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KotN Actual Play Podcast - 170 DFRPG A Quiet Evening
(upbeat music) - Hello and welcome to Night to the Night Factual Play podcast. This Dresden File Story ritual was written and run by your GM Tom. And now please enjoy episode one seven titled A Quiet Evening. Actual play begins 14 minutes, 48 seconds. (upbeat music) So we'll get out to the next episode of Rituals. We have actually had a small amount of feedback this week, so we'll cover it quickly. From our key at the end of podcast.com blog site, Nathan Terrian posted on the Numenera page and said I know I'm very late at finding out about this podcast and listening to it. Thanks to GM intrusion. But I must say it's really good. - They're femtals? - They did. - Did we talk about it? - I have mentioned them. - I just forgot everything. - As has Mike because it's multiple pimpings. - We've done Numenera but it's a very good podcast. Right now, I'm through one third of the Numenera podcast. Even though I don't get everything, I can understand 80 to 90% of it, as English is not my mother tongue. And some references fall short on me. One question, is there any plans to put this adventure on paper or PDF so that other GMs could run it? This is the Numenera adventure again. From what I've heard already, I would pay for it if it were nicely formatted. - Good to know. - That was Nathaniel. - Right, no, I mean, never really gave much thought to put down a PDF, especially a paid PDF of it, but. - I wonder if you got one together and sold it for like a box on an RPG drive-through or something if you don't get any buyers. - Yeah, maybe I'll look into it if things settle down a little bit. I have a good one time. - You certainly have the means to put together some nice documentation and any of our source materials. We could probably-- - If only we had an artist. Oh, well if only we had a good writer. - Oh! - If only we had a good-- - If only we had the counter, of course, - If only we had the software to-- - Oh, look at what we did! - Okay, so we're out of excuses. Besides time. - Yeah, the time thing. - Yeah, there is. - So, you know, consideration taken, maybe not in the near future, but I have toyed with the idea that we would kind of do something like that and maybe even take some of our writings and stories and maybe like encapsulate them or do like a little, a little something that we could write. - You mean as a story? - Ridden? - I was thinking about it. I was thinking about it. - 'Cause I was thinking that putting out documentation on how to run an adventure, I couldn't do that with faith. - 'Cause-- - No. - Most of it is-- - But background and setup. - Not prep and pre-created. It's story driven by the characters mostly, so it would be difficult to write that up as an adventure. - Two things. - To allow the city billing that they're specific as well, but that could work. - It's specific, but I mean, it's looking to play-- - But it can be used as a template or as just a general starting point. - Plot points. - Plot points, yeah. - Throughout the story. There's gonna be-- - What you started the big thing with faith is that it is character driven and that your aspects come into driving the story in certain directions and-- - All right, points can get annihilated in a hurry. - Right, and fate, specifically fate, has got power in the player's hands that they can drive the story in any direction. - I guess what I'm saying is it could be the way you wrote it. - You could not write it like a linear dungeon. - No, out of the hole. - Of course. - This could be more of what you could do is say-- - This is the idea of the story. There is this, these ritual slang. - Let's take the first one though. The first one was about Mike's character who had a mentor and his mentor had disappeared. And I mean, it was all-- - Well, that's what I mean. - So do you wait around the gears? - But in a lot of adventures you have them say, make sure that the main NPC is a friend or a world of darkness where it's more, at least a little more linear or a new manera or any of the ones I didn't run so I don't have to do any of the work. - I see what you're saying. - Should we get it? - No, I get it. - I'd say where you're coming from. - I wonder how an app for speech to text would work for just documenting, you know, the adventures. - And a lot of times it's formatting as well. - It really improved the heart. - But yeah, I just feel sorry for the poor guy if it was just obviously as native language as men. - We use so many metaphors in our stories and that is, I mean, even my kids who are at this point seven, nine and 11 struggle with like, what does that mean? - It's hard of gold. What? - Yeah. - You know, oh, that means he has a really, you know, wonderful heart and she's really warm and she'll do any, it's just those metaphors are-- - It's probably when I was working in minifield. It's a homage country and one of my coworkers was a homage and I would make references to comedic things from TV and he would just look at me blankly because it was like, no connection there. - You mean your Amish computer programmer? - Yeah. - Which is the case still. - That's beautiful programmer I've ever seen. - Absolutely. And if he's listening, stop listening, Joe. You're not supposed to listen to this shit. What's wrong with you? - And one other thing I wanted to say was doing it for free is one thing. So World of Darkness, you could actually put out a story for free. - I don't think they have like an open game license for World of Darkness, which allows it. So you'd have to write World of Darkness into another system or a generic system to let people have added. But systems like Newmanera and Faith-- - Yeah, I think it's a license with Newmanera that as long as you don't make over a certain amount. - It's a specific dollar amount. - Yeah, literally, yeah, a specific dollar amount. So it's kind of cool. So we could put a Newmanera adventure together at some point, maybe I'll-- - So Mike's idea of writing a story, it doesn't matter what the gaming system is. - Exactly, 'cause he's writing a story. - But yeah, but Nathan, Nathaniel, yeah. - Part of one of the subjects was like a short story involving Michael Clay about the early years with Niko. But I'm like, how do I get around using Aegis Kaidoru without ever saying them? And then tie it into tandem. Two things would stop me. You know, one, I'm not sure if you want to like pimp the product like that and put it on the website. Or two, I don't wanna be subject to Scott's review of why writing's so-- - As long as it's better than that snippet you showed me last week of that amount. - It would be better, but I'm sure it would. - It might be sophomoric. - It would be fresh, let's be honest. - But good suggestion, and maybe we'll take you up on it. - Yes, thank you, Nathaniel. Back to Facebook, it was a general post by Trevor Hodgkins, who said, "Apologies for not writing "since the last session of Dresden, "but I have not had much to say "that you don't hear each episode from the fans." I did find, like some, that your dungeon world and Newmanera's were not your best story. This was truly caused by the type of gamers that you are and the type that these games are aimed at, which is the hack and slash gamer. I think that is why you are such a good quality group, though, that, and that you're close to me, and I thought about taking a trip to see my Cleveland friends and try to catch up with your group. But you guys are the type that understand what type of games you enjoy. So thank you, Trevor, I appreciate the feedback. It's good to hear from you again, it's been quite a while. And I didn't notice that you were in Ohio, closer to us than you were, I think you must have moved. But welcome to the Ohio area, and I'm glad you're listening again. On Facebook on episode 168, and actually was more about the feedback in which we discussed the Dresden books, Luke Green said, "For my part, the stories that I enjoy best "are the ones that I don't start to analyze "until after I've read them at least once." I found that I'd pick up a new book and find myself picking up its metaphors, its deeper meanings, or writing techniques. That means that the story has lost me, and I'm not really enjoying it for its story's sake. That all depends on your personal connection to the story as a whole. If the story resonates with events in your life, you'll find deeper meaning in it. If not, it's easy to either invent it, or dismiss it as desired. Dresden is a story that I can pick up and be immersed into the story. - I can't imagine how your life would resonate with a hurried Dresden story. - He's a wizard. - That would be-- - That'd be really pretty. - It did, I'd be like, "Thanks, man." - Yeah. - What sucks. - Dresden is a story that I can just pick up and be immersed in. I don't think about how unique the