1 00:00:39,333 --> 00:00:40,716 Hello, one and all! 2 00:00:40,716 --> 00:00:41,762 Welcome to another thrilling episode of 3 00:00:41,762 --> 00:00:43,262 "Dimension 20: City Council of Darkness." 4 00:00:43,262 --> 00:00:44,700 I'm your humble dungeon master, Brennan Lee Mulligan. 5 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:45,930 With me as always are our intrepid heroes. 6 00:00:45,930 --> 00:00:47,370 Say hi, Intrepid Heroes. 7 00:00:47,370 --> 00:00:49,680 Die, Intrepid Heroes. 8 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,228 Last we left off, the town of Purpee, Oregon, 9 00:00:53,228 --> 00:00:57,187 was in the clutches of our coterie of Camarilla Kindred. 10 00:00:57,187 --> 00:00:58,470 - Ooh. - Wow. 11 00:00:58,470 --> 00:01:00,270 - Wow. - Alliteration. 12 00:01:00,270 --> 00:01:01,890 - Alliteration. - Beautiful. 13 00:01:01,890 --> 00:01:03,840 Did you write that beforehand or you just come up with it? 14 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:04,770 That's off the dome, baby. 15 00:01:04,770 --> 00:01:05,603 - Wow. - That's exactly 16 00:01:05,603 --> 00:01:08,300 the kind of intro that we get some of the time, folks. 17 00:01:09,780 --> 00:01:12,090 Our Kindred leapt from the sky-walk 18 00:01:12,090 --> 00:01:15,360 of noted author Estelle Laurent's lovely manor, 19 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,840 racing into the dark after Aaron Bow, a vampire hunter, 20 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,080 who had taken a shot at Darkness Man from the wood line. 21 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:26,520 Darkness Man suplexed an old-growth oak tree into the rubble 22 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,170 as Bat Child used- 23 00:01:28,170 --> 00:01:30,720 The fact that it was old-growth is so, so funny. 24 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,730 - I mean like a beautiful- - Beautiful. 25 00:01:32,730 --> 00:01:34,740 - Stunning. - A stunning... 26 00:01:34,740 --> 00:01:35,943 They've got plenty. 27 00:01:35,943 --> 00:01:36,776 Yeah, it's Pacific Northwest. 28 00:01:36,776 --> 00:01:38,559 - It's Oregon. - No, true. 29 00:01:38,559 --> 00:01:39,480 - A dime a dozen. - I will say, 30 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,820 oak... it's mostly conifer around here. 31 00:01:41,820 --> 00:01:42,750 Sure. 32 00:01:42,750 --> 00:01:45,300 Took Aaron Bow straight to the mat. 33 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:48,570 Bat Child using powers of Oblivion to wither his flesh 34 00:01:48,570 --> 00:01:51,690 before Zaeth Bondana flew right into his chest 35 00:01:51,690 --> 00:01:54,120 and he got eaten in front of everybody. 36 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,893 Also, two unrelated people were killed, 37 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,261 as Zaeth flew into a vampiric frenzy. 38 00:02:00,261 --> 00:02:01,927 What are you gonna do? The guy's frenzying. 39 00:02:01,927 --> 00:02:02,918 Not my fault at that point. 40 00:02:02,918 --> 00:02:04,050 With a slick cover, 41 00:02:04,050 --> 00:02:06,300 the three of them jumped on the back of Ghorse the horse 42 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:07,560 and took off over the ridge 43 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,360 as LaVonte Worthy came out and, aiding his persuasiveness, 44 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,160 was on a phone call. 45 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,240 He was getting word that this was a Banksy. 46 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:19,710 It's not me. That's not coming from me. 47 00:02:19,710 --> 00:02:20,543 That's coming from the phone. 48 00:02:20,543 --> 00:02:21,850 - Hot off the presses. - Exactly. 49 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:23,246 - You got the call. - You got the call. 50 00:02:23,246 --> 00:02:25,140 You never had to explain who you're on the phone with. 51 00:02:25,140 --> 00:02:25,973 - Hey. - Was it Banksy? 52 00:02:25,973 --> 00:02:27,090 - You never do. - It was a Banksy. 53 00:02:27,090 --> 00:02:28,178 You never do. 54 00:02:28,178 --> 00:02:29,400 That's what happens when you roll 12 successes. 55 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:30,600 - You never have- - That's true, actually. 56 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,060 - That was a huge roll for you. - Huge roll. 57 00:02:33,060 --> 00:02:34,863 - Thanks, man. - I got your back. 58 00:02:37,890 --> 00:02:39,480 The coterie took off after that party 59 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,970 and got their plan together for indeed, 60 00:02:41,970 --> 00:02:43,920 rather than pushing Helena LaTour 61 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:46,560 in this sort of interim appointment period, 62 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,780 they set up Florian Whittaker, 63 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:53,400 a man going through a rough divorce to take the fall 64 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,860 as they put noted journalist Nancy Danderhoof 65 00:02:55,860 --> 00:03:00,860 on the trail of this insane home stealing swindle 66 00:03:01,290 --> 00:03:04,350 that the Silver Meadows nursing home 67 00:03:04,350 --> 00:03:06,735 had basically seen fit to 68 00:03:06,735 --> 00:03:09,060 use a bit of legal footwork 69 00:03:09,060 --> 00:03:11,520 to rob people of their houses. 70 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,050 Putting Nancy on the foot 71 00:03:13,050 --> 00:03:15,540 frees you guys up for your main downtime activities, 72 00:03:15,540 --> 00:03:18,150 which were running down Cody, 73 00:03:18,150 --> 00:03:21,180 one of the proprietors of the Crescent Moon Hostel, 74 00:03:21,180 --> 00:03:25,620 who ended up being, we presume, a werewolf. 75 00:03:25,620 --> 00:03:26,760 And a pretty nice guy, frankly. 76 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,440 And a pretty nice guy, frankly. 77 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,030 - Strong. - Hard to make an argument 78 00:03:30,030 --> 00:03:31,077 why we should eat him. 79 00:03:32,550 --> 00:03:34,650 Well, we don't have to eat him. We just have to repel him. 80 00:03:34,650 --> 00:03:36,937 Well I don't wanna- Frankly, it's hard to repel him. 81 00:03:36,937 --> 00:03:38,396 - Yeah. - 'Cause he's nice. 82 00:03:39,337 --> 00:03:40,838 - 'Cause he's so nice. - He's a warm guy. 83 00:03:40,838 --> 00:03:42,270 - I don't wanna kick him out. - We found out 84 00:03:42,270 --> 00:03:45,060 that the Second Inquisition was not present in Purpee, 85 00:03:45,060 --> 00:03:48,120 but that some maybe, you know, 86 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,190 people that the former Aaron Bow 87 00:03:50,190 --> 00:03:51,570 had associated with 88 00:03:51,570 --> 00:03:55,437 were a right-wing group up the road in Medford a bit. 89 00:03:55,437 --> 00:03:59,040 And we also discovered that our friend, Herbert Melvin, 90 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,120 the city councilman, 91 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,360 had a weird gargoyle of an ancient spirit 92 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,390 with a ruby in its beak that was shattered 93 00:04:06,390 --> 00:04:08,250 after the ruby was taken by Bat Child 94 00:04:08,250 --> 00:04:10,140 who was not struck dead on the spot, 95 00:04:10,140 --> 00:04:12,465 even though the curse was to stop her heart. 96 00:04:12,465 --> 00:04:14,057 - Could be anything. - Could be anything. 97 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,223 Maybe that is how ghost bats work. 98 00:04:16,223 --> 00:04:18,485 I just don't understand bat anatomy enough yet. 99 00:04:19,318 --> 00:04:20,640 I just have to keep studying. 100 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,110 - Keep studying. - You just don't know 101 00:04:22,110 --> 00:04:24,083 - enough about bats yet. - Bat to school. 102 00:04:25,350 --> 00:04:27,600 Going bat to school. Exactly. 103 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:28,890 Bat to school night. 104 00:04:28,890 --> 00:04:31,170 Bat Child, using her relationship with Herbert Melvin, 105 00:04:31,170 --> 00:04:32,730 was able to thwart the Douglases 106 00:04:32,730 --> 00:04:34,590 from getting a second seat on the city council. 107 00:04:34,590 --> 00:04:39,360 Did we find out if he was the sole person 108 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,220 voting against or did- 109 00:04:41,220 --> 00:04:43,920 Marisol also voted, and because Marisol and Herbert 110 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,420 were both gonna vote for Florian, 111 00:04:45,420 --> 00:04:46,740 Gene Douglas is gonna go with it. 112 00:04:46,740 --> 00:04:47,573 Okay. 113 00:04:47,573 --> 00:04:50,760 You guys also bought the Rogue County Lumbermill. 114 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,010 Infested with cinnamon gummy bears? 115 00:04:53,010 --> 00:04:54,960 - Naked bears. - Naked bears. 116 00:04:56,437 --> 00:04:58,040 I have a book about Gumberoos. 117 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,027 Oh, right. Okay, yeah. 118 00:05:00,027 --> 00:05:01,290 You can see what they like. 119 00:05:01,290 --> 00:05:02,670 So with that purchased, 120 00:05:02,670 --> 00:05:05,220 Cody asked if you guys wanted to all meet with him 121 00:05:05,220 --> 00:05:07,410 and Maya, basically stunned 122 00:05:07,410 --> 00:05:09,300 that in your short time here in Purpee, 123 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:13,050 you had located the source of this ghostly power 124 00:05:13,050 --> 00:05:14,190 protecting the Whittakers, 125 00:05:14,190 --> 00:05:15,817 shattered that monument, 126 00:05:15,817 --> 00:05:17,880 that you had undone the town's hunter, 127 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,240 which it seemed that Cody was also worried about, 128 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:22,890 as a fellow monster, 129 00:05:22,890 --> 00:05:24,930 and that you guys had not only done that 130 00:05:24,930 --> 00:05:28,560 but had somehow done something that enabled Bigfoot 131 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,890 to return to the land after being repelled for so long. 132 00:05:31,890 --> 00:05:34,260 So three huge wins for the coterie. 133 00:05:34,260 --> 00:05:36,750 - And we saw a smiling Nixon. - And you still have 134 00:05:36,750 --> 00:05:38,460 smiling Nixon down there somewhere. 135 00:05:38,460 --> 00:05:39,902 That's four. 136 00:05:39,902 --> 00:05:41,168 So we return- 137 00:05:41,168 --> 00:05:43,145 - Big bad. - The big bad of the season. 138 00:05:43,145 --> 00:05:44,610 Smiling Nixon. 139 00:05:44,610 --> 00:05:45,891 The most loud smile. 140 00:05:45,891 --> 00:05:48,000 The date is January 12th. 141 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,945 The nights do begin to grow shorter, 142 00:05:50,945 --> 00:05:54,750 though they are indeed still long here in mid-January. 143 00:05:54,750 --> 00:05:56,820 The summer will bring challenges with it, 144 00:05:56,820 --> 00:06:00,750 the ever-present sun here far north of the equator. 145 00:06:00,750 --> 00:06:02,970 Koschei has said he is coming. 146 00:06:02,970 --> 00:06:04,740 Zaeth, that is the last piece of info you have 147 00:06:04,740 --> 00:06:07,680 as all of you return on January the 12th 148 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,670 with news of Florian's all but assurance to the city council 149 00:06:11,670 --> 00:06:14,580 that Koschei is on his way. 150 00:06:14,580 --> 00:06:15,960 - Did he hang up already? - If you're still 151 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:16,793 on the phone with him. 152 00:06:16,793 --> 00:06:19,170 - I wasn't sure if I, how- - Yeah. 153 00:06:19,170 --> 00:06:20,520 I'm kneeling but on the phone. 154 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,949 Yeah. Koschei beholds you. 155 00:06:25,098 --> 00:06:27,940 "Zaeth, I am coming to make sure 156 00:06:27,940 --> 00:06:30,660 all is going well in Purpee." 157 00:06:30,660 --> 00:06:33,720 Uh, it's actually go- It's going really... 158 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,840 We have figured a lot out. 159 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:37,710 It's going really good. 160 00:06:37,710 --> 00:06:41,610 This is very good to hear. 161 00:06:41,610 --> 00:06:43,710 I am on my way with Ermine. 162 00:06:43,710 --> 00:06:46,207 We will be checking in on you in Purpee, 163 00:06:46,207 --> 00:06:48,300 to make sure that all is going according to plan. 164 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:49,663 Probably don't even have to come, but- 165 00:06:49,663 --> 00:06:50,970 We will be there tomorrow night. 166 00:06:50,970 --> 00:06:52,653 - Tomorrow night? - Click. 167 00:06:54,420 --> 00:06:55,680 - Where were we? - I think you guys 168 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,360 can all gather back together. 169 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,340 Cody says, "Meet up with me tomorrow night 170 00:06:59,340 --> 00:07:01,230 and I'll talk to you guys. I'll bring Maya 171 00:07:01,230 --> 00:07:02,522 and we'll talk to you guys." 172 00:07:02,522 --> 00:07:04,710 Okay, so we met Cody. 173 00:07:04,710 --> 00:07:06,990 - Cody is a werewolf. - Cody is awesome. 174 00:07:06,990 --> 00:07:09,133 - But he's really cool. - Very chill. 175 00:07:09,133 --> 00:07:10,337 He's really chill. He was cool. 176 00:07:10,337 --> 00:07:11,970 He figured out that we were vampires. 177 00:07:11,970 --> 00:07:13,405 How? 178 00:07:13,405 --> 00:07:14,567 It just so chill, I think. 179 00:07:14,567 --> 00:07:15,467 It just didn't... 180 00:07:16,470 --> 00:07:18,177 it didn't go well when we were trying to- 181 00:07:18,177 --> 00:07:19,830 - No. - ...sort of sniff him out. 182 00:07:19,830 --> 00:07:21,114 He sniffed us out. That's kinda what he does. 183 00:07:21,114 --> 00:07:22,863 He kind of sniffed us out 'cause he's a werewolf, I think. 184 00:07:22,863 --> 00:07:24,270 - Yeah. - Hmm. 185 00:07:24,270 --> 00:07:27,390 But he knows Maya 186 00:07:27,390 --> 00:07:30,120 and was talking about all of us getting together 187 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,650 tomorrow night to talk. 188 00:07:31,650 --> 00:07:33,720 He's seemingly against 189 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,060 the Douglas/Whittaker situation, 190 00:07:36,060 --> 00:07:39,577 so it doesn't seem like an enemy really. 191 00:07:39,577 --> 00:07:40,530 Hmm. 192 00:07:40,530 --> 00:07:42,990 I have a very important piece of information 193 00:07:42,990 --> 00:07:45,090 that's maybe going to shock everyone. 194 00:07:45,090 --> 00:07:46,323 Oh my gosh. 195 00:07:47,460 --> 00:07:50,120 - Go ahead and sit down. - Okay. 196 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:50,953 - Okay. - All right. 197 00:07:50,953 --> 00:07:52,140 - Sit down. - I'm gonna lie down. 198 00:07:52,140 --> 00:07:54,190 - Lie down if you- - I'm gonna hang upside down. 199 00:07:54,190 --> 00:07:55,023 I'm gonna lie down. 200 00:07:55,023 --> 00:07:55,934 You might hit your head, but- 201 00:07:56,984 --> 00:07:59,669 Koschei's coming tomorrow night. 202 00:07:59,669 --> 00:08:01,108 Oh... 203 00:08:01,108 --> 00:08:02,370 No. 204 00:08:02,370 --> 00:08:04,110 He wants to check in on how we're doing, 205 00:08:04,110 --> 00:08:06,807 and I said we got a lot figured out but- 206 00:08:06,807 --> 00:08:08,340 And he's coming alone? 207 00:08:08,340 --> 00:08:10,163 He's bringing- Sorry, what was- 208 00:08:10,163 --> 00:08:11,460 - Ermine. - Ermine. 209 00:08:11,460 --> 00:08:13,620 The Tremere primogen of San Francisco. 210 00:08:13,620 --> 00:08:16,230 - Yes. Oh no. - So... 211 00:08:16,230 --> 00:08:18,030 We're looking alive. 212 00:08:18,030 --> 00:08:21,173 - We got a couple of things. - We are looking alive. 213 00:08:21,173 --> 00:08:24,180 I think- We closed on the Rogue Lumbermill. 214 00:08:24,180 --> 00:08:25,013 Yes. 215 00:08:25,013 --> 00:08:27,832 So Elysium, theoretically. 216 00:08:27,832 --> 00:08:29,820 Let's go make that look awesome. 217 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:31,200 Let's make the lumbermill look sick. 218 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:32,640 You know what? I had a thought. 219 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,100 And tell me if this is too crazy, 220 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:38,460 but you have some info about these fire bears, right? 221 00:08:38,460 --> 00:08:41,700 - Nude fire bears? - Yeah. Gumberoos, yeah. 222 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:44,550 If there's a way that we can lure them out 223 00:08:44,550 --> 00:08:48,810 and into the weed dispensary to infest there 224 00:08:48,810 --> 00:08:51,810 and live in that building instead of in ours. 225 00:08:51,810 --> 00:08:52,643 That'd be cool. 226 00:08:52,643 --> 00:08:54,600 Can I look at my book and see if they like weed? 227 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,160 Go ahead and give me 228 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,964 - Occult and Intelligence. - Okay. 229 00:08:58,964 --> 00:09:00,810 Do you have a PDF? You could just Control+F. 230 00:09:00,810 --> 00:09:02,565 - Difficulty is one. - Weed, yeah. 231 00:09:02,565 --> 00:09:03,934 - I do have a specialty. - Difficulty is one? 232 00:09:03,934 --> 00:09:05,130 Difficulty is one. Intelligence plus Occult. 233 00:09:05,130 --> 00:09:07,470 I do have a specialty in Zoology. 234 00:09:07,470 --> 00:09:08,693 So you can go ahead 235 00:09:08,693 --> 00:09:10,950 and add a die for that specialty. 236 00:09:10,950 --> 00:09:12,780 You're already to an auto-pass. 237 00:09:12,780 --> 00:09:14,771 I think I know what the answer's gonna be. 238 00:09:14,771 --> 00:09:16,710 I have a feeling I know what the answer's gonna be. 239 00:09:16,710 --> 00:09:19,830 - I fail. - Wait, Willpower. 240 00:09:19,830 --> 00:09:21,660 Use Willpower. 241 00:09:21,660 --> 00:09:25,200 We can't make Bat Child use Willpower if she doesn't- 242 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,870 Look, my mind is elsewhere right now. 243 00:09:27,870 --> 00:09:31,110 I apparently don't have a heart! 244 00:09:31,110 --> 00:09:33,328 Yeah, you're a vampire. 245 00:09:33,328 --> 00:09:35,938 - You have a heart. - I'm not a vampire. 246 00:09:35,938 --> 00:09:40,140 We all know that Bat Child is half bat, half child. 247 00:09:40,140 --> 00:09:41,943 - And full vampire. - Yes. 248 00:09:41,943 --> 00:09:43,120 She seemed like a full adult. 249 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:44,337 Half bat, half child? 250 00:09:44,337 --> 00:09:46,140 - Half child, half- - Half bat, half child. 251 00:09:46,140 --> 00:09:48,480 I'm assuming that's where the name comes from. 252 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:49,560 I'm not a vampire. 253 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:50,850 When we go to the lumbermill- 254 00:09:50,850 --> 00:09:51,683 Half human. 255 00:09:51,683 --> 00:09:53,670 Maybe we'll have a chat just on the way. 256 00:09:53,670 --> 00:09:54,870 Look yourself in the mirror 257 00:09:54,870 --> 00:09:56,490 and tell yourself you're not a vampire. 258 00:09:56,490 --> 00:09:57,333 It's empty. 259 00:09:58,950 --> 00:10:00,540 That's a trick mirror. 260 00:10:00,540 --> 00:10:04,260 Just like every mirror I've seen this since 2003. 261 00:10:04,260 --> 00:10:06,582 HJ, we've known this was a delicate subject for a- 262 00:10:06,582 --> 00:10:07,857 I know, I'm sorry. 263 00:10:07,857 --> 00:10:10,310 I'm just feeling wild 'cause Koschei's coming. 264 00:10:11,352 --> 00:10:13,140 - The bats and the bees. - We gotta sit you down 265 00:10:13,140 --> 00:10:15,630 - and have a little talk. - Just to be really- 266 00:10:15,630 --> 00:10:18,720 I mean, I hate to be this guy but I gotta be this guy. 267 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,320 Kind of eternal war between vampires and werewolves. 268 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,370 You're a hundred percent sure this guy's on the level? 269 00:10:24,370 --> 00:10:26,040 I just... Here's the thing- 270 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:27,870 He wears shorts in the winter. 271 00:10:27,870 --> 00:10:30,661 - I came at him so hard. - Yes. 272 00:10:30,661 --> 00:10:33,390 And I tried to sneak around his place 273 00:10:33,390 --> 00:10:35,490 and he saw me just go into his garbage 274 00:10:35,490 --> 00:10:37,627 and he just acknowledged that I did that. 275 00:10:37,627 --> 00:10:38,643 And then I kicked down 276 00:10:38,643 --> 00:10:41,790 his bathroom door after saying I had to go to the bathroom. 277 00:10:41,790 --> 00:10:44,130 And then I was just dressed as a superhero. 278 00:10:44,130 --> 00:10:46,380 And then I started yelling at him, 279 00:10:46,380 --> 00:10:50,280 and he just asked that we speak calmly, and then we did. 280 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,890 And he knew I was a vampire but he was still nice. 281 00:10:52,890 --> 00:10:54,690 And I tried to get him on our side 282 00:10:54,690 --> 00:10:57,300 by being just kind of helpless and also- 283 00:10:57,300 --> 00:10:58,980 - Classic. - ...scared of Darkness Man 284 00:10:58,980 --> 00:11:02,055 being a pervert. And he did not buy into that either. 285 00:11:02,055 --> 00:11:04,200 Wow, he didn't buy into Darkest Man being a pervert? 286 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,126 Which is just to show that he- 287 00:11:06,126 --> 00:11:07,442 He might be on the level. 288 00:11:07,442 --> 00:11:08,670 It's irresistible sometimes 289 00:11:08,670 --> 00:11:10,440 so that is actually very measured. 290 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:11,430 Was being kind of pervy. 291 00:11:11,430 --> 00:11:13,080 So like it's an eternal war. 292 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,810 But what's a few more days, weeks, months 293 00:11:15,810 --> 00:11:17,550 to an eternal war, you know? 294 00:11:17,550 --> 00:11:18,810 Yes. Perhaps a lull. 295 00:11:18,810 --> 00:11:20,820 So when are we supposed to talk to Cody? 296 00:11:20,820 --> 00:11:21,780 Tomorrow night. 297 00:11:21,780 --> 00:11:23,370 And when does Koschei get here? 298 00:11:23,370 --> 00:11:24,360 - Tomorrow night. - Tomorrow night. 299 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,180 - Oh, he's gonna be so mad. - Oh man! 300 00:11:27,180 --> 00:11:29,199 We're gonna have two dinner parties. 301 00:11:29,199 --> 00:11:30,449 We gotta have two dinner parties. 302 00:11:30,449 --> 00:11:32,760 - The boss is coming. - We can do it. 303 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,190 We'll put up a wall in the lumbermill. 304 00:11:35,190 --> 00:11:37,140 Okay, okay, wait, wait, wait. Hear me out. 305 00:11:37,140 --> 00:11:38,156 Koschei shows up. 306 00:11:38,156 --> 00:11:43,156 We are in the middle of expelling the lupine. 307 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:46,140 Have him go... We'll write a script. 308 00:11:46,140 --> 00:11:47,827 No, 'cause Koschei will do a whole thing 309 00:11:47,827 --> 00:11:49,456 where he'll kill him or something, right? 310 00:11:49,456 --> 00:11:51,058 And I'm sure we'll do it perfect. 311 00:11:51,058 --> 00:11:52,830 - And we'll do it perfect. - I think if we host, 312 00:11:52,830 --> 00:11:55,740 if some of us host Koschei at our new Elysium. 313 00:11:55,740 --> 00:11:56,880 - Yes. - And the some of us 314 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,204 go and have a chat with Cody- 315 00:11:58,204 --> 00:11:59,370 And we don't get lit on fire? 316 00:11:59,370 --> 00:12:02,188 - That's so dangerous. - Yeah. Well. 317 00:12:02,188 --> 00:12:03,450 They're little nude bears 318 00:12:03,450 --> 00:12:04,950 trying to light us on fire? 319 00:12:04,950 --> 00:12:07,380 Well, Bat Child is reasonable, you know? 320 00:12:07,380 --> 00:12:09,360 It makes sense 'cause we have to have 321 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,518 our freaking Elysium established before he gets here. 322 00:12:12,518 --> 00:12:13,668 That's, like, bare minimum. 323 00:12:13,668 --> 00:12:16,950 Maybe me, Bat Child, and Zaeth host Koschei 324 00:12:16,950 --> 00:12:18,219 - at the new Elysium- - Yes. 325 00:12:18,219 --> 00:12:19,410 ...and work it out with the bears. 326 00:12:19,410 --> 00:12:20,326 And then the three of you- 327 00:12:20,326 --> 00:12:21,570 And Koschei, you speak to animal, right? 328 00:12:21,570 --> 00:12:24,051 - So maybe you can talk to- - Oh yeah- 329 00:12:25,956 --> 00:12:27,300 So I really just have... 330 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:31,170 I have an ability to bond with animals. 331 00:12:31,170 --> 00:12:35,420 I have one specifically strong bond with one horse. 332 00:12:35,420 --> 00:12:36,253 - Sure. - Uh-huh. 333 00:12:36,253 --> 00:12:37,470 And I'm sure it's gonna translate. 334 00:12:37,470 --> 00:12:38,303 Let's give it a shot. 335 00:12:38,303 --> 00:12:39,750 So you gotta bump the horse 336 00:12:39,750 --> 00:12:41,970 and take on each little bear one at a time? 337 00:12:41,970 --> 00:12:44,790 And I don't know if I can do that, 338 00:12:44,790 --> 00:12:47,070 - but I'm not going to. - Sure. 339 00:12:47,070 --> 00:12:50,040 So me and Ghorse are gonna just see what we can- 340 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,090 And you, Bat Child, you know all about that. 341 00:12:52,090 --> 00:12:54,150 You have the book. You're a zoologist. 342 00:12:54,150 --> 00:12:55,860 We got everything we need. 343 00:12:55,860 --> 00:12:59,580 I actually don't have any special abilities with animals. 344 00:12:59,580 --> 00:13:01,205 - What? - Wait, what do you mean? 345 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:03,960 You're Bat Child. 346 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:05,460 - You're half bat. - You're half bat- 347 00:13:05,460 --> 00:13:08,583 You don't have a special ability to half of you? 348 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,710 After I got bit by a ghost bat- 349 00:13:13,710 --> 00:13:14,700 Uh-huh? 350 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:16,800 I tried to live amongst the bats. 351 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:17,633 Uh-huh? 352 00:13:17,633 --> 00:13:20,422 I went to Bracken Cave just outside of San Antonio. 353 00:13:22,110 --> 00:13:24,813 It's the largest summer colony of bats. 354 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:26,633 Okay. 355 00:13:26,633 --> 00:13:29,610 And you just got in the flow of things. 356 00:13:29,610 --> 00:13:32,610 I can't speak at the high frequencies they speak at. 357 00:13:32,610 --> 00:13:33,930 - Oh. - Oh. 358 00:13:33,930 --> 00:13:36,937 I'm dog shit at hunting wasps. 359 00:13:38,544 --> 00:13:40,170 - They eat wasps? - Yeah. 360 00:13:40,170 --> 00:13:42,541 And it hurts to eat a wasp. 361 00:13:42,541 --> 00:13:43,374 - Yes. - Okay? 362 00:13:43,374 --> 00:13:44,340 Were you able to get up there with them 363 00:13:44,340 --> 00:13:46,890 - or were you down? Where? - No, no. 364 00:13:46,890 --> 00:13:47,730 So you would just at the bottom- 365 00:13:47,730 --> 00:13:49,500 You were on the ground eating bees? 366 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:51,680 You were in their shit, just eating bees? 367 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:53,160 - Just in the guano. - Yeah. 368 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,124 You were knee deep in the guano? 369 00:13:55,124 --> 00:13:57,230 I was knee deep in guano. 370 00:13:57,230 --> 00:13:59,619 That's commitment and that is a superpower. 371 00:13:59,619 --> 00:14:01,280 - That's true. - Yes! 372 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,735 Commitment is a superpower! 373 00:14:02,735 --> 00:14:04,695 - Gassing each other up. - It's a superpower. 374 00:14:04,695 --> 00:14:06,151 - This is it. - Yeah. 375 00:14:06,151 --> 00:14:08,040 You've got this. You've got the book. 376 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,394 - It's a superpower. - Yeah. 377 00:14:10,394 --> 00:14:12,505 You gotta get neep deep in the guano. 378 00:14:12,505 --> 00:14:13,453 Neep deep? 379 00:14:13,453 --> 00:14:15,967 You've gotta get nip deep in the guano- 380 00:14:15,967 --> 00:14:18,460 - Okay. - ...of fire bears today. 381 00:14:18,460 --> 00:14:21,060 - Okay. Okay. - We'll get you some waders. 382 00:14:21,060 --> 00:14:23,460 Look, I don't wanna throw a wrench in tomorrow, 383 00:14:23,460 --> 00:14:25,449 but it's also my birthday. 384 00:14:27,780 --> 00:14:29,610 - Oh man. - Oh my god. 385 00:14:29,610 --> 00:14:31,677 January 16th. It's her birthday! 386 00:14:31,677 --> 00:14:34,321 - I forgot. - January 13th, Zaeth. 387 00:14:34,321 --> 00:14:35,610 No, it's not. Oh, you're right. 388 00:14:35,610 --> 00:14:36,990 Yeah. 389 00:14:36,990 --> 00:14:39,300 It's all right. You have to get the new calendar. 390 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:40,739 Sorry. It's the old one. 391 00:14:40,739 --> 00:14:42,810 I have to use the bathroom again. 392 00:14:42,810 --> 00:14:45,691 And I go upstairs and I try to order- 393 00:14:45,691 --> 00:14:49,410 Oh shit. I have to run out to bathroom. 394 00:14:49,410 --> 00:14:52,230 And I leave and I get on my scooter. 395 00:14:52,230 --> 00:14:54,050 Where are you going? 396 00:14:54,050 --> 00:14:56,940 Oh shit, I have to go the bathroom. 397 00:14:56,940 --> 00:14:58,830 - I gotta go to Mike's. - What's that Ghorse? 398 00:14:58,830 --> 00:15:00,945 Yeah, one second. I run. Fuck, fuck, fuck. 399 00:15:00,945 --> 00:15:03,120 I zip through the streets looking for a store 400 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,070 that's open to get a gift. 401 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:06,930 I go to some student's house party 402 00:15:06,930 --> 00:15:09,990 and just shoplift from the students. 403 00:15:09,990 --> 00:15:12,598 Great. Everyone runs out to go get a gift for Bat Child. 404 00:15:12,598 --> 00:15:14,253 I'm staying home. 405 00:15:15,690 --> 00:15:18,750 I'm going to admit I forgot your birthday like a man. 406 00:15:18,750 --> 00:15:20,010 It's okay. It's okay. 407 00:15:20,010 --> 00:15:22,590 I meant more like, I don't mean to put more on our plate. 408 00:15:22,590 --> 00:15:24,210 Something I think she might really like 409 00:15:24,210 --> 00:15:26,733 is something stolen from the precinct. 410 00:15:27,783 --> 00:15:30,133 - From the what? - You're gonna steal? Okay. 411 00:15:30,133 --> 00:15:31,380 From the police precinct. 