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Welcome to the show. Right

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away, I need to clear my throat. Oh, there you go.

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Yeah. I believe it's not putting What'd

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you do? I'm a booker's head. Don't

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wait. Wait. Now Hold on. Your book,

1:01

I'll be Right. Okay.

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Everybody has to show their place of

1:07

life. Disaster.

1:10

Is it going great? What about who just

1:12

went offline? And then

1:14

this sound happened, that's a reason.

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Alright. Yeah. If you're just listening, everybody was

1:20

showing up their book and then Abu knocked over

1:23

a shelf and broke a window. Yes.

1:26

Yes. Well,

1:28

okay. We all have our books ready, so

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we're ready to do this thing by the

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book. Let me introduce my

1:35

cast. They're here every week. Guys,

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it's Ross Bryant, Josephine Cannon, and

1:40

Abu Salim. Hey, guys. What

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up? up? Yeah. No. ready

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to enter duskfall once

1:47

again. We are recording

1:50

this right after Halloween. How

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did everybody's Halloween go?

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Oh, man. It

1:56

was a

1:57

great. You know? Changing

1:59

Hopefully, people are listening to this,

2:01

like, on December seventeen.

2:03

Mhmm. We're talking about Halloween. Yeah.

2:06

When I make Halloween, you know, it's really it's

2:08

really appropriate to duskfall because of the

2:10

ghosts and the whatnot. So Yes.

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What did everybody do? What kind of spooky

2:15

scary stuff did you do, Ross Bryant? Just

2:18

walked around the neighborhood, mostly

2:21

scoping for dogs and costumes.

2:24

Saw some cool hot dogs. Saw

2:26

a little princess. Saw

2:28

a sushi fish. And

2:30

that's that's really all I needed out of out of

2:32

out of what a crazy sentence. Saw

2:35

little hot dogs, saw princess, saw

2:37

sushi fish. There

2:39

was also a house with roughly

2:42

a thousand inflatable ghosts,

2:44

spooks, and Googles. that we went up to.

2:47

And even though it was very much

2:49

four kids, I am so

2:51

averse to being startled that I was

2:53

a little nervous going up to it.

2:55

Wow. I just

2:58

love horror movies. I like spooky

3:00

and eerie things, but I

3:02

don't like being startled. We've talked about this.

3:04

our movies that are jump scare machines are

3:06

not my forte. That's right. That's

3:09

right. We all have our very specific

3:11

news. Mhmm. in

3:13

the middle of the show if I just go, Ross.

3:15

Like, will that? Yeah. Listen

3:20

for that. Watch for that, Nate. We're gonna

3:22

do that. And,

3:24

Joe, you told me you kinda did a

3:26

little tour of

3:29

spookily decorated house Right?

3:31

Yeah. We went to a neighborhood that has,

3:33

like, a little Halloween decorating competition,

3:36

and so they go, like, all out.

3:38

Like, there are houses that have, like, Haunted

3:40

house sections that people were going through

3:42

and lining up for, like, it it was wild.

3:45

And we had our our little pup with us,

3:47

Georgiela Forge, and he was I

3:49

need to get him really

3:52

a Star Trek costume. You need to get

3:54

him the Jordi La Force. I really need

3:56

to. I really need to. Yeah.

3:58

He was dressed up as a

4:00

sweet That's what it said. It's like

4:02

a little black hoodie with like wings and a little

4:04

devil town and little

4:05

horns. It was very

4:07

cute. That sounds adorable. And

4:10

sweet devil reminds me of, like, my daughter

4:12

has, like, spooky books but they always make

4:14

sure to add an adjective to everything so that

4:16

they'll always be like, look it's a

4:18

friendly ghost. Yes.

4:21

Here are some nice bats. Always

4:25

make sure you know that they're not gonna

4:27

bite you or whatever. And then that's what

4:29

my daughter will always say to me. I'll be like, hey, look

4:31

at that skeletal she's like, it's a nice

4:33

skeleton. And I'm like, oh, okay.

4:35

If you say so, oh, man. I

4:37

think it wants to murder us but okay.

4:39

If you say it's nice. You know, I remember

4:41

once I don't even think this was for Halloween,

4:43

but as a kid, it was

4:45

there was a book at at this think the

4:47

book, I remember, and it was about two friends

4:49

who it

4:49

was like a pop up book. You know, those books that

4:52

you, like, opened and it pops up. Yeah. And it was

4:54

about these two friends who were

4:56

going into this. I don't know whether it was like a haunted

4:59

city or like a haunted little house.

5:01

Yeah. And

5:03

it ends with essentially one of

5:05

the friends being turned

5:07

into like a monster and eating

5:09

their friend. As a

5:11

kid, it was a kid's book and I remember

5:13

I remember reading it and it

5:15

was like the art style as well. Terrifying.

5:17

refined And I'm not thinking I I

5:19

can't remember. And it and I just and now now, you

5:21

know, you telling me about all these nice colors. They weren't

5:24

nice. No. I don't think

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so. It was ghoulish. It

5:28

was horrible. Like Yeah.

5:30

They can't do that nowadays. Can they? I

5:32

sure knows for kids. I'm definitely

5:34

sure it was for kids. It was a pop up book.

5:36

Yeah. And it would be the pop up book.

5:38

There was a I just do. tongue

5:40

this outbreak. Did when did they pop up? Did

5:42

they pop up really fast? No.

5:45

Oh, jeez. No. Like that. How

5:48

quickly you throw open the book, any

5:50

Oh, god. Halloween is not is is it as

5:52

big in the UK? Abu? It's

5:54

not quite as big. Halloween. But

5:56

really, it's it's it's becoming

5:59

a thing. I remember

5:59

as as as a kid growing up,

6:02

like, it was it was like my

6:04

thing. Like, I really loved Halloween. I

6:06

think it was especially

6:08

because I I grew up in, like, a cul de

6:11

sac. So, you know, we would all go

6:13

through the treating around the area, grew up in the countryside,

6:15

so not in London. I'm sure it was

6:17

very different here in But, yeah,

6:19

it's not really a thing until

6:21

recently where it's now like

6:23

you gotta have a party and you gotta go to

6:25

like this and dress up like that and --

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Right. -- it seemed bigger when we

6:29

were visiting it because we were just there. I saw,

6:31

like, Halloween decorate, you know,

6:33

like -- Right. -- and and stuff being sold in the

6:35

stores all Halloween themes. So There's now

6:38

I notice a change. I know that

6:40

on Halloween, you guys in the UK,

6:42

you build a wicker man and

6:44

you burn a policeman inside of

6:46

it. Is that correct? To ensure a good

6:48

harvest? Yeah. Bro,

6:51

I can't say that comfortably, especially

6:53

with the way that I look. You understand?

6:57

Like, if I said that right now, For

7:02

those of you in the dark, I was just making a

7:04

reference to the nineteen seventies horror

7:07

movie, The weaker man starring Christopher

7:10

Lee. And if you haven't seen that, you

7:12

should go see it. It's a great spooky movie.

7:14

Isn't that what Burning Man's all about?

7:16

guess, yeah, I think it. It's kinda something to

7:18

do with that. Yeah. Yeah.

7:21

Yeah. I think it is. We had been.

7:23

Is there anybody here wicking Cannon

7:26

here at druid? Yeah.

7:28

Hey, which of you guys? I think one of you

7:30

is a druid. Is that right?

7:33

Is anybody in the taro?

7:36

So None of it. We

7:38

we really not and we're not taking the boxes.

7:40

You know, you I feel like

7:42

I know that you're a devout Christian,

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Joe. Oh, right. You know

7:46

you know this about me from that great that

7:49

Haunted game that we played. where

7:51

I knew nothing about it, like religion

7:54

was so ever. Well, that's that'd

7:56

be you knew enough. You knew enough.

7:58

You know I'm I'm into

7:59

I'm into divination

8:03

and and esoteric

8:04

lore. So yeah. I I

8:07

Jared,

8:07

if you ever wanna hang out by a standing

8:10

stone, at the

8:12

at the Equinox and --

8:14

There we go. -- through some arcane rituals to

8:16

make sure that the the

8:18

gods shall smile on you in the year

8:20

to come. Ross,

8:21

you gotta -- Yep. -- you gotta spend more

8:23

time in Scotland, Ross. It's not

8:25

you clearly. Speaking of arcane

8:28

rituals, a thousand

8:30

years ago, this was a land of

8:32

beauty and magic. Then came the

8:34

cataclysm that blotted off the sun

8:36

and ripped open the gates to the land of the

8:38

dead. The city of Dustfall is

8:40

a metropolis of factories and

8:42

tenements surrounded by

8:44

crackling lightning towers Outside

8:47

the city is a wasteland of undead.

8:50

Inside the city is a teeming hive

8:52

of scum and villainy intrigue

8:54

and corruption. life is

8:56

cheap in a city ruled by

8:58

death. The sun is gone. The

9:00

only thing that shines in duskfall

9:02

are the blades In

9:04

the dark.

9:07

Yeah. Boy? Yeah.

9:09

Maybe. People

9:11

love the intro. People love the intro.

9:13

I've heard we're getting it on a t shirt. I've heard

9:15

we're getting the in front of the t shirt. to wear

9:17

the And not to wear a t shirt. The word

9:20

on the street. Yeah. Oh,

9:22

yeah. Yes. So I

9:24

hope it's the same sort of font and layout

9:26

as those ones that are that are,

9:28

like, in this house, we

9:30

believe -- Right. -- like the shirt

9:32

that says, I drink and I know

9:34

things. We

9:37

really step up sarcasm. We

9:39

gotta step up our foley game on the next

9:41

ones.

9:42

Okay. Yeah.

9:43

I'll wait. Next time, get more positive

9:45

so you guys can add wild sound effects

9:47

and foley to it. Cool.

9:50

Welcome back to dusk Falls Gandrels.

9:52

Today, we are going to finish

9:54

up our downtime. Brief

9:57

recap. The crew

9:59

had to get out of duskfall. after a

10:01

disastrous score at the

10:03

Children's Mass Estate, ring

10:05

their contact in the path of echoes

10:08

recommended that they Leiloh

10:10

for a while, maybe even get out of

10:12

town. So the crew, the Presents,

10:15

followed, fits a collector

10:17

who owed them coin all

10:19

the way to the Imperial City, where

10:21

over the course of three episodes,

10:24

they managed to find

10:26

fits They try to get their money

10:28

back in the emperor's cabinet of curiosities.

10:31

Unfortunately, as the

10:33

show is want to do, things went sideways

10:35

and you escaped with

10:38

one little bit of loot from the

10:40

cabinet of curiosities. And what was

10:42

that loot Josephine Cannon? It

10:44

was an onyx stone

10:46

necklace with a ruby. Yes.

10:49

And you've already, I think, You've

10:52

already sold that. I believe we

10:54

covered that in the last year. the end of the

10:56

last year. Yes. because we got our coin. Yep. Yeah.

10:58

Yeah. You so you got your coin from it

11:00

and you you paid up to a path of

11:02

echoes who are sort of the the the

11:04

gang that kind of well, they're not really a

11:06

gang. The cult or

11:08

secret society that sort of

11:10

is your patron and

11:13

everybody also got XP, but

11:16

we didn't find out what people

11:18

had done with that XP. No.

