Roberto, Maxwell and Edmund finish questioning the Vampires and find out some very interesting information..Allan and London get deeper and deeper into trouble as they search the Cleveland Clinic for Allan's lost mentor.
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KOTN Actual Play Podcast 78: "Delivery - Punctuating with Punches"
(upbeat rock music) - Hello, and welcome to "Knights of the Night" actual play podcast. This Dresden Fowl Story delivery was written and run by a gem tom. And now, please enjoy episode 78, titled, Punctuating With Punches. (upbeat rock music) Before we get started, guys, I'll have the actual privilege, privilege, of making some minor milestones, changing any skill points, renaming an aspect, any of those features. - Or I need to convince the secretary that it's okay, we're in this room. I'm taking that at five, I'm fine. - I didn't think I was gonna make any difference here. - That's not how it's supposed to be used, gentlemen. It's supposed to be used to fine-tune your character, to make him warm, like, what you want him to be. - I want to have guns at five seconds, but I can put a bullet in this woman's head. - I want him not to be caught. - Is that what your character is based on? London not getting caught. - No, me not getting caught. - No, I'm gonna care what's about London. - London not being caught with London's whole thing. - That's what I do. - London doesn't get caught. - London does not get caught. - So. - Ever. And he certainly has to get caught by some 25-year-old nosy secretary. - So what? - It's gonna happen. - My name is Tom, I'm the GM. I'm running that stress and foul story delivery. And starting on my left is. - John playing Roberto Martinez, guardian of Cleveland, empowered by a fallen angel. - Scott playing London deals, a moral seer to the supernatural. - Jim playing Edmund Shodowski, pride investigator, new world black court ban. - Mike playing Ellen Montgomery, the new Warden in town. - Okay, so one last time we left, we were in the middle of two cliffhangers. - Good, you guys doing your interrogation, you guys being Maxwell and Roberto. And a much more cliffhanger-y type ending was Ellen and London who were about to be walked in or explain what they've been doing in an office, taking a minute or two to simply place down a envelope on a desk and walk back out. What's the start? - Jim, what did you want your character to be at the actual safe house where you escorted Ryan Nelson. - I believe Ellen and London dropped him off at the house. - Correct. - Did you not? - Okay, so there's no reason for you to be there. You would be at your office, most likely with these guys during the interrogation. It was decided you have one interrogation room with ultraviolet lights that kept the vampires under check. - Okay. - And so they're both, they're strapped to a cot, separate cots, and they are interrogating crispy Bruce. - Even though I'm not there, I suspect that that he's either unaffected by the lights or he wears sunblock for the SPF 400. - Well, not only are you not there, you don't know that someone affects him in any way. - Oh, that's right. - On that note, I truly don't have a problem with people that are not at a location giving suggestions and stuff. It makes the story more fun. If someone's got an idea on maybe how you guys could get out of the situation, especially Scott who plays London and has powers that his character, we are really fine. - You would know how to use much more and you've not read any of the books so you don't know some of the possibilities of how a seeming can be used or-- - Right. - Anything along that nature. So, she's at the door. Well, getting ready to open the door, correct? - Yes. - Obviously you have a plan, London? - I don't know if it's a good plan. I have an A plan. - It's so impossible to draw an illusion. (laughing) - That's funny. - I'm assuming that if it's business, you know, like a nice office, there's probably a wooden door and there's probably glass frames on either side and she's, I would assume, not peering through at this moment, but no, this is an interior office. I have a high executive. She's the secretary. Her outer door looks like that. His door, there's privacy here. - Okay. - You hear footsteps coming to the door, you hear the door-- - The door's not turned. - And I do a seeming to turn myself into Dale. - What? - Okay. - You know what Dale is? - Yeah. - Yeah. - What are you going to like? - What are you going to like? - What are you going to like? - I just like everything. - Okay, the roll was fantastic, which is plus six. My roll was plus one on the fudge dice. For story purposes, I want to make sure that this is a possibility. Is there an executive suite washroom? They usually are, they don't have to go out to a common bathroom. They usually have one in the executive suite, but right, not one that you've seen. When we first came in here, we cased it to see if there was a way to get to beyond the wall. - So are there any other doors that are here? - You determined that there's a door here in the back loft, off to the right side. - Is there a bathroom side? - Is there a place on there? - There could have gone that is not here right now. - There is no evident another door. If there is a door, it might be concealed. I don't know why they'd have a concealed washroom door. - Okay. - But it doesn't seem to have a washroom. - Yes. - Okay. - I just want to clarify something. - Are you doing the seeming in addition to the one you're already maintaining or are you dropping the other to do? - I'm dropping my seeming for a new seeming. - All right. - But it's still the same scene. So this is now my third spell. You want to see each? Now a third seeming. - It's your third mental. - Your stays. - Okay. I just want to make sure that I was-- - Well, I'm supposed to be. - Right. - So I'm just standing against, you know, I guess the wall talking to the warden who's posing as a doctor. - Okay. - And when the door opens, I give her an imperious, what do you-- Don't you knock, I'm busy right now. - I will. - Thank you. - Okay. - So it's fantastic. I'm seeming. And then I also have presents if I need to, you don't follow my every move. Maybe you were in the washroom. Maybe you look down for a second. I