Two teams in two universes try to mount a rescue to recover the missing mind/soul of the Warden Allan.
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KotN Actual Play Podcast - 175 DFRPG - Loose Threads.
(upbeat music) - Hello, and welcome to tonight's tonight's actual play podcast. This Dressing Fowl Story, Rituals, was written and run by your GM Tom. And now, please enjoy episode 175, titled Loose Threads. Actual play begins 15 minutes, 43 seconds. (upbeat music) - All right, before we get into the feedback and before we get into the episode, I just want to touchbait really quick because this is not quite the case in your time class. When this episode's being released, there will be two or three days left in the Kickstarter. So it looks like the Kickstarter's gonna succeed. The convention is gonna go on, but you still have a chance, a couple days, to get in the Kickstarter. You'd be pre-purchasing your convention tickets. $30 or more gets you the whole weekend, and there are other packages as well. So take a look at it, I'll put it up in the notes. And now on to the feedback. - Facebook, episode 173, Lost Warden. Scott Lee McDonald's stated, "Kiotian door theory and a gentle arch of mental B and E." - Yeah, it was the one that mentioned the fact that it was our first break in entering an opening of a mental door. So we had that. - Yeah, it takes time. Ari said it is true. Effing belongs between the words Ryan and Nelson. - Yeah, it is true. - And I am so seconding the notion of play between Zelda and London and the zinginess of it. The others fighting for their lives in the alley, and I can see London sipping his chardonnay or whatever, and dabbing his lips in between the sips. No wonder he was put in his place. This goes on a list of special moment episodes. Give me a special moment, so. - Yay. - Could you bench slap me in a restaurant? - Yay. - That's what most of the listeners wanna do, so it's just being the surrogate for them. And to continue, episode 173, it started as bronze, struggled silver, and then finished as pure gold. The last 30 minutes or so, I was yelling yes. Well, at least in my mind, and actually pumping my fists in the air while doing dishes, which ended up being kind of a what result. - I wouldn't imagine this one. - You can't, yeah. - Is he sorry? - This is Ari. - He does that a lot. - He does. - Humps his fist. - What are you doing? - What are you doing, dishes? - We're doing whatever, listening to our podcast. - Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. - Hey, this was, it can only go downhill from there, so I have to stop it now. This is what to do with the door done the perfect way. Left me on my toes, teetering on the brink of a cliff. And to Tom, I again salute your running of this size group and still keeping it moving and engaging to all parties around the, insert this shape of the table here. - Rectangle rectangles. - Rattling their dice in their ear palms. - For the record, it's a whole table with a ping-pong covering on it, so it's a giant rectangle, right? - Now, the curiosity's dead. - I know. - I could edit it now. - There's no mystery. I could draw a podcast. - Magic gives far secrets to it. - Right. I just wanted to say, we stand in front of open doors long enough that we're bound to do it right one time, so. - Stuart Horn posted and said, "Interesting work with the cards. "I can see that needing careful planning in some parts "and extensive creativity in others. "I tried a similar concept with the seer character once. "Using Norse runes, but the GM wasn't interested "in the use of those props, and I scrapped the idea. "The great work once again." - That's unfortunate, it sounds cool too. - I would like to virtually bitch-slap his GM. - Yeah, I'm happy. - That's really cool Norse words. - Are you kidding me? - Yeah. - Roll those babies up and let's just make some shit up. - I think we all work together to come to the consensus that there would be two types of reading with your tarot cards, one being the more lengthy and- - Right, well I think he nailed it on the hat. - And the other being creative. - 'Cause you and Rachel do occasionally plan things out on the off screen. - Right. - And then sometimes she just flips the card and we just make it up. - Yeah, so he kind of nailed it. Perfect. - Mm-hmm. - Jason McDonald posted and said, "I'm pretty sure Alan's coma is a result of him "finally coming to terms with the fact "that Edmund is a black court vampire." - What? (laughing) - Ooh. - That joke. - Never that's all I'm gonna say about that. - Now it's a word of world darkness, let's- - I responded to you to that one by doing exactly what? (laughing) - He's a one. - There were some posts on episodes of 174 which is the latest one right of this called "Mind Games." Steve Ellis said, "Ready for the commute tomorrow? "Thanks." And Romulus Powell said, "I know what I'm gonna be doing tonight." Ari posted, "I'll probably combine Steve "and Romulus's idea." - It's 'cause it's such a bad idea. - Romulus is bad idea. - Romulus is bad idea. - Romulus is bad idea. - Brian Happell said, "Roberto to London, "the power of pride compels you. "I loved that scene." (laughing) - It was good scene. - It was. - Michael posted as Rappa and you put out the information on NBA in the different- - MDA is. - Drugs. - Is that a real thing or did you make that up? - No, that's real thing. - I didn't realize that. - He actually did the website where you could find the website that's right now. - Wow. - And that's what ecstasy is? - Yeah, but I'm not so much serious. - It's really close to ecstasy. - What? - What I found was interesting is Facebook doesn't put the post necessarily in the order in which they're posted. - Hey. - It's a piece of shit and it randomly scrambled. - We're using it before I hate it. - Right. - And what was interesting is Michael posted the thing about the drug and then after it, Logan Swanson said Rappa is quickly becoming one of my favorite and Merck T said as for feedback. Very mature, last minute response from Scott, I actually took the part where he said, Jim, put your socks and put it at the end. So just for the crowd, that wasn't edit, that wasn't Scott. Wow, you did say it. - I just edited it out. - But there was some context, I believe. And he said, as for the episode, Uncle Rappa encourages you to make MDA drugs to show better empathy towards your close ones. And the way that Facebook scrambles things up, it had Rappa encourages the use of MDA drugs followed by Romulus' "I know what I'm doing tonight." (laughing) And I'm like, I gotta make sure I read that in the right order that it was actually posted, not in what Facebook put it because-- - Yes, it could be perceived. - Very different. - And the other guy is doing it on his drive. - Yeah, I've learned what's combined in both of them. (laughing) - Jim Bridger has a new book, it's coming out this. - Fantastic. - I know what it burns. - On pins and needles. On Google+, Greg Hutton posted and said, "Hey Tom, I found the background music "a little louder than usual this past episode. "It was drowning out you guys at times." Which, it's always a struggle. And I believe, I did leave a couple of the bits a little louder, I have two different settings for the music, and I thought it was more instrumental and it needed to be louder, I was obviously wrong. - I was incorrect, so, you know-- - Thanks for that. - We'll try to be more careful about that. Greg said, "I hope Jim is doing well "and on his way to his speedy recovery." - Yeah, I'm doing awesome. - And hopefully Rachel's situation doesn't keep her from the table for long as well. - Cheers, Greg. - Yay. - Future people. - We're wrapping up our new manera game this evening. This is still Greg, and he said, "Starting a dress and file and city creation." And then he went on a bit about the actual game he's creating, but he asked me not to share it because his players also listened to the podcast. - Thank you for the information, Greg. I found it very interesting and fun. - We're not sharing, Tom. - Well, I can share with you guys off the mic. - So feedback at qotnpodcast.com is our email and Lunavoka sent in a email and said, "Tom, I listened to the podcast twice "and noticed Scott's cut and paste response in the feedback "the second time around. "It was hilarious." - And is this the-- - This was last rate. - Feedback, everyone? - Yes, it was, but I couldn't use it 'cause people were talking over you. I actually used the first go-around, but I start the feedback by saying, "You aren't here, you're putting your kids to bed," and then I spliced you in and around different things. Not as much as I should have, but he apparently enjoyed it. He's the one that I had the IT story with where I told him about, he works in support for an IT company. And he said, "A while ago I started an IT war story exchange "with you but never replied. "We were working on an offsite/onsite help desk "and we help a number of companies over the phone with IT "and then go onsite when required. "My colleague, Andrew, got a call from one of our regulars. "She complained about her start bar being missing in Windows 7. "Andrew walked her through the location of it "and she couldn't find it. "He remoted in and pointed with a cursor. "She still couldn't find it. "When he opened the start menu, she could see that, "but she couldn't see the start bar. "After 15 minutes of this, "he ended up driving out to the location. "He arrived onsite and looked over her shoulder. "The start bar was right there. "She couldn't see it. "He looked at her face and I kid you not, "he pushed her glasses further up onto her face. "She was sitting in a very rigid position "and was always facing the computer "at the same angle every day. "She had gotten new glasses the previous night "and the bottoms of the frames were blocking the start bar. "Problem solved. "She did not move for a second. "She did not move right enough. "Can you glass her here and move my glasses from me?" Holy crap. - She would have mentioned like, "The cursor vanished too." (laughing) - Back in the day when I was running a help desk in Terra1, we ran into something similar to that where this guy insisted that the monitor's all wavy and the monitor's crashing. - Oh, by the way, I got new glasses yesterday. - No, it wasn't new glasses, but he