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w [Music] oh [Music] [Music] so that being the case one more time with the feeling good evening everybody how are we holding up I'm doing great it's good good um what what you want huh [Music] I know it doesn't need to be said I know that you've got you guys are probably getting tired of me expressing just how much I enjoy your skills and time but I do and so as long as I do as immortally as I do thank you all so very much for being here this is without a shadow of a doubt the dark of Bethany and we are exactly at hard start for this particular episode which is entitled shedding precious since the beginning of our play with this codery since the very moment one of us coming into the realization that these characters had lives and existences out there in the middle of Bethany since we came to the understanding that the world they inhabit at least this corner of it as an Untold Vista of depths skimming along the surface and being embroiled and in meshed in the full darkness of the world in which they inhabit for the first time in quite some time the shadowy gray nebulous world around them the space all about them holds no umber it holds no Darkness it holds no secrets they can't see for the first time in the existence of this codery in the episodic Adventures of their immortality the world is a bright shiny jubilantly lit place you [ __ ] the building which was and is Jo's Haven completely mesed completely a wash it is a beacon that you can see from miles away the only thing brighter than the building which is immediately to the rear of the codery is the grass and the air being parboiled from the kerosene spouting from the recently planted sprinkler system and the tank hidden just a few feet beneath the surface the grass erupting in a forest of flames each blade lit and glowing nearly white hot and the building filled with so many loved and cared after shellacked polished and Ved surfaces a lovely almost green dancing flame all of this to say would each Kindred be so kind as Thro your willpower versus a DC of three because unlike every other Implement of death guns knives razor blades Lego blocks fire can actually 100% in their existence and in the core of their being is a monster designed and focused on their selfish continuation of their halflife immortality [Music] NOP is this damag no you're total you're total um willpower actually oh total yes yes your total willpower let me just go ahead yeah no no that is four failures and uh what's what's Maddy's total will power I'm looking that up now d d I I don't I don't I I don't keep the character sheets open or bothers look at them 10 times out of 10 I trust whatever you guys say but I so it takes me a second to dig back through all of the exchanged information and find the actual sheets and total willpower is six all righty boop boop and we'll just Market is Maddie all right well Maddy succeeds they are nonplused well I mean they knew it was going to happen of course they're going to be non plused here's the funny thing is there is the very real drive to to persist to continue existing no matter what there's this selfish focus on getting till the next night the next evening to satiate all of one's needs wants and annoyances at the heart of every kindred there's this the worst thing is all every worst aspect of a of the Kindred individually and monolithically all comes from that selfish need of i i i i i all of the fear all of the greed all of the lust all of those feelings all of those faint ghost of emotions come from the idea of I from the very human drive towards personal selfish self-interest and it's backed by The Hammer Of God it's backed by Yol it is backed by this better natural invulnerable Unstoppable thing and In This Moment Joi Annabelle the drive of that thing thing inside you is to escape at all due haste at all due speed as far from this emulation of self and world as possible everyone knows you can't outrun the devil but the Beast the monster the shadow inside of you proudly proclaims hold by [ __ ] beer and while you two take off you guys get a choice East or West yeah you know it's the reason why you guys get a choice East or West which direction is the fire both ways are away from the two sources of fire encroaching on your space I run towards the sunset all I can say Shar Port is to my East and that is the only part like instinctually the only other place instinctually that Joi recognizes as semisafe Haven the only other place where he set down Roots so this this fire is going to cause him to spread East all right that being the case as Maddie perks her lips well hell and India stares at the nuclear Holocaust so well planned as if you all had been a minute later or a minute sooner you'd all either be trapped inside of the earning house or well in the middle of the burning lawn it's a lovely trap that's a great trap too bad is aimed at you all and as leita understands or immediately put in mind of those native peoples because everyone knows about the Indian mounds and the burial grounds and this that and the other but many of the south southern nation of First Peoples actually did believe in a pirate end flesh many Southern Nations didn't have burial mounds or burial grounds they would ere the p and all that that person was all that that Spirit was was returned to the spirits of the air so that once somewhere down whenever they might have a chance of returning they were sent up to the Stars so that they could watch over those that came after them or choose to return at their leion now it's a funny thing to be thinking of as the world around you even the air becomes molten lava but being as academic as Lita is that's exactly what's on their mind at present M you notice any about the fire [Music] do I notice like anything obviously mystical about the oh yeah it it it actually is green but that's because of all of the shellac and varnish and veneer that Joi applied to maintain and upkeep much of what is actually inside the home it's it's it's a chemical reaction oh no no and speaking of Jo good to know and lesser so of Annabelle uh they literally are running in opposite directions away from the Flames which will be consuming you Maddie and India very shortly what is it that you doing what is it that I am doing Jo uh Lita and India and Maddie what is it that you all are doing oh okay um well Maddie wasn't too far off into the property to begin with whenever this fire started uh she had just approached and spoke a little bit before things went South so she's just going to kind of you know smelling the smelling the propellant on herself uh very briskly and quickly make her way out of the range of these these Sprinklers and back to her vehicle cu she pulls the [ __ ] the [ __ ] I'm out and while she's doing that India Lita what are you guys doing India is going to drop the gas can because that'd be silly to hold on to it and um head for the front to get away no no she's got the the Rocket Jump strategy so India's heading east and lader and so is heading east as well for the car there's a shaping up to become some something of a habit isn't it so here's the thing would each of you save uh Joi and Annabelle who are hauling ass who are literally carrying extra portions and allotments of ass as they speed as quickly and far as they their feet and screens can carry