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a [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] all right so once more into the Bree with a little bit more Than A Feeling and understanding as to where this codery actually [Music] is this is officially without any shadow of a doubt the dark in Bethany season 3 episode one periculum KOCO at sacrificium or for those of us who don't speak Latin danger threat and sacrifice we pick up roughly 2 weeks after we last left these characters when we last left the house figs the very real and actual torped brewha primagen of Bethany had risen from well the punishment of her toror to inflict all due harm and Agony On the coding would you all be so kind in this particular moment to roll your highest dice pool as a standing to understand how successful you you all were in Escaping The Wrath of that situation whether it was attempting to talk it talk your way out of it put someone else in your path or physically accost and defend yourself at all due haste that choice and how that worked out is solely up to you all to describe based on your dice okay and just for my own personal edification because I'm solving a family crisis right now the situation we're referring to is where we last left off with the Oho wonderful coion the primagen is about to beat the [ __ ] out of us is what's happening pretty much so oh the one that you know is in torper because of us oh yeah that one okay okay absolutely wonderful um an allowance for Rous or since this is a historical check would you prefer it not um more reflexively there we go all right all righty let's see what's my speci what listen primagen you look like you could use some [Music] [Laughter] [Music] therapy huh are we throwing together just any two stats or do they have to make sense they do have they do have to make sense because you have to explain how they worked for your character or didn't as the case may unfortunately prove to be um yeah no so Annabelle is not going to offer theapy but she's going to use her experience in talking people down out of their bad ideas and and kind of like seething rage um with manipulation plus persuasion and possibly therapy [Music] special if that oh God how do [Music] I um [Music] I don't how do I ju how do I justify this justify what well he told me to use my highest dice pool and then justify it my highest dice pool is int plus technology uh you can offer to build them something amazing that's more of a persuasion isn't [Music] it you can have built a drone that lets you see him coming and run the [ __ ] away all right so noou uh what's the lighting situation down here in the Crypt is it flame based or I would imagine not it's technological yeah it is electricity yes all right all right Bo up then I have my justification ready [Music] Annabelle it looks like therapy did not work so well no that is specifically my extra therapy die just in case I can allow it I got five otherwise oh yeah no from the sounds of it you're just like hey hey you know it's it's it's nice to vent out your emotions like this but it needs to be constructive not destructive that's right let's just talk about this dear God now would be the perfect time to purchase might do high would have been dexterity an animal again but that would have made no sense she's not an [Music] animal all right so run faster than the bear that's Deck plus animal so as you all have the opportunity of noticing that was the effective um role from the formerly torpid currently friended angry Brew H primagen you all betrayed there is no other way to for them to have viewed what you all managed um uh can I can I uh say part of my uh calming him down was bringing him a snack no no I refuse to be the snack not you I'm mortal okay oh yeah I know this is my buddy Tim he I don't know why he's down here but he is down here some random mortal as an apology he he's you know he looks hungry he could use some food food make him more likely to talk to us is it the pizza delivery guy that knocks on the Crypt chamber doors wait was that six against our total or six in general and we beat their total that is in general they are a frenzy whirling dervish of anger hurt feelings and the natural frustrations of realizing individuals you've spent the last half a decade or more in the presence of who betrayed you who ended your conscious hours who put you into a chemically induced coma I.E torper the only time where a kindred is able to approximately sleep because during the daylight hours there is no sleep there is no whing away tossing and turning it is death once more visiting your flesh you blink and all of the hours of the day disappear it is literally for each of you all each Sunrise as if the world ceases existing including you all of your thoughts all of your ghost of emotions all of your feelings disappear for a blink of an eye because that's what it is for you so you don't get the cers of a good rat so you don't have prophetic dreams or your mind working at the stressors of your previous is waking hours torper is as close to sleep as you all can be save with the added benefit you are alone with your worst self you are trapped in a 4x4 room with the stronger unbridled worst aspects of every portion of your emotion thoughts and feelings forever and interspersed with all of that forever happening where you get no rest are the sounds sents and feelings of the world around you layered over 101 times you're sensitive to everything that happens around you without being able to affect it you are victim to all of the shifting kaleidoscopic flashes of lights and stimulus and voices and conversations with no ability to interact and that's what you all are facing in the physical Vis of Renee Logan who through some mysterious power has managed to rise from their torpid State fully ravenous as you all officially verbally sign your names on the dotted line to do away with the prince of Shri for the prince above Bethany's prince who the entirety of all the bethan nightes have worked in service of some for decades others for quarter centuries and some still yet the only higher power that they've ever known one of those entities standing before you all having been willing to give their body and service to and is now facing you all down literally when we last looked at these characters the four emaciated superly pissed for of Renee Logan was bearing down on you all with your results of your roles and your decisions of skills and aptitudes used how did they with that Target number Escape or survive the interactions with Miss Logan [Music] all right um do you guys have any particular spunk to go first or may I oh so intelligence plus technology coming into play it means I have had to interact with the mechanics and Engineering around me in some way to disrupt delay or otherwise impair her desired effect which is all of us dusted on the Earth um given that the lighting down here is electric and knowing that somebody who can't see in the dark is somebody who cannot proficiently hunt in the dark um Joi upon seeing their they fully awakened fully fully Li fate uh will find you know his eyes quickly via the use of cerity and his his heightened mind will trace and follow the the metal pipe work that protects the the cords which attached to each of the lighting fixtures within this room finding their Junction and while they are hampered somewhat what seems at least by the the roles here by India's interference Kill the Lights to the room and disorient Renee Logan nice [Music] India doesn't have her rope on her but there were ropes and things that they brought down I guess to keep her uh restrained originally so that India's thought she's going back to her cattle roping days and using her dexterity and brawl to russle that [ __ ] to the ground nice uh meanwhile there's just this voice in the dark and uh [Music] just telling pretty [Music] little cre little lies about how everything's going to be fine just just need to let the Beast have its way for a little bit and then we can we can talk we'll have a nice track about how we were off um and literally if there's any if there is any mortal being in in in the in the potential area then she will absolutely feed it to them um but I don't think we would have time for that I don't know I unless it's a ghoul I don't see it being down here not going to lie I will sacrifice somebody's cool I yeah not me make more enemies for us please no so then then just uh just talking um trying to calm them down trying to uh while while they're being wrestled and in the dark and everything is confusing she is being the point of of uh comfort and safety and trying to uh kind of draw out the anger and the rage all right so effectively when when she is her sight is gone and she must focus on her her hearing you're attempting to to occupy that as well yeah and then India's Got Her wrestled yes yes nothing like being up close and personal in the first line of of of body between something that wishes to tear everything limb from limb and drink down the entirety of the world it is by far the safest position I agree and that's why I let you do it because I'm a biger like that you know they say hiding direct underneath something's nose is the best place to hide until it is a scent-based predator yes such as it would become with the absence of [Music] light so here's a situation when we blink away the world losing focus and drifting Into Darkness with our last episode with our last moments with these characters A lot happened in between there and now and it began with each of the coder members staring into the horror that is what happens to a kindred body when wholly and solely possessed by the Beast and another entity the strength leaking of blood from Miss Logan's eyes and ears and from the fingernail beds and her desiccated almost mummified corpse while offputting was not the biggest question hanging over everyone believe it or not while many of the Kindred presents leap to action prepared to do graphic and gruesome combat in the efforts of laying this enemy low one of the many things that was on everyone else's mind was how much did they hear how much did they actually understand because while the imput impulses and signals were still flowing sorting out what was real what was the voice of the Beast inside what were some of the absent thoughts is often times too heady for most to actually grasp in full the safety features from being alive often carry over into your Undead state so while you absorb every small bit of visual oral and old factory information it's too much for the mind to comprehend all at once so it blurs it out it erases it it saves dis space so that you all remain sane sometimes that happens for the Kindred in this particular case with the hissing the animalistic hunch the praying and the Mindless flailing at least initially in the efforts of obtaining V there's no telling it's not as if they can communicate as the lights go dim as joji fleas the immediate area to find a way to lay this thing low most Kindred cannot see in the dark most Kindred and as the lights go out and India leaps into action using what ropes and bungee cores they can find to bring Miss Logan low her sire leaping to the for and offering assistance and they wrestle and otherwise slow the Mindless flailing of Miss Logan with Annabelle beaking and her ranging and tossing up potentialities to connect with what little bit of humanity remains in that besal form things turn sideways as they often do with so many things happening at once it is with no joy that India and her sire finds themselves on the opposite end of receiving two points of unave superficial which quickly grow to four which quickly grow to