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Knights of the Night
KOTN Actual Play Podcast 05: Shit Luck: Ep. 6: "The Hidden War Council"
[Music] Hello and welcome to Nights at the Night to actual play podcast. This world of darkness storyline, shitlock, was written and run by our storyteller Scott. And now, please enjoy Chapter 3, Wrap Up and Feedback. [Music] I'm Greg, I play Dr. Lucius Miles. My name is Bob, I play Chew Park and Brian playing John Bieber. I am Jim, my play Tony Bonadillo. My name is Tom and I play the character Jay, also sometimes for Jonathan. My name is Mike and I'm playing Michael Clay. Let's do our round table where everyone rolls 1-10 and first person, highest roll goes first. You talk about what you learned about the supernatural or about storyline tonight. I rolled the one. If we could find a keeper that we think is not involved in this, but we know a lot about these. If we look at the larvae, I'd pull out of that rice chest. Maybe I might be able to tell us something. [Music] Is this one to go? B's. Would you roll around? 6. Right? 7. Mike? 4. 9. 5. 9. 1. Jim, go. This is pretty similar to last week, you won early last week. I'm not a big one. I'm a little lighter. Okay, sorry. You did. So this is not at all still what I like. This is so different from last week. Go ahead and tell me what you learned about the supernatural or about the story line that you think is... Well, I was coming into this today, I first thought that maybe he was like the only B person, like somebody experimented on him, and he was the only one. But now that we... Who him? Power Henry. But now that I'm... We got a pretty good assumption that there might be at least one more because weird ball looking guy sounds like he had the same kind of thing going on. Sounds like it still. Yeah, and I thought the place we really wanted to look at was the Victorian, but now I'm really wanting to look at if I didn't place more than the Victorian guy. How they're interconnected is the big question. Okay. Gotcha. You rolled a nine, I believe. So right here I got seven. What I learned is, again, there is no such thing as a supernatural. I've learned that the... Did you look at his eye? We have the vampire eye. It's long. Everything in the world is just... Just biology. Biology, chemistry, it's medical. And we've learned today that Ethan, perhaps, there is the possibility... Yeah, I got straight up there. That the purpose of the reason of his actions were because something was transmitted to him or some sort of infectious agent came to him and I noticed that in the operating room. And I think that it's important that we do follow up with either the vitamin B or this Benjamin who saw him be for that event occurred. All right, Brian? Nothing really. Question on how did Henry survive in the car crash and get beat up and then tie it up when he got tackled? Right, that is a good question. Okay. Bobco. Um, I don't know. I really have more questions here. Um, now, actually... I'm not sure what's your question. Who's the beggar who's doing more? I don't think... I think we just needed more information. We can try to draw a lot of conclusions, but until we actually do some more investigative work and, you know, maybe breaking into places, we're not really going to find out much at all. Because, right now, we just have a bunch of questions. Right. You can't make good watch, go leaps here with your... It's just way too many variables. And Mike? I'm going to build up what Bob just said a little bit. It seems like, you know, why do you think that there's supernatural, based on what my... ...my gig is? Right. It still operates or exists in what is called the natural world, so it leaves traces, and that's what we're trying to find work. We're gathering these facts, and the facts are pretty sparse, but they suggest some very strange things, and the more we explore what happened to Henry Jacob, the more we explore what's happening with Ethan. And now the vitamin B, and now the house, it... You know, before I was ready to just kind of be honest, like shoot first and ask questions later with the beekeeper, but now I'm beginning to wonder if the more questions we ask, kind of like Bob said, the more we investigate, the more information we get, and we can start to think, you know what, maybe... I don't know. He might be... He might be good. He might be bad. I don't know. But it's... I want to be more prudent to get the more information before we act, because when I want to act, I want to act with precision and accuracy, not with, you know, clean up the mess later. Not the way test for Valkyrie does it, need to see what happens to them. Yeah. Yeah, they're bunch of guns. I think it's obvious that something here is supernatural, that we're dealing with something out of the ordinary and unusual, and I think that there's different categories to the supernatural. There are werewolves, vampires, et cetera. I think what we're dealing with here is something similar to a mage. We're dealing with some human individual that has two powers. A mage or some... some... where to call the worshipping society or something? Right. But I mean, we're talking about a human with power, so generally it's categorized as a mage. Are you referring to who you're referring to? Whoever's behind our list. Or a mages? The power, source, or center is not being gender specific, just I think that's the category of throughout we're dealing. Great. Thanks. And if you guys want to discuss what you're