them we you yourb go ahead and roll your dexterity and Athletics Plus in Solarity and your target number is a four I'm drop and then roll words you can seced at you can secede at cost and take the take one level of aggravated damage and roll or it's the dice for you my friend it's the dice for you that's not a bad deal i' I'm literally rolling with a full of two oh nice lovely hunger of four the Beast will out the Beast will out so go ahead and knock that aggravated Health level off of your sheet and when Lita has reached the absolute limit like it's one thing after another the world is falling down around her ears all of her safe the measures of establishing mental distance to perceive it or perceive the problems academically and find a solution have evaded her in success the last hold out of her moment of emotional sobriety has been Stripped Away from Her torn by somebody else's agency when in those moments and that voice that internal nonstop voice is nettling she Express that [Music] later when in doubt and everything's going to going tit up what is um what is lead us attempt at gaining emotional sobriety back or does she turn into the skar does she rage when there is absolutely no Safe Haven from the pressures of the world what does she do what does she feel as her skin damn it I think she's in a lot of pain and not loving it so she's probably pretty annoyed and is annoying being you know being given a firsthand tutorial as to what it would be like to be trapped inside of a crematorium again luckily for each of the Kindred they don't actually breathe luckily for the Kindred that while many of them affect breathing and have it as a matter of habit a matter of cause they don't need to otherwise the the pain of inhaling all of that accelerate the the pain of inhaling all of that heat would not only leave scar tissue in the long run but in the short run there's nothing like having a full lung of black accurate smoke that was formerly your skin and while Lita makes her way out right beating herself trying to stump the Flames out doing her best to control that inner voice that inner Panic India literally beats feet escaping escaping East as the Flames lick at where she once was and Maddie non plused and as annoyed as you would be when being doused by a child with a water gun smacks the Flames off noncommitted oh my God I'm going to have to get more James she saers towards her vehicle while a quarter of a block away as the speed and impetus begin to fall off as the darkness that is in fact the entirety of Bethany because one of the many things about the dark of Bethany is Bethany itself there AR aren't the usual allotment and assortment of Street lamps and street lights and passing cars and well-lit homes Bethany for lack of better word is literally out in the middle of nowhere it sits as the dividing line between civilization and the Wilds that were formerly the Great Southern spaces of the United States and in a lot of ways it exactly still is that in a lot of a lot of ways namely so because even as well traveled and well accounted as Jo G's pawn shop all the way out there off of 1400 and West Road it is literally the middle of nowhere and heading west roughly a quarter of a plot places Annabel in the middle of a field far enough away from West Road and leian Fields cut off that there's nothing above and overhead except for interspersed cloudy Stars there's nothing to her left except for more and more willowy in skeletal looking trees the road off there in the distance just south of where she is seems as if it's on another planet because the lights along the highway are every 200 to 300 sometimes 400 ft because the municipalities doesn't have that excess so there are huge sads of the road that are in fact completely pitch black luckily this one is close enough close enough to the urban centers where instead of it being no light whatsoever they're just SP spaced farther and farther apart it feels like she's alone on the surface of the Moon that is still better than being on fire um she looks around uh sees the glow of the fire in the distance just that Haze and uh she kind of Shivers and her eyes start to Glow um and she looks around to see exactly here um just under a quarter of a mile from uh County Road 1311 just an eighth of a mile from County Road 1400 in the middle of this wide open space you could not be more alone if you were in a coffin the breeze gently moving past you caressing your skin as it dissipates off in the distance and the glowing Tower of light that is the remains of joi's pent there's no other way to really consider that much fire that quickly except for there's nothing left but remains yeah sure that a fire one of the fir companies in the area will be out sooner rather than later but what's the chances of doing anything except for soaking down everything that have been preserved and properly stained and treated and well looked after even if they save the the structure of the building most of the things inside are just well gone no no it wasn't wasn't that wasn't my you didn't make the same potential number of enemies after all you haven't been with them long and even as you've been with them just long enough you are in the middle of nowhere alone I uh I I try to remember where which which direction the nearest shelter would be it's not only am I alone but uh I I don't want to be in the middle of nowhere no you don't it's not the best of places um being a notable regular of the area you know that of every other member of the codery your place if you're gauging where you are correctly and you're pretty sure you are you know you're off of West Road County Road 1311 means that if you go east well South and then back North and then East that if you can get a ride you can catch it over to 431 and circle down and around and your place should be closer because you know Panola rad 7351 where your offices are is probably a lot closer than anybody El to where you are now where you are now is officially Quantified as aian Fields it is unincorporated Municipal area inside of Penola County and directly connected with Penola County and Bethany but officially it's allean Fields I.E Paradise found [Music] you um [ __ ] um I I will start heading east at a um a pace that could be Des CED as a power walk as she struts her way through the woods not really much of a runner you sure she's not a runner she's not a track star passion she wishes she were a track star at this moment uh because then she might be able to get somewhere in a reasonable amount of time as opposed to [Music] this but one makes excellent would you be so kind as to give me a a intelligence plus survival role and let me know what your results are roll as high as you possibly can and while that roll is happening as we slide along alphabetically India my India our India [ __ ] F in fire there is no greater easily accessible threat to Kendrick kind than [ __ ] fire even if you're just playing and you're you know you're pranking someone as far as sending the message that you mean business the only thing better than fire would be showing them a 3D realistic mockup of the sunrise because while you've never seen it happen you have heard that if the video is of sufficient quality and if the Kindred is of sufficient age that's showing a kindred the movie a video of the sun rising might have similar effects