more as encumbered mostly held is not completely held and a chunk here and a bite there and a scratch here and a Yow there and the unrelenting assault isn't fact quite too much and as the dust begins to settle and the Mindless bet sponging being that is Renee seems to be Breaking Free seems to be cutting a swath seems to be on the precipice of drowning and the sheer volume of a Tay that they are unleashing the sound of stone on Stone Echoes through the chamber nine red gleaming orbs moving through the darkness with the weight of [Music] elephants and all too soon it is in fact over injured though they are valiantly having fought for their prince the game girl are awarded some measure of a claim Valiant though they were in attempting to put themselves on the line and continue service to the good Prince himself Annabelle and Joi and Maddie are awarded some measure of a claim Smith Johnson and his Cadre of the breed stand Victorious over the Fel body of Miss Logan thanks to the effort of the codery thanks to the pains endured by India and her sire bro and with the help of Olivia Ali the cell it is put forth that the bethan nightes might obtain some small bit of domain inside of sheveport as a reward for their Valiant service and sacrifice that was 2 weeks ago in that time of mending collecting themselves and making themselves visible during the few Court appearances necessary and mandated for being members and holding domain and treport what has each of the coder members managed to do ooh managed to do um well uh just looking at the the map we've got here of sheveport I would [Music] say oh what's a fun one okay okay using do I have it do I have it do I have the Merit you know what I have the XP uh would you would you mind me spending some of my unearned or not my unar some of my unearned some of my unspent XP on a mask to represent uh embedding myself within the university the Louisiana State University of shreport I would mind how dare you sir I know I'm terrible okay so that's what Joi would bent himself St to finding a way to carve out a a niche for himself inside sh [Music] Port Annabelle [Music] India um I think India first and foremost is healing from that [ __ ] damage you did um and she probably feel a little bit like a trapped thing in such a big place I mean she's been there like short periods of time but usually she's used to having space and being able to ride her horses and such like that so being here by force for a long period of time would make me make her a little stir crazy so I have yet to figure out what she would use that Stir Crazy [Music] for okay so Annabelle is going to leverage her new fame and uh and try to uh increase her status in this treport area um because you know they they did such great things and they've been commended several times and [Music] uh and she needs she she has she has her reputation back in Bethany and now she's building her reputation here in treport as well and her efforts to build her leggings throughout the world eventually actually that makes sense um I just figured out I think she would spend more time with her sire kind of learning the ropes and maybe getting some training whatever her sire's will in the teacher maybe bettering her ability to fight getting some um gun training that sort of thing like so if she's able to uh Shadow her sire and get some um training an etiquette sort of thing for this higher up level of Kindred society that would be helpful so you've all spent the intervening time finding your space Lita how have you with the ESS of your codery assuring the death of your former bruha primagen how does Lita spend their time building themselves into shreport uh probably doing a little more research on the local Veil and possibly kind of just generally researching her ability is I'm thinking she's probably reading some pretty thick tones okay um uh I don't know if that correct me if I'm wrong noou that's not really in digging out a spot for yourself within the city of sheveport I mean it's definitely something you can do but I don't think it fits the [Music] question would you like a little bit of context on what we're doing to inform your decision there sure all right so uh for instance what Joi is doing is he's he's upgrading his mask he's he's getting in contact with the people necessary to forge more onto his identity and using that to Garner a position in the Louisiana University there in sheveport um oh what's [Music] this and while the other ones I believe India you said that you were strengthening bonds with their sire and learning the lay of the Land There we go strengthening bonds with their sire and and learning about the city proper so those are just kind of generally the the ideas that we're shooting for here uh I guess I would be spending time with Clan possibly even my sire a little bit okay okay so familiarizing yourself with the the hikata presence within the city [Music] yeah oh well uh while Annabelle is not uh busy leveraging her new fame in the city she's also going to like build up a small per here cuz where's back home it they are aren't they yeah all of their stuff is back home it is amazing how far away three port is to Bethany how it is literally on the moon in comparison Freeport being the Hub of not just one state but three states is compacted and dense and there are a significant amount of minations going off at every single solitary moment of the day it is the place where hope goes to die and it dies a death of a million in one Cuts small little nothing injuries that pile up and compound over time the reason why that's important in regards to how the Cod of Bethany embed themselves into the city as the moment that they have a small bit of domain the moment that they are set up for operation not far from the airport out near Pine the Pines Road area close enough to be directly involved in the happenings of shareport and able to be of assistance to the primion of stport yet far enough away literally to be capap goats if they wish or are chosen to be by others minations they immediately go their own separate ways they immediately find themselves embroiled and in meshed in personal dramas the college area the university area isn't stport it very much is but like all youth cultures around the world it is definitively united in being I iconoclastic to every other aspect of society presently in the offing and SHP the Mental Health Community inry report by far one of the best in the region is considerably miles away because there's so many other tenur and respected colleagues and there is a mountain to climb to stand out and every instance of standing out there is someone else who offers cheaper rates accepts more insurance is willing to bend over backwards to make sure that they are available it is a Cutthroat world with the smile of this will definitely help you out let's try this have you considered what have you thought about maybe if you and all of the voices of those seeking to help you build yourself only get in the way and add white noise to you achieving your goals and the worst of it all while shareport is as Texas as you can be and not be in Texas it is decidedly also fighting a war with his French identity unlike Louisiana state capital well social state capital of New Orleans fport has always had an issue with its identity it is a city that is literally tearing itself apart on a daily basis to find and Define what it means to be sh Port you have a wide swwa of the population who adhere 100% to the idea of being Texas and nowhere near it you have an entire swath of the population who fight to Define themselves as solely sh poor they not New Orleans they ain't Texas they ain't Oklahoma and yet all of these hundreds of thousands of voices compiled to make sure that there's no singular identifiable identity for shreport that is not in conflict with all of the others this is mirrored in the fact that the primagen of shreport are still at war with a unified anarch state led by Lucky the baron the brewhop baron of shareport and by Simone O'Neal bowan or better known as so SOB his Emissary he's guided and advised by Gustaf Carlos vedric the rebel philosopher of the Hakata and assisted by Cadence and Jessa mandur of the ministry who hold rights and responsibilities to several score of shelters Outreach centers nonprofits throughout the city bringing the message of what the ministry is to the public no they don't come right out and tell The Mortals that they are the ministry but they practice a Ministry you see them on several different Corners they're motal hero fans passing out pamphlets offering help delivering blankets and food and all sorts of social assistive programs so that they keep a steady influx of would be soon to be might one day grow to anarchs and because they use Mortals it makes them all but invisible and impossible to curtail by the tower because they hide behind an army of public good embedding themselves in the very fabric of the mortal world during the daylight hours and dur the early evenings they are virtually Untouchable which is part of the problem that India finds patrolling with with broke while bro's primary job and primary position is in fact acting as security and body man for Ali the Cal of the city their duy is to entail patrolling the city keeping the anarchs in Aline making sure there's no threat to the ca making sure that there's no threat to the Tower and because of the way that the anarchs here operate you're fighting ghost in the dark the actions carried out by the anarchs in the city are largely social the attacks are attacks of credibility the attacks are pointed at properties held by power the attacks are carried out by Mortals with no clear sign that the anarch themselves are actually involved and is frustration after frustration after frustration big city little Kindred in other words which makes where you all find yourselves highly confusing separate divisible sprad out over the city you will find yourselves in the early morning hours [Music] standing at top one of sh ports tallest skyscrapers in the downtown central business district you all feel the internal timing of your clocks knowing that the in the next hour at the very maximum the sun will be up you find yourselves standing over bloodied and [Music] beaten the prince Smith Johnson his angry imperious glare muting each of your eyes in turn as if he know that this is not over there will be more to come on the surface there's no way that he is not Victorious on the surface his Defiance is all consuming on the surface he is still as strong as when his the breed dispatched Renee Logan and all of the conspirators grew quiet santic praising his efforts and his strength but here you five are standing over the vanquished and beaten Prince of sh for the quote unquote strongest Prince and trere west of the Mississippi a prince who has done what no others have managed unifying the controls of three different states underneath his control underneath his grasp in his Sway and as his pride drips and oozes over you all beaten though he is Haggard though he [Music] is the most heart-wrenching thing happens he begins to beg begins to offer and begins to coo and attempt to sway through pity and something in your hearts crack a little bit at the idea of something in someone so mighty fallen and vanquished like some squirming bug waiting to be crushed by your boots the signs of battle all over your skin your clothes the vat spilled across the roof bits and pieces of the breed lying here and there the gaping wound in his chest say he fakes a fall breath his lungs expanding as a t dripping to the concrete of the roof [Music] below and as you all open your mouth individually