11:21

Because some of you, I think,

11:23

or maybe all of you upgraded in

11:26

some way. So Let's

11:28

start with Juliette Belle

11:30

Rose. Juliette, I believe,

11:32

filled her playbook XP, if I'm not

11:34

mistaken, was able to take a new

11:36

special ability Joe,

11:38

what have you chosen for Juliette

11:40

Belle Rose? Okay.

11:42

She's

11:42

going to take

11:43

the veteran ability

11:45

any

11:46

in order

11:48

to

11:51

grab the ability called trust

11:54

in me. It

11:56

is a slide ability and

11:59

it says you get

12:01

plus one die versus

12:03

a target with whom you have an intimate

12:05

relationship. Right.

12:06

Yeah. Normally,

12:09

a slide ability. And

12:11

then we don't forget to too much.

12:14

We define we

12:16

define what what a

12:18

intimate relationship is, but

12:20

I think that's with this

12:23

crew and the way that they do

12:25

RP that shouldn't be hard to define.

12:27

Okay? Let

12:29

me just make sure Vectren there's

12:31

no special requirements to take

12:33

a veteran ability. Right? You can just take a

12:36

statement. so we've done it before. So I

12:38

think we it. Yeah. The

12:40

ability to diversify into another

12:42

-- Mhmm. -- another playbooks

12:44

special abilities. Great. And it makes your character

12:46

really customized, you know. Yeah. because

12:48

you take other abilities from other playbooks.

12:50

Great. I can't wait to see how Juliet is gonna

12:52

use that. I mean, she has one

12:54

intimate paramour in the crew.

12:56

Or is that person

12:59

intimate anymore? Well, okay.

13:01

So how do you define intimate?

13:03

Does it

13:04

have to be No. It doesn't

13:06

have to be that intimate. It doesn't have to be like

13:08

a former Downtime lover at

13:10

all. Okay. I think you just need

13:12

to establish some sort of even

13:15

over the course of a night or several

13:17

hours, some sort of

13:18

relationship that goes deeper than an

13:21

acquaintance or a business

13:23

transaction. Right.

13:23

So definitely

13:26

a really cool angle in which to

13:28

pull a score because this crew does social

13:31

scores so well. Throwing

13:35

a little shade. Okay. Abu,

13:39

VAALCO's, I believe, had a new special ability.

13:41

Is that right? Yeah. He did. What has

13:43

VAALCO has taken? So I was wondering

13:45

if we could, like,

13:47

go into a scene here.

13:49

the And,

13:50

you know, I've been

13:52

going to ring a lot and getting

13:54

my

13:56

my my stress fix from

13:58

drinking

13:59

into the into the pool of

14:02

grossly ectoplasm

14:05

whatever. They could say. Perhaps

14:07

what what they sometimes call, industrial,

14:10

a spirit well. You've been

14:12

kind of sipping from the spirit well.

14:14

Yeah. So I was hoping

14:16

to kind of do

14:18

a bit of both.

14:20

So I don't know whether I reveal that

14:22

ability now or I reveal

14:24

it while we're role playing and I'm getting my

14:26

stress down. Is that how you'd like to do

14:28

it? I'd like them to do it that way, if that's

14:30

possible. Absolutely. Absolutely.

14:33

And I should've I should've offered that to all of

14:35

our players. Although, I

14:37

don't know how Juliet would

14:39

have introduced hers on the

14:41

sly or, like but but but

14:44

okay. Absolutely. Hold it back. Hold it back and

14:46

bring it out when it's time. So

14:50

finally, echophilia,

14:53

formerly Ophelia, formerly Echapraig

14:56

Wodi, you got a

14:58

new ability. I think we may have

15:00

already talked about it. I'm not I don't remember

15:02

exactly, but What what's your new ability

15:04

and then that comes with a new

15:06

stricher. Right. playing the vampire

15:08

playbook. The the

15:11

new ability that I selected is called

15:13

sinister Isle. which

15:16

says that during downtime, you

15:18

can choose one of these options.

15:20

Get a free additional downtime

15:22

activity. or you can

15:24

take plus one die,

15:27

all downtime activity rolls.

15:29

Do you want to add men or you can add a

15:31

dice to the one seat?

15:32

the Andy,

15:34

if you've got projects and irons

15:36

in the fire.

15:37

Yes. How

15:40

old is shit? these sorts of powers

15:42

come at a price for the the

15:44

old vampire. And one

15:46

of the things I love about this playbook is

15:49

that it that it's balanced with these strictures.

15:52

I I think we mentioned

15:54

that that Aquila already has one

15:56

of these. Bow. The spirit

15:58

must remain in this body or

15:59

be destroyed. which interestingly

16:03

implies that without this,

16:06

the spirit could escape

16:08

its shell and animate

16:10

another body and stay alive

16:12

if you didn't have this structure.

16:15

Mhmm. But aephilia --

16:17

He's -- a brachialia. cat. And I think

16:19

we're we're saying that maybe there's there may be some

16:21

spark of echoprags still in there,

16:23

like hanging on

16:24

and keeping feel it

16:27

from from getting out. I mean, it might

16:29

even be the cruise decision. It

16:31

might have been the cruise decision to

16:33

separate them at some point because they

16:35

felt that you know, it's it's

16:37

gotten out of but now

16:39

they can't do that with it without destroying

16:42

Ophelia. Very pleased. Do

16:44

we know that? Now you

16:45

I really don't. Although you shouldn't I

16:47

think I mentioned just kind of in a or,

16:50

like, ideally, I mentioned that,

16:52

like, that they can't be said

16:54

that. Yeah. Okay.

16:57

But now I have to because I took a new

16:59

advantage, I now have to take

17:01

another one of those

17:02

Oh, wow. Do you

17:04

wanna hear what they are? Mhmm.

17:07

Yes. Okay. So

17:09

the the So

17:11

it's either slumber. In downtime,

17:13

you must spend one activity resting in

17:15

a dark silent place or else

17:17

suffer three stress. So

17:20

you gotta use one of those precious downtimes

17:23

to sleep. or

17:28

forbidden. You cannot enter a

17:30

private residence without permission from the

17:32

owner. A classic. Try to let the

17:34

right one in. It's a classic. Repelled.

17:37

A spirit being charm can hold

17:39

you at bay. Or you take too stress

17:41

to resist the repulsion. a spirit pain charm

17:43

comes out and you go full Christopher Lee. Like

17:46

And finally,

17:50

Bisteal. When you suffer

17:52

physical harm or overindulge your device, your

17:54

body twists into a horrific

17:56

Bisteal form, your next feed without

17:58

over indulging. Oh,

18:00

boy. Oh, these

18:02

are fun. What do you think? Great.

18:04

What are you getting? So I gotta pick

18:06

one of those. And I'm going to

18:08

pick it in secret, and you'll just find out what

18:10

it is when it comes to play. Oh,

18:13

wow. because it's

18:15

so fantastic. secrets is

18:17

great. That's great. Alright.

18:20

So we've handled, I think, all of the

18:22

advancements for our brew.

18:24

Now, we're gonna talk about the heat. Now,

18:27

people

18:27

did die. Oh, we didn't do

18:29

the

18:29

heat last time. I don't think we did

18:32

heen. So

18:33

people did die in the score, but on the other hand, you

18:36

guys have crows fail, which means you

18:38

don't take additional heat for people

18:40

dying. So beyond that,

18:42

I think because you were kinda out of town,

18:44

you were kinda unknowns, and you handled a

18:47

lot of the little

18:50

stumbling

18:50

blocks and hurdles that came your way, you

18:52

Haunted them pretty deathly. I'm only

18:54

gonna give you two heat, which

18:56

is standard exposure. We we're Haunted.

19:00

Yeah. You

19:00

have you have one level of wanted.

19:02

You have one level

19:05

of wanted. So and that happened a while

19:07

ago. Oh, yeah. A little bit.

19:09

heat leaving

19:11

you with -- missing more heat.

19:13

three more heat until you take another wanted

19:16

level. Uh-huh. I'm amazed that you're surprised by the

19:18

fact that we all wanted. I'm and

19:20

it is a school that I've had.

19:23

tried very difficult to negotiate,

19:25

like, just one away from Haunted, basically.

19:27

I don't remember

19:29

how to be probably the one, you know, where we

19:31

had to break into the to the

19:33

house and the guy was a spirit

19:36

capturer. Probably, but yeah. You know,

19:38

how do we get rid of wanted levels?

19:40

Well, you you getting rid of

19:43

wanted levels is only done by sending crew

19:45

members to prison. Oh,

19:49

So then there are claims you can take in prison,

19:51

and we can deal with the whole incarceration

19:54

system. I think we should run towards that

19:56

as quickly as we Cannon.

19:58

If you want, you could, you you

20:01

know, use a downtime activity to reduce

20:03

your heat because it's it's getting kinda high. Oh,

20:05

it's it's getting kinda high. Let's

20:07

let's talk about the entire cruise sheet. Let's take

20:09

a close look at it because some of the stuff on it

20:11

is sort of important. You guys are

20:13

tier one strong. Yeah.

20:15

Before the end of the season, I think it would

20:17

be possible for you get to get to tier

20:20

two. But maybe that won't

20:22

happen. But I think that it's possible.

20:24

right now your rep, you have you need 12345

20:28

more rep, I think, in

20:31

order to in order to

20:33

upgrade. Is that a

20:36

misclick or do we have

20:38

turf? You have one

20:40

turf. Right? Yeah. Yeah. You have

20:42

one turf. We do. So let's add

20:44

let's add one more. You're right.

20:47

So thank you. That may have

20:49

been a misclick. So

20:51

you need four more rep

20:53

in order to upgrade, definitely

20:56

doable with like another

20:58

score too. And

21:00

then you would need

21:03

sixteen coins to go to

21:05

tier two. And right now you have

21:07

in your in your

21:09

hideout, in your vaults, you have

21:11

six. So

21:14

that is the situation there.

21:17

Okay. So that's

21:19

all of that. I think now it would be a good

21:21

time to go ahead and move on. Just keep

21:23

all of that in mind. Maybe you wanna pick

21:26

a a score that will give you

21:28

some more turf you know, don't

21:30

mind making it easier to upgrade in a minute, or maybe

21:32

you wanna go for the score that's gonna give

21:34

you the most coin because you're you're probably

21:36

short quite a few coin

21:40

short of sixteen. I think we really ought to

21:42

be investing in some of these

21:44

other player things especially

21:46

the one that give extra coin for

21:48

-- Yeah. -- jobs. Like, I think that would

21:50

be I think we

21:51

should try and get one of those.

21:53

That's Yep. That's probably a

21:56

good idea. Just

21:57

gonna dump that out there. Okay. That's

21:59

a good idea. Okay.

22:02

So that's just the things to think about on the

22:04

cruise sheet Now it is

22:06

time for entanglements. Of

22:09

entanglements. So we're gonna find

22:11

out if there's any fallout when you get back to

22:13

duskfall surrounding you,

22:15

any kind of epilogue

22:17

to your score. And

22:19

I would love for one of you to roll it. Why don't

22:21

we have Jody? You wanna roll it? Okay.

