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188 - DF2 KotN Actual Play Podcast - DFRPG - I'm Not Sure There's a Connection
(upbeat music) - Hello. Welcome to Knights of the Night actual play podcast. This Dresden File Story Rituals was written and run by your GM Tom. And now, please enjoy episode 188 titled, I'm not sure there's a connection. Actual play begins immediately. (upbeat music) My name's Tom, I'm your GM for this Dresden File Story Rituals. The player is here tonight, actually it's a full crew, but starting on my right is Michael playing Repo Pierce, an antiogenic, organic alchemist. Rachel playing Zalda Sykes, American Gypsy, who uses the lore of her past to construct the future. I am Jim playing Fedman Shvalski, who is a rich businessman, black court-powered scion. My name's Scott playing London Deals, a moral seer to the supernatural powers. Mike playing Alan Montgomery, the soul-sundered warden of Cleveland. Bob playing Steven Toman, a reporter and photographer, we do anything to get this story. Thomas playing Maxwell Edison and undercover homeland security doctor. John playing Roberto Martinez, people's guardian empowered by a fallen angel. When last we left, our intrepid adventurers. We had murdered someone. Had murdered someone, threatened someone else and are in the middle of a state owned by white court vampires. Well, technically it wasn't murder, we were dispensing supernatural justice. Yeah, I'm sure to tell the cops that. I'm sure the police will tell. Is this in my purview? We're going to go to the detective and we're like, we caught the guy. I was like, where is he? Robert, he's fucking dead. I don't know. Shit, didn't you promise I'm not fucking Nelson? Didn't you promise the cop you'd not go wild with this one? I can't. Well, you mean the original quest line that we were supposed to follow? When you first went to the crime scene, the cop invited you because there was all magic shit going on and he's all like, what is it, warden? Make sure you keep me up to date and what's going on and you don't get carried away. Didn't want to, you know, as far as I know, I'm not sure if there's a connection between the ritual murders and-- Well, if I could Nelson-- Yeah, he's not. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Can't the guy got away, but I killed someone else to produce hell fired and was-- I'm just saying, I had previous business with Ryan Nelson from before, so-- Yeah, just killing all the suspects. I didn't kill him before. Oh, no, that's not my role. That's someone else's role here. I didn't kill him. We didn't kill him because of the rituals. We killed him because we had a grudge from before. That works in the court law. Well, I don't answer to our normal court of law, so don't worry about it. And you won't answer to it. Then they try to arrest you. You go like, bitch, I'm a wizard, I'm not to my boss. OK. Let's do it this way. Everybody rolls for initiative. Oh, yeah. [INTERPOSING VOICES] When you roll poor dice and you avid some crack to your work-- I rolled the same thing as last time. Can we still talk about what exactly happened last time? Oh, yeah. You held the snail to him, and then I happened-- Oh, no, so the thing, like, got charged. Oh, yeah, that should area on the long river. Nobody knows what that is yet. So it got charged, and-- He did some bad magic. He was shouting evil curses, and then it seemed to bleed away into the river. We're a giant barrier when-- Nelson? Nelson, as he died. It was his last act. OK. And then the little one into the big wall bit. The Mexican guy dropped the coin. He just stood there smiling and dropped it. Yeah. Yeah, he didn't know what it went. And we didn't talk about what's going on with the vampires at all, like-- They were reacting. They were walking towards us. And they were just kind of like watching this one. No, they're swarming towards us. Swarming towards us? There is no doubt that they are still in motion towards you. Zelda, is all of this cast kind of still in line with your probability and your prophecies? No, no, no. These are still happy. I'm just trying to remember if you would have to saw this. You foresaw something happening bad like this, so-- Miss Sykes, give me a reading for the floor. It's not bad, sir. What do you hear, starboard? He's controlling all the time. I suppose really is the true obstacle, like I said, since he didn't give up the coin. And actually-- Of course not. I'm not in the way. Can you start making more sense, isn't it? Yes, yes, it does. Not great. OK, so yeah, especially the lovers inverted. And the kids were avoiding responsibility for the consequences of our own actions, a.k.a. killing Ryan Fucking Nelson and letting this thing get magnified. Feeding something, matching the funds. Mm-hmm. Let the past go and resolve to make better choices in the future is what we needed to do to succeed instead of kill Ryan Fucking Nelson. Or that we're maybe that's for the future. Never lie. It's all really not. Better choices. Geez. I thought these practices were about Robert or not me. It's funny how that works out, isn't it? It's so easy to interpret it after the event. Yeah, again, the only way to succeed in this venture is to exercise composure and great peril. We must have a plan and follow it. A slightest deviation will not allow for success. Well, then it's OK. Right. Now, we're going to fit. Good part of that might still be valid, because you have charging at you right now is somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 people that work on this estate. You believe that-- what do you say, we, you, that's not me. I'm over on the other side of the estate in a bond area. I'm going to keep that. Looking like I'm the owner. But it's in your hand right there. Can I read that about that? Go ahead. Is this a-- By focusing on bringing in, we've let other greater evils run wild. There will be consequences. Should we drop everything to embark on this extraction? Something is rising a far greater evil than any of us have encountered. And I now fear that this evil is taking advantage of our negligence. Nostradamus. Isler. OK. The order that we roll for initiative, the first person that goes is, in fact, the white court vampires. All right. Oh, I believe it was only two at the cottage near you. They are now standing roughly. One of them skirts to the south, the other to the north, to try to-- there's only two of them, but they're trying to keep those that are in the tent area within view. And they have drawn guns to white court vampires that were at the cottage. How do we know they're trying to keep who in view? You. All you guys that are in the tent setup area. They're on the perimeter of the tent setup north and south. And they're watching you as a much larger contingency comes running up the pathway. But they're farther away. We're basically cut off from London and Ed, correct? Where are they? Yes. And in fact, Alan, you get to go first. Ed was with you. It was London and then we were in London. