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here on the Glass Canada network. This

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is the show where we play blades

0:58

in the dark, the incredible game from John

1:00

Harper and evil hat studios. And

1:03

today, we have a very special

1:06

episode for you. I am joined

1:08

as always by my illustrious

1:12

cast

1:13

they are professionals.

1:16

They are luminaries

1:19

of their craft. I got that word out.

1:22

And today, we also have a special guest

1:25

star. So please welcome to

1:27

the Internet. Abu Salim,

1:30

Ross Bryant, and our special guest

1:32

scoundrel, Sydney Emmanuel. What's

1:35

up guys?

1:35

oh You're

1:40

welcome.

1:42

Yes. People

1:44

might be wondering, where is

1:47

Josephine. Josephine

1:49

is fine. She's gonna be back soon, but today

1:51

we're doing a very special episode, and

1:53

I'll explain kind of what's involved in that

1:56

in a second. But in the meantime, how's

1:58

life guys? What's what's

1:59

been going on in your life? Ross,

2:02

what have you been up to, man?

2:03

Oh, I just

2:06

I just celebrated my one year wedding anniversary.

2:08

That was pretty great. You can tell it

2:10

truly should. Oh. Everybody's

2:13

milestones, milestones, any other anniversary

2:15

trees, any birthdays? In

2:19

the comedy club, when I worked in the comedy club,

2:21

they used to make the host go Are there any

2:23

birthdays here tonight? And

2:25

then would

2:26

cheer for someone if they had a birthday. What

2:30

about you, Sydney? Did you get married or

2:33

have a child recently?

2:34

Recently.

2:36

Recently. No.

2:38

Okay.

2:40

I do have, I guess, a milestone. Oh,

2:43

great. I work as a production designer

2:45

for film and TV, and I've been working

2:47

freelance almost my whole life, which is, like, a

2:49

wonderful, chaotic way

2:52

to live. And I've been officially

2:54

working over a year, just over a year

2:56

for the same TV show, which to me feels

2:58

like a big accomplishment. And also, I'm

3:00

like, what am I doing with my life?

3:02

But it's a Yeah. That's great.

3:04

That's a career. What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? with

3:06

your life. Congratulations, man. Yeah.

3:08

Thank you. Can we ask what the TV

3:10

show is? You're gonna

3:11

love it, Jared. It's

3:14

a really I shouldn't say bad,

3:16

but it is daytime, crime,

3:19

reenactment show.

3:21

So it's This is phenomenal. Yeah.

3:23

It's like, they do the real interviews. We have

3:25

the interview team, and then we do -- This is great. --

3:27

the reenactment acting side of

3:29

it. So I do a lot of Oh, this is so great. period

3:32

piece sets. We have a lot of episodes from

3:34

the sixties, the seventies, the nineties, so

3:36

that's the fun part for me. And then

3:38

it's always like My son

3:41

was a psychopath, and I never

3:43

knew. And then we have, like,

3:45

a child. killed a woman, news at eleven.

3:48

And

3:48

it's like a small child actor who

3:51

carved into a desk like I'm going to kill my

3:53

family. So I carved into a desk,

3:55

I'm going to kill my family, and that's my production

3:57

design. What is the title that has all

3:59

of these shows?

3:59

Like, is it investigation discovery?

4:02

Or Yes. It is, Jared. Yes.

4:04

It is.

4:06

I knew it. I love

4:08

that channel. It's great. And I

4:10

I think we're on, like, the twelfth

4:12

season, like,

4:14

people -- No. -- love those

4:16

types of shows. And there's so many different

4:19

ones. Like, there's so many of the same type of

4:21

show, but a different variation. It's quite

4:23

popular. This

4:24

is great. So you know all about

4:26

crime, which makes you a

4:28

perfect addition to

4:30

a cast for blades

4:32

in the dark. Now, of course, the crimes

4:34

in this game involve

4:37

electroplasm and spirits

4:39

of the dead and demons, but still,

4:41

I feel like, you know, you can bring

4:43

some of that investigation discovery energy

4:45

into the game today.

4:46

Yeah. But keep it we're not HBO. So,

4:48

like, keep it PG guys. Okay? no

4:51

sexy stuff and no gore. Okay?

4:54

Gray. Is that true of your show?

4:56

Yeah. We have to cut around a lot. We're not

4:58

allowed to show a lot of stuff. but not on this channel.

5:00

I would get really gory and also

5:02

disgusting. Right. And everybody

5:06

full cast, feel free to to engage in

5:08

a little nudity. Nothing

5:11

nothing hard. But, like, if

5:13

you wanna just, you know, give a little

5:15

shoulder or maybe some butt

5:17

crack, tasteful. Yeah.

5:19

Yeah. tasteful. It's

5:20

like the nudity where like you bend your arm

5:22

and it's like you get really close. It's like, is it a

5:24

butt? Or

5:25

is that Or is that

5:27

You know what? Arm pit fetishists, feast

5:30

show. Okay. The

5:33

arm pit freaks in the nation.

5:35

You're freaking in a lot of years. My

5:37

pit is fully exposed

5:39

right now. Don't let my father

5:41

stop this. This is not where I thought this

5:43

was a ghost. Abu has

5:46

decided to stop the recording.

5:49

There, I probably have some questions

5:51

to answer from HR right now.

5:55

Luckily, that's just Joe O'Brien.

5:57

So I think I'll be okay.

5:59

So Sid, congratulations on

6:02

your one year working for That's amazing.

6:04

Yeah. For that show. That's awesome.

6:07

And then ABU, of course, right before

6:09

we started You had to clean baby

6:11

vomit. You had to get a different shirt because you're a different shirt, because you're

6:13

a different shirt, baby, so

6:15

sorry. telling people he changed

6:17

shirt, so he wouldn't have I'm

6:19

now shirtless with a hoodie on because

6:21

all my tops are covered in baby shit.

6:23

So it's, you know, This

6:25

is this is this is I'm I'm getting

6:27

ready for the next. Right? You know what I'm saying?

6:30

Yeah. We show you some chest. Wow.

6:32

Oh, man. Like, it's we're ready.

6:34

Okay? Yeah. No. I

6:36

think Marcellus, and for me, I

6:38

mean, my baby's still alive. Yes.

6:41

He was like a master every

6:43

single day. I'm like, looking at her. like,

6:45

you're still breathing? Okay. Cool.

6:47

So it's just like

6:49

the week out of BCG today, which is

6:51

like the think it's like a a

6:53

polio vaccine thing.

6:55

I don't know. But what was so hilarious is

6:57

that she had it and she cried a bit,

6:59

but my wife ended up

7:01

crying more and it's like, so

7:04

I'm there with like the nappy bag and

7:06

and the little muslin and I'm like, baby, it's okay.

7:08

She's she's fine now. just wonder if she

7:10

was so with pain. I was like, no, but she's she's

7:12

okay. We just just put her on the nipple

7:14

and she'll be fine. Like, we had

7:16

to go to a separate room for my wife to

7:18

calm down. and

7:19

it was growing. Oh.

7:20

That's so touching

7:22

you. Yeah. And I'm right. That's

7:24

lovely. Yeah. This is my life now.

7:27

I wish my wife was a little bit more like

7:29

that. My wife is, like, at four days

7:31

old, she was just like, let's roll the baby in the

7:33

dirt. Let's let's

7:36

bring the baby down a hill and see what happens

7:38

to it. And I was the one that was, like,

7:40

crying when the baby got a shot.

7:43

You know, what's funny? It was was

7:45

there was a moment. I think it was like week

7:47

two or three. I don't know. And

7:49

I was I was talking to a friend of mine about

7:51

raising children. and just

7:53

like, you know, I was like, yeah, this you just don't know.

7:55

He's just really worrying and he's struggling and

7:57

this And then he initially turned around and said,

7:59

well, just remember this. Stupid

8:02

people do it all the time. I'm

8:04

like -- Mhmm. -- damn.

8:06

That's, like, darn deep. This, like,

8:09

Too bad idiots raise pet children all the time.

8:11

Yeah. The chances the chances of Sydney

8:13

having a carve a desk up about your

8:15

kid or slim to none. It

8:18

sounds like it's great. No worries. I

8:20

do. Especially because

8:22

you have a little girl. You

8:24

know? I mean, when we had a

8:26

little girl, I was like, okay. Cool. Well, at least

8:28

this child won't, like, shoot up a church. You

8:30

know? Because, you know,

8:33

Not all men do that, but only men

8:35

do that. So but

8:37

they had a boy. So all bets are off.

8:39

This is That was probably that joke was

8:41

probably way too dark for the nation

8:43

anymore. But it's

8:46

reported now. Alright,

8:49

guys. Are you ready to get into some blades in the

8:51

dark? I'll I'll explain how the episode is

8:53

different and why we have our special guest star after

8:55

we get in. Are you guys ready? Oh, yes.

8:57

We're

8:57

ready. Why? Alright then. Let me just

8:59

say thousand years ago.

9:01

This was a land of beauty and

9:04

magic. Then came a cataclysm

9:06

that blotted out the sun and ripped

9:08

open the gates to the land of

9:10

the dead. The city of duskfall is a

9:12

metropolis of tenements and

9:14

factories surrounded by

9:16

crackling lightning towers. outside

9:18

the city is a wasteland of vengeful

9:21

spirits. Inside the city

9:23

is a teeming hive

9:25

of ficurable scum and

9:27

villainy filled with denizens

9:29

like the lipless chuck.

9:33

The sun is gone. The only thing

9:35

that shines in duskfall are

9:37

the blades in the

9:39

dark. And, yes, Thank

9:41

you. That is my overwritten intro with

9:43

a little change. Because today, if you

9:45

are a regular listener or viewer of

9:47

the show, you know

9:49

that Abu Salim's extra

9:51

character, his secondary character that we haven't

9:53

seen in a while was a character

9:55

named Chuck. Chuck

9:57

is a hound with a

10:00

literal dog named Muck

10:02

that helps him and his

10:04

his exploits.

10:06

Chuck went with

10:07

the crew on one score, then

10:10

betrayed the entire regular

10:12

crew to get the his hands

10:14

on the coin and made off

10:16

with it. And then we gave Chuck a

10:18

downtime action, he

10:20

decided to start building his own

10:22

crew using a long term

10:24

activity. And so

10:26

we will now return in

10:28

this episode a special Chuck

10:30

Adventure

10:31

here Chuck's crew is the

10:34

title of today's adventure, and we

10:36

will start by finishing that

10:38

downtime activity I

10:41

have a clock here called

10:43

Chuck's crew that has been waiting to fill

10:45

in its final section

10:48

Abu, what action is Chuck

10:50

using? In this today's

10:52

adventure, what action is he using to

10:54

recruit people to his own crew?

10:57

I

10:57

think today is

11:00

action. I think

11:01

the way that he recruits is

11:05

quite slimy, quite

11:07

horrible. The

11:08

the turning against

11:11

the the original

11:14

OG crew is something that Chuck

11:16

has done many a time. And

11:18

so every kind of crew that he kind of

11:20

jumps on He turns on them,

11:22

and he takes a few gold here and

11:24

there. And those who

11:26

wish to jump ship with him

11:28

do.