don't know what you missed. You know, that kind of thing. Like if she says, what are you doing here? - She opens the door and she sees you and she's like confused and taken back. She looks at you. - What's her name? - Don't know who we were. - We're the Dale Williams. - Saw it, but I figured she has it on her desk and she's an executive secretary. - Yeah. - And usually do. - I did mention last week, her name is Robin Woodiger. - Okay. - Wait, we don't knock now, Robin? - Something along the way. - I'm sorry. - I really, I didn't see you come in. I assumed. - All right. Thank you very much. - Yeah. - I'm in a meeting here. - Thank you. - Sure. - Sorry. - Quite alright. - She walks back and close the door. - It's gonna be so good. - Exactly. She's a poor girl. So we haven't ever sprayed down it. You got to walk in through the office door. What kind of person was he like when I met him at a functional well back? I remember him being warm and relatively congenial or was he? - No, you remember him being an arrogant ass. - Oh, okay. - He was, that was just everyone you never did. - He was a self-important jerk. - I go to the door and is there a lot on it? - There is. - The door is not locked. - Okay. - And then I keep this evening on and. - Just the door open and we're gonna do the chair dress. - I'm gonna see him block it 'cause he's gonna come in here later. He's gonna have to keep. - Well, it's gonna kind of give it away. If there's a chair behind the door anyways. - I can't get into my, I think the gig will be up. I know it's a decent idea. - The gig will be up the second he shows up. You're gonna want. - She might just think she's having a bad day. - She knows it. - It's a hurt with them. And maybe she knows that there's the possibility that she's aware there's another exit from this room. The way she looked seemed to indicate that she was confused but that just could mean 'cause he checks in. I don't know, I don't know how to play it but I'm just gonna say let's move quickly. - Go over to his desk and is there any apparent council or control either on the surface of the desk or even like a quick underneath the little hidden button for the bat cave? - Okay, so if you guys run out of time, you could just park this wall. - Listen, don't you have some magic for this? - No, I mean you're a technology. - This is, I don't know. - Technology, does kids just show the frame of the door? - No, it doesn't work. - Come on. - Can't you imagine? - It's very not in the air. - How does it work exactly? - All right, I take my magic wand. - What can you go? - Wiggle, wiggle, poof. - And then all of a sudden the door reveals itself. - Well, I'm asking what you're capable of. No need to get kind of sending, sir. - I'm not getting kind of sending and clarifying the situation. - What can you do? - Wiggle, poof. - Wiggle, wiggle. - Is it not clear? - Do you know what I'm saying? - I control the forces of water and air and trying not to change the mindset. - Okay, air, can you give color to air? Can you add color to air? If you can, maybe you could cause a gust against that particular wall where it starts to filter through 'cause we have a color scheme. You can see some disappearing or disappearing in certain areas. You can highlight the frame, the thin frame that allows air through potentially. - It's not my kind of wizard. (laughing) - I make these go boom, damn it. (laughing) - That's all my damage. - We'll see. - But first, how are there any controls that I can use? - I need a roll of-- - Forders. - And this is-- - No, no, fistic. - No, no, fistic. - It really isn't an awareness. - An investigation. - It is an investigation as opposed to learning. So learn this is passive or good. - Would you grant me that burglary? - Tough word to say. - It is. - It's burglary. (clapping) Would grant me some advantage to trying to find a secret compartment that might open a false door. - Sure. - So I may search with my burglary as opposed to anything else. - Yeah. (laughing) - I have a fair investigation. - I have superb as far as burglary goes. - Not so much for you, Ellen. (laughing) - You're fair. - However you do found a council and it does have a number of buttons that one of them seems to be an inner ground. - One of them. - Yeah, one of them. - Are you still there? Don't come in again. (laughing) - Stayed all the way. - There seems to be a number of different controls for sound. - I think my twin brother happens to show up. - Let him in. But there are two. One of them is, swings in a parked restroom and one of them is unmarked. - Which is why she wasn't, when she was just flustered, but maybe she wasn't noticed in the fact that the other platform wasn't here. I'm gonna press the one. It's not listed as the press room. - Okay. - There is a door behind you and to your left that you're sitting at the desk. So it's near the window that looks up into it. But there's like paneling on the wall and then there's a couple frames. They don't really slide in. It just kind of cracks open a bit. - Okay. - After you open the door. - It is a smallish room compared to the office. This is a room, let's say 10 by eight and it is white. When you pass through the door where you look through the doorway, the doorway is thick and it's padded. For some proofing, it's a big stark white room and you do see William Donovan in the far corner laying up against the wall. - Is he restrained? - No, but what's his disposition? - He looks very poor. He has been roughed up obviously. - It's not obvious. - It is obvious. His hands, you know, he's laying down and his hands are in front of him and it looks like the vast majority of his fingers have been broken. - I mean, as he can do to imagine. - It's not casting style, doesn't it? - As he looks up as you. - As he makes you conscious. - No, but he's wearing a t-shirt and sweats. - He just becomes the other doctor. - Yeah, so I was saying what you're gonna call him. - Well, let's see what happens here. - Yeah, can you still make a video of building a feel or make him feel any better? - You're talking to London and discussing this and he looked up when the door opened and he sees you and his eyes go wide with panic. - Wait, wait. - Well, he's seeing us as the seeming. - He's either of you. - Yeah. - Oh, he