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So Maxwell and London are hopefully away from all the action. So that might give them an advantage to get away. The only thing I can see right now with everyone involved here is the situation is blown. We can't get many. I'm going to have to throw up a spell to cover our retreat. And we're going to head on out through the cliff and through the way that I didn't hope to have to use. But the one that we set with for a passion, I want like Zelda and you're not there. Who's with me? Zelda and-- Yeah. Zelda, Roberto, Edmund, Stephen, and yourself. Where's Rappa? Up on the hilltop today. Oh, the diaper. I'm hoping Rep is going to cover us with gunfire, but I'm thinking that I'm going to throw up a shield of force or wind power to try to deflect what is probably going to be bullets in a few seconds. Make sure that you guys are behind me and heading towards our evacuation. And this is going to be a fighting withdrawal. OK, so during your turn, what are you doing? Are they in a position behind me or are they all scattered around me? Zelda, Zelda is the closest to you. Roberto, Zelda and yourself are closest to the body. Stephen and Edmund are close, but not standing right next to you. I tell Roberto to help cover Zelda and get out of here from the way you came in. I'm going to cover our retreat. Ed help Steve move behind me too. Did you say forget, Manny? Well, how can we get to the cottage and play through the game again? Where's my desk? Go. Dude, you didn't care about him before. No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's back up just a little bit. When the two white court vampires-- How do we know that they're white court vampires? Well, you may not, but they are close enough that they-- Plus, if you're watching them at all, they move so fast that they don't seem human. I would have a problem shooting. I think in the push to talk, froms, I thought that we-- Oh, he doesn't have a uni, so he doesn't have one, OK. When they set up North and South, and they have their guns drawn and aimed at you, what they're saying is everybody stand down, stay still. They don't seem to be shooting-- Oh, oh, oh, oh, they're pointing the guns at you and they're telling you everybody freeze. Don't move. I had a communication device last week. OK, good to know. So he might know just from us communicating. Is talking a free action? Or do I have to wait to my turn to speak to my team? Or my friends? No, I mean, let's say you can speak. Sure. It'd be really brief, because I don't think it's fair to talk. I would just say that you have two devices. One is the walkie-talkie for the grounds crew. One is to push the talk for your crew. Right. I wanted to push talk to my crew and say that the situation is going to change for the positive in about three seconds. I then pick up the one for the grounds crew, but I don't think it's fair to act until my turn for that. They can make up that what they will, like it gets a quick thing I would say into the talk. I tell everyone to get behind me. I want them between me and the cliff. So I'm the first person in line of these-- Well, there's one standing in between you and the river, to the north of you, and there's one standing to the southeast. So there's no way-- Am I misinterstanding? Anybody could be standing behind you, per se. Did one of you flaked all of us? They were moving at epic speed. And they were not making clear. Epic speed. And then went first. They rolled first. OK. They both beat you on initiative. Then it's not going to be a wall. It's going to be a dome. And gave Ryan to get close to me. I mean, there is only one between you and the river. Well, I'll let Roberta pick her that one. So your statement is, everyone get close to me? Yeah, everyone get close and wait to see what Leven can do. He's all done. I'm going to pull the nail out of the body. I'm not going to leave it there. I'm going to go get close to him. But then I'm going to take the nail and drive it into the ground under the idea and assumption that I could potentially activate that power again to at least make the area sanctified at least for the sake of Manny, if not us too, since we can't extract him anymore. And I would be playing off of this strength terracard that I had pulled previously, the idea of a compassionate approach, and creating a safe, trusting environment where you can gently influence others in your belief. OK. What I'd like you to do is make a discipline role for me. And this is to represent your ability to affect this nail as you're driving it into the ground and how powerful this effect is going to be. OK. My discipline is plus five. Not convection? For belief. Correct the belief. Good point. We're going to go with conviction. My conviction is plus four. I have two negatives, three, and a third negative. So now I'm down to one. This would be a good thing to do. Average. Yeah, but I have two. It's a fairly sizable moment, though, in the story. Just to let you know. So you're a decision, but-- I get really quick, though, since I'm new to this. If I get down to zero, I'm going to die, basically, if I don't have any more of these. Oh, no, you won't die. You just won't be able to affect the dice role anymore. And if there's a situation where I think one of your aspects could be compelled, you could be forced to do something based on your aspect, that would earn you another fake point. But there'd be no way to say, no, I don't want to do that. OK, so if I tap an aspect, then I get another-- Your option is to reroll, and you roll negative three. So that might be your best, because the other option is to add two, which-- Can so any of us spend a point for her? Spend a fake point? No, I mean, I don't know. This is where we're going to go. You have to name which aspect you're tapping, and how is relevant? Yeah, well, you can do anything. You set your mind, too. So you're doing a very relevant one. Very, very positive aspect. And then I throw this in? Yes, yes. Four in conviction. And then your fake dice is minus one, so you're three. Seven, three. Better be when it was. You have a good conviction as you drive this nail into the ground, and it does seem to have some effect. There would still seem to be some power emanating from Ryan Nelson a bit. That stops. But also, the ground is giving off-- it's not a pleasant feeling. It's almost like-- Like it's resisting it or reverberating off? Yeah, there's-- have you ever-- I have a moon roof. And occasionally, if I'll have that open, and the air goes across in such a way that it actually that's lobs in your ears, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What's going on? It's resonated. It's resonated. There's some residents that is just driving into your head, and it's making you ill. It is not a pleasant feeling at all. But it is having some effect. It's not quite coming to your contest, is it? Am I-- do I need to be holding onto this the entire time for it to be having an effect, or can I let go? Do you feel you need to be holding it? No, I don't. But I wasn't sure if you were saying-- I'm not saying it. I'm asking, I guess, is that only me that it's going on in my ears, or is this everyone? No, you see everybody kind of wincing properly. Yeah, I mean, you think for a second, exactly that, is this me, but you see everyone else going like holding their ears and wincing their face, kind of screwed up a bit? Stephen. What are the guards over at the check that has many? And where are they doing? They've already surrounded us. They're no longer at the shack there. There's one to the north, near the river, and one to the south. They're holding guns at you, and one to the north is saying, everybody, just threes. Stop. How far are they? He's still there. Yeah. I don't think he was doing that. And the people who are swarming through our location, where mostly are they coming from? They're down the path? Down that path. So-- How far are they away? There seems like a few of them have broken out of the pack and are in the lead. There's a good chance that those guys are going to be here next turn. Are they moving the guys behind them? A couple turns. Are they moving faster than normal humans? Oh, yeah. How many of them? Seven or eight. In addition to the two. Yes. OK. Is there a delay action? Yeah. Always. You can fall down to their initiative, which would be a reverse fall. You fall through the hole list. This grenade, that rapid fashion, how is it triggered? Do you get delighted for sure? It's a gas thing that you pull the top off. It's doubly convenient. I'm perfect. Yeah. I see you with that or an impact when you throw it in. Aerosol just means something. So you pull the cannon when it hits an object, it works. OK. Just to refresh the chemistry. The canisters, though, the grenades, those were unhappiness. Yes. Gailings? They were disperment to draw-- Distract and draw. --to draw and distract uncontrollably the vampire. Yeah, to use it on the normal people. And just to remind you, we all have our catering uniforms that had some kind of-- I put a charm on it, so we at least have plus one to resist the despair. OK. I'm going to delay my action for now. OK. And we will go to wrap up. I'm going to wait for-- OK. --ward aim. Are you guys both relying as in you