sent it back, you know, monitor after monitor and it was just getting angry. So finally, y'all went to his office to collect the next broke monitor that was brand new. This is the old days where they use metal casings for the monitors and the guy had put magnets all around for pictures of his family. He was like, "Oh, brilliant, brilliant." - Take all these magnets off. - There it is. - Ball head. - Everybody was all smiles about it and Andrew left. When he got to the car, he called the head of the company. He has a 15 man company. He was very approachable. Andrew told him a story and the boss ran back to the tech room. He put Andrew on speaker and made him tell it a few more times as more and more people came in to investigate the laughter. Productivity was shot for the day. My electrical story actually involves fire from the same company, no less. I was reassigned to reclaim and test hardware left behind after a graphic art studio upgraded and moved. Everything went smoothly until I got to the uninterrupted power supplies. They were small PC-sided units and almost all of them had blown fuses. I replaced all the fuses and test them individually, toggling and resetting, testing, fault buttons. Everything went fine until about the 13th or so unit. The last one I tested caught me by surprise. It made a violent grinding sound and threw a spark at my face, which I dodged by collapsing ungracefully to the floor. Andrew saw this and ran over to help. He helped me to my feet and weirdly started checking me all over for burns. Apparently it had thrown a six foot fireball up the back of it and I'd nearly avoided getting burnt. The boss would give me permission to toss the rest of the units. Lunavoco, PS. I'm making a diagram showing who is related to whom and what characters are and have been played by whom. Is there any way that we can get the remaining character sheets posted on the blog? Let's see, the new characters would be Rappa, Zelda, and Steven. So we'll get their characters scanned in on the website, either Facebook or the blog or both. Right now, they're on Flipboard. All three of the characters? And by the way, we should hit 1,000 flippers this month. Wow, it's very nice. Check it out. That totally keeps the shit out of our Facebook likes. We're just 250 or something. Yeah, it's kind of impressive. I want to make a quick mention that one of our listeners thought it might have been Ari, but I'm not sure who it was. One suggested that we should put together a story. You know, make a PDF for stories. And right now, I am in the midst of a new and era PDF. That's well, eventually be for sale, probably not for three to six months, 'cause it's a pretty aggressive and lengthy story. It's the first of three parts for a new and era. But for our listeners who wanted to see something that we do kind of put into something they could faithfully reproduce as opposed to just trying to wing it from the podcast. They'll be a PDF out later this year, 2014, a story, a new story that will also someday play as a group, I hope, if we return to new and era. Okay. I'm gonna book a thank you very much for the email. That was quite enjoyable. And I did promise you I would share a story with you and I'll make it really quick. This is when I was working at Craftmate about 10 years ago. I was working there and playing EverQuest. I was in a guild and I had a bunch of guys and girls and I would talk to them in guild chat. And one gentleman I was playing with fellow guild leader was playing an ogre. And the animation for the ogres is they scratch their butt when they're bored. They'd stand there for a while and they reach back and scratch their butt. So this guy named his character Uda or Uda, UDA, and his last name, his surname was Butt Scratcher. Right. So I got to know this guy. I played with him for like five years and got to know him. And then one night I was talking to him and he's like talking about losing his job. And I was like, well, what do you do? And he turns out he worked for a sister company at the company I worked for. And I was like, well, would you ever consider relocating? He was, I think, in Michigan and we're in Ohio. And he's like, yeah, my wife has talked about a possibility of us relocating somewhere. So I said, you know what, I'll go down to HR and I'll talk to him and I'll see if I can get you hooked up with a job interview. So I went down the next day and I talked to the guy. I said, I got this really good friend of mine. I've known him for five years. It's a fantastic guy. And he's looking for a job. He works for a sister company and he does accounting work. And I want to know if he had any accounting openings. And he said, yeah, sure. Have him sign in his resume and I'll look for it and we'll put him on the fast trick. What's his name? And I realized in the five years that I've been playing with him, I don't know his name. I only know him as you to butt scratch him. And now I'm looking at the guy and I'm going, this is a great friend of mine. He's a good friend of mine. I've known him for five years. He's a really good friend of mine. I have no clue what his name is. And I'm like, who mean back to you on that? Yeah, there was no answer. I did. I told him, I said, I'll get back to you. Because he's like, he's like, I thought you should know him. And he was like, yeah, it's a long story. I'll get back to you. His name was Andy, by the way, which I found out. But Mr. and Mr. Buttscratcher? Did Mr. Buttscratcher start? No, he did not get a job with the company. And I'm surprised I still had a job with the company. After that, after lying. Well, I was really lying. I knew the guy. But it was back when social media was a little newer. It was 10, 15 years ago. So it was kind of hard to convince somebody that you knew somebody for five years. But we had no idea what their name was. No idea what it looks like. Buttscratcher never chatted him out again now. He looks like he drank over. He scratches his ass. All great things for a company. With that, we'll wrap up kotmpodcast.com. The game is on Link. Going strong. Appreciate everyone who's using it. Oh, and while we're on the subject really quick, Tommy mentioned on Twitter that he helped two podcasts at the same time. He bought a new mic for the DICE Heroes, which is his podcast. And he bought it through our link. I thought a new microphone through our link. So thank you, Tommy, for using that. Well done. Did you suggest ours? That's a good mic. No, they actually use individual mics. And they have the board stuff. It is. Yeah, pretty much more serious than we are. But with that, we'll get on to the adventure. All right, let's get started. We're playing the Dresden Files. This is the ritual storyline. I'm Tom, the GM. And starting on my left is-- John playing with both of my videos. People starting powered by the following. Thomas playing Maxwell Edison, an undercover homeland security operator. Mike playing Alan Montgomery, the only wardening people. Scott playing London Deals, a moral seer to the supernatural powers. Bob playing Stephen Tillman, a reporter and a photographer who would do anything to get the story. Michael playing Rep Uppiers, an antiogenic, organic alchemist. And of course, missing tonight is Rachel, who plays Zelda. She is feeling very sick. And Jim, who's recovering after surgery and doing very well. And we actually thought about coming, but decided to give it one more week to rest. He's doing well though, so we will go back to where we were. No refresh on fake coins, unfortunately. Three weeks in a row. I know what you guys are taking your time. We have Repa and Roberto are getting ready to step into another world where they hopefully will be able to help Alan. And the rest of the crew, Stephen, London, and Maxwell, intend to help in the physical world by tracking down the actual location where the lag is-- Oh, yeah, hoping that that is where the four-mentioned Ryan fucking Nelson physically is. What we'll do is we'll visit with Alan in the mind first. And then we'll go to Repa and then we'll go with London, Stephen, and Maxwell. So what you're dealing with is you're in the mind. You're in a maze trying to find your way away from spiders. You decided to just run for it, forcing your way past some. And you seem to get into the clear more or less. You're still in a maze, but you seem to be running in a certain direction. And most of the skittering you're hearing is behind you, apparently. So instead of attacking, I've had a moment to think what I'm going to do then is try to-- now that I'm from base on my site, now that I know I'm dealing with a mental trap, then I'm going to try to encapsulate myself with my magic to get out of this. Because now that I know that I'm in a mind, I'm looking at this maze and look at these spiders thinking that, OK, the more I interact with them, the more I'm believing in them. So what you're attempting to do is something that we-- back in the old D&D days, we would call disbelieving. I'm disassociating myself from his mental-- trying to boil myself off from him. You're trying to convince yourself, this is a construct that he's created in his mind. It is not real. Right. And therefore, it's the power of my will and my mind. So I don't have to physically run. It's like being in the Matrix. I'm not really tired. Not really expending energy. Right. Because you're not really moving. Right. So I'm trying to convince myself of that. I would say your best skill for that would be discipline. OK. So what you're going to be attempting is to overcome his mental construct with your discipline. Take the red bills, that's right. So as I'm running away, I kind of come to this realization. I kind of slow down, say, wait a second. I'm not going to play his game. OK. So his role is going to be conviction. Can you hear us? It's going to be discipline. Oh, oh, he's conviction. Yeah. That's going to be a base that you're going up. Don't smile. Why are you smiling? My role is. All right. See? Do I need to be scared? Ooh. It's only negative. It is negative two on my-- The reason I was smiling, there was a lot of positives around my mind right here. Well, I've got a negative two, which is the last point. Yeah. Takes me down to a fair, but I'm not going to have a good somebody to spend my-- Well, wait. OK. Re-roll. Or do I just get a plus two? Well, you