just looks. - Oh, so he must be. I thought he would look at the guy who was imprisoning him as opposed to the guy who. - Well, he's the one who opened the door. Alan was the one who opened the door. - Gotcha, gotcha. - I misunderstood. - Mm-hmm. - Can you drop the spell on me? - I have to maintain it. - I have one spell left, but I can't. - You can start taking the consequences. - Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. - She's talking to your own voice. - Right. - So, I hold up my hands in a placating gesture and I will say England's room is probably bugged. - Was there a keyword or a name other than mine that maybe he used to call me, like the kid? - It's your character, so you can call me. - There would definitely be. - It would not be a-- - I'm not even gonna make a rule, it's just declare it. And it is, you know, he used to call me junior. - Okay, well as I go, it will be, you know, and he built, it's been a long time since Euclid, which hopefully would spark a memory, and I'll try to give him a moment to, it's been a long time since Euclid, hasn't it? In my own voice. - Okay. - And I'll give him the gang signs, the magician. - That's just cruel, he can't even do it back. (laughing) - This is like, living clean and narrow, it happens. - He thinks you're making fun of him. - Yeah, like, there seems to be acknowledgement and recognition in his eyes, but there's also, he's like, shaking his head and his eyes are still staying wide, and he's motioning with his hands, like, go. And you see him try to talk, and it looks like he can't open his mouth. - 'Cause it's sewn shut or-- - You don't see any threads, but I mean, yeah, it seems something. - I'm sorry, I just, am I able to sense you-- - There's nothing physical that you can see that's preventing him, but he can't seem to open it. And why don't you give me a lower rule to begin with? - Open your side. - Well, I am getting there with that. - What I was gonna say is that I've already sold Gaysdom. If I make eye contact with him, is it enough to, like, I'm not gonna be fried in my brain by looking at him because I've already sold Gaysdom, correct? - We were once mastering the practice. - Right. - Yeah, especially whether-- - He sold Gays could be done twice. I believe the consensus was it cannot. - Question how it raises, does it provide-- - I can say that you could open this site. - Okay. - That's a different mechanism. - Well, let me try the lower first, just to do a passive, and then I'll do an active ping on him with my site. So, first with my lower. Yeah, it was a negative two to the fudge, which brings my-- - Negative two to the fudge power, what-- - A lorm down to fair. - Can I hit some-- - You're a stagger. - You're a stagger. - Yeah, maybe I'm shocked by saying, yeah, that's a good point. I'm kind of upset by what I'm saying here. My lower is probably not good at all, so do I get anything out of him from fair? And let me maybe offer some things when you say you can say yes or no. He's been obviously physically abused, judging by the bruises and cuts, and probably the yellow and purple versus the red, and these are old wounds. - Yeah, I mean, you can ascertain that just by looking. Is there of sigils or symbols that have been like forcibly put on him to maybe block some of his powers? - Your role was really pretty poor. - It was, but I'm just-- - I will give you at least enough to know that this room is humming with magic. It's perhaps so much that it's jumbled in your mind and you didn't get a clear reading on what exactly is in here. - Open the sight. - But there is a staggering amount of energy in this room. Why don't you give me some kind of role having to do with your relationship with him? - Something along the empathy. - Reading people, and if you're trying to read him, I mean, unless you got something better. - No, I really don't, my, that skill is pretty low. - Do you have any, fate points? - What's that? - Okay, he is doing a maneuver, and that maneuver is he's pantomiming something that he's trying to convey to you. - First word, sounds like? - He won't, not that. But I mean, he's trying to tell you something with his expressions and his motions, and now, based on that, give me an empathy role with plus two because of his maneuver on what he's trying to convey to you. - Please, oh my God, this is fun. He's just starting with three on my draw. - You really don't want to see him in this-- - Wait, plus two? - Just. - Plus two, so it's really just a negative one, which takes my empathy down to mediator. - Pathetic. - Londeth. - You take a peek around the corner and go peek to see. - Londeth, I would like to make the same role. You don't get the plus two, because you make an empathy role? - Yeah. - No, you don't do empathy. 'Cause he's gotta do better than that. What's this? - What's your role like? - A mediocre. - Average. That is better than a plus one, and I don't have empathy, so. - For the record, it is not better. - Well, if he's pantomimey, how come I don't, I disagree that I can't understand a pantomime as well as him. So using some secret code that they developed when they were. - Well, no, but he's got a relationship with this guy. - I understand, but I can't. - He has a mimey. - In the system sense, you can only use it when you ever want. - Oh, it only works for one person. - Yeah, but that's still a bit ridiculous. But even if I give you plus two, then you're up to good. - Good. - That's what's last. - Well, it's not bad. - Okay, I'm just saying, the man's pantomimey. - Well, I'm gonna, why can't he pantomimey for me? Like he gets frustrated and goes, yeah, but he does like, and I just like put my hand on his shoulder like, 'cause I know he's shaking up. - Right, I think that you're stunned as you hold on to your mentor in this state. - Okay, thanks, but I'm obviously brought his, if nothing else, I brought his student or his apprentice back to him, and I'm not doing anything untoward so he could look to me and say, "I am going to open up my site." - Oh, no, no, no, no, no, wait. - Well, we got to know what we're waiting, but wait 'til this comes to fruition. If I can't find anything through my empathy, feel free to burn your eyeballs, to send yours and your apprentice to squint. - I don't think at any time would he ever try to give you in the state that you look like any clothes. So we're gonna have to go with the thing that you were watching while he was doing it to him, and I don't have a problem with it. What you are interpreting is he is afraid for Alan's life and wants him to flee, and he's trying to say-- - Maybe because he-- - If they're not here, they're coming now. He's trying to convey hurry and get out and save yourself, basically. - This shit block you got to end door. (laughing) - That was the stuff we have to learn while he's just scared to burn us around. - Is there any way we can put like a stronger trace on him? 