The time for action is now. Well, almost. Task Force S.I.R.E.N. prepares to meet their adversary, the mysterious beekeeper Benjamin. Believing he is responsible for Henry's condition and Ethan's near death the group has revenge on the their minds as they prepare to assault Benjamin's home and apiary...
Knights of the Night
KOTN Actual Play Podcast 06: Shit Luck: Ep. 7: "On Your Mark, Get Set, Wait!"
[Music] Hello and welcome to Night So The Night actual play podcast. This World of Darkness storyline shitlock was written and run by our storyteller Scott. And now, please enjoy chapter four, scene one, titled "On Airmark, Get Set, Wait." [Music] So we got some feedback from the iTunes page, on our podcast. The name of the reviewer was Chief Kunku Movie and it starts with the title of "It's About Time" and it continues. That a World of Darkness actual play podcast showed up on iTunes. The audio quality is good for an actual play podcast, most certainly for one just starting out. This game has a certain call of Cthulhu feel to it. Human investigators looking into an unexplained supernatural and trying to discover what actually is going on. Less hack and slash and more story driven than the usual AP actual play, podcast on iTunes. A refreshing change of pace each episode is short and the group moves the story along quite well. All in all I'm hooked and can't wait for the next episode. Well, I'll be sure everyone gets episode four. Well, four is a little longer. Which actually posted this after episode four was already out, but thank you Chief Kunku Movie for the feedback. Yeah, that's great glad you're enjoying the story and our style of play. This from Sanguine Lobster. Hey, I just thought I'd mention that you've got a pretty good actual play going on here. World of Darkness seems to lend itself pretty well to actual plays. Being a storytelling game and I hope you keep it up for your four E game. PS is K-O-T-N pronounced cotton like I assume it is. And is that meant to express that your group is comfortable and easily won? Posted by the Sanguine Lobster. Actually, no, as Mike posted on the response, K-O-T-N is short for the nights of the night and we don't really have a word for it. It's just K-O-T-N. I don't think it's like a reverse to cotton. It's shaped out to absorb it. There could be more space sticking in your ears. It could be synthetic. I guess it's gotten good work, I guess. All right, I think we've got to do your same thing. You don't like cotton. I'm wearing cotton right now. I'm not a reverse to cotton. Well, thanks to both posters for giving us feedback on our actual play podcast. We all appreciate that. I try to keep churning out good storylines and hopefully some entertaining podcasts to listen to. All right, so this is going to be chapter four of World of Darkness story, shitlock. I'm Tom playing Jonathan Alton and I was a former soldier in Iraq and a security specialist, basically a soldier in a profession. The world of darkness. My name is Mike and I'm playing Michael Clay, who is an academic adventurer who deals in artifacts. I'm by playing a shoe park, a rescue, a special investigator for the FBI. And Brian playing John Heamer. I'm a labor laid off blue collar versus a small crew this week. So when we left last week, I believe you were at the end of Oreo Court. That was a street that Benjamin lived on in the Victorian and you were looking into ways to potentially case his location. Or get more information. The doctor who's not here this evening, Lucius Miles and his assistant who's also not here this evening, Tony Bonadillo. However, the doctor, to be clear, got beat and there's an emergency surgery he's performed, which is why he had to leave in a hurry. He drove up to your cavalcade at the end of the streets doing your casing of Benjamin's home and then he got beat during the conversation. So he had to rush back to Lutheran. He took care of that. He wanted to use him with the meaning. You can remind him of how much that sucks next time you see him. May I make a suggestion? Whether we find a local Walmart, handyman store, Home Depot, Target. Maybe he'll purchase some supplies, mainly Ortho, Wasp and Hornet. I agree. I mean, we are fighting B2. Hairspray the lighter. Well, I was thinking more along the lines of maybe just having something, either camping gear and you can get in like small pocket sized as maybe something a little bit more effective than a firearm against anything being like a big suit. Well, B suits might be a little too conspicuous to be walking around in unless we can try to stay where performance are on the street. What else would keep these away? Fire. I'm thinking something a little more less damaging. I think ultra sonic