story is. I spend my time reading what's coming up next and trying to predict what is coming. And I'm often pleasantly surprised as to what he pulls off. The Dresden books are one of the only ones that manage to surprise me anymore. In any case, I read them because they're fun, pure and simple. And luckily, Scott was out of the room for that one, 'cause he-- - Oh darn it, it has to do with the Dresden books, and we don't want his feet back out in any ways. - So thanks for the comments, Luke. Glad to hear from you. We also had one comment on episode 169, which was dangerous dialogues in which Ari said, "That was supernatural feedback section. "Sam and Dean were mentioned. "I keep waiting for our Winchester to be pulled out." So he's a definite fan of the supernatural series, which I've actually started to enjoy too. My youngest son watches it. - I've really watched, I think, have with you the first season. - Definitely has a taste of a hunter. - I think whoever writes it has a book on their shelf because it was almost too direct. - Is that a Netflix thing? - It is a Netflix thing. - It's, I think it starts a little rough, but it finds its pace. - How many seasons? - It's a lot. - Yeah, it was going on seven now, I think. - Quite a few. - Or nine, as a matter of fact, am I eating that? - I don't know the exact number, but I believe it's up there. From Twitter, we had a tweet, like, "That's gone." - You haven't read it at the first time. It's almost like you've actually wrote it down. - So I wouldn't forget. From Vail DeGoss, who said, "Cayotienne." Well, now I know what's on my breakfast menu. This was after I put it out. It feeds out to the Twitter verse, and he picked up late at night, so I knew what he was gonna be doing the next day. - Twitter, Twitter. - Yes, Twitter, Twitter. He was followed by another tweet in which he said, "That was so good, and great way to start the day." I'm looking forward to where this is going, and I love the new characters. So there you go, Michael. And I don't know that we've actually been introduced to you yet to Bob, your character. - Steven, Steven, you have quite a firm. - Yeah, at least a couple of episodes. - Yeah, you haven't quite entered the interview. - We just did this time. - I did both of them. - And Zelda. - Look out. - Zelda will be coming up, too, and then fading out, because she's having personal issues. - She'll be back. - Yeah, she'll be back. She's enjoying herself. She's just had some hard life. And yeah, just not going all that well for her. - For her lately. - Okay. - Google, plus, we had Joshua Grasco, who said, "Ah, the gang's back together." What a great episode. And we did have one iTunes review. I was going to just mention that. Dang for one, and we got one. And this one was from H. Disco, who gave us five stars and said my favorite AP podcast. That was his title. His review was, "There are some pretty good actual play podcasts out there, but this one takes the cake." I've listened to all 168 episodes, and I still get excited when I see a new one. Thanks for all the great stories. Nice. - It's hard to imagine. - Thanks for all the great listening. - After all that, all right, there's a high countdown. - I think it did the math, and with there's 169 episodes now, and with this 170, - It's like an hour each. - If they're roughly an hour each, I think it is like an entire week of non-stop listening, 24 hours. - God damn. - And you'd be able to-- - I think that kid bored. - Well, you have to sleep too, and do other things I would hope, but that's how much content we have out there, so it's 168 hours in a week, so I believe. - 170 episodes. - We just worked out the past week, so you definitely-- - No, I'm feeling it. - No, I just did the math in my head. - I did enjoy the last week's episode where we were talking about the, what I'm talking in sometimes my segues don't aren't as graceful as I-- In my head, I was very clear that I ended one topic, started another. - I think everybody does that. - You mean my babbling? Or, no, I mean-- - Right, but would I be endering? - When I was talking about the rise of the 300 and how it was inappropriate for my son, and then I said, I used the wrong connector. It was like, oh, no. - Oh, I think I did. - Right. (laughing) - Although it was just really good nude scene. - Yeah, I don't know. I realized that no one knows. (laughing) In my head, I had like, period, new topic, new paragraph, a roll for the table. - Yeah, it was a great nude scene. And I'm like, but when I heard it back, the playback, I'm like, oh, that's not really cool. - And for the record, there was no editing involved with that. That is how you set it, exactly. - Yeah, everybody knows. - All right, well, we did not let it go by either. - Michael's reaction was even, he goes, that's not the way to use all the wrong words. Yeah, I thought that was really enjoyable. - Okay, I have checked the fan page, but I didn't write down any of the new posts. One in particular I threw out there just today was asking how people felt about the feedback. - It's like about almost 30 responses. - Yeah, a lot of people that seem to think it's perfectly fine the way it is. The feedback section is grown to be about 25 to 30 minutes each episode. And I said, put it at the end, lose it, put it at its own episode. Everybody thought it was fine with the couple of people saying, put it at the end. - I thought 22 to three was one of my, I think 22 said they wanted to say the same three said, and Jason was being a smart ass. - Right, and a couple of them. - Get rid of all the actual play and just make it about feedback. - Right now. (laughing) - Well, that's inevitable. We're gonna have my keynote just to talk about that. - I should've put the smart talk about that on there. - Right, right. - That was my fault. All right, with that, we'll just mention, as always, the Amazon link that's on our kotnpodcast.com site. Thank you for those who are still using it. We enjoy having the podcast pay for itself rather than us having to pay for it. We're able to at least study. - Yeah, it's been pretty steady for it. - So, thank you all for that. - Did you see Tom's new boat? (laughing) - For the bath job? (laughing) - Yeah, that's about it. (laughing) - It's a little better than Becky. - A dollar, sir. - There you go. But with that, we'll get on to the actual podcast. Enjoy. - This is week four of our second Dresden Adventure Rituals. I'm Jim Tom, and starting on my right, the players are. - I'm Michael, playing the wrap-up pierce, focused practitioner who is an epigenetic, organic alchemist. - I'm Mike, playing Alan Montgomery, the only warden in Cleveland. - I am Jim, playing Edmund Shadowski, the rich businessman who is also the black court-powered scion. - Hey. - I am Scott, playing London Deals, a moral seer to the supernatural powers. - I'm Bob, playing Steven Tillman, who is a reporter, photographer, who would do anything to get the story. - I'm Thomas, playing Maxwell Edison, and undercover homeland security operative. - I'm John, playing Roberto Martinez, a people's guardian and powered by a fallen angel. - And let's go back for a minute and address the fact that we have a new player at the table, Bob, and his character. You want to give us a little bit more on your character, what exactly does he do? What makes him special? Is he human? Does he have powers? - He is a human, I don't know if that makes him special. - He's not pure human, does he? I mean, he has magical powers, or does he not? - He does have a few special talents. One talent he does have is the ability to take photographs of either the past or present through an old-fashioned civil war era camera. Another one of his powers is a danger sense for an area. He kind of is the feeling that someone's gonna go down, maybe somewhat bad. - He gets drawn to trouble, trouble spots. - Yeah, and that happens to be one of his troubles, is that trouble always finds him. So he's always in the mix of it, always get in the middle of something. - Do you have any specialties as far as your skills, Scott? - Burglary, conviction, and scholarship. - Oh, is there a four? - So you're on the cedar side of town, you don't have a problem with mixing it up? - Right, I'm kind of dealing with some underhanded people a lot, maybe some hobos, and some questionable people throughout town. - You can probably tie that danger sense into your time quality. You can either be like pre-cognition or sense psychic vibrations. So somehow you can feel the events and the impact they leave on an area, so that could maybe be your danger sense. 