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behind the southern charm lies razorblade smiles and hearts of Darkness monsters we are you know the rest of that sentiment and the reasoning behind it the truest lie ever sung it is not in seeking monstrousness that we Stave off the monsters of Our Hearts and Thoughts We Are Monsters dead and truly so yet our monstrousness is solely in seeking to live seeking to be that most human of animals Monsters We are monsters we are the better to embrace the truth of our dead Humanity the coast after dark is a mature themed Discord play by post server based in and exploring the V5 world of darkness in and around the Mississippi Gulf Coast region it has a small local population with over 14 million tourists that visit annually roughly an hour's time is all that is needed to travel from end to end the geography and size of the region has created a unique power structure that is formerly known as the Council of Twilight it is sometimes called the pentar sometimes affectionate sometimes oozing with disdain come explore and safely experience the darker parts of the sun-kissed landscape and your [Applause] imaginations so before we Dive Dive back in before we immerse ourselves back into the night and Times of these Immortal monsters we take a a wide view of of the coast we find ourselves on the Far Western quarter fifth of the coast most people don't when thinking of Mississippi assume that it is in fact as subtropical as New Orleans most people don't think that when they think or Envision Mississippi in their minds that it is in fact as subtropical as Florida they think of the heat but they think of it as something separate than those two other wellknown well- envisioned environments but it is in fact exactly that and then some because while Florida has ocean washed Shores and New Orleans has Spirit washed locals of low rank swampy areas Mississippi has the exact same as both those places plus the Advent of being inhospitable to most other varieties of fauna what grows in the mud in Mississippi is harder than most other subtropical Forest it's heartier than angrier than more determined than and other Bayou and Creeks trees that grow in Mississippi ring themselves and plant themselves so deep that even when stumped there is more than likely going to be continued growth and sapling springing up from that root system the mud don't really give much back to the day and it gives less back to the night so those trees those Groves here along the coast are deeper and darker the Shadows hang and accumulate as if they are living individuals flocking together like family and friends from long gone by and in one such place we turn our gaze as a soft loating clipped noise Northeastern accented Voice rings out you can almost hear the manicured fingernails in that voice you can almost hear the long leg legged bited pants of some upwardly mobile individual someone who reminds you instinctively and instinctually like Catherine hebburn Hepburn so what are you saying that Jolly you can almost hear that old news radio voice in this modern accented presentation is very light but it's still there toying with the edge of the mind and are you sure that you don't need me there with you the response is a equally cultured though different accent ented voice a Latin inspired a Hispanic inspired you'll be there in spirit of course and yet this is our time Grand Bay has sent that message and there's nothing the silent one can ever do to stop us at this point and everyone will know that it is in fact and then we shift back to Vanessa running across the beach we shift back to Vanessa carrying Sasha as if he is a 5 foot and a little more length football she is hurtling and laughing at the chaos left in her wake now most Kindred immediately have this connotation as to what a risk and a threat to the masquerade is everyone every Kindred knows that clearcut violence everyone knows that surviving a gunshot at Point Blank Range everyone knows that things that could be viewed easily as more than mortal could potentially become a breach everything that they personally do in that vein could become a breach everyone knows this everyone has this connotation what most people don't have and most people don't understand the most Kindred Talks by the wayside it is not ever solely what the Kindred does the number one rule the the true tradition that is at the foundation of every of the other Traditions the one thing that makes a difference between those who climb the rungs of power and those who are beat across the head by those rungs of that ladder of power it's not what you do is what you can get away with don't get [Music] caught and that includes what's left in your wake that includes that unforgotten or that unlicked feeding wound of leaving someone alive that includes so many other small things that add up if and when someone finds out so running with another apparent human as if they are in fact a football what is it that Vanessa intends to do because there's intention and then there's action just because you decided thing doesn't mean that's what happens because decidedly because changes what [Music] was uh let's see as soon as she gets out of sight from the from the people that are going out to her she does want to like um oh crap uh she wants to go back uh [Music] to I didn't specify where exactly she ran uh she wants to go back to Julia's car so that she can drive back to um she she's going to go back to hole in the ground to see if she can meet back up with [Music] h okay but you she um she'll try to remain out of site from those um hosel individuals um and uh I try to get back to uh Julia's car here's the absolute funny thing and if such things were actually possible in the world in which these Kindred exist While most people don't assume that uh gulport is anything more especially Gulfport Beach is anything more than a tourist trap it is so much more than that yes hundreds of cruise ships and Yachts and recreational vehicles liter the landscape well the water Escape there at Gulfport along the beach just a several couple of football fields Southwest of where everyone gathers there at gulport beach not far from the harbard master's