Adventure - DeliveryScene - Let's Make a DealLondon spends the majority of the episode drunk which tends to make him even more annoying than normal...Actual Play starts at 6:11
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KOTN Actual Play Podcast 90: "Delivery - Let's Make a Deal!"
(upbeat music) - Hello, and welcome to The Knights of the Night Actual Play Podcast. This Dresden File Story Delivery was written and run by our GM Town. And now, please enjoy episode 90, titled Let's Make a Deal. (upbeat music) All right, before we get started with tonight's adventure, we have a little bit of feedback starting with Twitcher. I wish we had two mentions. One from Romulus, who said give these guys a listen. If you want to hear a good example of actual role playing, they're Facebook pages ads, and he gives a link. And so that was a blast out on Twitter to everybody that follows him, suggesting that they give us a listen, and thank you Romulus for that. - Yes, thank you Romulus, appreciate the, the pub. - The second one was from Dress2, who said kotampodcast.com. I discovered your podcast on Sunday, and I really enjoy listening to shit luck. Can't sleep though, the bees will get peed. - Well, I've enjoyed the story, shit luck, and in the near future, we're gonna be starting up a, the second story in that, in that chronicle, in that campaign arc, so keep listening. - And anybody who is enjoying the Dres and Fowl story, if you have questions on the entire adventure, how it was GM'd, how the players did, any questions you have on that, we're taking questions on Facebook, but you can send them to us at feedback@kotampodcast.com. You could Twitter 'em, you could, and how do you, you know, how to be like London? - How to be like London, yes. I think there'll be online classes that would be taught by London, or the nominal fee. - Of course. - Okay, we also had some feedback from our kotampodcast.com blog site. One message in reference to episode 88, which was Long Live the King, in which lots of kids says, guys, I can't tell you how much I love the entire body of work you all do. The sound effects, the stories, the characters, all of them are top notch. Yes, I too, went back and listened to everything you have out, and as a big fan of the world of darkness, I was also chomping at the bit to hear what happened next to Task Force Siren. But please, please don't hurry with the Dresden game. I think I became a huge fan of it through you all. Thank you, which is a compliment. - Yeah, it really is. Jim Butcher should pay us money for advertising. - Royalty's for, yeah. I'm sure we're driving the sales of this story. - Three people, I think. - As a side note, he continues, I haven't found an app per se that allows me to download you to my Android phone, but I do connect to the internet and download directly to your phone, via your website at kotn.com. - That works for me. - Which Jim does also. - And we appreciate the comments from Alaska. We're happy that he's enjoying both sets of stories. - Yes, and again, keep up the great gaming. P.S., I ordered through your Amazon link and I hope it helps, which it does. Alaska says, long time listener, first time writer. So thank you very much, both for the order and for taking the time to send in some feedback. We appreciate that. - How are you? - The Amazon link is doing well. We're getting a lot of, not a lot, but we're getting a substantial number of people using it. So it is generating some money to help cover the costs. We're still gonna end it up paying some of it. - Sure. - Any bit that anybody wants to do will definitely help. Doesn't cost them anything extra a little bit of time, 'cause you gotta go through our link, but no charge whatsoever to you and helps us out. - I prefer to, what I do is I just make it, I bookmarked it, so whenever I have anyone do that, I just go to my book and work with it. - And since we're on that page, we'll take a quick look at the favorite delivery character vote that we have up. We have a tie currently for first place with London Deals and Roberto Martinez at 17 votes each. - I swapped Roberto. - Roberto caught up. - And if I only got one of my kids to log on and vote for him. - The votes, Jim's got his third vote, so he's doing well. And we also have a tie for second. Well, actually, it'll be a tie for third place with Maxwell and Alan with 11 votes each. - Alan making a little bit of late charge too. - Yeah. - We're almost back on that. - We're almost back on that one. - No, no, he actually caught up. But it's interesting to see where that'll end up since we are coming towards the end of the "Joes in the Final" story. End of home stretch. The Facebook page, we have a couple posts. First off was one from Romulus Powell says, hello future people. Trying desperately to catch up on delivery. I'm on episode 83. And then back to listening to your New World of Darkness podcast. I'm liking what I'm hearing so far. A shout out to the Rusek gamers for the suggestion. Keep up the good work. So, Rusek has been right giving us shout outs on their show and we have for them. - Yeah. - And welcome to... - KOTN. - Welcome to KOTN, Romulus. We're glad to have you as a listener and thanks for the nice feedback. And founding Romulus and all that. - And that was definitely appreciated. - That just bossed. - 'Cause one of the Romans ever do for us. - Well, they were the out. - For the roads. - And the roads. - Medicine. - The apple. - Why? - Why? - Lastly, we have a comment from