'Cause once we leave Martin's, who was playing Alan? You're starting to talk, and at the same time, you're getting interrupted because there's a voice in your head, and it's female, and it's whispering. - Find her, I'm gonna have to find her, find her, find my daughter, I'm gonna know. - And with that, I toss you a fake point. - To follow this proposal, I'm going to reach one of you. - A symbolic Alan, to rather auspiciously you dropped it. (laughing) - To represent the compel of the ghost of Sarah Lamens. - We have to go. - We have to know. - There's other ways to know, we have to go. - I agree, and what I do is I pull out my warden sword and it has the ability to do a very powerful counterspell and up to six, and I'll pump more power into that. And I am going to attempt to chop up this magic. - Subvert the restraints, the magical restraints, and London, if you need to go, go. (laughing) - I didn't say anything. - Seriously, if you need to-- - You're swinging the deck. - You don't have time to do this. - I'm waiting for a few extra seconds. - All right, so could he cast a counterspell and then also use the warden sword as like a plus? Would you allow that or is that? - Well, I'm using, I'm invoking the power of the warden sword is the counterspell. - I think this counterspell is the equivalent of trying to break through a block. It doesn't do any damage until he goes over the value of the block. - So it wouldn't degrade anything with like the value of five of the six. - No. - Is that, I mean-- - Your decision? - Tom. - I can see him using his sword and adding his personal power to it. I don't have-- - I also have the control of spirit. That's one of my elements that I have power of. And I also am an ectomancer, so I'm compelled and I'm just trying to, at the very least, break the spell that is keeping him speechless. If I can sever the bonds to at least free him, but I'd rather free him to speak than necessarily free his body. I'll come back for him, if I have to. 'Cause I'm kind of torn now between two-- - Tissue hairs. - Tissue hairs. - Two issues. - What do you mean? - I used to spare hairs, dude. Oh, and here's a patch of your hair for future use buddy. Sorry, you know, you don't know what I have to do. Or even if I have to like gig them with the tip of my sword and to get some of his blood here, because you know how it works, we get blood every to each other once in a while. - At the point of his sword, something. - Well, it leads must and desperate. And right now, I don't have time for efficities. - What happens is you walk forward to approach him and you just feel the equivalent of the air pressure arising in your ears almost popping because there is a circle around him that is-- - Is it air, water, or spirit? - I would say probably spirit. - And it is where the majority of the hum is coming from in this room. There's a lot of power in this circle. - Cut that patient, all right. - Quickly, I will try to, if not sever, auger, a hole through it to let him give me alert. - Oh, dear God. (laughing) - I'll help it by a little. On your toes, and you're fit. - Whoa. - Well, that's one. - Yeah, it's in there. - Which is average, you're really mediocre with that alert. - I am really mediocre with alertness. - Wow. - I don't usually find myself a situation you should worry about. - All right, all right. - Surrounding. - But apparently. - Okay. - Today, I am. - All right, well, you're earning your $5,000 my friend. - You will be paid. - We found it. Let's go. - Oh. (laughing) - All right, well, my checkbook's back at the hotel. All right, so I will attempt to cast the congress phone and he has no problem with you amplifying it with your own power. - Then, I don't want to break rules. - So I just want to be clear. - Okay, he makes the rules, so whatever. - That's true, I do. - I'll add a superb amount of effort to this counter spell. - Just superb. - Couldn't you go all the way to fantastic? - Well, I can see. - Let's put it this way. - You could augment the sword with the spell. - So you're giving it a plus two. - You want your counter spell from you to be of the superb level, and then you're gonna add it to the sword checkbook. - Well, that's what I'm asking, like I, so I cast a five level of superb level spell plus five and add my plus six from my sword to the counter spell. That same one time, he has to go over that. - I would want to see you create a maneuver to give a bonus to the sword in its counter spell ability. Because I think having you add your power of five to that six is gonna be way outside the box. - I see it. I see it. I see it. - So you would create a spell that would imbue a benefit to the sword to give it a plus two. - Which would take it to a legendary. - Which is fine. - Okay. - It goes to 11, but the sword goes to 11. - But what I want to see you do first is succeed in casting the augmentation of the sword. You're imbuing it with additional spirit power. - For that, I would like to say that that would take us a superb effort. So you would have to use five chips. - Five chips, which I've already done. - I'll break the even and then just roll even on it. - So it's all to the flush right now. - Well, you're rolling in discipline to control the spell now at this point, right? - Great. - So you got to roll something equal to five with your discipline and your bonus to control of-- - Spirit. - Spirit. - You wheeled it with the right. - I don't know how much that adds up to, but that plus your dice have to be higher than five. - How much power are you putting into this augmentation of the sword? - I have a discipline of four. I