22:25

Jeez. Alright. Yes.

22:27

I'll roll it out. Yeah. This is just

22:29

a fortune roll, so it's just a just

22:31

a oh, let's see. You

22:33

roll your tier, which is one. So you

22:35

just roll one die. Okay. I

22:37

there's for fortune button, so I assume

22:40

that's gonna work.

22:42

That's the button in roll

22:44

twenty. Okay. Hit that beautiful

22:46

fortune button. It's

22:48

oh, it wrote to oh,

22:51

it says zero dice. Is

22:53

that right? It should be one die. Okay.

22:55

Well, let me just pick a one dot

22:58

ability and roll that. Yeah. That

23:00

that works. whatever

23:03

works.

23:04

It's A3A3

23:06

in the middle. Yeah.

23:09

A three. Okay. Ish. So I have to

23:11

choose which of these Cannon. And

23:14

I think I have the one that

23:16

I like. So as

23:18

we return to duskfall.

23:22

VAALCOS.

23:24

you're

23:25

probably talking to one of your

23:28

contacts, but you're not talking to

23:30

sawtooth because through

23:32

this friend, you learn that

23:34

sawtooth is being very loud

23:36

and uncouth in his

23:39

inquiries about

23:40

vampires. If you recall,

23:43

you've told sawtooth to go

23:45

ask around about vampires. sawtooth

23:48

is not being very covert. in

23:50

his investigations. And

23:52

he is maybe drawing the wrong

23:54

kind of attention. So

23:57

you need to forfeit two

23:59

rep or make an example

24:01

of sawtooth or

24:03

risk the unwanted attention.

24:07

Right? Yeah. And

24:09

if you want, you can confront sawtooth

24:11

and find out what he has

24:13

to say about it. What

24:17

does the

24:18

unwanted attention

24:20

mechanically translate to?

24:23

It means that you

24:25

guys may develop eventually a negative

24:27

status with an organization or

24:29

it means that this organization might

24:31

seek a reprisal against you

24:33

of some sort. I Someone

24:35

doesn't like sawtooth looking

24:37

into this, and they will make sure that

24:39

you stop investigating. the

24:42

very concept of vampires.

24:45

I'm going to go and confront

24:49

Sausage. Okay. Great.

24:51

great Wow.

24:59

Malcos, commit,

24:59

commit. I've got good

25:02

news. In

25:05

light, didn't mean. I'm

25:07

getting very close. very very

25:10

close to finding out

25:11

something about the the

25:13

little inquiry you're

25:16

having me make. Yes.

25:18

So I've heard. What

25:21

do you mean you've

25:23

heard? Oh, well.

25:25

He's picking his nose.

25:28

I mean, and I'm slowly getting closer. I'm like, well, everyone's

25:31

heard about the inquiry.

25:33

But

25:34

what lurks in shadows is not

25:37

very Directives. Now is

25:39

it?

25:39

You see footage. You keep

25:41

talking oh in and

25:44

asking questions to everyone.

25:46

That's not the

25:48

way to find out information now.

25:50

Is it? Am

25:51

I correct? hold his

25:53

little finger that he's picking his nose with.

25:55

Okay. Let me

25:56

just explain. Okay? Yes. I'm close.

25:59

I'm close to figuring out what you need me you

26:01

need me to figure out.

26:04

Yeah. Go on

26:05

and lighten me and it better be worth

26:07

it or this finger.

26:10

Got it. I

26:12

No. I need the finger, so

26:14

just listen. So

26:17

okay. The spirit

26:19

warden. I think

26:21

they

26:21

know about vampires

26:23

in the city

26:26

and I think

26:28

they'll they'll have the best information about

26:30

them. So what I've

26:32

done and I think it's

26:34

going well

26:35

actually. is

26:37

I've offered my services to the

26:40

wardens. I've applied

26:42

to help

26:44

deal with corpses.

26:46

You know, I have some experience, you

26:48

know. Sometimes well, sometimes,

26:50

you know, my work with a patient doesn't go

26:52

very well. So have

26:58

experience dealing with with

27:00

bodies. Now, of course, the spirit

27:02

wardens, they they they burn all the bodies,

27:04

but sometimes they need someone to cut them open, look

27:06

them over before they throw them

27:08

into the the furnace.

27:11

So if I can

27:13

get into bellwether crematorium,

27:15

I

27:15

can get access to

27:18

their

27:18

archive. and I can

27:20

find out if they know about the, you know, the weaknesses

27:23

of vampires or

27:25

if they know which vampires exist

27:27

in the city. Can you let go

27:29

on my finger now? I'm gonna let go on

27:31

a lakeless and sort to if you are a good

27:34

man. I have no doubt

27:36

about it. However,

27:38

thank you. Thank you. Okay. You're making

27:41

too

27:41

much noise. Right. Right.

27:43

Right.

27:43

Right. Right. You need to be a bit

27:45

more discreet. You see? I should do

27:47

that. I

27:47

can do that. I I believe it. I believe it,

27:50

but you need to show me. In

27:52

fact, here, let me teach you something something

27:54

really. It's a beautiful lesson.

27:56

You see the beauty of being discreet is

27:59

that you

27:59

can get up close and personal,

28:01

find out as much as you want to

28:04

find out. No. And without anyone

28:05

suspecting or knowing, I'm not gonna grab his head

28:07

and just slap it on the table. Gosh.

28:13

They didn't suspect me.

28:17

We were trying to fuck

28:20

him. I'm not getting no So

28:23

please sort to Oh. For the

28:25

sake of your nose. Oh. Continue

28:29

doing the work you're doing. Hey. Don't cry. And I kind of pick

28:31

up his head and I stroke it on the dead ground.

28:34

Don't cry. Don't cry. It's

28:36

so undercoming. Keep

28:39

doing

28:39

what you're doing. I believe

28:41

in you. I do not

28:42

like cutting the cheek.

28:46

I love

28:48

you so true. I

28:51

love you too. Good.

28:54

police Please

28:56

stop.

28:57

fucking

28:59

up. I'll

29:02

be mums the word. I won't say another

29:04

word to anybody. But

29:06

are you saying that you want me

29:08

to continue trying

29:09

to infiltrate the

29:11

crematorium? Or are

29:13

you going to make an example of me? Or

29:15

are you going to forfeit two rep?

29:20

I

29:23

am going to have to make an example

29:26

of you.

29:27

the

29:29

how do I do

29:32

this? Great question.

29:34

So I think that you've

29:36

established that you're real you really heard him. I

29:38

think you maybe mess well, you messed him up

29:40

right now. His nose is bleeding.

29:42

You just you could you could pass a long

29:44

word that you've told him to shut up

29:46

about these things. You could

29:50

really mess him up right now, like,

29:52

continue to brutalize him.

29:54

And then I think word would

29:56

get out. that he's been made an example

29:58

of, you could

30:00

you could come up with

30:02

a third thing that is your own

30:04

idea. Could I But

30:06

you're

30:07

basically telling him to stop his investigation and

30:10

if you do this. So okay. Could I

30:12

then essentially

30:16

Could I do this? Could I tell him to

30:19

come?

30:19

Like, I I could

30:21

say if I

30:23

say either Either I

30:26

take your arms

30:27

or

30:29

whoa I

30:31

destroy your shop. You

30:34

can

30:34

continue your practices obviously in

30:37

the grotto. But

30:38

you see, something

30:39

has to be done so true.

30:42

I guess if

30:44

that's the choice that I Could

30:46

we, like,

30:48

maybe do a finger? because that feels,

30:50

like, fair to me. And,

30:52

you know, I need my shop.

30:54

Oh, your shop. arms. You

30:57

know, I feel

30:59

like the nose should count for something

31:02

because of that, like, could we kind of

31:04

prorate it based the the fact that

31:06

the nose is already shambles?

31:08

I am. And maybe I take

31:10

one of your eyes. Oh,

31:13

the sky. Okay. And I. Let's

31:15

do the shop. Let's do let's do the

31:17

shop. Great. Alright. Let's

31:20

please take whatever you want and take it to

31:22

the garage. you can continue your services with

31:24

us, obviously. Okay. I just need a

31:26

couple things here. Just and

31:28

he just starts packing very

31:32

slowly, like, supplies into a

31:34

little doctor's bag. What

31:36

the fuck? And

31:38

listen, I'm gonna make an example of this guy and I

31:40

don't wanna be breaking him in in public or

31:42

say, look, I just double saw this. I thought if I

31:44

destroy a shot, still continuous practices in

31:46

our place. We still got some physical

31:48

out there. Right? I

31:50

I think that was a great solution as

31:52

your GM. But what it Joe, what were you

31:54

gonna say? Let's say, remember I have

31:56

the physical ability as well.

31:59

Alright. Yeah. It's not too smart of like

32:01

an agent. or, you know because

32:03

he's he's pretty low tier right now.

32:06

Shit. He's your tier. You're at your We're

32:09

low tier. your friends are afraid with you. Yeah. He's not

32:11

any higher than us.

32:13

But you get it. But we

32:15

get bonus. like

32:16

healing with you. Right? Yeah. But I can

32:18

also do it. I

32:20

can tinker with bones, blood, and bodily humans

32:22

to treat wounds, or stablads, or dying.

32:25

Oh,

32:25

crap. Everyone

32:27

in my crew gets plus one d to their healing

32:29

treatment roles. I kinda

32:31

like smooth tooth, man. Of

32:33

course. Now keep he stopped it around. I'm just yeah. I'm just gonna I'm

32:35

just gonna to our Toronto.

32:38

Oh, good part. to live with this

32:40

this man. He's been as

32:43

a girl. Granco. Oh, but now he's gonna well, man, he

32:45

can't even stay there. So who knows where he's

32:47

gonna stay? Okay. Because the the Granco can

32:49

only support so many crew members.

32:51

Fantastic. Fantastic. Alright. So

32:53

you destroy Sotho's shop,

32:56

and Word definitely gets

32:58

out. that you have done that. And

33:00

the investigation into vampires by

33:02

saw two stops because he was being

33:04

too loud and not

33:07

careful about it and

33:10

that covers your

33:12

entanglements. Well done. About Jesus.

33:14

I was I was thinking of

33:16

maybe taking his teeth, but then I thought, nah, that's

33:18

just gonna cause too much problems. Mhmm.

33:21

Now he's he he seems happy

33:23

to have his shop destroyed instead

33:25

of his body. So and

33:28

he he wants to keep his eyes.

33:31

So

33:31

you may all now

33:34

move to downtown

33:36

Downtime. or you

33:38

can simply

33:39

set up other scenes freeplay that

33:41

you think that you might want to set up. If

33:43

there's something you've been thinking that your

33:46

character would do now that they're back

33:48

in duskfall.

33:51

Why don't we start with yeah.

33:53

Go ahead. Or I was gonna say, can we go over, like,

33:55

how everyone's looking after

33:58

the hell of a score we just did? That's a

33:59

great idea. You're all you're all

34:02

sitting in the grotto and getting a measure of

34:04

each other. And I think

34:06

what you're talking about Juliet

34:10

is stress. mainly. Yeah. And and or harm. I want you know, I'm

34:12

curious where everyone's at.

