The Task Force returns to their "safehouse" to find a familiar vagrant who collapses before them. The Task Force takes him into custody and brings him inside the safehouse, only to discover a grisly aftermath inside. Powers are invoked, secrets are revealed, and the Task Force comes face to snout with a deadly foe.
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KOTN Actual Play Podcast 26: Shit Luck Ep 27 "The Beast Within "
[Music] Hello, and welcome to Night of the Night Actual Play podcast. [Music] This World of Darkness storyline shed luck was written and run by our storyteller Scott. [Music] And now please enjoy chapter 10, scene 2, titled "The Monster Within." [Music] This is chapter 10 of the World of Darkness story shit block. I'm the storyteller Scott with us tonight from my right. I am Jim and I play Sister Katie O'Connor. My name is Tom and I play the character Jay, also sometimes Curtis Jonathan. My name is Mike and I'm playing Michael Clay. My name is Bob, I play Chew Park. So then the only feedback we have from and to go on our forums in regard to episode 24, "No Means No Woman." And the comment is, "Hey, I've been listening to your guys awesome podcast. You have me on the edge of my seat. The audio quality is great." Also, just wanted to say to Scott, the storyteller, to keep up the good work. Oh. I'm not playing any favorites here, but Chew is my favorite character. That's how is that not what I'm talking about? That's the definition. You're so Bob, don't get him killed. Oops. Oops. I responded to this one on the board. Yes you did. So, I just wanted to say thanks again for the kind comments regarding the storyteller. I'm glad you're on the edge of your seat and enjoying it. I think it gets stronger and more interesting as the story unfolds here in the last couple of chapters and of course, you know, Bob, you can talk about Chew, but I try my best to kill him. Chew is also my favorite character. I know Bob shot up the charts after the "No Means No" episode and favorite character and took the-- Trippled. Trippled. I couldn't believe that. I wore that episode alone, so I don't think you were the only one that enjoyed it. No, that scene was a lot of fun to play. Yeah. That was good stuff. I enjoyed that. Because I actually wasn't there. It was a lot of the room when it was recorded, so in editing it, I got to listen to the first time and it was like, "Wow, that's a good idea how fun that was." I liked the dream sequence that Scott came up with. And it definitely explains your crab-iness when we joined up back together and you're like, "So did you guys have fun in the library picking up books? You bastards?" I was like, "What? We didn't do anything." So with that feedback, thank you again for the feedback. We'll continue with our episode. I'm assuming you drive kind of fast. You strike me as someone who drives fast. Oh yeah. She drives fast. You're from a racing fan. Oh yeah. People in a carot? Do you have them? It's slightly rather bouncy. I feel much more relaxed now. Yeah. As you turn the quiz, you come around the corner, someone darts out from a hedge that's on the corner where there's a stop sign, there's some hedges around it, and someone darts out from maybe even the front yard would have been, you know, you're thinking really quickly as you're deducting it, the front yard of the safe house, and comes out right in front of your car. Your car. So go ahead and make a driving roll, please. Wait a minute. Did you hit the brakes or like, "Yeah, that's the good question." Did they look familiar in any sense? Right now, it's a blur in a darkened rainstorm. Jim, it's dexterity plus drive. I don't know. I don't know. Two, three, four. If you're driving my car, so that's not too much. Duts. Plus. Yes. Tell me when you've got your dice. Together. Got me. Kind of rich, Jim. I think well. I can't feel it, but there you go. All right, take what you have and subtract four dice for the dark conditions, the wet pavements, and the closeness of the individual who've darted out in front of you. It's almost impossible not to hit them, but you're a talents driver. Good. Plus, for the equipment though, that's a nice car, right? Got some old weather tires. I don't know. It's handling, I think, you get as well. Did you add your handling, Dyson? I didn't add handling, I think. It's got a handler of five. Whoa. A nice car. Apparently, he's a very nice car. Well, you definitely want to add your handling to your roll. Dirty. I didn't know all of you had handling. Is that a piercing? I don't know. I don't know. I guess it's handling a five would be five more dice, right? What is it? Yes. A five. Oh. Medium sized car usually has a two or three, but you must have a souped up vehicle or a hot rod. Yeah. I assumed it was souped up by you. That's okay. Got knocks. Sure. What you do? No. One, two, three, four. Four successes. You slam on the brakes, you start to fishtail, you steer out of it, but pump the brakes so that you come up short and you just end up with the person that dashed out with their front hands on your hood of your vehicle and they're not looking at you. Their head is down and you see someone who just is in very shabby clothing. There's blood all over the person and they've got just wild, scraggly hair that you can see that's matted now in the rain and they collapse. It's side showing. Yeah. You haven't met him yet, but he's proud of ours. So your car is in the pretty much in, well, you're just out of the intersection. You're a little bit sideways, spun out a little bit. Just keep going. And there's a guy on the road. It's a trap. I'm serious. I've seen this before. Just keep going. He's got a hard car. And that's where the ambush happened. What would a good Christian do? Yeah. Yeah. Sure. He just, he collapsed in front of the car and the hood of the collapses, not on the hood. He put his hands in the hood and he had his head down and he slipped off and collapsed right in front of your car. Backing up some of my headlights around him. So you back up into the intersection, backing up would be into the intersection you're that close because the house is the first one on the lot. So you just came out of the intersection and missed him and turned sideways. If you back up, you're going to back right up in the intersection. Yeah. Okay. All right. Cover me, look for any other cars. Is