have a prediction of five and a plus one because of my spirit. So that's five, right? - So again, again, it's the same thing. You can place five power into it and you roll to control it. So I gotta at least not get negative here. - You gotta get average. - Barely average. - That's what it is in two minuses. - I'm not exactly what you need. - If you view the sword with additional just determination and willpower of yourself as you stick it in through the shield, then that requires to do your, now I do the counter spell at plus eight. - If you don't beat this, it'll detonate it like a bomb. - That's pretty interesting. - Well, that will use the distraction to-- - Wait a second. - Look what it is. - Look what it is. - Wait, what? - A London and your mentor will be making these walls no longer white. - Either way, he is behind me. So, you know, the force of-- - You can make it that he rolls his weapon. - I'm not supposed to do it. - I want to-- (laughing) - Right, London? - Oh, London? - So grown. I want to keep moving on this. So we'll just say I'm severing a spell. I'm severing a bond, a mystic bond, whatever it is. So you want to use a sword skill to cut through the magic. - Right. - The sword, the warden sword has a one time per night use of a specifically a counter spell. So I'm using it to either siphon off these wards, these seals or protections. - There's somebody who want to look it up so that we have done them. - I didn't want to do this, but I don't want to cheat you either. And to say that you have to use your sword skill to cut through the spell-- - I don't think it does. - Your sword skill is-- - It's really good. - Well, it's the same thing as my-- - It's expensive. - It's expensive. - It's, it's, weapons is fine, my conviction is fine. So it's the same. If you want to go to Edmund while we look this up, that's fine to me. - All right. We will leave it at this container. - 'Cause I'm like, I'm gonna have to use my sword and I'm allowed to go head to head against a powerful vampire's containment spell. - And we'll hold it there as we go to the other gentleman who are a-- - A irresistible force means the immovable object. I'm sure nothing bad will happen. - The other gentleman who are in the offices of Edmund Shadowski interrogating the two vampires, one is unconscious, you're dealing with-- - Yeah, firstly. - Could just be Bruce. - The first one was unconscious and we poked at that ball out. - The one that you're interrogating was the assistant of Meghan Donovan. That you give him a waffle iron face. - Did you walk in on me going over to this planet? And do that guys, huh? - You're sitting there on a monitor watching the room and you see them asking questions and you're listening and the guy says, fuck you. And he spits in Roberto's face. And Roberto just takes his thumb and sticks it in the guy's eye and just pop. And you go, okay, and you get up and you walk in the room. As he is definitely screaming and pain and weeping and crying, what the fuck? - Jesus. - Making all kind of noises. - God damn it, Martinez. God damn it. - I'm only just heading to one side so he doesn't spit on me again. But I throw the rod. - I'm looking like, dude, if you're gonna take one eye out, you wanna take them both, but I'm looking into you. - You, like Mike, also here whispering in your head and it's like, what are you gonna be able to answer? - Do the other ones. - Instead I shout at him. We demand to know why Brian was abducted. Oh wait, he wasn't working with them. What the fuck, how would I know? - A punch I really got in the way of apology. And then ask him instead. Something I know, you know. What's your interest with Ryan? - Megan thought he would know where the child was. - Megan's stupid. - Damn it. - What's your boss wrong with the child? - She's not like boss. - Watch him again. - What's your boss wrong with the child? - She said that she needed the child to save her dad. - She said that she should bloodboard him. - Yeah, 'cause he's not talking, apparently. - He's telling him every fucking day he wants to know. - I just wanted to look for an opportunity. - Yeah. - It's the word bloodboard. - It's like waterboards, but the vampires. - Who do you work for? - You work for the clinic? - Punch, yeah. - Punch away from his punch. - The clinic made us. We tried to break away. Megan wanted to not deal with them, but she was forced to. - Was that her dad? - They've got her dad, yes. - Why does she care? The black court don't care for anything. - Yeah, you're obviously an expert on black court, man, but. - Why do they want Janice so bad? - Or what if she got to get wipey with the baby so bad? - And Megan didn't explain it to me. She didn't tell me. I'm not sure she even know. - Who told her? - You put the eye out of the useless one. - What's the other one now? - Maybe nothing. Maybe they're both useless. - How long since Megan was black court? Time is you? - He explains that they were made at the same time, and it was-- - Nearly three weeks ago. - They volunteered for this? - Sorry. They turned her to force her father's hand, though, right? - Yes, we speculated that. - Megan's got some ideas, but-- - Don't she know what they do to her father if you left? - No. She didn't know his father was in that deep with them. - I don't either. - She had a lot of questions. - Thought that he'd be able to protect himself. - Pretty good thought, but he isn't what he used to be. - Okay. - You want to check out the other vampire? - Well, you just show him the other guys. I don't think he-- - Did the other mind look conscious? - I think he was working on it. - Yeah, he appears to be trying to pretend he's unconscious, but that scream will come up. - Okay, more questions for a crispy bruise? - I'm not going to ask him his name. That would be too dignified. - Well, they appear to have some self-controls. Should we set them free? - Mm. - I mean, I don't want to. - Are you just going to kill him in the end? - Maxwell. - No. - Every life is worth saving. - Yes, that's the problem. I can't kill him. - Is this how you go down your morals? - I can't do it with this. - Hey, that's how he hears this tape line. - I'm not going to kill him. - Every-- - Literally, he goes through a wall trying to get after this. - Yeah. - You