episode 88, Long Live the King again. This one on Facebook from VJON who says, "Thoroughly enjoyed the fight and would love to hear how being ghoul king affects the future of the story possibilities." - Hopefully the facts will include both bad and good ones because they're both equally as humorous. Hey, Roberto, is that a sewer full of ghouls popping up out on the street over there? - Sewer for Birdo, actually pretty close. - Well, we won't give any spoilers, but... - Yes, certainly on point there. - As a side note, we went down to Edgewater, Cleveland, on Lake Erie. And I have to put pictures up on Facebook because Roberto and I were helping Roberto's younger brother find sticks for his camping thing. He's in the Boy Scouts. And we found this humongous 20-foot-tall circular sewer grate that was a sign next to it. I took a picture of both the sign and the sewer because first of all, I didn't know they exist, but I mean, it was just this humongous metal thick thing that says don't stand anywhere between this and the lake because it could pop open with no notice whatsoever and flood raw sewage into the lake. I think that's pretty much the verbiage was that, wasn't it? - Pretty much. I mean, we took a picture of the sign. - Yeah, I don't have it with me and we will put it up on Facebook 'cause I was like... - It's on your phone. - No, I put both, but I'm up there. So, that was just really freaky thing 'cause I didn't know that... I would have worked that into the story. I just said, "Yeah, that was really cool." - It's starting. - Okay, anyways, with that, we thank everybody for the feedback, I really appreciate it and we will now go on to our story. All right, my name is Tom, we're running the Dresden file case file delivery. Players are starting on my left. John playing Roberto Martinez, Guardian of Cleveland, empowered by a fallen angel. Thomas playing Maxwell Edison, undercover FBI agent. - Mike playing Alan Montgomery. - The New Warden in town. - Scott playing London Deals. A moral seer to the supernatural. - Jim playing Edmund Shadowski, private investigator. New world black court vampire. - I guess, excellent wine choices, you guys. - I'm thrilled about it. - Really don't turn this. - You have a bit of a problem in that, is you leave the safe house, there's one van and you wanna go to two different directions. Why can't he come with us? - I can go back, I'm stuck in your lane. - I wanna pick up my car, so just drop me off. - So you guys are driving there and, you know, give me all of this. All of you. - Mediocre, I'm wet. - I got plus two, so that makes my media problem prepare. - Wow, that one's very good awareness here. - I've got three, plus four. - I rolled negative one on the fudge dice. My skill alertness was good, so I have it there. - I rolled negative two on my fudge, which takes my good alertness down to average. Your arm's lost it. - None of you really notice anything except for a burrito, which is apparently someone's following your car. - You get to the place-- - I can't act on this. - But you can't? - Can I open the back of the trunk and throw it into the-- - No, it wasn't. - I think I said positive. - Someone's following us. - Dang it. - No one's following us. - Who's driving? - That'd be you. - Whoever's not-- - I have a driving drunk hotel. - You're stupid, you don't. - I have a driving skill point. - That's driving-- - Don't throw anyone else. - Oh, you're driving a skilled no alertness. - I rolled a fair plus two to shake this, no foe. - Yeah, that doesn't really work. - Even me, what if I roll a four? - Fair, please. - It's a roll negative. - He has the roll driving to keep up and not be noticed. - He also, he rolled a fair, new stealth, which meant he kept with you, but he was-- - Can't even justify this. - So now do we know that we have a tail? - Yes. - You know who the tail is, aren't you? - It's a car with two lights. - Pretty sure we could lose him if we stopped and honked our horn real loud and spun a circle. - I don't know if you-- - I don't know if you still owe money, not this month. - He still owes money, but-- - It's a new month, it's not the first of the month. - You're not late on your day, man. - Just on your first, they're like, and again, come on. - You know what, he pissed me off last time. - They're the worst monsters ever. - Scared the hell out of me. - I didn't like his attitude, just, he's due tomorrow. - First, he won't warn him. - No, he doesn't know who it is. He didn't roll well enough to know who it is. - I mean, does it really matter? Can we just go back to the-- - Just go park in someone's-- - Edward's place, I mean, if they follow us from-- - How are they following us to find the baby, though? - Oh, there's two of them. - There's one, two, three, four, five of us, plus your crew, whatever, squibs. - They're not gonna come in and get the baby, they're going to see us park in gyms, drive back, tell their boss, and bring 15 guys. - Why don't we move the baby? - It's in a carrier, right? - Two like one of those many safe houses that totally perfect, nothing ever happens in this. - You think we take the baby? - We keep the van and get some wine. - Sure. - Yeah, that's not a problem. - But fancy right now. - You can't actually say it, you know, like that, baby. - Listening to music. - Like space right there. - You know, up to the baby, it's better. - Well, you can bring him to the hotel, where you get by-- - Well, I mean, moving the baby 'cause we feel that there's a threat. I'd