wish to act on this round? Well, if I'm waiting for the ward and you're aiming, isn't useful, because I'm not taking my turn, right? Aiming would be taking your turn. I'm giving yourself a plus two to the next round. So you're waiting to see whether you should be able to-- We can influence on which one to target, right? Sure. Well, you can tell. Do you want me to drop the northern vampire? I would say, or target the one between us and the river. No. [LAUGHTER] Well, no. He's acting, do you want me to drop him, as in, should I shoot him now? You're saying just to aim at him. Yeah, hold him, target him, and wait for the signal. There's a big difference between those two states. Charge right for the signal. Clear on this. And the signal is all hill breaking loose. It's on? Yeah, go ahead and aim. So is Ruppa spending the turn aiming? If not, it is advanced turn. I'm going to wait until I see what the ward does. If that fails, I might go ahead and shoot. You can aim without shooting and get a plus two when you eventually shoot. I don't know. Yes, but that would be taking-- OK. It's turn. That's true. And if he's delaying, then-- Advent. You were saying my gloves that I had were still in the truck. Yes. Yeah. Can I say, no, I bought back there to the truck while these guys were setting up and doing things. And to get another bag of tools and things I needed to turn up, and I brought them back with me. Yes, you can certainly do that. And spend a point for that. Yes. I'm going to do that. Do you have a last point? Yes. But now you've got your gauntlet fully. Well, they're in the bag. And what I'm-- It's sponsoring. I'm putting my hands up to the guy saying, I have medical training. I'm going to check this guy out, and I'm going into the bag. I'm going to grab my gauntlets and try to put my back to one guy and somebody else between the other guy. And I'm going to Ryan's body, and I'm looking for the coin. I'm going to pick it up at the gauntlets. Seems to me you're doing three things here. One of them is getting the gauntlet on. And the other one is trying to confuse them on what you're really doing, like some deception. And the third one is to search for the coin. Yes. So get the gauntlet on that. That could be a free action, and I'm proud with that. But doing so stealthily is what I'd like to see. So give me a stealth roll of some sort. That would be versus their alert. Not this. If this matters, I mean, I am, or is there a alert? Holding a sword, and I did just throw off someone's head. So maybe their attention is kind of focused on me. Like, yeah, you can-- I would say he definitely could cap that aspect if he needs to. Ryan Nelson had a few consequences on him. We didn't get to use, because he died like a pansy. Correct. Can we use those? He's like, kind of like a bitch. Go ahead. Can we use those for pluses on other activities? I can actually see that in this case, because he's just never had fucking mess. Let me go help him. He could sort of use it as a distraction. Could I use my cloak of shadows, which is supposed to work in the shadow of darkness, since I got a cloak wearing-- You're wearing your cloak of shadows? No, there's no-- You're in sunlight. Does that give us your powers? Power. OK. Sure. You get a plus two, which would erase two nays and just make it a minus one, which would give me a fair. No. Yeah, that is a hard fought fair, my friend. I think you did good. Oh, OK. You've got a good stealth going on. There's only one white court vampire that has a better view. Well, wrote for him his fair, and his role was minus one. What the hell kind of bodyguard is? He's better at fighting than everybody. Noticing. So you have successfully gotten the gauntlet and put it on your hand. Now, as for searching for the coin, I'm going to ask for an investigation, and this is going to be-- Gotcha. --versus. You thought you would need investigation anymore, didn't you? Who ordered it? I don't. That's my job, though. I can't realize I had an investigation. I tell Maxwell to find the coin, but don't touch it. Boss, I'm about 200 feet away. I'm currently choking out Butler. But I'm going to lose. OK, I wrote the dispute for Ryan Nelson, and I'm hiding the coin, and you have to beat that. I got a plus two, and my investigation is good, so that's a superb. So you do manage to locate the coin. I'm not even going to try to tell you where he kept the coin. We'll just assume that you found it, and got it. And-- Point slots. --you have picked it up with the gauntlet. It is in-- Just the coin that was wrapped? This would be Ryan Nelson's coin for the demon that he was demon abusing him. And we go, too. Maxwell. I'm chucking out of Butler. I don't even know if we need to keep choking out fully. Hang on. OK. I'll do it, but-- It's one stress per se. Could you punch him while I grapple? No. Cheers? No, I did so does not punch him. He gets his humongous mind as to his defense right now. Can't you just smack his head around? That's fantastic. I have the rest of the group to save, so I think you can handle it. Grapples and drugs and foul work that you only do one damage a turn. But I am going to say, in order to expediate this, you can spend fate points, tap aspects to increase the damage. One of the aspects, you're law enforcement. You've been trained on how to take somebody down quickly or out quickly. So throw an aspect or a fate point for that. Roll against his mite for the grapple check, and then I'll spend it as I need to for damage. [MUSIC PLAYING] Zero. Three. So I successfully grappled. It shows one damage, and then a couple of homelands. It's pretty operative for two extra damage. And I think you have to say, I'm a homelands security agent. Yes. When you respect that. And I'm choking him out, so I'm not killing him every life so I'd say. Petrie there. Wait, wait, wait. What? Truthfully, he's got two stress points. So I don't need-- He's not a warrior of any type. You've done three damage. That means you've at least got to the lowest of the consequences. Is he going to-- He's a thick, cake decorator for crying out a lot. If he's against the wrongs, that's enough to take him out. Right. So I start. Yes. I don't want to have you spend 27, 8 points to take out a fucking butler. Neither do I, but I still have more than most people. Seriously. He's a choking house. He's the first glass butler. He is definitely no Alfred. All right. You drag him away from the water so he doesn't drown. And leave him hidden behind the bush. And you go to Roberto and then London. I give London his walkie-talkie if we didn't already get that. I think I have that already for some reason. OK. But if not, thank you very much. Roberto. Yeah. Where's my father? He would probably be talking to London Rachel, Steven, or-- I don't want to talk to me. I'm sorry. I don't have a phone to talk to people. I'm talking to everyone who's with me right here. Steven, Ellen, Zelda-- Zelda, my question to them was, where's my dad? He's in the cottage. We finish it. But hold back until we see what's going to happen here. I'm Neil Donne. Pick up the coin. Tore source coin. I got you forgot about it. The double demon. Oh, OK, great. OK. London. I spent a fake point last week saying that I had met him the leader of this clan of white court vampires. OK, so you're talking about Leo? Yes. Now I don't know if he prefers-- Leo Salvatore. Yes. Leonardo Salvatore, as you say. If I met him, I know a fair deal of war. I'm not fantastic at it. I've actually been reducing it. My question is, what do white court vampires call each other? What would be the terminology that white court vampires would normally use amongst themselves? I'd like brethren, brothers. Or anybody else got something that might be good. And it's fair to assume that London would know that working with supernatural powers, or do you want me to make a role in some sort for one? I don't know, necessarily, that you would not. So I want a lower role, but we're going to make it something that's relatively easy. It is fair. I rolled a plus one on the fake dice, and my lore is fair, so it goes up to good. So yes, you know, but typically white court vampires