going to do next week, I always appreciate any kind of hint in what direction you're going, because... I think we should tell you the last minute not to give Scott the clue. I was saying at one time, I'm thinking about hunting down a beekeeper and having a look at the larvae I stole out of the body. Yeah, you mentioned it's a good idea. What it might kind of be in my class of bee it is or whatever. I wouldn't have guessed that off the top of my head as being an action. It's good action, but I would not have guessed it off the top of my head. I also would have a relationship within the meeting salesman. I think straight off since we are right outside this guy's house, the first thing we try is to get a hold of him. Yeah. I mean that to me would seem like a logical. Yeah, we should knock on his door and try to give him home. Next frustrating. Next week we try to talk to him. I think that's a definite goal to at least make contact with him. But to say where we would focus the most, I would say next week is probably on the honeycomb building list. Yeah, I mean depending on what we find there, it might change instantly. I'd like to have some opportunity to go look up some of the building permits and see if there's anything that we can maybe learn from the records that might indicate. Like for example, if it's being assembled in such a way to reflect maybe a hive or a queen's chamber or something. Maybe that will give us the idea of where to look. The victory is obviously a person. Again, my biggest problem is he's been there for a long organization. That is an old building, an old house and an old man. How does all of a sudden he starts going mad in the last three months? I mean it's possible. It was a good man. It was the only thing that kind of concerns me. Either Henry was a really, really good liar or he really didn't know what the hell was going on. And how could you be not knowing what was he? He knew something. Imagine, it's not like I understood the full effect of what the heck was going on around. I got stuck in a ritual or something. I think something changed with Henry in the last three months and that was the meeting. There's still the key words that my ritual came up here. And Henry, like a drone, going out into the world the way a queen sends all the bees out to go collect everything. Henry was a salesman. The guy would describe the thing maybe as like a drone. He came across Benjamin. Benjamin detects or is able to see what the hell this guy is. And, you know, it says, well, I can't get this thing in the bud. This is part of the deal. So who knows? Alright. But who do we want to make contact with first? Vitamin B or Benjamin? I think we're standing outside Benjamin's house. Yeah, we're going to go to Benjamin's house. Or maybe at least leave a calling card. You know, maybe that's the move. What's your... What about setting up a stakeout? What's your gut? We do it next week. What about taking some of the lard by putting an envelope knocking on the door? I definitely want to... We're on to you, buddy. I definitely want to stake out the vitamin B place before doing anything serious except unless somebody wants to pose as they meet. What about my idea of the unleashing the last thing? That's just me. That's our backup. That's our backup. We can probably dress up as construction. Your guy's just me. He's a cool, calculating estate transfer. Now, what do you guys think? Do you think the weird bald guy, the ugly big guy, the guy from the Victorian house or somebody else? I'm guessing it's an old house. It's an old residence. I'm guessing that the old guy is the boss of the Victorian house. That's right. Ooh. All right. That's right, Michael. Let's see it. We should probably figure out, what are we sticking out next week? Are we sticking out anything? Of course, we're feeling we're going to end up sticking out vitamin B. I think we're just going to knock on the door of the Victorian and try to get a blood pressure ahead. The feeling no one's going to answer the door. Are we breaking it? Then we'll have to decide whether or not we're going to just barge into the backyard. And if we do, we could get a text like these. You're doing that. Seriously, if he is a mage of power, and he's going against the honeycomb building people, the honeycomb foundation, we don't necessarily want to go barging into his house and kicking doors down. I don't want to kick his doors down. I just want to take one of his backyard to walk around. My kickback. Yeah. There's a front door. There's a gateway leading into his backyard. And also the only two entrances so far you've seen regarding getting into his location. But it really did. Through the backyard, through the neighbors yard. Yeah. Also to find out what's in that picture off the jade or do our own investigation and what, and the artwork on the gate. If we are breaking in there, it shouldn't be until nighttime because I don't think bees are active. Why would the bald guy want to kill Henry though? So what would the bald guy want to kill Henry? Because he said, because the bald guy likes bees. And these are his friends, he sells honey from the bee. Henry's a drone of the evil empire. Henry may be a vitamin B bad guy who's got bad knees in him. He doesn't like the bees. We don't have enough information. Well we know that Henry was dead, right? Could be. Oh now you're agreeing with me? Well. Last week it was, I don't know who killed Henry. He's dead. He was dead. For weeks. For weeks. And that's natural. To