't find anything, but perhaps it's just better to begin.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I cross over, being very, very deliberately not looking at Raj and pick up the dog and bring him to you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Give her-- She needs a friend. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh, he's already all over your face and aiming for your mouth. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Nope, no. Just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Good boy, Godot. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's been weeks since you've been by. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You grace us with your presence here at mine. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I take both of his hands and I kneel down to him and I kiss him on both cheeks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's good to see you, dear. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "The girls miss you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) Well, they can beat me at cards again next week, perhaps. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Perhaps we should get to the point. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What is this? You're going to pass out bowls of goat blood to drink or something? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oscar, just look and listen. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Boy, look and listen. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Well, if you have any other questions about the nature of your circle or your work with Candela, I will remit you to the care of your grandfather.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We go out there, beat this guy up, see what he knows-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- shake him down, and follow his leads, I guess? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We normally start with conversation, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Normally. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(sighs) Sure, that'll work too. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are left to the quiet of your room and your interviewee outside. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shall we pick apart this knot and see what we're dealing with? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How about I try to calm him down first? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is one of your specialties. Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You look troubled. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can put your hand on his shoulder, but it's very clear that he is still in a place of agitation where guarding his space feels important to him. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I understand that you need our help. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You're with them?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "But I wanted to-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You're new.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm sorry? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They don't believe me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "No, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You're wearing a ball gown.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"It's the morning.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Oh god.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I don't own-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"They're going to send me back.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "-- many daytime clothing. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Daytime--\" You see, he looks down at his wrinkly pajamas. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I assure you, Mr. Sarcas, members of Candela come in all shapes and sizes and just because you're not familiar with Ms. Glask, does not mean she hasn't been a part of our explorations for some time. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I assure you, I am a very good old friend of Cosmo and you can put your trust in me. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I see this happening even if I'm not there? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'd like to just watch him as they're talking to him and see if I can pick up if there's anything psychological or arcane going on with him as he speaks. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A Focus roll, but if you're trying to see if there is something very specifically magickally wrong with him or interacting with him, give me a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'll try a Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't know, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Come on, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's going to be so good. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's a guy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's a guy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I need you to take a bleed token. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "As something you can't quite clock-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- is awry with him. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Baby's first bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Baby's first bleed! Welcome! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It hurts! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I suggest we call them all out into the garden so you don't have to repeat yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, I will-- (shaky exhale) Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oscar! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Ah!\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Boy! Bring the-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Bring your new friend into the garden. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. You want to come? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh, that must be me. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm sure you're not accustomed to door handles. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to stick-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Fast learner. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- close to Oscar as we go out. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I will-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Probably markedly close. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- puff my chest up and just make sure that there's no sudden moves. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So my question to you is, what is it-- What does it feel like when you enter into the presence of a tremendous amount of bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It takes a lot of willpower for me to not physically step back in the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We need answers and we need them quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Dr. Savarimuthu, you are looking a little peaked. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm fine. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I tell that he's not fine? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Rajan, do you need to step inside? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I leave this to you, Professor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Explain to us what you are in need of. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It feels like it all started when that nun showed up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "At that word I think I'm going to take, if Rajan hasn't gone inside, I might lock eyes with him and go, let's go inside. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Please continue, good sir. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I, it's, I, if I'm-- (shouts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who is the clergy woman you are referring to? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She's beautiful.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "The most beautiful woman you've ever seen. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"It's, it's eerie, it pulls you in.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You're not crazy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You've seen her, too?\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Yes, we've crossed paths before. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Something's wrong.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How did you escape? Perhaps there's a way for us to get in through where you left. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I was good at my job.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You fled the sanatorium, and she, what, resides there on a permanent basis? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I've never... if she's not walking around, if she's not in a meeting, or viewing the grounds, or she's in her office, always, always.\" \"or she's in her office, always, always.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do they know you're gone? Will they be looking for you? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They have to know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Where did your friend, Johnny, take them? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He was running in a dead sprint towards some shrubbery in the back.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What makes him so important? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He was hurt and didn't care.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Is Johnny a patient there? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah, yeah, one of the ones that disappeared without concern.\" \"one of the ones that disappeared without concern.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And showed up inexplicably that night and you fled, and you've no idea where they ended up that night. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If I go back, I'll never leave.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "After listening to this gentleman for several minutes, I'm wondering, does he seem to me confused or like he is omitting anything in his story? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Are you using mundane or magical means? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, I will burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not on the gilded, but that is a six, a success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But anything that gets through this office to The Periphery gets to the Triumvirate and becomes more information for the government to understand, to control, to weaponize. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understood, and this gentleman, while a bit in a spin does not seem muddled in his story-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Not at all. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and has absolute conviction in it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "100%. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You see him returning to himself in real time. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "A question. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm a blood and guts doctor, but is there anything that I've done since I've been with Candela that might help someone, like can I feel that I took a point of bleed basically, that this guy might need some help? Do I have anything that helps with that or am I just your standard issue GP? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "From your time, and your studies, and your existence as a doctor in this city, you know that the sanatorium is where they put Periphery officers that have been too close to very bad things for too long and get burnt out of efficacy, in the same way that a Candela Lightkeeper is someone that has been in the field for so long that they've aggregated too much scarring on their body, or their mind, or that thing within them that engages with and understands the magical truth of the world. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So there's nothing I could do to help him with the feelings that he's having? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Talking, believing him, like there's nothing physically-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- that you could do. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask leans over to him in a very reassuring voice and says: You are indeed very good at your job. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Is there anything else that you could tell us that may help us with this Sister Iovar? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Everything was taken when they sent me here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I understand, that's more than enough, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I would open it up to the circle then to brainstorm. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Brainstorm? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Perhaps we wait until nightfall? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Why are we, why are we waiting? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hopefully to get in and out unscathed. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Can't we just make an appointment or something? I mean they're open for business, right? You guys are prominent citizens. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm just curious to see if there is anything left on the premises from your associate who fled before charging into the maw of the beast. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "The stories about the sanatorium is that they don't let people out. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "They can let people in, right, to visit? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We don't want to just rush in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you think, Rajan? Should we be charging up to the door and making an appointment with this sister? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Rajan. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Seems like that might be a bad idea. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You come back to yourself and see that your circle, that this officer is staring you down, expecting some sort of response. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Rajan? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Madam Glask, do you perhaps have any sway Madam Glask, do you perhaps have any sway over these security personnel at this sanatorium? over these security personnel at this sanatorium? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Discreetly, though. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Either way, I think we have our in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What will you do with yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I was put away, so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Maybe we should take this gentleman there. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "The collateral damage if they come after Sarkis is high. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Barter for safe passage out of the city or--\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't think that that's a good idea. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's not personal.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I have a lot of memories here, family I can't go home to.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Perhaps you could lay low there for a while. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You have an extra house? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Look at his jacket.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You don't? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I do apologize, it is a place of business and I normally would, especially if Cosmo asks, but I can't risk it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I promise you that. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But you shrug through it. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm waiting to see if the scarlet I've smeared across the back of his hand has taken effect. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh. Oh! Hmm. Why don't you give me a Hide roll to see-- Let's just see how effective you are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're a slick son of a bitch. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's really good. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm going to add two drive. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will say, the stakes aren't necessarily high here, but this will be less about hiding this from Sarkis, but this will be less about hiding this from Sarkis, who's leaned in and locked in, and more about the people here. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(sighs) Critical success on gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ooh! (impressed exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I would never presume to tell you how your character feels, but you know intimately well the trajectory and duration of that false hope, of that elation that comes from scarlet. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You've done your duty. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think it's been wrong and rotten for far longer.\" \"I think it's been wrong and rotten for far longer.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you do me a favor, son, and draw me a basic map Why don't you do me a favor, son, and draw me a basic map to the director and the sister's quarters. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So there's large blocks and swaths and floors that he has no information on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Three distinct sections of trees, and a little fountain, and the shrubbery that abuts the far wall that makes it that much harder to clear and escape. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you add an X to where your fellow patient ran to? to where your fellow patient ran to? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Because he does not know where they stopped, he'll give you a dotted straight line-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Trajectory. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- of the straight trajectory. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So you have two potential places. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hopefully this will make our work ever so slightly easier. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I'm happy to have helped.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Remind me, GM, did the Lightkeeper leave premises? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, they did. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you are going to check in with Nokari? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Mm-hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"The way I understand it, this is not their chapter house.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The Steel is easy to navigate when it was your beat. (laughs) I'll be okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Is Eloise still here? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He goes like, \"Who?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "She should still be, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Eloise? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Yes, Professor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She minds the shop. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "More importantly, you know he must be observed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I hate to see you stretched. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What do we need this guy anymore for? He gave us his info. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Maybe it's not such a big deal after all. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I know that I wouldn't have noticed what he smeared on Silva. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But I want to see if I can notice traces of scarlet use on Rajan as he's speaking. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can it be a Focus? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Love that. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mm, that is a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You feel it inside of you too, that wrongness, something scratching into you because of your proximity to this person. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Scarlet is a drug? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Scarlet is the predominant drug here. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's often mixed into alcohol and used for social things. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But yeah, across the board. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would that ease your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It's much appreciated. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We are all friends here, son. We are friends. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are able to make plans with Eloise who is, though she is drawn and skittish and very averse to picking up even bits and hints of your work with Candela now that she's out, she is capable and babysitting one man is an easy enough task to set her to, though she asks for as few details as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have no doubt in her. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Before we fast forward too much, could I have a scene with Raj? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Love it. Go ahead and paint me a picture. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So I think at this point that Silva has been-- escorted upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to find a moment when Raj is alone and approach him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, you have hours until night falls. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Raj? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Elsie. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh, I know that look. Ever the good doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I wondered if I might (breathes shakily) do a brief examination to make sure everything's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What? Are you worried about me, Elsie? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm a doctor, it's my job. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "If I need you, I'll come running. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How long have you been tracking this? What are you going to do if you don't find her? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Ever full of doubts, Elsie. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I was given reason-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Let's not worry about a problem that hasn't arised yet, yes? I don't need you looking after me right now. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Did you know I was going to be here? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Complete surprise. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I must say, though, it is very good to see you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I wish I could say the same. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to turn to leave unless he wants to stop me for a second. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take another token. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "♪ Oh, we're halfway there ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hug her and tell her whatever's happening is fine. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Is there anything else you want to do before we get to the sanatorium? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll walk over-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- to wherever he is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Close the door. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, I had to-- Okay, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Like you always do, you look well. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm sure you've been told enough, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Don't I-- Your time inside wasn't too harsh, I hope. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I would've been fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, old habits and all that. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I just, I think it should be the other way around. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There will be eyes on you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I know you want this to be more than just one of your regular missions, but I've stopped trying. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That young man is a good boy at his core. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Still, I mean, come on, look at him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs quietly) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(sighs) I'll do my best, all right, Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not all of us have played " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We all walk different walks in this life. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Listen-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I got to go, I got to go, my boss is out there. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I got to go. I got to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Madam Glask does not suffer fools. Go, go, go, go. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Time is of the essence. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Eat something before we go tonight, all right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, you have been eating fish. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "No, no. Food. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Beautiful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's minor, but once Oscar departs, Cosmo spends the hours of the day poring through any books in his collection that discuss the history of the Ascendancy, dating all the way back to the War of Embers and looking for anything that sounds like this woman Iovar, and finds nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She is a tidy blank in your copious research. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I had to try. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "As you focus and fixate, doing what you do best in the field, which is know and understand and catalog and process, the hours slip away, and the sun moves across the sky, and at some point, you look up and night has settled over the Sidle and over Newfaire and night has settled over the Sidle and over Newfaire and it's time to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The witching hour. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And we'll get to that after our break. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Woo! (laughs) We'll see you in a bit! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Keep this tome close for the knowledge obtained may be the key to protecting you, your allies, and the Fairelands. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How do you make your way in? What's the plan? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "This is sort of my bag, so if you wouldn't mind, maybe I can go out there and sneak around and see if I can get eyes on that guard that you know. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Sure, about 6'4\", a dark mustache, a scar over his right eye. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "6'4? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I think I've seen him, though, at-- He's a customer, right? I think I've seen him around. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes, if you can get eyes on him, I can possibly ask him to let us in. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The entrance we're coming in on the side? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Are these solid stone walls or cast iron? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So you're looking at a poured concrete and brick construction, but there's just enough of crenulation and decoration that there are footholds at least from the outside. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "All right, I don't think I need a boost or anything, but I think I can make it up and peer over the top. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Be careful. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So give me, let's call it a Move roll, unless you want to make a case for something else. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is it to get to the top of the--? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep, cleanly, quickly and quietly. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I will use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, I will say the stakes on this are high not for harm, but for getting there unperceived, not for harm, but for getting there unperceived, either visually or auditorily. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I was going to say: Could I potentially be sort of-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Boosty? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Not boosty, but if you were to drop something that might make a sound or something, I want to be at the ready to maybe catch. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, you're all very aware that-- you've gotten a sense of the timing, so you can get in there, help as much as you can, and then get out of Dodge before-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Does that mean I add a drive to his? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, so I get another dice, amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you want to jump in on this? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm wondering if perhaps it's worth it for Madam Glask and I to create a little commotion somewhere to draw a little bit of attention. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You sure about that? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh, I mean away from you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sure, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, I was hoping we could have some fun. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We'll find out. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Four, that's a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How important is it to you-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- to get up undetected? If you have to choose between success or harm to yourself, what do you choose? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Please take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ah, that hurt, but I'm here. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Are you okay? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You brought bandages, right? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yes, I brought bandages, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll peer over and see what I can see. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're about 16 feet in the air, and the sloped architecture that gives very gothic vibes falls away into a dead drop of intensely slick, polished stone that would provide no purchase on the other side for you to jump and come back. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It would take you maybe 120 yards to walk the edges and get over there. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Can I ID any of the guards walking around or see anyone coming? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So the fact that you were seeing someone every couple of minutes means that there's five or six guards on duty. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What do we do? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What's it like at the front gate because I'm not going over the wall? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You have seconds to have this conversation before another one comes around. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to say: Just get down, get down for now. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I could throw a rock or-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oscar, get down. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's just, they're so punchable, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "As soon as you get down, I'm going to take your hands and look at them. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's fine, It's just a cut, it's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I thought you were tougher than this. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I am. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Then when I have a few moments of calm, I can make a Focus roll to heal one body mark on an ally. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh wow. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Don't waste that on me. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Kidding, kidding. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Who are you? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "All right, so we know where-- Oh, do you have to roll for it? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What'd you get? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So one of them was a gilded die, so I'll get rid of one drive, and you get your body healed. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Did you take the result from your gilded die? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay, cool, cool, sweet. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Better? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You doing okay? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(exhales) I'm, uh-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Time is of the essence, people. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I think we're going to need some sort of distraction to get there. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "So you did see Cronin? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He's making the rounds, but so are a half dozen others. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Five others. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What about the front entrance? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What did I see in the front entrance? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If an inmate escaped, they've heightened patrols, they're on alert because the impossible has happened. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Cosmo and I could probably get in, but that's just the two of us. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm sure that will-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We could do that and slip in while they run out. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "But if we put security at the front gate, there's no way the professor's getting over the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Is there a back gate thing? Oh, it's only the front. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I would have brought some rope with us knowing that we are breaking into a place, I would assume. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can have your fucking rope. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So some of us can go over the wall while these two go in the front. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I can escort you to the front or I can go with you to the front. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "They might need you for-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh good. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Are you okay at climbing, or--? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Because how am I going to climb that? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I think I'll manage. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Will the slippers slip? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "After all, I'm with a professional. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Are you two going to be okay on your own? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh, absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well, Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, what's our story going in? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I've dressed as if I'm working at the sanatorium, and you are prepared to act uncouth? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are we returning me from treatment? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "My father has been so sick lately and now he's acting out of control and I don't know what to do! Please help him. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Like you're committing him. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "She's pretty good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, grandfather, though, probably. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, grandfather. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hey, you could have-- Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "49. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What happens when we get inside? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't know if we're going to be able to get these two in. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Rendezvous either inside at the office if it's easy or back outside the gate. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're just going to make a run for it? What about this man? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Man? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Is there any way I can, once we're inside, I can break away from you two and cause a commotion to distract the guards for them to climb over? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We'll be okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You sure? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Nothing ventured. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fine, we'll go through the front. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So we're just going to make a cold call to the director's office? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Where on the map is the director's office? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There's a little intake, reception desk and then, yeah, 20 feet back, massive office on the left. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "If you two keep moving deeper into the sanatorium, and make a commotion like you said, I can try to slip into the director's office and see what I can find. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, and I will demand the director vociferously in the halls, and then you'll slip in. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, I'll make a stink. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So just get them out. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No one's leaving you alone in there, Elsie. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What does it look like? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't know what you put in me. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What did you put in me? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Careful! I just don't know how-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Both of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "-- to handle him anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to speak-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Please, help us. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- to who's in charge! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It was a mild sedative. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not you! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't know why it's not taking. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ever since his wife left him, he hasn't been the same. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're a bitch! What did you put in me? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "No! You can't say that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You need to keep your voice down, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my goodness gracious. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't trust you! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(hysterical moans) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can you control your grandfather, please? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Grandfather, please-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to speak to the man or woman in charge! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Who's in charge? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I'm-- Oh. Oh, I'm so sorry. Sir?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're not real. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Sir.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're not real. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I don't know what to do anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're not a real person. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Sir!\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's just so (hysterical speech) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I've given him a sedative, it is not taking effect. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She put something in me! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's demanding to speak-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(sobs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sharp groan) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- to a director. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to speak to who's in charge! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It might help calm him-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Someone real! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- if you could get your director, please. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Grandfather, please! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Sir.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to speak to someone real. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "My name is Kathleen, and I'm here to help.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want someone real! Get me someone real! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I need you to get your director here now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You put some sort of drug in me! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It was nothing, Grandfather! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't trust it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Kathleen. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I just need you to go to sleep. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Now, your director, please. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It burns. It burns! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "So violent! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Sway. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Give me someone real! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ever so violent! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Shit, I don't have any Sway. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But I will say that the stakes of this, of being able to call down the manager is much simpler now because of the cacophony, and the way you've presented yourself and that calm command of, hey you, you specifically, you can do this. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm burning a drive in Cunning to help sway by screaming like a lunatic! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(screams) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Does that mean-- I have no Sway, so does that mean two? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So you're at one now. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm at one now. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, I burn two. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I want to give her another one. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, you're going to give me more? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'll give her one. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay, one and one " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, two from me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, so three? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're at three. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Add one from Gina. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So three? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Three total. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, I got two sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Critical! Critical! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Holy shit! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Wait, because they helped-- Oh wait, they don't get their drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They don't get their drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh shit! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The orderlies are like, we are in place to catch her, what's happening? Cosmo, losing his mind. " }, { "Role": "Player964", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She says, \"Yes, doctor, I'll be right back.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Quickly, please! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Going.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Please, quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Then you see her correct herself, now like: Okay, I don't have to have the energy you have and it switches to a knock, opens the door, and you can't hear what she's saying, but you know she's having a hushed conversation with someone on the other side. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is a bloody mummers' show! " }, { "Role": "Player965", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "While this is happening, is there anything you're trying to scope now that you're inside with a clear view and the heat's kind of off you? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "They would keep the ruckus up, and then I would (schloop) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. Sweet. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's what that was. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I was just seeing if you're going to scan anything while you're waiting to see the resolution on this. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "If I was trying to see anything-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, trying to-- You have a moment to scan things without looking, without being noticed for casing a joint. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That would be a Survey, I'm guessing? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And that's for all three of you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I want to make sure-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You have a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I mean they're successfully distracting everyone, but I want to make sure I'm not going to turn a corner and a guard's going to come by and be like, what are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Anyone else trying to look for something specific? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, I know it's total chaos, but I would like to know if all the people who are rushing around us, they see stuff like this all the time. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So, do they look really perturbed or upset or is it just business as usual? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She's not really actually-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is she new here? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The orderlies on the other hand, seasoned professionals, and they're moving closer to you, and waiting, without grabbing you, you're not being manhandled, but you can see that they're on deck if you begin to pop off in the way that the doc warned them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I am starting to wheel away from the direction of where Elsie wants to go, trying to draw attention away from-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, smart. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Grandfather, no no, come back! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "None of you are real. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "No, you can't-- But I'm barely running. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're not real! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're doing the, I don't know how to run in heels. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're not real! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This is new. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Bob and weave, serpentine, serpentine! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You know that you've got a couple seconds before she emerges. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So what do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ideally, I would be part of the fracas still until the director is pulled past me, and then when his attention is distracted I would slip in behind them. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(Director) \"Seems-- (clears throat authoritatively) Seems like we have a little bit of a problem here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm still waiting! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh! We just need help! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Please, please, if you could go speak to him please. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who are you? Are you real? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We're all real grandfather, please. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Are you the one that's going to be committing him, ma'am?\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yes, and transparently, this is-- I'm new to this sort of assignment, so I'm a little frazzled and I was hoping that maybe you could calm him because nothing I'm doing seems to be helping. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I wheel up. I want-- You're the one, aren't you? I want my room prepared! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You get-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want a free room! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I grab him. \"Grandfather--\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And I want it to be real! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's not a hotel! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How close do you get to the director? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I get right up and I actually tug on her sleeve. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She goes, \"Sir.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm speaking.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to be in a room away from this one and her tricks! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, how could you? How could you?! He doesn't mean that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to be put in a room! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm his granddaughter, please. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right now! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm so, so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(hysterical mumbling) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't want to speak to any underlings, or flunkies, or phonies, I want someone real. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Eyes on me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(angrily) Ah! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you understand?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "My own room? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yes, now can you give us a minute, Mr.--?\" \"Yes, now can you give us a minute, Mr.--?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ogilvy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Is that of the Ogilvys in Silverslip?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, I'm from the Sidle. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Hmm. Okay, we'll take care of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are a liar. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So what do you want to do to try to break away from this? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So if you wouldn't mind please taking him to his room and I will meet you there. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Are you the executor of his estate? Can you sign that paperwork or would that be--\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That would be her. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That would be me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm his granddaughter. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There's a powder room down the hall on the right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Thank you very much. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There's just a coldness to her as she goes back into her office. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, she goes back into the office? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, I know. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will say, 20 yards away, you see her moving back in that direction to go grab something. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm just going to be gone-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- as if I'm in the powder room. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Sweet. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to try to wait to have them all go-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Before she makes it about 20 yards away-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask, as loud as she possibly can, just-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(wailing) Oh! I can't take this anymore! And faints, just dramatically faints on the ground, furs all over the ground, rings flying out. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You land on the ground-- Do you commit to-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, oh baby yeah, absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What now? Fuck!\" She comes back out and moves in your direction. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Awesome. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Are they far enough away that it would be safe for me to go in there? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It looks like now everyone's grouped up around these two. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So they're not even looking back in your direction. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The way is clear. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to get in there then, I guess. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So you're diving into the office? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yep, yep, yep. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's what I'm doing. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you leave the door ajar? Do you close it? Do you lock it? How committed are you to giving yourself time? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck. I think I need to keep it open so that I can hopefully move out quickly if I need to. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Gentlemen, what's your plan? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Wait 'til there's a break in the guards and dash over into the darkness. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Lead the way. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It will require a full success-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Uh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- for you to get up in time. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Like a six? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh my god! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Even though I healed him? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "This is on a-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I mean you, did you use magick to heal him or did you patch him up? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I took his body away, his body mark. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Right, I think that handles the-- he's no longer dealing with the deleterious effects of harm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But unless-- How badly do you want it to be gone? How important is it to you that he is unimpeded and unbandaged. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think it would be important to her, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "God dang. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't know what the fuck's-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Your roll is normal. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Good luck! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So if this is a rope, is this a Move or a finesse? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I probably have to go up there with the rope first and drop it down to you, I would assume, unless you're going to let us-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I mean, I'm happy to let you have a grappling hook. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If you want a grappling hook. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sure, I mean, we knew we were going to go break into a place, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'll let you decide what you use. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Would've been fine! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You actually see that Oscar-- You understand that there's a muscle memory to certain behaviors, because you actually see as he climbs, he's tucking the rope under him at first to cover his tracks, and then he remembers that it's for you, too, and he releases it behind him. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Do you want to take off that jacket before you come up here? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Not really, no. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm going to add a drive, because the fuck I'm getting shown up by this-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I love this energy. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll also give him a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Because I'll pull. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh, good. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's so good. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Charity. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "With one arm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think you guys might have the sexual tension. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "One arm, and in that way that he's not hiding that he's doing it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Why don't we explore this more? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I barely make it with a four. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm going to say, I'm going to make you take a brain mark as your pride has been checked in a really foundational way for you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my god! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What would I do without you? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You look right, I'll look left. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But there's no one patrolling the inside. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So you can drop down, it's just a bit of a drop. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Sarkis made this climb unaided. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, he must be some sort of acrobat or something. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Or he was let out. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Come on, we've got to go. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "All right, I'm right behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "All right, I take off. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You use the rope and drop down? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yes, please. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "As long as nothing disastrous happens, you can make your way to either one of those points unimpeded. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Go to the closer one first, I guess. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Closest isn't necessarily the best. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(sneers) (grumbles mockingly) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me that roll. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player966", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Why can't we just be friends? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh right, because I don't like you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player966", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm sorry! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Double fives on my gilded, so a success. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I would hope. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Just as a note, do you leave the rope hanging down, or do you take it down with you? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "If we want to get out fast, I would have left it hanging. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "The only thing I would consider is, there is no way your father is getting out with that rope unless we carry him ourselves. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So we take the rope, and your father fends for himself. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We still need to get out, don't we? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Lead on, Captain. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You realize quite quickly, even through the shadows and the not nearly enough moonlight that you are looking towards something that is hiding the depth of it from you as you approach a hole. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "A hole? Okay, how big? How deep? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You don't know how deep it goes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Didn't happen to bring a flashlight with you, did you? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "A what? I have a candle. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What in the what? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Great, light the candle, then. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What is fla-- Is that a prison move or something? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Under the level of the hole, so that the light hopefully stays shielded from our insistent patrols, I'll light the candle. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This goes down about 15 feet and terminates at this slate gray shale rock at this slate gray shale rock that seems to have crumbled inward. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We've got to go down. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We don't even know if this leads into the sanatorium. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Wherever it leads, it's weird, right? Candela's all about finding weird shit. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He ran this way, maybe it was to get away to a secret spot he knew. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "This is the place on the map that's marked with the X? This is where Johnny disappeared? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This is the-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Direction that he ran. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "With your memory of bloody hands and being coated in dirt? Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What do you know that you're not telling us? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Prepare yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "For what? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "After you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(heavy exhale) All right, let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This feels, to you, a sort of bad attempt, a mockery of opulence. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you look for? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'd like to look for-- I think it would be potentially personal correspondence, because the nun I don't think is necessarily directly involved with the sanatorium. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Definitely not. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It wouldn't be in medical files or anything, any information we're looking for, so I'm guessing I would go to the desk and try to see if there's anything that looks like it doesn't belong there, like it isn't about the business that she would be conducting. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do I want to use drive? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player964", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That was adorable. " }, { "Role": "Player965", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I got a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do I do this? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The question is, how stressed out is Elsie in this moment as she searches? You will, at the end of whatever this is, find the information you're looking for, but how calm and how confident are you as you search through, and it takes just a little bit too long? You're opening more drawers than you thought you would have to. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think this is not-- Most of the assignments that she's been on with Cosmo have probably been less intense than this. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's not something she does. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "She knows that time is of the essence. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "In general, the day has been kind of a bear, so I think she is not composed at all. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How many are you at? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Good to know. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I have one left. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "One left. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're not sure what's happening, but you do see movement there, and the very specific yellow glow of a small bit of fire light or a candle. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do I know-- Am I geographically savvy enough to know that that's where they would be headed? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So yeah, you can put two and two together and say that that's either them or something different and worse is happening. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to, if I can, because there's a window, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to glance and see, have guards noticed this? Is this something-- Am I the only one seeing this or has there been-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There's no one else out in that lawn. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's so quirky, it's got to be true. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I accept it, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, well, if there aren't-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Little candle man. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We were experimenting, what was I supposed to do? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candle wax. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Temperature play. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So if I don't see any guards that could notice them, I don't necessarily think that I would panic about that. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I would clock that-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- they've maybe found something. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Clocked, and it's just enough of a distraction that your mind moves to them and, oh, how are they doing? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How am I doing? We're all doing our jobs right now and we're under the clock. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Uh-huh. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's just strange symbols patterned with breaks and all of the spacing of a letter written in Fairen, and yet, even in your time in Candela, I don't know if you've come across ancient Fairen, but you know you're not looking at your language. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Something's different. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to pocket it and then try to put things back-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- where they were and then (clicks tongue) skedaddle. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "To my friends in the front, the fainter and the freak out, how are you doing? You have two orderlies around you, one's holding you heroically, and the other's just slapping your face. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Up, up, up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(scoffs) I'm up. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I work in a hospital.\" " }, { "Role": "Player964", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I peek over at Cosmo to see how he's doing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This isn't real. Who are-- But I've got one eye creeping up to the hallway waiting for Elsie to appear. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(babbling incoherently) But I want-- Yeah, she's lying to me, they're lying to me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm old. Eyes! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where am I? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Spin up again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where an I? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "The more he freaks out, the more-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What is this place? Where am I? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh! I don't feel that good! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What's happening?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, it's so warm in here! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to come back out and-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Where did the doctor go?\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Did you pull it together?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want my room! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Sure, sure.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't want this, I want my room! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You know what?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm missing eyebrows. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"We can have them committed--\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take me home to my room! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"-- now and have you pull--\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Look, I'm so sorry, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want my " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "This is very unprofessional of me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Deeply. What's your name again?\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Do you have a license?\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Prove to me, just give me some kind of documentation.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take me home, I want my room. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Because you're not giving me a lot of confidence in your medical abilities.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want my room. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I mean, I would have. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We will have a room soon. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I will take him back to his-- I can handle this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'll take him home. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "My room! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I know, I will take you home. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "My room! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I will take you home. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You have 30 seconds to leave my facility--\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yes, ma'am. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"-- or all of you will be put under evaluation.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We are leaving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of you can go to hell! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We're leaving and I take him and I start wheel him out. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We'll help him get home. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It doesn't look flexed or hard on your shoulder, and with one violent jerk, actually scoots your chair so you are pointed out the door in a show of incredible strength with no effort. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take it, take it away. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Have a good night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take it away. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Make better choices.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "And then I keep going out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm surrounded by a circus of lies. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "As as we're leaving, he's, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's what we're doing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(weak groan) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you pause? Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We're moseying back to where-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to be quiet by the time we get there. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So, on top of all of that, you have pulled any focus the guards inside the building might have had on the back. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Sweet. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you go down my little hole? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Do you? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Well, I want to ask. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "How does bleed detection work? Like what can be told from detecting bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So the idea of this would be if you're trying to pick up a trail or detect bleed in thresholds or amounts that you wouldn't notice right away because anyone in proximity to incredible amounts of bleed is going to feel it regardless, but this allows you a little more sense of focus, directionality, intensity, and the ability to hone in. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Does it give any indication of say recency? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Recency? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Like if a bleed taint has been in the area recently, would that be something that you could tell with a bleed detector or not? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So the fun thing about this is you get to tell me what your bleed detector is like and what it's capable of, and if it was important to you to have that information, like the fact that your mind went to that might indicate that it would be something that you would, like a functionality you would want to have on you, so, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You don't have to like me, but do you trust me in this moment? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Saw that coming. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Do you trust Elsie, then? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm going to see if I can tell-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Me keep a lookout? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "-- if this creature's been down there, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You're going to scurry down? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Can you do that for me? My attention will be focused here. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I can do that for her. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I pull a monocle out of my jacket pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "If it's scant, there won't be a lot of response, but if it's a high presence or recent activity, I'll see it in how agitated they are. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Your chest-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We have to wait. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Wait? Wait for what? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We have to wait for the others. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't even know if they're coming here. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "The two of us alone can't handle whatever she is and she is down there. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll wait if you tell me what she did to you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We don't have time for this. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What did she do to you? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What she did to me is of no consequence. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Then I'm going down. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Is that enough for you? What more details do you need? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "How old were you? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Not old enough. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It was a long time ago. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oscar, what are you going to do? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I scan around to see if any guards are afoot, anyone picking up our-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You see the guards that you saw milling about have now backed away and are gone. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(sighs) If I look towards the front door, do I see any of our people? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We would've presumably made some sort of plan about meeting up again or something. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, you would think. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You would think. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I didn't hear it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah, fair enough. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I didn't either. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fair enough. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Wait here. I'll go get them. I'll be right back. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You would--? Fine. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll close up my coat and scurry across around the back towards the front, see if I can find our friends. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You get back up and over the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Over the wall? We're inside the wall, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Where are you headed? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to the, I assume there's a-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This is basically a backyard with a single door that leads into the building. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, it's not an open thing. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No, it doesn't go all the way around. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are stuck in the backyard of this place. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I did not understand that. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I didn't either. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I didn't understand that either. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I didn't explain it well and that's on me. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's not like a campus that we're inside the walls of now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How the hell am I going to get there? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "How are they going to get here? Well, if they're going to go-- if I knew that, then I would, I'll go around, up the wall all the way around the front to fetch them, I guess. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There is that little bit of an edge between the main wall that's maybe a person's length and a little overgrown, that it would funnel you towards that set of doors, but the wall and the building are not flush together on the side, there's a little bit of clearance. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "There's a dog run? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There's a little dog run on the side that could get you to the front. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay, I'll peer down the little side run and if it's clear, I will shimmy through. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, you're able to make your way and pick your way through, and you can hear them before you can see them because there's still a little bit of getting around a corner and potentially interacting with any of the guard cycles and rotations, but you can hear distinct set of footsteps, boots, heels, wheels. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I can hear them. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, you hear them coming out the front of the building. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Once they're clear, I will give a, if I see them, I'll give a: Psst, psst. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, so we hear that? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We hear that? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Hey, over here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(weak groan) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh god, what did you do to him? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's being a little bit too method. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I think we're clear now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How'd you know my father was in the circus? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "All right, so we're going to wheel him over. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We'll give it up to a trick of the light and the imposing architecture that there is that little bit of gap there that is a little overgrown because it's not well-manicured, but there is clearance to get to the side and then the dog run and then back to the yard. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is there clearance for a wheelchair or do we have to pick him up? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No, we can get a wheelchair back there. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I could Yoda it if I need to? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You mean do flips and lightsabers? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar, where's Rajan? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh yeah, he's in a dark, scary hole that's full of-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What? Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What do you mean a dark scary hole? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You left him there? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't know, there was all sorts of worms and bugs and stuff and-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Token. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck! Because I would know, wouldn't I? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So I roll six dice? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are going to roll 6d6 and I need you to tell me how many ones you get, if any. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ooh, Elsie. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Elsie, dear. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Doc? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You don't look too well. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What did he say about it? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Calm down. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He wouldn't have stayed there if it wasn't-- I got one. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "One one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One one. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Almost like a release that begins not in your heart but your lungs as your breath takes over and you are lost to it and you begin to transform. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I croak out a \"Run!\" before I start to transform? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Y'all know what that means. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I don't know. Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Has Cosmo ever seen it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Just Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Then what's about to happen will be quite a shock. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Run. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Would you like to describe what happens as Dr. Elsie Roberts loses herself to her beast? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I would love to. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "As I pant and wheeze and pant and wheeze and then scream and rush into the sanatorium. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Into? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Into?! Oh, we're just going in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(wheelchair bumping) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Before she runs off, since I know this is happening-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- I'm going to try to prevent her from doing that, if that's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I would love it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You have one \"one\" that you need to resolve. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's right there in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you think your beast would turn away such easy meat? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Could I make a roll to see if there's any Elsie in there that knows who's in front of her? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I love dice games and I love story. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You want me to just choose? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I simply ask that you choose, and know that we all know what kind of story this is. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What does the beast do? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(sighs) The beast would take Oscar by the neck-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Bring it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- and slam him against the nearest wall and start choking, but with the force of a gorilla, basically. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "First your larynx, then the bone, and the nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "As my throat is crushed, I will try to eke out a very calm: It's okay, it's okay, I'll be fine. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's just you and me in the dark. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How many times has this happened to you? [heavy breathing] " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "This'll be seven. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What the fuck? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you give to whatever this is that pulls you back? What do you lose forever? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I've lost them all every time I'm killed. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Every time. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't really have anything else to lose. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's not true. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I have only Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "[heavy breathing] " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you lose of him? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I guess I'll lose everything from before. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "From when he was just a kid. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Any more, and I don't know if you'll be there, too, but I need you to come to me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Who's saying that? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What in the hells was that?! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Elsie, dear? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Elsie, it's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm so sorry, child. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(breaths shakily) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar, wake up. Oscar? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you wait? Do you move? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I heard Elsie cry. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You did. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I go there as fast as I can. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Just the person you once loved shaking and sobbing and standing over a corpse. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She killed him! Whatever she was. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Look at him. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What are you talking about? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "His throat's been ripped out because of her! Whatever the hell that was! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Elsie is like a daughter to me. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We have to keep our heads in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to take one of Oscar's hands and gently turn it to where I had bandaged it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(thuds) (thuds) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I take Glask by the hand. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(thuds) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cosmo, what are you doing? What if she hurts us? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(loud thud) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I can't be here. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's not going to. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(loud thud) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Look what she did! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I can't be here. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cosmo, how can you trust her? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As long as you've known me, you have to trust me. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Cosmo, I can't be here. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(loud thud) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm going to hold her. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The distorted figure of his neck coming back into alignment. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The rush of blood that brings color back to his cheeks and then gently, peacefully, Oscar Grimm opens his eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oscar? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What? Impossible. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, most people call me Cary. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I hate him so much. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- everyone to keep their heads. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I snapped your neck, I felt your neck snap, how are you-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Elsie, Elsie, Elsie. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How are you alive? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't know, but that was loud and we have to move. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For what? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm a burden on you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What, boy? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm a burden on you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It wasn't your choice. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I should be taking care of you, not the other way around. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We don't choose what our family is. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(heavy sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It simply is. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We have to get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Surely, we can't take her with us! Look what she just did. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "She's one of us. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can feel it echoing. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "She's right, Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You see the low-lying fog on the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We will have to continue this somewhere else, not on these grounds. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "She's right, I'm not safe. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You're one of us. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I killed you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Like I look after him and he looks after me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So where do we go? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You know that the hole is important, but is that the priority? Do you prioritize the mission, or taking your shattered, broken circle or taking your shattered, broken circle to safety and cutting your losses? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's the guy who lost his sister's choice. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Lost my sister? You just lost yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come. I'm moving-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I don't understand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Follow him. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I don't know what transpired here, but he's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We're going to be okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to-- I think I'm going to start booking it in another direction. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're caught in that little nook where either you come back from whence you came and exit the grounds and leave and go somewhere else in the city, or you go back in the direction that Raj and Oscar came from to the back towards the hole. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The doctor is a phenomenon, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Then let's go now. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We have to leave. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to the hole. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We're going to the hole. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We didn't come all this way, I didn't die for nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "As it is, there's no chance. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What are you talking about? We're fine. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I don't even know what's happened to you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doctor, I think Elsie's strength speaks for itself. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Let's finish what we started. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "In this moment, what is Madam Glask thinking? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "He's never led her astray. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I need you to take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This is beyond the pale. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "This is inhuman, it's not real. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You thought the monsters would be the things you fought, not the things you fought alongside. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You have been in my home with my girls and you didn't say anything! Cosmo, and you knew about this! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Sorry? How do I know you're not going to do this again? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Cordelia, it is not the time. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How do I know if I'm safe? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Keep your voices down. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How do I know if I'm safe? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You're not. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "None of us are safe. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will take responsibility for this. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I dragged her here. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cosmo, if anything happened to you, Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not worried about me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Which way do you walk? Back into the grounds towards the hole, or do you leave? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "If anything, I will be there to make sure you're safe. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If not for us, what will keep the dark at bay? Yes, we had to dabble in it ourselves to understand and cope. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "So we finish what we've started, then. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Lead on by the light of the candle. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It's what you came here for, Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Let's see it done. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "but hmm, I need Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Can you make a Focus roll for me? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will go just a straight roll as it is. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "With my archeological experience, is this something that I can support? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'll give you a Drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh, you've already rolled. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Save that shit! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Never mind. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because I got a six on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Beautiful! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Raj? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oldfaire specialized in ferocious weaponry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I promise you here and now, I will give my everything to keep you safe. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Don't let that trouble you, do your duty. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We're not going to leave you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I agree. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What's on the other side of that door? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "She will try to lever your greatest fears and your deepest mistrusts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As we move forward, I intend to use it to gauge how close we are to trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What does it normally feel like when you detect bleed through that bone? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It normally leaves a bit of a welt, but it's worth the pain. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There is no need to detect bleed, you are in proximity to it, you're here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Watch your step. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We're in a hallway, just a standard hallway, there's not offshoots or anything like that? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The only sound you were hearing was this thud and talking that you've followed to a blind corner that you're about to cross. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask has been keeping a close eye on Elsie. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What are you looking for? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Elsie, whatever is behind that door, will you be able to control yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You say this thing feeds on mistrust, then I owe you an explanation. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You've probably seen it at The Glass Cat. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There's a technical term that no one can bother to remember, but especially lately, in the last six or seven years, following the war, the poorer populations, and neighborhoods, and districts of Newfaire have been falling ill with a degenerative lung disease that as the patient, as the victim coughs, they have a sensation like broken glass inside their lungs, ripping it up, hence the name. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "And I became something unrecognizable. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That beast out there? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Need you to take a brain-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Having said that, empty your beast pool as it resets. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Beast pool? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You don't have a beast pool? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, it's more of a kiddie pool. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And now that you are returned back to life, if you have any body marks, remove them. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I do not, since the good doctor already healed me. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "The one benefit is if I can't control myself in there I'd make a very good distraction and I would encourage you to take the opportunity and run. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We're lucky Oscar's still even here. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to lie, that was pretty scary. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "No, it's... " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I never... " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's something that I knew that you could do, but I-- It hurt just the same. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You were tasked to protect me and the girls. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "And I will. And I do. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It hasn't-- I thought that I-- I thought I had more control. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Madam Glask, I mean, with all due respect, I know that this is super scary and we got to keep moving, but I've known Doc for a while and you've known her, too, and she's not a threat, she's a victim. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I am a threat. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Or maybe she's both. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You hear suddenly the speech stop, and shortly thereafter that rhythmic thud and just a (sniffing) quietly from around the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We have no choice. Figure it out. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Get behind me. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Someone just tell me what to do. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I-- Ooh, I shouldn't do that, never mind. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You feel like you're ready to do something. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to wheel on an angle slowly while they're having their debate and try to look around the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But I'll burn a drive and adjust my weight. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(snorting cough) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Put on my action glasses here. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Sport mode. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, I love them! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Gets into sport mode. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "So cute. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Means business. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Incredible, this was going to be a high stakes roll anyhow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So this is Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With a drive, it's just a straight roll. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will let you know the expectation setting here is on a miss you will be spotted. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So think, as you approach that corner, you see that there isn't the beginning of hinges for a door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, maybe we'll burn two drives, then. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Can I give him an assist? I'll be at the back of the chair and help ease him out, so that if he tells me to, I can pull him back in cover. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is that a third? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You go from this low hallway that couldn't be more than seven or eight feet tall to something that expands up and domes at about, by your guess, maybe 15 feet of height? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You said a man and a woman and a thrall? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, another one of those patients that is bloodying themselves against the wall under orders that they can't help but obey even at the loss of their own physicality. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is that what I'm seeing? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A very Serious Man that you recognize from decades ago. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Somewhere around 90 years? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It is only because of your full success, and your wisdom, and how often you have seen things that defy imagination and expectation that you are able to face this without taking any kind of mark. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I quickly shoot a look back to Oscar, and then up to you, Rajan. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I ease him back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They were like 50ish feet away? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can see the body posture as you're being wheeled back, slowly turning in your direction. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What does that mean? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And Oscar? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's another. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Three people? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Rajan. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Rajan. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Boy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do I understand what he just did? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You absolutely do. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Raj, look at me. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "But I will not leave you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We can't handle this if you are on that. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(unsettling laughter)\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Rajan, we can still leave. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I am going to ready my Core Sampler and the acid vial that I prepared to open up a lock. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Though after long years you have believed that you are the master of your monstrosity, they know their mother and they're so close. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh, can I do that if I have nothing in Sense? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Burn the Sense now. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(relieved groans) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "He's so good. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's now how to do drama, this guy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The question is which one are you going to take, the gilded result or the other? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I have to take the six. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Don't make me wait,\" and footsteps begin to move across the room. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What's the play, Raj? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We fight for survival. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Cosmo rolls out into the opening. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cosmo, no. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But the point of her is a Maw and she's moving towards you, smiling with too many mouths and too many teeth. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The blade cuts through my own hand and glows pale blue at her approach. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I need you to try to roll to resist this as a monster flings themselves in your direction gleefully. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I sink the blade using my Ghostblade ability. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You take a body mark for using your Ghostblade. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And I stab knowing that she will reciprocate and then some. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're going to take two body marks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I loll terribly in my chair-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- holding an Ancient Fairen blade of crude blonde. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(screams)\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "If I may? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, please. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well, I actually have a question. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Sure! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "At this point, does Elsie have the capability to bring out the beast on command? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But I don't know if you've ever chosen it before. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm wondering if I could try-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So what if we roll? Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- to choose now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm going to let you tell me what you're going to roll to see if you can summon this yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I want to try Focus, because I want to try to see if I can pinpoint and almost try to commune with it, and say that: You're going to come out but you're going to come out and I'm going to be there with you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A concession. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and make your Focus roll, no one can assist you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The stakes are thus: A full success or a miss will allow you to transform, but only one of them will allow you to control it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Shoot. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, this seems like a good chance to use a couple of drives. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Where else would they come in? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So I can roll-- Should I just use all my drives? Fuck it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Smoke 'em if you got 'em. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to smoke 'em if I got 'em. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I got a success. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "A six. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I like that you have put it away. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't want to even look at it or touch it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Go in the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What does it feel like as you begin to spin yourself up into this of your own volition for the first time? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "As I transform, I'm going to lope into the room and put myself between Cosmo and the Maw. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Beautiful. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Before I have your beast attack, is there anything anyone else wants to do or put into play? is there anything anyone else wants to do or put into play? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes, in the panic of seeing the beast again I rush over to Cosmo and grab his chair and as fast as I can, run behind Elsie and back to where we came from to get him to safety. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you, dear. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes, Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have seen a few better days. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Stay still. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "[bestial growling] " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Anything from over here? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's like I've forgotten how this all works. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So for a moment, I'm just looking around, dumbfounded at what's going on. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will say in that moment, as you search and look and assess your group and assess the room, you make eye contact with The Serious Man, and he narrows his eyes, and recognizes you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Do I recognize him anymore? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You could forget every other member of your family, and maybe there are some there that you have, but you are not allowed to forget this man, because he is why you're like this. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Seeing his face and his stupid mustache that looks just like mine right now-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're giving \"Peaky Blinders.\" It's good. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But my eyes are locked on him now, not on the crazy mouth woman. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you want to do as your friend Elsie, or whatever she is now, truly is now, begins to attack? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I've never seen anything so beautiful. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs quietly) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "\"Dare not enter through her door.\" " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"No.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "\"Mind this verse-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Stop.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "\"-- lest you should meet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Stop!\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "\"Please mind her smile--\" " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Shut up! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "\"-- and mind her teeth!\" " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(furious) \"No!\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "\"Your name is known to me, Great Maw! Now unbind us from tooth and claw!\" " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I would like to plunge my claw to plunge my claw into the Maw's chest, and if I can find something approximating lungs, crush them. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you let it go, or do you take that, too? How much of a monster are you right now, Dr. Roberts? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So if it's possible to crush a soul, my grip tightens. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This is simply its truth, his truth, and he will continue to bludgeon himself to death against the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to let myself return to Elsie with the understanding that whatever I just did, I think I've made the beast even harder to control, not easier. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You see The Serious Man begin to sprint past the returning form of Elsie, and he's going to try to push past you to get out the door. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I think I will just buckle down, lower my shoulders, and try to run up and tackle him as he goes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, give me a Strike roll. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Strike? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Knock down is one of the three listed. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, I will use a drive. Why not? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If there's any way anyone else wants to assist in this moment, you can. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm going after The Serious Man. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I rolled a three on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's something. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You wheel and turn, please take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How many walks did you go on spotting him and your mother in quiet conversation? Your past really is coming to haunt you tonight and it's getting away. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I take my pointed ring and gouge from shoulder to navel. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "And tear the remnants of my jacket and shirt, revealing paper and hexagonal cells, a hive built into my body. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What the fuck? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "And I tell my children to feed. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Children? " }, { "Role": "Player967", "Content": "What the fuck? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you accept this cost? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "My claw marks start to travel across my face, entering the eye where something other moves, entering the eye where something other moves, and I collapse, knowing that I've done all I can. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A hive becomes a swarm, becomes a pestilence, becomes a plague, and this Serious Man is lost within it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Does it look like he's going to die? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to call out: Stop, stop, please, you can't do this, you can't let him die, stop! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He falls to the ground unconscious. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Who is he to you? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I, whoo, I have-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you want to do to try to stop this? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well, I went back to being normal. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I have Resuscitate-- Well, did you take a scar just now? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I took, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So Resuscitation, when a nearby ally takes a scar, you can make a Focus roll in an attempt to immediately revive them. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "On a six, it works. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "On a four to five, it'll cost three drive points of your choosing. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to do it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I used all my drive on the last one, so she's going to be... " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is there a way I can assist? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Should I take, I'm going to take the mixed success so I can get a drive back, but it was a five. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "If that matters. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So I'm going to, seeing what these guys are saying and with what little strength I have left, I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You still have to spend two other-- You still have to spend three drives on a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh! Then I should just take the six. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You should just take the six. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'll take the six. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) Whatever that looks like. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think you are looking at a man whose face has split open. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So we can say that this is less of a medical event and more of-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Emotional. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mostly because this is a stressful situation and you are pushing yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Raj, get up. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Call them off, damn it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Raj, wake up! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You let him live, but barely. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They always come back. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But The Serious Man is alive, but in shock on the ground " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What shape is his flesh in? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's alive and shaking. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "As I'm aiding Cosmo, I ask him: Cosmo, who is this man? Why did we let him live? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's a full circle today for my father and I. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Your father? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll go over and examine the body while he's talking. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Is that your father on the floor? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That one is. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll pick up the man and turn him over and see if it's the same face I remember, if it's him, if he's there, if he's alive. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He loses consciousness, but he's alive in your hands. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I can scarcely believe it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He has answers that I need. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "The elder Grimm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to look at Raj, take his face in my hands and check him and then gently put his head down and then walk over to this man, and I suppose I will try to tend to him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Just to interject, he is stabilized, but bleeding out in his chair. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, Cosmo is? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I would recommend that you take the spoils of victory here and now and recover in safety somewhere else. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That sounds like a good idea. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear old metal scrape as it slides back in. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Cosmo, Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I scream: Elsie, please! I put more pressure on the wound. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We got to go now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Get back to the safe house, the chapter house, The Antiquarian, and recover and figure out just exactly what happened here after you rest. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Can I ask one question? Am I able to get out on my own feet? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are, but barely. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I can't leave a thrall of Maw alone down here to waste away. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I take the Core Sampler and I ram it home and the blade from the tube runs through his front and spikes him to the wall in the back, and I wish him an easy and quiet rest. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And with that, we will end the first episode. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That was just one episode. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "That felt like 20. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my gosh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my gosh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's a season. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We got orcas, and mantises, and " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh my! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We're going to a petting zoo, oh my! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh my! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Jeez. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay, before we go as we're transitioning out of heavy shit, let's do the thing we didn't really get a chance to do at the top and introduce yourselves-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It is heavy in the club. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Let's start with you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Is this actually happening at the end? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Like, we can talk about what has just transpired, or--? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Well, this is just a little quick introduction-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "On the ride home. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And then we'll get into all of the fallout from that next time. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I am Noshir Dalal, playing Professor Rajan Savarimuthu, scholar/professor. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Slash bee man. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Slash-- " }, { "Role": "Player968", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's that old Eddie Izzard bit: Do you-- Do you know that you're covered in bees? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Still trying. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Because yours is super chill. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Super chill! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But nope, it's not as good as the next person. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Am I the only normal one here? Who knows? We'll find out. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No such thing, no such thing. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Hi, I'm Ashly Burch, I play Dr. Elsie Roberts, and I am half woman, half beast. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "In real life. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've been in Candela Obscura for many, many decades, and I work sometimes with my father. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What is the skincare routine? Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Long story, long story. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Drop the products. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Very long story. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Until then, take a deep breath in, out. " }, { "Role": "Player10", "Content": "(breathe in and out) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Is it Thursday yet? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Visit darringtonpress.com/candela to learn more. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "While we're talking mechanics, you want to let me know what action point did you move as a result of your scar in the first assignment? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "However, the compound eye that has started to develop has given me a bonus to sight. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So I'll add that to survey. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So I will step back for the moment and leave you to it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Great! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm tired, honestly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, a point of clarification, Nokari has tended to this gentleman at The Antiquarian, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And sent us away. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So I would venture to guess that we'd be staying with you for the time being. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Please make yourself at home. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Maybe you want to use one of them or are you going to stay with us in the red light? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Perhaps it's best if I stay apart for a while. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Too many secrets. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I just didn't think it was my place to share other people's business, that's all. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "So you're not entirely to blame However, from now on, no more. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, I have no more secrets. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Would you care to explain the one that was revealed before? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, I mean, I can try, but honestly I don't really understand it myself. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I might be able to fill in any gaps. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "A while ago, a long while ago. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "87 years ago. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We were on a trip, returning from-- I don't remember anymore, but we were on a boat, a ship at sea and-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You had been performing with the circus. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I was there with my family, my wife and son, and maybe some others. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, your daughter, Iris, and your brother, Quentin. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I guess so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And me. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You, I remember. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Your son. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "My son, Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How is this possible? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Another one, another life. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He did something, some of that magick that Candela's always talking about. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He performed some sort of ritual that day. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "That's right, you were there, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you really not remember? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "A brain? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The strain and stress of feeling around like a loose tooth, of things that you don't remember anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't remember it all, but what I do, I don't understand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Something happened to you and we lost Mother, and Iris, and your brother. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What was her name? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Cora, your wife was Cora. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You don't remember? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "There's a lot of me I don't remember anymore or has been taken from me. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Is this the reason why you came back after what Elsie did? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ever since that day, that event, whatever he did, it filled me with a great feeling of, I don't know, but it felt wrong, and it felt good. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It sounds like you have also paid a terrible price for his meddling. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But ever since then, I keep coming back, and I never change. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take that for what you will. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But why didn't you tell me? Why didn't either of you tell me? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I've given up. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What do you mean? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We've been trying for a century to fix me and it's just not going to happen. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You don't know that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Obviously, the gentleman at The Antiquarian who looks not a day older than when we first saw him, and in history as well. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But at the same time, he's the only part of myself that I remember anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Perhaps a fool's errand. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Well, one thing's for certain, if the Ascendancy or the Periphery were to learn about your gifts-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "And Oscar, if life is your curse then perhaps living is the cure. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I forget them, or they die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's just me, for a little while longer at least. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But, you know, turns out I'm not the biggest freak of our group, no offense. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh, none taken. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, you've got all sorts of problems, but also supernatural ones. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Hold on, Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It would appear that most of our secrets are out in the open now. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, just buzzing around. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "since I've known you? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I didn't know how to broach the subject, and I'm sorry that I kept it from you, but it seems that everyone here had good reason but it seems that everyone here had good reason for keeping their secrets to themselves. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't understand yours. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't either. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and take a beast pool token for me. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You two were together, right? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "For a time. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "This never came up? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I always asked, everything he shared with me was like a knife in him. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What was I going to say? What was I going to show you that would make this all right? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Then why-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "That wouldn't send you running screaming? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I could've helped you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I wish it were different, but it's not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Miss Glask, you're awfully quiet. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "this sea god that you came about meeting. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sea god? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "The gods of the sea that gave and taken away from you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, I don't know anything about that, it was a man. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "The fine establishment that I have was a gift from them, well-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "From the gods? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "With a fair trade. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Delightful. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "And the reason why I'm alone now. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What did you trade? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "So again, I say perhaps living is the cure, So again, I say perhaps living is the cure, because the gods of the sea are fair. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You gave up your family for all this? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I prayed for peaceful waters and wealth in a new world, but I didn't know that that came with the price. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "And that price seems fair to you? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Who am I to question a god? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We ought to form a circle. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You brought us together, Cosmo, but you must have known, what about us? What about them? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you and I knew about Dr. Roberts. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "but you managed to hold your cards close to the vest, son. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's good at that. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm not the only one here who kept their fair share of secrets. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's undeniable. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You know when she seeks to interrupt you, it's important. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I answer. Quinni. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm just going to--\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She's not going to cross to come into the room. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "They have a little stamp? That's cute. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I go over to the table and open up the letter that I read aloud. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Before he is to be transported to the Fourth Pharos, Before he is to be transported to the Fourth Pharos, he can give you an hour to make your peace with him. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I trust you have as well. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Not nearly as long as you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, should we go find out if he's a magician, or a bug, or a god? if he's a magician, or a bug, or a god? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh yes, I think we can learn a lot in an hour. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "If you're going to do that thing, will you give us a warning because it's really fucking creepy. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I don't think I'll need to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Strangely beautiful, though. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Strangely. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar, if you don't get answers or a solution, what will happen to you, to Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I, I can only hope that whatever happens to me is fast and painless, and that he gets to live some of his life without me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He seems stuck, like a cat. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is he bound? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Good luck.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Have you ever encountered anything of the such? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I'm happy to speak to that, unless you would like to.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've read of accounts from centuries past, I have reason to believe that people like this gentleman walk amongst us, possibly. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It is very obvious to all of you looking at them that Lightkeeper Nokari is aware of Oscar's condition, that Lightkeeper Nokari is aware of Oscar's condition, but they don't know how much you know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm fairly certain that there have been these folk walking this world at least as far back as the height of Oldfaire and beyond. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He's right here. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Then regains their composure, and again, retakes their seat in the front, keeping an eye out for the approach of Candela vehicles. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So they're out of the room? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They are out of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So if you would like to begin. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You've been waiting much longer than I have, and I think before we begin, I need to ask one thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Did you find anything of use? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I am going to say that maybe I shared it with Cosmo already. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "In the intervening time. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Literally translated, the letters speak very plainly and succinctly about another shipment of Nighthawk being delivered about another shipment of Nighthawk being delivered in order to prolong the director's vigilance. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do I know what Nighthawk is? Is that a drug or-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, you know what, give me a little Focus roll on that. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Are we all allowed to-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Come on! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If you want to bolster Elsie's roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will, yes, because we discussed it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, if that's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'll allow it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I did make a shitty roll, so I'm going to add one of yours. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One drive. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If you want to add to this roll, too, I will allow you to tag on. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I realize I have no drives to give. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm all out of drives to give, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What are you rolling? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fails, fails, fails across the board. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But we get our drives back. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We do get our drives back, yes! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, because you helped. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's fun. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh good. Thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Forged in Fire is so cute. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "♪ Mama needed a drive ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Director Greenvale is a person of great interest, and if I'm not mistaken, action will be taken to secure whatever intelligence is there, and if we don't move quickly, it will be lost to us. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Understood.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not to mention the fact that they were trying to hammer their way into some sort of passage with a human cannonball. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "The thrall. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Dark days indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is there anything else in the papers? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The frailty is a problem.\" But the thing that's layered on top, because you felt it, too, without having to understand the Ancient Fairen, is that reading them, your eyes glancing across the words, you felt a different kind of story, very racy, note of love and longing and passion that inspires in your mind trysts that never occurred, memories planted as you read. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "In my mind? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Anyone that reads the letter. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "With a specific person? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Very specifically the beautiful version of the nun. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Sister Iovar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We have 55 minutes left. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I suggest that you begin, because when I begin, I don't know that The Serious Man will be able to give you the answers that you seek. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sit in Pop-Pop's lap. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Scooches over. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(moans) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hops up, isn't really reading the vibe of the room, so happy to be here, tugging on your tweed, licking your face. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I actually have some questions for The Serious Man, if no one else is prepared to speak. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Please, I'm not good at this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Have at it, Doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How have you elongated your life in this way? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"A series of rituals known only to those with access to the old ways.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What do you mean, the old ways? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The secrets began with them, perfected by the Empress herself.\" \"perfected by the Empress herself.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "The Empress? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Iomene the Everlasting.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- did you get access to this information? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"A book.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What book? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Sorry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What book? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(sharp breath)\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Watching this questioning, picking up on Toren's hunger or brimming rage, are they on the verge of attacking us? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, yes, that's what I was poking for. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a big fail. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ah? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ah? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll let it fail. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Please take one bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "As you search-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- for the truth of this man. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She wants to understand if it really was her gods that helped, I mean, that took from her, or was this just the magick, the same magick that's here that affected everyone else? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Are you trying to interrogate him or get a sense of it via a connection with the occult? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I want to ask him a question. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He sits there, continuing to writhe. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Was it you that night? The one that spoke back? The one that took everything from me? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"From you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I've never met you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask sinks back, heartbroken. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "This tome, where is it? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I am not its keeper.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But you know its secrets. How? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I know a lot of secrets.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "GM, I did not want to interrupt anyone, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah! Yeah, you want to come back? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One of my weird abilities is whenever you take one or more bleed marks, you also gain additional information about the phenomenon that harmed you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ask Aabria one question about the source-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's what it says. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Wild. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's in the book. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- the source of the bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Spenser, what? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "My one question is-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How old is this individual before me? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "When you get this kind of information, you've done this before, this is a part of who you are, how does it come to you? Is it a whisper or a vision? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "My eyes roll a little bit, and I cease to sense the room around me, and I have flashes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A flash. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Visions. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "500 Common Era. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "My sister, whatever's happening at Grayslate, and on Oscar's ship. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Mm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What is it you seek? What are you trying to achieve or find? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Calinus, in his stupidity, dethroned her, cast her, locked her away, and in two years, Oldfaire, the greatest empire this world has seen, was gone.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Locked her where? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Empress? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A secret place of forgetting.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's why you were digging? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Mm-hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "This is the Empress you spoke of earlier? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Iomene.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You think you've found her resting place, do you? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Electricity can do what alchemy cannot, and I would see myself emperor of a better world.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is she the one that made you like this? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"No, I have never met her.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you remember me? My appearance has changed some. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I don't know you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you remember him? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm just seething in the corner, just clenching my fists with anger. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "spoiled a great gift, wasted on you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Unless he resists, I'm going to whip it around his neck and pull tight. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He cannot resist. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Think about what you're doing. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll loosen it just enough so that he can get out words. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Easy, boy. Easy. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "And then I have no more use for you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Then do it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Tell me how to fix me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I do not know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Then I'll hold tight, as tight as I can, and start to strangle him. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oscar? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'll let you decide, is this Strike or Control? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Strike seems fun. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll put in a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't think I'm going to be able to, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will say, knowing your particular kit, you do have an ability that could bolster. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, I do, because I'm using this chain. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But now let's call it Hard Hitter. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So I got a five. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I need you to take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What's the last one? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "And so, I will squeeze tighter still. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I try to speak to him? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That doesn't mean he did it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He caused this. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He said it was a gift. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He was there. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's jealous of your gift! That means he didn't give it. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Perhaps if we keep him alive, we can find information on these rituals of Iomene, and find a way to cure you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can't kill him, anyway. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He will throw himself forward violently in hopes you have held your chain tight enough to allow him to choose his own end. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, I'm holding it pretty tight. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's not that they can't die; they can die, just not without a little help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Meaning what? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They can be killed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If they are left to their own devices, they'll live indefinitely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But if an act of violence is enacted on them-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That, and the shadow between what they are and what your father is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think I'm stunned, then, because the only real world evidence I've had is my father. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The rituals that made him are different than the ones that made the Unabridged. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Still locked in, I'm just still holding the chains as tight as I can, and I step on his back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "To just pull it even tighter. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I just reflexively turn and then stop, because I don't want to hurt her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "He's dead. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He had more information to give Oscar, and not just for you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What? What information? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a token. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He didn't know shit. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's lived for centuries. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He said he didn't know where the book is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, dear. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Goddamn it. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So we'll have to hope that Greenvale can provide some insight. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What's done is done, at least, but we do know somewhere below the sanatorium, perhaps there's more answers there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It was the only lead-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "of your decorative dagger that you keep in your chair. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What was the first one again? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They found it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A doorknob. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "A doorknob. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I see if, in my studies, I notice that any of these objects might be in some way related to his longevity? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "In your study? So give me a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Did you say there were markings on them? Runes of some sort? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Runes all over the doorknob, nothing on the syringe, and the knife is decorative, but doesn't have anything that would appear to be writing on it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "She got a crit. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is that two sixes? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well, oh, I guess no, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If it's just one six-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I keep forgetting what a crit is. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If it's just one six, it's a full success. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I got excited. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It was a full success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I know it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What were you examining? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I was just trying to see if any of the objects relate to how he has such long life. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And out of all of the things you could acquire, what are the things that you keep on you? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "on either the knob or the familiar-looking knife. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But I will say as you take this up, you hear a tinkle of the small bell that signals that the door to the shop is being opened. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll use Sense because it is quicker. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will burn two-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- drives. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's a six, not on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're just trying to get a general sense of what these are, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You plunge this needle into you, and when you would incur a bleed, it gets transferred to the vial instead. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Now you have a loaded vial of bleed you can put somewhere else. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is an old thing, you're saying? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "An old thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Perhaps it is the design of that that was taken and changed and turned into what Candela and EONS and other esoterica used to contain, and EONS and other esoterica used to contain, but they never quite figured out the trick of pulling bleed and pushing it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just a fresh bit of antiquity for you, Doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "May I use a Focus check to see if, on the doorknob, I remember any old nursery rhymes, songs, poems, or folklore involving travel or tessering, anything of the sort? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So if it's gilded, I immediately take a gilded for one of those? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, and if you take the gilded result, you get a drive back; if you've used a drive in the roll. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It's a six on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Nice! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Let's go! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What if you weren't only carrying three things? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What if you had everything you ever needed the whole time? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Powerful tool. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"It seems that the-- I asked for one thing.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "And just seeing everyone's face, and especially Cosmo's, I just turn away and face the wall, ashamed. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Our apologies, Nokari. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(sighs)\" Give me, just in the quietness of that, in the lack of spinning up a story or an excuse, a raw moment and respecting a person's intelligence enough to not try to bullshit them into misinterpreting what is obvious and true, a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay, two and a gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will say, oh-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will add on if you want to add on another die, that this is a high stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How this goes will determine the next few minutes, so if you wanted to use a drive, I will allow you to add it now, because I didn't quite get that out before you rolled. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I have a six. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "On a non-gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And again, all of this snaps back to the last great favor they could offer a very old friend. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Nokari, please. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Please, don't lock-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"No, no, yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We will find out more. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And (sighs) unfortunately, he was recovered without anything of consequence on him.\" \"he was recovered without anything of consequence on him.\" Their eyes flash over to the table. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are too kind to me, Nokari. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There are people higher up in this city who do not enjoy that the beautiful history of Newfaire is being despoiled by such base use as access to clean water. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "This affliction, what was it, again? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's conventionally called cullet. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's the same one, Elsie? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Elsie, in your studies, is there any connection to the onset of the disease with tarnished water? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Was there? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That every now and then, that body has \"A.M.C.\" carved into the ground next to it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "A.M.C. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Any Mother's Child. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That if " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is the method of death and the strangeness around the death, is any of that familiar to me? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I don't think that rings anything to you, specifically. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Just drowning in the street, though? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's drowning in the street, but no sense of like, there's no proximity to saltwater. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But it is a phenomenon, so Candela must act. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Where is this well? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "In use the whole time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is this the area still over the years where parts of it continue to sink in and reveal more of Oldfaire? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Calinus Market has just been this thing that seemed untouched by the fall of Oldfaire writ large. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If you're circling around the name Calinus, that is the last emperor of Oldfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The one who took over after Iomene? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Usurped her, according to homie. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Gevni said. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, the guy said Calinus dethroned her, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think for anyone who knows the history of this region, Calinus was in charge when their alchemic dealings got out of control and caused the Vastchasm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So he was the last emperor of Oldfaire? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He lasted two years. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, he really screwed the pooch. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It would seem. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"It's a lot on your plate, but I would ask that in this moment you set aside, temporarily, your individual lines of inquiry and get to the source of whatever is causing these deaths in Groundswell.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Of course, Candela circles take care of Candela business. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I appreciate it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I can only return the favor you have given me today. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You--\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "But I think our best chance of catching this attacker will happen after curfew. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Perhaps we can draw them out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I mean, I don't, but I see the sense. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What time is it right now? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I would say, despite the gray skies, you have clocks, it's probably 2:00 in the afternoon. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Where was the last body found? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So every night, there has been a Periphery beat cop discovered somewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Which doesn't have to be now, but Elsie's going to sidle up to them before they leave. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So, yeah, you can sidle up. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to approach and say. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Dr. Roberts.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Won't you? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Mr. Grimm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How long do we have? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I do not endeavor to lie to you, Doctor.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I would ask that you don't. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I do not wish for either of you to be locked away.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How long, Nokari? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think your work is important.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But you know that I am a threat. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "In the same way that you approach any new person you meet with the hope that they are good and the knowledge that you will do what you must if they prove themselves otherwise, so does Candela treat the two of you and anyone else that they work with, that they come across.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So our fate is at your discretion? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It will just be harder to smudge, once Cosmo is no longer in the field.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Thank you as ever for your service, Nokari. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I fear I have upset you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And they leave. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Is that what Nokari said? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The cullet is, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "So I suppose, South Soffit would be a good place to start. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, wait, where is the well again? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The well is in Groundswell where all of these murders are happening. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We can possibly search for some clues there? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "But you want to search elsewhere? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Was it all the murders? You said it was at random parts, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They're all within the district of Groundswell. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ah, I see. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay, then Groundswell it is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We need to while away some time and then choose one of us to be the bait. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "If you-- Do you guys even want me to come with you? I'm sorry, I mean, I know I fucked that up, but I'm sorry, Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But if you need bait. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Have any more vendettas you feel the need to (sighs) resolve? Or will you be able to keep your head? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "No, I'm happy to make some (hard candy clacking against teeth) new vendettas. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Miss Glask? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you think you could supply us with a Periphery officer's uniform in about Oscar's size? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "But I think I remember there are some. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you wait for curfew to kick in? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I guess so, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's 10:30. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Makes sense. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Where are the rest of you while the good Mr. Grim is being bait? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Somewhere within viewing distance. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're in a marketplace, right? That's the scene? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So you can absolutely blend in and stay there-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Even with the curfew? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's where people come, have a little fun on the other side of town. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Eaves people? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But there are some plain-clothes Periphery officers around the well, just to make sure that no one breaking curfew would dare to come out and seek fresh water. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "♪ A prop! ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Finally get to use it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to be sitting at an outside table, \"drinking wine,\" acting as if I'm a fancy gal on a night out. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Nice. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(groaning) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Nice touch. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think it's right about that time, you feel the dead tissue fall away and not the stress of what your eye will do to self-lubricate, as a little locust lands-- as a little locust lands-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- on your eyeball. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "♪ Gross! ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ugh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Your hive is rebuilding and this is of you, so why would you worry about it? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I subtly open the collar of my shirt and simply whisper: Welcome home. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A happy buzz as it nestles in with the scant dozens rebuilding you from the inside out. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Honestly, kind of cute, you know? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Weirdly hot. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doctor, do you mind if I serve as your plus one? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(sighs) No, you're more than welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just a scoche. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They are quick to let their eyes glide off of you and continue their merriment elsewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think in my free hand, not holding a glass of wine, under the table, I am clutching a familiar jawbone, and waiting for a ping. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Can I ask, were we allowed to keep the items on the side table? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He had nothing on him, and then he died!\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Then I got yelled at by a lady that turns into a monster, so I'm kind of having a rough day. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I'm going to take a little bubble bath.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Doorknob, dagger... " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Doorknob, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Syringe. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Syringe. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Doorknob, dagger, syringe. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Maybe I would've taken the syringe, presumably? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You seem like a syringe-y type. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Seem like the syringe-y type? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If you don't quite feel-- This isn't quite how circle gear works, but I'm happy to live in the space of: These live in the common pool and unless someone wants something specifically now, they can appear when the need arises. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, just like the rest of the gear. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "These are often used in places of magick, and perhaps her history and intuition could be of some service. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I keep it for safekeeping, since I feel like I'm the furthest distance away, and in a car. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Is there anything you're doing to try to-- yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm-- I'm itching this awful costume that I'm wearing. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "This is just a little too small. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's a large. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Just wandering around like an idiot. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Sway roll with delightfully low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Jeepers creepers. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask just whispers to herself: What is wrong with him? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mixed suc-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Still, still pretty good. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Maybe 60, 70 feet away. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can we say that maybe we decided that if Madam Glask sees something, she's going to pop her headlights a couple of times? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, I got you, don't worry. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, just wanted to establish. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm keeping a very close eye on him. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "There's a signal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(horn honking) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's exactly what I was going to do. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We barely have flashlights. Is there a horn? When was that invented? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(horn honking) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(horn honking) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She's keeping a very, very close eye. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We sing it during our " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We do! (laughs) No! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Please, I will take a brain mark for that. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "To see if you can see-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Aw, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- a subtle child. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There is-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Does she get a bonus because she's got-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "The fun peepers? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I know, right? Come on, I've kept a very close eye. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Spy glasses? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I don't know-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's resistances, you can reroll if you have one. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Absolutely not. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(sighs) Shit, I'm going to burn two drives then. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Because I have nothing in it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So just to manage your expectations and you can decide how much of your economy you want to play with. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, I think I'm going to spend both of them. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(sharp inhale) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How'd you do? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hey! Um. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How's it going? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's crazy, a one and a three. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You get to take the higher one, and it's still a failure. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask is leaning into the front seat from the back seat while-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're in the back of your-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I don't drive myself. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm imagined that slightly differently. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Thank you! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's great. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "But my hand is ready, just on the horn. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "While watching him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "As this is going down. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I want you to take one brain, as you begin to spin up, worried, because all of a sudden, you see Oscar pause. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "He's too far. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(hard candy clacking) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Maybe for just a moment-- " }, { "Role": "Player964", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But I think there is at least a moment of change in vector when you see the little girl and she looks back at you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Good evening. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Did we establish some sort of physicality that you might do if you thought that you were in danger? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You've got eyes on me, I know that. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do we have eyes from where we are? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think you are approaching the same kind of problem, where you're in a very well-lit area, and this is moving to just enough dark that you're having that struggle of there's a lot of light and you're looking down to where there's not a lot of light. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That jawbone. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's just numbing through your fingers that touch the bone. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's so light. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think the show's about to begin. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to get up then and go take his handles and start moving casually, but toward where we know Oscar is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Why is there not a stat for chug? This is ridiculous. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Waste not, want not. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I need a Survey roll from you, with eyes at a different angle. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Two fives and a three. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do what you will with that, but it's an easy thing if you search for a reason to not be worried about that, to find a reason to not be worried about that. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Cosmo, what do you do when you see this little girl? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's curfew, you should get home. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She slides out a little farther. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Just go home. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Do you actually have a candy?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But you shouldn't take candy from strangers. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How's your Sway, bud? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "My Sway is terrible. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yay! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sway! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, I was going to give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You're not even near me, right? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, I can't, even if I'm not near him? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Got to be in the same scene. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, okay, never mind. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're in the back of a car. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "A really nice car. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Leaning to the front of the car. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "And I look fabulous doing it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, fair. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "One. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "One? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How far are me and Cosmo at this juncture? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my god! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We're now setting up a little bit of a western standoff. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Sure, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And a woman and a man moving from the well-tended, safe part of Groundswell from the well-tended, safe part of Groundswell to the real part of Groundswell. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Can I say that as he's getting further and further, I'm getting more concerned because I can't see him very well, that I decide to leave my car? Start making my way-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So if you want to exit the car also. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Immediately crash. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(car lurches) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I don't know where this is happening relative to my rooftop access? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Let's call it a big, beautiful triangle. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Child, cop, approaching pair, and you above, splitting the difference with eyes down. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm going to, under the cover of the roof, light a candle and prepare a vial of oil. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "As I'm approaching, can I lean into Cosmo and say: How do you want to play this? Do you want to keep quiet? Do you want to act as if-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Not particularly at ease. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe not. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Just, I'm guessing that we're not making a distraction, we're trying to close distance? We're not trying to let-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For now. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(coughing) (heavy breathing)\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What's wrong with you? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She begins panting. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You should call your parents or something. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What shoes are you wearing? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "They're my shoes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(heavy breathing)\" And that is where we're going to take a break. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I told you to wear the shoes! There's so many of them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She looks at your sorry red Crocs! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "See you soon. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Keep this tome close for the knowledge obtained may be the key to protecting you, your allies, and the Fairelands. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(sickly coughs) What are you? What are you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Are you all right? Come here, let me see you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(sickly coughs)\" You hear the first loud splatter of water. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I need you to take a point of bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Bleed, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "is in the presence of strong, irrefutable bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "There's a sense of when the bleed hits me, all of my scars, scrapes, imperfections, they just feel better. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It feels really good, and that causes me great shame. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think you feel that wash, that flow of relaxation, of endorphins, of dopamine as all of you comes into alignment in the face of something wrong. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I want to use my Prestige. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Tell me more. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Is the water hitting him already? It is clearly affecting him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No, at this point, you've not moved. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I still don't really know what's going on. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It seems weird. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, all you see is a girl retching and the water coming from her stomach and lungs is flowing a little against expectations of physics towards Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I want to use my Prestige to control the water that's coming out of her. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You reach forward. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Checking things. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "That's always a good sign. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I need you, to begin, you're going to roll Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's how we start. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I might be screwed here, guys. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Because I used my two drives earlier and I only have one in Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Straight roller. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Straight roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Girl, how you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm actually doing really well, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I wish I could relate. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Tell me more. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's a three. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You will take another bleed for attempting to interact with a phenomenon using a parlor trick. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "With the deafening sound in her ear, she covers both (groans sharply) and crumples into herself next to Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I try to catch her as she falls, and now I'm sort of distracted between the water and Madam Glask. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The water continues to move slowly, creeping towards you as this girl continues to vomit out more and more and she's coughing and hacking and the stench of brine is overwhelming. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do we see this at this point? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "May I use Occult Researcher to take a brain and ask Aabria for an important occult detail-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Why is it always written about me? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- that I would recognize from my studies? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It feels in harmony in a way that I think you are starting to understand now given your recent interactions with your own beast. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm detecting that there is a symbiotic relationship between-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- this girl and whatever else in there. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This is synergy, this is cooperation. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So it seems like the one needs the other. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Needs might be a little strong, but they are working together. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Is there anything else you would-- Is there any specific edge to your inquiry? Because I want to be sure that I'm answering the thing that Elsie would be asking. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Because I could see that the water is going the wrong way. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I can see that this is-- I can see that Madam Glask is reacting-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm sure the jaw bone is going nuts. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's what I'm trying to determine. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You should tackle her. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "If I can determine that. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oscar's words finished her resolve, but nothing has popped off in a way yet, so this creep gives you all of the slow, so this creep gives you all of the slow, careful consideration of an apex predator trying to figure out when the prey will bolt. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As we get closer-- Cosmo! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I was like, what the fuck? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Where did it go? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What the hell was that? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Who are you? Who are you? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Who was that? I don't like it! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm back! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You sound exactly like TTRPG star, Liam O'Brien! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That hack? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I begin to intone Ancient Fairen syllables, and you hear a slight reverberation in your ears with every word spoken, and in that ancient language that I have spent my lifetime learning a piece of, I say: Wait, who are you? What would you hear? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm going to jump to that, but you mentioned getting a little closer, so I do want to ask, for tactics and consequences sake, how close did you come to Glask and Oscar? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "20 feet is what I was thinking. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Not in the mix, but within eyesight and shouting distance. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "One of you, doesn't matter who, give me a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, let me do it! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, please god. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Understanding that the stakes of this, regular stakes, but a failure will-- You'll be in range. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm burning a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Gilded roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do you feel good enough like that or do you want another one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm feeling good. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, it's shit. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, the wine came in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Wait, really? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You shouldn't have chugged that wine. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you get your drive back if you use the gilded die? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, all right, that's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Four of the five of you are in range. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's fine, that's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think you realize, before you even get a response, that the thing that you're talking to in this moment is not the little girl, but the thing coming out of it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Creeping from the front to the back. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just a little flavor. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Bud, if I could give you inspo, I absolutely would. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Does it respond to him? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Who are you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We all hear that voice, but only he can understand it, or we all telepathically-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think it's just-- It's not quite telepathically, but you hear it in your ears and you feel the blood and water inside you tremoring with it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I reply in the same ancient language: Tide & Bone, keepers of the light. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And she deems that one--\" Here you see the water shoots forward a half a foot. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's not who you think. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"-- a threat.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's not a threat. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He is a problem.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He's not. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(coughing) Let him say it. Prove it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Tell her. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Now this thing begins to retreat back a little at a time, not to flee, but to coalesce into a puddle. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "If I represent something that you don't like, believe me it's just an act, I don't like them either. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(breath of relief) (coughs) Why, why would you-- Why would you come here and pretend to be one of them? Why?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "To talk to you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Wha-- What? Doesn't make any sense.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Are you okay? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No, of course not.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What's going on? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"My brother's-- They're dead. They're--\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Your mother? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"-- attacking us we-- No! No, I'm not all right! Who are you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We want to help, but you have to tell us what's going on here. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I don't have to tell you anything!\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is this the girl speaking? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You look like, you look like an officer, and you look like one of them-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm like you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"-- and none of them care.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Little one, look at me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"No, what is--\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I have something in me like you do. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You made a deal, too?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "A deal? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is that what you did? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah, yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Who did you make a deal with? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh god.\" You see she staggers back and falls onto the ground, more dizzy and faint and a little overwhelmed than anything else. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You're okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay. Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You're okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Something answered.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Something answered. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It asked for a price.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What was the price? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I offered anything, myself, I don't know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "A loved one? Madam Glask says sternly to her: A loved one is what you offered. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"That's not what I offered, but it's what it took.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I don't know if it killed her or if she was just going.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Going? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Did she die-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Going? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- in the last few days? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I don't have anything left, just this.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is the water figure doing anything, watching us? Does it have eyes? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But unless you move, it will simply hold position, interposing itself. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, I see. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Interposing, like it's between us and the girl? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She was behind it because vomited the water out, the water flowed forward-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So she's sitting on the ground-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "If I take a step forward-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It will match you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh. Okay, got it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That water figure, was that Arterax? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "So it does speak. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Somewhat. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I want to know what you're doing up on the roof. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I don't know if I'm in range and therefore able to hear everything that has transpired. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What are you doing with your oil and your candle, Rajan? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "As I tear a piece of my cravat and wrap it around the oil flask, I put my hand to the claw embedded in my body and look to see if I can tell where a master begins and drone ends, if they are actually linked or if there is one that serves the other. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How's your Sense? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player966", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh, does no one got good Sense? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Aw. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's so interesting in a game about spooky stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So, if it's a Sense roll and I have nothing in it, but I add a drive-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Then you're rolling one die. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "One die. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "One die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Straight roll. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Straight roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Come on, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Giddy-up. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If this is the thing that has killed those officers then it was doing so at her express order. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Are you alone? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They're gone.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Would you like a soft bed and a safe place? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's a lot to overcome, even in an act of kindness. " }, { "Role": "Player964", "Content": "I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to take off my coat-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to spend both of my drives. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Where's my thing? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I got a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There's something about a person who has lived a harsh life that knows better than to give away what little power she has wrested from a cruel world in a moment of kindness that she cannot say is genuine or will continue. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Glask kneels down next to the child. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If you move forward-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- the sentry will interpose itself and try to stop you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Glask speaks to the child and-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. Do you want to step forward? It's not going to bum rush you and try to hit you, but if your instinct is to move forward just know that at the first step, this thing is sliding with the same bearing to interpose. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Have no fear. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What do you mean? Worshiper? Worshiper of what?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "The gods that gave you this power. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"A god? A god did this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Trust me, child. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I don't, I don't know other gods.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Can I slowly reach out to her to take her hand? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Maybe a drive, yeah, let's go crazy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hey, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Get your drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah, you get the drive back, at least. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hey, you get the drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hey, that's awesome. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Was it a mixed success? Crit? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I really would love new dice. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's so interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's three ones and a three. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Golly. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Huh? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You reach forward-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Crap. No resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you want to burn your resistance to try again? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's exactly what this is for. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I do want to use a resistance, then. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You reroll the base stats, so reroll your-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, the base stats, no gilded? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You don't get the drive, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "A four. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Better than a one. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You screamed and wept tears as salty as the ocean itself, You screamed and wept tears as salty as the ocean itself, pleaded for something, a way to make it in the world, and something spoke back, offered you a desire, said that the price had been paid a mother claimed by dark water. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "And what is worth that price? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It is a heavy price, and I am a fair thing.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That was the price? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are not forgotten, and the gods they worship there are not the only ones that walk this world.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I want them back. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I cannot give them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Then if I can't have them, give me what they wanted when they chose to come to this new world. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She is scared and alone. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It is lonely, and I know you want to hurt those who have taken from you, but it will never give you a home. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She grabs your hand and then your elbow, and she wraps herself around you, because maybe you understand. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I take her into my cloak and I wrap her close. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do the rest of you do? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Seeing blood-- It's real blood that we can see, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Real blood, and when it withdraws the blade, she is bleeding down her forearm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm wrapping my hand around my chain and just getting it ready, but looking to Madam Glask for-- If she's okay, I guess. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You just hear her sob, \"My name is Mina.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I run my fingers through her hair. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The being of water is doing what now? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Standing at attention, but has opened its posture up so that it's no longer between you and the two of them. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm assuming so, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "But I want to ask her if she knows anything about where we can find the source of the poisoned water. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She sobs and tries to pull herself together, moves away from you, realizing that none of her close fit jumpsuit realizing that none of her close fit jumpsuit is good for daubing a nose that's absolutely shooting boogers. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm wiping it with my cloak. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, she accepts it gratefully. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I won't stop.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But you can make them pay for taking it.\" She looks around at the comfort in your eyes and the concern in yours and the fatherly understanding, and then she alights on yours. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It does feel good. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But maybe for now, you can let us get you some revenge, and you could just take a break and rest. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Doc? Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Do you two have any idea how we might, you know, split these two apart, or someone who can? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's still just hovering? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But it still remains at the ready. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is there some Candela bigwigs that know how to do this stuff, or a big towel or something that we can soak it up with? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A bleed containment vial is just for trace amounts, right? To bring a little bit home? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Usually, but if you haven't told me what your bleed containment vial is, then a bleed containment unit can be whatever you decide in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Mine is a gigantic 40-gallon tank. " }, { "Role": "Player964", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But truly, if there's something that doesn't care about volume, that simply seeks to soak up as much of one thing as possible, that is absolutely within the realm of what can be done. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Can we ask her to maybe absorb it back into her? She can control it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You don't have to ask me to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, but she can control it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Didn't we want it without her? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I might-- Well, so I don't know if what is happening with her is like what happens with me. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But I don't know how either of them would fare at this point if they were separated. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "If we tried, it would just get worse. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He just pissed off somewhere else. " }, { "Role": "Player965", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hey, fancy lad. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Perhaps we're trying to treat the symptom without treating the cause. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Jesus. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "When I was researching cullet, I knew where it came from, and I-- My wealthy clients didn't want people to know, and I didn't say anything. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "More secrets? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You're a better woman than me. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You should've said something sooner, Elsie. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah, I should've. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Will you part with this child? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"If I am released, I will go and resume my wandering, I will go and resume my wandering, but only if she decrees it.\" \"but only if she decrees it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We'll find a way. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You said you worship the same god?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Did you make a deal?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What did you ask for?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Wealth and riches in a new world. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Would you give it back?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "My mother and my father. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I lost my mother and my brother.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Then you understand. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"A steep price.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I lost everything for it, and you-- You want me to what? Be powerless again?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I don't use my power to hurt, child. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I use my power to protect my people.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "If you want to protect them, you find a way to help them, to cure them. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I have! What have you done?\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You don't have to give it back. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I won't. I won't.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But let us help you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What do you mean by help?\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We won't take it away. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"If you try to part it from me, I will drown you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We promise you we won't. We won't. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But if you abandon me, But if you abandon me, (sniffs) if you take me away and leave my people, the people here to suffer like everyone else does, I will kill you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Then how about I make another deal, then? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You don't have anything else to give.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "My life. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And she stands. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It's cold. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Such a strong girl. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That here, without that protector, without the magick, the bond, the curse, the deal she made, she's so small, but warmer now because of you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I can't help everyone, but it's certainly a start. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay. Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can we take her back to the chapter house? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Would she even go? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I have a home here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But there's no one there. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah, (sniffles) with you is fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I can put her in my car. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, how small is she? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So gangly preteen. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But I also want to know if she's fucking us. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So can I give her the eagle eye? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You tell me what you're rolling. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm rolling Read, I'm trying to read. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To see if any one of us is going to get a mouthful of water. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're going to get a lot of good information. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, but I'll take the gilded two to get a drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She will kill you with all the surety of someone who has killed before and understood what she did and will do it again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, the good news is, child, this is a group of cracked vessels, so you may just fit right in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Are we headed back to the spot? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, is there anything else you want to-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Either that or do you want to go to the well? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, we got to take her back? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I think the chance of encountering actual guards who give us pushback is not what Mina needs at this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think we should go back to The Antiquarian. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will say, just as a little mental image for the group of you, that yes, this is a little girl breaking curfew, but all of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She has her nice coat on. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There is no rush to whisk her off, she's fine because she's with you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She might be useful. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But you can do what you want. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What's our next play? We can take her back and put her away and then go off to Westwreck? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, let's just review. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is all the clean water which was what set this girl off on her journey with her friend. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And Westwreck, which is really on the outside of town. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You have deescalated the situation, and she is well in hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We were tasked with finding a murderer, and we found her. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think maybe we should go back and regroup. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "She seems like she needs a good night's rest. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I think perhaps the Lightkeeper would have access to resources that we don't have. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "She barely trusts us. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do we will pile in and drive to The Antiquarian? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Why not. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I wouldn't have it any other way. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I know, because you don't have a license. " }, { "Role": "Player969", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She's enjoying her time, and eventually you make your way back to The Antiquarian. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Eloise looks deeply confused to where you acquired a child from. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I propose we give her a few days, keep an eye on her, and then probably discuss with Nokari what would be best. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "And I'm going to give myself a token. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "The choice to be so selective about her research around this disease and who it's impacting and how it's impacting them, and her choice to keep it secret, to serve wealthy and auspicious masters, to serve wealthy and auspicious masters, has finally come into clear focus the human cost. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So why don't you to take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "A brain. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think, with that-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ke-- Before you-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't know if you're wrapping up-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No, go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But I was just, if we're wrapping up the evening and all laying down to rest I was going to knock on Cosmo's door real quick-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- before I go back to The Glass Cat and have a quick moment with him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're good. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Would it be very strange if I were to tuck you in? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I can do it on my own, but it's easier with some help, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll help him into his pajamas and get his bed the way he likes it and shove a pillow behind his back and another one in his front. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would you scoop up Godot and put him by my feet? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll do so and I'll wait 'til-- I'll turn out the lights and wait 'til I hear him snoring and maybe sit there a while and listen and put a hard candy on the side table next to his bed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm very tired. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Good night, sweet boy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You go back to The Glass Cat? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, I don't drive, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She feels it in her soul that she will do everything she possibly can to help this child, because in a way it's helping herself, too. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I think she tries to stay for as long as she can, almost not wanting to go back to The Glass Cat, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Eventually, you have to go back. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think that is the energy you leave with when you go back to The Glass Cat. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Come now, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I get back to The Glass Cat-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- realize she's not in the car-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- go back, get her again. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm standing outside like-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sorry, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What do I pay him for? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Does Raj want an ending scene? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Do you want a ride? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"The Little Rascals.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "A success without any bloodshed. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What do you think they'll do with her? Do you think they'll actually try to fix her? To keep her safe? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What do you want to say to me? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I just wonder if we're actually doing the right thing. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "For her? Or for any of us? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Candela's modus operandi seems to be containing or neutralizing, and we refuse to be contained. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is that what you mean? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I just hope that Mina has the happy ending we're hoping for. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What about you, Raj? What kind of ending are you looking for? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We're not concerned with the ending, more the journey. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Please take a point of your beast pool because that creeped me the fuck out. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Good night, Elsie. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Good night, Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So we'll see what you make of the next assignment when we meet again. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Mm! Hmm hmm hmm! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Before we finish up officially, we have time to do some of our circle-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Circle stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Circle stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Circle stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You have four resources left to spend You have four resources left to spend in a manner of your choosing as was our dark bargain when we first began. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So, what do you want to buy? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Stitch, refresh, and training. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And training. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Training does what? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Just one. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Can you get back resistances with any of these? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, with your refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "With refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Refresh gives back all your drives and resistances. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I just realized my strongest power, and I only have one thing in Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oop. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh well. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I am fucked. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Back to one, everybody. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think I'm going to use a refresh, if that's okay with everyone. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Doctor heal thyself. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Doctor heal thyself. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is the last time to use it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This is it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We got to use them up. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Smoke 'em if you got 'em. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What's left? Four more? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We got four things. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Four more. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, so you used one on refresh? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll take a refresh as well. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Madam Glask, you have body marks, don't you? Is it something that the doctor can help you with? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I have two body marks. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(shushing) Leave them, leave them. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No one hit my baby. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I have two body, two brain, two bleed, I'm hurting. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Fuck, I was so close. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Two body, two brain, and two bleed? Yeah, you should just take-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So close. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Stitch clears all your marks? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Enjoy. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "So yes, I'll take a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So did you take a stitch and a refresh? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Uh-uh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So refresh, refresh, stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, we only have one more to play with then. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "One more. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Do you want something? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I only have one mark. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's okay. It's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I can fill the drives if I need to, so. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do you need stuff? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I've got one body, one bleed, three brain. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ooh baby. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Just leave it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Just leave it? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You should leave it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You need a fourth one, two more scars. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think you should use it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's what I'm figuring. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Everyone's got so much more room, don't use it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I know, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Why doesn't someone-- Someone should train. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can never use it again! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We have nobody else to use it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah, it's a bit of a smoke 'em if you got it, though. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Just for whatever. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wasted! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I mean, if we-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Or would you rather have drive? You can take the-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Are you low on drive? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "A refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Because I can take a few more hits and some scars. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well, you could take a stitch and a refresh, if you wanted, though. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I don't want to waste it all on me. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It wouldn't be wasting it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Little old me? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Little old me. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "If Oscar takes one more brain, he's scarred. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So at the beginning of the next session, just somebody brain me, I go down, then I'll be up for the rest of the session. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's true. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's how it works. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Just resuscitate you then you'll be good. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh god, that is really crazy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I mean we do have-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Presumably we all have, apart from you, we all have three more scars we could take before we die-die. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I love a challenge. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So you're going to have to work pretty hard. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm not going to be a sympathetic baby. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I work for you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah, refresh yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay, I'll refresh myself-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "♪ Refresh yourself ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "-- and stitch also. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ah! Sorry, that was exactly-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "All right, refresh and a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's so spooky. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Thank you, my darlings. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You do also have some little guys, some little toys. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, that's right, we never fucked with the toys. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Do you want to do that now? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(noncommittal mumble) I don't know what your refresh feels like. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, we had talked at the break about maybe fiddling around with the doorknob. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's true, we did. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You want to doorknob it up or do we want to do that next time? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I mean, I don't even know what to do with this thing so I grab it and I start twisting it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Is it in the open air? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Just in open air-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "As you're driving back to The Glass Cat. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're just driving along with it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm just fidgeting. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Whatcha doing back there? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm trying to figure out how this works and starts knocking. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Can't you do magick with it? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm not exactly a real magician. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I thought the whole thing with magick is this-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "This is in the car, it stays in the car with us. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ooh, car talk. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, I mean, I'm just knocking it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Can you say some magickal words or something? I don't know how this shit works. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's so good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe you have to suction cup of to wall and-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Do cars-- Cars in Candela have doorknobs. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But doorknobs. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(creaking) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Who else has what piece? You have the knife, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The idea is until someone calls the shot, it stays in the communal pile. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you could also have it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You could have it all, if you want. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What if in the downtime I take the dagger and I drew a little drawing on the doorknob? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you want to do that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That was the cutest thing I've ever seen! So, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Bagels and lox. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Cosmo, as you are fiddling with both the knife, are you using their knife or your knife? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm using their knife. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This is how I kill you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh. Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to take the-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll take the six. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "He takes the six. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Door number one or door number two. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm the dumbass. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You know, like you would do with a doorknob. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Where you would put a door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Any old wall, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Any old wall. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I put it, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Are we with you as you do this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Brunch? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're at brunch. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm eating a bagel. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Are we doing this at an IHOP? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Bagel and lox. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I've decided. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, you take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Honestly, I should take a brain. I have a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "For all of the things covering all of the surfaces of this place of the busyness of it, the pale yellow wooden desk at the center of the room is pristine and uncovered, shined to a polish with a small scrap of paper at the head where someone would sit at it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, there's a lot to sift through in here, and I will do it, but I will start with that slip of paper. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's connected to the table. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Am I able to read it? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There's nothing written on it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Where is the syringe? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "In the hammerspace of whoever grabbed it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Would it be crazy to, I don't know, use a syringe on the paper to reveal something? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Or the dagger. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The dagger. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Or that. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think the syringe just contains bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is that right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It's like a bleed extraction. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, and it very specifically interacts like it's a syringe interacts with flesh. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It tanks a point of bleed, and then you have a nasty, little bleed guy. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is everything in this room-- I'm poking my head in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Getting crumbs all over the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What kind of bagel? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is everything in the room a facade? Are the shelves just flat? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You want to make a roll about it or physically interact with it? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Are they books or are they pictures of books? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They're books. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's not all a facade. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, you want to use your fucking dagger on it? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will write one or two Ancient Fairen runes on that piece of paper just to test what happens. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you use to write the runes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(blade ringing) The same blade I used to enter. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You cut into the paper and just with the first nick, you realize you've cut the paper. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This stylus dagger is behaving as a dagger right now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So it's a blade until it interacts specifically with alchemy symbols, which is why you've been able to hold onto that dagger of yours for decades and never see its true form because at what point would you have thought to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(slicing sound) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh." }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "With that, the ink begins to slowly fade. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you know about that? Bring the bagels in. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We've got a lot to sort through. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. I'll get seconds. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So I think with that, now having literally unlocked the door of The Serious Man's secret and his stash and his storage, that is where we will end tonight's episode, and we will see you again one last time for the finale of The Circle of Tide & Bone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Boy, oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And until then, is it Thursday yet? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yay! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yay! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Visit darringtonpress.com/candela to learn more. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Raj, where did that find you? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I have not allowed my children to observe her and I will keep her privacy, but I will look for the professor. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You find Cosmo in his chambers. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Professor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Dr. Savarimuthu. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "They are coming. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Soon then. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It came at great cost. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's get to it. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "They are at her place? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Then I will go up and make sure that Dr. Roberts is prepared. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "30 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I don't know that we have 30 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's make it five. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I run back upstairs, and give a light knock. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "And doesn't wake up at the knock. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I knock again. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You don't have time for this." }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Patience! After a breath, I try the knob. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Would you have locked your door? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It yields. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We have to go. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What's happening? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We cannot let you fall into their hands. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It's Candela, isn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a token. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So much for promises. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You can't come with me. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Where exactly do you expect for me to go? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "When I get up and I start getting frazzled, you see this fall out. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You've kept it? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "They might not know about you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "That Oscar is an interesting fellow. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Elsie is getting ready as quickly as she can, putting things on. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Clearly, he has earned your trust. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "This is a weird time to be bringing this up, Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I don't know that we have much more time. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Why do you ask? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a token. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh fuck, already? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How many tokens is that? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's all of them, friend. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you feel like now is an appropriate moment? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think it would take maybe a little bit more questioning. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Until the " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Why are you asking me this? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We may have to leave the others behind, if necessary. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What do you mean? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You will never be alone while I am here. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "And then moves to the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As a bleed soak. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will leave that up to you if that gives me a body. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think, for what's to come, I will allow this to be an un-alloyed success. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I look down at my dog, who is grinning at me like he always does, scratch him under the chin, knowing it's likely the last time I will see him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He does his best to hop into your lap. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then I turn and open the door, and wheel out into the shop and wait for the young folk. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If you can't pick it apart before Candela finds you, then this, all of this, everything you've suffered is for nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let the final die be cast. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You come back to yourself and you are joined quite quickly by Dr. Roberts-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- and Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Children? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you ready to go, Elsie? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm sorry, this is my fault. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's go, please. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What are you doing on an average day in the casino? Where will they find you as they rush in? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "In front of her is sitting that sweet girl, Mina. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mina. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's just lazy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Great.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Stand up straight. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay. Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "No, there's a-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Got it. In general.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What is the number one thing I've taught you? You must always see the money first. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(laughs) Yeah, money.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Just a little-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Thank you so much.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Thank you so much.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(laughs awkwardly)\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, and Mina, one more thing. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Mm?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask reaches-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Am I allowed to drink?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Drink water? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"No, this is a bar.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "No, child, you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"But I go here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You don't want to touch any of that. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Never. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay, two and a gilded. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "This is it. High stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I know, Gina breaks out her drive. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "These stakes are higher than you think. " }, { "Role": "Player970", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Am I going to be a good mother of the sea? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Establishing dominance with a 12 year old. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Keep a child on the straight and narrow. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Success on a non-gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You see her kind of-- You hit her with just enough of the mom look that she's like, \"(scoffs) Fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "But one more thing. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I appreciate that, Madam Glask.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Or Mom. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "My mom died days ago.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, did I say that out loud? I'm so sorry. Oh, oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We'll get there. It's early.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I'm going to go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to knock on the door. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Madam Glask. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Of course, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Can I-- Are you decent? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Come in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I'm not, Cary.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, you're calling him-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"He said his name is Cary.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, he told you his name was-- Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What? Is it not Cary?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah-- It's-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cary's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So can I come in? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What is your name?\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Can I come in there or-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I'm more naked than before.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "All right, I'll wait. " }, { "Role": "Player964", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I don't know how you dress. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Oh, no, I'm clothed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You're just fiddling with the zip-- Yeah, you can come in.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "All right. I just go in. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Come on in. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Come on in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Is it Cary or Oscar?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, well, a lot of people call me Cary. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She's a child and you're already lying. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"All right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "They're easy to lie to. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I know you like your beauty sleep, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's fine. How are the numbers at the door? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Last night was good. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It was a little lower than normal because of the curfew, but folks find a way to get out anyway. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Occupation percentage in the rooms? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "69, like always. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) Goddamn it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Just kidding. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Just kidding. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead. Keep going. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar, look. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So I lost a bunch. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes, I know you've put a lot of-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Look at her. (laughs) You're killing her. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I lost a few pieces. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, we should get going. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes, absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You guys are Candela, yeah?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Thank you, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, I don't think people are supposed to know that, but yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"There's more coming?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Huh? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "More? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Are they supposed to be coming?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "There's more coming. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Mm-hmm, they're outside.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Outside? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh. Oh, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask runs over to the window and looks down. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Six of them-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- and begin reaching back into the vehicles, passing something between themselves. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Did we have any reservations for a party of six? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "No. Certainly not this early. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Are these your people? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Why are they here? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You see a flame pulled out. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "A what? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Begin throwing them-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, shit! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- at the building. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I immediately grab Mina. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oscar! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask runs over to her vanity table and reaches under the table and hits a button. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player737", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Then immediately runs in her best girls, Samantha, Liamel, Noshira, and Ashlyn. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Aw. " }, { "Role": "Player170", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Delayed reaction. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Of course, her main bartender-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They will eventually file in. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Girls-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You press a button? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will say, in the intervening two minutes it takes for your best girls to reappear from wherever they may have been sleeping for the night, the outside edifice of the Glass Cat is on fire. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- or quick escape places in this place that I would know of? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "There is a passage behind the bar, behind the liquor case at the bar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You hear glass shattering downstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "The girls are assembled? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You hit a button. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But without any sense of what's going on, they'll make their way at a-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We're upstairs or are we on the ground? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player971", "Content": "We're upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "All right, well maybe we can't go down there then. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You hear the screams of a couple patrons. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We got to get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Out the back window. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Go. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll go back there and see if the back window-- I'll look out the back window, see if there's anyone in the back of the building. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Doing this sort of dual glance, Mina's screaming and running around, by the way, you look out the front and you see that these six Candela members are spreading out, but they're not to the back of the building yet. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's a set of fire escape ladders that will let you down into the back alley so you can move into the streets. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay, I'll open up the window and get the girls out first. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What's going on?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "All right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What's happening? What?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Out the window. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Oh, okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I let the girls go first and then I follow along with Mina. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I can get out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I forgot how tall she is. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah, I'm a whole-- Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mina, now's not the time! Go, just go! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you follow? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to quickly go back and if I can sort of peer down the stairs to the bottom floor to see if anyone's down there, if anyone's broken through the front door or if they're all just on the exterior. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There are two figures in the front moving not through the front door, but through the windows as they clear, as the front door is now patrons milling out and they're climbing through the broken glass and moving against the salmon current of patrons even here early in the morning that are making their way out. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "They haven't spotted me yet or anything? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Not yet. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is there one-- How on fire is this place? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You guess that you probably have a minute. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So knowing that she's safe--? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're peering out over the banister. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to try to jump down on one of these guys. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh, amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "They're fucking with my place. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They are fucking with your place. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's your place, Madam. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's your home, too. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me a Strike roll. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I will burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now up to bat, Cary Grimm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to jump off the stairs and try to elbow one in the back of the skull. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He is thick and confident. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, I'm going to go for him first. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Let's see what we got! Five. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And-- Yeah, is the goal to sort of surprise tackle? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I want to knock one out and hopefully capture and quickly question the other. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "If possible. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They go, \"Bran!\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "That's a nice name. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- was to reach out and then they begin to reach back into their overcoat and reach for a weapon. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "As he reaches-- Is the guy I have just conked, is he out-ish, we think? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can't quite tell. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, I'm on him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's face down. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So I will pull out the chain. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "And before he can reach for whatever he's got, I will try to swipe it across and connect with his face. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So standing up to connect with the face? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yes, please. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Or staying low to just-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "No, I'll stand-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- connect as quickly as possible? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "And lunge and swipe. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Because this is your weapon? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "This is my weapon and I'll use my Hard Hitter feet. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Or whatever it's called. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay, but are you planning on interrogating, asking questions here? Or are we going to kidnap him? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're running away! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I got three fives. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "God dang! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Three fives? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Pretty good. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's pretty good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grand bam. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "One more body. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. This is not good! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But it's becoming apparent that unless you can get one of them fully knocked out, they're going to eventually overwhelm you because it's two on one. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Can I help? Because I maneuvered the girls out, but I haven't left. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I would like to use my powers to help him. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Powers? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "As in persuasion? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Roll Sway from the top. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hey, stop that. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Just pop a titty out. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you want to try something with a higher degree of difficulty, or do you want to enter the fray? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask, you know what, she rips her dress to make more space to run down and she runs down to help Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you attempt to do? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She looks at Bran? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Bran is the soldier. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You want me to-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a-- break me off a piece of what you're attempting to do. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "build a cloud of incredibly hot steam on his face. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay, give me a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You decided to lock eyes with the one that's a killer, so you better not miss. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What are you rolling? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Sense, intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Ah, can I give her a drive by trying to distract him in this moment? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Sure, but that will have repercussions for your portion of the fight. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "This is the reason why I hired you, thank you so much. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you care about more in this moment? Protecting Glask, who has come here to help you, or winning this fight? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Winning this fight. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Are we riding on Cosmo's chair? What the fuck? Where are we? (laughter) I want to kick ass! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Things are happening simultaneously! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's just another seven blocks, then a left. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are in a car and Candela made a call about where to go find you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There's just a lot of traffic. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Did you want to? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "If you could-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So, what are you going to do? If you focus on the fight in front of you, you will leave Glask to her own devices. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, she's pretty badass, so. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I hope so. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You go. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh god, please. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Glask. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Come on, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I roll two twos. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "High is a two? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Your hand is up, he grabs, disengaging from Oscar, grabs you by the wrist and he twists. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(yells) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You feel the pearls around your wrist crack, and then you realize what you heard was not the bracelet, but your radius and ulna snapping in his hands. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "No! No! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take two points of body. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh shit! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's on. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "This dude's a monster. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "How far along are we? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Seriously, seriously. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "All right, you guys can be here now. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "There's just a lot of time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Y'all want to teleport, come get some. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to grab whatever I can, if there's a whiskey bottle nearby-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- and go to fucking town on the back of his head. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is this Strike, Control, Strike? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So to give you a little more play here, you've got your chain in your dominant hand still caught up on the gangly man. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Let's call it-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you want it to be drive or do you want it to be Strike? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm sorry, wait, Strike or Control? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh, that's what I meant, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Please. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's go, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I need you to make a Move roll to try to dodge the worst of this. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Can I help him? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Only a critical success will allow this to somehow miss. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, then, I will use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Am I allowed to help him? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If you help him, which you absolutely can do, you will put yourself at a disadvantage. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Disadvantage. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you help? He's about to roll. You got to make your choice. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Let me-- wait, what are you rolling? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Move. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Trying to dodge a gunshot. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I have to give you a fucking-- no, I think you're going to have to take that. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I've believed in you this whole time, that's why. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "He is a badass. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Whoa! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Can I have my dice back? (laughter) We traded just before this and I want it back. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Full success. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Holy shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh my goodness. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Question, did I say it had to be a crit or a full success to avoid? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You said a full success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are able to, he pulls the gun out, he's aimed at the center of your chest and yet you can see this, he's so young looking and-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "And my chain's still around him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I want to use my, my flash powder. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me-- I'm going to call this misdirection, so give me a Hide roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "One, two. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'll say because you're using one of your few items, the stakes for this are pretty low. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh jesus, five on the non-gilded, mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What does it look like when you use your powder? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "He's still holding onto my wrist? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, describe what the physical effect is and I'll describe how you disentangle yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She pops the pearl off of her earring-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Sick. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "-- and flicks it onto the ground and a flash of bright, blinding light explodes from the pearl. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are free. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Go, go, go, go, go. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "While doing that, okay, she-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No, no! We love you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You're great. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(pained yell) Just takes off. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Are you booking it? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So question, in this moment, are you running past these two and running out the front door, or are you running to where your girls and Mina were fleeing out the back door? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm running towards the back. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me, I just want one more-- Give me a Focus roll as you get up and book towards the back. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) Oh no I'm so bad at this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(gasping) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's a success. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Beautiful. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can go that way if you want, but you do understand that you're running towards more Candela operatives. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Are they coming from the front to the back, or do they surround? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They're going around the building to get to that back alley. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay, four more back. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you continue towards the back? Just yes or no. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes, I do. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You know what may be waiting for you back there, but you hope that even with all of this, you are still faster than they are getting there, because at this time, that our Antiquarian contingent arrives in front of a brick facade beginning to burn. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I feel like I would beast up immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hooray. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't mean to fuck everyone up, but like-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's not even-- Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well, I think we see-- it's rounding the corner and I see flames? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "100%. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think I'm starting to hyperventilate in the back of the car. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep, I think this is a high enough stress situation that I wouldn't say that this is you choosing to summon your beast. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I want to see if I can like-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I just want you to make the beast roll and then we decide what happens as we go. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well, you guys are seeing this happen, so hold onto your butts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm in the back seat, what's going on? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Six dice. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So easy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And just as a little reminder-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "One of them are supposed to be what? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Huh? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What happens? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think every one is a death she has to achieve. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Correct, any ones means she rampages. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I have to do, how would you phrase it? A significant amount of violence or something? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You might not. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I rolled one one. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Hey! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That doesn't matter, does it? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That doesn't matter. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Great, that's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Just in case. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "No, that's fine, it's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're going to make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It will take a critical success. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Remind me what that is. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Critical success is multiple sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Multiple sixes, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Multiple sixes allow you to be entirely in control of what you're doing. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A full success, and I will ask that you be a little more indiscriminate in your violence. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A mixed success or a failure at this point and I'll choose your targets for you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh shit! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But she'll probably choose nice things. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Probably. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Definitely not us. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Probably. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How many dice in this roll? One? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Can you do it on drives or anything? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What are you rolling? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How do you get a critical if you have-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You can't. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm guessing the stakes are pretty high. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Pretty high. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I am going to burn all of my drives. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You sure? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Does anyone want to help? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Which roll are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What's the? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You see Elsie begins to double over and rock. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's where in the car? Who's driving? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You have a driver. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No, I'm just kidding. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Cosmo appears in the fucking car. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ah! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Who's sitting where? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm in the back seat. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's the monster. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, dear. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Maybe I would be driving. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You think you're driving? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well, do you drive? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No, I love that. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Who do I look like? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) That's what I mean. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So you're both in the back and you're-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I've got no depth perception to save my life. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is it a motorcycle and two sidecars? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We just cut one loose. Shoom! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Someone draw that, please. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's adorable. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, it makes sense that you'd be driving, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck me, fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I have to be in the back because I need to be the one to help get the professor out and in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You see, she begins to double over the wheel. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hyperventilating. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "It's happening. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "[growling] " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Glorious. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's not the time! Time and place, mister! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What the fuck? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Am I making this roll by myself? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's a weird kink. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Don't kink shame. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, no, I'm not. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This is the monster fucker season! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I am-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I will yuck no yums. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to help by using Speak Their Language. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And she will hear my voice in her mind, and I will lend two, no, I can only do one. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can only lend one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hold on. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'll just tell you, if you fail, you're going to roll the car. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to burn-- You gave me one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to burn three drive. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck, I'm so nervous. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's okay! If you fail, you both get a drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I had too much caffeine today, I am like (vibrating). " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "All sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Five sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Praying to the sea gods. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm speaking to myself. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Praying to the sea gods. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Calm down. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Nope. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I fail. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Beautiful. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Wait, is there a resistance or something? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "There is a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you want to use your Resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But I don't get to spend the drive? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Then it's just one fucking die. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck it, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Episode three, baby, woo! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(groans) Fail. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh! What?! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Valiant effort, valiant effort. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Burch! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You will emerge from this fine. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Oh good. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But I need the two of you to make Move rolls. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm beastie when I come out, I'm guessing, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So with nothing in Move-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's roll at disadvantage, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "He's like 1,000. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's a billion years old. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I know, he's the oldest thing in Newfaire right now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "100%. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's still got that number one slot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Failure. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You will immediately take a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do the two of you want to do as you emerge to the sight in front of you from the sight around you? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think you do, right? Because I failed. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you think I want you to do? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think you want to attack him. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(groaning) Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think that's a great idea. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But I'm wondering if, and not just so I don't attack Raj, if the flames would draw me more, if the chaos and the disorder of what's happening in the building would draw the beast more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I like that pitch. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's a solid pitch, Burch. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ashly likes that pitch. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's a solid pitch, Burch. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do as you emerge? Because that will put a little thumb on the scale for what happens next. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm looking to try to see where the professor landed, because-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's still trapped in the car. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Then I go back into the car. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So you turn your back on the beast to search for Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I love it when their back's turned. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I see him? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Of course you can. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can smell him. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fair. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I want you to give me a roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We're going to call it a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Love that. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah? Full success and you can go for the fire. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Failure, you're going to attack both of them. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mother fucker. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'll let you pick. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She's so mean. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "She's awful. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm scared of her. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm burning the rest of my drives. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I hope you took your drive back from Forged in Fire after your other one. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I didn't, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You, too. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That was nice of her. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "She's a good one. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She's a good person, I like her. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "These are such big dice pools. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're doing great. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "They're such big dice pools, you know? You would think, you would think, at least one baby six. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Just one. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) What are you doing over there? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I've got mixed successes, that's it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's something, it's something. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So I pick one. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You get to pick. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do you think I'm full beast mode, or that there's any glimmer of Elsie? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But yeah, you're there. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I think, in that case-- Oh, did you want to say something? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Well, I just wanted to ask if I'm allowed to take any sort of action here? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I want her to pick her target. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Then we'll adjudicate from there as you are going for Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "And for that reason, Elsie goes for Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm going to loosen my cravat and see if I can fill the car with my host to at least make it harder for it to see where we are in the vehicle. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Make it a Hide roll to see if you can fill this space and obscure the two of you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The best you can do is that you divide the damage between the two of you, and that would be enough to save Cosmo's life. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You died immediately when she attacked you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, but, but-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(dry poof) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Wait, do you have two scars right now? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, we started with one. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, that's right, and you-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I just got a second. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "A six on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm fucking trying! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "A scar? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Any particular kind? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Body. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, oh, oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Remind me, since I've never been this far down the road, three scars or four scars until we are gone-zo? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "On your fourth scar, you are gone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So-- Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Does this reset any marks we had for body? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Let's reset as a sort of-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "How merciful. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will allow you to reset your bodies. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Does this mean that they're out? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They're both unconscious-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Got it, got it, got it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No, it's two. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I take a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We'll come back to you three in a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Sorry, guys. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Inside of the burning Glass Cat. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I just want to let you know you're so pretty right now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's actually fine and the fire's out. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are still engaged with both of them. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Nobody's down? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, the thing that I'm good at is hitting things, so I'm going to take the guy, what was his name? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Bran. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to-- I'm going to grab that good old chain away from the other guy, and if I can, wrap it around either his arms or his neck or something and basically throw him over towards the fire, if I can. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me a Control or Strike, I'll let you decide. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Using my ability. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can finish Bran in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Happily, I'll take a bleed, and not just end him, but hurt him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I want you to describe for me how you kill Bran. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Just smash it open. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "As you look past him you see a car you recognize, crumpled on the corner of the street. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You sprint out the front. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me-- It's got to be a Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Critical success, and you have enough time to do something about it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What are the stakes on this? Is it really bad? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Everything's high. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Everything's high. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I would say a failure is you-- The worst possible scenario is you running out at the same time-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So even your worst case scenario might be pulling a bit of heat off of your girls, which isn't great, but a win's a win. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, I'll just roll here. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I really hope Mina's down there kicking ass. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, right? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Why isn't she fighting? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Goddamn it! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You can drink. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That was a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mina reaches out without looking up at you and waves you past. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay! Oh my god, I'm so proud of her! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you keep running or do you stop? What do you want to do in this moment? She's trying to flag you to go past her. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, I run past her, but I still make it a point to turn around and watch and duck behind the trash cans just in case she needs help. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah, I'm hiding behind the trash cans now, peeking out to make sure that she's got this. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you watch or do you try to join in? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How far am I from the Candela agents? Do they see me? They know I'm there. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There is definitely an agent that can see you peeking out over the trashcan. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They're probably 10 feet, max, away. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And just as a reminder, your Prestige uses bleed, not body. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. I'm going to try it again. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm trying to do it again. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you try for a specific effect? Or are you trying to push your ability into what is already extant in here? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How far is the sentry from them? Is the sentry attacking-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This thing is doing its best to keep all of them away from the two of you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. I want to connect with the sentry. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "To-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This thing already exists and everything in you, the magick that is in you wants this. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my god, that's a six. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, thank god! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "More or many? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(chuckles) What does that even-- Many. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Then the sentry doubles and doubles again. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Holy shit. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You and Mina and the girls behind you still running, never looking back, are safe. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, that's a good girl. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You head to the car? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Are they all three splayed out, unconscious? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, if bugs are present, and I assume Dr. Roberts' clothes are shredded, but in very convenient places. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Bits are covered. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Monster-shaped pasties. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Slightly ripped, but not in the private zones. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So I will-- First instinct will be to dive in and grab Cosmo and pull him outta the car if he's still in there. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Take his pulse. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's alive and badly battered. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Still holding on, but somewhat unattached. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So I'll try to wake up Elsie because she might. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll try to shake her and rouse her gently. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Nothing is appearing. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Maybe he burned up. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Who could say? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We don't have a sprinkler system. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So do his attempts work in that case? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So yes, because we are in a moment of safety. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "All three of you, at a moment of your choosing. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "They're just white. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't know that, though. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, from my face, you probably see something bad. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oscar? Do I see-- Can I tell that Raj and Cosmo are both alive? Just by looking at them? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I mean, you're seeing ragged but steady breath. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(panting, gasping) Where's Glask? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "She ran out the back with the girls. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "And how hurt is Raj? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Raj, how hurt are you? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "But wherever there was raw meat it is now covered in a moving, shifting, iridescent pattern of insects that are slowly starting to cut away at dead flesh. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Knowing that, I have an awareness of the choice that I had made when I was a beast, I'm going to-- (gasps) Oscar, wrap his arm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Take off your coat and wrap his arm. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Then I'm going to turn to Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's already ruined, so-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I see his arm is basically coming-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Out of the socket. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is it fibers? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh yeah, is it torn or is it-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you can see a bit of the inner working, but it's not hanging-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's torn open. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see the old man muscle and blood. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's totally out of place. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Why did you give him a milky center? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Vanilla Ensure. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So Elsie-- I'm going to put my hand on your okay shoulder. Cosmo? (pants) Look me in the eyes. Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to take his arm and crack it back into place. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear (pained grunts) and he passes out. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So, also, I'll say, so you know. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "When I took the scar, I moved a point from Sense-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "-- because I think it was so traumatizing being in the beast, and seeing what happened. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "That I don't think Elsie wants to be there anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ooh, I like that. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So, Sense is gone, and then I added to Move. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can clear your beast pool while you're at it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But oh wait, is your body clear? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh yeah, all the marks get cleared. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, because of the double scarring. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Game mechanic, you guys. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, so I don't even need to roll. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You don't have to roll. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can just describe. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Then I'm just-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm wrapping-- I'm trying to stem the bleeding on his face, and I'm taking, I guess, because my clothing is-- (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Very tasteful. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Tastefully covering-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Very tasteful. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ripped and tastefully covering different parts of my body-- I'm going to take his tie, and unravel it, and start bandaging the wound. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You might also want to pull the glasses. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I forgot about the fucking glasses. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "One thing at a time. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Slowly and discard it-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's unconscious still. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But it's still a lot for me! (laughs) Then press this to the cheek to stem the bleeding. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What's happening over here with the boys? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Then I give him a smack across the face to wake him up. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do I see that happen? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "but you would be crushing them on his bones. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's more of a loose wrap. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Like a mummy wrap. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A hundred percent. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So yeah, you can still see the shifting under it-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- as you go to give a smack. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) Goddamn it, Oscar, I told you to wrap his arm, not hit him, just go to your father! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He's very hittable. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Then I'm going to take Raj, and try to get his head up-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Take him by the head and the face, and try to-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll do the same with my son. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(moans) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What, what happened? (groans) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where is-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What a sight. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do we-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Why? Why, why the Maw? Why The Serious Man? What-- What happened? What are you doing? What's been done? Raj, what are you looking for? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Why it tails into the Maw and The Serious Man, and why, when I needed them most, Candela abandoned us. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And you come back to yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Rajan. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Is everyone okay? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We still can't stay here. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "But we must go. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Where? Where, go where? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I have the girls, I have Mina with me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "The rest of your girls have hauled, they are no-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, the girls. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, they just took off. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I show up then. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, Mina's with you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I just: What's going on? What? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Where do we go? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We just got to get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We need shelter. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Where?\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "We need to find a place that Candela cannot get us at. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Aren't you Candela?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "These are different Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You said it would be safe.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We are not Candela anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We have to get underground tonight. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Where? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Underground. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Why?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What does that mean? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We just have to get off the streets-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and I know places underground. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "The well. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "The well? The one in the Groundswell? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "They said it taps deep into Oldfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Are you just trying to--\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Have you been there? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"To the well?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "In it? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "My people help.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Whatever you need.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mina, if we get there, you have friends, people that can help us? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "If we get there, can you do that? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Whatever you need.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We can take my cars, we can go to Groundswell. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oscar, can you-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- salvage my chair? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, I'll pull it out of the wreckage and see if it can still roll. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Ooh, how good's that trunk? You know what? Give me a luck check. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "That's not a thing! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's not a thing! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, you can't make things up! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I know I can make a choice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's called Rollies. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's Roll-- (laughs) It's Rollies! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's doing it, me? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What am I rolling here? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're just going to roll 1d6. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "1d6, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you want to roll against me? Do you want it to be Rollies? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, you're the boss here. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We're all playing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "My time is done, you are on the rise. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You have to beat a three. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, honey! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You'll have to repair it as you go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll grab it, I'll put him on my shoulder, and try to hold this thing, and hobble towards the cars. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Can I get-- Whose head is on a swivel? I think it's yours. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sure. That guy? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck, I forgot about the fucking guy. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ah jeez, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Survey, now is this-- This is a high pressure situation you would say? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I would absolutely say. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's aiming for the girl. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "For the girl? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mina. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So in that moment, what do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I have no way of blocking bullets with my mind. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There is a chance he will simply miss. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "There is. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you risk it? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "No, I would use-- I have a feature called Behind Me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I will spend one Nerve to choose an ally who is about to take a mark and take it for them, and I will step in front of her. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She doesn't know what is expected. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Back, back, back! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "As you interpose yourself, you're going to take one body as you get hit in the calf with a bullet. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "That's a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "An Os-scar. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Edit that out, please. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They absolutely will not. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Leave it in! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Take a brain for that. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What do we do? What do we do? What do we do? He shot, he shot him!\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I make a beeline for Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Get him in the car! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "\"When a nearby ally takes a scar, you can make a Focus roll in an attempt to immediately revive them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "On a six, it works. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I would still take a scar though, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes, you're still going to take the scar. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I have to get a six, or you're not back up-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay, whatever, I'll just roll. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(sighs) Fuck. Okay, I'm going to spend two drive from Cunning, and one from Nerve to get you back to your feet immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Jeez. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oof! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "That's a lot of drive! I'm not worth it! " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yes, you are! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You are! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So taking a cue out of your book, I slap you across the face. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(pained groan) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Get the fuck up! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Is he pursuing? Should we-- Do you think we can get-- Can we get away? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He barely hit you, and he's been steadying that shot for a minute. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It sucks. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Through the-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It really does suck. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How'd he get hired? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Where is he, like how far? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's poking his gun and head out of the busted window of the front of The Glass Cat, maybe 50 feet away. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So he's going to get burned up soon, maybe, then. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Probably. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I got dropped, someone will need to help me. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, oh, oh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, through the pain, I can keep, I can try-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm going to say to Raj: Get Cosmo, everyone to car! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I grab your arm to guide, to help you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Take him up, and help move him towards the car. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Where are you headed? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We go to Groundswell. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Violence. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "They're-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You jump into more discreet vehicles. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Bonda Bivics. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Violence. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay, that's a lot of people, I don't really know what you want me to do here, but we could try to go around back.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What's the most valuable, or expensive building within our area? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Big wooden edifice. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I hold up the oil flask I had from before and a length of cloth. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "And a candle? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I mean, I only have a flashlight, but whatever. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, look at that. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You mean a beamy? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A beamy! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "That's nice. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "The character development you've created! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's what we call a growth arc. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Good for you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You want to start another fire? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I got that button ready, so you just let me know. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I don't know how else we're going to clear the path. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mina, did you say something, you know a way around or through? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It feels like everyone's over here but I don't know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mina, you can lead the way. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Are you trying to jump down the well, is that what you're doing? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We need some rope. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Are we going to jump down the-- Is there another-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"There's rope-- because we use it to pull the--\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's a bucket well? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah, yeah, yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Do you think you can do that? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Elsewhere?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Where Rajan is going to throw the fire. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay. Do you want me to use my--\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Not that right now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I got two options.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I love it though. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yelling, barfing out a monster.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Just make a scene so we can distract the-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Professor, in your learnings, have you heard of any other access to Oldfaire nearby? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, we're in Groundswell, correct? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So with decades I have been below, and never through this well, but I would ask you, Aabria, if Cosmo would know anything adjacent or in the area that he would believe would connect, or is this not in my purview? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you want to burn time looking through and trying to find an alternate way in? Or do you try to risk a direct route in the midst of chaos? Or do you try to risk a direct route in the midst of chaos? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Have I ever-- I've never been down this well myself but have I heard of people doing so? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Give me a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, before I make that roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Sure, sure, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- a little sidebar in the terrible accident. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I love a sidebar. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I am moving my one mark in Control and putting it into Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because I can't work my arm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm taking one from Read as well, because it was two scars, and that's going into Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I love it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So this is a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, I'll take a point out of Move and I will grow in anger and move it into Control so I can-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Love it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "-- hit even harder. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five, mixed success, not gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But yes, there are people, stories of young kids trying to prove themselves with this despicably deep well, lowering themselves all the way down, reaching a wellspring and cavern, something very low in Oldfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In a flash, I think of how unlikely it will be for me to get to the bottom of this well, and I turn to the group and say: We should go down the well, it's the most direct path. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(scoffs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I start-- We're still in the car, I assume, or have we gotten outside? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think you could be close enough to have this conversation in whatever way you want. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I start taking off all my clothes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) I'm going to change into my policeman's uniform. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, we still have it! Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So for a while, for a few moments you see me completely naked. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Incredible. Incredible. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Covers Mina's eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Everyone take-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Thank you, please. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She would be like-- (retches) (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Just in case we need some sort of cover to get through the enemy lines. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a good call. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Smart thinking. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "And the shoes? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Same shoes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe in the chaos-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What are Glask and Elsie going to do? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I might take your coat. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "That's nice. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Because of my situation and then-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh right. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's right, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Then I'm not going to let Rajan throw that thing by himself, so I'm going to go with him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'd like to-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "If only we had someone here who could sew or do some... No, you're not? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I left my tailor at my second house. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll just tie it off for you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "\"At my second house.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Mina and I are trying to convince these picketers, these are her people, they know who she is. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ooh, okay " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You have Mina assisting you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So the stakes on this are low. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They trust her and know her, so they're listening to you and you are already quite persuasive. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ooh! I have a success on a non-gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mina nods along and they go, \"Okay. Okay, wait for an explosion.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"And then--\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Spread the word, spread the word. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Sure, sure. Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Good luck.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay. Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Everyone ready? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can see the ripple of conversation happening and they are waiting for your cue. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I move with Mina towards the front, slowly towards the front of the crowd so that I have the Periphery officers in my eye line so I can keep an eye on it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So maybe split the difference a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "On the side. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "We're in a market area, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "There are vendors of different sorts. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "There are maybe hand carts or hand trucks around. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "100%, everywhere. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm going to steal one. " }, { "Role": "Player966", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You know what, I'm not going to make you roll for that, because it feels like a thing you could and should do. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Love it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) Is that the play? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Where do you want to be when this pops off? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It was a hand cart? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't know what model. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, it's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's not going to be comfy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll take the clothes that I had taken off and pile them on top of him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. Everyone's in place? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Please make a Control roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You could light yourself on fire right now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "-- to light it up. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I ask Elsie, can you light this for me, please? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "The match is in your clawed hand? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So I'll hand you the match with my left. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Don't fuck this up. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "This gives us a little of time to maneuver, and also, frankly, I don't trust myself to throw it with any accuracy right now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And that's where we're going to take our break. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Whoa! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Goddamn. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(fearful yell) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my goodness. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(nervous moan) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We'll see you in a little bit for the second half. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Can we take a nap? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you Trust us? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But it's quiet and it's safe, so what do you want to do? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're on a small island in the middle of the reservoir? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Looking down, if you had a little bit more light, I don't know how many candles you've got on you. " }, { "Role": "Player966", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Two candles. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ha! Cute. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You can see a couple tunnels heading off in different directions. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "It's a dome down there? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Can I use Sense to see if taking in any of the structure or possibly glyphs or carvings, if there's anything that reveals itself as what the purpose of this area originally was? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Stakes are pretty low; you've got time and space to think. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "There you go, I was going to help him, but forget it. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "How'd you do, bud? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm going to take the loss. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "To get a drive? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "And I will Learn From My Mistakes. " }, { "Role": "Player972", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "That's a special ability. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Anytime you get a result of one to three, describe what lesson you've learned from this failure and refresh a drive point of your choice.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So with that in mind, what lesson do you think the good doctor is learning? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm learning that sometimes the desires of the individual are less important than the desires of the whole. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ooh! (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I've taken-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Sick! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "-- my host-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "-- and I use my power to detect bleed and ask the horde to show me the way. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Is this Survey, Focus, or Sense using all of you finally not holding back anymore? using all of you finally not holding back anymore? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So I think part of it might actually be something they recall from a time long by, in which case it would be Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "All right, give me a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Well, what are the stakes here? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I would say this is a regular stakes roll with a reasonable understanding of a heading, unless you offer me a bleed, in which I will say it's a low stakes roll and you will get something good no matter what. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Let's sacrifice the bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Good man. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So that brings me to three. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Even a miss will yield useful information. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So a gilded Focus with two means one regular and one gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Correct. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "A five, mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think you feel, for the first time in your long life, even as you've become a professor of the same kind of archeology that she did, that maybe for the first time in your life you are truly walking in her footsteps and begin to drift to the west. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Does anything happen as he's doing this, to me? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think even though you've absorbed some part of the Maw, there's something a little different at play here and you'll get different information if and when you trust yourself to lean into your beast. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Is there a way that I might feel words pulling me towards or trying to connect with me to show me where to go? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and give me a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's a no. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No, not so much? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask looks around and goes: Well, well, well. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Miss Glask. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Cordelia, I-- I am so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She goes: How serious is this, Cosmo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I would beg your forgiveness, but I am scarcely worthy of it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cosmo, what are you talking about? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm so very sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You are more valuable than all the riches and gold I've made there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of you are very good children. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Yes, she is very kind. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to know where they are. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think you know that going in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've very little left, but I'm going to use a drive out of friendship. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We've talked about it in the terms of that jawbone that you use as a bleed detector. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What does it feel like, in general, when Cosmo is in the presence of a tremendous amount of bleed as it suddenly rushes you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "They're not in any danger of being harmed by Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Children, boy. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yes, boy? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What shall we do now? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Follow? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Perhaps we will have some answers after all. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Are you leading the charge? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I would like to, but as I finish speaking to Elsie, I notice that the insects that had flitted past are lingering, the insects that had flitted past are lingering, centipedes and cockroaches rise up in the ground and cover her shoes. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What's happening? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Elsie. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Do I notice anything? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(sneezes) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You remember the way Elsie as the beast destroyed the Maw, taking some part of her into it, taking some part of her into it, and in the same way that sometimes a pet will get confused if it smells its owner on you, there's just a little too much of a familiar stench to her that they cannot help but brush close as they move forward in their purpose. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Do I remember doing this as the beast? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But yes, you recall taking a bit of the Maw into yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What does it mean? Am I going to be like, like her? The nun? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "No, Elsie, I wouldn't worry about that. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and take a token. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If it comes down to a moment where Elsie would take a mark of bleed, you can, via your shared host, soak the bleed for her at your discretion. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Who has the needle? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's in the shared hammer space of whoever needs it in the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Probably someone who has three bleed like you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) Yeah, maybe we should use that. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "The needs of the whole versus the few and I'll use the needle on myself if I can to extract a point of bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So this will not reduce you to two bleed, but it will stop the fourth. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you walk around with it jammed in? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Ugh. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I open my vest, put the syringe to my skin, and allow my insect host to pull it deep inside the nest for safekeeping. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay, don't forget you also have a second-- Well, you have a group stylus blade and the doorknob. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Can I ask a question? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "The doorknob. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "The dream I was having, is any of that familiar? Is there parity between locations at all? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Will you go forward? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yes, please. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "To the west. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(weak chuckle) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I don't believe in any of that stuff, but tried everything else, I guess, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Old habits die hard. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, you gave me a chance. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You were a good father. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Was I? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I led a good life. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You did. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I read a lot of good books. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Better move this thing faster. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There is ice cream and \"Pop Goes the Weasel.\" When you flick the coin, is there intention behind it? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yes, yes, there's a wish. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you wish for? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy, if you say it, it won't come true. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You walk forward and I think through the sound everyone filtering down to the west and you sitting in the cart, the sounds of the cart, the squeak of the wood, the groan of it all, you're the only one that catches that it never makes a splash. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Does that mean anything to me? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What are you afraid is behind you right now? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "That the veil will swallow us up. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You turn around or do you keep going? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Boy, I don't want to see it if it's something bad, so I'll start to turn and then push on. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You don't need to be pushed anymore, but you keep walking. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wiser than Orpheus. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Moving forward, you have a bearing and a heading, but the ease with which you will traverse this part of Oldfaire, this unmapped bit, will come down to how much you all work together, so he can roll solo, or you can contribute whatever you think is best. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "What kind of roll is this? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are safer, but not safe, and success means an easier way through the dark. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll gladly help, my friend. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I would appreciate all the help I can get. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(gasps) Did you say friend? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Aw! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(touched noise) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I said my-- " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I want to help my own end. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You have proven to be a wonderful surprise, Elder Grimm, and I look forward to knowing you better. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You're not the worst person I've ever met. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Professor, if you have any insights that would help us make a plan moving forward, or if Madam Glask, your water talents can in some way guide us through, we'll gladly take the help. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I can only use Nerve, huh, to assist? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He's doing a Move roll, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I don't have-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I mean, if you can make a case for something else, I'll happily allow it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I want to see if the water surrounding us in this well can show us any safe passage or route. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But if you want to try to channel some more, you could use The Prestige, if you want, to try to assist with this. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I do want to use my Prestige to, I guess, use the moisture in the air or even put more water I guess, use the moisture in the air or even put more water on the ground to see if there's any disturbed water ahead, like if someone's standing on that water. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. Make your Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh boy, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I should have put more drives in her. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Nah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Into Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's fine. What's the worst that could happen? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Next time. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "A mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go ahead and mark one bleed because it is a success. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Madam Glask closes her eyes and she channels the sea god. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So what do you reach for when you reach for your gift? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "But there was always some thing back there. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Earlier, back at the Glass Cat, when I tapped into that sentry, she spoke to me. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She did. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I don't know who that is. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She sits back, acknowledged, and you feel yourself move into your gift more fully. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "How could that be? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do not falter.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "With my Sense, I know that something's there, can I tell by how disturbed the water is how big, how far ahead, any details? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Behind you and before you. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Behind me? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We're not alone. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "What did you see? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We're not alone. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What's here? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "And a creature of some sort with it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I think we just keep going straight ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's go, Oscar! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Does anyone else contribute a drive to this Move roll? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Can I also tell them? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She calls herself Iomene. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "She has touched every one of us in some way or other, and we are running out time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not every day you get to meet an empress. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "We're going straight to her. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "But we must move in quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Fair enough? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I keep the water there just to make sure if anything changes, I will be notified. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So it's just drives, there's no, if I have a really good Move, I can help? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What you got? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Well, Move is currently my best skillset now since I got my scar, so I'm just wondering if there's a way I can assist since we have this strange connection now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "If we can split while still being connected and be able to communicate to each other? If we could both make the Move roll? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's a little weird down here. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "So that's three assists? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You got one from me in the form of I gave you a hard candy-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It helps. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Helps me focus. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "How adorably pedestrian. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You eat it, Rajan. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Live a little. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Then there are their two drives, so you got three? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Was it two between us or just one? A collective one? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So it's one from each. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "One, two, three. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh okay, great. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You know what? I'll give you my last one, too. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "No, you can only give one. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "No, you can only give one. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Fine. You're good, he's good. He's got this. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You can only commit one drive. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You already had done. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Did I? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, I'm saying when we moved to you and I asked how you were helping out you used-- " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, I did! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Totally forgot, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's all good! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "That's a six on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You love to see it. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Take that drive. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you halt them? Do you let everyone move forward? The jawbone goes painful and cold and buzzing and almost electrical in your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I just prepare to meet her. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Everyone will take one mark of bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(sighs) Why? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Would that include you? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'm at three bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Me too. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh, fun. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So what do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "How big is this sarcophagus? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That is sort of the rumor of this place. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, it's just a black-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You don't even think you're seeing the whole of this place. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I-- With a sense of some familiarity, I approach the mound. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You're going to move into it? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I will turn on my beamy. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Flashlights don't exist in this world. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah, you turn on your beamy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "With your favorite " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "The Silverslip Swarms. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's an electric torch made by Beamy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Written in Ancient Fairen but you read it clear as day, that says, \"When one enters, all are cursed.\" (uncertain sounds) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Yikes. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you just rock up? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yes. I-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Go on in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I walk up, but I'm very careful with this. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "With what? In what way are you careful? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I've described-- That's being like, \"I'm going to tiptoe into Chernobyl.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "This is someone that's been with her for so long that she slowly walks in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Take another bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Is that a scar, my friend? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That's a little bit too gung-ho, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You all see her drop maybe five feet into the mouth of this terrible place. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Glask. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Doc? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I'll get her up, I'll get her up. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You're going to enter as well? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "She needs help. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Do we have a grapple? Anything that we can use to pull her back from safety? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Go and take a token. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I can't leave her in there, Raj. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Please don't sacrifice yourself so willingly, I beg of you. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But I wouldn't know that she's taken a bleed, but Ashly knows if I take a bleed I'm going to get another scar. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A curse for a curse. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You're saying if I keep going, the beast will take over? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I'm saying, if you do not give yourself to the beast, you will suffer the same fate as Madam Glask. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I do have an ace in the hole, if he chooses to use it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Fair. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh, him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you hold onto yourself? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Get back" }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I realize I never got how much bleed you had. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You have three, don't you? Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And three scars. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Rajan takes a step. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I will step faster than him. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It doesn't matter. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You have to explain to me how you know what's happening. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Well, do I see her buckle or shake or anything as she approaches? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "If you want to intervene. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "You have three scars. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Let me do this, Oscar. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You stepped forward, you feel the tug, and before this adjudicates, what do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I would, if I saw any or sensed any sense that our doctor, my friend was going to drop, I would dash forward and punch her out of the way. " }, { "Role": "Player973", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I need you to make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I have no Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm not very smart. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Totally fine. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I got a one and a six, but it's at disadvantage. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It is. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So that's the one. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "A miss. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I could burn a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "This might be the most important roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I will burn my resistance and basically just reroll, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Two dice, taking the lower. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Can I offer a drive? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Flat roll. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Which one was it? " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "It's the four. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What was the other option? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Both mixed success, is that right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Who will it be? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But if I can't and if I can just use the Behind Me feature to absorb her mark for her, I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Though it would be enough to level you, too, the person you have talked to who talked you through this, through your tether, honors your sacrifice, honors your connection and your commitment, and she takes it from you and it gets pulled back into the dark and a being who has spent long centuries doing just this, and a being who has spent long centuries doing just this, for not a person, but for an entire empire, takes this away for not a person, but for an entire empire, takes this away and you are fine, standing inside the mouth of the Anitithenai, with your friends back behind you and safe. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I didn't take a mark? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Something deeper did, for you. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Probably. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We'll pay for that later, that's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'm in the Maw? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are in the maw of this cave. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Should I keep going? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take me in, boy. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Take you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If it's not now, when would it be? It's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I'll extend my hands to my sweet baby and pull him in with me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think I will actually crawl my way up and out of the cart and stand next to you and walk in. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Can you make for me a Focus roll or a Sense roll? Your call. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If not now, then when? Five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It is a working of magick, specific and intentional. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And then because I took a bleed, I would like to Let Them In and ask you one question about the source of the bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How will my son, and daughter, and friend, and my father garner your blessing rather than your ire? garner your blessing rather than your ire? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Please, my child.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "meant for writing in the old way. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What does Cosmo dare at the end of a long, long road? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And I begin to carve. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Blessing, yes? Anything else? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let the Grimms' story have its end. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You carve. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "If I see his arm falter, I'll take it and help him, help him make the last few cuts. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What scar has she taken? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "She is an unkind goddess. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "So far she's been okay. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "She's certainly shown you great mercy, Cordelia. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Do I erase my bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I erase my bleed, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What stats did you move? " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I removed one from Sway to-- " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "My lungs are pretty shot now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That means I cannot speak as well as I used to, and I can move it to whatever I want? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Let's go to Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Does everyone go? " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I think it's safe, if you two are okay. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Is Elsie up and-- " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I never took the bleed, so. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You don't ever apologize to me. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "We follow him. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But I can't make you go through it. That's on you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He places a very weak hand on the door and pushes, He places a very weak hand on the door and pushes, knowing it is not strong enough to push. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I will push with him, but my hand on his hand so sort of feels like he's doing it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh, Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You got this, son. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I reach for Rajan's hand. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "You can lean on me, if you need to. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I put my free hand on the door next to Cosmo's. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I hold onto him. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "We're going to start with Rajan. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What's wrong?\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Sin-Eater. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yes. You know me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "She was looking for a cure. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Smaller by the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "without abominable sickness. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "And supernatural war. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"An ambitious goal.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "She was always a dreamer. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Gone beyond to a place I cannot go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "And what of my sister? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Would you find her? How much more of yourself would you give away in order to regain the things you think you've lost?\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "but we would pay a heavy price. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But I haven't the strength to do it without a cost to be paid.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I will pay your price. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Three steps. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Will I remember her? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Not forever.\" " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I take my final step. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "It's warm and it reminds you of being a young boy, swaddled and held by your mother. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "(inhales deeply) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You've done this seven times now? \"Cary? Oscar?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I mean, most people call me Cary. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(laughs) Grimmok? Or have you put that away, too?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I honestly don't remember. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Even your dog, Bruiser. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Welcome back.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's been a while since I've been me and-- (sighs) Is this a reward, a punishment? Is this a reward? A punishment? Did I do something wrong to deserve this? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I can't die.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "It's the worst, isn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Will you stay? Will you help me?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Oh. (soft laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"What did you wish for?\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Will he be if I stay with you? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "He won't worry about me? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And if some point in the future occurs where freedom for this curse lies for both of us, we will go wherever it is you go next, together.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Tell me one thing, though. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(sniffles) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "You like baseball? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"(sniffles) Yes, I do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Pass the time? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "11 innings.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"It's a long time.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Even for me.\" (muffled laughter) (continued muffled laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Where do I go now? What, do I just stand with you or-- " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She reaches out, not as a mother or a goddess, She reaches out, not as a mother or a goddess, just a partner, for your hand, and looks out towards the darkness with a bit of unsureness, but at least she will not be alone. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "But he will be, right? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "He's earned it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Hello.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "You need not be sorry, I wished this upon myself without knowing the consequences. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Pardon my deceit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "And I've learned that now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You made a home for your girls.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Then, may I ask that if you can be so kind, may I ask for just one more? One more favor from the gods. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What do you want?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "The little girl. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Mina?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I gave her a piece of, a piece of you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"No.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "A necklace. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You gave her a piece of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I only ask to let the sea reclaim me and unite me with my kin. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"You would not stay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "That is all I ask. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I will watch over her and smooth the way.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Then I am finally fulfilled. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Three steps.\" " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "And the last step for her dear friend Cosmo. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You are here, staring back at Mina as she looks into the sea, and you are lapping gently at sunrise at the islands of your home, and you're at peace. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "With a gentle wave and ever so slight whisper, I hope Mina hears: Home. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Elsie.\" \"You found me. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What did I find? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"We are not that different.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I've been searching for life. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She is that, too. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But I'm so afraid to die. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "What is there to fear in one more door?\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But I can tell, he's gone, isn't he? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Somewhere I cannot go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "What will it cost to heal those that are like me, Mina, her loved ones, from this disease? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"This is not magick, simply the doings of mankind and the cruelties we invent when we are afraid for ourselves and the ones that we love.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So you can do nothing? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I can offer you time.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "With the beast? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "But, with time, many things are solved with time and patience and care and discipline.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I don't know if I'm capable. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"The others I've met that know you and love you, they know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "So you'll send me back just as I was, but a little bit more alone? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You healed them with your gifts, and saw them safely to the end of their mission.\" \"and saw them safely to the end of their mission.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Give me the time. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Good luck.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "If I fall back on old ways, will you be watching? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You decide what to do, who to be, but it's all you, and it always has been.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Hello.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I figured I owed you a little more than a conversation in a dark room.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you know I've read a great deal about you? You see? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I have notes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player238", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"I think I'm painted to be a bit more of a bitch than I think I am.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "So who's to say?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, I don't know that I've met any one person who is any one thing. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I don't know if I have a right to be, but I am very proud of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Cosmo, do you know how loved you are?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Circle on the Hill maybe was my favorite. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That sounds very nice.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have my missteps, of course, but who can't relate? " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "I think on the whole, you've done an excellent job.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But I am curious, I always have been. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm curious what will happen to my father now. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Right? What I do, what I am, and why I stay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have theories. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "And I hope that someday in the future, we will both be free, and hopefully the world is a little better for the work that we put into it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not as old as you. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Okay, rude.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Your rest is well earned.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All like little candles in the dark. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Perhaps it's time to put the wick out. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Whatever comes next, I do not know of a person in this world or the others I have not discovered yet who is more equipped for the mystery and adventure of wherever comes next.\" \"and adventure of wherever comes next.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wherever it may be, fair or far. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "She will stay with you for as long as you wish to stay here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How will they? But ultimately, I just let it go. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "There isn't a lot of time or space left for an epilogue, but is there anything else we should know about Dr. Elsie Roberts as she returns to the world? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Elsie doesn't live there anymore, she can't afford it. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "But for the most part, the beast has become a strange playmate for Mina. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Do you give yourself time? Do you use the book? " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(sighs) No. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Let's start with you. " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "I'm Noshir Dalal, playing Professor Rajan Savarimuthu. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "You got it in there. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Like I saw two die, I'm like, \"Oh, I guess I go, too.\" " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I'm like, \"All right.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player820", "Content": "Come on, Gina, everybody's doing it. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "I know! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player756", "Content": "Peer pressure really caught you on that one. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Oh yeah, I'm a perfect mark. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Unfortch. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Sorry, man. Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "Well, thanks for taking care of Mina. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "That's the actual most heartbreaking thing. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "Yeah! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Just dang, wait a second. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "I didn't think you, oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player819", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Incredible. " }, { "Role": "Player190", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yeah! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Be a flame in the darkness, and is it Thursday yet? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh yes. " }, { "Role": "Player4", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player640", "Content": "Yay! (clapping) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Use it to make the world better.\" ♪ (dramatic string music) ♪ ♪ (dramatic string music) ♪ ♪ (dramatic string music) ♪ ♪ (light dramatic music) ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Visit darringtonpress.com/candela to learn more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell us who we see and what you are doing in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sunny's screaming in pain, agony, and I think I ought to assist him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you run out? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I run out, and I run out to assist Gabi. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are we going to try to pull him out, drag these barrels across the way? What's your action here? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My main objective now is to make sure Sunny's free, make sure we get aid to his leg and help Gabi, resolve this mission. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Give me, take the Move action to get through the mess of water on the deck of the ship and reach this man in dire need of your assistance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Got a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got a Candela? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Someone get me-- I have to get off the deck!\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What I'm about to do is going to hurt you immensely, but we have to move you in, we have to get you cover. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"No, no, no!\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gabi, I need you to hold, is there anything you can put in Sunny's mouth right now? Is there anything you can find? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She reaches in, her arm disappears from view, and she pulls up several broken pieces of wood from the deck of the ship and the wall. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We're going to move him in one, two, three! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He begins to \"(screams)\" in extreme pain as you guys begin to move him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Bear with-- Stay with me, Sunny. We're going to go-- We're going to get you covered right now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who do I see in this moment, and what is going on? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am going to hold the door and wait for you to get close enough, and then I'm going to flail it open, and then close it as quickly as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a-- We'll call this a Control roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are going to try to wedge the door open. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If I have three, I don't have to take the lowest, correct? If I use a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you use a drive? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's a single roll? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you get there just in time to help, grabbing your hand on the door. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(noises of exertion) Pull, pull, pull! Pull it open! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am pulling! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hurry, hurry! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You need to push! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sunny, we're going to pull you in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who do we see, and what is going on in your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Rather than feeling ill, he just acknowledges it, and he is watching this ocean that he has no control over and trying to accept that he can't change the situation he's in while watching people more skilled than he is at this particular situation and knowing he can't do anything about it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One floor below, you hear a woman screaming about the Vastchasm and a man shrieking in pain down below. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I charge downstairs to our cabin. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Great, make a Move roll for you as well as you go down the rain-streaked steps. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you assess the situation coming over, there is a chunk of wood that looks to be at least two or three inches long protruding from his upper thigh-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Leo, give me my kit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I-- Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Over in the corner, over there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Move out of the way. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, very quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I walk over to examine it more closely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not for you, but for Sunny. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What's your name? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"SungJin, but they call me Sunny.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Malcolm, I need you to hold him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Keep him still as best as you can. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Got it. Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It's going to be all right, right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You're going to be just fine, Sunny. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Unfortunately, I have to do this slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You're going to have to be brave. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to take-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Be brave, Sunny. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- hold of the piece of wood and I'm going to slowly remove it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Close your eyes, Sunny. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This will be a Control roll for you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is coming out, it's giving more resistance than you would care to be seeing. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then I'm going to make a small cut at the flesh that is caught to try and remove it, to then remove the piece. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are going to need to bind him fast, or you're going to lose him. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Towel! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Barely looking, throw-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hurry, Leo, we don't have much time! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- a bunch of them in that direction. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I tie it around and I pull as hard as I can. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The man's face goes pale as a sheet and he blacks out entirely. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's probably better. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I agree. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who do we find here? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That being said, she's never been on a boat before, or ship, or anything other than dry land, and she's using her entire body, swallowing the bile that is rising up in her throat every 20 seconds or so, to maybe use her feet and her back up against another pallet, maybe, to keep that pallet, without trying to touch the box, from moving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is about-- The case itself is quite small. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have your back pressed against a stack of them, and though you are small of frame and so young, you are beyond worry with what is inside this chest and are pressing with conviction to hold it steady. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I read the language that's on the box, or am I just familiar with it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They have different goals and purposes with ancient artifacts and the phenomena encountered in this world, but they are both experienced in it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What has been etched onto the outside of this box is meant to contain-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Is everything steady down here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know. I mean, for now, but what if it's not? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You've got it tied down?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "More than it already is? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Get your result and hold it for me. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh! (laughs) That's not good. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, we are with you, so we will start with you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's a four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "His head strikes the corner of the golden chest-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- leaving a smear of blood along it, and he crumples into the ground and begins to list sideways as the boat lists off to one direction. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "God. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where are you at, Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a four. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are now wedged into the side of the bed and the wall, embarrassingly, and you hate to look awkward. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I hate all of this so much! Please! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, what did you get on your dodge roll? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Malcolm's going to get messed up right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Malcolm rolled a two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What did you roll? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They crash into the wall into a heap on the ground, and this man, Sunny, you watch as the wound comes open on top of him and starts to glut on top of him and over Malcolm's body as well. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I just bought this vest. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear someone outside yell, \"Man overboard!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sorry, my dear, what was your name again? Saying to the woman who's yelling. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sobbing) What does it matter?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Because this is my operating room right now, and if you're just going to scream, I need you to go outside. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(flustered sobs) Gabi. My name is Gabi.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I go and grab-- I get Sunny. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Blood is pouring out of his leg. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is he still unconscious? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, he is gone. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right, I'm going to-- He's going to die if I just-- I take a needle and thread out of my bag. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to attempt to stitch up this wound. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I make a suggestion? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do you think we might be able to cauterize it faster if we cauterize the whole wound with something hot? Do we have something hot in here, burn the flesh? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is there a fire in a fireplace anywhere or anything like that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is not a fireplace in here, not on this ship, no. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is there a gas stove? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a gas stove in the kitchen, which would mean going out on deck and traveling a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't know if that's enough, " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Give me your lighter. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Here, here. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to take the lighter and I'm going to pull a-- Is there something large and metal in the room? Some sort of, maybe, something flat or something-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's metal chairs in here, two of them-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- which you could drag over, and heat that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll take the leg of a-- I'll take one of the metal chairs and I'm going to try and heat one of the ends of the legs to try and-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think it's a little more calm up there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay. Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why don't you come right with me? It's going to be okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It doesn't fucking matter!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You two head outside into the rain. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I thought we were going-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have to go outside to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh we're going to have to-- Oh, Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How far? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, it is not too far to the stairs that lead up to the helm room, or you can double back around the side and head to, there is a kitchen back there, there is a radio room. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I thought it was just upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to take her to the side, then, and have a conversation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hi. What are you doing on the ship, anyway? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I mean, I mostly help in the kitchen.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, do you know the captain at all? Have you met him? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Captain Devir? Yes, I do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I hate sailing, and he's apparently the safest around to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We've never been in a storm like this.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Clearly, these don't happen very often, so there's not a lot of people who've had quite that many. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Could you do me a favor and make a Sway roll? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm also going to burn a drive for this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She just is lost in your eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Anything you want to say, just, it's time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I kind of wish I wasn't doing this job anymore.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think you've had enough of this, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I've always wanted to work on stage.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know somebody. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That sounds crazy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hold that thought. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Back to the medical situation. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "While I'm heating it, I say: Malcolm, are you awake? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You awake? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can you move your arm? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, it's 50/50, Doc. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Extreme stiffness, but it is functional. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think they might need help outside, if you're feeling up to it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm always feeling up to it. You know how I am. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is it hot enough? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, it begins to glow slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's a good thing you're unconscious. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(screams)\" You wake him out of it screaming in pain as he sits straight up. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I try and push him back down. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can make a Control roll for that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can feel it getting hotter in your own hand. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You have to stay put for just a minute. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I assist in holding him down, too? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you are heading out onto the deck? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's got nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is out there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to see if I can get a rope and I want to fasten the rope to the life preserver and try to see if I could throw it out to him for him to grab onto. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you're going to try to heave it out towards this guy? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "With my good arm that's not struck, because I have more power in that arm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I throw it as hard as I can out to the ocean. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I need you to make a, we're going to call this Control. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Control ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive on this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fours. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four? Two fours you got? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Two fours. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A pair of fours, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Pair of fours. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The bad news is that a second massive wave, 40 feet high, comes along the starboard side of this ship and slams into everyone on board. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make another Move roll for me, and it is high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have one drive to burn, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, just-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll burn it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Phew. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Woo woo woo! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You're on a roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of you, please make a dodge roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "A dodge roll? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Which one of the-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's under Move, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, Move. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, it's just a subset of Move. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to spend a drive on that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So that means I add one, right? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just one drive. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you're-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, you're fine. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You're good. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hold that luck for later, my friend. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Goddamn it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Damn. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You do slam into the wall, both of you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You strike your knee and thigh, the point of impact is there, and it smashes into the area where your scar rises up your body, which is always a little tender, especially so now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So that is one body, one body. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got a three? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your head strikes a post connected to the wooden rail-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ooh! Shit! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But what's worse-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Worse? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What the hell are we doing in this shit storm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh good, she's asleep. (sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(coughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Patient? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hey, where's Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She was heading downstairs last time I talked to her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You know what the fuck is up. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think we have to get down there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What am I doing right now? Am I holding onto something? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can make a Strike or Control move for this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll do a Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is hard work. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, mm, mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "After five or six pulls, you're getting it, you're getting it, and then suddenly, (snaps)-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The boat is slowly lurching its way away from him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How far away are they from where I initially threw the first one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Their lives are literally in your hands. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, I'll go down into the drink. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I could never forgive myself if I let them perish. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You watch as Malcolm hoists himself over the side of the ship and you guys lock eyes with him just as he's about to lower out of sight. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(shouts) Malcolm! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Grimoria, now! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just wish me luck, guys. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The stairs-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am screaming. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you're yelling to Malcolm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, you want Malcolm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do I see the green? Do I see the green in the distance? Do I see it? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Who is seeing it behind us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a Survey? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm coming for you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I got a four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In that moment of indecision, \"Do I stay? Do I go?\" your grip looses, slips, and you begin to-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Get to Grimoria! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- you say-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to tend these two right here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You lost your grip. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can hear \"(panicky gurgles)\" somewhere maybe 25, 30 feet away. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's pause you there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't know how she is. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And we just saw that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see him go down and you see the light coming up from above and you know that she was keeping vigil in the hold. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Are there any obvious life preservers or anything like that sitting up there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are two on the other side, but they are bound to that side of the ship. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is the other one bound or is the other one-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are rolled up and stowed there, but one end is affixed to the ring of the life preserver and one is firmly attached to the ship. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm just going to try and loosen it " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And just let it go down into the drink? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Somebody will fucking find it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you yank it free and pull off a tie on it that lets it open and then just, what, let it drop into the drink? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm just letting it go down where he went down. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, you drop it into the ocean and it is bobbing in the sea below. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And then I'm heading-- Bloody typical! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do I hear them coming? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Of course do something like this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Through a foggy haze, a concussion haze, you can hear shouts at the top of the stairs now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Stay where you are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It comes out of you in a croak. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "[inaudible] " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you do, on your side, your face blossoming in a bruise on the side, weakly croak out your warning to them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So she's going to try to-- I'm going to try to get a small book of occult text. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know that I'm dealing with something that's way bigger than a book can probably tell me, but if it can get me five seconds to come up with a plan, I will try. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "First of all, did I ask you to take a bleed yet? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Not yet. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. (chuckles) What kind? Oh, just a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, that's the first. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As this eons-old artifact-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you do me a favor and make a Focus roll? So in this moment, you can try to make heads or tails of notes you've taken in the past, and this chest, which you understand its purpose, but you didn't craft it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to take a drive for that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh wait. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck, a four. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A four. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everything is happening in unison. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's not a good situation. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You pause on two pages where you once wrote down notes on wards and protection, and it is the alchemical practice that goes into the devices that Candela uses to soak in bleed, but this is more elaborate. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a disc on the front of this chest that is circular and has sigils that are not exactly the same, but similar and you can tell that they are in the wrong place. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Somehow that is a ward that is not working right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are starting-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm freezing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't know these guys. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I got to save them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is definitely a Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I replenished both Nerve drives because I had two marks and I have the ability of Adrenaline Rush and that gives me the ability to, each mark I take, I can immediately refresh a drive point of my choice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, every time I sting you with a mark, you get a little bonus treat of a drive returned-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can rub them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, you are. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(shivers) Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela? Is it a single six? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Dude. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just a reminder-- Oh, I believe you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, if there's two-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want you guys to tell me if you get two sixes because that is-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No, it's a single. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You pull yourself, well, you don't pull yourself, you find the edge of the rope and take it and we're going to use that six to have you swim further and get to this guy and wrap the rope around your own arm and his. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(clutches) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do I want let you swim back on that six? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want you to make another-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do you want to? You know you want to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- Move roll for me to go in the opposite direction. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(strained) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Roll those dice. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Johnny 5 is alive. " }, { "Role": "Player976", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you're going to take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A brain. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doc, Leo, where are we? What are we doing? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see teeth and the side of his tongue because there is nothing there. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(fortifying grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Go. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Go for her. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Darling, we're getting out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to fight you on that because I feel like if anyone can stop this, it's her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The haze, the pain-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- is gone, it is less numbness now, less of a fog and more intense pain in the side of your face, which brings with it clarity. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are trying your best to help your friend. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am-- What do you need to get us out of here right now? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "An ancient priest or priestess, someone that I've encountered through an object. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For clarity for the audience-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are a bit in tune with the spirit world, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So when you say that you encountered this person, you encountered a spirit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A spirit, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In your work. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In my work, which I can explain, but I don't know if we have time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe we'll get to that later. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But for the people watching at home, I want them to know that you're not phoning a friend. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I want to say it's an old, ancient priest who was the high priest of whatever temple they had in Oldfaire and this is a real gamble because she doesn't know if bringing these bones back in the box or closing the box requires physical touch, which clearly is not going well for this crew member, or if someone powerful enough can do it with a word. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understand, you want to, because when you commune with these spirits, and it doesn't happen often-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Spirits and encounters with them and phenomenon in this world are few and far between, but you have been having encounters like this since you were a child. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It lasted only a minute and half maybe at that time, but you have carried a ghost of memories ever since. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So they don't live in her mind, but the memories live in her mind and she takes them with her wherever she goes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So, you step back into this long-dead person's mind you step back into this long-dead person's mind and take a bleed for doing so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you have two bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She's begging for this person to take control and hope that he can assess the situation very quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Since we're off-rules a little bit, I would like you to make a Sense roll and I'm going to give you a free drive because I like the cut of your flare. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "She gets everything she wants. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "On the gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "On the gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you get a drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Drive back, woo. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So, are you just taking their memory or are we seeing anything different? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I want to say in his probably 70s, which was back then pretty old. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it is a shifting light show down here and you could swear in the glare of all of these conflicting light sources that your friend is now an old, old man and takes a few hobbling steps forward. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Maybe he has a cool cane or something. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But first, you have to-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Get the bones in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Get the bones in. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are we going to do? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to go down and I'm going to help my friends. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Make sure they're okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The quartet is whole in the belly of this beast. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everybody take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wait. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think I'm out, then. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, you are not. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You've got three. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have three bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As the prolonged effect of this artifact is digging its way into your bloodstream. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Grimoria, what do you need? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What I'm picturing is this man has a tall head piece. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A headdress of some kind, head piece? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's going to take it off and try to scoop the bones using his hat back into, at least close enough to the box. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I am going to dicker with you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And tell you that-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's not going to work. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The form that comes around you is a mental construct. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And while you have brought some of the consciousness and thoughts from the last couple thousand years, you have not brought his physical belongings with him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is there anything that I can dig through his experiences to maybe have a spell that maybe can temporarily render the effect of the bones useless? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Spells is not one of them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But does he have spells? (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You should've asked him when you had the chance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's here. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Nope. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The memories you received at that time-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's about half gone now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Jesus, man. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Anyone have a box? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar, also you begin to see a little bit of black shadow tracing away from this man's skull. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right, Edgar goes into his kit and he puts on gloves. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take a brain, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Puts on gloves, takes a deep breath. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think the closest one's right-- I'm going to try and track it and send you in the right direction to the closest one. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to use Survey, if that's all right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In the world, what are we trying to do? We know very well where these bones are. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Never mind. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're glowing, radioactive green. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Guessing what has to be done from the attempted shoveling-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- Edgar is going to try and run over, and as fast as he can, to hold these bones as little time as possible, is going to grab them and throw them in the box. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Throw them in the box? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where is the box? Where is the box right now? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's in the box? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's out of the box. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's out of the box. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are in a little bit of a semicircle or triangle facing away from you, and the box is a good, it's about 10 feet away from Grimoria, who has just taken a couple of little hobbling steps towards it, and you see as she bends even further down and her hands scoop through the air a little bit and pauses there, he begins to move forward. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Now, I do have an ability that may not be applicable here, but I want to see if you'll let me get away with it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pitch me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have Dissection. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "\"When you use a Focus roll to inspect or dissect a piece of organic matter, I am not affected by bleed and I gild an additional die.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "A container. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, that's right, and you said you're wearing gloves? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm wearing gloves. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So, you are able to approach, and the exposure just to the air down here for too long is going to be lethal for all of you, but you walk through this burning sensation that you can feel, again, in your teeth. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I feel the entire left side of my body flare up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're using that skill? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Having handled bleed-infused flesh and organic matter before, I try and pick them up as gently as possible and move them into the box as quickly as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I ask a question? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can our containment vials dampen the effects that the bones are giving off right now? I mean, I know that it's powerful, but can we offset it just a little bit, weaken it just a little bit, so it gives us more time? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you wanted to, say, retroactively, and I'm fine with that because we're new in our story and with our characters and the functions that they have, if you want to say, rather than taking that bleed, shielded yourself, I would allow that to transpire. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, all right, I'll do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so we can erase that bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where was it soaked? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It was soaked, so this is my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It might be time to tell us. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Within it, I have my bleed detector as well as my bleed containment vial. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So built into a compartment in that hand-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Built into a compartment that's right in the center of my prosthetic hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is an ongoing threat, so it has tided you over for now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Right, there's a limit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to meet you in the middle. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That was a very long time ago, and I can't swear by the chemical composition of their inside anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Fair. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's make it a Focus roll as you attempt to not be horrifically scarred by touching these. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fabulous. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The chest is still upside down at the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Flip it! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think Grimoria slash old man hears this, takes the cane, and feebly, but, you know, powerfully, I guess, tries to either hook it and flip it or hook it and then bring it down. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are awash-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I run to assist her with that? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was pretty close at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Multiple people can assist. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, and so obviously the cane doesn't work, but she can use her foot, she's using her foot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, your foot? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's fine, too. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She is wearing a shoe. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You guys are assisting? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, I'm running over to assist. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, does that mean we're adding drive? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Lift my foot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Or you're just coming in for flavor? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No, I'll add a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't have Nerve drive, but I'm there for flavor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think you would make a Control roll for me, because it's super heavy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, and I got a drive from someone? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I give a drive, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So that means I take-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You spend a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can spend my own drive? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That would give a two die roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, come on, baby! Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Four is my fucking number today. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You don't have a resistance there, do you? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I do. TALIESIN: You can use the resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You can use the resistance to reroll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "One, or--? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, how much can I reroll if I use a resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you use a resistance, you can only use the base of the stat. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's just one die, then. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's kind of a long shot, but you could do it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Worth it? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If it was the base of the stat, then you'd be rolling two die and taking the lower. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got a four, which is a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Let me think. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think you should keep the four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll keep the four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You keep the four? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, you lift, and for a split second, you think you're not going to be able to do it, because I don't know if it is solid gold, but this thing has gold built all around it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Does that mean I'm out? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, just fill out another brain. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, you see this disc now that clamps into place, and you can tell that it is not in the right position. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I need you to make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I can help with this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Survey, okay, and I will also-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is to understand this-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- this alchemical wheel that the Red Hand has crafted to seal the bones in this box. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I can help, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You're adding-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, I am adding a drive to this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, thanks. Four? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, this is-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's good enough. Ready? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to-- Fudge. Can I add a resistance to her? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not after the fact. What'd you get? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I resist? I don't have one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All failures? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, they're all ones. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No way! No way. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You would have three, because if you only have three here, and three here, you would have three here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to use my resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So just roll one. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "One. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "One! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh my god, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With time, crew members come and duck their heads down here, telling you that the storm has indeed moved past and behind the Dandridge, towards the Vastchasm behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It slowly, slowly starts to sink in that you are not going to die tonight. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I need to take a look at them both. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let me help you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Is she going to be all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Unfortunately, he won't be. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're going to have a lot of work for you in the morning.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Knowing he is dead, I'm going to attend to Grimoria and make sure she gets through. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "it won't be her last encounter with danger. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You're going to have to wake up sometime, Grim. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And with that, we'll see where Grim and the rest lie after our break. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you Trust us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So I would love for you to tell us what she's wearing, how she appears, and then how she's changed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We can save that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no backstory. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, she's wearing this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think now with this scar, something that, like you said-- What did you call it? It was like a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A problem-tunity. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I think, I don't know how it's going to manifest long-term, but I think when she wakes up, she doesn't realize there are no people in the room because she just hears many voices. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What is that change going to be? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It can be in any of the boxes. Correct? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Or if there's something that makes sense to you with the kind of scar you've taken-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But if I move one that is bolded, one of the circles, does what I move it to also become a bold? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It would just be harder to succeed with that gilded ability. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I won't move a gilded, but I think that I'm going to use-- but I think that I'm going to use-- I'm going to take from Move, and I'm going to put it to Hide. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's not very strategic, but I feel like if she can't-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If it feels right, it's right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "If her equilibrium is off because of the hearing whatever, then she might get better at just hiding. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have a pitch for you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I'll take it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's your choice. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Let me know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you have-- Speaking as someone who has hyperacusis, which is an increased sensitivity to sound-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Huh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your Sense might be more acute if you are hearing-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It doesn't mean it's the right idea. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's just a thought I had. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Then I'll move Move-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "To Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- to Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're sensing-- More than ever, you're sensing too much. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Don't want to railroad you into anything. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, that's so smart, actually. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It was just an idea I had. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's a good one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You would have 1d6 that you could use with any roll in your next assignment. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So that's like a one-time bonus. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We can only pick one of those. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One. You can pick two of those. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you have a very limited allotment of them and when they're gone, they're gone. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They're gone-gone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And boy howdy, am I going to come at you, so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we get the drives back anyway after like a long rest? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We don't? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What's the worst Liam could do? But I do need you to make some decisions. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "He won't have them later. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm not going to do anything. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So if she uses a Refresh, it just works for her, but it doesn't work for all of us, right? It's just for her, like her just refreshes her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If she picks a Refresh, it is for her. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Please take it, Aimee, or please take it, Imari. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But we have five of those. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In each. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "In each. " }, { "Role": "Player977", "Content": "In each. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So we can use, yeah, so we can use each a Stitch, a Refresh, and Train five times. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The Train, for me, is one that's up in the air. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. You said you're going to take one? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, no, you-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I mean, they still-- If you don't use them, they never get used. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to hold off. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll hold off right now. IMARI: I'll hold off right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we have an opportunity to do this mid-game, or is it only when you give us the opportunity? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're going home. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I mean, you know it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you have anything sitting in a-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But then I also have like, my drives are kind of, and resistance have been fucked. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What about, so when she gets a scar, doesn't that wipe her other-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just that one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just that one category. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Only thing that wipes the slate clean for the level of marks you're at is Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Marks on the other hand, if you're going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- clean right now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't think anybody has stuff like that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I didn't take any of those. TALIESIN: No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think, if that's okay with everyone, I will take a Refresh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's fine with me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Totally fair. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Or Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You want us-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you trying to get rid of, bring your drives back or wipe? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I want to wipe my mark. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you want Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sorry about that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You want to Stitch. So-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So right now, all I have is a scar, but no other marks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Anybody else? Anything? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to press this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have two brain marks right now. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Would not be insane to take one, but you could be fine one way or the other. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I've got one body, one bleed, and two brain. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wait. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You mad lad. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a little crazy. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I mean, I would take a Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll take a Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, I did it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've got one in each right now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I suckered you just now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You did. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My Nerve is shot-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Deplete those resources. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "But I'm just going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So that is two-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hope you on alert. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You two, your slate is wiped clean and you guys are holding fast. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I love it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I get a brain, I get like what-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's like Sam's flask. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Got to stay hydrated. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Uh-huh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The cook, Gabi, comes up to you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Gabi, wasn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Morning.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Morning. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I just wanted to thank you for last night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh, you're welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You should come by the kitchen.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(stammers) I will. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Losing Heath last night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, understandably. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Heath is the gentleman who lost 30% of his body mass. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, that was, um, very sad. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Do you think you could come look in on Sunny?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If you would show me where they are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sure. I'll take you to the crew quarters.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But in the rear of this room, once you walk inside the deck house, you see Sunny and he is, again, the gentleman whose leg got wrecked and he is on his side, shallow breathing, and sees you and weakly pushes himself up. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You don't need to get up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(labored breathing) I guess you tried to save my life.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So far it seems to have worked. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah. I don't think the fates wanted to make it easy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, they did not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How does it look?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do I smell anything? Un-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, make a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Perfect success. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It could be cleaned and rebound. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The cleanest alcohol you have. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Clearest. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Like whiskey?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do you have anything less dark? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Your friend has gin.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's right, he does, doesn't he? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She scuttles off and is gone for a moment and leaves you with Sunny and there are a couple other crew members, a man and a woman in the room hanging by the door and they're quietly watching. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have to clean this out; it's probably going to hurt. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(pained) \"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But less than it did the other night. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I was going to say, I don't think anything's going to compare to last night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Worst fucking night of my life.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It was bad for a lot of people. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What are you even doing on this tub, doc?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "An unfortunate choice in transportation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not exactly the best place for a surgeon.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, but I'm making the best of it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"By the way, your friend seems to be up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"The young woman.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's good, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Also I took a nip of this, I hope that's okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I proceed to clean the wound as best I can, rebind it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then I will rush back to see Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I won't role play that-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and you bind it tightly and for the first time with this patient, you feel like he is not teetering on the edge. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Unfortunately, this is going to leave a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"At least I get some time off.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, I would hope so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Thanks, doc.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You're welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Don't come on our boat again, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You couldn't pay me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(chuckles) Wish they paid me better.\" Grimoria, Edgar pops his head in at the front door and you're not alone for the first moment this morning. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hi. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You're awake, good. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But you took quite a lot last night. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, seeing as that was my first time on a boat and hopefully my last time-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- I'm, I guess, just happy to be alive. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How does your face feel? I'm going to walk towards her to inspect it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Does it? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's all bruised, I assume? LIAM: There is a dark flower on her upper forehead and cheek around one eye. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's like I'm hearing voices? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know if that's a medical thing. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not really my area of expertise, but considering, It's not really my area of expertise, but considering, well, it is either you hit your head very hard. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I definitely did that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So that could be the cause of it, which would be unfortunate. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But it could be something to do with the exposure we had, that we all had last night and you had quite a bit of it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gasps) What happened to the box? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You managed to close it again. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is it secure? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As far as I know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, as Edgar is talking to you, you are hearing his voice and you are hearing ghosts of his voice almost stuttered out or delayed occasionally just before he speaks. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Every once in awhile, you hear a voice that is not his. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I make out what that voice is saying? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sometimes you think you're imagining it and then at other moments, there's no denying it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sorry, can you repeat what you just said? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's fine. You managed to close the box and seal it and it's secure as far as I know for now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, how much longer do you think we have left before we get back? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm not that acquainted with sea travel. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It shouldn't be too much longer. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have to get back to work. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll have to get back to the hospital. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll let everybody else know you're up, but I'm glad you're awake. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just as you're reaching this moment in the conversation, Gabi actually pops her head in again. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hello, Gabi. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The Captain's Looking for you guys.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, all of us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you know where the rest are?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Not off the top of my head. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Go back to the radio.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Over past the kitchen when you find him.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll help you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "May I hold your hand? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, it's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar, just because my memory is so spotty and it was so hectic last night, can you give me one more visual description of our good doctor? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "He likes to be covered and is always neat. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where do you think you two gentlemen are this morning? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have probably been, do I have anything resembling a private room? No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You wish. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A suite. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I assume. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You wish. You are climbing the walls on this ship, even before the storm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There's a bar of some kind, I assume, or some sort of-- where's the kitchen? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The disappointment that you're feeling now-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm so sorry, I'm thinking of a larger-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I know exactly where I am. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is a tramp steamer. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Off the books, this is a ship, the Dandridge is a ship that the Candela has commissioned from time to time, it's your first time on it, to do things that they do not want recorded. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am sitting as close to the radio room and as close to the activities of the ship, whatever people are doing, whatever work they're doing and I'm sitting as gracefully as I can under the circumstances, working and writing in a journal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What about yourself, Malcolm? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have the closest thing that resembles a cup of coffee in my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They got that here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's still banged up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Paint Leo for me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It is drenched. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's got a paisley burned into it with a little gold leaf and just a man attempting to be comfortable sitting on the ground, listening to people wander by and trying to put as much of what happened down on paper as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The sound of that busywork is a comfort to you, I know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Very much. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, cut a figure for me. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Should I go over how old I am now? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I'm not recovering as fast as I used to when I was in my early 20s, but it's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My skin has, you know when salt dries on it? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You have those little patches of salt on your skin? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I'm in need of a bath, but my face is washed because that's what I was able to do at the time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm still disheveled a little bit, but I'm still very stoic, very calm and prepared for what may come next. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Compartmentalization, something you learned very, very fast during the war, for survival. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you two coming out of the cabin do a quick loop and near the rear of the ship, you spot Leo squatting on the floor writing in his journal and not too far off, paying Leo no mind is Malcolm contemplating the sea. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What are you writing? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) The little method actress is awake. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you for your help. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's going to change in your mind and change and change. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's smart. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I highly recommend it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, it's nothing better than looking back and seeing what an idiot you were. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can you repeat that last part again? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's nothing like looking back and seeing what an idiot you were. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Are you all right? Did we get some water in the ears? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think I might have. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, we'll have to have that looked at. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We'll get them worked out when we get back to the city. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh dear, oh dear. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Malcolm, are you feeling all right? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Gentle. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm feeling good. I'm worried about getting back home. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have a good excuse. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You all follow into a pretty small, cramped little room with-- Doug sits at a chair and the Captain is here too. Captain Devir. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Captain. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We were a little worried last night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm sorry about your crew members. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I haven't seen a storm like that in 15 years.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's good to know that doesn't happen often. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You've been in a storm like this before? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"In my younger days, yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh my god, I wasn't lying. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, apparently not. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I feel better. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to try to reestablish connection.\" [radio warbles] [radio static] [radio chimes] \"Yeah, ma'am, are you there?\" (British woman) \"Hello? Yeah, hello, do you read me? Edgar, Grimoria? Are you there?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How are you all holding up?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We've seen better days, but we're alive. (chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, I understand it was looking a bit dodgy for you last night?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You sound all right now, though.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm hoping we can put it to the test.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It is everything I could use right now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm just so relieved.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We're safe now and we can't wait to see you when we get back to shore. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's been a while since you've seen him, I believe.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Who? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Who? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Wait. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm a little concerned about Decklan Murphy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What happened? AIMEE: I thought he was reassigned. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would you mind terribly much looking in on him?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You didn't even have to ask. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm quite glad you did ask, and no, I think it would be, it's the perfect time to see him, rather remarkable. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Anything for Decklan. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Objections, doctor? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, as long as the ship's willing to take us there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doc, I talked briefly with Ms. Manning and certainly doesn't add any fuel costs and be there in a day, it's on the way.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I may need to use your radio to notify my employers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Zora) \"Ah, well, you took the week, didn't you, darling?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Has it been-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It feels like a week. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's been about four days that you've been at sea, so this was-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four days, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you have had to slip away and it took asking for a bit of vacation time for this longer trip, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You secured it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. LIAM: But you only have a couple days, so you do have to get home relatively soon. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, is there anything I can do for you at home before you arrive? Are you sure you're all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We just want to make sure Decklan's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It was a stressful night, but we all got through it somewhat in one piece. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Like we always do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Once you see him, drop me a line, let me know, let me know that he's okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ms. Manning, is there anything that we should be aware of before we, before we pick him up? Is there anything that you're concerned about that's on your mind that we should pay special attention to? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It gets to you, I understand.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It is the sort of thing that I'm aware is difficult. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh dear. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm afraid it's on a need-to-know basis.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Apologies.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I hear it's charming, Serenity, so it may very well be a lovely stop.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It would be quite the name if it wasn't charming. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I do hope you'll like it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Maybe save me some of that vintage. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Always, always. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll see you in a few days.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hear from you sooner.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes, Ms. Manning. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "One glass, please. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'd find the tiniest bit of privacy before we have this conversation. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Captain. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Captain Devir) \"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The man that passed last night. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes, that was Heath.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "May I take a look at him? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is, we've put him in cargo.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He leads you out on deck and in less than a minute you-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It doesn't have to be now, it can be after we have this talk. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I want to eventually take a look at him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You know where to find me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you finding a-- Maybe off to your cabin to have a chat? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, or at least outside of it where we can see in any direction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So do we feel safe leaving the artifact here unattended when we disembark? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It may just be a stop off to say hello and then get back on board and head home, but if it-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will dip in to say I understand that reservation, but Manning, Zora Manning, this was her arrangement and she seems to put her faith in this crew and has used them multiple times. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It'll take some effort, but we could remove it from the ship, if possible. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I find it interesting that we go through an experience like this and the first thing that happens is we're sent to see Decklan, which is exactly what I would do if I wanted to smooth everything over with a group like ours. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Not terribly, but a bit suspicious. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We got into a particularly bad one. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All it means is either it is serenity or it's exactly the opposite and they were hoping people wouldn't notice. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs heavily) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What are you alluding to? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Seems like you're jumping to conclusions. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't trust anything right now and-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We all had a very bad night. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Very bad. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's going to make us jumpy, but that doesn't mean that the storm was part of a larger conspiracy. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, just-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now, if someone maybe might be manipulating Decklan, or he might be wrapped up in something, I think it's our duty to investigate and to assess the situation and to act accordingly. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I mean, it is also possible that he just is out of contact for a perfectly legitimate reason. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We don't know what the mission is. ALEXANDER: He went home to take a break. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, if it breaks the tie, I would like to feel dry land under my feet. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fair. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I wouldn't mind a nice bath. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, we are clearly going anyway, he is family and we take care of family, even if we haven't seen them in quite a while. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It is a little bit of a coincidence that we happen to be so close on the way home, I understand that, but it is-- it will be nice to see him, regardless of the situation. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This is true. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But we should all try and relax, and as your physician, you should rest because last night was a lot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would now be a good time to go look in on the corpse? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I grab my medical bag and head down. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not a bisection or a clean cut leaving that display, but it is hills and valleys of melted-over and unfinished anatomy. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Are the edges rough or are they smooth? If I inspect very closely the edges of the skin, where they disappear, the evaporated flesh, are they charred? Are they rough? Are they smooth? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But definitely to the eye, it looks smooth, it doesn't look scorched burned. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is there the effect that I witnessed last night with the black and the stuff drifting off, and that has stopped, it is still now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It has been halted. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to take-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will add that in the event that happened last night, his body lay the closest to the remains in the final moments. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll take a little vial out of my medical kit and scrape, or cut off some flesh to keep and put it in the vial, put it away just to have a sample. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, keep track of that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sorry this happened to you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "While he's doing that, I think Grimoria takes his advice and tries to rest, but I'm curious, as a player, I took on Let Them In, which, can I read it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ask the GM one question about the source of the bleed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can ask me a few. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I think while she's in this kind of restful, fitful state-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Reflecting. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Reflecting, I wonder, I don't remember where they all came from, but can you tell me anything about what makes this particular artifact so powerful? what makes this particular artifact so powerful? I guess that's my first question. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Whatever it is that caused the Vastchasm to erupt, whatever caused the end of the city of Oldfaire, some belief can be traced back to Calinus, and this woman was in his daily life. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There seemed to have been some sort of split between Calinus and Atia, and there are some records that believe that she fled Oldfaire for parts unknown. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to reserve one question, but maybe for later-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I guess something-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- that I'm curious about. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's got to be-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, for sure, but maybe something-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I do have one question. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Considering my abilities to connect with deceased spirits-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- and also this, that I have Let Them In, is there something that this person would want us to know? A message? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The rules text for this feature is, \"Ask the GM one question about the source of the bleed.\" Or am I thinking of a past one? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I got four bleeds. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Take a bleed mark, but if there is no answer to be given, to return the bleed.\" I might be remembering a past version of this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, I don't know, and that's not on mine, but cool if it is. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll tell you what, I'll factor that into how hard I go on you with bleed in the future. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And there is no answer. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Damn, well, had to ask. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hey.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You saved my friend, Burke.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How's he doing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"He's a little embarrassed, and shaken up, but he's okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You tell him he's brave, he hung on, so, it's a pretty brave soul you got there, as a friend. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's a little more than a friend, but.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's, you said, your husband, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, I said friend, but--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"More than a friend.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "More than a friend? Well, then I'm really glad that I saved him, then. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Did you serve?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I was in the war-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- but it was, eh, kind of traumatic, to say the least. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That's kind of the whole bag, isn't it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Definitely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I did, too.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You did? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where'd you serve? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sighs) Well, I was, I was in Westecklyn.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Close to the city.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So you saw a lot of action, then? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"In the early days, yeah, but I took a bullet, and they pulled me out, and--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I was out about a half a year before the worst of it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Still saw my share of shit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah, there's some truth in it, but it's complicated, right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It always is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sighs) Well, anyway, genuinely, thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I appreciate it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Have a good night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Tell him there's some extra strong coffee down there for him if he wants to take a sip. (laughs) If he feels so inclined. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I read you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If, oh, if it's all right-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I would love to be sitting, writing just far enough away to hear some of this conversation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Then once they walk away, Malcolm, do you have a moment? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) I can already feel this coming. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Congratulations on saving that lovely stranger, and saving the heart of that other lovely stranger. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have no buts, I am not enough of a fool to argue with a gambler on a winning streak. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I just, I want you to know, I don't pretend that I would understand what it was to be raised by your parents and your family. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Clearly, it was difficult, but family-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Family is a very precious commodity. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Some people have very little of it, and it is worth quite a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(sighs) Putting a stranger ahead of family, risking your family for a stranger, that's, well, that sounds more like your brother to me, doesn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you understand me? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes, I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I doubt that. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, you need to understand something, too. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What I did was what I've been asked to do ever since I started joining Candela, so. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I sincerely disagree with that reading of it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, you know that I can't watch an innocent life just fade without being able to do something, but I understand what you're saying, and I apologize for worrying you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And as lovely as that conversation was, and believe me, I understand how lovely it was, if you had not been there, the conversation that you would have directly after that one would've been so much more unpleasant. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think you do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have a hunch. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I can see too much of your family in you, and it's disappointing. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to close my book, having just written down the advice that you gave me-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- and walk to my cabin. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I would like to come out on deck after examining the body. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Huh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You want a little go at me too this morning? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I want to take a look at your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "\"No, I don't care.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can I see your hand, please? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, thanks, doc. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just want to take a quick look over it, and see if it's working. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't know anything about the actual mechanics, but just where it's connected to his actual physical body. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right, right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "In case any damage has been done, or it looks inflamed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Remind me, Malcolm, it is there for the world to see-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So, there's 10-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Or it is gloved? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's a gauntlet-esque contraption, where it's a synthetic rubber mixed in with metal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's, it's painful when it happens. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. ALEXANDER: I don't need you to remove it, but I just want to look at the connection. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Not, or can not endure. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Does the skin look inflamed, or is there any bleeding, or anything? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it was top of the line, because the Trills family is an old one. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it seems all right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Seems fine. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep, it looks, it feels, it's a little stiff from the, what I assume would be the sea water, but nah, (sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think it'll still do the duty. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo-- oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, I'll wait. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no, I'll wait. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just talk to each other. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where would you be, would you be at the room? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "trying to sleep, but not being able to, and maybe writing down in my little, I mean, it's an occult text, but just writing, making a note. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's your occult text. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's mine, but making a note about what you said about the, about Atia-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- and her history, making some notes under it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't know that you were actually working. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! No, I just, I just keep having these thoughts, you know, about yesterday, and how are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We're worried about you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Are you writing about whatever the person was that--? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I didn't get much information, but-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's not about that. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I did-- She was very powerful, and who she worked for, Ken-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Calinus. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Cannalis. (laughs) Was a very powerful-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's really all I know, but it's nice to put details in where there are none. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was just hoping to hear a little bit about what it was like. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, well, I can just I guess, just tell you about the whole thing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What a, there was a, I saw you doing a thing with your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I'm still getting used to that-- But sometimes when I, I guess, channel someone-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- I feel like I'm in their body, and I'm wearing their clothes, and sometimes I try to use maybe what they have, and then I realize, \"Oh wait, I can't.\" (laughs) It takes some getting used to. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But you really came in, and were a hero. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, pfft. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There's not a lot I can do in these sorts of situations other than worry, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's enough for me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, just, mm, I don't know who else I would talk to on this boat right now without getting angry, so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Huh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I just needed to clear my head a bit, you know how I get. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, do you want me to read from my book again? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That would be-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just to keep you company? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You do need to sleep, but a moment would be lovely. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And just starts reading. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I like it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to occasionally fix grammar. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know the... so, this is for a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everyone gets up, and putters around the ship, and begins to get ready for their next stop, but the one thing that I'll throw in, Leo-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The other man who ended up in the drink that night, the other night, sidles up next to you on the ship. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh hello. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hey.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Completely different than the other night, huh?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I like the quiet, don't you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I-- I don't like my thoughts, I try and drown them out a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What, you don't like the quiet?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm, not too much. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I like it when I like it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm, probably means you like yourself, since it's the moment that you are just with your own company. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What'd you write in that book?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I can barely remember names, so this helps. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That's cool, I don't know any writers.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Pff, I don't either, believe me, this is terrible. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So, you don't want it quiet, huh?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How long, I mean, if you must, if you, how long have you sailed on this ship? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Ah, three years, at least.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You don't look it, you look great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Ah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"If you don't like quiet, you want to go make some noise?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I hear we got three or four hours before we land, come with me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a shame, I had easily six hours of ideas. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "\"Six hours of ideas.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He leads you off-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(claps hands) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To the rear of the ship. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Someone's having a good time. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He gets booty on the ship? I don't get booty on the ship. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank god Grimoria can barely hear. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Have to work in your flexibility-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Not fair. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Christ, I wasn't expecting that. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I love it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was hoping. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Eventually-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm! (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Eventually-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Rated S for Smut. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see it's a fairly small island, but the coastline to this place is rough, but breathtaking. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's a string of small meager cottages, and what appears to be a pub directly up the path from where you now stand, you assume, because it has a little painted sign out front that says, \"Edge 'o the Isle.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is just half of a village on the edge of the known world in the Fairelands. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Did, I don't remember, did Zora give us the address? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Are there addresses here? There's another question. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, looking at-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- a small handful of homes that are here, you actually don't see any street signs or house numbers. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are thatched roofs on all of these places. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I bet if we ask at the pub. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I was going to say, it is town this small, they probably know. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, I'm sure Leo would deal for a nice good proper drink, anyway, so it's killing two birds with one stone. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Are we not having a drink at the pub? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You only get one a day, though, we've had that conversation. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So, you step up this muddy little path away from the docks. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Keep you updated when we can. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sure, but we're leaving today, right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As far as I know, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do you want anything from town? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Whatever they got in that place.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I thought you'd say that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll also say, if anyone strange comes up, let's not let anybody on board, and perhaps at night, let's dock far enough away that nobody, it'll make it a little more difficult to sneak on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Would you like me to pull out and go a ways away?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Not too far. Stay within signaling distance just in case. Just in case. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right, well--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've had too much happen. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So, this is the spot, all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I believe this will be the spot. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If your gentleman can take the different shifts to the basement to make sure our shipment is secured, to the basement to make sure our shipment is secured, that'd be greatly appreciated. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I run a pretty tight ship, normally we don't have any issues.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"If you ever wanted to--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sure you do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Again, 15 years since I've seen anything like that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just being cautious. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Heading on in? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh dear. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Irish accent) \"Morning to you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Morning, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Morning. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Morning to you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Morning, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Absolute pleasure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can we get four glasses of alcohol, please? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Right, well we have--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "With her-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- choices for you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- bruised face. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to stare at you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's a birthmark. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) TALIESIN: You should see the other guy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mm. (laughs) Well, you bring trouble to Serenity?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We're actually just looking for an old friend. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, all right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Last name-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Perhaps you've heard of him. Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I didn't mean to step on you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, please. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I mean, a bit of a drink first before we begin. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We've got Poitín. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"And we've got, if you got coin to spend, I got one bottle of whiskey.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, I think we need some whiskey. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think we have-- I had so many thoughts, and then you said that, and I believe the bottle of whiskey will do quite nicely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He turns around and he's got a whiskey and four glasses that are clean-ish. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Did you all have any trouble with the storm the other night? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Me own house, part of the fence got knocked down, and three of my sheep, I still haven't found them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, we were on a ship during then, so we're a little happy to be on land right now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, Mother above.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It was quite a lot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mother above, that sounds terrible.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player978", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This isn't a birthmark. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I know, lass. I know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Didn't want you to worry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's drinking a glass of something dark. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What do you think of this whiskey, do you have an opinion on it, out of curiosity? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who are you asking? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The child. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I actually haven't gotten his name yet either. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"My name's Dermot.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Dermot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Dermot Gallagher.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a good name. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Thank you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I collect them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(laughs)\" \"I'm sorry, what was the question?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What do you think of this whiskey? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh. Well, it's the only whiskey we can get here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You've had a glass before, though. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I have.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Would you like a glass now? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you offering to buy me a drink?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Not the child, obviously, I'm not buying him a-- He has to pay for his own, but. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"This one?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just a nipper. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Everyone had a rough night. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're already picking up the accent, huh?\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "First time traveling, we're very excited. AIMEE: I'm very good with accents. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You know, that's charming. Yours is on the house. Not yours.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I wouldn't expect it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He begins pouring-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- five drinks. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We've all had a rough night. LIAM: (old woman) \"What about me?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(Dermot) \"Mag, you've had enough, and I don't want to hear another word.\" (Mag) \"(sneers) You're not the boss of me! My money's good as his! Another glass!\" He shakes his head at you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Dermot) \"(sighs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Speaking of trouble, actually-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"10 years I've been listening to this one. Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, I mean, she's-- Is it 10 years on that one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Thank the Mother, no.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"She's old enough to be my mother.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I never want to judge. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, since you brought up trouble, we actually have a friend that we were looking for, who actually is from around these parts, I believe. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, do tell.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It was Murphy, Decklan Murphy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, there's, there's the Murphys up on the, two miles up the island, yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm, two miles up-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's not a lot here, if you haven't noticed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, it's very peaceful. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So, which Murphys live here most of the time? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But they keep to themselves mostly.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So, you've never met Decklan? No stories or anything? He's a bit of an odd duck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've heard his name said, not in a long time.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, we-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How's my bullshit detector right now, out of curiosity. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How's my bullshit detector right now? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you have to roll for that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's my glasses? That would be-- What would that be? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Roll for bullshit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your skill called Lie Detector, which you'd love to read out to the table. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I also have a thing called Sweet Talk. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Which is, after I've made small talk with someone for a little while, I can add an extra die on to any Read roll I make in which they are the target. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's how you get booty on a ship. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If the target, if the Cunning, my Cunning-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's how you get booty on a ship. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Booty on a ship. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Your current Cunning resistance is two or higher, then one of the dice is gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pick your poison. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Wait, I'm trying to see if Cunning resistance is-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which one are we focusing on, Lie Detector or Sweet Talk? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to do both. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, you're stacking it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm sorry, that was a Sweet Talk. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's when I do a Read roll in an attempt to figure out whether a person's telling the truth, I can gild an additional die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So, that's two gilded dice. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Very nice. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Two sixes, both on gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh wow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Two Candelas. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't even know what that means anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Both, wait, do you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Two candies. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Two Candelas. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Both gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As we have dubbed them, Candelas. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So I suppose you'll take the gilded, right? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to take either of them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A lot of it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "His smile's just a little too wide, or quick to your jokes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ah, hiding something. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Something about it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Anyways, let me pour for you all.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where am I when he's having this interaction with Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What's your question?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No, for you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So, where am I in the room? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, it's a very small room, so you guys are basically crowded in the center of it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I would hear what was going on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The little kid can hear every bit of this conversation. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to talk to the barkeep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there anything that might be troubling you at all, or anything? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well it's not often we get visitors to the island, but I don't feel nervous, no.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No? Have you seen anything out of the ordinary in the past two days? You said the Murphys are up the hill. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Anyone else in the family might come along, might frequent the pub, or maybe might make rounds into the town? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I seen one of the daughters maybe a month ago.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Daughters, huh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So we're just asking some questions. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's the beauty of Serenity.\" (Mag) \"That's the beauty of Serenity!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to have a chat with that lady. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where is she, how drunk is she? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(buzzes lips) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is she vomiting in the-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's not vomiting. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is there any actual water in her, is what I want to know, or is it just pure, it's all straight liquor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's all dust, it's all-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Madam, how do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'd be doing better if I had another glass of whiskey.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can smell that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sniffs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Have you noticed anything strange? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What's your name?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's your name? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sighs) Beatrice.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, that's a beautiful name. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're a handsome one.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do you mind if I ask you a few questions, Beatrice? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Aye.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Get her a small little something, just enough to keep her awake. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"My hearing's not that bad, lad.\" TALIESIN: Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Get her something stronger then. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to go sit outside to see if, see if I, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll come out with you-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "See what you see. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- and pull out a little, what's that game you used to play with kids? It's like a pick-up-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Jacks. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Jacks. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's Jacks. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Maybe whatever-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm a big fan of-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Whatever bench we're on, but I would love to sit in front of the window the kid's at so he can see us play. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm just sitting, taking it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But maybe hoping that he'll come out and play with us. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm trying to-- Yeah, because-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I watch them both walk out, and I guess I'm in charge of him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Beatrice, have you noticed anything strange in the past couple of days? Anything that might've been out of the ordinary? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, you lot showed up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Before the lot showed up, was there anything maybe similar, or equally as strange-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "10 minutes ago. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- before we showed up that you might have noticed? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you talking about the storm?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Was there something that happened before the storm? Anyone that you might've noticed before the storm occurred? Someone out of place. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That bastard, Pete Mulligan, was in my yard.\" (quiet laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is that your neighbor? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Aye, he's a dirty wee fucker.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So, I take you two haven't dated, then. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Say again?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So, Pete Mulligan, anything else besides Pete Mulligan? Anything that you might have seen, or have you heard of the Murphys? Are you familiar with the Murphys? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't truck with them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No. Why not? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Eldest daughter's a bitch.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's the eldest daughter's name, by any chance? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You remember that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Maybe Gráinne.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's the oldest daughter, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The only other thing strange is I have a urine infection.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That sounds tasty. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Before I make my leave, anything else you want to recollect? Hemorrhoids, or something else you want to confess? (quiet laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're a handsome one.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You have yourself a lovely day, Miss Beatrice, take care of yourself, okay? You can get her some water, please. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh yeah, and the bartender, yeah, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I have another whiskey.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's go outside. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to go outside. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Did the kid leave, or no? Is the kid still there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Kid scrabbles out just before Malcolm leaves, and he silently comes and sits down, and just watches you for a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What is wrong with you? That was the most conspicuous thing I've ever seen anybody do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sigh) You win some, you lose some. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How were you ever going to win that? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Who knows where you can get your information from? Sometimes when you're a little bit high on the drink, you get a little more information than you think. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, I'm not-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I made it rhyme. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm not talking about her, I'm talking about you. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The boy looks like he's never seen so wonderful a toy as Jacks. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do you want to learn how to play? Well, she teaches him how, because Aimee doesn't know. " }, { "Role": "Player979", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You bounce the ball and see how many jacks you can get. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Why don't you try? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How old's the kid, by the way? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Jacks go everywhere. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Isn't it fun? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I ask the kid a question while she plays Jacks? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Take the scary robot hand away. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it's quiet here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The old man walking towards the Murphys, you said? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's a man sitting. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Listen, I think what we need to do is go to the house and then investigate the Murphys right now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We'll be one moment. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are we going to sit here with the-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I assume, yeah, this is just-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sorry, are you objecting to them sitting with the child while you talked to that woman for 45 minutes? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This could have been happening beforehand actually. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Why don't you guys get a head start? We'll meet you there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Walk slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so you two are moving up the road in the general direction? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And you two are hanging back? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, they're hanging back, we're on our way. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We're playing Jacks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's playing Jacks? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The two of us. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The two of them are playing. LIAM: Jacks check. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And the child. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You two gentleman are-- The kid has not said a word, but he is enraptured. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "For sure. For sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I feel like-- Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can we take the child with us? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Because we could have been-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This is a very small island. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Have you heard of that city, Newfaire? Yeah. Have you ever met anybody from Newfaire? Anyone come by, any strangers lately? Can you point me to where they live or where they are? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He points in the direction that Malcolm and Edgar are walking. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do you want to ask him anything? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So we're just trying to figure out what happened. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He can't or doesn't talk. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm enjoying the game. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You can keep this if you want, for all your help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He looks in the window at-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "His grandma? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- Beatrice, who is now semi-leaned into the window. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just give us a little. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If I hear a knock, if we say something stupid, please let us know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Even though it's a little bit crimped from everything you've gone through, he has not seen anything the looks of you, especially you two. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to go in and put $20 on, just for food on the kid no matter what. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "20 bills. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "20 bills. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "20 bills. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thank you, I was trying to remember. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Looks at her big tall drink and then picks up his bowl. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We've all got one. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Poor thing. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So sweet. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you both headed up the road. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Walking slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Slowly, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We'll double time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But as you guys reach the end of this little road, this row of cottages, you reach this very wiry old man, vaguely reminiscent of the persona that Grimoria took on. " }, { "Role": "Player980", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How's all?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Good afternoon. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Afternoon to ye.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Visitors again? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, we're on our way to see some friends who previously went this way. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Previously went this way, eh? Well, are you going to the Murphy's?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do you know of them? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Their son's in town.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, that's our friend. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oi?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Aye. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Have you seen him? Have you seen him recently? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(wheezy laugh) I ain't seen nothing for years.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) My apologies. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, that's all right, I'm just fucking with ye. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So, we're friendly-like.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is he the only one who's there now? Does he have his family there as well, or--? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's the oldest of four children.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What was his oldest sister's name again? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, that's Gráinne.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gráinne, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She's a little bitch. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's Nora and wee Pegeen.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Cute. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Anyway, yous looking for him?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You got to take him back home?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Why would you want to leave such a beautiful place anyway if you don't have to right away, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right, well enjoy our island.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Thank you so much for your information, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Right, right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "They're just a couple steps behind. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I can hear them.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"There's a little one there and a regular size one I think.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That would be them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hello to ya!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I was right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Finally you guys come. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Fucking rain the other day.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It was a lot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Where was ya for it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "On the ship. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What ship?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That one over there. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The ship that dropped us off. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Ah right, that's how you got here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He can't see. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm usually quicker than that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Gentlemen and lady, apologies, apologies.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no, I'm already delighted. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you need to find Ned, Ned's here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thanks, Ned. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Thanks, Ned. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Very helpful. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to give him 10 bills for his trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What is this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's just something for your trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Maybe treat you to a meal for tonight. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What's the number on this bill?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's the number 10, Ned. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Fuck me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Buy yourself a few meals with that, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So you'll know very quickly if they tell you it's anything other than a 10. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"There's only the one pub.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think he's very honest. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Dermot's all right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does Dermot have anything against the Murphys? Is there any interesting-- It's a small town, please, I miss gossip. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everybody knows each other's business, I fuckin' tell you what.\" " }, { "Role": "Player781", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You know, we're trapped in a small space here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I got the vibe that he was not necessarily-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I don't know any bad blood between Dermot Gallagher and any of the Murphys, no.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They're friendly with each other then? Even the older one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"No, you want to avoid the older one there.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) Oh, that's what everyone keeps telling me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I love not liking people. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Truth is truth.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I bet she's just misunderstood. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. There's only one way to find out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sounds like someone who hasn't met the eldest Murphy girl.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you for your help, Ned. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How are you today?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(wheezy laugh)\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It took me a second.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"And it's me own joke.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, well, well. I hope yous have a fine day and Ned is here, I'm Ned.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thanks, Ned. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Thanks, Ned. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Absolute pleasure. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Goodbye, Ned. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But they're traveling with a whole flock of sheep around them and when they spot you, they just hold and stare. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to wave. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That was interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to wave again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is at a distance. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're up a hill. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is it public or private property, does it seem like? Are there fences? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It just looks like a-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We don't look like anyone here and I don't think anyone comes here. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Normally it's forward or backward. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You saw this from the distance and as you get closer to it, a door opens and a gentleman, probably like 25, in a white shirt rolled up at the sleeves and he's carrying some sort of a leather satchel as he walks out and he sees you guys. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's a birthmark. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He just walks past you on the road and you see him travel down the way you came. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think we're just odd. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "These are strange. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You're just used to the city. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll say, as you pass this cottage and you look back over your shoulder and you see the man, he's still walking, but you see that couple again up on the hill and they are-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are we close to the Murphy cottage? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They said two miles. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's 20 or 30 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, so I guess we're going to go definitely-- I mean, grab the clue. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Give me two and half good reasons why I shouldn't go talk to that couple right now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think we should go talk to the couple. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I am in agreement with you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Doctor, you're the smart one, please. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just think we should leave these people alone. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I kind of agree, I think we should keep going. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're just here to see if Decklan's here and all right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, but ever since we got to this island-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We just have to check in, say hello and then we go home. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Everybody I've talked to has been very generous and reasonable. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, why don't we do this? Why don't we scratch our itch, and why don't you guys go to the cottage and then we'll meet up at the cottage and we'll catch up with you? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just go talk to them, it's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We're going to go try. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(quietly) Let me do the talking, just for the beginning until things get strange, which I think they inevitably are going to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, they are staring at you and you go off road, which means you are pretty quickly wading through very tall grass. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Any way I can avoid as much of it as humanly possible? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's stone, too, so when you can, you are billy goat hopping from-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Any reaction? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What are they? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are watching from up high and when you get like 30 feet off the road coming their direction, turn around and they walk in the opposite direction-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're just walking away. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. Which direction are they going? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Up a hill. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is there any structure over there or anything like that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, not from this view. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That seems like an invitation that has been taken away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Am I hearing any interesting sounds, voices? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are still hearing a bit of distortion or maybe it's that everyone's voice feels a little more crisp or intense-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But also, you know, there's wind blowing on this island and you know-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But nothing I can make out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't know. Maybe I'm just paranoid now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll turn back around. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If you're satisfied, I'm satisfied. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll trust your instincts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She is a little shorter than you are and she has a face like a dried apple. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She has got an apron on, shawl, headscarf, and... " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(gasping sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, hello. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(shocked gasp) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Like she's 15 feet away from you and you didn't see her and she's just-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- staring at you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(timidly) Hi. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You startled us. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What's your name if you don't mind? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, my name's Rosheen.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Everyone seems to be getting very nervous. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We don't get a lot of outsiders here on the island.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "People come back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know about that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You ever know of a Decklan? Murphys. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They live up the road about a mile.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What do you know about the Murphys, other than the eldest daughter is a bit much? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"The eldest daughter is a bit of a bitch.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are you sure she's not just misunderstood? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are you doing here on Serenity?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, we're just looking for a friend. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're friends with one of the Murphys and we're coming to visit him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We don't get a lot of visitors on Serenity.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I gathered. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We just had to see it for ourselves. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why do you think you don't get many visitors if it's so beautiful? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Ah, they tried for years, but they don't like it in the end.\" " }, { "Role": "Player781", "Content": "Hmm. LIAM: \"Because there's nowhere to go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you like it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know if I do or if I don't.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You like the Murphys? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't have much business with the Murphys.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know it's a lot to push. " }, { "Role": "Player981", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This place is just lovely and we do eventually have to leave, but I would like to give a good impression. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know what to tell you on that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you need help? Is there trouble? You'd be amazed what we can do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It's a hard life on Serenity.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"A lot of our young ones leave.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That can happen. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Just like me own brother.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What was it-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Nigh on 70 years ago, went to live in Newfaire.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's a shame that they don't come back after a while. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You think that Murphy boy, he come back?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We think he did. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We're actually looking for him. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "He's a friend of ours. LIAM: You should try the Murphys, a mile up the road. ALEXANDER: That's... where we're going. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you have any advice for talking to the Murphys-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- when you talk? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Avoid Gráinne.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, if you think of anything we should know or if you have any advice about anything, I'm always excited to learn something new. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If you don't mind me asking, what is it about Gráinne that people don't like? I'm very curious. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) I like it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"She never has a kind word to say about anyone.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sometimes she can be a bit much.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm excited-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Bit much. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I try to avoid.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Bit much like violence, conniving? What's a bit much? What would you say? Bit much. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just means she's a bit of a bitch.\" " }, { "Role": "Player976", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, to be fair, Decklan can be a bit of a bitch as well. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you talk to the Murphys? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't talk to nobody.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't want to be talking to you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We can tell. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What are their names? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What was their names? I forgot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"There's sheep all over the island.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm just pointing, the couple that live over there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"McNamaras.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(emphatically) \"McNamaras!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They all right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"They're all right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I'm sure we're taking up way too much of your time, but it was lovely having a chat with anybody out here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Right then.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Have a good rest of your day. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Right then.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm sure we're the only ones right now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "True enough.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We owe you a favor. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm so sorry for your loss. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She freezes up, stiffens at your touch. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "After we walk away for a bit-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I'm giving the two of them a little room. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do we continue up the road? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Something about to happen? Did I miss something? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So maybe she's shocked into silence. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think it's time for us to make our leave to the Murphys. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She just watches you go. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(whispers) He's here with you always. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Fintan?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That's not possible.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It is possible. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That makes her scurry down the road. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You got to shoot your shot. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. No. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Have you all ever spoken to someone in a normal manner? Any of you? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do not know of normal people. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "They're just people who live on an island and don't have a lot of communication skills. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You were doing your thing, weren't you? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was trying it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What name did you get? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Vincent. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you know dead brother, dead son? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was just guessing because she was wearing all black. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Good job. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "They're going to think we're witches. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(smugly laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So we're heading further up the coast. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's a safe bet. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we have any idea what his family thinks he does? Like, you know what I mean? Like what his day job is or his cover? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "From conversations you've had with him, you gather they probably think he is still a history teacher. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah, cool. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to walk up and I knock on the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In moments, you hear (light footsteps), a door opens and you see a woman, late thirties and shoulder-length brown hair, a flinty expression, and she just-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Gráinne? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gráinne. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What do you want?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're here to see Decklan. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, he's not here right now. Who are you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're friends of his from Newfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We're students. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm a teacher. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What'd you come here for?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We hadn't heard from him for a while. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"He's visiting the family.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. Well, he didn't take a leave of absence or anything and I was hoping he'd grade my paper. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We were just a little concerned about our friend. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Woman 2) \"What are you doing over here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Nora? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who are you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're friends of Decklan's and we came to visit him and check on him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would you like to come in?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We'd love to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Come in. Come in.\" Nora says. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is everything all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We just, we're sailing by or returning home and he had told us that this is where he grew up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, goodness.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We knew that he was here visiting. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So you're coming from the big city, then?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm clearly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh my.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I know we look a little out of place. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Did you come from Newfaire?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We did. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That's amazing!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You came to see Decklan, did you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would you like a bit of tea or something?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That would be lovely. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That would be great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Margaret) \"I would like a bit of tea.\" (Pegeen) \"Ah, Ma?\" \"All right. Tea?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'd love a spot. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Margaret) \"I'm hungry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player982", "Content": "Oh, we should get you something to eat. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We should get me something to eat.\" She looks back out the window. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are you looking for someone? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Decklan's out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How long has he been gone? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Part of the day.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But he always comes home? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's fine.\" (Margaret) \"He's gone up by the fairy homes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fairies. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fairy homes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mother above.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would be in a bad mood, too, if I had to feed the pigs. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll see if they need any help with anything, I see a kitchen, and I desperately want to see it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a kitchen. No one's in there right now, but there is-- it's a drab little place, and there is a little icebox, and a simple wooden table, and there is a painting on the wall of four little kids of various age, probably between eight and 15. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does it seem like a family portrait? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, it's the kids together. TALIESIN: Okay-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, there's one boy, and three girls. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Are they-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's the kids they fed to the pigs. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's entirely-- weirder things have happened. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Totally. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Sometimes it is the photo that came with the frame. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Margaret) \"It's not right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say, I'd be happy to help cook, if you like, I desperately miss it, and I'm quite good at it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you want biscuits with your tea?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Biscuits would be grand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What sort of tea is this, by the way? I'm always-- is this local? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(laughs) Aye, just about everything here is local.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"If you want, the biscuits are in that cabinet by the stove, if you want to get it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thank you, yes, I hate not being useful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Margaret) \"I'm hungry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And I'm going to go up and-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Maybe we should get Mother Margaret a biscuit, quick. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, oh, everyone gets a biscuit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am-- looking around. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's been gone about an hour or so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can you tell me more, a little bit about that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Don't worry about what me ma says, she took-- she's a bit doddy, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What are the fairy houses, though? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's not? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She turns to you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's not right about it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Don't you believe him?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would love to believe him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pegeen, who was stoking the fire, has an iron poker, and she goes, (heavy slam). " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh fudge. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "At what? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Into the mother's head. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which splits, and cranial matter, and brain, and blood goes (spurts). " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, behind you, you hear, (quick footsteps) Gráinne is there, and you turn around, and she goes (whooshes) and blows something into your face, and you go-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I knew it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sputtering and coughing) Start coughing as something just went up into your nostrils, and down your throat-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Excuse me, the rocking chair, and begins to slowly spill, pour out onto the rug, and blood starts going (glubbing). " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ugh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(blood gurgles) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to try and find-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(pants) And runs at you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, before she does, can I move? Can I do something? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can attempt to move. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "As she goes to strike either one of us, I attempt to throw it, and create some smoke to frazzle her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everyone's coughing, now you are coughing a bit as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You especially are coughing-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What is this bullshit? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is hard to see in here for a minute, and we can all see silhouettes moving in your magician's improvised trick. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear what you think was the middle sister, Nora, go, \"(groans and gasps).\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The smoke starts to clear. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She is running out the back pen in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Towards us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Away from house-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, away from us, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is there a way out in the kitchen, or no? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just wondering. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The kitchen is off of a long hallway, and there's a couple more doors, and Pegeen, the smoke is starting to clear. \"(pants)\" Nora is on the ground, and there is blood pouring down her rib, and there is a huge gash, because the poker, an iron poker, if you're unfamiliar, has a long spike-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- then it's got a hook. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "There's a little hook, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But Pegeen \"(pants)\" rips the poker out, and she sees you coughing, and she comes running, and starts to swing at you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, well, I definitely want to dodge and parry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, make a Move. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You're going to dodge and parry? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, well, I'm sorry, parry and strike, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Parry, well, no, I mean, I was, I was thinking-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Isn't this parry? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I have nothing dealt with, I don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to do dodge. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, so that's a Move, right? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Think I just got nauseous. LIAM: Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Because-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "He's just staring at the mother, trying to figure out what happened. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five gilded, so you choose that gilded, you get a drive, a drive in there-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Then I will happily fill that drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) So you see her coming at you with an up-handed swing, and you throw yourself out of the way, and feel your foot step on the old woman's arm, and you fall backward-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She is pulling the poker out of a dresser cabinet that she has obliterated the tabletop of, going, \"(intense grunts)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to put her in a bare naked choke hold. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Finesse, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Awesome. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, or we, you can do-- Let's do Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, Strike? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think that's Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two? TALIESIN: Didn't you say you have a-- Well, no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's a two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You go-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How do I not get her in a bare naked choke hold? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Nora on the floor, who is bleeding profusely, you see a glint of metal, and she is swinging around from the floor, and shoving a knife towards your thigh-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you're getting stabbed at the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So just to make a dodge. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That is a four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A four? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who knows where Gráinne is at this moment, but you now have stumbled into this younger woman with a-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "With the poker. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- a poker in her hands. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Am I anywhere near him? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She, as soon as you come in close, takes the poker and then throws it over your head and begins to pull up and press into your throat. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I, if I can, reach into my coat-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- where I do have my tools. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I take the scalpel and I'm going to stick it in a very particular part of her thigh that will cause a lot of bleeding. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. So that is, for you, a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "A Focus, because I have Anatomical Strike, which I know where the body is most vulnerable, and when attacking an enemy, I may roll Focus instead of Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(choked grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ooh, that would be a four. (sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A four. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I am distracted. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All these fours. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But I get my gilded back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, I know. It's the curse of the set or something. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She screams, but you feel both of your bodies start to fall backward into the hallway. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But the poker goes (choking gasp) into your throat as you hit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(chokes) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "At some point, can I follow him and try to, I guess, a lack of a better word, straddle his chest, I guess, a lack of a better word, straddle his chest, and try to grab the poker from her? I'm assuming because she's been hit-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- it's kind of loose, and I can do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She is, she's on the ground with a scalpel shoved into her now between them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You want to try to rip, or pull away? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'd like to pull it away. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, yeah. So, he is gasping just the way-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That would be-- That could be Strike, Strike or Control for you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(scoffs) I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Both equally great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to spend a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So if I-- Just one. (laughs) Great. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, come on. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What'd we get, baby, what'd we get? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's a one! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player983", "Content": "Do you have any resistance or anything? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's a one. I do have resistance, but I have one. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I mean, you might as-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to use a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Can't be worse. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Which means just-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Reroll your-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just do one. I'm going to re-roll a different one, okay? I'm going to take this one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Get rid of that die. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Get rid of that, that one's in jail. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, it's re-rolling the base roll, so you now roll two, and take the lower. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you don't get to add drives or help or anything. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, just rerolling the one that I-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You roll the two and take the lower, because you're not adding the drive-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, I roll two-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, well, that's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's harder. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You think? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Can't get worse. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! Both fives! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Both fives? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "See? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Worth it! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wow, that's amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hoo! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He's upset, he's like, \"Damn it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pegeen and Edgar go down, and you step through this minefield of a home, and lunge and get on top of Edgar and grab the bar-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then you feel this whole knot that is the three of you buck as this smaller, larger than you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- but smaller woman begins to push up with her leg, and teeter-totter this whole knot over it, and you feel yourself lunging forward, so you're going into a headstand position-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then rolling into the hallway. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not too bad, the poker gets ripped away, and goes-- (clanging) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(gasps for breath) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because this is fucked. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. Can I still-- Can I grab at the thing though that fell? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, you can. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "At the poker, you mean? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'd like to have the poker. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Can you tell me how many brain you are? That's one, right? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's just one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because you took a Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because I did my Stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Thank god you did. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So am I still on top of her? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, and she's writhing-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm fucked. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- like a freaked out cat. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I need you to know-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do we have a deal? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(grunts)\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I pull the scalpel out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, bitch. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I start trying to get up. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going grab the poker and back up again. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, I have you the poker. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've got the poker. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, wait. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have the poker. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You have the poker. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "See if I can find the teapot. What's in the kitchen is the-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Knife? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, there are kitchen knives visible, and there is a tea set platter, and-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There's not a hot pot of tea, is there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, the tea is on the fire. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "But there are kitchen knives. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are kitchen knives, there are three kitchen knives, and one of them is a big fatty like you're hoping for. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're having trouble breathing in here, and you feel like you want fresh air right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We should get the fuck out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Gráinne. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you pull the knife out. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I pull the scalpel out, and I'm now trying to disentangle myself from her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Nora is on her feet now, though. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She has got a knife in her hand, and she awkwardly flips it around so it's in this position, and she is now walking towards the two of you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I got the poker. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have my scalpel. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She sizes you up really fast, and then she instead turns, and shoves the knife towards Malcolm's chest. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh great. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You can take-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We have time to react, or no? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Or, I-- I don't think so. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I got to move. TALIESIN: Yeah, I was going to start-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Anyone can try to do anything as long, soon as you call it-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- you make it reality. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If it was clear, I was going to try and start sneaking around her to see if I could get a shot behind her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(clears throat) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I took, I pocketed the other two knives. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I would say that you can catch up with her, but since I called the-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But-- (grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, it can proceed any way you want, you can try to get out of there. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I-- Am I close enough to try to swing at her head with the poker? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, I'd like to try to do that, try to disrupt it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would like lend her a drive for that, too, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What is that, Strike, right? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How do you help? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "To get her off balance so that Grimoria can-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So I think you could try to bat her away as you're hacking. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, because I'm (coughing). " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can take that drive. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Out of desperation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(impacts) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm dead. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is that three marks, or your fourth? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's two. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to take this opportunity to try and get right around into the neck and hit her in the neck since her weapon's currently stuck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you're coming at Nora, right? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I'm coming around and trying to get in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You make a Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This is going to suck unless anybody's got any way to help. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I literally don't have anything to give you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Wait, I'm going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How would you help? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "All my drives are gone. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit, I'm out of stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You've got her-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit. TALIESIN: Honestly, you've got her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A knife in your chest. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you can give me a narrative explanation to how you help. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The knife is right here, so maybe I hold onto her-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- as he's going so she doesn't move, so I give a better strike. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It digs deeper and it hurts like hell. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Here comes Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, that's great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "They're going to think we did this shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear in the fireplace, \"(desperate groaning)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, man. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She is going to run at you, charge at you with a knife in her back and try to plow, tackle you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Edgar's going to fall to the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Drop? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As she charges, I'm going to stick out the scalpel and slice the back of her tendon. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Ooh! No, no, no! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Surgical precision. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Like the Achilles? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, me too. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I feel that right in the-- Ugh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Six. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh nice. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This woman with her-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We're getting some Candelas. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- pixie haircut-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "All ones. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It cuts through her tendon and you feel the muscle, that thick tissue separate and she stumbles, crashes over you, hitting your head, inconsequentially, as she falls into the hallway and is now dragging away from " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Jeez, will not die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pegeen has gotten up and is burning, her hair is burning and her face is charred and she is beat to fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She starts to lumber towards the front door that you came in and pushes the door open. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Stop! What are you doing? LIAM: She is, her arms hang slack by her sides and she begins to walk lamely down the muddy path away from the home. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We got to get her. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll walk-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We got to get her. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Please, you two go get her. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to start following her down and I've left that one knife, I've got two others now and I'm going to start walking down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think she, we just, if you are cool with grabbing her by one arm and we'll drag her back because if I'm these villagers fucking see her, we're-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm knocking her down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As she rolls over onto the floor, onto the ground, the earth and she flips over and her hair is muddy and bloody and streaked through her face and she's staring at the sky and her arms are weakly-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where is Decklan? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- swatting into you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where is Decklan? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We got to get her out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Arms are hitting you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where is your brother? Where is he? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Her arm slumps into the mud. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to grab her by the feet and start dragging her back into the house. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The intensity is lessening, but one of those women just did something to you and you don't know what they did. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I got you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Concentrate on breathing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to-- Where the fuck is that bitch? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's just an allergic reaction. LIAM: Nora has made it within about two feet of the back door down that longer hallway and is slow like a slug-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to walk over there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- with the knife protruding from her back. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to grab the ankle. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I'll grab the other one. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What are you? What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She flexes around and reaches at your throat-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am staying back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and is reaching for you, ineffectually. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where are the Murphys? What's wrong with the fairy houses? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(lightly gasping)\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am backing up now and I'm going to throw, grab the plate of crisps and throw it at her. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Crisps. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One hand drops down and one continues to pathetically grab at the knife in her back and the hand gets her on the handle, and her body sinks into the wall and you watch her face press and she lies still like that, holding the knife in her own body. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You have it, right? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, here, here. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(thumps) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(thuds) And lumps onto the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I think they know damn well what was going to happen up here. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Where did the third one go? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Probably to get everybody else. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Which way? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "One of them ran, but she looked normal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You saw her at the kitchen. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She ran. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Running out the yard. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Did she go towards town, or did she go towards where? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She did not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I got to take care of Malcolm and then when we can move, we'll follow her, but right now I have to make sure he's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to attend to Malcolm who is stabbed and also choking. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's not choking anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you are breathing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But I have this knife that's in my chest. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The breathing, the burn is subsiding, it's fading. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But then also, like, I'm like-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just chill. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's down here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Down here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Here, look, we're going to have to take it out. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Pull it! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Grimoria, let's go somewhere else while this is happening. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Move your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Come on. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ugh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, and there's a possibility you're going to have a punctured lung. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're going to find out in a minute. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do you need us to put pressure or anything? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I need you to grab me a kitchen towel. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm running into the kitchen and grabbing. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "pull it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh! (gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, how's your breathing? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can you breathe? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is, you don't hear any bubbling or liquid. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, I think you're going to be okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm looking for anything unusual going through. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Grimoria-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I need a belt. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to try to search the bodies for a belt. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pegeen was in a skirt. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "While he does his thing with the belt, is there any opportunity for me to-- I know it's like they just died, but is there anything there for me to glean, like left behind any residual spirit energy that I might be able to connect to? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can try Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to, I want-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So if I have three and then I use a gilded, I just replace one of those. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! Five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So you can replace one of those. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Four gilded on mine, but I'll wait until this is done. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We're all doing the work. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not every time. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't bat 1,000. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you don't feel anything now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Damn it, I got nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They didn't stay behind. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "They didn't stay behind. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is a stupid question, but were they human souls? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I was going to say, were they there to begin with? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Were they ever there? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Were they ever there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're searching? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am, and I got four gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not a big house. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Side note, oldest sister Gráinne left those two or three minutes ago. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, I know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You finally end on the sisters and-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to, I'm also going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- in Nora's pocket there is a little pouch of something. Dust. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's a little odd and it has this wheel and you spin it and I spin it with my thumb and it has this little, it looks like a lighter, it either glows red or it sometimes it glows green just as I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And red means? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Red means nothing, but when the green hits, there's something odd and I'm running it over. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Or maybe you are. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's odd and I'm trying to see if it's a powder or a herb, or-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's texture or larger grains. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does it look (puffing) like it would. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It could be that, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think this may be the culprit, maybe not, and I'm going to gently close it and I'm going to feel, is it spongy? Is it sand? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's dry. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It feels dry to the touch. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There's only one bag that I found. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's just, did the knife wound get twisted or is it just a slice? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Straight in. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's going to have to do for now until I can suit you up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How are you? Can you stand? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, I think so. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Come on, let's get you up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We need to follow her. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, yes we do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think they have a walking stick, but you can try using the poker. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ugh, fucking poker. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is it worthwhile, one of us taking him back to the ship? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm not going anywhere. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think that's a good idea. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't think he would go even if I told him to. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, he really wouldn't. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Figure this out right here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So maybe this is a fairy home, but it's shaped like an egg or a beehive and it's just sitting by itself. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's odd. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This is worse than I imagined. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I use Illumination Key to Sense Phenomena? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can Sense, you can do an action to Sense, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Why not? A roll? I will use a gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Boo boo boo, doo doo doo ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Every time after. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, hit me with what you got, guys. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I got a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A six? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's not on the gilded, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "A six. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That range. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's obvious he's waiting for you, in some way calling to you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I share that with the group. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm running the bleed detector quietly like a fidget toy. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not a false positive. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is starting to glow. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have the bag as well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Every step closer you take, it brightens. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have the bag and I'm probably just touching the knife in the pocket. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Scalpel. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wait, who's got the poker? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have two knives. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, I thought we gave it to Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Imari has it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh no, you should keep it because he's injured. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I need that poker. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's got the poker. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I took the whole batch of them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I grab one knife from you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You guys would be foolish not to. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are slowly marching towards this fairy house. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar, you looked like you had something on your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm looking at this fairy house and I do have a Occult Researcher as a skill. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If there is none, I clear the brain mark. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Clear the brain mark. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Many of them lived in stone structures built by hand roughly where the weight-- There's no mortar, there's no anything holding it together except for early engineering. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So we walk our way toward this structure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to get my gun out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "30 feet away. IMARI: He's just holding like that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Anything following us? Anything around? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't see anything-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "10 feet away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going through my Rolodex in my head. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't see anything, but you hear far from you inside, \"(soft, shuddering breathing)\" \"(soft, shuddering breathing)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(shuddering breathing)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's Decklan. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll race to assist immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you race in? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Whoa, whoa, whoa. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Wait. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are all our bleeds going off right now? Is it strong right now? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Bleed is a negative effect. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Bleed detector. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to use my bleed detector, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mine was going nuts as we were walking up. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh yeah, there is definitely magick. LIAM: Leo's has already gone off. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It was very obvious. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I mean, how else are we going to figure it out? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria believes she's heard him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, he's definitely in there, that's him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would say I'd go in there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So your friends are putting a hand on your arm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But anyone wants anything can do anything they want. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You can. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Decklan. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What was her name? What was the sister's name that ran away? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Gráinne. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Gráinne. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Gráinne, is that you in there? Can you hear me? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(soft, shuddering breathing)\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Or is that you, Decklan? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(soft whimpers)\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can you hear me? All right, go in. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We're going to have to freaking rip the bandaid off, gents and lady. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You walk in the door and as soon as you step under, you have to lean down to get in here and you move your head in and you immediately on your right hear dirt scrabble and look and you see Gráinne with an axe-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I shoot her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- swinging down at you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Straight up. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit, I got my gun ready to go. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Pow pow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can try to get out of the way of it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Or you can say screw it and take the hit and shoot this woman. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh dude, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you are in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to get out the way. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was like, that's a " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive with that too, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I wish I had one to give you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, I got a four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a four? AIMEE: You got it back with the-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You got a gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, I get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, you get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I didn't erase my drive. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Anything to help with? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's all good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then you try to twist your trajectory in time and pray that it is enough, and you feel the wood come crashing down on your noggin. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "At least it's the wood. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, at least it's not steel. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So take that brain. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Got that brain. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, what happens next? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Can we see her? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see her legs and lower half there inside the doorway of this stone structure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does it seem to do anything? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Bro, she's crazy right now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She is locked on Malcolm-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, she's not there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "However-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She's just not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She is in it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to go through and try to push her away from Malcolm and take her down to the ground if I can. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, make a Strike move. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(exhales forcefully) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "♪ I don't have anything in that ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I wish I could give you something. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have to roll two and take the lower. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh! TALIESIN: Do you have nothing to-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- burn at all? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We're all out of drives. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I only have one drive. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Drives are terrible. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We're going to have to rethink that. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Because I just took a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hold that thought. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I just took a mark. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You charge her and she turns, and with the axe-- You got a two? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She doesn't have a chance to swing it, but she manages to whack it up under your chin. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you, your jaw is-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(fearful whimpering)\" Over to you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He has a growth on his face. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, and looks out of it and terrified or heartbroken or wrong. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So at this moment, his sister is-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's just-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to shoot her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- maybe broke her jaw. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shoot her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Has her back to you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, do it up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, now-- One of my abilities is Sharpshooter. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know it well. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, so that's \"When you want to make a ranged attack with a weapon, you may spend one Nerve to steady your aim before shooting.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "\"And add 2d to your next shot at this target.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So the first-- So how does that work for me? So my one Nerve would be-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So if you got a Nerve, you erase it, it's gone. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You add two dice to the roll, and if anybody-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, is it-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Does that take time to aim shots? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Wait, what kind of Nerve does it take? Does it take a drive? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's just him, that's just making this moment count. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. TALIESIN: Okay, it takes a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I take one drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She has turned away from him and rocked your world and is looking to you to then turn the axe around for the kill. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That was my worry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So she's got her back to you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shoot that bitch. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So if I have-- So I add two more to the shoot, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have one Control. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So using that ability burns a Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You get to add two dice to whatever you have for Strike-- Or, excuse me, for Control. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you want to burn drives if you have them, you can add more dice. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to add, because I'm obviously not doing well right now with that, I'm going to add another drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want her done. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's Nerve, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I got four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I don't have anything. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Oh, a handful of dice, ♪ ♪ Handful of dice ♪ ♪ Give Malcolm ♪ something nice ♪ Oh, I got a four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got a four? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We'll fucking take it, man. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) How dare you shoot her. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Dude, I got nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shoot her somewhere. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The back of her head erupts. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Perfect, but with cost. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Spraying you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You shot her from six inches away. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, maybe it was a little too-- I maybe overdid it a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You spent a lot to make that shot count. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So many people toppling on top of you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So skinny. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And you hear a scrabble in the dirt behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "and starts to run through you all towards the door. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I grab him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're still outside. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have the bag. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sunlight hits your friend and his face is decayed around the lip. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Does it look like the guy on the ship, like that sort of-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, different. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, that guy was-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Melted off. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sort of evaporated away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Decklan's face has got growth on it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He comes crashing towards you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Decklan! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Push him away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(pained groans)\" Runs right into you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you don't move, he topples over, stumbles into you onto the ground. \"(gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Back! Back! And I pull it away. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He might be contaminated. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got little chunks falling in your face and little bit of it goes in your mouth-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- you think, and he-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Throw up immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, literally. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was trying to drag her out of it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And you take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm getting out of that hide-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He falls on top of you and coughs and sputters. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I, at this point there's enough time that I'm, I get hit, but I'm not going to stay down there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, but he actually is moved over and past you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What is the source of the bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What is the source of the bleed? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Decklan is a phenomenon now by definition. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He is fully not himself. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Someone grab him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's parsing language. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is it fairy bleed, like is it anything? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's no fairy bleed in this world. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, there's fairy tales and tales of fairies. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Gotcha. LIAM: Anyway, he's up on his feet and he is running-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is he up on his feet? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- over these unstable rocks away from you back towards the house. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I wouldn't have, " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Charging him. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say, I wouldn't have let him get up. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sternly) Somebody grab him! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I would've run and pushed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, so that would be a-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, that's going to suck. AIMEE: Can't help you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Don't say that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Four, you have four. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have nothing out of this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see him fall in these rocks because it's very uneven and there's huge wedges that it's easy to twist an ankle in here. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Malcolm, grab him! He's going to fall off the edge. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He stumbles and hits the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to seize upon the moment to go there and catch up with him and subdue him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's about 40 feet ahead of you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Get that drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I get that drive again? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Jeez. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have the upper hand here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have him, come over here and help me out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm walking over. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are you there? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do not get anywhere near it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Could I maybe use-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let me see him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- connect with someone to see if he will tell me anything or I can hear anything through the voices, anything like before where I could sense him before I saw him? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You could try to learn something new by rolling Sense again. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll keep rolling it 'til I get something. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Decklan, can you hear me? It's Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! No, I got a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just not on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We're going to call it that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can feel him there, but he's not, which means his soul is present. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's like, but it's like fighting for-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's not responding to you, Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to take out a handkerchief and use it to at least keep him from coughing. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We can all try. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to take some, in my medical kit, I assume I have ether or chloroform or something like that, some sort of thing to knock, to put someone out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to put him out, just knock him out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He struggles against it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's going to be okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "His body goes limp. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We need to get him down from here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, let me help you out. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We got to carry him, we got to carry down the hill. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I can't even feel my throat anymore. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let me get the legs, you get the torso. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean, I'll help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We'll all help. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Before we bring him down. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You guys carry him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, and if you're going to carry, can you also point a gun while you carry? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I don't know if I need to yet because we're, I mean we don't have-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Maybe I can just have it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, why don't you hold onto it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll hold onto it because we're going to help me. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You need that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If you don't mind, can I borrow you for one second, dear? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to walk back to that egg. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's no belongings. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is it similar to the dust that's in the bag? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's a similar color. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I back out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Get going or, down the hill? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, it seems like if he himself is a bleed, and we do not know the source of, we don't know what's causing the bleed, we don't know what's affecting him, that we should contain him and bring him back for-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The way to do that is to bring him home. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Bring him home? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We got to knock him out, though, and how far is home from where he is? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Home is home. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're about a half day away from-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Half day away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm sure he's got plenty of that chloroform or ether, like you keep knocking him out. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I bring him back to the shower, if we go back to the house at all. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Keep him tied down. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Knocking him out over and over again is not a good idea, it's not good for him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The ship's not there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there any wheelbarrow-like instrument we can use to cover him up so that we can go through town and disguise him, the fact that we have him in the wheelbarrow? How long will chloroform work? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Depends on his system. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It'll be easier to carry down the hill. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Look-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not going to be there waiting for us and we can't just stand on the dock. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We'll be able to do simple, but yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We don't make a noise, we don't make a fuss, we just leave. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we see any rowboats nearby? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Not here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, no, no, but like, or, you know, we can't be far from water or from another house. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well survived. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Not for lack of trying. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "High five, team. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That was a good time. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "My blood pressure's like-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Same, same, same, same. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Badder badmouth. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Too bad we didn't find any. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But you lose consciousness, kind of serene. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Will you please remind the audience of who you are here on Earth One and who you are playing as here in the Fairelands? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm around. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "and I'm playing Grimoria who is a Weird Medium Magician. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's clearly a little homebrew action, thanks to our wonderful Game Master. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My name is Imari Williams and I'm playing Malcolm Trill, Till, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) I love it, came up with that myself. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Give us your Finsta. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He comes from a very powerful family and I've survived a great tragedy that struck me while I was serving in the war, the great war of Newfaire and I'm basically the muscle with a heart of gold, I would say. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm a voiceover actor and you can find me deep in the nightmares that dreams have when they sleep. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was playing Leo Amicus, who is a, technically speaking, the Journalist class in Candela, but of course, we can play, so he is in fact actually a professional man of leisure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sleep well, family. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Visit darringtonpress.com/candela to learn more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But if we are not prepared to put him under the knife, I really think at best you should step away from a case so personal to you, in my opinion.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I ask, why? Why are we not prepared to operate? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) Well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You-- You will keep us updated if anything changes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you walk down a long curving hall, your view of it, imperceptibly-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One opens on a man in a peacoat and a beard quickly, and in a huff storms across the hallway ahead of you, closing the door behind him, opening one across the way and disappears. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How you feeling today?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now I'm feeling like a human bandaid, but I'm doing good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "At least you're human. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "For now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm sure Dr. Aguilar and Edgar here have been taking good care of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm sure you'll never forget that, will you Edgar? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How are your ribs?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's healing quicker than I thought it would. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've been given the okay to leave.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm not sure if I want to, I'm a little scared to go outside after-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just if you could stay in town.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We'd appreciate it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Of course.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Grimoria blushes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mr. Murphy is not doing as well as you, I'm afraid.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's his prognosis? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Zora opens her mouth to speak for a second, but catches herself and-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's that bad, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can tell that she is on the verge of tears a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "He's asleep for now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But we expect them back soon, so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do they think what has attached himself to Malcolm, \"to Malcolm, to Decklan is what's attached to me or what I could have breathed in with what was blown in my face or? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Quite possibly.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) Delightful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sure he's all right, doctor? Seems a little out of sorts still.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What do you think, Edgar? Anything you can detect inside me? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "From this distance? No. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I mean from a week of examination. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You seem as fine as your-- (sighs) You seem to be healing normally. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's code for you look terrible. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Everything else, there's no sign of anything else happening to you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "50-50. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Guess we'll find out one way or another, won't we? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, you took Stitch and Train. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm took a Stitch and a Train. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I sure did. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mr. Trills, if you will.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now instead of the airplane hanger somewhere in the world that you just saw-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Was it Amelia Earhart? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, Leo, I could describe this apartment, but I think you're better equipped and I would really love to hear it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Why not? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We are actually stepping in oddly from the bedroom door, which is strange. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Not the front. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Cheers to being home, darling.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This will be very useful in the coming hours. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Fingers crossed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If you can. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, the mirror just reflects Leo's bedroom door and those bottles, by the way, there's three of them in a small crate and the labels on them are in a language that you do not read and do not recognize. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm collapsed in the bloody couch. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "One little nipper before I leave. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Everyone, cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Cheers, Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, that's good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) It is hard to know what to do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Takes another little nipper and she's going to try to hail a streetcar or whatever they have available. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The door's always open. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In the red-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just please take advantage. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You make your way downstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Head off and find your way to a trolley car. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A street car, yeah, trolley car. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would you like to go somewhere directly at the moment? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I'm worried about their reaction and probably need to get back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We find you eventually at the steps of the four-story townhouse owned by the Foggs, your employers, your wards to a degree-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, look who I found.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm hearing voices and I'm ready to go back to work. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Three! Three appointments!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll make up, I'll make up-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You missed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I will-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Do you have any idea how much money you might have cost us, Alma?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I've got some new things I've learned that might prove even more lucrative in our next appointment, if you know what I mean. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is going to improve our business, how?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I've got a kind of hieroglyphics that now I know how to use and I don't know, I can maybe-- Well, I think it's better if I show you during an appointment. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You have " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think you won't be disappointed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right, well, I'll consider it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What is that you have in your hand? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, this is a knife out of antiquity.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, that's exactly what I've been handling the last few days, antiquity. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well here, get acquainted with it because we've got an appointment tomorrow and I need you to make up for everything we've lost this week.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just find me something else that's ancient. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're fairly certain you're holding a forgery in your hands. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it'll have to be a bit-- When the customers arrive and you're expected to get in touch with the other side for their benefit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's going to be more of a theatrical presentation than anything. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You set it down on the bed next to you and look at your desk where there is a little picture postcard of Westecklyn. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But Mr. Fogg's use of her real name was definitely maybe more traumatizing than the last few days. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You begin to hear a conversation bubble up from down below. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Did you remember to pick up our masks for it?\" (Oliver) \"Fuck! That kid's more trouble than she's worth.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "regarding past events. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) And I don't know if the Foggs are wealthy enough to have those people, like a butler or something that can go deliver it or if she has to go do that, but she sends it off. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think you can get a messenger boy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She would love to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The Foggs are scurrying about the house, readying for tomorrow's appointment and preparing for a masquerade, an auction, speaking about-- Just so we're clear, the remains that you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- received, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Out into the Red Lamp where you are currently, heading to the Glass Cat Casino? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He's going to make his presence known around the Red Lamp and let people know that he's back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You cross that one street where you took a shot in the eye last year, breaking up a fight that ended up in a bar with the two guys sharing beers and helping them bury the axe. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You watch him for a while and all the people who walk past him without so much as a glance, like they can't see him, or won't. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He always holds up a steady chin and a valiant gaze whenever I talk to him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mother bless you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Of course. You get something to eat today? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yesterday.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. Enough? You want me to go get you some food? How are you feeling right now? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, that's plenty, what you gave.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I want you to make sure that you get yourself fed today, all right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Haven't seen you in a while.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here today, gone for a couple. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah. Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Anything happen when I was gone? Anything I should be aware of, or--? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Same old, same old.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Kids getting up to trouble as kids do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Especially those two little pesky ones running about. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With everything that happened out at sea and on the island, With everything that happened out at sea and on the island, where's Malcolm at? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mostly thinking about Decklan and about how he's doing and trying to really come to reality and trying to really come to reality with what transpired and how close I came to losing my life, basically. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Got a little bit of that pile for me, Cordelia? " }, { "Role": "Player984", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is everything all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Little-- Life took me in another direction for a few days, but now I'm back, healing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Healing?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How's everything going with business? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Just getting bigger and bigger every month.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I could see by that stack of cash you have there, aren't you? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you sure you're good for tonight? We can always call Dutch or Grace.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know, it's nothing like getting back to it in order to get your mind off of things. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're always here and if anything is ever bothering you, you don't have to soldier through it all.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nah, I just need time to get back into the old swing of things, so to speak, and being within your presence, my queen, is doing me a good amount of good, fair amount of good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It's good to have you back.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's good to be back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So why don't you go see Shirley? She's not busy at the moment.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, Shirley here. Hmm? I think I will. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do me a favor and roll for Control. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Excellent work, Dr. Lycoris.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell me, what is running through your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I instead flipped my knowledge on its head I instead flipped my knowledge on its head and used it to end a woman's life who may have just been sick, may have just been confused. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Self-defense to be sure, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(short laugh) It doesn't matter. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It doesn't matter. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That is what I am thinking while I wash my hands in a hospital. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Doctor, are you all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have been having trouble sleeping, you know? I'm just tired. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Look down at your hands, which are red and raw in the near-scalding water pouring out of the faucet. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you want to do with your time alone? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And I'm going to take a second to remember what day it is and I just raise my glass to the empty plate of food that's getting cold. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can tell, you're reminded that The Endless Well is open right now. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Then I quickly move to the front door and I head my way straight down to The Endless Well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Leo!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've missed the last couple days. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It's been a bit!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My work can be anywhere when your work is nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How's that life of mystery treating you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The life of mystery has been mysterious, a little wrought with danger, a little bit of fun, a little bit of fun. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you have anything, I'm looking for something-- Let's start with something complicated, anything that you think would be interesting, and then something I can take upstairs and maybe mix with something that young pleasants brought over to my apartment a couple days ago. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Can I surprise you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, please. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So you found somebody--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- over the week, eh?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I found something, at the very least, over the weekend. " }, { "Role": "Player789", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You know how they say that a sailor has a lover in every port? Well, a lover in every port has a sailor on every ship. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Ah. (laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Somebody wins in that equation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Love must be in the air. I met a girl.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh! In here? Somewhere else? I assume you leave here on occasion. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm being silly, but.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah, it's just been real tough since '04, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe I am in love.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It will always be different, but it's the first and easiest thing to begin, and it makes the sound of whatever happened to you before quiet just a bit for a little while. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She knocks twice on the wooden counter. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hello, stranger.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know I have probably a pile of things to purchase. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just on a ship, I think.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It was awful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As they are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I'm getting conflicting information because he just told me he had a lot of fun.\" (Felix) \"What kind of fun?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The company was a bit dull, but-- (quiet laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Felix) \"What's the news? Got any scuttlebutt?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How have you been, out of curiosity? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shop's doing all right, I suppose.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was not expecting to be away for quite this long. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe we can get ourselves into that masquerade happening in the Varnish later this week and knock back a few.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If you're interested, do you want to be my plus one or should I be yours? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's a little higher than my normal rung on the ladder.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Who owes me a favor? Do you know who's throwing this little shindig? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, it's being had at the Hayden House in the Varnish.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Someone told me about it in the shop yesterday.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But, you know, talk of the town.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Auction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So you're the one with the connections, not me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Vintage, like antique auction, that sort of thing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know vinyl.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Charley, god forbid if I get tickets to this, can you help me dress this man? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Dress me? This isn't good enough.\" (Charley) \"Well, I mean, it's okay for here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's just inevitable. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Felix) \"I leave myself in your hands.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "to bring out the best in someone, clothing-wise. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let us put a pin there-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have made it known to Mrs. Fogg? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That I sent a messenger? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You mean to proposition Mrs. Fogg, say that you could be of help? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No. So, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Did I misunderstand? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, quickly, I sent a letter to Leo in code, letting him know that we needed to meet. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Our whole team. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm trying to find a way to pitch the Foggs to get me in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To get you in. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And I think I might be able to do that through tomorrow's performance. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, maybe let's workshop it with the circle. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's say that the very next morning is the soonest that all of you have gotten word, first from Grimoria to you, Leo, and then word finally reached you the morning after your fun and J-O-B, and you after I'm sure a very restful night of sleep. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(smirks) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "By about 11:00 or so the next day, you sneak out-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We find you now gathered, your dinner from the night before cleared away, sitting in the reflected light of this Crimson Mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who did we deliver that to? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You delivered to the Red Hand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We delivered it to the Red Hand. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "There possibly could be more of that out there. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I just have a feeling. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For clarity. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You heard him say that a man named Aroha Tama-Kai-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tama-Kai. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- sold half of an ancient historical figure's remains to one party-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and kept the other and is now trying to sell the remains of what Candela believed they were in full possession of. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have a plan to persuade my employers to let me come. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was flirting. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Aroha. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Aroha. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tama-Kai. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, that was the name I heard as well when-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thank you, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You didn't get a name. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. I thought there was a-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Was it a location, I believe. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, it was a location. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The Hayden House. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hayden House " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hayden House. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, because in our first chapter of this-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You mentioned Aroha Tama-Kai. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, I briefly mentioned a high-level contact within the Red Hand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela learned of the Red Hand's possession, contact was made, and the Red Hand agreed to sell. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This time they weighed the pros and cons and decided that forking over a mountain of cash-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- was worth it because of the significance and danger of these remains. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. So I'm afraid we've come into possession of only half of the remains. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Would I know Haven house? Would I know of it, also would I assume it was in Haven Hills? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, it's actually in the Varnish. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Am I remembering that correctly? Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it's hard to know who owns what in this city. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's fair. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's a lot of grease and grift. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was already trying to get tickets to this event. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I heard about it last night. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know the rest of the plan, but I think that we should try to somehow, I don't know, disrupt this auction and make sure that those remains are safe. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Disrupt it indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not necessarily our job to go getting something we weren't asked to get, is it? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Have you contacted her yet? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I should've. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a small little side table next to the door to Leo's bedroom with a silver tray on it, and notes are left there and they just seem to disappear and sometimes notes just appear there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Edgar, if you wouldn't mind, for some bizarre reason, you seem to have the best handwriting in the group despite the clear stereotype, if you wouldn't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Pen's on the vanity. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll write a note conveying all the information that we've heard, adding that may or may not be true, and then send it off. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just to take a look around. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just don't think we should necessarily mean to disrupt an entire gala. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Edgar, are you worried about wearing a mask to a gala? Not your style? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't need to worry about that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think I've had quite enough of that for a while. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "My eagerness was only meant to prevent anything like what happened on the ship to happen again. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If there's any kind of, any inkling that these bones might be out there and what we went through on that ship could be here in Newfaire, we definitely need to investigate this and we need a report what we find back to Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, no, that's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just want to exercise caution so that we don't all get beaten up again. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You're very wise. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar, you look past Grimoria's shoulder and notice that the note you left in the tray has already vanished from the tray. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I guess we sit and wait, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I assume you have your ways of procuring some tickets. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That would go very poorly. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I don't think I can be a plus one under my family name either, but you know, we'll figure it out. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's very fair. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Doctor, do you have any notions of anybody who owes you a favor in this direction? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't go to parties, if that wasn't clear already. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's just that there's nothing more enticing, especially to someone who has enough money to be consistently bored, than a person who refuses to ever speak to them suddenly having a moment of weakness. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll do my best to find a ticket. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As quickly as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think you should make him squirm a little bit and ask someone a favor, but that's just me. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have to make my appointment, but thank you for meeting at such short notice. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Always. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How are you doing back with the family, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, terrible, but I think it'll be better. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are they too hard on you for missing those days? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Not too much. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let me know if I need to-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Yes, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let me show you out really quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The least that we can involve those dreadful, dreadful people would be best for all of us, and definitely you as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But will they see me there and question why I'm there? I mean, can a mask really do so much? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They're so awful and dull. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is their line of work. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, you are sadly the most interesting thing they have to talk about, so you are always the thing they will put forward. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Dreadful fucking people. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She gives him a kiss on the cheek. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do what you can, don't take them too seriously, and just be careful, be careful, be careful. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I will. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Call if anything happens, send a note. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I will. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's get to work. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think what I'm going to do, I'm back in the room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Or maybe some whispers in the background that I might be able to pick up-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to see if I can investigate that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's very helpful. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If not, I will try and think of somebody. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I feel like there's a-- Well, I'll do my best. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, we will discuss options, hopefully soon. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Very good, very good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, which one of these threads would we like to pull first? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, we can jump right into Grimoria's performance if we'd like. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And you do, you use the rear entrance that deliveries, food, and other things are made and hear them in discussion in his study and glide into the house. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "To the show room? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do to prepare? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think it's, you know, she's made up, she's got this beautiful robe and a lot of rouge trying to look, I guess as medium-istic as possible considering that she is an 18-year-old girl. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She chokes up-- (gags) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's got a little squib? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gags) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It could be cyanide, you don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She winks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is during a performance, or, a rehearsal? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is the dress rehearsal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The dress rehearsal. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(whispering) Mr. Fogg, give me the vial. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What the fuck are you talking about?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The other vial you showed me the other day. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"The vial?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shit, I'm sorry. Hold on.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear drawers opening and closing and something knocks over. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hopefully this will be worked out before the gentleman comes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Cynthia) \"Well, once we have the lights down-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- and I go down and work the pull that makes the table do the thing.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, this tastes very bad so the sooner we can do it the better. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(grumbles) What are we doing?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How was that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(laughs) You know, even when she's full of shit, she's brilliant!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I think if we could sell two, you know, at once. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah! A two-fer.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was thinking-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm still a little ticked off.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I've got to be honest.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "An auction of sorts? What if you bought some of your artifacts and I could sell them for you at this auction? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Were you talking about the thing?\" (Cynthia) \"I don't think so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We can move some product. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's out. Get another one.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I just want to be of service and I feel so terribly about not being back in time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You understand. I mean--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We love you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean, I think I just sold, hopefully, two for one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"The proof's in the pudding, kiddo.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He has got a walrus type mustache. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've heard a lot about you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Grimoire, is it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do I sit here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Excellent, excellent. Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Before we start. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is this quick?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm getting-- Is there-- Where is your mother? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She was in the Silverslip.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She wants you to know she is here with you, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mrs. Fogg has dimmed the lamps in this room and quietly closed the curtains around you and now it is very dark in here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We start with: Betrayal. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She does the performance. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Absolutely, absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've always wanted to see some magick!\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(coughs dramatically) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Whoa.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The vial. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Oliver) \"Oh, I've got it right here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You must not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you have a hanky, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She hands him a hanky-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hands it to him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- that she spritzed with some perfume. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Gerald) \"(coughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Oh, nice touch. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Before. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's sort of judging you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How was that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, I'm sure we can work out a ticket, but you have to be glued to us at this event.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you say the wrong thing, it's over for us--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's over. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- in this crowd, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So just keep your mouth shut until it's your time to act.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Whatever you say. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We're bringing a couple of busts to the event.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fabulous. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Those are going to be auctioned off.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who knows? One of them might be-- They're both going to be great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just, this, you've got a little-- Did you have a spill or something? There's a ghost of a--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I thought maybe we could work it in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You want to go for a smudgy look then, all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, yes, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay. Okay, okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I won't disappoint. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay.\" Then we shift over to Leo Amicus. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am staring at a small Rolodex. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Deciding how much I'm going to hurt myself. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is bristling with many, many names. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How important is this? Hm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, as you're looking at the Rolodex for what feels like five minutes unsure of where or how to proceed, you notice an envelope, a new one, with a very beautiful calligraphy, letter Z in the silver tray by the door. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I open it up and I quickly blaze over it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Possible?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thick enough to bleed through the page. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The things I do for you fucking people. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Did this seem like it was just for, was it me or to the circle? Did it seem to be the more-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It was for the circle. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm writing three quick notes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well just, I have a service. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This money, my god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are still ridiculously wealthy. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have someone come to pick it up, make sure that the-- It is taken care of. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are whisked away. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to go find-- Dress a little more inconspicuously and I'm going to go find a corner at a restaurant that I know Aunt Leanna frequents. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leanna is your angle. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They cut down the amount of time I had, didn't they? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Was one of those messages sent off for Leanna? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, it was one of each of theirs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Each of them. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I just know this is a place she likes to eat and I'm giving myself an out to reel into Walter if I don't see her over lunch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm just letting fate handle it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She looks up and-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just to get it out of the way, you look fantastic. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's as much small talk, obviously, as we need. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you all right? Have you burned through the money? Is there anything amiss?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, the temptation to burn through the money is very powerful, but no, I've actually been relatively conservative with it, especially considering my taste. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This is about a friend who needs help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Charity case.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's two birds with one stone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Have you spoken with your father?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You've got to be fucking kidding, right? Has he spoken to me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Honestly, I don't know if I have the stomach for it right now, it's been a bit difficult. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know it's a lot to ask.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Even if it were just to argue about the amount of money I was spending. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It pains me, but fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do appreciate it, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So tell me, what is it that you need from your Aunt Leanna?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tomorrow, I believe. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You want to go to the Hayden House?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do. I would love a plus two, but I would take a plus-- I would love a plus two, but I will take a plus one, if I have to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you need three tickets total? You want to go to the Gilded Garden tomorrow night for charity?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Most likely I only need two, but three would be-- It's for a good cause, I swear. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I really do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There will be strings attached to that, though.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So if you would care to make, you know, a contribution in the ten-ish region, I can acquire you as many tickets as you want within reason.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I swear I will not ask for five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Make it 15 and it's done.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why can't they all be like you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sighs) Well, it's not about winning, but if I get to be your favorite aunt and pull in the biggest haul for my charity of choice, I'll take that win.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Ah yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Give us a kiss.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You don't know what this means to me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sighs) You are going to need-- Do all of your pluses have the formal attire required? Do they have-- You're going to need masks, all of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's one of the things I'm best at. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hm, it's amazing you have not burned through all that money.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't eat out anymore, except right now, really. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your auction, if you're looking to make a bid on anything, is at 7:00 tomorrow.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Haven, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm having my cheeks worked on.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh yes, it's about time, isn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Rub on some liniment oils.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, Felix-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You can join me if you want.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's been a bit busy with my side projects, which I will only talk about when it's time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So if you have to be somewhere soon, I would--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Sadly, I do have a quick meeting to take care of. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure enough, you walk in and see your guy, your friend Gail working the bar. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gail? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How are you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do I owe the pleasure?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "A little bit of, you know-- Little bit of inquiry, if I may. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, I'm all ears.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Listen, I know you-- I know you have a catering business going on right now and I was happen to wonder if you heard about a certain event that's going to be held recently for the, shall we say, upper crusts? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is the Caribou Club.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Something-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're talking about the Hayden House.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm talking about the Hayden House. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What kind of trouble are you looking to get into?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No (scoffs). " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know, I want to hear if there's any whispers of-- You know how my side business, I put, keep my ear to the ground, make sure that you know-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know a guy who is part of that outfit.\" \"I know a guy who is part of that outfit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "A server job. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah. Yeah, We can do that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, because we're-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you were always straight with me and I owe you a lot more than that, so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I know you have a girlfriend-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm not going to say no.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know the offer's there-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm not going to say no.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The offer's there if you want it, hush-hush. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So if you want to work that out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Anyway, have a shot with me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What are we having? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One brown, one clear and begins to mix them in a glass. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are we talking about an all night thing, or we talking about just a little hair of the dog thing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sighs) I'm on work.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I was hoping that we'd get into a little bit of trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Slides it across. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "To friendship. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"And the ones we lost.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is there anything you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just the safety. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) Having never really tried to do anything like this before, but having spent enough time with these people, the first thought that comes into my head is that I should-- I've treated enough people that I'm sure I've worked on someone who is well to do in those circles. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So I'm going to call, I'm going to-- Well, not call, but I'll call upon one of them, and ask if there's any way I could acquire a ticket. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Doctor Ly--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Lycoris. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hi, can I help you today?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is he in? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is it important?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can come back later. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He says he'll see you.\" She takes her seat. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I walk in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Good day, Doctor.\" You find-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Dr. Lycoris.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mr. Gunner. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"This is irregular, but not unwelcome.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I was wondering if you had any connections or know about how I would go about getting one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Didn't you just miss three days of work?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So as much as I want to laugh in your face, I'm sorry-- So as much as I want to laugh in your face, I'm sorry--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just the one ticket?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just the one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So, apologies.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There was a lot of unforeseen circumstances that happened. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not going to go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sure there's a friend of mine who would be happy to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'll have them brought by your office.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That would be lovely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"By end of day.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I am very sorry again about the unexpected missing of work. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I was just busting your chops. I apologize.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But I also-- You don't-- As much as I'm very appreciative of what you're doing, you don't owe me for what I did. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That is not true.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's not why I do this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I hope you have a wonderful time and happy hunting for your home.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll hurriedly leave the office. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As I go past the secretary I say: Thank you again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The gist of that was one more time, to keep me on track? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "\"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just yes? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It was to meet at what time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "At what time? It was this evening. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "On the table we have one, two, three, four, five. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "One's going to Felix. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Auction begins promptly at 8:00.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What did they say? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a good callback. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Little charcuterie. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yours very quickly at the bottom in slight handwriting said, \"I feel I know you well enough to respect that we should never know each other that well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Please figure out a way to unwind. L.A.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's exactly... " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "and it does appear that Tama-Kai has had us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you tell me what you are thinking and maybe I will add my two pieces.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "My employers are, I think, one of the lesser auctions before the big auction and I can at least provide a distraction for about five minutes or so and maybe that will help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a general auction for the night, but--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "A secret auction is going on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Correct.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I believe that this party and the auction are a bit of a smoke screen for the real game behind the scenes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Will it be within the premises, will be outside the premises? It'll be within the property I assume, in the secret location of the property and one that we know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, when you were overhearing the Foggs talk, Mr. Fogg talked about Aroha's little museum Mr. Fogg talked about Aroha's little museum on the third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it seems a logical conclusion. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I relay that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Good to know. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you all set for formal wear, or--?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I go put on my costume. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Your costume?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's rather a shock, but try not to laugh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think it's quite good. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Whatever you wear. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That might not be a bad idea in case chaos ensues. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Shopping might be in order if you all are not set.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll be with the servers behind the scenes, so to speak. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It might not have be bad to have an option B. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Always, always. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Since we have enough invitations to make things work. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You just want take me shopping. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, not at all. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Functional, tactical. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right. That sounds excellent.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Let-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What is the best course of action? Should one of us pose as a buyer? I don't know how to get the artifact out of there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So the challenge will be getting in, but thankfully not out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So it'll at least be a little more stable. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. Thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You sure those work? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It'll only work once, " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "And we each get one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "These cost a fortune.