and look to each other as a group figure out what it is that you're going to say you find yourselves rousing for the evening L the sun sets but each of you all be so kind just go ahead and roll uh awaken for me no no thanks awaken um are we are we resetting [Music] hunger yes okay I was about to say this is this is going to be very bad for all invol so um I would can I heal some of my a willpower which since I was I've been trying to like you increase my fame and power that has worked adverse to to your sense of self that is the most damaging thing you can do to put yourself out [Music] there son of a [ __ ] hey how do you know my [Music] brother stop I have yet begun to stop that my cat is making she's being an is she being annoying or are you annoying her probably both I'm annoying her by not like complying hers to be cut and she's SS that definitely sounds like a cat's Behavior mhm [Music] and it was all a dream that's at once the most accurate and untrue thing ever everyone knows that the dead don't dream everyone knows that the blessings of sleep are forever banished from the domain of the Kindred yet as you all rise for the evening in various states of aroused hunger as the Beast nips around the edges with more intensity for some of you all the fact you you've all shared in that moment the fact you all could smell the melany iron riched scent of the princess V the fact that you could pinpoint what the breed members lying dead around you were wearing and you could feel the sun coming near dawn [Music] there is that palpable weight that it was something more there's the feeling of its veracity as if you had the opportunity of looking over the neighbor's yard and seeing your treasure waiting there unguarded no sir I'm don't fting I don't CAU to the idea [Music] so arousing for the evening what is it that you want do um Joi fully aware that what he just went through was not okay uh will be finding his way very swiftly uh to what he know India does he know of your ab Boe um yeah probably should make sure that they could all be sure when they need to seem how they are the only ones that have each other here particularly all right then yeah he will be finding his way very swiftly to her Abode um because that was [ __ ] weird and uh he needs to make sure he's not just going insane yeah um for the record Annabelle is not hard to find [Music] you one would freaking hope given that she's pretty much all of our therapist your own therapist in this [ __ ] City [Music] and Lena yes having experienced and shared that moment rousing for the evening what is their agenda uh I think I'm woke up a little hunger than everybody else so I'm going to see if I have some blood bags lying around which I think I picked some up last time so I'll have a snack before I really deal with it well here's the question over the last two weeks would Lita has have sought out the opportunity of potentially building contact within Shri port for herself while she's been tutoring and being mentored by her [Music] sire must be a little she's got okay so that being the case would you be so kind is go ahead and roll your charisma plus StreetWise minus one your success determines whether you have the opportunity of obtaining any uh illegally obtained blood bags unless of course you would not like to roll and just to seed at Cost uh a roll okay [Music] um I've got a specialty in Black Market does that count [Music] yes yes it does okay well I will saveus [Music] then so every for the evening the animating Force returning to them the weight of the future the alternate reality other things Weighing on everyone's mind Joi Anabelle and India began drawing towards one another to find sukur and Solace they had towards each other's place to converse and communicate to commune and find some some way of the veracity of what they felt experienced while Lea Rises the confusing conundrum of what they experience Weighing on their shoulders they saunter over to their cooler and withdraw a bag of blood that says uh St Mary's Memorial Church as per usual they don't bother breaking out the Good China for their meal their resource Rico who they met through a friend of a friend of a friend who happened to be volunteering at one of the and jessa's Outreach centers and while the blood itself looks a little light you know that's because of all of the chemicals added to keep it from calculating in the bag and you don't pay any mind you because you are in fact a will mannered and well raised lady take your stainless steel straw to the blood bag and puncture it just enough to get the straw all the way down to the bottom right to that bottom left corner so that you can hold it very much like a bagged wine and Sip and an adult Capri Sun a kindred Capri Sun and the first sip is delicious has a little bit of spice a little bit of happiness the the kimun undertones are just mild enough that you don't bother to really consider them and before you know it it is good it goes down like sacony sweet Heaven satiated the voice at the back of your your head still demanding more still demanding something with more flavor immediately shuts up as if something gags it and then unlike how it went down it explosively Rockets out of you it pours and flows as if someone stuck a hose up your ass and turned it on full volume rinsing up through the entirety of your intestines and clearing out everything that might have stuck to the crevices of your intestines luckily for you the only thing that stuck to your intestines are the blood bag that you down greedily hungrily please increase your hunger by one as not just the contents of that blood bag but the contents of your theming your V ooes and mixes and bingo with the very poorly stored blood that you just consumed oh that is unfuckingbelievable the word of our Lord and savior uh murder yes oh boy hey it feels like you're going to be engaging in it soon regardless of whether or not that conversation [Music] happens now the question that that hangs over your head l in settling in and learning from your sire and settling into the big city bright of shreport did they obtain their own cond apartment hole in the wall or Supply or are they depending on the manners and Hospitality of their [Music] sire I'm rich so I probably have my own place excellent that's always a very very good thing so would they look inside of the space that's been set aside for the bethan nightes for their domain or would they have simply looked for something that is am minable to their level of expectations of comfort i' probably stick with the domain okay there's a little more polite the reason why I asked because while there are great Ro there are great hotels throughout the entirety of shreport there's always a motel uh Airbnb a condo for rent or what have you the Pines Road area again is just far enough from the the center of shareport where the levels of prestige and heightened luxury diminish excuse me so while you have a lovely lovely condo it is not the same as having you being at home at your estate in Bethany instead of the sprawling yards upon yard yards upon yards of square yardage that you have to allow your voice to Echo and reverberate back to you where your thoughts have enough room to spread out and expand almost infinitely condo living is considerably other the only lightproof space in your condo of course is the bedroom which took some doing and some work because everyone wants natural light and great views and while you have that from your living space from the front room of your condo it means that when you expelled all of the less than fresh blood that you consume it is in fact over your windows it is in fact over the dressings for your windows your floors which have been polished to a high sh and Sheen it is over the all to White well formerly white carpet there in your living room set standing in the bile standing in the all too dark blood what this leader decide to do the voice hasn't stopped the blood has done you no service except for well you need to find a crime scene cleaner to repair this instead of your usual maid service and the weight of the thoughts previously still hang on your shoulders yeah I think I'll this set out into the night and try to get going think I'll try to meet with the Cod if possible speaking of heading out into the night Joi Annabelle the weight of the previous moments because that's what they were they were moment you were there as you all move across the small distance of space get to where India is what are you all about what are you all doing in this moment um so you know navigating his way around the and as for the domain do we have established like a building within the domain that we that we have as a kind of Haven for this area uh I know I know Lita has their own thing but did the domain itself come with a Outpost of sorts yeah yeah a COR Cod Haven do you all think you deserve one a Cod Haven come now have you seen all the things we've done for this city 100% I think with India's kind of chill personality she probably would have just designated her house the meeting place like he you can come over type of thing absolutely um if that's the case then as he's as he's going about his day um you know driving towards India is in an attempt to very very quickly gather at the must Point as it were he's using his totally uh camaria approved uh burner phone and attempting to get a hold of his psychiatrist uh Annabelle because this is definitely a psych potential Moment by way up bro beautiful thank you for that that'll help me find it on the Google Maps yes Joi not not that good doc um I had and this is going to sound weird because I know it doesn't work like that but um I had a dream not a dream a sort of dream I was asleep I was well let mean dead but and I saw which is not okayi what slow down I I am going the speed limit I am I am doing fine I what breathe that's literally useless for me I know you don't have to just do it for me okay okay how dides work again this Vision okay yeah [Music] about the vision that you had you were describing it to me I was you were and if you weren't you are now please okay so like you know the prince of uh belir uhhuh and how he got into a lot of trouble in the neighborhood does do that yeah I I had a dream that you know we were those um punk kids getting really Frosty with Will [Music] Smith that is trou all yeah well not only just because we had a dream you know or I had a dream and I normally don't dream but that it would contain such an interesting uh uh topic I have not watched the fresh prins in so long I don't know why I I don't know why it would be coming up in my head now tell you what the more troubling part is yeah no I I've got all the time in the night a little bit of time I got to go to sleep at some point I've had a [Music] similar oh oh like when like last night I believe it would be better if we were to have a session in person perhaps oh thank God I'm not insane all right I'm on my way to um at the the clubhouse I know it's not the clubhouse I know it's very private residence but it's a clubhouse [Music] now the clubhous is I don't need [Music] you all right well uh I'm going to hang up now because I just almost readed ran a red light and splitting my attention like this is not very good for me I'll see you there all righty so as so as you all arrive each of each of you grown accustomed to some of the traffic patterns of stport each of you grown accustomed to for what is here in stport wide openen Vistas there's a lot of space there's a lot of blah blah blah blah blah blah [ __ ] you all come from Bethany your Estates your homes your businesses your places of entertainment [Music] sprawl here it's too many people