frequencies. Tools that we can bring to the game. Well, we have two different things. I mean, one we can walk up to the guy's house and knock on the door and see if he's there. Chances are he's not going to be, but it's something we can do immediately. The other one is we have to wait around for this guy to call you to set up a meeting. So we don't have any, although we can do your get some beat defenses first. I probably use either of those. That's fine. I'm just seeing that maybe they all have a kind of spray that we can use as the last line of defense or poison or whatever. We don't have, I want to, sorry, I'm going to interrupt again, but the thing I was getting at is I have the ability to ingest drugs and bring out powers in myself. One of them is to see in the heat spectrum and I can do it to the level of I can tell the difference between the human and the non-human. Okay. So what you were mentioning before with your interview with this guy, that's something just let me get a little junk in the system and I might be able to help you with that. And I don't know the rest of you if you have any unusual abilities and or powers that might help. I mean, the doctor I know could re-door us or something similar to that. Unfortunately, he's busy in surgery, so that leaves us with us. I can rage, but I don't think that'll help in his beat. I have an artifact that I carry around with me, but it's precious to me. I don't like that. What does it do? I'm not entirely sure. That's kind of what I'm bringing down to the field to assess it. But it's called the subtle knife, and whether it's powers or have been fully revealed or explored. It's offensive to me. Kind of being a knife and all that. Yeah, well, I'm trying to offline you're trying to build a little bit of history, like, you know, the painting of the Last Supper. And if there's a dagger in that painting with the disembodied paint on it, it's that knife. And that this knife tends, or this dagger, tends to be involved in pretty great events. So, does it cut the owner's hand off with the wrist? One of the things is that it seems to be like a tool, or it can be a weapon, or I use it to carve out the knowledge. Maybe a sweater on toast? Sure. Let me get a toast. I had a question about if we have any police powers, and what I mean by that is in our... If I remember correctly, the storyteller said we have kind of a get out of jail free card if we really screw up. Right. But we don't necessarily have, you know, men in black flash the badges and, you know, come to the house. You actually, to reiterate from a couple of weeks back, you actually have Homeland Security IDs. It's your get out of jail free card one time. There's a number on it which leads back to Task 4 Siren headquarters, which will be, since it's a dedicated line of the answer differently than it normally would be. You know, Jay would answer it with a Homeland Security designation, and she would basically verify any story you had to tell. Once you did that, you were... I mean, the whole idea of this mission, as we remember from the Task 4 Siren, is to basically go deep cover and not be using this card, you know, your first week out in the field. So, you used it when you got pulled over for a room? I did. I thought, you know, I wasn't thinking. So, if you use it often enough, the police were eventually, obviously, on to what's going on, and you would lose a level of under-coveredness, which isn't really a word, but it is today. And it would really jeopardize your ability to go deep cover and to be able to get the information you want to be able to get. The enemy might make us. Exactly. So, I think you're suggesting that going someplace and getting some line of defense, that's a great one. There's no reason not to do that right now, as our first item of order. Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking of, there's the Ortho Spray that shoots a nice long stream up to 30 feet or 20 feet, and then... I researched this. Very good, sir. And then there's also the Smoker. The Smoker, almost like a smoke bomb where you're getting a nice smoke bomb. So, I'm just saying, if we were going anywhere, we're... You know, those hats with two beer cans, you could put, like, citronella candles on each other. Like, definitely. I'd tear you to come and tear you. Alright. But, I mean, getting some fun defense, those are great. I think we should do that first, and the second one, I would say, would be to go... I think I'd be Victorian, because the third one is waiting for a call, which we have no control over that timeline. Right. I mean, obviously, we can also try to break in. Or, we can take the direct approach. Benjamin seemed to know how to find Henry Jacobs in