office not far from the Marina and the docks that have launched hundreds and hundreds of thousands of cruise ships and recreational vehicles and private yachts and fishing vessels and tour boats and the like just two football fields south west of there millions of pounds of tonnage from imported locations around the world land and begin making their way land bound usually across the coast and Across the Nation it is in fact a Gateway and one of the Lesser patrolled lesser theater of security inspired locations where entrance to the United States happens a lot of your Parcels your packages your Walkman you know the the hip-hop things that things that the kids are using these days your your your iPods and your Zoom come into the country as well as you your tamagachi and your magic the Gathering cards all of the things that don't need as much on the surface embargo they don't need as much uh chairs and most of those things are already taken care of Elsewhere and because of the low tax bracket that Mississippi has for almost everything it's one of the more cost effective ways of getting things into the country it's taken for granted no one thinks about it it just happen so there's always ships there's always these huge cargo Laden vessels docking and being unloaded and being carried across vast amounts of distances from this One Singular small out of the way point so as Vanessa makes it back to the vehicle back to the parking lot and contemplates on heading across 90 speeding P down well north of over 25th and Crossing that bridge there just past the Popeyes and Church's Texas chicken and moving past 2 heading dead on towards 34th to make that rting head towards the hole in the ground the activity within visual range is Not Unusual it's taken for granted it's part of the backdrop it's powered of the background whenever you at the beach or near the beach or driving uh south or north along 90 going east and west across the coast it's backdrop you don't really think much of it there's no reason to pay any attention to it usually due Vanessa's successes thus far we're not going to roll we're going to Simply ask total dice pool for Vanessa's wits plus Drive [Music] and you said what is her pool yes four wooo well again it's just backdrop it's just noise it's nothing to be considered in that direction as she makes her way North across to 5th Avenue yet making sure that she's not followed making sure that the vehicles that are reenacting every horrible scene from the Keystone Cops they on the beach are not in her Shadow are not chasing her down she glimpses the import export dock just there and normally the activity is what it [Music] is Vanessa has never been on the eban queen hasi no so she doesn't recognize why that cargo ship is filled with people not the usual you know Long Shore men and Dock Workers and the huge cranes loading one trailer after the next off the ship Vanessa has never been on the coast definition of entertainment thean Queen is Disneyland for adults the Ean Queen is every great uh Six Flags Over America the ebb and queen is Las Vegas Reno and Hollywood roll into one to top it off it the Ean Queen is in fact Broadway for those who live on the coast every Vice can be enacted whether it is gluttonous eating inebriation titilation blind mindless entertainment of all variety including but not limited to full-fledged Broadway level Productions conscious gambling the De Queen isn't of itself a coast institution and while it typically docks in places such as Long Beach or P Christian in Diamond Head somewhere along the lines of way of Bank St Louis or Waveland while it typically is in places like dville or just Ocean Springs or somewhere along that portion of the coast sometimes even near belux itself down along where the Bo revage and Hard Rock Casino is it rarely if ever visits Mississippi City it rarely if ever visits Gulfport it really is in this area to begin with yet as Vanessa speech North along 25th Avenue the Evan Queen and all that it entails the extra lights the extra security the extra hornets nest of adults flocking on and fleeing off is present in [Music] Gulfport he's definitely taking mental notes of the place and it's just like I have to come back sometime later to check the place out it looks really cool and amazing kind of reminding her of like Las Vegas and other crazy [Music] places making her way North across 25th Avenue it is is roughly 4 and 1/2 6 minute drive especially as she's fairly sure that there's nothing in her Shadow nothing's on her tail making the right on to 34th and heading towards the whole in her heart drops it un beating in her chest Falls Like a Rock from a Mountaintop speeding towards the ground like a comet heating up as it strikes the center of her being the whole land is closed the ground specifically is closed his lights are off there's none usual bar Firefly hustling and hubbing about seemed as if hos and Oliver didn't INF FL open the place tonight see as in fact based on the number of cars in the parking lot at the whole in that the area is Rife with tourists and a hole in the wall is a hole in a wall but the one thing you don't do ever is mix the new to fly by night with the old their assistant their th hedging their bets taking the excess upkeep of people needing a nap rates and needing to sleep and needing to prep and pregame for visiting the Ean Queen did not risk their license or the attention of having the ground open without the brute Squad that is hos and the central ring master that is Oliver present and speaking of hos and Oliver tumbling through the nothingness of no space because even space in the distance there's the glimmer and flicker of far-flung stars and the darker aspect of black holes and the twisting kaleidoscopic combining of energies that reached Earth and created humankind out there in the blankness and emptiness this nothingness is in fact that up is in any direction you point down as well there is an immense amount of effort that would cause such a thing what is it that you all do so um go first yeah I got a bit of a question so nobody it like just from a kind of meta narrative here like we slammed into something right yes all right so the first thing