too closed in it's too active there's constantly motion your dve live here if you all weren't dead would be nerve-wracking and because you are dead it is equally nerve-wracking safe you don't have the autonomic responses of being driven into a panic too many people too fast driving offensively defensively and just Peter puttering throughout there [Music] lives as you all arrive at India it's one of the few nights where India is not in fact patrolling with bro it is one of the few nights where instead of up and atam and meeting at the Odd Fellows Temple right up the road instead of being summoned to one function or another in service to Ali instead of meeting on the far side of the airport at the Hampton in for one clandestin meeting after another to make sure that Ali is in fact safe or what have you India is at their residences at your Clubhouse with no clear and easy signs of reason to do much out just hav been woken up or like roused from that weirdness she would be a little out of sorts uh her normally well put together but still wild hair would be up in like kind of a messy bun she's in an over t-shirt in like a little short situation and kind of drags her feet towards the door I [ __ ] hear you just wait a minute and then rush job andow knocking ensues oh swear to God I didn't like you so much I pun your face and then she just opens up the door oh oh hi you're awake uh that's great I expected you to be Hey so uh and he turns over his shoulder uh looking to Anabelle so yeah no we have a thing we had a thing we wanted to know if you had the [Music] thing who's you're wondering did you get I don't do meth I didn't do meth I uh oh an you uh doctor you please uh of course she lets them both in and lets them shut the door she's just like like sound of slippers dragging across the floor all right so once they're inside uh and uh Annabelle says is is Lita [Music] coming did anyone no okay I don't I don't I I can try and give them a call I yeah I'll do that I'll distra myself with that thank you you two yeah you explain what's going on with her I'm going to call L yes all so it seems that there has been some sort [Music] of strangeness going on there y'all dream about killing a prank too yeah that's so was that a dream or did we actually do that [ __ ] I woke up smelling blood is the question I know that we had made certain promises previously is the date when I went to sleep it was says what the date was is it still tomorrow or have we missed some yeah at the fact machine or something with that we could [Music] perhaps I don't well it's not [Music] likeing furnish cuz I got it that way so she goes over to what she would assume is the wall mounted TV and flips it on and goes to a news channel oh so you and Annabelle are looking at the TV correct yes excellent would you both be so kind to Ru your resolve plus composure I would love yes nothing could go wrong by RM y you see kids TV rots your brain m [Music] I got a seven critical oh I am cooler than a cucumber that's been in the freezer for 6 months heck yeah Dr haiz let's go or H [ __ ] there [Music] is there's an understanding that part of Mankind's ability to maintain themselves on this mud bar hurling through space is their ability much like a virus to adapt to all sorts of stimulus that for you too did not end upon death as tiredly overwrought India moves and grabs the remote and turns towards the absolutely void light Blackness of the flat screen sitting there on the bureau it's reflective Services returning the image of you to slightly a skew and you watch as your mirrored cell watch as you all grow closer As you move towards the TV you all watch as your mirrored selves begins beckoning you forward and instead of freaking out instead of losing your mind instead of in all do actually paying in any mind whatsoever it's just a freaky trick of the light it can't be real you've seen Real Horror you felt the touch of otherness that would cause most other kindreds to lose themselves this this small fantasmo image means nothing to you all and you turn on the Nightly News good evening this is Chuck and the proxen of fre for WXBC and bl SK and it is in fact regular TV it is the channel 2 shreport news and they are recounting on this that and the other the thean eating fig contest and so forth and so on and it is exactly the date you expect it to [Music] be while not far off distracting himself with the call towards Lita uh yeah L yeah so you're conversation if if there is one do you bother answering I do I let him know a couple of minutes out oh oh you are that's great um so how do I explain this The Emperor's New Clothes that'll be the analogy I use for this one yeah so uh I had a wonderful dream about stealing the emperor's clothes that is not normal did you have a weird dream last night I did okay so it's all of us then that's great we're at the clubhouse we'll see you when you get here you're you said you're a few minutes out right like how many minutes specifically uh it depends on how much that g at obey traffic laws I'll do my best okay [Music] bye yeah yeah no so they're on their way um are we experiencing a weird lapse in time we are not though no never um what's up nothing just a a thought I had a memory of things that have happened before you've had a dream of killing a prince before Oh no this one's new it's I mean it was pretty good but no that no I just [Music] oh sometimes do you still see [Music] yourself in the mirror oh I kep looking in Mirror days ago you still look at mirrors that's that's a terrible idea it's funny how the mentioning of it brings all of the many times you've all avoided reflective Services over the last few weeks it's funny how now that it's been mentioned that even before you all arrived in streetport the idea of standing in front of a reflective service fell off of your normal everyday activities it's funny that now that it's mentioned even your compact when you go to make sure that your makeup your lipstick is spit spot perfect spit spotted absolutely almost perfect you don't actually make sure that it catches your eye you make sure that it doesn't that it's solely on your lips you're almost looking at it from an angle that only provides your lips you never give it a full face you never give into that urge that beckoning that's still there yes I mean obviously I have the uh the urge under control but it is a little bit obnoxious that it still exist [Music] yeah uh yeah you driving without being able to you know properly look in my rear views uh for fear of me looking back has been an interesting experience do it makees sense now why en's hair is probably as as it is you stop looking in you know I thought I thought about you know just using like a a digital device rather than a proper mirror do do do you think that'll work well here's the thing okay your digital device doesn't have a shiny screen uh so long as it's powered on no yeah you're probably fine I'm sure nothing happen that normally preludes bad things and almost as if spoken up like the devil of your there's the knock at the door of Lita's [Music] arrival this man just purposefully rhymed like I wouldn't notice it [Music] so good to see you how have you been causing an absolutely absurd jump out of Jo with the knocking the door so is it just me or do think this might be our sers messing with us uh I would appreciate that actually I don't think she would though would but I don't think he did I've heard rumors that certain sers are able to implant dreams in their [Music] Childer who I beted there you know who people I beted [Music] there Maddie notice she's been making herself scarce around here lately uh that is true uh the trir do funny things [Music] wow so if it is Maddie or [Music] not forget she brought old girl back in the room with us before all that [ __ ] popped off what the [ __ ] was that about don't now you can never tell so but yet Maddie has been our friend actually speaking of Maddie has anyone gotten a hold of Maddie I know we have she's like the only one not here right [Music] now uh I have her number call [Music] uh and Annabelle tries to call Maddie I say that the uh self service is absolutely lousy would be an overstatement do you have a landline [Music] oh perhaps she's just [Music] a I don't [Music] know India do you have a land [Music] on I can't reach Maddie with this fck service think with a big city they know how to work things [ __ ] no nothing in this [ __ ] City more [Music] it's over there and a half wall between the kitchen and the living room I've seen it a couple times but I just haven't had these thank you uh so Annabelle after complaining a little more about how Street for sucks um to uh to try and call her on a on a [Music] landline Maddie darling any answer yes the answer of the Grave a cold dark silence reaching out to the number that you have for Maddie reaching out for to the backup number you have for Maddie it's a little frustrating to not get through we've all been there you've all had those moments where you really want to speak with someone and then all of a sudden there's nothing but then as you're growing more frustrated as India's pacing and trying to wrap their head around what's going on as Lita makes themselves as comfortable as possible in such less than expensive surroundings you all each in your own time realize that Joi is quietly staring at his phone and weeping very bloody tears as he settles on his hunches his phone in [Music] hand dar [Music] she didn't forget me she didn't forget me of course not K you Che and Anabelle sits next to him and wraps her arm around him kind of passes back comforting Zia probably reacts like the girl that's been raised around too many guys and doesn't know how to handle his crying she kind of stand across the room looking at him what TR did I'm happy to hear that I thought she left me here oh see of [Music] course do you want to talk about it uh um not not particularly [Music] don't mean to look your gift for in their mouth but I am somebody who's dealed with horses before so the timing seems a little weird to me just saying what what do you mean you've been here how long sweetheart you've been here for how long and then y'all have this weird ass [ __ ] en Vision dream thing and we are questioning our [ __ ] sanity and then all of a sudden your sire just sends you a [ __ ] text message telling you how much they love you that don't seem weird to you no why why wouldn't she loves me of course she loves me India looks very pointedly at Annabelle like you understand what the [ __ ] I'm saying and Annabelle indeed nods and then she does the like let's go over here away from him uh and leaves leaves Joi to his Illusions kind of just semi uh semi- repeatedly as they're walking away just quietly of course she loves me why wouldn't she love me she didn't leave me no Annabelle is internally thinking let the illusion settle deeply into the psyche before you shatter it uh but out outside he's uh uh just uh let let him be for the moment think he needs and what we need to figure out why who what is doing this to [Music] us what it could be the demon in the [Music] mirror know something weird I just had a weird thought I would love to hear your thoughts but if you don't know for sure what happened in the dream because it was [Music] something that was real but then they wanted us to think that we either succeeded or didn't succeed or don't know whether we should have succeeded or didn't succeed so that the prince could get away way that's where my brain went like something happened and we were supposed to do a thing and we did the thing but then as a back doorway of not having done the thing they Wham me [Music] about so like the