412 00:15:31,380 --> 00:15:33,719 This whole episode's just gonna be you doing- 413 00:15:34,769 --> 00:15:36,570 - Us finding you in jail. - In jail. 414 00:15:36,570 --> 00:15:37,530 You murdered eight- 415 00:15:37,530 --> 00:15:38,363 We're gonna go around. 416 00:15:38,363 --> 00:15:40,587 Who all leaves to find Bat Child a gift? 417 00:15:40,587 --> 00:15:42,075 One, two. 418 00:15:42,075 --> 00:15:43,615 I do a lap and I come back empty handed. 419 00:15:43,615 --> 00:15:44,540 Here's what I would like to get 420 00:15:44,540 --> 00:15:46,530 for Bat Child on the computer. 421 00:15:46,530 --> 00:15:48,450 Aw, okay. Gotcha. 422 00:15:48,450 --> 00:15:50,430 So I do a little thing on the computer. 423 00:15:50,430 --> 00:15:51,510 - Mm-hmm. - I come back. 424 00:15:51,510 --> 00:15:53,400 I didn't get anything. 425 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,560 HJ, you go to police precinct. 426 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,900 This is what I would like to get 427 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:00,360 for her at the police precinct. 428 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:01,526 Great. You got it. 429 00:16:01,526 --> 00:16:02,680 It just says, "a gun." 430 00:16:03,870 --> 00:16:04,920 Great. Okay. 431 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,194 So you walk into the police precinct. 432 00:16:07,194 --> 00:16:09,270 A person working the front desk looks up 433 00:16:09,270 --> 00:16:11,400 and points at the bell on the door and says, "I'm sorry." 434 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,092 And walks up and takes that off 435 00:16:13,092 --> 00:16:14,126 and goes, "I don't know how that-" 436 00:16:14,126 --> 00:16:15,299 I thought that was weird, too. 437 00:16:17,370 --> 00:16:21,999 I say: Good evening, I'm here to see a client. 438 00:16:24,660 --> 00:16:26,010 Oh, you're a public defender? 439 00:16:26,010 --> 00:16:27,690 - Yeah. - Great. What's your name? 440 00:16:27,690 --> 00:16:28,616 Boris. 441 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,445 Not getting a Boris. 442 00:16:31,445 --> 00:16:32,880 Weird. 443 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,280 Like, do you mind if I call them and- 444 00:16:36,688 --> 00:16:38,310 Yeah, what's your client's name? 445 00:16:38,310 --> 00:16:39,568 Boris. 446 00:16:39,568 --> 00:16:41,060 Are you saying Woris? 447 00:16:41,060 --> 00:16:42,420 Yeah, I'm here to see Woris. 448 00:16:42,420 --> 00:16:44,386 - Your name's Boris. - My name is Boris. 449 00:16:44,386 --> 00:16:47,010 - I'm here to see Woris. - Great. Give me... 450 00:16:47,010 --> 00:16:49,470 I'm just gonna hop on the phone really quick. 451 00:16:49,470 --> 00:16:50,626 Payphone? 452 00:16:52,380 --> 00:16:53,850 I just try to step to the side, 453 00:16:53,850 --> 00:16:55,875 and if they turn around, I make a run for it. 454 00:16:58,860 --> 00:17:01,560 - What's happening? - Deeper in or to leave? 455 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,809 - Towards the evidence room. - Great. Roll me- 456 00:17:04,809 --> 00:17:06,143 What are you doing? 457 00:17:06,143 --> 00:17:07,251 Roll me Intelligence, Investigation 458 00:17:07,251 --> 00:17:08,576 to know where the evidence room is. 459 00:17:08,576 --> 00:17:09,409 I've got this. 460 00:17:09,409 --> 00:17:10,373 The open door of evidence. 461 00:17:10,373 --> 00:17:11,910 I've got this, all right? 462 00:17:11,910 --> 00:17:13,022 I'm gonna... 463 00:17:13,022 --> 00:17:14,230 What the fuck are you doing? 464 00:17:14,230 --> 00:17:15,272 I pass. Okay, great. 465 00:17:15,272 --> 00:17:17,004 Intelligence, Investigation. Difficulty of four. 466 00:17:17,004 --> 00:17:17,837 Okay. 467 00:17:19,247 --> 00:17:21,183 That's two. Gonna re-roll. 468 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:25,470 Okay. Hey, there we go. Four. 469 00:17:25,470 --> 00:17:28,747 Great. So you see down the hallway an evidence lock. 470 00:17:28,747 --> 00:17:30,410 I wait for them to look the other way. 471 00:17:30,410 --> 00:17:32,040 You see the person turns. The person says, 472 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,555 "Did you make the appointment today or did you-" 473 00:17:34,438 --> 00:17:35,985 All right. Great. Do you have Celerity? 474 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:38,370 - Not at all. - Of course not. 475 00:17:38,370 --> 00:17:41,760 I have Presence. 476 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,090 So is there a way to do- 477 00:17:43,090 --> 00:17:44,955 So you're more visible, if anything. 478 00:17:46,725 --> 00:17:48,120 - Great. - You're getting texts 479 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:50,674 - that are like, "Come back." - I bail, I bail, I bail. 480 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:55,680 I grab his gun and that'll be good enough. 481 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:56,513 All right, great. 482 00:17:56,513 --> 00:18:00,660 Go ahead and give me Dexterity... 483 00:18:00,660 --> 00:18:02,253 One in Dexterity, lowest stat. 484 00:18:02,253 --> 00:18:04,050 You're gonna have to wear your fake face 485 00:18:04,050 --> 00:18:06,240 for the rest of the campaign. 486 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,023 Don't threaten me with a good time. 487 00:18:09,794 --> 00:18:13,410 - Give me, Dexterity, Larceny. - Oh my god. 488 00:18:13,410 --> 00:18:16,064 This is gonna be a difficulty of three. 489 00:18:16,064 --> 00:18:17,570 Difficulty of three. 490 00:18:18,703 --> 00:18:19,968 I forgot to roll this one. 491 00:18:21,101 --> 00:18:23,307 I'm sorry. 492 00:18:23,307 --> 00:18:24,952 I'm gonna re-roll. 493 00:18:24,952 --> 00:18:25,785 Okay. 494 00:18:27,021 --> 00:18:28,710 So you have to crit? 495 00:18:29,993 --> 00:18:31,893 - Three failures. - Three failures. 496 00:18:35,430 --> 00:18:37,210 What the fuck are you doing? 497 00:18:37,210 --> 00:18:38,791 Let's just pretend this never happened. 498 00:18:39,895 --> 00:18:42,770 No, I want this in the final cut. 499 00:18:44,898 --> 00:18:46,530 Let's just pretend this didn't happen. 500 00:18:46,530 --> 00:18:48,487 This is me talking to the cop. 501 00:18:48,487 --> 00:18:51,783 You just, like, touch the gun and then stand there. 502 00:18:52,710 --> 00:18:54,422 Let's just pretend this didn't happen. 503 00:18:56,140 --> 00:18:58,018 Okay, great. 504 00:19:03,018 --> 00:19:04,980 - I'm scooting home. - Okay, great. 505 00:19:04,980 --> 00:19:06,750 - I'm scooting to Beth's. - You gonna grab his gun. 506 00:19:06,750 --> 00:19:08,010 He goes, "Hey, hey, hey!" 507 00:19:08,010 --> 00:19:09,753 Let's just pretend this didn't happen. 508 00:19:11,670 --> 00:19:13,296 Uh, great. 509 00:19:16,530 --> 00:19:18,930 Fuck! What can I get her if not a hot gun? 510 00:19:18,930 --> 00:19:21,960 Okay, as you take off on your Bird scooter, 511 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,225 behind you, you hear- 512 00:19:24,249 --> 00:19:26,065 Fuck! I go to Beth's. 513 00:19:27,190 --> 00:19:29,040 That's the next best thing I could get her. 514 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:30,813 - Peel off. - A female friendship. 515 00:19:34,050 --> 00:19:35,790 - No, I go home. - Okay. 516 00:19:35,790 --> 00:19:37,975 And we just start- We go right back to where we were 517 00:19:37,975 --> 00:19:40,181 kind of all in the room together. 518 00:19:40,181 --> 00:19:41,458 Okay. Okay. 519 00:19:42,750 --> 00:19:45,727 Go ahead and give me Dexterity, Stealth, 520 00:19:45,727 --> 00:19:46,980 - if you'd be so kind. - Okay, great. 521 00:19:46,980 --> 00:19:49,580 We can't keep pulling this Banksy shit, all right? 522 00:19:50,460 --> 00:19:51,300 Blood Surge. 523 00:19:51,300 --> 00:19:52,980 I mean the Masquerade's still happening. 524 00:19:52,980 --> 00:19:55,440 - Yeah, of course. - They might just go to jail. 525 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:56,403 Yeah, exactly. 526 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,460 - That's a one. - One success? 527 00:19:59,460 --> 00:20:00,293 Okay, great. 528 00:20:00,293 --> 00:20:01,950 As you pull away on the Bird scooter, 529 00:20:01,950 --> 00:20:04,320 the cop cars begin to pile onto Main Street. 530 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:05,430 You're going right down the main drag. 531 00:20:05,430 --> 00:20:06,920 I start changing my face. 532 00:20:08,790 --> 00:20:10,082 Great. 533 00:20:11,532 --> 00:20:13,358 Great. Hold on one second. 534 00:20:15,834 --> 00:20:16,667 Okay. 535 00:20:18,020 --> 00:20:19,740 Are you making an attempt to dodge 536 00:20:19,740 --> 00:20:21,600 or to resist with Fortitude? 537 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,692 Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, let's do that. 538 00:20:23,692 --> 00:20:24,973 Give me Stamina plus Fortitude. 539 00:20:24,973 --> 00:20:27,510 I could do... I have Protean, 540 00:20:27,510 --> 00:20:29,850 and I also have Dominate that I have better stats in. 541 00:20:29,850 --> 00:20:31,200 Okay, for right now, 542 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,035 you're just being shot at with a lot of guns. 543 00:20:34,150 --> 00:20:37,290 So go ahead and give me Stamina plus Fortitude. 544 00:20:37,290 --> 00:20:38,898 - Jesus. - Yeah. You got it. 545 00:20:38,898 --> 00:20:40,320 So we're not actually just cutting back 546 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:41,880 to where we all were? 547 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,710 I mean, I get it. I'm gonna Blood Surge. 548 00:20:43,710 --> 00:20:44,938 - Okay, great. - I pass. 549 00:20:44,938 --> 00:20:46,512 - Great. - Okay, great. 550 00:20:46,512 --> 00:20:47,345 - We're good. - Three for that. 551 00:20:47,345 --> 00:20:48,287 - We're good. - We're good. 552 00:20:48,287 --> 00:20:50,180 And then I added two 'cause I Blood Surged. 553 00:20:50,180 --> 00:20:52,020 - HJ just dies. - We got one. 554 00:20:52,020 --> 00:20:54,420 I'm gonna re-roll with Willpower again. 555 00:20:54,420 --> 00:20:56,490 Okay, great. 556 00:20:56,490 --> 00:20:57,990 This is just Bat Child and me 557 00:20:57,990 --> 00:20:59,520 just sitting in the living room? 558 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:00,920 - I came back. - Oh, great. 559 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,833 - Two successes? Great. - Sitting in the living room. 560 00:21:03,833 --> 00:21:07,380 HJ, you take 10 points of Superficial damage, 561 00:21:07,380 --> 00:21:08,673 halved to five. 562 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:11,483 As you are 563 00:21:11,483 --> 00:21:13,818 being riddled with bullets. 564 00:21:18,820 --> 00:21:21,270 You get to the bridge. 565 00:21:21,270 --> 00:21:22,158 The question is- 566 00:21:22,158 --> 00:21:23,481 I go off the bridge. 567 00:21:23,481 --> 00:21:25,980 You go off the bridge into the water. 568 00:21:25,980 --> 00:21:27,990 - Bird scooter destroyed. - That's okay. 569 00:21:27,990 --> 00:21:29,370 Bird scooter riddled with bullets. 570 00:21:29,370 --> 00:21:32,770 You sink to the bottom where you do not need to breathe, 571 00:21:33,750 --> 00:21:36,060 and you see that the cop cars pull up 572 00:21:36,060 --> 00:21:37,620 and begin to shine lights into the water. 573 00:21:37,620 --> 00:21:38,453 What do you do? 574 00:21:38,453 --> 00:21:40,020 I hide under the bridge, if I can. 575 00:21:40,020 --> 00:21:41,850 Okay, you hide under the bridge. 576 00:21:41,850 --> 00:21:43,170 - You wait- - How deep is the water? 577 00:21:43,170 --> 00:21:44,610 Can I go deep where the light won't- 578 00:21:44,610 --> 00:21:46,500 You can go deep where the light won't touch. 579 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:49,165 I get down, like, angler fish deep. 580 00:21:49,165 --> 00:21:50,398 You get angler fish deep. 581 00:21:50,398 --> 00:21:52,016 - You can also probably- - Angler fish. 582 00:21:52,016 --> 00:21:53,190 You can also probably spend 583 00:21:53,190 --> 00:21:55,350 the rest of the night crawling 584 00:21:55,350 --> 00:21:58,110 up or down river, on the bottom of the river 585 00:21:58,110 --> 00:22:00,159 to emerge where the cops won't see. 586 00:22:01,765 --> 00:22:02,598 Great. 587 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,020 They just think they shot you into the river and you just- 588 00:22:09,570 --> 00:22:11,610 - Can I Luck check- - Yeah? 589 00:22:11,610 --> 00:22:14,550 ...find something actually really beautiful and antique 590 00:22:14,550 --> 00:22:15,600 that's been thrown in the river 591 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,640 to give to Bat Child once I get home? 592 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,530 Roll two dice and if they're both successes, 593 00:22:19,530 --> 00:22:20,402 you'll find something. 594 00:22:21,252 --> 00:22:23,130 - Fuck! One. - One success. 595 00:22:23,130 --> 00:22:24,090 - One success. - Great. 596 00:22:24,090 --> 00:22:25,809 It's mostly just rocks down here. 597 00:22:25,809 --> 00:22:27,996 - You are crawling. - Grab a rock. 598 00:22:27,996 --> 00:22:29,040 I'm gonna write 599 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,263 - a poem on it in Sharpie. - Great. 600 00:22:31,263 --> 00:22:33,812 So HJ is not present for this next scene. 601 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,433 Where's HJ? 602 00:22:38,433 --> 00:22:39,266 I thought maybe 603 00:22:39,266 --> 00:22:42,510 we were all kind of doing a scatter moment, 604 00:22:42,510 --> 00:22:45,120 finding something cool, coming back. 605 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,443 - Zaeth doesn't get one. - I didn't find anything. 606 00:22:47,443 --> 00:22:51,001 - I just went on the computer. - Where did Madelaine go? 607 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:54,180 I'm gonna go to these fucker's houses over here. 608 00:22:54,180 --> 00:22:56,070 - Rory and Miranda? - Rory and Miranda. 609 00:22:56,070 --> 00:22:57,930 And I'm gonna steal the most disgustingly 610 00:22:57,930 --> 00:22:59,580 tiny pair of underwear. 611 00:22:59,580 --> 00:23:01,143 Great. 612 00:23:01,143 --> 00:23:02,666 What?! 613 00:23:02,666 --> 00:23:05,253 - Ew. - Wow. Established early on. 614 00:23:06,481 --> 00:23:09,011 That's what Bat Child likes. 615 00:23:09,011 --> 00:23:09,844 Tiny underwear. 616 00:23:09,844 --> 00:23:12,630 Other people's tiny underwear. 617 00:23:12,630 --> 00:23:14,250 This is definitely a gift that Madelaine 618 00:23:14,250 --> 00:23:16,950 thinks is quite a good gift. 619 00:23:16,950 --> 00:23:19,950 So Madelaine, go ahead and give me Charisma, Persuasion. 620 00:23:19,950 --> 00:23:21,372 - Great. - Difficulty is one. 621 00:23:22,230 --> 00:23:23,430 I got it. I don't need, I'm gonna- 622 00:23:23,430 --> 00:23:24,330 - You wanna halve? - Yeah. 623 00:23:24,330 --> 00:23:25,560 Great. You walk in. 624 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,353 Rory and Miranda both say, "Hi." 625 00:23:29,128 --> 00:23:30,840 - Yeah, I got three. - Yeah. 626 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:31,890 You grab a nice little piece of underwear, 627 00:23:31,890 --> 00:23:33,470 you come back. Bat Child you get some underwear. 628 00:23:33,470 --> 00:23:34,770 That's the only gift you get for your birthday. 629 00:23:34,770 --> 00:23:37,737 I give Bat Child a Hallmark card with no money in it. 630 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:39,840 How did you know? 631 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,030 It's the thought that counts more than the money. 632 00:23:42,030 --> 00:23:43,440 It's the thong that counts. 633 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,450 That's what they say, the thong that counts. 634 00:23:45,450 --> 00:23:46,980 The thong that counts? 635 00:23:46,980 --> 00:23:48,600 And you'll get your present from me 636 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,160 on your actual birthday. 637 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,140 Is it a singing birthday card? 638 00:23:52,140 --> 00:23:53,317 Oh wait, is today your birthday or tomorrow? 639 00:23:53,317 --> 00:23:54,540 - Tomorrow. - Oh yeah, 640 00:23:54,540 --> 00:23:56,310 - tomorrow you'll get it. - We have all this time. 641 00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:57,420 We have so much time. 642 00:23:57,420 --> 00:23:59,700 I also wasn't even asking for birthday presents. 643 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:00,780 I was just saying like, 644 00:24:00,780 --> 00:24:03,510 hey here's just another thing going on. 645 00:24:03,510 --> 00:24:06,323 So this is more than I ever could have expected. 646 00:24:06,323 --> 00:24:07,404 Where's HJ? 647 00:24:08,612 --> 00:24:10,410 I'm texting HJ. 648 00:24:10,410 --> 00:24:12,030 I mean, he just kind of ran off in the night. 649 00:24:12,030 --> 00:24:12,930 I can't lie... 650 00:24:12,930 --> 00:24:15,180 He's been doing some new drug that I think 651 00:24:15,180 --> 00:24:18,103 is really playing tricks with his on mind, yeah. 652 00:24:18,103 --> 00:24:21,150 I noticed a lot of sort of flexing. 653 00:24:21,150 --> 00:24:23,388 Did you see how he kept taking his shirt off yesterday? 654 00:24:23,388 --> 00:24:24,894 - He was doing the X. - Yeah. 655 00:24:24,894 --> 00:24:26,670 - No shirt but a wooly scarf? - Pretty unreliable, 656 00:24:26,670 --> 00:24:28,898 if you need a number two, you know? 657 00:24:32,444 --> 00:24:37,057 - He's crawling along. - The bottom of the stream. 658 00:24:37,057 --> 00:24:40,453 - It's a creek. - The bottom of the creek. 659 00:24:40,453 --> 00:24:41,934 This fucking vampire. 660 00:24:41,934 --> 00:24:43,080 Like a fucking aquatic grinch. 661 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,030 Thank god this setting doesn't have you die 662 00:24:45,030 --> 00:24:46,560 in running water for vampires. 663 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:47,572 - Yes. - Jesus. 664 00:24:47,572 --> 00:24:50,910 So do we wanna try to set up the lumbermill a little bit? 665 00:24:50,910 --> 00:24:51,743 Yeah, I think so. 666 00:24:51,743 --> 00:24:53,820 I think if there's a party store in town 667 00:24:53,820 --> 00:24:56,460 or just somewhere that has decorations. 668 00:24:56,460 --> 00:24:57,780 We just work on cleaning it 669 00:24:57,780 --> 00:25:00,180 because we should, you know, we should let him know 670 00:25:00,180 --> 00:25:01,800 that it's still a work in progress. 671 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,380 Yeah, but I mean, Zaeth, if you could spray paint 672 00:25:04,380 --> 00:25:06,060 - some stuff, you know. - Oh. 673 00:25:06,060 --> 00:25:08,014 - Really? You know? - Yeah. 674 00:25:08,014 --> 00:25:09,270 You know what Koschei likes. 675 00:25:09,270 --> 00:25:10,830 Spray paint some stuff he likes. 676 00:25:10,830 --> 00:25:12,430 - Yeah. - Maybe we get long 677 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,950 reams of red silk fabric and just have it hanging. 678 00:25:16,950 --> 00:25:18,750 Let's go, team. 679 00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:20,700 Do we have about a thousand candles? 680 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:22,080 - Oh, good idea. - I mean, we can get it. 681 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,320 Have them weirdly close to the silk 682 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,487 so it feels like it might set on fire. 683 00:25:26,487 --> 00:25:27,320 You want to text Tyler 684 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,830 and see he can get a thousand candles? 685 00:25:28,830 --> 00:25:31,200 Tyler, I need a thousand candles by tomorrow 686 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,520 at the Rogue Lumbermill by 687 00:25:35,220 --> 00:25:36,468 3:00 PM, 4:00 PM? 688 00:25:36,468 --> 00:25:37,830 You get a text from Tyler immediately saying, 689 00:25:37,830 --> 00:25:39,570 "In my car on the way to Medford. 690 00:25:39,570 --> 00:25:41,190 Big box store will have them. 691 00:25:41,190 --> 00:25:42,450 Store is open till midnight." 692 00:25:42,450 --> 00:25:45,423 "That's my big dog." And then a gif of a barking dog. 693 00:25:46,350 --> 00:25:50,010 - Tyler! Unscented. - Make sure they're unscented. 694 00:25:50,010 --> 00:25:52,020 Thumbs-up emoji react immediately. 695 00:25:52,020 --> 00:25:55,050 You guys take off or just go over to the lumbermill. 696 00:25:55,050 --> 00:25:57,780 Are you guys really going to go physically there 697 00:25:57,780 --> 00:25:59,610 to start getting it ready tonight? 698 00:25:59,610 --> 00:26:00,900 Yeah, I mean I think we might as well- 699 00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:02,400 He's getting here tomorrow night. 700 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:03,300 Yeah. 701 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:06,030 - We've got some time. - Yeah, that way we can- 702 00:26:06,030 --> 00:26:07,620 Some people can give him a tour 703 00:26:07,620 --> 00:26:09,930 while others go and talk to Cody. 704 00:26:09,930 --> 00:26:10,860 Hell yeah. 705 00:26:10,860 --> 00:26:15,120 You guys arrive at the Rogue County Lumbermill. 706 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:16,078 Where am I at? 707 00:26:17,184 --> 00:26:18,368 I'm closing, right? 708 00:26:18,368 --> 00:26:19,684 - I'm probably right here. - Closing distance. 709 00:26:19,684 --> 00:26:20,520 Yeah, I think you're down here. 710 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,560 - I would imagine. - I would say you're here. 711 00:26:23,926 --> 00:26:26,040 You kinda got turned around. 712 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,964 It's a little bit hard to tell where I'm going but- 713 00:26:28,964 --> 00:26:31,788 - I feel like it. - Yeah, I'm coming over here. 714 00:26:31,788 --> 00:26:33,960 Let me ask, in terms of the time is passing 715 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,030 kind of weirdly in the waterway as you're traveling. 716 00:26:36,030 --> 00:26:36,863 - Yeah. - And you really don't wanna 717 00:26:36,863 --> 00:26:39,690 get grabbed by the police so as you're moving, go ahead 718 00:26:39,690 --> 00:26:43,620 and give me Intelligence, Survival 719 00:26:43,620 --> 00:26:46,950 for how long you should take 720 00:26:46,950 --> 00:26:48,570 getting out of the river. 721 00:26:48,570 --> 00:26:51,570 I'll say that you're looking for four successes. 722 00:26:51,570 --> 00:26:53,453 - Okay. - But you just don't 723 00:26:53,453 --> 00:26:56,020 want to get less than three. 724 00:26:56,020 --> 00:26:58,143 Okay, I'm gonna Blood Surge. 725 00:26:58,143 --> 00:26:59,204 - Blood Slurge? - Blood Slurge. 726 00:26:59,204 --> 00:27:00,037 Okay. I got it. 727 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,280 - One, two, three, four, five. - Five successes. Great. 728 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,170 Cool. You get out wherever you want in town. 729 00:27:07,170 --> 00:27:10,110 Do I find a little pearl or something? 730 00:27:10,110 --> 00:27:10,968 No! 731 00:27:12,534 --> 00:27:14,880 - You gotta ask though. - You gotta ask. 732 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:15,900 We already rolled for that. 733 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:16,950 You don't find a little- 734 00:27:16,950 --> 00:27:19,366 But I just nailed it so much just now. 735 00:27:19,366 --> 00:27:21,142 - I thought maybe I'll- - If you hadn't nailed it, 736 00:27:21,142 --> 00:27:23,460 I was gonna have you come out of the river in Medford 737 00:27:23,460 --> 00:27:24,771 and have to run back. 738 00:27:26,216 --> 00:27:27,441 All right, fair enough. 739 00:27:27,441 --> 00:27:29,663 So can I get out right by the lumbermill? 740 00:27:29,663 --> 00:27:31,737 You guys pull up by the lumbermill 741 00:27:31,737 --> 00:27:33,847 - and you see HJ. - HJ? 742 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,909 Riddled with bullet holes. 743 00:27:36,909 --> 00:27:38,303 What the hell happened? 744 00:27:38,303 --> 00:27:39,528 What happened to you? 745 00:27:39,528 --> 00:27:41,700 Did you get any of our texts? Is your phone wet? 746 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:43,290 My phone's long gone. 747 00:27:43,290 --> 00:27:45,060 How did you know to come here? 748 00:27:45,060 --> 00:27:47,580 I knew that we have a lot of work to do, gang. 749 00:27:47,580 --> 00:27:48,663 Let's circle up. 750 00:27:50,389 --> 00:27:53,280 - HJ, you good, man? - I couldn't get it. 751 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:54,442 You couldn't get what? 752 00:27:54,442 --> 00:27:56,180 I had a really good idea for a present. 753 00:27:57,188 --> 00:27:58,740 It just seemed like everything was against me all at once. 754 00:27:58,740 --> 00:27:59,817 Was it in the river? 755 00:27:59,817 --> 00:28:02,155 Do you have your Bird scooter? I can charge it. 756 00:28:02,155 --> 00:28:04,200 No, it's gone. It got shot up by the cops. 757 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,060 It got shot up by the cops? 758 00:28:06,060 --> 00:28:07,050 Yeah. 759 00:28:07,050 --> 00:28:08,910 Anyway, happy birthday. 760 00:28:08,910 --> 00:28:11,610 I got you something but I'm not done with it. 761 00:28:11,610 --> 00:28:12,840 - That's fine. - And I try to hide 762 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,333 the rock that I'm holding but it's really big. 763 00:28:16,650 --> 00:28:19,787 I look at the rock like I really want it. 764 00:28:19,787 --> 00:28:20,820 Great. Okay, good. 765 00:28:20,820 --> 00:28:23,274 You're gonna like even more when I write a poem on it. 766 00:28:24,324 --> 00:28:26,008 All right, let's all get in the lumbermill. 767 00:28:27,690 --> 00:28:29,790 You guys, having closed on the property, 768 00:28:29,790 --> 00:28:30,960 Yanis was understanding about it 769 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,060 'cause you guys were moving the finances pretty quickly. 770 00:28:33,060 --> 00:28:33,990 There's a small lockbox. 771 00:28:33,990 --> 00:28:35,160 He's given you the code to the keys. 772 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,960 You're able to open the big padlock 773 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,030 on the front of the lumbermill. 774 00:28:39,030 --> 00:28:41,430 You open it up and see... 775 00:28:41,430 --> 00:28:43,320 First, a bizarre smell, 776 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,320 ash mixed with tons of fire extinguisher. 777 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:47,970 There's sort of that fire extinguisher 778 00:28:47,970 --> 00:28:49,290 flame retardant material 779 00:28:49,290 --> 00:28:50,880 that's scattered all over the floor. 780 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:55,140 Enormous ceiling-mounted buzz saws, catwalks, 781 00:28:55,140 --> 00:28:59,220 huge open saw tables, 782 00:28:59,220 --> 00:29:01,410 carpentry stations, workbenches, vices, 783 00:29:01,410 --> 00:29:02,880 big heavy duty equipment. 784 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,448 In the back, a large sort of staging area 785 00:29:06,448 --> 00:29:08,610 adjoining the back sort of warehouse. 786 00:29:08,610 --> 00:29:11,520 Upper level offices or administrative places. 787 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,000 You can see that near that sort of larger staging area, 788 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,710 there's, again, huge table-mounted saws and wood panels. 789 00:29:19,710 --> 00:29:23,280 The equipment here looks pretty nice 790 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,617 in terms of being an actual usable working space 791 00:29:26,617 --> 00:29:28,175 but obviously it's not... 792 00:29:28,175 --> 00:29:31,140 it is not set up like a brewery right now. 793 00:29:31,140 --> 00:29:32,376 I'd also ask anyone that wants to 794 00:29:32,376 --> 00:29:34,422 to give me Wits, Awareness. 795 00:29:35,430 --> 00:29:36,780 I'm gonna text Tyler. 796 00:29:36,780 --> 00:29:39,993 - "Actually, scented." - Scented. Actually, scented. 797 00:29:41,670 --> 00:29:42,749 Two. 798 00:29:42,749 --> 00:29:44,231 One. 799 00:29:44,231 --> 00:29:45,567 I got five. 800 00:29:45,567 --> 00:29:48,840 - Oh, six. - Oh, I crit. 801 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,490 Four, five, six, seven. 802 00:29:50,490 --> 00:29:52,890 - How many did Zaeth get? - Two. 803 00:29:52,890 --> 00:29:55,237 HJ with two. 804 00:29:55,237 --> 00:29:57,330 Yeah, we're literally in a battle right now. 805 00:29:57,330 --> 00:29:58,939 - It sounds like initiative. - Yeah. 806 00:29:59,955 --> 00:30:02,340 LaVonte, looking down at your phone, 807 00:30:02,340 --> 00:30:04,890 Tyler immediately hits you back with, 808 00:30:04,890 --> 00:30:06,900 "Do you have exact smells? 809 00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:11,100 If not, give me three evocative words." 810 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:14,100 Winter, warmth, tropical. 811 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:17,285 - He gets back to- - Tropical winter. 812 00:30:17,285 --> 00:30:19,620 - Tropical, winter, warmth. - Hawaiian winter. 813 00:30:19,620 --> 00:30:22,660 Wow, I love. I can smell it. 814 00:30:22,660 --> 00:30:24,420 I would buy that. I would buy that. 815 00:30:24,420 --> 00:30:26,670 Okay, tropical, winter, warmth. 816 00:30:26,670 --> 00:30:29,490 As you say that, LaVonte, you suddenly look up. 817 00:30:29,490 --> 00:30:32,700 Darkness Man, Bat Child, your superhero senses kick in. 818 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:35,696 Snuffling from under one of the tables, you see 819 00:30:35,696 --> 00:30:40,696 an enormous shape lunge forward towards you. 820 00:30:41,580 --> 00:30:45,960 Its sort of pachyderm elephantine skin, 821 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,850 like a rhinoceros or an elephant, 822 00:30:47,850 --> 00:30:49,830 is choked with creosote. 823 00:30:49,830 --> 00:30:54,028 It squeaks like the thick ash of a wood stove 824 00:30:54,028 --> 00:30:55,260 scraping against each other 825 00:30:55,260 --> 00:30:56,700 with the movements of its bodies. 826 00:30:56,700 --> 00:30:58,680 Enormous digging claws, 827 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,790 more like that of a wombat or a badger than of a true bear. 828 00:31:02,790 --> 00:31:07,294 As this ursine shape leaps out of the darkness going- 829 00:31:09,419 --> 00:31:14,419 Its nose lights up as sparks snuff out of it. 830 00:31:14,787 --> 00:31:19,077 And you guys see that a Gumberoo charges, 831 00:31:19,077 --> 00:31:22,729 nude and screaming from the shadows underneath the buzz saw. 832 00:31:23,967 --> 00:31:25,330 I run at it and I tackle it. 833 00:31:25,330 --> 00:31:27,390 So I've read about Gumberoos. 