I suppose that Oliver is doing is unable to feel the through the windshield I wasn't in the [ __ ] cab I said I hopped in the bed oh did H did hos WIP through the windshield yes without oh feeling whatsoever well uh we know that the that the trucks total uh no uh oh already you have a plan cuz I know I have a plan you know what my plan is I'm pretty sure this isn't even my truck it's my truck oh I'm so sorry you keep driving my truck keep driving your [ __ ] because I break all of mine yeah no uh no so hos is well confused annoyed and starting to get rather pissed and I think we all know what happens when hos gets annoyed confused and pissed he goes to his room and has a tea I no he's going to Rouse for prow and recer and do some fun things by swinging this truck in every direction oh poor Oliver I like the idea that like we can't see it but we're actually in the middle of a park or like a baseball game look man unless we got teleport let for prowess hi hey we're at Hunger 4 now guys oh lovely all right well uh I believe this is this is not the first time that the pair have been uh engulfed in darkness rather recently I I I remember either a scene or a voice game a couple months ago where this similar situation happened and uh when Oliver went looking for hos he nearly got his [ __ ] decked so I think Oliver's first prerogative is not getting close to wherever the [ __ ] hos might be he's just going to grab the front of the car and start swinging truck we're going to try and just look for cover over on my side feel my way around try and I suppose make my way to somewhere safe all right well that being the case being as it is roughly working together one Oliver clearing the pet ask for potential destruction unaware as of what destruction that might be would you be so kind as to go ahead and R your dexterity and Athletics and being as you're roughly working together take a minus one hos you're going to roll your strength plus Malle and we'll add the bonus from prowess after um mhm and roll as high as you possibly can all so now would recer apply to this dice pool just to make sure it's the reason why you're not taking any additional penties outside of the minus one even with Oliver Co assisting by clearing the way as it were or attempting to incidentally divide the focus of those entities nearby so you're only a minus one total oh instead of the my three yeah okay that's going be all right so you think we should Rouse for strength just to see if we can get as high as we can oh yeah we we like best I mean I mean um abolutely man so the way that I see it the spice of life is go bur go of Life go bur we didn't hit hunger five so we're rousing for strength guys okay suceeded oh sorry no me spinning right there was cuz I thought I saw him get seven successes oh that was scary for a moment that just dice seven going to be eight di uh hunger for wow really [ __ ] roll that willpower baby you got this oh my that ain't good that's not good just [ __ ] it's better that's great actually I know I tell that is positively excellent and and you may not think that looking at that outcome a lot of ones yes it's the reason why that is in fact great because none of those ones are on your hunger dice so while you are blindly unable to feel see hear or smell anything you manag to not swing this truck like the oversiz bat that you are using it as like the mace that you are attempting to use it as you manag to not swing this very flammable vehicle into the very nearby gasoline towers of the gas station you were attempting to speed out of you managed to not cause another gas station incident on the coast you can I do it instead another yep another be funny let's exp as just Oliver can't feel it but there was maybe three C CM between the back of his head and the bumper of a [Music] car you're not sure why the movie of your life death and continued existence is playing out behind your eyes but fate ever the Trixie curious anxious being that it is just knew that it was over for Oliver and decided as per its ritual showing you the movie of your existence up until now so that you will have something to pass into the great beyond with and it's plain there behind your eyes even though you can't see anything around you hear anything around you but your life is flashing before your unseeing eyes with how close the vehicle swings by [Music] you as speaking of swinging by you you've decided a course of action it is a good course of action nothing holds a kindred Hostage to your will in your whims like a well-placed [Music] steak so taking the Stak and using mistake well there there are a few different desperate things taking mistake is prying something for someone else's hands easy enough size distance leverage all those things working in your favor one hand on the steering wheel smashing the gas just in case cuz after all if you all were to wreck well there's a chance there's a chance that things will work in your favor using the steak however is another matter entirely [Music] onehanded you're going to attempt to slam it home you're going to attempt to pierce the rib cage and drive this Stak through the smaller woman Elias Elias have added sir all right will this be a brawl or will this be a melee it is a melee yes o all right uh I need to make sure this one strikes true in the turbulent of it all I'll I'll kind of step on the brakes a bit to give me that extra few seconds to prevent them from getting a proper seat in their chair and I will Rouse for some potential more go ahead wait you after all right if it's worth it it's worth it come on now i' be what two extra dice yes all righty uh lethal body from poon's win assistant isn't anyway would it no all right that's be six four hunger three [Applause] difficulty oh I'm going to do a roll four so very [Music] close there is a skill that most of the old Hammer movies didn't drive home upon 100% intended it is never easy even with [Music] training to harm something smaller it is far more difficult than we put value in size makes all the difference in the world motion also adding to that natural pretty privilege so as you slam home the steak it's slightly blunted wooden tip cracking the sternum loud enough to be heard