thing the vent do I guess yeah that could very well be that that makes more sense than all of us having an actual dream I don't think any of us are the sort to [Music] get what do they call them premonitions unless you do I [Music] no I do not the thing is do you recognize any of the people that were on the ground around you like when you cuz I know I saw people dead around us and we were on the top of a roof and the sun was coming and I don't exactly remember what I did last night so um that's what I said it feels like maybe this was real and then they made it fuzzy somehow so that we doubt ourselves and do something [Music] stupid getting us to do something stupid is not that of the question and now with this emotional [Music] manipulation is a fairly good theory I mean there's the there's a all of us didn't have nothing to do tonight when we normally all have something to do there is a standard operating procedure for a certain style of writing for the pulpy Adventure Noir ass detectives and Intrepid explorers and professors and all of the like from the old Cals from the 20s and 30s and 40s at certain points when things began to L there's a quiet building a moment stretching a second or two longer there's a common advice when in doubt have the door kicked open by a man with a gun and and while the Kindred the bethan nightes are not pulpy adventurers they're not steel double fisted Adventures of Old as they each in their conversation in their quietude in their sorrow and joy ignore the persistent knocking at the door that is exactly what happened the front door is kicked open nearly shattered off of its hinges and as you all stare or leap or prepare to bristle and responds to the baron lucky his Emissary and Cadence and Jessa standing there in the doorway it is 57 after the hour let's come back at 7 [Music] after who the [ __ ] going to replace this door [Music] so everyone back oh yeah as we will ever be excellent so as you each are working towards Clarity of where you all are in the world in the night within your own hearts and the door explodes off the hinges as members in good standing of the tower proper with the baron himself and the entirety of his cabinet standing in the doorway to your group Haven what is your first response when the door comes flying off the hinges when there is a literal violent assault on the sanctity of where you all are ah let me just this guy was a problem right or [Music] he is now well he is the baron the prince as it were of the [Music] anarchs all right so you go ahead if you want Lita no pull my gun on him as he comes in damn uh Jo being the the ever so ever so skittish Action Hero that he is knowing that this is India's house knowing that India might get hurt if this guy came to hurt them jumps he's going to attempt to to intercede and you know block this man's [Music] path um Annabelle just stands up crosses her arms looks at the door and says can we help [Music] you India much like L is going for the [ __ ] Hardware don't come busting in my [ __ ] what excuse me [ __ ] do you have to pay the rener the only thing more annoying there someone being rude the only thing more ing grading on the nerves as someone being happily en sconed in their raw it is clear that that person that being that other entity on this little mud ball understands exactly how grading disrespectful and otherwise the humanizing their actions are and they do so happily so as Joi leaps towards the for to physically acost and intercede and stop these vile villainous Vermin from vou shaing the validity of your humble abode Joi would you be so kind as to go ahead and roll your strength plus brawl oh yeah I love this the attempt to intimidate them into decorum Annabelle would you be so kind just coroll your charisma and intimidation and as India and leader are only readying their gun brandishing in their Hardware there's not much rol for them in the present moment there's nothing stopping or impeding them from drawing reaching for grabbing pulling out their armaments charisma plus intimidation [Music] yes two two oh wait my Hunger shouldn't be her oh that wasn't [Music] there you go really I see then [ __ ] forgetting to select character here yeah the action hero moment doesn't punish me let's go [Music] or well at least it doesn't make me more hungry we'll see whether or not it punishes me here in a second yeah that's two different things but is it [Music] though what is to be determined there are certain truisms that everyone knows don't get into a land war in Asia never deal with a gamble with a sicilian when matters of life and death are on the line and you never throw yourself into the wood chipper that is a clearly determined [Music] brewhop on much of those accounts you all break even say for the last leaping to the FL and throwing your body in the way of an incoming bruha and his cabinet is not the worst thing that can be done but would you be so kind as to go a ahead Mark down um a grand total of three superficial Health levels have before applying uh your attempts at intimidating the baron meet as much success as a well a snowballs chance in hell it's not zero that you might survive long enough to to regret your but it is definitely nowhere near anything but negligible lucky swats Joi aside his body smacking against the nearby wall stepping inside well forgive me for my tardiness and thank you for allowing me inside it's always a pleasure to be readed with with respect and understanding and the milk of human kindness if you all uh were not aware I am lucky and I like staying that way might I introduce my friends my associates my compatriots my most trusted few we have the one the only SOB himself who enters and unneeded and completely un ridiculously cinematically he racks around in the shotgun that he's carrying those of you with a a enjoyment of firearms realizes that it is a classic Benelli knockoff of the franchi trench gun those of you not familiar with firearms and not caring it's just a large shotgun a pump action no less and those of you who know Firearms realizes that there's no reason for him to Rack around unless of course he intends to just waste that shell seems like what an anarch would do just [ __ ] waste ammunition not that I know because I no idea I can tell it's just very cinematic and and sort of John Wick John wo situation all right so how much of that was in [Music] character and for the those of you so inclined and the moment that he says for those of you so inclined in walks two mirror opposites beautiful caramel skin and a dark baker's chocolate toned version of the same woman long aqualine nose with flared nostrils hair pulled up into into this well headdress of some sort those of you familiar with the such realize that it is in fact just a bonnet that's been styled to be more along the lines of a turban but it is pulled up and draws the eye up towards the eyeline those perfectly manicured eyebrows and extraordinarily long eyelashes above those full very kissable lips and following behind them entering in need for introductions on my part it's so lovely to see you Lita enters Gustaf Hedrick himself the man the myth the legend the one who wrote the treaties on how to properly break blood bonds which were used by the Regent of the M well at that time the region of the Milwaukee Chantry to shatter blood Bond left right and Center it was the foundational text for the book of the grave war that she used to well become a pariah amongst the trir and much of the tower the only line of anarch trir that have managed to survive despite the trir seeking to purge them I won't say it's good to see you but it's it is always the pleasure leader I'm sorry that my arrival has come unannounced but may I introduce no no no need at all gusta uh so in case you all were wondering the reason why we are here and lucky very very much as if he's a modern remix and re rendition of Patrick swayy with his well qued hair points directly at Lita we are here because we understand that you all are A Cut Above and Beyond the normal Power acts and we figured we could use a moment to discuss the plight of your common Kindred and hopefully have a friendly ear now I know what you all are thinking that it would be rude for us as guests to come to your place without bringing a gift and so we have we brought a give most um well valuable [Music] I am incredibly confused we understand that you all are in the business of potentially not being cowardly tozed like the most of them and because of gustaf's childood here we believe that we might be able to return this to you and the moment that he says that moment that he puts that forth in Walks from Bethany Mr Fontano the competing farm for the love rench the well to say the least a pain in the ass for you all as a whole back home him walking in is not the problem you guys are okay with him walking in so long as he doesn't enter with oh [ __ ] there she is claa his loyal Girl Friday dragging with her the staked body of Mr Aoki we figured we'd return this to you all we don't like you know things working unkindly so here you all are here's a gift for you all but we did have to rap him for you but otherwise a perfect member of your coder if I'm not mistaken a member that matters to you all entirely correct uh yeah what where where's he been oh here there nearly beaten to a complete B blooded pole but otherwise with a little care and maintenance perfectly fine so would you all uh happen to have an appe te or or should we uh just have a have a share a sip of Mr h here I understand that certain members uh have a very magical aspect to themselves uh kind of looks over to India do you do you have something [Music] here um having recently learned about politics and stuff from her sire what would that have gained her as far as knowing how to treat guests would she have started carrying some things at her house for keeping h no however and being a good host that you know that and often times for Kindred it's just the idea as the warmth of it all so while they are putting themselves attempting to extort Hospitality it will be up to you to either accept or deny it in this particular [Music] moment if they partake of something or if you offer and they accept then they are bound by the laws of Comedy if there's no exchange one way or the other they technically have to leg up because they did bring a gift a former valuable member of your codery Mr [Music] Aoki okay so I think with that how attached are we to AI uh quite I mean he was at least in the making of things to be a member of our Cod and I think the general emotional invest ment across the members of the Cod is rather High it is me [ __ ] [Music] you not entirely true but very very spoton Mavis for instance is close and personal to him Mavis is close and personal to you his assistance with the local police while nowhere near the same level as the prince herself has come in handy in regards to several issues for you all individually his ties and connections to your ties and Connections in other words make him at the very minimum [Music] valuable we can get something if you don't have that's my associate said if you would please come in and have a seat we will make sure to uh find you something superable that is perfectly acceptable I proudly and humbly accept your hospitality uh if I may say so I have a few in individuals on on my payroll that would repair your the entryway and he pauses and looks at the I I may need to borrow a little bit of your money to pay them otherwise but favor for favor I will make sure that they repair your injury uh H I'll probably get them to get you better door it's it's one of the modern bangs these more hollowed out ex your doors