causing them to drop temporarily into torper you've never seen it happen but you heard things after all you know rumors Scuttle butts old wives tales as Maddie makes it to her truck and peels out what is it that you do with India uh India is going to gather the others so she's waiting for Lita uh calling to Joi everybody get in the truck we need need to get out of here before the [ __ ] fire truck gets here we got to go find Annabelle okay so would you be so kind to go ahead and roll your charisma plus leadership I'm sure I'll turn up eventually goinge AR it is still thing sending the sending sending yeah disco is is is being a little less than jiggy with us today [Music] it's like a Disco Inferno oh that was a dad joke thank you it just don't want me to do this roll it does not un fact while we're waiting for this to work uh Disco Inferno means um shoot something like I learned hell oh [ __ ] it's it's it's fun when you know the entirely all right so those of you who are resisting and unfortunately uh Jo you don't get a choice in this you need to roll your uh your resolve plus your Bane versus fat result L you do get a choice you manag to keep your worst instincts your worst version of yourself from coming to the four you manag to keep a relative level head as your world faced its own [Music] apocalypse so as India begins mustering and mastering you all together getting you all is issuing orders and seizing the leadership of this moment uh is there anything you offer is there anything you deny do you say you know what every man for themselves or not and Joi do would you like spend the willpower to keep yourself from continuing to run for our turn uh what I've already what do you mean spend the willpower you literally what lose one maintain control of myself for a for a turn honestly like yeah [ __ ] it the Joi is a man of of grit and resolve even if he can't keep his [ __ ] together visibly this we like this chaos and digging deep because that's literally what it is you Joi are facing the apocalypse both internally and externally because unfortunately as removed from Humanity as the Kindred are they still start with the very idea of what it means to be human they all start human they all die human and so underneath all of those alien ideologies and thoughts is the very real human [ __ ] that's why I keep my [ __ ] yeah just running along as fast as he can his his arm uh sorry his his wrist not exactly uh looking too well the the chain having not been fully properly removed by the time that the fire started he sprinted off in a frenzy and there's now visible damage to it even though it doesn't necessarily hinder his Kindred Constitution it just takes a moment as he's running and he hears India calling for him and just the the desire to retrieve some thing calling through the the absolute frantic almost cacophony of of uh instincts even though it's illogical even though it's it's impossible even just that thought alone that everything that he has and in his mind everything that he is now that his sire is gone is just burning giving him a moment as of pause as he just kind of slowly comes to a to a stop the the you know the bleeding off momentum kind of uh uh step step step thing how do I how do I let's see if I got a gift to decelerating that's what he's doing he's fighting for control of himself and not giving himself to trying to just slam on the brakes and go assho for Kettle when he comes to a stop his momentum carrying him into a sprawl so he's decelerating and maintaining or gaining some semblance of control some semblance of fight against all of that depressive darkness that threat it's funny as dark as the night is the source of light the visible right Ness in all of the darkness is the fire that is eating away much of his existence and past so India getting to the truck leader trundling in it's clear that Joi speed it's nothing to be underestimated he has cleared a record amount of distance having moved East heading toward shreport he's very nearly all the way to Second Avenue he's run between the buildings across the lot he's cross the driveway he is nearly all the way to Second Avenue unfortunately and fortunately for you all Second Avenue is still you know under a quarter of a mile away but it's far enough away that you see [Music] him and if only he could have used that speed for to play with your brother or your brother wouldn't have gotten the scholarship your brother wouldn't have signed up for the Army your brother wouldn't have G went off into the forces if someone could have been that much faster than your brother he wouldn't have come to the recruiter's attention he wouldn't have been there for the parade that all of the boys and girls who signed away their lives for three five 16 years if only someone could have been that fast the year your brother graduated he wouldn't have been the star athlete he wouldn't have been the hometown hero that all the recruiters went chasing after shakes her head for minute [ __ ] why am I thinking about that now oh I got to go get him and then we loop back around and she pulls away from the driveway and heads towards joji now she just take off across the empty space cross Andross the distance or she try to head down the [Music] street the reason why I ask uh prob on the [Music] street he brother streets now the reason why I ask when Crossing that distance when making up because moving across the field gives you a a clear shot Tor and it's no much about it it also brings up the very real fact that officially Jo shop is uh just over 3/4 of a mile from the Elian Fields fire department now the problem with that as everyone who lives in the area knows there's no alian Fields fire department it is just Jake who runs the the uh auto supply parts store just north of the Dollar General who has his place registered as a fire department on Facebook the alian fields fire department is actually nothing more than Jake's three fire extinguishers and him copyrighting the allean field fire department the closest fire service fire department nearest to Joi shop unfortunately it's all the way down into Barry is even under the best circumstances roughly about 26 minutes in a straight shot no traffic and they had left 5 minutes ago actual fire department Carthage there's a fire department in Marshall and in Scottsville but there still equidistance them being able to reach Jo shop but in any time be of actual gotta love that so you get the opportunity of watching The Timbers crack and smolder and with whoever set the Trap because it very much was and is a trap someone purposefully one Joi didn't have a sprinkler [Music] system D Joi was has been Uber careful with like all Kindred when it comes to accelerance and propellant the entirety of his building entirety of his property the Springer system filled not with water with kerosene whoever sat the Trap knew exactly what they were doing they were familiar enough with the environment and the time they had that they laid what was the perfect trap to literally burn down very everything Joi well but not Jo well he's supposed to be a street for just all his stuff if not for lucky and me the Anar stre for being sh for just like you all speaking of which just like you all as you catch up to Joi there is an uncomfortable thought that that settles in was he the only one was Joi the only target of whoever