834 00:31:27,390 --> 00:31:28,803 What do they like? 835 00:31:28,803 --> 00:31:31,860 Like, what would I, a zoologist, have clocked about it? 836 00:31:31,860 --> 00:31:33,000 Give me one more- 837 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,110 You can do so with two extra dice from your Zoology skill. 838 00:31:37,110 --> 00:31:40,830 Give me Intelligence plus either Animal Ken 839 00:31:40,830 --> 00:31:43,598 or Occult, whichever you prefer. 840 00:31:47,220 --> 00:31:48,540 - Four. - On four successes, 841 00:31:48,540 --> 00:31:49,950 you know a couple different things. 842 00:31:49,950 --> 00:31:53,400 Number one, this thing leapt out from the shadows 843 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,530 underneath one of the tables. 844 00:31:55,530 --> 00:32:00,530 As it does so, what you see is a thin veil of ruby light. 845 00:32:01,350 --> 00:32:04,110 You and Madelaine both see in this moment 846 00:32:04,110 --> 00:32:05,760 that this creature, 847 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,330 you are catching it on its first night 848 00:32:09,330 --> 00:32:13,740 fully on this side of the veil between life and death. 849 00:32:13,740 --> 00:32:16,620 All of its other attacks on the property 850 00:32:16,620 --> 00:32:18,300 and the people that must have seen it, 851 00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:21,600 must have seen it under liminal circumstances. 852 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,610 Perhaps there were ghostly events happening 853 00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:25,140 or it was a solstice or an equinox 854 00:32:25,140 --> 00:32:26,430 or something else was going on. 855 00:32:26,430 --> 00:32:28,140 On four successes, you realize that 856 00:32:28,140 --> 00:32:32,070 whatever that owl creature was in the Templers' basement 857 00:32:32,070 --> 00:32:33,900 has been undone 858 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:36,570 when Herbert cracked that statue in half. 859 00:32:36,570 --> 00:32:39,329 And it is very thankful that you guys 860 00:32:39,329 --> 00:32:40,412 are the first people here. 861 00:32:40,412 --> 00:32:42,660 Otherwise this thing would've openly breached 862 00:32:42,660 --> 00:32:44,820 the Masquerade and escaped from the lumbermill 863 00:32:44,820 --> 00:32:46,590 at the next possible opportunity. 864 00:32:46,590 --> 00:32:47,880 That's what you get on four successes. 865 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:48,750 - Okay. - What you know 866 00:32:48,750 --> 00:32:49,830 about this is, 867 00:32:49,830 --> 00:32:51,720 this thing is a potentially fatal 868 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,839 - encounter for all six of you. - Whoa. 869 00:32:53,839 --> 00:32:55,620 It uses fire. 870 00:32:55,620 --> 00:33:00,150 You remember online seeing in some column associated 871 00:33:00,150 --> 00:33:01,560 with some piece of research you were doing 872 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,460 that someone had hinted towards a possible weakness 873 00:33:05,460 --> 00:33:06,812 but on four successes, 874 00:33:06,812 --> 00:33:08,440 you do not remember exactly what its weakness is 875 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,770 but you remember where to look for it. 876 00:33:10,770 --> 00:33:13,080 There was a path online for it. 877 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,210 You also potentially could have it in your book, 878 00:33:15,210 --> 00:33:16,590 if that's traveling on your person. 879 00:33:16,590 --> 00:33:18,090 You would've brought it I think 'cause 880 00:33:18,090 --> 00:33:19,650 we're really trying to fix this place up. 881 00:33:19,650 --> 00:33:21,611 You either would've read it or brought it. 882 00:33:21,611 --> 00:33:22,627 So it's definitely on me. 883 00:33:22,627 --> 00:33:24,451 When it gets to your turn it will be- 884 00:33:24,451 --> 00:33:25,284 I'll take a read action. 885 00:33:25,284 --> 00:33:27,150 Take a read action, essentially. 886 00:33:27,150 --> 00:33:28,980 Darkness Man, you're gonna lunge at this thing first. 887 00:33:28,980 --> 00:33:30,241 Yeah. 888 00:33:31,329 --> 00:33:32,162 I don't have all the info. 889 00:33:32,162 --> 00:33:34,020 - I'm just doing whatever- - Yeah, no, no, no. 890 00:33:34,020 --> 00:33:35,550 Punch it, Mitch. Punch it. 891 00:33:35,550 --> 00:33:36,408 I'm gonna tackle it. 892 00:33:36,408 --> 00:33:38,335 I don't know if it's a good guy or a bad guy. 893 00:33:38,335 --> 00:33:39,219 Punch it in the nose! 894 00:33:39,219 --> 00:33:41,190 I don't know if it's a good guy or a bad guy! 895 00:33:41,190 --> 00:33:43,440 - Give me Brawl plus Strength. - Okay. 896 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,133 This thing- 897 00:33:45,133 --> 00:33:47,300 I don't know if you're good or bad! 898 00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:49,470 Be careful. They shoot fire. 899 00:33:49,470 --> 00:33:50,303 Okay. 900 00:33:50,303 --> 00:33:51,270 Yeah, try to dodge the fire. 901 00:33:51,270 --> 00:33:53,010 I'll try to just get around back, 902 00:33:53,010 --> 00:33:54,930 and so I am gonna Blood Surge. 903 00:33:54,930 --> 00:33:56,217 I successfully don't get a Hunger. 904 00:33:56,217 --> 00:33:59,670 Are you going to move around it in such a way... 905 00:33:59,670 --> 00:34:02,130 I'll try to not get sprayed with fire, if I can. 906 00:34:02,130 --> 00:34:04,050 I'm gonna try to dive on its back and like- 907 00:34:04,050 --> 00:34:05,640 So you're less trying to do damage to it 908 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:06,555 and more trying to- 909 00:34:06,555 --> 00:34:07,755 I'm to literally to grapple it. 910 00:34:07,755 --> 00:34:08,610 - Trying to grapple it. Cool. - Just hang on it. 911 00:34:08,610 --> 00:34:09,810 Okay, awesome. 912 00:34:09,810 --> 00:34:11,859 If only you'd gotten that gun. 913 00:34:11,859 --> 00:34:13,350 Fuck! 914 00:34:13,350 --> 00:34:15,240 That hot gun. 915 00:34:15,240 --> 00:34:18,224 Imagine if we had a hot gun in this scenario. 916 00:34:18,224 --> 00:34:21,089 Only... That thing that sets on fire with a hot gun. 917 00:34:21,089 --> 00:34:23,817 The Gumberoo crits for a total of eight successes. 918 00:34:23,817 --> 00:34:25,590 - Okay, okay. - Oh my god. 919 00:34:25,590 --> 00:34:28,440 I think I'm in trouble. 920 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,600 I've got five so far. 921 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,040 Your Willpower reset, by the way. 922 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,050 I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna use a Willpower. 923 00:34:34,050 --> 00:34:35,310 - Okay. - Do I get to add 924 00:34:35,310 --> 00:34:36,750 anything for Potence? 925 00:34:36,750 --> 00:34:38,820 Yes, you add your Potence as dice. 926 00:34:38,820 --> 00:34:39,960 On top of Brawl and- 927 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:40,860 On top of Brawl and Strength. 928 00:34:40,860 --> 00:34:42,828 Okay, great. Okay, so I actually have... 929 00:34:42,828 --> 00:34:45,000 Okay, so I actually am gonna roll six more 930 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,200 so I might not be in trouble. 931 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,143 - Okay, five successes. - So five successes. 932 00:34:50,340 --> 00:34:52,620 Oh my god, I rolled so bad. Fuck. 933 00:34:52,620 --> 00:34:54,840 - Just six. - Okay, you go 934 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:55,673 to grapple this thing. 935 00:34:55,673 --> 00:34:58,422 You see it rolls onto its side 936 00:34:59,597 --> 00:35:02,220 keeping its mouth and nostrils pointed 937 00:35:02,220 --> 00:35:04,050 towards your companions. 938 00:35:04,050 --> 00:35:06,180 Perversely, you have actually gotten out 939 00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:08,610 of whatever its snout looks like it's pointed at 940 00:35:08,610 --> 00:35:09,750 and are sort of now 941 00:35:09,750 --> 00:35:12,210 not in the cone of influence potentially, 942 00:35:12,210 --> 00:35:14,370 but you see that your friends, 943 00:35:14,370 --> 00:35:16,410 it's still... it's just wiggling on its side. 944 00:35:16,410 --> 00:35:19,080 It has that animalistic way of moving 945 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,530 where wrestling it, it's just so flexible in its spine 946 00:35:22,530 --> 00:35:24,600 and joints that it gets its hind legs around 947 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:25,860 to scrape and turn. 948 00:35:25,860 --> 00:35:27,240 Bat Child, that's going to be you. 949 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:30,150 Okay, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna look for the weakness. 950 00:35:30,150 --> 00:35:33,000 This is going to be Intelligence plus either Occult 951 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,110 or Animal Ken. 952 00:35:34,110 --> 00:35:34,943 Give me- 953 00:35:34,943 --> 00:35:36,320 Can I add my Zoology to this? 954 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,100 You can add your Zoology to this as well. 955 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:40,468 - I'm gonna Blood Surge. - Mm-hmm. 956 00:35:40,468 --> 00:35:41,863 Okay. 957 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,333 Oh my. Okay. 958 00:35:46,380 --> 00:35:49,383 - I will Willpower. - Okay. 959 00:35:52,260 --> 00:35:53,400 Yeah! Okay. 960 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,500 One, two, three, four, five, six. 961 00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:56,333 - Six. - Wait, wait. 962 00:35:56,333 --> 00:35:58,170 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven! 963 00:35:58,170 --> 00:36:00,240 Seven successes. Unbelievable. 964 00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:01,560 In this moment, I will allow you to choose 965 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,600 between learning one of its immunities 966 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,460 or learning one of its vulnerabilities. 967 00:36:05,460 --> 00:36:07,412 - Vulnerability. - Okay. 968 00:36:07,412 --> 00:36:11,253 The Gumberoo is deathly harmed by fire. 969 00:36:12,425 --> 00:36:13,533 What? 970 00:36:13,533 --> 00:36:15,900 The Gumberoo is deathly harmed by fire. 971 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:16,950 Fire destroys it. 972 00:36:16,950 --> 00:36:19,440 Well we have a lot of candles on the way. 973 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,110 Everyone, it's hurt by fire! 974 00:36:22,110 --> 00:36:25,383 - Doesn't it make fire? - How is the fire... 975 00:36:26,850 --> 00:36:28,020 It comes out of its mouth? 976 00:36:28,020 --> 00:36:28,853 On seven successes, 977 00:36:28,853 --> 00:36:30,450 you read the paragraph further, mid-combat, 978 00:36:30,450 --> 00:36:33,480 as this thing is wrestling, trying to get Mitch. 979 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:38,370 It looks like that these things both breathe fire 980 00:36:38,370 --> 00:36:40,920 and are highly flammable 981 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,010 and that when they are set on fire they die 982 00:36:44,010 --> 00:36:45,900 because they explode. 983 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:48,120 - Oh. Outside. - Okay! 984 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,150 Okay, so everyone, I think we just gotta get outside. 985 00:36:51,150 --> 00:36:53,340 LaVonte, you now watch a Gumberoo 986 00:36:53,340 --> 00:36:54,540 that you are in the middle of fighting. 987 00:36:54,540 --> 00:36:56,100 - Mm-hmm. - This piece of lumberjack 988 00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:58,410 - Americana folklore. - Mm-hmm. 989 00:36:58,410 --> 00:37:01,080 That you realize very well may destroy 990 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,710 a significant portion of your liquidity here in Purpee. 991 00:37:04,710 --> 00:37:07,053 Terrifying. Nothing scarier than that. 992 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,740 LaVonte will open the doors wide 993 00:37:10,740 --> 00:37:14,020 and run outside and start jumping around 994 00:37:15,733 --> 00:37:17,592 and start- Eat me! 995 00:37:17,592 --> 00:37:20,520 Come eat me, you big stupid bear! 996 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,353 Incredible. 997 00:37:21,353 --> 00:37:25,740 This is going to be Manipulation, Animal Ken. 998 00:37:25,740 --> 00:37:29,290 Great. I have no Animal Ken. 999 00:37:29,290 --> 00:37:32,040 But I have some Manipulation. 1000 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,110 Can I use Presence at all? 1001 00:37:34,110 --> 00:37:35,940 You can use Presence here, potentially. 1002 00:37:35,940 --> 00:37:37,230 Great. 1003 00:37:37,230 --> 00:37:38,970 If you want that, Daunt might be the- 1004 00:37:38,970 --> 00:37:40,920 Yeah, I think I want, 1005 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,280 I wanna look big and scary, 1006 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,443 big and scarier than Mitch somehow. 1007 00:37:47,970 --> 00:37:49,740 I take my double breasted suit 1008 00:37:49,740 --> 00:37:51,073 and I open it wide. 1009 00:37:53,660 --> 00:37:54,960 Nice. 1010 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,063 We'll Willpower these two. 1011 00:38:00,660 --> 00:38:01,493 Ooh, yes. 1012 00:38:01,493 --> 00:38:03,600 For a total of all successes. 1013 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,997 - Six successes. - Six successes? 1014 00:38:05,997 --> 00:38:08,299 You get outside, saying- 1015 00:38:08,299 --> 00:38:09,407 Come eat me! 1016 00:38:09,407 --> 00:38:10,510 Mitch, ride it! 1017 00:38:10,510 --> 00:38:12,169 - Ride it toward me. - I'm trying! 1018 00:38:19,512 --> 00:38:20,670 Ride it towards me. 1019 00:38:23,313 --> 00:38:25,440 Give me Stamina plus Fortitude. 1020 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:26,273 Okay. 1021 00:38:27,390 --> 00:38:28,980 Three successes. 1022 00:38:28,980 --> 00:38:29,910 Three successes. 1023 00:38:29,910 --> 00:38:33,510 This thing slashes into you for... 1024 00:38:33,510 --> 00:38:36,360 it was seven successes of damage. 1025 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,610 Now four halved to two. 1026 00:38:38,610 --> 00:38:40,950 It has not used any of its fire breath yet, 1027 00:38:40,950 --> 00:38:43,560 but just slashes across you with a big claw. 1028 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:44,896 Ah! 1029 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:47,689 I'm not strong! 1030 00:38:50,410 --> 00:38:52,333 Oh goddamn! 1031 00:38:52,333 --> 00:38:53,655 Ah, shit! 1032 00:38:53,655 --> 00:38:55,894 - LaVonte. - It's a $500 shirt! 1033 00:38:55,894 --> 00:38:58,110 No! 1034 00:39:00,502 --> 00:39:02,310 Zaeth, that is your turn. 1035 00:39:02,310 --> 00:39:04,400 - But did it come outside? - It came outside. 1036 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,180 - Okay, okay. - It is now about 1037 00:39:06,180 --> 00:39:08,520 15 feet outside the front doors. 1038 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:13,014 Is it worth trying to just sort of bond with this? 1039 00:39:13,014 --> 00:39:14,493 Ah! Do something, Zaeth! 1040 00:39:14,493 --> 00:39:15,326 Ah! 1041 00:39:15,326 --> 00:39:16,283 All right. 1042 00:39:17,325 --> 00:39:20,305 Zaeth- I'm gonna get on Ghorse and go up to him 1043 00:39:20,305 --> 00:39:22,692 and be like: Whoa there. Easy. 1044 00:39:24,919 --> 00:39:26,135 Easy now. 1045 00:39:26,135 --> 00:39:28,350 Give me Manipulation plus Animal Ken. 1046 00:39:28,350 --> 00:39:33,180 - Okay, I got four. - Does Beauty work on animals? 1047 00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:35,308 - It does not work on animals. - Are you sure? 1048 00:39:35,308 --> 00:39:36,873 The Gumberoo doesn't think he's hot as hell? 1049 00:39:36,873 --> 00:39:37,920 - Wow. - I'm gonna use 1050 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,363 my Blood Surge. 1051 00:39:41,340 --> 00:39:42,480 - Hell yeah. - Nice. 1052 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,313 Great. 1053 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:47,447 - Okay. - All right, now. 1054 00:39:49,823 --> 00:39:51,060 - See ya. - Oh crit. 1055 00:39:51,060 --> 00:39:53,940 - Crit plus two so. - Five? 1056 00:39:53,940 --> 00:39:56,127 - Six. - Six successes. 1057 00:39:56,127 --> 00:39:56,960 Successes. 1058 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,134 What are you trying to communicate 1059 00:39:58,134 --> 00:39:59,850 to the Gumberoo in this moment? 1060 00:39:59,850 --> 00:40:01,360 You don't have to do this. 1061 00:40:02,633 --> 00:40:03,656 I was like you once, 1062 00:40:04,590 --> 00:40:08,020 blowing up at any chance I got 1063 00:40:08,970 --> 00:40:11,632 and like you, I was always burning myself. 1064 00:40:14,460 --> 00:40:16,770 You see it bows to you 1065 00:40:16,770 --> 00:40:18,390 and begins to charge down the street 1066 00:40:18,390 --> 00:40:19,890 with Darkness Man on his back. 1067 00:40:20,860 --> 00:40:22,081 We figured it out. 1068 00:40:24,959 --> 00:40:26,302 - It's all good. - Is Darkness Man okay? 1069 00:40:26,302 --> 00:40:27,739 Darkness Man, are you where- 1070 00:40:27,739 --> 00:40:28,725 I'll handle it! 1071 00:40:28,725 --> 00:40:30,216 Are you where you wanna be? 1072 00:40:30,216 --> 00:40:32,520 Zaeth does successfully shoo the Gumberoo 1073 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,497 - away from the lumber- - Is it going toward the town? 1074 00:40:34,497 --> 00:40:35,563 But this is gonna breach the Masquerade. 1075 00:40:35,563 --> 00:40:37,350 - It's going towards the town. - Okay. 1076 00:40:37,350 --> 00:40:41,100 It looks like it's headed down Mill Road. 1077 00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:43,710 Okay, can I try to- Okay. 1078 00:40:43,710 --> 00:40:45,060 I have Relentless Grasp. 1079 00:40:45,060 --> 00:40:47,910 Can I try to pull it towards the weed shop? 1080 00:40:47,910 --> 00:40:49,590 - Sure, absolutely. - Yes, yes. 1081 00:40:49,590 --> 00:40:51,180 Absolutely. HJ and Madelaine, 1082 00:40:51,180 --> 00:40:52,505 is there anything you're doing at this moment? 1083 00:40:52,505 --> 00:40:54,030 Do you wanna run after the Gumberoo? 1084 00:40:54,030 --> 00:40:57,060 Yeah, can I catch its eyes as it's passing? 1085 00:40:57,060 --> 00:40:57,893 - Sure. - With him. 1086 00:40:57,893 --> 00:40:59,400 Okay, I just want to... 1087 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,250 You've told us a little bit about getting the ruby right? 1088 00:41:02,250 --> 00:41:03,480 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay. 1089 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,870 I wanna use Mesmerize which is eye contact 1090 00:41:06,870 --> 00:41:08,320 so that's why I want to just catch it. 1091 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,810 - Yeah. - And I wanna say: 1092 00:41:09,810 --> 00:41:13,113 Heel to the Jack of the Pines that's on your back. 1093 00:41:13,950 --> 00:41:15,870 - Okay. Hell yes. - I'll hold up the ruby. 1094 00:41:15,870 --> 00:41:20,250 Go ahead, give me Charisma, Persuasion. 1095 00:41:20,250 --> 00:41:22,860 - Okay. And it's two. - Okay. 1096 00:41:22,860 --> 00:41:24,719 Blood Surge first. Got it. 1097 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:25,844 Okay. 1098 00:41:27,690 --> 00:41:29,562 You can also roll Presence here, if you have it. 1099 00:41:29,562 --> 00:41:30,810 Oh, nice. 1100 00:41:30,810 --> 00:41:33,210 I have two in Presence. 1101 00:41:33,210 --> 00:41:36,007 Oops, didn't need to roll that one. There we go. 1102 00:41:36,007 --> 00:41:37,830 Okay, so here we go. 1103 00:41:37,830 --> 00:41:39,423 Re-roll, Willpower. 1104 00:41:41,340 --> 00:41:43,890 - Got one extra, three. - Three successes. 1105 00:41:43,890 --> 00:41:46,440 As you say that, as you speak to it, 1106 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,230 it does not understand the words that you are speaking. 1107 00:41:49,230 --> 00:41:51,930 The Mesmerize power requires there to be a shared language. 1108 00:41:51,930 --> 00:41:54,990 As you say Jack of the Pines out loud, 1109 00:41:54,990 --> 00:41:58,440 you all hear the wind picks up, 1110 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,240 the pine boughs shake, 1111 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:02,730 and you see far distant 1112 00:42:02,730 --> 00:42:06,710 all the way across town to the heights, you hear... 1113 00:42:11,308 --> 00:42:13,860 And feel almost drums in the distance 1114 00:42:13,860 --> 00:42:17,580 as the Gumberoo looks up towards that far distant hill, 1115 00:42:17,580 --> 00:42:21,120 and you see it sees bright green light 1116 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,420 that flashes for a moment. 1117 00:42:23,555 --> 00:42:25,290 And the Gumberoo goes- 1118 00:42:25,290 --> 00:42:26,910 Develops a massive erection 1119 00:42:26,910 --> 00:42:28,682 and starts to charge over the railroad. 1120 00:42:31,375 --> 00:42:33,004 I can't. 1121 00:42:33,004 --> 00:42:34,123 Darkness Man, are you okay? 1122 00:42:34,123 --> 00:42:36,786 I can't let this thing run into town, right? 1123 00:42:36,786 --> 00:42:38,255 - What did you do? - What are you doing? 1124 00:42:38,255 --> 00:42:39,567 What do you mean? 1125 00:42:39,567 --> 00:42:41,008 What did you do, you pervert! 1126 00:42:41,008 --> 00:42:42,448 Freaking pervert! 1127 00:42:42,448 --> 00:42:44,343 Mitch, kill the bear. Don't fuck it. 1128 00:42:45,695 --> 00:42:47,011 I'm not fucking it! 1129 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,310 Madelaine, is there anything you're doing? 1130 00:42:50,310 --> 00:42:51,540 There's nothing I can do here. 1131 00:42:51,540 --> 00:42:52,680 I have no physical skill. 1132 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,720 I'm just wandering through the space going: 1133 00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:55,920 So these catwalks up here, 1134 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:57,696 maybe we can have models dancing up here. 1135 00:42:58,620 --> 00:43:00,477 The saw blades, can we have sparks coming out of them? 1136 00:43:00,477 --> 00:43:02,369 Madelaine, not yet, not yet. 1137 00:43:02,369 --> 00:43:05,020 - Into to the dancer space. - They're great ideas. 1138 00:43:05,020 --> 00:43:07,680 There's a bear with a huge erection out here. 1139 00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:09,597 Great, Madelaine- 1140 00:43:09,597 --> 00:43:11,137 That's... Don't kink shame. 1141 00:43:11,137 --> 00:43:11,970 Some people like that. 1142 00:43:11,970 --> 00:43:13,925 Maybe Darkness Man found his person. 1143 00:43:13,925 --> 00:43:14,758 Oh god. 1144 00:43:14,758 --> 00:43:16,890 Madelaine, go ahead and give me either Composure 1145 00:43:16,890 --> 00:43:20,220 or Resolve plus Awareness in this moment. 1146 00:43:20,220 --> 00:43:23,027 - Got a two. I'll re-roll. - Mm-hmm. 1147 00:43:23,027 --> 00:43:24,330 - Three. - Three successes. 1148 00:43:24,330 --> 00:43:27,720 You can go ahead and add two dice to whatever roll you use 1149 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:29,550 - to prepare this place- - Okay, great. 1150 00:43:29,550 --> 00:43:31,329 - ...when it becomes time. - Nice. 1151 00:43:31,329 --> 00:43:33,390 And I think in this moment you also look 1152 00:43:33,390 --> 00:43:35,730 and realize that in terms of taking charge 1153 00:43:35,730 --> 00:43:37,410 of the design of this space, 1154 00:43:37,410 --> 00:43:41,070 you find yourself here in this moment doing some work. 1155 00:43:41,070 --> 00:43:41,940 This is some work. 1156 00:43:41,940 --> 00:43:43,945 Oh no, this isn't work. This is decorating. 1157 00:43:45,060 --> 00:43:46,890 - It's not work. - It's not work. 1158 00:43:46,890 --> 00:43:48,180 It's something else. 1159 00:43:48,180 --> 00:43:49,350 We go to the top of the order. 1160 00:43:49,350 --> 00:43:51,030 Darkness Man, that is you again, 1161 00:43:51,030 --> 00:43:53,430 as this Gumberoo charges over the railroad tracks. 1162 00:43:53,430 --> 00:43:55,710 I try to pull it towards the weed shop 1163 00:43:55,710 --> 00:43:58,350 - and I'm going to try to- - Relentless Grasp. 1164 00:43:58,350 --> 00:44:00,060 I'm going to use my Relentless Grasp 1165 00:44:00,060 --> 00:44:01,830 and once again pull against it. 1166 00:44:01,830 --> 00:44:02,663 I'll do a Blood Surge again. 1167 00:44:02,663 --> 00:44:04,854 Maybe your Relentless Grasp is causing... 1168 00:44:06,468 --> 00:44:09,065 It's autoerotic asphyxiation. 1169 00:44:09,065 --> 00:44:10,487 - Yeah. - He looked and saw- 1170 00:44:10,487 --> 00:44:12,431 - Stop! - A green light. 1171 00:44:12,431 --> 00:44:13,710 You just said he was pulling on it. 1172 00:44:13,710 --> 00:44:16,143 I swear! That's what I heard as well. 1173 00:44:16,143 --> 00:44:18,136 - All right, great. - Stop pulling on it, Mitch! 1174 00:44:18,136 --> 00:44:20,293 Not pulling on it like that! 1175 00:44:20,293 --> 00:44:22,470 This is straight out of "The Great Gatsby." 1176 00:44:22,470 --> 00:44:25,770 I'm rolling insane over here. That's nine successes. 1177 00:44:25,770 --> 00:44:28,083 I have a chance. Come on. 1178 00:44:29,428 --> 00:44:30,519 That's a lot of dice. 1179 00:44:31,519 --> 00:44:32,602 - Okay. - And this is all 1180 00:44:32,602 --> 00:44:35,255 for jerking off the bear? 1181 00:44:35,255 --> 00:44:36,420 Stop! 1182 00:44:36,420 --> 00:44:38,213 Murph's sexiest episode yet. 1183 00:44:40,050 --> 00:44:41,850 So you got nine successes. Meets it, beats it. 1184 00:44:41,850 --> 00:44:42,945 So nine successes means 1185 00:44:42,945 --> 00:44:44,040 you can pull it in the direction. 1186 00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:45,110 You can pull what? 1187 00:44:45,110 --> 00:44:47,119 He beats it. It beats it? 1188 00:44:47,119 --> 00:44:49,453 - I've got six. - It beats its meat? 1189 00:44:50,460 --> 00:44:52,740 - So close to beating it. - Oh, you beat that meat. 1190 00:44:52,740 --> 00:44:55,560 And I've got a crit so I can maybe get, 1191 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,150 - if I got one more crit- - Okay. 1192 00:44:57,150 --> 00:45:00,017 - Come on, beat that meat. - Beat that meat. 1193 00:45:00,927 --> 00:45:01,793 - Ah, I did it. - Yes! 1194 00:45:01,793 --> 00:45:03,423 He beat the meat! 1195 00:45:03,423 --> 00:45:04,500 - He beat the meat! - Unbelievable. 1196 00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:06,150 Yeah, I got a... Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1197 00:45:06,150 --> 00:45:07,529 He comes fire and it kills you. 1198 00:45:08,940 --> 00:45:10,740 So as this thing is running, 1199 00:45:10,740 --> 00:45:12,630 with an arm around its neck, 1200 00:45:12,630 --> 00:45:16,410 you by the way are covered in this reeking creosote. 1201 00:45:16,410 --> 00:45:19,830 This almost like petroleum ash 1202 00:45:19,830 --> 00:45:22,290 and soot all over its body. 1203 00:45:22,290 --> 00:45:24,360 There's just a constant squeak 1204 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,100 as every time you move on this thing. 1205 00:45:26,100 --> 00:45:27,616 So all you guys hear from that outside is- 1206 00:45:31,620 --> 00:45:32,760 As you begin to pull it, 1207 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,630 pulling its ear and it's heavy elephantine jowls, 1208 00:45:36,630 --> 00:45:38,670 it charged down the street, trying to pull 1209 00:45:38,670 --> 00:45:40,980 across the railroad track, continually getting pulled back, 1210 00:45:40,980 --> 00:45:44,610 and it looks pissed off, fire in its eyes looking at you 1211 00:45:44,610 --> 00:45:47,160 as you prevent it from following up the hill 1212 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,050 towards where it wants to go. 1213 00:45:49,050 --> 00:45:53,078 You see in its throat 1214 00:45:53,078 --> 00:45:54,210 and you begin to see sparks and embers 1215 00:45:54,210 --> 00:45:55,650 - coming out of its mouth. - Get outta there. 1216 00:45:55,650 --> 00:45:57,150 Bat Child, that's gonna be your turn. 1217 00:45:57,150 --> 00:45:58,050 - What? - But you are halfway 1218 00:45:58,050 --> 00:45:59,358 to the weed shop. 1219 00:46:00,670 --> 00:46:01,503 Okay. 1220 00:46:03,690 --> 00:46:06,750 Could I use, try to use Touch of Oblivion 1221 00:46:06,750 --> 00:46:09,480 to seal its lips shut? 1222 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,470 Potentially. You could run up 1223 00:46:11,470 --> 00:46:12,810 but then you're gonna be closing 1224 00:46:12,810 --> 00:46:14,493 on this very dangerous thing. 1225 00:46:15,472 --> 00:46:19,090 Are you staying here or are you gonna hop off? 1226 00:46:19,090 --> 00:46:23,220 I'm gonna hop off once somebody lights it up or something. 1227 00:46:23,220 --> 00:46:25,950 Okay, then I'm gonna try to seal its lips. 1228 00:46:25,950 --> 00:46:28,890 Okay. Go ahead and give me your attack roll. 1229 00:46:28,890 --> 00:46:30,420 So that's Strength and Brawl? 1230 00:46:30,420 --> 00:46:31,870 That is Strength and Brawl. 1231 00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:37,338 I'm gonna do the thing to get two extra. 1232 00:46:37,338 --> 00:46:38,175 Okay. 1233 00:46:41,010 --> 00:46:42,063 Okay, Willpower. 1234 00:46:44,850 --> 00:46:47,197 - I got two. - Two successes. 1235 00:46:47,197 --> 00:46:48,228 You go to lunge for it. 1236 00:46:48,228 --> 00:46:50,348 You don't have to spend any arcane resources 1237 00:46:50,348 --> 00:46:51,181 as a result of this. 1238 00:46:51,181 --> 00:46:52,440 As you go to lunge for it 1239 00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,990 to try to melt whatever thing it is, 1240 00:46:54,990 --> 00:46:59,430 you just pull and some of the ash and skin just comes off 1241 00:46:59,430 --> 00:47:01,560 as this thing just fades away in your hand 1242 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,020 causing some Superficial damage to this creature. 1243 00:47:04,020 --> 00:47:08,460 It roars at you in this space, 1244 00:47:08,460 --> 00:47:10,830 looking to try to throw Mitch off in front of it. 1245 00:47:10,830 --> 00:47:12,780 LaVonte, you're gonna be the last to act. 1246 00:47:12,780 --> 00:47:15,947 - The last to act. - Before the Gumberoo acts. 1247 00:47:15,947 --> 00:47:17,700 I'm gonna throw my phone to Madelaine. 1248 00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:19,379 Just tell Tyler what you need. 1249 00:47:19,379 --> 00:47:21,420 And I'm going to just wander off 1250 00:47:21,420 --> 00:47:24,630 down the street after Darkness Man and Bat Child. 1251 00:47:24,630 --> 00:47:26,160 - You go running after. - Do you know what it likes? 1252 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:27,420 Is there a way to find that out? 1253 00:47:27,420 --> 00:47:29,580 Nah, Bat Child's got the data. 1254 00:47:29,580 --> 00:47:30,480 - Yeah. Yeah. - Anyone who wants 1255 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:31,810 the book can have it. 1256 00:47:33,450 --> 00:47:35,854 I feel like we can't let this thing go, right? 