rather go somewhere that we can defend ourselves and not exactly-- - You can't even distract me as a defensible case. - Just go park it like Burger King, and then when they stop following us, because we just park to Burger King, so we're just gonna go get a meal, you know, we could lose him then. - Life, everything about that plan except for Burger King. - Let's go pizza, I don't know. - We don't like-- - That's a step. - Pardon me, we don't have the child with us, do we? - Yeah, we're trying to go to-- - You don't want us to park-- - For a brief-- - Any of that some fancy place? - I said. - I think he's saying he wants you to do another driving rule of journalism. - Okay. - However you want to dress it up at Pizza Hut or Burger King. - Just go about what's more-- - We're doing some delaying tactic, too. - Do you have the ability to maybe mask or create illusions that lights or that there's a big obstacle in their way? - Oh, gosh, yes, it's weird. - You suddenly do a seat on the man and make it look like something else? - Maybe you make it look like a police-- - Turn a corner or it becomes a different vehicle. - Or a police car with their lights on is, you know, pull up alongside them? - I live for that shit. - Okay. - We could like-- - Okay. - They're all actually superb, so I don't know how good your driving was, but I'm pretty much guaranteed they're still on behind you. And this time, it takes you a while to pick up that they're still following you. - I think you lost it for a second, then. - I don't know, 'cause I rolled the mediocre-- - Let's go to Cape Leven. - Maybe you don't know. - I lost them, guys, don't worry. - We're laughing in one, now, you didn't. - So, I wait till we turn a corner or something along those lines and create a seeming that our vehicle looks different. - Okay, as we're around a corner? - Go through a tunnel. - To me, they lose the slight lines. Like, he tells me which vehicle it is. You know, we're in a van, so I can get up and move around. I would assume it was somewhat. It was that too difficult, although a couple of drinks, I'm sure, are impairing me slightly. Someone or something to appear other than what it is. It's pretty vague as far as that goes. - You're right in the hot tub? - No, I think we're a police car, right now. - Swat man. - Plused one, and my discipline is superb, which brings it up to fantastic. This is one hell of a nice swat man. - Or no, it's a car, 'cause I want it to look to be completely different. I don't want it to be like, "Oh, was there a swat?" So I don't know if they're before. I want to be-- - I don't want to notice that. - Like, I said about Ryan Nelson. - They could be, I don't know, affiliated with Ryan Nelson, which gives him, like, Hugh somewhere. - I don't think you even met this video, such a lie. - I met him. I begged us not to go into the theater that Ryan Nelson wanted us to go into. I actually refused to go into the theater. - They were all terrible for recognizing your glamour. - Oh. - They are, obviously. Just to see me, oh, I guess it is a glamour as well again. - Yeah. - So while the driving has failed to lose them, the glamour has worked, and you guys-- - Can we get, is it like an unmarked, kind of car, like, is it like one of the cars that are supposed to look kind of nondescript, or is it look like it's got a license plate number for us to be able to jot down? - Doesn't have one in the front. You guys could pull a side and wait for them to pass. - Oh, we gotta get pull them over. - Great idea. - Not. (laughing) You could be a cop. - Why could be? - Well, that's actually, I mean-- - No. - Do we get a-- - Put it on! Let's go. - No, no, no, no, no, I just want to see you. - You're the one who has to put it on. It's a glamour. He doesn't have a button to press. - It does, 'cause it's a glamour. Do this. - I go, I don't even know. - You get me back up. - It's a pretty starship. - Doesn't he see it? Doesn't he see the switches? I mean, it's a glamour for everybody. (laughing) - I don't know, it doesn't appear inside the car, does it? - The radio doesn't work. - It seems, it appears, or something other than what it is. You're like, "I don't like the button!" It's a red one over on the right. - You guys both side, they drive past. Apparently, you flip on the flashes and come after 'em. (cheering) - I'm sorry, I really must have zoned out here for a minute. What are we doing? I thought we could just-- - We're pulling over. - No, we're doing this. We're doing the opposite of this day. - Who's me? - I thought all of you are in the same truck. - We're always right together, brother. - It looks like a police car, which is about to look like a clown police car. It's fire, you can pile it out. - No, no, no, just the two. - Just London. - Just London? - I got it, babe. - We're trusting you with being a cop. - Please, I'm flippin' up. - I thought we were kidding. - I live. - Apparently not. (laughing) - Being a cop. - All right, okay. - I flip on the switch and get ready to do a chase. - We're not gonna trust the person. - I don't think it's a cop. - Wait a second, how long the-- - How long did you-- - How long did you mention a sexual drug such as for you? - Allow yourself to get drunk. - I was drunk. - I was drinking with Shayla. - Of course. - We went to that five beer lunch or a five wine lunch. - As far as he concerned, this thing is over. He did what he was supposed to. He was celebrating. - Yeah. - And he made a $20,000 bonus. - I got the baby