'Cause you're sensing either something that happened in the past, or something that's about to happen in the future. - Yeah, I don't want to spend too much on these powers. - Of course not. - I want to be very limited. - Well, I want it to be very limited in the way that I can use it. - And Bob's character's not fully fleshed out yet, he's still working on the concept of it. - So it could be an interesting story one. - Yeah, I kind of like the character concept. So before we get started, everybody get their fake points. You should have your maximum amount. - I got seven. - If you had more of them than that, well, we stopped to get that many. You do not have seven, Jim. And you have the ability to make a minor change to your character. - I'm trying to make my aspect more usable. - That is a constant-- - Since no one knows what mine are, I'm just gonna give you a list when I'm done, huh? - I'm set. - Sure. - Like it? - Three. - All right, we were gonna go in reverse order of what you gave me last week when we stopped. And that means we start with the Warden Allen, whose number one thing was that he was going to do this inventory. - We needed to communicate with the Heather Ryan Joel and then do the-- - That's right, what was it gonna ask her? - So if I believe correctly you were at London's house, which is on the east side, is it not? - Yes. - You would be caught dead on the west side. - No, not dead. - The east side is very close to where-- - We're off a Maple Road there. - The Lakeview Cemetery is. It is of course dark and night. - And stormy. - The only time you should have a dark-- - Dark, stormy night. - That doesn't scare me. - Yeah. - The Lakeview Cemetery has very windy roads that go around and the Hazeroth Angel is located in the middle of it. It's a very dark night. There isn't a lot of lighting in the cemetery because it normally isn't visited in the evenings. And in fact, it's somewhat difficult to get into it, driving at nighttime, as there is a gate. - There is a gate, a big stone gate. - Yes. - I mean, cars can't go in, but I don't know what would stop a person from going in. - You drove with Edmond-- - Ed or Maxwell. - Next one. - And set me off. - I had work to do. I needed to follow up on the investigation. - So it's only like five minutes out of your way to drop off the cemetery. - I thought I was gonna go terribly wrong so he could drop him off. I was getting to ride home. - Did you guys come in separate cars? - No. - Because he could drive a car. And Rapper was gonna drop me off the-- - His car in my car. - Good enough. Pulling up to the gates of the cemetery, unable to drive any further, Edmond and Allen. - What do you do? - What do you walk in? Is there any problem crossing a threshold for a cemetery or I should be able to-- - I don't think you'd have a problem. - Okay. - That particular type of threshold? - Because I'm not dead. - Right. - This is living dead threshold as opposed to a household type threshold. - No, it's enough to stop them but just a little bit more-- - I hope so, at least, job lunch. - And so I've got my ectomancy specialty, whatever tied into my wizard senses. So I am specifically being receptive. - The path is a little lengthy because the angel is located near the center of the cemetery. So it's a bit of a walk for you. It takes you a few minutes to get there. It is a pretty dark area of the cemetery though. There's not a terribly-- - Oh, it's midnight, right? - Lighting in there. - It's not, you know, it's midnight, but it's 10 o'clock, you guys broke up? - Yeah, well, I imagine it's still a pre-winter night. It's cold, the stars are out, it's cold. - It's a crisp evening. - It's a crisp evening. - You know a bit about the hazard angel. You've got to it, it's in a secluded area. - The ritual that you know of is that you must cut your palms and anoint the blade and that activates it to ask a question. That's the rumor. That's not what you have to do though. You have powers that are beyond the normal. - Right, I just gotta remember what I wanna ask. - Still not appreciated if you went to the ritual though. - Well, when it comes to summoning entities, you have to have to do it properly or else you'll, especially someone with power, it needs to be even more responsible. So that's a good point. I will do the right thing, but now that we've found the angel, I'm now thinking through what exactly it is that I want to ask. - You cut your palms, you get enough blood, you anoint the blades to summon the spirit and you get a mild consequence of your palms being caught. - And this is power towards the ritual. - Yes, I don't know. - But it also is a consequence that we'll take, you'd have to bandage up your hands and it'll go away after a scene. - All right, I know that we're trying to track down who's performing these rituals, who's trying to remember. - We'll be looking for other sites where it happened or if that was something we might lose to. - Well, that's, I guess I'm, I'm not sure how many questions I'd get. Do I get just one or? - I'm afraid it's just one. - Okay, so that's why. - Can you just do the ritual again? Does it get pissed? - You do the ritual. You see the spirit much clearer than Edmund does. He just, he's like a shimmering. You see an actual outline of a rather scary looking creature. A bit ghostish, but there's some demonic features to it and it asks who stir a bit slumber. - I speak my title, not my full name. - London deals. (laughing) - How will that lie to an entity? - You claim that you're the warden of Cleveland. You don't claim that you actually are. - I am, but you state that you're the warden of Cleveland. - I don't give my full name, so I say that I'm Al Montgomery. I speak the name and I do have the symbols of my authority and power on me. So that should lend veracity to my identity to her. - I seek the identity of the person or persons who are performing necromantic rituals within the bounds of the Samuel necklace. - Give me a list. - She informs you that she is not currently due all knowledge of the things that are quarked. I am just of the spirit core. - I wonder the one that was omniscient. - I'm sorry. (laughing) - That's next door. - That would be next door. - That she deals in things of the spiritual nature and in the spirit world. - Do you know where I can find the spirits of Darnell Norton or Terrace Spencer? - The angel tells you that these spirits do not reside in the spirit world. - I thought so. - So would I know that it takes a certain amount of time once a person dies before they cross over or-- - No, that's pretty much instantaneous. - When someone is dead, the spirit should then reside since it's no longer in this world. - For what it's worth, in common lore in Catholicism, in Irish and whatever, the idea is typically three days. - Three days, yeah. - It's like I was thinking the spirits were consolidated into one body part and chopped up and that body part still has their spirits saved in that past. - Even with your theory of the Irish and the taking of three days-- - Terrace Spencer would be-- - Terrace Spencer is way past dead. - Right, okay. - Could be valid for Darnell Norton but for Terri, it's way past dead, isn't it? - So she's basically answered my question and there's-- - Yeah, you've gotten some information but it's not what you were hoping for now, I imagine. - Well, I think it's a lack of information as good as your information. - It's a result, that's what I would say. - It's still a result, positive or negative. - And as you walk back to the car with Edmund, well, check in on Roberto, you drive your truck back home. Your parents live in a less savory neighborhood, of course. They're not very well to do. And then the houses are kind of run down. They're row houses where you've got-- there's a porch in the front and it connects to the neighbor's porch because they're all five or six houses in a row. She's got a little fence in her front yard, very small front yard. Like you could have one hand on the fence and reach and touch the porch type thing. It's just a very small patch of grass. Your mom tries to keep the house looking nice but it's a little run down, you know? And definitely you've got garbage strewn against the fence, beer cans and wrappers and shit. As you're pulling up and you park in the street because there's no driveway. There's an alley behind back where you can park and your mother doesn't have a garage where she can store things. But you don't wanna park back there. You'd like to keep an eye on your truck so you'd park it up front. You get out and you check in with-- there's a more laxant that's been watching your mother's house for you. - Okay. - He exists in the sewers because you're still the lord of the ghouls, even if the ghouls don't exist and he pays homage to you and tells you everything's okay. Your mom's been safe and no one's been around. - It's all cool. - It pops out from where you came from. - He's like, "No, no, no, no, no, no." - My back, she's like, "Hey, school boss." (laughing) - Sorry. - Sorry, sorry, sorry. - You have oscars, you raps? - It's a little bit on there, man. - It would be. - Probably it was the first day you came back. - What, can't