1257 00:47:35,854 --> 00:47:36,687 - That's what- - I'm inclined 1258 00:47:36,687 --> 00:47:38,190 to just let it go. 1259 00:47:38,190 --> 00:47:39,450 It looks like it's just saw something 1260 00:47:39,450 --> 00:47:40,740 green that it wants to go fuck. 1261 00:47:40,740 --> 00:47:41,970 But isn't it just a giant bomb- 1262 00:47:41,970 --> 00:47:44,160 That's all the way across town. 1263 00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,862 It might breach the Masquerade. 1264 00:47:45,862 --> 00:47:47,190 Isn't that breaching the Masquerade? 1265 00:47:47,190 --> 00:47:48,930 And then we got other people in town who are- 1266 00:47:48,930 --> 00:47:49,953 - Yeah. - Ah. 1267 00:47:51,150 --> 00:47:52,432 LaVonte, you have to act. 1268 00:47:52,432 --> 00:47:54,690 Throw me the book, Bat Child! 1269 00:47:54,690 --> 00:47:56,463 I'll throw you the ruby as well. 1270 00:47:57,450 --> 00:47:58,885 If I can get the book and the ruby, 1271 00:47:58,885 --> 00:48:00,118 I'd like to read the book. 1272 00:48:00,118 --> 00:48:02,430 Give me Intelligence plus Occult. 1273 00:48:02,430 --> 00:48:04,470 Well I don't have Occult, 1274 00:48:04,470 --> 00:48:06,840 and I have little Intelligence. 1275 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,300 - I'll Blood Surge. - Okay. 1276 00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:10,413 I succeed. 1277 00:48:15,870 --> 00:48:16,703 Oh god. 1278 00:48:18,450 --> 00:48:20,250 One success. 1279 00:48:20,250 --> 00:48:22,923 God, I can't read fast and while moving. 1280 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,100 Pages fluttering in the wind. You rush up. 1281 00:48:26,100 --> 00:48:27,450 Also you're holding a ruby 1282 00:48:27,450 --> 00:48:30,404 so you can't turn the pages as you're running up. 1283 00:48:30,404 --> 00:48:32,100 The Gumberoo is going to try to breathe fire 1284 00:48:32,100 --> 00:48:36,017 on Darkness Man and Bat Child. 1285 00:48:36,017 --> 00:48:36,850 Okay. 1286 00:48:36,850 --> 00:48:39,240 It, first of all, it's gonna try to throw you off 1287 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:41,130 - its back in this maneuver. - Okay. 1288 00:48:41,130 --> 00:48:42,750 Go ahead, if you'd be so kind, 1289 00:48:42,750 --> 00:48:45,660 and give me Strength, Athletics. 1290 00:48:45,660 --> 00:48:47,910 Does my Relentless Grasp do anything? 1291 00:48:47,910 --> 00:48:49,230 Yes. You can add two dice here. 1292 00:48:49,230 --> 00:48:50,280 Okay. 1293 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:51,750 Bad roll from the Gumberoo. 1294 00:48:51,750 --> 00:48:54,060 You're only looking to beat five successes. 1295 00:48:54,060 --> 00:48:57,900 Okay. I'm gonna Blood Surge. 1296 00:48:57,900 --> 00:48:59,947 Fail. I get a thing. 1297 00:48:59,947 --> 00:49:01,081 Beep, beep, beep. 1298 00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,500 - What am I trying to beat? - You are trying to- 1299 00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:09,420 - Five. - Five. 1300 00:49:09,420 --> 00:49:11,253 Okay, gotta use Willpower. 1301 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:15,930 - Failed. - Failed. 1302 00:49:15,930 --> 00:49:18,630 He throws you off his back 1303 00:49:18,630 --> 00:49:20,790 just in time to breathe fire on you 1304 00:49:20,790 --> 00:49:22,560 and Bat Child simultaneously. 1305 00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,480 I'm gonna roll in the Box of Doom. 1306 00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:25,778 Fire coming your way. 1307 00:49:25,778 --> 00:49:28,170 Here's the deal with fire damage. 1308 00:49:28,170 --> 00:49:32,430 If you are able to dodge this, 1309 00:49:32,430 --> 00:49:35,010 you can potentially add your Celerity if you have, 1310 00:49:35,010 --> 00:49:36,330 I think it's like Catlike Reflexes. 1311 00:49:36,330 --> 00:49:38,340 - Yeah, Rapid Reflexes. - You have Rapid Reflexes. 1312 00:49:38,340 --> 00:49:43,050 So you can roll Dexterity plus Celerity in that moment 1313 00:49:43,050 --> 00:49:45,480 to try to avoid. 1314 00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,760 If you have Fortitude, you can also 1315 00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:49,440 just roll Fortitude to attempt 1316 00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,870 to withstand the fire damage. 1317 00:49:51,870 --> 00:49:53,850 - Don't have Fortitude. - I have Fortitude. 1318 00:49:53,850 --> 00:49:56,503 I only one in Celerity and two in Dex. 1319 00:49:56,503 --> 00:49:57,336 I have one in Fortitude. 1320 00:49:57,336 --> 00:49:58,980 I'm gonna roll Box of Doom. 1321 00:49:58,980 --> 00:49:59,910 However many successes 1322 00:49:59,910 --> 00:50:02,610 is however much Aggravated damage is coming your way. 1323 00:50:02,610 --> 00:50:04,325 I'm rolling so fucking bad. 1324 00:50:08,010 --> 00:50:10,170 Wow. A garbage roll. 1325 00:50:10,170 --> 00:50:11,010 Great. Oof. 1326 00:50:11,010 --> 00:50:13,890 One Aggravated damage coming your way. 1327 00:50:13,890 --> 00:50:14,760 - Okay. - So you need only 1328 00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:18,180 a single success on your Fortitude die. 1329 00:50:18,180 --> 00:50:21,150 Is it just Fortitude or Fortitude, Stamina or? 1330 00:50:21,150 --> 00:50:22,620 Unfortunately, because it's Aggravated damage, 1331 00:50:22,620 --> 00:50:24,274 - it's only Fortitude. - Just Fortitude. 1332 00:50:24,274 --> 00:50:25,255 - Okay, if I roll one die. - Like you can't use 1333 00:50:25,255 --> 00:50:26,734 your normal toughness to withstand it, essentially. 1334 00:50:26,734 --> 00:50:30,003 - But I can Blood Surge? - You can Blood Surge. 1335 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:32,520 Yes. 1336 00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,380 I have a lot of Hunger now. 1337 00:50:34,380 --> 00:50:36,213 - I'm at four Hunger. - Okay. 1338 00:50:37,057 --> 00:50:39,210 Okay, so I'm gonna do Celerity. 1339 00:50:39,210 --> 00:50:41,633 - Hell yeah. - I got two successes. 1340 00:50:41,633 --> 00:50:44,100 - Mm-hmm. - Can I make it- 1341 00:50:44,100 --> 00:50:48,300 Use my Zealotry because literally my man is in the way. 1342 00:50:48,300 --> 00:50:50,370 - Yeah. - Can I use my Zealotry 1343 00:50:50,370 --> 00:50:53,370 to make it a messy critical to help if he needs help? 1344 00:50:53,370 --> 00:50:55,020 - Hell yeah. - I'm gonna do the same thing 1345 00:50:55,020 --> 00:50:56,427 and messy critical 'cause I got a two 1346 00:50:56,427 --> 00:50:57,780 and I also have Zealotry. 1347 00:50:57,780 --> 00:50:59,070 Okay. Hell yeah. 1348 00:50:59,070 --> 00:51:02,040 You guys both are full vampires here on Mill Road. 1349 00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:03,639 You guys eat the bear? 1350 00:51:04,514 --> 00:51:05,880 It's 2:00 AM. 1351 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,910 Right now it's like late, late, late in the town. 1352 00:51:08,910 --> 00:51:13,910 However, a big gout of fire is breathed on the road. 1353 00:51:14,250 --> 00:51:15,266 You don't know how much time you have, 1354 00:51:15,266 --> 00:51:19,170 but both of you are visibly- Your fangs are fully distended. 1355 00:51:19,170 --> 00:51:20,280 Jaws unlocked. 1356 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,710 If something catches on me, 1357 00:51:22,710 --> 00:51:25,740 can I basically, as it hits my cloak, whip it around 1358 00:51:25,740 --> 00:51:27,093 and try to throw it back on the- 1359 00:51:27,093 --> 00:51:28,530 - Yeah. - Hell yes. 1360 00:51:28,530 --> 00:51:30,630 How many successes did you roll to avoid? 1361 00:51:30,630 --> 00:51:33,060 Two, which I turned into a messy critical. 1362 00:51:33,060 --> 00:51:34,394 Turned to a messy critical, gotcha. 1363 00:51:34,394 --> 00:51:37,860 I think you basically see that that move works. 1364 00:51:37,860 --> 00:51:40,080 On two successes, you're like, "Okay, 1365 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:41,670 if we need to produce fire somehow 1366 00:51:41,670 --> 00:51:44,340 the next time this thing breeds fire, I'll be able to do-" 1367 00:51:44,340 --> 00:51:47,100 You basically use your second success there 1368 00:51:47,100 --> 00:51:49,620 to ready that action the next time this thing breaths fire. 1369 00:51:49,620 --> 00:51:50,775 Okay. Great. 1370 00:51:50,775 --> 00:51:51,750 It is once again 1371 00:51:51,750 --> 00:51:54,900 - Zaeth's turn. - We're over here? 1372 00:51:54,900 --> 00:51:55,860 - Mm-hmm. - Kind of? 1373 00:51:55,860 --> 00:51:57,510 - By the weed store sort of? - Yeah. 1374 00:51:57,510 --> 00:52:00,880 Did the bear explode or it's not... 1375 00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,779 - Oh yeah. - Hmm? 1376 00:52:02,779 --> 00:52:04,700 How did the fire seem to affect the Gumberoo? 1377 00:52:04,700 --> 00:52:06,660 It came out of its nostrils and mouth 1378 00:52:06,660 --> 00:52:08,790 in a cone that went away from its body. 1379 00:52:08,790 --> 00:52:09,740 It went- 1380 00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:12,990 I'm gonna follow the way that they went, 1381 00:52:12,990 --> 00:52:16,620 and I'm looking for the first car I see over here 1382 00:52:16,620 --> 00:52:18,630 and I'm gonna try to hotwire it real fast. 1383 00:52:18,630 --> 00:52:21,068 I'm on Ghorse, chasing after them. 1384 00:52:21,068 --> 00:52:22,680 - Hell yeah. - And I hotwire a car. 1385 00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:23,950 Hell yeah. Go ahead and give me- 1386 00:52:23,950 --> 00:52:26,340 I have Larceny Hotwiring. 1387 00:52:26,340 --> 00:52:29,460 Hotwire it instantly will be a difficulty five 1388 00:52:29,460 --> 00:52:31,830 Dexterity plus Larceny. 1389 00:52:31,830 --> 00:52:34,920 But you can also use your specialty here. 1390 00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,190 Okay. I am going to Blood Surge. 1391 00:52:38,190 --> 00:52:39,026 Hell yeah. 1392 00:52:40,354 --> 00:52:42,112 Okay. Don't get any Hunger. 1393 00:52:43,230 --> 00:52:44,063 Let's see. 1394 00:52:45,169 --> 00:52:46,002 Shit. 1395 00:52:46,002 --> 00:52:46,883 All right. 1396 00:52:49,470 --> 00:52:51,300 What was the difficulty you said? 1397 00:52:51,300 --> 00:52:52,923 Difficulty is five. 1398 00:52:55,740 --> 00:52:57,249 - That's five. - Hell yeah. 1399 00:52:58,082 --> 00:52:59,220 You leap off of Ghorse. 1400 00:52:59,220 --> 00:53:01,172 Just go through the windshield of a car? 1401 00:53:01,172 --> 00:53:02,370 Go through the windshield. Blam. 1402 00:53:02,370 --> 00:53:04,230 You are in the car, you reach down 1403 00:53:04,230 --> 00:53:08,310 and basically one-handed hotwire the car. 1404 00:53:08,310 --> 00:53:10,620 I'm just going to drive it straight at the Gumberoo 1405 00:53:10,620 --> 00:53:12,153 and dive out of the car. 1406 00:53:14,580 --> 00:53:16,200 Hell yeah. Go ahead. 1407 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:20,640 Give me... This is going to be Dex plus Drive 1408 00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,643 with an additional four damage from crashing the car. 1409 00:53:25,298 --> 00:53:27,210 How does the four damage impact? 1410 00:53:27,210 --> 00:53:28,573 It just means that you add four. 1411 00:53:28,573 --> 00:53:31,770 If you get one success you get five successes, right? 1412 00:53:31,770 --> 00:53:32,670 - Okay. - You just add four 1413 00:53:32,670 --> 00:53:33,503 if you succeed. 1414 00:53:33,503 --> 00:53:36,000 I feel like narratively, 1415 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,180 Zaeth should have a specialty in abandoning vehicles. 1416 00:53:39,180 --> 00:53:40,013 I love that. 1417 00:53:40,013 --> 00:53:41,190 Yep. A hundred percent. 1418 00:53:41,190 --> 00:53:42,023 Great. 1419 00:53:43,650 --> 00:53:46,339 I Blood Surged on this turn so I can't do it again. 1420 00:53:46,339 --> 00:53:47,744 - Is that? - Yes, that's correct. 1421 00:53:47,744 --> 00:53:48,577 Okay, great. 1422 00:53:48,577 --> 00:53:51,120 All right, so this is Dex plus Drive. 1423 00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:52,800 This thing does not have a high Dexterity. 1424 00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,170 - Okay. - It only rolls one success. 1425 00:53:55,170 --> 00:53:57,126 So it's gonna cancel out one of your successes. 1426 00:53:57,993 --> 00:54:01,050 - I think that's just two. - Okay. Two successes. 1427 00:54:01,050 --> 00:54:02,430 It cancels out one 1428 00:54:02,430 --> 00:54:04,860 but that one success still means you deal 1429 00:54:04,860 --> 00:54:06,510 five points of damage. 1430 00:54:06,510 --> 00:54:09,840 You guys see an old Buick slams into the side 1431 00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:10,890 of the Gumberoo 1432 00:54:10,890 --> 00:54:13,107 as Zaeth dips out the window again. 1433 00:54:13,107 --> 00:54:16,560 The Gumberoo rolls a couple times down the street, injured. 1434 00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:17,580 This thing looks like it might have 1435 00:54:17,580 --> 00:54:21,030 a fucking heavy dose of health, right? 1436 00:54:21,030 --> 00:54:23,880 However, it has moved further down the street 1437 00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,800 in the direction of this weed thing, 1438 00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,160 and being away from the sources of its ire, 1439 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:30,807 you see it looks up 1440 00:54:30,807 --> 00:54:33,120 and looking down here to this other road 1441 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:34,290 that leads into the town, 1442 00:54:34,290 --> 00:54:37,200 it begins to charge down Mill Road, 1443 00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:38,940 its eyes on the far hill. 1444 00:54:38,940 --> 00:54:41,520 But it is getting closer to the weed store right now. 1445 00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,760 - HJ, your turn. - Okay, I pop in 1446 00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,220 where all the equipment and stuff is, 1447 00:54:47,220 --> 00:54:50,010 and I go to if there's any welding stuff. 1448 00:54:50,010 --> 00:54:51,630 - Yeah. - Grab a blow torch 1449 00:54:51,630 --> 00:54:53,550 - and run towards them. - Hell yeah. 1450 00:54:53,550 --> 00:54:54,750 You grab a blow torch, 1451 00:54:54,750 --> 00:54:56,790 are sprinting down the street after them. 1452 00:54:56,790 --> 00:54:58,560 You've got an active blow torch here. 1453 00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:00,390 I'm gonna say you spend your turn just grabbing that 1454 00:55:00,390 --> 00:55:01,410 and closing distance, 1455 00:55:01,410 --> 00:55:02,600 sprinting down the street as fast as you can. 1456 00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:04,860 Cool, I'm trying to have it cut from Mill 1457 00:55:04,860 --> 00:55:06,810 towards the weed shop, if I can catch up. 1458 00:55:06,810 --> 00:55:07,770 Okay, you wanna get 1459 00:55:07,770 --> 00:55:09,960 on the other side of it over here? 1460 00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:11,190 Yeah or even on its side 1461 00:55:11,190 --> 00:55:13,005 or just pop the blow torch thing 1462 00:55:13,005 --> 00:55:15,030 to have it cut towards the weed store. 1463 00:55:15,030 --> 00:55:16,323 Hell yes. 1464 00:55:16,323 --> 00:55:18,276 Madelaine, Tyler gets back to you. 1465 00:55:19,470 --> 00:55:21,600 He's taken a picture of a big box store 1466 00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,220 with a bunch of Yankee candles. 1467 00:55:23,220 --> 00:55:24,723 Great. I sent him a selfie. 1468 00:55:25,890 --> 00:55:30,810 And then I go: Tyler, white plain candles, no scent. 1469 00:55:30,810 --> 00:55:32,430 I said no scent, Tyler. 1470 00:55:32,430 --> 00:55:33,900 He responds back, "Got it." 1471 00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:35,442 You're not gonna send me a selfie? 1472 00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:37,860 You see he sends you a selfie back. 1473 00:55:37,860 --> 00:55:39,600 He is sweating bullets. 1474 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:40,920 It looks like he's been running 1475 00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:42,450 at full tilt through the store. 1476 00:55:42,450 --> 00:55:44,040 He has four shopping carts 1477 00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:45,780 filled with scented and unscented candles. 1478 00:55:45,780 --> 00:55:47,093 Great. 1479 00:55:47,093 --> 00:55:49,005 They're all like nutmeg mango. 1480 00:55:49,838 --> 00:55:51,390 I'm hearing the craziness 1481 00:55:51,390 --> 00:55:52,380 that's happening outside. 1482 00:55:52,380 --> 00:55:53,850 You are hearing the craziness happening outside. 1483 00:55:53,850 --> 00:55:57,235 Can I Rouse to use my premonition- 1484 00:55:57,235 --> 00:55:58,560 - Yes, you can. - ...to find out 1485 00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,120 what it's trying to get to 1486 00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:04,080 or whatever information around this that might be useful. 1487 00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:05,373 - You can. - Great. 1488 00:56:06,660 --> 00:56:07,893 - I succeed. - Hell yeah. 1489 00:56:07,893 --> 00:56:11,130 You get a premonition. Off in the hills 1490 00:56:11,130 --> 00:56:15,000 of the Douglas Farms, the Golden Bounty Farms, 1491 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:20,000 you see, amongst various hay bales outside of a red barn, 1492 00:56:20,220 --> 00:56:23,790 that there looks like a massive stone slab 1493 00:56:23,790 --> 00:56:26,580 that appears to have a groove in the side 1494 00:56:26,580 --> 00:56:28,473 running off to drain liquid. 1495 00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:32,070 Blood sacrifice? 1496 00:56:32,070 --> 00:56:34,290 And you see that there are a number 1497 00:56:34,290 --> 00:56:37,980 of massive twig-based sculptures 1498 00:56:37,980 --> 00:56:42,360 sort of made of pine boughs looming over in this space 1499 00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:45,120 that are hanging from vines from various trees 1500 00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:46,533 around this farm yard. 1501 00:56:48,090 --> 00:56:49,650 And that's what it's trying to get to? 1502 00:56:49,650 --> 00:56:51,750 Standing on the altar, 1503 00:56:51,750 --> 00:56:54,660 work boots, Carhartt jacket, 1504 00:56:54,660 --> 00:56:59,100 you see his flannel shirt fully undone 1505 00:56:59,100 --> 00:57:01,980 and fully erect is Boyd Douglas 1506 00:57:01,980 --> 00:57:03,579 who is screaming- 1507 00:57:06,345 --> 00:57:08,250 "Come to the sound of my voice! 1508 00:57:08,250 --> 00:57:10,413 - Gumberoo." - He wants it? 1509 00:57:10,413 --> 00:57:12,150 He's the Jack of the Pines? 1510 00:57:12,150 --> 00:57:15,061 A pervert for real! 1511 00:57:15,061 --> 00:57:18,164 Oh my god, he tried to fuck the bear. Kill it! 1512 00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:21,687 Oh my god, that's so nasty. 1513 00:57:21,687 --> 00:57:23,700 And I've lived for hundreds of years 1514 00:57:23,700 --> 00:57:26,190 and that's the nastiest thing I've ever seen. 1515 00:57:26,190 --> 00:57:28,530 You get this premonition of Boyd Douglas 1516 00:57:28,530 --> 00:57:31,050 casting some kind of blood sorcery up on this altar. 1517 00:57:31,050 --> 00:57:32,598 He left his boots on? 1518 00:57:33,431 --> 00:57:34,920 So nasty, makes it worse. 1519 00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,080 Make him more naked. 1520 00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:38,430 One of them is so naked. 1521 00:57:38,430 --> 00:57:40,710 One of them so close. 1522 00:57:40,710 --> 00:57:42,788 I do hate to say, he did have his hat on. 1523 00:57:42,788 --> 00:57:45,014 Oh no! 1524 00:57:45,014 --> 00:57:46,539 That's so down low behavior. 1525 00:57:46,539 --> 00:57:47,610 Tell me he doesn't have a watch on. 1526 00:57:47,610 --> 00:57:49,117 Watch. He was holding his phone. 1527 00:57:49,117 --> 00:57:51,603 Whoa. 1528 00:57:51,603 --> 00:57:52,800 Whoa. 1529 00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:54,450 There's porn on the phone, right? 1530 00:57:54,450 --> 00:57:56,190 No, it was an open email inbox. 1531 00:57:56,190 --> 00:57:59,280 - Oh no. Psychotic! - Psychotic! 1532 00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,120 - Psychotic! - Psychotic. 1533 00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:01,953 Per your last email. 1534 00:58:01,953 --> 00:58:02,910 Yeah, just had to get his shirt open 1535 00:58:02,910 --> 00:58:04,470 to do a weird blood rune on his chest 1536 00:58:04,470 --> 00:58:05,303 and then pants slightly down. 1537 00:58:05,303 --> 00:58:10,080 Trying to come with your email open challenge, 2027. 1538 00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:12,150 Glance at the most recent email you have 1539 00:58:12,150 --> 00:58:14,133 and try to still come. 1540 00:58:14,133 --> 00:58:15,919 - Bet you can't. - Bet you can't. 1541 00:58:15,919 --> 00:58:17,340 - Bet you can't. - Madelaine, you call out 1542 00:58:17,340 --> 00:58:18,510 "Kill it, kill it, kill it." 1543 00:58:18,510 --> 00:58:20,580 - Darkness Man, it is your turn. - All right. 1544 00:58:20,580 --> 00:58:23,190 This thing is a little bit past you, but surging down. 1545 00:58:23,190 --> 00:58:24,660 It's basically come, 1546 00:58:24,660 --> 00:58:26,790 it's like right down here, essentially. 1547 00:58:26,790 --> 00:58:27,623 Okay, great. 1548 00:58:27,623 --> 00:58:31,650 I'm going to try to get on top of it again. 1549 00:58:31,650 --> 00:58:33,720 Less of a... I'm not gonna be able to 1550 00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:35,460 fully wrestle it where I want it to go. 1551 00:58:35,460 --> 00:58:38,826 So I'm gonna just jump on, grab on, 1552 00:58:38,826 --> 00:58:41,100 and then I wanna basically wait until the moment 1553 00:58:41,100 --> 00:58:42,360 it goes to do its fire 1554 00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,820 and then throw my jacket over its face. 1555 00:58:44,820 --> 00:58:45,660 - Okay. - So that it 1556 00:58:45,660 --> 00:58:48,387 - wafts it back in its own- - Cool. Hell yeah. 1557 00:58:48,387 --> 00:58:49,590 All right, you get your jacket ready 1558 00:58:49,590 --> 00:58:51,570 to make that move happen. 1559 00:58:51,570 --> 00:58:52,830 Bat Child, it is your turn. 1560 00:58:52,830 --> 00:58:55,890 I see that and I'm gonna do the same exact thing. 1561 00:58:55,890 --> 00:58:56,723 Hell yeah. 1562 00:58:56,723 --> 00:58:58,545 You get your move ready to do that at the same time. 1563 00:58:58,545 --> 00:58:59,460 LaVonte, it is you. 1564 00:58:59,460 --> 00:59:01,200 I'm gonna get a notepad out and write down the name 1565 00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:05,071 of every business with a security camera in this complex. 1566 00:59:05,071 --> 00:59:07,230 - Oh, smart. - Hell yes. 1567 00:59:07,230 --> 00:59:08,730 You do exactly that. 1568 00:59:08,730 --> 00:59:10,080 It is its turn again. 1569 00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,980 It is once again going to breathe fire on the two of you. 1570 00:59:13,980 --> 00:59:15,720 I'm gonna roll in the Box of Doom for how many successes 1571 00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:17,343 you're trying to avoid here. 1572 00:59:19,110 --> 00:59:21,270 Once again, garbage roll! 1573 00:59:21,270 --> 00:59:24,390 Only one success in the Box of Doom. 1574 00:59:24,390 --> 00:59:25,223 You know what? 1575 00:59:25,223 --> 00:59:26,056 Just to keep it spicy, 1576 00:59:26,056 --> 00:59:27,820 I am gonna have it use Willpower here. 1577 00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,620 Okay, three successes. 1578 00:59:31,620 --> 00:59:32,940 So I'm gonna say, 1579 00:59:32,940 --> 00:59:36,482 you guys have three Aggravated damage coming your way. 1580 00:59:36,482 --> 00:59:37,315 Okay. 1581 00:59:37,315 --> 00:59:38,148 Here's how we're gonna do it. 1582 00:59:38,148 --> 00:59:40,140 I'm gonna ask for each of you guys 1583 00:59:40,140 --> 00:59:42,330 to give me some Willpower rolls, 1584 00:59:42,330 --> 00:59:45,282 difficulty of one, in this moment. 1585 00:59:46,166 --> 00:59:48,493 - I only have two left. - I have five. 1586 00:59:48,493 --> 00:59:50,255 You have five. So go ahead and roll. 1587 00:59:50,255 --> 00:59:51,255 You'll do one. 1588 00:59:52,140 --> 00:59:53,370 - I crit. - I failed. 1589 00:59:53,370 --> 00:59:55,050 So Darkness Man, Bat Child. 1590 00:59:55,050 --> 00:59:58,500 You, Darkness Man, have this insane feeling 1591 00:59:58,500 --> 01:00:00,030 that you are about to be burned to death. 1592 01:00:00,030 --> 01:00:00,863 - Mm-hmm. - So, 1593 01:00:00,863 --> 01:00:02,280 what I'm gonna ask is this. 1594 01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:04,440 I'm gonna ask you to assemble a dice pool 1595 01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,800 that is simultaneously you trying to avoid 1596 01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,950 those three points of Aggravated damage. 1597 01:00:10,950 --> 01:00:14,040 If you can get one additional success, 1598 01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:15,750 you will get the coat over it 1599 01:00:15,750 --> 01:00:17,310 with a Dexterity, Melee check. 1600 01:00:17,310 --> 01:00:18,510 - Okay. - Okay? 1601 01:00:18,510 --> 01:00:21,120 Can I just see that this has all gone to shit 1602 01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:24,180 and actually just change what my reaction is 1603 01:00:24,180 --> 01:00:25,660 to make my mouth into... 1604 01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:28,860 to make my mouth into a portal to the abyss 1605 01:00:28,860 --> 01:00:31,860 to swallow the fire to save Darkness Man? 1606 01:00:31,860 --> 01:00:35,280 You will take that Aggravated damage if you do that. 1607 01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,710 And it wouldn't help Darkness Man? 1608 01:00:37,710 --> 01:00:39,960 I think it potentially could. 1609 01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:41,100 If you would, at this last minute, 1610 01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:45,450 let's see if Darkness Man can pull this off. 1611 01:00:45,450 --> 01:00:50,450 So you are looking to do Dexterity plus Celerity 1612 01:00:50,670 --> 01:00:52,680 to cancel out the damage. 1613 01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:55,710 If you get one additional success past three, 1614 01:00:55,710 --> 01:00:58,320 you'll be able to immediately roll a Melee check 1615 01:00:58,320 --> 01:00:59,970 - to blow up the bear. - All right. 1616 01:00:59,970 --> 01:01:03,244 I'm pretty screwed 'cause I don't have... 1617 01:01:03,244 --> 01:01:05,913 I have so many blood dice, I can't do Willpower. 1618 01:01:06,780 --> 01:01:10,620 Oh, I can- If I Blood Surge, I'll have five if I fail. 1619 01:01:10,620 --> 01:01:12,733 So I kind of don't want to go to- 1620 01:01:12,733 --> 01:01:13,740 I don't want to frenzy. 1621 01:01:13,740 --> 01:01:15,033 All right, I'll just... 1622 01:01:17,249 --> 01:01:20,469 - Two and a Bestial failure. - Two and a Bestial failure. 1623 01:01:20,469 --> 01:01:22,680 No, but you get to roll four, right? 1624 01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,420 Oh, no, you don't get to roll more. 1625 01:01:24,420 --> 01:01:25,320 Oh, no, you actually do get to roll. 1626 01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:26,760 Your Hunger does allow you to roll more. 1627 01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:27,973 - Yeah, that's right. - Okay, one more. 1628 01:01:29,190 --> 01:01:31,170 - That's a three. - Three. Three successes. 1629 01:01:31,170 --> 01:01:32,003 So you see, 1630 01:01:32,003 --> 01:01:34,075 you get your jacket up in front of you 1631 01:01:34,075 --> 01:01:38,430 and fully prevent yourself from being incinerated. 1632 01:01:38,430 --> 01:01:40,200 You don't take any damage. 1633 01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:41,520 You can see at that last minute, 1634 01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:42,900 you're like, "Okay, I'm gonna do it!" 1635 01:01:42,900 --> 01:01:44,310 And then you're just like, you're about to die. 1636 01:01:44,310 --> 01:01:45,240 - Fire's gonna burn. - Fire! 1637 01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:46,500 It's the only thing that hurts you. 1638 01:01:46,500 --> 01:01:47,460 That and the sun. 1639 01:01:47,460 --> 01:01:49,020 And get your jacket up. 1640 01:01:49,020 --> 01:01:50,040 You do not frenzy. 1641 01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:51,300 You do not lose your will here. 1642 01:01:51,300 --> 01:01:53,790 Also, you've hemmed in the fire on half of it. 1643 01:01:53,790 --> 01:01:56,850 You, now knowing that you don't have to save Darkness Man, 1644 01:01:56,850 --> 01:01:58,943 can roll your readied action here. 1645 01:01:58,943 --> 01:02:01,326 Yeah, I just wanna push the fire back on it 1646 01:02:01,326 --> 01:02:02,159 - so it's blows up. - What I'll say is this, 1647 01:02:02,159 --> 01:02:04,260 because you succeeded on your Willpower, 1648 01:02:04,260 --> 01:02:08,042 you can just roll a full attack roll 1649 01:02:08,042 --> 01:02:09,900 in which you only need one success. 1650 01:02:09,900 --> 01:02:11,610 In other words, I'll ask you to do one of two things. 1651 01:02:11,610 --> 01:02:14,040 You either have to split your dice pool 1652 01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:18,600 to partially avoid the Aggravated damage and go for it. 1653 01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:19,860 But if you don't care about 1654 01:02:19,860 --> 01:02:20,850 taking the Aggravated damage- 1655 01:02:20,850 --> 01:02:21,683 I'll take the Aggravated damage. 1656 01:02:21,683 --> 01:02:23,280 - Great. - It was only three, right? 1657 01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:24,453 - Only three. - Okay. 1658 01:02:25,740 --> 01:02:28,200 - Can I use kumite? - Yes, you can. 1659 01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,510 Okay, so I get an extra die. 1660 01:02:30,510 --> 01:02:31,427 I'm gonna Rouse. 1661 01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:34,710 Okay, take it. 1662 01:02:34,710 --> 01:02:35,729 Take a Hunger. 1663 01:02:38,460 --> 01:02:40,680 Okay. 1664 01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,503 Okay. I like what we're seeing. 1665 01:02:44,340 --> 01:02:45,318 Willpower. 1666 01:02:46,170 --> 01:02:47,163 Okay. 1667 01:02:48,060 --> 01:02:49,500 - Eight. - Eight. 1668 01:02:49,500 --> 01:02:50,970 Incredible. 1669 01:02:50,970 --> 01:02:52,370 How much health do you have? 1670 01:02:52,370 --> 01:02:54,090 - I have five. I'm at full. - You're at full. 1671 01:02:54,090 --> 01:02:57,481 Okay, so you take three points of Aggravated damage. 