you need want something a little bit more sturdy it's not the best neighborhoods you mind you people will just make themselves at home if you give them an opportunity yes that's strange that well I suppose you all wouldn't know well be quiet as aware of such things being guest to our lovely streetport and as he speaks he moves across the room and pull up a seat at at the table near his leita well at least where Lita was sitting and while Gustaf forgive the theatric Leah you understand how these things go about a push a pull a like for like if you will a bit of contagion uh while Mr Lucky is in fact quite right about certain security issues uh allow me to to extend my heart fil thank you for your hospitality and as leader will attest this is predominantly academic at this point um we understand thanks to our conversations over the last few weeks that you all are in fact Seekers of a better standing that you all are in fact separately together hoping for the best for shreport and by sension Bethany uh yeah in the interim India has cross the room to Joi and help and then attempted to put her door at least back into the [Music] Frank isn't Jo a handy handyman yeah I can I can fix this up while you guys are talking hey you work with your hands uh sometimes that is so funny my father was a carpenter and one of the things that he always instilled into me is never do a thing for free that you can get paid for and never do a thing before it's ready to be done and just because it's broken don't mean it don't work that door works perfectly fine as it is temporarily and as our friend our loyal compatriot gusta here was saying um I'm lucky um I was in no no I go go on with yourself gusta go off as the kids say but before uh we get too far into Which chapter which book we are all reading out of we should at least make sure that it is in fact the same book y'all don't like that [ __ ] do you I we discuss I know what we agreed to but I'm just changing the [Laughter] agreement before we start talking about plans and how you all can help us do what's right for sh port and Bethany y'all want the [ __ ] dead or nod uh so many [ __ ] so little time which one [ __ ] snakes on this [ __ ] plate one that I know of I I have never engaged in uh Concourse with the woman that birthed me but you all know how them tr get down it is part and partial of the of their existence the only one who might have done more with the their mode of arrival here on this planet might be the H well I'm sorry gusta uh the the Giovani not specifically the Hakata though I I understand that there's some bit of intertwining of relations between you two gusta Ain that right and Lita you are quite uh well interesting uh to look at so I I can understand why it might sway some to have certain feelings and what have you uh you you all off from originally what Tennessee Georgia Florida France somewhere down south right excellent so we got that out the way y'all won't are are lovely well you're lovely you ain't lovely to me and especially knowing what I know about him and his mother and his sire and well his child oh my God it is y'all want Smith Johnson dead than dead right you and he points to you India because he used the Flesh of your flesh and the Flesh of several other fleshes to uh create his breed and then he points to you India and you well if word is to be believed uh you part of the ministry um word is to be believed lucky Cadence not mind you I I I appreciate your your counsel but in this please don't try to sway me I'm trying to get to the bottom and the truth of things the truth is what we accept and I don't accept nothing except for what they tell me and even then I'm going to have to double check it twice so because you are part of what they are part of you okay with getting this painting everyone's ass out the way and then he looks at you don't you and you I well I hate to tell you this but there really ain't no reason for someone like yourself to ever put up with Miss Johnson especially considering how hated you are I heard tell that that fell uh rise uh Maggie's uh enforcer the guy that likes shooting people in the ass don't like you very much and you know he is uh Prince Johnson's number one cuck holder so you might as well help get him out the way I am immediately on this plan because he referred to Ruiz as a [Music] cuckle I would like to say it more tactfully but [ __ ] that guy [Music] so that's a yes from [Music] everybody uh kind of as he's saying it just looks around just trying to see if there's a shake like a rapid Shake of the head yeah anybody say no I declin the answer does this counteract our current plans like like that's what I'm trying to figure no our current our current plans are to are to deceit the prince that's what [Music] I'm like I said so many [ __ ] the right time indeed all right so everybody saying yes since me holding my cars in my chest I'm just going to let you [ __ ] know for this to happen we got to just take out the tra as a whole each and every last one of them dirty low down you serpent Snakes in the Grass are helping Smith Johnson Miss Johnson father of the breed remain in power each and everlas is out for their own interest while supporting the prince they have been reporting back to him all of the various plans that other members have been making in between them and his breed flying all over the night skies it will be almost impossible to take this [ __ ] out so being y'all new to town nobody expect y'all to know what y'all have been enlightened to right now y'all you [ __ ] to prove how in line you all are are to remove Reggie her damn strong armed uh enforcer bodyguard whoever he is and his advisor out of the equation now that ain't going to be easy cuz you know uh Reggie is in fact the primagen and Carl of course I'm I'm going to miss him some and once you all put him in his grave permanently aren't the weakest sorts to deal with the only thing worse than them is that damn region but luckily Imam B don't truck with much of anybody he's not quite as political as he should be in fact if I better I get he might outan far away from most of the turo that's going on here so we and y'all can pretty much have your way with the TR only thing that make things easiest if y'all had an inside man if y'all could find that and get that done in the next two nights we will consider ourselves and partnership and Cahoots even to make sure that Smith Johnson no longer exists there a problem for anybody okay points of clarification if I may what what what ain't clear I just I wanted to make sure you're all right you said get an inside man you would be fine with said insid man existing post this trir [Music] extermination if y'all want to keep a pet that's on y'all we all got to feed in the walk it okay I just needed to you know we you know a lot about us it seems we do have a friend well well Lita didn't tell gusta everything I keep telling him that she ain't to be trusted women will get your head in the twist no matter how not lucky it is not sexual between I don't care one way or the other she got your hair turned around because well you found something interesting in her enough to kill her into this thing which means that there's some connection there which means that she has upper hand ain't that right leita I think did me exists because all fires and all have confli relationship that's a yes cuz he she didn't say no and you notice that but as wildly as women are they try to be as honest or tell themselves that they is honest later she didn't say no Gustaf that just lets you know right now that she's been playing you for what little knowledge you have left in your head that's not necessary looky now don't go getting all angry and upy you know I don't mean nothing by telling you the truth I respect you leader I respect your game I I respect women as a whole but I also don't trust nobody that have a upper hand and and in our relationships hence the reason why a test of faith as it were is necessary for y'all right about now like I'm willing to attest in all due respects and appreciation as friend to friend allies in this calls of ours and because Gustaf can't keep his lips closed about mystical this mumbo jumbo that if I'm going to uh turn a blind eye to y'all particular Tower RS and not consider this a a lucky streak finding where y'all might be able to be found and rooting you out before you get a chance to se long last intent to hooks into the world around you y'all going to need to do something for me so that we can approach this as equals a little a little foreplay as you will so that we don't have to hate [ __ ] each other we can make slow longlasting Lions ship with one another we are all going to be on the same page we going to take that [ __ ] out and disable all of his uh networks of information and infiltration throughout the city and then we going board up the doors lock up the windows and keep the arons and Templars and all them other titles you [ __ ] like to use from coming back in here and rooting us out like we some yesterday's bad Chinese food that sound fair um that last part how exactly are to that like that comes after we are actually in bed together this ain't the Pillow Talk phase this is y'all warming up yourselves and getting the forl out the way so that we can be successful [Music] together I don't really care about the international elements I'm I'm looks around happy to agree to this so long as it leads to a a healthy relationship into the future between the two groups after all I am a a man that has a lot of respect for his neighbors and after these events it seems we will be just that I'm asking f a little understanding and neighborly appreciation that ain't tooo hard is [Music] it easy [Music] as I think it's just Pi I don't think there's actually a named pie just as easy as pie I I don't like apple pie anyway didn't I start with the Dutch uh dislike the dut specifically or just ad in the name of getting to know each other both when I was as I told you my old man was a carp him his biggest uh competitor if you will was his little well they started off little was only uh 26 of them to start but then they grew to over 500 um Dutch I don't know what church they worship but they all have those strange little uh chin strap beards and wear the funny little hats and homemade clothes uh the Dutch tend to be [Music] calvinist I I don't care what their last name is India who has been trying to keep her together this whole time finally can't help and [ __ ] [Music] help so your your father had [Music] trouble the Dutch church I don't know if there was a church exactly but that's how I found out the incest was wrong I went to um Public School it wasn't all that public back during them days and mostly everybody stopped going to my old man cuz he charged a fair wage for Fair Labor but the Dutch and and they damn apple pie and homemade everything this that and the other were undercutting him they were doing it for less and less and less [Music] yes and before you know it I couldn't go to school no more couldn't afford to really I had to stay and spit logs and anyway we all got our hard stories as to how things happen most of y'all died in clearly in adulthood but I died a long time before then while I was still breathing my hopes and dreams you know I had a vision of a dream of becoming a a world famous singer of course well Jazz died out but anyway I had dreams of becoming a world famous singer and I was died very early on before I I actually took my last breath but I still hold it against them it was they fault why I couldn't keep going to school and learning how to read music and finally learning how to play instrument or or and being able to