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Only get one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah. It's just the one.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh! That's lovely. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So no jumping into the ocean while we're in there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where's the fun in that? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just clearly they must have money. It's really not worth it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Not even a pat on the back, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Maybe a very hard one, but make it quick. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we know who the buyers that have been selected are? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Good question, Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is a member that I am friendly with in the OUP.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"They are trying to get it for--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there any possible way? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sorry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What if we took the place of one of the buyers? Is there a list that we can procure to see if we can maybe, I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, but I'm going to say that all the buyers are going to be already known by the seller. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Certainly by each other. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And by each other. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are they not? Masks? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, it's a masquerade.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Masquerade. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I think to keep things as anonymous as possible.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My shade gives me away, but maybe there might be somebody else who might be of some (laughs). " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Which is the problem, though, is that this is the sort of place where both of us are going to have a difficult time not being recognized. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Lay low. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to get a full coverage, more of a helmet than a mask. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I even don't know how much mask it would take. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, no one really knows me, I can-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Me neither. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I think I'm pretty safe, as long as I don't serve the dish directly to their table, I think I should be fine. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "But which is honestly, to the table, not just you, to the table. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Perhaps, you'll want to wait until the auction begins.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "While everyone is distracted. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That should increase your chances, at least have less eyes on you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Find out where they're storing the item. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It would be a shame if Mr. and Mrs. Frogg became ill and couldn't go to the show and had to send you all by yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wouldn't know how to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughing) Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't particularly want to, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Which honestly, well, you've probably performed for a few of the people in that room I suppose, haven't you? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, but they never really see me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, we have many options available to us, don't we? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "My god, I got two tickets all on my own. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, Edgar, congratulations. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm so proud of you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How did that feel? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You're a charmer. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I genuinely think that's very impressive, Dr. Lycoris. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I do, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So I'm sorry, you have enough tickets or--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, extra to be honest. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think we have more than enough. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Do you really?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here's our little-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm bringing a date. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here's the money I owe you from our little side bet to see if-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We sure could use someone like Decklan on this assignment. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I love how much faith you all have in me. " }, { "Role": "Player976", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You won that one. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I also wear a costume at work. It's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, Dr. Lycoris, I know that I'm retired from the field--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- but perhaps I can be eyes and ears for you at this event as well?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, that'd be great. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You outrank me, it's your decision. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I'm not good for a scrap, so if things go belly up--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Neither am I. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- I'm going to fade into the crowd.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Zora out in the field again, that should be fun. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Now I want to see this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I do, too. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You should have seen me in my heyday.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. I can imagine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You'll fit right in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shopping will be done, I assume. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I was hoping Charley was just going to take care of that, but yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Don't you have three? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do have, I have more than three. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So maybe if-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have an emergency one for the two of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- in case things go wrong, where clearly you don't work here, you are guests. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're going to go in, Malcolm, through the back entrance, so to speak, and you are going to go in with the Foggs. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to go in with the Foggs and maybe I wouldn't be opposed to maybe slipping a little something in their, a little Visine-like product in their drinks. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "A little dysentery for the evening. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A little something to get them to leave. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I love it. The night before or in the hour-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I need them to come in, so maybe in the cocktail hour before the performance begins. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think they have no choice but to leave me with the busts and try to make a sale. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ethically speaking, I can't tell you how to do this, but if I were to accidentally leave a book somewhere that had that information in it, I can't control what you do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I, Liam, will say that you should totally do that, it's pretty great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no, they're going to get sick in front of everybody who vaguely pretends to respect them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just enough to make it uncomfortable and need to go home. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just enough to make a gurgle. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's just a little bit of the shits. It's no big deal. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just a little bit of the shits. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If that's all and if that's what you want, that's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just enough to get them to leave. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I just always hope for more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Shits. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Shits. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Can you please describe for me the garb you are arriving in Can you please describe for me the garb you are arriving in and the masks you are wearing? " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Edgar arrives wearing a nice, but plain black suit with a white shirt and a bow tie, the most generic and basic thing you could wear to an event like this along with a mask that covers the top half and has a sort of veil the top half and has a sort of veil that runs down the left side. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A veil. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's covering the left side of his neck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It is plain silver with a silver veil attached and hangs down and has a sort of-- The left side arcs down, the right side arcs up into points. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You stride up and in. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't know if you would know this, but I don't really go to parties. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Stay by me, fake it 'til you make it.\" AIMEE, IMARI, " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A few moments later-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Easy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think you better describe both of you for me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, we'll start with Felix. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Felix is dressed in a, I don't want to quite say modern, but certainly it's clear that someone with some youth in taste may have had something to do with this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I need that youth. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Give me your youth. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Almost a reverse, almost as if patina was slowly turning copper rather than copper turning patina at the edges. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Patina. That's a new, I'm going to have to always-- (laughs) That's my nickname for you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Patina green that goes into copper rather than copper going to patina green. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Felix has a bit of a, definitely a bit of a silver fox thing going on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Nice shoes, and then the mask is a half-face mirror mask of gently cracked glass. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Good grief. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Then small beads hang down that are black and red that looks like drops of blood that cover just the edges of the face. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think I just shifted into the Flare. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do not fuck with me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are a fish out of water-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Some of it's theatricality, learned. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just very, very dark shadow that blends into her bruise and makes it look intentional. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But the first thing she does is say: I'm going to go grab you two a drink. I'll be right back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Very surreptitiously, she is wearing these large sleeves, puts a little drop and a little other drop. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You look up and Malcolm is smiling down at you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(clears throat) She hands them to the Foggs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Oliver) \"Oh!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I look forward to a very lucrative evening. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"To a successful night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A successful night, indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you turn away from them and stare into the golden array around you, which we will get to in a little bit, you hear a voice off to your side say, \"Oh goodness, that's Grimoria.\" You take in that little boost of confidence and stride into the party. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And that is where we will take our break. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you Trust us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doesn't even pay you any mind, goes right off into the crowd. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm noting what he looks like. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you have that in the back of your noggins as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is there a way to identify ♪ Do, do, do, do, do ♪ Aroha Tama-Kai? Is he present in the room? Is he hosting? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So no, you don't really know what he looks like. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, there would be two ways to find him immediately, which is either he's not in the room yet because he wants to make an entrance, or he's the person everybody's trying to talk to. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Have we found each other yet in the crowd? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I assume-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, let me ask you, Malcolm, what's your flight pattern? You are keeping up with the job? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm in the back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know, I don't want to give myself away. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right, and they keep offering you trays of champagne to go dole out-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- when you show up back there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. So what I'm doing is I'm taking my time with the platter of champagne. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Lingering around people, conversations. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Leo gave me the idea that the person of interest might be surrounded by people. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I'm looking out for that as well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If there's maybe a bouncer or some other person that's guarding a door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I guess give me a-- If you're trying to figure out if you can spot Aroha in this crowd, why don't you give me a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Survey roll. Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to burn a drive on this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Boop. I like this digital. It's nice. " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(\"Italian\" accent) That's a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(\"Italian\" accent) That's a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Blessed. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You only know this because she holds up a-- No, what's a placard? What's the-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Program? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then this crowd, maybe 10 or 11 people disappear up into the second floor. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Could be-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Also, what I want to try to also say is that I might know some of these people who are bouncing, since I am a bouncer myself and work security sometimes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It wouldn't be impossible that I might know-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not impossible. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let me lighten your load a little bit and I'm going to casually jaunt myself up to the second floor and see if I might be able to offer them some champagne. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you turn to the left, a little farther off, not much farther off, you see Silverslip, which you're even more acquainted with because that is where the Primacy resides. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is relatively unguarded at the moment with his back to you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Does he seem like he's, when he's looking out, does he seem like he's comfortable or like it's a familiar sight to him? Like it's nothing that would rattle him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He seems relaxed and taking in the city. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is he just, is he by himself? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's people all around you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is he saying anything to her, I meant to say? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "At the moment, he is lost in his thoughts and she's giving him deference, which might lead you to think that she's some sort of a underling or assistant. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are many people who have come out here to get fresh air. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to hand out some champagne casually, have a perimeter around where he is so I can still hear if he happens to say something. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're hanging on the balcony, " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hanging on the balcony, lingering. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're like, \"Come on, we're going to go upstairs because that's where the magic happens.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She takes you under the elbow and they begin to march you up this grand staircase up to the second floor and you find yourself in this dimly lit, very conducive for the kind of work you do-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Eventually, they hover you in front of these two busts-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Aroha is " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everything here is for profit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is there anything you can do with these? I mean, normally--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have a whole performance ready for them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What's the play? Tell me please.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I think what-- You know, you said it was-- I'm talking to our game master. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "They're the 12th century busts, you said? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think I was referring to-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Or these are just a different-- Oh, a different bust? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Paintings. These are busts, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have a plan. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's interesting about these busts is that they witnessed the fall of a civilization and they're imbued with the pain of two sisters who were crushed to death, but not before trying-- Is this not working for you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know shit about history.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, I do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"But that sounds good.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You know how in olden times, daughters would-- Fathers would, you know? No? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll tell you what.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to find a mark, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm going to find us a fish.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Stay close.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll be right here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You be ready to go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"When I get back here, I want to be able to see you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "May I ask, who is that man on the balcony? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Why do you ask?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, he seems pretty important. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, he's the one footing the bill for the party.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's the host? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Why do you ask? What do you know about him?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just in my line of work, I learned to sniff out what's real and what's not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You know, I'm happy to have you in my house.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm happy to be there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"But know your place, all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You work for us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't need you listening on my conversations.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We have a good thing going--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A great thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\" -- here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I won't disappoint you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is there anything that you want to do in this moment while you have your time? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know if that's picking several people and maybe doing a reading of some sort or-- With the reading, maybe doing a little magic. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You want to go out onto the balcony so that you are-- Because this is a big, sprawling spot. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh sure, if it's a big-- Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you make your way to the balcony. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then the goal is to just get his attention? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "One way she could do that is while still staying close to the Foggs, still staying close enough to them where they feel like she's working for them, find a group of people that seem receptive, maybe a group of socialites or something-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- that are there and are willing to have their cards read. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's go give it a whirl. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a younger table, and a more antiquated, shall we say, group. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Spinsters? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who you going for? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think I'm going to go for the younger group because I think they're probably easier to impress. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How do you get their attention? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think you're going to find that I have information that might be interesting to you regarding a husband. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What was that last part? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A husband. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A husband? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're saying this to a woman then? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "To any of the socialites there-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- that might be of that age. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That might be interested in marriage. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you come in and whisper this almost at the ear of two of these people in this group, as this laughter is dying down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to pick the most homely looking girl. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're going to what now?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You're so special, and I don't think people treat you like you are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pretty handsome, square jaw. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hey, check it out! We're about to see a little something.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Now who's brave enough to have their cards read? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(homely woman) \"Well-- I'm not scared.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. Have a seat. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She sits down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(heavily) Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What is it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You're very underappreciated. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She steals a glance at the young banker and then back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I sense a man has already come into your life. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It doesn't really say that, does it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A grandmother? An aunt. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I have a grandmother and an aunt.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(snickers) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Anyone, oh, who's maybe passed on? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah, my Aunt Millie died.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Three years ago.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She says-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That's crazy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gasps) I think-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Is it bad?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I think you're onto something.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think all you have to do is be yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Another voice in the circle's like, \"You don't really believe any of this, do you?\" (homely woman) \"Shut up, Gracie!\" " }, { "Role": "Player979", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm so, so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Gracie's like, \"What's wrong with me?\" (snickering) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can't. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I've got a message for you, Gracie. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everyone starts to get a little quietly low-key freaked out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Be kind to your friends. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's got a jet black cat mask that matches deep black hair-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's wearing more of a standard carnival mask and wearing a checkered red and purple vest over her suit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think she turns away from the group really quickly, and as she does, she lets this trickery of green emanate from her robe, just enough for him to see. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think it's certainly plausible that you have one of your little smoke bombs stained green. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, and I think-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Some green smoke trails out from behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She really wants him to take that in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He seems like a pretty cool customer. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(amused smirk)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She goes back to the Foggs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If he sticks his nose in my business one more time, he's going to get a one-way ticket to the Vastchasm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No exceptions.\" He strides away from her-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- into the crowd inside. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's she doing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What's who doing? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "His assistant. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to know what you and Ms. Manning are doing right now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I see Grimoria walk up the stairs, leaving with her employers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ms. Manning, I do have a question. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Zora) \"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm just curious why you let Miss Grimoria join at such a young age. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't think I've met anyone as in tune with herself and with everyone around her as Grimoria.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The boat, an obvious misfire.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Why did you all of a sudden decide to come on this little outing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mr. Murphy is so important to me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I can't help but sense some sort of thread here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Between what happened to him and this item or these-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have never stopped struggling with the choices I've made and have to make, especially as a Lightkeeper.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Better than some of us. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would you wait here a moment?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hello, Reginald.\" (Reginald) \"Zora, is that you?\" (Zora) \"Yes. Yes, it is.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I daresay you weren't expecting me to be here this evening.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You used to like it.\" She chins his elephant jaw, wanders away, and comes back to you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Friend? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Second floor, rear of the second floor, somewhere off to the right of the balcony, he says.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Good to know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Where's the group? Where is Leo?\" Where is Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player981", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This can be, you know, a first date. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We're not the kind of-- I'm not going to ask questions like that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will find you in just a few minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right, I might go on a clandestine mission of my own.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's see who does better. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you off in search-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- of Walter? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I saw which direction Walter was going. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you're off to find him? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If not, I'm keeping an eye out for people who I know or at least know of. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You make it about 15 feet, when a young woman all in gold herself, a gold stylized butterfly mask and a gold shimmery dress and a hair of gold blonde ringlets comes and pokes her finger in your chest going, \"What are you doing here? I knew it was you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start to realize you're looking at your niece. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Niece. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What are you doing here? You never go out like this.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You're just never here, are you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are a bad liar.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What are you doing here? What are you looking for here? Are you bidding on anything? Are you being bid on anything? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(inhaled laugh) I'm hunting for a different prey than paintings, Leo.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Did you come here as someone's plus one and you've decided to abandon them or are you-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Bentley's upstairs.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I think I saw him on the balcony a few minutes ago.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The old coot.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, I'm well aware of Walter. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know why.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is there any other family here? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Um.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Leo--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How bad? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Your dad's here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I love this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How bad is that?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You will not be-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Do I want to be around for it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You know, I think you think you wanted to be around for it, but honestly, perhaps you could use the character if you happen to watch it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sway. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A low stakes Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right, I'll buy in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's called a Candela now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) She just pouts. \"All right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I hear rumors that you flirt at a reasonable level, certainly college level. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am trying to get a couple special things from the auction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What's your poison?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If you know somebody who can help get me up to the auction, or, because I know you're you, (sophisticated) the auction. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about, Leo.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, if you could get me into the auction, or, now that I've put that into your head. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay, I'm going to go see if I can figure out what the hell you're talking about.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Good luck!\" She disappears into the crowd. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She's going to be irritated by that for hours. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fuck. (sighs) Father, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would watch that spinoff. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where are you headed right now? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Part of me wants to go to the assistant and give her a little flirt. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "See if I can squeeze some information as to where the artifact is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You make it about 10 or 15 steps when a very tall, broad man when a very tall, broad man in a very colorful purple and green and gold mask that covers about this much of his face steps in front of you and puts his hand on your chest. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you fucking kidding me right now?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, I'm sorry, I just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're staring into your brother's eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah... " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I was told that I should pay special attention to the lady who just went away, that I should give her whatever she needs, drinks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What the fuck are you doing here? What is this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Reginald? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What are you doing? Are you here to embarrass me? What is this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh my god. No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're waiting tables? I don't see you for months, and this is how you get into my business?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Of course you're at this party. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What you doing here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is anyone else from the family here? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "First, make a-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "First, make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, I'm going to burn a drive on this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Because he's going to cause me trouble if I don't. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's your yearbook quote, at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You are on a roll! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You just got one, too. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't know if he feels it anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, he's not, he doesn't feel thing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's the difference. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're waiting tables now? Is this altruism?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Listen, I don't have to explain myself to you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What's the angle?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm working, and I was told to pay special attention to the lady who is now out of my view. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I can't with you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Listen-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And now you're here tonight?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now, what does mean a lot to me is keeping this job and make sure I don't get fired from this job. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have to make the rounds.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Grease the wheels.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, let me know where you are, perhaps I'll bring you a brandy or two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're a very small fish in this stream now, Malcolm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Best you follow the current downstream.\" He grabs a glass off the tray and walks off. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, it's a good thing I know how to swim, isn't it? (laughs) (sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's not immediately visible anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) Do I have an idea of where she went off to? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I would say that you kept eyes on her long enough to see that she veered to the right when she left balcony. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to trail her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to trail her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you don't see her, but you're going to follow along in the direction you think she went. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The path I think she is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Standing, just watching the room. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But she's not here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "They're guarding that door? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are for sure, got their backs to the foot of these stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) I think I'm going to go back and I want to relay this information back to the team. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are also down to one glass of champagne, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, so I think it's a good time for me to refill. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would like to offer the two guards, actually, a glass of champagne, and see how they receive that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Very low stakes, please don't burn any drive on it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Sway with me ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player980", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A three? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "They might take a sip, but. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You just get there and the woman cranes her head a bit, but the guy on the other side just goes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doesn't even speak, he just gives you the hand. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, ah, perhaps another time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come with me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, the what? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"The loo, the water closet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think I might've-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"She's not feeling well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was telling them all about the bust. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now! Let's go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The man has a tight little bow tie and a little almost mechanical-looking mask with little gears glued on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(lady) \"I don't know, I don't know where we would put it.\" (man) \"Ah, I think it could go maybe in the front sitting room or the back sitting room, that one.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She overhears this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think you have the perfect place for it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(man) \"Oh, is this her?\" (Oliver) \"(claps) Grimoria, please.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Reveal the invisible.\" " }, { "Role": "Player979", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, you both seem so artistic. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This accent's all over the place, but pretend it's like a really exotic-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You had me sold. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, well, anyway, for those watching at home. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They're useless, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I love going to the theater. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I bet your favorite is \"Hamlet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "\"Macbeth.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know those names! Are those new plays?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Now, these busts, they're not just ancient busts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Proceed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "His bubble guts? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(imitates fart) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She gives them a display. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In fact, they hold in them, you see, they're entombed, the star-crossed lovers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That's fascinating.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How do you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Once upon a time, you-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You think you hear the sound of a wet fart. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) In fair Verona. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Then she proceeds to say the plot of \"Romeo and Juliet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) Right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which doesn't exist in this world. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, but she knows it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it's an original story of Oldfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. It's an original story. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Somewhere out of the bleed, infinite monkeys have put together a script for-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But she's essentially telling them the story of star-crossed lovers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do me a favor, as you're giving me this vibe, will you roll a Sway roll for me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, and I will use-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In addition to the great stuff that you're saying. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Am I anywhere-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "In Oldfaire-ona, where we lay our scene. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- near this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You for sure can be. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I would like to assist in this Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you are looking around and wondering if Dad's around, and you stumble upon this. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I stumble upon this, and I see what's happening, and I walk up and I begin to get next to the couple and I get enthralled. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Go on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's a four on the gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That was including my extra? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You have an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You roll the extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I gave you one more die. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just add one more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take another die and roll one in there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just add one more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Don't touch the ones you rolled already. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just roll an extra one. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There we are. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Ah ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yahtzee. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, yes, I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Go on, go on, don't mind me. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Alex is like... " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "In Oldfaire-ona where we lay our scene. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, in Oldfaire-ona where we lay our scene. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ah! You brought it home. (claps) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Then she wakes up from this poison to see her dead lover-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh my goodness.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- laid across her tomb. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You have the heart of a poet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm only channeling what the spirits tell me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How much for these two? I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mr. Fogg, maybe you can assist these buyers. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(squelchy fart) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "will you excuse me?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(imitates fart) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He just starts duck waddling away-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- into the crowd. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And he's gone. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, so then what I'll do is that I'll think of maybe a price that I'd heard. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll just very coyly: This isn't really my part of things, but you see my employer seems to be indisposed, is that a word? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Writes down a figure, slips it, or actually sees who wants to take it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We'll see you in the auction house.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going for a hook to grab the paper. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To grab the paper? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will double it, I will-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not going to make you roll for paper. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, you got rid of it? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I was like, \"Should I have him roll? It's piece paper.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, no, no, just to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've got it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "These are ours, these are ours.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, I'm handing it back, this is too rich for me. (sniffs) It's too rich for me. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, I'll show you something else. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I'll go on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As they walk away, they're walking away from you, you hear the woman say to the man, \"You were so virile,\" and disappear into the crowd. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Okay so we've made the sale. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That was delightful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, it's an auction. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's an auction. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, that's true, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is for people up here to get excited. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Get excited about it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They got excited. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So did Mr. Fogg. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you, Mr. Amicus. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, no, you were doing very well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, no problem, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we have any clue as to what's happening? Any updates? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If you had the opportunity to maybe put this to rest, but you had to do the most unpleasant thing you could possibly think to do, would you do it? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But you put it to rest forever? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, at the very least, maybe make whatever it is that we dealt with on the boat go away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can help. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My father's here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My father's here." }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh no, how does that make you feel? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, we haven't spoken since, you know, since before. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Since before. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Off in the distance, you hear a bell ring and you hear a man's voice call out, \"15 minutes 'til the auction, 15 minutes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I understand that it's a really hard thing to do, but it might be worth it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fuck! I'm going to-- People are starting to get together for the auction? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Some people are starting, many people heard that and just went back to their conversations, but some people are starting to grab a bag or fetch a person and start making their way off the second floor. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Have we seen where the third floor is going, or where the entrance to the third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'd like to know where you and Zora are. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I believe we were going to head up to the second floor-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- having acquired the information of where that door was. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so as they're having this conversation. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll assume, yeah, that Walter would know to come up as well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're wondering like, \"Where is that?\" that Edgar appears at your shoulder with Zora. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hello, you two. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does anyone see it? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, we have information-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to try to make my way back over, once I load up my tray, I want to try to get my way back over there so I can deliver the information. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, well, let's just say then-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So they're into their conversation, Edgar is mid-conversation, and then you walk up offering champagne. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hello, friends. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As I was saying, Zora, kindly, was able to find out the information we were looking for and that there is a door down the end of this hall to the right that apparently leads to where we need to be. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can actually lead you there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One point of clarification: Set of stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Set of stairs, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No worries, no worries. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But it is guarded, as far as I'm aware. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "There's about two guards, one male, one female. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is somebody wearing anything? I'm looking for anything that-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, like a pin or something. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Have we noticed a lapel or anything like that? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, like a little ribbon that might indicate people that are invited to the third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To the third floor, no. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "From what Zora said, the man himself is bringing the invited buyers in there himself. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Unless someone knows one of the buyers, they might be able to snag a, snag a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I have an old friend, but he's already been up and down.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Whom? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Reginald, he is from the OUP and evidently did not tickle Aroha's fancy with his offer.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we see Aroha anywhere, or is he gone? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I just do one? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Survey, you just do one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Come on Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're not going to fall out a window if you fail. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Two! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Aw. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's such a good-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you'll scan around and don't see him. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm still looking for Walter or dear old Dad. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have to be downstairs in 15 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Survey again? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh wait. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "15 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "because one's supposed to be gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You, while they're conversing, are slowly spinning around up here looking, looking, and you see at the last second, an older man with a, an upside down moon mask, it's very severe looking, and it comes down to here on the front, there's a little dip down, disappearing from view and moving off towards the direction you recognize as the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That man is going in the exact direction where those two guards I spotted are actually in front of that door, which I believe-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- holds our treasure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I take one, I'm going to take the champagne I'm currently drinking, I'm going to down it and grab another and start walking in that direction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You bee-line it away from the group and hook around and start, again, it's a bit of a twisting journey to get there through a couple of rooms. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Does not notice you for the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You look like shit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(grumbles)\" \"Oh, for fuck's sake.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm, 23 years, this is the first words I've gotten out of you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hello, Son.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(sighs) Raymond. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've heard that you have been wanting to talk, but I was assuming it was just shit from people who are trying to make something happen that's not going to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Who fed you that bullshit?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) You can guess. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Never stopped trying.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will believe that you believe that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Haven't I done enough?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Don't get in your way.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't question, I don't interfere, and I certainly do not get in your way. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mother's sake, you act as if I were the one who wounded you and not the other way around.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "For what it's worth, no, I blame Mother, I just blame you for going along. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You won't have this view for much longer.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have something upstairs that I was hoping to (contemplative sigh) take out of circulation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to ask you to make a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What kind of roll? " }, { "Role": "Player789", "Content": "Read. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to play with this. Hold on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wish I could assist, but we're so far. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No one is there. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, this is a-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, nice. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to do an extra, I'm going to add one more die just to see, which is also a gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Nah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And he stands. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You don't know where you are, do you? Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They don't know what he looks like, so that's the end of that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to go sit down where he was and just finish my fucking drink. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Cold blooded ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Anything? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But Malcolm-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I do have an idea, but it's going to be messy. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Very specifically said, do not be messy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Please, I do not want you to be messy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We are not trying to cause a scene.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It could be messy. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Again, no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm thinking I distract that guard at the door. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Two guards. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I get him somewhere, and I want to take over his position. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you.\" They walk a little bit further. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then he wanders back in front of your vision and disappears from view. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Who was this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So Aroha and a stranger. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, Aroha, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then Aroha returned into your view and returned the way he came. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That would've probably been way too much what the hell is happening to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You just went through what you went through and you are down, you're on your third drink, possibly. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You just ogled it as it happened and only sort of sunk in by the time he was passing back. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Who's the fucking redhead? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And because the host of this party's busy with the real auction, that we've been sent up to take a look at it while he's busy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think the host is showing off the artifact. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There's no doubt he's going to need to be there at least for a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"10 minutes 'til the auction. 10 minutes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here's a problem with that plan. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not messy enough? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now, unless we find another way in the back-- Do we know if that room leads to anything? Is there any way we could sneak in that room? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which? The one that-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The one that the-- The lay of the land of the house, do we-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've only been as high as the second, and you only have had eyes on this set of stairs with two guards at the bottom of it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "This is on the third floor? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The stairs lead to the third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Have we seen Aroha come into the room yet? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "With the woman in red, the red woman. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He didn't make it out as far, you guys never saw him in this last-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo saw him pass in front of his vision, and then 30 seconds, come back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Assumably, he walked with a client, sent them on their way-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and then returned from whence he came. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shit. I mean, if I can get to him, maybe I can do something, but I haven't seen him in the last-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This is Leo's-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- few minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- territory as far as I'm concerned. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm standing up, I'm walking in the direction of, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Of which? The stairs? Or the group? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I saw him going back towards the group. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you were to go to your right, you would head back to where your friends were. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to hop to the left just to see what's down that hall. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For a mixed success, I'm going to deem it that you realize that you are looking at a man with Aroha who bears a striking resemblance to Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh wow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The failure of it-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- is that it is the brother of Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit, it's Desmond. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They come down the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's the-- Well, I wouldn't, yeah, if it's the baby brother, I would have no, yeah-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No, they're older. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, it's fucking-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's Desmond. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right. It's been a while. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see your brother, you are holding champagne, and he comes around the corner smiling and then \"(sighs).\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I'm away from the group at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I want to appear like I'm alone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I want to do another little green puff and hope that he cares. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "In the back, I've come 'round the back to try and just-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive for that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just come back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see the intersection from behind and then go back to where you came from? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I see that I was going to try and head this off. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And it happened. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's a five on the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a five on the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Five on the floor! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "On the floor, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I burned a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a good speakeasy-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- for Newfaire, " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five on the Floor? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five on the Floor. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To get his attention? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It distracts your brother, who also looks over and sees a bit of casual familiarity maybe between you and the people you're around, like, you know, in this moment don't seem quite like a server to him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He bee-lines away and heads down the stairs with purpose. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who does? His brother? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Aroha turns back, Not as sharply as I just did, he turns back and sees his client stalking away and he looks at you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I, as I pass him, can I whisper: I know how to unlock it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I know how to unlock it?\" What's the goal here? So I can know how to judge on it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I want to get in that fucking room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know how to unlock it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Then I show, and if he looks interested, I've painted-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This needs a new Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well then, I won't tell you what's in my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I'm going to burn another drive. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Secrets, secrets are no fun. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because it seems worth it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Secrets, secrets hurt someone. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Watch you, girl. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, I still have to understand where you're going with this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, so if he looks interested-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- on the palms of my hand, I've painted that figure that you described. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That was on the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Does that make sense to you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I sort of, if he wants to see it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you are, let's be perfectly clear. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, so it's a risky thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are outing yourself to him as someone who has seen his forbidden goodies. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I think I'm outing myself as someone who might-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The only way for-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Unless he believes in magick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because that's what he would see. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, well then, no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Might I say something? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That sucks, I was trying to do something cool and not-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Might I say something, though? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "This actually might be able to work if you utilize your gift, which is to reach spirits. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I wanted him to think I was like a cool medium. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Does he know what Grimoria does? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He barely gives two shits about her employers. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We know this, right? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So he's going to think you're automatically a scam. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll roll with anything. I just want-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, no, no. But if he's going to think that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- to have us have the same Mind Palace shared at this table. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But we don't have to go with it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will roll with anything that happens. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think you should give in to your ability, and I think you should sell the man with your ability. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It would be a risk. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm behind you right now, and I can assist with this when it comes time, so it's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Or if I'm the same size as my brother, slip that fool a mickey and I grab his mask. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I go in place of my brother. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because right now, we're all like: How do we get in? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "They won't pay attention to my suit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If we could slip him something that would knock him out, I could take his mask. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to drop a pebble in the stream here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because I was a half a tick away from saying it in the first place. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then you make your call. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because the stream could go in 50 different directions. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He looks to you, and you've done your green smoke moment. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A person in a black suit with gold tie and black mask is making their way through the crowd quietly. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not trotting, because we're in a party, but start quick walking back out and start to wade through. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Back towards us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, they could be transporting it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And I only say that because I don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) Okay, we got to follow him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, I'm going to change my idea. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I hate the idea of thinking of slapping down a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I wanted to make sure you understand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Then he can take that as a sexual innuendo and we can move past it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But if that's not going to-- if he's too smart to fall into, he believes in magick, then that's not it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The guy is-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So he does believe in magick. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right, but if he's going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is a, this world's version of a criminal mastermind. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So then I will say that weird sexual innuendo and keep it moving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. So that reaction that he gets is-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Then I'll go-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) Through your mystical smudged makeup and your spooky vibe. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, and I'll play it crazy and go (scoffs). " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I might just go for a Hail Mary here then. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's all get together and let's just go-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doesn't know what it is. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Let's hope so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And heads off after runaway brother. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He even sees guards running, so now he's going with triple purpose. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Leaning back over, I still think Leo's our best chance in getting through that door. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm standing, waving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To the group? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "To the group, because the door's in this direction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, letting them know that it has eased up a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So we follow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, we've got to follow. I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But can I say one thing before we do that, though? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's like, you know, if you give someone-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. Right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I mean, when you lend out a necklace that's worth millions and you have an actress wear it-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Like you do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- they have, it's a company. Security, right? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "For sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That is 10 minutes-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, it's upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well it's upstairs, but it looks like they're going to go-- It's upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's absolutely upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We have to go upstairs in order to find the room. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Up the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So this is just the first hurdle. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Come on, let's give this a fucking roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well then, old boy, I think you should work your magick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A reminder that Malcolm is dressed as a waiter right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know, and I'm dressed like this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's the package. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make your choices, but I'm just reminding you of the Mind Palace. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Zora will come. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I am going to actually, I think I'll get a bit of air and--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'll just watch the aftermath, and deal with what I can in the ways that I can.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Leo and I will go. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "When we get past and give the signal, you two dressed as you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have to go downstairs and sell my busts. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's valid. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The auction is taken care of by staff in this building. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everything on the second floor was so that people would be like, \"I like that, I think I want to get--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I've done my job. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I get to see it from five feet away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So that when I see it from 50 feet away, I'm like, \"I want that one!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So maybe the best thing for us to do is have a costume change, which we planned for. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say, go find a costume change. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, that's exactly what I was going to say. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That would be the thing to do right now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would definitely change costumes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Someone who's got their invite. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now, did Leo sneak me in an outfit or something? Because he said he was also going to have a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You had talked about a spare. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You have it in your bag. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But I will say that Zora-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay cool. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- pulls you off to the side and pulls her mask off. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She offers it to you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll take this off and presumably have something suitable underneath-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Underneath. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- that would fit the costume of the day. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She also unpins this raven-feathered display that she has, and she does her best to fasten it up top. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great, and the mask, I'm assuming, covers the makeup. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, and it's not a perfect look at all. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, but it's enough. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you no longer look like-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. (clicks tongue) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- a spooky mystic. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm ready. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to go back to my bag that I packed and retrieve my garb that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You'll look a little underdressed. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I can help with that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ding, ding, ding! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You know the actual name to use. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(announcer) \"Three minutes!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I cannot believe we're doing this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Three minutes!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Heading towards the back door. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I guess I'll just wait in the-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You can come out if you're good-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm dressed. I'll grab the champagne. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll let them know you're coming. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Doing a clothing change. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- booking it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Booking it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Throwing on your clothes and coming back here in three minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You make it just as you hear, ding, ding, ding, ding! \"Now it is time for us to bid in the Gardens of Delight.\" You hear all the people, what few people were left, are realizing that they're those people at the theater who waited forever at the bar and then they try to run in at the last second to get their seats. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's very few people, you guys are almost alone, and Malcolm comes running up, definitely underdressed, but no longer dressed as a waiter. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You still have your mask. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to come up with this motley crew and I was just going to move with, hmm, rich entitlement towards-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- angry, rich entitlement towards the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Towards this woman in the carnival mask with her clipboard. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're just marching up to her? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The party is not beyond this point.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(emphatic) There should be a Steedwell on that list. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, one moment.\" She starts to rifle through. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(aggravated sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"And you--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If it helps, it's probably alphabetical. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay. First name?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Sometimes they use the middle name. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And now what happens?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was supposed to go up and have a look at it, and instead, I have been getting a run-around. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I could be confused.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What sort of job do you think you could have at some point? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sway roll, and Leo, this is high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll help. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I will help by-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm using my extra. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just blow her head up with garbage. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so you pump up his knowledge and place in the world of antiquity. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Place of antiquity, using my knowledge of the antiquities. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I will also lend a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I will mutter, or I will convey the fact that his father will be extremely pissed off if we don't secure the item. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, you drop a comment off to the side about how-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Off to the side, about-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- this is going to blow up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, and that-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right, how many dice are you at? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm good, I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have six? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I lost a shift. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm at six. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am sure you understand what it's like to have inappropriate pressure put upon you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "This is Sway? This is a Sway roll, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There's definitely a Candela in there. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I burned everything for that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are trying to look officious and snotty in the way that only wealthy people can be. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And close it again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pushed it over the edge. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Dr. Lycoris, great acting. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will have Mr. Tama-Kai join you when he returns.\" \"I will have Mr. Tama-Kai join you when he returns.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We shouldn't be long. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll be here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I pop 200 in her hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But there is no one on these stairs right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fab. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You guys start to-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This has been a day. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "When I say curtain, I mean thin and gauzy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's a doorway all the way down, across from it almost exactly, but not, a little bit off, a doorway open into the hall. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We need to do this quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, we do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who's got the quartz? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The little piece of clay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Or the-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The chip of quartz, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The chip of quartz. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So we keep walking? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Look for anything, anything at all. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are about five or six feet away from the door and you hear (low, ominous rumbling) from around the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're not seeing green light, are we? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You said no? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do I hear anything in my newfound auditory-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I haven't mentioned that constantly, but it is like a background noise. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is there anything specific? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Almost like a spiritual tinnitus. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is not your eavesdropping tool. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is just-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's just background noise. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, well, I guess we follow the noise. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is it my turn or is it someone else's turn? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can go. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am going to gently open the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, I'm sorry. Door is open, that's what I'm saying. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to gently make my way in, looking left, right, up, down. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just two fox masks go like this, and one of them grabs the case-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "♪ What does the fox say ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They pivot away from you and run to the rear of this chamber, and there are objects on shelves all around here and things on pedestals, and the gold box a second ago was in the center of this room, but now it is being run towards a stained glass window as these two men (crashing) leap through the window and skitter out onto a wet roof and go running away from you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, can we peer down the window? How far is the fall? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's two feet down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are already 30 feet away from you and they are sliding down a sloped bit of roof down to, you guys are on the third floor, they slide down roof and hit what is likely the second floor and begin running along the top of this building. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm giving chase immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm's out the window. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know what else to do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As everyone-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(wails) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, that's true, so they've got a good lead on you because you guys just stood shellshocked as they started to book it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's going to account for a couple little dips and turns here as you start to slide down the roof. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Five, gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, nice. Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. You got a, I'm sorry, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I got a five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh wow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, baby getting trippy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of you guys start to slide down at different paces, Malcolm in the lead, and you realize quickly that you are sliding down stained glass as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You couldn't tell-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- in the darkness up here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That sucks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You just lucked out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just luck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is glass over a solid roof. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it is enough to start to cut into you, and all of you who got a mixed success, take one body as you cut yourselves on the slide down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You pick yourself up, wincing in pain at lacerations in your-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I probably have many layers of petticoats, just to be clear. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Body, body, body. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Look at the glee on his face. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know, I know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "\"I am a librarian!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see these two masked figures go from this roof to an adjoining building. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Good grief. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not going to make you roll, but they're still ahead of you and you see them hit a ringed over metal fire escape ladder and they both disappear from view and start to go down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're still going, right? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How far away are they? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're probably halfway up the block while you are still at the top of the building. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So it's too far away for me to shoot with my gun, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Uh... " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's messy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are on a side street right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are near a costume party, and they keep walking away. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If I fire my gun, it's going to draw attention. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It might draw a noticeable attention. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Seems plausible. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let me go ahead and I'm going to continue to chase. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to try continue chase until I see a-- Okay, what's good to do chase? Let me see what that leads me to. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm running as hard as I can to catch up to them because I have an idea. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But instead they have got about a block, block and a half lead, and you see them-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Damn it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you're running, Leo, you're at the back of this group as they run as fast as they can, but it is slowly starting to dawn on you where you are going. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right now, they are running towards-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(emphatic groan) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are running towards the Sacred Ascension Cemetery. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And they are in. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there anything-- Is there a moped or a motorcycle I can jack? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Bike? Bicycle? What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A jack? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Bicycle chases. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, procure or steal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh! I thought you said is there a jack as a noun. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You had me with moped bicycle. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there like a motorized-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are not those in this world. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where they're going, it's not going to help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're already-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Where are we going? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "When you say that, when you're asking that, they have already, I literally just said they had bust through a gate and were in a cemetery. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are disappearing from view " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you guys get closer yourselves, you start to see there are pins attached all along this fence. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Pins? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is a Newfaire custom that has to do with burial. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You run in, and this is a-- You know this because you were here a long time ago. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For a very special night. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is a large sloping cemetery that goes on for three or four city blocks-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is more like-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Like ruins? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "200 years old, 300 years old, some of them. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Have the people in the fox masks made it into the church yet? Because if they haven't, I am booking in that direction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't see them. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If there's a shortcut, I would know it, and I am heading that way. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you are rushing in? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Or can I see them? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see one man moving around towards the rear, dragging some sort of a drape or a blanket out, and then you see somebody cross your view and you catch a glimpse of that blade glowing and then disappear as he moves about inside. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I stop directly at the fucking line of that door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Outside it? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I wouldn't know any better, so I'd probably run into you because I think we should keep going. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will grab you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's hold on for a second. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. I will pull away from that door. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What happened here, Leonard? What did you fucking do? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's so hard to think with-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) Do you hear them screaming, Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It-it-it ticked. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) Those teenagers. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And ticked and ticked and ticked. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) Your friends. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There was something in the dark, and I was so, so, so scared. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) Where's your sister, Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(shouts) Can you hear that? Can anybody hear that? It's, ah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) You're all alone in this moment, Leonard. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay-- Please make it stop! Can you " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "His hand turns and clicks that disc on the front. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The man's body is pulled from the step and thrown viciously into a boulder on the hill. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. Possessed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs nervously) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Things are moving fast. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Liam, the way those people are disappearing, does it look the same? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "as that guy is finishing up his power up. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am going to duck for cover at this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is the guy who's going with the sword, is he trying to kill the guy with the cylinder? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Looks like. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So it could be a mix of-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It could just go into the box. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It could be a mix of Red Hand though. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, let me clarify a few things for you because any of you could be disintegrated in a moment here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a pulsating green skull just beneath Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have agency here as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Only the skull has rattled out. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How close is this little run? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's 10 feet in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hovering six inches off the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Up in the air. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You are as conscious as they are. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have overlapped consciousness right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would like to, if I can, talk to Atia. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How can I do that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "End his legacy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because as you can see, people want to use it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are slowly moving around you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I just, I want-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- as you commune. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I want to relay to her that she's safe with us and we don't want to use her power for anything but to give her a resting place. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She doesn't reply with words of the era or of her own. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Instead, you feel power surge through your chest, through your arms. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are more than you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Tasty. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You watch as the head just (energy explosion). " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Atia, I need you to make a Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would like to add a drive to that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Because I want to shoot him as he does that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So that would be my distraction if I can do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We will resolve the Move first. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see the gun goes off and the guy jerks just perceptibly enough. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, beautiful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I love it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gorgeous. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take your shot. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's three die then, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Plus my two-- Plus my Control, so that's three die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do you feel like you need help here or are you-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ah, no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think three die should be good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going the man on the floor that got stabbed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ooh, ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Man, you are fucking lucky today. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela? How many? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "One Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Head broken open, like a melon. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So who do we have left? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's the box? Where's the clock? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where's the clock? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Clock? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's the clock? It was in here, wasn't it? Or was it not in here? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You think you might hear the clock. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I definitely know I hear-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you remember the room? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do. Is there a clear shot to it or no? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can try. Certainly. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Who's in my way? Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start running-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I got a plan. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- towards the door. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I'm going to-- I'm going to pull off my mask. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just like a fucking-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The box. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, is the box too far away from that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The chest. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're talking about the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, at the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I thought you were talking about-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I was curious if I could hear it and if it's visible. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It has not stopped for you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, cool. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You want to get to the chest? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It depends on how close it is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Past Atia, past the skull. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to try and use my mask to grab the skull and basically toss it in that direction, so it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're tossing your mask to try to hit the skull? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, using the mask to scoop and running by-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To scoop the skull? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- and throw. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Got it. I forgot to tell you to take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Another one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Great, let's make that finesse. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "A finesse? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you are trying to use a party mask to scoop up-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- a radioactive skull of a 2000 year old sorceress. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "To toss it in that direction. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To use it like a lacrosse thing to send it towards the skull? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Lacrosse. Yes, a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Still finesse. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, which one is a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sorry, finesse is in the description. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's see what happens. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I see that-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So that's a three, but I'm going to use the resistance to-- Do I reroll one with resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Reroll the base. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The base. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, so that's just one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is it one that you have nothing in? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. So two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then you roll two again. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I rolled a three. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "God, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tried. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Unless anyone wanted to help, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your hand now scored and gored along the back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who else do we have at play in this room? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This man has a gun and he is now walking and he sees the most obvious target in here is the witch. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to get to Edgar because you were running towards-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The man pulling-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This guy pulling the sword out. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This is the man with the glove with the thing, that's making the noise that's causing the thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He has just drawn in energy from the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(heavy exhale) But he's pulling a sword out of his stomach. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He was stopped mid-motion. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have to rewind because he just shot the face off a man. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So what do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I walk up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(pained grunting)\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Using my Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sneaky. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to use my extra die from my Training that I took at the beginning. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All that shadow boxing in the hospital gym. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to burn a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That was wild. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's that? What did you use? What are you using there? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm using Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Wait, wait, wait. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let me see if I can add. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "My base roll was good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't know if you can add to a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, you can't to my resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "On a gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five? Whoof! What a whoo hoo hoo hoo! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You strike out with precision and get him right in the throat and he goes, \"(choking)\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I know I said I would help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(choking)\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But I need you alive because I have questions and you're going to answer them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The priest, striding out-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- aiming at you, sees his friend suddenly coming under attack and retrains. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and fires. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This man who is \"(choking)\" Take your body. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, dude, this is nasty. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(heavy breathing) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell me, sorry for clarification, what was the last thing you said before you got shot? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I said: I am going to help you and keep you alive because I have questions. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is there anything-- What are you doing in this moment? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "See if that inspires-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you could do anything here, Aimee Carrero, as Atia Griffia, what would you do? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would shoot out whatever green bleed out of my hand and kill the man with the gun. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a-- Why don't you make a Sense roll for me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela? So here's what happens. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He turns and shoots your friend-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear-- (crushing) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's my fourth bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is Grimoria, young as she is, collapsing down to the ground and hitting the stone where you take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I say one thing before she-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- passes out to Atia? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's all I say. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are you two doing? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where am I? Where am I in conjunction to this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The skull of Atia Griffia-- Bleed, bleed, bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Edgar turns around-- After being shot, holding, putting pressure on his own wound, turns and goes: Put the skull in the box and let's leave! You see as he's turned, there is what looked like glowing fingers pressing into the side of his neck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We are going now! Find a door! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to go and I'm going to use-- I'm going to rip off my jacket and try to scoop the skull up and run it to the box. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's do Control to grab that thing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So that's two more marks that I can fill up in my drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell me that one more time. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So for each mark I take-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can immediately refresh a drive point of my choice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So for every mark I've given you in this church, you should have restored a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just to let you know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, so I'm going to burn a drive and I have Control, which was-- What was it? What was it with Control? I have two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just the two? For your Control? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to-- Oh, do I want to do that yet? I'm going to use my, this is serious, I'm going to use-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, shit, forgot about that. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to use my extra die on this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can use it next time. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(shushes) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Looking at it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Your luck is ridiculous. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm looking at it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I should've gone to Vegas today. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And, I assume, kick the lid shut. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep, immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In the interim, this man behind you who's hacking-- Slowly, more slowly than the first time someone in this room charged up, green has been wafting its way into this thing and he sees now that it has achieved the status that he needs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is going to stretch the hand out towards Malcolm, who's standing over the chest now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I see him moving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? You, of course, see-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There's bricks, there's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, there are-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I immediately grab a brick and I slam it in his temple. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can make any kind of move you want to make here. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What kind of roll are you using, really quickly? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So I'm using-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, wait-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- Anatomical Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What does Anatomical Strike use? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sorry, it's Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's Intuition? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, he said, \"Find a door.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm finding the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I might be a little distracting for this because I know where there's a door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so you're distracting. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm heading probably right by this-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, I'll say-- Here's what I'll say. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You knowingly walk in front of Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take the drive. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tick, tick, tick, tick. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Triple sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. Three Candelas right there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wow! You got three ones a few minutes ago. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. See? That's how it works. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's how it works, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Three Candelas. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With the other, you swing that stone clear across his face and you watch as his forehead, nose, and eye socket get ripped out and off and you can see his teeth exposed, as you hold a brick in your hand, covered in blood and one fucking tooth in it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(screams) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The case needs to be sealed. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We've got to get Grimoria up, she's the only one who knows how to seal the case. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(pants) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm hoping you guys remember that I have a book in my pocket, with the sigils and the equation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But would we know how to decipher that? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, because you saw it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You saw it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You saw it on the ship. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We can do it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are you sure, Edgar? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know where he's going with this. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sniffles) I go over to her body and I look for the book. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, you look through her pockets and you find that leather book with your friend's handwriting. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Try and find the page, and try and lock this thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You find it, you find it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sniffles) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is going to take for you, I will say-- I will let you choose to use your brain or your spirit, so Focus or Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've spent enough time with Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yep. (sniffles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You'll remember, you'll remember. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What happens now? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now I find the damn door and open that shit, and I'm going to freaking throw that box through that door immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What door? Don't we have the quartz? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, where's the door now? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The quartz. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You have the quartz? Who has the quartz? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just need a door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You know where the door is. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm already-- I have-- I walked away from this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you've gone to the door? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The minute that was gone, I am down that fucking hallway. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I believe that. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to go take the box and I'ma run after. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's heavy. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo's ahead of you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm walking quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do with this clock? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Can I hear the ticking? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, I need you to take two brain. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's whispering to it, and rocking back and forth on his heels. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Leo, what the fuck are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It can break, it can break. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Leo, you got to get your shit together, we have to get this-- We have to get the door open now. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "you need this door to work. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where's the quartz? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You need him out of here-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- so you can affix the sun to the door. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I have to get, so he needs to do it then. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You have it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You all need to be on one side of the door-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where are you? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm still back in the room with Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and use it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You took a chest and walked to him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So I'm walking over to Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Edgar, I need you here now! Get here now! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I... know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am finding the eyes in the lights. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's not moving. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He's locked in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's in his thing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My main objective is to get this box through so that I can get them out of danger. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You guys need to be on one side of the door or the other, and use it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's inside the door? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're in two rooms. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're making a magick door. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You guys are on opposite sides, which is not what you need, so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can't do shit-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The man who I-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm passed out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Quickly look for a wallet, and I take it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm, okay, you've got it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then I go pick up Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I walk towards the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You have to stop passing out, Grim. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I get up and walk to the door. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In my head, I'm going (scoffs). " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not healthy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You pick her up, you say? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm happy to roll over this because I am fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why not? Leo, take another brain. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He collapses over the stone. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Might be easier, honestly, if he has-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you are all in one room together. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We slap that on as hard as you can, and then open the door. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take it away and you smash it and it flattens out. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And mars the design of the sun. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You open the door, and you are looking at a set of stairs going down, down, down, and twisting ever so slightly. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to scoop that box up, and I'ma go down those stairs immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hey, you got to drag him in, too. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Then I'm going to quickly get the box and scream at everyone to get the fuck through the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And that's where we'll end our story for the night. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sharply exhales) Got to send a welcome party for god's sake. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Rude. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That was so much fun. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(claps) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(finger snaps) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, you four fabulous people, sign off for the night, one more time. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm on the internet, you'll find it. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm Aimee Carrero playing Grimoria, the Weird Medium Magician. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My name is Imari Williams, I am Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And hey, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "See you in the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Visit darringtonpress.com/candela to learn more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell me, as you stare down at your own hands, one flesh and bone and the other mechanical, what is running through your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It seems like the longer I am with Candela, the more questions I have, the more ingrained I feel I become with uncertainty. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In those first 48 hours of recovering, how do we find you, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And it's all becoming untenable, too much. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What a bizarre accident or twist of fate that the Foggs, who you've come to learn are at the bottom of the pecking order in the Red Hand, led you to your gift. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A farm girl. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I think she knows, she really can't shake the feeling of fear that Atia must have felt, but also the directives that she got from her, which is, the player, I can't really remember your exact words, but I think it was something like destroy him or talking about-- I don't know if she was talking about the priest or a father or religion. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That voice said to end his legacy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I think she feels totally unmoored and less sure about her gift and her contribution than she did when she started. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But all those souls, restless. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What will they think of her? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your waking hours are spent with Dr. Aguilar tending to Grimoria and Leo, conferring with Malcolm, and using what private moments you've allowed yourself to puzzle over an ID you've pulled from a wallet to puzzle over an ID you've pulled from a wallet from the man you bricked in the Shriveline. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "While you wait, tell me where your mind is in all this. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's tearing him up and he's not sleeping. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Whatever it was that happened all those years ago in the park that took your sister from you made no sense, was random, like it fell from the sky. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, all these years later, that same phenomenon somehow resurfaces and rips you open anew. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sniffs) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you slowly resurface from the fog here in the Pharos, what are those first conscious thoughts running through your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to put that on my tombstone at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Aside from the two lines of alchemic sigilry running along the contours of this gauntlet, when you peel back a flat bit of metal paneling on the back of it, you find a line of extremely small print etched into that metal: The letters TR, followed by a familiar pattern of numbers. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The brand of the Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You recognize it, a string of digits used as a numbering convention in your family's munitions factories. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I would love to do a little game talk and know what small upgrade options you are choosing, what circle ability you are adding to your circle, deal with any scars that have been taken, and use the last, " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shall I begin, or should you begin? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can go. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As, I believe, for our thing we all took together, we took Stamina Training, so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which gives the circle three gilded dice at the beginning of every assignment. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They can just be pulled from, one at a time, as needed, for anyone. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I also took a Refresh and a Train. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think with that scar, I also have to move one of my action points? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, you pull it from one and give to another. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I pulled from my Read, I would imagine that that would be confusing, flashbacks and voices, and moved it to Strike, because maybe she's become a little violent because of it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria is in the lead with scars now, with two scars. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The only member with two scars. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, she's so hardcore. (grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She would get a tattoo if it wasn't nineteen-oh-whatever. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do it with a knife. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I chose to, willed myself two additional drive, one for Cunning and one on Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think that's going to be adequate. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We hope. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) I hope. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And Mr. Amicus. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, for my upgrade, I suppose, I gave myself a action point in Move and I gilded it because I think I'm learning that running is a better option in general. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As for scars, I did take a scar last game, and it is my-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're tied then, because you started with a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We're at two each. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I misspoke. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Isn't it funny that someone who is struggling so can be so stabilizing to those around them? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Then taking a Refresh and a Train. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Choo-choo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's my joke. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- leaves the station, I'd like to open this up a little bit and ask if there is anything that any of the four of you have been dying to do or discuss? Any threads you specifically want to pull? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have no idea, because I've been excommunicado from the family because I did not wish to follow along that path. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you have somewhat better of an idea. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to know what he has to do involved, but I'm more focused on what my father, because my father's been the one who's always pulled from the shadows, and what he's gotten my older brother involved into, or maybe, does he know? This is what's on my mind. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So would you seek out your father? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I know my sister and my mother, even though they'll never admit it, have a soft spot for me. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The occasional notes have been passed over that time, but really, if anyone's seen with me in the family, it will be questioned and it will not be good for them, so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You tell me, because we'll go there if you want to. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to question-- I want to be very vague, and I want to establish a meeting place we could potentially-- where we could potentially meet. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You look like you're not taking care of yourself.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How are you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Keeping the ship steered right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "And how is Father? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Perhaps you'd like to explain the other night?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Before I explain that, Mother, I ran into Desmond, as you know. I'm pretty sure he's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, I'm well aware.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Before I explain, what is our dealings with this auction? I know just you being here is a dangerous thing for you, so I appreciate you, and of course I don't need to express our need to keep this quiet, so to speak. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't suppose you know anything about that, do you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Would you happen to have any insight into that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Come back in, Malcolm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I am not going to talk to you about this unless you're--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm better in the shadows. You know that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And with the mess you are in right now-- Son, come back in.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But, Mother, what will happen when I come back in? How can you guarantee my safety? Can you guarantee my safety if I come back in? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I can't guarantee it--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\" -- unless you come back in.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I don't think you know the full picture of what is transpiring here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just wish you saw it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Anyone else have any business to see to? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think I'm feeling how you look. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thanks, that sounds awful. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How is your hand feeling, or hands I should say? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, they feel better than they look. Oh dear. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You definitely did a number on them. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Did I ever tell you? I know I told you a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It doesn't go away. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's where your... sister? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Not a single bloody person has ever actually told anybody what happened there. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This is why you don't exist in the same way you used to. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I didn't need their help for that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I watch everybody, but I've been watching you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thank you for saving everybody. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What else is a doctor for? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know that face and you are a bad liar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, I guess I am. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know it doesn't help, but I am grateful. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I appreciate the appreciation. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Your sister, I know we've spoken a little bit about it, but much less than mine. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't know why or how, but it makes the same noise and causes the same effect as I heard the day she disappeared. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And we find it-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "On those people. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "In the place where everything happened to me? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And now I just get to carry these around, and then I get to ruin the chance of me finding out who did it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's perfectly rational explanation, all of that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) I guess so. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I woke up institutionalized. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Told a couple people, immediately learned that was a terrible idea. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's not fair. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, it's not. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's good to say that out loud on occasion, I find, even if we know it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Wrong place, wrong time. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She could get me in such trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If we lose her, then no one has your secrets. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will say to the race to the inevitable. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) See who gets there first. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hello, Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think panic is rising in her as I sit in the room by myself and against better judgment, I scribble a note to the Foggs and I say, \"Can I come home?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you give a return address? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I put the coffee shop downstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It simply says, \"Where and when?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "From the Foggs? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't understand the response and the only person I can really talk it out with, who knows my whole story is Leo, so I show it to you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think this was a wise move, dear. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have nowhere else to go. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You can stay here for as long as you like. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have to make a living. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You have so much time and so much potential than to (sighs) let it break on those rocks over and over again. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In the way that I'd like to be. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I, um-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It passes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "and now I feel like I'm not getting younger. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I promise you that feeling will go away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you for your hospitality and I promise I won't stay long. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You should (sighs) think about what they would want for you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think they wouldn't recognize me if they saw me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think they would be impressed, though. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What was his name? Felipe? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckling) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Look at that, it's good to be remembered. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckles) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll talk to Charley to make sure we pay attention to see if they come snooping around. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you, and thank you for your patience. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You are well ahead of the curve, believe me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If I might knock to come in, from the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right, I'm opening the-- I'm looking into the mirror, walking back and flinging it open with some drama. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Considering this is your home, I do like to knock before I enter. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Come on in. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You make it difficult to find you when I need to do your checkups. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I feel okay, physically. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sure you do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She'll be staying here for the duration, so she'll be much easier to find. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How are you doing? How are you feeling? After waking up. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Um. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Now that you've had a little time to orient yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I physically fine. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All the other things? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, not great, but I don't think any of us are doing that great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm joins you here in Leo's apartment. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a very heavy hand, excuse me. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gents and lady. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Uncle Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How is the espionage going? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Edgar, did you make her cry? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, that's what I do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That was me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But both, really. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I'm a little run-down, Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Really? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "new sensations, side effects, things with the eyes, or the breathing or the lungs? Or anything that could've been infused with said powder that was blown in your face? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I swallowed that fucking powder. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have the worst pain in my left eye right now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we have a sample of the powder? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If I remember correctly, you did have a bag of it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I may have gotten rid of that bag. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think it was handed over at the Fourth Pharos and it was examined, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But it's intensifying. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can't help you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I will do my best to help anyway I can. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And now, what are we going to do? This is the bigger question. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Figure it out, you all. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I could do for a glass of scarlet, that's for damn sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Done and done. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That will help everything. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You made me tear up, Taliesin Jaffe. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm moving everything deeper into a fucking web. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shuffling things around? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There we are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, when you get close, a little girl about 12 years old-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(startles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- swims up to the glass. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You find yourself standing outside of a single door with Kahn in his fez outstretching his hand. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't think I'm ever going to get used to the way this place works. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sit, sit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is everything all right? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's wrong, Zora? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How's Decklan? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, you see, Decklan passed away in the night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She just stops herself and hangs on you, Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "know if it's connected or not, but.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Where were they supposed to be? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Honestly, with all that you have laden on your shoulders already, I-- I hate even troubling you with any of this.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I'm out of a job now, so. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, Zora. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(tearful sniffle)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know, we're all family and we're going to do what we need to do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where are your heads at?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "where? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The Circle of the Wyrm has been traveling there for over a year.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Via ship? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm sorry?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Via ocean ship? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You know, all of you know that Oldfaire, the ancient city that Newfaire is built upon the bones of-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is underneath. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- is down below the modern city streets. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it means-- And, again, I know we're all players joining for the first time, but as the Circle of the Crimson Mirror, you guys actually have-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Been there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not really your circle's-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Purview. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- specialty, purview, correct. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have been more about dealing with issues topside-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your Lightkeeper-- Sometimes members of circles do move from one to another, like Decklan, for different reasons, but a Lightkeeper will have any number of circles going at once. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we know, have you mentioned why Decklan broke apart from the Circle of the Wyrm? Was he on a sabbatical, or we just don't know how he got separated? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She was very thin on details then, but said that he had come back from assignment and was a little haggard and was looking for some time off or away-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and rekindling or reconnecting with his family. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It now makes sense, though, why he would have time, especially if he was infected with whatever's infecting me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "When you did send us to Serenity, you stated that he-- Yeah, forgive me if I'm getting this wrong, but he didn't come back, he just left a note for you saying he was going to visit his family. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes, and I didn't think anything of it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But he never actually, or at least no one saw him come back to the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see, a single member of that circle is actually accounted for.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She did see him briefly before he set out for Serenity.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm pretty sure he was infected by the time he came and visited the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How do you know that? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, he came from below with the Circle of the Wyrm, and I'm assuming what he had-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What he had seemed-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- infected him. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There are a lot of assumptions in this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I was blown in the face with a white substance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now I'm not sure, this is a hypothesis, but I'm pretty sure that's all connected, the dust that was blown in his face, the dust that was attempted to blow in other people's face, and what was blown in my face. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela and Aguilar, Dr. Aguilar have confirmed-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- that the growth on his face and the pulverized powder that was thrown in your face, blown in your face, they do share the same composition. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're just in a different form. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is there anything of Decklan's, a personal item I can maybe try to glean some information from? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For over a year they've been doing this.\" She goes over to her desks, though, and rifles around, and she comes over to you with a chain with a simple little medallion on it and there is the image of a lighthouse on it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But I've always held onto it. I'm-- I've always been very fond of the boy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is there anything Grimoria can feel, anything spiritual or anything Decklan would've, I don't know, imbued? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a Sense roll for me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah! That's a good roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Three dice, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five? You close your eyes, and again, your work at the Foggs', 95% of the time it is fakery. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You begin to see Decklan with people you don't know, maybe in Hallowharbor, certainly on docks somewhere, pointing off towards the sea-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and laughing with them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do I recognize the dock as a place I've been before, or is it the docks of Newfaire? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It looks similar to the docks where you left from. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I could be wrong. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We do what we can with what we're given. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just playing devil's advocate. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He didn't seem sick on the dock where I just saw him, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "He did seem? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He seemed happy, laughing. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Exactly my point. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sisters were all possessed, killed their own mother. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Only on the island. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It seemed like we were surveyed by the whole town. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "On the island. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now, maybe he found something or maybe he was possessed when he went to the island. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't think it's a possession, I think it's an effect of this powder. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I use possession as a very loosely base, but this powder obviously causes some sort of change into your personality. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm just asking to keep an open mind that the powder might not necessarily be connected to his or his circle's disappearance. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It could've come directly from the island. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "But we should probably keep an eye out for it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, absolutely! I'm just-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We don't know. But his mother was killed by his sisters. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Please, I remember what happened. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He was in the cone, covered with the substance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, no, we were all there. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I think we can ask Professor Gregory if they came across-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- anything down there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But there's a lot of variables at play. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If she's never heard about it, then it's a completely separate issue that we will still have to deal with because, obviously, you are affected and you are getting worse. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not sending you now, of course, but she's prepared to go and lead you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm ready to go. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's been such a delightful place to have a good old tea time at, by the way, I might add. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Decklan's body. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's it going to be interred? Is he going to be in one of those delightful cages that we passed on the way in? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, don't even say such a thing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, I want to know. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I want to know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You are correct, Mr. Amicus.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Makes sense. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How could we let him stay in those-- Who would let him stay there? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Because he's dangerous and we don't understand what it is. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Out of idle curiosity, how often does a circle member end up in that little menagerie? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are they all circle members? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it does happen.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't mean to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've never seen anything like it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We're going to need to see it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You know we need to see it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right, well, now is the time, then.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You don't have to if you don't want to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see, Dr. Lycoris, that that moves down the neck and into the chest, which is sunken in partially, not to the same degree there as well. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(suppressed gag) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is the effect and the decomposition located to areas that specifically would've been infected by inhaling a powder, i.e., the face, neck, and lungs? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Definitely not assisting. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh yes! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It lives. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We love those rolls. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, you can tell that it is, from the nature of it, it follows the line of the breathing passages in the nose-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And from there-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- throat and lungs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Checking extremities, fingers, toes, is any decomposition happening there, apart from normal form? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is some discoloration that travels beyond the worst of it, but it does seem to mostly be centered in those places. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) I undo my kit, take a vial, and I'm going to take some scrapings. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hold.\" She leaves for a second and comes back with Dr. Aguilar who comes in with a mask on and an apron, carrying the same for you, and holds them out for you before entering. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And you-- Please stay outside. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He looks at you after the to-do he made and looks at Murphy's ruin and and looks at Murphy's ruin and deflates a little bit and walks in with you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I go in and collect some samples so that I can look at them later and try and figure out something. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Doctor, I'm sure you noticed the same thing I did, that it appears to be the decomposition is located directly to areas closest to the breathing passages and lungs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In the middle of the night, they stopped outright, and-- I've never seen anything like it, Lycoris.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Neither have I. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Days! This should take days for other comparable conditions.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, upon just this short glance I've had, my initial idea, or at least a place to start is that this is possibly some sort of dried, bleed-infused fungus that then, when blown into the nasal passages, coats the interior and then takes root and enhanced decomposition. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes, the little sachet of powder that you brought does seem to be almost like it was harvested--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"From Mr. Murphy or someone similar.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Obviously, we have someone else we need to look out for. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I understand you may be going into Oldfaire.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Not sure if it came from Oldfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We may all be carrying it at this point, I suppose.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't know how much it dispersed into the atmosphere when it was blown into Mr. Trills' face. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Or how much is coming off the body. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Best of luck.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And thank you for-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Please be safe, all of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you for watching out for him and watching over him when he passed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It is our line of work.