from a distance The Cry of pain that you are expecting doesn't come the exhalation of any a emotional response to being stabbed through the chest is missing [Music] she who was settling into peace her face falling from the smile that had been there to a Placid tranquil nothing the smile Springs back the eyebrows Arch Skyward as fangs which you know had to be somewhere there slam into place with such speed you can hear it Like a Knife springing from a [Music] hilt all right that's smart that's that's and unfortunately in such close proximity um you both will receive a bonus of plus one to any striking attempt going forward what is your total strength uh three Okay the reason why I asked because a stake doesn't actually cause damage if sucess if successful but the force and kinetic energy and luckily for Kindred their internal organs outside of their heart are never an issue so as the steak slams through their lungs cracking their sternum and the ribs around and connecting to the sternum missing the spine by a fraction of a few inches far to the right more than it should be just off center enough to miss the heart and just far enough off center to the right to cause a g gruesome sucking chest wound there's something mildly intriguing about seeing a brief flicker of the lungs through the ribs and broken bones therein with pieces of Almost White pinkish bone fragments adhering and sticking to the steak there's something almost intriguing about why didn't she scream why didn't she yell why instead of a frown that smile is sitting [Music] there and then it happens it goes from that Frozen moment of nothingness where you could temporarily see to a blur of action and the fight is joined the intentions of clear really simply staking probably far enough from her mind to not be a factor at all there's a resignation and resolution of intentions that slips behind those beautiful eyes with that Rus deathlike smile falling into place what is in fact Elias's intended course of action seeing all of this transpire think Elias will first shout out in pain after being pierced in the neck I assume with fangs and the fast blur motion well it hasn't happened yet but there is very much a possibility I think is the Stak still within the chest mhm okay I think Elias would do an emergency parking quote on quote he's not focused as much on the car right now but bring it to his sta as much as possible and with one hands grasp the solder for more leverage and the other to get better purchase with the steak so I suppose I would like to try and grapple them to some effects okay [Music] so instead of a Dodge per set you're attempting to effectively block and maneuver with the steak and slamming on the break from the car so you won't get a penalty for the additional actions Allin one unfortunately it would lose you the initial plus one of being in close combat what you can do with at this point thing is it is a block and not a Dodge it's going to be your strength plus Athletics strength plus Athletics all right and you're going to roll as high as possible cuz it is contested at this that's a dice right there why did that oh that went up real quick oh my god do I Rouse I'm almost at five hunger y'all I don't know man I like the burn bright burnout style of life so remind me again what happens at five hunger nothing bad what do you mean nothing bad well it's no longer your problem once you hit by hunger it's everyone else's problem a matter of perspective problem it's it depends on where you are or it feels like it's also your problem look if you're in a highly populated area you won't be at Hunger five for long true but if you in a situation like a h or right now you might be sucking on gasoline very soon I don't think this is despite it all I think that he has some wherewithal to not immedately go beast mode use the rounds no it don't be [ __ ] [ __ ] you got me you don't have to you don't have to do it you can no he said it he said the magic word pressure p pressure every man knows those words it is a challenge from God himself right by my right as an st not right now but by my right as an st by the of this session everyone will be hunger four or five yeah truing it is ored there almost uh noo I will Rouse but can I also argue brawl instead of Athletics I'm okay with no not for a block you're not oh okay block okay understand all right yeah I believe it's like the raw mechanics of the system that if you're trying to defend it's Athletics over enough what if I don't defend and I just go for the steak oh take your chances my dear boy let's see what happens risk it all all right still you really quickly can I tempt you with something Elias if you're attempting to attack here there is something called All Out attack you know it's quite beautiful in my op what that's good sir it allows you to deal more damage welcome to etv5 podcast where we teach you the mechanics slowly in a weird ass way yeah yeah so like just like how Rouse is not bad for from a certain perspective allout attack is not bad from a certain perspective would I have to make a rouse check to do this nope it's free but to but the steak won't do damage really it just be trying to get no it'll do more damage if you use the steak against them no unfortunately yeah I think I'm going to go for the Rouse yeah risk it I risk it what we're looking for that's what it's all about oh oh no no no nobody I think uh I think my words were misunderstood there I mean if you hit them with the Stak all out attack gives you you know basically just a plus two yes oh [ __ ] let me look that up real quick no no no don't look it up you don't need to read the rest okay if you want fair enough I'm going for Rous I don't think I've ever got a single Rouse in this campaign you've got this you've got this that has to happen now right well at yeah yeah what we waiting for known for the record I don't think I've ever gotten a single R success if we weren't recording this I would 137% play the he's pulling his out uh sound so what I think happen first let me roll I think what happens is that he tries to park the car in a in a certain way maybe with a little bit of stoppage but enough that it's you know reasonable and I think that in