11:29

And so this is how he

11:32

recruits his crew of people

11:34

through simply

11:36

betrayal,

11:38

upset, anger,

11:41

theft. There's a

11:43

lot of blazing the dark darkness

11:45

really. Yeah. So that I think

11:47

I think that's how he does it. He he he's

11:49

able to, like, you know, whisper sweet and nothing's

11:51

into people's ears and and see,

11:53

you know, and, you know, it I would say,

11:55

not necessarily sway. It's more he's

11:57

more of a man of of action.

11:59

So, you

11:59

know, his he shows power.

12:02

by, you know, betraying in a way, in a

12:04

sense, and capturing people who that who

12:06

are supposed to be leaders in their weakest,

12:08

most vulnerable positions. and

12:10

that's how, you know, he sways people

12:12

to join him.

12:13

Great. What

12:15

so are you gonna go with Sway? Or

12:18

some of that sounded like command maybe?

12:20

I think I think I'm gonna let

12:23

me let me see. I think it's it's

12:25

it's more of

12:28

Yeah. I don't know. I think, yeah, I

12:30

think maybe it's maybe it's a bit of

12:32

I mean, I'm looking at my sheet right now.

12:34

I don't think I don't know. Maybe it's like I tell

12:36

you what. Actually, it's more of a kind of

12:38

looking to see who's the who's the weakest

12:41

link. Who he can actually, you know,

12:43

understand and and kind of

12:45

turn

12:45

them into a Judas, and that's

12:47

how he kinda gets them. So he

12:49

finds the Judases in the in the groups, and

12:51

he turns them into into into

12:53

his own little Judah's clan. That's

12:55

what he does. So Great.

12:57

I wanna use survey. Yeah.

12:59

That makes sense. a person. and

13:01

then goes with it that way.

13:03

Very good. And the reason we knew

13:05

we could do this episode is because there's only

13:08

one section left in the clock So no

13:10

matter what you roll, you

13:12

will have filled in that section and completed

13:14

your crew, but let's just do it because I

13:16

just feel like You know,

13:18

we have to we have to stay on

13:20

ceremony here. We have to make sure we dot

13:22

all of our eyes and follow the

13:24

rules. So please, Chuck,

13:27

Roll your survey. I will.

13:30

And

13:30

we've got A4A4

13:32

Congratulations.

13:36

That fills up the

13:39

pie. It fills up the clock. And

13:43

you

13:43

you now can

13:46

can recruit your entire crew. I'm

13:48

filling it up. It's completely filled.

13:50

We have this this story. This

13:52

campaign has 123

13:54

filled long term activity clocks. I don't

13:56

know why I feel a sense of accomplishment

13:58

about that.

13:59

but excellent. So we

14:02

are now gonna build the

14:04

characters that belong to

14:06

Chuck's crew. Where do you

14:08

think Chuck got someone to

14:10

betray or, you

14:13

know, what

14:15

do you call it? Go go A

14:17

wall from another crew or another

14:19

organization. What kind of

14:21

gang do you think or or

14:23

organization do you think he targeted first? So

14:26

there was this job. Right?

14:28

This this job that took place

14:30

in a little warehouse. It was supposed to be

14:32

a simple, you know, run-in and

14:34

take all the, you know, take take the stuff

14:36

inside the warehouse. But

14:38

what Chuck decided to do

14:39

was he led people into the

14:42

warehouse after surveying and seeing finding

14:44

out where the weak spot of the warehouse

14:46

was, and he told a few

14:48

certain people, essentially, that

14:50

things might not go awry. So

14:54

when the rest of that crew decided

14:56

to walk into the into the warehouse, he

14:58

kept a few of his friendly

15:00

friends next to him, and he

15:02

blew up the warehouse, including

15:04

the gang. Wow. The people that he

15:06

didn't trust and essentially

15:08

that's how it all began.

15:11

Very good. Okay. So

15:13

let's see who betrayed their entire crew

15:16

and allowed themselves to get close

15:18

to a enormous blotion.

15:21

Let's start with Ross

15:24

Bryant. Ross, who do you think this

15:26

guy was who stood outside the a

15:28

warehouse and watched his

15:30

entire crew

15:32

burned. Or it

15:34

might not be a guy. Forgive me for making that

15:36

engendered assumption.

15:37

hum Alright.

15:39

This sounds like a, you know, like

15:42

kind of a heat

15:43

or thief

15:46

esque

15:47

smash and grab.

15:48

the

15:50

but a truck found found a turncoat

15:52

in the mix. I like that you

15:54

mentioned explosion because that that

15:56

tells me maybe a little bit about this

15:58

person is, and it might might help

15:59

make the first choice. Because if

16:02

explosions are a part of it, then

16:04

maybe this guy

16:06

is a leech. And maybe

16:08

this this particular person

16:10

who got sued is the one you

16:12

convinced to actually rig this place

16:15

with explosives. So

16:18

the yeah.

16:19

So we're

16:22

talking about a guy who

16:24

knows

16:24

his way around machinery, knows

16:27

his way around demolitions and explosions.

16:30

maybe recruited in jail

16:32

the has

16:34

has a background working in the

16:36

mechanics, maybe on the on the Vyeth

16:38

and ships, construction, but

16:42

he says maybe he's a little guy and

16:44

the sort of guy that the

16:47

crew made up of more action

16:50

oriented heavies would

16:52

push around and haze

16:54

and and

16:55

know

16:56

belittle. We ain't laughing

16:59

now.

16:59

So

17:02

I love him already.

17:05

Let's start with his heritage.

17:07

Do you think that this is an agarosi

17:10

person? Someone from the dagger

17:12

aisles, Aruvia, Severos, Scovlin

17:14

or Tycaros. Now,

17:17

give me the rundown on Scovlin.

17:20

Scovlin, they were in they were

17:22

the last land to get forcibly

17:25

annexed by the

17:28

empire in a thirty

17:30

six year war called the unity war.

17:32

They are a marginalized people.

17:34

They are treated very poorly

17:37

in their colonized nation

17:40

across the water, and

17:42

many of them have come here as

17:44

immigrants to find a way to make

17:46

a living. and they are

17:48

treated poorly here and many of them

17:50

have jobs, very menial jobs in

17:52

factories and things

17:54

like that. And they all have, you

17:56

know, especially among the

17:58

underworld, a reason to kind of rebel against

17:59

the established established order.

18:03

Sounds like maybe a reason why

18:05

even even within

18:07

a crew like this, they might be

18:09

an outsider within their own

18:11

within their own little click. Yeah.

18:14

So, yeah, let's say this guy

18:17

emigrated and and

18:20

got got jobs doing day

18:22

labor and construction but has a

18:24

knack for spatial

18:26

awareness, a knack for

18:28

mechanics, And he's not the

18:30

kind of guy who went to school, but he learns on

18:32

the job and learns

18:34

through apprenticeships and trade

18:37

craft. And But

18:40

he keeps hitting a ceiling. He

18:42

keeps seeing people dumber than

18:44

him, promoted ahead of him just because of where

18:46

he comes from. And so because

18:49

he's plateauing in a legitimate trade

18:51

when he gets an offer to

18:54

make money an

18:56

easier way, he joins up with

18:58

a crew on the other side of the law.

19:01

And that's where I joined

19:03

the initial crew. that I bid

19:06

farewell to recently. Yes,

19:08

I love it. I see

19:11

the story. I've written in that he

19:13

has a scovlin heritage he's

19:15

an immigrant and that his background is in labor,

19:18

construction, and trade craft. And

19:20

what does his vice

19:23

who Oh, that

19:24

is fun. That is fun.

19:27

Faith gambling, luxury, obligation,

19:31

plus are stupor or

19:34

weird.

19:34

This

19:35

this guy Yeah.

19:38

This

19:40

guy likes likes gambling.

19:46

Great. Anything you

19:46

wanna tell me about his gambling problem?

19:50

Would you like to know

19:50

maybe just his vice purveyor?

19:54

I think he

19:55

likes to gamble, not

19:58

with cards, not

20:00

with dice. Not the

20:02

not the wheel. That's for

20:04

suckers. You know, you

20:06

got it because everything is about knowing

20:08

how the machine machine works.

20:10

And so I like to watch fights.

20:12

I like to know all about the I like

20:14

to know all about the competitors. I like to

20:16

know their weaknesses. I

20:18

like to know everything about them because once

20:20

you know everything about them, a, then you're

20:23

just forecasting the outcome. And then it ain't so

20:25

much gambling, so much is a

20:27

foregone conclusion.

20:28

Well, there is a

20:31

gambling vice purveyor of the

20:33

fighting pits and dunnslow. So --

20:35

Great. -- I think that's where you take in

20:37

the fights where you

20:39

perhaps survey the fighters ahead of

20:41

time to make good bets.

20:43

Right. So anything you wanna tell us about is look,

20:45

I know you said he's small?

20:48

Yeah. Mall and stature? Yeah.

20:51

Yeah. I think yeah.

20:54

Like,

20:55

small yeah. Like,

20:58

so a magic

20:58

a guy built like a fire hydrant.

21:02

A small squat and

21:05

it's really, like, close cropped,

21:07

like, white blonde

21:09

hair, like, perma perma

21:13

blonde, like, stumble. I think it wears like

21:15

almost like a little like a beret.

21:17

You know, like not not like

21:19

not like poet beret, but like

21:22

French resistance. worry, you know. And

21:24

I love it. And it's

21:26

like big ass coat. Lots of

21:28

lots of lots of pouches.

21:30

The clothes are just it's made

21:32

a is there's like gears

21:34

and tools and shit all

21:36

over the place. Perfect.

21:39

Let's give him some action dots. He gets four

21:41

more. So the leech starts with two in

21:43

tinker and one in rack.

21:45

Great. What other action dots

21:48

will you take? You can use your heritage

21:50

and your background as inspiration if

21:52

you'd like. Great. The

21:56

rules say you have to. They say

21:58

one dot from your heritage, one dot from

22:00

your background, but we can be

22:02

a little smister with that.

22:04

Just put those dots wherever you think they belong and

22:06

remember you can't have anything higher than

22:09

three

22:09

to begin. Okay.

22:11

Great. So I'll say working

22:13

background. We said this guy worked in

22:15

design, construction mechanics

22:18

that wires some study.

22:20

So he is he's an auto

22:22

diact and this stuff and apprenticeship. So

22:24

he he can he can learn things. He

22:26

can pick up on things. Right. For

22:28

when it study. And because, like, because he's

22:30

an outsider, because he's he's

22:32

irascible, he's gonna have

22:34

some skirmish also. Right? That

22:36

makes sense.

22:38

the great Great. And

22:39

then two more wherever you'd like for

22:41

them to go.

22:43

the

22:44

Great. I think I'll

22:47

throw I'll throw a little something

22:50

in command because

22:53

I think even though he is like he's

22:55

got this kind of like gruff outside everything,

22:57

he can, like, snap at you in a way where, like,

22:59

the authority of his of his knowledge

23:01

comes through. And

23:04

I'll I'll

23:06

do finesse also because you gotta it's

23:09

even even with a job what

23:11

things required, you know. This is this is

23:14

like sometimes it's an art, not a

23:16

science. You gotta get delicate. Excellent.

23:19

And one of these pouches, there's like

23:21

jewelers loop and goggles and crap

23:23

and, like, lenses swinging into place

23:25

to, like, pick a

23:27

locker, make a bomb.

23:28

Great. This guy is

23:31

a Swiss army knife. He's got

23:33

dots in every attribute

23:35

Insight prowess and resolve,

23:38

he's a bit of a jack of trades because he only has

23:40

one two dot ability tinker.