out. - This is just incredible. - This is so amazing. - You're so good. - Done? You're out? - I'm not done. I rolled up the legendary. I looked like a policeman. (laughing) I looked great. I mean, great. - You're a policeman. - No, you look great. - Legendary. - I always like it. Super plus two is, I'm sorry, I was epic. Sorry, I rolled plus two on the fudge. - No, you weren't quite certain. - No, I'm an epic policeman. - Are you holding that up? - I got a disrupt down. - Everybody get ready to beg them. - You got the mustache and the shiny glass. - Oh, definitely. - Son, do you know. - They pull over? - They pull over? - Oh, of course they pull over there. - You're not, well, they can run for it. - This is the best plan I have ever done. - I think that was done, done. - That's done for the day. - Like, if they turn out to be like swamp Nazis, you can take about. - Swamp Nazis. - I got this. - You said come on with that. - It's not, it's not. - Thanks, that's weird. - This is my new generic tone for me. - Okay, sure, guys, look like you're released. I don't be messing up my game. - That's actually my thing, 'cause, you know, I was a police officer. - Right, tell these people how to look. - Why the fuck? - You're trusting me with this. - So I open the, I open the side door, 'cause that's cool. - Hmm. - Oh, no, it's a car now. I'm sorry, it's a car now. - Yes. - So I open-- - It steps out the back. - No, kind of, but not really. And I walk up. You don't have to get out of the passenger side, because I'm-- - Yeah, I put my hands towards my gun, that I don't really have. - Right. - But it seems like I do. Because that's what you do when they walk up. - Sure. - And I'm looking in the rear view mirror to look at the angle into the vehicle, because that's what they do. - It's just that good. - Yeah, I'm epic. - Doesn't he actually have a gun? Wasn't that established at some point? - I don't think so. - I do, in an ankle holster. - Ankle holster. - But this is like-- - This is like a hand can right on my side here. - Well, it has been pulled in before. He knows what they feel. - Oh, I know it's all about. - So the guy who rolls down the window is approaching the driver side item, or the passenger. - Oh, definitely the driver side item, I would assume. - Keeping my eye on the passenger's wall, 'cause they're shifty. You know, if he's reaching down or anything, the hand can is coming out. - He's the two men, non-descript wearing business suits, which is, you know, in Cleveland, it's kind of strange, actually. - Please, you're near the downtown area. So it's not all that-- - What's the car? - It's a four-door black. - I've already done the license with them. - Okay. - I don't care what it is. - A four-door black? Was it like a Lexus, or is it-- - Yeah, it's a Lexus. - Do we all have to do a learnness to evaluate the people inside the car? - You can't really see from where you are. I mean, you can try, but you need to-- - No, not the driver, what I mean. - You could see them a little better. - Mm, I don't wanna roll. (laughing) - As I say, I track it real serious. Anyways, I say it. - Do you mind pulled you over today? (laughing) - No, I'm sorry, I don't. - Said who? - Please me. - I know, I'm asking. - What? - Can you describe the people that he's talking to? - Yeah, they're too business looking at like that. - Yeah, they're both business looking gentlemen. The one that's in the seat is got, like, a goatee, 'cause he's evil. - Yeah, he's a goatee, and he's wearing his suit. He's probably 26 years old. Caucasian. - I'm actually a little young. - He'd be surveilling someone. - The guy's sitting next to him, also Caucasian, also in his suit. He's a little bit older, probably in his young 30s. - Okay, are these prize-on rules? - No, great. - I pulled you over today. - Because you don't have a front license plate on your vehicle. - And if I have a law, you're required to have it. Can I see your license and registration, please? - Sure. - Look behind you. - He reaches into his wallet, and he pulls out his license, hands it to you, and he starts digging in the glove for the registration. - I'm watching his actions very closely, not looking at the license yet, because I'm watching what he's doing in the glove box. - So there is a passenger? - And while I'm doing that, I'm saying, and how are you doing today, to the other gentleman? - Okay, officer. - Okay, that's my boss, man. - Sure. - Are you the gold lord or not? (laughs) - So has he come back with the registration? - He doesn't, he can't seem to find it. This really isn't my vehicle, it's a work vehicle, so I'm not exactly sure where it is. It should be here because it's normally where they keep it, but I'm not, it might be in the middle, and he starts digging in his... - I pull out my ticket book. - Yeah, I wanna see how you give him a ticket from here. - It's a singing! - I know, but... - He's a fucking tosy roll rapper for all I care. - Oh, I'm gonna have to let you go today. - What, okay, if you don't have the registration, please, yeah, continue to look, please, but what's the company you work for? - We work for the Cleveland Clinic. - Cleveland Clinic, all right? - Didn't say that coming. - Fantastic facility, I did, actually. I thought that's who it was. - Yes. (laughs) - He was joking. - No, I really thought that's who it was. - I know, I was just... - Oh, I got you. I'm too drunk to realize that. - Okay, so I let him struggle to find a registration, which he is apparently not able to