the spur of the moment it's all too much he doesn't care about where the car goes he wants whoever this person is dead and remember when you make the roll you make the roll with four hunger now five oh well that's that's all right so let's see I be three five seven you know what the benefit is you have a nice tasty body right next to you now oh I got to roll and I get something nice yes burn the willpower nope well oh that's exactly what I wanted to see was nice having Elias hey you you'll still have him in your heart well all right noo don't worry noou wouldn't kill any of us in a voice game why why do I get feel that's a joke so should intense moments in moments of extreme tension and pressure and stress most Witnesses most people that are involved always say that time dilates down everything was happening so fast or combatants always say it felt as if those seconds lasted hours your mind is perceiving and taking in all of the menu and minute details of everything around you and even as your mind is taking it in there is a velocity or speed of things that happens just outside of your ability to understand you still take all of the details in you still see everything that's happening but it's happening too fast your mind your eyes working faster than your mind has the ability to process adding to that the Endor the adrenaline the several hundred other considerations of what happens after cuz even in stressful situations where there is literal lives on the line the Mind instinctively says and then what tomorrow what am I going to do tomorrow night what is it that's going to happen for me because the idea of it all coming to end in a flash of light in a flash of action is almost impossible to Fathom in that moment there's not much time to prepare and sometimes fate is a little slow with rewinding and replaying the events of your life it still gets there but a little slower than it should happened after or during instead of just before this situation is such a one for Elias didn't realize in the few seconds that Paul of shadow that had encompassed him he didn't realize that that darkness of The NeverEnding after of Oblivion had disappeared he was able to see who he was attacking clearly he didn't realize that the world began to speed by as he attempted to negotiate the parking of the vehicle all of those things happening too fast for him to recognize or realize to quite understand even though he was taking all of those details in and for the first time since his death instead of being the one cleaning up behind someone else's issues with their intrusive thoughts instead of cleaning up behind something else's inner monster he finds himself watching third person as his own best worst most consistent friend and presence gently removes him from control and the driver's seat of his being he watches in the third person as mon monster to monster dead thing to dead thing the small skilled clearly assassin trained or some other mystical video game hero that was that small bob hair cuted Persian Scarlet Johansson with the huge chunk of wood sticking out of her chest made short work of him trusting him beating him keeping his monster from escaping the vehicle keeping her monster from well ending him and as the fury of his monster and the world drips into red we turn our gaze towards the college campus being alone in the dark is scary being in the dark with things that you suspect our enemies is even worse the natural paranoia of the willingness to survive causing chal to perceive things as they wish instead of as they are there is a unshakeable faith and belief that they have the wherewith all to survive Escape elude evade and continue fighting whatever needs to be fought in whatever way they can because their faith will not allow them to give in their faith will not allow them to accept things as they are their faith will not allow them to go quietly into the dark that has removed every sense of geographical awareness from them that has crushed and squeezed every remaining attempt at Living from their limbs every camouflage of living gone simply because the absence of everything has attenuated their senses to the very Hy Edge it has pushed the fake semblance of breathing from them there's no soft brush of forced V movement in their system there is only darkness and the unwillingness to yield to it nothing has touched them nothing has motioned past them they can't and haven't felt the missing of a wide Ark hay maker they don't feel or hear anything but they know that as long as they pump their legs as long as they keep swimming as long as they keep moving that there is hope and they keep doing just that they keep moving keep dodging keep twirling keep dodging keep ducking keep dipping keep diving keep flipping keep moving because the darkness has to relent there has to be and as it feels as if forever is this Darkness as it feels because of the lack of being able to orient and pathfind and find a fixed star to plot find a fixed Landmark to plot because of the absence of input what is it that's going through javal's mind and or heart cuz she's cartwheeled she's flipped she spun she's attempted to use what had previously been what she believed was the landmark of the building she has maneuvered and twisted and turned in this Darkness feels as if it's [Music] unending um well she's um she's um starting to pray but she's also not going to rest on her Loyals to do that so even though like it's only in her head because hean senses is long ago told her [Music] that the physical means something very different in whatever alternate space she's in right now um so while she's still like apparently she hasn't been grabbed yet so this jumping around has done something she's not she's still able to do it um she is going to pray for release while she continues trying to get away praying that God creates light in the midst of this there is a there is an understanding that all things through faith there is an understanding that nothing is impossible and having seen the wreck and ruin of several generations of unending Warfare the result of urban Warfare the effects of being and existing consistently and constantly IM battled what it does to the body and the mind