did this [Music] it better be it's not like you all live by yourselves or only have to worry about your property inside of whatever space your Havens are in right not like you guys have private farms and estate or Office Buildings out in the middle of nowhere away from everybody else right right that is correct we [Music] don't India is going to call home but she's going to call um her the farm hand not her main the main house number I assume the brief amount of control that Joi had as he just turns back and and watches the loud crack of wood and sees a section of the H the building [ __ ] fall in on itself I assume that's just about as much time as he had um and with India calling her family unfortunately the fear takes back over as he sees as he sees that that small demolition of his home she would have stopped and put the door open so that he can get in now you've got a kindered freaking out in your passenger seat you just run him over yeah you can't run me over do it think about it if he's in torper he can't run away body's Chrome my blood's gasoline you're right my blood's kerosine it's parine Le what lead do what lead is intelligence yes and what's your wits uh three I believe uh so so a total of five a half of two and a half rounded down gives her easy intelligence and understanding and awareness that yeah there's no [ __ ] way that uh watching everything that you are or everything that you have been up until that point ceased to be would be would put anyone in the most cognizant of of movs and places when India tosses open open her door to get him inside does lead us sit idly by and allow a as close you ever had suffer alone or does she do something you know what shoulder and give him a p how might she go about doing so uh carefully carefully do I help juji get in the car or yes so as the fear and depression swirl together conflating into its own character and India sits with her phone to her ear south west of them and moving south by south easterly crossing route 1311 onto the wrong side of the road and making their way knowing that you know they they need to Head East right yeah East is that way way East is Seven Minutes in seven minutes you can't cover that much distance or most most people most people don't but moving at a decent clip speed walk um you find yourself at a small I mean absolutely pitifully small Olympics sing both sides a a a a would be pond with delusions of [Music] grandeur there's no there's no way that that does not trigger a small bit of PTSD all of that gloriously dark mirrorlike surface Rippling and lap in time to the considerations of the Moon unseen overhead uh anelle uh kind of backs away from the pond a little bit nervous but also sort of no at least it was no it's not on fire this is it's the opposite of on fire it's not is it so bad I guess you know well at least you've heard the KRA are able to wait they're able to sleep if they able to what enter into large bodies of wall or such as that they're able to forget themselves for years on end if they [Music] want it's it's just peace inside there she wonderers if how long the what they say there's but one way to find out there well I don't need to breathe what could it hurt she just kind of the you know what it's like to be touched when you weren't expecting it when you believe you were alone you know you know that that even if it's a warm even if it's a a gentle loving caress when it comes unbitten and unnoticed there is a immediate grip on the heart it's it skips a beat as your fight and flight kick in both at once as your mind catastrophizes one million different options for what's happening to you that's stepping into the water [ __ ] she feels fingers slowly beginning to move up or calves over her knees up and up and they're warm unlike the water water itself has a temperature somewhere just above freezing that early in the season as it is as dark as the nights have been and yet the fingers moving gressing gliding up our leg are warm H uh uh I uh I just kind of jump and I I try to uh but okay get them off of me those you fight what there the phone hello who this is everything okay there n there's no one no there's no K here stop you got the wrong number it's India oh hey Miss Indie how are you we need to get out of here we need to get out of here we need to get out of here okay okay Jo Cal now baby doll um I'm we need to get we need to get out of where want me to wake everybody up no no no no no I just need you to check and make sure that everything's okay we ran into some trouble down here and I just want to make sure it's you ran into trouble yeah I know strange no strange your your father had to build me out what happened my dad bailed you out what I thought I bailed you out did you go to jail again you bail somebody had to they came looking for You Who Came looking for me butol butola count sheriffs told been de that he had the [ __ ] wrong place he didn't like that very much for what I I don't know what court date did you not go to I didn't have no damn about a warrant oh [ __ ] okay I will handle that when I get back that is absolutely [ __ ] ludicrous but um if you say everything's okay other than that then I will take that and be happy about it you should you should you should be happy the [ __ ] hutchinsons are are not looking for you why would they be looking for me that's what I'm saying you should be happy that they're not looking for you they're looking for me something about I didn't pay for the barbecue they're the ones that went [ __ ] crazy oh well stay out of reach of them [ __ ] I thought they'd be in jail by now some of them are some of them not they keep bailing each other out getting in trouble and then going back you know the thing they do yeah all right well I'll check back in I'll to pay for that bill to pay for that bill they were digging some ditches some uh somewhere out out west what oh [ __ ] okay yeah to pay for their bill they were doing some real jobs took took work from me this guy from Street for [ __ ] comes down he's looking for for day labor and these [ __ ] try to kick my head and to make sure that they get the job before I do no I'm going need you I know it's in it's tempting but I'm going to need you to stay away from any from [ __ ] Street for right now they have their own [ __ ] going on and it's getting bad down here you're in Street for still yeah unfortunately [ __ ] a all right whatever okay well make sure the horses are eating and she HS up [ __ ] stre ports up in and she's driving while she's talking to them about what's going on Tre port's gone up to Bethany and they're starting [ __ ] and then there's a warrant out for I believe my arrest and there's probably out for somebody else's arrest at the same point because of whatever [ __ ] happened at the carnival I'm guessing they're trying to set us up I think it's burning it's a whole burning she's going of just like petting his knee it's okay as least it's not you we can get more things but we can't get another Joi you don't understand you can't get anymore but she's gone oh God they took it from me we're going to find out who did that and and and give them back a little bit of their payback okay would that help no oh no won't help it won't help it is not going to help it's all it doesn't matter it doesn't matter what what were you matters it's the TR obviously I mean I'm all for