this a busy intersection? Busy enough. There's cars coming. It's a four way stop. I mean, it's sorry. It's a two way stop. The cross street vine court. Your street is not a stop. Do some cars, Tom. I think you put on, if you put on your hazards, you should be all right. Which I was going to say, I'm going to throw my hazards on. All right. And I backed up so I could, my headlights could be on. Yeah. Your headlights are on him. Is he moving? Not moving right now. He's just collapsed on the street being rained on again, looking like a vagrant and vagrant's clothes and looking as if there's a lot of blood. Why don't you go check it out, Michael? Okay. Good try. Michael, not having called in, unfortunately, he's sitting in the car with a look of shot on his face saying, I will look for traffic. And am I behind them in my car? Is that what's going on? There's a little bit of what's away. You know, are you getting out of the hospital? You don't know if the hospital I called you, but it's about five minutes behind them. Damn it. I'm going to get to go out there and do it. I'm spending a whole power in doing a benediction. Not leaving the car yet? Not leaving the car. Is it a ranged attack? I just need a white rock. Is it a ranged benediction? Need a hundred bucks. Not yet I'm going to do a spell that lets me see who you and what they are. So Sister Kate starts praying, what does the benediction call them? It's called the true sight of same people, same people. Yeah, I think I roll and then people take the successes I get and they add it to their goal to see if they can see it, the monsters for what they are. Okay. Oh, everybody? I mean, that's in your area. St. Abel is the patron saint of the blind. Pierce is the protection of the devil and gives his servants the gift of true sight. You roll intelligence plus benediction. Right. So I guess I pick the number of successes I have and I say if he gets one and I get one and he gets one or something like that. If I got three successes I would give one success to each person and then they would roll the result plus successes and see if the monsters for what they are. Yes. That's why I read it. That's how I read it as well. So you're blessing two? You're blessing two people? Yeah. Well, yourself and shoe. Yeah. What am I supposed to do? But each target must get one success. You'll roll in a second. Got two successes. Okay. So you can assign one to you and one to two and then anytime you two want to look at someone and decide if they're super-powered you will be a result plus the number of successes. But that would be result plus one or result plus the number of successes I had. No, you would be the number that you assigned to that. Exactly. You assign him one so he gets to add one. You assign yourself one. You need to add one. Okay. So you say quick prayer and then you're jolted out of your seat with a beep as a car pulls up to the intersection and plays on their horn and then pulls around you and he's basically just screaming at you and then he sees that you're, "No, you're not going to get dressed up like a nun." Although that would have been funny if you hadn't. That's so. That's one turn. Are you going to do anything more? I want to take a look at this body in front of me and see if it actually looks like it's a real person. Well, as I read the benediction, it says that the number of blasts must be determined the outset of the action. If you name three people, then three people must be blasts and you must assign one success minimum to each intended target so you cannot look this turn. You have to say it again and so everybody has one success. You can't stop your benediction. You can't blest up. Mike is. He said he was doing everyone in the car. Three people. I think that's before he understood the rules. I thought you met me in Chua, you met Mike. If you would like not to be Mike, that's okay. I don't know. Since Mike's out of here, is he out of him? I would have played him, but that's okay. Go ahead. You just say, tune Chua. You rolled one success each. You want to make your resolve roll now as more cars are coming towards you. You want to make a quick roll? Yes. Okay. Go ahead. Resolve plus one Chua. Resolve plus one. Sister Kate. If I take a look in, I'm not making a team look video or not. I've got a big regular percentage. No. Three success. You feel blessed and holy and well started at that Jesus doesn't say. One. One? I got three successes. In this particular case, the amount of successes don't give you too much additional information. What you're able to see is you see someone that looks to you like a feral man, like a man who grew up in the woods and grew up as a creature of the woods or as a wolf. But as a creature, as in the supernatural creature? Yes. It doesn't show him what he looks like in his supernatural state. He just sees him as a feral man with a feral heart. And that's what you see as well, too. As you see a man, it looks like he, into your vision, him lying there, like his face along aids a bit, he just looks more feral, more wild and he looked pretty wild to start with because it is side street, Billy. But, you know, to you, you just know that he's got a feral nature, he's, he's definitely, he's most likely is what, you know, the myths call a werewolf. And he's lying there in front of your car bleeding right up over. Did you, did a good look at him at all? What do you mean by a good look? Well, he had his foot pulled down, but can we say that kind of looks like, it's, it's side street, Billy. Oh, it is. Yeah. When he fell over and, and Kate backed up and, and shined her car lights on him in the rain, you could see just with tattoos on his face that it had to be side street, Billy. Well, that's kind of weird. I never, never saw him in that light, so to speak. I am pulling, he's in, he's in front of us. Yes. I'm going to pull. So he's behind us. I'm going to get out of the intersection. Okay. You get out of the intersection, you pull long, fine cords, um, back of your car, right. You're in front. You're not going in the driveway though. No. Okay. My tail lights on him. Got it. Yeah. This guy might play a major part in solving. So, and he might actually be on our side. He might have just got beaten up like something in and around our house because he just came out from around it. That's what makes me a little nervous. Each of you