find. - He goes back to the glove compartment, he can't find it in the middle compartment either. - You know, you're glad to his license, his name is Daniel Lockhart. - Okay, Daniel Lockhart. - I say, you know, the wife had a procedure done once at the clinic, I'm always appreciative of the good folk who worked there. Let's just get that taken care of, tell your employers to make sure they get that played in the front of the car, please, and I'll let you off with a warning today. - I really appreciate it, I think. - Sure, I had his license back to him and head back to the car. - I couldn't Thor hammer these guys. We didn't need a Thor hammer anyone, we found out who they were. - That would have been on the news. - Okay, guys, I kicked ass at the policeman, I just... - Well, it was so cool. - You come back when you shut the door. - I can't believe you got away with that. - That was awesome. - You got away with that. - They were scared, a guy was shaking a little, he couldn't find the registration, it was hilarious. - In your view mirror, John, you see a police car pulling up at this, all the time, as well. As you're walking by, I do it in the car, you see the police car pulling up. - Oh, let's walk up to their car. - Yeah, they're like, everything okay? We didn't hear you call it then, we were wondering if you knew any system now. No worries at all, they just didn't have a front license plate, good guys, let them off with a warning. They do not see through your fantastic speed. - You got to give them a cop handshake. - You didn't give them a secret. - No, we don't do that. - Absolutely, they didn't see through your epic race costume or the fantastic police car. So they're like, all right, and then they pull back into traffic. 'Cause they're the fantastic police car. - Dude, I did it twice. - And I thought this was stupid. - Oh, okay, so it's the clinic. They're just clinic guys, and so it's probably, I would imagine it's a constant, but, you know. - In no wonder, we're not gonna pull anybody else over on the way back. - Are you sure? - 'Cause that was cool. - That light was awesome. - The siren is, okay, let's get some drinks. - I'm gonna go butt drinks for you. - So you go back to your place. Everybody give me a, actually give me an investigation role. Jim, everybody else alerted us. - You could spend investigation. - Yeah, right now, you guys are looking. These guys are not good at it, but you guys are investigators, so you're looking. My mind's one gave me a great. - You know what we should do? You should admit, start raining. - Well, could I just keep all the way? - Could I just keep the seating on it? So we got there? - Yeah, absolutely. - Okay. - It's your choice. - I would like to do that, 'cause I don't want any more following than people following us. - That was pretty good. I will plus one of the fudge dice. - I kind of need a nap. - And my investigation is great, Sir Old Spurr. All right, you have a superb, you have a great, you both notice, as you're pulling into your parking garage next to your building, that there is another Lexus sitting outside of your building. - Do you have any seating here? - It's a different Lexus, but it is, I mean, there are different people sitting in it, but it seems to be almost there from the license plate. You pull them over too. And they're actually drive by Thomas, you notice that it is a different license plate. The other one was that CWX 873, this one is like CWX 942. There are two distinct licenses, different guys in it. - We should research this and see if there's a correlation between the numbers 'cause it's a new send. I didn't have them. - You're gonna push you out of one of the windows of Jessica's building. - Not until I talk to Abigail. What time is it now? I gotta get this Abigail calling me. - It is getting out towards 5.30. As you go up, you're gonna go to-- - It's busted if she doesn't call me. - As you go up the elevator, to the chose investigation. - I don't know if you guys are going somewhere else. You guys are talking about the weekend. - I mean heading towards the trial, right? - That would be upstairs. Are you guys joining him now or are you going to Cape Dubin? - I'll go check and see how-- - Do you make sure the baby's okay for your more life? - Shane is done. - And the elevator right up your phone goes off. Do I prevent, do the spellcast was crowded into this elevator? - Yeah, actually it prevents getting a very static-y thing 'cause you're in a small corner. Do you like have to push them off at the corner? Tryin' to hear, right? There's only one wizard here. - Yeah, he's a powerful wizard. - So much so he's in the portal tent. - Despite all wizards' evidence to the contrary. - Should I give me a discipline or I'll try to, you know. - Yeah, I'll temper it down a bit. - Yeah, if I'm gonna chit down, please. - You answered the phone, you're awesome. - I have a negative one fudge, good, my lore, or my discipline, both are good, so you go up to it. - Which is great? - Actually, so it's kind of like inverse because-- - Yeah, I using discipline to control my magic would be good. I have a good attempt at it. - Yeah, so you're still getting static-y. - You can't dial down on awesome. - Yeah, it's true. - And you can't quite hear, it's a female voice. - It's definitely a female voice, and you're like, I'm sorry, what? Can you say that again? And she said that her name is Theresa Carter. Could you please hold for Abigail? - Yes, yes. I'm hitting the button to stop