tend to call each other brethren, because they are all, in fact, related in a particular clan. Then, London, using his presence and his charisma and the voice as best he can performant of-- Leo says, I'll brethren report to the parlor. The tent is a distraction. Yeah, it's a distraction. I'm being attacked in the parlor. Everyone here now, my life depends on it, so yours does as well. So just trying to forcefully pull everyone to the main house. So what would you like? A performance role, because that's certainly what you're doing. Well, it's also an order. Yeah. I think it should absolutely be presence in that sense, or deceit, or-- Well, this is certainly my conviction. Typically, bullying people around requires intimidation. Or this isn't bullying, though. This is, I am the father of a family. Get here now. I'm dying. It's not attending. I'd say to see your presence. All right, we know that London wants to use presence. How do we feel about London using presence? Presence is charisma to command reputation. If he's trying to communicate, he's used to direct troops, workers, or other positions. Well, that's pretty straightforward. What's that? I need to read it anymore. What's that? Presence is good. But he's pretending to be someone else's presence to direct troops, workers, or any other group attempting attempts. So should it be negatively modified by-- Modified by deceit or performance? I can use presence, but it's negatively, because it seems to be on point. But I have to-- It's not just presence. I think to say it's modified by deceit would be correct. So if you're deceit's higher, it's not a negative, but a plus. If it's lower than it is a minus one. I think that's fair. Well, in this case, wouldn't it actually be better to have two roles, one, to do a deceit role, to see how well your deceit is being executed. And then that result will affect the-- Because it's a good point, Mike. I don't want to drag it out. And I think to make it quicker, just to say it's minus one, because enough bravado-- I mean-- It's going over a lucky talkie, doesn't it? Just sometimes pretending you know what you should be doing is enough. Right. So confidence in a clipboard, and you get it anywhere. Exactly. One role, a plus one, and a fate dice. His presence is fan fucking tastic, plus six. Minus one, because he has a deceit or performance lower than his presence. So he goes down to five, and then back up to six with his role. I then spend a fate point in saying that information is power. I knew this guy, I knew his voice, I knew everything about him, so I think I could pull him off very well. That would take it from a six to a legendary, an eight, and fuck you. But I'm London. This is the best performance on my life. So it goes from a plus eight to a plus 10. So anyone who's been thinking about doubting what I'm saying over this walking talkie needs to get their asses to the parlor this second. OK. And then I click through to the group and say, should be leaving in three, two, one. I'm torn. First of all, yeah, that was an outstanding deal. What happens is the white cord vampires coming down the path stop suddenly in their tracks, and start to look back at the house, and then move in that general direction. The two that are near where you guys are, look at each other, look at you, look at each other. And they start running towards the house as well. And then over their walkie talkies, you hear the same voice, again, saying, no, that was not me. That was a lie. That was a deceit. Stop where you are right now. Who are you? What are you doing? I'm like open mic. I'm ready for some social comedy. There is absolute turmoil in between what they're supposed to be doing. So you guys have at least one turn in which to make some sort of action, starting with Alan. The guys that were near here, near the tents, are at least now this far down the path. These guys were halfway up the path, and are now almost back to the door of the house. And but they're not the cottage, right? They are not. The two that were at the cottage are now halfway to the house. The main house, they're going almost directly south. And this is where Mandy is here? And the cottage is almost directly east. Right, east the cottage, yes. And where in this area? Yes. So before the warden is to take his action, we had two people delaying their turns. That is true. And you guys can either maintain your position, or you can act at any point during this turn. As soon as I see those guards take their eyes off of us, and start to move. Yeah. I'm just going to sprint over to the house. The cottage, not the house. All right, we're going to put you in the six slots. Steven. Small house. And wrap up. Are you serious? Surreptitiously? Or no? Flat out, just sprint in there. OK, rub up. What was that? The cottage is directly east of where they were. And you see Steven running, basically towards you. You're much higher in a tree to the east. But he's running almost directly towards you. But you know where the cottage is in between you and the house. Or between you and the tent area where they are. Steve, I want you to roll a fate roll plus your athletics to see how far you get. We're going to say that it is roughly three zones to the cottage. Three zones? Yeah, so you need an athletic roll of good or higher to get there in one turn. All right, so I have an athletics of three. No problem. Wow. Yeah, it's the greatest. Minus one. Four, and you're minus one. So that would actually take you exactly to the door. Perfect. That's how I find it. The door being the closest door, the single door that the one guard was standing in. So they both made their way towards the main house then? Yes. Can I position myself on the east side? So I'm kind of hidden from them? On the house or directly south? So in the door-- On the other side. The door is on the cottage. It's on the west side of the cottage. And to hide yourself from the house, you'd have to go to the north side of the cottage. OK, north side. I'm going to be on the north side hiding myself from the view. All right, you're still within a really quick reach of the door, but you are hiding yourself. Yes, I am hiding there. And you can see all that. He dashes to the cottage and he slips to the north. He disappears as he gets near the cottage because you have your angle, but then you see him coming. Push fast, north. It is now the worst turn unless you decide to do it. I'm still waiting. OK. Well, we're splitting the party, and we still have to find a way to get Maxwell and London around. So I tell Roberto that Stephen just took off your father's in that cottage. You guys have seconds to get him out. I'll try to cover these guys and give you-- I'm going to start trying to give you some time. So you're stationing yourself between the house and the cottage for the shortest path? Yeah, because we're going to get cut off from where we had to go to get out of here. You guys actually have a small jump down to the river across the stream, and then a larger 100-foot climb up here. And on the road, you have a car waiting for you. I'm not fucking doing that. I'm actually a couple of ants. Actually, part of the deal was, for Pat, she's going to help facilitate us quickly getting through that and hindering the part of the car. That is still true. Yeah, walk back in the car. Well, that's on you, boss. But you didn't bring your car, did you? I even-- Yeah, I parked the Jaguar a couple of blocks down. Well, wouldn't you put it right in cars? It depends on the car. It is the older, the better. I can't suppress it for a little bit. So I'm going to start drawing power for it. The shield spells strong enough to deflect bullets. So do you move down the path a little bit to put yourself between the house and the cabin? Yes, to put it over them. And you start creating an advantage to deflect defensively bullets, creating a magical shield. So we don't have a lot of time. So if you're going to do it fast, this isn't-- just do it fast. OK, what you're doing is creating a maneuver to help deflect the bullets. So what I want from you is a-- This hole? Can picture. Yeah, there was a discipline to gather