I? - Sure. - And I got a bob. - He dropped some down a beer, you know? Thanks a lot. - Yeah, actually I had to throw him like a hunch. - Yeah, they get the drugs. - So you go into the house and your mom's there and she's been watching your sister all day and she's kind of exhausted, but she's having trouble sleeping because she's a little bit concerned about finances because of the fact that your father is not around. - I'm still, William's paid me to be killed with people on his lists. - You do get paid and you've been helping your mother, but she also counts on your father's disability checks and they're gonna stop if he's not around and he hasn't been around. - I didn't catch him today. - Yeah, they wouldn't let me know where he went. They claimed he has to pay my dad and that's why they abducted him. - Okay, she just accepts. - I'm going on 'cause that's kind of her life. - Shh, another shit. - Sit out of her controls. - So, she accepts that. - Well, thank you for trying, son. I made some soup, it's on the stove there if you're hungry. - Stop throwing food down the sewer. (laughing) - Actually, I'm not made of ponches, you know? (laughing) I can't keep throwing 'em down at them. Let's cross money. - And if you have nothing else and we'll move from that shit, I'll start to Maxwell. All right, so Maxwell is getting in contact with Ron Logan, who is the one that has a contact with the Warden and the Warden gave him a call and told him that you're gonna be getting a hold of him and it's in regards to Philip Cook, their roommate. Ron tells you, we still got him down here. He's not telling us anything and we think he knows something. He claims that he showed up on the scene much later than the neighbors say he was in the neighborhood and that he was on the scene. So, we're not getting anything from him and the Francic is down at the site trying to check for, but I mean, he lives there, he's fucking fingerprints are everywhere. We're not gonna be able to hold him for too long without some kind of statement from the neighbors and they told us but they won't go on record. So, I think we've got him for 12 more hours before we have to release him. - What time is it? - 10 o'clock at night. - Is this happening in the car? - This is early. - Yeah, are you talking to him on the phone or did you go down to the precinct? - I was gonna talk to him on the phone to see if I can arrange something for tomorrow. Because I had lots of paperwork to do tonight, but okay. - So you're talking to him on the phone and Rupp is giving you a ride and you're heading back to the Ohio City area. - Go ahead. - Give me a chance to interview him and I can probably get something out of him. I'm gonna talk to the people. - There's a camera, you know, just so you're aware. And everything's recorded while he's in the-- - Oh yeah, otherwise you couldn't use it as evidence. - Right. - It's good enough. - So. - They don't better have those bolts. - You can see if I can squeeze you in tomorrow at night. We have to release them around noon. - All right, I'll get there early. There was something else. I think we wanted autopsy reports when you get them. - I don't know if I can release those to you. - True. - Didn't know. - After that, an extra cocky line around. - It just happens to get lost. - I'll see what I can do. - I just get lost. - And there was something about interviewing their roommate and previous murders. - Yeah. Just, well, we wanted to know. - Well, they haven't really tied it together. They're starting to look at that as a possibility. They try to pull as many cases together into one that they can because then-- - They have more people working on it. - Right, but they're not also wasting detectives that are researching the same thing. They can better organize it. So they are going through the past cases and trying to categorize them, which ones fall under this particular type of MO. Right now they have a number of cases that fit and it's only at three. You think there are more like five. - Well, but there are three that they definitely said fit exactly this. - Darnell Norton, which is the current one, he gives you Claire Adams. - Claire Adams, two ladies. - And Tara Spencer, two ladies in the main. Those are the three. - What did Claire Adams lose? - An ear. It certainly didn't kill her, but she was dead. And that's the body part that was missing. But we also have photographs of that ritual and the circle is very similar to the two previous. The order that they happened in was Tara Spencer, Claire Adams, then most recently, Darnell Norton. - I wanted to ask for the autopsy on the other two, but I think that'd be a lot harder to get to than the one that just happened and you could feasibly win. - Actually, I'd have to pull those out of files where this one's still floating around, so it'd be easier to get you a file of the current one. - I figure we can just extrapolate what happened to the other two from the autopsy. - You actually have ways of getting it that her way beyond what the warden can do or the police officer, because she helps. And then security puts you kind of have to go that route. - Right. - Instead of your current. - I'll plus call, maybe later. When I get home, I fill up my reports. - Okay. - So your last thing was your report to Homeland Security so unless you got something else that came up along the way. - Let's go back and think of-- - We will move on to Repa. - I'm driving. - So you're driving, you dropped him off. - What was the Darnell's? Was that a foot or lego? - Darnell was a leg. - He's like below the knee. - Below the knee. - You know that police, they have an area where you can meet with your attorney, so they don't have cameras there if you need to do that. - If I bring along-- - You'd have to prove that you were his attorney. - Well, I can totally-- - Or best of the line. - Yeah, I would have to agree to allow you to-- - Which is more likely than it. - If I bring along Roberto, I will totally go to the place without cameras. - It's time we're gonna rough 'em up well. - Probably. - Yeah. - The other police are all over letting you rough up there. It's just-- - Where are you headed? Where are you? - Uh, where do you live? - Where are you live? - Where are my apartment? - We talked about it, didn't we? - Don't even know where the hell I could live downtown than I do. - Oh, there's room. - So he dropped you off and then heads towards home and you, I think I have more research to do. - We had you doing blood work on the murderer and on Roberto's. - Men long. - I did standard chemical work, the blood work, and then I was gonna get into some more chemical. - Okay, so you head back to your lab and you wanted to do blood work first on the murder. You were doing it specifically on what? - I don't remember where we left it. Fortunately, I-- - Still? - You had analyzed the ash to figure out it was from and it was from a body and then we gave you blood because it was funny to check from the toxicity. - Oh yeah, they pulled blood from the murdered body. - Right. We wanted you to check for toxicity or any drugs in the bloodstream. - Right, yeah, I thought that I was gonna do that before but I don't remember doing it so I'll do it now. - So you take the blood that they gave you from the actual victim, the latest victim which would be Darnallarn. And you put it in the little centrifuge to do that blood testing thing and it's really, there's nothing difficult here. You're just running regular blood work on this. So you can do something else while you're wanting to. - Oh that's right, I asked for the blood type four. - Well you got a-- - Bertel's father to see if there was a-- - A smidge of blood that your Bertel's father left somewhere on a broken beer bowl or something? - Yeah, he was distributing those last week. - You are gonna do a ritual on this? Are you gonna do, what are we gonna do with the-- - Let's go to the standard blood type and see what chemicals are in there that aren't normally in there or whatever. - So we'll go to Edmund who is doing a gearing up montage in which he's pulling equipment from here there and everywhere. I don't know what specifically are you-- - I'm just grabbing my own equipment for arming up. Just basically I had some sort of a weapon or something that I might be, I might need. - Okay. - Guns, whatever. - Something else that I probably throw up at a point or I think a big point for like who I got. - Sure, if you wanna say-- - Like a one bomber, a smoke bomber, whatever. - If you wanna grab some of your experimental equipment as well, and if you wanna pay a fake point to make it specific later on, that's fine. So you can get together a duffel bag of equipment and install. - Are you even any good at guns? - He doesn't necessarily have to be a gun. He builds equipment for fighting supernatural and he's getting together. - He's working for weapons. - Weapons