not just the gruesome and graphic injuries caused by actual Warfare but the effects of existing where war is knowing that at any moment at any second all it takes is one flickering spark in the dark to unleash hell on Earth both physically mentally and emotionally to live with that hate because there are crimes that happen in war that are unforgivable and an entire Society built in soaked in steeped in war on such a consistent unending cycle of violence twist things it breaks things in the very fabric of society when those not old enough to understand the difference between night and day even understand the realities of living with war understand the realities of living with hate in their hearts that sickening stomach churning roiling of enmity at your neighbor it does things and while nothing is impossible the realities of that that shaval has experienced as a trauma doctor begins to settle then as light does not Pierce The Darkness as the darkness is not dissipated as the forever of this moment tests and toys at the edges of her faith test and toys at the edges of her reason she's seen magic she's seen the truth of what the Banu hakeim are their weariness against all troubles their existence and adherence to their faith driving them ever forward this is the absence of faith in tomorrow this is the absence of life this is the absence of hope this is the distilled essence of war and his experiences that enmity that cold hate of everything and it's creeping into her being sliding along her skin it is the only sensation she has her height and senses turned up to 11 and the only thing that answers back not the sound of her feet against whatever it is that she is not touching not the whisper of motion and activity not the swish of her clothes against her body it is [Music] nothing this is only going to drive her to pray harder [Music] um and at this point it's also going to include and ask for guidance [Music] because she doesn't know if this flipping is getting her out of the darkness or further into it and she has no way of knowing outside of some outside intervention letting her know in the face of the absence of everything would you be so kind as to roll your composure plus a cult um I don't know why the engine likes to give me tens today but apparently it do thinks it thinks you're 10 so it's giving them all to you no matter what just attend messy crit a fullon crit doesn't matter nope just I well the messy crit on inv on evasion with that seven dice on the previous one I'm still stuck in aivan Ville um so I'm not sure what this is going to do but I I mean there's yeah uh because this is such a harrowing situation though I am going to reroll the failure great five with a Messi there's been a lot of that tonight is that and by that there it literally is the improbable and impossible conflating into where we are now there are scriptures and myths and gossips and tales and Word of Mouth understandings of several well-known Apple cryful tells one of them of course being Jesus and the money lenders the money changers outside of the temple the other being the walls of Jericho the other being Samuel baptizing Jesus there are hundreds of thousands of variations on the theme and yet proof of one's Faith often shakes one to the Core often moves one into an agnostic sense Kindred are not living they're not victims of chemical imbalances of one way or the other Kindred are very much dead Kindred are very much the antithesis of Life a vacuum leading to be filled javal pushes and pours and samples and sips and rings and sucks the marrow out of every instance she can in regards to filling herself with the essence of her former Faith because that is what it is former she is a inexistence flouting the laws of governance that kept her well that helped her that led the path to her death who she was is not what she is [Music] present and every [Music] scrabbling craving insist clawed existence holding on to every facet of what she was has met with abject failure it has met with signs and sigils that she has had to contort herself mentally and emotionally to hold on to what she was and for the second time since her arrival on the coast she and her Beast have had enough of this world telling her that she is no longer who she was she and her Beast have had the absolute penultimate end of all of that foolishness feeling nothing hearing nothing seeing nothing tasting nothing she lashes out in prayer as she's doing so her Beast subsuming her presence just enough to sink Rus formed clawed appendages [Music] into something her sense of taste is gone because there's no scent her sent of sight is gone because there's no light her sense of hearing is gone because there's nothing being Amplified or bouncing off of anything back to her and yet in all of this her Beast sinks fingers and tries to get her to sink fangs into this visible Untouchable unknowable to embrace her faith despite every fact otherwise and while she can't feel it she knows she has struck something that is different than the other nothingness around her and it gives her purchase it validates her faith in this moment for the first time she and her Beast pray together for the first time she and her Beast take a sip from that absent Fellowship of her beliefs as this whatever this is that her fingers have sunk into proves that the nothingness is not in fact nothingness that there is even in this Darkness some semblance of light speaking of some semblance of light on the edge of everything existing alone surfing the waves of kendri community has profited what it has profited but here in the dark here in this [Music] moment you've never been more alone the future folding out in front of you that brief flickering image of the the potentiality of what could be is what might be what could eventually somehow definitively is going to happen Makes You In This Moment even more alone Emerald there's a choice there's a decision there's a fork in the road and and they no road sign my goodness [Music] um sorry that these things [Music] happen so wait so did Jal bite ameral or with the vast knowable potentialities in the offing what if anything is amro's choice of actions we had that weird ass Vision so you didn't