could make, you two could make a perception role right now. There's a lot going on. So I'm just going to say a straight up perception role is, uh, of the nature. Choo, you can use investigation because it's a crime scene and you're in your moment, even though you're distracted. But you, Sister Cage, a straight up perception role and because it's dark and rainy and miserable out and there's a lot going on, I'm going to subtract two dice from your role. Okay. Choo, no subtracting the three of them. Today. Okay. Um, so investigation plus one crime scene with, ooh, what that is, it's a real role. All right. Not by the other day. I'm going to get one. Two and a re-roll. That's all you need. Local height re-roll. Three. The door to the front. Of the house is open. Of our house? Our safe house? Yeah. Our, our no longer safe house. Um, I'm going to call, uh, John, actually push the dog. Push the dog. Mr. Beamer. Everyone. Everyone. What do you say? Safe house has been compromised. By who? I want. I don't know yet. But I don't wait. We think we have found side streets, buildings, buildings, you know, bloody lump in front of my car or our house. Oh, I'm sorry. What was the last shit going on here? What was your push talk? Could you repeat it? Oh, I just said our safe house has been compromised. Door is open. You stopping? The safe house has been compromised. Yes, I heard that. What shall we do? That means they're at the safe house, which means we should meet them there. There's no response from John either. You don't hear him coming across the injured. Uh-oh. Um. All right. You do not need to ride down like the main streets to get to the house. You know the back way because you're familiar with this area. Especially with it being where the hospital is located. So Lucius actually, you know, you can see him coming down the street. He's headlight coming down the street towards your charger as you're all sitting there going. You know, the window is open. Side street Billy is lying in a pool of blood. Uh, here comes Lucius and Jay. Good timing. I did bend it. And again, it's raining pretty heavily now. Um, it's a small bungalows of vine street look mean and uncared for right now in the dark lights and in the fact that there's a body outside on the street and the door is open and there's no light showing him inside the house. And, uh, side street Billy may be a verbal. I grabbed the, uh, I grabbed my old Coke 45. I didn't get to go on the box. Are you parking in the street or are you pulling into the driveway Lucius? I think what I would really do is I'm coming up the street if I see somebody laying in the middle of the ground. It's behind the Dodge Charger. You're pulling up to a Dodge Charger down the street. You don't see the body. You know there's a body there because they said there was. When he said the house has been compromised. Okay, so I just kind of pull over. And you just quietly did the side of the street turn off the lights. Okay. And then you did hear me say that you might possibly be verbal. Oh. I don't know if John Beamer's okay. That's, that's obviously, I'll take the back door. You want to take the front. Or the other way around. I don't care. All right. We'll take it. Talked 45. Medical bag. Okay. I go over to the trunk of my car, which is in the driveway. Yes. I get on my Kevlar bass and put it on. I've already got my Glock. I'm ready to go. Kevlar. You are running towards the front door. Are you getting any Kevlar? Are you doing any kind of anything? Are you just running through the front door? I normally do wear the police issue. All right. Like Kevlar? Yes. You know what I mean? And I have my Glock. I'm pulling out my pistol and I'm. You're right towards the front door. He's going to run over to check out Billy anyways. The doctor? The doctor. So I'm going to, I want to keep the front door and the doctor in sight. While I hit my pistol off. Okay. You could do that from the car if you want. No, I'm sorry. Okay. Because it's raining outside. I'm just saying you could do it from the car. You could look out your back window. You could see the doctor if he goes towards the side street building. I want to be out of the car so I can react. I have time to react. Okay. Step out and then shoot. I want to be out. So then I'm going to assume at that point you're going to be your. I'm going to say your car seems to be about walking up the side street building. Are you going up to side street building? Dr. Lucas, are you going towards the house? Hey, do I know where the side street building is? You did here on the talk, speak the talk or the press's talk. I go to side street building. That, yeah, whatever the talk. So, okay, yes. He comes running past your car. You get out of your car. You step on your back corner panel. Driver's side. And you're looking at the front door to choose dashing into. And you're looking at the doctor. I'm like, all right. All right. Before, he's going in the front door. I'm going in the back. Before we do that. He's going to be through the front door because you're stopping to get your vest on. I'm calling him over to my doctor. Okay. That's. He's calling you over. He's calling you over. Here plugs at the doctor gave me and put in a pair of myself. Do you want to ask? Do you want to have a can of ortho? Yeah, I might be running low. So, I toss one of my two cans. We both put on mass. Yeah, you have a half a can that you have. I'm listening. I'm hearing a lot of the news. He comes out of the house. I don't know if they're running, like, medicine bay. I'm finding the biggest file of thorazine or methadone or whatever. Yes. Okay. We got surgical masks covered in the nose and mouth openings and then we go. I go in the back. He goes in the front. There are no lights on. There are no lights on. Watch out for my dog. Your dog. You whistle and there's no immediate response. Okay. Dr. Lucius, you look down and he's covered in blood. He looks to be from the conversations you've heard as well. And you probably have an ex. He is a heroin addict. Oh. So he said methadone. Yes. You did say methadone. But you also know, you know, with heroin addicts to be careful. So you're probably putting on gloves I would imagine. The surgical gloves and. The silver bullet. Silver bullet. Oh yeah, because everybody knows to kill an heroin addict. Okay. Is that silver bullet? Right. There's no