on whatever floor we're on. - You're like 44 hours from Jim's office. - No, we're good, we're stopping it next once I can get off. - No, I'm saying, you're four floors away, so you're stopping, four floors down. - Yeah, and I'll get off and take the call while they continue up. - Okay. - What was your name again? - Theresa. - Theresa Carter. - Yeah, it's a personal secretary. Executive secretary. - Executive secretary. - Yes, I would not make that mistake. - I stepped off for Theresa. - Oh, you're a little drunk. - Excellent. - Well, I have some to talk about. - No, I would prefer the puppy, man. - Well, you never know what's gonna happen. - In the next thing. - So I wanna thank you. - Traced. - You're surfing. - Put that hold for a minute. - A minute and a half. And then Abigail comes on the line. - Hello, London. - My dear Abi, how are you this evening? - Let me pretend that. - And the trying day, trying day. - I am so very, very sorry to disturb you. You know that I would call only if it was of utmost importance. - I did hear you were having some trouble about town. So everything all right. - Everything's fine. Things that are being resolved. Actually, it has to do with your enchanting sister. But I think we've come to an arrangement, if you might say. So I think things are on the upswing for our current state of affairs. But thank you for asking. - No, actually, we need your help, right? - No, that works. - No, with that drunk. - So anyways, you call us. - Yes. - This is what you help you in. Obviously not with my sister because, you know, we don't just, we are. - That's true. - I understand. - I'd rather not. - I certainly understand. I recall a conversation we had at the botanical gardens. I think it was May of last year, at the opening of the Orchid show, if you recall. I recently have come upon a very rare Orchid, the Lady Slipper Orchid, which is, as you know, quite defined. And I knew that a connoisseur such as yourself might be interested in set Orchid. And I have some context that might be able to acquire it for your collection before you're able to come, obviously, to a suitable arrangement. - Okay. - Give me a roll. (scraping) - Plus one, my presence, which is what I always use in these, my charisma. I don't know if you want to do something else. That's fantastic. Plus one in the Fudge Day is pretty exact at epic level. And yes, I can have an epic conversation about Orchid. I've actually seen a photograph sent to me, a JPEG over the iPhone, and it's subtle. It has a subtle buttercream color with a scarlet flare. It is just amazing. - She talks a bit about her day, and she's not. She does love Orchids, and she's been trying to work to get her garden ready for the show. And she's trying to play out that she's not interested, but you can detect in her voice that she does seem to be excited about that. - She's a garden in December 1st. She has a hot house. Orchids are only in hot houses throughout the winter season. - Well, for the serious clutter. The Orchid shows are exclusively around Christmas time. - Oh no, you gotta get prepared early. - That's right. The big one is in May, actually. The big one is in May. - There also could be a special flower in exhibit at the Cleveland Botanical Garden, which is right around that area. - There's actually a yearly function there. So I continue to then, noticing that she wants to be reeled in. She wants the one seduction. So, the one seduction is something that I can definitely play into. - She's got that in there. - But of course, what? - Discipline. - She goes with presence in an argument. - Oh, crap. - Which side of life is there a proportion that-- - Oh. - It's better than my fantastic. - Yes. - You can-- - Which was a wash on Monday, budget ice, and it just, I'm naturally fantastic, so. - That's holy. - Well, her presence is superb, and she rolled plus three, so that's gonna put up the legend there. - Excellent job. - And she is arguing that she knows that she's the one that can get it for her, and you do remember, you know, that she's done some favors for you in the past with dealing with your sister when they were in better terms. So perhaps you could get some more information for her about it. - Well, currently there is a photo, the same photo I just referred to, coming through to your iPhone shortly, so. You can take a look at that. - Don't think you have a personal number, but I'm not sure. - I don't think so. - Or so? - Not sure. - But you have some way to get it to her office. - Or maybe you have an email address, so I'll just text it to, or I'll send it to an email address, or to the executive secretary, whatever it might be. - So anyways. - And so I act, you know, I act like she's winning, to kind of wall her into a sense of security, and that's when I bring up that this could just be the best day possible for her, because not only could she obtain the elusive lady slipper orchid, but she can also cause the smallest bit of heart-breaking in just a little bit of anguish from her beloved sister if she was willing to perhaps parlay the orchid into a favor for myself. So, trying to swing the conversation into my vein where we are. - We are getting so much bigger deal than what she thinks it is currently. She thinks payment for past favors. - Yes, I'm saying, yeah, in addition, I can actually make, I can want up it. And if she does recall, those past favors were handled by a bottle of Chateau de Mon, 1920, which was, I thought, fair compensation for our previous