know, I want to kill him. - Oh, okay. - I was just waiting for him to stop me. - That's the point where you go through a wall. - I'm just some guy. - I don't have anything else to ask him. He's only going to last so long. I mean, I was going to eat people. - What were you going to use the baby for? - She wasn't going to take the clinic. - They'd help her after if she left. - No, no, no, no. She was going to hand in the baby to the kid to talk about it. And then they were going to let him explain this to me. So I can beat them up some more for her and something else. - He's stupid. I can't do that to you. - The old blackboard vampires don't have souls. - And you do? - Yes. - Yes, we do. - Oops. - But our souls don't last. They get burnt out. We get burnt out. They're not strong. - And what happens when you don't have a soul? - That's the only thing that grants you these more powers. - That's new time? We die. - What does this have to do with Genesis? - The Megan thinks. - The Megan thinks what? - Well, you know what the baby is, right? - Yeah. What do you do? - Do we? No, we don't. What? - Wait, that's like stupid. I already do. - What? - Yeah, that's two souls. That's all I got. - Two souls of what? - Two souls of-- - Double the vampire power? - Soul soul. - Triple the vampire power. - Not even human. - Soul? - Much more power. - Can they turn that into a vampire? That's what Megan's guessing. - Well, super baby. I can't accomplish that much. - Still baby. - Mm-hmm. - She's got two souls. And one of them is, well, then I got them, one of them never, never. Or one soul then viewed by the never, never. I don't know. - You don't know. - How would I know? - I don't know. You don't know. - No, that's all I need to know. - You're not much, you're still us now. - What two souls does she have? - Does she know her twins? - You don't absorb them. - We don't know. Ryan couldn't tell us. - Who would that just mean that the last twice as long? Or does it mean because it has two souls that's strong enough that it will never burn out? Or is that the big question? - That's why they wanted her to have a birthday at the hospital. They might just be doing it for science. Or they might be trying to make the mother or father of a whole new race of empires. - This other empire works for the university. - That is her belief. - Are we all this by-less guy over? Not just the other one. - They aligning him up together. - Yeah. - Two cats right next to each other? - Or where he's got his eyes closed and I like, "Hey, look at this. This could be you." - That's his intimidation. - Roll. - Can we just need a clue from the consequence you inflicted on Christopher's? - Sure you can. - I don't think that was a noover, but okay. - I think that's a consequence. You can use those as maneuvering. - It's an aspect then because this was fantastic intimidation while I just like splashed some of the other guys' blood in his face. - Yeah. - It succeeded in taking him out of the social conflict. - You're such a good bad cop, I don't even have to good cop. - Don't make me poke your eye out. - Alright buddy. - What was your interest in Ryan? - We were told to come and bring him to the clinic. - The clinic? - You're from the clinic? - From the clinic. - Yes. - Do you recognize this guy? - Well, it might be a bit ugly. - No. - What about the other guys? You were a crispy bruise? - It's hard to see someone in one eye. - And it's been the cut around. - It's good to actually see. - Good eye. - Crispy Bruce says, "Yeah, I've seen a row." - And what? You wanted Janice too? - Which one are you asking? - Bruce doesn't know if you wanted. - But not an ugly one. - You want to give him a name? - Pre-bruise. - You want to ask him what his name is? Or you're just going to give him a name too? - Oh, what do you want? - Is it a muddy python skin? Everyone's going to be named Bruce. - This is un-crispy Bruce. - What's your name, little non-bruised guy? - Ed. - Ed. - Ed what? - Why do I care? - Ed. - Ed, the unsolite. - He's evil, Ed. - Damn it, we know what we work for. Do we really have any questions? I mean, like they wanted the baby. - Wait, wait, wait. Why did you want Ryan Nelson? - We were ordered to bring him in from the clinic. - Why? - Who ordered you? - We're just trying to find the baby. - To me, they're what these people say they're working for. - They seem to be working for the university. - He knows nothing, he's really just some P.O. - But he, too, has a soul. - How long did we say these guys usually last before they run out to be free that out? - A month or something. - Roughly about a month. - When were you trying? - A week ago. - Damn it. - It's not. - Soon enough. - No, not at all. - I see that one dude in, what's your name? - Who ordered you to get Ryan? - Bruce and Megan. - Bruce and Megan. - Yeah. - Their time is almost up. - Yeah. - Because they're in a hurry to do what they need to do to keep themselves broken. - I'm pretty much sure they've accepted their own and died. - It sounded like she wanted to save her father other than herself. - No, before she dies, maybe she wants to do one last night. - Good thing. - Right. - Whatever. - Whoever ordered you to grab Ryan Nelson, she said the boss, I'm going to have to shoot you. - Mr. Mahoney. - That name does sound familiar to you, Edmund. - What's that? - Mahoney. - What's wrong? - Robert Mahoney. - Boss, who's Robert Mahoney? I can't remember. Robert Mahoney is. - He's a client. - He hires you to find London deals. - Oh, God. Boss. - Truly, if there ever works for the clinic, we'll let some of them get away. - Mahoney is going to know if he works for the clinic, London went to the clinic. They're in serious shit right now. - I found him. I sent him there. - I found him. I sent him Mahoney after he figured it out. - So maybe we should join them. - Yeah. We need to get too ugly. - Oh, my God. It's a trap. - Do we have any other questions for him? I really can't figure out. - Yes, sir. - Is he Mahoney's office? - No. - That would be our right. - No, it would be our right. But no, he's not in Mahoney's office. - Any other questions? He's pretty useless. All he can tell. - If we-- - They'll be here on William's office. - Sorry. - Lovely Bruce. - Do we want to let him go? - Crispy