are-- - There's weapons which weapons are your melee type and guns are specific, gun skill is specific to the actual. - And last but not least, we'll go on to London. - Okay. - You were making some calls? - For Brutal Spy. - I'm my way home to do the ritual for divination ritual. I wanted to make some calls to a couple of contacts to see if anyone had any information regarding where Roberto's father had been off to. - That's gonna require you to make a roll. We're gonna say contact because it's gathering information, getting tip off. - What? - I can't use press. - Okay. - No, I can't use press. - What's the difficulty? - The difficulty here would be good. - Okay. I'm my fudge roll I rolled up plus two. London's contact, which of course is a strong suit of the character, is plus four great. So he ends up with a fantastic on the, I mean, I'm sure he has contacts with the mob in the area, so it doesn't seem to stretch the-- - No, no, it doesn't. And that's, you knew where to start with in the first place. - First phone call. - You get a hold of somebody who tells you that they don't know where Manny is, but the last person they saw him hanging with was, they were both gambling and they were both pretty fucking drunk. It's not someone that you've dealt with before, so they gave him a name of Stephen Tolman, which is Bob's character. - They don't know how to go. - You say I don't know him, for sure? - Mike, level of contacts in the city. - I would say he's on the Lord here. - Right. - It's not your crowd. - I would say he would probably take a superb effort for you to have a way to contact him. I mean, you may have heard of him. He's pretty low tier compared to you. - What do you mean he's got it? - I have a blog. - I mean, as you say, he has, I mean-- - Online. - I mean, I don't care that these low classes, you know, it's from London's point of view. - It's merely the sort of a blog. It's a good source. - Okay, but you know what I'm going by? I'm saying that he doesn't have his phone number on the blog. - Oh, I'm sure. - So for you to have a way of getting a hold of him, either a person who has his number, or his number directly, would require you a superb effort. - Sure. - He's not the type of person that you hang around with. You may know somebody that knows his number. - He's certainly not in your phone book right now. - I couldn't leave a message on his blog. - My name would be on a blog, I don't think. - But he was there when he had comments, section one, you know, like a-- - Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, if you knew, that was my blog. - Plus, gotcha. This is Roberto's father. You didn't care that much. I mean, you're giving it a cursory attempt. - The reason I didn't give him a price when we were in my home earlier and said, "We'll work it out later," is because I'm struggling with the fact that he saved my life. So, yes, normally London would give this a very cursory once over and say, "Fuck it, do something more entertaining for the rest of the day." - You're talking about a guy who disappears off and he's an alcoholic. - Right, I'm just saying, just that statement, I'd want to make sure I clarified. It means a little more to him than he's even willing to admit at this point, so he's probably trying a little bit harder than he even wonders why he's doing it at this point, I guess, would be a way to put it. - And it still requires a support. - Sure. - May end up spending pay points if it's important to you. - Let's contact him. - I rolled a minus one in my fudge dice this time. - Unfortunately, that's just good. - To a good, so easily one-- - Why does that want to get you in the game? - One fake point. - One fake point, and then it's a success. So, I do find somebody, maybe a police department contact, who can, he was good, Thomas questioned that. He was good, which is three, plus two gives him five, which is superb, which he did. - And I'll say that everything has a price, and this is the price of getting the information for-- - The price is that you have to burn a favor to somebody that you know they can, that they know him and they can give you a phone number. - Right. - You owe me one, this I'm calling it in. - I'm going to say that it's a crooked cop who has access to looking up unlisted numbers by putting a request in to Selcon and just able to get that unlisted phone number. - Okay, so you burn a favor and you get a hold of a number and you call Steven. - You want to roll this out? Because he's going to be resisted the idea or just wants to role-play it. - I don't know that it's necessary to role-play it out yet. - Would you pick up the phone even? - You get a phone call? - Curious, Sel, I don't know how modern it is or how it's an old flip phone or-- - We just still don't know if you can even use a cell phone. If he's a medic user, he can't. - The landline is too bad to work, so let's say you have a landline in addition. - I want both, but if the contact has it, I want both numbers to sell. And the reason for that is I would rather send a text message because to me it's less intrusive than the phone call. I have better luck saying, you don't know me. Just please read on and if you don't feel like answering, I certainly understand, you know, that kind of thing where I can kind of couch it where I know I'm going to get voiced enough. I call the guy. He's not going to pick up. - Okay. - You get a text that says what? - Well, I get home and I just basically make a quick text saying my name is London Deals. I believe you have some magically valued full-tune me. I'm willing to pay for it. Looking for someone who you were gambling with a couple of nights back, the reason for this is because there's a concerned family member. It's not that this individual doesn't need trouble or there's any kind of negative occurrence. - You're in trouble. - Oh, I got a best point. - Is this a real limit? - This is the 20 times. - I have a track phone, right? It's 156 characters or less. - I have to pay for the damage you take? - Yeah, try to lay out. You can contact me if you're more comfortable with maybe it's three texts. - I was going to say you get three texts. It's part one, part two, but you can just go on and on and it handles it, it just sends out. - Yeah, but that's from his end. And if Bob has a flip phone, it shows up as part one of seven. - Fuck this, why not? - You can do an excuse check. - Thanks, Dick. You owe me a $1.50. He's like, "Hey, that's a lot, fuck her." - So you get a text from London that apparently is a little bit rambling. - Yeah, it's a little long. I had a little bit of wine tonight, but the general gist is I want to know, does he have information that I can use to track down? - Man, actually you do. I mean, we didn't discuss this beforehand, but you were gambling with Manny as you do on occasion because you met him as we discussed in a previous story. And he always seems to be flushed with cats and then he's really, really poor and then he's flushed with cats. - He's a typical gambler. - And you were in a situation where you're done at the, it's the horseshoe, isn't it? 'Cause he knows. And some guys showed up and kind of escorted Manny out and they weren't too nice about him. So you know that. And that was, it was a week ago that this happened. And that's the last time you saw Manny. - Well, did I try to contact him since then? - Not really 'cause he's not that kind of friend. He's just like his acquaintance. Kind of a drinking buddy and a gambling buddy and you don't really give a shit that much about him. - He does this. - Yeah, we disagree. - You've seen that before. And then he showed up a couple of days later with the shit kicked out of him 'cause he obviously owed somebody money. I mean, it's not really that easy. - That's how he pays back his debts. - Yeah, and he gets shit kicked out of him every once in a while. So you do have information about him. You do have a text coming in from somebody you've never heard of before. I asked him for information. - Would he have never heard of me? - Again, just 'cause he deals with the supernatural realm. I'm wondering. - And he's the one? - You're an art dealer, I'm a finder of things. People come to me to find things. So-- - He's an information specialist. - I thought you also were an artist. - I'm an art aficionado, certainly. - Okay. - If you ask me. - Do you have any contact with any contact rating? - Average. - The skill, average. Which is-- - Maybe I was at a gallery show one time where some of the stuff was shown potentially. I don't know. - Just throwing shit out there. - So you have a gallery photo? - Um, a photographer. - Yeah, I guess. - Okay. - All right, so there's a good chance that you may have heard of this guy before, but good is like plus three. I mean, there are a lot of people in Cleveland. That's really not your scene. I mean-- - Look at the people in the world that