such thing as wearables. Right. Is there a full move tonight? I don't believe this is the night of a full move. I have to look to be honest. I can make something up and say it's. Is it the ominous weather like loose yet or? It's a gibbous move. So it's recorded. Sorry? The rain gets worse better. The rain's getting harder. So yeah, I mean, you're getting rained on and you're trying to, you know, basically see clearly. The two of you hit the house roughly around the same time. You'd be in naturally first if you didn't wait for him to get around to the back side. Well, we're using push to talk, right? Go. Right. And I'm assuming that you don't have the plugs that deeply in your ears. Well, no. I mean, it's not blacking out. It'll sound like blacking out bees. Right. Do you have any shotguns in your trunk? I prefer. I actually do have a shotgun. I have a sniper rifle as well. Is that what you have? I mean, are you taking his shotgun from his? Yes. You are. Well, how busy is this street right now? In the time since the car stopped. I won't take out the shotgun because it's way too obvious. Okay. I have a shotgun in my truck in a sniper in the house, but I'm not taking it either. I just don't know what the gun is. Lucius, as you bend down, thank you, as you bend down to, uh, to examine side street building and inject it, right? Right. I'm just saying, in your noticing well, Kate, there's, you know, cars slowing down in the heavy, or they're slowing down because of the heavy rain anyways. And then there's certainly, I mean, it's, it's definitely. What's going on? Yeah. What's going on? It's definitely rubber necking. Um, it's, you guys are out of the intersection now, but they're definitely slowing down through the intersection. There's other traffic coming crossways and, you know, slowing down as well. Uh, just so you know that this isn't, uh, anything that's a, you know, a clandestine effort, at least on the street. Right. As far as the house goes, because of the heavy rain, it actually probably benefits you. Mm-hmm. Because it's set back a little ways. It's overgrown, and two guys, you know, carrying weapons, each small hand pistols might not be as noticed as they would normally be in a bright time deck. Yeah, I mean, there's some degree we have it down by the side until we're at the door. Right. Yeah. You have to go through it right. We go in. Okay. His car is like, or her car is basically like something like this with the, uh... Yeah. And you're like parked in front of her. No, I said I pulled over to the side of the street. So like this? Yeah. Like opposite side? Right. Okay, gotcha. Whatever, you know. So she's on the side closest to your safe house. Mm-hmm. You're on the opposite side, turn the lights off. Right. Yeah. And side street, Billy... But she still has... She said she was leaving the flat, the emergency zone in the back, like red, right? Right. She had her hazards on, and she did have her brake lights on. She had her emergency brake light on. So there is light to deal with for you. And you basically bend down and stick it with the... I mean, everything that's going on, my goal is to inject them as quickly as possible and, you know, haul them off to the nearest set of bushes or over the side or the trees. Okay. Whatever. You can actually most likely do that before they even hit the house. You inject them with the needle of methadone. Or whatever. You grab them by the shoulders, you drag them on to the curb. There actually happens to be some pretty heavy hedges there. So as you drag him over, you do have some concealment. There's no one walking down the street. Yes. Then I'm just going to give him a quick one sort of a while he's in there. Right. So you can go ahead and make a, like, out of the hospital medical role. And I'll give you some winuses once you get your pool together. And the two of you, you're still watching him. Do you have it? Do you have it? No. I'll take in that, um, the side street guy that had another premonition. Maybe that's why he went to the house. Came to warn us or something. But she talked about... Yeah. Sorry. You guys talked about his psychic premonition. But if he's not, if he's bloody something, bloody no. Um, could I move toward the front door and keep an eye on the doctor from where the doctor just moved? The doctor, yeah, bent, injected, shouldered, pulled on to the tree lawn. The tree lawn. And there's some heavy hedges there, which is why you didn't see him dashing out. So it's a perfect place to, to, uh, conceal him from the main traffic. So you can step up further now on the sidewalk, be that much closer to the house, and still be watching the doctor. You got your nice pool? Yes. Ten. It's, uh... Wow. Yeah. It's five medicine. Two dexterity, one for emergency care, and I have my medical bag, which is... Sure. Plus. Minus two dice tolls. Heavy clothing and nasty conditions. Keep forgetting him. He's good at being a doctor. Yes. That's what he does. What I do. Uh, I'm just not going to get one dice. That's good with werewolves. One success. Two successes. And if I'm not mistaken, Greg, Dr. Lucius takes a minute performing this... Bingo. This diagnosis. Yes. Okay. So, as Dr. Lucius kneels down and makes his diagnosis and starts checking out Side Street Billy, one, two, three, go. You hit the front of the house where the door is open. You were standing, I would imagine, off to the side. You come through with your pistol, uh, at the ready. Pistol and flashlight. Right. Pistol and flashlight. Typical FBI or police officer maneuver. Uh, I would imagine that you would be doing the same as a soldier trained as well. Yes, I enter military training. Same. Right. Same thing. Kick open. That's the kitchen. Scatter them, clear. You know, quickly. Clear. Clear. Right. I'm turning on the lights though. The front, you're, you're moving to the, uh, what ends up being like the main living room of this one story. Little, you know, hobble. That, that you're a bungalow. That you're, um, hiding out at. And you can see blood. You can see blood coming from a hallway that leads from the back of this room towards the kitchen. And it also leads off to the bedrooms. There is definitely blood into the living room from that hallway. And then steps of blood as someone walked through, uh, the blood as well. That's your just, your initial three second, you know, there we go. You then go. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I think going through, if both of us have gone through, the first thing we do is take a deep breath to see if it's safe to turn down the light. Oh, yeah. Considering that we almost got blown off last time. Right. So. Well, you, you can smell it though, can't you? That's what I'm saying. Right. They put the smell into it so that you can smell it. Um, so we can, I'm just saying, we would take, uh, immediately reaching over and flipping the light switch. We would just take a sip and then. Darn it. Not my head. You got, not kidding. Uh, there's no smell of, uh, CO. You flip on the white. You're, you're, you're flash like shining. You can see in the distance, you know, it'd be 20, 30 feet away. You can see Jay, you know, coming through the back door. You can see him come through the front door. And it glooms to each other because there's only one long hallway connecting, uh, these two rooms. And then there's a bunch, there's two bedrooms off the side. There's a door to the basement. You don't see any blood at all in the kitchen. The kitchen looks pretty much undisturbed from the time you left it this morning. You know what there was? There was a, this was a bungalow, but I believe it was a two level bungalow. There's a stairway on your left hand side going upstairs that some people crashed in. There was a bathroom up there as well. There's two bedrooms and a bath up there. Then there was this living room, a stretch hallway, blood. There was a bathroom on one side and two bedrooms on another, on the right hand side. So that's near left, two bedrooms to your right from choose view. From your view from the kitchen, it would be two bedrooms to the left, one to the right. The stairs are to your left. I'm talking about in the hallway that's going through the kitchen. Okay? So there's stairs in your left as soon as you immediately walk in the door. Then at the back end of the room, there's a, there's a passageway leading to the kitchen. On your right, there's two bedroom doors. On your left, there was a bathroom door. There's blood coming, there's blood just all that hallway. It's too dark to tell right now what's going on. There's blood stretching into the living room and there's steps of blood coming out towards you and through the, you know, through the room. This is an initial three second. Just open up your eyes. You're in the house. This is what you see. We left John Beamer in a particular room. You left him on a lower level bedroom. We also know that the dog's probably somewhere in the house. Right. Just so if something moves. We don't hear anything at all. Nothing in the initial three seconds. And you both can make initiative for all. So that's nine. B's. Thirteen. Throws a little bit. Thirteen. What? Nine. Okay. Chew. You may go first. You came in, you flipped on a light that was right by the entryway. We'll say it was a wall switch that you flipped on. The light comes on in the living room. There's a stairway leading upstairs. There's blood in the hallway. There's blood on the stairway at all. No. Okay. I'm going to go in the room where we left John. Okay. So you race across the living room. John was in the second bedroom, the one closer to the kitchen. Just in case you need to get up and get some food. The door is open. And as you move down the hallway, I need you to make a dexterity plus athletics role, please. Let me know when you have your dice pull. Exterity plus athletics. Yes. Okay. Okay. Now subtract two dice due to the extreme slipperiness of the blood strewn hallway. It's actually much thicker than you thought in existence in the darkness. Okay. Good. One's success. All right. So you slip, catch yourself on the doorframe. Look into John's room. And you see a, well, you see a horrific sight. It's the sight that you see in your slasher serial killer training that you've done. You can't even, honestly, you can't even find his body. There's a couple pieces, like something that looks like a hand there. You see his iPhone on the floor next to where, what looks to be like a, like a, like some fingers and like a, like a severed off at the wrist. You see what looks like a clump of hair. You see blood just up and down the walls. Like it had been swords or, you know, huge knives. And it was just, you see what's called, you know, different types of blood spatter. You know, high velocity, low velocity, and medium velocity. All three types of blood spatter, your training mind, you know, just breaks it down. Even though it's a horror of looking at what you think is someone who you knew for the last six weeks or so through your training and your first two weeks here in Cleveland. But what it just looks like his, he's just been just chopped to pieces. And then part of most of him removed. So what do you do as you react so you see two slipping down the hallway and he grabs on a door frame. And you see him wretch a little bit, but catches himself because he's trained in this and this is what he does. But that's what you see. I was going to start moving in the same direction, but he's moving faster. So I was going to swing around behind him and watch his back while he checked it. All right. I don't think I can stop myself from looking if I thought this would be terrible to happen. So I probably look as well. Well, the tile in the kitchen was black or a darker color and the hallways darker. The living room was lighter colored wood, which is why he was able to detect it when he first came in plus he flipped the light on. But you hit the hallway not realizing just how thick the blood is and you need to make a dexterity plus athletics role as well. Okay. Let me know when you have your dice call and let me know if you can do anything else. Showcaseings on the floor at all. You know, I didn't give you a chance to take an action. So use your investigation skill. Go ahead and make your role now while I'm talking to, uh, while I'm talking to Jack. Okay. I got my pull. I'm not going to spend anything. Okay. Mine is too nice because the gore, the sticky gore on the, on the ground. Oh. Got a 10 again. So one success. Okay. Enough for you to almost slide. You catch yourself the door frame in the back of the shoe and you look into the room and you just, again, see something that was like out of a horror movie or something out of Iraq where there