can spend a fake point and you can re-roll. Or you can just add plus two, but I will tell you before you decide to spend that fake point that his conviction role was nine, one above legendary. So as you try to set up this blockade, you'd force out his construct. For a second, you see your walls going a little bit solid like it's blocking out, but then it just utterly collapses from almost like the pressure of his mind. So with that knowledge in mind, you have to consider adding plus two or re-rolling, is it even going to matter? Right. Let me start it. It's going to be great. So you'd have to-- you can't even get it. No. You can roll a plus four, but then you don't have a fake point to kick it up again, so you're going to lose no matter what. Right. So I'm going to take this hit. It's not actual hit. Well, I'm not at this point, and you try to construct a castle or whatever to block out this world, however you visualize it, and it sinks into the swamp. So I build another one. With that, you had stopped that allowed a couple spiders to reach you. And ooh, look at this. You want to give me another dice, because we deserve a rough night every once in a while. This is a fantastic attack by the two spiders. I rolled a plus two on the dice. Its attack was good, that brings it up to superb, but the extra spider brings it up to fantastic. They don't get two attacks. It's just plus one. So this is against my-- You have failed to believe that this is an illusion, so it's actually a physical attack as far as your mind is concerned. So it would be a athletic role to avoid this. I would have to get-- Well, I'm going to get hurt then, because I have to get hurt. You can try to do my point is you can try to dodge, but I will try to drive. I've already got the armor, so really I need to get at least plus two. Right. So... Come on. Well, there's plus-- Well, no, that's negative. This has got to be a plus. Plus two. Plus two on the roll, and that makes it equal. The plus two makes it-- Plus two plus two to the armor, so that's plus four, and my athletics is plus two, so that makes it a total number. Now, actually, armor doesn't quite work that way. Oh, okay. Give me the total of your roll and your skill. Plus four. Okay, so your plus four is great. His role is fantastic, so that means it does two damage to you. Now the armor can absorb that, too. Okay. So the two damage would also be increased by its bite, which was a plus one. So I take one damage. So if you had-- The armor actually counted in your defensive roll, you might not have hit you at all, and then that bite wouldn't have come into effect, so that's why it's a little different. You figure out first, you do your defense, and then the armor absorbs it. Okay. So you actually take one stress, then you can if you wish to do something else. You can follow with my idea, I don't want to fight them because then I'm buying into the illusion. Right. You're giving it two. So, all readings. I'm going to rise above it. I'm going to turn the other cheek. I'm going to say-- I've got to beat a ninth level construct. Well, I think you've got to feel like for how tough it was to get over this one side. We could say that that is the universe as a whole, that you're trying to black out. Right. And we could say these particular constructs might be different, as in he might have put more or less effort into them. So you could try again, just against the spiders. Well, what I was going to-- But if you remember, I rolled plus two on the dice and it was a nine. That means his-- Everything I find-- This conviction is going to start at a baseline of seven, plus or minus the roll. So-- And I really don't have-- Yeah. That's just to give you a general-- Well, here's where I've got to do something to try to rattle-- Rattle. --every way at his conviction. I'm racking my brain right now to think of everything about Ryan Nelson, and what I saw with him. Like, my impression of him with my sight was that he was holding himself together, he was fragmented, but he was full of hate, almost as if he was possessed. You're trying to make an assessment as to one of his aspects that you could potentially use against him. Right. I mean, once the attribute arm, once the experience where he had to run away or, you know, escape from us before, that we foiled, whatever he was involved in before that we interfered with. Yeah. So I was trying to find or chip away at any of those weaknesses-- Right. --used my sight on him, so we were pretty intimately connected there. Because otherwise, Tom, what I'm also thinking that I may have to do is that I may have to open my sight again in order to really connect to him and have this conduit, which is its own danger. Right. Indeed. The mechanics of the drug that I'm using, and to which he's exposed to, the wardness exposed to, at least-- Perfering. I figured it was like a minus one to alertness and a plus one to empathy, because it's an empathogen. So that's what it does. And it's airborne. So he's breathing it now, so that may affect him, actually. OK. Ooh. I'll take whatever. We're going to actually put an aspect on the scene, and that scene being his mind. And what would we call this? In tune? Oh, what's it called in musical? It all is. It's not synchronized. It's that-- well, no. It's not synchronicity, but there's another term where melody. You're almost coming into-- you're coming into tune, you're coming into phase. You're coming into-- almost like a hundred harmony. Michael said it happened. Yeah, yeah. We're going to give it an aspect of harmonies on this environment. So this is something you could definitely tap for plus two. It's-- and, in fact, we'll throw a free point on there, because this was something that Rapa set up, intentionally. So we've got a free tap of that that could occur. So Mike, your character did not, unfortunately, seem to gleam a definite aspect of Ryan's in that short time. Oh, yeah. You shut it down as quickly as you could. Right. So you could potentially open up your mind again to try to get additional information on Ryan and-- Well, I mean, there's no-- there's no way I'll be able to break out of this without getting more information or more. So I will open my site again to kind of re-establish connection with this insane lunatic. That's so good. It's got the rules. Also can only happen once, although this is a pretty specific occurrence where you're in the soul of his brain. Yeah. Just-- What would you set the intensity? Yeah. Because it has-- it has to defend to close the vision of the site. Stop the soul gaze. All right. Give me a-- Give me a discipline role and force this connection shut. I'm trying to open it. It is already open. And what you get from it is the aspect of a craving for power. Underlying insecurity that it's not enough. My discipline role is through my fudge, hachi, machi. That doesn't look good. It's negative one on the fudge, which brings my discipline down to good three. Yes. Unfortunately, that is not good enough. Okay. So it stays open. And in fact, you take two mental damage. Two. Yes. That's insane. But how many can I take? I can take up to my conviction score in mental stress, correct? No. It's not your conviction score in mental stress. You start with two mental stress, and then your conviction will increase that. So what is your conviction? It's five. That would increase it by two additional months. So you have a total of four mental stress that you can take. In addition to that, you can take consequences. And at that level, you get one additional mild consequence that is mental specifically. Specifically. Yes. And I just took two mental stress. You just took two. All right. Now again, to remember the rules, to remember the rules, that doesn't mean you cross up one and two, you're just crossing off the number two box. So what happens is the opening is still there, and you get additional information. So just be clear. I had a mental stress. I, that's my one box. I've now taken two stress, and my two box is now taken. Mm-hmm. Yes, that is correct. That's right. All right. So I have a three and a four box. Still available, yes. So if I take two more damage. If you take even one, since your one is already crossed off, it would roll up to two, which is crossed off, and it would get to three. So I'd cross off three, and I don't get, I just lose those two, what, one or two are already crossed off, correct? Yeah. So if you take either a one or a two, you would cross off the three, because it rolls up to the most available. Right. The three would do the same thing. But I just, I just squandered. If I'm going to take a hit, I should take three or else I'm going to, yeah. Well, that's, as soon as you get out of this fight, the stress just goes away. It's a consequence to stick around, well, we'll take that one second to rest. So what you get from keeping it open longer is that Ryan always wanted to be able to do magic, and he could do magic, but the type he did, depressed the fuck out of him, because all it seemed to do, all his power was, was to make other people more powerful. He was like a multiplier. So he just increased, and it frustrated him. It was a catalyst for other magicians to be more powerful. Well. Is that why his little name's fucking? Yes. And it's the most interesting part of the superhero team, but no. So he's, so, so putting that back to the fact that he's craving power is because he never really had it. And all he did was make other people better. But they were also making, making valuable to other wizards. Like us. I asked. I can't really interact with anyone else while this is going on, because it's bombarding you. Right. So you're now attempting to, again, defense against his attack. The spiders don't pile on during this. No. And the reason they don't is because Ryan is just as busy as Alan is at this point. They're both locked in. The spiders kind of just freeze, which you can't see because you're seeing in a whole different world, but they're just stuck. And that was not in contact with him, he was focusing on the spiders. Once I re-established contact with him, that's where his attention is. Right. So it sort of succeeded, but sweet mother goodness, I am not rolling well tonight. Negative one in the fudge, which is still making it good. You can close this if you want to spend a fake point to