London and perform at one of his jobs are gonna find something, and then Steve's ability to-- - He had a chance. - Crack down unusual places. - He has a chance in creating his aspects of coming up with links to everybody and one of them wasn't London, so. He still has one, and if he wants, he can say, you can just say, yeah, my last aspect is in relationship to, as I've met London before in this act. - It's about a point, people, if I-- - No, just-- - No, this would be one of your aspects. - Because you still have an aspect if you haven't declared. So you can just say-- - That would be cheap like that. - Oh, that's a cute. - Enroll a dice. - If you think it fits your current-- - I'm so good at rolling dice though. - Yeah, so I'm just gonna-- - You're gonna fuckin' roll the dice. - You're gonna fuckin' roll the dice and win. - He's got an average. - I have an average in contact. - You need to get the good. - Good, so I need plus two? - Yeah, very good. - No problem. - No, he's a good dice, he's second it. - He's got two points, guys. - See? - Postman. - Bitches. - Well, that's only a fair, though. - Right. - So, if you burn a fake point, you actually have heard of London, but I don't know if that's gonna change your mind. I mean-- - Yeah, I guess it's the point. - Just a hear of him? - Yeah, I mean, what's-- Why, what, you really wanna do that? This is someone you haven't heard of before. - He's offering to pay. - He already owes you a dollar, 50. - I didn't hear any mention of pay in here. - I did actually say that. - It was really-- - I said I'm only to pay for the information. - I'm only on the paragraph. - There's your camera. - There's probably part three of seven, so what is-- - I don't know if you got an average one. - I'll pay, okay. - You mention money in the purse, sir. - Jesus, London. - But you don't even need to know me to respond to it. - I keep the money right now. Lost a bunch. - That could be an aspect, too. You're still looking for another aspect, you know, your character could-- - Well, that's kind of the long odds payoff, that's-- - You should, yes. - So you have his text, you can text him back, you can call him, I guess I'll send him a text back, kind of asking why he wants to know about Manuel. What's his name? - It's Manny. - But it's Manuel, man. - Yeah, what do you wanna know about Manny? I might have some information for you if the price is right. - Sure. And I'll text back that his son's looking for him. He disappeared about a week ago. - You do actually know of his son, Roberto. You don't really like him all that much. - You kicked your ass off. - I don't know that he kicked your ass, but he-- - He looked like your wallet. - Kind of a jerk towards his father, but his father's kind of a scumbag. So, I mean, it's up to you and how you feel about Manny. I mean, Roberto. - I don't know, I don't know, maybe he wants. - I don't know if he wants. - He hangs out with a dad. - So, probably the only time you might have dragged him away from the gambling. - I basically have your bloody nose. I'll write back that his son's looking for him. He's been gone for a week. The family in general is concerned. The information's worth $500 to me. - Did you mention his name at all? Did you say Roberto? - I'd say his son. - That's all. - But you do know that Manny's son is Roberto. Well, you might have other sons. You do this. - All right, I'll text back. Oh, what is his son's name? - His son is Roberto, and his mom is, I'm sure he mentioned it during some point. Do we even have anything? - Got him, Maria, all right. - That's my sister. - Oh, that's your sister, Dan. - Sofia. - And the mom, Sofia. They're very concerned. - So you do know Roberto, and you know, he's pulled his dad away once and kind of smacked him around because he was gambling, but... - Sounds like easy money to me. I mean, it's nothing about what it's on the mouse. Information, it's family. I mean, he's concerned about him, so you can tell him something. (laughing) - I don't know why you trust him. - Hey, it's 500 bucks, you know. - How do you get the money? - Do you just text it or do you have to visit? - Oh, well, I'd say that we should get together and discuss terms and... Why can't I provide you the information you want? - For cash. - I appreciate that, but perhaps a phone call would be in order because time could be of essence. We believe him to be in danger. I can meet tonight if needed. - I'm gonna go ahead and call the number. That's my favorite company. (laughing) - I answer the phone, and again, I don't know that needs to be role played out, but I basically say that the family's really concerned and he's disappeared a week ago. This is longer than he's ever been missing. I was tasked with the job of tracking him down, if you will, and this information would be worth, like I said, $500. So we can either PayPal account, I can forward the money to your PayPal account, or we can meet if that's something you'd prefer to do. I'm not sure I don't want to make you uncomfortable, but I'm basically just trying to... It's for a good reason. This is not anything that's gonna come back to hurt Nanny in any way. - Right, he's certainly an acquaintance of mine, and I hope he has found... I hope nothing happened to him. Last I saw he was at the Horseshoe Casino. He was pretty much forcibly carried out by some mafioso types. - Okay. - Did they come in or were they working there? Were they bouncers there, or workers that worked at the casino, or the people who came in and kind of grabbed him and brought him out? - Give me another contact roll, though. - A contact roll? - Yeah, give me a contact roll. This one is fair. - Just need to close one. - I have average. And plus one. - Plus? - Yeah. - One nice place. - Yeah, thank you. - You do know one of the guys, because you've seen him. He works a lot at the casino, and he's definitely muscle, and he was one of them. His name was Nikki Rosudo. What you just know was Nikki. - So the guy worked at... - Yeah, he was employed by the Horseshoe Casino. - For the record, you also have a PayPal account that you have on your blog site. The people can donate, you know what I think. So if you want to transfer one of the instantly, you know, you could get that. - Yeah, it's a... - Before you give out any information, I'm just saying. - All right. Good, Tony, you can put it on my blog. You can send me a donation. You'd really appreciate it. - Oh, absolutely. It'll be there tonight. So Horseshoe Casino, and the gentleman's name was... Nikki Rosudo. - Okay. - Nikki Rosudo. - It's a name that you give me at least a nice lead to follow up on. I appreciate it. So he gives me the name of his blog site. I promise to forward that, too, I might tell him that the family's gonna be really appreciative. If I have any follow up questions, would it be all right to contact him? - Absolutely. - Okay. - Please let me know if you come up with anything on your right. I want to make sure he's on. - Sure, I'll follow up with you, I promise. - Do you actually just try to write a book? - Of course. - London, in the information scene, is your name is your... - Right, in fact, I want you to roll... - You're gonna need an epic that you're actually met and know Nikki before. - Well, I don't care so much that I know Nikki. I care so much that I know... - But there is a false... - There's a false chance that you may know... - Right. - Specifically, Nikki. - No, in no way, fucking shape or form, do I know Nikki? I rolled a negative three... - Yikes. - Which took me down to... - Average. - Actually, below average, 'cause I hit... Oh yeah, you're right, my context is a four. - You think you need a positive three, so unfortunately, you don't... The name does not ring any bells in your head. - No, but the fact that he worked at the horseshoe and didn't come in off the streets is all I really need. 'Cause I certainly have the contact of the owner, Matioso, head, I most definitely have got to have some sort of... - Oh, you can tell them with Roberto in the past. - Right, he was in there with me at the time. - Yeah, I was off duty, but it was... - Yeah, not only is the head boss, but you were brought in by two thugs and... - Right. - No, I don't remember their names. - Yeah, yeah, the whole really, really bad social conflict with them, one guy pissed himself when he was trying to intimidate you. - I kind of pushed that to the side for right now, and I go inside to handle the... - Starting of the ritual of the blood. - Right, do you want to switch to someone else? 