be walking around. Yeah. Because he doesn't believe in the supernatural. Zombies are natural. Totally. It's a natural chemical reaction. There's actually a whole compact called the Knoll and ULL mysterious. It's in the big book of Hunter the Vigil. You should read in also in compact conspiracy. There are an entire scientific organization who believes that everything that is supernatural can be described through some sort of biological or chemical process. So you might have, eventually you might want to put some contacts or points of contact in that organization because that's what you believe. That's what you believe, right? It seems like a good fit for you. Even though you work for a supernatural conspiracy. I do not work for a supernatural conspiracy. It's medicine man. Vampire on it. Squid arms. Technical. Shakes with four times. So why would I want to kill Henry? Why would this? Mike. I think Jim ripped off that this guy's a naturalist and Henry wasn't. He was part of the evil empire that's like unnatural bees is what Mike is trying to say. I'm not saying that's wrong. Yeah, something wrong. Like this guy's a normal bee guy and they were non-normal bee guys. So Mike thinks that's why three months ago he looked at him and saw something was wrong inside of him and marked him for death. I think Mike's term was I got to nip this in the bud, this company and this situation. That was, the only theory I've heard so far has been that theory of why he killed him. But if that were true then he would have killed other salesmen. Maybe he is. We don't know. I'll let you. I was saying, I should look that up. Well, I said that maybe, you know, the one guy that showed up was drinking regular juice and he was drinking alcoholic juice and maybe the alcoholic juice was doing somewhere at the hand to stop him from doing that or maybe he was trying to use the alcohol and the juice to break away from what was happening. Why not? Why not? Why not? Why didn't I answer your questions? Because that's a bee's eat. Why would he do regular, straight, lower instead of alcohol juice? Unless that's his taste but I'm wondering if it was more to it than just because he wanted to drink alcohol. I see what you're saying. I'm saying because Henry was a drunk bee. A drunk bee? Yeah. So... You didn't see maple leaf. If you use the drunk bee theory then the vitamin B and Benjamin could all be in cahoots to get rid of the bad bee. The bad bee? The bad bee. Henry is a bad bee. I've also heard a theory that last week you guys came up with, and I'm not saying any's because I won't tell you what the right theory is obviously, but each one probably has some little shreds of truth perhaps. And when you guys say something usually you have at least one thing right. It might be ten things wrong but you have one thing right because there's not enough information right now. But last week you had a theory that potentially Henry was part of a hive and he was ostracized. So it wasn't actually the old dude who killed him or Benjamin the beekeeper who killed him. They're even the same person, but it was his own hive that forced him out because he was bad. Something happened to him and he wasn't working right. Right. So Greg's theory there where maybe the Benjamin and vitamin B are working together, that kind of lends it to what you guys were thinking at least last week. And that also makes me think of that too because right when you're talking to him and ask him questions at the bar and he got into his mind and got the ritual thing out of the ritual thing and he said something about ritual and it was that moment or right after that that that car came through the window and I'm wondering if the hive caught wind of that somehow and said he's about to spill something and he's not supposed to or there's so let's. Well it was turns after that but I mean it was similar. We were talking to him anyways. Right. No I know what you're saying but I'm saying because the bee sting that made him drive through the window had to occur long enough before that he would walk out of the bar, walked his country. So we know Henry, let's assume, forget the fact that one is a pomegranate juice or whatever cranberry juice and the other is wine but the fact is the guy that we know that turned into a corpse and had bees fly out of his mouth was a guy sucking down juice only. Yes. Pretty much. No no one. Mine. Mine. He came to the bar and Tony put down his favorite glass of Merlot when he walked through the door. But sugary stuff that comes from... Scrooge. Scrooge. Scrooge and flower vegetables and water. Right. So we know that about him and he became a corpse guy with bees fly out. Assuming creepy guy is Benjamin which we haven't seen him yet but every description we have so far kind of lends to him being the creepy guy in the bar and he drank cranberry juice we have to assume then that he's a walking corpse also. Yeah. Why? Because they're both drinking the juice. I would say... Well one's a wine, one's a... I would say the... Is there anything specific about cranberries that we can... No. He's just saying fruit sugary. Sure, right. Fruit. Soup roast. Yeah, they're both just drinking the juice which kind of indicates they might, the other guy might be a bee guy plus the fact that he's stung possibly Ethan with his fingers making the case that he might have bees in or be a bee guy. Whoa, whoa, whoa. There was a bee's finger thing. I mean I know there was a grip but was there a grip and then this thing was here? Spingers were in the fingertips. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Oh that's my stuff. Like there was... Where the... Where the bruising was... It says my guy who hates bees. Where the bruising was, it was like there were bee stings. On each of us. Each of the fingers. Right? Multiple fingers. Yeah, it was right on his forearm. I just won those things on each finger. It was either someone grabbing you for attention or maybe a class goodbye or whatever but it was right here where a guy would grab another guy almost, you know, he kind of almost make that deduction but maybe not. And within the four fingers and the one thumb there were like five or six little raised bumps that looked like fun. Was it for a stingers? No stingers. No stingers. He tried to get pus, no pus. So you know that or he had injected him with little stingers like things in his hand or something. The fact that he's drinking the juice like the other guy... The fact that the guy was creeping the guy out and then looked totally freaked out which kind of indicates that maybe there's something not right with the guy which meant, you know, someone could pick up on... People could pick up on this guy's weird vibe which means... States didn't have much of a weird vibe for him but the bartender Marty was closest to him. We need a picture of Benjamin to take back to the bartender. If we can stake out... Yeah. If we can... If we ever really stake out... If we ever really stake out... He'd be pretty easy to pick out once we actually saw him. But I understand that we would probably know what I'm trying to confirm. And there were things we saw on Henry, right, that some of you guys saw with whatever abilities you got that you know that there was something up with him that is normal. That if we take a look at this bald guy with that same type of thing, we'll know if it looks the same he's probably got the same deal. Right. Or the same way that the same way would apply when walked in the vitamin B. And we can't walk in there. And I see some of the employees walking around looking kind of... You can't get in there. You can get in the vitamin B. Wow. You have you tried? Huh? No, you can't... Sales people. All the sales people. You can't get in there if you want to meet with a sales person. All you saw was a parking lot with a parking lot gatehouse and a gate that lowered and raised with the security guy in it. And there were two security guards who were right outside the front. And what I'm saying is if you try... You may have been trying to do something like call them up and do business with them. Not just... I did. You want to... I didn't think about it. That's suspicious enough about the B company either. There's the fact that they give such a run around that it sounds like they might not want anybody walking in the door to talk to them inside. Yes. I have the meeting set up with... You guys have all fueled the honeycomb building? All right. It was to find a picture of a building with fucking honeycombs. I had to come from like Germany. No shit. I just had to say that as a... It's like Austrians making stuff like that. As a storyteller, I'm like... I just typed in honeycomb building into Google. It was page after page and I finally found it because it was like these huge skyscrapers that had like a honeycomb like shape. And I'm like... I didn't even be in Ohio, so I didn't need a small building. It was so awful. It was in 1970. Look at this. It is a good classic example of... He was considered crazy. Yeah, the building was torn down. Yeah. Your shit. Anyways, that was very practical. He was fun to be a lapse. No. Because I actually thought of the idea of a lapse building before I had a picture. So I'm like... Yeah. I wonder if there's one out there. Sure shit there. The building collapsed after the first heavy rain in the village. Isn't that true? Like whenever you go to some unique architectural building and you're like... Oh man. This place is awesome. It's so beautiful. There's always something incredibly effed up about it. Right? Can you go put in the wastewater here on the top? Yeah. There's a reason why a standard building is a standard building. Well, I gotta go. Yeah. But they're meeting setup with that guy and we can use our powers on him to kind of figure out. Yeah. Yeah. If I'm doing the supernatural on to see the spectrum, like... See, how our sources that a mage can do, it's costly. I'm going to be able to do it only once. Well, we probably won't use that here. But that's what I'm saying. I don't know where to use. I probably won't use it. I'll talk to you later. I'll talk to you later. All right. That's a wrap. Good job, guys. Oh. Okay. One last thing. I wanted to do a little feedback. So far, though, we haven't gotten any feedback for many of our listeners. But at the very least, I wanted to thank them for downloading the podcast. We've had quite a few in the United States. But we've also had listeners in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Germany. So thank you all for downloading and listening to the podcast. But I do have a question for our listeners. I would like to know if... How they would prefer that we release the podcast in the future. Right now, we're really releasing it per scene. So we're breaking it at every scene in the chapter. A chapter being the night that we play, a play session, and then each scene is in an area. That's how the world of darkness breaks it up. 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