get any bearing on his surroundings from that Vision right no so what what does he feel right now it's impossible to see nothing and yet that's what persists around him it is impossible to feel nothing but that's what's around him right now after that brief flickering glimpse of potential Futures unraveling and happening now and in the future of now in this nothing in this act absence alone as always what does admiral choose to [Music] do BU here can you can you can you try try to tap into the network and use premonition see what's like like get some foresight into what his next action should be an attempted yeah purposeful use of seeing the kaleidoscopic potentialities of the future like future like a few seconds like like few yeah few going yeah like short term ideally yes tap into the powers of the Beast go ahead and Rous and then roll your resolve and aspics can can i r gun for power go ahead there's a [Music] bird freezing the ickles form all around him Winters not only arrive but it arrived like a thief in the night the obvious thing of course must I have not been there but instead of flying south instead of escaping the bird held on because of such a beautiful view it was so easy being here and all the other birds flew along their way because they flocked together this particular bird hung out at the edge of the flock stayed to itself stalking and watch watching from a distance as the other birds went along their merry path and winter came and it was decision time and instead of deciding forward or back the bird wait and watch and procrastinated and thought and attempted to add though birds don't know multiplication or division let alone addition but it attempted to do all of those things to make a decision A Simple Choice fly south or stay and then not choosing the bird ended up staying in his nest as winter fell and because of the bird stayed in its nest winter came the king fell the network exploded and literally Amaral is watching as interconnected systems of information including the very fabric of their own network spontaneously combust as the king the child of a king the prince if you will it is emulated and destroyed because in the oncoming of winter and the other birds flocking South this bird stayed in Winter trying to decide what was the best course of action there is no wrong choice of course save not choosing and the bird in his preparations of choosing chose neither forward nor back and the prince ended up dying the king ended up not existing winter fell and is only as that begins to make no sense whatsoever that the bird realizes when it fought off the other birds that attempted to make it fly south to save The Prince and Save the King and save the kingdom to keep the netor from falling it had already made its choice and escaping the other birds who attempted to snatch it from his nest and fly it south and it already made his choice it's only in realizing that by not making a choice by not accepting that the bird was responsible for the death that followed the bird was responsible for the falling of the network the bird was responsible for all of those individuals connected with what was that would never have a what would be all right he's going to try to like just um take that in and then he's going to like try like um stag her around trying to find a wall or something alone alone alone Lonesome it's funny because being alone doesn't always mean that you are in fact lonely and being in mesh in a crowd of people doesn't always mean that you are actually taking Fellowship even though you are in the midst of [Music] it perception changes everything individually and nothing in regards to absolutes most people would assume that the hole in and the ground were in fact the same and synonymous thing they are existing on the same property they own by the same owner they are for the most part catering to the same clientele at least the same strata of society clientele but they are in fact separate and completely divisible and seeing the ground closed it's like being the last person in line to get through the Gates of Heaven as Michael decides to take a break for the evening the golden gates closing and the lock slamming into place so close to heaven and yet left out that's what it feels like watching seeing as you close on the hole in the ground and while the hole in is rocking off the rafters the rails don't matter at this point this train is floating on water there are cars and vans and trucks and people are hanging out of on the corner of the building sipping and drinking from their case of 32 Bush light hot as Satan's testicles but it's still beer and it's delicious In This Moment smoking Chester Fields lucky strike and marbor in Rapid secession with Winston and well worse the clouds of smoke both tobacco and illegal and the Haggard individuals coming back from their trip to wherever they were and but ASA knows they were clearly on the E and there's no way that you could be this happy and be this despicable all at once they went they had the time of their nights potentially the time of their lives they left with less money in their pocket less money in their bank account and for many of them she is sure based on their behaviors less blood in their bodies she's fed on people who were slightly inebriated and watched as that slight INRI ration rat it up to create an eviation she's fed on people who've embi things chemically that were to mitigate and minimize the pain and after eming on them their level of inebriation skyrocketing exponentially she sees the signs of overindulgence plus plus plus on those gathering in the parking lot leaning against cars hanging out at the corner of the whole in and otherwise indulging in loitering and vagrancy and they're too well dressed to be the usual clientele for the whole land they're a little better dress than this area typically sees what is it if anything that Vanessa decides to [Music] do uh how are they dressed well better than the usual clientele of the hole in better dressed than the usual clientele of the ground better dressed than the average person strolling along the sidewalk in this area on most other nights like are they wearing a dress or are they like office or