the first place. Well, if he does control bees, that's quite a, you know, number of scouts he has right there. That's true. Plus, if I'm not mistaken, Henry was the one that brought Benjamin. The Benjamin knowledge of the honeycomb might even be a company. No. Isn't that true? Isn't he the one that had the sale? Henry. The last sale he had was the... Yeah. It worked for vitamin B for three years. He went and made a sale... Three months ago. Three months ago, to Benjamin. To Benjamin. And it was a reciprocal trade. Right. It was, he sold him products, but Benjamin sold him raw honey products that they could use in their production of their vitamins and salves and poltuses and whatever else they make. So, and then at that point, when you asked him what was the last sale he made because he had been saying, "I haven't made a sale in three months." That's when he brought up Benjamin. That was the only connection. He never brought Benjamin up until you guys were the ones who basically said, "When was your last sale?" I mean, you haven't had a three month like this ever in your history. When was it? He said it was, "Well, I think it was, yeah, it was this B guy." You know, yeah, it was like right around the corner. And it was, I think his name was, and so you kind of started putting, I don't think he knew his name, could remember his name, but then John did a search for beekeepers in Ohio City and came up with the name Benjamin, a couple of, well, in game terms, it was yesterday. Basically just did a Google search and found him listed on someone's blog somewhere, and that's where you learn the name Benjamin and kind of started to narrow down where he lived at that point. There may be another also take to this too, and that is usually when two, at least from what I read, when two hives occupy the same territory and they tend to go after each other. So maybe we're in the middle of a turf war. Just a consideration, so maybe wouldn't be too safe to go directly to Benjamin. So I'm just, I don't know which one would knock out more information or lead us. Well I'm sitting in this car talking about it, and getting as anything though. It's probably about 11 a.m. now you spend about a half hour so far in the car chatting, and that's where you're at currently. May 2nd, 11 a.m. I want to see what's going on in that backyard, but he has pretty high fences. And trees lining the fences on his side of the property that are oddly in bloom at this time. This is early spring, and his trees look like they're late spring at this point. So I mean there's a gate right next to the house. Some of us could go to the front door and knock, and the door tried to draw his attention, so I could sneak over that. Speaking of the gate, I'm sorry. Chew had asked what was on the gate. We've got pictures. There's a picture of the crest. There was a crest on the gate, and that was the crest on the iron rot gate. Was there land or something? What is this? Well I can't tell you what it is, because what you see, and you don't know what it is. Or perhaps you do, or your character does, but I'll tell you what. You can pass along a table if you would, Bob. You can all make an occult plus wits roll. You may not switch investigation for that, Bob. It has to be a cult plus wits. And, wait, wait, wait, wait, before you do that. Hopefully you got no successes to get to every roll again. Yeah. It was two. Oh, it was two successes, sorry. I was going to say, and because of the difficulty of just pulling this out of your rear end, looking at a crest and saying, oh, that's, I'm going to say, I'm going to subtract one die from the dice pool. So you can still have success, John, because if you had two successes. No, if you had two successes though, even if I removed one die. Even if there was a success, you still had a success. I don't want to penalize you for making the roll. So you have one success, and everyone else can make an occult plus wits roll. So obviously, the more successes, the more information you get. Um, three minus one, two. May I just remind you that the power of my artifact was the encyclopedic knowledge? I got one. One success is zero. The second roll is a failure. So a total one. One success, one success. Or a lot of nothing. Okay. Bob, did you make a choose roll to see you? Was that possible? It is possible. You still get to roll a chance die whenever you roll. A ten is a success, and a one is a critical failure. I mean, but how much can you really critical failure in this particular instance? You can just dispute everyone else and say, "No, it's this." So you can still roll until you get a ten for success if you want. Okay. Did you get a critical failure? No. Okay. Well, what kind of just critical