carry a tune and it's all because of them really that's the reason why I don't really C to the Dutch they take my life from me I understand completely and that is legitimately a tragedy um lucky uh I don't believe your personal I I we're trying to get to know each other this is um how do they say it when when when the budded cops get together start telling how they became who they were before they met each other and why they kind of need and rely each other like everything that I'm missing y'all will probably be able to bring to the table y'all had order and had chance to live a happy adult life and live and die and know as you've all done to to become this so what I'm missing the the few little straggling strings and I know you you all are easily one over by my charm and disposition and my bride personality and this smile I work very hard on this uh but the app to me that well like could use a little help a little sand and a polishing which also makes my skin crawl all the years I spent sanding polishing splitting ws and working my damn hands and I didn't need to work my damn hands who puts a kid to label like that after all especially when you're not making any damn anyway it's a pleasure to meet y'all hopefully we will have a beautiful business relationship go get them go gusta I'll leave you a moment with with with your peoples but then we got several other visits to stops and make along T night so get uh again thank you all before before you leave sir I'd like to give you my card I'm a faap [Music] we could have a lot to talk [Music] about is that how you pronounce it yes therapist I see I've heard people talking about it but I've never been able to find a therapist I've always found people that well let's just call it what it is the rapist and I'm not really fond of being raped mentally physically or emotionally so I've never quite given it much Credence going to the the rapist to to talk about myself maybe we could talk about you we could talk about each other I would love to get to me I bet you would it's always the librarian types that find me most attractive I remember and he moves to the door lifting it up and out of his way and stepping out Caden and Jessa are literally rubbing their brow anelle gives him her card before he leaves the question in that statement I think he thinks you're flirting so he probably would have taking the yes yeah yeah because unlike with the rapist a therapist is a very m mutual thing both parties enjoy what's [Music] happening we got a and you got a date it seems who's left cuz I know they haven't all left they haven't Mr shotgun is sitting there watching you all as if despite what lucky has said there's a very real inclination to take out for camarella Kindred before they become a problem he doesn't bother explaining or doing anything else once Lucky's actually clear of the door he turns and follows lucky and Cadence and Jessa and Gustaf are still loitering giving both Lucky and SOB time to clear out of easy audible range Cadence and Jess exchanged that look that says well one they're twins and have known each other the entirety of their existences but also can you believe this [ __ ] Gustaf is almost speechless he's seen Lucky in action before and seen many of his pictures before and so while he's seen it before there's still like you know your friend your associate your cooworker is crazy as a [ __ ] house rat but seeing them be their crazy vescent selves is another matter entirely you know I wasn't sure at first but I think I do like it well that's good apparently we're going to be very uh well acquainted into the future so it has just become doubly important that we get a hold of Maddie when you say that out loud still hear when you say that out loud Gustaf looks at Lita as if maybe lucky might have been right cuz Lita's never really mentioned anybody by name including Maddie one of your number not being here while this was a surprise on their part they were hoping to catch you all here it took a lot of effort to make sure that your city Associates were busy elsewhere took lots of PL in from careful moments and quiet conversations to create the opportunity of this being possible and yet there was something else unmentioned he doesn't say it out loud but you see it on his face it's like realizing that the truth fairy really isn't real and that mommy wasn't blowing Santa Claus but was doing something worse with their father just [ __ ] Joi face Palms afterwards realizing that loose lips sink ships and build coffins Lita I look forward to seeing you at the University shortly after I'll um see myself out Cadence Jess I'll keep the door open for for you Gustaf stands and heels together gives a slight incline of a bow and makes his way out once he leaves Cadence and Jessa visibly relax a small [Music] exhalation our apologies first things first we understand yes we do how over overwhelming all of this might seem you however are as far as we can tell then we can tell quite a bit are the catalysts that shifts the balance and you you're familiar with the idea of mayat balance correct yes I'm sure they are your presence here destabilizes things your decisions your say yes all of them together they say your yes but you didn't say the Royal yet fine all of your cod's decision help change things and while you're not the center no they're not the of the universe of the world of the city what you do Echo there's as if there's a hidden portion of yourselves so very so very impact by so very so very close and yet intangible so we hope yes fervently that you all your codery will be the destabilizing factor that will help us free the bulk of the Kindred of sh port and by extension all the other Kindred who hope to not suffer and slave under the boot of blind idiots like lucky and Prince Johnson please don't let him down he will respond poorly and while we understand how overwhelming overbearing he can be he will be useful in freeing the other kindreds who hope to embrace the idea of being responsible and accountable to their own best decisions so the in our whatever title you choose to use for the antithesis of a feudal system that treats everyone as if they are ented servants to someone else's will and with that we bid you a do and hope to see you successfully afterwards and they finally make their way out there's an unnerving aspect of watching them leave you've all seen that gate mirror though it is from Cadence and jesula you've seen that gate you seen them gliding before and if you all put your finger on it and and actually give it a name that's exactly the same way that Coleman moves no [Music] fun so long it last with the door leaning against the wall you hear the sounds of their truck leaving [Music] Clint lays on the floor and they didn't have the decency to close his eyes so his empty dare is what [Music] you this he has got to have some dry eyes right now [Music] must well now that [ __ ] split somehow and we are all in the mix of this absolute an unfettered fckery how do we fix my door one and two what do we do with him poting to plant on the floor and three I do we tell anybody about this so I can fix the door someone can fix him uh I don't know about the last one I don't like telling anyone anything oh oh um um there is one person I would I would we should I really suggest that we go to for some advice um if if you guys are willing to go to them your tell us who it is before we can make a decision uh no not my sire she I mean I would I would actually love to get in contact with her you know I actually scratched my prior plan my sire yeah I should message my son tell me what your PR plan was first uh Coleman those two brought him to mind and he's J they're they're a great uh friend and and they are also on plan boot the [Music] prince [Music] interesting they did remind me of Coleman some muchat I wonder they [Music] I don't know what I do know is that Coleman quite possibly the smartest person I'm aware of Annabelle gives you a look quite possibly the smartest person I'm aware of mhm while they're sorting that India is going to look up and see if Home Depot is still open she needs a new [Laughter] [Music] door you get one of those nice Steel security doors um I I don't have particularly strong feelings about bringing Coleman in or not I would caution you that we are very likely being watched speaking of that I mean speaking of that she looks at L what's up with that your Undead daddy is friends and besties with the bar we heck tend to find roles of advisors outside of our own sect and that's what you've done so basically they play Both Sides through the mid more last that makes sense that's kind of no offense that's kind of a shitty way of doing things it's better than the Giovani especially close to the bar it seems that they have chosen St I don't know maybe they see this as the best path forward for the camaria here in treport to be utterly underly disbanded and destroyed is the best B with the cam and Street okay no no no oh no no no we might be getting rid of a prince but that doesn't mean that we're getting rid of the camaria but we are doing so on behalf of an anarch Baron so I don't think that's going to go another way oh we're doing so with the support of an anarch Baron just because they're giving us assets doesn't mean that we're you know wholly underneath their thumb all they require of us afterwards is to make sure that archons and other foreign elements don't step in on internal politics how are we going to do that yeah I mean I I honestly did not think that I would be the most ambitious one in the room that's [Music] astounding if there somebody in the camer we [Music] could po up to take over his Prince [Music] um you know I to not to be a broken record Coleman's a pretty great person but if we're wanting to be a bit more selfish one of us could I think it would take us a little bit more time and effort to establish that don't to take I when this is done I want to go [ __ ] back home I 100% agree I I have my roots in Bethany if I did being Prince would not be the worst way to [Music] stay yeah we would just have to figure out which of us does better in the role do you know anything about politics yeah what what do you know about a lot okay I I like you want me to I can I can write you like a college essay actually I've been really familiar with them recently since my work brings me like literally to a college what I did not eat a whole pizza somewhere my brother in Christ cook another Pizza I did not eat the whole pizza dude I did not pizza I I am sorry for the interruption my brother has little in the way of understanding when I say I didn't do something that's just because he knows you will [ __ ] did you not think to check in the oven before coming in here and saying I ate a whole [ __ ] Pizza go go away I'm busy all right sorry about that round two electric Baloo um back into roleplay mode write an an essay for me on on the political situation I'll expect it on my desk tomorrow I I'm [Music] joking oh you are too okay that's I don't think we should set ourselves up for anything as bad as it is right now the fact that we are going to have to do this thing that is added an extra step like they specifically trir do you know how much magic those [ __ ] I am I don't I don't know a lot about the trere I don't really talk to many did you not feel all of that [ __ ] we were when we were in the building that we were at this whole understanding and I mean yeah you're right you're right yes I that that is the part that seems most concerning to me I mean aside from the whole usurping the prince situation we've already had that uh that conversation all right so um I'm also fairly certain that the