34:14

Juliet is still

34:16

we think

34:16

weeping I never met

34:18

level one heart. She's just ever

34:21

weeping right now. Yeah. I know. I think

34:23

it doesn't have to be full on balling all

34:25

the time now, but this your

34:27

mask scarer or whatever is constantly smeared

34:30

by tears coming down your face.

34:32

Constant. And it would it would

34:34

hurt you in a

34:36

social situation. For

34:36

sure. No. And I'm one stressed

34:39

away from trauma fruit on

34:41

that side of

34:44

things. How's

34:46

VAALCO's doing? Yeah. I'm on stress

34:48

away from another trauma,

34:50

which is not good.

34:52

You didn't take any harm?

34:54

No.

34:54

I've I've I've got I've got one one

34:57

bruised

34:57

and panicked. So I

34:59

need to sort those

35:02

out. So as

35:03

you do. Yeah.

35:06

So

35:06

it's great. Yeah. You're you're you're

35:08

taking you're taking I think it's

35:10

less effect. Maybe it's Oh, is that is

35:12

that what even if you have just one,

35:14

it doesn't it has to

35:17

be, oh, crap. Really? No.

35:19

No. It's what

35:20

it applies to. Right. Right.

35:21

So not like, a a broken

35:23

arm wouldn't apply to a

35:26

mental challenge or a

35:28

social challenge.

35:30

Okay. Whereas Juliet's weeping will not stop her from

35:32

running, climbing, tinkering, but it would

35:34

stop her from impressing

35:36

somebody at

35:38

party. Okay. So yeah. I see.

35:40

Oh, but you have a level two that gives you negative

35:42

one die in panicked. I

35:44

think that's not what hurt you. I

35:46

think a panicked would hurt you for mental activities and

35:49

-- Okay. -- probably hurt you in

35:51

a social activity. So it's hurting you two ways.

35:53

I think panicked would have

35:56

liked to. Right. And Bruce

35:57

gives you less effect with, like, physical things because you're you're

35:59

bruised

35:59

up and hurting.

36:00

Yeah. You definitely need to

36:04

to probably get some recovery before Yeah. I think this goes out

36:06

again. That's that's the plan. I'm gonna, you know, bounce

36:09

on it to the Tuesday Downtime.

36:12

What about echophilia? How is echophilia

36:15

doing? So I

36:17

think probably

36:19

when When

36:21

the journey started, when

36:23

when Philia and the crew were going out

36:25

on the train towards the

36:28

Imperial City,

36:28

It just

36:29

looked like Echoprag Wodie

36:32

fit

36:32

in life as

36:34

ever. Maybe with

36:35

a little

36:36

patina of stage makeup on.

36:39

Now

36:39

with being one stress

36:42

away from what happens to

36:44

them, when they get

36:46

full stress style? As it may perhaps

36:48

in the grotto was that makeup is

36:50

healing, like,

36:52

like

36:54

it ICFELIA looks

36:55

sunken. The eyes,

36:58

like, recess. like,

37:02

desiccated veins, run up

37:04

the neck, and over the skull, the hair

37:06

hangs blank.

37:08

And

37:09

it perhaps

37:11

more than

37:14

ever,

37:14

this looks like an animated

37:17

corpse. No.

37:19

She's never looked more beautiful. Good.

37:23

Mechanically, where

37:26

does they where do they

37:28

stand? One stress

37:29

away from full max

37:32

up and but no harm because

37:34

they've hit

37:36

on PRIMO. Right. Right.

37:36

I remember. Okay. So

37:38

that's where everybody stands. You

37:40

can begin downtime activities or

37:42

you could take another scene And

37:45

why don't we start with Juliet? because you were the one that

37:47

wanted to get the kind of lay of the

37:49

land there. I just wanted to get a vibe,

37:51

you know, check on

37:54

the crew. I Okay. So this is

37:56

interesting. I

37:56

I'm gonna indulge your rice because I need to

37:58

get my stress down. indulge

37:59

my

38:01

rice. Yeah. You're his

38:03

obligation. Right? Right. Obligation to my

38:05

deceased partner. Mhmm.

38:10

Interesting. You

38:12

know what? We're gonna

38:13

it's If we're gonna throw it back,

38:16

she's already weeping from

38:17

this

38:19

from this

38:21

that she took

38:24

on. She's gonna go visit

38:26

the shrine that she

38:28

made for Ophelia that's in

38:30

the park. But

38:30

this is interesting.

38:32

Ophelia is back

38:34

in her life. I know.

38:38

So she's going

38:40

to

38:40

mourn someone who

38:42

someone who is is animated

38:46

and living

38:47

with her? Think

38:49

she's going to

38:52

yes. Yes.

38:53

She is going

38:56

to mourn the

38:57

loss of Ophelia in a very different

38:59

way because

39:01

she's

39:03

realized that her the ophelia that

39:05

she wants new

39:06

and loved is not with

39:10

her.

39:11

that her And

39:12

we've never really gotten into

39:14

the, like, the prelapse character of

39:18

Ophelia.

39:19

feel you Mhmm. What was I'm

39:21

I'm curious, like, almost flashback

39:24

style.

39:24

What was, like, your relationship light?

39:27

because they were both

39:28

spark rights. Mhmm. And clearly,

39:30

Ophelia is, like, incredibly,

39:32

like, driven and severe. But

39:34

I think probably in life that was, like,

39:37

like, a

39:37

passion for knowledge and --

39:40

Yes. -- they would get, like, lost in their

39:42

work together. But, honestly,

39:44

I think that it was

39:47

Ophelia that would keep Juliet on

39:49

the straight and narrow pat like

39:51

by the books because Juliet would

39:53

want to experiment and try all these different things and

39:55

maybe go a little wild with the ideas. And

39:58

Ophelia would bring her back out of that and

39:59

sort of bring her back to and be like,

40:01

hey, it's a, you know, like,

40:04

an would actually be like, let's go home. Let's take a break. Let's

40:07

let's unplug from all of

40:09

these things. And and I

40:11

think was the softer side, too, usually it's, like, wilder,

40:13

more craze, like, ambition. Mhmm.

40:16

Okay. And it seems to have

40:18

you. Flip. Okay. think

40:20

the

40:20

best thing to do is as you kneel

40:22

at this shrine, you

40:24

have a memory. Oh.

40:26

Memory of something that happened. between

40:29

you and the old

40:32

Ophelia. Ophelia, as you knew

40:34

her. And after you have

40:36

that memory, you describe that memory and it can be

40:39

as elaborate or as simple as you

40:41

like. After you've described that memory,

40:43

we will roll to see

40:45

if you can how much stress

40:47

you can get

40:48

rid of. Okay.

40:49

Let's have it the

40:53

at the Spark. Right? It's

40:55

lab like working one

40:57

late evening on

41:01

they had been researching before all of this went

41:03

down, I think they'd been they'd been working

41:05

on a alternate fuel

41:08

source. to electroplasm,

41:10

basically. Yes.

41:10

So I'm imagining some sort of

41:13

-- Mhmm. -- Victorian looking

41:16

turbine in front of you. on like a

41:18

big metal table,

41:20

a lot of cables running out

41:22

of it. Perhaps there's even

41:25

an exhaust port where there's, like, you know, like, smoke comes

41:27

out of it. It looks

41:30

like just a big engine, an

41:34

enormous cylindrical engine and both of you are

41:35

tinkering with it. Yes.

41:38

And

41:38

messy hair

41:40

suits, you know, all

41:43

over and just

41:45

like Would you like to take

41:47

the

41:47

role of Ophelia, mister

41:50

Bryant? Sure. and like and and

41:52

maybe Ophelia is like kind of almost the

41:54

opposite, like like tied back in a very --

41:56

Mhmm. -- like like like

41:58

pipe bun like, goggles very a little bit more.

42:00

If if if Juliet

42:02

is kind of the mad scientist with

42:06

feel is like a little bit more buttoned down. And

42:10

We've done it.

42:12

We've done it. We've

42:15

It works. It

42:18

works. Really a look. Look. Look.

42:20

Look. It starts wildly grabbing the

42:22

and and and pouring a mixture in

42:25

here and, like, it

42:27

sustains it sustains

42:29

the the the electrophys

42:31

and the the tau.

42:32

Look at it. And there's like an arc that goes

42:34

between two like sort of

42:36

miniature rods that they've constructed. Of

42:40

course, it doesn't use

42:41

electroplasm at all. That is what

42:44

is miraculous

42:46

about it. I'm

42:48

just like,

42:49

this

42:53

This

42:53

is revolutionary.

42:56

Yes.

42:57

Just just just

42:58

think of it. Do you have to live in

43:00

a

43:01

world with no more

43:03

refineries? building their their smoke

43:06

over our city. The the

43:08

Leviathan hunters no more putting their

43:10

lives at risk, implying the

43:13

waters Why? Some of the gloom

43:16

of some of the gloom might

43:18

I might to spell of our city

43:20

and some some

43:22

of them. shots of the

43:24

sun might shine on us once

43:26

more because of you.

43:28

Because of us might you

43:30

know, I could not have done this without you.

43:32

Come on. You're There is there is something

43:34

untamed

43:34

in your mind that that that

43:36

that I could have never looked. I've

43:40

never

43:40

had direction before I had you.

43:43

You notice. You must

43:45

be

43:45

the one

43:46

to bring it to them.

43:49

I want you to tell them, you know, I will go I just

43:51

go on and on and on and I cannot

43:53

gather my thoughts, but show

43:55

them.

43:55

I I Haunted it to be

43:57

you. It

43:58

feels I feel

44:00

strong

44:01

to be the mouthpiece for your

44:04

brilliance,

44:04

but

44:06

I'm stop

44:07

this. You are too modest. You help me every step

44:09

of the way.

44:11

Yes. I will.

44:13

I'll go to

44:15

the board. I'll go to I'll go to miss Pharos

44:18

personally. Cut

44:19

to. You're in

44:21

front of the board. So

44:24

you see.

44:28

There there is a way with the

44:31

correct Refinements. Now these

44:34

arechemical mind you. Only

44:36

having to do with with

44:38

properchemical reactions, there is

44:40

nothing eldritch There is nothing there is nothing

44:42

spiritually potent

44:42

about these mixtures. My

44:45

my partner would

44:47

be able to would be able

44:49

to describe this in in the most minute detail, but but but here,

44:51

you will find the broad

44:54

strokes of

44:55

a revolution. Yes. Yes,

44:58

thank you. We've reviewed your notes and

45:00

we feel that further testing

45:03

is necessary. I I think if

45:05

you turn to to

45:08

six of your deck. You will see that the that the testing has already been

45:10

undertaken. I believe a large scale

45:12

model. Should we put them

45:14

here with the cosmetics? We all are.

45:17

We're familiar with schematics. And we will

45:20

continue to test this

45:22

model. And,

45:23

you know, in

45:26

surely we will be on the team that that it oversees the

45:30

testing. I'm afraid at this point it's

45:31

time for you to make

45:34

a departure.

45:35

But Yeah.

45:38

Juliette loves his porterhood.