was an IED and someone just disintegrated with the explosion of, of the roadside bomb. It's something along those lines. It's, it's, it's pieces of limbs left and that's it. It's horrifying. Go ahead. See if there's any spare shell casings in the floor. No. You see all three types of velocities splatter, but you do not see any shell casings on the floor, nor importantly in your quick deductive eye. The light's on in this room, by the way, making the scene even worse. You don't even see, uh, what would be like a fingerprint in the blood picking up shell casing. You know, sometimes you get that where they reach down and they pick up their shell casings. Afterward, you can actually see their fingerprints in the blood or smear what they tried to get it. None. Go ahead. I assume you thought John was fighting back and he might have taken some shots at whatever he was attacking. Not necessarily someone else's. Yeah. Try that. Do we know what's going on yet? Um, wow. It's the six seconds of them going in the house. So it's really fast and there's been no time for, no one's responded on a quick or a quick to talk about it. I don't know if I could provide myself from losing it, you know, like vomiting or even keeping irrational thought if I truly thought it was John. But if I could, if I could. I'm going to assume that because you spent a couple of years in Iraq and you've known them for six weeks, maybe if it was a brother or something like that, or a family member, it would have been really difficult. But I'm going to assume that you're able to hold your door, um, or, you know, the vomit just because you've been in this before. But if you want to role-play, you're allowed to. No, I've been role-playing throughout the adventure that it is my job to keep these guys safe. And this was the guy that was working with me. And that sense, it would affect me. But what I would look for is some kind of proof that it wasn't him, that, you know, that something else happened here. Right. You know. And three seconds. No, it wasn't John. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I don't see a body that says it's John. So I'd probably be in denial. At first. Trying to find some proof that it wasn't him. Right. It's not him. It's not him. Right. You don't see him. It's not him. So it's going to now be the third turn. You go first, you. Um, we're going to keep this in turns until any threat that may or may not be present is, is done. Yeah. Um. Well, I don't know. I think this is John. But I was okay. Done this to him. So I'm probably going against not him. No, it's John. I mean, there's his phone. Um, should we make sure the rest of the houses is clear? Um, we haven't played in a while. No, who did it? Excuse me real quick. What? Let me just interject. Did it. Let me just interject real quick. Okay. You are a trained investigator. I mean, you certainly haven't had a chance to use your investigations to go that much. When there is a scene of the crime, there is a number of clues or information that you can gather from it. Oh, yeah. Sure. The number might be five. It might be eight. It might be ten. You don't know. You could stop rolling after two successes, I believe, is what you have. And I can give you what you have so far, which is there's some hair. There's some pieces of body and there's his phone and there's no fingerprints. That's what you've got so far. You can either go away and come back later, or you can continue to investigate. And you will continue to get clues until either you stop investigating because you don't know when the clues stop, or there are no more clues to get. I'm definitely going to investigate more, but I don't feel safe right here. Yes, that's okay. I want to make sure I got that out so you didn't think that one role covered everything in the room. Oh, I know. There's a whole bunch more to do. Right. Now, please go back to your discussion of whether you're safe or not and how to handle it. For our listeners, we'd like to bring up the speed we've had one of our players dial in over Skype. Please introduce yourself. This is Mike playing Michael Clay. Thank you, Michael. And back to the action. So basically, a wolf has killed another character. Possibly. Well, I guess I will go over and help out Lucius if he needs it. I'll get it as a way. You know how both doctors are? Not again. But I'm trying to remember. I think I'm not at all thrilled with a werewolf, so. Not many people are getting back to the actual scene. Shoo. You're staring into the room. Yeah, I don't feel safe in our safe house. I think we should go. That's an obvious. Right. I agree. I'm also, I mean, we have to find some place to be a little safer, and then we're going to call Mr. Tate or have him call us. I'm beginning to suspect our lovely J or someone is leaking information here. I mean, sure it can be the bees, but can we even trust them anymore? They send us to a place where one of us potentially just got killed. Are we talking over the yuck? Well, we're discussing in the house, I'm sorry. Right, that's a good question now, but was pushing talk or not? That's not always fine. That's why personally, I think we should be done with this assignment. I mean, one of the many reasons why we should be done. First of all, I want to make sure this situation is under control here. We want to finish this house, and then you can come back here and scope out and get any information you can. I'm sure I'm clicking and going. Status. Can we bring the site show in the house here? It's kind of ringing in here. It's doctor things. Yeah, we got an idea to bring the site show in the house. It's fine. Doctor's not quite done with this. I've got some serious questions for that and all that fucking. Yeah, clear the upstairs and downstairs. I want to walk around the house, and I got a marking around the house that I use for putting my spell on. I want to make sure there's nothing physically broken on it or it looks like somebody messed up the circle or whatever they throw on the house. Right. You use some holy water if you walked around and blessed the house, and you'll do that in a bit, but the minute hasn't even passed yet that the doctor searched him. What's happening in the house is happening at a much slower rate as what's happening on the street. It's going to take a full minute. For Dr. Lucius, here we've got about 15 seconds