either reroll or add plus two, or even tap the available aspect, the cinnamon, the table is harmony with Ryan Nelson right now. He just rolled minus two. This might be your only chance. Right. Well, that's what I'm going to tap the point on the table. Okay. It's not the specific aroma you're smelling, it's the fact that your body is absorbing this drug and you're getting in that harmonic residence with Ryan's mind where you're understanding him more clearly and you find it easier to block him out and you finally succeed in closing down the site. It's at this point that you hear a deep voice and it is different than the one you heard earlier seems to be speaking as a third person in this mind now informing Ryan that it was no good. He had other people there and I couldn't get to his body at this point. You feel like everything becoming a little less substantial. It's becoming a little more cloud like the maze is spreading away a little bit. All right. What do you mean? You're supposed to get his body and bring it and the deep voice says again, it was impossible. There's too many of them there. Ryan, you failed again. Now you hear a voice. It's not quite as deep. There's three voices that you're hearing in here. This one you've heard before and it says, just let me crush his mind. Let's just leave him a dead soul and Ryan is saying, no, no, no, no. We can still we can wait a minute. I can handle this. This is mine. I can handle this and at this point he slaps up to guess the maze has disappeared in here in this small, you can reach out in any direction and you're you're in a cell for the lack of a better word. You just hear Ryan, he sounds really, really nervous and upset. He's like, give me some time. Let me think. He's getting very upset. This is exactly what I wanted to be in a metal box. This wasn't in the plan. Inside I'm tan and handsome and at this point we will leave you as you're trapped in there to give you some time to think about what you might want to do about that and we'll go back to repa and they're built in which you are doing a ritual. Now GM says, oh, that ritual is tough. It's going to be a complexity nine and then repa says, easy like a one or two. Repa says, I only got a lower of three and that's his limit of how complex he can do without having to prepare first. So since the complexity is like way the fuck through the roof, he's going to have to go get some supplies or some potent blood and that would be pretty useful for finding where his mind's gone. You already did some preparation. You did do some preparation. In fact, we're going to put one aspect. This is in the physical world. Are you seven? It is still a harmonic resonance that's occurring. It is still available for repa to use. It requires a great effort to open a rift to another world, but we also have another aspect on the table which is thin veil to the other world. And this was also something that you spent a maneuver doing last session to find a spot in this restaurant that had the thinnest walls to the other world. We actually moved the wardens body over to the area with the thin veil. So that's a thin veil that also exists. Those are things you can't have if you need to. The challenge is four. So the first thing you have to know how to do this and that's war. So that you couldn't get to and there's ways to get to that which is proper. You did that already. So you tap into that. That gets you to the fore. Okay. So you know how to do this. Then you have to summon the power to do this. That's normally any spelling and cast class one mental stress. You're going to have to spend a second mental stress because you are juicing it because your normal strength of your power would only be three because your conviction is three. But you need it to be four. The greatness to open this. So you know how to open it. Now you need the power to open it. That's usually how the drugs help me. Right. So you could tap the drugs to do that but then you still have to control it. You've brought enough power but now you have to control this power. And that's the third component, your discipline. Which is again three which means you're going to have to roll at least a plus one to control this. Otherwise you might. You don't take any stress when you're doing. The asthenae. The asthenae. The asthenae. Just the amount you over. Because the asthenae is very slow in practicing. Oh okay. Also worth mentioning. He has world walking. He should be able to open a portal easily. This might be a little bit more complicated because it isn't just a normal portal. It's not a normal world. The mind of. Well. It's normal world walking. The usual destination. Yeah. Never. He doesn't take mental stress when he summons up. For a normal spell. Right. So he's going one over so he does take one mental stress to do that. And just don't take mental stress when you're doing that with her to do that. What is your conviction matter? Not at all. It matters how much. How long it takes you to do it? So you can go over. I'm going to jam roll it and say if he wants to push this over and do it quickly. It's going to cost him one mental stress. Go for it. So. You're taking one and else just do it. Now you're going to control the power that you're putting in this to rip the veil so you and Roberto can go through. That's a discipline roll of three and if you fail badly you can tap into the drugs at that point. Okay. So I need a one basically. I need a plus one and I need a three and I need a four. Right. I'm just one. So that put you at two shorts using the drugs will put you exactly where you need to and you can walk. It's almost like I'd rather use what I like to roll with mine. I would only suggest you use the harmonic resonance here because that exists on this plane. You use the one that exists in the mine already. Okay. I'm essentially leaving it there because I thought maybe anything was going to be easier. For the record that harmonic resonance still exists as an aspect so you could still spend one of your fake points to use it. Right. As can anyone else. Good. But it's not free. So we're there. So you open up the path and you are in Ryan's mine but you're on the fringes. His mind. Do I know? The center. No. Okay. But you are in the place where you can definitely see the silver thread heading off into this misting swirling maze and you can follow it. And so you do. You guys attempt to follow this silver thread through the maze. And we're going to London, Stephen and Maxwell. I guess we should begin our own journey then. About how far away do I think this location is? You don't really have a scale because it's kind of like an artist's rendering interpretation. You can see close up the neighborhood so you think you can identify it once you get there. But you don't really have a map with a scale and you can say I'll recognize it once we get there. You should. And London. Are you going to follow your compass, London? Yes. I'm going to have my compass out. Right. But to the beginning I'm going to defer to the man who says you can follow the photograph to the location because I'm not sure. I'm not pretty good at finding locations. Stephen is saying that once you get him close to the neighborhood he'll recognize it as opposed to you who are asking him to ease. He's got a close up of the neighborhood. But you have got something that points and you've got to do that thing where you narrow it down and then get him close. Then I will lead I suppose. And I look at my father's compass. We're in Edmund's restaurant and when you come up here in the sub level I think we're the lower level below grounds. When you come upstairs he is in the main dining area and he's got two officers there that are asking him questions and they're pointing at the wall and they seem irate about something. I don't have the compass outwards obvious this place in the back of my pocket and just calmly walk out the door without making eye contact with Edmund. Where the police office is. When I need there. But certainly Edmund. Just I don't even make eye contact with him because I don't want to draw any attention to us. You can actually see him kind of shift so that the policemen are keeping him in focus. And he's kind of doing it in a way that they're less likely to notice you and they seem intact. So I do my best to completely ignore him and we move on. I've got the impression that we're all at the extreme level of our confidence at this point. Just barely scraping through. Oh dude I'm past it. However the background for the drug I mean we've got this warm confident feeling and empathy going on. We're all as well. You're feeling good? We're doing. Great. Once I get out to the market plaza which is that I then pull out the compass again and it should be pointing to the south because I think it was deeper into Ohio City that we were journeying at this point. I don't think it's going to be as close as a few blocks. So we're going to make our way to my beamer and then we'll get into it. It wasn't a rain or anything. We're probably parked in that same parking lot at the, I think it's the west end of that plaza. So eventually we all end up in my car. In addition Maxwell goes over to Roberto's truck. And in the back of it is the items that you've collected from brother Francis which is some bottles of holy water, some bullets that have been dipped in holy water and blust. Yes. I had to assume that those were actually in my 22 that's in my ankle holster. But you could say that they're already preloaded those and you guys are ready to go. I'm just reminding you of the equipment that you do have. Does anybody want to make any statements now before I force a declaration later on what you got from brother Francis? From brother Francis or any other supplies that we might have? Well yes any other supplies you might have as well. I mentioned earlier I've got my 9mm pistol at the 12 cartridge. I thought you brought a sniper rifle into the drain as well. I don't remember that. Well yeah I think I was suggesting the pistol and he said yeah you can do that so I said well then I'm also bringing the sniper rifle. High power rifle and he's on drugs looking around. It's wrong with the situation. I would always trust him. So then again we have someone running around with something more dangerous than a high power rifle on drugs. I think all that