failure? A one on a chance roll. Or by my house rules, it has to be a chance roll. Oh, okay. One die. Basically, you go to zero dice, and you make it at that point. You still get to roll a die, but it's called a chance die. That's right. You need a ten for success, not an eight, nine or ten. But if you roll a one, it's a critical failure. However, I have a house rule that if you roll all ones, no matter how many dice you have, it's also a critical failure. I didn't roll a one. But not all ones. No. Okay. Then you're fine. Okay. So you both believe meanings are like Jonathan and John. You both believe that this is the crest of the plantard family, which is a medieval family that's kind of, it's tied into a lot to, well, you know, with one success instead of trying to describe it, I'll let you guys do the research in character. But we'll just say that it struck you as once when you were reading in a cult tomb or some book of knowledge, you ran across this crest before, and it was a crest of the plantard family. P-L-A-N-T-A-R-D family crest. Was it something new to the diagram? And you know that the one other thing you know is that at the top of the crest, there were 11 bees, which were significant during both medieval occult knowledge and actually ancient, whether it be Egyptian or even further back. 11 bees was a special occult number thought to bring good luck and success. Okay. But you say it's just the number 11 or specifically 11 bees? Specifically 11 bees. That was great. Okay. So the first step was go get some bug killing thing. All right. We'll say that you make a quick trip. You want to be sure of, and you're still new to Ohio City, and you want to be sure that you're looking for it, so you go to Steelyard Commons, which is right off of 71 southbound. You go to the Target store there. Yeah. These products should be available at any of the homes first. Right. Home Depot. Exactly. So there's a Target there. Right. That's the closest one. There's a Lowe's and a Home Depot. They're a little further out in the burbs, but this is located right in your area. You go to the Target at Steelyard Commons, and you purchase yourself. What? You go in, and he and I will stay on the car and research the plantain thing on the plantard thing. It's a plantain. I was thinking that we would be at one of each, basically there are a couple of sprays that have a 20 to 30 foot stream range. Would they work on this? Yes. How many cans of that? I would say a total of, if there's like a 12 pack, or if there's any like an industrial. Contractor pack. Contractor pack. I'm going to get a bit to investigate. And also, I would ask for a couple of the smokers. Where you kind of light it and put it in the thing and it blows the smoke into it. If you're doing a research on something like that, would it be an investigation? Or would it be some other skill? It depends on what you're using. Your phone is probably what could be. Yeah. And computers. It would be computers plus. All right. I'm going to say wait. I don't have one. It's kind of about anybody. Anybody's better. I don't have one. Yeah. You guys are not. You are going to use computer literate in life, but unfortunately not in the game. All right. Anybody got higher wits than two. Three. I have three. Well, I can use academics, maybe. And I have. So why don't you use specialty in research? Why doesn't you and John research it and I'll go in the stores. If I can use my gun to research. Go to libraries. Give me the answer. You guys stay because you've got a better shot of research and we'll go live. Researching these off on the place. Shop on earth. Michael. Hm? The plant tar? The plant tar. Yes. What do you say like that? I just look it over your name. That's the tweet, isn't it? It's kind of. Yeah. I picked that picture from him, the tweet on purpose. It was very interesting. Have you sent you multiple links? I am an academic adventure of artifacts. And a tweet jacket just fits. Policy's from Austin. From Austin. So, you know, he's got to be a little bit innocent. And I picked out. Alright. So, they're going to do research. Yeah. So, they'll do the research and you're getting how many bottles. I'm sorry. Once again, how many bottles of spray? Ten of the stream sprays and five of the smoke spray. Right. I believe when you go to the shelf, they are sold out. As if someone knew you were coming and removed. All of the, no, I'm just kidding. Ten bottles is fine. And, um, the mystery thickens. Yeah. I didn't know both of them. I always believe it. Yes. Of course they have countered us. Right. Thought of this. Yeah. Okay. You two learn Chu and John Beemer in the car while you're basically doing some quick Googling and Wikipediaing. You learn