23:43

So we will see how

23:45

how that all goes for him.

23:47

Who throw things into other no.

23:50

No. No. No. You're saying that maybe

23:52

maybe an ancillary It's a

23:54

good build. III have no problem with this build, but

23:56

if you'd like to move something, please

23:58

be my guest. because we

23:59

just said he

24:01

was able to to

24:04

Yeah. I think this guy is

24:07

low on social grace

24:09

and high on on

24:13

the on the tools of his trade. So I'm gonna take

24:15

that point out of command

24:17

and throw that also into tinker.

24:20

Tinker

24:20

is well off a three tinker. Okay. He's

24:22

very good at at at what he does. That's

24:24

as high as he can start as

24:26

a beginning character. Right.

24:30

Great. And now the special

24:32

ability, and these

24:34

are complex, but I

24:36

will just kind of very

24:38

brief free recap them. Alchemist,

24:40

when you invent or craft a creation,

24:43

take plus one result, analysts

24:45

during downtime, you get two ticks to distribute

24:48

among any long term project

24:50

clock. That's amazing. You

24:52

quickly fill up long term projects. Artificer,

24:54

when you invent or craft a creation

24:56

with Sparkcraft features, take plus

24:58

one result. Four to

25:01

use your special armor to resist the consequence of

25:04

fatigue, weakness, or weakness, or

25:06

chemical effects? Ghost

25:08

Ward, you know how to reckon

25:10

area with arcane substances and methods.

25:12

So it's anathema to or

25:15

enticing to spirits. That's

25:17

a Fiziker makes you

25:19

a doctor, I believe, our friend

25:22

Juliet Bell Rose in the main

25:24

REMIT campaign has

25:26

taken that. sabotir

25:27

when you wreck the work is much quieter,

25:30

venomous,

25:30

choose a drug or poison to which you

25:32

have become immune or veteran

25:35

choose a special ability from another

25:37

source. I'm gonna ask you not to pick

25:39

veteran right now. You have to pick a weak

25:41

ability. No problem.

25:42

problem I'm going

25:45

saboteur. saboteur,

25:46

great. When you wreck, the work is

25:48

much quieter than it should be, and the

25:50

damage is hidden from casual

25:53

inspection. very good. So the

25:55

only thing left for our friend is to

25:58

choose the clever

26:00

friends and vicious rivals.

26:02

I'm gonna go ahead let you do that

26:04

and maybe they'll come out during the game.

26:07

Okay? But would you give us

26:09

this character's name?

26:10

Yeah.

26:11

the So

26:12

Scovlin is kind of like Scandinavian. Right?

26:14

We've seen

26:15

it interpreted in a bunch of

26:17

different ways. It can be anything. It could be

26:19

anything. Yeah. It I

26:21

don't believe we've had a lot of scotland characters

26:24

in our haunted

26:26

city campaign so far. So right now,

26:28

you can kind of establish it if you want it

26:30

to be Norwegian. Okay.

26:32

Yeah. Norwegian ish. Right.

26:34

Right. Right.

26:35

Yeah. yeah This

26:38

guy's name is knut. KNUT

26:41

Yes.

26:44

Yeah. And

26:45

that's all we need. Does he have an

26:47

alias?

26:48

No. No. No aliens. Okay.

26:52

Great. That's canute. I

26:54

think I have a canute

26:57

cabinet in my kitchen.

26:58

Mhmm. I got it. IKEA. Oh,

27:01

good thing for you. Dude, it has an

27:03

Allen wrench. Yeah.

27:05

And one of my favorite authors is

27:07

the Norwegian author,

27:09

Canute a a Thompson.

27:12

Canute Thompson? Are you lying? Or is that a

27:14

real thing? No. That's real. I have to look it up to

27:16

make sure I have the name right. It's

27:18

it's I I always pronounce it Newton

27:20

Thompson, and he wrote a book I liked called

27:22

growth of the soil, and I'm right.

27:25

Canute ham thompson. Alright.

27:27

Check it out. Glass can and

27:29

Nash, when you're done watching role

27:31

playing games online, why don't you read a fucking book?

27:34

Okay. So

27:37

I move a car. Would you please

27:40

now tell us where Chuck's next

27:42

recruit came from. We know that

27:45

knut bombed his entire

27:47

old crew because they didn't give

27:49

him their spect he deserved. Where did he find

27:51

his next recruit? What

27:53

was the situation? This

27:55

is a funny one. I

27:57

think this this

27:59

scenario or space was probably

28:03

during Chuck's enjoyment

28:06

of luxury. It was

28:08

probably at a at a

28:10

very, like, famous

28:13

infamous ball dancing,

28:15

and all masked, and all this sort of

28:17

stuff. They let him chuck in. Oh, yeah.

28:19

You know what I mean? It was it was a That's

28:21

a great boy. Yes. I'm small. So, you know,

28:23

they didn't really necessarily know, you know, technically

28:26

where I was from or who I was.

28:28

I think also I was

28:30

I like when Chuck is like, I like

28:32

luxury, so I like to go to fancy dances.

28:36

Absolutely. That's what he does. Of course. And

28:38

then he's got And I think the mask was, you

28:40

know, what's what's great about this mask is that

28:42

it was it's one of those masks where it kind of

28:44

it's half, but it just covers

28:46

the mouthiest of them. But because of of

28:48

he's missing a bottom lip. It looks

28:51

like it's part of the mask. So people

28:53

are like, oh, you've got a lovely mask and it's

28:55

like, thank you. So he kind of really

28:57

enjoys it that way. And I think

28:59

he found this next recruit,

29:01

dancing. As they kind of

29:03

danced and move around the

29:05

the the ball and he

29:07

essentially it was it

29:09

was almost like a battle of wit, a

29:11

bit of tit for tat,

29:13

and essentially what ended up happening.

29:16

was Chuck decided, this is

29:18

a great place to recruit. So I'm

29:20

gonna start robbing the place and start stealing

29:22

the place. And this accomplice ended

29:24

up helping And we ended up taking all sorts of

29:26

different masks and different, you

29:28

know, sort of goblets and and

29:30

did all sorts of types of

29:32

food and we kind of in this luxurious

29:34

mayhem and chaos that ensued as

29:36

I let my hound muck go

29:39

a rock go crazy as well as we as we went

29:41

along. So it was a pure it was a

29:43

luxurious chaos is where I met

29:45

this next win the next sort of

29:47

crew member. I

29:49

imagine like one of those music videos where there's

29:51

a bunch of hoity, toity people having a

29:53

fancy party, but then the

29:55

rappers come in and they make everybody raise

29:57

the roof. Yes. That's

29:59

that's exactly it.

30:01

Hey. I'm like You're

30:03

now using mine. Yep. Yeah.

30:05

Great. And then there's a like, you

30:08

know, by the end of the video, there's a dog

30:10

eating off the table and everything's pretty

30:12

much. It's who

30:12

let the dogs out. You're just blaining the

30:14

music the dogs out? Yes. Was our

30:17

current date of expiration for

30:19

haunted city is the who let the

30:21

dogs out music video. I'm

30:23

doing air horn every time we say who let the

30:25

dogs up. Rare, brown, brown. That's all you

30:27

should. That's all you should. Sydney

30:30

That is your prompt. That is where your character

30:32

came from. What what

30:34

is your character? What playbook do

30:37

you think that prompts you to use. I was

30:39

between

30:39

I was looking

30:41

at leech, I was looking at lurk, and

30:43

I was looking at slide, and I think

30:46

this fits right into slide, a

30:48

subtle manipulator and

30:50

spy because why else would

30:52

a

30:52

crook be at this

30:54

ball if her idea wasn't

30:57

also to case the joint. So Wow.

31:01

I think I think you're absolutely right

31:03

about that. What can you

31:05

tell me about and it it says she

31:07

her. Right? Yeah. She

31:09

her. Okay. And what

31:11

is her heritage? I

31:14

think

31:14

she's from Akeros.

31:16

I think she knows

31:19

the upper Echelon in a

31:21

way because she grew up there. and

31:23

she's familiar with maybe

31:25

not part of the wealthy class but like is

31:27

familiar with the wealthy parts of

31:30

town and that is why she knew

31:32

about fall

31:32

and maybe weasel her way in or

31:34

got an invitation somehow. That's

31:36

great. So she's familiar with them, but

31:38

you say not part of them, how did she

31:40

become familiar with them? Like, what was

31:42

her connection? So I

31:46

think that

31:47

her name

31:48

is Matilda. hilda

31:52

Matilda. No.

31:53

Matilda.

31:55

Matilda. And

31:58

I

31:59

right

31:59

think she is four

32:03

foot Seven.

32:06

Whoa. She's also short. Really

32:09

short.

32:09

And I think Is it

32:11

weird that I'm already shipping?

32:14

canute in the field up based totally on

32:16

height. It's fine. We

32:18

get it all the time. I

32:21

think she originally posed

32:25

as missing children and

32:28

would infiltrate wealthy

32:30

families. and, like,

32:32

enter their homes and,

32:34

like, live among them for weeks at a

32:36

time and then would just

32:38

rob them, just outright rob them and, like,

32:40

leave or kill them. Oh,

32:43

my gosh. And she was living

32:45

that way for a very long time accruing,

32:48

like, wealth and sort of status because on

32:49

the side, she portrayed herself as just,

32:51

you know, like, a normal woman and, like,

32:54

whatever, what have you. So

32:57

perhaps I'm

32:59

between making her background like a

33:03

noble like a fallen noble, like she came from a noble

33:05

family or just straight

33:06

underworld. And she has been a straight arch in

33:08

herself and like grew up in

33:10

orphan. and

33:10

basically took on that

33:11

role to a higher level and was like,

33:14

oh, I'm an orphan. I'm your missing

33:16

child. I think that sounds

33:18

totally underworld. If I can give

33:20

my two cents And let me say also it's like

33:22

that movie orphan. Did you have you ever seen

33:24

that movie? Yeah. It's really

33:26

good. Yeah?

33:27

It's really good. I appreciate it. I love this

33:29

character. Alright. What is

33:32

Matilda's vice? I

33:37

mean,

33:37

luxury would make sense.

33:39

And you can have the same vices, Chuck,

33:41

no problem.

33:42

Yeah. I wonder but I also

33:45

wonder if she's a little freak,

33:47

and maybe her vice's

33:49

pleasure. And maybe she also, like, leans

33:51

into this low liter thing, and she's

33:53

just, like, Yeah. I'm

33:55

going to these parties and, like, playing

33:57

this character for people, but, like, she

33:59

loves it.

34:00

Right. So IIII think that's

34:03

fine. pleasure likes

34:05

to seduce people. Is that

34:08

correct? Yeah. I think that could

34:10

be fun. I think it could very And

34:12

as I said at the beginning, you know,

34:14

today's stream is gonna have

34:16

adult content. It

34:18

aren't really gonna be just a

34:21

four foot seven woman who looks kinda

34:23

like a child seducing people.

34:26

Everything's fine. People who

34:29

ate

34:29

it on house of the dragon for all

34:32

that underage

34:32

stuff. Welcome

34:34

to the glass canning. We're doing it

34:36

too. Again Matilda Matilda at this

34:38

point in her career is, you know, thirty eight,

34:40

but she just look maybe she's

34:43

not at all. But she she just looks

34:45

small and young. Is that correct? Yes. She

34:47

looks innocent. Yes. If anything,

34:49

she looks very innocent. She has, like, you

34:51

know, these big eyes, big

34:53

pleading eyes and very soft

34:56

voice. And

34:57

she's

34:58

just scared. She's just

35:00

scared. Oh, god. She's

35:02

terrifying, and I love her. Okay.