London would like to have is of one vial of holy water maybe in his pockets of his dress lacks and then his dipped bullets into the holy water with his 22. Right. That's all he used to do. He came in 22. I know I brought that and had them dipped. I would have my 45 and locksmithing tools. Okay. Anything you'd have Maxwell? The sniper rifle has the bullets that were dipped in the holy water. The 9mm actually has the hollow point that was filled with holy water. Ooh nice. So that might have to test out both of those. Those would not have been gotten from brother Francis. No I did clear that I made those. Yes. From yourself. Roberto you're carrying the sword of the warden but you are also carrying a big ass hammer. If we all had time to go grab weapons and shit I'll grab my shotgun from the last point. If he has a shotgun I would recommend it goes in the trunk. Oh I'm not just tripping. I'm not just tripping it. I'm going to grab it. Hello officer. All right Jack. As you're walking away. Are you letting someone else drive you home? No I do not. I have a modified cell phone holder where I put the compass into it. This is yeah part and parcel of what I do so I can be hands free while following the compass. That's what happens. It takes you ten minutes to get to a point where you're driving down. West 25th and the needle suddenly swings radically to the right to the west and then northish as you drive past something and so you start doing a certain one in the streets around the area to narrow it down to what looks like an abandoned warehouse. Windows are smashed in it's a multi-story maybe five stories. There are residential areas all around here but this is a lower definitely much lower retail value as far as these houses go. This is a poor neighborhood. It's a mixture of retail areas and this building in particular is really the only one that is of this size substantially that is a but it was and it seems to be where the compass is pointing. Yeah you circle the block and you come to the conclusion that somewhere in that building is. I definitely want to park, I don't want to park in this disgusting dilapidated neighborhood but that's what car alarms are for in insurance. I will park at least a block away so that we're not, you know the car is not obvious that we're staking out in case someone's watching at least there's a look out or something. I have no idea what we're getting ourselves into. Do you, does this look familiar to your picture? Actually yeah this building was the centerpiece to that which originally, I mean you relatively know the neighborhood and you thought of it more as a residential area. So you didn't think of this neighborhood when you saw this building but now that you're seeing it in person you're like this is what I was seeing. Yeah this is a building. It's a third or fourth floor that seems to be the center piece of this picture. It's not the top of the building it's not the first floor. The picture you're looking at is definitely got windows smashed in, some of them boarded up but that's exactly what you're seeing in reality as well. You're seeing, if we're throwing out aspects it's a broken glass discarded machinery degree everywhere inside the building. Darkness, yeah so my photograph seems to indicate that a third or fourth floor of this building might be where we might want to start looking. Okay, chest dust three against maybe a Neiman. How about we don't just walk in there? How about if I have the ability Steven Maxwell has been privy to this before in the past but if we stay within arms reach I have the ability through some magical ability to place a veil over us if you will to make us invisible so that we may move very much without sound but without at least visibility so if we try to be somewhat stealthy and stay close together we can be hidden from observation. I'm also pretty good at getting into places where our lockdown. If you're looking at the ground floor there are definitely large chains with locks. Sure, there's probably ways in if you look around enough but I have a stunt called The Big Picture it allows me to when I'm casing a target I gain the ability to define an additional aspect about the target such as a broken window latch or you know some other way. On the first and second floor all of the windows are boarded up and the entranceway seems there's three of them in all but they seem to be chained and locked with what looked to be pretty sturdy thing. Are they standard sized entrances or they like roll up doors for a truck? There's three of them one in the back is a roll up door type the one on the side is a double door and the one on the front is a single door. What's the third aspect you want to get this supposed to go flammable? I will have to make a roll I believe. So I'm going to be casing this place. Okay. Use burglary in a very specialized perception skill specifically to access the weaknesses and strengths. Okay well the perception skill would be a roll in which you check out an area but you're using burglary instead you have the skill of burglary. Yeah I do. To do a casing is it's going to require a fair effort I mean it's really not there's not like there's security guards and cameras around well we don't know that by the search imagination well I mean that's true I mean there could be hidden ones I'm just saying there's nothing obvious there's not a guard check over there with a guy sitting in it and there's traffic going around the area and nobody really seems to be paying attention too much so really doesn't require a lot of effort on your part to give a quick look might just walk down the street and pretend you're going okay so an inclination no roll required I can just define it. No it is fair it's fair it's a fair effort to case the joint that would require you rolling your burglary and adding the dice to it. Invite inclination would be for myself and next we'll stay in the car while he cases and let him do his thing. So why have a skill of great in that and I need a fair. Unless you roll a lot of minuses you're going to watch me. No and I would also say really you are buying a minus one so you're fine yeah so your grade is good. My grade is good which is one better than fair which means you succeed but you don't get to spend it but because of your stunt you do get to decrease an additional aspect. Yeah yeah maybe a broken window and there seems anything like a fire escape where you could get up to a higher floor without walking throughout the stairs. Sure yeah I mean if it's in overbilling it might have a fire escape that's easily accepted. It's your degree that's valid yeah and that would get us to the yard that don't. What we're going to say is there's a fire escape and not only does it lead up to a door and that door seems to be locked you do see a lock up there with a chain but as you're going up the fire escape you see about a third floor up there's a door that leads out every floor and they all seem to be changed but the one and the third has this window there that's barred. There's plywood and stuff but it looks to you like the plywood is loose. You could actually just without any effort pull it and sneak in. The doors are chained from the outside yeah so appear to be changed on the outside. I tend to pick the lock. I would prefer we pick the lock. You can do a slimmer. The plugs we can stay closer to each other and keep the veil in place. We have you guys moving back to the car. Yeah I'll kind of let them know. Even explains the situation. You guys step outside the door close it and then I'll re-disappear. I just cross me one mental stress. Before you cast I want to ask you guys both have some skill in stealth yes? No. All right good. Just either do I. Okay that's okay well that will help hopefully but you'll be quieter than we will but that's just part of parcel of if you want I can go in first and kind of let you know what I find out but you can't be invisible. How long should I need to save you? I'm going to snuggle close baby. That's not what the arms reach. Well you know there's rules for helping people out who aren't as stealthy if you have self I believe. I will leave you guys getting to the firescape and starting heading up towards the door and we will return to Alan. Very quick question did I end up taking any mental stress? Yeah you didn't want to boost the power up then you controlled the fine with the aspect of the drugs so you took one mental. Being a ritual and a slower burn it wouldn't have cost you anything but you're trying to hurry it so if you would have taken another half an hour you'd have been fine but you took one mental stress and doing that. We have Alan there's an obvious struggle going on in the mind of Ryan Nelson. His whiny little weedy voices is arguing with that slightly deeper voice that no I don't need your help I can handle this I can handle him he's nothing compared to the power I have now. The other voices are going we should just end this quickly before it gets dirty. Just destroy his mind and leaving nothing but a shell of a man. Ryan's like no I've got this and with that you see spikes developing on the inside of the box towards you and kind of compressing. Well I exert my will and remove those spikes. Of course you can cause spikes and I would also say that I'm pushing back against the spikes because that would be giving them credence. You are just saying. I know there's no spikes here. It doesn't poke in the meat. I think we're blessed. And I'd also say that Ryan you're always running with the wrong people and dealing with the wrong crowd and you just the always are always coming up short. I don't want those thinking guys you're poison. The deeper voice tells Ryan you know what this is all yours go ahead show me how strong you are. We're going back soft and we have a epic attempt at doing the damage unfortunately. Oh Jesus what the hell kind of dice are these? I've got a hand pick. Hand pick for sucking in every color imaginable. We did a terrible Olympics this does. So what do you roll? Well I can't succeed no matter what what you got to roll you got to mitigate the damage. That is for difference which gives him a spin of one. You felt so completely that you actually believe these are real spikes and you're taking physical damage here. Alright I got plenty of physical damage right here. With him doing seven