that Pierre Plantard was a Frenchman. And back in the 60s, he was the one who perpetrated the legend of the Priory of Sion, which is if you're familiar with any of the novels by that hack. What's. Dan Brown. Thank you. Dan Brown. How could you forget a pedestrian name like that? Dan Brown. I'm just attacking this guy in all levels, aren't you? Right. And Manaro the same story four different times. I keep selling it. Right. And you mean the multi-millionaire, world-known? Right. So renowned. Richard that I ever could hope to be. Right. Yeah, that guy. He's a Pierre Plantard is an individual who basically perpetrated and created that myth of the Priory of Sion. And he also claimed to be derived from the. Merovingians. Merovingian dynasty, which is a middle-aged type of dynasty that had the best way to describe it much. Can you describe it a little better than that? Yeah, they actually weren't. They were the. Well, this actually ties into sort of the history of what I'm about. They were, I believe they were the originators or they were the last members of what were the Templars. The Templars. But they also believed that if I'm not mistaken, that they're derived, they're actual physical sons, you know, basically an ancestry from Jesus Christ. Yeah, their big thing was that they protected and guarded the secret Christ's bloodline. The secret of Jesus's bloodline. Right. So he's crazy? No. His progeny, his children, which is, of course, a pop or a pop. And so, thank you, heresy. Which is a heresy. So that's what you learned. You learned that the Plantards were a real family and they believed that they, or at least, led on that they believed that they were a bloodline that came from the Middle East. It's also where we get the Triscadeca phobia, the fear of Friday the 13. Because that's when those are related to Templars. The second Holy Emperor Constantine arranged all of the Templars to be killed all at the same time and the same. All across, I think, all of that, I think it was the Middle East where they were at the time. But that all happened on Friday the 13th. So that particular crest upon the gate is from a family who believed themselves to be derived from Jesus Christ's bloodline. Okay. Whoa. There was a new symbolism that was occult nature, being the bears reaching up towards the love and honeybees that were known to bring good luck in ancient Egyptian times. I believe one of the Egyptian gods, Ra, was said to, yeah, when he cried, his tears were bees. Bees were very important historically. That symbol on the center. That's not a Florida lord. It's a Florida lei. I think is that? Where do you see that? Florida. The Florida lei. Thank you. French, which is where the whole, probably the whole Merrimin-Gien thing. Any significance? Actually, I just think of Boy Scouts when I see him. Right. What does it say? I can't read the Latin there. That's something, something. Yeah, you know, if you had a newer iPhone with a higher definition camera. Right. You were taking a picture from a distance, to be fair. It says lorem, it's some, lorem and some lorem and some smack-daddy bears eating. I don't know. I don't know. I would. I'll play out last one. What was the significance of the bears? The bears like honey. The bears like honey. The Winnie and the Pooh. The bears were also very important in many of the medieval and in some of the even older ancient occult beliefs. And just the everyday beliefs, the people, the bears and bees were interrelated, of course, because the bears enjoyed the bee honey. But also because they were both seen as just, in different reasons, bees were saw in nature. Yeah, basically forces of nature. The bees were seen as very economical, very workman-like, very organized. And of course beeswax honey, you know, pollinators to help with crops. I mean, they were very important in history. Honey was also, and many of the bee products were seen to be healing devices or healing, you know, salve or drinks or whatever. They used honey for those types of purposes. And bears were, of course, seen in body, you know, a fierce part of nature. And we're very, the bears also got like in some of the earlier ancient civilizations. The bears also appear to have writing on their collars. I don't know if they have collars as important, but I can't. I'm sure once we analyze this, we'll get a much higher res picture. And these look like dates under their feet. Sixteen, any one? Well, I look like 14-0 in the bee, but I don't know, right? To me, pouring over academic journals to really actually unrelated. No, in Israel, I just picked up a book on an impulse body, and I wish I would have brought it. But it's an absolute 16-0 one. It's the Encyclopedia of Secret Societies. And