'Cause I've taken up some time here. - We just started on the ritual, and then we'll see who's available. You're doing a ritual with the blood, the blood is of what? You had one bit of blood from the actual murder kingdom. - Right. - I thought you also had some blood from Manny. - No, he didn't collect that blood, because it was-- - Yeah, he didn't try it out, and he wasn't gonna do it. - No, that's just one too. - A roughup? - No, I used to have the blood from the ritual site, which we think would be the blood from the missing limb, or at least from spurting forth from one of the parts of the missing one. - It was, at least you're on a boat. - So, yeah, so you start that ritual. - London, yeah, goes in his home, puts on some Debussy, another Marlowe, into the basement where he has a brass circle in order to do his divinations. - The level of difficulty of this ritual is going to be-- - Can I say that I sent London a text message with what the angel told us about the person we're looking for, not being deceased yet? - That would be valid, because you would have gotten that quicker than-- - By the time I get home, feed the cat, get the wine, turn on the-- - Text around sound music, get me in the moon. - I know you're lying to the procedure-- - Exactly, so ritual, so. - When I involved the bubble bath in a really nice robe, if I remember correctly, then you would have time to call in before that, yes, that's valid. The ritual actually is going to require a superb, because you know, at the very least, that you're trying to search for a limb, not even for the body. You believe the body to be dead, and then you were informed via a phone call that there are-- - Text message, actually. - Apparently, it never answers this phone, so you have to text it. - You have to probably send them a text. - Yes. - You've been informed via a text that it's not as straightforward as it seems. - We need a group text here, so we all get the suggestion. - Right, that'd be a good thing. - Do you start the ritual, and-- - The ritual is what? I know it's a presence, 'cause I know it's my highest-- - No, discipline. - Rituals are never a presence. - Oh, I'm sorry, discipline, which is my second highest, which makes sense. - So that would be a five. - Five. - Do you have a war of five? - I have a war of four and a discipline of five. - Then it can't be done without preparation, and this is essentially a preparation that he's doing, but do you remember how he can bring it up to that? - 'Cause the number of different ways you can embrace the level of extending the time period-- - I will say your compass helps for that, and that's what it does for future efforts. - That's one of your-- - That's one of your worst-- - Right down, plus one of your prep. - Okay, so that makes it possible for you to do this in the first place. - Without having to spend time gathering and your deans would help you be able to do it. - Without some London's turn, he doesn't need to really address anything until the ritual is over, and that ritual is gonna take a bit of time. - Yes, now please note that when I come into my house and get the wine and pet the cat, which is what we call it. And then put on Debussy on the surround sound in the whole house thing, the security system goes on, right? I mean, you can never be too safe. - You can't interrupt. - You know what I mean? - Debussy, Winston Churchill. - And the phone goes on-- - Debussy, French composer. - Debussy. - And the phone goes on to do that to start. - Debussy. - They're all sort of, within time constraints, doing rituals like that, but as we have the entire night, we're just gonna call them. - Right, it would be one of those because you can put in as little powers you want and be able to control it without difficulty because you have-- - When you take the time, you can do it properly and it's just that time. Moving on. - Going, Edmonds, night is over. He gets his bag ready for the morning and calls it a night. Repa, it gets your blood work done on both the murder victim and Rupert O's father, Manny. Manny is an extremely high level of alcohol in his body. - Yeah, some of the recreational drugs, but other than that, the typical stuff you're not seeing anything unusual. The murder victim is pretty fucking clean. - Darno. - Yeah, it's got nothing at all, a little bit high cholesterol, but other than that, there's nothing of note. - Does Repa have blood samples from just one or more than one victim? - Only the one, Darno. - You guys don't have blood with anybody else, so. As far as your normal blood work, that's all you can do. Now, if you want to get creative with your pharmaceuticals and do additional-- - Well, I have an idea, and I just wanted to explore it and I just, but I need to get to a phone first, so. - The assumption is a group text goes out to everyone else, up to you, who are you, report back to, whoever you want. - Yeah, a little information I have, by sure. - Maxwell, you finish your home, ask your report. - Call a night. - Yay. - Yeah, done. - Yeah, Roberto sleeps peacefully, and your house is being watched by-- - Sewer being. - Sleep through more luck. - More luck. - Pete the more luck. - Okay, good way. - You're in that town. - Pete. - There you are. - Okay. - And Mr. Warden, you are home from the cemetery because Edmund dropped you off. You're checking Donovan's notes, and you're spending a good couple hours going through because they're all handwritten, there's nothing. And he was a sloppy individual, if you remember correctly. - He had a file cabinet, and all his files, which is stuck on his desk. - Coffee stains on his daily planner, and I just, you know-- - I thought that was a swallow, okay, yeah, it's right. It was a sign of his descent that once he, okay. - His handwriting got sloppy or harder to read as he went along, but back it was a little clearer, a little more precise, which you're not seeing Cleveland being any kind of hotbed of necromancy. There's no indication of any past. - I wanna remind you that another thing you wanted to look up was these names on the list, whether or not. - Well, he was researching a ritual as well. - Oh, well, he didn't have that much time, I guess. - Yeah, I mean, it's getting pretty late before you finally get off through all the notes of, because he was worn here for quite a while. - Well, that's fine. I have an idea. I'm just gonna put it out there for you to use or not. But I make a note to ask Ron Logan, if there's any type of DNA link between the victims, I wonder if they are related to each other in some fashion. - Okay, fashion. - Here's a quick example of my thought pattern. Based on the questions that we've got so far, the fact that there is, all right, no spirit in the spirit world for the immediate victim or the previous victim. The ritual itself is about some kind of capturing, encapsulating, and or possibly refining of an essence. And we have multiple victims, each missing a particular body part, and at least one of them has no or are no life force at all. So it made me wonder, like, okay, it's almost like you're trying to gather samples from these different people that apparently have no connection to possibly distill or refine an essence from someone that was maybe like a grandfather or whatever to them all. And so I just have a hunch that is there someone in their past that they share that someone is trying to bring back, trying to resurrect. - That's interesting to me, yeah. - It's the only thing that can account for all the things I'm hearing so far. So that's what I was wondering. And then-- - Do you have any blood on her lungs? - You might be able to call up one of their ancestors, or as my husband. - I have a Darnell's blood. I don't have the blood of Terra or Claire. But I also have questions for Phil Cook. And I'm wondering, was Phil Cook still gonna be held by the morning? - Yeah, yes. - And still-- - I probably won't tell him about that. - Okay, so what I'm hoping to do is before Brian has to let him go after, I think the 48-hour hold, it might be 24 hours. - I think it was 24. - It is 24, but 24 is roughly noon the next day. - I thought about that. - Okay, well, either way, before we, I'd like to maybe just have one more hour with him just to kind of talk to him off the record. But Max will, I'd like to maybe view you there, because-- - No, no. - I just wanted to ask, maybe we discussed over dinner of the London was gonna be doing some of this. I didn't wanna-- - That pun is dope. - Yeah, waste time doing stuff that was probably being done here. - I would like you to make a more role for me. Your target is three. - Good. - Okay, my more is plus three. - I don't know. I don't know. - And you get nothing on that. - Well, nothing on that one. So you do, in fact, get a good, yeah. It's not typical for you to do this, but it is in your area of expertise in analyzing the blood of Manny Martinez. One of the additional tests that you run is magical ability. Manny doesn't have any. - Monteclorines? - No, not so much, but he's been dealing with the soul and the-- - Oh, that's right, that's right. That's right. - That's what he does. - Sorry. - But there is a bit in the other. The second blood sample you give, and you have to check your notes. That would