and you fare you said yeah that's plus five. You also take a five physical damage can you take that I got plenty of physical Ryan now has the aspect of shit's real shit's real yeah and that he can apply to you right do you have five no he doesn't have a one kind of I guess I'm taking three worth of stress if you're giving me five damage I've only got two boxes for well is it no no no this is how it works you have to take a consequence yes I'm annoyed it's physical and physically avoid physical you know so the different consequences you can take are minus two you take two away from the damage and then you'll take three physical stress but you can't do you have to take at least four which is something that's going to stay on a little bit longer it's going to be moderate aspect I'm just going to be punctured by these spikes right so I'm going to have lacerations punctures yeah I'm going to have something the equivalent of like I guess stigmata where you're going to be like seeping wounds they're not going to heal for a while okay mark that down as your as a consequence that that absorbs four of the damage which means you have to and then your turn to attempt to do something well since I'm reacting physically I guess I will try to burst out of the box or open the box or chatter and that is I guess my conviction of discipline still conviction I'm think conviction you have an argument of something else no he wants no I'm like the one conviction I just know I mean here it comes on shit no that's what we roll that's a real that's a real that's a real fakakka dice a re-roll yeah that's a re-roll come on even baby yeah it is for that not terrible it should have been a mind to turn into an event apparently Ryan was not expecting this and we just got to try to escape it was more impressive than apparently he thought he was gloating he was gloating he was like yeah fucking stuck his ass he got an average he rolled a minus two on the dice and currently his discipline is only three being Ryan he spends the shit's real he re-rolls this dice he has a three this is good and he now rolls an even so it stays it good but he has a free tap to his stigmata to make it a five which is so now we're even now you're even at a superb attack the wind he still wants an attack so he's actually using one of his fake points but fucking hell where's he pulling on his right he's got three things one two re-roll no you're right this city destroyed bill can I do any better well he saw in the mind didn't dispose oh he's tapping my thing he's tapping your aspect to say that you don't know if you're as good as bill was so he's using that mental weakness and that actually gives him plus two to keep you in the box so he is up to epic which is seven right now technically you could use your one in tying him up again you know one of his aspects I mean you found it yeah well that he's craves power but he's never is not strong enough I don't really know that's strong enough then you spend a fake point say tap him right back all right that's all you can't listen well I say this town didn't kill bill I killed bill and I'm gonna kill you to fail now what do you want to do he's spending another thing no he has any more that was that okay so it is still a tie the attack still succeeds but at a cost and the cost is you trying to convince yourself the spikes aren't real but you reach up and you push out and you're one of your hands drives through a spike and you take one point of physical damage to break the box so if you have the one stress for physical you just cross out well I were already taken a physical so now if I say one and once filled it bumps up the two so mark the two off he's now out of physical box at this point you hear the deeper of the two voices make a statement there's Ryan there is a slightly deeper voice that seemed to be in Ryan's mind sharing it with him and then the third one that was external this is the third one oh Bernie and Ryan's fine and the deeper voice says ordeal they're here they're in your mind and they're outside just it's time to go or deal before a name or the i-e-l-i-e-l with the phone angel and that's just me a character and voice number two says yes Ryan it's time to go let me kill the warden quickly and we'll go and then we go to a Roberto and rap it's been a lot of time places like these small talk is that it's you guys are finally so over thread through the maze we're not bound by physical laws at this point no so we fly at hyperspeed the stars watching grand saver or flying past us and we're there okay let's get you to do a discipline role so the control of the situation this environment you're in currently is superb so you would have to force your will on that and that would come under the role of discipline if you wish to change the roles of this universe because you don't have control over it this is going to allow me to do what to get where you want to be pretty much instantaneously i'm thinking that's not possible oh you've got a discipline of three everything's three that's a conviction this one war all three good and i can do this once that's very well so it's right now you can get this perm nice good point that is it doesn't have a good vibes going on it's about the he did spend the free one but it exists in this domain could use the empathy to find out where Alan is and just go there yeah i just have an innate knowledge of where everyone is here that is in the mind and you spend a fake point you tap your drug and you start moving at a very fast speed as you're coming close to where you know Alan is do i just you go from front up yeah according to the world walker all the crowds will see both right he just resembles you with fairy dice you start to get close to where you know Alan is and you can see that this area of the maze is filled with spiders and they seem to be standing guard over the area you could attempt to run past them which are moving pretty fast and you can but you would end up getting attacked the minute you stopped this is in the stopping area or before the stopping area it's a maze area and and you know that Alan's in this area over here it's kind of like a slight clearing you see him in your mind's eye as kneeling down as if he had just exerted himself greatly with an effort and is he's bleeding from his hands and a few spots on his body there are spiders around but they're kind of moving very slavishly but you have a feeling that if you rush to him the spiders could attack you so you could either attempt to clear them first or just rush in get him and rush how many are there there are four i'm going to stop and draw my weapon and Roberto do you want a physical attack do you have a weapon does this count you have a hammer handed sword yeah the sword's in its sheath though i'm just going to have it on my belt i slow to a reasonable speed and release Roberto so he continues on i don't know if this is mental attack but i just dropped down i want to fly over the moon you think it's a physical attack so it's a physical attack for your attack me despite the fight so i will concentrate on shooting the ones they are very short and fresh or behind Roberto while he attacks those alright so you're taking a few shots or a shot to clear the way Roberto is coming flying in hammer swinging down crushing one and Talon at that point when Roberto shows up let's have all of you roll a alertness which determines the initiative order i mentioned that we have a plus one empathy and a minus one alertness is that in effect or is that is that temporarily to do the little walking thing i think that's in effect your mind is definitely altered okay with that applied i want you guys as well to roll it by you guys i mean steve and london maxwell and down plus 19 because i'm a jerk where did the negative one is zero plus two plus four robo oh zero we got the highest did anybody roll six oh five yes that's nine four four is great right yeah four is great great three two i mean one two i've got two you said alertness is minus one for us yes so yeah actually that would be minus one as well for for allen you're being affected by the mind control oh so yeah you got a plus one empathy and minus one alertness minus it adjusted to i rolled a two and my learner's goes from one to zero and then i rolled two are we down with everyone because i got zero who is the other two london you are not affected by that so yes i'm into what we're going to say you guys that are matched with it too who had the natural alertness higher in its current state it was adjusted to zero so your zero so mine is zero naturally i don't have a look at it but i would say the person who is adjusted to zero would actually go above a person who is natively zero right up i goes faster because yeah i'm moving at the speed of mind and london is a two and allen was a well actually is one london was a one and Alberto Alberto was a zero supplying thing maxwell and steven are the same we're going to say that uh you could stay at five but steven's going to open uh the lock this lock it's pretty much standard lock material so yeah i mean it's it's really not difficult we're going to say it records a good effort because not anybody could do it but mostly for show well i am great i always don't know show plus one on the fate dice superb so pop's rolling better than are you with uh your tools a little click click you get it to open and you slide it again you're still invisible so you can slide it out the chain comes and you have to do a little bit of a rattle rattles and chain goes through but do you want to make a stuff we're on the absolutely and it may be important good as stealth plus two on the uh fate dice okay so it brings it to superb yeah that was more than enough i was going to say good as well would be required so you very stealthily take the chain out without making any noise and you close it or you drop it on the ground and again set it it's a metal so you put it gently without making it maybe even quick the door open a bit with that we're gonna let we're gonna let the roll ride and say that you managed to open the door and you notice it's making a little bit of noise you got your tools so you take out it up yep a little wd-40 and it opens quite a bit it opens quietly and you are looking into a very dark stairwell and then we'll go to max one you were waiting for