1672 01:02:57,481 --> 01:02:59,050 Bat Child! 1673 01:03:00,660 --> 01:03:02,100 - It's worth it. - In this moment, 1674 01:03:02,100 --> 01:03:04,950 you see both of you getting your jackets up, 1675 01:03:04,950 --> 01:03:06,750 you surround the bear, the fire 1676 01:03:06,750 --> 01:03:09,240 hits that greasy creosote in its neck, 1677 01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,065 and you see it turns around and goes- 1678 01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:19,044 You guys watch as the Gumberoo explodes. 1679 01:03:19,044 --> 01:03:22,766 Whoa, whoa. 1680 01:03:22,766 --> 01:03:23,605 What? 1681 01:03:24,797 --> 01:03:28,300 ♪ There goes my hero ♪ 1682 01:03:28,300 --> 01:03:30,269 ♪ Watch him as he goes ♪ 1683 01:03:32,483 --> 01:03:35,040 Right now I just re-rolled. It's fire damage. 1684 01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:37,830 It rolls again as it dies. 1685 01:03:37,830 --> 01:03:40,770 Two Aggravated damage is coming towards each of you. 1686 01:03:40,770 --> 01:03:45,030 If you cannot dodge or Fortitude this, Bat Child, 1687 01:03:45,030 --> 01:03:47,520 this I believe is destruction. 1688 01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:49,140 I have two. No, I have two left. 1689 01:03:49,140 --> 01:03:50,150 You have two, oh, two health. 1690 01:03:50,150 --> 01:03:52,107 Two health. 'Cause I took three damage, right? 1691 01:03:52,107 --> 01:03:53,190 - Yes. You have three damage. - So, five. 1692 01:03:53,190 --> 01:03:54,510 But there's two Aggravated damage, 1693 01:03:54,510 --> 01:03:56,250 which would drive you all the way to zero. 1694 01:03:56,250 --> 01:03:57,083 - Okay. - So there's two 1695 01:03:57,083 --> 01:03:57,916 Aggravated damage coming. 1696 01:03:57,916 --> 01:03:58,749 Yes, Darkness Man? 1697 01:03:58,749 --> 01:04:02,370 Can I take some damage for Bat Child? 1698 01:04:02,370 --> 01:04:03,203 I'll say this. 1699 01:04:03,203 --> 01:04:06,630 If you submit to not trying to protect yourself at all 1700 01:04:06,630 --> 01:04:08,580 from the fire, I will allow you 1701 01:04:08,580 --> 01:04:12,240 to make a Dexterity, Athletics 1702 01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,190 to protect Bat Child in this moment. 1703 01:04:14,190 --> 01:04:16,140 Okay and it's three damage? 1704 01:04:16,140 --> 01:04:17,550 It is two damage coming your way. 1705 01:04:17,550 --> 01:04:18,383 Great. Okay. 1706 01:04:18,383 --> 01:04:20,230 - I am gonna do that then. - Hell yeah. 1707 01:04:20,230 --> 01:04:24,930 Okay, so I'll do Dexterity, Athletics, which I don't have. 1708 01:04:24,930 --> 01:04:26,640 Great, I'll try. 1709 01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:28,560 Can I use my Celerity Rapid Reflexes? 1710 01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:29,877 - You can. - Great. 1711 01:04:33,690 --> 01:04:35,010 - Two. - Two successes. 1712 01:04:35,010 --> 01:04:38,130 You cancel out two Aggravated damage coming to Bat Child. 1713 01:04:38,130 --> 01:04:41,430 Bat Child, you see Darkness Man leaps over and covers you. 1714 01:04:41,430 --> 01:04:44,610 You take two points of Aggravated damage 1715 01:04:44,610 --> 01:04:48,270 plus another two points of Aggravated damage. 1716 01:04:48,270 --> 01:04:49,740 - Oh. - What? 1717 01:04:49,740 --> 01:04:51,690 As you fully expose yourself to the flame, 1718 01:04:51,690 --> 01:04:53,383 you cover Bat Child. 1719 01:04:54,419 --> 01:04:55,677 What health are you at? 1720 01:04:55,677 --> 01:04:57,780 - I still have two health. - Oh. 1721 01:04:57,780 --> 01:05:01,710 You guys see on top of you a smoking Bat Child 1722 01:05:01,710 --> 01:05:03,450 and Darkness Man 1723 01:05:03,450 --> 01:05:06,676 covered in an embrace, smoking here on Mill Road. 1724 01:05:06,676 --> 01:05:08,340 - Are you okay? - Right outside 1725 01:05:08,340 --> 01:05:11,490 of the largest Christmas tree in the Pacific Northwest. 1726 01:05:11,490 --> 01:05:12,900 Are you okay? 1727 01:05:12,900 --> 01:05:14,580 We did it. We blew him up. 1728 01:05:14,580 --> 01:05:17,309 We saved the city. 1729 01:05:17,309 --> 01:05:19,102 We saved Purpee. 1730 01:05:19,102 --> 01:05:20,570 The Christmas tree starts to go up. 1731 01:05:23,153 --> 01:05:24,997 We're gonna keep that around until Valentine's Day 1732 01:05:24,997 --> 01:05:26,612 and decorate it for Valentine's Day. 1733 01:05:28,959 --> 01:05:31,069 I get in the car and I drive it at the Christmas tree. 1734 01:05:32,820 --> 01:05:34,140 You see, as it starts to go up, 1735 01:05:34,140 --> 01:05:35,910 it does become a huge threat. 1736 01:05:35,910 --> 01:05:37,590 You smash the car into the tree. 1737 01:05:37,590 --> 01:05:40,025 - Away from the bar. - Away from the bar. 1738 01:05:40,025 --> 01:05:41,610 It falls away from Mike's. 1739 01:05:41,610 --> 01:05:43,650 - Into the weed store. - Into the weed store. 1740 01:05:43,650 --> 01:05:45,010 Oh yeah. You wanna knock it into the weed store? 1741 01:05:45,010 --> 01:05:46,770 Is it tall enough to go this way? 1742 01:05:46,770 --> 01:05:49,680 - Yeah, it's huge. - Right. 1743 01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:51,600 Great. Give me Dexterity plus Drive. 1744 01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:53,430 And then we have plausible deniability 1745 01:05:53,430 --> 01:05:56,610 because our bar caught on fire. 1746 01:05:56,610 --> 01:05:57,443 - Exactly. - Hell yeah. 1747 01:05:57,443 --> 01:05:58,616 It's the weed heads. 1748 01:05:59,782 --> 01:06:01,110 It's weed heads. 1749 01:06:02,010 --> 01:06:04,170 - Ooh. - That's two. 1750 01:06:04,170 --> 01:06:05,760 - Two successes? - And I'm gonna use 1751 01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:07,060 - a Willpower. - Hell yeah. 1752 01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:08,753 So three. 1753 01:06:08,753 --> 01:06:10,410 You smash the car into the tree. 1754 01:06:10,410 --> 01:06:13,380 A flaming Christmas tree in mid-January 1755 01:06:13,380 --> 01:06:17,130 comes smashing into the Green Aisle, 1756 01:06:17,130 --> 01:06:21,360 a Douglas-owned weed establishment here in town. 1757 01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:24,570 Smashing into it, the Gumberoo vanishes into ash, 1758 01:06:24,570 --> 01:06:27,150 and in the distance you see a crispy Bat Child 1759 01:06:27,150 --> 01:06:28,080 and Darkness Man. 1760 01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:30,510 LaVonte, you're getting all the business names here, 1761 01:06:30,510 --> 01:06:32,760 watching as the tree smashes into the Green Aisle. 1762 01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:34,080 The fire starts to spread 1763 01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:36,480 slightly to the exterior of Mike's. 1764 01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:40,650 And also there is no active fire department in Purpee. 1765 01:06:40,650 --> 01:06:42,360 So what do you guys, 1766 01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:43,676 what do you guys wanna do? 1767 01:06:43,676 --> 01:06:45,060 What's on fire? 1768 01:06:45,060 --> 01:06:48,312 The tree, the Green Aisle now. 1769 01:06:48,312 --> 01:06:50,700 And it is licking on the outside of Mike's Bar. 1770 01:06:50,700 --> 01:06:55,700 I do have... One of my things is Check the Trunk. 1771 01:06:55,950 --> 01:06:57,540 It's one of my advantages. 1772 01:06:57,540 --> 01:06:58,770 - Yeah. - I have easy access 1773 01:06:58,770 --> 01:07:01,230 to an armory of cache or tools. 1774 01:07:01,230 --> 01:07:04,170 None of these items can exceed the value of something 1775 01:07:04,170 --> 01:07:06,720 a Resources 2 character could access. 1776 01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,612 Can I have a fire extinguisher? 1777 01:07:08,612 --> 01:07:09,570 - Sure. - Can I just find one? 1778 01:07:09,570 --> 01:07:10,960 I mean, we're in the- 1779 01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:12,849 - Mike's would have one, too. - Run into Mike's. 1780 01:07:12,849 --> 01:07:13,682 - Yeah. - Yeah. 1781 01:07:13,682 --> 01:07:15,549 We definitely put the fire out outside of Mike's. 1782 01:07:15,549 --> 01:07:16,382 - Yeah. - Cool. 1783 01:07:16,382 --> 01:07:18,414 I think we let it go nuts with the weed store. 1784 01:07:18,414 --> 01:07:20,700 I think it's gonna get the whole town high. 1785 01:07:20,700 --> 01:07:23,250 So seconds... not that long later, 1786 01:07:23,250 --> 01:07:25,590 you guys see as you guys are standing outside here, 1787 01:07:25,590 --> 01:07:27,330 early morning, you guys see 1788 01:07:27,330 --> 01:07:31,168 - sort of squad car pulls up. - I, into the water. 1789 01:07:31,168 --> 01:07:33,058 Into the water- 1790 01:07:33,058 --> 01:07:34,885 You just get the fuck outta there. 1791 01:07:34,885 --> 01:07:35,940 HJ is gone. 1792 01:07:35,940 --> 01:07:38,730 You see an officer gets up and goes, "Holy shit. 1793 01:07:38,730 --> 01:07:41,340 - What happened here?" - It was insane. 1794 01:07:41,340 --> 01:07:42,265 What happened? 1795 01:07:43,112 --> 01:07:47,610 These two kids had gotten a bear 1796 01:07:47,610 --> 01:07:50,250 and they were filming something, some sort of thing. 1797 01:07:50,250 --> 01:07:51,690 My bar caught on fire. 1798 01:07:51,690 --> 01:07:52,830 That's why I came down here. 1799 01:07:52,830 --> 01:07:53,820 Officer looks over at you and says, 1800 01:07:53,820 --> 01:07:55,110 "You're business owner, you're part owner here?" 1801 01:07:55,110 --> 01:07:57,690 - Yeah. Mike's. - Whatever you need. 1802 01:07:57,690 --> 01:07:58,523 Really? 1803 01:07:58,523 --> 01:08:00,390 If you own this business, then whatever you need, sir. 1804 01:08:00,390 --> 01:08:01,554 You mean that? 1805 01:08:01,554 --> 01:08:02,550 I mean that from the bottom of my heart. 1806 01:08:02,550 --> 01:08:04,797 We are here to protect the business owners of Purpee. 1807 01:08:04,797 --> 01:08:06,420 Oh god. 1808 01:08:06,420 --> 01:08:08,618 You see... You guys hear 1809 01:08:10,535 --> 01:08:14,910 a little moped, and you see a dude gets off his bike. 1810 01:08:14,910 --> 01:08:16,800 - Oh, no. - Absolutely roided. 1811 01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:17,633 - You see he's got- - Farner. 1812 01:08:17,633 --> 01:08:20,781 He's got a full bazooka on his back. 1813 01:08:20,781 --> 01:08:21,690 - Wow. - You see, he goes, 1814 01:08:21,690 --> 01:08:23,253 "Here there. Okay. 1815 01:08:24,328 --> 01:08:25,290 Who's lollygagging? 1816 01:08:25,290 --> 01:08:26,883 Who's up no good." 1817 01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:29,070 I don't know. Some kids. 1818 01:08:29,070 --> 01:08:30,300 I'm LaVonte Worthy. 1819 01:08:30,300 --> 01:08:33,090 - I'm part owner at Mike's Bar. - Yeah, this your car? 1820 01:08:33,090 --> 01:08:34,523 It can't be parked here! 1821 01:08:34,523 --> 01:08:35,726 That's not my car. 1822 01:08:35,726 --> 01:08:37,260 - The car that's on fire? - Is that a cop? 1823 01:08:37,260 --> 01:08:39,467 You see, he looks at you and goes, "No!" 1824 01:08:39,467 --> 01:08:41,310 And he starts to get on his moped 1825 01:08:41,310 --> 01:08:42,803 and scoot away as the other officer- 1826 01:08:42,803 --> 01:08:44,190 - Hey. - Is that Todd? 1827 01:08:44,190 --> 01:08:45,023 Who are you? 1828 01:08:45,023 --> 01:08:45,856 Officer looks and says, "That's Todd." 1829 01:08:45,856 --> 01:08:47,580 I'm at four Hunger. I have to eat Todd, 1830 01:08:47,580 --> 01:08:49,620 - I think, tonight. - I do, too. 1831 01:08:49,620 --> 01:08:51,750 - Officer, look this way. - Yeah? 1832 01:08:51,750 --> 01:08:52,957 I was so scared. 1833 01:08:54,140 --> 01:08:55,405 I was really scared. 1834 01:08:55,405 --> 01:08:56,702 Go eat him. Go eat. 1835 01:08:56,702 --> 01:08:58,470 Go. We got this. 1836 01:08:58,470 --> 01:08:59,303 Look at him. 1837 01:08:59,303 --> 01:09:01,038 So Todd's riding away on a moped, right? 1838 01:09:01,038 --> 01:09:02,422 - On a moped, yeah. - Can I? 1839 01:09:03,480 --> 01:09:05,280 Jump out of the water, stop Todd, 1840 01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:07,680 - and stop him for you? - And grab Todd? 1841 01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:08,580 - Great. - Head off, Todd. 1842 01:09:08,580 --> 01:09:11,470 Do you have a underwater sort of headset? 1843 01:09:11,470 --> 01:09:13,800 I'm going, like, right here. 1844 01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:16,420 Give me Manipulation, Persuasion- 1845 01:09:16,420 --> 01:09:17,372 - Okay. - Great. 1846 01:09:17,372 --> 01:09:19,200 ...against these officers. 1847 01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:21,090 And HJ, Darkness Man, and Bat Child, 1848 01:09:21,090 --> 01:09:22,131 do you wanna pursue Todd Farner? 1849 01:09:22,131 --> 01:09:24,064 I think I'm gonna... 1850 01:09:24,064 --> 01:09:25,139 I'm so hungry. 1851 01:09:25,139 --> 01:09:27,180 But we've already made such a mess today. 1852 01:09:27,180 --> 01:09:29,790 - Yeah, if Todd's by himself- - What's one more broken egg? 1853 01:09:29,790 --> 01:09:31,350 - Yeah, we follow Todd. - Yeah. 1854 01:09:31,350 --> 01:09:34,920 I mean he literally put crosshairs on our car. 1855 01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:36,180 That's true. 1856 01:09:36,180 --> 01:09:39,723 - That's five successes. - Five successes from you. 1857 01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:43,080 One, two, three, four. 1858 01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:45,030 Eight successes. 1859 01:09:45,030 --> 01:09:46,680 I was really in my feels about- 1860 01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:47,910 You see, as you look over, 1861 01:09:47,910 --> 01:09:51,000 you see with a combined total of 13 successes, 1862 01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:52,020 one of the police is walking up 1863 01:09:52,020 --> 01:09:53,790 to the business's security cameras 1864 01:09:53,790 --> 01:09:56,700 and is wiping a magnet over the hard drives 1865 01:09:56,700 --> 01:09:58,620 of the cameras being like, 1866 01:09:58,620 --> 01:10:01,050 "Yeah, the last thing we want- I think it's a great point. 1867 01:10:01,050 --> 01:10:03,812 If kids were to see these stunts or pranks..." 1868 01:10:03,812 --> 01:10:06,500 It would be all over TikTok. 1869 01:10:06,500 --> 01:10:07,333 It'd become a new trend, TikTok. 1870 01:10:07,333 --> 01:10:09,018 - Exactly. - Better just to erase it. 1871 01:10:09,018 --> 01:10:12,030 We don't need to do fire bear stuff anymore. I swear. 1872 01:10:12,030 --> 01:10:14,220 - Can I say something? - Of course. 1873 01:10:14,220 --> 01:10:15,896 Thank you for owning a business. 1874 01:10:17,460 --> 01:10:18,887 Somebody's gotta do it. 1875 01:10:22,410 --> 01:10:24,660 He just smells your clothes deeply 1876 01:10:24,660 --> 01:10:26,550 and says, "I noticed you're bleeding. 1877 01:10:26,550 --> 01:10:27,780 - Have you been attacked?" - Yeah. 1878 01:10:27,780 --> 01:10:30,987 The kids, they pointed the bear at me. 1879 01:10:32,149 --> 01:10:35,567 They said, "Get him. He owns a business." 1880 01:10:38,070 --> 01:10:39,576 Those little fucking communists! 1881 01:10:39,576 --> 01:10:40,601 I swear to god. 1882 01:10:40,601 --> 01:10:42,270 They said, "Get that business owner. 1883 01:10:42,270 --> 01:10:45,090 Get him and his beautiful Italian silk shirt. 1884 01:10:45,090 --> 01:10:46,140 We'll show him." 1885 01:10:46,140 --> 01:10:47,700 We have a good idea who these kids are. 1886 01:10:47,700 --> 01:10:51,090 Oh, well, I can definitely identify them 1887 01:10:51,090 --> 01:10:52,710 if you need me to come down to the precinct. 1888 01:10:52,710 --> 01:10:55,020 - Great. - It's a $500 shirt, 1889 01:10:55,020 --> 01:10:58,470 which I think is grand theft in Oregon. Right? 1890 01:10:58,470 --> 01:11:01,680 See, he nods and says, "You're from East Coast?" 1891 01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:03,025 - Yes. - He looks and says, 1892 01:11:03,025 --> 01:11:06,150 "All right, we're on it. 1893 01:11:06,150 --> 01:11:07,516 Thank you. There's some kids that are always 1894 01:11:07,516 --> 01:11:08,474 messing with bears around here. 1895 01:11:08,474 --> 01:11:09,782 Okay, we'll find out." 1896 01:11:09,782 --> 01:11:11,730 And you see that they get in their car and pull out. 1897 01:11:11,730 --> 01:11:13,863 For the rest of you, you see Todd 1898 01:11:15,540 --> 01:11:17,400 - on his little moped - As soon as he's by himself. 1899 01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:18,630 I mean he's around here. 1900 01:11:18,630 --> 01:11:19,890 - So it's pretty, like- - Yeah. 1901 01:11:19,890 --> 01:11:20,723 There's not much going on. 1902 01:11:20,723 --> 01:11:22,800 I tackle him off the motorcycle 1903 01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:23,633 and try to eat him. 1904 01:11:23,633 --> 01:11:24,665 No roll necessary. 1905 01:11:25,650 --> 01:11:27,480 Todd pulls around and looks over 1906 01:11:27,480 --> 01:11:28,560 and sees the lumbermill 1907 01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:30,510 and it's just like, "Lights on inside. 1908 01:11:30,510 --> 01:11:32,288 That's a violation." 1909 01:11:32,288 --> 01:11:33,319 Lights out! 1910 01:11:35,220 --> 01:11:36,900 Great. You can slake all your Hunger. 1911 01:11:36,900 --> 01:11:38,957 - Yeah. - Wow, huge. 1912 01:11:38,957 --> 01:11:40,500 And I guess we have a bazooka now? 1913 01:11:40,500 --> 01:11:41,755 You guys also have a bazooka. 1914 01:11:43,452 --> 01:11:46,021 - Incredible. - Keep the bazooka. 1915 01:11:46,021 --> 01:11:48,431 Aw, geez. I was so hungry. 1916 01:11:48,431 --> 01:11:50,820 How do I heal this damage? 1917 01:11:50,820 --> 01:11:53,640 Healing Aggravated damage is incredibly challenging. 1918 01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:55,980 You guys are in a lot of trouble. 1919 01:11:55,980 --> 01:11:57,150 I need a sick day. 1920 01:11:57,150 --> 01:11:58,200 You can't have a sick day. 1921 01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:01,225 Our boss and our rivals are coming to dinner. 1922 01:12:01,225 --> 01:12:03,840 It's her birthday. She can have a sick birthday. 1923 01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:05,201 Oh, she's sick on her birthday? 1924 01:12:05,201 --> 01:12:08,104 - Oh my god. - Okay, I might as well work. 1925 01:12:08,104 --> 01:12:09,847 You know what? Have this bazooka. 1926 01:12:09,847 --> 01:12:10,680 Thank you. 1927 01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:11,940 So you guys are going to carry these burns. 1928 01:12:11,940 --> 01:12:15,900 You can only heal one level of Aggravated damage 1929 01:12:15,900 --> 01:12:19,560 by making three Rouse checks at the beginning of a session, 1930 01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:21,633 in addition to the wake-up Rouse check. 1931 01:12:22,650 --> 01:12:24,990 And you have to succeed how many times? 1932 01:12:24,990 --> 01:12:26,430 It removes one level each time- 1933 01:12:26,430 --> 01:12:28,351 - Oh, per. - Per level of damage. 1934 01:12:28,351 --> 01:12:29,850 I should have just made my mouth into a portal 1935 01:12:29,850 --> 01:12:31,830 and mouth kissed it the whole time. 1936 01:12:31,830 --> 01:12:33,507 Well if you mouth kissed it, it wouldn't have blown up. 1937 01:12:33,507 --> 01:12:35,060 And we had to blow it up before it got to- 1938 01:12:35,060 --> 01:12:35,893 I know. That's why I didn't. 1939 01:12:35,893 --> 01:12:38,040 It would've gotten to the Douglases. 1940 01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:39,590 Or it would've blown up in the- 1941 01:12:40,869 --> 01:12:42,630 He was trying to fuck the bear. It was better. 1942 01:12:42,630 --> 01:12:45,707 - Was this the only bear? - This was the only Gumberoo. 1943 01:12:45,707 --> 01:12:46,913 Four more Gumberoos come out- 1944 01:12:46,913 --> 01:12:48,960 Yeah, four more Gumberoos turn the corner, 1945 01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:50,880 each harder than the last. 1946 01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:52,260 I hand LaVonte back his phone. 1947 01:12:52,260 --> 01:12:55,011 Me and Tyler have clearly been sexting. 1948 01:12:55,011 --> 01:12:56,178 - What? - What? 1949 01:12:57,360 --> 01:12:59,400 - From your- - From my phone? 1950 01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:00,810 I got bored. 1951 01:13:00,810 --> 01:13:02,040 I don't have his number. 1952 01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,440 Having defeated the Gumberoo, 1953 01:13:04,440 --> 01:13:06,900 all of you are left wondering 1954 01:13:06,900 --> 01:13:09,870 about what Madelaine saw in her premonition 1955 01:13:09,870 --> 01:13:12,258 with Boyd Douglas astride that altar 1956 01:13:12,258 --> 01:13:13,724 on the Golden Bounty Farm 1957 01:13:13,724 --> 01:13:14,700 and what is to come. 1958 01:13:14,700 --> 01:13:17,910 However, some of your companions here are badly, 1959 01:13:17,910 --> 01:13:19,680 badly injured. 1960 01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:21,120 During that following day, 1961 01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:23,940 Tyler Morimoto gets a whole bunch of candles 1962 01:13:23,940 --> 01:13:28,350 and everything that you need and gets to work such that 1963 01:13:28,350 --> 01:13:31,530 when evening time rolls around, 1964 01:13:31,530 --> 01:13:36,530 you all find yourself awakening in your domicile. 1965 01:13:36,810 --> 01:13:37,857 And I will ask Darkness Man 1966 01:13:37,857 --> 01:13:40,290 and Bat Child if you would like to on this first evening 1967 01:13:40,290 --> 01:13:42,810 attempt to heal some of the Aggravated damage. 1968 01:13:42,810 --> 01:13:44,287 - Yes, that would be great. - Yeah, I would. 1969 01:13:44,287 --> 01:13:47,070 It's going to be, in addition to your normal Rouse checks, 1970 01:13:47,070 --> 01:13:49,710 which everyone needs to make waking up on a new night. 1971 01:13:49,710 --> 01:13:51,270 You guys have to make your normal Rouse check 1972 01:13:51,270 --> 01:13:53,250 and three additional. 1973 01:13:53,250 --> 01:13:56,670 You will automatically heal a point of Aggravated damage, 1974 01:13:56,670 --> 01:13:58,590 but you're making three additional Rouse checks 1975 01:13:58,590 --> 01:14:00,990 'cause you might get way hungrier doing so. 1976 01:14:00,990 --> 01:14:02,700 - Does that make sense? - Okay. 1977 01:14:02,700 --> 01:14:03,533 Yeah. 1978 01:14:03,533 --> 01:14:06,180 What if I'm already at three Hunger? 1979 01:14:06,180 --> 01:14:08,490 - You might frenzy. - So I go to bed- 1980 01:14:08,490 --> 01:14:11,730 You might frenzy on waking up or potentially not. 1981 01:14:11,730 --> 01:14:13,740 If there's anything else you would try to do that night 1982 01:14:13,740 --> 01:14:14,850 before you got- 1983 01:14:14,850 --> 01:14:16,463 You want to go to the... 1984 01:14:19,110 --> 01:14:21,199 What were they called? 1985 01:14:21,199 --> 01:14:22,773 The volunteers. 1986 01:14:22,773 --> 01:14:24,030 Oh yeah, the blood banks. 1987 01:14:24,030 --> 01:14:25,390 Oh yeah! Yeah, you could go and slake two Hunger 1988 01:14:25,390 --> 01:14:28,380 from your guys' herd that night, if you wanted to. 1989 01:14:28,380 --> 01:14:30,090 I could also share some of Todd. 1990 01:14:30,090 --> 01:14:31,350 Yeah, share some of Todd. 1991 01:14:31,350 --> 01:14:33,000 So in that case, each of you only gets rid 1992 01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,040 - of two Hunger doing that. - Gotcha. 1993 01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:36,060 - Cool? - Great. 1994 01:14:36,060 --> 01:14:38,310 Cool. How are we doing Hunger-wise 1995 01:14:38,310 --> 01:14:39,150 for everybody else? 1996 01:14:39,150 --> 01:14:40,617 - What's LaVonte at? - I'm at one. 1997 01:14:40,617 --> 01:14:42,167 - One. - I'm actually four. 1998 01:14:42,167 --> 01:14:43,225 - I'm down to one now. - Zaeth is at four. 1999 01:14:43,225 --> 01:14:44,158 - Madelaine. - Wait, I think I'm at three. 2000 01:14:44,158 --> 01:14:45,600 Because I think I got rid of one earlier. 2001 01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:47,430 Cool. One. Okay, Gotcha. 2002 01:14:47,430 --> 01:14:48,600 Zaeth's a little bit hungry. 2003 01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:50,130 So Darkness Man and Bat Child, 2004 01:14:50,130 --> 01:14:52,137 you guys are gonna roll your normal Rouse check 2005 01:14:52,137 --> 01:14:54,300 - and three additional. - Pass. 2006 01:14:54,300 --> 01:14:56,190 - Pass the first one. - Fail. 2007 01:14:56,190 --> 01:14:58,695 And then three fucking fails. 2008 01:14:58,695 --> 01:15:00,761 Full Hunger. Five. 2009 01:15:00,761 --> 01:15:03,600 But you don't roll an additional one past five, do you? 2010 01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:04,590 - No. - Okay. 2011 01:15:04,590 --> 01:15:06,930 I'm back up to three 'cause I failed two of them. 2012 01:15:06,930 --> 01:15:10,170 So each of you heals one point of Aggravated, 2013 01:15:10,170 --> 01:15:14,280 and Darkness Man, you awaken hungry. 2014 01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:17,520 You are on the threshold of frenzy 2015 01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:20,310 on the night that Koschei is supposed to arrive. 2016 01:15:20,310 --> 01:15:21,664 All right. 2017 01:15:21,664 --> 01:15:26,310 I gotta go to our volunteers. And drink some blood. 2018 01:15:26,310 --> 01:15:29,132 - How much does that- - That gets rid of two. 2019 01:15:29,132 --> 01:15:31,350 - Okay. - I probably should go as well 2020 01:15:31,350 --> 01:15:32,400 and try to get rid of. 2021 01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:33,960 - Should we invite them? - Then it's gonna be just 2022 01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:34,980 one from each of you. 2023 01:15:34,980 --> 01:15:36,390 One Hunger level from each of you. 2024 01:15:36,390 --> 01:15:37,830 Should we invite them to Elysium? 2025 01:15:37,830 --> 01:15:39,330 We could all drink up there. 2026 01:15:39,330 --> 01:15:40,970 Because we have three to choose from, right? 2027 01:15:40,970 --> 01:15:42,258 - A working lunch? - Four. 2028 01:15:42,258 --> 01:15:43,449 Because you're kind of coming 2029 01:15:43,449 --> 01:15:45,840 at a period of downtime the previous night, 2030 01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,780 there are extensions of how much others have- 2031 01:15:48,780 --> 01:15:50,580 how much it's safe to drink from people. 2032 01:15:50,580 --> 01:15:52,800 You can also drink more than that 2033 01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:56,430 depending on if it's safe or not to do so. 2034 01:15:56,430 --> 01:15:58,780 But it's about how often you're drinking from people. 2035 01:15:58,780 --> 01:16:00,900 Look, I'm fine with killing all of them. 2036 01:16:00,900 --> 01:16:02,880 There are four duds as far as I'm concerned. 2037 01:16:04,532 --> 01:16:06,870 Koschei will probably expect to see them 2038 01:16:06,870 --> 01:16:09,420 in some... 'Cause aren't they... He hired them. 2039 01:16:09,420 --> 01:16:12,150 - I think he hired- - Does anyone have the Herd 2040 01:16:12,150 --> 01:16:14,700 advantage here or no? 2041 01:16:14,700 --> 01:16:17,940 My Herd advantage is that we have a machine shop. 2042 01:16:17,940 --> 01:16:21,360 Yeah. I believe you guys have two dots in Herd, 2043 01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,340 which means that you can slake that level 2044 01:16:23,340 --> 01:16:25,950 - of Hunger each week. - Each week? 2045 01:16:25,950 --> 01:16:27,840 Yeah. It's hard to get 2046 01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:30,240 less hungry if you're just taking polite little sips. 2047 01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:32,550 - I'm at three Hunger. - Okay. Same. 2048 01:16:32,550 --> 01:16:34,380 - Yeah, so. - If I took one, 2049 01:16:34,380 --> 01:16:38,340 if I got rid of one from the podcast editor, 2050 01:16:38,340 --> 01:16:39,270 then I would be at two? 2051 01:16:39,270 --> 01:16:40,200 Unfortunately, 2052 01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,770 the herd as a whole can only offer two points 2053 01:16:43,770 --> 01:16:44,940 of Hunger slaked. 2054 01:16:44,940 --> 01:16:46,933 So if you're starting at five, what Hunger are you at? 2055 01:16:46,933 --> 01:16:48,360 I was starting at three, 2056 01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:50,501 so I can just be at three, I think. 2057 01:16:50,501 --> 01:16:52,530 All right. And you'll get down to three as well? 2058 01:16:52,530 --> 01:16:53,363 - Yeah. - Okay. 2059 01:16:53,363 --> 01:16:55,860 So three members of your coterie here at three Hunger. 2060 01:16:55,860 --> 01:16:57,630 What do you guys do that night knowing- 2061 01:16:57,630 --> 01:16:59,910 You're not exactly sure when Koschei is going to arrive 2062 01:16:59,910 --> 01:17:00,990 - or not. - We'll text him 2063 01:17:00,990 --> 01:17:02,730 the address at Elysium. 2064 01:17:02,730 --> 01:17:05,430 I'm just having some second thoughts about the candles 2065 01:17:05,430 --> 01:17:06,570 after last night. 2066 01:17:06,570 --> 01:17:09,585 Should we tell Tyler to take 'em all back? 2067 01:17:09,585 --> 01:17:11,225 - They're already burning. - We kept the receipt, right? 2068 01:17:11,225 --> 01:17:13,830 We did all that with the bear. 2069 01:17:13,830 --> 01:17:14,880 We gotta enjoy our candles. 2070 01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:16,050 - Yeah! - Okay. 2071 01:17:16,050 --> 01:17:17,250 The nobody's gonna do... 2072 01:17:17,250 --> 01:17:20,010 Everyone's gonna be incredibly safe, you know? 2073 01:17:20,010 --> 01:17:21,360 We'll hang out. 2074 01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:22,950 Tyler got us a Bluetooth speaker. 2075 01:17:22,950 --> 01:17:25,170 We'll play some fun music. 2076 01:17:25,170 --> 01:17:26,460 We'll sit around, you know, 2077 01:17:26,460 --> 01:17:29,247 it'll be real classic Elysium vibes. You know? 2078 01:17:29,247 --> 01:17:31,710 LaVonte, you get a text from Maya. 2079 01:17:31,710 --> 01:17:32,820 - Oh. - Who says, 2080 01:17:32,820 --> 01:17:36,090 "Hey, heading up to the rocks with Cody. 2081 01:17:36,090 --> 01:17:37,957 Let us know when to expect you guys." 2082 01:17:40,170 --> 01:17:44,520 We forgot with the whole bear thing to uh... 2083 01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:45,630 to cancel. 2084 01:17:45,630 --> 01:17:47,940 - I'm so hungry. - Okay. 2085 01:17:47,940 --> 01:17:51,270 I'm gonna be a mess tonight. 2086 01:17:51,270 --> 01:17:52,887 I'm just warning you guys. 2087 01:17:52,887 --> 01:17:54,252 - I'm hangry. I'm sorry. - It's okay, Darkness Man. 2088 01:17:54,252 --> 01:17:57,150 You're so put together all the other times. 2089 01:17:57,150 --> 01:17:58,530 You're allowed to be human. 