45:42

her life or soul hurt her spirit into what what is before

45:45

you

45:46

did? She she

45:47

needs to we on

45:50

this team in an advisory

45:52

capacity. Pouring her

45:54

heart into it is very

45:56

commendable. But right now, what

45:58

is needed is a

45:59

clear vision and a

46:02

level head. And then perhaps that that

46:04

is where my partnership

46:06

may come into play it's time to

46:08

pass this up the ladder. Thank

46:10

you, Ophelia.

46:11

We're done. What? like,

46:16

there

46:16

are, like, five scientists spark writes,

46:19

the heads of the guild kind

46:21

of all sitting behind this

46:24

huge table staring at you and waiting patiently.

46:26

And as I step out before

46:29

I go, like, If

46:32

the people knew, if the people of Duskell knew that

46:34

an alternative was available, then

46:36

I

46:37

should think that they would

46:39

want to know. The

46:44

inventor of whom this

46:46

was

46:46

a brain child

46:50

was involved. and

46:51

I only hope that the people in

46:53

this room don't don't seek to

46:55

to stone wall.

46:58

something that could be a revolution

47:00

that that will be to

47:02

the benefit of

47:03

every citizen of our city and indeed

47:06

our empire. Yes. Okay.

47:08

Your comments are noted.

47:10

And I I will remind you as you leave

47:12

this room that your discretion and secrecy is

47:16

paramount to the ongoing

47:18

completion of this project.

47:22

Yes,

47:23

I understood. Good day.

47:25

Now let's return

47:27

to the Presents. I

47:30

think Ophelia told you all about that.

47:33

Of course. And you

47:35

are weeping at

47:38

her shrine

47:40

And would you like to try to relieve some

47:42

stress by doing that? Yes.

47:44

Yeah. And -- Yeah. -- breaking.

47:46

I know. Jesus. I know. I'm,

47:50

like, I think I was there's just a

47:54

a fenia

47:56

see near

47:58

I wish you are still

47:59

here in the way

48:02

that

48:02

I remember

48:05

you to be I

48:07

wish

48:07

I had your guidance in what to

48:10

do next and how to

48:12

address

48:12

this. whatever

48:16

has

48:16

been unfolding

48:18

within my world right

48:22

now. but I know

48:24

I must

48:24

overcome that and use your memory to

48:27

guide me instead.

48:28

the guide means

48:32

Alright. So we're going to use our weakest attribute,

48:34

which I think you have a one in

48:36

both prowess and resolve, and we want to

48:38

roll it, and that's how much stress

48:41

we are going to relieve. Gonna do

48:43

resolve. Mhmm.

48:46

How'd you do?

48:49

I rolled a floor so

48:52

bad. I like that. Not

48:54

bad. Not bad at all. So go ahead

48:56

and relieve

48:58

four stress.

49:00

Okay. Okay. Nicely

49:01

done. Okay. And now you only have four stress Cannon.

49:03

You still have four stress.

49:05

Yes. Now you

49:08

were saying that

49:10

you miss Juliet. I mean, sorry, that you

49:12

miss Ophelium -- Mhmm. -- that

49:14

you wish that she were here.

49:17

I would like

49:19

to ask the player

49:21

of Echilia how closely

49:24

they've been keeping tabs on Juliet.

49:27

Yes,

49:28

huh

49:31

of course.

49:33

the

49:34

And Perhaps

49:35

like as

49:38

that, like, sweet

49:40

and heartfelt prayer

49:42

goes up at that shrine. A

49:46

pair

49:46

of

49:47

eyes had blinked with

49:49

an unearthly loss her

49:52

kind of watch from

49:55

a shadow.

49:58

Fuck. Let's

50:00

follow

50:00

those eyes. What

50:03

is the first downtime

50:05

activity you're seeing? God.

50:09

You're mourning someone

50:12

who's right here -- Mhmm. -- right over

50:14

in the

50:16

shadows. Accelia, what would your

50:18

scene that you'd like to set be? And

50:20

it can be to complete one of

50:22

your three downtime activities. One of

50:26

your possible three. Yeah. I'm gonna

50:28

now we

50:28

just had that resolution of stress

50:31

with

50:31

the rolling of your weakest

50:34

attribute.

50:35

the tribute Now,

50:36

the vampire looks like. You

50:38

use the downtime activity

50:39

to hunt, pray, and indulge

50:42

your vise, which

50:44

is feeding. And

50:45

when

50:46

you feed,

50:49

you

50:50

Great. So I need to

50:53

hunt to indulge my advise. that that

50:55

would mean the skill of hunting. I think the action --

50:57

Yeah. -- racing. Yeah.

50:59

I actually think

51:02

and I I could be wrong. I think you can use any action

51:04

you'd like. Okay. Great. And

51:07

but if you succeed, how

51:09

much stress does that

51:12

relieve? That is the question. Let me

51:14

let me look here. That's how

51:16

you indulge your vice. So I guess maybe

51:18

then you once you Haunted

51:21

you then roll the weakest

51:23

attributes? One down time activity

51:26

to hunt. Oh, you're right. The

51:28

word hunt is bolded. It seems like

51:30

that is the action. and then told your

51:32

device, oh, okay. I think I get it

51:34

now. You're gonna roll hunt and that's how much

51:36

stress you're gonna relieve. Okay. Do we

51:38

know

51:39

what happened Do you

51:40

know what happens when

51:41

you when you feed? I mean, we know that someone died, but

51:44

That's something that's more than once. Right? You don't

51:46

want it. doesn't

51:48

that

51:48

they die when you feed. I think I think I can

51:50

feed without killing. But I I

51:52

fed

51:52

to the point of killing last

51:55

time.

51:55

But there's nothing in

51:57

the rules

51:57

that clarifies what

51:59

the what the

52:00

what that entails. It it

52:02

just does say that that's the only way you

52:04

can heal how it asks how do you feed

52:06

and what telltale sign do you leave on

52:09

your victims. The telltale sign that

52:11

Ophelia leaves is a pissed

52:13

out

52:14

the

52:16

of ecstasy. And

52:21

I think that

52:22

Ophelia is so stressed that

52:25

hunt is probably

52:26

more apt. This

52:30

is less Sway, Cachole.

52:30

This is

52:32

more minimalistic. Well,

52:34

I think after reading the description,

52:38

I think it you were correct. Originally, it must be

52:40

hunt. So tell me what kind

52:42

of prey you're going

52:44

to hunt.

52:46

Yeah. Let's

52:47

follow those eyes in

52:50

a park

52:52

watching Juliet

52:54

Bill

52:54

Rose in solemn

52:57

prayer and then

53:00

just

53:00

recede back into shadow.

53:03

Okay, Jesus.

53:04

Who else who else

53:06

is in this park? Who else is

53:08

in this park? Just been You're clutching

53:10

my pearls like, oh my god.

53:12

No. I think this is fully a, like like

53:14

a hunt. If there's if there's little

53:16

gnarled plants in this part, hedge

53:20

rows and and and

53:25

stagnant ponds, feel it

53:27

will go loping through

53:29

them. until a solitary figure is

53:31

found. This is the

53:32

park where, like, lovers come to mourn or whatever.

53:34

Right? Yeah. Or maybe there's a love Because

53:36

if the lovers come to meet up, I

53:39

forget there's something specific about this park. I'm looking

53:41

it up right now. Yeah. Missed

53:46

shore park. This dark and overgrown space overlooks the

53:48

eastern branch of the river Dorsk and the

53:50

Deathlands beyond, an old folk

53:52

ballads young

53:54

lover. who could not be together would commit suicide in

53:56

this park. Whatever the truth of

53:58

it, the park is certainly

53:59

haunted now. Yeah. Let's

54:02

find out.

54:02

let's find some Woebegun. Let

54:05

me make a fortune roll because

54:07

I wanna find out who is

54:09

here. Great. And I

54:10

have an idea.

54:14

Okay. So I rolled a six which

54:16

was the result on which I was going

54:18

to say. You

54:20

come across a

54:21

young man and a

54:23

young woman

54:24

standing standing on

54:26

the shore of the river dusk.

54:29

and each of them have just pulled a

54:32

long glittering knife

54:34

nice

54:36

from their jacket.

54:39

and

54:39

they are embracing with the

54:41

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54:44

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and so so, we

55:28

returned to Miss Shore Park

55:30

where two lovers hold

55:32

blades to each other's throat.

55:35

the woman is

55:36

young. I'm I'm

55:38

sorry. I'm like, what what

55:41

is this method of suicide?

55:42

This is the this

55:44

is, like, out of town. Like,

55:47

like, the most camp

55:50

of opera. I've loved

55:52

it. This is They're

55:56

whispering something to each other. It

55:58

seems very intense. The woman is young.

55:59

She is wearing a a

56:02

bustle and, you know,

56:04

a big beautiful,

56:07

get gown. Not gown. A

56:09

dress that you would wear for

56:11

a a stroll in

56:14

the park. The man is dressed well

56:16

too. He has like a a bow

56:18

tie and a vest

56:20

and a gold watch and a chain. They look

56:22

like a young couple bowl for

56:24

a happy stroll through this haunted

56:26

park, but they have blades

56:28

to each other's throat. And

56:30

you can see that something very intense is

56:33

happening. They they have hidden themselves away

56:35

and sort of a a isolated

56:37

blade isolated grove here

56:39

in the park. ecilia

56:41

as you

56:44

approach. Shall I

56:46

roll

56:47

my hunt? Yes. how are you going to do this? I

56:49

just wanna know what you're going to do. Are you

56:51

going to wait for them to do the deed? Or

56:53

are you going to leap upon them now?

56:55

Or what are you going

56:58

to do? almost wanna see how well the what the dice

57:00

roll

57:00

is and figure it out.

57:03

That sounds right. And so

57:05

you have a lot of stress. I think you're

57:07

one away from an additional trauma,

57:09

which you don't want who need that.

57:11

So I'm going to this

57:14

is I'm

57:14

going to take one of those extra die from my sinister

57:17

guile. So I will I will

57:19

not be taking extra downtime activity, but I'll

57:21

be adding these dice rolls

57:24

to the two

57:26

that I get.

57:27

Okay. Great.

57:29

Here we

57:31

go.

57:33

Oh,

57:35

no. And it's

57:37

grilled a two in A10

57:40

boy. So

57:42

that means Oh, wait, you your

57:44

hunt is was higher than that. Right? Wasn't

57:46

your hunt to just

57:48

a one? Yes.

57:50

Sorry. So your hunt

57:52

is one. Forgive me, Russ. Your hunt

57:54

is one. And why did you roll two dice?

57:56

because I added my bonus dice from my special

57:58

sinister dial abilities. So instead of getting three downtime

58:01

activities, you're adding a

58:03

die. Very good. Sorry. I understand now. You

58:05

and you said it out loud before, but I didn't

58:08

listen. Okay. You unfortunately

58:10

and a one. Highest rolls a two.