some magic around you. You need at least a good one. That's a positive one. And that makes my rule fantastic. Goodest three, you would need three higher to create an extra-- Fantastic. But you only got two. Right. So close. But you did succeed in creating a positive-- So you said discipline, that conduction, right? Correct. I didn't say discipline. OK, so discipline, yes, it becomes a five, a superb. OK, so I got in rep, but you see Alan moves himself. I apologize for interrupting. I forgot that I've got a focus that involves wind power, which is what I'm using to create. When you actually cast, you'll use that, then. Oh, I didn't have to put them in there? No, you're at a wooden. Well, because it's a focus time that says defense power. It'll help during the spell. He's not actually-- I have in cast the spell, I'm gathering the power for the spell. So it gives me a plus one for defense power. That's all-- and if it's not appropriate, then fine. And Zelda. Did he move down the path a little ways? He did move down the path a little ways to put himself between or more, between the house and the-- OK, so I'm standing back there by myself, correct? Right. You know, when they said they were never going to leave you alone. Right, well, I'm not even sure. I haven't moved anywhere. Well, no, that-- and also, I'm not going to move there. Well, there isn't a spag gentleman who is sitting there looking at you. Because Roberto hasn't moved either yet, right? Is Roberto's head like snapping back and forth? Is he still standing next to me, still? Yes. OK, so I'm not really alone. No, you're with your demons. I'm going to stay right up and delay in the action right now, because I don't want to leave that nail with Roberto and move. And I don't want to take it out of the ground with me. And I'm not going to throw a card down until I see what happens with his. Right. OK. So you're delaying at this point and repa. You've gone all the way around. I'm going to be aiming at the northernmost white court who seems to be moving south. Yeah, we're not unsure of what he's doing. If they're going full speed up-- If you actually repa, get the Hispanic guy that's near Zelda. Yes, please. Which one? Which one? Oh. [INAUDIBLE] [LAUGHTER] Where do you want to go? Actually, Roberto is. Yeah. It doesn't matter. We're not sure. The one you don't know. Maybe. I get too many demons. Potluck, you know, that's a good point. If you've got a shot, take it. [LAUGHTER] You said you were a number of-- Yeah, shit. I'll go away from it. Or all the white courts moving south. All the white courts have pretty much stopped. Yeah. But you have the panther barking down. He's like, what? He's like, what? That would actually help the distraction. It makes you seem more believable. You're trying to black off the house. Just for what you want to show? I'm sorry. I'm going to run these guys. I'm sure you can. I've seen you. Epic speed. So the Hispanic individual-- Oh, so Zelda is the one who's furthest north. Actually, I believe he's still on his knees. He is not part of this crew in any way. Although he's wearing the same uniform they are, your friends. Joplin. He is. He's bad news. Zelda's like, drop him, drop him. Absolutely. Catch him early. He just looked at me again. He smiled and dropped the coin once the crazy bad shit happened because he wanted us to kill Ryan Fucking Nelson. That's why he wasn't helping Ryan Fucking Nelson. Well, indeed. I hit it last week gaming at him. Yeah. So-- So as far as I'm concerned, I'm still aiming at him. Just here's a factor to consider the guy who is near Zelda on his knees and he's dropped the coin. He is. He's probably human. Purely human, as far as you can tell in your sights. Fair warning. I'm just saying. So-- What'd you do here? No. Roberto is holding two demons, coins, and at least one of them is inside his head. So this guy dropping the coin, he's really purely human at this point. He's also playing us. I would like to think that Roberto has had a snapping back and forth in that one. Just kill everyone. That's sort of that. Yep. He's not back to the northernmost white curtain. Still an event. And not Arvin. No, that one blocking the river, he started moving too. Yes, they're all headed to the house. 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He stops. What? I said to run there as fast as you can. He did? He did? At least seconds. Only seconds before either get him and get going. There's no time for talk. I can't break him. Fine. Well, I can't what? I can't break him to there. He's got a lot. But we were actually there waiting on him. Yeah. Fine. If I can even help get him up. If I am coin. Yes, I am powered in. I run fast. Room, room. Okay, you get right to the door. What do you use at your aspect? I am powered. Room, room. Okay. I am powered in. You are at the door. Yeah. We've got one goal. I swing. I am at the door. We then go to London. You can't do that when you're running. It takes your entire turn. London, I guess, depending on how you want to handle it, is entering into a social combat over the phone. Yes, he actually is with Leo. Leo is intending to convince his people that he is. He is himself. Unfortunately, now that they hear a second voice, I think you're going to have to rely on deception rather than... I think he has to rely on deception. My name is... That's great. I think he has to take a minus one on his diary because they're not sure who's who. Which one is which? It's crazy. This is a classic trope. You're trying to give a convincing argument that you are... Oh, I don't try to give a convincing argument. I give a convincing argument. Okay. Brethren, I don't know who's on here. I am Leo Salvatore, in the parlor now. My life is in danger. We don't care about anything else except saving your sire. Get in here now. I am Leo. Take a roll. I'm hunching him. I'm socially. I'm socially hunching him. Sure, go for it. What's in his social face? Boom. Yeah. Boom. Plus three. One side of eight does. Wow, let's kill him. Oh, what skill are you in? I was using a same one of these last time. Presence minus one. Of course you are. Why would I use those? It's command. Okay. If you want me to roll... What's your total? To see. I'm more than happy to do it. If I'm using presence, I go down minus one to superb because of the disadvantage of trying to use to see or performance. Then plus three from that, so it ends up being legendary. Suck it, Leo. Legendary. Your legendary success has been moving once again towards the house, the white court fan pliers. However, he's doing a lot. He's doing a lot. He's not attacking him. He's trying to convince all the other amber. There is no communication from the crew, Leo, because he's trying to get outside. Actually, yes. And he's in the block. Well, he is minus one on the roll, but plus four to his athletics as the door of the house comes slamming open. And there, in fact, is a duplicate of yourself. It looks like Leo. He's screaming not over the microphone, but in person and into these vampires' faces and standing next to him is... Oh. John ran all these... You said, just to be fair, you said that the vast majority of the vampires who were halfway down the path last turn ran towards the house and then stopped. When I convinced them again before them, would they not block his exit from that part of the house, maybe another minus one, to get through all the vampires he's trying to get through? One of them could have been trying to open the door, and he slammed it open, and there's him and John Ranaldi. Sure. To say that there's a giant log jam at the door, absolutely. Almost every vampire is there, as well as these two trying to get out. That's all I wanted. That's all I wanted with a log jam at the front door. Yes. Okay. I wish I was better at driving. This would be more helpful. Stephen. So, when I case the cottage, I was able to determine that there were some kind of... You got two aspects? Do we determine what those were? I'm saying make up two of the ones. You made them for the real house. Common lock. I thought I made another set. You see, there's a whole point as you found two weaknesses. So, name