I had just been reading a whole section on the prairie of the scion and learning about plantard and all this other stuff, and it was pretty fascinating. Well, we'll just assume that your character's been doing the same reading. He's been doing the same reading, because he is an occult. Yeah, I think you did read about it. So, Michael playing going on? You are now departing the deal yard comments. You've got your ten bottles of ortho, bug killer, wasp, flying, stinging bees. And you've got some smoke. Well, I don't want to be filled with a big one with toilet paper and eggs. I've got a bee problem. So what's next on your agenda? Distributed to everyone to make sure that we all have one bomb and maybe one or two of the cans. Whether we, I don't know how it would carry them around without being too blazing. We would only need them. Yeah, I mean, a can, you could jam in a pocket. Sure. It's spring, right? So it's cold. We have to have some kind of jacket. Sure. And some of us are in need. It's a little proof of us underneath, so there's got to be. There, I don't have for lunch break. So where do you head after? Nice catch. The next step was back to the Victoria Mills. Back to Oreo Court. Yeah. Which we'll say it's around noon now. But that was second time. I mean, so there, right? Right. Okay, so. You're back at Oreo Court. What's the plan? Like I said, I've got the ability. Well, actually I've got a couple of different abilities. Now, last night I went visiting the boys. And what? Nothing. Only funny, you're seeking society. Don't make fun of money. I don't judge you and your choices and what you've done. And so I have three different abilities. Each of them tied to different drugs I must consume. One of them is the infrared spectrum. Another is just a heightened perception of what I can see. But a third one is specific. Almost online to identifying the source of a magic that a person would have. All of these are costly to me. And shouldn't be taking lightly. Could be taken as. Or. Yes. Well. Effort. Side effect. Side effect. Yeah. And maybe we should say for a more controlled environment. Right. Right. Stroke. Was it good? Yeah. I mean, I don't want to chuck anything down and then knock on the door and he's not home. So, at this point I guess we'll stay away from that. And we'll possibly go with the choose ability if we need to. This guy's even here. Did we want to go with two people going to the door and trying to sneak around the side? Because if we look at the map, if we're at the front door, the side entrance into the back yard is on the left side there. Well, we're just thinking too. I don't know that we are. I'm just suggesting someone might take a look in the back yard while we are back in front door. Perhaps we should, which leaves me at the front door. Exactly. Perhaps we should just take the up front. And open approach. Two people at the door. Maybe two others backing up by the sidewalk within the dashing distance or when we go talk to them. Okay. Let's talk about it. Bees. I'm Henry Jacobs. And, um, I can't answer your question. I mean, that's a good question. I mean, what's our cover story? All right. If we're having two people stay farther back, I would suggest I'm one of them because me tapping a vein while we're trying to, if he does show up and we want to take a reading on him, I'm not going to do the front door. Who does tend to kill conversation? Pretty much. Or started. So who's good at, yeah, I don't even think she's good at really interrogating people. He's more of a, you know, people first know you too. Do you? I thought you were a forensic kind of guy. Maybe a little bull. I've got a empathy going on. I have a little pursuit. I've got two procedures, which was the only one that was done. And I have a pretty strong presence. All right. So who's going to the front door? Sounds like those two. I'll go to the front door. Okay. Chew and Michael. Go to the front door. John and Jonathan. Jay. Jay. Where will you be stationed? In front of his house, if possible. You're pulling the two sets of cars down to right in front of his house. If possible. As close as we can get. Because I thought you said there was a parent in front of it. So what's the story? I would say, you know, we'll do what we can do from a distance to keep an eye on you. But you go up there and ask him, maybe bring up Henry. Maybe say that, you know, should you want me to? Because that's kind of big. Oh, you know what? We could also. If anything, you're going to see a reaction from him, if he was involved in it all. I would say, but then he's going to know that we know. Well, you could say. You won't know. Say you're from, but it could be. Extra points for Ryan. Oh, what? We