endeavor. - Almost as old as the world. - Okay. - I'm okay, I'm sorry. - I rolled a plus two on my fudge dice of fantastic, giving a legendary performance of my own. - These fudge dice give it, and they take it the way as they're only minus three. This is like the lamest heavy-hitting thing I've ever watched. - What are you talking about? You don't have to worry. - You don't have to worry. - What are you talking about when I knocked down that door with my happiness? (laughing) - We're doing an epic phone call with a nature flower. - These are two very highly-placed social creatures battling for the-- - This is equivalent of a social low blow. You're like-- - Correct. - You're like holding eight and you punch the guy in the nuts, but it's like-- - Actually, she looked at this flower. (laughing) - She only got a good. I mean, she rolled a minus three and she was-- - Well, that's a plus five of mine. - She was using discipline to control her emotions, which she's known for. I mean, she could tap, actually has aspects where, you know. She's very, very in control of her emotions. Doesn't really crack, but she can take a consequence, but she doesn't see the point of that. She's getting something that she thinks she wants, so-- - Yes, can I take-- - Well, because I-- - Hands now on what favor you're asking. But I think we may have a deal. He's on two-- - No, no, no, no. This is memory from before, some things to happen before. You said you were gonna hand it over. What was your exact wording when we were there? What was your exact wording to constants? - I have it documented once, I can-- - I will trace it into the meeting. - Don't you have that burned into your brain? - Well, I wrote it down for just this reason, where to put it. - I have an idea of what we can bring to Abigail in addition to this. - All right, here it is. Here's the oath. I vow to retrieve the child Janice and bring her to constants at the designated neutral ground for the exchange. - The exchange is the key word there. 'Cause it doesn't say, I never say I'm giving it to constants, I'm exchanging the child. How I exchange that child and to whom is the very tiny wiggle room we have. - The goal I'm gonna go for here unless anyone's got a different idea is that I'm gonna wanna exchange it with Abigail. Walk up to constants and Abigail happens to be at the meeting and then Abigail uses her authority to protect us, to get us out of there in every terms of child to us. They're by thwarting her sister and thereby allowing us to have lived up to our obligations so constants could not then have repercussions against us. - Is there any reason, based on my knowledge, why Abigail would be a bad candidate for? - You haven't been in Cleveland long enough to know the ins and outs of all the social standards, but London knows that Abigail on the surface seems to be a social light and nice, but she's got a dark side too. You said the big bad is her sister Constance. It's not how we designed the city. I mean, things can change, of course, but she's not the good witch to the bad witch. - No, I don't think she is. - Both of them have a mother who is, and this is not common knowledge, but it's knowledge to those who are in the know in the city of deep know, and London knows a lot and Jim's character as well, and the lore aspect of the city. Their mother is a vampire. - It is in Torpor. - It is in Torpor, and each of them is looking a way to correct her issues of being a vampire, and they're both taking different approaches. - All right, now having said that, do I have-- - Can you hear it though? I'm sorry, I just really wanted to get this point. Only one of them is releasing black vampires onto the streets of Cleveland, though, correct? - What do you know of what's going on, it seems, Constance? I might have got sidetracked a little bit and is trying some other-- - Now that Abigail doesn't do crazy shit on the side, it's just, it's not releasing vampires on the street that we know of. It could be some other dark shit that's behind closed doors. - And we also know that Constance is trying to destroy a soul, so. Second, do I have any type of mental-- - Not only trying to destroy us, it has destroyed us. - Every vampire she has created over the past 30 some years, I'm different stages of them. The very first stage of them is what infected Jim's mother and himself. She was killing people and sacrifices to do that. - So what I think I'm gonna go for is that she takes the place of Constance to the person we hand the child to. Then she is obliged to return the child to us once the meeting has ended. And we can leave under her purview, if she's willing to provide it, of safety, because we did indeed follow the letter of our agreement. - Okay, and then I'd also add as another more animal for you to help sell this, in case you need it, is that we do have access-- - I talk to him in the car in the way here. - And that is fake with a fake point? - I just don't wanna do that. - Oh, that's fine, that's fine. But to remind you, we also have access to a black cored vampire day walker, which is something that is key to her research. - My God, man, I was gonna sell that. That's why I stepped out of there. Sorry, waiting, well, you know what? - Suddenly everybody turned out and selling Jim's. - I'm a bad guy here, what can I do that? - Jim, everyone can hate me. - We're gonna sell Jim. - We're not selling him, well. - But, this is his-- - Is it a study here or a study there? - A lot of sample here, a