blaming the [ __ ] for things but how do we know that for sure who else has enough motive to do it right now I mean luck is kind of crazy but I think he would do things in person like he did earlier so I don't think it was him true [ __ ] I hope you're not corre cuz she came in and stood there and smiled in our faces and didn't say anything if it was them [ __ ] why would she why would she be there why would she be there if if no no I don't it's got to be something someone [Music] else kind of uh cheats India remembering that Annabelle went West looping around to go hopefully head her off yeah you are right now treating treating the highway as your as your Runway just running down no I'm yeah no I'm in a lake I'm not very findable it's somebody it's somebody in sheveport we we know that right it's got to be right there's no nobody nobody in Bethany would do this nobody in Beth Coleman wouldn't colan I should call I should call I should call Coleman no I can't call Coleman because that's [ __ ] thing what thing it's in the [ __ ] phones it's in the glass it's in the water it's everywhere I can't call anybody what if I hold the phone for you and you don't have to let I don't think it matters it doesn't matter I don't think it matters I I it was it's fine it's fine Coleman will know Coleman will find me nothing nothing happens in Bethany that doesn't get found out by Bethany call one will now but how how do we figure out who did this I think it was Miguel it's got to be Miguel that piece of [ __ ] we will head in that direction see how we're already facing that way and while things and thoughts are are doing what things and thoughts do crash one into the next Annabelle would you be so kind to go ahead and roll your resolve plus stamina as high as you can while that roll is happening India as the driver be kind to go ahead and roll your composure plus Drive minus [Music] one it is two is a lot [Music] right third of a complete success ESS it's not a bad thing it's not a bad thing I think scale and scope needs to be rejiggered to keep that in mind 2/3 two out of three means that only one3 of the population who would have tried that would have gotten any better now fine that's so bad fun fact Disco Inferno means I learned through suffering that extra they it a plus one because of the complete failure all right so living in the middle of nowhere there's a certain skill that has developed traveling late night dark roads navigating from one point to the next in places where Google Maps and GPS often fail so a lot of it is physical landmarks and remembering where the last thing that you saw was located last time you were in a specific area or close to it and having an idea an instinctual idea of which way is North which way is south just knowing your Cardinals without really having to concentrate on it so you can get close close enough to not be completely lost and if you are lost to not be lost for completely long enough for bad things to happen that you can't account for L India driv as if she's drunk which in kado and Panola literally means driving straight down the road instead of dodging all of the huge unkempt broken pavement pieces and pot holes and sink holes and uh moist spots where your tires leave tracks in the black Tire in the doing India veers off the road several times talking to Joi and Lita try turning back toward the road and and in the doing of driving off the road and veering a little bit more than one should it is impossible to not see Annabelle there south of the Highway south of the road biting tooth and Claw beating off unseen bits that cause the blood to run cold each of you have touched the void out there each of you have been beset by things from the other side each of you carry with you invisible scars of having done battle with forces infernal and watching Annabelle fight for her very existence triggers all of those moments all of those brushes connections with things out there in the dark so all of that to say what do India is going to drive into the field a little bit and then just like hop out and go running for Annabelle no I suppose I'll follow along nothing better to do at this moment you know my life is Up in Flames so might as well go searching in the field couldn't hurt you know worst case scenario I you know I I I die out here again well what about you Lita what are you up to you're holding down the I just [Music] chilling I just dying for some blood India is the only one who loves us all several things happen at once as they always do at the least appreciated moment ating and concentrating and holding themselves in violently still to not exert energy or fire the use of or touching the strength of the Beast that drive that drive for sustenance that has not stopped screaming several different voices in the back of Lita's mind unfortunately try they might there are certain mirrors that can't be removed or shouldn't be removed from the vehicle leader watching the door swing open and slam shut catches sight of herself in the side view mirror of the driver's side of the vehicle she didn't mean to look into the mirror she tried not to in fact she was busy saying a Samaran prayer strength when that flickering flash of reflected light caught her eye and she looked towards it in the doing Lita sees herself es sconed in the rayment of knowledge academic robes she's wearing the Platinum mask of leadership she has a veritable School of acolytes tending her knees carrying out her search and request for deeper knowledge dur by day they're using all manner of resources she does not have access to being as she lives forever in the dark they're able to reach out across the ocean they're able to go visit ancient ruins in South America and ancient Europe they're able to travel to retrieve and otherwise obtain bits and pieces of knowledge that only further her understanding of this world and everything that comes after she has the Kindred near enough at hand to matter obeying her edicts just vibing as she tells them to she has a library of TOMS not seen since the late 14th maybe 13th century things that have been lost and have been lost for eons before she has access to there is a Shard from the stone volume book of not there before her not a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a translation no the actual stone tablet page from the original book of Nod the black bass Salt Rock upon which it's carved significant because when one's not paying attention when touching that original portion of the book of Nod resting your hand against it you can feel what the temperature was like during the golden Epic Kindred civilization before kindreds were supposed to even have a civilization when they could bend the ear of their lord master and Creator King when they could tap into the central Fountain from which all Kindred have sprung you can feel the weather you can feel the age you can feel the power inherent in belief and fact melding together through some strange peroom of the to all around you at your whim and your will and all it requires sliding behind the driver's seat shifting into gear you can be at that airport that's flickering through Europe mind in the next hour hour and a half you can feed to your heart burst over filled you could be safe right now and that future at Destiny there for you all that requires is sliding behind the driver's seat