58:14

So So here's what happens, I think. I

58:16

think that you leap upon them before

58:18

they're finished and you get into

58:20

an altercation with them and

58:22

they are slashing

58:24

at you with knives and screaming and

58:26

you only well, how much

58:28

do you think you managed to

58:32

get here? Well,

58:32

I guess, in this case, it would be the highest

58:34

of these two hunt rolls. Right? Under the same

58:36

way as you get two. Did you

58:39

get two? So

58:41

the

58:42

Yeah. They're like kind of

58:44

they're like kind of hacking and

58:46

slashing. slashing

58:49

she's screaming and she's coming down on you

58:51

with the knife over and over, and he's,

58:53

like, standing back, like, get get

58:56

back get

58:58

back. Suddenly they've decided they want to live. Yeah.

59:02

He's scared. Perhaps they

59:04

were never going to go through the act

59:07

at all. You can't know that now because

59:09

you're in the middle of a tight

59:11

spot. Right. So I think how this

59:13

works then would be if if the woman

59:15

is coming at me It's

59:17

like you don't

59:19

even know

59:20

where you stand with

59:22

a gift of life.

59:24

And, like, I think, Just try

59:26

to take

59:28

if if that guy is

59:30

coming into jab at me, just like try

59:32

to redirect his blade into her

59:36

And

59:37

so as she was going

59:39

down, I'm like I wish

59:41

I could see this.

59:42

No matter no matter what

59:44

you're only gonna relieve. Exactly. I'm just, like, how

59:47

how does this get screwed up? Like, one of

59:49

them's not dying. Like, I still want an

59:51

act should roll to see how this maneuver you

59:53

just described goes. Oh, okay.

59:55

Great. So this is just this is

59:57

just for color. It's not you know,

59:59

I'm not you're not gonna take harm here. This is

1:00:01

a downtime activity, but

1:00:04

I would like to see how

1:00:06

it goes. what action are you going to use to to

1:00:08

to to to to aquito this blade and I

1:00:10

rolled a six. Yeah. There's the rule

1:00:12

you wanted. Yeah.

1:00:14

Exactly. He stabs into

1:00:17

her breast. Hot

1:00:20

blood gushes out, geysers

1:00:22

out and hits you

1:00:24

in face. I feel you. Uh-huh. You see a look of

1:00:26

horror on his face. His

1:00:28

entire eyes are white. You

1:00:30

think this is what

1:00:32

you wanted. You're so prodigal with the gift of life

1:00:34

that you would throw it away so

1:00:36

easily. There are some of us who

1:00:38

have crossed oceans

1:00:40

to hold onto it. And

1:00:42

I kiss him

1:00:43

to

1:00:45

suck him dry. Oh,

1:00:47

that's right because you you pull

1:00:50

away life force breath

1:00:52

from people. Mhmm.

1:00:54

Very good. So

1:00:56

he he actually I'm gonna

1:00:58

rule that he screams, no, not

1:01:00

like this, and he pushes you off of

1:01:03

him. He's a strong young man. left

1:01:06

with the dying embers of her

1:01:08

life force. Oh. And that is

1:01:11

why you relieve too

1:01:13

stressed. So, yeah, if if

1:01:15

perhaps someone someone's caught a glimpse of

1:01:17

an eye, they might only they

1:01:19

might think for a second

1:01:21

that they like just

1:01:22

some feral animal covered with blood like

1:01:24

hunched over this bleeding

1:01:28

young woman just looking up

1:01:30

like With love.

1:01:32

Would you say your best

1:01:34

heel?

1:01:34

I would say that it's

1:01:37

somewhat best

1:01:37

seal. Yes. Best seal.

1:01:40

How do you pronounce that word best seal?

1:01:42

Best seal? And you say

1:01:46

best seal? Let's call the

1:01:48

whole thing off. Understood. Understood.

1:01:51

S1, yes, two.

1:01:56

Somebody's gonna have to go hunting again. Yeah.

1:01:58

Sounds like you hear screaming

1:02:00

off in the woods sobbing. Not

1:02:04

like this. and I

1:02:07

dash away into

1:02:09

the shadows. And let's meet

1:02:11

Valcos in the

1:02:13

grotto. What do

1:02:16

you like to do? What would you like

1:02:18

to do? You can take a downtime activity

1:02:21

or go set a scene, talk to somebody?

1:02:23

I think I am gonna go take

1:02:26

I'm gonna relieve some stress at

1:02:28

the good old place with ring.

1:02:32

Yes. But before I

1:02:34

do actually, I know I'm gonna do that first. So

1:02:36

let's do that. So let's do that. So I'm I'm

1:02:38

gonna go see to the part of that code, and

1:02:41

I'm gonna I remember the last time I was there,

1:02:43

it didn't end very well.

1:02:46

I

1:02:46

rang a room and

1:02:49

didn't

1:02:49

go very well and I want to try

1:02:52

again. You

1:02:53

find yourself back in

1:02:56

that room? staring at the locket and all the, you know, the little

1:02:58

compartment is to win. Yes. They opened the

1:03:00

little compartment in the wall. This is a

1:03:02

strange test that they've been giving. No

1:03:04

one goes.

1:03:06

to see if he can move farther down the path

1:03:09

of echoes. And I

1:03:10

think I'm gonna do it.

1:03:13

looks like

1:03:13

an interrogation room that

1:03:16

the attendant brings the

1:03:18

small wooden box to you and places it in

1:03:20

front of you. You're seated. uncomfortable

1:03:22

wooden chair, they place the

1:03:24

small. It looks like a cigar box.

1:03:27

It's very unadorned kind

1:03:29

of beaten up

1:03:31

looking. they place it in front of you and then the attendant leaves

1:03:33

the room and you hear the door

1:03:36

lock. My hand sort

1:03:38

of hovers over the box and then kinda

1:03:40

comes back. It's it's that

1:03:42

there is a bit of fear here,

1:03:44

a bit

1:03:44

of panic. And

1:03:47

essentially, I then put my

1:03:49

hand

1:03:49

over the box,

1:03:51

and I

1:03:53

open it.

1:03:54

Let's get your

1:03:57

role before we find out

1:03:59

exactly what

1:03:59

happened. Shit.

1:04:00

Okay. It's gonna be insight.

1:04:03

So because it's my

1:04:05

weakest space. Okay.

1:04:12

beautiful. I

1:04:12

go to six. Yeah. I'm sick.

1:04:14

No. That's our man. So

1:04:18

A60 man. No. But

1:04:20

what does this mean? It means

1:04:22

well, first of all, it means to

1:04:25

relieve sick stress And what it

1:04:27

have memory again. I believe last time it was your

1:04:30

father, was it not? It

1:04:32

was. Yes.

1:04:34

And I

1:04:36

believe that he was telling you that he that he

1:04:39

is ashamed of this.

1:04:40

uncle was ashamed of this. Yeah.

1:04:43

It was,

1:04:43

like, kind of, like, a father, you know, like a like a like

1:04:45

a father uncle. Thank you. Father,

1:04:48

young girl.

1:04:50

And he is a severocia,

1:04:53

of course. So once again, he

1:04:56

says,

1:04:56

that Velakos.

1:04:58

harvard You pervert.

1:05:00

You've

1:05:01

brought shame

1:05:02

on us. Everyone knows your

1:05:04

sin.

1:05:06

and

1:05:08

he's in front of me. Yeah? Yes.

1:05:11

Big looming

1:05:12

over you actually. He He's

1:05:15

taller than VAALCO's and VAALCO's is a big

1:05:18

guy. Covered in

1:05:19

tattoos like VAALCO's, but he

1:05:21

is he's in ill.

1:05:23

traditional severosy garb. So, you know,

1:05:26

furs and, like, you

1:05:28

know, nothing metal just

1:05:31

like, you know, bones and

1:05:34

I feel this

1:05:36

at first like this wave

1:05:38

of panic hits me,

1:05:41

but then suddenly it clicks. I'm like,

1:05:43

kind of stand

1:05:45

slowly, kind of

1:05:48

looking up. and

1:05:49

my eyes fall onto this

1:05:52

chest. And as I kind of

1:05:54

reach

1:05:56

out,

1:05:57

my hand enters into his

1:05:59

chest and

1:06:01

into his heart

1:06:02

as I grab it. Oh, did

1:06:06

generate pig and I kind of

1:06:08

pull it and then crush it in my hands. And

1:06:10

the the image of your uncle

1:06:14

shrivals and deflates like a balloon you

1:06:16

let the air out of and

1:06:18

you see as it transforms from

1:06:21

a strapping must

1:06:24

killer man into like a desiccated

1:06:26

like mummy. And then even that

1:06:28

begins to fold in on itself

1:06:32

and melt until it kind of formed this sort

1:06:34

of flower made of

1:06:36

dead flesh in front of

1:06:38

you. It is

1:06:40

like a flower of

1:06:42

blooming pedals of flesh

1:06:44

and bone opening in front of

1:06:46

you. And as that flower

1:06:48

opens, there is a light inside

1:06:50

of it. a blue eerie light inside

1:06:52

of it. And I kind of leaned

1:06:54

down and sort of

1:06:57

don't even like

1:06:58

like even touch

1:07:00

the flour and I kind of smell

1:07:02

it and ingest it. And as

1:07:04

I kind of feel it go in, this is

1:07:06

where you see my hands begin to glow and my

1:07:09

tattoos also begin to glow

1:07:11

as the ability that I

1:07:13

have is

1:07:13

the

1:07:15

ghost fighter ability. And

1:07:17

I may

1:07:18

imbue my hands or melee

1:07:20

weapons or tools with Spirit Energy

1:07:22

and gain potency in combat.

1:07:25

This is super natural. I can grapple

1:07:28

with

1:07:28

spirits to restrain or capture

1:07:31

them. Amazing.

1:07:32

And Oh my

1:07:35

god. As your hands are glowing

1:07:37

and at your eyes as well, like,

1:07:39

there's a bright shining light coming from

1:07:41

your eyes and suddenly the

1:07:43

box Click shut, and standing in front of

1:07:45

you is ring. Well done,

1:07:47

Vaukos.

1:07:49

I believe this

1:07:52

little test is over.

1:07:54

Ring walks the box back

1:07:56

to the little hole in the wall, puts it

1:07:58

back

1:07:58

on the little

1:07:59

shelf, shuts the

1:08:02

wall and turns to you and

1:08:04

says, you're ready to walk farther

1:08:06

down the

1:08:08

path.

1:08:08

Yes. Yes. I am ready. Balcos,

1:08:14

I'd like to bring a

1:08:18

concern to you. Please.

1:08:21

Now that we

1:08:24

know that you're

1:08:27

someone, we can trust and thank you by the way

1:08:29

for making yourself scarce

1:08:31

for a while.

1:08:33

me.

1:08:37

The spark cracks.

1:08:40

Are you familiar

1:08:42

with your new facility?

1:08:44

I

1:08:46

can't

1:08:47

be.

1:08:49

There is a

1:08:51

new facility. in

1:08:54

coldridge. They

1:08:55

they've developed some

1:08:56

new form

1:09:00

of technology.

1:09:03

Our business here are

1:09:06

holy crusade. It's

1:09:10

to dig

1:09:12

deep. into the

1:09:14

foundations of the city.