be Darnell. You do get a residual of magic in the blood as well. As if he had a talent. - Ah. - Well, I share that information as well and suggest that maybe we should look for that feature. - So just to be clear, Manny had no magical talent. Darnell does have magic for his father? - Zero. - Okay. - Darnell, song. - Mr. Foster? - Mr. Foster, it was buried, yeah. - Did you share that? - I don't know who he's sending these texts. - And he has no potential. - Yeah, in fact, I text you and ask to set up a group text and send me the information back so that we could share everything as soon as possible. - I'm sorry, just to clarify. Does the ability to detect potential or that if it's at a certain level, he knows that it's an active talent? You know what I mean? A trace so you have a potential or present 'cause you're an active talent. - It's just like for him at the first test 'cause he just threw it in for the hell of it. It's kind of like a P-stick plus. Oh yeah, there's something here. Now, he could take it up to the next level and maybe do more, but it never occurred to him. And now it-- - It wasn't as though magic were used on him though. It was that he could use magic. - It seemed that he was a magic user of magic. - Okay. - A potential or active, you don't know. - Huh. - That's the next day unless Rappa or London is intending to do anything additionally if-- - Just to complete the-- - All right, let's complete London's ritual and it'll go maybe call it a night. London's ritual, the difficulty was superb. The next step is-- - We have to funnel power into the ritual. Let's do it. But you can funnel in power very, very slowly if you have the time to do. - Okay. - You can funnel in on a amount of power based on your conviction. I don't know if it even doesn't matter. - I'm pretty sure the only example where-- - Your conviction of what? - I mean, sorry, there's a lot of examples in the book, but where they say if you're gonna roll for it, they pretty much have the example where someone's like breaking down your door and you're trying to rush the ritual. - Yeah, he's not rushing this ritual. - Right, he takes this time and he does it. - Okay. - What's the result? - Right, right, right. - Okay. - So you take your time and you do the ritual, we're not gonna require you to make the roll and you have your compass point in a direction. - If it was more complicated, you would have to spend more than a day like getting supplies or finding an area where it would be easier to-- - Yeah, well, for not making the roll. - Okay, so-- - Sorry, it takes you a while to pump enough power into it and by the time it's slightly before dawn, you have a working compass that's pointing to what you truly believe to be the leg, not the body, not the blood, but the leg. - Right. - Okay, at that point, I will text-- - You're tired, by the way. - I am tired by one last text to the warden, Alan, to let him know that I have a read on-- - The missing body part. - No. - No. - I have a read on-- - That would be really a bad thing you put out in there. - That you wanted me to check into, all systems are go-- - Okay, first of all, the warden does not receive text. - Use the landline, it's the landline only. - Okay, then I leave them by voicemail. Landline to landline. - Not cell phone to landline. - Are you still staying in a hotel? - No, I'm not-- - Okay, you moved into Donovan Dilhod, do you have an answering machine? I'm not sure that works. - It's, no, it's the one in the service. - The answering service-- - Is it-- - Is it a telegram? - He's got an answering service-- - No, he doesn't need to be that bad. - He calls a number and says, "Talks to a person, say, 'Why should you--' - 'Cause you can have a landline, and then it'll work, it'll be statically inconvenient. - It's a tracing-headed answering machine. - It wasn't in a magnetic check. - But do you, I mean-- - And now, can't the machine just be on the phone, it just rolls into voicemail on the phone? - He can't substitute it. - He can't substitute it. - That's too sophisticated. - And hold the model. - Easy, sophisticated. Gotcha. - I thought it'd be easy. - If I remember correctly, Dresden couldn't even have central heating in his house, he had to use a wood stove. I mean, would you fuck up, Electron? - If I was a wizard who needed it, we'd have a lot of messages, and they had a little bit of money on me, I would have a voicemail person taking calls-- - A service. - A service that you would just call and then ask people what you got. - So I had a message for him that's suitably vague to the person answering, basically transcribing the message. - Yeah, you had pretty good money from the, so you have a service, or do you use admin service, but the one giving them all your secrets. - Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's it. I'll call-- - Shane, Shane. - Shane, Shane. - Whatever it is. Whatever the best way to get in contact with him is, that's what I do. I leave a message that's suitably vague, but they he'll know what it means, and then I crash and burn for a while, which is left in the message as well. I'm going to be crashing, you don't try to reach me before noon. - I think that's about six hours of sleep, which is-- - Oh, that's true, that's pretty late. - All right, and you were staying up late also, I mean, you were doing-- - I had a ritual in addition to it. - I thought we were ready to resolve that, that I'm doing research on the ritual. You went through the notes, Donovan's notes, to see if there was any necromantic stuff going on in Cleveland. - Okay, then no, I'm not-- - Okay. - I'm not, I need to get some sleep to it. - Right, good enough, go on, John. - I was wondering how long that ritual lasted as complex as it was. - It took him until six in the morning, so-- - How long will it track? - Oh, at least till the sun rises the next day, and lastly will last if Stephen's doing anything. - Probably a playing card. - At the horseshoe? - No. - Oh, somewhere is a little-- - Yes, reputable. - A little more shady, a little more background. - All right, so we've got London asleep, but when, let's do the first 12 hours of the next day. When you guys wake up, what are you doing? When London's sleeping, so we're gonna be passing by. - I call up the people I wanna see at the interview. I call up the warden, 'cause you said he wanted to go see him, and I tell him I'll pick him up, and I guess I call Roberta, ask him if he wants to be an on the interview, I could use someone more threatening me. - Some eye bokeh. - Hope they meet. - You are also threatening. - How can we threaten him? - I don't know if you're good. - Does anyone want to poke guys now? - You're dangerous. Way more dangerous than I am. - There's only one eye poker in this group. - Well, first of all, he's at the police department, being held by one of our, a guy who's kind of friendly to me, so I would prefer not to actively torture. We're not in Edmond's place, so-- - Next of all, unless you need my help, I'm sleeping in. - Yeah, sleep in, that'll be great. - All right. - So you're including Roberto and-- - Huh, well, the invite was sent, but the warden doesn't want him there because, well, doesn't want active torture, which I can perfectly understand. - I can do something. - He's a human being, so, I mean, he can't, we can't just remember. Gotcha. - Yeah, this is not someone that we can-- - You're sure he's human only once we need it. - And investigate that, physically. - Anybody else doing something before we do it the next day? - What's the name of your restaurant? Edmond? - Hired ground? - Hired ground. - Ground. - That's my activity. The image I found for a restaurant is at grounds. I like the name of that. - Anyone else? - I don't know. - Doing anything the next morning? - London sleeping. - I don't know, what's doing today. - You definitely have what is done. - Still playing. I was incredibly drunk. - Still drunk. - You have a compass that's leading you to the body part, but that you're not even gonna be available this afternoon. - So, noon, and that's not something I'm gonna be doing on my own. - I'm gonna get a show on this. - Right, that would be something that I'll definitely be calling upon my compatriots to aid me in. - All right, I'm showing up to this interrogation. Just a quick aside, depending on when the group and its entirety is ready to make that move, I will be visiting, I'll be visiting John with all these office and the horseshoe casino if there's time before we go on the search for the limb. If not, then it'll have to wait. - Good enough. (upbeat music) - Thanks for listening to Knights of the Night Actual Play Podcast. Visit kotnpodcast.com for more information on this and other adventures where you will find character stats, photos, storytelling, props, and even a form for comments and suggestions. 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