business clothes high quality designer type [ __ ] like you know well-kept clothing it looks clean it looks pressed it looks like the kind of person that used to go to that bar before we got it potentially yeah I mean rather than like uh Jerry the minimally paid [ __ ] uh office worker uh this kind of looks like Jerry's boss they kind of got the look in their eyes that make you want to punch them really [ __ ] hard like they they yeah as they they look like they wear too much cologne uhoh as as hos said these people look like they they would fit right in in a much like higher end establishment like a nightclub uh which is no longer operational also feel free to tell us that this is not the case nobody no you're absolutely perfect there is a difference in how and whom are in the area my natural inclination is as what do you mean in regards what is it that you're actually attempting to drive at with asking what specifically they're wearing I was wondering if yeah if it was just like um you know uh something that a high like a like you're a security guard or an FBI agent like at a like security at a high-end uh motel or you know um things of the nature but okay but they're just wearing like nice designer clothes that's it based on the information that you attempting to obtain which is not actually relevant to be so kind as to roll your wits plus StreetWise or should be I believe it's uh right there on the left I think it's a physical skill oh okay so you said what's and larsy or StreetWise it's going to be what's and [Applause] larsy um oh this is going to be so bad [Music] uh [Music] oh no I I'm scared oh [Music] boy I'm debating whether or not to roll or not but that sucess right right I believe in you no that Su that kind of success though her hunger die uh do it come on you know you want to I always make good decision with my roles so I think that you should Elias's steps you don't P the button I will like like she's not a hunger five or anything I mean this information is really important to you isn't decize important that we're rolling for it it's like yes and no but definitely like yes anything worth rolling for is worth rolling [Music] big just do it it's worth rolling at least one success oh my finger slipped it's okay that wasn't the finger but that's fine that's fine it's fine I'm depressed IED it's fine I I rolled and it did crit what I was that's what I was scared of I wanted to have little Fang marks why doesn't it have the little Fang Mark noo can I get Ms paint Ms paint spre I think you uh I'm I'm sorry butd it's not in the in the uh budget you're going to have to uh wait till next year oh all right so here's the situation A clearly readable moment these individuals who are clearly at the Disneyland uh for adults these individuals who clearly found a cheap motel to pregame and in many cases post game having gone to set Disneyland and with the Evan Queen the second largest Steamboat in the continent United States and it's unusual very rarely used docking situation taking up the space of several dozen cargo container ships these people are post party and pre gaming and with the ground closed the individuals who put on the their Sunday Best their Club Going chicest who dressed and actually washed themselves for an evening amongst the Stars while the question for some others might have been how did these poor individuals these average individuals for this area dress so well to of for 15 minutes on the queen let alone to be able to party on the eban queen Vanessa is not like others a lifetime at War and the early foundational years of their death a continuation of that in the most animalistic way possible the standard war that most modern individuals understand involves firearms explosives fire the occasional tank or aircraft as well as the unman unmanned and sometimes not even actually understandable as a drone Dron flying and dropping and devastating the idea of warfare is ingrained the idea that the Federal feral government either in its local agents its Regional agents it's National Agents will intercede in their ongoing war against every non federal employee assessing out designer labels assing out opportunities for there to be someone who's a little more interested in their cell phone than they should be who's not aware of the surrounding someone who's clearly casing the individuals all about them including Vanessa and Sasha in their stolen [Music] vehicle and in the doing and then the understanding of just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you just as there's almost a breath of a sigh of a moment to vent some of that pressure building as those faces that activity is too much they're too well-dressed there's got to be something a [ __ ] this is absolutely she spots it she spots the white van at the back end of the parking lot parked close to the building the white contractor's van parked too close to the building the far door on the opposite side of the building the there aren't any windows in the back portion of that van yet is part almost abing the exit door for the hole in and that triggers her spidey sense that is clearly someone up to no good that is clearly some federal employee with mirror sunglasses and some suit that is off the rack cover some bulletproof shell vest there is clearly some overworked underpaid Federal drone listening in and keeping watch through some small antenna she can't see from this distance it is clearly the man coming for [Music] her I'm thinking well that's good I hope so just don't overdo it I've heard that's bad for you unfortunately I did that all the time it can't be helped instinct is your best friend if we do instinct um well it's like I want to play it smart um I'm trying to think either to [Music] just either keep an eye on them but you know keep it on the down low or to just full on greet them but [Music] oh yeah Max is right there right uh one of Oliver's goals right where like at the at the bar what bar you're outside oh she's out oh oh never [Music] closed [Music] you said white van no windows in the back nicely dressed do or do not there is no dve it is I'm trying to think 3 is 33 after the hour let's take a quick uh 7 and be back here at 40 after the hour