2090 01:17:58,530 --> 01:17:59,790 Thanks. Yeah. 2091 01:17:59,790 --> 01:18:01,170 I feel like you had a really good meeting 2092 01:18:01,170 --> 01:18:03,803 with Maya before, right? 2093 01:18:04,825 --> 01:18:05,733 Yeah. 2094 01:18:05,733 --> 01:18:07,093 And I had a good meeting with Cody. 2095 01:18:07,093 --> 01:18:07,926 I'm not as hungry. I guess. 2096 01:18:07,926 --> 01:18:10,770 Maybe you and me go meet Cody at the rock climbing? 2097 01:18:10,770 --> 01:18:11,790 Okay. 2098 01:18:11,790 --> 01:18:14,250 And then these guys do Elysium? 2099 01:18:14,250 --> 01:18:16,120 Yeah, I was also thinking if you guys 2100 01:18:16,120 --> 01:18:17,550 want to get rid of some Hunger, 2101 01:18:17,550 --> 01:18:20,670 there were some really questionable people at the gun range. 2102 01:18:20,670 --> 01:18:22,740 - Oh, yes. - If you just wanted to... 2103 01:18:22,740 --> 01:18:24,507 Yes, that guy was very strange. 2104 01:18:24,507 --> 01:18:25,340 Grab someone. 2105 01:18:25,340 --> 01:18:26,760 No, not that guy. That guy's my friend. 2106 01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:28,768 But the rest of the people. 2107 01:18:28,768 --> 01:18:29,601 - The people he shot at? - Yeah. 2108 01:18:29,601 --> 01:18:31,261 The people he shot at. You should kill 'em. 2109 01:18:31,261 --> 01:18:32,643 - The axe throwing guys. - Yeah. 2110 01:18:32,643 --> 01:18:34,200 Okay. Four of us go to Elysium. 2111 01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:37,670 You guys go meet with Maya and Cody at the rocks. 2112 01:18:37,670 --> 01:18:39,960 If we don't want to rain check. 2113 01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:41,460 It just feels rude at this point. 2114 01:18:41,460 --> 01:18:42,997 - Yeah, you're right. - It feels rude. 2115 01:18:42,997 --> 01:18:46,650 Hey, we're going to finally end the long-standing war 2116 01:18:46,650 --> 01:18:49,260 between werewolves and vampires. 2117 01:18:49,260 --> 01:18:50,400 I'll text back Maya. 2118 01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:52,653 Maya, so sorry. 2119 01:18:53,850 --> 01:18:56,010 Crazy day at work. 2120 01:18:56,010 --> 01:18:59,429 HJ and Madelaine 2121 01:18:59,429 --> 01:19:02,445 are for sure going to be there. 2122 01:19:02,445 --> 01:19:04,473 The rest of us are maybes. 2123 01:19:05,340 --> 01:19:07,740 We'll catch up with you soon, if not tonight. 2124 01:19:07,740 --> 01:19:10,140 You get a response back pretty quickly saying, 2125 01:19:11,010 --> 01:19:13,050 "It's no problem if you wanna reschedule." 2126 01:19:13,050 --> 01:19:14,394 Okay, they said it's no problem. 2127 01:19:14,394 --> 01:19:15,227 Okay, great, cool. 2128 01:19:15,227 --> 01:19:17,310 - Yeah, yeah, let's reschedule. - Awesome. 2129 01:19:17,310 --> 01:19:19,082 - Oh my god. - Oh wow. 2130 01:19:19,082 --> 01:19:20,651 Happy birthday. 2131 01:19:20,651 --> 01:19:23,151 - Happy birthday! - Oh my gosh. 2132 01:19:24,012 --> 01:19:25,300 Oh my gosh. I forgot because we almost died. 2133 01:19:25,300 --> 01:19:27,176 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 2134 01:19:27,176 --> 01:19:28,520 And we got these candles. 2135 01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:29,598 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 2136 01:19:29,598 --> 01:19:31,560 Hey, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. 2137 01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:33,900 Check your email. I got you a present. 2138 01:19:33,900 --> 01:19:35,853 Oh, I check my email. 2139 01:19:36,690 --> 01:19:38,490 You find an email 2140 01:19:38,490 --> 01:19:43,490 registering you for a zoology class at night. 2141 01:19:44,067 --> 01:19:46,260 A digital zoology class. 2142 01:19:46,260 --> 01:19:48,865 - Night class. - Aw, now that's a great gift. 2143 01:19:48,865 --> 01:19:49,973 You don't have to be a full matriculating student. 2144 01:19:49,973 --> 01:19:52,080 You could just take some classes here and there. 2145 01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:55,260 - Oh. - It's really, really sweet. 2146 01:19:55,260 --> 01:19:58,230 - You love school. - Yeah, I love school. 2147 01:19:58,230 --> 01:19:59,943 It's really, really nice. 2148 01:20:01,650 --> 01:20:04,472 It's everything I always wanted at one point in my life. 2149 01:20:05,305 --> 01:20:07,320 You're kind of talking in the past tense. 2150 01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:08,250 So which one you like more? 2151 01:20:08,250 --> 01:20:09,667 The thong or the? 2152 01:20:10,569 --> 01:20:12,570 Well, I'm wearing the thong. 2153 01:20:12,570 --> 01:20:14,790 - Oh. - And the bir- and the- 2154 01:20:14,790 --> 01:20:16,113 - It's so small. - Yeah. 2155 01:20:18,146 --> 01:20:19,950 I know. I'm wearing like an anklet. 2156 01:20:19,950 --> 01:20:20,940 Oh. 2157 01:20:20,940 --> 01:20:23,280 What? Just kind of twisted and wrapped. 2158 01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:24,510 - Oh, that's so creative. - Okay. 2159 01:20:24,510 --> 01:20:25,830 - Thank you. - Well, let's rain check 2160 01:20:25,830 --> 01:20:27,922 with Maya, head on down to Elysium, 2161 01:20:27,922 --> 01:20:30,210 and have ourselves a good old-fashioned 2162 01:20:30,210 --> 01:20:32,790 - lumbermill rave thing. - How much- 2163 01:20:32,790 --> 01:20:36,153 Okay, he's gonna know we're lying to him when we lie to him. 2164 01:20:37,384 --> 01:20:39,270 What are we gonna tell him about the- 2165 01:20:39,270 --> 01:20:40,718 I say we tell him the truth. 2166 01:20:40,718 --> 01:20:42,103 - About what? - Lying about what? 2167 01:20:42,103 --> 01:20:43,041 We're doing so good. 2168 01:20:43,041 --> 01:20:44,100 Well, I don't want to tell him about Cody 2169 01:20:44,100 --> 01:20:45,360 'cause he's gonna want to kill Cody and- 2170 01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:48,180 Well, okay, that's why we're not gonna go meet Cody. 2171 01:20:48,180 --> 01:20:49,560 We won't even tell him about Cody. 2172 01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:50,580 Say there's some mages in town. 2173 01:20:50,580 --> 01:20:51,413 We don't know what we don't know. 2174 01:20:51,413 --> 01:20:53,490 - We actually don't even know. - We don't know for a fact. 2175 01:20:53,490 --> 01:20:55,110 Plus, you're covered in battle scars. 2176 01:20:55,110 --> 01:20:56,951 I mean, come on, look at you guys. 2177 01:20:56,951 --> 01:20:57,784 - Yeah. - You're the picture 2178 01:20:57,784 --> 01:21:01,823 of hard work and us getting our hands dirty here in town. 2179 01:21:01,823 --> 01:21:02,656 Okay, yeah. 2180 01:21:02,656 --> 01:21:04,440 - Let's go. - We got a great story. 2181 01:21:04,440 --> 01:21:05,790 I say let's tell it. 2182 01:21:05,790 --> 01:21:08,249 Let's get some beats pumping on the Beats Pill. 2183 01:21:08,249 --> 01:21:10,080 - Yeah. Exactly. - Great, yeah. 2184 01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:11,910 Yeah, I'm gonna add everyone to a playlist. 2185 01:21:11,910 --> 01:21:13,863 Will everyone just add two songs? 2186 01:21:14,773 --> 01:21:15,990 I'll do the fifth 2187 01:21:15,990 --> 01:21:18,480 - and the sixth best Bush song. - Okay. 2188 01:21:18,480 --> 01:21:20,250 "Everything Zen," 2189 01:21:20,250 --> 01:21:22,290 which I forgot during the "Adventuring Party." 2190 01:21:22,290 --> 01:21:24,150 And then "Chemicals Between Us." 2191 01:21:24,150 --> 01:21:26,100 I'm gonna just do "Killing in the Name Of" 2192 01:21:26,100 --> 01:21:28,385 by Rage Against the Machine twice. 2193 01:21:28,385 --> 01:21:29,218 - Okay, great. - Okay. 2194 01:21:29,218 --> 01:21:31,533 I guess I'll do "Killing in the Name Of." 2195 01:21:32,844 --> 01:21:35,583 - Yes. - And "I'm Like a Bird." 2196 01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:39,523 Okay, I'm gonna do that t.A.T.u. song. 2197 01:21:39,523 --> 01:21:42,226 - "All The Things She Said"? - "All The Things She Said." 2198 01:21:42,226 --> 01:21:43,936 And I'm gonna do the... 2199 01:21:45,852 --> 01:21:47,680 ♪ I'm blue, da-ba-dee ♪ 2200 01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:49,574 Ooh, I love that one. 2201 01:21:49,574 --> 01:21:50,656 I'm gonna do that song twice. 2202 01:21:52,663 --> 01:21:53,704 Awesome. Great playlist. 2203 01:21:53,704 --> 01:21:55,050 You guys head to the lumbermill. 2204 01:21:55,050 --> 01:21:57,540 Is there any outside indication 2205 01:21:57,540 --> 01:21:59,220 that the lumbermill is open? 2206 01:22:00,090 --> 01:22:01,123 No, I don't think so. 2207 01:22:01,123 --> 01:22:02,220 And it hasn't been, right? 2208 01:22:02,220 --> 01:22:04,200 Yeah, I think it's just when you walk in, 2209 01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:07,260 there's a bunch of red silk, 2210 01:22:07,260 --> 01:22:09,603 kinda strung between two parts 2211 01:22:09,603 --> 01:22:12,570 and some, you know, delightfully... 2212 01:22:12,570 --> 01:22:13,740 So many candles. 2213 01:22:13,740 --> 01:22:15,270 Every window is covered with that kind 2214 01:22:15,270 --> 01:22:16,260 of construction paper 2215 01:22:16,260 --> 01:22:17,640 when a restaurant's being redone. 2216 01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:19,800 Yeah, yeah, yeah. At around midnight, 2217 01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:23,040 you guys see that Tyler has spent the entire day. 2218 01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:28,040 Red satin hanging from the catwalks, candles everywhere. 2219 01:22:28,140 --> 01:22:29,670 - It can't help- - What a fire hazard. 2220 01:22:29,670 --> 01:22:30,570 Here's the thing, 2221 01:22:30,570 --> 01:22:34,500 it cannot help but look striking in here. 2222 01:22:34,500 --> 01:22:37,230 The only things that- He's also cleaned up in here, 2223 01:22:37,230 --> 01:22:40,470 so it doesn't- There's not weird dust everywhere. 2224 01:22:40,470 --> 01:22:42,810 It looks like 2225 01:22:42,810 --> 01:22:45,240 there's still a little bit of power wash 2226 01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:46,590 or stain on some areas. 2227 01:22:46,590 --> 01:22:49,200 But the dampness kind of even adds a little bit of mystique. 2228 01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:51,120 It sort of reflects the candlelight. 2229 01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:52,770 There's so many candles. 2230 01:22:52,770 --> 01:22:56,747 It smells like cinnamon, nutmeg. 2231 01:22:56,747 --> 01:22:58,380 - Yes. - Coconut. 2232 01:22:58,380 --> 01:22:59,520 - Hmm. - Pineapple. 2233 01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:03,330 - Hmm. - Tyler, I said one thing! 2234 01:23:03,330 --> 01:23:04,467 You see Tyler looks around at you 2235 01:23:04,467 --> 01:23:07,500 and he goes, "With respect Madelaine, 2236 01:23:07,500 --> 01:23:09,840 you're the most beautiful person I've ever seen in my life. 2237 01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:13,350 And I would pull my eyes out of my head 2238 01:23:13,350 --> 01:23:15,281 to be an entrepreneur." 2239 01:23:16,470 --> 01:23:17,670 That's the kind of- 2240 01:23:17,670 --> 01:23:19,080 That's the kind of talk I like. 2241 01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:20,940 Tyler, get the fuck outta here. 2242 01:23:20,940 --> 01:23:23,820 Okay, if there's something insane happening, I like it, 2243 01:23:23,820 --> 01:23:25,200 and I'll do whatever you say. 2244 01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:28,950 Hey man, one day you'll wear the mask. Not tonight. 2245 01:23:28,950 --> 01:23:30,090 "One day I'll be skull and bone! 2246 01:23:30,090 --> 01:23:31,830 Ow, I hurt my hand when I did that!" 2247 01:23:31,830 --> 01:23:35,280 You see, he goes and dips out of the hall as fast as he can. 2248 01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:37,050 You see that he shoots off into the dark. 2249 01:23:37,050 --> 01:23:38,640 Are there any other preparations you guys make 2250 01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:40,140 here for Elysium? 2251 01:23:40,140 --> 01:23:42,120 Beats Pill is playing. 2252 01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:45,077 I think we just- Let's lean into grand opening, you know? 2253 01:23:45,077 --> 01:23:47,685 I mean he's gonna ask us about Elysium, 2254 01:23:47,685 --> 01:23:49,814 like who's on the council of primogen 2255 01:23:49,814 --> 01:23:52,252 - and who's the Prince? - Yeah. 2256 01:23:52,252 --> 01:23:54,120 - Oh yeah. - We've established 2257 01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:55,302 - this is Elysium. - We've established. 2258 01:23:55,302 --> 01:23:56,330 What about the other two? 2259 01:23:56,330 --> 01:23:57,810 I think Darkness Man should be the Prince. 2260 01:23:57,810 --> 01:23:59,880 And it's obvious. 2261 01:23:59,880 --> 01:24:02,209 - I feel like the person- - I don't want it. 2262 01:24:02,209 --> 01:24:04,770 ...has some kind of levels in Charisma and Politics. 2263 01:24:04,770 --> 01:24:06,450 I think the Prince should... Maybe not. 2264 01:24:06,450 --> 01:24:07,890 Maybe harpsichord? 2265 01:24:07,890 --> 01:24:09,810 You guys are having this conversation 2266 01:24:09,810 --> 01:24:12,120 as a black town car rolls up outside. 2267 01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:15,420 - Shoot. - Okay, maybe he can pick. 2268 01:24:15,420 --> 01:24:16,710 Maybe it'll be a fun thing for him. 2269 01:24:16,710 --> 01:24:19,125 Oh, we could tell him that he's the Prince. 2270 01:24:19,125 --> 01:24:21,098 Oh, we'll tell him he's the Prince. 2271 01:24:21,098 --> 01:24:22,747 No, but then he would hang out. 2272 01:24:22,747 --> 01:24:25,020 - He might- - You guys see the doors 2273 01:24:25,020 --> 01:24:28,980 slide open as you see two black 2274 01:24:28,980 --> 01:24:32,790 Armani suit-wearing security guards pull open the doors. 2275 01:24:32,790 --> 01:24:34,980 The sliding sort of elephant doors. 2276 01:24:34,980 --> 01:24:36,390 You see surveillance on. 2277 01:24:36,390 --> 01:24:38,610 One of them has a small, semi-automatic 2278 01:24:38,610 --> 01:24:43,020 sort of bulging outside of the fancy jacket. 2279 01:24:43,020 --> 01:24:45,840 And you see Koschei walks in, once again, 2280 01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:47,490 leather vest exposed, 2281 01:24:47,490 --> 01:24:48,750 broad brawny shoulders, 2282 01:24:48,750 --> 01:24:52,020 a bunch of old Soviet tattoos on his body. 2283 01:24:52,020 --> 01:24:55,500 And Ermine Damanescu who walks in behind him. 2284 01:24:55,500 --> 01:24:57,873 He walks in, looking at all the candles. 2285 01:24:59,509 --> 01:25:01,196 "You welcome us with fire?" 2286 01:25:02,371 --> 01:25:06,087 Well, it's been a dangerous time in Purpee. 2287 01:25:06,087 --> 01:25:11,087 And we thought it was a fun thematic... 2288 01:25:11,482 --> 01:25:13,640 It's part of our journey. 2289 01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:15,656 - Mm-hmm. - It's part of our Elysium. 2290 01:25:15,656 --> 01:25:19,320 Well it is good to see this. 2291 01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:20,240 You have 2292 01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:25,230 spent your time well here in Purpee. 2293 01:25:25,230 --> 01:25:29,100 Yes, so you're gonna stay or just leave? 2294 01:25:29,100 --> 01:25:31,680 Ermine turns to you and says- 2295 01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:34,377 First thing you say- 2296 01:25:35,427 --> 01:25:37,036 Uh, you see- 2297 01:25:37,036 --> 01:25:38,482 We're doing well so, 2298 01:25:38,482 --> 01:25:39,720 you don't need to say. 2299 01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:40,560 Koschei sits on the edge of a table. 2300 01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:42,522 Ermine looks around and says, 2301 01:25:42,522 --> 01:25:44,910 "Do you have chairs in this place?" 2302 01:25:44,910 --> 01:25:46,454 No, it's mostly... 2303 01:25:46,454 --> 01:25:49,500 The expectation is when we're really up and running, 2304 01:25:49,500 --> 01:25:52,080 it'll be mostly writhing, so. 2305 01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:53,250 - Yeah. - We don't want anything 2306 01:25:53,250 --> 01:25:54,180 to get in the way of that. 2307 01:25:54,180 --> 01:25:56,490 She stands and says, "Tell me about 2308 01:25:56,490 --> 01:25:59,085 what you've accomplished thus far in Purpee." 2309 01:25:59,085 --> 01:26:01,140 - Where to begin? - Wow. 2310 01:26:01,140 --> 01:26:03,090 So much. So many. 2311 01:26:03,090 --> 01:26:04,890 First of all, we think Nancy Danderhoof 2312 01:26:04,890 --> 01:26:06,873 is a shoo-in for the Pulitzer. 2313 01:26:07,709 --> 01:26:11,040 So there was some Inquisition hopefuls 2314 01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:12,990 that were trying to hunt vampires here. 2315 01:26:12,990 --> 01:26:15,330 - Took care of that. - Mm-hmm. 2316 01:26:15,330 --> 01:26:19,323 Without raising any suspicion. 2317 01:26:20,880 --> 01:26:23,220 We're meeting with some mages. 2318 01:26:23,220 --> 01:26:26,696 - Yeah. Oh yeah. - You look very badly burned. 2319 01:26:26,696 --> 01:26:28,530 I am very badly burned. 2320 01:26:28,530 --> 01:26:30,660 You look not badly burned. 2321 01:26:30,660 --> 01:26:33,630 - What's this energy? - What's this energy? 2322 01:26:33,630 --> 01:26:35,192 Bat Child? 2323 01:26:35,192 --> 01:26:36,570 I'm mouthing off. 2324 01:26:36,570 --> 01:26:38,880 - Stop arguing. - Did you just say 2325 01:26:38,880 --> 01:26:40,287 that you're mouthing off? 2326 01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:43,710 There was a horror festival. We take that over. 2327 01:26:43,710 --> 01:26:46,179 We'll do that. Yeah, we'll do that. 2328 01:26:46,179 --> 01:26:47,217 There's a horror fest- 2329 01:26:47,217 --> 01:26:48,870 Basically control the aristocracy. 2330 01:26:48,870 --> 01:26:51,270 There's a horror festival coming up. 2331 01:26:51,270 --> 01:26:52,770 We're all in with that. 2332 01:26:52,770 --> 01:26:55,650 We're about to meet with some powerful mages. 2333 01:26:55,650 --> 01:26:57,840 - We have a- - Powerful mages? 2334 01:26:57,840 --> 01:26:59,850 - Very powerful mages. - Oh yes. 2335 01:26:59,850 --> 01:27:02,703 What methods have you taken to subdue these mages? 2336 01:27:03,653 --> 01:27:05,422 We punted a meeting. 2337 01:27:07,050 --> 01:27:10,140 It said embrace or destroy any mortal mages. 2338 01:27:10,140 --> 01:27:12,090 And we were trying to decide 2339 01:27:12,090 --> 01:27:14,520 whether we were gonna embrace or destroy them. 2340 01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:15,540 That's what the meeting was about. 2341 01:27:15,540 --> 01:27:17,610 Exactly, we're gonna give them an ultimatum. 2342 01:27:17,610 --> 01:27:20,550 And I took care of a leprechaun real good. 2343 01:27:20,550 --> 01:27:22,710 See Ermine goes, "What? 2344 01:27:22,710 --> 01:27:24,185 That's not real. 2345 01:27:24,185 --> 01:27:25,318 What do you mean, a leprechaun?" 2346 01:27:25,318 --> 01:27:27,660 A leprechaun. She had one shoe in a bush. 2347 01:27:27,660 --> 01:27:30,123 And they had sex in a dirty, like a- 2348 01:27:30,123 --> 01:27:32,580 - Next to a single shoe. - She had to be 2349 01:27:32,580 --> 01:27:34,200 a real leprechaun or she just fucked 2350 01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:35,754 sort of a short woman in a bush. 2351 01:27:37,155 --> 01:27:38,689 - Right? - Come on, now. 2352 01:27:38,689 --> 01:27:40,063 Did you know there's an eternal war 2353 01:27:40,063 --> 01:27:41,250 between the leprechauns and vampires? 2354 01:27:41,250 --> 01:27:42,515 You see that Ermine and Koschei look at each other 2355 01:27:42,515 --> 01:27:43,890 - and Koschei says- - I took care of it. 2356 01:27:43,890 --> 01:27:46,590 Okay, so we fuck a short girl in a bush? 2357 01:27:46,590 --> 01:27:48,450 - Mm-hmm. Next to- - No she spun around 2358 01:27:48,450 --> 01:27:50,670 and gold coins come out of her hands. Come on. 2359 01:27:50,670 --> 01:27:52,770 Corrupt the clergy gonna be a slam dunk. 2360 01:27:52,770 --> 01:27:54,550 - We just gotta do it. - Yeah. 2361 01:27:55,650 --> 01:27:57,265 Command the flow of money. 2362 01:27:57,265 --> 01:27:59,246 - It's coming up, honestly. - Oh, it's coming up. 2363 01:27:59,246 --> 01:28:00,450 Dominate all cultural forces. 2364 01:28:00,450 --> 01:28:01,283 - Oh, we did that. - We have done that. 2365 01:28:01,283 --> 01:28:03,600 - We did that. - We've influenced someone. 2366 01:28:03,600 --> 01:28:06,870 We have a puppet that is going to be running 2367 01:28:06,870 --> 01:28:08,730 for local government soon. 2368 01:28:08,730 --> 01:28:11,520 What have you done in terms of local government? 2369 01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:15,270 I mean, massive plowing of the fields 2370 01:28:15,270 --> 01:28:16,890 and lots of seeding. 2371 01:28:16,890 --> 01:28:19,590 I mean, of course time is, 2372 01:28:19,590 --> 01:28:21,540 you know, is always gonna be a factor. 2373 01:28:21,540 --> 01:28:24,300 One of the main patriarchs has been taken down. 2374 01:28:24,300 --> 01:28:25,250 - Yes. - Murdered. 2375 01:28:26,124 --> 01:28:28,449 - We destroyed- - She looks and then says, 2376 01:28:28,449 --> 01:28:29,820 "What do you mean taken down?" 2377 01:28:29,820 --> 01:28:31,830 He was killed in a bathtub 2378 01:28:31,830 --> 01:28:33,996 and we had nothing to do with it. 2379 01:28:35,041 --> 01:28:36,420 And that opened up a seat. 2380 01:28:36,420 --> 01:28:39,833 And then Sasquatch ran back into the forest. 2381 01:28:39,833 --> 01:28:43,230 What part of control the aristocracy 2382 01:28:43,230 --> 01:28:44,340 is unclear here? 2383 01:28:44,340 --> 01:28:47,370 - Why are aristocracy- - I had questions about that. 2384 01:28:47,370 --> 01:28:49,320 You see Koschei nods to you and says, 2385 01:28:50,490 --> 01:28:52,890 "This plowing of field you're talking about, 2386 01:28:53,773 --> 01:28:56,550 you are set up here to do what? 2387 01:28:56,550 --> 01:28:57,840 What- Have you isolated 2388 01:28:57,840 --> 01:28:59,730 who is the movers and shakers here?" 2389 01:28:59,730 --> 01:29:01,170 - Yes. - Very much so. 2390 01:29:01,170 --> 01:29:03,270 - Yes. - Who they are? 2391 01:29:03,270 --> 01:29:05,250 The Whittaker family and the Douglas family. 2392 01:29:05,250 --> 01:29:06,181 The Douglases. 2393 01:29:06,181 --> 01:29:08,160 And we're digging up dirt on them. 2394 01:29:08,160 --> 01:29:10,101 We think we're going to win the next 2395 01:29:10,101 --> 01:29:12,661 - election in a landslide. - Oh, for sure. 2396 01:29:12,661 --> 01:29:14,985 What do you mean you are gonna win the next election? 2397 01:29:14,985 --> 01:29:16,980 Well, we have a puppet candidate. 2398 01:29:16,980 --> 01:29:20,222 - She run a moderately tasteful- - Elevated casual. 2399 01:29:20,222 --> 01:29:21,900 Koschei sort of hangs his head for a second. 2400 01:29:21,900 --> 01:29:23,150 You see that Ermine says, 2401 01:29:25,564 --> 01:29:28,770 "Why are you running a candidate? 2402 01:29:28,770 --> 01:29:30,870 You said that you were plowing fields. 2403 01:29:30,870 --> 01:29:32,700 What inroads have you made with the Whittakers 2404 01:29:32,700 --> 01:29:34,290 - and the Douglases?" - Oh. 2405 01:29:34,290 --> 01:29:37,405 Well I'm fucking one of the Whittakers, so? 2406 01:29:37,405 --> 01:29:39,210 All right, Madelaine seems to be doing 2407 01:29:39,210 --> 01:29:40,868 a lot of the heavy- 2408 01:29:40,868 --> 01:29:42,649 Thank you! 2409 01:29:42,649 --> 01:29:44,670 I think you should let me get out of here 2410 01:29:44,670 --> 01:29:46,410 'cause I'm doing all the work. 2411 01:29:46,410 --> 01:29:48,180 She looks and says, 2412 01:29:48,180 --> 01:29:51,570 "Well that's part of what we are discussing here, 2413 01:29:51,570 --> 01:29:54,600 is there is an opportunity for some of you 2414 01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:57,042 to maybe be relieved of this." 2415 01:30:00,450 --> 01:30:02,970 - We'll talk- - What are you talking about? 2416 01:30:02,970 --> 01:30:04,154 - What are you talking about? - What? 2417 01:30:04,154 --> 01:30:05,490 You serious? 2418 01:30:05,490 --> 01:30:06,540 We don't have to be here anymore? 2419 01:30:06,540 --> 01:30:09,450 - No. Yeah. Some of us? - Which ones? 2420 01:30:09,450 --> 01:30:11,070 Probably the ones that are fucking everybody 2421 01:30:11,070 --> 01:30:12,300 - and doing all the work. - Describe to me your plan 2422 01:30:12,300 --> 01:30:14,580 to control the aristocracy and master the engines of state. 2423 01:30:14,580 --> 01:30:16,380 We're gonna get the dog on our side. 2424 01:30:16,380 --> 01:30:17,280 We have the dog. 2425 01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:18,900 Okay, you have to understand. 2426 01:30:18,900 --> 01:30:22,890 Purpee is not normal. 2427 01:30:22,890 --> 01:30:25,470 This town that you sent us to 2428 01:30:25,470 --> 01:30:30,470 is filled with ghosts and fucking squeaky bears 2429 01:30:31,140 --> 01:30:34,952 and a Bigfoot and a smiling Nixon, all right? 2430 01:30:34,952 --> 01:30:36,840 This is a shit sandwich! 2431 01:30:36,840 --> 01:30:41,490 And I am eating it as fast as I fucking can, all right? 2432 01:30:41,490 --> 01:30:44,640 I am taking bites of the shit sandwich 2433 01:30:44,640 --> 01:30:49,170 and every bite I'm saying, "Mm, mm, good! 2434 01:30:49,170 --> 01:30:52,560 I have yet to say the shit sandwich is bad. 2435 01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:54,783 Am I yelling? Okay. 2436 01:30:55,950 --> 01:30:57,686 We're down to the crust. 2437 01:30:57,686 --> 01:31:01,170 And the crust is a fully erect lumberjack on an altar. 2438 01:31:01,170 --> 01:31:03,570 So you gotta work with us. 2439 01:31:03,570 --> 01:31:05,670 We're so close. Okay? 2440 01:31:05,670 --> 01:31:10,670 And I bet, honestly, a couple of us leave 2441 01:31:10,770 --> 01:31:12,720 and the rest of us could handle it. 2442 01:31:12,720 --> 01:31:16,350 You see that Ermine says, "You seem not at your best. 2443 01:31:16,350 --> 01:31:20,550 Perhaps we didn't give you enough time to prepare, 2444 01:31:20,550 --> 01:31:24,540 but I'd like to know as much about this mortal mage 2445 01:31:24,540 --> 01:31:26,820 as you'd care to tell me." 2446 01:31:26,820 --> 01:31:29,066 - Well, he's uncut. - Whoa. 2447 01:31:30,241 --> 01:31:32,100 How do you know that? 2448 01:31:32,100 --> 01:31:34,816 - He only wears shorts. - Oh the- 2449 01:31:34,816 --> 01:31:36,849 Oh no, the Maya. 2450 01:31:36,849 --> 01:31:37,997 Oh, I don't know anything about her. 2451 01:31:37,997 --> 01:31:40,738 I've actually not really met her at all. 2452 01:31:40,738 --> 01:31:42,701 There's a lot of magic happening here. 2453 01:31:42,701 --> 01:31:43,534 There's a lot of- 2454 01:31:43,534 --> 01:31:45,419 there's maybe good mages and bad mages. 2455 01:31:45,419 --> 01:31:47,730 The two major families, 2456 01:31:47,730 --> 01:31:49,890 the Whittakers and the Douglases. 2457 01:31:49,890 --> 01:31:52,200 - The mage-r. - The mages families. 2458 01:31:52,200 --> 01:31:53,820 - Sorry. - Something is going on 2459 01:31:53,820 --> 01:31:54,653 magically with them. 2460 01:31:54,653 --> 01:31:55,950 And then I tell them everything that we know 2461 01:31:55,950 --> 01:31:59,490 about the Douglases' farm and the altar and I don't know. 2462 01:31:59,490 --> 01:32:02,580 - What is it, like warlock. - Erect. 2463 01:32:02,580 --> 01:32:04,080 - A fully erect, either way. - Shoes on. 2464 01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:06,389 But uncut at that point. You're not sure. 2465 01:32:06,389 --> 01:32:08,370 And those are the destroy mages we would say. 2466 01:32:08,370 --> 01:32:10,050 And then the embrace mages are the ones 2467 01:32:10,050 --> 01:32:12,069 we were going to have a meeting with. 2468 01:32:12,069 --> 01:32:13,116 Very chill. Run the co-op. 2469 01:32:13,116 --> 01:32:13,949 Yeah, then we ended up punting. 2470 01:32:13,949 --> 01:32:16,635 You look at Ermine. She says, "Understood. 2471 01:32:17,640 --> 01:32:20,010 I want to be very clear. 2472 01:32:20,010 --> 01:32:24,210 You were sent here to establish Camarilla dominance 2473 01:32:24,210 --> 01:32:27,390 in the town of Purpee, Oregon. 2474 01:32:27,390 --> 01:32:29,913 I see that this has created some stress. 2475 01:32:31,020 --> 01:32:32,730 For our purposes, 2476 01:32:32,730 --> 01:32:35,850 it just seems like we're once again having a repeat 2477 01:32:35,850 --> 01:32:40,850 of the Rediron building party a couple months ago." 2478 01:32:41,235 --> 01:32:44,400 - The Banksy. - The Banksy. 2479 01:32:44,400 --> 01:32:46,050 We didn't run a Banksy again. 2480 01:32:46,050 --> 01:32:48,600 We wouldn't do that twice. That would be stupid. 2481 01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:51,150 Ermine takes out a phone and goes, 2482 01:32:51,150 --> 01:32:53,790 "Notable artist Banksy has kidnapped 2483 01:32:53,790 --> 01:32:56,760 two independent publishers from the town of Purpee, Oregon." 2484 01:32:56,760 --> 01:32:58,890 Well, he's a killer and he'll strike again. 2485 01:32:58,890 --> 01:33:01,045 But that has nothing to do with us. 2486 01:33:01,045 --> 01:33:03,210 And we didn't kidnap him. He decapitated them. 2487 01:33:03,210 --> 01:33:06,000 This says that the head was a fake 2488 01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:08,010 and that someone demanded to meet Banksy 2489 01:33:08,010 --> 01:33:09,510 to ask how he pulled it off. 2490 01:33:09,510 --> 01:33:13,233 And then someone went, "Uh uh, he! That's a man." 2491 01:33:14,670 --> 01:33:16,443 That's bad journalism. 2492 01:33:18,210 --> 01:33:20,370 AI written. Probably AI written. 2493 01:33:20,370 --> 01:33:22,983 I just want to be clear here. 2494 01:33:23,910 --> 01:33:26,310 I come up here and I hear that there's 2495 01:33:26,310 --> 01:33:30,840 one of the elders of the town who's been killed or drowned? 2496 01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:32,750 My question to you, HJ, 2497 01:33:32,750 --> 01:33:36,502 as one of the older Kindred amongst us here, is 2498 01:33:36,502 --> 01:33:38,970 having isolated who's in charge of the town, 2499 01:33:38,970 --> 01:33:41,490 why are they being killed? 2500 01:33:41,490 --> 01:33:43,800 Why are they not being corrupted? 2501 01:33:43,800 --> 01:33:47,580 Why are they not being overcome? 2502 01:33:47,580 --> 01:33:49,890 You know that you've isolated the families in town 2503 01:33:49,890 --> 01:33:50,723 that control everything 2504 01:33:50,723 --> 01:33:53,850 and you're not manipulating these families. Why? 2505 01:33:53,850 --> 01:33:56,220 They were unmanipulatable. 2506 01:33:56,220 --> 01:34:00,750 We decided they were too stuck in whatever their agenda was 2507 01:34:00,750 --> 01:34:02,850 so it was good that the eldest died. 2508 01:34:02,850 --> 01:34:04,440 It shakes up the family a little bit. 2509 01:34:04,440 --> 01:34:05,370 We can control- 2510 01:34:05,370 --> 01:34:07,833 Shaking up is not what we're here to do. 2511 01:34:08,820 --> 01:34:12,600 Shaking up is never what we are here to do. 2512 01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:14,550 We live forever. 