them. Common lock. Common lock is a very valid one, especially if you have lock picking. I think they're windows, so they're not reinforced. They're not. They're a bar. They're a bar, though. So, they can be as thin as they want. Back door. Cooling men through that just fumbling order. Did you say there was a camera? Yes. All the electronics are on one circuit. That's a weakness, right? Sure. It's definitely a weakness. Yes. We're going to happen. We'll go with common lock. Okay. Common lock on the door. I'm going to say there's only one camera. It's not pointed in. Are you destroying? Okay. That works. All right. Seeing that the vampires are still distracted, I'm going to try to pick the lock on front of the door. All right. Give me a name. Before Roberto tries to smash it up on his hand. He has been known to run through walls. Very good. Yes. I have a grate at that. There's this. All right. I'm going to have to say that these locks are great. But you get close to them. I get close to them. Well, you can get close to them. Yeah. You said it was common lock. Oh, that would be my plus two. It would be tapping that aspect. If you wanted to. Yeah. Absolutely. So each of these are an aspect there's one free tap to. That is applicable. And I would say that the common lock is. All right. So that brings me up to a fantastic. Yeah. You got it. You got it. So fantastic. Fantastic. Fantastic. There is a click in the lock opens. I opened the door. What you're looking at is the insides of what looks like a tool shed of some sort. You've got a couple riding lawnmars. But in North East corner of it is an area that's clear except for what looks like a jail cell. There's bars and it is a sleeping curl up in a ball among hates a Hispanic individual. I'm going to walk inside. Okay. Ellen. Does Zelda need to get to the cottage or is it? It is. Zelda delayed an entire turn and did nothing. Okay. So the Hispanic got knocked out by Ed. Yes. So he's not an issue. So all the white cord vampires are all the way by the way. All right. So Zelda, you know, move and I'll cover you and I will just move where to the record to the cottage. To do the cottage and do what you got to do to help make this work. Zelda's turn and give me a title plus your athletic. Okay. Well, athletics are one and I draw a negative two plus one rolled negative two, so I'm a negative one. Okay. And so you're one third of the way to the cottage. I could see what's going to help me with me before I started to go. Okay. That stops the annoying. Yep. And I'm not going to leave it open by itself. Rappa, you follow the last of the whiteboard vampires and he kind of runs into a big crowd that's around the base of the house. You follow with your sniper rifle just checking out the whole area and in the doorway, you see two very authoritative looking white court vampires, very finely dressed. Pointing. You know that necessarily you know them, but you see them gesturing wildly at the crowd and angrily. What do you do? I'm still waiting for the first one to make the move to the north. So you're like falling back to the crowd to watch the back end of it to see who breaks towards the north. Yes. Okay. Let's just finish through this. We've got Edmond Maxwell, Roberto London. Edmond. I'm going into the cottage. Okay. You're not there. You're okay. You're going to have to roll at least at the time. I'm going to move as far as I can. What do you need? I'm going in some people out here to cover us. I'm trying to cover you guys singly, we've got a lot of people in that cottage. You're passing by Zelda and Alan, who's standing there, heroically, you know, looking defending. But it's up to you. If you were in fact moving to the cottage, I need to... Do you have one of the grenades, by the way? No. No. As far as I know, I do not have any. As far as I know, I do not have any. Ed. The way you take one last look at Zelda and go from here and run. Guess so. She's up to you. She said it to the cottage as well. She is. Yeah, but he's going a lot quicker. Well, yeah. Look, he's... They got the door open though, right? Yep. So I was going to run over there and open the door, but it's open. It is definitely open. I just want to credit for... I am trying to protect you. I know you are. I know. I know. I'm probably pointing toward the river then and saying go, go, go and keeping an eye on whoever comes toward us. Okay. If they're... So are you joining the warden by his side and putting up a defensive wall? Where is the warden? Kind of where the orange dice is, so like a little bit. That's the cottage. Oh, with the orange dice. It would be halfway down that path. So... I'm looking for a... I'm here warden here, right? Okay. Kind of. I don't know. Are you actually on the path or are you between the two paths? I'm... I thought he was... I'm on the path. I was... I'm the first obstacle guarding the cottage between the... So here. Yeah. Okay. So you're on the path of the heads of the south. Twenty feet down, standing in the way. Yeah. I want to be between the thread... Right. That would be the way... That would be where you'd want to be. Oh. The white court get to him in one move. No, they can't. It would take at least two turns. Got it. Is there any place that's not sunny that I could cover? It would have to be under the trees way to the east or it would have to be in the cottage. Yeah. No. Under your hands. So... No. I'll show you what I mean. You have a north side path. Over there. Under the trees. I'm just going to chit-chit-chit and looking for... Yeah, you're on the middle. I'm trying. Yeah. I'm looking... You need a sun hat. I'm thinking weapons. Huh? But you have guns too? I can have them. I just... Oh, that's right. I'm better. I'm better punching people. That's also really... I'm picturing them running out of the cottage and running toward the river. Mm-hmm. And I'm putting myself... Along that path. Okay. All right. I messed up the last zone into the car. I drive it into that gaggle of vampires because... In reverse, right? I don't know how fast... We're backed up to the path. So you'd have to do it in reverse. Clearly in reverse. As opposed. It would take a lot longer for you to turn around. Right. And they're all right there. So lined up for you. With my wonderful driving skill of average, I'm going to hit a bunch of... It's why you have naturally fast. This is so bad. If you think about it, having a lower score and driving would mean that you're more reckless, so maybe this would help. Yeah. Well... Give me your... You're driving me to being reckless. I'm playing good in being reckless. I got it. Holy fuck. Wow. With my assist today. Yeah. Kind of plus. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean it's two. Isn't worth re-rolling. Or is it just... Well, it's minus two. Yeah. And I am zero. Should I mention that both Renaldi and Leo are right there? Yeah. I'll re-roll, but I don't know how well it'll turn out. I don't either. Well, let's try that one. Well, see. Again, Renaldi and Leo are in the doorway. They're still in the house. They can't get out because of this cluster of average. I'm sure they're still in the doorway. He's going to make a nice path for them. Yes. Exactly. You don't think a four or five ton pickup truck could take a pretty good dent out of that brick wall. I have no doubt that he could drive this truck through the crowd and into that doorway and do a massive amount of damage, but it would take at least a good driving skill to achieve that. Or at least, I would say. 'Cause he's going to reverse. I think he should make it harder than that, to be honest. Yeah. Thanks. I'm just being honest. Yeah. Uh, everyone lives for us. Let's say great, then. Thanks. How are you saving money? I'm saving money. 