35:06

creepy. Matilda, why

35:08

don't you tell me where you'd like your doc to

35:10

go. So a a slide starts with a

35:12

dot and consort and two dots and sway.

35:14

Where would you like to put your

35:17

other four dots? And

35:20

you could start by, you know, having one deal

35:22

with your Acarose heritage, the fact that

35:24

you're familiar with the wealthy elite,

35:27

and another dot relating to

35:30

your underworld heritage, your

35:32

your your crime experience.

35:34

Yeah. Remind me the difference

35:36

between sway and consort. is

35:39

getting someone to to see your point of

35:41

view, persuading through

35:44

argument whereas consort

35:46

is partying with people,

35:48

making them comfortable using

35:50

your charisma to become their friend.

35:54

I

35:54

think

35:55

I'm gonna put one

35:57

dot into sway. I don't think

35:59

she

35:59

actually wants to be

36:02

anyone's friend and she doesn't love

36:04

the schmoozy aspect of things. And I

36:06

think she just

36:06

wants people to agree with her.

36:10

Okay. And I

36:10

think that would be her heritage coming from

36:12

macros. I think she has a lot of

36:14

sway with, you know, certain groups.

36:18

And for her underworld

36:20

dot, I'm gonna put

36:22

it and now remind me the

36:24

difference between Finesse and PRAL. Yes.

36:28

So, prowl generally has to do

36:30

with movements moving stealthily

36:32

or getting in and

36:35

out of places, whereas you

36:37

said finesse. Yeah. Finesse

36:39

has more to do with

36:41

manual dexterity picking locks,

36:44

for example, or disarming

36:47

bombs. I think she's

36:48

gonna put one in prowl. I think, you know, she's

36:50

a spy. She's a manipulator. She's gotta get in,

36:53

get out. Right.

36:53

Okay. Great. Yeah. She she gets the

36:56

jewels and gets out of the house before they

36:58

find out that their new

37:00

award has gone

37:02

missing again. and two more ducks wherever you would like

37:04

them to go.

37:09

the pain I think

37:12

maybe one in

37:16

would would hunt

37:16

make sense from the perspective of,

37:19

like, targeting people, like seeking

37:22

people out who she thinks is a good

37:24

target or would that study? You

37:26

know, I

37:26

I would say that in

37:29

And blades

37:29

in the dark as long as you can

37:31

justify it, you can almost use either. You can

37:33

use any action for

37:36

any situation. I would say the way

37:38

you've described her as this sort

37:40

of black widow

37:42

orphan, it sounds like hunt is

37:44

better because hunt also has to deal

37:46

often with ranged combat. Mhmm. You know? But

37:49

it can also be used to track

37:51

people and literally to hunt them, which

37:53

it sounds like she does. Yeah.

37:56

Let's do hunt. One in hunt. Yeah. And

37:58

then honestly, I might put the

37:59

last one in consort and

38:02

keep

38:02

both my sway in consort up high because I think

38:04

she that's her her best

38:07

traits

38:07

is dealing with people. I think that makes

38:09

a lot of sense. So let's put

38:11

that down in consort People

38:14

just think she's the most lovely child

38:16

and she she can get her away with

38:18

them. She can talk them into things

38:20

that they wouldn't normally do.

38:22

She's a real scary little monster.

38:26

Special abilities, and I just wanna mention the first

38:28

one is pretty good for a slide.

38:32

Rook's Gambit. Take too stressed to roll your best

38:34

action rating while performing

38:36

a different action. So

38:38

if you got into a situation where you

38:40

needed to

38:42

wreck something or skirmish with somebody, you could talk,

38:44

you could pay too stress and you sway

38:48

instead.

38:49

Here

38:50

are the other ones, cloak and dagger. When you use a disguise other form

38:52

of covert misdirection, you get plus

38:55

one die. Ghost voice,

38:57

you know secret methods to

38:59

interact with a ghost or demon as if it was a normal

39:01

human regardless of how wild or feral it appears.

39:03

The next one's called like looking

39:05

into a mirror. you

39:08

can always tell when someone is lying to you. A

39:10

little something on the side at the

39:12

end of each downtime phase you earn plus

39:16

two stash. mezmarism,

39:18

when you sway someone,

39:20

you may cause them to forget that it's

39:22

happened until the next time they interact

39:24

with you. That's interesting for your character.

39:28

Subtrefuge, when

39:28

you extend your special armor,

39:30

you can resist a consequence from

39:33

suspicion or persuasion. special armor is something everybody

39:35

has. Basically, you can check off your

39:38

special armor. And if someone suspicious of

39:40

you, they no

39:42

longer are Trust in

39:44

me, get plus one die versus a

39:46

target with whom you have an intimate

39:48

relationship, that sounds like mathilde

39:50

as well. Yeah. because it's fine. Yeah. It's tough. It's

39:52

tough. I love like I love the

39:53

you can just tell when people are lying to you, and

39:55

I love the cloak and dagger, how you

39:57

can disguise yourself. and

39:59

get that boone. And then you as soon as you take off the

40:02

disguise, you also get initiative in the

40:04

situation, so you can, like, basically, get

40:06

a surprise round or, like, a jump

40:08

on somebody. Yeah. But I honestly think you're right. The

40:10

ROOKS Gambit, the very first one, to

40:12

take two stress and be able to roll

40:14

my best to roll my best

40:16

action rating? Like, I feel like that might actually be the way

40:18

to go because who knows what kind of trouble we're gonna

40:20

get into? I may be very unhelpful

40:24

with my character build in a

40:26

situation. So Okay. So

40:27

you're gonna take Rook's Gambit. Yeah. I'm gonna

40:29

take Rook's Gambit. Yeah. The book says, you

40:31

know, the first special ability

40:34

in the list is usually a pretty safe bet.

40:36

So I think that that's a good choice.

40:38

And now while we are

40:40

just kind of getting, oh, does mathilde have

40:42

a last name or an alias? I

40:45

think

40:45

she uses her last name as

40:47

her alias since nobody really knows who she

40:49

actually is anyway. And that

40:51

would be web with two

40:54

b's. Web,

40:54

very good. A

40:57

filled a web. Alright. Excellent.

41:00

When do you get a chance, Dylan,

41:02

who her sly friends

41:04

and vicious rivals are, you

41:06

know, they click the arrow up for a friend, down

41:09

for a rival. And now

41:11

we are going to

41:14

We're gonna enter into our game. We're gonna enter into

41:16

our our situation here.

41:20

So Chuck you recruited

41:22

Matilda and and

41:24

our friend, Knut. And

41:26

you guys had a hideout somewhere

41:29

Yeah. Oh, and we haven't we haven't

41:31

covered a really huge thing,

41:33

which is

41:35

where is Well, first let's

41:37

do where is the hideout, and then we have to pick what kind of crew is

41:39

this? Oh, man. So don't worry. We'll

41:41

do that quickly. But where do you

41:43

think the hideout is? You

41:45

know, the remnant was in six towers, a kind of a

41:48

formerly wealthy neighborhood on

41:50

hard times with a lot of abandoned

41:52

old mansions and townhouses. but

41:55

I think Chuck's crew is somewhere else.

41:57

So

41:57

-- Mhmm. -- you could

41:59

be down by the docks. You could

42:01

be in Crowe's foot, which is a neighborhood of

42:03

a lot of tenants. You could be

42:06

in Char Hollow, which is filled with

42:08

factories and belching coal

42:10

smoke into the atmosphere. Quite

42:12

like that. That's where we are. Yep.

42:14

Char Hollow? Yep. Char Hollow it

42:16

is.

42:16

Char Hollow it is.

42:18

And now we must

42:20

decide what type of

42:22

crew we are playing?

42:24

Are they a cult?

42:27

Are they assassins? Are they hawkers? Meaning, they sell some

42:29

sort of product? Are they

42:32

smugglers? We Those

42:34

are the ones that are brovos are good.

42:36

Brovos are

42:38

mercenaries that beat people up

42:40

and fight for a living. I

42:42

don't think that they're a cult. No.

42:45

No. I mean,

42:47

I don't know, man.

42:50

I think

42:51

the creek

42:55

I don't

42:55

know what do what what are people thinking? What are people

42:57

feeling? Yeah.

42:59

I'm seeing them.

43:02

I mean, it seems like like shadows

43:05

is seems interesting for this crew.

43:07

I mean, as as

43:12

violent and ruthless as all of them are,

43:14

assassins doesn't sound like it's off the

43:16

table. Nor does brovos.

43:18

I feel like those

43:21

three. Maybe maybe let's

43:22

go for You

43:25

know what? Let's

43:26

let's try brothers. I think

43:29

that sounds good. Let's do it. That's a cool idea of the

43:31

combos. Alright. Yeah. Bravos,

43:33

it

43:33

is. So let's look at

43:36

the sheet

43:38

for combos. just so I can

43:40

tell you more about them. Bravos are mercenaries,

43:42

thugs, and killers. That does

43:44

sound like this groom. I'm

43:48

just gonna call them Chuck's crew. Maybe a name will

43:50

present itself during the game that is

43:52

better, but for now

43:54

let's just call them Chuck's crew. We

43:56

know that their hideout is in Char Hollow. I'm not gonna

43:59

write more than

43:59

that for right now because we wanna get into the

44:02

game here.

44:04

But what we do need to do is choose

44:06

a special ability.

44:09

So

44:11

are they dangerous HPC may add

44:13

plus one action rating to hunt, skirmish, or

44:16

wreck. Oh, that's incredible. You get more

44:18

dots. Are they blood brothers

44:20

when you right alongside

44:22

cohorts, which is your gang. You can

44:24

actually add more gang members

44:26

to your to your crew.

44:28

When you fight alongside your cohort

44:30

cohorts, you get plus one eye for

44:32

teamwork roles. Door

44:34

kickers when you execute an assault plan,

44:36

take plus one die to the engagement

44:38

role. Whenever you choose assault, you get

44:40

plus one die to your engagement. Feens,

44:43

fear is good is as good as

44:45

respect. You may count each wanted level

44:47

as if it was turf.

44:49

That's only incredible.

44:52

Forged in fire, each PC has

44:54

been toughened by cruel experience.

44:56

you get plus one diet of resistance rolls. That's saying. I

44:58

think it is too. Yeah. Patriot, when

45:00

you advanced tier, it costs half

45:03

the coin. War

45:05

dogs when you're at

45:07

war, negative three faction

45:07

status, your crew does not suffer negative

45:10

one hold, and PCs still get

45:12

two downtime activities instead of

45:14

just one.

45:16

We had haven't had a war in our blades campaign

45:18

yet, but I I guess I don't wanna

45:20

have to get on that and make a war happen at

45:22

some point. You guys really liked

45:24

the sound

45:26

of forged into

45:26

the experience. Yeah. I mean, there's something interesting

45:28

there. It's like we've moved in

45:31

in some way, shape, we're

45:33

all traumatized. Right. And and

45:36

speaking of that, I like the word

45:38

web really spoke to me in in

45:40

considering a knut's background, think it's the kind of thing

45:42

we're

45:42

in shadow, which is this little like fire

45:44

plug. And if he steps into

45:46

into fire light, it's just a

45:49

spider web of scars across

45:51

the face. Like, just like on

45:53

this really pale face, just a network

45:55

of red scars. from various industrial accidents and

45:58

explosions. We've forged in fire

46:00

baby.