2513 01:34:14,550 --> 01:34:16,920 Steady as she goes, 2514 01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:18,960 you nincompoops. 2515 01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:22,294 Don't you fucking call me a nincompoop, you bitch. 2516 01:34:25,440 --> 01:34:29,230 I'm gonna need a Willpower roll 2517 01:34:32,627 --> 01:34:35,040 from LaVonte and anyone else 2518 01:34:35,040 --> 01:34:37,383 that feels like they're on the wire. 2519 01:34:39,090 --> 01:34:40,710 - On the wire in what? - In terms of 2520 01:34:40,710 --> 01:34:42,687 how close to frenzy you might be. 2521 01:34:42,687 --> 01:34:43,800 - Oh. - This is the closest 2522 01:34:43,800 --> 01:34:44,940 I've been to frenzying. 2523 01:34:44,940 --> 01:34:48,271 I'm pretty indifferent because this is all vampire shit. 2524 01:34:49,876 --> 01:34:51,122 Just kind of melted. 2525 01:34:53,280 --> 01:34:55,743 Vampires. Can't relate. 2526 01:34:55,743 --> 01:34:56,884 Three successes. 2527 01:34:56,884 --> 01:34:58,170 - Three successes. - Two. 2528 01:34:58,170 --> 01:34:59,760 - Two successes. - Three. 2529 01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:03,960 Three. You see that Koschei lunges towards you, 2530 01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:08,280 reaches a hand out, and grabs at the air around Ermine 2531 01:35:08,280 --> 01:35:10,560 who has just appeared, 2532 01:35:10,560 --> 01:35:13,710 rushing towards you in a flash of blood and smoke. 2533 01:35:15,227 --> 01:35:17,730 "Call me a name again and I'll drag you somewhere 2534 01:35:17,730 --> 01:35:19,110 that the sun can't find you." 2535 01:35:19,110 --> 01:35:20,253 Yeah, take me there. 2536 01:35:21,120 --> 01:35:22,860 Hey, I'm already fucking there. 2537 01:35:22,860 --> 01:35:24,390 I'm already fucking there. 2538 01:35:24,390 --> 01:35:25,830 The place you're talking about, 2539 01:35:25,830 --> 01:35:28,080 it's called Purpee fucking Oregon. 2540 01:35:28,080 --> 01:35:33,080 Koschei says, "Temper, temper. All will be well, Ermine. 2541 01:35:33,570 --> 01:35:35,430 Why don't you go speak to Madelaine 2542 01:35:35,430 --> 01:35:39,990 about this mortal mage who is uncircumcised outside." 2543 01:35:39,990 --> 01:35:41,973 I'll describe everything in detail. 2544 01:35:44,310 --> 01:35:46,620 "Thank you, Ms. d'Artois." 2545 01:35:46,620 --> 01:35:48,750 And you see that she walks outside with you. 2546 01:35:48,750 --> 01:35:51,123 Koschei looks at you and goes, 2547 01:35:52,590 --> 01:35:54,720 "Talk to a primogen like that, 2548 01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:57,300 you're gonna get destroyed, huh? 2549 01:35:57,300 --> 01:35:58,530 Don't wanna see it. 2550 01:35:58,530 --> 01:36:00,295 Who here is Prince?" 2551 01:36:00,295 --> 01:36:01,311 You are. 2552 01:36:01,311 --> 01:36:03,450 What? 2553 01:36:03,450 --> 01:36:06,690 We just thought that maybe if you wanted to be the Prince, 2554 01:36:06,690 --> 01:36:08,964 just because I'm like, I just wanna say... 2555 01:36:08,964 --> 01:36:11,190 No, which of you is Prince? 2556 01:36:11,190 --> 01:36:12,660 We've been working on it. 2557 01:36:12,660 --> 01:36:15,210 We were gonna actually kind of decide. 2558 01:36:15,210 --> 01:36:17,700 That's the first one I knock out. 2559 01:36:17,700 --> 01:36:19,080 - Yeah. Yeah. - Why don't, 2560 01:36:19,080 --> 01:36:20,640 which one of you is most dominant? 2561 01:36:20,640 --> 01:36:22,007 - Darkness Man. - No. 2562 01:36:24,510 --> 01:36:25,410 Turn into trash. 2563 01:36:25,410 --> 01:36:27,125 We'll show him how good he is. 2564 01:36:28,200 --> 01:36:32,280 - Hurry, hurry, hurry. - Come on, trash prince. 2565 01:36:32,280 --> 01:36:36,780 - Come on, my trash prince. - And we go Exhibit A. 2566 01:36:36,780 --> 01:36:38,370 You flop down and become trash. 2567 01:36:38,370 --> 01:36:41,550 He goes, "This a real uphill battle." 2568 01:36:41,550 --> 01:36:44,460 - Do you wanna be the Prince? - I don't wanna be the Prince. 2569 01:36:44,460 --> 01:36:46,560 Why don't none of you want to be Prince? 2570 01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:48,930 I'd be the Prince. I poke my head in. 2571 01:36:48,930 --> 01:36:51,000 - Yeah. You see he- - I'm kidding. 2572 01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:52,110 I want to leave. 2573 01:36:52,110 --> 01:36:53,377 You see, he looks out and goes, 2574 01:36:53,377 --> 01:36:58,377 "Why there is a huge caution tape all over area 2575 01:36:59,010 --> 01:37:00,120 right off the highway?" 2576 01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:01,895 A giant Christmas tree fell. 2577 01:37:03,958 --> 01:37:06,040 There's a lot of, like, 2578 01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:12,320 mythical animals that are real and they keep showing up. 2579 01:37:12,900 --> 01:37:14,190 - Bigfoot. - Trying to mess up the town. 2580 01:37:14,190 --> 01:37:15,779 - There was something called- - Bigfoot? 2581 01:37:15,779 --> 01:37:17,700 Bigfoot is real here. 2582 01:37:17,700 --> 01:37:19,440 This... It was like a fire- 2583 01:37:19,440 --> 01:37:21,180 Bigfoot is real and he's my teacher. 2584 01:37:21,180 --> 01:37:22,509 - Stop. - Fire bear. 2585 01:37:22,509 --> 01:37:23,478 You met him? 2586 01:37:24,435 --> 01:37:25,268 No. 2587 01:37:28,200 --> 01:37:32,760 Look, you guys are... I'm on your side. 2588 01:37:32,760 --> 01:37:35,193 You are fucking up, okay? 2589 01:37:36,300 --> 01:37:39,540 I think it's like we cleared the runway 2590 01:37:39,540 --> 01:37:41,280 to really make a lot of successes. 2591 01:37:41,280 --> 01:37:42,842 - Yeah. - The thing is, 2592 01:37:42,842 --> 01:37:45,330 is that Purpee, it has potential. 2593 01:37:45,330 --> 01:37:48,090 And if we do just corrupt the Whittakers 2594 01:37:48,090 --> 01:37:50,490 and the Douglases, they're already corrupt, 2595 01:37:50,490 --> 01:37:52,410 the town is just gonna die 2596 01:37:52,410 --> 01:37:53,820 and there's not gonna be able- 2597 01:37:53,820 --> 01:37:56,802 Who give a fuck about the town? 2598 01:37:56,802 --> 01:37:57,754 We do! 2599 01:37:57,754 --> 01:37:59,450 We can't have Elysium here if it sucks. 2600 01:37:59,450 --> 01:38:04,140 Exactly. We can't have- What, to be in charge of Purpee? 2601 01:38:04,140 --> 01:38:08,087 Just Purpee? No, no, no. 2602 01:38:08,087 --> 01:38:09,840 Purpee will be more. 2603 01:38:09,840 --> 01:38:12,360 - Purpee will be San Francisco. - Yes. 2604 01:38:12,360 --> 01:38:14,250 Then once it's done being San Francisco, 2605 01:38:14,250 --> 01:38:15,083 it'll be New York. 2606 01:38:15,083 --> 01:38:16,110 Once it's done being New York, 2607 01:38:16,110 --> 01:38:18,990 - it will be goddamn Rome! - Yes. 2608 01:38:18,990 --> 01:38:20,100 And let me tell you, 2609 01:38:20,100 --> 01:38:21,540 just controlling a Whittaker 2610 01:38:21,540 --> 01:38:23,130 does not get you to fucking Rome. 2611 01:38:23,130 --> 01:38:25,320 It gets you to be the king of fucking Purpee 2612 01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:29,070 which you tried to make me but you are not going to win! 2613 01:38:29,070 --> 01:38:31,535 You're not going to win! 2614 01:38:32,368 --> 01:38:33,201 I pull him to the side. 2615 01:38:33,201 --> 01:38:34,830 We really appreciate you being on our side. 2616 01:38:34,830 --> 01:38:36,270 But look, tensions are high. 2617 01:38:36,270 --> 01:38:38,190 We don't wanna have Elysium in a ghost town. 2618 01:38:38,190 --> 01:38:39,393 I need to smoke cigarettes. 2619 01:38:40,560 --> 01:38:42,403 - I have cigarettes. - I'm not normal. 2620 01:38:42,403 --> 01:38:44,280 I don't breath anymore. 2621 01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:45,780 Have a little Snus packet. 2622 01:38:45,780 --> 01:38:46,872 I flick one in your mouth. 2623 01:38:48,608 --> 01:38:50,130 You know a Gumberoo? 2624 01:38:50,130 --> 01:38:50,963 Never mind. 2625 01:38:50,963 --> 01:38:51,796 Look, we're working- 2626 01:38:51,796 --> 01:38:52,629 I can't believe how much 2627 01:38:52,629 --> 01:38:54,630 made up sounding bullshit there is. 2628 01:38:54,630 --> 01:38:57,780 Smiling Nixon. 2629 01:38:57,780 --> 01:39:00,240 His big loud smile. 2630 01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:01,650 "Why do I see this? 2631 01:39:01,650 --> 01:39:04,980 I get, I look up before we travel to town, I get this-" 2632 01:39:04,980 --> 01:39:08,844 He shows his phone and there's a wanted picture of someone. 2633 01:39:11,782 --> 01:39:13,523 You looking over your shoulder on- 2634 01:39:15,040 --> 01:39:17,790 Just going over 2635 01:39:17,790 --> 01:39:19,225 into the river. 2636 01:39:20,460 --> 01:39:21,975 That's how good I look? 2637 01:39:24,360 --> 01:39:26,970 Outside, Ermine turns to you, Madelaine. 2638 01:39:26,970 --> 01:39:29,160 Yes. Oh my god, I miss you. 2639 01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:31,822 - Don't. - You look cute though. 2640 01:39:31,822 --> 01:39:35,010 Look, I need you to do something for me. 2641 01:39:35,010 --> 01:39:35,843 - What? - All right? 2642 01:39:35,843 --> 01:39:37,590 Anything, always for you. Always. 2643 01:39:37,590 --> 01:39:40,800 You... This was a storks and crane situation. 2644 01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:44,164 You got swept up with some bad choices of 2645 01:39:44,164 --> 01:39:45,720 who you associated with. 2646 01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:47,836 The other people, and I didn't do anything. 2647 01:39:47,836 --> 01:39:49,110 Finally you realize. 2648 01:39:49,110 --> 01:39:51,750 There is something I need from you. 2649 01:39:51,750 --> 01:39:53,760 - Okay. - I need a deal 2650 01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:56,433 in Purpee to go through and you owe me one. 2651 01:39:57,581 --> 01:40:00,338 I do. And then the deal would go through. 2652 01:40:00,338 --> 01:40:01,770 And then I won't owe you one. 2653 01:40:01,770 --> 01:40:06,770 I need the land around the Caroline Vine Trailhead 2654 01:40:07,080 --> 01:40:10,110 to be part of the deal that the Whittakers make 2655 01:40:10,110 --> 01:40:12,690 when they sell to Beholdr. 2656 01:40:12,690 --> 01:40:14,680 We need that data center open. 2657 01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:18,087 - You want the data center? - Yes, I do. 2658 01:40:18,087 --> 01:40:19,203 That's you? 2659 01:40:20,160 --> 01:40:22,680 There's wheels within wheels, Madelaine. 2660 01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:24,960 You're here as punishment 2661 01:40:24,960 --> 01:40:27,750 because of your association with the rest of your coterie. 2662 01:40:27,750 --> 01:40:31,170 But you might also be here for other reasons. 2663 01:40:31,170 --> 01:40:33,870 - Oh. - Maybe, 2664 01:40:33,870 --> 01:40:36,990 you could come back to a place like San Francisco, 2665 01:40:36,990 --> 01:40:38,343 if you so desired. 2666 01:40:39,420 --> 01:40:41,157 I do desire. 2667 01:40:41,157 --> 01:40:44,490 And all they gotta have is just a piece of land 2668 01:40:44,490 --> 01:40:46,260 with some water on it to the data center? 2669 01:40:46,260 --> 01:40:48,060 We need the data center to open. 2670 01:40:48,060 --> 01:40:50,730 Okay, well we didn't buy the data center 2671 01:40:50,730 --> 01:40:53,100 so I don't think anybody would care about it. 2672 01:40:53,100 --> 01:40:55,080 You said you are fucking one of the Whittakers. 2673 01:40:55,080 --> 01:40:55,913 Yeah. 2674 01:40:55,913 --> 01:40:59,340 Make sure you're doing whatever you need to do 2675 01:40:59,340 --> 01:41:02,340 to get that sold to Beholdr. 2676 01:41:02,340 --> 01:41:05,100 The data center and the land around the trailhead. 2677 01:41:05,100 --> 01:41:08,760 You know his dad is about to get really hard canceled 2678 01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:11,310 so they'll probably need some money pretty quick. 2679 01:41:11,310 --> 01:41:12,750 Why is he about to get hard canceled? 2680 01:41:12,750 --> 01:41:14,670 Oh, we haven't quite done it yet, 2681 01:41:14,670 --> 01:41:17,136 but probably some really bad shit. 2682 01:41:17,136 --> 01:41:19,020 Hold off on that. 2683 01:41:19,020 --> 01:41:20,861 - Why? - Because 2684 01:41:20,861 --> 01:41:22,500 we need the Whittakers. Because! 2685 01:41:22,500 --> 01:41:23,333 But there's so many Whittakers, 2686 01:41:23,333 --> 01:41:24,420 I can't cancel one of them? 2687 01:41:24,420 --> 01:41:26,674 No, we need the family to be in good standing 2688 01:41:26,674 --> 01:41:27,558 - so that the deal- - The whole family? 2689 01:41:27,558 --> 01:41:28,920 So the deal can go through. 2690 01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:32,280 But this is really a part of our election plan. 2691 01:41:32,280 --> 01:41:33,720 - Madelaine. - For him to get- 2692 01:41:33,720 --> 01:41:37,802 "Elections are fake. Just corrupt whoever wins." 2693 01:41:37,802 --> 01:41:38,880 And you see that she turns 2694 01:41:38,880 --> 01:41:42,450 and walks off towards the town car. 2695 01:41:42,450 --> 01:41:44,730 - Your ass looks good. - "I know!" 2696 01:41:44,730 --> 01:41:47,400 And you see she steps into the town car. 2697 01:41:47,400 --> 01:41:49,380 Koschei wheels around and says, 2698 01:41:49,380 --> 01:41:52,650 "You've heard what you need to hear, I think. 2699 01:41:52,650 --> 01:41:54,900 Look, you've only been here for a few months, 2700 01:41:54,900 --> 01:41:57,630 the blink of an eye in an immortal lifetime. 2701 01:41:57,630 --> 01:42:00,840 Just stop trying to rock the boat, huh?" 2702 01:42:00,840 --> 01:42:03,450 Koschei turns to you, Zaeth, and says, 2703 01:42:03,450 --> 01:42:06,660 "My childe, I would speak with you before we leave." 2704 01:42:06,660 --> 01:42:09,330 - I gotta go talk to my dad. - What? 2705 01:42:09,330 --> 01:42:11,970 - Is he your real dad? - No, he turned me. 2706 01:42:11,970 --> 01:42:13,970 Oh, okay. Like turned you dad. 2707 01:42:13,970 --> 01:42:15,320 He looks to you and says, 2708 01:42:16,558 --> 01:42:19,753 "The two... the fucking... 2709 01:42:21,866 --> 01:42:25,080 - The comic book ones." - Yeah? 2710 01:42:25,080 --> 01:42:27,600 Why they are burnt, for real? 2711 01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:29,346 We are not even lying. 2712 01:42:29,346 --> 01:42:31,650 - The Gumberoo that was- - Come on, man. 2713 01:42:31,650 --> 01:42:33,372 Do you know what a Gumberoo is? 2714 01:42:33,372 --> 01:42:34,572 I didn't know it till yesterday. 2715 01:42:34,572 --> 01:42:36,120 I don't wanna know what a fucking Gumberoo is. 2716 01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:39,300 Naked-ass bear. He spits out fire, 2717 01:42:39,300 --> 01:42:41,880 - allergic to fire. - No. 2718 01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:43,770 - Yeah. - That doesn't make sense. 2719 01:42:43,770 --> 01:42:45,690 Fire power mean you immune to fire. 2720 01:42:45,690 --> 01:42:48,540 - It's basic Pokémon rule. - Right. 2721 01:42:48,540 --> 01:42:50,740 It defies the Pokémon rule. 2722 01:42:50,740 --> 01:42:53,977 - This place is fucked. - It is. 2723 01:42:53,977 --> 01:42:55,560 - Zaeth? - Hmm? 2724 01:42:55,560 --> 01:42:58,383 You hold yourself, your head tall. 2725 01:42:59,850 --> 01:43:02,523 I think perhaps in a place like San Francisco, 2726 01:43:03,840 --> 01:43:07,050 where all the wheels are already in motion, 2727 01:43:07,050 --> 01:43:08,100 there is nothing for you. 2728 01:43:08,100 --> 01:43:11,880 But you have found a real fucking mess here, 2729 01:43:11,880 --> 01:43:15,030 and I see you keeping your head above water. 2730 01:43:15,030 --> 01:43:17,100 You did not pop off or say some dumb shit 2731 01:43:17,100 --> 01:43:18,390 one time in that meeting. 2732 01:43:18,390 --> 01:43:20,610 That's crazy progress. 2733 01:43:20,610 --> 01:43:21,780 Thank you. 2734 01:43:21,780 --> 01:43:24,480 I really wanted to roundhouse kick someone in the head 2735 01:43:26,070 --> 01:43:27,570 and it could have been anyone. 2736 01:43:29,040 --> 01:43:29,940 But you didn't. 2737 01:43:29,940 --> 01:43:31,202 I try to roundhouse kick him. 2738 01:43:32,035 --> 01:43:34,780 He grabs your foot and says, "Nice try." 2739 01:43:34,780 --> 01:43:36,303 Okay, I telegraphed it. 2740 01:43:37,740 --> 01:43:39,439 What's this horse? 2741 01:43:39,439 --> 01:43:40,506 It's Ghorse. 2742 01:43:41,790 --> 01:43:46,010 So a lot of my head being held up above the water 2743 01:43:46,010 --> 01:43:48,660 was 'cause I'm riding Ghorse through the stream. 2744 01:43:51,830 --> 01:43:53,450 Ghorse, show him your teeth. 2745 01:43:56,448 --> 01:43:59,040 But it's not a vampire, right? 2746 01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:00,180 Not really. 2747 01:44:00,180 --> 01:44:02,910 He ate the shit out of another horse though. 2748 01:44:02,910 --> 01:44:06,630 Look, I'm figuring it out in my own way, okay? 2749 01:44:06,630 --> 01:44:08,700 I don't know how to do it any other way, 2750 01:44:08,700 --> 01:44:13,620 but I guess in some way I believe in this town 2751 01:44:13,620 --> 01:44:14,769 and I believe in these people 2752 01:44:14,769 --> 01:44:18,723 and I think we're gonna figure it all out. 2753 01:44:19,650 --> 01:44:22,320 You believe in these people like who? 2754 01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:24,123 - Your coterie mates? - Yeah. 2755 01:44:25,590 --> 01:44:30,590 Well, the comic book ones frighten and confuse me. 2756 01:44:31,830 --> 01:44:33,960 Why a man would be that muscular 2757 01:44:33,960 --> 01:44:36,210 and that down on himself and self-conscious, 2758 01:44:36,210 --> 01:44:37,653 I don't understand. 2759 01:44:38,790 --> 01:44:40,233 He can turn into trash. 2760 01:44:42,016 --> 01:44:44,670 That is like a, hey, this is a red flag. 2761 01:44:44,670 --> 01:44:45,870 - By the way- - Your magic power 2762 01:44:45,870 --> 01:44:47,940 manifest as become trash. 2763 01:44:47,940 --> 01:44:49,980 He's not really a pervert. 2764 01:44:49,980 --> 01:44:54,003 We just say that to him just to make him feel weird. 2765 01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:57,423 You guys are jokers. 2766 01:44:58,800 --> 01:45:02,790 The little child still does not know she's vampire? 2767 01:45:02,790 --> 01:45:04,320 She's working on it. 2768 01:45:04,320 --> 01:45:06,900 She thinks she's half bat which is very similar. 2769 01:45:06,900 --> 01:45:09,810 HJ was very serious vampire in San Francisco. 2770 01:45:09,810 --> 01:45:14,220 His pupils so dilated. Why? 2771 01:45:14,220 --> 01:45:15,648 That I can't really even- 2772 01:45:17,551 --> 01:45:18,841 I can't even begin to tell you why. 2773 01:45:18,841 --> 01:45:20,880 We'll talk. We'll figure it out. 2774 01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:24,900 Look, don't trouble with embracing mage. 2775 01:45:24,900 --> 01:45:26,610 Better to just destroy. 2776 01:45:26,610 --> 01:45:29,280 - Very tricky. Okay? - Okay. 2777 01:45:29,280 --> 01:45:31,083 I am rooting for you, my childe. 2778 01:45:32,580 --> 01:45:35,943 LaVonte, this has broken something in him. 2779 01:45:36,990 --> 01:45:39,300 He's a big liability. 2780 01:45:39,300 --> 01:45:41,263 Why do you not want to be Prince? 2781 01:45:41,263 --> 01:45:44,160 I just, it feels like a lot of responsibility 2782 01:45:44,160 --> 01:45:46,800 in a way that I'm just starting to learn 2783 01:45:46,800 --> 01:45:48,960 how to be responsible in a way. 2784 01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:50,738 I have a to-do list. 2785 01:45:50,738 --> 01:45:52,803 Right now, it just says "Tina Bunders" but... 2786 01:45:55,890 --> 01:45:58,680 I can wrap my head around it. 2787 01:45:58,680 --> 01:46:03,430 These glorious revolutions come and go 2788 01:46:04,770 --> 01:46:07,590 and life stays shit. 2789 01:46:07,590 --> 01:46:10,113 Unlife stays shit. 2790 01:46:10,950 --> 01:46:15,210 The wheel, it crushes. It's what it does. 2791 01:46:15,210 --> 01:46:20,210 Your job, Zaeth, is to stay on top of the wheel. 2792 01:46:20,400 --> 01:46:21,330 That's all. 2793 01:46:21,330 --> 01:46:23,953 But what if you want to really like the wheel? 2794 01:46:23,953 --> 01:46:25,119 What? 2795 01:46:25,119 --> 01:46:28,110 What if you're trying to stay on top of the wheel 2796 01:46:28,110 --> 01:46:30,490 while kind of decorating the wheel 2797 01:46:31,350 --> 01:46:33,990 and getting your buds on the wheel 2798 01:46:33,990 --> 01:46:36,010 to run with you at the same pace 2799 01:46:37,590 --> 01:46:39,740 and do pop a little wheelie here and there. 2800 01:46:41,610 --> 01:46:42,900 For style. 2801 01:46:42,900 --> 01:46:45,660 Just be careful. 2802 01:46:45,660 --> 01:46:49,560 And these ghosts here, 2803 01:46:49,560 --> 01:46:52,517 any other spirits you are aware of or no? 2804 01:46:52,517 --> 01:46:54,243 I told you about the naked bear. 2805 01:46:57,810 --> 01:47:00,213 Kind of a Bigfoot situation that was brought up. 2806 01:47:02,190 --> 01:47:03,270 I don't know, it does seem like 2807 01:47:03,270 --> 01:47:05,580 there's a lot of weird stuff here. 2808 01:47:05,580 --> 01:47:06,993 We're figuring it out. 2809 01:47:06,993 --> 01:47:09,051 All right, I will stay nearby. 2810 01:47:09,051 --> 01:47:10,860 I come check more often. Okay? 2811 01:47:10,860 --> 01:47:15,100 Before you go, it's the little superhero's birthday 2812 01:47:17,242 --> 01:47:18,780 and I think it would mean a lot to them 2813 01:47:18,780 --> 01:47:22,023 if you gave them a present. 2814 01:47:24,360 --> 01:47:25,593 I think, for morale. 2815 01:47:26,460 --> 01:47:27,450 They got so burned, 2816 01:47:27,450 --> 01:47:30,270 they're coming into their birthday kind of sick. 2817 01:47:30,270 --> 01:47:31,263 It just sucks. 2818 01:47:32,760 --> 01:47:35,163 He walks back in with all of you. 2819 01:47:36,120 --> 01:47:38,070 LaVonte, question for you. 2820 01:47:38,070 --> 01:47:41,280 Have you sent out any feeler emails 2821 01:47:41,280 --> 01:47:46,280 around this idea of getting a big name Prince? 2822 01:47:47,340 --> 01:47:48,173 If you'll allow it, 2823 01:47:48,173 --> 01:47:50,400 I would've used my minor boon 2824 01:47:50,400 --> 01:47:54,060 and my minor boon advantage in which I have two dots 2825 01:47:54,060 --> 01:47:56,613 to send out feeler emails- 2826 01:47:58,035 --> 01:47:58,868 Just to Austin. 2827 01:47:58,868 --> 01:48:01,590 Just sending a really insane- 2828 01:48:01,590 --> 01:48:04,080 Like, all the best pictures of Purpee. 2829 01:48:04,080 --> 01:48:06,453 - Yeah. - Just saying that like- 2830 01:48:07,457 --> 01:48:08,957 Yeah, new hot town, 2831 01:48:10,878 --> 01:48:13,050 like, Prince-less. 2832 01:48:13,050 --> 01:48:14,550 New hot Prince-less town. 2833 01:48:14,550 --> 01:48:16,080 America's Got Vampire Prince? 2834 01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:17,212 Yeah, exactly. 2835 01:48:17,212 --> 01:48:18,780 We're gonna have zero taxes of any kind. 2836 01:48:18,780 --> 01:48:21,960 Yeah. I've definitely sent out feelers. 2837 01:48:21,960 --> 01:48:22,793 Hell yeah. 2838 01:48:22,793 --> 01:48:25,590 Koschei walks back in, getting ready to leave. 2839 01:48:25,590 --> 01:48:27,993 Says, "Vesper." 2840 01:48:29,057 --> 01:48:30,382 Yes? 2841 01:48:33,180 --> 01:48:34,800 Happy birthday. 2842 01:48:34,800 --> 01:48:37,242 Thank you. I shoot the ground. 2843 01:48:37,242 --> 01:48:40,143 Ho! Come on. 2844 01:48:40,143 --> 01:48:41,700 Wait for me to leave! 2845 01:48:41,700 --> 01:48:44,023 There's a gun range. I can see it! 2846 01:48:45,172 --> 01:48:47,696 Okay. Thank you. 2847 01:48:47,696 --> 01:48:49,080 It smells stolen, too. 2848 01:48:49,080 --> 01:48:51,480 Yeah, the serial number's filed off. 2849 01:48:51,480 --> 01:48:54,660 You can get them- A good way to get a hot gun 2850 01:48:54,660 --> 01:48:57,900 is to make some connections with black markets, 2851 01:48:57,900 --> 01:49:00,888 sort of take things carefully piece by piece 2852 01:49:00,888 --> 01:49:04,779 over time, make these inroads, you know? 2853 01:49:06,413 --> 01:49:08,520 I would say in the United States of America 2854 01:49:08,520 --> 01:49:13,110 to get illegal gun, probably the easiest it has ever been 2855 01:49:13,110 --> 01:49:15,570 in all of human history. 2856 01:49:15,570 --> 01:49:17,550 Tomato, tomatoe. 2857 01:49:17,550 --> 01:49:19,140 Which one is tomato? Which one is tomatoe? 2858 01:49:19,140 --> 01:49:21,030 You can walk right into the precinct 2859 01:49:21,030 --> 01:49:23,901 and go right into the good closet. 2860 01:49:23,901 --> 01:49:26,370 - The good closet? - If you're fast enough. 2861 01:49:26,370 --> 01:49:28,826 Thank you so much for coming, Koschei. 2862 01:49:28,826 --> 01:49:31,365 Remember this. The names, yes? 2863 01:49:31,365 --> 01:49:32,640 And pick a prince. 2864 01:49:32,640 --> 01:49:35,160 Next time I am here, one of you is Prince, okay? 2865 01:49:35,160 --> 01:49:37,110 - Yes. - Okay. Boss. 2866 01:49:37,110 --> 01:49:39,960 "And remember we don't want to shake. 2867 01:49:39,960 --> 01:49:41,250 We want to control." 2868 01:49:41,250 --> 01:49:43,650 And you see that he walks out, leaving you all here. 2869 01:49:43,650 --> 01:49:46,860 Ermine takes one last look at you, Madelaine, 2870 01:49:46,860 --> 01:49:48,693 from the car as she drives off. 2871 01:49:53,361 --> 01:49:54,750 - The car takes off. - And close with. 2872 01:49:54,750 --> 01:49:56,096 Did I call that woman a bitch? 2873 01:49:56,096 --> 01:49:57,187 - You did, yeah. - You did. 2874 01:49:57,187 --> 01:49:58,830 - Wow. I fully lift my body. - That's okay. 2875 01:49:58,830 --> 01:50:00,846 I was floating over my body watching me. 2876 01:50:02,389 --> 01:50:05,790 And look, she is a bitch but also I owe so much. 2877 01:50:05,790 --> 01:50:08,100 - Why do you owe her again? - Don't worry about it. 2878 01:50:08,100 --> 01:50:11,910 You get a text from Maya saying, 2879 01:50:11,910 --> 01:50:15,600 "Hey, we ended up at Mama Angie's after a little night hike, 2880 01:50:15,600 --> 01:50:18,390 if you guys are still around. Otherwise, no worries. 2881 01:50:18,390 --> 01:50:21,210 - We can always rain check." - Let's do it. 2882 01:50:21,210 --> 01:50:23,787 The mages and the werewolves 2883 01:50:23,787 --> 01:50:26,520 are kind of cooler than our bosses. 2884 01:50:26,520 --> 01:50:27,630 I was gonna say, like, 2885 01:50:27,630 --> 01:50:29,580 I think I have a privileged position 2886 01:50:29,580 --> 01:50:30,900 'cause I'm not a vampire, 2887 01:50:30,900 --> 01:50:32,580 but watching you guys all grovel, 2888 01:50:32,580 --> 01:50:35,130 it just felt like it was beneath all of you. 2889 01:50:35,130 --> 01:50:38,010 Why do you suck up to these people so much? 2890 01:50:38,010 --> 01:50:39,030 I was sitting there thinking, 2891 01:50:39,030 --> 01:50:41,220 "What am I even getting from this interaction?" 2892 01:50:41,220 --> 01:50:43,980 They have no idea what we've seen here. 2893 01:50:43,980 --> 01:50:48,810 That this whole town is about to blow away, 2894 01:50:48,810 --> 01:50:50,700 completely off the face of the map. 2895 01:50:50,700 --> 01:50:52,170 It's dying. 2896 01:50:52,170 --> 01:50:55,380 We're gonna be hosting Elysium in a ghost town 2897 01:50:55,380 --> 01:50:57,450 with nobody around if we take their advice. 2898 01:50:57,450 --> 01:50:59,070 They just wanna sell this place for parts. 2899 01:50:59,070 --> 01:51:00,090 - Yes. - Yeah. 2900 01:51:00,090 --> 01:51:05,090 And we are not those kind of people. We are flippers. 2901 01:51:05,250 --> 01:51:08,100 Are you hoping to prove them wrong? 2902 01:51:08,100 --> 01:51:09,000 - Yes. - By showing that 2903 01:51:09,000 --> 01:51:11,190 - your system works better? - Yes! 2904 01:51:11,190 --> 01:51:13,440 We will revitalize this town. 2905 01:51:13,440 --> 01:51:15,120 But I don't think that's what they want. 2906 01:51:15,120 --> 01:51:17,430 I think if we came to them with a revitalized town, 2907 01:51:17,430 --> 01:51:18,897 they would say this isn't what we want. 2908 01:51:18,897 --> 01:51:19,730 It's not what they want. 2909 01:51:19,730 --> 01:51:20,942 They want to punish us. 2910 01:51:20,942 --> 01:51:25,690 They wanna make us in charge of a bad town 2911 01:51:26,612 --> 01:51:27,807 that is on the way out. 2912 01:51:27,807 --> 01:51:29,940 And what we are trying to do is do the work 2913 01:51:29,940 --> 01:51:30,870 to make it a great town, 2914 01:51:30,870 --> 01:51:33,240 to make it that we are in charge of something special, 2915 01:51:33,240 --> 01:51:35,370 something unique, something that everybody wants. 2916 01:51:35,370 --> 01:51:36,630 That's what we're doing. 2917 01:51:36,630 --> 01:51:39,000 Is there something to trying, 2918 01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:43,200 at least giving it a shot, to befriend the Douglases? 2919 01:51:43,200 --> 01:51:45,120 - The Douglases? - See what that would be like. 2920 01:51:45,120 --> 01:51:46,623 You heard what he was doing. 2921 01:51:48,030 --> 01:51:49,347 You wanna be that guy's friend? 2922 01:51:49,347 --> 01:51:52,766 He was trying to fuck a nude bear on a slab. 2923 01:51:52,766 --> 01:51:55,980 And his tongue was longer than his dick. 2924 01:51:55,980 --> 01:51:58,680 I think he was trying to speak bear. 2925 01:51:58,680 --> 01:52:00,840 Is that what we can think that was? 2926 01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:02,100 It's whatever Madelaine interpreted, 2927 01:52:02,100 --> 01:52:04,770 - whatever I did as. - Don't think so. 2928 01:52:04,770 --> 01:52:08,668 We did set a big tree on fire and hit their business. 2929 01:52:08,668 --> 01:52:10,305 Let's go to Angie's. 2930 01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:12,990 I could pour a Sprite out on the floor. 2931 01:52:12,990 --> 01:52:15,087 I will say, you know, I am a vampire 2932 01:52:15,087 --> 01:52:18,270 and I fucking hate listening to what people say 2933 01:52:18,270 --> 01:52:19,650 and what they want us to do. 2934 01:52:19,650 --> 01:52:21,750 But I do think if we don't do it, 2935 01:52:21,750 --> 01:52:23,970 they possibly might be powerful enough 2936 01:52:23,970 --> 01:52:25,890 to sort of disembowel all of us 2937 01:52:25,890 --> 01:52:27,720 and just kind of put us in that middle- 2938 01:52:27,720 --> 01:52:30,180 I'm wondering if there's a middle ground. 2939 01:52:30,180 --> 01:52:31,950 We don't have to reinvent the wheel, 2940 01:52:31,950 --> 01:52:34,860 but we also don't have to do their whole plan. 2941 01:52:34,860 --> 01:52:37,380 I wonder if we can bond with one of the sides 2942 01:52:37,380 --> 01:52:40,170 of the family, eradicate the other family. 2943 01:52:40,170 --> 01:52:42,000 Well, and to your point of the middle ground, 2944 01:52:42,000 --> 01:52:43,580 I mean is there some way... 2945 01:52:43,580 --> 01:52:47,310 I mean, we have this election in the bag 2946 01:52:47,310 --> 01:52:49,020 if we can just get to it. 2947 01:52:49,020 --> 01:52:51,210 If we just Danderhoof it, right? 2948 01:52:51,210 --> 01:52:55,410 - Little cherries for Koschei. - Mm-hmm. 2949 01:52:55,410 --> 01:52:56,921 Little cherries along the way. 2950 01:52:56,921 --> 01:52:57,754 Little cherries for Koschei. 