Bruce. - I mean, I want to kill him. - You have a fake plan to... - Cast to let him go. - I have to let him go. - No, you have a fake plan. - I save every life I can, even if he's going to die. - Okay. - I'm going to pretend this is a democracy. - Edmund, do you want to let him go? - I don't want to let him go. - You want to hold them here for now? You're going to hold them here and now. - All right. - No. - Why don't you go pull the car around and I'll be right there. - It's the part where they send the paladin out of the eye. - Yeah. - There's a fine evil vampire in the lobby. - You do what you do. - I'm writing it down in my file for the FBI boss. - It gets you back to people who really don't deserve it. - Like, pay point. - If he doesn't fight for saving his life, he has to be. - And pay one more. - Come on. - You could be in some-- - I'd say that wouldn't be much, just to give it back. - Okay, no one peeled to your empathy boss. - You're not peeled to your empathy, you just put his eye out. - Between player characters, we don't normally roll, but I guess. - It could be a conflict between player characters. - Yeah, I guess with this mechanics, because we don't normally play this game. - Boss, he's just some guy. Even if he's stupid enough to follow anything, his girlfriend says they were trying to do the right thing. - By killing us. - No, they weren't after us. - They actually never attacked you. - All right, almost. Now I did elegantly attack Meghan. Then we beat the shit backwards. - Meghan and this guy never attacked you. - Well, Meghan threw you up against a wall. - Man. - Well, a bunch of dogs attacked us from one. - Man? - Man, well you even heard that. - What is that? - They're just trying to delight. - Where did those dogs come from? - Hell! - DAW! - How did they get the dogs from hell? - Exactly. They trapped it with the servants of the evil one. - Nonetheless, I'm going to roll some empathy here. - Wasn't crispy Bruce in this guy looking out with swords? - They were trying to do the right thing. - They were. - I don't have a problem with you rolling. If you are going to start going to be a social conflict, you've got to take him out of the scene to convince him to leave him alive. - Yes. - Okay. - It's not just a one-roll. - He's... - Yeah, okay. - Got a soul. - Put that in a giant because, apparently, those are things now. - Spoken like a true atheist. - A total of superb for empathy plus one. - All right, his argument to you. - And first of all, you can avoid this conflict by just simply agreeing with him. But if you think this guy should be killed, then it's an actual conflict that you have to go against his argument. - There's something special about acquiescing a comment. The victor, it's something... - No, if you do a concession... - I'm sorry. - What? - Does this one do blackboard vampires have rights? - Right, the lips. - These are the first blackboard vampires with souls. - And if we had captured Megan Donovan and she was telling us a sub-story, you'd have to look at her. - I would put her out of her misery. - The cruel horror and hell of undeath. - Yes. - I would put her a soldier. - He is, after all. - Can I look at her as a soldier? - Concessions work this way. If you take any consequences and you are taken out of the scene or you concede the scene, you get a fake point for every one of those consequences you took during the battle. - It is. - Anybody who takes a consequence. - Okay. - Just wondering. - I think it shows me that if Roberto feels strongly about killing these vampires, then he should be able to... - I participate, sure. - Yeah. - I mean, maybe... - I'm only trying to... - ...swiz in it. - Yeah. - Right. - I don't mean so much attack, but he can also build him up and say, "No, stick your guns. Yeah, use maneuvers to, I would think." - Absolutely. If it's coming to a conflict, that's up to Jim now. I mean, if you roll the defend, then it's a conflict. - I definitely want to take these two guys out. We got the information we think we need from them. I don't think they need to be around anywhere anymore. - All right. First off, we should definitely leave the... Ed. We should leave Ed because we haven't asked him everything we possibly asked. We can't come up with anything else. This deserves to live. But other than that, I mean, we've gotten everything we need out of it. - You may be able to get more about him. - You're going to tell him, "Go." - If he can lead you to Megan. - I rolled you roll, or you acquiesce. - I'm rolling. - Okay. - You don't want to let him go because information has price, and he can lead you to Megan. - Gaining yourself to a plate. - We all stand about it for you. - If Jim says no, he has to get back, too. - Yes, it does. - Or you have to get back to one time. - If you get a plate point, you got a plate. - You'll have to be able to prove a slip. - Right. - Yeah. - You don't even want to meet with her. - What can you tell me I don't already know? - You don't know what you can tell me what you don't know right now. - It definitely knows the most about her father. - Anybody in this group are outside. - Recent history. - Maybe where he would hide the baby. - Yeah, that's what I realized, though I didn't want to say it out loud. - He hid the baby. - He killed everyone in the room, and then he hid the baby. - That's kind of like something I didn't really even think about. - So, he's not evil. - He's someone. - First up. - Who? - He's captured in the torture. - Well, this is good. - That doesn't make you good. - Yeah, this doesn't make him good, but he killed all the evil people in the room, went back on his deal because his daughter, if their evil, supernatural people, were okay. - Yes, sure. - If they were humans and he killed them with magic, which is what he appeared to have done, he's crossed the line. - Roll or don't roll, let's go. - You got to pay me a fake point to make this a conflict. You got to accept one to let them go. - I'll just throw them out. - I'll not let them go, but let them live. - Let them live. - Let them live. That's all I'm arguing. - Let them go. - Let them go. - No, the high beams on him and let them fry. - He's not going to let somebody get fried. - Yeah, we got to talk to that anyway. I mean, he