46:00

Fours in fire.

46:02

Fours in Plus, one die to

46:06

your resistance rolls. Finally, two

46:08

crew

46:08

upgrades. Two things

46:10

get filled in under the

46:14

crew grades like, you know, for example, you could

46:16

be hardened, which is plus one

46:18

trauma box. You could have bravo

46:21

rigging, free load of weapons and

46:24

armor. Mhmm. You could take iron hook

46:26

contacts. Yeah. Someone said that they were

46:28

formally in prison

46:30

or they dealt with people in prison? I I mean, if you're plus one tier

46:32

when you go to prison --

46:34

Sure. -- or you could take a

46:36

cohort of elite rovers

46:39

or elite thugs. Rovors are kinda helpful

46:41

with transporting things or traveling,

46:44

and thugs a little bit self explanatory.

46:46

They're helpful when they beat people up for

46:48

you. As the levels zero crew, I

46:50

believe you'd have like three extra

46:52

guys floating around if you chose

46:54

one of these cohort options, elite

46:56

rovers or elite thugs. You can also

46:58

put your grades into your

47:00

layer or the quality of your documents, gear, implements supplies,

47:02

or even into the

47:05

ability to train a

47:08

certain attribute like insider resolve. You can already train and get

47:10

extra in prowess. A

47:12

new cohort, it says, oh,

47:14

so you can't take elite rovers

47:18

are elite thugs yet. It says a new cohort costs

47:20

two upgrades. So if you

47:22

want extra gang members, you'd have to spend

47:24

both of these upgrade points on a

47:27

co court right now. Maybe

47:29

we want

47:33

we definitely

47:36

want something because you we're we're quite tinkered. Right? Right? You

47:38

got a you got a you got a bomb

47:40

maker or not niggas or maybe something in

47:42

the workshop. Okay.

47:45

That makes sense. You could take a workshop in your lair,

47:47

which would help. And then

47:50

maybe

47:50

may and, like,

47:54

kind of screwed up last time when we didn't take orders. Did we?

47:56

Or do

47:57

we or do we wanna

47:59

go

47:59

for, like, two free

48:03

I don't know. what would be what

48:05

would be kind of slidey? What would help slide? That's

48:09

a great question. I

48:12

think that something that would help you

48:14

slide perhaps.

48:16

That's

48:16

a great question. I'm

48:19

gonna be kidding. Well, being hidden means your layer is carefully

48:21

hidden and it's hard for people to find

48:24

it. And you could take that right now. No

48:26

problem. Yeah.

48:29

You could

48:30

also

48:32

A slide can always

48:35

use

48:35

minions. You might just take that

48:37

new nowhere, but that means you couldn't

48:39

use a workshop. You'd have to get rid of the workshop. It's the new the

48:42

cohort costs

48:42

too. What does the workshop get us?

48:45

Does that improve the quality of

48:48

stuff made or even give

48:50

you bonuses on

48:51

the roles or the ethics of the race? That's

48:53

a great question. Just

48:56

mechanically.

48:56

So right here, your layer has a workshop appointed with tools for tinkering

48:59

and alchemy as well as a small

49:01

library of books, documents, and maps. You

49:03

may accomplish long term

49:06

projects with these assets without leaving your

49:09

layer. Okay.

49:10

yeah

49:11

So maybe

49:12

given given what we're

49:16

Yeah.

49:16

Maybe

49:18

even what we're doing,

49:20

maybe

49:20

we could lose the workshop and

49:22

and go for the It's a

49:25

cobalt. Yeah.

49:25

The cobalt. Yeah. Let's do

49:27

it. Okay. Great. I

49:30

am going

49:30

to go

49:33

ahead and

49:35

the click off

49:36

that we took the cohort. And

49:38

so remember that you have three

49:40

three people roaming around. We don't have to find out who they are

49:43

yet. You can kind of, imagine

49:45

that, imagine near that

49:47

as we go. And

49:50

now now everybody.

49:52

We are finally ready. Well, they need to choose a

49:54

reputation, but let's go ahead and see what their reputation

49:56

is as they play. now we

49:59

are finally ready to to

50:01

begin our

50:02

to begin our

50:04

our score. So, Chuck,

50:07

You've brought you've brought these people

50:10

together. You're looking for a way to make a

50:12

profit. You're looking for a way to make

50:14

money. You have a friend and

50:16

a rival. Your

50:18

rival is a bounty hunter

50:20

named Casta and your

50:23

friend is a spy

50:26

named Valeris. These

50:27

are context that you can use

50:27

to find work for your

50:30

crew. Who do you

50:32

look into right now? Valaris

50:36

to the spy or cast to the bounty

50:38

hunt? I'm gonna go

50:39

to Valaris. Valaris,

50:41

very good. Okay.

50:43

So you go to Valeris and

50:45

Valeris actually

50:48

actually I think Valeris first

50:51

comes to meet your your

50:54

contacts? Maybe perhaps under

50:55

maybe by the on

50:58

a bridge.

51:00

a bridge, a misty misty bridge. Oh, very good. Connecting.

51:02

Yeah. I don't know. because we're

51:04

in Coldridge. Right? You're in Char

51:07

Hollow -- Char Hollow. Yeah.

51:09

Charah Hollow. Maybe connecting Charah Hollow to

51:12

I'm looking at the map here. Do

51:14

charter charter hall? Is it charter hall?

51:17

Yeah. I think that there's a bridge there. Let me

51:19

let me check. So the

51:20

bridge between charter hall

51:22

o and charter hall yes.

51:26

Okay. So billowing clouds

51:28

of completely opaque black

51:32

smoke just surround

51:34

this bridge and the

51:36

water beneath the bridge I mean,

51:38

it barely moves. It's like

51:40

a a sludge because

51:42

of all the chemical effluence

51:45

that drain out of

51:47

the factories of Char Hollow.

51:49

And you meet Valera's And

51:52

Valeris actually Valeris

51:54

looks like a

51:56

thug. Even though Valeris is

51:58

a spy, Valerus is big.

52:01

Valerus has enormous

52:04

arms, like huge biceps.

52:06

And and Valerus has kind

52:08

of like scarred and and

52:11

sort of what it was

52:13

a pugnacious face. You know? It looks

52:15

like he's taken a couple

52:18

fists to the nose

52:20

and broken his nose a couple

52:22

times. But when Valeris

52:24

is not

52:26

undercover, Valerus behaves more like himself, and

52:28

Valerus is quiet, Valerus

52:30

is thoughtful, and Valerus is

52:34

precise. And also when Valeris' ass himself,

52:36

Valeris wears these tiny

52:38

circular glasses. Mhmm. One

52:41

more go. So let you know that right now he's hilarious and

52:43

he's not undercover in one of the

52:46

gangs. Mhmm. And he meets with

52:48

you Chuck on this bridge. Did you bring your other

52:50

crew members with you? Yes. I

52:52

did. Yes. Let's say yes just so that

52:54

they could participate as well. And

52:56

so you're all standing on this bridge

52:58

and Valeris' Thank you

53:00

for

53:00

coming. Oh,

53:02

hilarious. Look.

53:05

Darsh. You

53:07

look Very

53:11

fun.

53:14

Chuck. Yeah.

53:15

I was hoping to

53:17

actually introduce you to my

53:19

new friends.

53:21

Yeah. Please get acquainted.

53:24

This is made through

53:27

the web to

53:30

you. And Let me stop you. The

53:31

less I knew about the three of

53:33

you, the better.

53:37

the This guy

53:38

can just remain a mystery to me. I knew I'm

53:41

already creating your

53:41

name. Okay.

53:45

Are you sure?

53:48

These two can

53:49

be trusted. Oh,

53:51

with my life.

53:52

life

53:53

the

53:57

he kinda gives

53:59

a wary

53:59

look to the giggling

54:03

of his woman seated

54:06

somewhere on the bridge. What's

54:08

he seeing when he looks at knut?

54:10

Mm-mm. Is I'm

54:13

I'm Imagine like a nineteen seventies fantasy

54:15

illustration of a dwarf and

54:18

just and just

54:20

shave him. And

54:22

it's that. Like, I'm just

54:25

kind of like, yeah, you

54:27

can thrust us. Mhmm. Polaris

54:30

is mainly

54:32

confused that Chuck has

54:34

chosen two very small people.

54:38

It's chucking two people that are less than five feet tall.

54:41

It sounds like. Yes.

54:44

Let's let's then cut

54:46

the bullshit.

54:48

Tell me why why did you call me

54:50

what's going on. Okay. Alright.

54:53

I'll tell you. Look,

54:56

here's the jump. The bill

54:58

hooks

54:58

are gonna attempt a robbery of a

55:00

tattoo artist on Inc Lane. A

55:04

word that

55:06

this artist has a supply of

55:09

Leviathan blood. The Billhooks

55:12

could

55:12

sell this for a huge

55:14

profit make a

55:16

big, big payday off of that.

55:19

I want

55:20

you to stop

55:22

this robbery from happening.

55:27

Great. You want us to stop her

55:30

over. I want you to stop

55:32

the crime from happening. I want you to stop the

55:34

Bill Hooks from getting their hands on

55:37

this Leviathan blood. Why

55:40

not go to the blue coat, the

55:42

sound so

55:44

noble? I'm not a I'm not

55:45

a leisure to tell you everything

55:47

involved here. But the main thing you need

55:49

to know is that when

55:51

you see me, I'll

55:54

be one of the bill hooks that

55:56

are trying to rob the tattoo artist.

55:59

Oh, this

55:59

is lovely.

56:02

Okay. Great. Chuck.

56:04

During the

56:05

attempted robbery that you're gonna

56:08

stop, I need you to

56:10

hurt me. You

56:12

have to make it look like there's no

56:14

way I could be involved in stopping

56:17

this robbery from happening.

56:21

kinda looked on

56:22

my crew. I'm like, tell

56:25

me this is crazy.

56:29

I don't know. I

56:30

think I could

56:32

hurt

56:32

him pretty good. Yes.

56:35

I'm sure that could

56:38

they arranged. Yes. I don't

56:41

want you putting me in

56:43

the trauma word

56:44

in a trauma work just

56:46

the Make

56:47

it look real. Make it

56:50

look like I got caught in the line

56:52

of fire or threw a punch at

56:54

the wrong guy. and, you

56:56

know, twist my

56:58

arm, break a leg or something,

57:01

break Wow. You're giving us a lot

57:03

here. You

57:03

look at the size of you. It's

57:05

gotta look good.

57:09

performance. We're good at performances

57:12

until Mark.

57:14

Oh, yeah. And then Mark Mark does

57:17

Mark Growlr bark? kind

57:19

of growls. Muck

57:22

feels like maybe there's

57:24

something wrong with him health wise. I

57:27

think there's, like, a bit of

57:30

main Jean Marc. It looks like

57:36

Yes. Yes. What has your number? Mhmm.

57:38

Okay. You're perfect. No one

57:40

would imagine that I'd ever hire

57:42

this group.

57:45

or take that as

57:46

a compliment. Thank you.

57:48

How many? And how

57:51

much? Those are my

57:52

two questions.