1:09:16

Let loose the spirits that

1:09:18

dwell there in the core of

1:09:22

this city deep in its ghost

1:09:25

field

1:09:26

and absorb the

1:09:28

spirits of the to

1:09:32

learn what it was like when

1:09:34

the sun shined on

1:09:35

this place and

1:09:37

to unlock their

1:09:39

power. Unfortunately, this new facility and the

1:09:41

technology located

1:09:44

therein threaten. our

1:09:47

holy mission. This

1:09:49

new weaponry that

1:09:52

the spark reds

1:09:55

have developed could destroy the

1:09:57

very spirits we seek

1:09:59

to very spirits we seek to protect

1:10:02

protect.

1:10:05

Could you do

1:10:06

something about that? Could you and your remnant look into

1:10:11

this for us?

1:10:13

It will be

1:10:15

done. If you're able

1:10:18

to,

1:10:21

remove the threat

1:10:22

of this new technology, this entire facility

1:10:27

from the city we'd

1:10:30

be able to increase the generous

1:10:32

funding that we

1:10:35

have at times. given

1:10:40

to certain agents

1:10:43

of our mission.

1:10:46

six

1:10:47

coin,

1:10:51

eight. and

1:10:54

we'll make sure that

1:10:56

this whole place is completely destroyed.

1:10:58

So man, so really Always. VELCUS. I

1:11:03

thought you were a true believer. I offer

1:11:06

you I

1:11:07

offer you a

1:11:11

benefit that I'm not required

1:11:13

to offer and you ask

1:11:16

for more.

1:11:18

I promise

1:11:20

you not only

1:11:23

the destruction and

1:11:26

disappearance of this

1:11:28

facility, but my

1:11:29

absolute service

1:11:30

and loyalty to

1:11:33

you, to the

1:11:35

path of echoes.

1:11:36

and about workers How

1:11:39

about this voucher? Eight

1:11:41

coin and your pledge in

1:11:43

tribute to

1:11:46

us is already paid.

1:11:48

Six coin

1:11:50

total. I like

1:11:53

that deal.

1:11:55

I'm not really concerned

1:11:57

whether you like it or not.

1:11:59

I think

1:11:59

your time here

1:12:02

for now is

1:12:03

finished. Go back and talk to

1:12:05

your remnant about

1:12:07

completing

1:12:07

this mission.

1:12:12

Yes.

1:12:12

I book it. Yes.

1:12:14

It's out

1:12:15

of White Crown walking

1:12:17

along the shoreline there

1:12:20

in White crown, you're a back out and

1:12:22

and and a cold wind blows off of the ocean as

1:12:24

you exit. Make sure

1:12:26

to remove those six stress

1:12:29

from your sheet very

1:12:31

well done. Serious. Those VAALCO's dice baby? Telling you

1:12:36

men. Alright.

1:12:38

Who would like to go

1:12:41

next?

1:12:45

I mean, I know what I wanna

1:12:47

do. Gosh. I'm like, how much time do we have? There's what I I want to I would

1:12:49

love to figure out

1:12:51

a way to to figure out a way

1:12:53

to I'm looking at our

1:12:56

layer, our cruise sheet, the and

1:12:58

I'm looking at the covert drops.

1:13:03

one that's below this, they would you know,

1:13:05

if we got something like that, it'd give us

1:13:07

plus two coin for

1:13:10

espionage and sabotage. jobs which I feel like they're very

1:13:12

much in our future. Yeah. I

1:13:14

have I have a thought about

1:13:17

that. You've a thought? I do.

1:13:19

Okay. At one point, when

1:13:21

you were working with cellular

1:13:23

Khan, he told

1:13:24

you that he was in

1:13:26

touch with an organization called the foundation.

1:13:28

Mhmm. If you look on to row twenty, you know that you

1:13:30

have a plus two I mean, sorry, a

1:13:33

plus one. Forgive me a plus

1:13:35

one with the foundation. They

1:13:38

are helpful. And at one point, they offered you a score and in exchange they

1:13:43

would give you of the

1:13:46

underground passages around them. Oh, yeah. And then

1:13:48

underground passages, these

1:13:51

secret underground passages around

1:13:54

duskfall -- Mhmm. -- would make

1:13:56

a perfect system of

1:13:58

covert

1:13:59

covert

1:13:59

Perfect job.

1:14:01

Okay. Okay. Okay. So that

1:14:03

was the yes. So that job Do

1:14:05

do we remember what that job was or

1:14:07

do I need to Was

1:14:09

breaking into a night mansion? Yeah. Yeah.

1:14:11

It was. It was, but I think you need to

1:14:13

go and talk to the foundation.

1:14:15

Okay. I mean, Seljoc was really the

1:14:17

point. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. for that.

1:14:19

Seljoc was the appointment. Okay. Yeah. I'm

1:14:22

gonna I'm gonna show up to meetings these days. I'll I'll go look into

1:14:24

that

1:14:26

then I'll

1:14:28

I'll go

1:14:28

to the foundation. You go to the

1:14:31

Centralia Club in six towers where the

1:14:33

foundation is known to

1:14:35

have little meetings. Okay.

1:14:38

And is

1:14:38

it open to the public? Like,

1:14:40

how do or

1:14:42

is it gonna be, like, Club

1:14:46

is it it's a let

1:14:48

me put it this way. Maybe you have to

1:14:50

do a little bit to kind of get

1:14:52

your way in. In yeah.

1:14:55

But Yeah. but

1:14:56

you you definitely find

1:14:58

your way in,

1:14:59

I think. And this

1:15:02

is a luxurious place.

1:15:05

The the enticement of this place is

1:15:07

that it is

1:15:08

a perfect, like,

1:15:11

old boys club You

1:15:14

know? Oh, great. They feed you a

1:15:17

fine cuisine. They have

1:15:19

big liquor cabinets full

1:15:21

of the finest desk wall

1:15:23

version of Scotch, which I think

1:15:25

has a kind of a gray,

1:15:27

cloudy hue actually because it's

1:15:29

not made the same things that

1:15:32

Earth's scotch is made from, and

1:15:34

there are servants that your back

1:15:36

in call. It

1:15:38

is a very luxurious place And

1:15:40

when you ask

1:15:41

about the foundation,

1:15:44

the

1:15:44

one

1:15:48

of the one of the servants,

1:15:50

one of the various ballots gives

1:15:53

you a

1:15:56

look like How dare you even

1:15:58

ask about them?

1:16:00

I am here. Excuse me.

1:16:02

Do you have membership here? Do

1:16:05

I look like

1:16:06

I have membership here? I'm here for a job that

1:16:11

the foundation requested of

1:16:14

these Excuse me, ma'am.

1:16:16

Please do not say

1:16:19

the words,

1:16:21

the foundation. so

1:16:24

loudly.

1:16:25

I am here

1:16:27

for

1:16:31

the exquisite

1:16:32

group of gentlemen

1:16:34

that gather and speak of

1:16:37

philosophical aspirations

1:16:40

for this great

1:16:43

city. I was

1:16:45

unaware that they

1:16:47

had requested companionship tonight.

1:16:51

Please follow me. I'm gonna kill

1:16:53

this person. I'm just

1:16:56

here. Yeah.

1:17:00

I follow. There is a

1:17:02

bookshelf and one corner of the Centralia Club. And

1:17:04

he pulls a book

1:17:06

out and it swings open

1:17:10

wait here. I

1:17:12

have

1:17:12

the veil on just because

1:17:15

I'm slightly weeping. Right. Yeah.

1:17:17

So What

1:17:19

I didn't think about Let's let's

1:17:21

do it. He he comes back out and he

1:17:23

goes, there's been some

1:17:28

mistake. They have not

1:17:30

requested the companionship

1:17:31

of one

1:17:33

such

1:17:35

as yourself tonight. I

1:17:37

did not say that was

1:17:38

why I was here. Did I I said I

1:17:41

was here on behalf

1:17:43

of a job

1:17:44

that was

1:17:46

requested. Here here binds.

1:17:49

Let her in. Let

1:17:51

her in. I wish

1:17:53

to see this. Sassy

1:17:56

young woman. Oh, gosh. You

1:17:58

enter in cigar smoke

1:18:00

clouds

1:18:04

the air. and you're looking at

1:18:06

a lot of older gentleman. They all look to be

1:18:08

nobles. They all

1:18:11

look to be well

1:18:14

dressed. They're all holding snifters and sipping from them, and there's a huge table

1:18:16

around them. And

1:18:19

you can see that on

1:18:22

the walls and on

1:18:24

the table, they are old blueprints and

1:18:26

they are looking over very old archival

1:18:28

scrolls and

1:18:31

things like that. Hello

1:18:35

there.

1:18:38

Hello, gentlemen. I With

1:18:39

Freight my the other

1:18:42

gentleman here have grown quite

1:18:44

dull. They

1:18:46

all chuckle. and you could relieve us with

1:18:49

a bit of distraction

1:18:51

from our studies.

1:18:53

What's your name

1:18:56

young lady? You

1:18:58

may

1:18:59

call me

1:19:00

you may call me

1:19:03

Ophelia.

1:19:07

Ophelia, are

1:19:09

you alright? You

1:19:11

seem to be. I'm

1:19:13

feeling wrong. Just

1:19:14

a bit stressed. You see, I am here. Not

1:19:17

for

1:19:18

what you

1:19:19

may think, but because

1:19:22

you

1:19:22

have been acquainted

1:19:24

with a former

1:19:27

compatriot of mine, celiac

1:19:31

come on. their eyebrows raise and they all

1:19:32

look at each other. Yes. Yes.

1:19:34

What had become of old celiac?

1:19:37

Haven't seen him around

1:19:39

in a while. And then

1:19:41

one of them says, which seeing him can be quite

1:19:43

scary. So we're happy to that

1:19:46

he hasn't shown his face

1:19:50

Yes. Yes.

1:19:50

Uh-huh. Yes. He

1:19:53

looks very different.

1:19:55

It's true. I know

1:19:58

that you approached him with a

1:19:59

job and that was

1:20:01

something that our crew was

1:20:03

going to do

1:20:04

for you Unfortunately, yes, a

1:20:07

little bet we made. A little bet we made about Rowan House. Yes. Unfortunately,

1:20:10

mister Khan is indisposed

1:20:15

moment. So as the point person

1:20:19

for our

1:20:20

crew, I am here

1:20:22

to get the details.

1:20:25

Yes.

1:20:25

Well, I'm afraid that we resolved that little

1:20:27

disagreement. Didn't we gentlemen? No.

1:20:30

Yes. Mhmm. Yes, fair

1:20:32

enough. So

1:20:35

I'm afraid we have no

1:20:37

need of the services of a

1:20:39

runner or errant

1:20:43

person at present. Surely,

1:20:44

there is something else

1:20:46

that you seek that we would be able to

1:20:51

achieve for you something

1:20:52

chief for you something

1:20:54

wiring requiring subtlety,

1:20:56

espionage,

1:20:58

the lights.

1:21:01

He

1:21:02

looks at his

1:21:04

friends

1:21:04

and one

1:21:07

of them gives him one of

1:21:09

them who has like a very

1:21:11

pointed goatee and a very bald head and is wearing a monocle, like,

1:21:15

gives him like a raised eyebrow and

1:21:17

the head guy, the one that beckons you in, a very broad

1:21:19

man with a white

1:21:22

beard, steps forward and

1:21:24

says, May

1:21:26

I talk to you in

1:21:28

private? Of

1:21:30

the guy course.