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Do you think my high concept applies? I've done chases and shit in my job, but I don't really know that it applies to driving backwards to a proud people. What's your high concept? Undercover. Homeland security. Yes, they do that all the time. All the time. They practiced with... We filed. We asked the group of players, would it be legitimate that you would have training in driving? Yes. Absolutely. He has training in driving. Well, he has training in driving, but I'm saying sometimes you're involved in law enforcement. Right. They have specific driving classes. Right. And you're trained to stop people from driving, erratically, or speeding. Yeah. So, I would say he knows how to do this with all the car, and he just happened to apply it really, really well in a situation. Plus one fake point. All right. How about I didn't think that all the way through, because now I'm surrounded by... Well, hopefully they're all dead by the time I get there, but you know. There might be some environmental factors magically happening here, because there's still the resonance or whatever happened with what Zelda and the nail... Right. ...did the ritual era. That's okay. It did, but the ritual area that's been prepared, there's a lot of energy there that has been disrupted. So, and if the king, if the sire, is the focal point for performing that ritual, that might have rebounded or might be rebounding on him too. So, there might be something going on there too. I'm just throwing that out of this possible factors to help you with a little spin. All right. I didn't think that one all the way through would be valid, because you're taking it now from... What is it? Five, up to seven, which may mean that the major proportion of this truck is in the kitchen... ...in that you're not driving it back out, because the house is collapsing on top of the truck. Also, you didn't think this one all the way through. You did more damage, but you kind of fucked it. But I'm not afraid. Okay. Okay. I got that. Yeah, you're not afraid. I don't understand, because I'm scared of tread. All right. So that takes you well past legendary. Well, it's nine. So you are to the house... With you fucking once. You ran over the vast majority of vampires. Smashing them into a wall. Smashing them into a wall in 11. Yes. Four, four, two, and then a skill of one. Jesus Christ. I'm hoping they're dead. It's a weapons five attack. That's what cars are. All right. I'd like to say some of them are dead. I think they're absolutely human. Or at least in capacitive, while they take a long time to heal up. How about even with their powers? I don't mind if they don't die. How about this guy? We're going to leave you as definitely... There's a few that you pureed. There are a lot of them that you really crushed. What happened to the two most important? You can't tell in all the wreckage. Your truck is stuck. You need to get the hell out of Dodge as quickly as possible. But we're going to leave you to finish with Roberto and London for tonight. Right. I grabbed my truck and I can't go for the door. Okay. Because that's just it. That's an act. That's what you have to do. Yeah. When you roll three higher than legendary? Oh, fuck. Yeah. It was your crew. You're on the side of the angels. Mm-hmm. That was the best. I'm going to shut up to have him be on the side. Same thing. I've removed my one of my pureed, like, eleven vampires. That means I get in, right? That was a nice call, Thomas. Yeah, Roberto. Hey, you know. While I'm walking there, I'm asking Vartheel, the coin I picked up. What they did here? What was with the light show? What have you guys done? You get pretty much a... I don't need to talk to you. My mission is simply... I tell the other coin, you told me these things would help me. You told me the angels helped those who have held their coins. Well, I told you that it's up to you whether you do good on Earth or evil. I help you do good. Explain this to me. What have we done here? What can we do before we leave to solve this problem? I don't know what their plan was, but I know that Cleveland was surrounded by a dome. And that... That was just affected, and I don't think it was in a good way. Interrogate Vartheel. Remember, you can talk to your brother, and I just sprint over to the house, and I get there, and I walk in. Because our door is open. Like, the door is open. Yeah. How close were you to the... Oh, you only moved one, you were equal with Zelda. No, I spent his point. So he bent... Oh, so you were at the door. You were at the door. You were at the door. So you could just move one into the room. Yeah. And there is your father on the ground in an unconscious state, and there's a cell door. Between... Yeah, there's a jail, but there's a cell door on the door. Yeah, I get a running start to it and slam the hammer into the door. Yeah, you only moved one zone, so that's possible. All right. Well, I'm going to scale mine as one. You saw me pick a lot... Because you moved his arm. This is how he picks locks. I don't know if that's still fun. You're trying to bash the door in, and you're pretty sure that if it swings in, rather than like collapses in, then it's not going to hit your father. I just need to put some bars out of the way. He's a chess master. I only think we'll move ahead. Wow. A minus one. A plus one. A plus two. So... A total plus one, and I suppose I'm using my weapons. Yeah. So that brings it up to superb. Five. We should probably add in my... You're getting that strength out of the way. We should probably add in my human strength, which is another plus two, generally, to damage. Okay. And... Do you want to check the dance court? No, no, you don't need to. You're at Epic. This was built to keep a human in. Other humans have been kept here as well. So this isn't like a supernatural jail cell. They had those. They're not here. This is for humans. When lifting and breaking an item of objects, you get a plus three. Yeah, he's off the chart. So we have no problem with him knocking the door in with his hammer. Okay. I suppose that wakes up Manny. I said dad, we're going home. Wake up. And London. I'm at the pond right now. Is there an entrance on the western side of the house? The eastern side obviously was crushed with the truck. But it's a huge house, so it's not... It's not like the house is unstable in any way. Right. Is there a weight into the house from the western side? This is a door. There's a window. There's plenty of weight. What you have to realize, though, is that the household is going to have a threshold. Really? Just knock the huge hole in it. I don't have a threshold. I'm just saying that his magic would be affected by him going through it. Yeah, but my magic is high enough level to sustain this. Is what I believe. So I go invisible and I walk up to the house. I do a minor veil that I draw over myself to make myself invisible, while maintaining the look of Leo. So you look up here, Leo, but you're invisible? Well, yeah. You have so many changes in that to redo it. I want to come out of the rubble. He happens to not be there. And look as if I'm taking control of the situation to further aid our escape. The police are going to have a field damage. Sneaky bastard. Okay. Just so you understand, your quickest route is not into the house and through the house and towards, because you have to have a very large house and you're moving all this direction to get over here. Right. Your best move would be to run along the outside of the house. If you're invisible, you're not dealing with the veil that are not the veil. You're not dealing with the... I see your point. It makes the threshold of the house and you can get to the damaged area. But that would require you to move more than one zone. It would be at least two and you can't both. I can't do that and turn invisible at the same time. Right. So I turn invisible this turn and then get about. Do I make a discipline role to see how strong the invisibility is? Yes, you should. A minus one, my discipline is superb. So it's just great invisibility. It's not up to my normal standards, but I go ahead and move invisible. Towards the house and next week or next session. All right. It is 1115, so we will call it there. I want to pick up this fan and get them as a human each. You know this for a bit. I might. He's still human. Yeah. But he's the one who was going on all those magical murders. And it's supercharging the... The drama. Thank you for listening tonight's of the night