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll exit the room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will slide us through Leo's apartment into the waking world, unless anyone has a-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I do have one thing to do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As we leave and we're walking through the Fourth Pharos, leaving, I want to get your attention and have us hang back a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I know that, I know you and Leo were very close, and you-- I guess what I'm trying to say is that I may not show it as much, but I also care about you very much and I want you to be safe. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So when we go into Oldfaire, I need you to just have your eyes open. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I need you to not-- If he starts acting irrationally, do not go near him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't know what affects proceed that state. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't be in front this time. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(scoffs) Well, I'll try not to be. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can we get this show on the road or what, guys? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let's do this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've been expecting you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ma'am. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You must be, and that would make you Edgar.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know it's mess.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm a bit of a mess.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Any word on Decklan?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Gone. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Unfortunately, he passed. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Gone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"No.\" " }, { "Role": "Player986", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "He passed last night. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The tea was very bitter. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I apologize that we're the ones telling you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Will you excuse me a minute?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Way to let her down slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You spot this green, worn leather journal that you recognize as Decklan's, sitting on a stack of papers. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is it appropriate to pick it up? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I mean, can you as a player pick it up? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For suresies. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shall I try? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think at first, she's going to try to Sense something on the spiritual realm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela on my gilded! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Damn, that's-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Damn it, I should have-- Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(chef's kiss) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela gold, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela gold, (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There we are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not a memory. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm's leaning back against the truck, his eyes are closed and he's just bathing in the sun, and Leo is side eyeing him and Decklan is off to the side, just smiling at the lot of you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Excuse me for looking through these things, Professor Gregory, especially after giving you such terrible news in such a terrible way. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"He was with you first.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was just wondering, why do you have all of his things? Why do you have this journal? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We all practically lived here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We do, for different stretches of time.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I see. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"There's a lot of his, some of his clothes are here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know that, Zora mentioned that you saw him before he left for home and I was just wondering what he seemed like, what his mindset was, and did he seem like himself? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "crystal embedded near the small tight end of it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We don't need to be so formal about this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's like we're distant family, in a way.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"No, he was only here for 20 or 30 minutes and I was taking a break from the libraries.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How did he appear to you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just the darkness, even just that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's been there the fewest times, but-- He just said he was going to go home.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "While she talks, I wonder if-- I will just look at the last entry of the journal, see when that was and see if there's any good information in there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "On the very last page, he talks about how well he thinks things are going. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Tulquist's last mission. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And what's the date on that, relative to when he-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Relative to now? It was maybe four weeks before Serenity. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I don't know this because you're reading this, right? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Or what is a Tulquist? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, that.\" She points to the thing that looks almost like a rosary bead of polyhedron shapes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "With the knife? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah. Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You found that down there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How much has Zora told you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You found the vault, and you've been down there searching through it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We like to know what we're picking up before we pick it up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The last thing you remember Mr. Murphy picking up, did it seem unusual? I mean, more than normal? Was he the only one who handled it or-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I mean, I handled it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"But you don't want to get blood on it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The work can be slow and the darkness gets to you, but we're good at what we do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Obviously, you didn't know he passed, but were you told what his condition was, what was afflicting him? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I just didn't know that the end had come.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Did you, while you were down there, or did he find a small satchel or did he find a small satchel of a powder-like substance or any bag or anything that was almost like a ground up white chunky chalk? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"No.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is when I would ask for an insight check. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say, I am definitely, I want to figure out whether she's telling the truth. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's that? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That is a Read, I believe? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I would love to take that Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, you go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Some of you can do a group Read, or you can go your own way. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have a-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's got stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I've got two in it, gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The first Cunning you spend on the roll is worth plus 2d instead of plus one.\" So I have one point in Read, so I get two gilded dice for this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, and I will give a drive to that because I'm also looking, " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh! Then I'll also spend a drive on that as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Since I'm just going to get it back anyway. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela all around. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) I saw that one from here, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You believe it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, you have even-- The item or the substance I'm addressing is, we believe, what caused Decklan's unfortunate circumstances, and it was something we encountered when we visited him, or found him, more accurately, where he grew up on Serenity, the island off the coast. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you see Decklan again. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Which I kept, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think she clocked it, but she doesn't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's your extended family.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "May we have their names? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This man here is Nestor Ronquillo, and then the woman here in the bomber jacket, that's MaryAnne, MaryAnne DeWitt, and then Hilda's our muscle, Hilda Greenwald.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I couldn't tell. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm worried about them, too.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, I'm sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There was a bit of a cave-in, but-- I was nervous, and now with him, Decklan, I mean, in the-- Decklan.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Unrelated circumstances-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- to what has happened, what, if anything, has occurred down there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Knock on wood. I guess we're going to find out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't mean to rush anyone, but maybe we should get started looking for your missing team members. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do we have-- I assume you have supplies and ideas. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That sort of thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It really will be fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I apologize, earlier, for my briskness. I'm just-- I think I'm a bit worn thin. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We've had a long couple of weeks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm real sorry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Uncharacteristically angry. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, I'm trying-- We can talk about it on the way. It's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come with me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Before we leave, this is the college where my father works, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Say that again? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This is the college where my father works. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Briarbank. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That she works at. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, I just wanted to-- I don't have time to do a proper check in, but my father works here, in the same department. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're not at Briarbank. She was-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "She was there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're in the Varnish. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. Sorry, I was confused as to where we were. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Briarbank is in Briar Green, and she has been spending time in Briar Green, and this is their chapter house. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I could've been clearer. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then I will go past this, then, at some point. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, all right, well, she grabs a bag, a satchel, and throws it over her shoulder and says, \"All right, follow me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you just got led down into the basement of this place where there is a pit in the actual floor. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My gosh, you have a lovely restroom. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Help yourself. Anyone else have to go before we set off? Because it's just going to be in the rubble, if not.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We can find a bush next time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You get used to it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's move on. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do not go left, okay? Just follow me right.\" She starts to climb down this metal scaffolding into the pit with the lantern hooked on a little ring she has on her belt. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Are there any other lanterns up here that we can take? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This looks their staging ground to go in. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll have grabbed a lantern. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll grab a lantern, too. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Same. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Maybe I'll sneak the rifle, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's two. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, I would love a rifle. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know what I'd use it for, but it's a shame leaving it here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Firing bullets! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can't I bring my rifle? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) It might get crazy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Anything else of value? I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's food that could be taken from here. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If there's a backpack, I'll load it with food supplies. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's staple food and stuff that can travel. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She just waits patiently, half of her body already disappeared down this pit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, ready?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ready. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm ready. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Don't go left.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't go left. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With your lanterns, you can see that she has dropped onto the roof of some sort of building down here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You can see that you're on a rooftop that stretches out about 40 or 50 feet, and she leads you and says, \"Come on, this way, and again, I've taken this route so many times, but best err on the side of quiet, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I do have a question. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How do we get back up? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I mean, it's a pull--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As long as there's a way to get back up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Here, here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll give you a boost up the ladder. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Be careful.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We leave something every time we go by.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's nice. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's downright creepy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come with.\" You continue to travel, and you can only guess that you are moving under South Soffit, even. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Under-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All your little lanterns are swinging in the dark as you go, and you realize, too, as you walk by, until the point where you got to this open square, you've been passing by these little metal spikes or rods in the ground with a little red smear across the top, similar to what you find on hiking trails. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Markers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hold your lanterns out, and she says, \"They call this the Endless Descent.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do they? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'll show you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No thanks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She arrives at two more spikes that are splashed red with paint, dry now, but there's a rope ladder affixed to those, and she twists around and begins to climb down it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm so sorry. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Stay, stay, stay here-- Stay here, here, here, here-- No, no, no--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's just too much. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "At different places in town, you saw people's silhouettes scorched into the side of walls, like shadows painted there forever. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's just so very overwhelming. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What are you sensing, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's so depressing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, as you pass away from the tents back towards the next means of climbing down, and you see a logo on one of the bags here that is a very old and outdated logo of the Steedwell empire. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, wow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Faded and dead. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to very gently get a little closer. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to fall behind. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Take a look. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Here is one of your family's products Here is one of your family's products from a past decade, just moldering in the dark. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear a-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think I will, but I was hoping to maybe see, just peek to see if perhaps it was open, but not touch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The bag? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You reach your hand, and your thumb runs down along the fabric of it, and you hear (soft ticking). " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I jump back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you all good? Do you need to take a break or rest? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We're about halfway.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh my-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Halfway. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I thought you said it was quick. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, we're almost done with the stairs.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Not necessarily-- okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're going to be taking a shortcut.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If we were halfway down, then we'd be reaching the center of the earth before-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is it appropriate to use something like this down here or does it become a problem? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I use those.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I still trust hers. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I thought you would appreciate the occasional checkup. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Always. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ah, love it. Good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) It's faint. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "But holding? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's faint, but it is there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll keep checking. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Meaning you are reading-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How bad is it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- a faint bit of bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just a touch, just the slightest touch. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You let me know if it gets any larger, will you? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Also, I should add, what on earth am I going to do about it if it does? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Take this rifle off my back and do what you have to do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, if-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will be very impressed if I pull that off. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Nonsensically, as you hold your lanterns out, you realize you're looking at the edge of a forest growing down here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's magnificent. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see soil splitting up, somehow giving them purchase. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Wild. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But follow me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do we know what circle found this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You would have to ask Zora.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's fine, I was just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We were assigned here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- didn't know if you knew them or if anything happened to them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And they found my office.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, do we know the name of the circle whose tents those were? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Those have been there at least the last 40 years.\" \"Those have been there at least the last 40 years.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She looks back to you and says, \"I'm going to keep my lantern up, you might have more luck here if you stow yours and just follow.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Follow where I go.\" Who wants to go after Professor Gregory? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Last words, last deed. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Soldier right into the trenches. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Into the trenches we go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But there was a really big woman in the photo you saw, and you push through. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(strains) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive on that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're jammed in place. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You have the extra Train, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel stone pressing into your ribs in two places right now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll take that with that one. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That was close. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, it-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Don't take that one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughing) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. You begin to pull yourself through, and you can feel your healing knife wound begin to drag against stony surface. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You manage to rotate slightly and get that wound away from whatever element is doing the damage and slide through about five inches suddenly. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's following Malcolm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you want to go? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I guess I would. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can go last. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Get your drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're smaller, so you're able to scrabble all the way through, in behind Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But for a mixed success, you'll take one brain. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which I believe is three for you now, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I got a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You stitched? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, you're a blank slate. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Going to have to work harder. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) He's like: Damn it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's next? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(exhales heavily) Yep, yeah, I'm climbing up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(soft ticking) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Stop, stop, stop. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, going to fuck with me, are you? (soft laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a Sense roll? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why not? Ah, Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Finally, someone gets-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(nervous noise) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's been two minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move roll, please. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five, and I get my drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You continue to drag along and you can't maneuver your body to get your side free of that damage, and you just scrape and scrape along, and by the time you get out, you don't wound yourself, but for a five, I will give you a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(breaths shakily) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As the loss of your sister is now raw and red under your clothes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(fortifying breaths) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Breathe.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(intentional breaths) Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It was that bad for me the first five or six times I did it, too.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, it's a good thing I'll be doing it the second time, when we go out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear her voice say, \"Wait, what?\" She trots ahead a couple of steps ahead of you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Wait, wait, wait, we wait for her. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Shh, shh, shh, just wait. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We normally have a rope here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Did one of us grab a rope? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "One of us had a rope in their pack. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I have a rope, but--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not secured. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There used to be a spike here with a rope tied to it going to the other side.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What happened to the spike? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are we going up or down? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Across.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, oof. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Get a lantern over here, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Watch where I go because you're going to want to do what I do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay? It's just leg muscles.\" She begins to slide her back, and slide her back, and she's using that oppositional force to move through She's got a lantern ringed and hanging from her belt as she moves, so you can see the stone floor beneath her start to-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The further she goes, you can see that it spills out into nothing-- " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She keeps going, pressing in this, what is like, if anyone's ever gone hiking in Utah-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- slot canyons, except there's-- This is one you don't want to do this with. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see in the distance there is a metal spike rammed into the stone there and-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm still holding on the rope. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, so that rope is trailing out. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "In case she falls, I'm the one who's going to be anchored down to hold her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's going to be a bad scene if that happens, but yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She takes the rope off of her and she begins to tie it hard onto that metal spike. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you saw where I went, right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh dear. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's going to be the first on the charm bracelet of our circle? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm the strongest. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So you should probably go last. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Am I going to be holding all of us? Are they getting anchored on me for strength and support or will it be like-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well hopefully, no one's going to be weighing on anybody, but you do maybe want to think about gravity and what happens when who falls where-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "One slips. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- in the worst case scenario. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There is another that they have tied to the metal spike that is there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's tied, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So we just have the one rope coming over. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So in theory, we would all tie into this rope. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And go across. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's the thought. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, so then order is important. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got another 60 feet on this thing. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think you should go in the middle. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Really? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Could be a balance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If you can fall and we can be on two sides to hold you, you won't pull as much force. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sounds like a good plan to me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You are the heaviest of us, not to insult you or anything, you just are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so the order-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think it should be-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- will be-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then you, then myself. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Right. Right, right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, then Grimoria, I think you said, then Malcolm, then you, Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We need enough room to maneuver, obviously, but if there's too much slack and one of us falls, we'll pull too much force. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, yes, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Give it about a foot and a half, two feet. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If possible we'll let-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Take it slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- Alessandra know to wrap the rope as we go, keep it as taut as possible, or if she can pull. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Meaning as soon as rope is fed, it can be-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then Grimoria, you follow along, maybe a five or six foot distance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So here we go. These are high stakes rolls-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, make a Move roll, please. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to-- I'm going to burn a drive, and I think I'm going to use my extra die because, boy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player987", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And we also, remember we have these in case. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Those, just in the case. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(grunts) I'm going to burn a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I only get to roll what I have. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, base roll. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Baby. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Nope. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Very bad, I rolled a one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "There's that! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You reach a certain point where your toe goes (grip slipping) and you feel yourself drop. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, what happens? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to move to anchor him before he falls, so I have to steady my body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Both begin to fall. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I need you to make a Move roll right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I'm going to use my train. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel the rope go taut between you and Professor Gregory as Leo drops. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "One left. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel a yank so hard in your waist. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are still in a portion of this terrible spot you're in where it is tighter, and you press with all of your small frame's strength to the point where you feel stone digging into your back it hurts so much. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take a brain and a body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, you're just taking advantage now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because I got a blank slate. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You thought you were about to be dropped into a hole to nowhere. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, you are hanging suspended-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "On three. One, two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can choose, Malcolm-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who's got the highest? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have the highest in Move. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- or Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- I can burn two drives. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I only have one in Move, so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No, I have-- I can do, I have one, two, I can roll four die. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't burn everything, because-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I still owe myself-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You want to use one of these? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, first Adrenaline Rush, so with this one I spend I'll fill one again, so I'll only be spending one drive. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think if it's full, it just fizzles. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, is that how it goes? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't think you can bank it off in the aether to just sit there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, well then, I'm going to, either way I'm going to burn two drives. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So then we all add a-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I'm going to get four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you help, if you're aiding, which you are with your body, then you can add a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have four, I have four die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four die? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. Five on gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five on gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Not bad. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's almost a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Boom! I get to replenish that shit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Pretty good! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Actually, leave the drive because I didn't erase it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Pretty good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start backing up and-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was like, that's good. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You're like, \"God, please.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can feel the wound in your ribs screaming as you drag them back. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I feel a body coming on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Actually, no, I think you're going to take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh wait, it's three? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, then you're out. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's at four. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's four, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh, don't go out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo is standing on the other side. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We have this, we can do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hold everything. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I have to do another roll? No, sorry, what'd you say? I mean, I'm not talking myself into another roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, I think that between-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to start the bargaining phase of this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, bargaining's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's the grief process that's happening here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "but that gets Malcolm moving and Edgar behind. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean, I know it's not much, but I will assist in whatever way the three of them, so hopefully that'll help my puny little-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Every ounce helps. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you, guys. I know. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Stronger, small but mighty. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Roll again as you travel. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You moved all the way back to the beginning and have to start over. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Ah tah tah tah ♪ tah tah tah ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say he's pretty solid for this one. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Let us know if you need. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I will. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Because we'll know. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I am scared to death for you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, in that case, I will burn another drive. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are you sure you don't want help? " }, { "Role": "Player988", "Content": "I want you guys-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is it six? How many dice do you have in your hand? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have four die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can replenish mine off of Adrenaline Rush. I'm fine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's good because I saw the other thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I saw the other two from here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would've been good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Somehow you did something terrible just to get good rolls. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are 200 pushups a day, every day, right next to the bed and you-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I take pride in this body, I eat efficiently, I eat clean. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "\"I eat clean.\" Clean and mutton. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You begin to press your way across and you do not have the same problem that Leo and Grimoria have of that widening out because of your size, your height, but you have to follow up, following behind Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Move? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What you got? You need help? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm good, I have three. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What we got, baby? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I feel a brain and a body coming on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shh! Don't give him ideas! Maybe if we don't think it, he won't know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's always worse that, like, it feels your thoughts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He reads our thoughts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Here. Here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your ribs are still searing from the past 10 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You think, \"Ah, if I just shift,\" and then you feel your whole backside start to slide down, and you swing, losing your grip. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You go swinging and you feel (thudding) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And go black. " }, { "Role": "Player989", "Content": "Body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So he's out? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Or let's pull. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to pull him up immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, we all help. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We all help pull him up. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You begin to drag and drag. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Crap. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Steady! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar's limp body gets pulled up and over, and there is-- Some skin on his forehead is broken and flapped away a little bit and he is bleeding down his face. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to try to find a gauze or something inside the bag. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "He'll have something in this kit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What I'd like you to do right now is make a Control. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shoot, I have nothing in Control. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ugh, god. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's Control? Yeah, I got nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Every one counts. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let me give you an extra drive for that. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to give a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Wait, you nothing in Control? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No, I have two dies. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can this bring him back, though, or no? I'm just saying here, if this is just how good we bandage him up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is that two die? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Which? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If I have one-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's one die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Right, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm giving you drive, so that's two die. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I thought you were the gun guy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wait, but do you guys hear what I'm saying? Is this high stakes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is not high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's why I was like-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is not high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because if this is just how well we-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I'll hold. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll just roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to roll this one little die. Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "If anyone can do it, it's you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm coming for you, Edgar! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I feel like you're supposed to be better at this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear him in your head. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm like-- (laughs). " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five! That's still pretty good, you guys! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's like a tampon, just-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(quick inhale) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Maybe some smelling salts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Jolts up your nose and-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(grunting) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sharpens you even further. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Not necessary. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Looks like we got to patch you up this time, huh, old boy? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I really thought it was going to be me that got knocked out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's blood in your eye. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to try to wipe that out for him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't touch me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How are you, doc? You all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, I assume this means I'm alive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're alive.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, then I'm serviceable. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We could wait.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just a minute, just give me a minute. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(heavy exhale) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"There's been a taut rope there for over a year and we just hook it and move across.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Someone undid it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why would they do that? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(normally) The spike wasn't there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The rope wasn't dangling. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is it dangling on this side? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(whispers) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Looks like somebody--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ripped it up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Or-- I don't know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can we, I don't know, shine our lanterns to see if there's a body down there? Somebody that may-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Too deep? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- too deep. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The one that was dangling. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sure. Save it for us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(whispers) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so you guys get it all in a loop, and bring with? Leave here? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I mean, the original rope, was that wholly gone? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, mostly. It was like a foot or two. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, so it was cut? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. Well, there was a frazzled bit of rope on that side. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We should definitely take it with us in case we need another. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, take our rope. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Your rope, yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a good idea. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm having trouble seeing out of this eye where I hit my head, on the left side. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I keep seeing shadows move and I can't tell if it's just here or if it's physical, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you wish it were true. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is your second scar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to have a quick check to Malcolm really quickly to see-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm moving one out of Read as my vision's not as-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right from Read to? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, you know, Move is applicable. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "but you can't help but wonder if it's a little stronger. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I sense anything specific? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. You can do Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Anything useful, I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Toward Malcolm, you mean, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Or in general? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How about a general sense of danger? Maybe if there's something lurking, or-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're trying to figure out what specifically? In the story. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In the story, I guess I'm trying to sense if something magickal nefarious has happened to block our path, you know? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So not related to Malcolm, but where you are? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, because he's, I mean, I don't know what I would learn from that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- to see if there's anything specific. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, then you would use Sense still here, too. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That was a five, though, but-- Another five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I like that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are in tuned with ancient remnants of the past, and it's not close, you can't place it yet, but you can feel yourself in the presence of that feeling in your gut and in your heart when you are picking up the 50th thing Mr. Fogg has given you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Gregory looks to you, says, \"If you're all right to go, we're getting close.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Can you walk, doc?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just-- I'll have to get a new pair of glasses. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Eventually, you find yourself spilling out over piles of stone and into flat ground. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe in yours, Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She looks around, \"Shit, shit, shit!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Professor Gregory, are we looking for your team? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(emphatically) \"Yes!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(desperately) \"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "This is where they're supposed to be? They're supposed to be here? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is the last place that we were all together.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Wouldn't there be-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Footprints? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- footprints of some kind to touch? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I'll even-- Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, I will not. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Like, \"Really, no!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Looking for footprints is low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Footprints in the sand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For your health. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "All right! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Trying to find the line. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She looks like she wants to start running around, but she holds. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do we follow these? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I want to first, before we do that, I want to take out my, I want to activate my bleed detector on my hand and see if I get any kind of sense. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your hand, as soon as you access the detector, your hand begins to glow a " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is this towards the footprints that we're walking towards? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, not that you can tell. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just all around. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's against protocol.\" But she falls in next to you, Leo, and can't deny that you're onto something and you guys continue down, take a right, and then go down a set of steps, maybe 30 or 40 stairs-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah, I'm drowning! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Down here, there are no other tracks. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So it just disappears? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you leave that behind and you are following five sets of footsteps moving. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think we're missing four people. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is also one set of tracks coming out. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man, I have a sense of what those tracks belong to. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm aware of how tracks are spread, but then I notice the tracks going out and I have an eerie suspicion that those tracks might belong to Decklan. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What kind of shoes? How big? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, then you would have to do a Focus roll for that one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll Focus roll it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a low stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've got it, my Focus is a little better. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Double fours. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm just curious if it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're focusing on the prints leaving? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I'm trying to get a sense if I think it's the right size for Alessandra, or Decklan, or someone else. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She has pretty petite feet, comparatively. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just checking. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They look older, the prints, than the ones that are left on the right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sorry, just for clarity, the trail ends, is that what you're saying? Or we just noticed the other pair and then we're like, \"Oh, okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're continuing around one more corner. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think we should-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But the tracks bend around the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "He didn't say anything. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I mean, he left. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Others didn't. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's just wait 'til we find evidence of anything. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We just don't want to become evidence of anything. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I understand, but getting bent out of shape is not going help anybody. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I roll a Survey roll? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to roll a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Searching for? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I just want to further investigate the tracks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you want to follow the tracks? Because you don't need a Survey roll for that. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to see if I could see anything else that might be, I mean, you got a four, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I would need to get something better. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sees nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You look over, you place a hand on Leo's shoulder and you stare at them and you can't tell-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Delaying the inevitable here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But Leo-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Leo, his grip on your shoulder's a little tighter than is necessary in that moment. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How are you feeling? I gently put my hand on the grip. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Perhaps too good? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think we should follow the track. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll lead the way. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Don't pretend you're better than you are. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's like, I have a, the burning's always been there in my eye, but now it's almost like a migraine, but it's a little bit on the frontal lobe and it's just sort of-- I can feel it pressing on my scar. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But it's not constant, kind of pulses every now and then. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Through the light that is being thrown by your lanterns down that hallway, you think you can see a hand on the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Like (hand clunks) that? " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "(quiet chuckle) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "In the doorway. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Past the doorway. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Past the doorway. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just barely alit by from this distance. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Don't suppose we can just say we found them, get on our way. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have to see if they're okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm just going to be ready. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've never used one before. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I've never used one, but I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I taught you in the yard before. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I let you shoot a few times. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know how to pull the trigger. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Not enough for you to be familiar with it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I'm not a sharpshooter. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to go check on the body. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, no, no, no!\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Shh, shh, shh, wait, wait, wait, come back, come back, come back. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A sob escapes her chest and she chokes it and sinks into your body as you hold her in as you guys enter here and lamplight illuminates what looks like a crime scene. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That aside, the Circle of the Wyrm lies scattered about the room, all dead. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "All of them? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's on her back and in one hand she holds a gun, a revolver, which is pointed 'til about 11 o'clock in the room, pointed towards a man who lies on the ground, Alonzo Whitlock, and he has a bullet wound in the back of his head and is splayed out off kilter from the center of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is he holding a knife in his hand? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's not. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The large woman, Hilda, she has a bullet wound in her chest, and the man near her, Nestor Ronquillo, his throat has been cut, and Hilda does have a knife in her hand, so it is pretty obvious that she cut this man's throat for whatever reason and we've only, we see one gun in this room and it is in DeWitt's hand by the door. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm slowly doing my job, check the pulse on each one of them, knowing what I'm going to find. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "These bodies look like they've been laying here for a while. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Which one was their Medium? Nestor or-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Alonzo, who is-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's good, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Here at the front. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think Grimoria would-- You said Nestor, sorry, or Alonzo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Alonzo Whitlock. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would go to Alonzo, and I don't know, touch the body to see if I could, like if a Medium would leave a message for someone else, like some sort of trail, some sort of spiritual message. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That makes sense. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sense roll for that, for sure. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's back up out of the room, everybody. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It feels muted somehow, but you know that it's near. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Muted like... " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It doesn't feel as present and visceral for some reason. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see down on the ground, growing out of a crack in the wall, the seam where the wall meets the floor, there is a little splay of-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh no. Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- white matter. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yep. Back up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "[floor splitting] " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ew! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "20 feet, 30. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We got to get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(creepy music) (adventurous music) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you Trust us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(labored breathing) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everyone at the table takes three body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I'm out. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, you're not taking it now. You took it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Remember, if those bodies carry to a scar, any remaining body move through to the next. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So you should be one lower than you were. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The floor you're on is on an angle, and down at the bottom of this angle, you see your three friends in a bloody heap. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Off to the side, you see Dr. Alessandra Gregory, her face split open on a stone-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(despairing sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- her body face down, limp-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is very, very pale, dim lighting, It is very, very pale, dim lighting, and you can see up behind you, up this stone ramp and a five- or six-foot crawl up is a hall, and all along the arched roof of that hall that you can see from where you are has fingers of white fungal growth spreading down. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So they are all down a slide from where I am. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not moving, akimbo, half piled on each other. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can any of you hear me? Are any of you awake? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear a voice in the back of your head. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Am I unconscious? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm coming to get you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to try and slowly start making my way down to them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear stone and dust and skittering as Edgar slides down toward you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Careful, just careful. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm being careful. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't feel great. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, now tell me, can you move your fingers? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Can I? I try. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. Yes, they move. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can you move your toes? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just as much as normal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It hurts your lower back a little, but you can. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, that does not feel good though. My back is-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Stay still. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. Right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Now, position-wise, who is on top? Is it Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo and Grimoria are sort of in an X. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With Leo's body over Grimoria's lower back and legs, and Malcolm is underneath them all. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to tap-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Grim, are you awake? Can you hear me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm fucking passed out. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start to realize that your arm is pinned underneath your own body and someone, something. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to try and gently detangle the both of you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(skeptical groan) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're going to do this very slowly, because we're all in trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Apart from the fact that we fell a long way-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- there's a lot of that mushroom above us. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's also bits of particulate dust, even hunks-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- falling from above you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you think about it, as you were plummeting, it felt like you were smashing through or scraping some resistance for part of the trip on the way down. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to-- I go over to Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sorry, I'm ruining your dress, but we need this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I start tying them around their mouths and my mouth. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then I have one for Malcolm when I get to him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well done. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. Let's try and move you all. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to start with Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to try and slide him out, off to the side. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He moves sideways, still on his back, still not risking tempting it, probing it, and you have clearance now for Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll move Grimoria off of Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, as you sit up and your arm comes free-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think she throws up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You do, you throw up all over your front. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I feel like I want to throw up. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's okay, it's okay, come on, let's get you up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's functional, but damage is done. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. Can it be put back into place, or no? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Dislocated. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure, you can-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We'll see if we can fix it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If not, we can make a sling, I believe. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just need to get to Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is Malcolm face down or face up? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "His legs are facing, not straight up, but on an angle up towards this passage that is above, and his head is bent, not horribly, but he has probably slid and sunk into the base of this incline. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Before I try and wake him up, how is his face? How does it look? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't have to burn any resources, if you even have any left. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've never seen anything like this condition or this growth, but it's not like in the last hour his condition or his traits have progressed any further. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Malcolm, can you hear me? Malcolm? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you start hearing a voice echoing in your dreaming mind, and then realize that you're-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't move. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- awake. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is there pain anywhere, other than just-- Anything major? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) My head. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you also feel your right shoulder, stiff and pained. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) (groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, my shoulder. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My right shoulder. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I point up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "maybe 100 feet or more up, slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "First of all, there is, it seems, a clear way up, by someone who has a cruel sense of humor, and I don't think we're alone up there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What do you see? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've not been the best observer, the best observer, but I think there's movement. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a Survey roll, Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Low stakes, I assume. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. Well, relatively. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You are terrible. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Gilded, so I'll take that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear movement every seven or eight seconds. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's not what I'm used to hearing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're worried, maybe you're imagining it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are still bits of particulate and dust raining down every few moments. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Try and breathe through your nose. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of you can see now. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It curves around and up, traveling up to-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where's our exit? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you came from up there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Up there, so we have to go back the same way. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There is a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a ladder, and there is a passage-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- pathway, a passage. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- at the top of this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is any of that growth by the passage, by any chance? Is any of the growth by the passage? Is there anything growing by there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it looks like if you went in there, you'd be walking under fingers of this stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But one managed to survive, cradled between Leo and Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We have a lantern that seems intact. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can I make a quick Survey check-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- to see if the gun that the body was holding is around here anywhere? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think there are two knives. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Two knives. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, just the one knife. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You saw one knife. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, maybe-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You thought there might be two. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're looking for the gun? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The gun. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You now see DeWitt with her short cut black hair, slightly bloodied, but those bodies were there a while, and you find the gun a few feet down the ramp there. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I put it inside my vest, or tuck it into the edge of my pants. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start to hear sound from above. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, we need to get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, everybody. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start to hear more pronounced sound. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's not just me. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Of cracking, or movement, or what? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There's something in here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Something beyond the dust. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Fragments of-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, we've got to go. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So we've got to get to that ladder and get up to that passage. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to crawl. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's a ladder in this shaft that leads up from where you came. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But something is coming down that direction, and from that ladder, this platform that you crashed down on is slanting up and, whoop, you can go somewhere else. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I see, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So that ladder would be cool if you felt up to a whatever long climb. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But there's things up there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We've got to drag him up. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's-- There's a-- There's a crushed lantern. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And an intact one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "An intact lantern. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does the crushed lantern still have fuel? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Does it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, it's the glass that's shattered. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it has landed in such a way that there is still-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do we want to attempt to make that ladder, which I assume is wood. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's stone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's carved recesses. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Into the thing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We could leave a little-- Well, we have an option at some point. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The sound is getting closer. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to help start-- I want to get to my feet, shake it off. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to, first we need to tend to Leo first. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everyone can move. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It just hurts. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It just hurts. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Make our way to that tunnel. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I mean I know I have one bad arm, but I could still use my hand to prop. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are still a circle. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All along it is this fungal growth-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're not close enough to understand or decipher the color you're seeing or detail from that color, but you gather there is more. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can you channel? How conscious do you think you channel right now? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(stumbling mumbles) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can you channel that old woman that you did? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I can, the problem is I was waiting, I mean, just above table talk. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was waiting because it doesn't cost me nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I was waiting for some-- I could do a Sense roll to see if I can, I don't know what possibly-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Maybe there's a secret passage that you can-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was just trying to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But if you're looking for magickal phenomenon around you, that is Sense and you can, you especially, can sense things if you roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can she sense something to tell us how to get the fuck out? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is no game guide or cheat code in this place. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because every time I use Sense, it's always some answer that's not helpful. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's always an answer of answers. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Before we do anything, I think we need to get a little further down this passage. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I assume we were just walking. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, you limp your way, the four of you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I pull out the glove and I put it on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Put it on your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have the rifle pointed at whatever the fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there anything I can use to make a little small torch to burn something that might be in front of me? Something like a lantern? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can strip away some of the clothes quickly from the Circle of the Wyrm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We're going to be fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But I'm going to give you 30 more seconds to brainstorm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We don't know-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We're just going to go. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We don't know if this fungus is flammable. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We're just going to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so you begin to walk-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And we don't want to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The torch you have lights up your surroundings well, and then it is just this dimness stretching out so far. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's not less growth, it's more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Physically where you are, Grimoria-- Do me a favor, make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you think about whatever it is that is coming down that shaft and looking at a broken bridge in front of you, and you don't see an elevator out of here anywhere. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. (sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A few of them, no more than a few. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's only one section? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Closing on your location. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I relay this information, very quickly ask, I mean it sounds like our only option is to go to the growth connecting to the bridge, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't know what those things are, but there could be any sort of bleed-infused life being down here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do we want to try to burn through this? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Want to burn it down? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If you want to stay over here and burn it down after we get across, by all means. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do we have to burn a path through it? Is it blocking our path? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, no, because we can go down the growth and up into the bridge. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, cool, then I'll follow. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No burning. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, cool. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No burning right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's bad. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So we do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you take the rear where these things are coming behind and you look behind you and you can see low to the ground down that passageway, some sort of forms with obvious arms and feet or fingers-- some sort of forms with obvious arms and feet or fingers-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All our rolls are high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can we burn-- Oh, so I get one more if I use my drive. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Once you use your resistance, you don't get it back if you fail your drive again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, I just figured. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five on the gilded, so I'm getting my drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Four on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Who got a Candela? Oh, nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I got fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She would know what to do here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take it and go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Take what? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So tell me in this moment, overlapped with Atia Griffia, in a story that you're writing, what would you want to do right now? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So he's already passed? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not tunnels, it is branches, it's like climbing through endless white tree branches. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know, I don't see him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He was climbing, also, you don't hear that language is in the old tongue, but you understand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I would just literally take getting us to safety. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Will you give me a Sense roll, please? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "on the other side and crawling in to that forest and coming. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Set on this curving exterior of the building. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(chittering) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think that-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do the doors open or--? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do they? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They don't open for you like someone's waiting. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, I'm going to freaking open that door. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say, are the sounds coming from inside? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do I have, in this ability, do I have her memories? Am I seeing through her eyes, or is it just a little bit autopilot? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She is with you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Her voice. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to listen to that voice, and see if it seems like we're intuiting that safety is beyond those doors. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We will break him.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs incredulously) If I can. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is that her speaking to her? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- you look at-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She gets all the fun shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- Grimoria staring at the doors just-- Oh, but unless, I'm sorry, are you using The Prestige? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It just shifts back and forth, sometimes both. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I hate all of this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's see if, quietly, you take one side, I take the other, just wide enough for us to get in, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(strains) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's like \"A Quiet Place.\" (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That will be a Strike or a Move, I'll let you choose. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll do a Strike, and I'm going to burn one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you want a drive or no? Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "While they're doing that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can I make a Focus roll to quickly see if I can suss out how this thing works? The gun. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, baby " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela, Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That good hand. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm stealing those dice when this game is over. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "On the gild? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela gilded, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can feel it still possesses one amount. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "One shot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You believe, you believe, because as soon as you turn that wheel, that cylinder and all the little lines on it begin to shimmer gently. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shove this thing, and as your hands slide across it, you see the dust of this that has been here, who knows? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sliding) There is enough room for each of you, one by one, to slide into this building. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As soon as we're in, we're going to start shoving the door right back. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Shoving it closed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(thuds) (slams) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is there anything to keep it from? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) So what are we locking ourselves in? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's better in here than out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you allow yourself to turn and see what fresh hell you have walked into now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But all the walls, you can still see glimpses of the doors in here and they're less dust coated, so you can see glints of gold here and there, but the fungus is " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does this feel like it might've been ground zero for this, with such an intense focus at the top? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, it seems like, in the center of the chamber, about 100 feet away from you, in this big, circular hole is a big mound or hump in the middle. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Aw, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's some sort of oblong shape perched on an angle, like some sort of strange, melted modern art. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No exits that we can see? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are other doors, many of them are grown over. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shuttered. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think that's the root, I think we have to fry the living crap out of it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's take a minute and figure out where we are, and if there's a way out of this room. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I-- Can I, like, sense-- Can I get a sense of what this is, what is this growth? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can't see it too well, you're about 100 feet away from it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But even the ones we've already seen, what is it? A fungus, is it just an unruly magick virus? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you see fungus on the ground here, and it seems to be, there's long snakes of it, I think it's probably coming from the center and out onto whatever this thing is in the center. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's coming from that thing? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is it possible to walk gingerly, or is there just nowhere for feet to find purchase? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's everywhere, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can step amongst it for a while. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There does look like, the furthering you get, the thicker it gets on the ground, but out here, it is splayed with gaps. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Every door is covered with this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not every, most. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to do a Survey and see if I can find a door that's not covered and see if there's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, the one you came in is not covered. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is the only one that's not covered? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) I'm going to burn a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Why? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sorry, resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Panic. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You're like, \"Why?\" (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, I just didn't want you to burn something you didn't have to. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "[hisses] " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. Spores. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your eyes-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck, we're infected. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- start to blur and burn a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are in a sea of crimson. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I try to fight that, since I have a special thing happening? Just try to see if I can hold onto any kind of-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear a voice in your ear, Griffia's ancient voice saying, \"This is his woe, this is his folly.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Every trace. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Come with me.\" You want to try to do what specifically? I know that you want Atia to help you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So if she can give us a directive, then I will do everything to do that and also protect my friends from getting more hurt. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, I'm still going to tie it to dice. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, that's great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah, on the gilded, fucking Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) I swear, and this was a fucking three, man, and a two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech) (guttural speech) (guttural speech)\" What do you do, Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Am I floating? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "your body twisting in strange, rounded movements. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tick, tick, tick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It doesn't hurt, but you can feel your ribs-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tick, tick, tick, tick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are you trying to do here, Leo? Your fingers are bending and moving and growing, six inches, 12 inches. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I can look in the mirror and I know what I am. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech) (menacing hiss) (vicious snarl)\" Do you know what you want to do, Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm time, I move through time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "♪ (searching hum) ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do you want another drive? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can we help? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, not at this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because we can't hear any of that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have no idea. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All alone. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's burn that resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do you want to use an extra die? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Don't forget we got this. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll take one of those. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(blows raspberry) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Please tell me there's a Candela in there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a one, that's a one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a one, and a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yo! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! You! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh good, I needed that resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela on the gild? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, you get that back, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Christ. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Goddamn it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(growls)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Told you we should've burned that shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Didn't I say burn it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, what are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It feels like your head will just keep going and eventually form a circle, your body just spiraling in space. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do I have my lamp by me? Is there anything hot? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your body feels like spaghetti. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But I need to get out of this trance first. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So make a Sense roll to reveal. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, I'm going to burn, I'm burning both drives. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to use-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Those are the worst. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That was your moment! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That would be good. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm sorry! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player987", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear the sound of bullets (weapon ejecting), (bullets striking) people screaming in the distance. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(dejected sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(hissing sizzle) You feel a burning behind your eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What is it you want to do now? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "There's something pulsating in the middle of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can barely make out-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's waving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- these tendrils of fungus stretching into the center of the chamber in some large, humped shape 70 or 80 feet away from you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to test my hypothesis before I lose, before I rip the gun off of Edgar because I don't know if that's going to work and we might need it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to take a freaking Hail Mary. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Good, I want to see that, but getting out of the haze was your share for the moment, so hold that thought. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That was fucked. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sorry, I got to keep it together. I can't-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech)\" \"(guttural speech)\" What do you want to do in this moment, Edgar? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There is a thing in the center of this room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your thoughts bubble around you, echoing, muted, coming into razor-sharp clarity, then fading like they're buried-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There was a thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- under the earth. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to shoot the center of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll to find the center of anything right now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Critical. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two Candela? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Two sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Double Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Double Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You better be able to shoot to win. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "you better work it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You better work it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You better work it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You watch the hands suck into your body. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One of them splays outward and is so clearly a young and feminine arm and it sinks down and into your guts. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You are not here! You're dead. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It comes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I talk back to it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(monster) \"(guttural speech) (guttural speech)\" Quickly, what do you tell? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We have all the power here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel an ocean of force buffeting past you, You feel an ocean of force buffeting past you, Atia and you shifting and shaking in the heat of it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Can I open this door now? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make your roll, you will follow up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let's do, let's do it, let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(claps) Ah, fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You're here! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not now.\" Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I could fight back maybe. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do I see this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For the moment, you do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "and I'm going to steady her towards all this and hold on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I wish I had some of that. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Good for 10. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's what I want to do straight. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move roll, Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Throw ta-ta, baby, it's right, I'm a burning two drives on this bitch right here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five, five gilded, so I won't get too messed up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I though that was a Strike! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is your complication on a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm burning a drive on this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No one, we can't help, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is 80 feet away and he sees a lantern that is (twisting). " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nope, that was not. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That was not it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That was a drop. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm sorry that I keep gasping in the wrong moment. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Holy shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which hand was holding that lantern, by the way? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It was, well, my good hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It has a little extra oomphy on it because it's freaking a little robotic. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural, snarling speech) (guttural, snarling speech) (eldritch growl)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's Edgar doing right now? Is he still entranced? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a good question. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You were about to, he was about to do something? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For the moment you can. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Did I see him throw the lantern? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will say, in this moment, you did. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) Points out the gun. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The glove. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The glove. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(claps) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I need you to make a Strike roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh, Strike roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because this is not the human anatomy and you are not seeing perfectly well. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Does he need precision and anatomy? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "For Strike rolls, I can roll Focus, but this is not that kind of a thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Read out the full text for me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "\"When you know where the body is most vulnerable-- When attacking an enemy,\" which I am not doing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But you are attacking it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I would take that to be, being a surgeon-- I'm probably need somebody to-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- fly in some water. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's not about the rule, it's about flavor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are looking at something that looks like a giant rotting lima bean-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- in the center of this place. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I am going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I aid him at anything? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're too far apart. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let me just do this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar is firing from a distance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck, fuck, fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wavering 50 feet ahead of you, you see your sister walking towards you, arms outstretched, inviting you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, hell no! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's crying. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Knock down, break, punch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Ah, Eddie! It's okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to ask you to make one more roll, and let's make this one a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We don't see any of this. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nice, love it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(shaky breathing) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see this close, everything moving in little holes, little pores all over this hulking thing that you are now standing at the foot of. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How far away is he from me? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The creature is now moving. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here's what I want to do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to run towards Edgar, snap him out of his trance, rip the glove off, and try to fry the shit myself. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's what I want to do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So we can do a Move and then we can do another Move and then I can do a shoot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That sounded like three things. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He needs to snap out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think let's start with getting him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Maybe I should shoot him in the leg. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Because I have my gun with me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If I can't-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's up to you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to run towards him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, I'm going to do a Move. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That will make me three. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your vision is getting redder by the second. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Give me something I can-- Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Dude, I'm not even, I'm looking right at-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This isn't fun anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, it's fun for me! " }, { "Role": "Player990", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, it's fun for me! We're going to make it out! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "He's thinking about it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, we still got two more Moves left, so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I help? Maybe while he's doing that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You shove him back and you feel yourself-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do I see the hands attached from anything? Are they coming from something? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will say that you manage to drag that glove off as he goes-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If I feel-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- something pulling on me-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- and trying to remove this thing that is the most important thing in the world to me-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You want to contest it? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm contesting by pulling that gun and firing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(exhales forcefully) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Why? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Because I don't see you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh my god! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I see monsters. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, make a-- I will say you can make Focus with this because there are hands involved. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is how the other group died, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Go on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "They had hallucinations. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Of course they did. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Say goodbye to your foot. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which side the success and which side the failure? Your goal, by shooting, is to hold on to the glove? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "My goal is to use this to stop whatever's happening. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you see hands appear out of nowhere, grasping at your body, and you pull out a gun, which bends like a cartoon as it comes up. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "These are not your hands! You don't exist anymore! You only exist in me! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You, across the space, in this moment, see droplets of blood fly backward out of Malcolm's body. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to say gut for this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man! The worst shots. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you feel no pain. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunt) Ah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "However-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(as Malcolm) Ah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "However-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm getting weak. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "While it doesn't hurt, the fact that you acknowledge that you have been gut shot and feel nothing is terrifying, and you take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, I believe that's four brain marks for you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's my third scar. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But in this instance, in these circumstances, now that you have taken a scar from brain, Malcolm is mine. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I have a go? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Anyone who wants to jump in, please do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She's here now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Her power is present. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "With that, I would like to Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She acts with you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I would like to Strike the thing that we're guessing is the source of this mass hallucination. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I'll do that, (laughs) and I'm going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This will be Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh great! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two, now with Atia. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's way better. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Better. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's right, yeah, because you're not using your physical for that. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. Right, right, right. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You want the extra? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This is a good time for the extra " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You want the extra? Do you want the extra that-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "To lovey, lovey. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "If we all agree. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Stop helping each other and die! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So at this point, what does this mean? It's just an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm trying, Liam! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is just an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He tried to do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm also, I'm going to, for this, I'm going to attempt to just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Because I know this is important. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So your primary goal in your fever dream is to protect your dear friend. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So, do I get an extra, or is it a drive, or no? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This might be for later. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm putting that out there. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. So I'm going to also spend a drive so I can get to have five, and then pray. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Drive that car, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) Candela ungilded, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm! So tasty! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Man! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Kentucky fried gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's early. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What can I do? I am-- How close is he to me? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's hard to judge measurements in this space but he looks-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So if I can fight it-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're mine. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're down. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Damn it! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're out of the scene. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Damn it! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm is mine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Heads down, seven up. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Heads up, seven up. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. Heads up, seven up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Decklan Murphy-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He looks like two grand dining room tables away. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can help you, I think, because we're one, right? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You're a little busy, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are you doing? You're making a movement. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Trying to... " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If he's charging, I'm going to try and-- Oh, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How about that? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As long as I keep thinking about the clock, I feel like I have some control, and I'm going to Ensnare. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make for me Strike? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can push him out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you have any drives to share in Nerve? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then share it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Better than nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Malcolm laughs from the ether. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm comes running and this melting revolver in his hand you see in slow motion as the clock goes, \"Tick.\" (slowing ticks) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As I float back-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural whooshes) (guttural speech)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh god! (whispers inaudibly) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The invisible giant, the angel-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I start reciting in my head. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- bends low. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All of the bones in the human body and where they connect and the exact positions in which they connect in order to form myself into a solid piece. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(growls) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You don't exist. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I can't think of what else to do. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Its heart, hands insect-like, stretching out. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If you're listening, why don't you help me this time? I hold out my hand above one of the hands on my body and wait for her to reach out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wait for your sister to reach out? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't even know if I fired it the first time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I didn't get to the complication from your mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. I like this. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is a high stakes role. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can anyone help? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So don't fuck it-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- up. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I love you.\" (wet squish) Roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What am I rolling? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Clarify for me because I'm in a fever dream here, too. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm pulling the trigger of the glove again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The glove. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No idea if it's charged or not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right. Roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Am I rolling-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sense. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're aiming-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "For the center mass again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For the center mass. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The chrysalis. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar, you feel all over your body, your face, your chest, your arm, it doesn't hurt, it's more of a thousand little tickles, like if you've ever gone swimming and you feel fish nibbling at your body, " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm still holding the hand where her hand was? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's actually here now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you for staying with me for so long. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(deeply) \"It's all right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(undulating splutter) behind him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So he's out of it? It was like a contact, and then he's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The angel behind him (slurps) fades-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(panting gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are you doing with Malcolm? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Am I aware of any of this happening? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It doesn't hurt, but you are seeing Malcolm's fingers, both flesh and metallic, like a noose. (slurps) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I see the metallic hands. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to stop the clock. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not your forte, I know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was really hoping I could go Intellectual on this, but since this is just memory and physicality, it's not-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are dealing with Play-Doh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With your mind and your friend. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hoping for a Focus, but I'll take anything that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Strike or Control? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Or Control. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They're both the same, so I'll burn-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell you what. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell you what. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll let you make a Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You'll let me take a Focus? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. Is that any better? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, much better! But that might not be what you want. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is a high stakes role. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Getting thin. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you try to-- I think, as you have this thought to stop his clock-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- you simultaneously try to shake off what you know cannot be real, even though it feels weirdly good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It (violently slurps) like that cobra (splutters) digs into the gaping wound in his gut. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh god! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Grimoria sees all of the souls-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(growls)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Atia sees them, too, and I don't know if this is possible, but she is such a powerful sorceress, alchemist, is there a way to harness and summon all of the thousands of spirits that are around to try to fight this thing in a similar way that she did right before she died? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Now he is bare.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's what? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take him.\" I need you to make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Baby. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We burned them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I still got these two. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can't do shit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, you-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm like, I'm guts-ed out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, that's better than four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's better than four. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of the lost souls in this place (slurps) twist and pull into you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take a body, you take a brain, you take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Jesus! My poor baby girl. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, if she's going to go, she's going to go in a blaze of glory. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let's just all go out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"End it!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How would I do that? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shoot the thing in the middle of the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You tell me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You tell me how you defeated my monster. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But however you want to paint that picture, but I think essentially it's like when she was standing on top of that island, and all of these ancient Oldfaire soldiers were charging at her, and she just muscled every ounce of power around her to just end it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can feel their freedom. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(relieved sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel pain, serious pain in your gut as you press your hand to your wound and drag yourself to your friend, and see that where there were four, there are now two. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's time to go. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you saying goodbye to Malcolm and to Edgar here? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are they dead? Are they gone? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we know a way that we can get them out? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You could maybe return, but there is a broken bridge and an upside-down forest to move through. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I sense if their spirits are still here or have they gone with the rest of them? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Swear to god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(eerie whisper) Take Malcolm with you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel their freedom. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think we got to go. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We've got to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It has your name on it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you read that out for the table's benefit? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "With my eternal gratitude, Leo.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's where we'll end our story tonight. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, that's not how I thought it would go. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That was heartbreaking. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighing) Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But also very brave. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you for helping me find magic in the dark. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you for showing us that wonderfully horrible story. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Like only Liam O'Brien could. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(impishly) Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Eh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, it was great. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Good job, man. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The story may have been terrifying, but I was terrified, too. " }, { "Role": "Player980", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you please, please, as we fade out for the night, drift away like so many souls, remind everyone at home who you really are and who you were here. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm Aimee Carrero, and I played Grimoria, AKA Alma Látigo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Látigo. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) My name is Imari Williams, and I play Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My name is Taliesin Jaffe, but most of the time, I am Leo Amicus. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I live here, so. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you for your sacrifice. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I wanted nothing more. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player984", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Good night. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Visit darringtonpress.com/candela to learn more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But if we are not prepared to put him under the knife, I really think at best you should step away from a case so personal to you, in my opinion.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I ask, why? Why are we not prepared to operate? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) Well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You-- You will keep us updated if anything changes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you walk down a long curving hall, your view of it, imperceptibly-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One opens on a man in a peacoat and a beard quickly, and in a huff storms across the hallway ahead of you, closing the door behind him, opening one across the way and disappears. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How you feeling today?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now I'm feeling like a human bandaid, but I'm doing good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "At least you're human. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "For now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm sure Dr. Aguilar and Edgar here have been taking good care of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm sure you'll never forget that, will you Edgar? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How are your ribs?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's healing quicker than I thought it would. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've been given the okay to leave.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm not sure if I want to, I'm a little scared to go outside after-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just if you could stay in town.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We'd appreciate it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Of course.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Grimoria blushes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mr. Murphy is not doing as well as you, I'm afraid.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's his prognosis? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Zora opens her mouth to speak for a second, but catches herself and-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's that bad, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can tell that she is on the verge of tears a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "He's asleep for now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But we expect them back soon, so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do they think what has attached himself to Malcolm, \"to Malcolm, to Decklan is what's attached to me or what I could have breathed in with what was blown in my face or? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Quite possibly.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) Delightful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sure he's all right, doctor? Seems a little out of sorts still.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What do you think, Edgar? Anything you can detect inside me? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "From this distance? No. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I mean from a week of examination. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You seem as fine as your-- (sighs) You seem to be healing normally. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's code for you look terrible. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Everything else, there's no sign of anything else happening to you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "50-50. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Guess we'll find out one way or another, won't we? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, you took Stitch and Train. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm took a Stitch and a Train. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I sure did. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mr. Trills, if you will.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now instead of the airplane hanger somewhere in the world that you just saw-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Was it Amelia Earhart? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, Leo, I could describe this apartment, but I think you're better equipped and I would really love to hear it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Why not? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We are actually stepping in oddly from the bedroom door, which is strange. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Not the front. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Cheers to being home, darling.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This will be very useful in the coming hours. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Fingers crossed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If you can. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, the mirror just reflects Leo's bedroom door and those bottles, by the way, there's three of them in a small crate and the labels on them are in a language that you do not read and do not recognize. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm collapsed in the bloody couch. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "One little nipper before I leave. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Everyone, cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Cheers, Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, that's good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) It is hard to know what to do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Takes another little nipper and she's going to try to hail a streetcar or whatever they have available. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The door's always open. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In the red-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just please take advantage. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You make your way downstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Head off and find your way to a trolley car. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A street car, yeah, trolley car. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would you like to go somewhere directly at the moment? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I'm worried about their reaction and probably need to get back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We find you eventually at the steps of the four-story townhouse owned by the Foggs, your employers, your wards to a degree-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, look who I found.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm hearing voices and I'm ready to go back to work. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Three! Three appointments!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll make up, I'll make up-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You missed.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I will-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Do you have any idea how much money you might have cost us, Alma?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I've got some new things I've learned that might prove even more lucrative in our next appointment, if you know what I mean. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is going to improve our business, how?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I've got a kind of hieroglyphics that now I know how to use and I don't know, I can maybe-- Well, I think it's better if I show you during an appointment. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You have " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think you won't be disappointed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right, well, I'll consider it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What is that you have in your hand? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, this is a knife out of antiquity.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, that's exactly what I've been handling the last few days, antiquity. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well here, get acquainted with it because we've got an appointment tomorrow and I need you to make up for everything we've lost this week.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just find me something else that's ancient. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're fairly certain you're holding a forgery in your hands. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it'll have to be a bit-- When the customers arrive and you're expected to get in touch with the other side for their benefit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's going to be more of a theatrical presentation than anything. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You set it down on the bed next to you and look at your desk where there is a little picture postcard of Westecklyn. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But Mr. Fogg's use of her real name was definitely maybe more traumatizing than the last few days. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You begin to hear a conversation bubble up from down below. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Did you remember to pick up our masks for it?\" (Oliver) \"Fuck! That kid's more trouble than she's worth.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "regarding past events. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) And I don't know if the Foggs are wealthy enough to have those people, like a butler or something that can go deliver it or if she has to go do that, but she sends it off. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think you can get a messenger boy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She would love to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The Foggs are scurrying about the house, readying for tomorrow's appointment and preparing for a masquerade, an auction, speaking about-- Just so we're clear, the remains that you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- received, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Out into the Red Lamp where you are currently, heading to the Glass Cat Casino? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He's going to make his presence known around the Red Lamp and let people know that he's back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You cross that one street where you took a shot in the eye last year, breaking up a fight that ended up in a bar with the two guys sharing beers and helping them bury the axe. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You watch him for a while and all the people who walk past him without so much as a glance, like they can't see him, or won't. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He always holds up a steady chin and a valiant gaze whenever I talk to him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mother bless you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Of course. You get something to eat today? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yesterday.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. Enough? You want me to go get you some food? How are you feeling right now? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, that's plenty, what you gave.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I want you to make sure that you get yourself fed today, all right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Haven't seen you in a while.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here today, gone for a couple. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah. Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Anything happen when I was gone? Anything I should be aware of, or--? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Same old, same old.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Kids getting up to trouble as kids do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Especially those two little pesky ones running about. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With everything that happened out at sea and on the island, With everything that happened out at sea and on the island, where's Malcolm at? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mostly thinking about Decklan and about how he's doing and trying to really come to reality and trying to really come to reality with what transpired and how close I came to losing my life, basically. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Got a little bit of that pile for me, Cordelia? " }, { "Role": "Player984", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is everything all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Little-- Life took me in another direction for a few days, but now I'm back, healing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Healing?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How's everything going with business? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Just getting bigger and bigger every month.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I could see by that stack of cash you have there, aren't you? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you sure you're good for tonight? We can always call Dutch or Grace.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know, it's nothing like getting back to it in order to get your mind off of things. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're always here and if anything is ever bothering you, you don't have to soldier through it all.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nah, I just need time to get back into the old swing of things, so to speak, and being within your presence, my queen, is doing me a good amount of good, fair amount of good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It's good to have you back.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's good to be back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So why don't you go see Shirley? She's not busy at the moment.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, Shirley here. Hmm? I think I will. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do me a favor and roll for Control. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Excellent work, Dr. Lycoris.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell me, what is running through your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I instead flipped my knowledge on its head I instead flipped my knowledge on its head and used it to end a woman's life who may have just been sick, may have just been confused. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Self-defense to be sure, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(short laugh) It doesn't matter. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It doesn't matter. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That is what I am thinking while I wash my hands in a hospital. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Doctor, are you all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have been having trouble sleeping, you know? I'm just tired. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Look down at your hands, which are red and raw in the near-scalding water pouring out of the faucet. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you want to do with your time alone? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And I'm going to take a second to remember what day it is and I just raise my glass to the empty plate of food that's getting cold. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can tell, you're reminded that The Endless Well is open right now. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Then I quickly move to the front door and I head my way straight down to The Endless Well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Leo!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've missed the last couple days. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It's been a bit!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My work can be anywhere when your work is nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How's that life of mystery treating you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The life of mystery has been mysterious, a little wrought with danger, a little bit of fun, a little bit of fun. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you have anything, I'm looking for something-- Let's start with something complicated, anything that you think would be interesting, and then something I can take upstairs and maybe mix with something that young pleasants brought over to my apartment a couple days ago. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Can I surprise you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, please. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So you found somebody--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- over the week, eh?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I found something, at the very least, over the weekend. " }, { "Role": "Player789", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You know how they say that a sailor has a lover in every port? Well, a lover in every port has a sailor on every ship. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Ah. (laughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Somebody wins in that equation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Love must be in the air. I met a girl.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh! In here? Somewhere else? I assume you leave here on occasion. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm being silly, but.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah, it's just been real tough since '04, you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe I am in love.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It will always be different, but it's the first and easiest thing to begin, and it makes the sound of whatever happened to you before quiet just a bit for a little while. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She knocks twice on the wooden counter. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hello, stranger.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know I have probably a pile of things to purchase. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just on a ship, I think.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It was awful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As they are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I'm getting conflicting information because he just told me he had a lot of fun.\" (Felix) \"What kind of fun?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The company was a bit dull, but-- (quiet laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Felix) \"What's the news? Got any scuttlebutt?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How have you been, out of curiosity? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shop's doing all right, I suppose.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was not expecting to be away for quite this long. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe we can get ourselves into that masquerade happening in the Varnish later this week and knock back a few.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If you're interested, do you want to be my plus one or should I be yours? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's a little higher than my normal rung on the ladder.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Who owes me a favor? Do you know who's throwing this little shindig? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, it's being had at the Hayden House in the Varnish.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Someone told me about it in the shop yesterday.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But, you know, talk of the town.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Auction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So you're the one with the connections, not me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Vintage, like antique auction, that sort of thing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know vinyl.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Charley, god forbid if I get tickets to this, can you help me dress this man? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Dress me? This isn't good enough.\" (Charley) \"Well, I mean, it's okay for here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's just inevitable. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Felix) \"I leave myself in your hands.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "to bring out the best in someone, clothing-wise. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let us put a pin there-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have made it known to Mrs. Fogg? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That I sent a messenger? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You mean to proposition Mrs. Fogg, say that you could be of help? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No. So, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Did I misunderstand? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, quickly, I sent a letter to Leo in code, letting him know that we needed to meet. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Our whole team. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm trying to find a way to pitch the Foggs to get me in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To get you in. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And I think I might be able to do that through tomorrow's performance. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, maybe let's workshop it with the circle. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's say that the very next morning is the soonest that all of you have gotten word, first from Grimoria to you, Leo, and then word finally reached you the morning after your fun and J-O-B, and you after I'm sure a very restful night of sleep. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(smirks) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "By about 11:00 or so the next day, you sneak out-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We find you now gathered, your dinner from the night before cleared away, sitting in the reflected light of this Crimson Mirror. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who did we deliver that to? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You delivered to the Red Hand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We delivered it to the Red Hand. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "There possibly could be more of that out there. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I just have a feeling. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For clarity. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You heard him say that a man named Aroha Tama-Kai-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tama-Kai. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- sold half of an ancient historical figure's remains to one party-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and kept the other and is now trying to sell the remains of what Candela believed they were in full possession of. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have a plan to persuade my employers to let me come. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was flirting. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Aroha. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Aroha. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tama-Kai. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, that was the name I heard as well when-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thank you, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You didn't get a name. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. I thought there was a-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Was it a location, I believe. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, it was a location. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The Hayden House. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hayden House " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hayden House. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, because in our first chapter of this-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You mentioned Aroha Tama-Kai. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, I briefly mentioned a high-level contact within the Red Hand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela learned of the Red Hand's possession, contact was made, and the Red Hand agreed to sell. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This time they weighed the pros and cons and decided that forking over a mountain of cash-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- was worth it because of the significance and danger of these remains. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. So I'm afraid we've come into possession of only half of the remains. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Would I know Haven house? Would I know of it, also would I assume it was in Haven Hills? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, it's actually in the Varnish. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Am I remembering that correctly? Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it's hard to know who owns what in this city. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's fair. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's a lot of grease and grift. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was already trying to get tickets to this event. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I heard about it last night. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know the rest of the plan, but I think that we should try to somehow, I don't know, disrupt this auction and make sure that those remains are safe. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Disrupt it indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not necessarily our job to go getting something we weren't asked to get, is it? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Have you contacted her yet? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I should've. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a small little side table next to the door to Leo's bedroom with a silver tray on it, and notes are left there and they just seem to disappear and sometimes notes just appear there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Edgar, if you wouldn't mind, for some bizarre reason, you seem to have the best handwriting in the group despite the clear stereotype, if you wouldn't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Pen's on the vanity. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll write a note conveying all the information that we've heard, adding that may or may not be true, and then send it off. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just to take a look around. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just don't think we should necessarily mean to disrupt an entire gala. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Edgar, are you worried about wearing a mask to a gala? Not your style? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't need to worry about that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think I've had quite enough of that for a while. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "My eagerness was only meant to prevent anything like what happened on the ship to happen again. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If there's any kind of, any inkling that these bones might be out there and what we went through on that ship could be here in Newfaire, we definitely need to investigate this and we need a report what we find back to Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, no, that's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just want to exercise caution so that we don't all get beaten up again. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You're very wise. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar, you look past Grimoria's shoulder and notice that the note you left in the tray has already vanished from the tray. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I guess we sit and wait, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I assume you have your ways of procuring some tickets. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That would go very poorly. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I don't think I can be a plus one under my family name either, but you know, we'll figure it out. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's very fair. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Doctor, do you have any notions of anybody who owes you a favor in this direction? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't go to parties, if that wasn't clear already. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's just that there's nothing more enticing, especially to someone who has enough money to be consistently bored, than a person who refuses to ever speak to them suddenly having a moment of weakness. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll do my best to find a ticket. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As quickly as possible. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think you should make him squirm a little bit and ask someone a favor, but that's just me. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have to make my appointment, but thank you for meeting at such short notice. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Always. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How are you doing back with the family, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, terrible, but I think it'll be better. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are they too hard on you for missing those days? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Not too much. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let me know if I need to-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Yes, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let me show you out really quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The least that we can involve those dreadful, dreadful people would be best for all of us, and definitely you as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But will they see me there and question why I'm there? I mean, can a mask really do so much? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They're so awful and dull. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is their line of work. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, you are sadly the most interesting thing they have to talk about, so you are always the thing they will put forward. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Dreadful fucking people. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She gives him a kiss on the cheek. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do what you can, don't take them too seriously, and just be careful, be careful, be careful. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I will. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Call if anything happens, send a note. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I will. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's get to work. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think what I'm going to do, I'm back in the room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Or maybe some whispers in the background that I might be able to pick up-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to see if I can investigate that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's very helpful. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If not, I will try and think of somebody. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I feel like there's a-- Well, I'll do my best. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, we will discuss options, hopefully soon. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Very good, very good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, which one of these threads would we like to pull first? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, we can jump right into Grimoria's performance if we'd like. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And you do, you use the rear entrance that deliveries, food, and other things are made and hear them in discussion in his study and glide into the house. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "To the show room? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do to prepare? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think it's, you know, she's made up, she's got this beautiful robe and a lot of rouge trying to look, I guess as medium-istic as possible considering that she is an 18-year-old girl. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She chokes up-- (gags) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's got a little squib? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gags) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It could be cyanide, you don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She winks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is during a performance, or, a rehearsal? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is the dress rehearsal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The dress rehearsal. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(whispering) Mr. Fogg, give me the vial. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What the fuck are you talking about?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The other vial you showed me the other day. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"The vial?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shit, I'm sorry. Hold on.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear drawers opening and closing and something knocks over. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hopefully this will be worked out before the gentleman comes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Cynthia) \"Well, once we have the lights down-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- and I go down and work the pull that makes the table do the thing.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, this tastes very bad so the sooner we can do it the better. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(grumbles) What are we doing?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How was that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(laughs) You know, even when she's full of shit, she's brilliant!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I think if we could sell two, you know, at once. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah! A two-fer.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was thinking-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm still a little ticked off.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I've got to be honest.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "An auction of sorts? What if you bought some of your artifacts and I could sell them for you at this auction? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Were you talking about the thing?\" (Cynthia) \"I don't think so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We can move some product. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's out. Get another one.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I just want to be of service and I feel so terribly about not being back in time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You understand. I mean--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We love you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean, I think I just sold, hopefully, two for one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"The proof's in the pudding, kiddo.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He has got a walrus type mustache. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've heard a lot about you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Welcome. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Grimoire, is it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do I sit here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Excellent, excellent. Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Before we start. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is this quick?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm getting-- Is there-- Where is your mother? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She was in the Silverslip.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She wants you to know she is here with you, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mrs. Fogg has dimmed the lamps in this room and quietly closed the curtains around you and now it is very dark in here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We start with: Betrayal. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She does the performance. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Absolutely, absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've always wanted to see some magick!\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(coughs dramatically) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Whoa.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The vial. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Oliver) \"Oh, I've got it right here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You must not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you have a hanky, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She hands him a hanky-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hands it to him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- that she spritzed with some perfume. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Gerald) \"(coughs)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Oh, nice touch. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Before. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's sort of judging you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How was that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, I'm sure we can work out a ticket, but you have to be glued to us at this event.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you say the wrong thing, it's over for us--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's over. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- in this crowd, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So just keep your mouth shut until it's your time to act.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Whatever you say. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We're bringing a couple of busts to the event.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fabulous. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Those are going to be auctioned off.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who knows? One of them might be-- They're both going to be great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just, this, you've got a little-- Did you have a spill or something? There's a ghost of a--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I thought maybe we could work it in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You want to go for a smudgy look then, all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, yes, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay. Okay, okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I won't disappoint. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay.\" Then we shift over to Leo Amicus. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am staring at a small Rolodex. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Deciding how much I'm going to hurt myself. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is bristling with many, many names. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How important is this? Hm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, as you're looking at the Rolodex for what feels like five minutes unsure of where or how to proceed, you notice an envelope, a new one, with a very beautiful calligraphy, letter Z in the silver tray by the door. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I open it up and I quickly blaze over it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Possible?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thick enough to bleed through the page. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The things I do for you fucking people. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Did this seem like it was just for, was it me or to the circle? Did it seem to be the more-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It was for the circle. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm writing three quick notes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well just, I have a service. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This money, my god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are still ridiculously wealthy. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have someone come to pick it up, make sure that the-- It is taken care of. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are whisked away. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to go find-- Dress a little more inconspicuously and I'm going to go find a corner at a restaurant that I know Aunt Leanna frequents. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leanna is your angle. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They cut down the amount of time I had, didn't they? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Was one of those messages sent off for Leanna? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, it was one of each of theirs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Each of them. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I just know this is a place she likes to eat and I'm giving myself an out to reel into Walter if I don't see her over lunch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm just letting fate handle it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She looks up and-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just to get it out of the way, you look fantastic. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's as much small talk, obviously, as we need. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you all right? Have you burned through the money? Is there anything amiss?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, the temptation to burn through the money is very powerful, but no, I've actually been relatively conservative with it, especially considering my taste. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This is about a friend who needs help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Charity case.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's two birds with one stone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Have you spoken with your father?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You've got to be fucking kidding, right? Has he spoken to me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Honestly, I don't know if I have the stomach for it right now, it's been a bit difficult. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know it's a lot to ask.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Even if it were just to argue about the amount of money I was spending. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It pains me, but fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do appreciate it, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So tell me, what is it that you need from your Aunt Leanna?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tomorrow, I believe. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You want to go to the Hayden House?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do. I would love a plus two, but I would take a plus-- I would love a plus two, but I will take a plus one, if I have to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you need three tickets total? You want to go to the Gilded Garden tomorrow night for charity?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Most likely I only need two, but three would be-- It's for a good cause, I swear. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I really do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There will be strings attached to that, though.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So if you would care to make, you know, a contribution in the ten-ish region, I can acquire you as many tickets as you want within reason.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I swear I will not ask for five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Make it 15 and it's done.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why can't they all be like you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sighs) Well, it's not about winning, but if I get to be your favorite aunt and pull in the biggest haul for my charity of choice, I'll take that win.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Ah yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Give us a kiss.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You don't know what this means to me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sighs) You are going to need-- Do all of your pluses have the formal attire required? Do they have-- You're going to need masks, all of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's one of the things I'm best at. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hm, it's amazing you have not burned through all that money.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't eat out anymore, except right now, really. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your auction, if you're looking to make a bid on anything, is at 7:00 tomorrow.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Haven, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm having my cheeks worked on.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh yes, it's about time, isn't it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Rub on some liniment oils.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, Felix-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You can join me if you want.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's been a bit busy with my side projects, which I will only talk about when it's time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So if you have to be somewhere soon, I would--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Sadly, I do have a quick meeting to take care of. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure enough, you walk in and see your guy, your friend Gail working the bar. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gail? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How are you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do I owe the pleasure?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "A little bit of, you know-- Little bit of inquiry, if I may. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, I'm all ears.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Listen, I know you-- I know you have a catering business going on right now and I was happen to wonder if you heard about a certain event that's going to be held recently for the, shall we say, upper crusts? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is the Caribou Club.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Something-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're talking about the Hayden House.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm talking about the Hayden House. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What kind of trouble are you looking to get into?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No (scoffs). " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know, I want to hear if there's any whispers of-- You know how my side business, I put, keep my ear to the ground, make sure that you know-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know a guy who is part of that outfit.\" \"I know a guy who is part of that outfit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "A server job. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah. Yeah, We can do that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, because we're-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you were always straight with me and I owe you a lot more than that, so.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I know you have a girlfriend-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm not going to say no.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know the offer's there-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm not going to say no.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The offer's there if you want it, hush-hush. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So if you want to work that out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Anyway, have a shot with me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What are we having? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One brown, one clear and begins to mix them in a glass. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are we talking about an all night thing, or we talking about just a little hair of the dog thing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(sighs) I'm on work.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I was hoping that we'd get into a little bit of trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Slides it across. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "To friendship. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"And the ones we lost.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is there anything you want to do here? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just the safety. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) Having never really tried to do anything like this before, but having spent enough time with these people, the first thought that comes into my head is that I should-- I've treated enough people that I'm sure I've worked on someone who is well to do in those circles. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So I'm going to call, I'm going to-- Well, not call, but I'll call upon one of them, and ask if there's any way I could acquire a ticket. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Doctor Ly--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Lycoris. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hi, can I help you today?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is he in? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is it important?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can come back later. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He says he'll see you.\" She takes her seat. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I walk in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Good day, Doctor.\" You find-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Dr. Lycoris.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mr. Gunner. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"This is irregular, but not unwelcome.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I was wondering if you had any connections or know about how I would go about getting one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Didn't you just miss three days of work?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So as much as I want to laugh in your face, I'm sorry-- So as much as I want to laugh in your face, I'm sorry--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just the one ticket?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just the one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So, apologies.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There was a lot of unforeseen circumstances that happened. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not going to go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sure there's a friend of mine who would be happy to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'll have them brought by your office.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That would be lovely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"By end of day.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I am very sorry again about the unexpected missing of work. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I was just busting your chops. I apologize.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But I also-- You don't-- As much as I'm very appreciative of what you're doing, you don't owe me for what I did. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That is not true.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's not why I do this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I hope you have a wonderful time and happy hunting for your home.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll hurriedly leave the office. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As I go past the secretary I say: Thank you again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The gist of that was one more time, to keep me on track? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "\"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just yes? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It was to meet at what time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "At what time? It was this evening. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Perfect. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "On the table we have one, two, three, four, five. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "One's going to Felix. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Auction begins promptly at 8:00.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What did they say? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a good callback. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Little charcuterie. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yours very quickly at the bottom in slight handwriting said, \"I feel I know you well enough to respect that we should never know each other that well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Please figure out a way to unwind. L.A.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's exactly... " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "and it does appear that Tama-Kai has had us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you tell me what you are thinking and maybe I will add my two pieces.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "My employers are, I think, one of the lesser auctions before the big auction and I can at least provide a distraction for about five minutes or so and maybe that will help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a general auction for the night, but--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "A secret auction is going on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Correct.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I believe that this party and the auction are a bit of a smoke screen for the real game behind the scenes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Will it be within the premises, will be outside the premises? It'll be within the property I assume, in the secret location of the property and one that we know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, when you were overhearing the Foggs talk, Mr. Fogg talked about Aroha's little museum Mr. Fogg talked about Aroha's little museum on the third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it seems a logical conclusion. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I relay that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Good to know. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you all set for formal wear, or--?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I go put on my costume. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Your costume?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's rather a shock, but try not to laugh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think it's quite good. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Whatever you wear. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That might not be a bad idea in case chaos ensues. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Shopping might be in order if you all are not set.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll be with the servers behind the scenes, so to speak. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It might not have be bad to have an option B. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Always, always. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Since we have enough invitations to make things work. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You just want take me shopping. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, not at all. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Functional, tactical. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right. That sounds excellent.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Let-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What is the best course of action? Should one of us pose as a buyer? I don't know how to get the artifact out of there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So the challenge will be getting in, but thankfully not out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So it'll at least be a little more stable. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. Thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You sure those work? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It'll only work once, " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "And we each get one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "These cost a fortune.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Only get one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah. It's just the one.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh! That's lovely. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So no jumping into the ocean while we're in there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where's the fun in that? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just clearly they must have money. It's really not worth it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Not even a pat on the back, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Maybe a very hard one, but make it quick. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we know who the buyers that have been selected are? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Good question, Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is a member that I am friendly with in the OUP.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Interesting. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"They are trying to get it for--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there any possible way? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sorry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What if we took the place of one of the buyers? Is there a list that we can procure to see if we can maybe, I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, but I'm going to say that all the buyers are going to be already known by the seller. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Certainly by each other. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And by each other. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are they not? Masks? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, it's a masquerade.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Masquerade. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I think to keep things as anonymous as possible.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My shade gives me away, but maybe there might be somebody else who might be of some (laughs). " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Which is the problem, though, is that this is the sort of place where both of us are going to have a difficult time not being recognized. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Lay low. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to get a full coverage, more of a helmet than a mask. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I even don't know how much mask it would take. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, no one really knows me, I can-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Me neither. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I think I'm pretty safe, as long as I don't serve the dish directly to their table, I think I should be fine. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "But which is honestly, to the table, not just you, to the table. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Perhaps, you'll want to wait until the auction begins.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "While everyone is distracted. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That should increase your chances, at least have less eyes on you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Find out where they're storing the item. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It would be a shame if Mr. and Mrs. Frogg became ill and couldn't go to the show and had to send you all by yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wouldn't know how to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughing) Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't particularly want to, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Which honestly, well, you've probably performed for a few of the people in that room I suppose, haven't you? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, but they never really see me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, we have many options available to us, don't we? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "My god, I got two tickets all on my own. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, Edgar, congratulations. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm so proud of you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How did that feel? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You're a charmer. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I genuinely think that's very impressive, Dr. Lycoris. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I do, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"So I'm sorry, you have enough tickets or--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, extra to be honest. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think we have more than enough. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Do you really?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here's our little-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm bringing a date. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here's the money I owe you from our little side bet to see if-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We sure could use someone like Decklan on this assignment. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I love how much faith you all have in me. " }, { "Role": "Player976", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You won that one. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I also wear a costume at work. It's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, Dr. Lycoris, I know that I'm retired from the field--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- but perhaps I can be eyes and ears for you at this event as well?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, that'd be great. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You outrank me, it's your decision. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I'm not good for a scrap, so if things go belly up--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Neither am I. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"-- I'm going to fade into the crowd.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Zora out in the field again, that should be fun. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Now I want to see this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I do, too. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You should have seen me in my heyday.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. I can imagine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You'll fit right in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shopping will be done, I assume. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I was hoping Charley was just going to take care of that, but yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Don't you have three? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do have, I have more than three. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So maybe if-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have an emergency one for the two of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- in case things go wrong, where clearly you don't work here, you are guests. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're going to go in, Malcolm, through the back entrance, so to speak, and you are going to go in with the Foggs. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to go in with the Foggs and maybe I wouldn't be opposed to maybe slipping a little something in their, a little Visine-like product in their drinks. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "A little dysentery for the evening. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A little something to get them to leave. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I love it. The night before or in the hour-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I need them to come in, so maybe in the cocktail hour before the performance begins. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think they have no choice but to leave me with the busts and try to make a sale. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ethically speaking, I can't tell you how to do this, but if I were to accidentally leave a book somewhere that had that information in it, I can't control what you do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I, Liam, will say that you should totally do that, it's pretty great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no, they're going to get sick in front of everybody who vaguely pretends to respect them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just enough to make it uncomfortable and need to go home. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just enough to make a gurgle. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's just a little bit of the shits. It's no big deal. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just a little bit of the shits. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If that's all and if that's what you want, that's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just enough to get them to leave. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I just always hope for more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Shits. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Shits. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Can you please describe for me the garb you are arriving in Can you please describe for me the garb you are arriving in and the masks you are wearing? " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Edgar arrives wearing a nice, but plain black suit with a white shirt and a bow tie, the most generic and basic thing you could wear to an event like this along with a mask that covers the top half and has a sort of veil the top half and has a sort of veil that runs down the left side. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A veil. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's covering the left side of his neck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It is plain silver with a silver veil attached and hangs down and has a sort of-- The left side arcs down, the right side arcs up into points. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You stride up and in. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't know if you would know this, but I don't really go to parties. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Stay by me, fake it 'til you make it.\" AIMEE, IMARI, " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A few moments later-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Easy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think you better describe both of you for me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, we'll start with Felix. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Felix is dressed in a, I don't want to quite say modern, but certainly it's clear that someone with some youth in taste may have had something to do with this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I need that youth. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Give me your youth. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Almost a reverse, almost as if patina was slowly turning copper rather than copper turning patina at the edges. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Patina. That's a new, I'm going to have to always-- (laughs) That's my nickname for you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Patina green that goes into copper rather than copper going to patina green. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Felix has a bit of a, definitely a bit of a silver fox thing going on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Nice shoes, and then the mask is a half-face mirror mask of gently cracked glass. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Good grief. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Then small beads hang down that are black and red that looks like drops of blood that cover just the edges of the face. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think I just shifted into the Flare. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) Amazing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do not fuck with me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are a fish out of water-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Some of it's theatricality, learned. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just very, very dark shadow that blends into her bruise and makes it look intentional. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But the first thing she does is say: I'm going to go grab you two a drink. I'll be right back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Very surreptitiously, she is wearing these large sleeves, puts a little drop and a little other drop. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You look up and Malcolm is smiling down at you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(clears throat) She hands them to the Foggs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Oliver) \"Oh!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I look forward to a very lucrative evening. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"To a successful night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A successful night, indeed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you turn away from them and stare into the golden array around you, which we will get to in a little bit, you hear a voice off to your side say, \"Oh goodness, that's Grimoria.\" You take in that little boost of confidence and stride into the party. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And that is where we will take our break. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you Trust us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doesn't even pay you any mind, goes right off into the crowd. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm noting what he looks like. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you have that in the back of your noggins as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is there a way to identify ♪ Do, do, do, do, do ♪ Aroha Tama-Kai? Is he present in the room? Is he hosting? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So no, you don't really know what he looks like. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, there would be two ways to find him immediately, which is either he's not in the room yet because he wants to make an entrance, or he's the person everybody's trying to talk to. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Have we found each other yet in the crowd? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I assume-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, let me ask you, Malcolm, what's your flight pattern? You are keeping up with the job? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm in the back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know, I don't want to give myself away. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right, and they keep offering you trays of champagne to go dole out-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- when you show up back there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. So what I'm doing is I'm taking my time with the platter of champagne. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Lingering around people, conversations. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Leo gave me the idea that the person of interest might be surrounded by people. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I'm looking out for that as well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If there's maybe a bouncer or some other person that's guarding a door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I guess give me a-- If you're trying to figure out if you can spot Aroha in this crowd, why don't you give me a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Survey roll. Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to burn a drive on this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Boop. I like this digital. It's nice. " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ooh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(\"Italian\" accent) That's a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(\"Italian\" accent) That's a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Blessed. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You only know this because she holds up a-- No, what's a placard? What's the-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Program? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then this crowd, maybe 10 or 11 people disappear up into the second floor. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Could be-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Also, what I want to try to also say is that I might know some of these people who are bouncing, since I am a bouncer myself and work security sometimes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It wouldn't be impossible that I might know-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not impossible. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let me lighten your load a little bit and I'm going to casually jaunt myself up to the second floor and see if I might be able to offer them some champagne. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you turn to the left, a little farther off, not much farther off, you see Silverslip, which you're even more acquainted with because that is where the Primacy resides. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is relatively unguarded at the moment with his back to you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Does he seem like he's, when he's looking out, does he seem like he's comfortable or like it's a familiar sight to him? Like it's nothing that would rattle him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He seems relaxed and taking in the city. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is he just, is he by himself? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's people all around you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is he saying anything to her, I meant to say? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "At the moment, he is lost in his thoughts and she's giving him deference, which might lead you to think that she's some sort of a underling or assistant. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are many people who have come out here to get fresh air. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to hand out some champagne casually, have a perimeter around where he is so I can still hear if he happens to say something. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're hanging on the balcony, " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hanging on the balcony, lingering. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're like, \"Come on, we're going to go upstairs because that's where the magic happens.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wonderful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She takes you under the elbow and they begin to march you up this grand staircase up to the second floor and you find yourself in this dimly lit, very conducive for the kind of work you do-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Eventually, they hover you in front of these two busts-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Aroha is " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everything here is for profit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is there anything you can do with these? I mean, normally--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have a whole performance ready for them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What's the play? Tell me please.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I think what-- You know, you said it was-- I'm talking to our game master. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "They're the 12th century busts, you said? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think I was referring to-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Or these are just a different-- Oh, a different bust? Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Paintings. These are busts, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have a plan. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's interesting about these busts is that they witnessed the fall of a civilization and they're imbued with the pain of two sisters who were crushed to death, but not before trying-- Is this not working for you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know shit about history.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, I do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"But that sounds good.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You know how in olden times, daughters would-- Fathers would, you know? No? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll tell you what.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to find a mark, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm going to find us a fish.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Stay close.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll be right here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You be ready to go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"When I get back here, I want to be able to see you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "May I ask, who is that man on the balcony? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Why do you ask?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, he seems pretty important. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, he's the one footing the bill for the party.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's the host? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Why do you ask? What do you know about him?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just in my line of work, I learned to sniff out what's real and what's not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You know, I'm happy to have you in my house.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm happy to be there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"But know your place, all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You work for us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't need you listening on my conversations.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We have a good thing going--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A great thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\" -- here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I won't disappoint you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is there anything that you want to do in this moment while you have your time? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know if that's picking several people and maybe doing a reading of some sort or-- With the reading, maybe doing a little magic. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You want to go out onto the balcony so that you are-- Because this is a big, sprawling spot. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh sure, if it's a big-- Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you make your way to the balcony. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then the goal is to just get his attention? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "One way she could do that is while still staying close to the Foggs, still staying close enough to them where they feel like she's working for them, find a group of people that seem receptive, maybe a group of socialites or something-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- that are there and are willing to have their cards read. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's go give it a whirl. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a younger table, and a more antiquated, shall we say, group. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Spinsters? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who you going for? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think I'm going to go for the younger group because I think they're probably easier to impress. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How do you get their attention? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think you're going to find that I have information that might be interesting to you regarding a husband. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What was that last part? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A husband. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A husband? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're saying this to a woman then? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "To any of the socialites there-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- that might be of that age. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That might be interested in marriage. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you come in and whisper this almost at the ear of two of these people in this group, as this laughter is dying down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to pick the most homely looking girl. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're going to what now?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You're so special, and I don't think people treat you like you are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pretty handsome, square jaw. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hey, check it out! We're about to see a little something.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Now who's brave enough to have their cards read? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(homely woman) \"Well-- I'm not scared.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. Have a seat. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She sits down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(heavily) Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What is it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You're very underappreciated. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She steals a glance at the young banker and then back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I sense a man has already come into your life. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It doesn't really say that, does it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A grandmother? An aunt. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I have a grandmother and an aunt.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(snickers) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Anyone, oh, who's maybe passed on? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah, my Aunt Millie died.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Three years ago.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She says-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That's crazy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gasps) I think-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Is it bad?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I think you're onto something.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think all you have to do is be yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Another voice in the circle's like, \"You don't really believe any of this, do you?\" (homely woman) \"Shut up, Gracie!\" " }, { "Role": "Player979", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm so, so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Gracie's like, \"What's wrong with me?\" (snickering) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can't. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I've got a message for you, Gracie. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everyone starts to get a little quietly low-key freaked out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Be kind to your friends. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's got a jet black cat mask that matches deep black hair-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's wearing more of a standard carnival mask and wearing a checkered red and purple vest over her suit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think she turns away from the group really quickly, and as she does, she lets this trickery of green emanate from her robe, just enough for him to see. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think it's certainly plausible that you have one of your little smoke bombs stained green. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, and I think-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Some green smoke trails out from behind you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She really wants him to take that in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He seems like a pretty cool customer. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(amused smirk)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She goes back to the Foggs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If he sticks his nose in my business one more time, he's going to get a one-way ticket to the Vastchasm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No exceptions.\" He strides away from her-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- into the crowd inside. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's she doing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What's who doing? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "His assistant. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to know what you and Ms. Manning are doing right now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I see Grimoria walk up the stairs, leaving with her employers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ms. Manning, I do have a question. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(Zora) \"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm just curious why you let Miss Grimoria join at such a young age. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't think I've met anyone as in tune with herself and with everyone around her as Grimoria.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The boat, an obvious misfire.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Why did you all of a sudden decide to come on this little outing? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mr. Murphy is so important to me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I can't help but sense some sort of thread here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Between what happened to him and this item or these-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have never stopped struggling with the choices I've made and have to make, especially as a Lightkeeper.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Better than some of us. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Would you wait here a moment?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hello, Reginald.\" (Reginald) \"Zora, is that you?\" (Zora) \"Yes. Yes, it is.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I daresay you weren't expecting me to be here this evening.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You used to like it.\" She chins his elephant jaw, wanders away, and comes back to you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Friend? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Second floor, rear of the second floor, somewhere off to the right of the balcony, he says.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Good to know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Where's the group? Where is Leo?\" Where is Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player981", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This can be, you know, a first date. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We're not the kind of-- I'm not going to ask questions like that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will find you in just a few minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right, I might go on a clandestine mission of my own.\" (laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's see who does better. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you off in search-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Cheers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- of Walter? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I saw which direction Walter was going. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you're off to find him? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If not, I'm keeping an eye out for people who I know or at least know of. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You make it about 15 feet, when a young woman all in gold herself, a gold stylized butterfly mask and a gold shimmery dress and a hair of gold blonde ringlets comes and pokes her finger in your chest going, \"What are you doing here? I knew it was you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start to realize you're looking at your niece. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Niece. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What are you doing here? You never go out like this.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You're just never here, are you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are a bad liar.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What are you doing here? What are you looking for here? Are you bidding on anything? Are you being bid on anything? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(inhaled laugh) I'm hunting for a different prey than paintings, Leo.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Did you come here as someone's plus one and you've decided to abandon them or are you-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Bentley's upstairs.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I think I saw him on the balcony a few minutes ago.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The old coot.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, I'm well aware of Walter. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know why.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is there any other family here? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Um.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Leo--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How bad? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Your dad's here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I love this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How bad is that?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You will not be-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Do I want to be around for it?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You know, I think you think you wanted to be around for it, but honestly, perhaps you could use the character if you happen to watch it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sway. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A low stakes Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right, I'll buy in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's called a Candela now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) She just pouts. \"All right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I hear rumors that you flirt at a reasonable level, certainly college level. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am trying to get a couple special things from the auction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What's your poison?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If you know somebody who can help get me up to the auction, or, because I know you're you, (sophisticated) the auction. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about, Leo.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, if you could get me into the auction, or, now that I've put that into your head. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay, I'm going to go see if I can figure out what the hell you're talking about.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Good luck!\" She disappears into the crowd. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She's going to be irritated by that for hours. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fuck. (sighs) Father, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would watch that spinoff. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where are you headed right now? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Part of me wants to go to the assistant and give her a little flirt. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "See if I can squeeze some information as to where the artifact is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You make it about 10 or 15 steps when a very tall, broad man when a very tall, broad man in a very colorful purple and green and gold mask that covers about this much of his face steps in front of you and puts his hand on your chest. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you fucking kidding me right now?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, I'm sorry, I just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're staring into your brother's eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah... " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I was told that I should pay special attention to the lady who just went away, that I should give her whatever she needs, drinks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What the fuck are you doing here? What is this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Reginald? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What are you doing? Are you here to embarrass me? What is this?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh my god. No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're waiting tables? I don't see you for months, and this is how you get into my business?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Of course you're at this party. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What you doing here?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is anyone else from the family here? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "First, make a-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "First, make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, I'm going to burn a drive on this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Because he's going to cause me trouble if I don't. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's your yearbook quote, at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You are on a roll! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You just got one, too. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't know if he feels it anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, he's not, he doesn't feel thing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's the difference. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're waiting tables now? Is this altruism?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Listen, I don't have to explain myself to you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What's the angle?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm working, and I was told to pay special attention to the lady who is now out of my view. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I can't with you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Listen-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And now you're here tonight?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now, what does mean a lot to me is keeping this job and make sure I don't get fired from this job. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have to make the rounds.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Grease the wheels.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, let me know where you are, perhaps I'll bring you a brandy or two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're a very small fish in this stream now, Malcolm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Best you follow the current downstream.\" He grabs a glass off the tray and walks off. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, it's a good thing I know how to swim, isn't it? (laughs) (sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's not immediately visible anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) Do I have an idea of where she went off to? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I would say that you kept eyes on her long enough to see that she veered to the right when she left balcony. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to trail her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to trail her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you don't see her, but you're going to follow along in the direction you think she went. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The path I think she is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Standing, just watching the room. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But she's not here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "They're guarding that door? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are for sure, got their backs to the foot of these stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) I think I'm going to go back and I want to relay this information back to the team. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are also down to one glass of champagne, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, so I think it's a good time for me to refill. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would like to offer the two guards, actually, a glass of champagne, and see how they receive that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Very low stakes, please don't burn any drive on it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Sway with me ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player980", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A three? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "They might take a sip, but. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You just get there and the woman cranes her head a bit, but the guy on the other side just goes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doesn't even speak, he just gives you the hand. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, ah, perhaps another time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come with me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, the what? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"The loo, the water closet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think I might've-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"She's not feeling well.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was telling them all about the bust. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now! Let's go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The man has a tight little bow tie and a little almost mechanical-looking mask with little gears glued on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(lady) \"I don't know, I don't know where we would put it.\" (man) \"Ah, I think it could go maybe in the front sitting room or the back sitting room, that one.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She overhears this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think you have the perfect place for it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(man) \"Oh, is this her?\" (Oliver) \"(claps) Grimoria, please.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Reveal the invisible.\" " }, { "Role": "Player979", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, you both seem so artistic. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This accent's all over the place, but pretend it's like a really exotic-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You had me sold. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, well, anyway, for those watching at home. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They're useless, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I love going to the theater. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I bet your favorite is \"Hamlet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "\"Macbeth.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know those names! Are those new plays?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Now, these busts, they're not just ancient busts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Proceed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "His bubble guts? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(imitates fart) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She gives them a display. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In fact, they hold in them, you see, they're entombed, the star-crossed lovers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"That's fascinating.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How do you know?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Once upon a time, you-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You think you hear the sound of a wet fart. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) In fair Verona. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Then she proceeds to say the plot of \"Romeo and Juliet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) Right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which doesn't exist in this world. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, but she knows it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it's an original story of Oldfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. It's an original story. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Somewhere out of the bleed, infinite monkeys have put together a script for-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But she's essentially telling them the story of star-crossed lovers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do me a favor, as you're giving me this vibe, will you roll a Sway roll for me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, and I will use-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In addition to the great stuff that you're saying. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Am I anywhere-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "In Oldfaire-ona, where we lay our scene. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- near this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You for sure can be. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I would like to assist in this Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you are looking around and wondering if Dad's around, and you stumble upon this. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I stumble upon this, and I see what's happening, and I walk up and I begin to get next to the couple and I get enthralled. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Go on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's a four on the gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That was including my extra? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You have an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You roll the extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I gave you one more die. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just add one more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take another die and roll one in there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just add one more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Don't touch the ones you rolled already. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just roll an extra one. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There we are. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Ah ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yahtzee. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, yes, I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Go on, go on, don't mind me. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Alex is like... " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "In Oldfaire-ona where we lay our scene. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, in Oldfaire-ona where we lay our scene. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ah! You brought it home. (claps) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Then she wakes up from this poison to see her dead lover-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh my goodness.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- laid across her tomb. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You have the heart of a poet.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm only channeling what the spirits tell me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How much for these two? I'm so sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mr. Fogg, maybe you can assist these buyers. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(squelchy fart) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "will you excuse me?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(imitates fart) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He just starts duck waddling away-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- into the crowd. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And he's gone. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, so then what I'll do is that I'll think of maybe a price that I'd heard. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll just very coyly: This isn't really my part of things, but you see my employer seems to be indisposed, is that a word? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Writes down a figure, slips it, or actually sees who wants to take it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(gasps)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We'll see you in the auction house.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going for a hook to grab the paper. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To grab the paper? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will double it, I will-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not going to make you roll for paper. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, you got rid of it? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I was like, \"Should I have him roll? It's piece paper.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, no, no, just to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've got it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "These are ours, these are ours.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, I'm handing it back, this is too rich for me. (sniffs) It's too rich for me. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, I'll show you something else. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I'll go on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As they walk away, they're walking away from you, you hear the woman say to the man, \"You were so virile,\" and disappear into the crowd. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Okay so we've made the sale. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That was delightful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, it's an auction. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's an auction. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, that's true, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is for people up here to get excited. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Get excited about it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They got excited. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So did Mr. Fogg. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you, Mr. Amicus. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, no, you were doing very well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, no problem, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we have any clue as to what's happening? Any updates? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If you had the opportunity to maybe put this to rest, but you had to do the most unpleasant thing you could possibly think to do, would you do it? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But you put it to rest forever? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, at the very least, maybe make whatever it is that we dealt with on the boat go away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can help. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My father's here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My father's here." }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh no, how does that make you feel? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, we haven't spoken since, you know, since before. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Since before. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Off in the distance, you hear a bell ring and you hear a man's voice call out, \"15 minutes 'til the auction, 15 minutes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I understand that it's a really hard thing to do, but it might be worth it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fuck! I'm going to-- People are starting to get together for the auction? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Some people are starting, many people heard that and just went back to their conversations, but some people are starting to grab a bag or fetch a person and start making their way off the second floor. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Have we seen where the third floor is going, or where the entrance to the third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'd like to know where you and Zora are. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I believe we were going to head up to the second floor-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- having acquired the information of where that door was. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so as they're having this conversation. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll assume, yeah, that Walter would know to come up as well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're wondering like, \"Where is that?\" that Edgar appears at your shoulder with Zora. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Excellent. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hello, you two. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does anyone see it? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, we have information-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to try to make my way back over, once I load up my tray, I want to try to get my way back over there so I can deliver the information. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, well, let's just say then-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So they're into their conversation, Edgar is mid-conversation, and then you walk up offering champagne. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hello, friends. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As I was saying, Zora, kindly, was able to find out the information we were looking for and that there is a door down the end of this hall to the right that apparently leads to where we need to be. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can actually lead you there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One point of clarification: Set of stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Set of stairs, sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No worries, no worries. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But it is guarded, as far as I'm aware. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "There's about two guards, one male, one female. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is somebody wearing anything? I'm looking for anything that-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, like a pin or something. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Have we noticed a lapel or anything like that? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, like a little ribbon that might indicate people that are invited to the third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To the third floor, no. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "From what Zora said, the man himself is bringing the invited buyers in there himself. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Unless someone knows one of the buyers, they might be able to snag a, snag a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I have an old friend, but he's already been up and down.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Whom? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Reginald, he is from the OUP and evidently did not tickle Aroha's fancy with his offer.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we see Aroha anywhere, or is he gone? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I just do one? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Survey, you just do one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Come on Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're not going to fall out a window if you fail. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Two! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Aw. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's such a good-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you'll scan around and don't see him. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm still looking for Walter or dear old Dad. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have to be downstairs in 15 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Survey again? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. Survey. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh wait. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "15 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "because one's supposed to be gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You, while they're conversing, are slowly spinning around up here looking, looking, and you see at the last second, an older man with a, an upside down moon mask, it's very severe looking, and it comes down to here on the front, there's a little dip down, disappearing from view and moving off towards the direction you recognize as the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That man is going in the exact direction where those two guards I spotted are actually in front of that door, which I believe-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- holds our treasure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I take one, I'm going to take the champagne I'm currently drinking, I'm going to down it and grab another and start walking in that direction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You bee-line it away from the group and hook around and start, again, it's a bit of a twisting journey to get there through a couple of rooms. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Does not notice you for the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You look like shit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(grumbles)\" \"Oh, for fuck's sake.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm, 23 years, this is the first words I've gotten out of you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hello, Son.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(sighs) Raymond. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've heard that you have been wanting to talk, but I was assuming it was just shit from people who are trying to make something happen that's not going to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Who fed you that bullshit?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) You can guess. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Never stopped trying.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will believe that you believe that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Haven't I done enough?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Don't get in your way.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't question, I don't interfere, and I certainly do not get in your way. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Mother's sake, you act as if I were the one who wounded you and not the other way around.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "For what it's worth, no, I blame Mother, I just blame you for going along. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You won't have this view for much longer.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have something upstairs that I was hoping to (contemplative sigh) take out of circulation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to ask you to make a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What kind of roll? " }, { "Role": "Player789", "Content": "Read. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to play with this. Hold on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wish I could assist, but we're so far. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No one is there. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, this is a-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's a five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, nice. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to do an extra, I'm going to add one more die just to see, which is also a gilded die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Nah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And he stands. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You don't know where you are, do you? Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They don't know what he looks like, so that's the end of that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to go sit down where he was and just finish my fucking drink. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Cold blooded ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Anything? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But Malcolm-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I do have an idea, but it's going to be messy. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Very specifically said, do not be messy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Please, I do not want you to be messy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We are not trying to cause a scene.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It could be messy. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Again, no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm thinking I distract that guard at the door. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Two guards. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I get him somewhere, and I want to take over his position. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you.\" They walk a little bit further. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then he wanders back in front of your vision and disappears from view. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Who was this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So Aroha and a stranger. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, Aroha, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then Aroha returned into your view and returned the way he came. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That would've probably been way too much what the hell is happening to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You just went through what you went through and you are down, you're on your third drink, possibly. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You just ogled it as it happened and only sort of sunk in by the time he was passing back. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Who's the fucking redhead? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And because the host of this party's busy with the real auction, that we've been sent up to take a look at it while he's busy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think the host is showing off the artifact. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There's no doubt he's going to need to be there at least for a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"10 minutes 'til the auction. 10 minutes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here's a problem with that plan. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not messy enough? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now, unless we find another way in the back-- Do we know if that room leads to anything? Is there any way we could sneak in that room? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which? The one that-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The one that the-- The lay of the land of the house, do we-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've only been as high as the second, and you only have had eyes on this set of stairs with two guards at the bottom of it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "This is on the third floor? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The stairs lead to the third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Third floor. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Have we seen Aroha come into the room yet? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "With the woman in red, the red woman. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He didn't make it out as far, you guys never saw him in this last-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo saw him pass in front of his vision, and then 30 seconds, come back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Assumably, he walked with a client, sent them on their way-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and then returned from whence he came. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shit. I mean, if I can get to him, maybe I can do something, but I haven't seen him in the last-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This is Leo's-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- few minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- territory as far as I'm concerned. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm standing up, I'm walking in the direction of, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Of which? The stairs? Or the group? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I saw him going back towards the group. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you were to go to your right, you would head back to where your friends were. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to hop to the left just to see what's down that hall. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For a mixed success, I'm going to deem it that you realize that you are looking at a man with Aroha who bears a striking resemblance to Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh wow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The failure of it-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- is that it is the brother of Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit, it's Desmond. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They come down the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's the-- Well, I wouldn't, yeah, if it's the baby brother, I would have no, yeah-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No, they're older. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, it's fucking-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's Desmond. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right. It's been a while. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see your brother, you are holding champagne, and he comes around the corner smiling and then \"(sighs).\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I'm away from the group at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I want to appear like I'm alone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I want to do another little green puff and hope that he cares. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "In the back, I've come 'round the back to try and just-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive for that. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just come back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see the intersection from behind and then go back to where you came from? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I see that I was going to try and head this off. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And it happened. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's a five on the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a five on the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Five on the floor! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "On the floor, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I burned a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a good speakeasy-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- for Newfaire, " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five on the Floor? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five on the Floor. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To get his attention? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It distracts your brother, who also looks over and sees a bit of casual familiarity maybe between you and the people you're around, like, you know, in this moment don't seem quite like a server to him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Uh-oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He bee-lines away and heads down the stairs with purpose. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who does? His brother? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Aroha turns back, Not as sharply as I just did, he turns back and sees his client stalking away and he looks at you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I, as I pass him, can I whisper: I know how to unlock it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I know how to unlock it?\" What's the goal here? So I can know how to judge on it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I want to get in that fucking room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know how to unlock it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Then I show, and if he looks interested, I've painted-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This needs a new Sway roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well then, I won't tell you what's in my hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I'm going to burn another drive. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Secrets, secrets are no fun. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because it seems worth it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Secrets, secrets hurt someone. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Watch you, girl. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, I still have to understand where you're going with this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, so if he looks interested-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- on the palms of my hand, I've painted that figure that you described. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That was on the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Does that make sense to you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I sort of, if he wants to see it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you are, let's be perfectly clear. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, so it's a risky thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are outing yourself to him as someone who has seen his forbidden goodies. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I think I'm outing myself as someone who might-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The only way for-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Unless he believes in magick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because that's what he would see. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, well then, no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Might I say something? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That sucks, I was trying to do something cool and not-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Might I say something, though? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "This actually might be able to work if you utilize your gift, which is to reach spirits. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I wanted him to think I was like a cool medium. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Does he know what Grimoria does? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He barely gives two shits about her employers. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We know this, right? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So he's going to think you're automatically a scam. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll roll with anything. I just want-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, no, no. But if he's going to think that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- to have us have the same Mind Palace shared at this table. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But we don't have to go with it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will roll with anything that happens. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think you should give in to your ability, and I think you should sell the man with your ability. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It would be a risk. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm behind you right now, and I can assist with this when it comes time, so it's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Or if I'm the same size as my brother, slip that fool a mickey and I grab his mask. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I go in place of my brother. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because right now, we're all like: How do we get in? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "They won't pay attention to my suit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If we could slip him something that would knock him out, I could take his mask. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to drop a pebble in the stream here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because I was a half a tick away from saying it in the first place. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then you make your call. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because the stream could go in 50 different directions. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He looks to you, and you've done your green smoke moment. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A person in a black suit with gold tie and black mask is making their way through the crowd quietly. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not trotting, because we're in a party, but start quick walking back out and start to wade through. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Back towards us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, they could be transporting it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And I only say that because I don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) Okay, we got to follow him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, I'm going to change my idea. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I hate the idea of thinking of slapping down a moment. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I wanted to make sure you understand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Then he can take that as a sexual innuendo and we can move past it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But if that's not going to-- if he's too smart to fall into, he believes in magick, then that's not it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The guy is-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So he does believe in magick. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right, but if he's going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is a, this world's version of a criminal mastermind. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So then I will say that weird sexual innuendo and keep it moving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. So that reaction that he gets is-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Then I'll go-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) Through your mystical smudged makeup and your spooky vibe. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, and I'll play it crazy and go (scoffs). " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I might just go for a Hail Mary here then. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's all get together and let's just go-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Doesn't know what it is. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Let's hope so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And heads off after runaway brother. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He even sees guards running, so now he's going with triple purpose. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Leaning back over, I still think Leo's our best chance in getting through that door. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm standing, waving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To the group? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "To the group, because the door's in this direction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, letting them know that it has eased up a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So we follow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, we've got to follow. I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But can I say one thing before we do that, though? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's like, you know, if you give someone-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right. Right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I mean, when you lend out a necklace that's worth millions and you have an actress wear it-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Like you do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- they have, it's a company. Security, right? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "For sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That is 10 minutes-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, it's upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well it's upstairs, but it looks like they're going to go-- It's upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's absolutely upstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We have to go upstairs in order to find the room. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Up the stairs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So this is just the first hurdle. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Come on, let's give this a fucking roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well then, old boy, I think you should work your magick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A reminder that Malcolm is dressed as a waiter right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know, and I'm dressed like this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's the package. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make your choices, but I'm just reminding you of the Mind Palace. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Zora will come. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I am going to actually, I think I'll get a bit of air and--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'll just watch the aftermath, and deal with what I can in the ways that I can.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Leo and I will go. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "When we get past and give the signal, you two dressed as you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have to go downstairs and sell my busts. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's valid. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The auction is taken care of by staff in this building. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everything on the second floor was so that people would be like, \"I like that, I think I want to get--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I've done my job. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I get to see it from five feet away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So that when I see it from 50 feet away, I'm like, \"I want that one!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So maybe the best thing for us to do is have a costume change, which we planned for. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say, go find a costume change. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, that's exactly what I was going to say. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That would be the thing to do right now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would definitely change costumes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Someone who's got their invite. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now, did Leo sneak me in an outfit or something? Because he said he was also going to have a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You had talked about a spare. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You have it in your bag. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But I will say that Zora-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay cool. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- pulls you off to the side and pulls her mask off. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She offers it to you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll take this off and presumably have something suitable underneath-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Underneath. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- that would fit the costume of the day. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She also unpins this raven-feathered display that she has, and she does her best to fasten it up top. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great, and the mask, I'm assuming, covers the makeup. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, and it's not a perfect look at all. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, but it's enough. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you no longer look like-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. (clicks tongue) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- a spooky mystic. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm ready. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to go back to my bag that I packed and retrieve my garb that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You'll look a little underdressed. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I can help with that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Ding, ding, ding! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You know the actual name to use. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(announcer) \"Three minutes!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I cannot believe we're doing this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Three minutes!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Heading towards the back door. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I guess I'll just wait in the-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You can come out if you're good-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm dressed. I'll grab the champagne. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll let them know you're coming. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Doing a clothing change. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- booking it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Booking it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Throwing on your clothes and coming back here in three minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You make it just as you hear, ding, ding, ding, ding! \"Now it is time for us to bid in the Gardens of Delight.\" You hear all the people, what few people were left, are realizing that they're those people at the theater who waited forever at the bar and then they try to run in at the last second to get their seats. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's very few people, you guys are almost alone, and Malcolm comes running up, definitely underdressed, but no longer dressed as a waiter. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You still have your mask. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to come up with this motley crew and I was just going to move with, hmm, rich entitlement towards-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- angry, rich entitlement towards the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Towards this woman in the carnival mask with her clipboard. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're just marching up to her? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The party is not beyond this point.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(emphatic) There should be a Steedwell on that list. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, one moment.\" She starts to rifle through. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(aggravated sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"And you--\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If it helps, it's probably alphabetical. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay. First name?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Sometimes they use the middle name. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And now what happens?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was supposed to go up and have a look at it, and instead, I have been getting a run-around. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I could be confused.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What sort of job do you think you could have at some point? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sway roll, and Leo, this is high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll help. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I will help by-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm using my extra. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just blow her head up with garbage. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so you pump up his knowledge and place in the world of antiquity. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Place of antiquity, using my knowledge of the antiquities. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I will also lend a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I will mutter, or I will convey the fact that his father will be extremely pissed off if we don't secure the item. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, you drop a comment off to the side about how-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Off to the side, about-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- this is going to blow up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, and that-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right, how many dice are you at? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm good, I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have six? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I lost a shift. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm at six. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am sure you understand what it's like to have inappropriate pressure put upon you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "This is Sway? This is a Sway roll, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There's definitely a Candela in there. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I burned everything for that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are trying to look officious and snotty in the way that only wealthy people can be. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And close it again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Pushed it over the edge. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Dr. Lycoris, great acting. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will have Mr. Tama-Kai join you when he returns.\" \"I will have Mr. Tama-Kai join you when he returns.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We shouldn't be long. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll be here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I pop 200 in her hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But there is no one on these stairs right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fab. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You guys start to-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This has been a day. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "When I say curtain, I mean thin and gauzy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's a doorway all the way down, across from it almost exactly, but not, a little bit off, a doorway open into the hall. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We need to do this quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, we do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who's got the quartz? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The little piece of clay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Or the-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The chip of quartz, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The chip of quartz. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So we keep walking? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Look for anything, anything at all. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are about five or six feet away from the door and you hear (low, ominous rumbling) from around the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're not seeing green light, are we? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You said no? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do I hear anything in my newfound auditory-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I haven't mentioned that constantly, but it is like a background noise. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is there anything specific? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Almost like a spiritual tinnitus. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is not your eavesdropping tool. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is just-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's just background noise. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, well, I guess we follow the noise. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is it my turn or is it someone else's turn? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can go. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am going to gently open the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, I'm sorry. Door is open, that's what I'm saying. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to gently make my way in, looking left, right, up, down. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just two fox masks go like this, and one of them grabs the case-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "♪ What does the fox say ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They pivot away from you and run to the rear of this chamber, and there are objects on shelves all around here and things on pedestals, and the gold box a second ago was in the center of this room, but now it is being run towards a stained glass window as these two men (crashing) leap through the window and skitter out onto a wet roof and go running away from you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay, can we peer down the window? How far is the fall? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's two feet down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are already 30 feet away from you and they are sliding down a sloped bit of roof down to, you guys are on the third floor, they slide down roof and hit what is likely the second floor and begin running along the top of this building. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm giving chase immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm's out the window. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know what else to do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As everyone-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(wails) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, that's true, so they've got a good lead on you because you guys just stood shellshocked as they started to book it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's going to account for a couple little dips and turns here as you start to slide down the roof. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Five, gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, nice. Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. You got a, I'm sorry, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I got a five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh wow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, baby getting trippy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of you guys start to slide down at different paces, Malcolm in the lead, and you realize quickly that you are sliding down stained glass as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You couldn't tell-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- in the darkness up here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That sucks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You just lucked out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Just luck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is glass over a solid roof. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it is enough to start to cut into you, and all of you who got a mixed success, take one body as you cut yourselves on the slide down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You pick yourself up, wincing in pain at lacerations in your-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I probably have many layers of petticoats, just to be clear. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Body, body, body. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Look at the glee on his face. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know, I know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "\"I am a librarian!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see these two masked figures go from this roof to an adjoining building. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Good grief. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not going to make you roll, but they're still ahead of you and you see them hit a ringed over metal fire escape ladder and they both disappear from view and start to go down. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're still going, right? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How far away are they? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're probably halfway up the block while you are still at the top of the building. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So it's too far away for me to shoot with my gun, huh? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Uh... " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's messy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are on a side street right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are near a costume party, and they keep walking away. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If I fire my gun, it's going to draw attention. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It might draw a noticeable attention. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Seems plausible. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let me go ahead and I'm going to continue to chase. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to try continue chase until I see a-- Okay, what's good to do chase? Let me see what that leads me to. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm running as hard as I can to catch up to them because I have an idea. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But instead they have got about a block, block and a half lead, and you see them-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Damn it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you're running, Leo, you're at the back of this group as they run as fast as they can, but it is slowly starting to dawn on you where you are going. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right now, they are running towards-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(emphatic groan) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are running towards the Sacred Ascension Cemetery. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And they are in. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there anything-- Is there a moped or a motorcycle I can jack? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Bike? Bicycle? What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A jack? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Bicycle chases. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, procure or steal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh! I thought you said is there a jack as a noun. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You had me with moped bicycle. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there like a motorized-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are not those in this world. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where they're going, it's not going to help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're already-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Where are we going? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "When you say that, when you're asking that, they have already, I literally just said they had bust through a gate and were in a cemetery. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are disappearing from view " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you guys get closer yourselves, you start to see there are pins attached all along this fence. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Pins? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is a Newfaire custom that has to do with burial. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, that's right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You run in, and this is a-- You know this because you were here a long time ago. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For a very special night. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is a large sloping cemetery that goes on for three or four city blocks-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is more like-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Like ruins? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "200 years old, 300 years old, some of them. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Have the people in the fox masks made it into the church yet? Because if they haven't, I am booking in that direction. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't see them. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If there's a shortcut, I would know it, and I am heading that way. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you are rushing in? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Or can I see them? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see one man moving around towards the rear, dragging some sort of a drape or a blanket out, and then you see somebody cross your view and you catch a glimpse of that blade glowing and then disappear as he moves about inside. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I stop directly at the fucking line of that door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Outside it? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I wouldn't know any better, so I'd probably run into you because I think we should keep going. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will grab you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's hold on for a second. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. I will pull away from that door. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What happened here, Leonard? What did you fucking do? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's so hard to think with-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) Do you hear them screaming, Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It-it-it ticked. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) Those teenagers. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And ticked and ticked and ticked. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) Your friends. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There was something in the dark, and I was so, so, so scared. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) Where's your sister, Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(shouts) Can you hear that? Can anybody hear that? It's, ah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(whispers) You're all alone in this moment, Leonard. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay-- Please make it stop! Can you " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "His hand turns and clicks that disc on the front. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The man's body is pulled from the step and thrown viciously into a boulder on the hill. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. Possessed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs nervously) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Things are moving fast. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Liam, the way those people are disappearing, does it look the same? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "as that guy is finishing up his power up. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am going to duck for cover at this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is the guy who's going with the sword, is he trying to kill the guy with the cylinder? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Looks like. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So it could be a mix of-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It could just go into the box. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It could be a mix of Red Hand though. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, let me clarify a few things for you because any of you could be disintegrated in a moment here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a pulsating green skull just beneath Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have agency here as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Only the skull has rattled out. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How close is this little run? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's 10 feet in front of you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hovering six inches off the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Up in the air. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You are as conscious as they are. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have overlapped consciousness right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would like to, if I can, talk to Atia. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How can I do that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "End his legacy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because as you can see, people want to use it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They are slowly moving around you-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I just, I want-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- as you commune. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I want to relay to her that she's safe with us and we don't want to use her power for anything but to give her a resting place. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She doesn't reply with words of the era or of her own. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Instead, you feel power surge through your chest, through your arms. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are more than you are-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- in this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Tasty. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You watch as the head just (energy explosion). " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Jesus. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Atia, I need you to make a Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would like to add a drive to that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Because I want to shoot him as he does that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So that would be my distraction if I can do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We will resolve the Move first. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see the gun goes off and the guy jerks just perceptibly enough. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, beautiful. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I love it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gorgeous. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take your shot. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's three die then, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Plus my two-- Plus my Control, so that's three die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do you feel like you need help here or are you-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ah, no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think three die should be good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going the man on the floor that got stabbed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ooh, ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Man, you are fucking lucky today. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela? How many? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "One Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Head broken open, like a melon. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So who do we have left? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's the box? Where's the clock? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where's the clock? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Clock? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's the clock? It was in here, wasn't it? Or was it not in here? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You think you might hear the clock. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I definitely know I hear-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you remember the room? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do. Is there a clear shot to it or no? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can try. Certainly. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Who's in my way? Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start running-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I got a plan. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- towards the door. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I'm going to-- I'm going to pull off my mask. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just like a fucking-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The box. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, is the box too far away from that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The chest. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're talking about the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, at the moment. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I thought you were talking about-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I was curious if I could hear it and if it's visible. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It has not stopped for you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, cool. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You want to get to the chest? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It depends on how close it is. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Past Atia, past the skull. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to try and use my mask to grab the skull and basically toss it in that direction, so it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're tossing your mask to try to hit the skull? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, using the mask to scoop and running by-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To scoop the skull? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- and throw. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Got it. I forgot to tell you to take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Another one? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Great, let's make that finesse. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "A finesse? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you are trying to use a party mask to scoop up-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- a radioactive skull of a 2000 year old sorceress. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "To toss it in that direction. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "To use it like a lacrosse thing to send it towards the skull? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Lacrosse. Yes, a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Still finesse. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, which one is a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Control. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sorry, finesse is in the description. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's see what happens. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I see that-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So that's a three, but I'm going to use the resistance to-- Do I reroll one with resistance? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Reroll the base. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The base. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, so that's just one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is it one that you have nothing in? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. So two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then you roll two again. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I rolled a three. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "God, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tried. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Unless anyone wanted to help, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your hand now scored and gored along the back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who else do we have at play in this room? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This man has a gun and he is now walking and he sees the most obvious target in here is the witch. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I want to get to Edgar because you were running towards-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The man pulling-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This guy pulling the sword out. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This is the man with the glove with the thing, that's making the noise that's causing the thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He has just drawn in energy from the chest. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(heavy exhale) But he's pulling a sword out of his stomach. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He was stopped mid-motion. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I have to rewind because he just shot the face off a man. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So what do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I walk up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(pained grunting)\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Using my Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sneaky. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to use my extra die from my Training that I took at the beginning. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All that shadow boxing in the hospital gym. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to burn a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That was wild. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's that? What did you use? What are you using there? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm using Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Wait, wait, wait. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let me see if I can add. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "My base roll was good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't know if you can add to a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, you can't to my resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "On a gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five? Whoof! What a whoo hoo hoo hoo! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You strike out with precision and get him right in the throat and he goes, \"(choking)\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I know I said I would help. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(choking)\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But I need you alive because I have questions and you're going to answer them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The priest, striding out-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- aiming at you, sees his friend suddenly coming under attack and retrains. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and fires. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This man who is \"(choking)\" Take your body. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, dude, this is nasty. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(heavy breathing) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell me, sorry for clarification, what was the last thing you said before you got shot? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I said: I am going to help you and keep you alive because I have questions. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is there anything-- What are you doing in this moment? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "See if that inspires-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you could do anything here, Aimee Carrero, as Atia Griffia, what would you do? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would shoot out whatever green bleed out of my hand and kill the man with the gun. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a-- Why don't you make a Sense roll for me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela? So here's what happens. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He turns and shoots your friend-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear-- (crushing) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's my fourth bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is Grimoria, young as she is, collapsing down to the ground and hitting the stone where you take a body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I say one thing before she-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- passes out to Atia? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Absolutely. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's all I say. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are you two doing? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where am I? Where am I in conjunction to this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The skull of Atia Griffia-- Bleed, bleed, bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Edgar turns around-- After being shot, holding, putting pressure on his own wound, turns and goes: Put the skull in the box and let's leave! You see as he's turned, there is what looked like glowing fingers pressing into the side of his neck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We are going now! Find a door! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to go and I'm going to use-- I'm going to rip off my jacket and try to scoop the skull up and run it to the box. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Let's do Control to grab that thing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So that's two more marks that I can fill up in my drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell me that one more time. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So for each mark I take-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can immediately refresh a drive point of my choice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So for every mark I've given you in this church, you should have restored a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just to let you know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, so I'm going to burn a drive and I have Control, which was-- What was it? What was it with Control? I have two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just the two? For your Control? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to-- Oh, do I want to do that yet? I'm going to use my, this is serious, I'm going to use-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, shit, forgot about that. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to use my extra die on this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can use it next time. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(shushes) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Looking at it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Your luck is ridiculous. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm looking at it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I should've gone to Vegas today. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And, I assume, kick the lid shut. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep, immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In the interim, this man behind you who's hacking-- Slowly, more slowly than the first time someone in this room charged up, green has been wafting its way into this thing and he sees now that it has achieved the status that he needs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is going to stretch the hand out towards Malcolm, who's standing over the chest now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I see him moving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? You, of course, see-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There's bricks, there's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, there are-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I immediately grab a brick and I slam it in his temple. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can make any kind of move you want to make here. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What kind of roll are you using, really quickly? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So I'm using-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, wait-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- Anatomical Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What does Anatomical Strike use? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sorry, it's Intuition. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's Intuition? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, he said, \"Find a door.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm finding the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I might be a little distracting for this because I know where there's a door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so you're distracting. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm heading probably right by this-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, I'll say-- Here's what I'll say. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You knowingly walk in front of Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take the drive. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tick, tick, tick, tick. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Triple sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh god. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. Three Candelas right there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wow! You got three ones a few minutes ago. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. See? That's how it works. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's how it works, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Three Candelas. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With the other, you swing that stone clear across his face and you watch as his forehead, nose, and eye socket get ripped out and off and you can see his teeth exposed, as you hold a brick in your hand, covered in blood and one fucking tooth in it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(screams) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The case needs to be sealed. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We've got to get Grimoria up, she's the only one who knows how to seal the case. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(pants) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm hoping you guys remember that I have a book in my pocket, with the sigils and the equation. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But would we know how to decipher that? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, because you saw it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You saw it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That is true. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, all right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You saw it on the ship. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We can do it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are you sure, Edgar? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know where he's going with this. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sniffles) I go over to her body and I look for the book. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, you look through her pockets and you find that leather book with your friend's handwriting. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Try and find the page, and try and lock this thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You find it, you find it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sniffles) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is going to take for you, I will say-- I will let you choose to use your brain or your spirit, so Focus or Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've spent enough time with Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yep. (sniffles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You'll remember, you'll remember. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What happens now? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now I find the damn door and open that shit, and I'm going to freaking throw that box through that door immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What door? Don't we have the quartz? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, where's the door now? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The quartz. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You have the quartz? Who has the quartz? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just need a door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You know where the door is. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm already-- I have-- I walked away from this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you've gone to the door? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The minute that was gone, I am down that fucking hallway. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I believe that. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to go take the box and I'ma run after. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's heavy. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo's ahead of you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm walking quickly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do with this clock? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Can I hear the ticking? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, I need you to take two brain. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's whispering to it, and rocking back and forth on his heels. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Leo, what the fuck are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It can break, it can break. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Leo, you got to get your shit together, we have to get this-- We have to get the door open now. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "you need this door to work. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where's the quartz? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You need him out of here-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- so you can affix the sun to the door. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I have to get, so he needs to do it then. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You have it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You all need to be on one side of the door-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where are you? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm still back in the room with Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and use it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You took a chest and walked to him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So I'm walking over to Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Edgar, I need you here now! Get here now! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I... know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am finding the eyes in the lights. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's not moving. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He's locked in. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's in his thing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My main objective is to get this box through so that I can get them out of danger. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You guys need to be on one side of the door or the other, and use it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's inside the door? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're in two rooms. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're making a magick door. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You guys are on opposite sides, which is not what you need, so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can't do shit-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The man who I-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm passed out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Quickly look for a wallet, and I take it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm, okay, you've got it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then I go pick up Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I walk towards the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You have to stop passing out, Grim. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I get up and walk to the door. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In my head, I'm going (scoffs). " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not healthy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You pick her up, you say? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm happy to roll over this because I am fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why not? Leo, take another brain. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I am out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He collapses over the stone. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Might be easier, honestly, if he has-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you are all in one room together. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We slap that on as hard as you can, and then open the door. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take it away and you smash it and it flattens out. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And mars the design of the sun. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You open the door, and you are looking at a set of stairs going down, down, down, and twisting ever so slightly. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to scoop that box up, and I'ma go down those stairs immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hey, you got to drag him in, too. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Then I'm going to quickly get the box and scream at everyone to get the fuck through the door. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And that's where we'll end our story for the night. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sharply exhales) Got to send a welcome party for god's sake. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Rude. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That was so much fun. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(claps) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(finger snaps) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, you four fabulous people, sign off for the night, one more time. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm on the internet, you'll find it. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm Aimee Carrero playing Grimoria, the Weird Medium Magician. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My name is Imari Williams, I am Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And hey, thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "See you in the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Visit darringtonpress.com/candela to learn more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell me, as you stare down at your own hands, one flesh and bone and the other mechanical, what is running through your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It seems like the longer I am with Candela, the more questions I have, the more ingrained I feel I become with uncertainty. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In those first 48 hours of recovering, how do we find you, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And it's all becoming untenable, too much. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What a bizarre accident or twist of fate that the Foggs, who you've come to learn are at the bottom of the pecking order in the Red Hand, led you to your gift. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A farm girl. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I think she knows, she really can't shake the feeling of fear that Atia must have felt, but also the directives that she got from her, which is, the player, I can't really remember your exact words, but I think it was something like destroy him or talking about-- I don't know if she was talking about the priest or a father or religion. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That voice said to end his legacy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I think she feels totally unmoored and less sure about her gift and her contribution than she did when she started. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But all those souls, restless. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What will they think of her? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your waking hours are spent with Dr. Aguilar tending to Grimoria and Leo, conferring with Malcolm, and using what private moments you've allowed yourself to puzzle over an ID you've pulled from a wallet to puzzle over an ID you've pulled from a wallet from the man you bricked in the Shriveline. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "While you wait, tell me where your mind is in all this. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's tearing him up and he's not sleeping. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Whatever it was that happened all those years ago in the park that took your sister from you made no sense, was random, like it fell from the sky. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, all these years later, that same phenomenon somehow resurfaces and rips you open anew. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sniffs) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you slowly resurface from the fog here in the Pharos, what are those first conscious thoughts running through your mind? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to put that on my tombstone at this point. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Aside from the two lines of alchemic sigilry running along the contours of this gauntlet, when you peel back a flat bit of metal paneling on the back of it, you find a line of extremely small print etched into that metal: The letters TR, followed by a familiar pattern of numbers. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The brand of the Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You recognize it, a string of digits used as a numbering convention in your family's munitions factories. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I would love to do a little game talk and know what small upgrade options you are choosing, what circle ability you are adding to your circle, deal with any scars that have been taken, and use the last, " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shall I begin, or should you begin? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can go. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As, I believe, for our thing we all took together, we took Stamina Training, so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which gives the circle three gilded dice at the beginning of every assignment. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They can just be pulled from, one at a time, as needed, for anyone. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I also took a Refresh and a Train. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think with that scar, I also have to move one of my action points? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, you pull it from one and give to another. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I pulled from my Read, I would imagine that that would be confusing, flashbacks and voices, and moved it to Strike, because maybe she's become a little violent because of it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria is in the lead with scars now, with two scars. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The only member with two scars. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, she's so hardcore. (grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She would get a tattoo if it wasn't nineteen-oh-whatever. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do it with a knife. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All right, Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I chose to, willed myself two additional drive, one for Cunning and one on Nerve. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think that's going to be adequate. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We hope. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) I hope. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And Mr. Amicus. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, for my upgrade, I suppose, I gave myself a action point in Move and I gilded it because I think I'm learning that running is a better option in general. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As for scars, I did take a scar last game, and it is my-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're tied then, because you started with a scar. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We're at two each. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I misspoke. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Isn't it funny that someone who is struggling so can be so stabilizing to those around them? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Then taking a Refresh and a Train. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Choo-choo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's my joke. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- leaves the station, I'd like to open this up a little bit and ask if there is anything that any of the four of you have been dying to do or discuss? Any threads you specifically want to pull? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have no idea, because I've been excommunicado from the family because I did not wish to follow along that path. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you have somewhat better of an idea. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to know what he has to do involved, but I'm more focused on what my father, because my father's been the one who's always pulled from the shadows, and what he's gotten my older brother involved into, or maybe, does he know? This is what's on my mind. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So would you seek out your father? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I know my sister and my mother, even though they'll never admit it, have a soft spot for me. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "The occasional notes have been passed over that time, but really, if anyone's seen with me in the family, it will be questioned and it will not be good for them, so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You tell me, because we'll go there if you want to. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to question-- I want to be very vague, and I want to establish a meeting place we could potentially-- where we could potentially meet. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You look like you're not taking care of yourself.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How are you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Keeping the ship steered right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "And how is Father? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Perhaps you'd like to explain the other night?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Before I explain that, Mother, I ran into Desmond, as you know. I'm pretty sure he's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, I'm well aware.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Before I explain, what is our dealings with this auction? I know just you being here is a dangerous thing for you, so I appreciate you, and of course I don't need to express our need to keep this quiet, so to speak. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I don't suppose you know anything about that, do you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Would you happen to have any insight into that? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Come back in, Malcolm.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I am not going to talk to you about this unless you're--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm better in the shadows. You know that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And with the mess you are in right now-- Son, come back in.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But, Mother, what will happen when I come back in? How can you guarantee my safety? Can you guarantee my safety if I come back in? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I can't guarantee it--\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\" -- unless you come back in.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I don't think you know the full picture of what is transpiring here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just wish you saw it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Anyone else have any business to see to? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think I'm feeling how you look. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thanks, that sounds awful. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How is your hand feeling, or hands I should say? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, they feel better than they look. Oh dear. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You definitely did a number on them. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Did I ever tell you? I know I told you a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It doesn't go away. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's where your... sister? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Not a single bloody person has ever actually told anybody what happened there. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This is why you don't exist in the same way you used to. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I didn't need their help for that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I watch everybody, but I've been watching you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Thank you for saving everybody. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What else is a doctor for? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know that face and you are a bad liar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, I guess I am. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I know it doesn't help, but I am grateful. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I appreciate the appreciation. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Your sister, I know we've spoken a little bit about it, but much less than mine. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't know why or how, but it makes the same noise and causes the same effect as I heard the day she disappeared. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "And we find it-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "On those people. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "In the place where everything happened to me? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And now I just get to carry these around, and then I get to ruin the chance of me finding out who did it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's perfectly rational explanation, all of that. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) I guess so. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I woke up institutionalized. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Told a couple people, immediately learned that was a terrible idea. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's not fair. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, it's not. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's good to say that out loud on occasion, I find, even if we know it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Wrong place, wrong time. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She could get me in such trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If we lose her, then no one has your secrets. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will say to the race to the inevitable. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) See who gets there first. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Hello, Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think panic is rising in her as I sit in the room by myself and against better judgment, I scribble a note to the Foggs and I say, \"Can I come home?\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you give a return address? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I put the coffee shop downstairs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It simply says, \"Where and when?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "From the Foggs? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't understand the response and the only person I can really talk it out with, who knows my whole story is Leo, so I show it to you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think this was a wise move, dear. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have nowhere else to go. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You can stay here for as long as you like. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have to make a living. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You have so much time and so much potential than to (sighs) let it break on those rocks over and over again. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In the way that I'd like to be. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I, um-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It passes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "and now I feel like I'm not getting younger. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I promise you that feeling will go away. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you for your hospitality and I promise I won't stay long. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You should (sighs) think about what they would want for you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think they wouldn't recognize me if they saw me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I think they would be impressed, though. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What was his name? Felipe? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckling) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Look at that, it's good to be remembered. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckles) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll talk to Charley to make sure we pay attention to see if they come snooping around. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you, and thank you for your patience. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You are well ahead of the curve, believe me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If I might knock to come in, from the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right, I'm opening the-- I'm looking into the mirror, walking back and flinging it open with some drama. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Considering this is your home, I do like to knock before I enter. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Come on in. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You make it difficult to find you when I need to do your checkups. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I feel okay, physically. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sure you do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She'll be staying here for the duration, so she'll be much easier to find. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How are you doing? How are you feeling? After waking up. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Um. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Now that you've had a little time to orient yourself. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I physically fine. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All the other things? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, not great, but I don't think any of us are doing that great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm joins you here in Leo's apartment. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a very heavy hand, excuse me. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gents and lady. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Uncle Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How is the espionage going? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Edgar, did you make her cry? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, that's what I do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That was me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But both, really. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I'm a little run-down, Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Really? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "new sensations, side effects, things with the eyes, or the breathing or the lungs? Or anything that could've been infused with said powder that was blown in your face? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I swallowed that fucking powder. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have the worst pain in my left eye right now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we have a sample of the powder? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If I remember correctly, you did have a bag of it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I may have gotten rid of that bag. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think it was handed over at the Fourth Pharos and it was examined, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We do. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But it's intensifying. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can't help you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I will do my best to help anyway I can. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And now, what are we going to do? This is the bigger question. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Figure it out, you all. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I could do for a glass of scarlet, that's for damn sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Done and done. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That will help everything. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You made me tear up, Taliesin Jaffe. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm moving everything deeper into a fucking web. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shuffling things around? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There we are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, when you get close, a little girl about 12 years old-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(startles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- swims up to the glass. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You find yourself standing outside of a single door with Kahn in his fez outstretching his hand. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't think I'm ever going to get used to the way this place works. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sit, sit.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is everything all right? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's wrong, Zora? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How's Decklan? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, you see, Decklan passed away in the night.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She just stops herself and hangs on you, Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "know if it's connected or not, but.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Where were they supposed to be? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Honestly, with all that you have laden on your shoulders already, I-- I hate even troubling you with any of this.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I'm out of a job now, so. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, Zora. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(tearful sniffle)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You know, we're all family and we're going to do what we need to do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Where are your heads at?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "where? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The Circle of the Wyrm has been traveling there for over a year.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Via ship? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm sorry?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Via ocean ship? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You know, all of you know that Oldfaire, the ancient city that Newfaire is built upon the bones of-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is underneath. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- is down below the modern city streets. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it means-- And, again, I know we're all players joining for the first time, but as the Circle of the Crimson Mirror, you guys actually have-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Been there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not really your circle's-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Purview. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- specialty, purview, correct. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have been more about dealing with issues topside-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your Lightkeeper-- Sometimes members of circles do move from one to another, like Decklan, for different reasons, but a Lightkeeper will have any number of circles going at once. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we know, have you mentioned why Decklan broke apart from the Circle of the Wyrm? Was he on a sabbatical, or we just don't know how he got separated? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She was very thin on details then, but said that he had come back from assignment and was a little haggard and was looking for some time off or away-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and rekindling or reconnecting with his family. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It now makes sense, though, why he would have time, especially if he was infected with whatever's infecting me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "When you did send us to Serenity, you stated that he-- Yeah, forgive me if I'm getting this wrong, but he didn't come back, he just left a note for you saying he was going to visit his family. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes, and I didn't think anything of it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But he never actually, or at least no one saw him come back to the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You see, a single member of that circle is actually accounted for.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She did see him briefly before he set out for Serenity.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm pretty sure he was infected by the time he came and visited the Fourth Pharos. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How do you know that? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, he came from below with the Circle of the Wyrm, and I'm assuming what he had-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What he had seemed-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- infected him. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There are a lot of assumptions in this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I was blown in the face with a white substance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now I'm not sure, this is a hypothesis, but I'm pretty sure that's all connected, the dust that was blown in his face, the dust that was attempted to blow in other people's face, and what was blown in my face. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela and Aguilar, Dr. Aguilar have confirmed-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- that the growth on his face and the pulverized powder that was thrown in your face, blown in your face, they do share the same composition. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're just in a different form. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is there anything of Decklan's, a personal item I can maybe try to glean some information from? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For over a year they've been doing this.\" She goes over to her desks, though, and rifles around, and she comes over to you with a chain with a simple little medallion on it and there is the image of a lighthouse on it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But I've always held onto it. I'm-- I've always been very fond of the boy.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is there anything Grimoria can feel, anything spiritual or anything Decklan would've, I don't know, imbued? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a Sense roll for me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah! That's a good roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Three dice, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five? You close your eyes, and again, your work at the Foggs', 95% of the time it is fakery. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You begin to see Decklan with people you don't know, maybe in Hallowharbor, certainly on docks somewhere, pointing off towards the sea-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- and laughing with them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do I recognize the dock as a place I've been before, or is it the docks of Newfaire? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It looks similar to the docks where you left from. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I could be wrong. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We do what we can with what we're given. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just playing devil's advocate. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He didn't seem sick on the dock where I just saw him, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "He did seem? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He seemed happy, laughing. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Exactly my point. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sisters were all possessed, killed their own mother. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Only on the island. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It seemed like we were surveyed by the whole town. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "On the island. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Now, maybe he found something or maybe he was possessed when he went to the island. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't think it's a possession, I think it's an effect of this powder. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I use possession as a very loosely base, but this powder obviously causes some sort of change into your personality. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Right? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm just asking to keep an open mind that the powder might not necessarily be connected to his or his circle's disappearance. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It could've come directly from the island. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "But we should probably keep an eye out for it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, absolutely! I'm just-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We don't know. But his mother was killed by his sisters. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Please, I remember what happened. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He was in the cone, covered with the substance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, no, we were all there. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I think we can ask Professor Gregory if they came across-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, exactly. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- anything down there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But there's a lot of variables at play. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If she's never heard about it, then it's a completely separate issue that we will still have to deal with because, obviously, you are affected and you are getting worse. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not sending you now, of course, but she's prepared to go and lead you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm ready to go. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's been such a delightful place to have a good old tea time at, by the way, I might add. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Decklan's body. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's it going to be interred? Is he going to be in one of those delightful cages that we passed on the way in? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, don't even say such a thing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, I want to know. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I want to know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You are correct, Mr. Amicus.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Makes sense. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How could we let him stay in those-- Who would let him stay there? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Because he's dangerous and we don't understand what it is. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Out of idle curiosity, how often does a circle member end up in that little menagerie? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Are they all circle members? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it does happen.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't mean to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've never seen anything like it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We're going to need to see it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You know we need to see it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"All right, well, now is the time, then.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You don't have to if you don't want to. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see, Dr. Lycoris, that that moves down the neck and into the chest, which is sunken in partially, not to the same degree there as well. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(suppressed gag) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is the effect and the decomposition located to areas that specifically would've been infected by inhaling a powder, i.e., the face, neck, and lungs? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Focus roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Definitely not assisting. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh yes! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It lives. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We love those rolls. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, you can tell that it is, from the nature of it, it follows the line of the breathing passages in the nose-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And from there-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- throat and lungs. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Checking extremities, fingers, toes, is any decomposition happening there, apart from normal form? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is some discoloration that travels beyond the worst of it, but it does seem to mostly be centered in those places. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) I undo my kit, take a vial, and I'm going to take some scrapings. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Hold.\" She leaves for a second and comes back with Dr. Aguilar who comes in with a mask on and an apron, carrying the same for you, and holds them out for you before entering. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And you-- Please stay outside. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He looks at you after the to-do he made and looks at Murphy's ruin and and looks at Murphy's ruin and deflates a little bit and walks in with you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I go in and collect some samples so that I can look at them later and try and figure out something. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Doctor, I'm sure you noticed the same thing I did, that it appears to be the decomposition is located directly to areas closest to the breathing passages and lungs. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "In the middle of the night, they stopped outright, and-- I've never seen anything like it, Lycoris.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Neither have I. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Days! This should take days for other comparable conditions.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, upon just this short glance I've had, my initial idea, or at least a place to start is that this is possibly some sort of dried, bleed-infused fungus that then, when blown into the nasal passages, coats the interior and then takes root and enhanced decomposition. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes, the little sachet of powder that you brought does seem to be almost like it was harvested--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"From Mr. Murphy or someone similar.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Obviously, we have someone else we need to look out for. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I understand you may be going into Oldfaire.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Not sure if it came from Oldfaire. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We may all be carrying it at this point, I suppose.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't know how much it dispersed into the atmosphere when it was blown into Mr. Trills' face. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Or how much is coming off the body. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Best of luck.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And thank you for-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Please be safe, all of you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you for watching out for him and watching over him when he passed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It is our line of work.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll exit the room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will slide us through Leo's apartment into the waking world, unless anyone has a-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I do have one thing to do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As we leave and we're walking through the Fourth Pharos, leaving, I want to get your attention and have us hang back a little bit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I know that, I know you and Leo were very close, and you-- I guess what I'm trying to say is that I may not show it as much, but I also care about you very much and I want you to be safe. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So when we go into Oldfaire, I need you to just have your eyes open. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I need you to not-- If he starts acting irrationally, do not go near him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't know what affects proceed that state. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't be in front this time. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(scoffs) Well, I'll try not to be. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can we get this show on the road or what, guys? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let's do this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, sir. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I've been expecting you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ma'am. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You must be, and that would make you Edgar.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know it's mess.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm a bit of a mess.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Any word on Decklan?\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Gone. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"What?\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Unfortunately, he passed. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Gone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"No.\" " }, { "Role": "Player986", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "He passed last night. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The tea was very bitter. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I apologize that we're the ones telling you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Will you excuse me a minute?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Way to let her down slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You spot this green, worn leather journal that you recognize as Decklan's, sitting on a stack of papers. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Is it appropriate to pick it up? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I mean, can you as a player pick it up? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For suresies. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shall I try? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think at first, she's going to try to Sense something on the spiritual realm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela on my gilded! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Damn, that's-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Damn it, I should have-- Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(chef's kiss) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela gold, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela gold, (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There we are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not a memory. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm's leaning back against the truck, his eyes are closed and he's just bathing in the sun, and Leo is side eyeing him and Decklan is off to the side, just smiling at the lot of you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Excuse me for looking through these things, Professor Gregory, especially after giving you such terrible news in such a terrible way. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"He was with you first.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was just wondering, why do you have all of his things? Why do you have this journal? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We all practically lived here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We do, for different stretches of time.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I see. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"There's a lot of his, some of his clothes are here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know that, Zora mentioned that you saw him before he left for home and I was just wondering what he seemed like, what his mindset was, and did he seem like himself? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "crystal embedded near the small tight end of it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We don't need to be so formal about this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's like we're distant family, in a way.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"No, he was only here for 20 or 30 minutes and I was taking a break from the libraries.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How did he appear to you? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just the darkness, even just that.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's been there the fewest times, but-- He just said he was going to go home.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "While she talks, I wonder if-- I will just look at the last entry of the journal, see when that was and see if there's any good information in there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "On the very last page, he talks about how well he thinks things are going. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Tulquist's last mission. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "And what's the date on that, relative to when he-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Relative to now? It was maybe four weeks before Serenity. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I don't know this because you're reading this, right? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Or what is a Tulquist? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, that.\" She points to the thing that looks almost like a rosary bead of polyhedron shapes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "With the knife? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah. Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You found that down there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How much has Zora told you?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You found the vault, and you've been down there searching through it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We like to know what we're picking up before we pick it up.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "The last thing you remember Mr. Murphy picking up, did it seem unusual? I mean, more than normal? Was he the only one who handled it or-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I mean, I handled it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"But you don't want to get blood on it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Of course. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The work can be slow and the darkness gets to you, but we're good at what we do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Obviously, you didn't know he passed, but were you told what his condition was, what was afflicting him? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I just didn't know that the end had come.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Did you, while you were down there, or did he find a small satchel or did he find a small satchel of a powder-like substance or any bag or anything that was almost like a ground up white chunky chalk? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"No.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is when I would ask for an insight check. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say, I am definitely, I want to figure out whether she's telling the truth. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What's that? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That is a Read, I believe? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I would love to take that Read roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, you go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Some of you can do a group Read, or you can go your own way. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I have a-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's got stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I've got two in it, gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The first Cunning you spend on the roll is worth plus 2d instead of plus one.\" So I have one point in Read, so I get two gilded dice for this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, and I will give a drive to that because I'm also looking, " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh! Then I'll also spend a drive on that as well. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Cool. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Since I'm just going to get it back anyway. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela all around. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) I saw that one from here, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You believe it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, you have even-- The item or the substance I'm addressing is, we believe, what caused Decklan's unfortunate circumstances, and it was something we encountered when we visited him, or found him, more accurately, where he grew up on Serenity, the island off the coast. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you see Decklan again. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Which I kept, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think she clocked it, but she doesn't mind. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's your extended family.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "May we have their names? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This man here is Nestor Ronquillo, and then the woman here in the bomber jacket, that's MaryAnne, MaryAnne DeWitt, and then Hilda's our muscle, Hilda Greenwald.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I couldn't tell. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm worried about them, too.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, I'm sure. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There was a bit of a cave-in, but-- I was nervous, and now with him, Decklan, I mean, in the-- Decklan.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Unrelated circumstances-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- to what has happened, what, if anything, has occurred down there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Knock on wood. I guess we're going to find out.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't mean to rush anyone, but maybe we should get started looking for your missing team members. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do we have-- I assume you have supplies and ideas. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That sort of thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It really will be fine.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I apologize, earlier, for my briskness. I'm just-- I think I'm a bit worn thin. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We've had a long couple of weeks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm real sorry.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Uncharacteristically angry. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, I'm trying-- We can talk about it on the way. It's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come with me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Before we leave, this is the college where my father works, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Say that again? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This is the college where my father works. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Briarbank. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That she works at. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, I just wanted to-- I don't have time to do a proper check in, but my father works here, in the same department. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're not at Briarbank. She was-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "She was there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're in the Varnish. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. Sorry, I was confused as to where we were. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Briarbank is in Briar Green, and she has been spending time in Briar Green, and this is their chapter house. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I could've been clearer. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then I will go past this, then, at some point. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, all right, well, she grabs a bag, a satchel, and throws it over her shoulder and says, \"All right, follow me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you just got led down into the basement of this place where there is a pit in the actual floor. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My gosh, you have a lovely restroom. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Help yourself. Anyone else have to go before we set off? Because it's just going to be in the rubble, if not.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I understand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We can find a bush next time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You get used to it.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's move on. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do not go left, okay? Just follow me right.\" She starts to climb down this metal scaffolding into the pit with the lantern hooked on a little ring she has on her belt. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Are there any other lanterns up here that we can take? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This looks their staging ground to go in. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll have grabbed a lantern. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll grab a lantern, too. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Same. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Maybe I'll sneak the rifle, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's two. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, I would love a rifle. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know what I'd use it for, but it's a shame leaving it here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Firing bullets! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can't I bring my rifle? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) It might get crazy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Anything else of value? I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's food that could be taken from here. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If there's a backpack, I'll load it with food supplies. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's staple food and stuff that can travel. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She just waits patiently, half of her body already disappeared down this pit. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, ready?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ready. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm ready. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Don't go left.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't go left. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With your lanterns, you can see that she has dropped onto the roof of some sort of building down here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You can see that you're on a rooftop that stretches out about 40 or 50 feet, and she leads you and says, \"Come on, this way, and again, I've taken this route so many times, but best err on the side of quiet, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I do have a question. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "How do we get back up? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I mean, it's a pull--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As long as there's a way to get back up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Here, here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll give you a boost up the ladder. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Be careful.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We leave something every time we go by.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's nice. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's downright creepy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come with.\" You continue to travel, and you can only guess that you are moving under South Soffit, even. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Under-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All your little lanterns are swinging in the dark as you go, and you realize, too, as you walk by, until the point where you got to this open square, you've been passing by these little metal spikes or rods in the ground with a little red smear across the top, similar to what you find on hiking trails. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Markers. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hold your lanterns out, and she says, \"They call this the Endless Descent.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do they? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'll show you.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No thanks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She arrives at two more spikes that are splashed red with paint, dry now, but there's a rope ladder affixed to those, and she twists around and begins to climb down it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm so sorry. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Stay, stay, stay here-- Stay here, here, here, here-- No, no, no--\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's just too much. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "At different places in town, you saw people's silhouettes scorched into the side of walls, like shadows painted there forever. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's just so very overwhelming. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What are you sensing, Grimoria? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's so depressing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, as you pass away from the tents back towards the next means of climbing down, and you see a logo on one of the bags here that is a very old and outdated logo of the Steedwell empire. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, wow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Faded and dead. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to very gently get a little closer. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to fall behind. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Take a look. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Here is one of your family's products Here is one of your family's products from a past decade, just moldering in the dark. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear a-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't think I will, but I was hoping to maybe see, just peek to see if perhaps it was open, but not touch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The bag? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You reach your hand, and your thumb runs down along the fabric of it, and you hear (soft ticking). " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I jump back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Are you all good? Do you need to take a break or rest? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We're about halfway.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh my-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Halfway. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I thought you said it was quick. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, we're almost done with the stairs.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Not necessarily-- okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We're going to be taking a shortcut.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If we were halfway down, then we'd be reaching the center of the earth before-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Come.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yes?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is it appropriate to use something like this down here or does it become a problem? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I use those.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I still trust hers. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I thought you would appreciate the occasional checkup. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Always. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ah, love it. Good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) It's faint. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "But holding? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's faint, but it is there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll keep checking. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Meaning you are reading-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How bad is it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- a faint bit of bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just a touch, just the slightest touch. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You let me know if it gets any larger, will you? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Also, I should add, what on earth am I going to do about it if it does? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Take this rifle off my back and do what you have to do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, if-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I will be very impressed if I pull that off. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Nonsensically, as you hold your lanterns out, you realize you're looking at the edge of a forest growing down here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's magnificent. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see soil splitting up, somehow giving them purchase. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Wild. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But follow me.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do we know what circle found this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You would have to ask Zora.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's fine, I was just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"We were assigned here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- didn't know if you knew them or if anything happened to them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And they found my office.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, do we know the name of the circle whose tents those were? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Those have been there at least the last 40 years.\" \"Those have been there at least the last 40 years.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She looks back to you and says, \"I'm going to keep my lantern up, you might have more luck here if you stow yours and just follow.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Follow where I go.\" Who wants to go after Professor Gregory? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Last words, last deed. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Soldier right into the trenches. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Into the trenches we go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But there was a really big woman in the photo you saw, and you push through. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(strains) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move roll for me. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive on that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're jammed in place. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You have the extra Train, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel stone pressing into your ribs in two places right now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll take that with that one. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That was close. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, it-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Don't take that one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughing) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. You begin to pull yourself through, and you can feel your healing knife wound begin to drag against stony surface. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You manage to rotate slightly and get that wound away from whatever element is doing the damage and slide through about five inches suddenly. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's following Malcolm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you want to go? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I guess I would. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I can go last. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Get your drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're smaller, so you're able to scrabble all the way through, in behind Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But for a mixed success, you'll take one brain. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which I believe is three for you now, yes? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I got a stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You stitched? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, stitch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, you're a blank slate. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Going to have to work harder. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) He's like: Damn it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's next? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(exhales heavily) Yep, yeah, I'm climbing up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(soft ticking) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Stop, stop, stop. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, going to fuck with me, are you? (soft laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a Sense roll? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why not? Ah, Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Finally, someone gets-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(nervous noise) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's been two minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move roll, please. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five, and I get my drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You continue to drag along and you can't maneuver your body to get your side free of that damage, and you just scrape and scrape along, and by the time you get out, you don't wound yourself, but for a five, I will give you a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(breaths shakily) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As the loss of your sister is now raw and red under your clothes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(fortifying breaths) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Breathe.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(intentional breaths) Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It was that bad for me the first five or six times I did it, too.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, it's a good thing I'll be doing it the second time, when we go out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear her voice say, \"Wait, what?\" She trots ahead a couple of steps ahead of you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Wait, wait, wait, we wait for her. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Shh, shh, shh, just wait. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We normally have a rope here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Did one of us grab a rope? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "One of us had a rope in their pack. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Well, I have a rope, but--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not secured. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There used to be a spike here with a rope tied to it going to the other side.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What happened to the spike? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I don't know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are we going up or down? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Across.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, oof. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Get a lantern over here, okay?\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Watch where I go because you're going to want to do what I do.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay? It's just leg muscles.\" She begins to slide her back, and slide her back, and she's using that oppositional force to move through She's got a lantern ringed and hanging from her belt as she moves, so you can see the stone floor beneath her start to-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The further she goes, you can see that it spills out into nothing-- " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She keeps going, pressing in this, what is like, if anyone's ever gone hiking in Utah-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- slot canyons, except there's-- This is one you don't want to do this with. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see in the distance there is a metal spike rammed into the stone there and-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm still holding on the rope. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, so that rope is trailing out. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "In case she falls, I'm the one who's going to be anchored down to hold her. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's going to be a bad scene if that happens, but yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She takes the rope off of her and she begins to tie it hard onto that metal spike. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you saw where I went, right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh dear. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Who's going to be the first on the charm bracelet of our circle? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm the strongest. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So you should probably go last. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Am I going to be holding all of us? Are they getting anchored on me for strength and support or will it be like-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well hopefully, no one's going to be weighing on anybody, but you do maybe want to think about gravity and what happens when who falls where-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "One slips. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- in the worst case scenario. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There is another that they have tied to the metal spike that is there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's tied, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So we just have the one rope coming over. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So in theory, we would all tie into this rope. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And go across. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's the thought. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, so then order is important. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got another 60 feet on this thing. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think you should go in the middle. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Really? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Could be a balance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If you can fall and we can be on two sides to hold you, you won't pull as much force. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sounds like a good plan to me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You are the heaviest of us, not to insult you or anything, you just are. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so the order-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think it should be-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- will be-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then you, then myself. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Right. Right, right, right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, then Grimoria, I think you said, then Malcolm, then you, Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We need enough room to maneuver, obviously, but if there's too much slack and one of us falls, we'll pull too much force. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes, yes, of course. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Give it about a foot and a half, two feet. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If possible we'll let-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Take it slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- Alessandra know to wrap the rope as we go, keep it as taut as possible, or if she can pull. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Meaning as soon as rope is fed, it can be-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then Grimoria, you follow along, maybe a five or six foot distance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So here we go. These are high stakes rolls-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, make a Move roll, please. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to-- I'm going to burn a drive, and I think I'm going to use my extra die because, boy. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player987", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And we also, remember we have these in case. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Those, just in the case. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(grunts) I'm going to burn a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I only get to roll what I have. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, base roll. Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Baby. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Nope. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Very bad, I rolled a one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "There's that! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You reach a certain point where your toe goes (grip slipping) and you feel yourself drop. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, what happens? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to move to anchor him before he falls, so I have to steady my body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Both begin to fall. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I need you to make a Move roll right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I'm going to use my train. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel the rope go taut between you and Professor Gregory as Leo drops. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "One left. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel a yank so hard in your waist. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are still in a portion of this terrible spot you're in where it is tighter, and you press with all of your small frame's strength to the point where you feel stone digging into your back it hurts so much. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take a brain and a body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, you're just taking advantage now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because I got a blank slate. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You thought you were about to be dropped into a hole to nowhere. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo, you are hanging suspended-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "On three. One, two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can choose, Malcolm-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who's got the highest? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have the highest in Move. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- or Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "-- I can burn two drives. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I only have one in Move, so. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No, I have-- I can do, I have one, two, I can roll four die. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't burn everything, because-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I still owe myself-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You want to use one of these? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, first Adrenaline Rush, so with this one I spend I'll fill one again, so I'll only be spending one drive. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I think if it's full, it just fizzles. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, is that how it goes? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't think you can bank it off in the aether to just sit there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay, well then, I'm going to, either way I'm going to burn two drives. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So then we all add a-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I'm going to get four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you help, if you're aiding, which you are with your body, then you can add a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have four, I have four die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four die? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh. Five on gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five on gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Not bad. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's almost a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Boom! I get to replenish that shit. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Pretty good! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Actually, leave the drive because I didn't erase it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Pretty good. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start backing up and-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was like, that's good. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You're like, \"God, please.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can feel the wound in your ribs screaming as you drag them back. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I feel a body coming on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Actually, no, I think you're going to take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh wait, it's three? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, then you're out. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's at four. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's four, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh, don't go out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo is standing on the other side. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We have this, we can do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hold everything. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I have to do another roll? No, sorry, what'd you say? I mean, I'm not talking myself into another roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, I think that between-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to start the bargaining phase of this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, bargaining's fine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's the grief process that's happening here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "but that gets Malcolm moving and Edgar behind. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean, I know it's not much, but I will assist in whatever way the three of them, so hopefully that'll help my puny little-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Every ounce helps. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you, guys. I know. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Stronger, small but mighty. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Roll again as you travel. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You moved all the way back to the beginning and have to start over. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "♪ Ah tah tah tah ♪ tah tah tah ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say he's pretty solid for this one. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Let us know if you need. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I will. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Because we'll know. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I am scared to death for you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, in that case, I will burn another drive. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are you sure you don't want help? " }, { "Role": "Player988", "Content": "I want you guys-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Is it six? How many dice do you have in your hand? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I have four die. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can replenish mine off of Adrenaline Rush. I'm fine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's good because I saw the other thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I saw the other two from here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I would've been good. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Somehow you did something terrible just to get good rolls. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are 200 pushups a day, every day, right next to the bed and you-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I take pride in this body, I eat efficiently, I eat clean. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "\"I eat clean.\" Clean and mutton. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You begin to press your way across and you do not have the same problem that Leo and Grimoria have of that widening out because of your size, your height, but you have to follow up, following behind Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Move? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "What you got? You need help? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm good, I have three. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What we got, baby? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I feel a brain and a body coming on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shh! Don't give him ideas! Maybe if we don't think it, he won't know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's always worse that, like, it feels your thoughts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He reads our thoughts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Here. Here we go. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your ribs are still searing from the past 10 minutes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You think, \"Ah, if I just shift,\" and then you feel your whole backside start to slide down, and you swing, losing your grip. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You go swinging and you feel (thudding) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "And go black. " }, { "Role": "Player989", "Content": "Body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So he's out? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Or let's pull. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to pull him up immediately. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, we all help. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We all help pull him up. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I mean-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You begin to drag and drag. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Crap. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Steady! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar's limp body gets pulled up and over, and there is-- Some skin on his forehead is broken and flapped away a little bit and he is bleeding down his face. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to try to find a gauze or something inside the bag. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure, sure. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "He'll have something in this kit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What I'd like you to do right now is make a Control. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shoot, I have nothing in Control. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Ugh, god. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's Control? Yeah, I got nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Every one counts. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let me give you an extra drive for that. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to give a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Wait, you nothing in Control? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "No, I have two dies. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can this bring him back, though, or no? I'm just saying here, if this is just how good we bandage him up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is that two die? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Which? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If I have one-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's one die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Right, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm giving you drive, so that's two die. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I thought you were the gun guy. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wait, but do you guys hear what I'm saying? Is this high stakes? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is not high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's why I was like-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is not high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because if this is just how well we-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I'll hold. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll just roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to roll this one little die. Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "If anyone can do it, it's you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm coming for you, Edgar! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I feel like you're supposed to be better at this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear him in your head. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm like-- (laughs). " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five! That's still pretty good, you guys! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's like a tampon, just-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(quick inhale) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Maybe some smelling salts. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Jolts up your nose and-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(grunting) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sharpens you even further. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Not necessary. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Looks like we got to patch you up this time, huh, old boy? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I really thought it was going to be me that got knocked out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's blood in your eye. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to try to wipe that out for him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't touch me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"How are you, doc? You all right?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Well, I assume this means I'm alive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"You're alive.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, then I'm serviceable. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We could wait.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Just a minute, just give me a minute. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(heavy exhale) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"There's been a taut rope there for over a year and we just hook it and move across.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Someone undid it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Why would they do that? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(normally) The spike wasn't there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "The rope wasn't dangling. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is it dangling on this side? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Yeah.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(whispers) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Looks like somebody--\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Ripped it up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Or-- I don't know.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can we, I don't know, shine our lanterns to see if there's a body down there? Somebody that may-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Too deep? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- too deep. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The one that was dangling. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Sure. Save it for us.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(whispers) Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so you guys get it all in a loop, and bring with? Leave here? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I mean, the original rope, was that wholly gone? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah, mostly. It was like a foot or two. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, so it was cut? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. Well, there was a frazzled bit of rope on that side. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We should definitely take it with us in case we need another. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes, take our rope. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Your rope, yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a good idea. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm having trouble seeing out of this eye where I hit my head, on the left side. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I keep seeing shadows move and I can't tell if it's just here or if it's physical, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you wish it were true. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is your second scar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to have a quick check to Malcolm really quickly to see-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm moving one out of Read as my vision's not as-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right from Read to? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah, you know, Move is applicable. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "but you can't help but wonder if it's a little stronger. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I sense anything specific? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. You can do Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Anything useful, I don't know. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Toward Malcolm, you mean, yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Or in general? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How about a general sense of danger? Maybe if there's something lurking, or-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're trying to figure out what specifically? In the story. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "In the story, I guess I'm trying to sense if something magickal nefarious has happened to block our path, you know? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So not related to Malcolm, but where you are? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, because he's, I mean, I don't know what I would learn from that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "-- to see if there's anything specific. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, then you would use Sense still here, too. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That was a five, though, but-- Another five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I like that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are in tuned with ancient remnants of the past, and it's not close, you can't place it yet, but you can feel yourself in the presence of that feeling in your gut and in your heart when you are picking up the 50th thing Mr. Fogg has given you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Gregory looks to you, says, \"If you're all right to go, we're getting close.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Can you walk, doc?\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just-- I'll have to get a new pair of glasses. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Eventually, you find yourself spilling out over piles of stone and into flat ground. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank god. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Maybe in yours, Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She looks around, \"Shit, shit, shit!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Professor Gregory, are we looking for your team? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(emphatically) \"Yes!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(desperately) \"Yes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "This is where they're supposed to be? They're supposed to be here? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is the last place that we were all together.\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Wouldn't there be-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Footprints? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "-- footprints of some kind to touch? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, I'll even-- Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, I will not. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Like, \"Really, no!\" " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Looking for footprints is low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Footprints in the sand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For your health. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "A five. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "All right! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Trying to find the line. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She looks like she wants to start running around, but she holds. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do we follow these? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, I want to first, before we do that, I want to take out my, I want to activate my bleed detector on my hand and see if I get any kind of sense. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your hand, as soon as you access the detector, your hand begins to glow a " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is this towards the footprints that we're walking towards? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, not that you can tell. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Just all around. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's against protocol.\" But she falls in next to you, Leo, and can't deny that you're onto something and you guys continue down, take a right, and then go down a set of steps, maybe 30 or 40 stairs-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah, I'm drowning! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Down here, there are no other tracks. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So it just disappears? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But you leave that behind and you are following five sets of footsteps moving. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think we're missing four people. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is also one set of tracks coming out. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man, I have a sense of what those tracks belong to. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Who? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm aware of how tracks are spread, but then I notice the tracks going out and I have an eerie suspicion that those tracks might belong to Decklan. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What kind of shoes? How big? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Oh, then you would have to do a Focus roll for that one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll Focus roll it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a low stakes roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've got it, my Focus is a little better. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Double fours. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm just curious if it's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're focusing on the prints leaving? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah, I'm trying to get a sense if I think it's the right size for Alessandra, or Decklan, or someone else. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She has pretty petite feet, comparatively. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just checking. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They look older, the prints, than the ones that are left on the right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sorry, just for clarity, the trail ends, is that what you're saying? Or we just noticed the other pair and then we're like, \"Oh, okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They're continuing around one more corner. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think we should-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But the tracks bend around the corner. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "He didn't say anything. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I mean, he left. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Others didn't. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's just wait 'til we find evidence of anything. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We just don't want to become evidence of anything. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I understand, but getting bent out of shape is not going help anybody. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I roll a Survey roll? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to roll a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Searching for? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I just want to further investigate the tracks. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you want to follow the tracks? Because you don't need a Survey roll for that. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to see if I could see anything else that might be, I mean, you got a four, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So I would need to get something better. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's low stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sees nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You look over, you place a hand on Leo's shoulder and you stare at them and you can't tell-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Delaying the inevitable here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But Leo-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Leo, his grip on your shoulder's a little tighter than is necessary in that moment. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How are you feeling? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Hm? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "How are you feeling? I gently put my hand on the grip. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Perhaps too good? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think we should follow the track. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll lead the way. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Don't pretend you're better than you are. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's like, I have a, the burning's always been there in my eye, but now it's almost like a migraine, but it's a little bit on the frontal lobe and it's just sort of-- I can feel it pressing on my scar. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But it's not constant, kind of pulses every now and then. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Through the light that is being thrown by your lanterns down that hallway, you think you can see a hand on the ground. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Like (hand clunks) that? " }, { "Role": "Player985", "Content": "(quiet chuckle) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "In the doorway. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Past the doorway. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Past the doorway. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Just barely alit by from this distance. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Don't suppose we can just say we found them, get on our way. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I have to see if they're okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm just going to be ready. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've never used one before. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I've never used one, but I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I taught you in the yard before. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I let you shoot a few times. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know how to pull the trigger. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Not enough for you to be familiar with it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I'm not a sharpshooter. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to go check on the body. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Oh, no, no, no!\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Shh, shh, shh, wait, wait, wait, come back, come back, come back. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Doctor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A sob escapes her chest and she chokes it and sinks into your body as you hold her in as you guys enter here and lamplight illuminates what looks like a crime scene. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That aside, the Circle of the Wyrm lies scattered about the room, all dead. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "All of them? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's on her back and in one hand she holds a gun, a revolver, which is pointed 'til about 11 o'clock in the room, pointed towards a man who lies on the ground, Alonzo Whitlock, and he has a bullet wound in the back of his head and is splayed out off kilter from the center of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is he holding a knife in his hand? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He's not. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The large woman, Hilda, she has a bullet wound in her chest, and the man near her, Nestor Ronquillo, his throat has been cut, and Hilda does have a knife in her hand, so it is pretty obvious that she cut this man's throat for whatever reason and we've only, we see one gun in this room and it is in DeWitt's hand by the door. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm slowly doing my job, check the pulse on each one of them, knowing what I'm going to find. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "These bodies look like they've been laying here for a while. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Which one was their Medium? Nestor or-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Alonzo, who is-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's good, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Here at the front. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think Grimoria would-- You said Nestor, sorry, or Alonzo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Alonzo Whitlock. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I would go to Alonzo, and I don't know, touch the body to see if I could, like if a Medium would leave a message for someone else, like some sort of trail, some sort of spiritual message. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That makes sense. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sense roll for that, for sure. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's back up out of the room, everybody. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It feels muted somehow, but you know that it's near. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Muted like... " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm not sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It doesn't feel as present and visceral for some reason. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see down on the ground, growing out of a crack in the wall, the seam where the wall meets the floor, there is a little splay of-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh no. Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- white matter. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yep. Back up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "[floor splitting] " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ew! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "20 feet, 30. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We got to get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(creepy music) (adventurous music) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you Trust us? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(labored breathing) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everyone at the table takes three body. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, I'm out. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well, you're not taking it now. You took it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Remember, if those bodies carry to a scar, any remaining body move through to the next. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "So you should be one lower than you were. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The floor you're on is on an angle, and down at the bottom of this angle, you see your three friends in a bloody heap. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Off to the side, you see Dr. Alessandra Gregory, her face split open on a stone-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(despairing sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- her body face down, limp-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is very, very pale, dim lighting, It is very, very pale, dim lighting, and you can see up behind you, up this stone ramp and a five- or six-foot crawl up is a hall, and all along the arched roof of that hall that you can see from where you are has fingers of white fungal growth spreading down. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So they are all down a slide from where I am. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not moving, akimbo, half piled on each other. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can any of you hear me? Are any of you awake? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear a voice in the back of your head. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hello. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Am I unconscious? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm coming to get you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to try and slowly start making my way down to them. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear stone and dust and skittering as Edgar slides down toward you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Careful, just careful. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm being careful. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't feel great. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, now tell me, can you move your fingers? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Can I? I try. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. Yes, they move. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can you move your toes? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Just as much as normal. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It hurts your lower back a little, but you can. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, that does not feel good though. My back is-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Stay still. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. Right. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Now, position-wise, who is on top? Is it Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Leo and Grimoria are sort of in an X. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With Leo's body over Grimoria's lower back and legs, and Malcolm is underneath them all. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Hey. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to tap-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Grim, are you awake? Can you hear me? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm fucking passed out. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start to realize that your arm is pinned underneath your own body and someone, something. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, I'm going to try and gently detangle the both of you. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(skeptical groan) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We're going to do this very slowly, because we're all in trouble. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Apart from the fact that we fell a long way-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- there's a lot of that mushroom above us. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's also bits of particulate dust, even hunks-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- falling from above you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "If you think about it, as you were plummeting, it felt like you were smashing through or scraping some resistance for part of the trip on the way down. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to-- I go over to Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm sorry, I'm ruining your dress, but we need this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I start tying them around their mouths and my mouth. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Then I have one for Malcolm when I get to him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well done. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. Let's try and move you all. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to start with Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to try and slide him out, off to the side. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He moves sideways, still on his back, still not risking tempting it, probing it, and you have clearance now for Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'll move Grimoria off of Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria, as you sit up and your arm comes free-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think she throws up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You do, you throw up all over your front. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I feel like I want to throw up. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's okay, it's okay, come on, let's get you up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's functional, but damage is done. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. Can it be put back into place, or no? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Dislocated. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure, you can-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We'll see if we can fix it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If not, we can make a sling, I believe. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I just need to get to Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is Malcolm face down or face up? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "His legs are facing, not straight up, but on an angle up towards this passage that is above, and his head is bent, not horribly, but he has probably slid and sunk into the base of this incline. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Before I try and wake him up, how is his face? How does it look? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't have to burn any resources, if you even have any left. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You've never seen anything like this condition or this growth, but it's not like in the last hour his condition or his traits have progressed any further. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Malcolm, can you hear me? Malcolm? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you start hearing a voice echoing in your dreaming mind, and then realize that you're-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Don't move. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- awake. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Is there pain anywhere, other than just-- Anything major? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) My head. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you also feel your right shoulder, stiff and pained. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(groans) (groans) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, my shoulder. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "My right shoulder. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I point up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "maybe 100 feet or more up, slowly. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "First of all, there is, it seems, a clear way up, by someone who has a cruel sense of humor, and I don't think we're alone up there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What do you see? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I've not been the best observer, the best observer, but I think there's movement. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make a Survey roll, Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Low stakes, I assume. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. Well, relatively. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You are terrible. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Gilded, so I'll take that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear movement every seven or eight seconds. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's not what I'm used to hearing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're worried, maybe you're imagining it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are still bits of particulate and dust raining down every few moments. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Try and breathe through your nose. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of you can see now. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It curves around and up, traveling up to-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Where's our exit? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you came from up there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Up there, so we have to go back the same way. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There is a-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is a ladder, and there is a passage-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- pathway, a passage. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- at the top of this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is any of that growth by the passage, by any chance? Is any of the growth by the passage? Is there anything growing by there? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So it looks like if you went in there, you'd be walking under fingers of this stuff. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But one managed to survive, cradled between Leo and Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We have a lantern that seems intact. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can I make a quick Survey check-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- to see if the gun that the body was holding is around here anywhere? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think there are two knives. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Two knives. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, just the one knife. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You saw one knife. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, maybe-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You thought there might be two. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're looking for the gun? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The gun. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You now see DeWitt with her short cut black hair, slightly bloodied, but those bodies were there a while, and you find the gun a few feet down the ramp there. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I put it inside my vest, or tuck it into the edge of my pants. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start to hear sound from above. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, we need to get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, everybody. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You start to hear more pronounced sound. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's not just me. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Of cracking, or movement, or what? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "There's something in here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Something beyond the dust. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Fragments of-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, we've got to go. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "So we've got to get to that ladder and get up to that passage. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to crawl. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's a ladder in this shaft that leads up from where you came. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But something is coming down that direction, and from that ladder, this platform that you crashed down on is slanting up and, whoop, you can go somewhere else. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I see, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So that ladder would be cool if you felt up to a whatever long climb. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "But there's things up there. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We've got to drag him up. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Where's-- There's a-- There's a crushed lantern. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And an intact one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "An intact lantern. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does the crushed lantern still have fuel? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Does it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, it's the glass that's shattered. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But it has landed in such a way that there is still-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do we want to attempt to make that ladder, which I assume is wood. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's stone. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's carved recesses. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Into the thing. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We could leave a little-- Well, we have an option at some point. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The sound is getting closer. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's go. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to help start-- I want to get to my feet, shake it off. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to, first we need to tend to Leo first. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Everyone can move. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It just hurts. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It just hurts. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Make our way to that tunnel. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I mean I know I have one bad arm, but I could still use my hand to prop. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are still a circle. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All along it is this fungal growth-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're not close enough to understand or decipher the color you're seeing or detail from that color, but you gather there is more. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah? (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can you channel? How conscious do you think you channel right now? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(stumbling mumbles) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can you channel that old woman that you did? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, I can, the problem is I was waiting, I mean, just above table talk. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was waiting because it doesn't cost me nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I was waiting for some-- I could do a Sense roll to see if I can, I don't know what possibly-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Maybe there's a secret passage that you can-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I was just trying to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But if you're looking for magickal phenomenon around you, that is Sense and you can, you especially, can sense things if you roll-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can she sense something to tell us how to get the fuck out? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There is no game guide or cheat code in this place. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because every time I use Sense, it's always some answer that's not helpful. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's always an answer of answers. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Before we do anything, I think we need to get a little further down this passage. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I assume we were just walking. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, you limp your way, the four of you. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I pull out the glove and I put it on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Put it on your hand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I have the rifle pointed at whatever the fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is there anything I can use to make a little small torch to burn something that might be in front of me? Something like a lantern? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can strip away some of the clothes quickly from the Circle of the Wyrm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We're going to be fine. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But I'm going to give you 30 more seconds to brainstorm. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We don't know-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We're just going to go. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "We don't know if this fungus is flammable. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We're just going to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so you begin to walk-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "And we don't want to-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The torch you have lights up your surroundings well, and then it is just this dimness stretching out so far. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's not less growth, it's more. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Physically where you are, Grimoria-- Do me a favor, make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you think about whatever it is that is coming down that shaft and looking at a broken bridge in front of you, and you don't see an elevator out of here anywhere. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five. (sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "A few of them, no more than a few. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's only one section? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Closing on your location. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I relay this information, very quickly ask, I mean it sounds like our only option is to go to the growth connecting to the bridge, so-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't know what those things are, but there could be any sort of bleed-infused life being down here. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do we want to try to burn through this? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Want to burn it down? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If you want to stay over here and burn it down after we get across, by all means. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do we have to burn a path through it? Is it blocking our path? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No, no, because we can go down the growth and up into the bridge. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, cool, then I'll follow. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No burning. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, cool. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No burning right now. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's bad. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So we do that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you take the rear where these things are coming behind and you look behind you and you can see low to the ground down that passageway, some sort of forms with obvious arms and feet or fingers-- some sort of forms with obvious arms and feet or fingers-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All our rolls are high stakes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can we burn-- Oh, so I get one more if I use my drive. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Once you use your resistance, you don't get it back if you fail your drive again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You don't get it back. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay, I just figured. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five on the gilded, so I'm getting my drive back. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Four on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Who got a Candela? Oh, nice. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I got fucked up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She would know what to do here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take it and go.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Take what? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So tell me in this moment, overlapped with Atia Griffia, in a story that you're writing, what would you want to do right now? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So he's already passed? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's not tunnels, it is branches, it's like climbing through endless white tree branches. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I don't know, I don't see him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He was climbing, also, you don't hear that language is in the old tongue, but you understand. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But I would just literally take getting us to safety. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Will you give me a Sense roll, please? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "on the other side and crawling in to that forest and coming. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Set on this curving exterior of the building. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(chittering) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think that-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do the doors open or--? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do they? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Well. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "They don't open for you like someone's waiting. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah, I'm going to freaking open that door. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was going to say, are the sounds coming from inside? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do I have, in this ability, do I have her memories? Am I seeing through her eyes, or is it just a little bit autopilot? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She is with you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Her voice. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to listen to that voice, and see if it seems like we're intuiting that safety is beyond those doors. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "We will break him.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs incredulously) If I can. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is that her speaking to her? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- you look at-- (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "She gets all the fun shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- Grimoria staring at the doors just-- Oh, but unless, I'm sorry, are you using The Prestige? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It just shifts back and forth, sometimes both. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, I hate all of this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's see if, quietly, you take one side, I take the other, just wide enough for us to get in, yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(strains) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's like \"A Quiet Place.\" (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That will be a Strike or a Move, I'll let you choose. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'll do a Strike, and I'm going to burn one. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do you want a drive or no? Are you all right? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think I'm good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "While they're doing that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Can I make a Focus roll to quickly see if I can suss out how this thing works? The gun. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughs) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, baby " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Candela, Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela, baby. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That good hand. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm stealing those dice when this game is over. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "On the gild? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela gilded, too. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Woo! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can feel it still possesses one amount. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "One shot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You believe, you believe, because as soon as you turn that wheel, that cylinder and all the little lines on it begin to shimmer gently. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay, okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Shove this thing, and as your hands slide across it, you see the dust of this that has been here, who knows? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(chuckles) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(sliding) There is enough room for each of you, one by one, to slide into this building. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's get out of here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As soon as we're in, we're going to start shoving the door right back. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Shoving it closed. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(thuds) (slams) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is there anything to keep it from? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) So what are we locking ourselves in? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I know. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's better in here than out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you allow yourself to turn and see what fresh hell you have walked into now. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But all the walls, you can still see glimpses of the doors in here and they're less dust coated, so you can see glints of gold here and there, but the fungus is " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Does this feel like it might've been ground zero for this, with such an intense focus at the top? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes, it seems like, in the center of the chamber, about 100 feet away from you, in this big, circular hole is a big mound or hump in the middle. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Aw, shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There's some sort of oblong shape perched on an angle, like some sort of strange, melted modern art. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No exits that we can see? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There are other doors, many of them are grown over. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Shuttered. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I think that's the root, I think we have to fry the living crap out of it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let's take a minute and figure out where we are, and if there's a way out of this room. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I-- Can I, like, sense-- Can I get a sense of what this is, what is this growth? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can't see it too well, you're about 100 feet away from it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But even the ones we've already seen, what is it? A fungus, is it just an unruly magick virus? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, you see fungus on the ground here, and it seems to be, there's long snakes of it, I think it's probably coming from the center and out onto whatever this thing is in the center. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's coming from that thing? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Is it possible to walk gingerly, or is there just nowhere for feet to find purchase? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's everywhere, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can step amongst it for a while. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "There does look like, the furthering you get, the thicker it gets on the ground, but out here, it is splayed with gaps. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Every door is covered with this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not every, most. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to do a Survey and see if I can find a door that's not covered and see if there's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, the one you came in is not covered. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Is the only one that's not covered? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) I'm going to burn a resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Why? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Sorry, resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Panic. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You're like, \"Why?\" (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, I just didn't want you to burn something you didn't have to. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "[hisses] " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. Spores. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of you-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your eyes-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck, we're infected. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- start to blur and burn a bit. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(sighs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are in a sea of crimson. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I try to fight that, since I have a special thing happening? Just try to see if I can hold onto any kind of-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear a voice in your ear, Griffia's ancient voice saying, \"This is his woe, this is his folly.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Every trace. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Come with me.\" You want to try to do what specifically? I know that you want Atia to help you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So if she can give us a directive, then I will do everything to do that and also protect my friends from getting more hurt. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay, I'm still going to tie it to dice. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah, that's great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ah, on the gilded, fucking Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) I swear, and this was a fucking three, man, and a two. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech) (guttural speech) (guttural speech)\" What do you do, Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Am I floating? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "your body twisting in strange, rounded movements. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tick, tick, tick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It doesn't hurt, but you can feel your ribs-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Tick, tick, tick, tick. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are you trying to do here, Leo? Your fingers are bending and moving and growing, six inches, 12 inches. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I can look in the mirror and I know what I am. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech) (menacing hiss) (vicious snarl)\" Do you know what you want to do, Leo? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm time, I move through time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "♪ (searching hum) ♪ " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do you want another drive? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can we help? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, not at this moment. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Because we can't hear any of that. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You have no idea. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All alone. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Let's burn that resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do you want to use an extra die? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Don't forget we got this. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'll take one of those. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(blows raspberry) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Please tell me there's a Candela in there. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a one, that's a one. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no, no. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "That's a one, and a Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yo! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! You! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh good, I needed that resistance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela on the gild? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, you get that back, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Christ. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Goddamn it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(growls)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Told you we should've burned that shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Didn't I say burn it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, what are you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It feels like your head will just keep going and eventually form a circle, your body just spiraling in space. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Do I have my lamp by me? Is there anything hot? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your body feels like spaghetti. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But I need to get out of this trance first. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So make a Sense roll to reveal. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, I'm going to burn, I'm burning both drives. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to use-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yep. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Those are the worst. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That was your moment! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That would be good. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm sorry! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player987", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You hear the sound of bullets (weapon ejecting), (bullets striking) people screaming in the distance. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(dejected sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(hissing sizzle) You feel a burning behind your eyes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What is it you want to do now? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "There's something pulsating in the middle of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can barely make out-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It's waving. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- these tendrils of fungus stretching into the center of the chamber in some large, humped shape 70 or 80 feet away from you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to test my hypothesis before I lose, before I rip the gun off of Edgar because I don't know if that's going to work and we might need it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Got it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to take a freaking Hail Mary. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Good, I want to see that, but getting out of the haze was your share for the moment, so hold that thought. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That was fucked. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sorry, I got to keep it together. I can't-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech)\" \"(guttural speech)\" What do you want to do in this moment, Edgar? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There is a thing in the center of this room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your thoughts bubble around you, echoing, muted, coming into razor-sharp clarity, then fading like they're buried-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "There was a thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- under the earth. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm going to shoot the center of the room. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Survey roll to find the center of anything right now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Critical. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two Candela? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Two sixes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Double Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Double Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You better be able to shoot to win. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "you better work it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You better work it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You better work it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You watch the hands suck into your body. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "One of them splays outward and is so clearly a young and feminine arm and it sinks down and into your guts. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You are not here! You're dead. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"It comes.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I talk back to it? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(monster) \"(guttural speech) (guttural speech)\" Quickly, what do you tell? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "We have all the power here. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel an ocean of force buffeting past you, You feel an ocean of force buffeting past you, Atia and you shifting and shaking in the heat of it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Can I open this door now? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make your roll, you will follow up. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let's do, let's do it, let's do it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yes! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh my god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(claps) Ah, fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You're here! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not now.\" Leo. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I could fight back maybe. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Do I see this? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For the moment, you do. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "and I'm going to steady her towards all this and hold on. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I'm here.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I wish I had some of that. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Good for 10. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural speech)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's what I want to do straight. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Move roll, Malcolm. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Throw ta-ta, baby, it's right, I'm a burning two drives on this bitch right here. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Five, five gilded, so I won't get too messed up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You got there. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I though that was a Strike! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is your complication on a mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm burning a drive on this. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No one, we can't help, right? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He is 80 feet away and he sees a lantern that is (twisting). " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nope, that was not. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That was not it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That was a drop. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Candela gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(laughter) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm sorry that I keep gasping in the wrong moment. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Holy shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which hand was holding that lantern, by the way? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It was, well, my good hand. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "It has a little extra oomphy on it because it's freaking a little robotic. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural, snarling speech) (guttural, snarling speech) (eldritch growl)\" " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "What's Edgar doing right now? Is he still entranced? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's a good question. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "You were about to, he was about to do something? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For the moment you can. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Did I see him throw the lantern? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will say, in this moment, you did. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(sighs) Points out the gun. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The glove. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The glove. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(claps) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I need you to make a Strike roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Oh, Strike roll. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Because this is not the human anatomy and you are not seeing perfectly well. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Does he need precision and anatomy? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "For Strike rolls, I can roll Focus, but this is not that kind of a thing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Read out the full text for me. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "\"When you know where the body is most vulnerable-- When attacking an enemy,\" which I am not doing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "But you are attacking it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I would take that to be, being a surgeon-- I'm probably need somebody to-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- fly in some water. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's not about the rule, it's about flavor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are looking at something that looks like a giant rotting lima bean-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- in the center of this place. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I am going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Can I aid him at anything? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're too far apart. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Let me just do this. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar is firing from a distance. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Gotcha. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Three. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Fuck, fuck, fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wavering 50 feet ahead of you, you see your sister walking towards you, arms outstretched, inviting you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh, hell no! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She's crying. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Knock down, break, punch. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Ah, Eddie! It's okay.\" " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "It's not you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to ask you to make one more roll, and let's make this one a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We don't see any of this. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Nice, love it. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(shaky breathing) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can see this close, everything moving in little holes, little pores all over this hulking thing that you are now standing at the foot of. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "How far away is he from me? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The creature is now moving. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Here's what I want to do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I want to run towards Edgar, snap him out of his trance, rip the glove off, and try to fry the shit myself. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's what I want to do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So we can do a Move and then we can do another Move and then I can do a shoot. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That sounded like three things. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He needs to snap out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I think let's start with getting him. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Maybe I should shoot him in the leg. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Ooh! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Because I have my gun with me. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Go for it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "If I can't-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's up to you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm going to run towards him. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right, I'm going to do a Move. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That will make me three. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Your vision is getting redder by the second. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Give me something I can-- Candela! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Dude, I'm not even, I'm looking right at-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "This isn't fun anymore. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, it's fun for me! " }, { "Role": "Player990", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, it's fun for me! We're going to make it out! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "He's thinking about it. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, we still got two more Moves left, so. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I help? Maybe while he's doing that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You shove him back and you feel yourself-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Do I see the hands attached from anything? Are they coming from something? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I will say that you manage to drag that glove off as he goes-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If I feel-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- something pulling on me-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "-- and trying to remove this thing that is the most important thing in the world to me-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You want to contest it? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm contesting by pulling that gun and firing. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(exhales forcefully) " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Why? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Because I don't see you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh my god! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I see monsters. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm-hmm. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, make a-- I will say you can make Focus with this because there are hands involved. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is how the other group died, by the way. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Go on. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "They had hallucinations. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Of course they did. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Say goodbye to your foot. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Which side the success and which side the failure? Your goal, by shooting, is to hold on to the glove? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "My goal is to use this to stop whatever's happening. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So you see hands appear out of nowhere, grasping at your body, and you pull out a gun, which bends like a cartoon as it comes up. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "These are not your hands! You don't exist anymore! You only exist in me! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You, across the space, in this moment, see droplets of blood fly backward out of Malcolm's body. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'm going to say gut for this. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man! The worst shots. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm, you feel no pain. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunt) Ah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "However-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(as Malcolm) Ah! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "However-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm getting weak. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "While it doesn't hurt, the fact that you acknowledge that you have been gut shot and feel nothing is terrifying, and you take a brain. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Now, I believe that's four brain marks for you. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's my third scar. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But in this instance, in these circumstances, now that you have taken a scar from brain, Malcolm is mine. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Mm. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh boy. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I have a go? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Anyone who wants to jump in, please do. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "She's here now. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Her power is present. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "With that, I would like to Strike. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "She acts with you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes, I would like to Strike the thing that we're guessing is the source of this mass hallucination. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So I'll do that, (laughs) and I'm going to burn a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This will be Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh great! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Two, now with Atia. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "That's way better. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Better. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "That's right, yeah, because you're not using your physical for that. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. Right, right, right. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You want the extra? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This is a good time for the extra " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "You want the extra? Do you want the extra that-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sure. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "To lovey, lovey. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "If we all agree. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Stop helping each other and die! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So at this point, what does this mean? It's just an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm trying, Liam! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "This is just an extra die. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "He tried to do it. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm also, I'm going to, for this, I'm going to attempt to just-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Because I know this is important. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So your primary goal in your fever dream is to protect your dear friend. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Understood. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So, do I get an extra, or is it a drive, or no? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "This might be for later. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh, okay. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm putting that out there. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Great. So I'm going to also spend a drive so I can get to have five, and then pray. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Drive that car, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighs) Candela ungilded, baby! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Mm! So tasty! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Man! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Kentucky fried gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "It's early. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What do you do? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh man! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "What can I do? I am-- How close is he to me? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's hard to judge measurements in this space but he looks-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "So if I can fight it-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're mine. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh shit! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're down. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Damn it! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're out of the scene. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Damn it! " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wow! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm is mine. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Heads down, seven up. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Heads up, seven up. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. Heads up, seven up. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Decklan Murphy-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh shit. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "No! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I don't-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "He looks like two grand dining room tables away. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I do-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can help you, I think, because we're one, right? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You're a little busy, but-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'll give you a drive. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are you doing? You're making a movement. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Trying to... " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "If he's charging, I'm going to try and-- Oh, I-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "How about that? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "As long as I keep thinking about the clock, I feel like I have some control, and I'm going to Ensnare. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you make for me Strike? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I can push him out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Do you have any drives to share in Nerve? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I do. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Then share it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Better than nothing. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Yeah! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Candela. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Malcolm laughs from the ether. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Right! " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Malcolm comes running and this melting revolver in his hand you see in slow motion as the clock goes, \"Tick.\" (slowing ticks) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oof. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What you doing? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "As I float back-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(guttural whooshes) (guttural speech)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Oh god! (whispers inaudibly) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The invisible giant, the angel-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I start reciting in my head. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- bends low. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All of the bones in the human body and where they connect and the exact positions in which they connect in order to form myself into a solid piece. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(growls) " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "You don't exist. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I can't think of what else to do. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Its heart, hands insect-like, stretching out. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "If you're listening, why don't you help me this time? I hold out my hand above one of the hands on my body and wait for her to reach out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Wait for your sister to reach out? " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I don't even know if I fired it the first time. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I didn't get to the complication from your mixed success. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Go ahead. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No, no. I like this. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "This is a high stakes role. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Great. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can anyone help? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "So don't fuck it-- " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- up. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "All right. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"I love you.\" (wet squish) Roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "What am I rolling? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Clarify for me because I'm in a fever dream here, too. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm pulling the trigger of the glove again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The glove. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No idea if it's charged or not. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Right. Roll. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Am I rolling-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Sense. Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Sense. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Five. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You're aiming-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "For the center mass again. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "For the center mass. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "The chrysalis. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Edgar, you feel all over your body, your face, your chest, your arm, it doesn't hurt, it's more of a thousand little tickles, like if you've ever gone swimming and you feel fish nibbling at your body, " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I'm still holding the hand where her hand was? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It's actually here now. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you for staying with me for so long. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(deeply) \"It's all right.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Oh no! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(undulating splutter) behind him. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "So he's out of it? It was like a contact, and then he's-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The angel behind him (slurps) fades-- " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(panting gasps) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "What are you doing with Malcolm? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) Fuck! " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Am I aware of any of this happening? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It doesn't hurt, but you are seeing Malcolm's fingers, both flesh and metallic, like a noose. (slurps) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I see the metallic hands. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I'm going to stop the clock. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Not your forte, I know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I was really hoping I could go Intellectual on this, but since this is just memory and physicality, it's not-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You are dealing with Play-Doh. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "With your mind and your friend. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hoping for a Focus, but I'll take anything that-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Strike or Control? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Or Control. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "They're both the same, so I'll burn-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell you what. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Yeah? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Tell you what. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Hmm? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "I'll let you make a Focus. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "You'll let me take a Focus? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yeah. Is that any better? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh, much better! But that might not be what you want. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It is a high stakes role. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Getting thin. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "As you try to-- I think, as you have this thought to stop his clock-- " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "-- you simultaneously try to shake off what you know cannot be real, even though it feels weirdly good. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Four. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It (violently slurps) like that cobra (splutters) digs into the gaping wound in his gut. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Oh god! " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Grimoria. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Grimoria sees all of the souls-- " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"(growls)\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Atia sees them, too, and I don't know if this is possible, but she is such a powerful sorceress, alchemist, is there a way to harness and summon all of the thousands of spirits that are around to try to fight this thing in a similar way that she did right before she died? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"Now he is bare.\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "He's what? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Take him.\" I need you to make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Baby. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm going to-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "We burned them. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I still got these two. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I can't do shit. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No, you-- " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I'm like, I'm guts-ed out. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Five on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Well, that's better than four. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "That's better than four. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(grunts) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "All of the lost souls in this place (slurps) twist and pull into you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(exhales) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You take a body, you take a brain, you take a bleed. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Jesus! My poor baby girl. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Well, if she's going to go, she's going to go in a blaze of glory. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Let's just all go out. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "\"End it!\" " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "How would I do that? " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Shoot the thing in the middle of the floor. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You tell me. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "Shh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You tell me how you defeated my monster. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "But however you want to paint that picture, but I think essentially it's like when she was standing on top of that island, and all of these ancient Oldfaire soldiers were charging at her, and she just muscled every ounce of power around her to just end it. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You can feel their freedom. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(relieved sigh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel pain, serious pain in your gut as you press your hand to your wound and drag yourself to your friend, and see that where there were four, there are now two. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "It's time to go. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Okay. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Are you saying goodbye to Malcolm and to Edgar here? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Are they dead? Are they gone? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Yes. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Do we know a way that we can get them out? " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "No. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You could maybe return, but there is a broken bridge and an upside-down forest to move through. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Can I sense if their spirits are still here or have they gone with the rest of them? " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Make a Sense roll. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Candela on the gilded. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Swear to god. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(eerie whisper) Take Malcolm with you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "You feel their freedom. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I think we got to go. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "We've got to go. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "It has your name on it. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you read that out for the table's benefit? " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "With my eternal gratitude, Leo.\" " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That's where we'll end our story tonight. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Wow. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Well, that's not how I thought it would go. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "That was heartbreaking. (laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(sighing) Oh. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "But also very brave. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Yeah. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you for helping me find magic in the dark. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you for showing us that wonderfully horrible story. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Like only Liam O'Brien could. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "(impishly) Sorry. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "Eh. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "No, it was great. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "Good job, man. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "The story may have been terrifying, but I was terrified, too. " }, { "Role": "Player980", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Why don't you please, please, as we fade out for the night, drift away like so many souls, remind everyone at home who you really are and who you were here. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "Thank you. " }, { "Role": "Player495", "Content": "I'm Aimee Carrero, and I played Grimoria, AKA Alma Látigo. " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Látigo. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "(laughs) My name is Imari Williams, and I play Malcolm Trills. " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "My name is Taliesin Jaffe, but most of the time, I am Leo Amicus. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player3", "Content": "I live here, so. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "(laughs) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Thank you for your sacrifice. " }, { "Role": "Player975", "Content": "I wanted nothing more. " }, { "Role": "Player974", "Content": "I know. " }, { "Role": "Player984", "Content": "(laugh) " }, { "Role": "Player6", "Content": "Good night. " } ]