this to happen he has opened it you guys got to move as a group and London is the one that makes you invisible so if you're stopping in you're going to become visible it's my jensen murphy alligator shoes they're not really made for this to protect these yeah these steps more like that one debris feels no they're just shoes are Italian you know good tennis you're like stuff exactly i mean i'm not going to scuff them up if you showed us these when you knew we were going down no i actually didn't know that i thought we were just going to go trace all the way yeah i know we're going to go in abandoned warehouse max well are you moving into the building or slipping down to London enough talk about his shoes we're going to say that i'm not going to require you to adjust your old onto London you're still yeah he can wait for your turn but he still has that five you still are on your edge you know you're going to move first it's all good i know okay then we go to mr knows who is having the spiders attack Alan we're fighting it's a superb physical attack i roll the plus two on the dice they are a three that makes it so i don't know where they put me this reference doctor i am traveling through a mental domain ride test attack so i can like run a ball shoot down he's gonna do some major shit well a positive one in the fridge against what was it a superb yeah he has athletics of two he rolls plus one so he's three which is good they roll superb five so it's got a plus two which might be a tilt no it's three three is still plus two does two damage to you and they're a weapon of one with their fangs so that's three three damage to you physical three physical right all right i have to take a little three consequence if i remember correctly you only had two physical boxes they're both gone yes you can't spend it too because that's not enough you have to take three right you can't spend the four because it's already taken fuck dude you're gonna have to go to the hospital so you have to go all the way up to six which is a severe damage okay what can i take this consequence because there is all three there's two four and six oh consequence not stress boxes there are those kinds are gone right go to consequences here look so right so right i think that okay i'm just making sure you seem a little confused i am very because you're stuck in in writing Nelson's mic that would confuse anyone what i'm coisin it's a severe consequence stuff to you to make that up i would say that what is toxic stuff i like timing the shock that's good so for the record can't he decree himself taken out yeah you can i would say i fall over and don't take that damage and in that case you're you're counting on your friends to save you now the benefit to that is for every consequence you've taken in this fight you get a fake point okay so he's got a two four and six right yeah so you would you would get well you get two free fake points in addition to that one you'd have the most fake points you've ever had in your life but you're counting on your friends to take them out but if the other point is doesn't go from six to like eight and you need eyes eight is like that's a pretty short like loss of harm yeah i mean you're gonna end up with ryan fucking Nelson with a gift bar dude would it be awful could it be is that go down if i'm now i i would say that the poison you're not yeah incapacitate me all right capacitive give him two additional fake points and he collapses on the ground and then it is then dropping there is there is there is the yeah finish your sentence man well i'm just trying to think of what and how to say it he's in ryan Nelson brain this is an opportunity to dispatch someone he he doesn't like are you pointing to Roberta yeah the fraternal likes you how he does and he's got i don't know where you can get this shit he's got a demon in him yes but Roberto like that's my point Roberto is in control hasn't the demon in previous things was returned to be wary of me and he was right to me and i've resisted things but it would not be i'm just saying that this is going to happen maybe oh look maybe you're looking for a clip i'm not okay it will Roberto has that that's what i know Roberto has a demon in him demons cannot take control he's a black or paper yes demons cannot take control they have to be given it Roberto has not given it Roberto is slowly giving it more and more power slowly but there's no reason that Roberto would want to kill you you're a friend to him all right i don't know i don't know i seriously don't think you understand this situation it's free it's quite a slippery slope to go before i had to head you don't worry i'm just saying that when you have a a rival a he's not agitate or or something it's rival okay look a demon from my perspective is you trying to do the same job i'm trying to do you're just not as good at it so i'm not gonna care really not i got the worst guy i wonder i'm gifted just because i asked for a few weeks okay wrap up i'm firing whoa okay go you are shooting your sniper they get the one crawling over his body sinking its arachnid thing one on him that it's seemingly sucking the life out of him oh my shaking convulsing on the ground yeah just don't just poison me don't it could be me it sucks literally hope i don't hit you now that would be a cliffhanger yeah go ahead i gun sir four okay it is unaware of your presence here it gets no defense other than a natural role it just rolled minus two so that means you actually get to add two-year role they only see spiders they don't see ryan they've not grew up in those where ryan is in their mind plus one so five superb which would be plus seven total and that just obliterates his spider i mean these are little bits of ryan's mind so that you killed that bit of his mind sure you won't list it then we go to london shall we journey in should we let the expedition continue i pull out my iphone five with my flashlight app which goes when we're fucking invisible we're in a stairwell though yeah it's dark so it's very dark so i will allow a bit of light to show through so we can make up unless there's enough ambient light coming in but i don't need the iphone five the stairwell is it's a firewall so you've got stone walls on all side you've got six places dark this is the ink this is dark as fuck right there's probably debris there's definitely not any emergency lighting in here it is a long sense do we right here anything are you listening oh yeah listen for a minute do you hear a gunshot from another universe that's how good everyone what is this good oh no what the dice did something oh wow oh man yeah well you're trying to listen into the ethereal realm which of course is very difficult yeah i'm gonna roll a minus three in the fudge dice okay that's almost as bad as it could be so what's a zero that's that's mediocre well you know in the best thing is numbers no i don't hear you right i don't hear anything either do you guys anything i hear for i hear great i hear great hearing what's hearing although the thing you have zero i'm poor all i hear is the flavor i probably put in your headphones right make sure you combine the uh the level at which we have set art skill you hear great unfortunately i rolled a minus two and the roll which was stealth uh which this creature wasn't particularly stealthy to begin with so you do hear a creek and the stair above you and then what did he roll he rolled a great oh look at that so it's enough to give you defensive ability as this thing just vaults over the stairs and lengthen with a huge thought in front of you so you actually get to make a defensive roll because it does a double-handed swipe and it hits it's a demon that it doesn't care to play by the rules demon so it hits you and i i am not leading the way sally four b sally four of these go ahead steven and some actual bolt at the roll versus defense is this a surprise for you it would actually be a surprise for a Maxwell it is not demon i think that to be honest i think that the one who would actually let out a little yeah right i mean that's i know not looking well but a little screech this was wow and it had to be hot hi come on yeah it was definitely a ponytail bolt i do a little roll back when it's all fucking super easy all new and all this is a fist attack this is plus is this in demon yes this is the exact same one you thought before or we were fucked wait the demons i enjoyed that just a spider that came down is an actual demon this is an actual demon gorilla sized kind of you're reevaluating your squeak along the stream the left in a few minutes his base roll was four he attacks a great he rolled a minus two which takes it down to fair that is not even close to adequate i have no scenes to aim better for me i have four first while actually he's still outstanding so i have four fates and he is going to use practice rather than quick to anger which takes him back up to great he's a denarian bruiser takes him out of six and he has an aspect of thug you just emptied all the fake points you don't get another hand i have one left he doesn't get to rest one that comes back over here right after the combat so you're all ten as he split it and actually rolled a end to be democratic four and four great attack to you great attack dodge it completely i rolled the six that's done that is fucking impressive yeah just that dodge i think he docked it in the in the creatures i thought just smashed into the wall unfortunately steven doesn't get any defense so he can't add his athletics into the role he just rolls straight up fit i get spin good luck to you on five six there you have to be three higher i thought it's three high you were too high bucket you have 17 fake points you mean that's a fake point you know i really need to be able to be to save us essentially another aspect right i could just spend the fake point when you know what we do we will need to do i'm not going to get the role against surprise you did with your alertness and failed miserably that wasn't my surprise role yeah well if i knew that i wasn't really shit oh that would have changed the way or no there's no i was listening but it was against his stealth role got you failed okay that makes sense you don't get to get an athletic skill added to this role it's just a straight up role can i make it in ola defense