57:54

How much? I can

57:56

part with

57:57

four coin. Oh,

58:01

darling. Look at

58:04

that.

58:05

Bear. Look.

58:06

Also anything in the

58:08

shop that's not the Leviathan blood.

58:12

is yours. Okay. Now

58:14

we're talking. Just stop the bill hooks

58:16

from getting their hands on the Leviathan

58:19

blood. Do you understand? Yes.

58:23

He

58:24

yeah

58:26

is. How

58:26

many was my

58:27

other question? How many

58:29

what little girl? Oh,

58:30

hugs. Of course. How many will

58:33

there be? I don't think many. I

58:35

don't think they're sending, you know, a

58:37

war crew out. Did

58:40

that sound like a specific number to you? because it

58:43

did not sound like a specific

58:45

number to me. No. No.

58:47

No math and math. So

58:50

Play nice for including

58:52

me. That's my estimate. There

58:54

we go. Thank you. You see? We

58:57

got there

58:57

in the end. And

59:00

you know that I'm not gonna make any move against

59:02

you that would be

59:04

permanently damaging

59:06

with her letters. We

59:09

know. I know it.

59:10

It's a deal

59:11

then.

59:13

We'll

59:14

think

59:15

about it. We

59:17

need to do our rounds first. But I tell you

59:20

it is really very

59:22

enticing. They're

59:24

hitting the shop at dawn.

59:27

The

59:27

shop is called Tris. You know

59:29

it. It's popular.

59:32

Same name as the proprietor.

59:34

Tris. Got

59:35

it. It is. Don't got it. The Don

59:37

hour. Alright.

59:39

oh Be

59:42

there. Alright.

59:46

Now, leave me

59:48

here. I gotta

59:48

stay here for a while and make sure

59:51

this

59:51

conversation wasn't suspicious.

59:56

Go. Go

59:58

now. Let's

59:59

leave

1:00:01

kind of walking

1:00:03

towards our back to towards

1:00:05

our layer. As I do, I kind

1:00:07

of looked at the crew and I'm

1:00:09

like, He's the

1:00:12

a he's a

1:00:13

good egg. Takes a

1:00:16

bit

1:00:18

of time. but I tell

1:00:20

you what that lord of life and blood is very tasty. Must

1:00:22

be very valuable if he wants us so

1:00:23

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know. Our performance becomes

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1:03:52

Welcome back

1:03:52

welcome back Chuck's crew

1:03:54

is about to go on their first score. They are

1:03:57

a just a a mob

1:03:59

of nerdy wells, rap Scallions,

1:04:03

low lives, a

1:04:05

real nasty bunch, and they are

1:04:07

about to help a spy named

1:04:10

Valeris. pull

1:04:11

off some some chicanery. So you

1:04:13

know the score. You know

1:04:14

the plan. And the

1:04:17

plan is that

1:04:18

you must stop the Bill Hooks from robbing the

1:04:21

tattoo artist's tricks on

1:04:23

ink lane.

1:04:25

And while you're

1:04:26

doing that, Polaris will be a member of

1:04:28

the Bill Hooks, and you must hurt him to make

1:04:30

it look like he did not

1:04:33

hire

1:04:33

you to stop

1:04:36

them. We have

1:04:36

to choose an approach for

1:04:38

your crew. Every score has

1:04:40

an approach and the approach is

1:04:44

one of several things,

1:04:46

assault, deception deception,

1:04:48

stealth,

1:04:48

occult,

1:04:50

social and transport. Now, some of

1:04:52

these may not seem that obvious

1:04:55

as an option, but if you

1:04:57

can think of a plan that

1:04:59

would fit in in some way, for

1:05:02

example, deception or even

1:05:04

transport, then, you know,

1:05:05

we can still pick that

1:05:07

option. Some seem very obvious like

1:05:10

assault. So

1:05:10

I'll allow you guys

1:05:13

to talk that through in

1:05:15

character or out. Let's see. You're in your you're in

1:05:17

your layer which is in Char

1:05:20

Hollow. What do you think your layer

1:05:22

is

1:05:22

like? Actually,

1:05:24

it says

1:05:25

the crew must choose from one

1:05:27

of several

1:05:28

of several one of

1:05:30

several choices.

1:05:32

We already have a crew with a half of

1:05:34

the sunken grotto. So do you think that Chuck's

1:05:36

crew is in an abandoned watch

1:05:39

tower? unassuming backrooms of our merchant

1:05:42

shop, a small abandoned

1:05:44

house, a rickety tin roofed

1:05:46

rack or a junked

1:05:48

rail car. Where

1:05:50

are you

1:05:52

having this

1:05:56

conversation? It's extremely important

1:05:58

to me. Oh,

1:05:58

it is. It's

1:06:00

Chuck's it's Chuck's crew, so I wanna hear

1:06:02

what a boo has to say before I

1:06:05

say what I want. No, please. I think

1:06:07

actually I think the way that Chuck works is he

1:06:09

presents the options

1:06:10

and he allows the team

1:06:12

to that's how he builds trust.

1:06:15

That's how he builds, you know, the crew. So --

1:06:17

Yeah. -- please. I

1:06:18

mean, I have a voice. It's

1:06:20

a democracy, damn it. Mhmm. I

1:06:22

love the idea of the abandoned house.

1:06:24

I think it's just very realistic. It's like we're

1:06:27

squatters. And, you know, maybe we run power off

1:06:29

of some other building and we

1:06:31

have like a hot plate,

1:06:33

you know, and like all

1:06:34

that kind of stuff, and we're kind of just living

1:06:36

day to day hoping that we don't get

1:06:38

kicked out. But I also love the

1:06:40

train car because I think it's funny.

1:06:42

I think

1:06:43

the train cars hilarious, but the train car. I also I

1:06:45

I think both these are great, and and they both fit with,

1:06:47

like, the industrial landscape

1:06:50

of Charahala. totally.

1:06:52

There would be there would be like train trestles

1:06:54

all over the place moving

1:06:56

slag out of these these

1:06:58

big industrial spaces, but then

1:07:01

they're can also imagine, like, a little house from what

1:07:03

was a previous era that

1:07:05

would just beat all the

1:07:07

zoning. That was a big real estate holdout

1:07:09

and it's just flanked on both

1:07:12

sides by giant warehouses

1:07:14

and smoke belching factories.

1:07:16

Let's do the house.

1:07:17

Let's do the house. Great. I I love that

1:07:19

idea too. Like, there's factories in all this

1:07:21

industrial machinery all around it, but just

1:07:23

the just kind of

1:07:25

like shoved or crammed in

1:07:27

between two large stone, you

1:07:30

know, industrial buildings. It's

1:07:32

this tiny little house with a

1:07:34

shingled roof you know, the

1:07:36

the the shutters falling off of

1:07:38

it. So Chuck's house, I have

1:07:40

put in Char Hollow.

1:07:42

And now You may

1:07:44

discuss your approach, assault,

1:07:48

assault deception,

1:07:50

the wait, let me get them

1:07:51

all. A salt, deception, stealth,

1:07:54

occult, social, or transport.

1:07:56

What do you guys think it will be? I

1:07:58

think

1:07:58

it should be

1:07:59

an assault. Personally.

1:08:01

Okay. I

1:08:02

think that it's

1:08:08

I

1:08:08

don't know. It like

1:08:11

it feels

1:08:12

almost like like an ambush.

1:08:14

an ambush You

1:08:16

know, we know the place, we know

1:08:18

the time, we know everything, and we know the people. So

1:08:21

it is it's

1:08:23

almost like, okay. we

1:08:26

are going to really kind of hammer it

1:08:28

in. So we're just

1:08:30

playing it like we are

1:08:32

stealing the

1:08:34

Leviathan blood, we heard about the deal, and

1:08:37

that's it. Like, we're just I

1:08:39

think so. Oh, you're playing it.

1:08:41

That is that is a

1:08:43

quite an other wrinkle. You're playing it

1:08:45

like you're stealing the

1:08:47

Leviathan blood. And and and while

1:08:49

you are playing it that way, you

1:08:51

are going to stop the bill hooks.

1:08:53

Is that is that correct? Am I am I am I right in thinking that? So the bill so who

1:08:56

has the

1:08:59

Leviathan blood again? that the Yes. The

1:09:01

tattoo artist, Trish. Oh, and the Bill Hooks are going to -- To

1:09:03

steal it. To steal it. And

1:09:05

you have to stop them in

1:09:08

some way. I

1:09:10

was supposed to stop them from stealing it. Valera's

1:09:12

doesn't care how you stop them. As long

1:09:14

as you stop them and you make

1:09:16

sure to not, in any way, indite him

1:09:18

in the proceedings, and possibly by hurting him. New idea. I

1:09:21

thought the Bill

1:09:22

Hooks were doing a

1:09:25

trade. So I thought that would be like the

1:09:27

ambush. Mhmm. But it doesn't make sense if they're also stealing it because also it

1:09:32

makes Chuck and accomplished, like, to know

1:09:34

about them, like, that it makes it more complicated. But Yeah.

1:09:39

What if Mihilda says,

1:09:42

thinking. We all get tattoos.

1:09:48

You know?

1:09:49

It's a tattoo shop, Chuck. We could just walk in there. Get

1:09:52

tattoos. Wait.

1:09:57

And

1:09:57

then boom. So we are all the

1:10:00

unassuming

1:10:01

customers

1:10:05

waiting for the turn in

1:10:07

the chair and when

1:10:10

the bell hooks come.

1:10:14

the

1:10:14

customers are there to

1:10:16

have them

1:10:17

meet with an

1:10:20

unfortunate accident.

1:10:22

Yeah.

1:10:23

the

1:10:27

Yeah. Well,

1:10:30

no I don't know. I

1:10:32

love it. I think

1:10:34

it's

1:10:34

a genius idea.

1:10:36

I think it's

1:10:39

great. We have

1:10:40

simply

1:10:42

suit me tattoos.

1:10:44

We

1:10:47

no. We can't

1:10:49

no we can The tattoo

1:10:51

shop's

1:10:51

not gonna be open. They said they're

1:10:53

going at dawn. Well, the whole

1:10:56

plan's ruined. Let's

1:10:58

start over. You can gather information a little bit

1:11:00

if you'd like to know more about

1:11:02

the shop. I think we should.

1:11:04

Yeah. We're a quick way to

1:11:06

wait. Wait. Let's find out some

1:11:07

more, shall we? because I like

1:11:10

your idea. It's very good, very clever,

1:11:12

very slide.

1:11:15

It's so simple. I love

1:11:17

it. So let's look

1:11:19

into it. Very good.

1:11:21

Who would like to

1:11:23

gather this information? I'll do

1:11:25

a hunt. Can I do

1:11:27

that? Absolutely. But

1:11:30

hunter gatherer. Chuck

1:11:32

goes out looking for information.

1:11:34

No agriculture for this guy, untinking

1:11:37

he had a renewal.

1:11:39

Is the position controlled? The

1:11:42

position is the position is controlled. Yeah. Because it's a

1:11:44

gather

1:11:44

information. There's not even really a

1:11:46

position in effect. It is controlled.

1:11:51

Here we go. I see if if my role

1:11:53

as Chuck is as good as my role

1:11:56

as VAALCOZ.

1:12:00

It is six baby. Oh. Six.