and Shifting the truck it to gear the question however is does Lita have The Bravery necessary to seize her fate to take her future into her own hands as we considered that it is 45 after the hour let's take a quick tin be back here at 55 after so take your back Anabelle right all right us just waiting on Lita and and yeah wel back I'm back are you playing a racing game Annabelle oh wow I am not that's my cat yeah she's purring so it's sort of like a racing game but it's like rais to pet her ears before she eats my ice cream well you know one lesson in Brain Freeze is usually all it takes not for her she is not very bright with a single match we can make you very bright right now from this world something but I'll have to pass yes apparently I very well might [Music] um but you know if I do then I'll finally have peace that's how it works when you're damned right close [Music] enough so we last left L there decision before you a a a choice an option [Music] a potential the question becomes do you seize it it's pretty tempting but I think I've had experence of these mirror things that I'm not gonna just follow the beckoning of fantasy I'm seeing fantasy fantasy it is after all your potential it is after all a future that could be awaiting you that could be shunted into the presence if you simply equal just grab the keys just the keys get behind the wheel of the truck you can do it you can do a lot of things actually but in here and now that's the cost of the price of admission speaking of the price of a mission the cost of doing business the denial of potential the disconnect of giving in to the wants and not the needs of your present existence Joi you and India close on Annabelle as she is literally fighting tooth and Claw against well the dark you've never before seen Shadows of water crawling across relatively dry ground you've never seen Shadows of water forming arm after arm after arm connected to hand after hand warmly crawling over and attempting to pull Annabelle into all of that gloriously smooth Smo reflective shimmering water what is it that you guys do well Dam uh uh uh on these [ __ ] things 3 months ago you bought this 10,000 Lumen flashlight it was roughly the size of a extra large J jar P Pomade it fit perfectly ergonomically into the palm of your hand it had a head the actual bulb of it just about the size of a half piece and you left it on your counter it is or was above where most people would have the refrigerator but for you was just an additional standing tool drawer it was the perfect thing it would light up the night sky you can see several several hectares out into the distance it cut the darkness literally like the metaphor of a hot knife through butter and it's inside your Haven right now it was it was next to the picture of your rfos friend fishing at night and you only able to take that picture because of that flashlight there's a creek at least there was a creek now you don't really know everything has gone Topsy tury I see I see then you know joji being the courageous man that he is heed by the the anger the the impotent rage that he has towards the destruction of everything that he has um is going to take his scrawny gangly [ __ ] body into this this grappling mosh pit and uh attempt to help bodily Annabelle Break Free [Music] more hands just no get the [ __ ] away from her you weird spectral [Music] [ __ ] Andy you not how much we're talking right now she's just heading towards her friend friend trying to avoid the edge of the water though and and grabbing at Annabelle helping Joi and dragging them backwards yeah internally all I can think about right now is Batman vban you thought the darkness was your ally I was Bor in it molded by it always want to D breakfast come on oh [Laughter] you oh quick mechanical check India Joi your strength please duh not high enough [Music] too oh that's well it's got to be higher than I'll tell you this right now I am going feisty burning my way through the beast's influence so a total of six average of three you all meet the balance of the check though not without effort though not without struggles and travails the dark is quite strong not as strong as the light but it is considerably more all-encompassing especially for the kindred of Kindred their world everything in it there forever night is literally that a world a universe a Multiverse of Darkness compounded by their own hopes compounded by their own wants compounded by the conflation of their best most reliable supporters are also often times their most pressing of enemies interesting sadness to it because the very thing that should and might otherwise provide salvation is often and is usually the very thing that provides slippery slope right into full unbridled damnation not now however twice over in the span of a few seconds the coder Annabelle India Joi and Lita have staved off their own internal darknesses they've chosen their best [Music] selves it for those choices with a moment of Peace amount of moment of SE ceas all of the everything that has already happened has happened but in the moment free of the cling clawing darkness of the Lake free of the FR potential of a future briefly glimpsed there's a respit moment where the world goes quiet fires are far enough from view did not light the entirety of the world around where the star s overhead clothed in clouds shine just bright enough to allow them to see each other the truck and not reflect anything back towards them so alone in the darkness of Bethany here in the alian fields area of the world is there anything that you all are discussing while you have a small respit in the chaos of your nights Jo is just huffing despite the fact that he doesn't biologically need to it's just we got to find a way to either deal with this thing or deal with this thing I I can't I can't take this anymore never and it's going to get done that before worse it's going to get so much worse I don't know that but I know that because everything is just getting worse we have a decision to make we can't go back to my place or your place obviously or Annabel's or ladas and I don't trust Maddie and I don't even know where the [ __ ] she's at we have to go to a safe place for the for the rest of the night and and figure this out I don't know whether we should involve my sire or not because I don't know who we can trust but we need to let her know something maybe that not what we're working with the anarchs but something else that they burned your place down at this point if if it it whoever it was I I I'm going to I'm going to get rid of them all and if it was those [ __ ] then their deal can go die in a hole if you don't if you don't want to contact your sire we can always go to Coleman I I know that they said at least I think he's working with them but I Coleman wouldn't betray me [Music] that's what I thought right until she stood back and it's okay I I I have still have faith in her because no one is [ __ ] stupid enough to show up to a house they know is about to go [ __ ] Disco Inferno um I'd love to say the same but at the same time it seems like a alibi to me we all got covered in this he kind of like wipes at the oily greasy film on his body we all got covered in this I if she knew what was going to happen what what what [ __ ] why would she stand out there just to get sprinkled with accelerant that's it's dumb