tissue sample there. - No, wait, I thought you liked her. I thought you were okay with this. I thought your secret was out and open. - My secret is out and open with friends. - There's no way I want anybody in the black cored community to know. - They're not. She's the one that's trying to heal and make things better. - Word gets better. - Of course. - No, of course. - Why would it happen? - Why would it happen? - Why would it change? Why would it be any different? - It's all right. - Did this conversation have not happened? - Yeah. - Okay, so-- - You might have suggested Jim would definitely against it. - So then, she seems somewhat to be real then, and so what I do is without getting into a law, I could role play it out if you want, but we've role played a lot of this conversation out up to this point, so they were fine. But no, she, the damage you did with the last social conflict took her out. She decided to capitulate and agree to your statement, so it's over. - Right, so she's eager to not only get the-- - She's eager to get her sister and-- - She's eager to get her sister. - So I favor within reason. - Right, and my favor within reason is that she takes the place, not her place up, but she arrives at the delivery point. I explain the situation in the broadest terms possible so that she doesn't have too much ammo against us, but I want her to be the Rockefeller that takes the child, and then gives us her protection because we fulfilled our, by the letter of the law, we fulfilled our, what was it called? - A border oath. - Our oath, I have nothing about oaths, of course, but-- - My oath specifically. - Right, we fulfilled, well, he was ours, 'cause that was-- - No, it's my friend, the one who made the oath. - Was it? - Great, I'm so happy with your that. So we fulfill the new Warden in towns oath, and not only does she get to throw her sister, get an incredibly rare orchid, but she also gets a favor from, a future favor from the Warden in Cleveland. - Ooh, that was never agreed to. - You will say that at the end? - Yeah, of course. - And is this part of the camera system? - No, I'm sorry, you can't make deals then you-- - I only say that if I get pushed back, but yeah, I totally have no sense in that. - I can't, you can't do that. - Of course I can't. - You can say that? - He's able to. - You can't lock you into an oath bound. You can say that. (laughing) - No. - Boy, I mean, you can't-- - If she can't share his blood, then I'm not gonna give up free favors. - He's next on a list. - Oh my gosh. - These are my two big animals if she, like says, oh, I don't want to give up. - And that's on you. You're making your promises to somebody that you can't keep. - Yeah. - That's what I'm gonna need. - I was working on selling that. - I thought I wanted to. - Jim, to you. - Yeah, I know, I would have been all in. - Yeah. - But what I'm trying first is this is a way, you know how she's been spending decades, researching, trying to beat you to your career for your mother. Yeah, I mean, I just, I work everything into it as best I can, and what I want to do is I want her to be there. - I don't think this is something that we can agree with over the phone. This is much, much too big. The things that you are offering and insisting are going to have to be done in a much more formal way as a promise over the phone. - I couldn't agree more, do you? - Right, we could meet at Cape de Vin. I know that you like to. - For a lady of your distinction, nothing less than XO would do. On me, this evening, 8 p.m.? - 8 p.m. in us. - Just where to the silence? Can't talk about it with anyone else before that. - I'm fine, I'm fine with her. - Yeah, I mean, you might mention that we wouldn't ask for a swear to silence. - No, no, I'm where this is just information. - Yeah, kind of thing, right. And that'll set up the meeting for-- - Will that be called there? - If you were to sell her this black court vampire, it would take the balance of the power between them. - She would definitely be in-- - Well, I think what Abigail's going to want is she's going to realize just how close, constant is to winning the battle. My big selling point is you're losing in a very polite, eloquent way, but you're losing the battle, and within 24 hours she could have what she needs to awaken your mother from court court. - And if she signs on with us, we can give her the means to tip the balance in her favor with Jim, if my guy is such a nasty to do that. - Potentially, she pushes the skin stamp. - He's a black court vampire, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not sure why he can't control himself, but if he can cure black court vampirism for everyone else, it's one sacrifice he's going to have to make. - No, no, no, no, no, no. - My character is convinced that if any of his information are decked about, it will get over a constant security to figure out how to create the vampire she wants to be, and then you guys are going to have all sorts of help to deal with around you and plead them. - So, that's why I would only trust your information with constants, but-- - No, no, Abigail, Abigail. - Abigail, the other one. - Yes. - But there are sisters, and I can see you're saying, "Hey, you know, I need something from you, "you need something from me, "or something you're a little bit more interested in." I guess that's possible, look forward. - Thanks for listening to "The Knights of the Night" actual play podcast. 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