lasts three more weeks. - Just keep him in the containment cell. - Knock out the door and hit the knife. - He's like, "Boom!" - It doesn't kill the new courts anyway. - No, it just takes the power. So, right now, both of these are staying alive. - Okay. - You are getting a fake point, then. - You do get it? - Let's go. - Don't you want to fight? - I'm waiting for my demon to go. - Just bring his neck. - Back at the clinic. - Back at the clinic. You take your sword. Let's give a lure to see if you can actually ascertain the power of the shield to your bosses. - The assessment. - Yeah. - The free action assessment. - All right. - A great reserve on the punch dice. - Is that enough? - To know that the ward around your mentor is in fact legendary. - Well, it's a good thing to get a +2 on that counter spell. - That's exactly equivalent. - Yeah. - You're gonna have to go out the course. - Terrible energy for your sword. - Well, his sword is fantastic. Six. The +2 makes it up to legendary. - Yeah. We were... - I thought this had to do with Ectomancy. - Not with us. - Where do you break this deal? - I didn't let him talk. - You're imagine he's not the same as Ectomancy. - So he would reveal what a girl is, and he did it to himself. - I didn't understand. - Ed Minned or Jim was saying that perhaps he did something to himself to prevent him from talking no matter what they did to him. - Broke's own figure. - No. - He sealed his own mouth. - Oh. - Oh. - Because I had the lore to detect this. - Broke. - You're a moral to detect what was going on, wash. It was pretty bad. - Bro, no. It's great. - No, that's to detect the power of this circle that's here by the slice. - Oh, yeah. - Earlier in the rule, what he was doing, the average... - But I'm not... - French miner team. - I already were confused. - I'm not... I'm not asking to suss out the... - Right. - When I recognize this... - The magic signature. - No, because it's behind this fantastic ward. - When you walked into the room, there was crackle of magic. You ruled then to understand the magic playing of the magic ground that is in here, the landscape of the magic. You ruled terrible. - I appreciate that. I'm just asking... Am I asking for any more information about the ward other than... Do I, since I'm a warden, a qualified magician and I was his apprentice, do I have the ability to at least recognize that he cast this or that this was cast upon him? - Oh. - The ward? - Yeah. - No, it's not his magic. - Okay. - I was saying any magic that is contained within the ward, you can't even get a reading on it because this is a blazing stun of magic. - Then it all comes down to... - In your face. - This. - So right now I've supercharged my warden sword. I have to achieve a... - Before you roll, as you strike forward with your sword, the door to the outer office opens up. - Okay. - That's the alertness roll you missed. - Sure. And good timing. - There's a plus. - And a minus. - There's nothing and nothing. - It's... - Yeah, and even it's a watch, it's a legendary attack. - You slice through, you poke a hole, you see strings of magic just coming off and snapping and hitting the wall and just... - Blinding. - And it crumbles. - Yes! - Warden's. - He starts to... - He starts to try to stand up. You know, he was reclined on the floor. - All right. - Behind you, the door opens up, and through the door you see at least three or four people. One of them is a mirror of yourself before it is Dale Williams. Now there is someone that neither of you have met. One of them has canceled this rock. One of them... - In the fan. - Good. - Well you don't know it, but he's Robert Mahoney. He's a very, very large gentleman. - Very big. And that's your in the know. You might think in there's some frickin' troll blood, and that dude, he is huge. - Oh, right. He thought it was a piece. He's a big-ass goon. - It's a metagame for a second. We know that the left hand wall of this room leads to a corridor. - Oh darn it. If Roberta was here, he could do a hool-aid man right through the wall. - Sure. - But we're ending in a cliffhanger because we're not going to be able to green an excuse for yourself to get out of here. - All right. We'll say what happened was both of you looked at each other, and that was just... - Flashing of thoughts between the both of you. - You ran through multiple aspects of how we... - A night wing fighting together again. - Should I? - No. - Yes. - Right. - Okay, we could do? - Yeah. - Go. - We'll leave it yet again on another cliffhanger. - In the same room. - Everybody marked out how many... - The same door. - It's not enough, I just think. - Now, Jonathan asked if he could spend a fade point to make himself be here since you guys were so... - Oh. - Chronologically. But actually, I think the interrogation has taken up much more time. You are actually farther in the future than these guys are. Plus, we have some issues with the fact that you really don't know where they are. And they did a tracing after they left the office to follow to a certain point. - I like the idea of spending a fade point to say, "I wanna be here." - Yeah, I don't see it. - I do like that. - Realistic, though. - I agree. - To say... - As much as I'd like you to be there. - I knew you had no idea how to find where they are. - Cool it, man. - Oh, yeah! Thanks for listening to the 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 forum for comments and suggestions, or you could email us directly at feedback@kotnpodcast.com, or contact us via Twitter, or leave a message on Facebook. Call music for this podcast was created and performed by Zen Audio Smith. If you'd like custom professional music created for your podcasts or business, please visit ZenaudioSmith.com and please join us next episode for more Vistri and Adventurer. [Music] - All right. I take my adventure. - What candy do you go? - Wiggle, wiggle, poof. - And then all of a sudden the door reveals itself. - No, I'm asking what you're capable of. - Wiggle, wiggle. - It's not clear. - Do you know what I'm saying? - We demand to know why Ryan was abducted. - Oh, wait, he wasn't working with them. - What the fuck? How would I go? - A bunch of, like, got in a way of apology. And then ask him instead, something I know he knows.