is it recording i know you have no idea this is coming okay so i can't take any advice baby come on plus four plus four plus four plus five no zero plus four i feel it neutral oh that's a negative one what were you feeling apparently you get this luck right now so this would be a five superb attack you can spend three fake points to get to five but he would still lose on five right because the attacker went to five you can spend all your fake points and just still lose it'll still be bad yeah this is going to hurt me yeah so you might want to spend a little bit tell him how much damage and then he can use his points to mitigate it too all right first of all he's doing five because he just rolled five well actually you rolled four you gave him one more because you kind of leaned into the punch oops you're a bunch of zero or no i didn't get zero because he was surprised i was surprised how far he sucks his clause plus his strength is a weapon seven three that's that's twelve love yeah you can use the fire escape i'm jumping off of it he throws me so far back i thought of hereby i i got nothing to tell come on even aspect nothing use the fire escape it's dark right back i'll see you also you're fucking invisible what's with that it's one down demon he is the same power you have this collapsed girl got in your way trouble always finds me it does how fluingly roll i think that would be an aspect he would think he hits you oh everyone you would catch first we're gonna reroll a minus one that's where he's gonna minus two minutes Rosie you're supposed to start with he did he did five five damage to you if you can get that to zero or or none the seven goes away no he should have done six because he was minus one in a demon was a five the demon was a four four and four eight yes you're right so you did do five damage so this took it from five to three right one more could take it to one but it's still the weapon that's gonna add seven so it's dark you can also use it that it's plotted that something gets in the way are you gonna be good in a fight there was lots of debris and shit no you could say you know you want to get out of here because you can just say this takes me out and this makes me not gonna hit because i fell off the fire escape i want to fall eight fire escape now you have three more it's on the third floor one there you can use that to escape probably hit some here on the way down but but there's there's environmental aspects here that you could tap with your fake points uh well yeah a girder gets in the way i'm gonna have to do that so that's two more that takes it down to a one if you do one more you can avoid it entirely in that minus two it's going to save you nine points of damage so it's big i'll be out of faith point you'll wait you have to tap some you'll be alive so yes oh you start this one eventually so i'm going to type this guy and you guys can just leave because that's the only way we're going to survive this fight i'll try to shoot him over one so you two avoid the claws but both of them hit and chunks of this concrete go flying i mean this thing you know you really don't want it to hit you it then goes to the broads with fucking armor you brought holy water i did one didn't we already did so it goes to allen who is unconscious i'm saying chug my wife oh i'm sorry Maxwell was waiting so he can jump in at this this point i just shoot him shotgun blast right close reigns go gun boom man my gun skill is two i'm at the demon's surprise i he's dark terrible like shit i rolled negative two i i that would be a zero but the demon roll first to know what you have to be fine does he roll lower than zero that's a little much lower than yeah i don't know what invisible can't be tapped but dark mosquitoes can be yes that's a little that's an interesting i rolled minus two so that takes me two uh good three okay i'm going to spend a fake point undercover homeland security operative i got guns training yes i can't miss a point blank with a shotgun that's pretty much i don't think anybody can miss one point with a shotgun but go ahead yeah fuck that's the same role i think there's a remake of this same role you didn't reroll you have to reroll again because don't say i got this i think you're making shit up clearly that didn't happen dragon oh man it's the same dice oh gee you only have four more is it probably about how bad would the player pictures were like shucks well every large worth saving because mine oh actually yeah you're trying to say yeah let's try this one more time yes let's try it one more thing jesus uh zero zero zero zero that's a wash good job you're fair with guns uh yes do you have any way you have anything else you could tap at this point to get it up but let me just recount my other aspects because i didn't think that all the way through which is relevant but not to shooting people you kind of broke it and it will cause something to happen let's hear the answer here's more uh we can work it out which is for social situations no yeah it doesn't work and i walk where angels fear to tread which means i'm very courageous but that doesn't really help shooting people i think it could apply here you're so sure i think it's tenuous you should have done yeah i know you're in a situation yeah absolutely where running would be the best but you are brave and you're facing off a demon i mean shockingly relevant using a shotgun against a demon in a closed stairway i didn't think this all the way through that's full of holy water he kind of did think this one true you know what we were invisible i like the last one yeah thank you i'm just gonna tap it for a plus two what was what i walk where angels fear to tread i am not afraid i'm shooting a demon i'm shooting a demon in here he goes up to great which is right one better than good all right that gives you plus one yes and then the weapon three and they said anything special about this yeah it's got holy water and shit it's a water gun yes super excited super sad i think we're prepared for that it's about it's worth soaked in holy water as uh brother Francis told you this holy weaponry he's giving you is the demons it's their catch or in world darkness terms of ban this is what hurts them so his extra things don't apply apply so for instance his armor of two this holy bullet slices right through what about toughness his toughness the ones that are given to him by his demonic powers do not apply as well so your total is four yeah he's actually got four physical that he could take so the fourth one would be taken out fuck i need to roll better okay or no is our last one and then we'll we'll stop for this week and we'll continue this next week uh Roberto draws the sword pushes his way through the spider grabs the award by the head and slashes through the cord breaking any tie that this guy had to his spirit sending him back to his body or so he thinks with jot or holiday you make a lord check work out he doesn't know shit about this he just solved it it's a magic sword it should break magic you were saying called it all right now we'll continue this next week thanks for listening to the 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four again you could extend it for three four turns well well the current may be coming that time yeah or more but both of those actions cost you a mental stress don't they well yeah just cast an whole nother spell you're just crossing off the number two box oh shit damn it oh you wrote it i know no well that part doesn't bother me it's just it's a weird way to pop the way of doing things yep which is a fuck out there i was saying that it sounds Italian we can't just be a sausage eat-ish go for it i'll tell you what you did wrong later i was wrong so just let it all that out that's fine is this like you determine physical damage again endurance what's this endurance what's in you don't have one how do you determine endurance it's a skill skill do you have endurance i probably have more generalized we're going to do the same physical strength as one bit how's it that means you take how can i have a plus two athletics with no endurance everybody's moving at the same speed here as in time wise we've sunk up so we have outside synced up we yeah i like sunk sunk we have sunked up we saw this encounter going straight down can't i like you know you're learning and you're younger don't like with that blowing like they you know it doesn't look like it should be said you can't pronounce it when you remember yeah seemingly it's another how did i get a plaque i thought it was not eweling good i guess you're up well it's not even a good name but they have uh it's one of the things they do right in Pittsburgh so have you been to Pittsburgh lately it's pretty nice isn't it yeah someone do something cliffhanger-y that was huge yeah we're gonna have to count on the last guy to do something so yeah whoa Roberto's known for his cliffhanger so throw one pulling out of his he's something rash uh i mean in some ways i actually paid the extra dollar 99 for the app in order to be able to change the intensity of the light you know an iPhone five no i don't but one and does and he paid you know how i was like real and then you were talking no no no see that that's how good it's your own wire you know that's the built-in thing right so it's either like all like this really bright thing yeah but yeah but you gotta adjust i've got an adjustable one why is the strobing down that's really cool no so it's a known so you might want to make a character i know it's great it's get the lucky all over again but you remember the githian i heard i said it yeah yeah you've got the silver cord you know what happened i don't want to get the answer there'd be uh extra layer um after all type creatures uh what's come to words we could drag your partner back to the audience oh could somebody reconnect this or you'll be addressed in the mental realm i'll hear you're probably some type of heel we need to find a cliffhanger john is that what you're deciding i said either or i don't know i'll do some research along with what happens when you cut the cord to some mental pastoral project i mean it doesn't necessarily have to go by doing the arrows after but if this cord is what you use to tell you here then it's a different thing all together so there's nice movement