2951 01:52:57,754 --> 01:52:59,913 All the small stuff that we can do that we can 2952 01:52:59,913 --> 01:53:01,994 make it look like we're doing our work. 2953 01:53:01,994 --> 01:53:04,950 It's a Black Forest gateau idea. 2954 01:53:04,950 --> 01:53:06,750 Will you text him "Nom, nom, nom. 2955 01:53:06,750 --> 01:53:08,340 Don't worry, big juicy cherry 2956 01:53:08,340 --> 01:53:09,540 next time you're here"? 2957 01:53:10,980 --> 01:53:12,630 I feel like we have to take a different tact. 2958 01:53:12,630 --> 01:53:14,553 Do we want to go to Mama Angie's or not? 2959 01:53:14,553 --> 01:53:16,410 - Yes. - Yes. Before we go there, 2960 01:53:16,410 --> 01:53:18,240 I do think we should get on the same page 2961 01:53:18,240 --> 01:53:20,883 because I think they want- There's kind of no... 2962 01:53:21,840 --> 01:53:24,480 They want the opposite of what we want. 2963 01:53:24,480 --> 01:53:26,670 - So my vote. - What do they want? 2964 01:53:26,670 --> 01:53:28,730 - We don't even know. - They want status quo. 2965 01:53:30,390 --> 01:53:32,737 - I'm talking about Koschei. - Oh, Koschei. Yeah. 2966 01:53:32,737 --> 01:53:36,780 I'm saying they very well may try to kill us 2967 01:53:36,780 --> 01:53:39,390 at some point, but for now all they're doing 2968 01:53:39,390 --> 01:53:41,670 is lightly threatening us. 2969 01:53:41,670 --> 01:53:44,880 I say we keep plowing forward with what we're doing, 2970 01:53:44,880 --> 01:53:46,980 and if they wanna show their fangs, 2971 01:53:46,980 --> 01:53:48,750 we'll figure that out when we get there. 2972 01:53:48,750 --> 01:53:50,490 Fuck yeah, Mitch. Fuck yeah. 2973 01:53:50,490 --> 01:53:53,130 I say we keep going. I say we keep going. 2974 01:53:53,130 --> 01:53:55,893 They love obedience but they love blood and money more 2975 01:53:56,760 --> 01:53:57,870 and we can give them that. 2976 01:53:57,870 --> 01:53:59,430 Time to pop some wheelies. 2977 01:53:59,430 --> 01:54:03,990 I mean, plus we're vampires, minus Bat Child, you know? 2978 01:54:03,990 --> 01:54:05,160 We're already dead. 2979 01:54:05,160 --> 01:54:06,480 You know what? 2980 01:54:06,480 --> 01:54:08,790 I think it's time that I admit something. 2981 01:54:08,790 --> 01:54:10,170 - What? - What? 2982 01:54:10,170 --> 01:54:11,340 I have a portal in my mouth 2983 01:54:11,340 --> 01:54:13,350 and I don't know where it goes. 2984 01:54:13,350 --> 01:54:14,310 Oh. 2985 01:54:14,310 --> 01:54:16,170 And I think I need to start to really 2986 01:54:16,170 --> 01:54:18,267 - sort of look into that. - Oh. 2987 01:54:18,267 --> 01:54:20,499 And figure out where the portal my mouth goes to. 2988 01:54:20,499 --> 01:54:21,930 I read a book about this, 2989 01:54:21,930 --> 01:54:25,368 about becoming a woman and you use a hand mirror. 2990 01:54:25,368 --> 01:54:27,152 A hand mirror? 2991 01:54:27,152 --> 01:54:28,710 - In her mouth. - You know, 2992 01:54:28,710 --> 01:54:31,230 literally you can open up your mouth 2993 01:54:31,230 --> 01:54:32,418 and use a hand mirror 2994 01:54:32,418 --> 01:54:35,172 and just really spend some time looking. 2995 01:54:41,310 --> 01:54:44,013 And that's why I got you this birthday gift. 2996 01:54:45,210 --> 01:54:47,793 It's the rock but glued onto it is a mirror. 2997 01:54:48,690 --> 01:54:49,533 Okay. 2998 01:54:52,504 --> 01:54:53,580 I don't really see much. 2999 01:54:53,580 --> 01:54:55,689 You've just gotta spend some time. 3000 01:54:55,689 --> 01:54:58,380 Okay, okay. I'll do it privately. 3001 01:54:58,380 --> 01:55:00,720 You guys roll over to Mama Angie's. 3002 01:55:00,720 --> 01:55:04,680 It is two o'clock in the damn morning at Mama Angie's. 3003 01:55:04,680 --> 01:55:06,510 You see that off in a corner booth, 3004 01:55:06,510 --> 01:55:08,490 you see Maya, her bicycle's outside, 3005 01:55:08,490 --> 01:55:10,770 and you see another bike outside 3006 01:55:10,770 --> 01:55:12,420 that seems to belong to Cody. 3007 01:55:12,420 --> 01:55:13,917 And you see them both waiting for you guys. 3008 01:55:13,917 --> 01:55:17,610 You see Maya sort of smiles at all of you walking in 3009 01:55:17,610 --> 01:55:19,950 and says, "Hey, good to see the whole gang." 3010 01:55:19,950 --> 01:55:22,170 You see that Cody sort of smiles and nods. 3011 01:55:22,170 --> 01:55:24,993 - Maya's partner here? - Maya's partner is not here. 3012 01:55:25,920 --> 01:55:28,620 Maya looks at you guys as you walk in and says, 3013 01:55:28,620 --> 01:55:31,200 "Hey, thanks for coming out. 3014 01:55:31,200 --> 01:55:32,670 No worries if we need to reschedule, 3015 01:55:32,670 --> 01:55:33,930 if tonight's a bad night for you." 3016 01:55:33,930 --> 01:55:35,340 We've had a wild night, 3017 01:55:35,340 --> 01:55:37,200 but you are exactly who we want to talk to. 3018 01:55:37,200 --> 01:55:39,270 Jesus Christ. Are you guys okay? 3019 01:55:39,270 --> 01:55:42,810 Yeah, we were doing that thing where you spray perfume 3020 01:55:42,810 --> 01:55:45,780 at a candle and it got really out of hand. 3021 01:55:45,780 --> 01:55:47,640 That's why we smell of tropical Christmas. 3022 01:55:47,640 --> 01:55:48,930 Yeah, busy night tonight. 3023 01:55:48,930 --> 01:55:51,240 There was some gunshots on the police scanner 3024 01:55:51,240 --> 01:55:52,170 fired near the bridge. 3025 01:55:52,170 --> 01:55:55,050 You're also on the police scanner? 3026 01:55:55,050 --> 01:55:56,820 - Yeah. - That's so fun. 3027 01:55:56,820 --> 01:55:58,590 You gotta stay tapped into 3028 01:55:58,590 --> 01:56:00,180 what these little piggies are up to. 3029 01:56:00,180 --> 01:56:05,040 Is there anything I can do to help you guys? 3030 01:56:05,040 --> 01:56:07,140 - Is there? - Cody looks over at Maya. 3031 01:56:07,140 --> 01:56:08,040 Maya sort of shrugs. 3032 01:56:08,040 --> 01:56:08,873 He says, 3033 01:56:11,130 --> 01:56:13,260 "If you guys... I know that we're at a diner right now. 3034 01:56:13,260 --> 01:56:15,780 If you guys are hungry, 3035 01:56:15,780 --> 01:56:19,950 I've been told that the... 3036 01:56:19,950 --> 01:56:24,690 I've been told that if I can help you guys eat, 3037 01:56:24,690 --> 01:56:27,270 that you may be able to heal even faster. 3038 01:56:27,270 --> 01:56:31,023 But it's apparently a really wild rush." 3039 01:56:32,820 --> 01:56:35,355 - Okay. - How do I say no to that? 3040 01:56:35,355 --> 01:56:37,074 Yeah, I am definitely, I'm in. 3041 01:56:37,074 --> 01:56:38,299 Should we go somewhere else? 3042 01:56:38,299 --> 01:56:39,960 Yeah. Not here. Yeah, not here. 3043 01:56:39,960 --> 01:56:44,100 There's a bunch of weird bunkers underneath the diner. 3044 01:56:44,100 --> 01:56:45,540 - Huh? - You don't know this? 3045 01:56:45,540 --> 01:56:47,580 - Smiling Nixon. - You see Maya goes, 3046 01:56:47,580 --> 01:56:49,290 "The ladle! I was always interested 3047 01:56:49,290 --> 01:56:50,623 in what was down that other door. 3048 01:56:50,623 --> 01:56:52,800 I was too honed in on the ladle. 3049 01:56:52,800 --> 01:56:55,920 Fuck. All right, sorry, shit." 3050 01:56:55,920 --> 01:56:57,660 Should we go down to the smiling Nixon 3051 01:56:57,660 --> 01:56:58,920 and have ourselves a little party? 3052 01:56:58,920 --> 01:57:01,380 You guys are down on the catwalk by the smiling Nixon 3053 01:57:01,380 --> 01:57:03,240 as Maya's smoking a joint going, 3054 01:57:03,240 --> 01:57:05,487 "This is fucking crazy." 3055 01:57:05,487 --> 01:57:07,899 - Yeah, right? - This is fucking 3056 01:57:07,899 --> 01:57:10,440 - crazy. - Oh yeah. 3057 01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:12,758 The smile's so loud. 3058 01:57:12,758 --> 01:57:15,699 The smile's so loud. It's like- 3059 01:57:15,699 --> 01:57:16,710 You've never seen anything louder. 3060 01:57:16,710 --> 01:57:17,543 Cling wrap. 3061 01:57:17,543 --> 01:57:19,530 Do you think he posed for it? 3062 01:57:19,530 --> 01:57:21,467 He had to of. It's too accurate. 3063 01:57:21,467 --> 01:57:23,124 It's a very photorealistic. And I met him. 3064 01:57:23,124 --> 01:57:24,660 Cody goes, "If you guys wanna partake, 3065 01:57:24,660 --> 01:57:25,743 do you want..." 3066 01:57:27,204 --> 01:57:28,969 Yeah, I'm covered. Thank you. 3067 01:57:28,969 --> 01:57:31,620 You see Cody takes the joint and hits it, 3068 01:57:31,620 --> 01:57:33,390 hands it back to Maya and says, 3069 01:57:33,390 --> 01:57:36,360 "If you guys- I'm not trying to... 3070 01:57:36,360 --> 01:57:38,097 You guys are badly injured." 3071 01:57:38,097 --> 01:57:38,930 - Yeah. - Yeah. 3072 01:57:38,930 --> 01:57:40,740 I didn't make drinking blood intimate. 3073 01:57:40,740 --> 01:57:41,573 That's just a thing 3074 01:57:41,573 --> 01:57:43,284 that's part of your existence. 3075 01:57:43,284 --> 01:57:45,149 - Gotcha. - Oh no, it's- 3076 01:57:45,149 --> 01:57:48,060 But you did promise that it'll be a wild ride. 3077 01:57:48,060 --> 01:57:49,651 Do you have a preference of where? 3078 01:57:50,651 --> 01:57:51,960 Let's do arm, wrist, 3079 01:57:51,960 --> 01:57:53,564 - if that's okay? - Okay, great. Should we- 3080 01:57:56,580 --> 01:57:59,257 You see he says, "Give me one second." 3081 01:57:59,257 --> 01:58:01,080 And you see that he takes his shirt off, 3082 01:58:01,080 --> 01:58:01,913 takes his hat off. 3083 01:58:01,913 --> 01:58:03,084 I take my shirt off. 3084 01:58:04,950 --> 01:58:06,480 You guys all disrobe 3085 01:58:06,480 --> 01:58:08,880 in front of a massive portrait of Richard Nixon. 3086 01:58:10,020 --> 01:58:13,125 - And you see- - Beats Pill out. 3087 01:58:15,840 --> 01:58:19,743 You see he says, "Stay calm. 3088 01:58:21,030 --> 01:58:24,750 You were given this form to protect people. 3089 01:58:24,750 --> 01:58:26,880 These people are in your realm. 3090 01:58:26,880 --> 01:58:29,790 They need protecting." 3091 01:58:29,790 --> 01:58:31,860 And he grows to about eight and a half feet tall 3092 01:58:31,860 --> 01:58:35,370 and a massive werewolf stands before you on the catwalk. 3093 01:58:35,370 --> 01:58:37,440 And he extends his wrists to both of you. 3094 01:58:37,440 --> 01:58:39,480 Maya looks out and says, 3095 01:58:39,480 --> 01:58:41,160 "What does it look like if it starts to go bad, 3096 01:58:41,160 --> 01:58:43,533 if you guys can't control yourselves?" 3097 01:58:45,270 --> 01:58:47,370 There's a lot of echolocation sounds, normally. 3098 01:58:47,370 --> 01:58:50,310 Probably gonna be able to control themselves. 3099 01:58:50,310 --> 01:58:53,394 She says, "I'm just gonna step back 3100 01:58:53,394 --> 01:58:55,269 and if you guys start to freak out-" 3101 01:58:55,269 --> 01:58:56,834 There's sort of a door situation. 3102 01:58:56,834 --> 01:58:58,421 Here take my gun. You can just- 3103 01:58:58,421 --> 01:58:59,859 - Don't want that. - You don't want to? 3104 01:58:59,859 --> 01:59:00,692 Don't want it. No, no, no. 3105 01:59:00,692 --> 01:59:02,451 I'm saying like as insurance, if it starts to go bad. 3106 01:59:02,451 --> 01:59:04,620 No, no, I'm just gonna go to the end of the catwalk 3107 01:59:04,620 --> 01:59:06,720 and if I see things going bad, I'm just gonna get Cody. 3108 01:59:06,720 --> 01:59:07,890 - Okay. - "All right?" 3109 01:59:07,890 --> 01:59:10,200 You see that she walks to the end of the catwalk, 3110 01:59:10,200 --> 01:59:14,070 and you watch as her eyes go sort of silvery white, 3111 01:59:14,070 --> 01:59:15,630 almost like two points of light, 3112 01:59:15,630 --> 01:59:19,894 as Maya steps back doing in-person magic for the first time. 3113 01:59:19,894 --> 01:59:24,894 Okay, I think Bat Child feels thrilled by this. 3114 01:59:25,350 --> 01:59:29,760 And then I think she's gonna go up to Cody's wrist 3115 01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:31,350 and she's gonna echo what he said. 3116 01:59:31,350 --> 01:59:33,210 But she's saying it to herself. 3117 01:59:33,210 --> 01:59:36,240 - Mm-hmm. - You were given this form 3118 01:59:36,240 --> 01:59:37,443 to protect people. 3119 01:59:39,510 --> 01:59:40,708 I'm a vampire. 3120 01:59:42,413 --> 01:59:43,950 I'm a vampire, 3121 01:59:43,950 --> 01:59:45,780 but it's not senseless. 3122 01:59:45,780 --> 01:59:48,087 It's to protect people. 3123 01:59:49,500 --> 01:59:54,120 I'm going to need a Willpower roll, difficulty of five. 3124 01:59:54,120 --> 01:59:55,563 Whoa. Happy birthday. 3125 01:59:56,520 --> 01:59:58,369 Darkness Man, are you going at the same time? 3126 01:59:59,211 --> 02:00:00,233 You know what? 3127 02:00:00,233 --> 02:00:02,520 Why don't I wait until after Bat Child goes? 3128 02:00:02,520 --> 02:00:04,770 - Hell yeah. - Okay. I'm gonna, 3129 02:00:04,770 --> 02:00:06,870 can I spend a Willpower on a Willpower? 3130 02:00:06,870 --> 02:00:08,460 You cannot spend Willpower on a Willpower. 3131 02:00:08,460 --> 02:00:09,630 Okay, I got a three. 3132 02:00:09,630 --> 02:00:12,153 You immediately go to zero hunger. 3133 02:00:13,410 --> 02:00:16,920 You heal a point of Aggravated damage immediately. 3134 02:00:16,920 --> 02:00:18,570 And as you do so, 3135 02:00:18,570 --> 02:00:23,190 you are cast into a thudding heartbeat 3136 02:00:23,190 --> 02:00:26,160 at the center of the spiritual world 3137 02:00:26,160 --> 02:00:31,160 where you are riding a water flume of the tree of life 3138 02:00:31,200 --> 02:00:33,360 through all organisms that have ever existed, 3139 02:00:33,360 --> 02:00:36,060 branching off through zoological pathways. 3140 02:00:36,060 --> 02:00:38,975 I haven't been in a waterpark since I turned! 3141 02:00:43,527 --> 02:00:46,530 And you see parasitism, 3142 02:00:46,530 --> 02:00:51,030 an absolutely normal branch of zoological study. 3143 02:00:51,030 --> 02:00:52,980 There are parasites all throughout 3144 02:00:52,980 --> 02:00:55,320 different zoological branches that are having them. 3145 02:00:55,320 --> 02:00:56,880 But you sense a curse. 3146 02:00:56,880 --> 02:00:58,350 Is this a curse? Is this magic? 3147 02:00:58,350 --> 02:00:59,183 Is there something else? 3148 02:00:59,183 --> 02:01:02,190 You see a portal, yawning, swallowing everything, 3149 02:01:02,190 --> 02:01:04,110 but energy can either be created nor destroyed. 3150 02:01:04,110 --> 02:01:06,240 You hear a howl in the distance. 3151 02:01:06,240 --> 02:01:09,465 You see a green source of light. 3152 02:01:13,041 --> 02:01:14,587 "Jack of the Pines. Jack of the Pines. 3153 02:01:14,587 --> 02:01:16,050 Jack of the Pines." 3154 02:01:16,050 --> 02:01:18,240 And you see there's drums playing. 3155 02:01:18,240 --> 02:01:19,830 You see someone looking up, 3156 02:01:19,830 --> 02:01:21,510 their throat slit, 3157 02:01:21,510 --> 02:01:24,390 their blood falling, cascading into an altar 3158 02:01:24,390 --> 02:01:27,180 and soaking into the ground, soaking down. 3159 02:01:27,180 --> 02:01:29,730 But the plants here don't eat blood. 3160 02:01:29,730 --> 02:01:32,340 The salt in the blood is not good for the plants. 3161 02:01:32,340 --> 02:01:34,800 There's nothing wrong with spilling blood 3162 02:01:34,800 --> 02:01:37,020 if it goes back into the tree of life 3163 02:01:37,020 --> 02:01:40,533 over and over, the spilling of blood senselessly. 3164 02:01:40,533 --> 02:01:42,990 The destruction of life for no purpose. 3165 02:01:42,990 --> 02:01:45,270 These things and it's just coming again and again and again. 3166 02:01:45,270 --> 02:01:48,090 And you sense a malevolent spiritual entity 3167 02:01:48,090 --> 02:01:52,740 looming over all of Purpee from Golden Bounty Farms. 3168 02:01:52,740 --> 02:01:55,890 The Whittaker monument deserved to be destroyed 3169 02:01:55,890 --> 02:01:57,270 and it was destroyed. 3170 02:01:57,270 --> 02:01:59,340 That owl creature in the basement 3171 02:01:59,340 --> 02:02:02,430 of the Templers needed to be destroyed and it was destroyed. 3172 02:02:02,430 --> 02:02:06,060 And yet the barriers have been brought low 3173 02:02:06,060 --> 02:02:08,760 as a giant of pine trees, 3174 02:02:08,760 --> 02:02:10,800 malevolent green light, 3175 02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:14,790 a single massive Rockefeller Center sized tree 3176 02:02:14,790 --> 02:02:17,100 in its crotch pointed outwards 3177 02:02:17,100 --> 02:02:20,190 just like the Gumberoo as it beholds 3178 02:02:20,190 --> 02:02:23,860 in all of its pagan, otherworldly majesty and goes, 3179 02:02:25,035 --> 02:02:29,797 "Blood spilled in Purpee. 3180 02:02:29,797 --> 02:02:34,364 Call them to me, my warriors." 3181 02:02:35,700 --> 02:02:38,850 You come back on the catwalk. Cody looks at you. 3182 02:02:38,850 --> 02:02:42,790 You have a temporary dot of Potence 3183 02:02:44,310 --> 02:02:47,580 from drinking Cody's blood in this moment. 3184 02:02:47,580 --> 02:02:49,893 - Whoa. - He goes, "Okay. 3185 02:02:50,880 --> 02:02:53,463 - You okay?" - Yeah. Did I hurt you? 3186 02:02:54,300 --> 02:02:55,620 Yeah, a little bit. It's all right. 3187 02:02:55,620 --> 02:02:57,240 I'm really sorry. 3188 02:02:57,240 --> 02:02:59,057 You see, he licks the wound closed. 3189 02:02:59,057 --> 02:03:02,190 Do you do this for vampires often? 3190 02:03:02,190 --> 02:03:03,780 I've never met vampires 3191 02:03:03,780 --> 02:03:06,300 that haven't tried to straight-up kill me. 3192 02:03:06,300 --> 02:03:08,283 - But you have met vampires? - Yeah. 3193 02:03:10,489 --> 02:03:15,489 There are some vampires that swing by Mike's Bar, 3194 02:03:15,540 --> 02:03:17,610 usually on their way up and around. 3195 02:03:17,610 --> 02:03:19,230 There's enough werewolves out here 3196 02:03:19,230 --> 02:03:21,270 that it's not super safe for vampires. 3197 02:03:21,270 --> 02:03:23,551 The fact that you guys are all here is frankly shocking. 3198 02:03:23,551 --> 02:03:26,040 Oh, we got sent here 'cause we fucked up big time. 3199 02:03:26,040 --> 02:03:28,800 He looks at you and says- 3200 02:03:28,800 --> 02:03:30,150 I'll take a bite, if you don't mind. 3201 02:03:30,150 --> 02:03:31,830 "Yeah, go for it." 3202 02:03:31,830 --> 02:03:33,280 Go ahead. Give me a Willpower roll. 3203 02:03:36,930 --> 02:03:38,460 - Four. - Four. Okay. 3204 02:03:38,460 --> 02:03:42,990 Diving in, you actually look out and see images 3205 02:03:42,990 --> 02:03:47,490 of wolf prints going up the Caroline Vine Trailhead 3206 02:03:47,490 --> 02:03:51,780 up into the trail and see Cody working at the hostel 3207 02:03:51,780 --> 02:03:55,800 and see a lot of kids showing up at the hostel 3208 02:03:55,800 --> 02:03:57,510 that are either homeless 3209 02:03:57,510 --> 02:03:59,572 or have had upsetting things happen to them 3210 02:03:59,572 --> 02:04:04,170 and have all come here at the beginning of a lupine puberty, 3211 02:04:04,170 --> 02:04:06,780 that essentially this trail is 3212 02:04:06,780 --> 02:04:09,270 like a trail of being like, "Go up this trail, 3213 02:04:09,270 --> 02:04:12,060 it will be safe for you to have your first change 3214 02:04:12,060 --> 02:04:13,740 way up in the woods. Go at night 3215 02:04:13,740 --> 02:04:15,540 when there's gonna be nobody else around. 3216 02:04:15,540 --> 02:04:18,240 And there are other werewolves deeper into Oregon 3217 02:04:18,240 --> 02:04:19,260 that will find you. 3218 02:04:19,260 --> 02:04:21,570 Just stay hiking here for a couple days." 3219 02:04:21,570 --> 02:04:24,120 And you see that Cody's basically like this gatekeeper, 3220 02:04:24,120 --> 02:04:25,440 trying to scoop up kids 3221 02:04:25,440 --> 02:04:27,600 that get off the bus line here. 3222 02:04:27,600 --> 02:04:29,490 And you can see him meeting Maya 3223 02:04:29,490 --> 02:04:31,900 for the first time in his memory 3224 02:04:33,090 --> 02:04:35,700 as one of the bus lines gets cut in town 3225 02:04:35,700 --> 02:04:37,020 and a bus depot gets cut. 3226 02:04:37,020 --> 02:04:38,190 And he begins to explain to her 3227 02:04:38,190 --> 02:04:39,181 that he doesn't know how to help 3228 02:04:39,181 --> 02:04:40,348 'cause it was one of the main ways 3229 02:04:40,348 --> 02:04:43,560 that young lost werewolf kids could get to Purpee. 3230 02:04:43,560 --> 02:04:45,270 And Maya and him talking about 3231 02:04:45,270 --> 02:04:47,280 what they can possibly do about that. 3232 02:04:47,280 --> 02:04:51,060 You come back from that. Heal an Aggravated, zero Hunger, 3233 02:04:51,060 --> 02:04:56,060 and you have a dot in Auspex as you look around. 3234 02:04:56,130 --> 02:04:57,510 Only temporarily within 3235 02:04:57,510 --> 02:04:58,700 the short amount of time 3236 02:04:58,700 --> 02:05:00,570 of having that blood from him. 3237 02:05:00,570 --> 02:05:03,390 But you look and basically see Cody, you know, 3238 02:05:03,390 --> 02:05:04,740 there was some feeling in him 3239 02:05:04,740 --> 02:05:08,160 of a warrior or a protector. 3240 02:05:08,160 --> 02:05:11,340 And you see that far from this like 3241 02:05:11,340 --> 02:05:12,990 avenging knight of some guy 3242 02:05:12,990 --> 02:05:14,570 who's running around killing people, 3243 02:05:14,570 --> 02:05:17,730 he just stays at a hostel to be someone reliable 3244 02:05:17,730 --> 02:05:19,203 for these lost kids to find. 3245 02:05:20,228 --> 02:05:22,080 Thank you. Thank you. 3246 02:05:22,080 --> 02:05:26,040 We're trying to get the buses back up and running. 3247 02:05:26,040 --> 02:05:27,630 That would be super tight. 3248 02:05:27,630 --> 02:05:30,240 We're going to get the buses back up and running. 3249 02:05:30,240 --> 02:05:33,540 They're actually trying to take over part of your trail. 3250 02:05:33,540 --> 02:05:34,660 - Really? - Yeah. 3251 02:05:34,660 --> 02:05:38,670 And I tell him about the data center and the land. 3252 02:05:38,670 --> 02:05:41,793 You see, he goes, "Fuck, fuck. 3253 02:05:42,630 --> 02:05:44,715 No, they can't do that. 3254 02:05:44,715 --> 02:05:46,590 It's a fucking trail. 3255 02:05:46,590 --> 02:05:48,150 The stones at the base of the trail 3256 02:05:48,150 --> 02:05:50,970 are part of the journey. 3257 02:05:50,970 --> 02:05:52,890 That's like their anchor in the spirit world. 3258 02:05:52,890 --> 02:05:54,022 They keep the kids safe 3259 02:05:54,022 --> 02:05:55,522 when they go up on that nature walk." 3260 02:05:55,522 --> 02:05:57,742 We'll make sure. We'll make sure it won't happen. 3261 02:05:57,742 --> 02:05:59,250 But they're, like, symbolic, right? 3262 02:05:59,250 --> 02:06:01,846 You see Maya goes, "Deeply unsymbolic. 3263 02:06:01,846 --> 02:06:03,766 Powerfully magical." 3264 02:06:03,766 --> 02:06:06,540 - Oh, good. Oh, great. - You see Maya looks 3265 02:06:06,540 --> 02:06:09,060 and just goes, "Why? 3266 02:06:09,060 --> 02:06:13,661 I mean, amazing. But for real, like, why?" 3267 02:06:13,661 --> 02:06:18,661 Oh, well, I just wanna live in a town that I really like 3268 02:06:19,440 --> 02:06:21,300 and I wanna live near a zoo, 3269 02:06:21,300 --> 02:06:24,360 in walking distance to a zoo and a library. 3270 02:06:24,360 --> 02:06:26,610 And I feel like all of these are little steps 3271 02:06:26,610 --> 02:06:29,940 along the way to make that dream happen for myself. 3272 02:06:29,940 --> 02:06:32,640 So I guess maybe it's kind of selfish. 3273 02:06:32,640 --> 02:06:34,962 She looks and goes, "A zoo?" 3274 02:06:34,962 --> 02:06:35,795 A petting zoo. 3275 02:06:35,795 --> 02:06:38,010 - We're gonna start small. - A nighttime petting zoo. 3276 02:06:38,010 --> 02:06:40,003 - Nocturnal petting zoo. - Nocturnal petting zoo. 3277 02:06:40,003 --> 02:06:41,670 For all the really cute nocturnal animals. 3278 02:06:41,670 --> 02:06:44,070 You see Cody and Maya both look at each other, 3279 02:06:44,070 --> 02:06:45,333 and Cody turns and says, 3280 02:06:47,610 --> 02:06:50,220 "I know some dudes that work up the road past Medford 3281 02:06:50,220 --> 02:06:53,914 that do wolf conservancy stuff, if-" 3282 02:06:53,914 --> 02:06:55,564 - Yeah. - You see that Maya says, 3283 02:06:57,300 --> 02:06:59,640 "I could have my partner look into licenses 3284 02:06:59,640 --> 02:07:02,220 - for a petting zoo." - That would be incredible! 3285 02:07:02,220 --> 02:07:04,103 You should meet Amelia. She's great. 3286 02:07:05,820 --> 02:07:07,680 Yeah, I think that's great. 3287 02:07:07,680 --> 02:07:12,680 Well, we wanted to meet you guys to catch a vibe. 3288 02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:15,450 It doesn't really make sense. 3289 02:07:15,450 --> 02:07:19,710 People sort of don't show up with resources to help. 3290 02:07:19,710 --> 02:07:21,900 Oh, I don't have the resources. They do. 3291 02:07:21,900 --> 02:07:24,270 Cody has his own journey. 3292 02:07:24,270 --> 02:07:26,073 We help each other where we can. 3293 02:07:26,970 --> 02:07:28,486 We've been fighting... 3294 02:07:30,180 --> 02:07:32,610 You guys have shaken up a lot of stuff here 3295 02:07:32,610 --> 02:07:34,680 and that's awesome because we've been 3296 02:07:34,680 --> 02:07:37,960 fighting fucking tooth and nail just to hang on, 3297 02:07:39,090 --> 02:07:41,790 and it's pretty fucking chaotic. 3298 02:07:41,790 --> 02:07:43,800 The giant Christmas tree is insane. 3299 02:07:43,800 --> 02:07:46,920 The burning down of the thing is fucking crazy. 3300 02:07:46,920 --> 02:07:50,400 But a little bit of chaos maybe goes a long way 3301 02:07:50,400 --> 02:07:52,050 if it means that we've got a shot 3302 02:07:52,050 --> 02:07:53,730 at changing anything in this town. 3303 02:07:53,730 --> 02:07:57,510 And I don't know what we owe it to or why you care, 3304 02:07:57,510 --> 02:07:59,010 but I see that you do. 3305 02:07:59,010 --> 02:08:00,597 And as long as you care about Purpee 3306 02:08:00,597 --> 02:08:04,863 and the people who live here, then we want to help. 3307 02:08:06,180 --> 02:08:08,580 What have you guys heard about Jack of the Pines? 3308 02:08:08,580 --> 02:08:13,020 Because I took a ruby out of an owl demon's mouth. 3309 02:08:13,020 --> 02:08:16,530 You see, Maya goes, throws her hands to each side 3310 02:08:16,530 --> 02:08:18,180 and says, "Jump!" 3311 02:08:18,180 --> 02:08:21,330 Cody leaps into the air, as you say Jack of the Pines. 3312 02:08:21,330 --> 02:08:24,060 She vanishes with both of them. 3313 02:08:24,060 --> 02:08:28,290 You see as a root busts through the ceiling of the bunker 3314 02:08:28,290 --> 02:08:30,390 and shoots down towards Cody 3315 02:08:30,390 --> 02:08:34,470 to impale him through the heart, he vanishes. 3316 02:08:34,470 --> 02:08:35,940 In the moment that she's vanishing, 3317 02:08:35,940 --> 02:08:40,680 she goes, "Tomorrow!" as she moves away, 3318 02:08:40,680 --> 02:08:44,099 as this vine is just hanging down there. 3319 02:08:44,099 --> 02:08:46,939 Was that the drugs or is that? That's real. 3320 02:08:46,939 --> 02:08:48,371 No, that was real. 3321 02:08:51,300 --> 02:08:53,520 - Don't say it no more. - J of the P. 3322 02:08:53,520 --> 02:08:55,272 Nixon's frowning now. 3323 02:08:56,280 --> 02:08:59,490 - Yeah, it's hit the mouth. - It's so loud though. 3324 02:08:59,490 --> 02:09:01,860 You guys get back above ground, 3325 02:09:01,860 --> 02:09:03,542 and you get service on your phone, LaVonte. 3326 02:09:03,542 --> 02:09:05,070 There are two notifications there. 3327 02:09:05,070 --> 02:09:08,670 The first you get is one from Maya saying, "All's good. 3328 02:09:08,670 --> 02:09:12,030 Sorry to dip so quickly. LOL." 3329 02:09:12,030 --> 02:09:13,290 That's so casual. 3330 02:09:13,290 --> 02:09:15,900 I feel like I totally fucked that up. 3331 02:09:15,900 --> 02:09:19,320 She says, "Tell Vesper all's good. 3332 02:09:19,320 --> 02:09:22,890 Jay Slice is well known to me. 3333 02:09:22,890 --> 02:09:25,020 Hard to talk about at night. 3334 02:09:25,020 --> 02:09:27,643 Presents a unique problem for us." 3335 02:09:27,643 --> 02:09:29,280 I guess we'll call him Jay Slice, 3336 02:09:29,280 --> 02:09:31,410 but she says you're all good. 3337 02:09:31,410 --> 02:09:33,930 You have another message 3338 02:09:33,930 --> 02:09:36,420 that has come back to you from your network, 3339 02:09:36,420 --> 02:09:40,170 from the Ventrue primogen of Austin. 3340 02:09:40,170 --> 02:09:42,420 Oh hell yes. 3341 02:09:42,420 --> 02:09:45,690 Saying, "I've taken a look into some of the events 3342 02:09:45,690 --> 02:09:47,723 that have gone on in Purpee, 3343 02:09:49,230 --> 02:09:51,030 and I looked into the fiasco 3344 02:09:51,030 --> 02:09:54,210 at the Rediron in San Francisco. 3345 02:09:54,210 --> 02:09:55,920 From what I can see, 3346 02:09:55,920 --> 02:09:59,730 the fiasco was only kept from being a catastrophe 3347 02:09:59,730 --> 02:10:02,100 by some quick thinking on your part. 3348 02:10:02,100 --> 02:10:04,230 Banksy, indeed. 3349 02:10:04,230 --> 02:10:09,000 Austin is looking for a new Seneschal. Are you in?" 3350 02:10:09,000 --> 02:10:10,890 And that's all for this episode 3351 02:10:10,890 --> 02:10:13,920 of "Dimension 20: City Council of Darkness." 3352 02:10:13,920 --> 02:10:17,734 Tune in next week for another thrilling episode! 3353 02:10:17,734 --> 02:10:21,000 What is a Seneschal? 3354 02:10:21,000 --> 02:10:22,230 I'm not gonna fuck the dog. 3355 02:10:22,230 --> 02:10:23,258 Yeah. 3356 02:10:23,258 --> 02:10:24,091 That's fine. 3357 02:10:24,091 --> 02:10:26,212 That's not even close to what we were- 3358 02:10:26,212 --> 02:10:27,045 I have my boundary. 3359 02:10:27,045 --> 02:10:28,530 That was the cold open of this episode. 3360 02:10:28,530 --> 02:10:31,050 I know what you're all saying, and I'll be your prince. 3361 02:10:31,050 --> 02:10:33,570 You don't even need a title to be royalty. 3362 02:10:33,570 --> 02:10:35,447 No, that is absolutely not true. 3363 02:10:35,447 --> 02:10:36,280 - You do need- - Really? 3364 02:10:36,280 --> 02:10:40,080 Clearly, you're on a new path and I'm excited for you. 3365 02:10:40,080 --> 02:10:41,280 Please stop shimmying. 3366 02:10:41,280 --> 02:10:42,180 "Let's get the boots ready. 3367 02:10:42,180 --> 02:10:43,500 We'll go stompin' around for Bigfoot." 3368 02:10:43,500 --> 02:10:44,970 - Let's do it. - I woke up. 3369 02:10:44,970 --> 02:10:46,710 Fists full of gold. 3370 02:10:46,710 --> 02:10:49,490 - That sounds so hard. - Yeah. 3371 02:10:49,490 --> 02:10:50,880 LaVonte, you said you had a side hustle? 3372 02:10:50,880 --> 02:10:52,765 Yeah. I'm gonna go corrupt the clergy. 3373 02:10:52,765 --> 02:10:55,021 They are going to get us killed. 3374 02:10:55,021 --> 02:10:57,037 "You know, there was a time 3375 02:10:57,037 --> 02:10:59,357 when I thought I was going to be killed, too. 3376 02:10:59,357 --> 02:11:01,440 The Battle of Yorktown." 3377 02:11:01,440 --> 02:11:03,976 What drugs are you on, man? 3378 02:11:03,976 --> 02:11:05,361 SSRIs. 3379 02:11:05,361 --> 02:11:07,523 It's my SSRIs. 3380 02:11:07,523 --> 02:11:09,635 Clearly, HJ's on SSRIs. 3381 02:11:09,635 --> 02:11:12,000 - "Ha, are you cold?" - A little bit. 3382 02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:13,712 Just a little bit. Can you tell? 3383 02:11:13,712 --> 02:11:15,030 "Yeah, I can. Sorry." 3384 02:11:15,030 --> 02:11:16,620 One, two, three. 3385 02:11:16,620 --> 02:11:17,910 - Beautiful. - Beautiful. 3386 02:11:17,910 --> 02:11:19,010 I'm gonna go to bed.