1:21:33

But

1:21:34

my name

1:21:36

is August. And you are

1:21:38

you said,

1:21:40

what was your

1:21:43

name again? Ophelia.

1:21:44

Oh,

1:21:45

failure. Yes. No doubt. Some sort of alias.

1:21:48

Yes?

1:21:50

the

1:21:51

Maybe.

1:21:52

maybe Who

1:21:53

could Yes. August. Now, correct me if I'm

1:21:55

wrong. Your group

1:21:59

i'm keeps headquarters

1:22:01

in one of Dust

1:22:03

Bowls many subterranean

1:22:06

spaces. Is that correct?

1:22:09

Yes,

1:22:10

it is.

1:22:11

Well, what have I told you?

1:22:12

Not here

1:22:15

in six

1:22:16

towers. There's

1:22:18

a series of tunnels, subterranean tunnels.

1:22:21

the uranium tunnels

1:22:24

My

1:22:25

friends and I

1:22:27

have an interest in having those tunnels cleared. Oh,

1:22:34

they

1:22:36

are

1:22:39

currently blocked by Oh,

1:22:42

not by rubble. Not by

1:22:45

stone. We need a work crew

1:22:47

for that. No. We

1:22:49

need people love your business to

1:22:51

handle this for us. I'm

1:22:56

afraid that This rubble

1:22:58

is alive. It's more of a rubble.

1:23:04

I see. There are people

1:23:06

living down there if you can believe that. And as a

1:23:08

as a human maul

1:23:11

yourself, we thought that you

1:23:15

might best be able to get

1:23:17

them to vacate

1:23:19

these tunnels. The

1:23:21

promise I gave to

1:23:24

mister Khan is, of course, also on

1:23:26

the table. I can give you a

1:23:28

complete map

1:23:31

of this network.

1:23:34

I think that this

1:23:36

is a

1:23:38

most

1:23:39

desirable of and I

1:23:41

will be back

1:23:42

when the job is done.

1:23:44

Very

1:23:47

good, very good. You

1:23:50

can

1:23:50

find us here the same

1:23:52

day every week. Yes.

1:23:54

Is there something I could say at

1:23:56

the door that would make this

1:23:58

process just a little just the nicer too.

1:24:02

Enter.

1:24:03

Hines gave

1:24:04

you trouble on the

1:24:07

way and Iain Vines. Is that the name?

1:24:09

Good chap.

1:24:12

Good chap. Just doing

1:24:15

his job, of course. Of

1:24:17

course. Yes. Next time

1:24:19

you come, use the password.

1:24:24

What's his

1:24:28

name? Deridigm.

1:24:29

Thank

1:24:32

you so much

1:24:36

August. I August

1:24:38

Oh, good.

1:24:39

We we never spoke. Of

1:24:42

course. And he returns to

1:24:44

his friends at the table. I

1:24:46

wish

1:24:46

we Cannon, and I will leave.

1:24:48

Very good.

1:24:49

So you have queued up

1:24:52

you guys have queued

1:24:55

up two potential jobs. right

1:24:57

now. Mhmm. While we're on you, Gilead, would you like to take another downtime?

1:24:59

Oh, yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

1:25:02

What did I wanna Right.

1:25:05

Okay.

1:25:07

Yes. I will.

1:25:11

Perhaps on VAALCO's returns

1:25:12

to the Gratow

1:25:14

at some point. Juliet is

1:25:17

he had his like,

1:25:19

in his room

1:25:20

and you room

1:25:22

waiting

1:25:24

waiting.

1:25:27

Juliet, Hello,

1:25:30

Markus.

1:25:31

Are you

1:25:33

are you

1:25:36

alone? you serve

1:25:38

peaks around to see if Echophilia is

1:25:40

home at the moment

1:25:42

or not?

1:25:43

Echophilia is busy. I

1:25:47

sort of like

1:25:50

look, I'm like,

1:25:53

yeah

1:25:56

yes. saw unbuttoning

1:25:58

my shot.

1:26:01

What? What

1:26:04

do you What are you

1:26:06

doing?

1:26:06

III wanted to actually

1:26:08

talk to you and

1:26:10

I needed some help. Oh.

1:26:13

But sorry. I

1:26:15

am several

1:26:15

o c. tendencies

1:26:20

to just sorry. Certainly. No. I

1:26:22

I will help you and

1:26:24

maybe you can

1:26:26

help me in return.

1:26:29

Yes. No. Please.

1:26:30

You first. Well, I think it's

1:26:32

better that you

1:26:35

are in top form

1:26:38

actually to help me. Your injured is that

1:26:40

Uh-huh.

1:26:41

Yes. I'm

1:26:43

a kind of unbuttoned

1:26:46

a bit more in on my

1:26:48

chest. You can just see bruises and elements

1:26:50

of areas of of, you know, it looks horrid.

1:26:54

I

1:26:54

would have given it

1:26:57

to sort of, but

1:27:00

I

1:27:00

I

1:27:01

don't trust

1:27:03

me. That's fair. What when did

1:27:05

did did this happen

1:27:06

in the city? Yes.

1:27:09

I believe

1:27:12

this is this occurred when

1:27:14

we were going into, I think, the evolts.

1:27:20

Yes. We were trying to break

1:27:22

into

1:27:22

the bank. Remember? Yes. It was a

1:27:26

a while back. I dealt the wounds with the EU by now,

1:27:28

but obviously I may

1:27:31

have not. I'm very well.

1:27:33

Let me just one moment

1:27:35

and just sort of roms

1:27:37

over to her and

1:27:39

grab some supplies and comes back. And she's

1:27:42

done this before, but

1:27:45

She seems more

1:27:47

nervous, more

1:27:48

nervous

1:27:50

more hesitant

1:27:52

before

1:27:54

she, like, actually sort of touches Falcon's and sort of starts applying

1:27:57

there's touches soccer censor start

1:27:59

applying a

1:28:01

bomb or whatever, you know, some type of bomb that'll help with

1:28:03

the bruising and help with the relieves

1:28:07

the pain and Let me

1:28:09

know if this hurts. I hope this

1:28:12

will

1:28:13

help

1:28:16

you, sir.

1:28:18

Very good. So

1:28:20

recovery is always a long

1:28:22

term project. Our healer, Juliet,

1:28:26

rolls tinker. Mhmm. And

1:28:28

then you mark a number of

1:28:30

segments on the healing clock. There

1:28:33

are four segments on

1:28:35

the healing clock. and only a critical

1:28:38

fulfill all four segments. Wow.

1:28:40

And I get plus one

1:28:42

die, right, for the healing treatment

1:28:45

role? Yes. I think so. That's what I mean. Right. It

1:28:47

says everyone in the crew gets plus one

1:28:49

died to the healing

1:28:52

treatment roles. What's

1:28:54

what's giving you that?

1:28:56

The physical ability. The physical

1:28:58

ability. Okay. No problem. Yeah.

1:29:01

That

1:29:04

said

1:29:06

okay.

1:29:08

Would

1:29:10

trust

1:29:10

and me also apply here. I guess

1:29:12

it's not Oh,

1:29:13

this isn't versus is a target

1:29:16

this is a plus one diverse is

1:29:18

a target whom you have an intimate relationship with?

1:29:22

Tell you what.

1:29:26

I'll

1:29:26

give you that plus

1:29:28

one die. If you role

1:29:30

play play right now and we

1:29:32

see how your relationship with

1:29:35

Velcos becomes closer in way. Okay.

1:29:38

Sure. As she's

1:29:41

sort of applying

1:29:43

this, you know, that

1:29:46

of course, I I

1:29:47

wish you would be a

1:29:49

little more careful.

1:29:50

I know this is in

1:29:54

your nature to fight

1:29:56

like this and to protect

1:29:58

us, which I appreciate, but

1:30:01

more

1:30:01

and more I'm realizing

1:30:03

I I don't

1:30:04

know what

1:30:05

I would do

1:30:07

if you weren't here.

1:30:08

If

1:30:11

I didn't

1:30:13

get to

1:30:16

see you,

1:30:20

Yeah. I I don't want

1:30:21

that to happen. Do

1:30:24

you do you

1:30:27

understand? you missed a spot on the side of my chest. Oh,

1:30:29

sorry here. Let

1:30:32

me let

1:30:34

me get

1:30:35

that. and does show

1:30:38

up.

1:30:38

Julie at look. I

1:30:44

i

1:30:51

thank you.

1:30:53

Of course. Yeah.

1:30:56

As

1:30:59

I

1:30:59

said before,

1:31:02

If it

1:31:03

wasn't for

1:31:04

you, I would be with

1:31:06

Sarajuk in the building. I've

1:31:11

made this clear. Yes.

1:31:13

Yes.

1:31:14

I cannot deny

1:31:20

my

1:31:22

My feeling.

1:31:28

Towards.

1:31:30

Yes. you Right.

1:31:32

You you are you are

1:31:35

very loyal to those

1:31:38

you work with. I

1:31:40

Yes. Royalty. Right. You

1:31:43

can

1:31:43

call it that. Let's

1:31:48

call it that. Let's call

1:31:50

it royalty. Are you done? Uh-uh. Yes.

1:31:54

Just yes.

1:31:56

Sorry. and you may

1:31:59

roll. Okay. So much

1:31:59

there. So

1:32:05

control?

1:32:06

What? For this

1:32:08

kind of role? What is your flustered?

1:32:10

I know. I'm like, isn't flustered.

1:32:13

Yes. You may roll your

1:32:15

you may roll your tinker. Right? Enjoy. And then I will

1:32:17

give you the plus die -- Okay. --

1:32:19

for your physical ability

1:32:23

and for your trust in me. You you

1:32:25

you trust in me. Yeah. Oh, wow. And this is just standard

1:32:27

effect because this is just a okay.

1:32:30

Because this is

1:32:31

just a recovery roll,

1:32:34

so it's like a long

1:32:36

term

1:32:36

project. Here we go. Oh. There's a six

1:32:38

in there. Thank Cannon rolled. There's

1:32:42

nice. Yeah. So a six gives

1:32:44

you three of the healing clocks

1:32:47

-- Okay. -- segments filled. Okay.

1:32:49

So it just sounds like it's

1:32:51

gonna take a little while longer for -- Whoa. -- Falcon. Right. I was actually

1:32:53

going to spend my extra coin

1:32:55

for this. I

1:32:57

was to do it Okay. So I can just Should there

1:32:59

be another wrong way? Keep going. possible

1:33:01

to spend a coin for a downtime

1:33:04

activity? Yeah. And you can spend

1:33:06

coin yeah. I think so. You

1:33:08

know, I've missed this a couple times.

1:33:10

A couple times when you guys didn't quite get the result that you wanted, you can sometimes get always

1:33:12

when, like, when you

1:33:15

were forging those tickets, That's

1:33:17

right. And we're getting your hands

1:33:19

on those tickets. Instead of resisting, you could have

1:33:21

just spent coin. Oh, yes. So maybe instead of

1:33:24

a down extra

1:33:26

downtime could you just improve the role too? Is

1:33:28

that And one coin to improve

1:33:30

the result to a critical Oh,

1:33:33

shot. Okay. Can I do that? Yes.