I don't know I I don't know we we could figure that out later all I know is I don't trust the people from stport and I don't trust anyone that has a vested interest in treport right now that's fair all right so where is this Coleman person at oh I I could I could show you where where at least not not not his Haven per se but where I know how to get a hold of him all right then let's do that let's do that and let's uh get get away from this like uh where's the car and she just like goes and gets in the [Music] car India catches up with Jo and kind of like pauses him for a minute what don't take that time with me I said I'm sorry okay I think I need you to drive this driving thing hasn't been good for me and since you know where it is I'd rather you drive but I'll sit next to you in the front seat maybe focusing on driving we'll get you focused on something else instead of what you're focusing on okay okay okay I um I can I can drive you uh you don't you don't mind if we you know drive my speed I'd prefer it that's why I'm asking you to drive okay okay all right cool yeah um she gives him a win yeah and he just kind of like looks down breaking eye contact and quickly marches off a I guess I guess I'm driving woohoo I'm going to need three more seat belts good for me I mean we will be fine he miss last words it will be fine there's nothing quite so painful in the world except for that hopes the expectation the V glorious belief that no matter what happens and you will be here to see the next day that the that just because the sun will always rise means that you'll be here to see it hope is a very dangerous thing more persons have died from unrealized and unreal expectations of Hope than almost anything else just the the indominable human drive to survive the will of humankind comes with a built-in sense of hope it will be fine if I just keep going I will not give in I will not surrender I will not go quietly until that night and unfortunately often times that is the opposite of what happens not so in this particular case as you all make your way clear across Bethany but Cana County to be exact as you [Music] all take alian Fields Road North you passed several wellknown landmarks that let you know oh okay well you know bogs are over there that's over there as you swing North along da long and make that left on to bog road head towards the candyman's place the Pet Lodge the circus if you will the candyman's parties I.E 's parties are the sorts of things that most people could only tolerate once in a lifetime his heathenism literally knows no bounds save agency consenting adults must consent unless they are not considered part of the party and there's nothing wrong with not consenting there's nothing wrong with having your boundaries in fact they support everyone's boundaries even if the person who formed the boundaries renegotiates or reconsiders or otherwise thinks that that's not far enough for the fun that they are hoping to have Coleman's place a safe place for Animals of all kind is the model because the public facing portions of the candyman's place of Coleman's place is in fact a boarding facility for dogs cats birds one or two gila monsters and several lizards and snakes of all shapes in varieties but behind the public facing aspect down the one unmarked Lane is the place where consenting adults consent where all manner of engagements happen all manner of clothing and articles of clothing are left behind after these parties hence the reason for quite a few of Coleman's donations to joi's place to begin with clothing Implements of fun and enjoyment Furniture even are often left by those who come to party and bring their most curious item or dress or all number of things have been brought and enjoyed and indulged in the rumors or the parties are literally the stuff of Legend and for many of you this is your first time being at the candyman's place joji moves and drives and covers the distance in the blink of an eye and swings into a parking space that seems almost perfectly suited for him he does so how most people say they could do it with their eyes closed or they can do it sleep he managed to swing into the parking slip as if he has done it often enough that he can do it nearly with no hands and at decent speed all right so um don't freak out and don't do anything that can be misconstrued I just be very clear in your actions and your works oh can you uh it don't make eye contact what what be about what anyone who might be here tonight with who oh if you make eye contact they might get interested and you don't want them interested they or you do either way but that's not what I'm here for not tonight okay what kind of kinky party is this I don't think there's enough time to list off the exact descriptors so just um keep close just makees sense cuz you had handcuffs I have several different types of handcuffs you saw my tame once MH so to be clear we're not supposed to unless you want to but you've got to be got to be sure that you want to unless we want to because the pastor and pastor's wife from the Antioch Church all right let's go streaking past the vehicle the pastor is wearing a nun's habit and the wife is wearing not the largest purchased appendage you've seen but it is definitely in the running for the top 10 she's bare from the waist up and nearly bare from the waist down and as the pasture runs by giggling in his nuns habit jeese other approximation of an Irish accent oh darling you know you've got some confession today oh she brought out the she brought out the crucifix again that's nice uh welcome to the candyman's place he says he just kind of gestures to theing and uh continues forward I'm just trying not to talk there is a lovely fetto soprano ranged voice off in the distance and you can hear the light Applause as people won't let the performer quite finish what Arya they are singing yet while curiosity demands and your conscious mind tells you well joi's probably right don't look don't look don't look you do in fact [Music] look and several of the fontos who are owed money long run out of funds and wealth is standing a top a Piller though standing and stretching what actually is happening with their leg eggs and appendages suspended from a pillar is probably most accurate but still standing at top a pill his voice reaching ranges that under normal circumstances shouldn't be [Music] possible and around them as he hits notes because of the various manipulations of his is weight a top the Piller various members of the outline Community faces you haven't seen because they haven't made their way to the store in a while or faces you haven't seen cuz they neglected one or two sessions or faces you haven't seen because you know they haven't had any bulls or horses to sell to the farm and yet here they are taking in a concert an impromptu concert held by torch as the notes hit are clearly due to some physical discomfort if not emotional [Music] enjoyment you a to make it across property India definitely looks like somebody told her Christmas came early she eyes wide just like looking around it's kind of as Joi notices the The Continuous kind of look of awe and stuff he's like I I'm actually surpris I thought this I thought you would be a bit more shocked you forget I hang out with Rodeo people yeah you you know that makes a weird kind of sense I think you would