people who were asking us to yeah no there there [Music] is a lot of bumps to this but we will we'll make it through it we we'll just have to plan [Music] um yeah so do you call Coman I do so you open up your phone look there in the sidebar of the uh play that's what your screen your text messages and all of your calls look like sidebar play it looks like a bunch of [Music] gifts have I missed [Music] something oh here we go oh oh no oh no it disappeared as my phone just looks like me crying oh my [ __ ] god no no no he clicks the power button to turn the screen on okay we really really need to get that thing handled I'm not sure it needs handling it's not that bad doctor I it is that bad it is that bad or you just little more selfcontrol it'll be you know [Music] what you have said multiple things tonight that sound a lot like an alcoholic I [Music] know it's under control it's not that bad yeah she's she's been tripping a lot of flags are you trying to imp something defendant yeah what what exactly you did you learn anything about this this kind of gestures towards the phone that makes you certain it's not a problem that makes you certain it's not something we need to deal [Music] with just seem to have more pressing problems I I mean yeah but like that doesn't prevent us from dealing with it later is squinting at Annabelle quick tell me something on only real Annabelle but no that's a great idea I tell you what you told me in therapy in our first session oh my God is that true India the face she is utterly like oh [ __ ] that backfired and uh Annabelle did that deliberately wait you're not going to do that with any of the things I said are you only if you request that I say them uh no don't please don't ever say them are you sure you don't want me to prove who I am no I don't care who you are just don't say them if you insist and while Lita listens to her Cod banter and discuss plans yes many of the recent conversations and research deep Dives that you and Gustav have done over the last two weeks of time come roaring back into existence there's several great cities throughout the country that are architecturally designed to magnify naturally naturally occurring Supernatural [Music] phenomenon and while shareport is no great City it is no New York there is no La there no Chicago Miami New Orleans because power accumulates where forces meet at the end of things at the beginning of things at their Apex and at their lowest point sh point shreport is in fact a trifecta of occurrences that cause power to swoop into the area it is literally the Anchor Point for three different states it is literally the Wellspring from which all of the luck the J the good willll is trickled down from in its outlying areas [Music] the fact that you as a member of the kakata understand this and know this there is a 0% chance that the trir have not been exploiting it for years which would explain a portion of Smith Johnson's power makes sense and there aren't any trir presents save you and you're not trir so no one of the other Cod members understands that facet so the thing we need to think about is the premiere have controls over the local interner energ is a good way to put it and that energy allows them to be tremendously among other things so almost to a ridiculous degree things are going to go their way and not go ours if we try to go after them counteract this we kind of have to deal with [Music] [Music] them [Music] well that's a good question theoretically if we could find the source of their power and break it it would be pretty disruptive cuz they have to have some kind [Music] of something handle [Music] through more than the local architecture but the local architecture is part of it okay um I think that's what does this mean for us uh that we probably want to blow up the Chantry if [Music] possible what well if we're GNA go after the tra we kind of have to go to their home base and be extra secured with all kinds of magic I know that crazy but if we can frame it as some sort of [Music] anti sort of conservative attack against the Muslims or something I [Music] don't I that would be extremist not just a but regardless I do know several locations that would fit the bill um we would just have to investigate them and vet them make sure they're like not actually just libraries or museums or whatever the hell it is that trir stuffed themselves into that will probably be necessary so what are the chances that Maddie will uh not fight um feeling pretty low as far as my knowledge of the trir extends I have not a [ __ ] clue because I don't know anything about the trir as far as my knowledge goes I think if we make a good deal for her I don't think she would like I India do you know M to be an ambitious sort do you think promising her Regency or something would be no she's the hold my beer sort she's the dirt bikes and um Rodeo sort I don't see her really wanting to be holu sort of Regency level of anything or being in charge of [ __ ] I could be wrong but I doubt it I mean look at the fact that when things were popping off at at the carnival she mostly sat back and let [ __ ] have so she might just be I think more it might be better if we just work around her in that regard and if she starts trouble at the end throw her in fire with the rest of them uh that is quite the mercenary um you know I I'm I'm I tend to agree with you in in most things IND don't could we consider maybe not killing our friends well here's the thing about friends who are particularly tied to the leaders I'm not saying I want to kill her but she would have let that lady kill us I have no doubt remember like I said she brought that woman in there to question us as to whether we were on board or not did you forget that no I I didn't I didn't I'm not saying you're wrong I'm 100% I'm 100% with you I agree you're you're correct I just I don't know I don't I don't like the idea if we can avoid it we will avoid it that's what I'm saying I don't want to do it but we need to have backup plan in case she does not go along with what the [ __ ] we have okay and need deive now as to how we will handle so that sort of dissension okay okay and you just says looking between Annabelle and Lita this stays here right no one is going to say anything correct I just need to guarantee because it seems that's not necessarily understood very well [Music] request that I say it's somewhere [Music] else eyeballs [Music] Leah okay then yeah um if Maddie decides that she's more loyal to them than us [Music] steps will be taken I'll compile a list of buildings that I think fit the bill and um and get to work investigating them while we prepare otherwise what what other preparations do you he kind of oh [ __ ] wait no don't turn off don't turn off he just clicking the power button on his phone before it fully phases up you know actually you guys too late oh I'm going to give Coleman a call and then see what he has to think why don't you just use the landline for that so that you don't got to look into your that's incredibly intelligent thank you he just puts it face down on the ground and what's up as you dial from memory a long dead Talent amongst most modern individuals as you dial The Candy Man directly there's it would be a lie to say that there's not some small part of you looking forward to talking with Coleman just talk with him it's been 2 weeks since you've had the opportunity of him entering into your store entering into your shop assaulting the way that you dress or instigating some reason for you to find a reason to find the Artistry in something small something large something that's your own it would be a lie to say that you're not looking forward to the opportunity of speaking with him even if nothing gets accomplished there's comfort in knowing that someone sees you like the whole of you that someone out there in the dark accepts you no matter what that might mean no matter what that might be it is hard to hide that from yourself and as the phone rings and rings and your hope begins to slightly vacillate and as your expectations begin to grow slightly smaller just at the point when you're reaching the eighth ring and contemplating on ending the call before it's begun there's an answer on the other end and it's not Coleman it's Empress just uh hey there Joi oh ah Empress hi uh is is pman not around oh he's busy um there's been some issues oh anything I need to know about always but I'm sure you'll find out in time so how sh Port you're in the big leagues look at you yeah it's certainly an adjustment I'll tell you that much I'm sure it is but you'll be fine or you won't but either way you're going to have so much fun along the way I hope I hope so um uh would you would you mind letting Coleman know that I'm I'm asking after him oh I already did oh is he you know what it's okay he's busy um well just pass along that are yeah that I that I miss you guys and I look forward to the next time I can attend one of your parts [Music] that would be so much fun all right well um we can't wait for you and Annabelle and Lita to be here especially you and Annabelle oh my God it would be so wonderful Emperor was just talking about [Music] well you don't need to know that [Music] but we can't wait for you to come back why don't you call us from your phone it'll be a little bit easier we can talk in private the paranoia sets in is this actually Empress or am I talking to that weird mirror thing who else would I be Jo like Annabelle kind of like waves at you and she's like gives you the like the the the hand throat thing like nope not them okay um you know what I look very much forward to having a more uh productive conversation into the future uh I'm not going back into the weird hole in the dark goodbye click that was unsettle but yes [Music] what the [ __ ] there is a moment in that Split Second when you're when you ask that honest question from the fullness of your heart and each of you remember that moment where the dark touched you when your version of Happiness your version of paradise your version of being someplace where you individually and specifically could be could have been and could be happy forever you could be the better version of who you are you can be the lasting version of all your best intentions and as Annabelle and Lita and Jo Envision that moment the moment that Joi hangs up the phone and ask that question and will you your brother got physical with one another and you never forget it he had you dead to rights and just when he could have really done at that time damage to you he put his hands down and let you punch him in his teeth you told yourself all these years that it was you happen to be faster than him you told yourself all these years that you had had enough and learned to defend yourself and you caught him by surprise but as you stand here now in the room with these dead things you realize that at the last minute he stopped as if something clicked as if you finally understood what all of his rough housing had always been [Music] for you defend you when he wasn't there and you feel his hands on your shoulders you hear him say Andy and hearing that and seeing that and understanding what lays at play the driving backing beat to the chorus of where you all are it is 28 after the hour and I'd like to thank you all for a lovely episode and I'll see you guys next week next time good night everybody good night you awfully disturbing man how is that disturbing you guys did great the only offered to sacrifice Maddie now it's India's Turn To Cry in the corner oh no I'm I'm glad that we all mutually got the this is wrong vibes from that call was it wrong

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