actual play podcast. If you'd like to send us questions, comments or feedback, you can reach us in a number of ways. From Twitter @KOTN_podcast or by email feedback@KOTNpodcast.com. And don't forget the iTunes reviews or our Facebook page, Facebook.com/KOTN.podcast. Speaking of Facebook, join like-minded folks at our Facebook fan page. And lastly, there's our blog page, kotnpodcast.com, where there's an Amazon link on the right-hand side. Thanks to Zen Audio Smith for the intro and outro music. Get your own music at zenaudiosmith.com. And join us next week for more mystery and adventure. [Music] Would you have mentioned if this is like, also because it's a smoke screen at all? Of course it just- No. That was the apprehension. Okay, because that's how I'm envisioning it. [Laughter] How long is this way? I really wanted to work, even though it's not going to. But I wouldn't know that, so. Just about a fake point and say, I mentioned to him that- You could spend a fake point and make a declaration and say, "I asked the worker to make it a smoke bomb as well." And you don't have to tap and ask that? No, you just spend a fake point because it's- Just spend a fake point and say, "I make it so..." No, I don't. How many you got? Three. Three a lot. It's not a lot. It's not that bad for it. And that's how I imagine it that it works, so that's how I think it's going to work. But you can giggle every time someone says tap out. No, I was giggling because he got a minus three. Oh, that's much better. That would help. He's going to have to tap that asking. I don't have any of that. He just used his last theme. I thought it was a D&D icon. I had to use my shadows in a plus seven. I'm going to attack the darkness. When you're running around in the dark, I don't know. You're choking too. What does that mean? That sounds like a huge one. It's not even done. He didn't mean so many ways. You're still talking about it. That might be the title. He's choking in a butler. I'm choking out of a butler. It was the groundskeeper. Whatever the fuck his job actually wanted. It was just with streamers. I'm glad I said it. Praise you. Wow, that? Yeah. No, the funny thing is every time you name an episode and I read the name of it, I said that. Oh, absolutely. Because I decided I just go through the episode and every time one of you says something funny, I write it down in no pad and then I go through the list and find the title. And it makes a second photo. Yeah. It's not going to be a good photo. Some of the ones I didn't use were really good. Thank you. It's kind of fun. Yeah. Certainly enjoy it. It's supposed to be to be sipped or to be shot. I have no idea. I sip it. The Vikings used to drink this shit. I didn't show it. That's hard. To get it over way. Stop the cold. I didn't like it. Salude. Salude. Salude. You're already done. You get it up? No. I've been doing it as far as mouth. It's probably a bit different. You really need to find a cup quick. Wait, I caught eight of them down. There's nine of them. Oh. This is not the big. You've read yourself. Give me a drink. You can't warm or cold. Isn't there a little plastic ones down there? You can get some candles. You can drink it out of a candle. Yeah, I'll go get one for you. I'm drinking out of a candle. I've only ever had it one. I've never had it one. I've never had it one. I think different. But I get it from a bottle house. I've never had it one. I've never had it one. I've never had it one. I've never had it one. I think different. But I get it from a bottle house. I've never had it one. I've never had it one. I've never had it one. I've never had it one. I think different ones. Yeah, you want to see? It's delicious. Mine. You can smell the wine. You can smell it. You can smell it all the time. It's almost like, what do you call those? Like dried apricots. You know, as an apricot schnapps. Or like a smell to it. It smells like honey to me. But it's got a wine. I think it went into it. Yeah, like a honey wine. Mm-hmm. Are we still waiting? I'm so hungry. Because I haven't touched one yet. Yes, I have it either. Again. All right. At the end of a good story. Yes, right. Salute. Salute. This might be a new tradition. I like this idea. It's not nearly as bad as I expected. It's pretty good. It's really swiney. You don't want to shoot it. Apparently Jim had a dirty glass out there. Do you get to have your pinky up? Yes. It's me. I think I'd like it better for you. Means are pinkies? Yeah, I think it's better. It's better ice cold. I think it's still worse than ice. I mean, even small. Yeah. I would say warm with a little bit of cinnamon. Sure. I wouldn't. I'd say you're channeling some London right there. I was talking about it. No, I remember when we were in college, Doug and I. This one professor, he would do this bald wine with cinnamon. Remember this guy? Yeah. I remember this DVD group used to buy different beers every week and raid them all. Doug and I led together. I'm going to do a split yourself to me. All right. Who's third is it? That is me. Oh, yeah. Choke that guy up with. Choke your bottle. Choke your bottle. Choke your bottle. Choke your bottle. Aww. If you can keep him. What? Other roles for this shit? I'm reading just one thing. So I can. I hope it's about choking, though. Yeah, it is. Something to doubt. It did. Our consciousness is nice. I can make the role of minus one in order. This is like one stress. How much stress does this guy in? He's just about there. He's just about there. He's got two. Out to them. What term would he use? So I'll just. He was shaking with me. What did that quite? If I had a skull, I'd turn it right toward you now. He's reading rules. He was just asking how he's about there. He doesn't have much stress, so it won't take much. Okay. Choke him out. I thought he was still wanting to return. Would you prefer another term rather than choke him out? You, you, you've and I'll blink. He said it. There is a possibility of just lifting him up and smacking his head around the window. Well, yes. I mean, he is trained law enforcement, so he should know how to knock a guy out. What? He's what? Wait. I'm sorry. I don't know that. God damn it. You're the one there to talk. The listeners are actually starting to talk about you. I'm just saying I'm getting. Double demon dealing. Die. Don't ask. Don't ask. Iabolical dumb answer. If I die here, I'll kill you. How can a wakeboard vampire not have empathy? They don't need to eat emotions. They can tell. Well, you would think they would have empathy. They have rapport. They have presence. No, because I think having empathy would mean that you would feel bad about what you're doing. Yeah. I think they would have no empathy. Yeah. They're looking at people as prey. As food. So, your heart begins then. I mean, love the despair, so there's no empathy at all. Let's go to chaos going on right now. He walked past him and then turned around and punched him in the back of the head. And he went down like instantly unconscious. I don't like a shot. Like a bunch of broccoli. It's a fish. It's a fish. It's a fish. It's a fish. What do you need? It's a fish. It's a fish. It has been spilled. It is then Roberto's turned on. La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la. Even more meat. Hispanic. You're Hispanic yourself. We go home. You're Mexican. You can. It's derogatory. I suppose. You're good. Right? And you are... Yeah. Yeah. That's a meat meat. Oh, meat meat. Okay. You need cyan? They say cyan, right? Yeah, but that's the last one in the life. You're... On the greatest one. But they said... Progenitor. Progenitor. Try that again. That's really sad at the end. No. We could add all this. You can add all the cider. Cider. Cider. I am your sire. Damn it. Damn it. Cider. Progenitor. Sire. I'm the man. The man. Listen to me. I am Leo. Take a roll. You have seven minds here. I think that's yours. Yes. Thank you. The point is you found two weaknesses. So... Name them. There's only three walls. How about left at all? That's a severe weakness. Common lock and thin windows. Massive single, right? Close your roll. You are fantastic. Folks, you are fantastic