definitely have to get a good picture of this guy though. Because one of the bartenders say that he knew he would not grab goofy. Right. He would definitely be able to recognize him. So if we see him, we get a picture of him. Which sounds good. We'll want to buy some supplies out there. So they were from... Henry Jacob said it was a good stuff. Well, not only that, we said that... We got to be excellent. We got to work from the Honeycomb building and that, unfortunately, he's had an unfortunate accident. And now we're just following up with some of his... Or you haven't seen him. Or you haven't seen him. Right. That's what you don't see better. Is he recovering from the gunshot yet? Right. Being hit by a car. I did that twice. I did that with the other guy, but he had the one. We're in the premier kill the battery state. So you have your first sight? It's recovering from the attack yet. Hey, where are you two? Where's John and Jake going to be? We're in the car. I want to be close so I can, if I have to whip out a power, that, you know, he's there. Right. So you and John are going to be in the front seat of a... You might be in the back seat so we're both on the passenger's side so that he could see... Give me on the driver's side. I'm mad if we're parked in front of his house. You're going to be parked across the street, sorry, for many times. The hydrants on his side. Okay. So one of us can take a picture and the other one can get a... With a real camera. Imagine. Yeah. That one's stuck as a camera. You have 10 megapixel ultra zoom. 40 exit. Good stuff. All right. So one of you, who has a camera? John Beamer, who has a camera? And Jonathan, what are you doing? I'm just kind of scoping a lot. If he shows up, I'm probably going to do a quick read on him. All right. So moving forward. I'm going to have the camera get out the door so it opens it. I can snap it real quick and put it down so it doesn't see me staring out of it again. You won't. As you can see from the picture of the Victorian, again, it's very overgrown yard. Lots of pines. Oh, I see how you whisked trees of all sorts that are just overgrown. Obviously, they haven't been cut back in years. You know, and truthfully, when you walk up to the area, there's flowers already in bloom. It's very verdant, you know, nice smell to the property. But definitely the grass is a couple of inches high. It's just unkempt. Well, I'm going to try to get a soil sample real quick. From the grass? Or be like, you know, from the front lawn? Yeah. I think there's like mulch. Yeah. You just want your pocket or do you have like a bag that you want to put in, like a baggy? Whoa, I'm going to be an investigation. Oh, you've got a passing bag. Yeah, zip-lock bag. Okay, so you walk from the car to the sidewalk, stop on his front lawn, pick up some soil samples and grass and some soil, and continue on up to the front walkway. Yeah, I am a sawed-off shotgun stoner way. Right. Well, you're over, basically, and a handgun on your waist, maybe? In the back. In the back. All right. It's tough. You notice as you're walking up the front path, you go up the sidewalk, up the front path, and you notice that with all the overgrown trees and bushes, as it leads up to that front porch area you can see from the picture, you can see that there are a ton of places to hide. I mean, it's a creepy feeling walking up the stairway, as you know that this is, or walking up the front path, as you know this is somebody who, or at least you believe this is somebody who has the power to make people drive through windows in their cars and try to kill other people. So coming up to this old Victorian where all the windows are kind of, you know, have their shades pulled, you know, this overgrown greenery that just has all kinds of places where someone can jump out of the bins itself to a creepy feeling. You also notice that it's very quiet. All of a sudden it just seems like there's no traffic on the street. You're the only two. You're kind of separated from the safety of your car and you're walking up the front pathway. You get to a small type of veranda. You can tell the wood's kind of peeled back and old. The house is definitely not well kept. It's not run down or in a state of disrepair. It definitely hasn't been, you know, painted in several years or stained. There's definitely a sense that keeping up with the house isn't the most important thing. This owner's mind. And then you find yourselves at the front door. Thanks for listening to Knights of the Night of Action on 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. All music for this podcast has been created and performed by Zen Audio Smith. 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