in the past. So we still have a little bit of time in the house. What are you doing to you? You have a door next to a door open next to the room that John Beamer was in. You have a bathroom behind you with the doors closed and you have an entire upstairs and you have a crime scene, obviously. And do you have trampled over? Let's want to check out the other rooms for now. We set up a systematic way of covering each other and checking out for our styles. I open the door and he goes in and clears it. Okay. Then I close the door. It covers the doors. It's knocked the door open. You look into the next room. You'll have any partners alive still, do you? No, but I'm still alive. You look into the next room, the next bedroom over. The light is off in there and you can't see much because it's very dark. It's dark rainy day. So that door is open. You're standing right next to the doorway. I reach and turn on the light from cover. And you're also looking with your gun which has the flashlight attached to it or you're holding both at once. So you look in and you see on the floor a dog that had its... It looks like it's dead. It's lying in a puddle of blood and it seems to be bleeding from a wound to its neck. I tell Sister Katie that it looks like her dog's damaged. You burn that beat this guy out here. He might get damaged too. I'm sorry, that was the bathroom? No, that was the next bedroom. The dog was probably just laying in the bed. It looks like to your practice die. It was laying in the bed, heard something came out and got its throat slashed. It was slashed across. There was definitely a slash across the throat. Not shot or... Seemingly not, but again, in a quick... Is there any blood in here or any footprints of blood? In that room? No. There's no bloody footprints. Not in that room with the dog. No. Okay. That's probably done first. Okay. So you guys then check the bathroom that has a door locked and there's nothing there. You then go upstairs and clear the upstairs. Right. Nothing. Nothing. Alright. That's it. That's probably two. I'm not checking the base. Yeah. At that point, go ahead and make your roll. Looshes for one of them. There is a basement. It's more like a little cellar than it is a full basement. Let's just with having a check to CO2, not that we're going to stay here any much longer. I don't see a point of it. But I'm curious to see if this CO2 was left on because that's kind of the column card of the B people. Alright. Okay. We'll finish with the basement. What exactly am I rolling for? Just your outdoor medical appraisal. You actually made that roll didn't you? Yeah. Alright. I'm starting to write. Yeah. Two successes. As you're checking his body out, he's malnourished. And being a severe heroin addict, which has its own set of complications. You don't see anything that looks like there should be a reason for all this blood. The blood seems secondary. Not his. Not his. Hmm. I can make him bleed. Hmm. I wonder if somebody tricked him in here and then... Does he have any weapons? Well, we'll search him and work for weapons. No weapons. Look for bees in his ears. [laughter] Well, he is an attachment, correct? He's untied. I'm serious. This is one of those situations where Billy shows up unannounced because of his premonitions and maybe he just arrived on the scene after the fact. It certainly happened before seemingly. Does he have any blood under his nails or teeth or... No. He could have slipped in the blood like Chew almost did and then stumbled out. Hmm. You tell me, does he have blood under his nails? No, I'm checking. Right. When you got a second chew, if you can investigate the room, John was killed in to see if there's any obvious animal like claw marks anywhere in the room or any animal fur or something. It seems to be fur. There seems to be blood underneath his fingernails. Did you clarify about the body parts? Were they chewed off, torn off or sliced or cut off? That's a great question, Mike. Unfortunately, for your characters, Chew has not done a thorough investigation. Just a six second investigation to kind of look over the room before. We were locked down in the house first. Yeah, they wanted to make sure it was locked down beforehand. Gotcha. Thanks. Sure. So we checked the basement and CO2 levels fine. Okay. No bombs. No bombs. And again, I'm going to go around the house and check the warranty made around the house to see if anything smudged it or messed it up or obviously opened up. Is it still locked? Is it not up? Is it been compromised? It looks to you. You're going to have to make a roll for that. Make a benediction plus weights roll. And because of the bad weather, let's say take one die off of it. I'm going to take a sample of while he's doing that, while she's doing that. I'm taking a sample of Billy's blood. I take a sample of what's under the nails and the sample that's under the blood. You notice that he did have some personal possessions when you looked him over. You know, he has a wallet. It's empty. There's no idea in it. There's a dollar bill that's crumpled. There's a clinic in Ohio City. There's a card like from a doctor from a clinic. Maybe he gets his methadone from if he's tried to quit before. There's a card from the Cleveland Psychiatric Institute in his wall as well. Which you know that he had gone to after his friends had died in the motorcycle shop that they had owned that's now vitamin B. You also, there's some coins in his pocket. One of which seems unusual. Like a foreign coin, almost. Which you normally wouldn't think that of vagrant. You could understand him having two dimes and three pennies in his pocket, but not a coin from a foreign land. It's very odd. You don't know in this quick examination where this points from. The writing is very different from you. You can't quite figure it out. An old rusted pocket knife in his other pocket. You open it up because you're obviously investigating right now. Doesn't mean blood on it or anything. It just is rusted in old. There's definitely like a smell to it. You put your nose up to it. It smells like soup. Maybe he opens Kansas soup with it or something. You know, you're guessing. So that's what he has on him when you check his body for weapons, what you were doing. And make sure you didn't have anything major on him. I got three successes. Thank you. Katie, as you go around the house to