1:12:02

You get a lot of information. Here's what you find

1:12:04

out. Trish's tattoo

1:12:07

shop is open all

1:12:09

night long. It would still be

1:12:11

sailors time. And

1:12:15

that is when Triss

1:12:17

does her business. Triss caters to

1:12:20

mainly to

1:12:24

sailors And you also

1:12:26

learned that Tris gives a special tattoo only

1:12:28

to sailors who

1:12:31

have seen a Leviathan out

1:12:35

on the dark seas outside

1:12:37

of basketball. Sort of

1:12:39

a badge of honor

1:12:41

that you are one

1:12:43

of the few to have witnessed with your

1:12:45

own eyes a Leviathan. Okay. And you also learned

1:12:47

that Chris' tattoos you learned

1:12:50

so much because you got a

1:12:52

sex Trish's tattoos

1:12:54

sometimes glow or have like an animation

1:12:59

aspect to them. I

1:13:02

he

1:13:04

am. So I kind of relay this

1:13:06

to the team then, share

1:13:08

this with the team

1:13:10

and I kind

1:13:11

of looked at knut

1:13:13

the and,

1:13:15

the like,

1:13:17

you no you know, you

1:13:19

remind me of a sailor. I

1:13:22

once

1:13:22

once went

1:13:24

would

1:13:25

to a Let's call

1:13:27

it a party with a

1:13:30

sailor. And of course, you are

1:13:32

more. that

1:13:35

are looking. But there's something about

1:13:37

your quality about them that looks

1:13:39

almost sailors. Wouldn't

1:13:42

you say web? Mhmm.

1:13:44

I could

1:13:46

see it. Yes.

1:13:48

Actually, I

1:13:50

don't know. Turn your hat around a

1:13:53

little bit or Yay. Why

1:13:55

a little tie around your

1:13:57

neck? I could

1:13:59

see it.

1:14:00

Yes. Before to use this,

1:14:02

not real in my fourth day, but

1:14:07

I have worked

1:14:08

work down

1:14:10

at the shipyard. And

1:14:13

that's that's

1:14:13

enough. So And

1:14:16

tell me, have you

1:14:18

ever seen a love island? I

1:14:20

think he's he's maybe

1:14:21

not been out on the ships. I've

1:14:24

seen what they

1:14:26

throw out that

1:14:28

the the plasma

1:14:30

blood and the ambergris that they bring out they see. Yeah. Yes.

1:14:33

You see that's

1:14:35

good.

1:14:35

You see this

1:14:38

is where the performance is. It

1:14:41

comes from truth. It

1:14:43

comes from reality. So

1:14:45

tell me. Go, please. So

1:14:47

then you want me to go and get one

1:14:50

the of these

1:14:52

tattoos. Yes.

1:14:54

And

1:14:54

we are simply there

1:14:57

to support the joy, to

1:14:59

love, to love. I will

1:15:01

be watching from outside, and

1:15:03

I can tell you where they are

1:15:05

coming. And web, you can choose whether to

1:15:07

a company, or

1:15:09

i know accompany me. It

1:15:11

is totally up to you, but

1:15:13

I am best outside with my

1:15:16

rice bowl

1:15:19

as you know. Chuck,

1:15:21

what do

1:15:22

you know

1:15:23

about Tris?

1:15:26

hey

1:15:29

as

1:15:30

I go to open my

1:15:32

mouth. What do I know, Jim?

1:15:34

You just know that Chris is probably

1:15:37

You got a six. So I'll I'll

1:15:39

give you this information as well. You know that Trish is probably the most respected

1:15:42

artist on

1:15:45

in in claim the hardest to

1:15:47

get an appointment with, but probably would

1:15:49

make an

1:15:50

exception for a sailor

1:15:53

who has witnessed a Leviathan

1:15:55

for one of her special jobs, one of her special tattoos.

1:16:00

And so

1:16:00

years and so before

1:16:02

we plan anymore. And I'm sorry, I don't

1:16:05

wanna cut cut off mathilda. Mathilda,

1:16:07

with that information, is there something

1:16:09

you would like to add? she's

1:16:10

just thinking she's good with people and she

1:16:13

was just thinking like, okay. So

1:16:15

if

1:16:15

the plan is to

1:16:18

be there when they do the

1:16:20

stealing of the leviathan blood. Trish

1:16:22

is obviously very interested in leviathans leviathan blood. She

1:16:25

does these tattoos. She

1:16:27

has this blood. Maybe she does

1:16:29

the tattoos with the blood. Like, I don't know. But it's not be

1:16:31

easy to

1:16:32

it's not gonna be easy to

1:16:35

reverse steel the Leviathan blood.

1:16:37

Like, the first problem -- Right. -- is them stealing it. The second problem is

1:16:39

I assumed Trish is gonna be very

1:16:44

protective.

1:16:44

of this blood and have some

1:16:46

sort of warts or, like, guards or something. So she kind of

1:16:49

just

1:16:50

Yeah. It

1:16:51

says it kind of like,

1:16:54

but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

1:16:56

I guess we

1:16:57

will because before any

1:16:59

more

1:16:59

planning a I

1:17:03

must ask us to just choose.

1:17:05

It sounds like you have chosen an

1:17:07

approach, and that approach sounds like deception

1:17:09

to me. Does it sound like

1:17:11

that to you? That's an exception. Okay.

1:17:13

And then I think we've chosen a detail as well. And the detail

1:17:15

is that you're going

1:17:18

to pose it

1:17:20

looks Canute is gonna

1:17:22

pose as a sailor and get one of those very special tattoos that

1:17:26

only Trish can do.

1:17:30

Now where the rest of you are at, it sounds like Chuck

1:17:32

has an idea of where he would like

1:17:34

to be positioned, we can wait to

1:17:37

find that out. we can and you can

1:17:39

certainly put yourself anywhere you'd like,

1:17:41

but it sounds like knut,

1:17:43

the technical ask expert will

1:17:45

be lying about who he is. Yes. This is the this

1:17:48

is very much

1:17:50

my weakness, but he's

1:17:52

got It's

1:17:54

not too late to change the

1:17:57

plan if you'd like, or we

1:17:59

can kind

1:17:59

of see what happens with

1:18:02

this. I think it's I think is

1:18:04

more believable maybe than mathilde

1:18:06

-- Mhmm. -- as a

1:18:08

Leviathan hunter sailor

1:18:11

or or is he?

1:18:12

I MEAN, THERE'S

1:18:14

A LOT IN ACTING. RIGHT? Reporter: I MEAN, I COULD ALSO MATHildah, NOT THAT

1:18:17

WE'RE PLANNING AHEAD, BUT

1:18:18

MATHildah COULD GO WITH YOU. and,

1:18:23

like, aid in some way. Like -- Right. -- you know,

1:18:25

she can kind of speak for you and

1:18:27

you're distressed. Exactly.

1:18:30

Say a word. Yeah.

1:18:33

good. Very good. I mean, maybe it's the way it's really good. So I get

1:18:35

I get the I get the approach and I

1:18:37

get the detail. Let's

1:18:39

do the in engagement role.

1:18:42

Okay? Sure. Before we do the engagement role though, item load outs, are you going

1:18:44

heavy, moderate, or

1:18:47

light with this? Each

1:18:51

of you can

1:18:53

choose differently. If

1:18:56

you go heavy, people can tell you're

1:18:58

obviously armed with a a bunch of

1:19:00

gear. If you go moderate, if you're

1:19:02

searched, they'll immediately find your gear. If they see you really up

1:19:05

close or do any kind of inspection, they'll see that you're

1:19:07

armed with gear for a job. If you go

1:19:10

light, no one will be the wiser.

1:19:12

Everything fits in your

1:19:14

pocket or in your jacket So

1:19:16

it's

1:19:16

very hidden that you will see part of a job. So

1:19:19

once again, not not trying to walk

1:19:22

out of the plan, just laying out mechanical facts that

1:19:24

so much of the so much

1:19:26

of the deal of this kind

1:19:30

of like expertise is craftiness in gear, and

1:19:33

this position will probably

1:19:35

be de geared to

1:19:39

sell the performance. But maybe

1:19:41

not. Maybe not. We could

1:19:43

change

1:19:43

the plan. Yeah.

1:19:44

I mean, what we could potentially

1:19:46

do is I could try and

1:19:49

go in and

1:19:51

talk as the hunter

1:19:53

of

1:19:53

the Leviathan and

1:19:55

essentially do

1:19:56

that while you set up

1:19:59

the

1:19:59

air you know,

1:19:59

trap right away. Right. Right. Right. You

1:20:01

know, we could switch roles

1:20:03

in that

1:20:04

in that regard. I

1:20:07

mean, yeah, you

1:20:08

don't technically, like, have to

1:20:10

be a sailor either. Like, you could just go in and say, like, you hunt Leviathan and

1:20:12

you know Trish's business. So, you

1:20:14

know, does she have any interest in

1:20:18

cutting a deal for

1:20:19

your next hunt, you know? Like it

1:20:21

could be just a lie, a straight

1:20:23

up lie.

1:20:24

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

1:20:27

okay Is that is that the plan? Is that

1:20:29

I think it's yeah. I think either way, it's gonna

1:20:31

be a deception.

1:20:35

Yeah. The detail is that someone is posing as a Leviathan hunter.

1:20:37

Right? You know what? Let's just go for it. Let's

1:20:39

go first idea, best idea. Here

1:20:42

we just go. Let's go Canute is posing. Canute is posing

1:20:44

as a Leviathan hunter. Is

1:20:46

that right? Yes. Okay. So

1:20:48

here we go. Is this

1:20:50

operation pretty early well, first

1:20:53

you start with one die for

1:20:55

your engagement role. Is the operation particularly

1:20:58

bold or daring? Yeah. Because you went to

1:21:00

step which

1:21:02

is sort of unexpected for a crew of bravo's,

1:21:04

I think it is.

1:21:06

Does the plans detail explosive

1:21:08

vulnerability of the target or hit them

1:21:10

where they're weakest?

1:21:11

I'm gonna say yes because you found out a

1:21:13

very specific thing about this tattoo

1:21:15

shop. And then

1:21:18

you're you're exploiting that idea part of your

1:21:20

job. I'm adding a dive

1:21:22

for that. Can any of your

1:21:25

friends or contacts provide aid or

1:21:27

insight? No. In fact, your

1:21:29

contact is asking you to fulfill extra duties for him. So I'm

1:21:31

not gonna give you that. Are there any other elements

1:21:33

you wanna consider? Are they

1:21:35

lower tier? No. no.

1:21:39

Okay. Now

1:21:40

I take away dice if I

1:21:42

think that there are problems you

1:21:45

haven't considered. And I'm gonna take away one die and here's

1:21:47

why. You guys are planning

1:21:48

on double

1:21:50

jobbing this. You're planning on

1:21:55

doing the score at hand and also getting

1:21:57

your

1:21:57

hands on the Leviathan blood. Is

1:21:59

that

1:21:59

correct? correct

1:22:01

who knows ten Who

1:22:04

knows? Jim? Who

1:22:04

knows what might happen? Yep.