the best of your knowledge, you don't believe that there's any reason that this house should have been compromised. There's no obvious magical or mundane seemingly means whoever walked through it or got through it seemed to just walk right through it, which shouldn't be possible according to what you know. It shouldn't be possible or they'd have to be freaking strong. Right. Wouldn't that shatter it? I don't know. It basically, it can't shatter the word of the Lord. Come on. Start talking like a religious person for crying out loud. If its strength is reduced by the amount of successes I had in it that the Lord's strength will waver, but you could never defeat the Lord. So if I had a five and it had more than a five-speed. I swear. You don't start talking like religion. I'm just going to give you minus experience points. It would be reduced. Right. In the eyes of the Lord. She's a hot man, but she talks like a guy. It talks like a bearded guy because they're all looking. Somebody who was entered and did not have any ill will or evilness in his heart could enter the place. I can. And then got some. Something could trigger. Something could trigger. Yeah. It could be. Yeah. Sure. There could be someone that was mind-controlled. So Seistree Billy is a heroin-addicted psychic werewolf. That's what we just killed our friend. He's not dead. That's not him. Okay. Those are other body parts. Have you ever done a full investigation? Do you see a body? I don't see a body. I see many parts. Well, babe. What do you want me to do with? Billy. I know. Okay. Just want to make sure you're new, isn't it? I'm trying to come up with a code word in case anybody's listening. Thanks. What do you want me to do with? Thanks. Actually, that would be a vampire. Probably should have been claws. Drag his ass in here. I have questions for him. Or his spot inside. I'm like, you're out there with Dr. Lucius. I'm assuming at this point. Jay announces to you both, you can't wake him up? I don't think that's wise. Did I care if it was wise? Can you wake him up or not? Dude, you wake him up. You can go ballistic again. Start turning through the fire. At least tie him up before you wake him up. Maybe we should take him back to the hospital. Yeah. Well, look around a little bit and see what happened there. You investigate what happened in the room. I have no problem with that. He's not going to the hospital until I get some answers. Because in the hospital, bad things happen and I don't get answers. Yeah, try to say out of the pools of blood. All right. So, there's too many footprints around here. Well, no one's in there yet. I don't think. They're bringing... Oh, okay. She was walking around the outside. Lucius is still outside. Life is on the outside. Life is on the outside too. I'm probably helping him pick up... I think your dog needs the power of the Lord. I'm just saying, it's your dog. Seemingly. All right. The dog was slashed, you said, not torn apart? Correct. See, that could have been placed as a human agent or a mundane agent, right? Because they're using weapons, not using super damage. You think claws would tear more than slash? They're like razor sharp claws. Well, when I hear slash, I think of a blade. Like a long claw? No, I think of like a clean cut when you hear a slash. I think it comes in those. It's a slash on a three second look into it. For like the second, how about that? And until someone does more investigating, that's what we'll say it is for right now. Because I don't want to mislead you, Mike, in what it might be. But I just use the term slash because it did look like something sharp brought across. The throat of the dog. I'm going up. Okay. Check out my dog. I'm going back to the car to get ropes and you're ringing in Billy. Mike, would you like to help Lucius bring in side street Billy? Yes. Okay, so Lucius grabs the feet. You can grab under the pits and you carry him up. The rain slicked lawn through the bloody now dissipating footsteps on the concrete walkway. He's not being stopped by my benediction either. Are you helping? Huh? Are you helping? I'm sorry. I thought you went inside for the dog. I'm just asking if the benediction stopped them for bringing in or not. We'll get to that. How about that? Right now you're inside with your dog. You two carry him into the house. And as you're carrying him onto the, stepping up onto the porch way, he grimaces and makes like a groaning noise in his eyes open up. And you have him on the porch fully. So you don't know this yet. But to answer your question, he has not been stopped by entering into this home. And I gave him enough dope to knock him out, right? He should not be. Do I know? Well, I thought you were giving him to help him. No, I was doing it. The knock is ass out. Okay. That's a little bit. Methadone is usually... I do. I know. I said Thor, Zine, Methadone, morphine, anything I could think of. It's in my bag that I can knock. Okay. Okay. That's what I said. And if you said... No, no. That's okay. I'm all about wanting you to have the effect that you wanted. There's something I said. Sure. So his eyes open up blurly and he closes them again as the effects of the drug seem to be over weighing his ability to wake up at this point. He seems to fall back either into a very light unconsciousness or he's faking. Oh. And his eyes are closed though. And you and Michael carry him into the house and place him. I'm assuming on a couch or something in the living room. So you don't trample all over the... I'm seeing? Sure. That's on the hallway. You, unfortunately, Kate, have to walk down a little bit of the hallway to get to the bedroom and then your dog... I don't even want to look into the other room. Right. So that's... Luckily for you, that's the second door that had teemingly John Beamer. The first doorway, the lights on and your dog, unfortunately, laying there in a pool of its own blood. Totally. No way of... It's not like from cleaning on the life it's gone. Yeah. It died very quickly. It bled out very quickly. There were more than five minutes ago. More than five minutes ago. I can't say that. What was... What was this name? Her name is Leah. Oh. Leah. Thanks for listening to Nights of the Night at Action Play podcast. Visit kotnpodcast.com for more information on this and other adventures. 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