1:22:06

I can't be presented. Okay. We might change our minds if snuck it's disgusting. As

1:22:11

crazy as shit. Okay. You

1:22:13

know what? I think that you thinking about I think you've got a pretty

1:22:15

good start of plan here. It it

1:22:18

at least sounds entertaining to

1:22:20

me. I'm

1:22:22

gonna allow you to keep all three die in your engagement

1:22:24

pool, and I'm gonna roll right now. You

1:22:26

understand if you roll the highest one to

1:22:28

three, you're in a weak position. If you

1:22:31

if you roll four or five, you're

1:22:33

in a risky position at the beginning of

1:22:35

this score. And if you roll a

1:22:37

six or more, well, you can't roll

1:22:39

more. then you're in a position. Okay. I

1:22:42

rolled two

1:22:43

fives

1:22:44

and

1:22:47

a six. can trial position at the

1:22:49

start -- Right. -- of

1:22:51

the score. And

1:22:53

so I'm going to go ahead

1:22:55

and place knut in the chair.

1:22:58

Great. Wow. We are

1:23:00

going to

1:23:03

skip over. canute having to, like, lie his

1:23:05

way into getting Tristan to

1:23:07

believe he is a

1:23:09

sailor. Now he

1:23:11

may have to lie

1:23:12

later, but already he's gotten

1:23:14

into the chair. Wait.

1:23:16

Let me give you a little bit of

1:23:18

the lay of the land. There are

1:23:21

two real sailors also in the shop. And it looks like they've been

1:23:23

drinking all night. And they're

1:23:25

sitting waiting for their turn

1:23:28

and they're singing.

1:23:31

That's how drunk they are. They're like, oh, I knew

1:23:34

a lass in white

1:23:36

hallow. She

1:23:39

had bloomers. It They're just drunkenly

1:23:41

singing with each other.

1:23:43

And Triss is kind of like getting

1:23:47

her materials together. Triss is bald

1:23:49

so that she can fit more tattoos on herself. She had

1:23:52

tattoos going all

1:23:55

the way up her scalp down her arms

1:23:57

and shoulders, which are also exposed. Chris

1:23:59

wears pants but then, like, very

1:24:02

little other clothes so she can

1:24:04

expose all of

1:24:06

her incredible work that she's maybe done in herself or had a very good artist do. And it it's

1:24:12

all abstract. and it

1:24:14

all fits into a beautiful,

1:24:16

like, tesylated design. And she is

1:24:18

getting her equipment ready to tattoo

1:24:22

commute.

1:24:22

Where?

1:24:24

Oh, and

1:24:25

one more thing. Inc.

1:24:27

Lane ends

1:24:28

at an old

1:24:31

rotting dock that is starting to

1:24:33

collapse into the water. And Trish's shop is

1:24:35

at the very end of ink

1:24:38

lane kind of hanging

1:24:40

out over the water a

1:24:42

little bit connected to and sort of above this rotting dock.

1:24:48

know. So

1:24:48

-- Right. -- knowing

1:24:50

all of that, where is Matilda?

1:24:52

where is matilda

1:24:55

I think Matilda is

1:24:58

going in moderately armed. Thank

1:25:01

you.

1:25:03

Yes. Okay. The moderate load.

1:25:05

Moderate load.

1:25:05

And she's in the shop. She went in with

1:25:08

knut, and I think

1:25:10

she

1:25:11

is kind of just playing

1:25:14

the role of a night of revelry and has her short like, hiked

1:25:16

up and tucked into

1:25:18

the waistband and, like, acts

1:25:23

like, she's so excited that her friend, the sailor, is back and

1:25:25

is, like, getting this tattoo, and she just kind

1:25:28

of came through the

1:25:30

doors with him and was,

1:25:32

like,

1:25:32

oh, you'll never believe it.

1:25:34

And she's just like, gosh. And every time the sailors,

1:25:38

you know, sing or

1:25:39

talk. She's, like, clapping, like, kind

1:25:42

of

1:25:42

just playing dumb.

1:25:44

Yeah. So maybe, you know, she's

1:25:46

acting a little bit as knut

1:25:49

lady in this port of call, you

1:25:51

know, or his his companion for the night, don't But she's definitely

1:25:54

a part of the

1:25:56

revelry And

1:25:58

I think that maybe that's

1:26:00

why knut's already in the chair

1:26:02

because Matilda has really sold their

1:26:05

performance.

1:26:06

Where is Chuck? I am positioned in

1:26:08

either, you know, if if I can

1:26:10

if she's in it dark, is

1:26:14

there

1:26:15

any sort of window hole

1:26:16

hole or, like, you know, anything that I can see

1:26:19

the see the the tattoo placement in

1:26:22

and see the road that maybe they're coming in, you know, where people come

1:26:24

in and out from. You know, I'm I'm

1:26:26

trying to keep

1:26:26

myself up high, essentially. There

1:26:29

are other shops

1:26:32

along this lane. They are all

1:26:34

there are many tattoo shops, and then there are shuttered now, but

1:26:36

sort of places where

1:26:38

they open the sort of

1:26:42

stall on the side of the the

1:26:44

store front and they sell

1:26:46

food out of that. This

1:26:48

is like kind of AAA

1:26:51

walking street. Right? It's very -- Yeah.

1:26:53

-- very narrow. Really, the buildings are clustered in

1:26:55

tightly on both sides, but

1:26:58

then right before you

1:27:00

just go off into the water.

1:27:02

There stands Tris. That's the name of the shop and the name of the artist. It just says

1:27:07

Tris in big kinda like

1:27:09

artistically, you know, written letters out on the front.

1:27:12

So that's a long way

1:27:14

of saying, yes, you could deaf

1:27:17

only perch on one of these roofs. Is that what you'd like to do? Yeah. I've got it. I'm I'm I'm perched

1:27:19

there with with and and Muck

1:27:22

is kind of right next, like, you

1:27:24

know, sort

1:27:27

of, I can see Muck. You know, because I've got the ghost sort of

1:27:29

link with Muck. I can, you know, communicate

1:27:31

with Muck and what

1:27:34

sort of just looking like

1:27:35

a little stray every now and then

1:27:37

and sort of dilly dallying. And I'm

1:27:39

sort of smoking a cigarette kind

1:27:41

of keeping my eye. Like, I've

1:27:44

got eyes above, but Muck has got eyes below. And

1:27:46

that's the kind of way that we're kind of going around. So Chuck

1:27:49

is Muck up there on the

1:27:51

roof with fewer is Muck No. No. muck down. Yes. Acting as a

1:27:53

stray. Okay. I understand. And, Chuck, I

1:27:55

will tell you

1:27:58

that because of your controlled position, see

1:27:59

through the front door of the shop,

1:28:02

and you can also see into one

1:28:05

window of the shop. And right now, you can

1:28:07

see knut sitting in the chair through that

1:28:10

window. I can stand with my spy

1:28:12

gloves. Oh,

1:28:14

yeah. check that off of your your

1:28:16

inventory. Wait. What is

1:28:18

your load? Normal. Normal.

1:28:21

Okay. And what is

1:28:23

Canute's load? It's a sell the

1:28:25

deception, it is light. Okay. Very

1:28:27

good. Okay. So you can see canute

1:28:29

through the window and you can actually

1:28:31

see the sailor sitting

1:28:34

and waiting their turn through the open

1:28:37

door. The door is just open

1:28:39

to customers at this time

1:28:41

of night. It's always night in

1:28:43

duskfall. And let's start

1:28:45

with Tris turning around

1:28:49

and going

1:28:51

Okay. there, what'll

1:28:54

it be? Based upon what I've

1:28:56

seen,

1:28:57

based upon what i've seen And

1:28:59

he's like got eight. And he's rolling up one sleeve. He's got two

1:29:02

almost like suspenders pouched up.

1:29:04

Both of them. He

1:29:06

was rolling up one sleeve. What

1:29:08

I've

1:29:09

seen, I think I mowed the

1:29:11

mark of the the

1:29:13

beast, not

1:29:14

the sea. Yeah.

1:29:20

Fuck.

1:29:24

You're sure.

1:29:25

you're sure

1:29:28

I'm sure.

1:29:28

because once I put it

1:29:31

on you, it won't

1:29:35

come off. understand

1:29:36

that when one undertakes

1:29:38

anything, one

1:29:39

must weigh

1:29:44

the consequences The water points at your

1:29:46

forehead and she goes, the mark's

1:29:48

already in here

1:29:51

anyway, isn't it? That's

1:29:55

that's right right. She gets

1:29:57

her needles ready, and I

1:29:59

am watching everything. I wanna see

1:30:01

where this because I have a

1:30:03

feeling that this Am I about to

1:30:05

see the blood itself? And then she

1:30:08

says,

1:30:08

one moment,

1:30:10

and she walks into

1:30:12

the back, like, craning, looking back

1:30:14

there. Would you say that you're trying

1:30:15

to find out what

1:30:20

she's doing? Yes.

1:30:20

Yet, Matilda is too.

1:30:22

Yes. Mhmm. Okay. Then what action are you using to do that?

1:30:28

Prow. Matilda can I

1:30:29

guess he's prow. Maybe you are in the chair, but, like, can Matilda,

1:30:31

I guess, just like kind of walk by

1:30:33

the corner she walked around and Yeah.

1:30:35

Maybe that's the

1:30:38

move. I think it's it's like maybe instead of

1:30:40

me looking, it's me making very meaningful

1:30:42

eye contact with Matilda's, like

1:30:45

Mhmm. Okay. Matilda, The

1:30:47

risk here is that you'll

1:30:50

be caught. Right? Yeah.

1:30:53

Right? Do do

1:30:56

we think that's the risk. Are you are you kind

1:30:58

of not going all the way back? Are you going all the way back into the back room and sneaking that

1:31:00

way? Or are you

1:31:02

staying outside? I think

1:31:04

she's going to walk into

1:31:06

I don't know what the layout is, but unless it's like opening a locked door, I think she is walking

1:31:08

into the back to see what

1:31:11

it is. And in my mind,

1:31:15

her excuse is just like, I was looking

1:31:17

for the bathroom. Like, anything that she could

1:31:19

use that excuse for? So I

1:31:21

don't wanna

1:31:22

walk into a room that's

1:31:24

closed. I feel like duskfall, especially

1:31:26

down on the docks, has disgusting privies and not full

1:31:31

bathrooms. I that's not me correcting you and saying can't do that?

1:31:33

No. That's valid. Yeah. But

1:31:36

and, you know, who

1:31:38

knows? Maybe Trist just shits off the dock, but it doesn't matter,

1:31:40

regardless that we'll we'll deal with that

1:31:42

when we come to it. So I

1:31:45

want you to know that the risk here

1:31:47

is that you could be caught and that would

1:31:49

be bad because who knows

1:31:52

what how Trish would react.

1:31:54

Let me have that brow role

1:31:57

risky, and it will

1:31:58

be for standard effect. You will find out

1:31:59

some information about what she's doing back

1:32:02

there. And I just wanna I just

1:32:04

wanna say

1:32:07

you can resist the effects. Remember, we

1:32:09

get plus one die as well because

1:32:11

of our full experiences of

1:32:13

being forged in fire. That's

1:32:15

right. Any fat a very good point.

1:32:17

So, you know, resistance isn't just when someone's stabbing you. You can resist

1:32:19

when someone catches

1:32:21

you doing

1:32:23

something wrong or you know,

1:32:26

anything can be resisted. So here we go. How many what what action are you

1:32:28

using, Praful.

1:32:32

Right? Pral. How many how many dots

1:32:34

do you have in Pral? Just

1:32:35

one. Okay. I wonder if

1:32:37

I should push

1:32:38

myself, but then I'm worried I'll