very much enjoy bull Knight I I I can take you up here for bull kn don't worry it's not it's not like that weird actually get an actual bull that'd be yeah that's only on Sundays every other month I'm not going to tell them that well anyways um is Le okay Lita yeah I was just wondering if they have any blood dolls here think he's ready for that leader is ready for that particular sport because it is in fact a sport there are a group of um Marley bent members of the community who engage in ritualized scarification and combat so whatever happens happens and again it is only those who consent to such activities there are also those who engage in red play and what have you it is all about consent it is all about testing and pushing one's own boundaries and one's own potential for release here at Candyman it is Fantasy Island combined with an all adults getaway it is free of all of the responsibilities of your every other day doldrums so the the bank is going to come take the property and there's no reason to not enjoy your life and that's what candy man is all about enjoying your life whatever your life actually is even if it's not an actual life okay so you get off because you have a service Kink so you come and you help serve others you have writers block and so you need some extreme release and you come to candy man you are inundated with the pressures of Modern Life and this is your escape this is Fantasy Made reality if but for a few hours or in some cases those who are unable to last long enough for their own personal release a few moments a few minutes and Escape so and it's not always just physical yeah well um Lita if you're if you're desperate uh go and try and find anyone that's got a a red banded choker on uh that's kind of the silent sign of laceration play and I think that'd be about the smoothest way for you to get your fil uh don't get lost well I can proba and um you know what the you're you're a big girl you can handle yourself right okay okay sorry um anyways uh tour continuing this way I think before we talk to anybody we should probably take a shower and get some of this stuff off actually this is perfectly fine there are worse things that people can be covered in here yeah but I don't want to get too close to the firl like this I forgot that this was kerosene this is I am covered in kerosene you are oh God uh there there's group showers over this way perfect thank you you all make your way through the crowds and making your way through the various experiences cuz that's what they are experiences that are in the offing you Joi know that excuse me you know that uh empress's girlfriend is there as per usual showing off her juggling skills with the switch blades and the like that she typically juggles with and doing her impromptu circus performance getting oo and A's and oh my gods there's Renee who is teaching the joys of orgastic worship how to pray until it hurts and it feels great they doing the stripper cop routine I've got to give a chuckle because Rene's image is very very much a uniformed man IND all of that shock of red hair most people don't realize that even the skill that he uses to keep that near mid thigh length red shock of hair contained and concealed underneath his ball cap most people don't realize just exactly how hairy his back is either the few times they've seen him without his shirt but all the he his honeyed words his ability to move from Samarian to Aramaic to Arabic and to small Egyptian phrases in regards to Leading the prayer is the stuff of people who don't even speak Spanish are following along people who don't even even understand the difference between Spanish and Italian are able to follow along and God forbid when he gets to the French it is over remind me why we're here again and why we can't just join in you could well we need to get cleaned up and we needed somebody that he could trust back from where we are because he doesn't trust the people in streetport anymore so wait a second if that's if that's impresses oh girlfriend over there we might actually be able to find impress pretty quickly through them yeah yeah let's go talk to them let's go okay yeah sure it's fine yeah wait nobody in this room's on fire right all right I guess they'll approach crossing the distance getting close enough to to watch as the blade spin faster and faster she works her way through her act because it is an act it is clear that she spent time practicing well hopefully just practicing to play with her blades however and the problem that pops into your mind is if she doesn't practice because she intends on showing off why is she so Adept with literally moving as if they're an extension of her will seemingly the teleport from one hand to the next seeming to flash and shine reflect all manner of light to glimp and glean it is a dizzy oh effort to try to follow the blade specifically instead of just the overall gist of what's happening because there shouldn't be a way that any person is able to make that number of knives disappear reappear twirl and flip through the air without losing various portions of themselves yet she in fact is hi there geie how we doing uh we're doing not so good uh do you know where Empress is or uh Candyman dud they are with some girl uh Monica up at the other house said they need to have conversation okay um she wouldn't happen to like wearing black leather and have curled hair Monica oh yeah she's she's she's a hot little piece of tail dressed tight enough to understand what she had for lunch good thing she clearly don't eat much oh that's great I look forward to seeing her thank you you're such a help and I love seeing your act as always this ain't an act this is a fidget but all right thanks yep great night great night always such a great night everybody follow me I'm gonna kill somebody again I going to kill somebody it just he leaves it as that as he Stomps off towards the direction indicated why you kill somebody this time why why am I going to she asks me my house is on fire I I I am covered in kerosene and the [ __ ] Shadows are trying to eat us what okay so the normal reasons not anything she said yeah no she's great what what okay cuz I thought she was great well you suddenly were talking about killing people after you left uh you'll find out Monica person Monica wait you should know who Monica is character oh that Monica I'm going to pretend I still don't know her because higher up you need to give some respect visually you need to visually give some respect know okay um oh god let's hope that this doesn't become more of a headache than it has to be oh but it will it always does [ __ ] I swear to God nobody I'm going to get I'm gonna I'm going to absolutely develop a a disorder around trir based on just how my interactions with them in all of your your games are going I'm going to have a complex thanks for killing them on site I mean that seems pretty like they're prier of course you probably should you probably yeah the owner of multiple Premier characters I would like to say nope uh I feel like as the owner of multiple character as somebody who has never played a tremier [ __ ] you guys all right so I guess we're headed to this other house you're off to see the wizard the wonderful Wizard of O all of that to say is that the the the lead in the buildup the crossing of so many different streams of pleasure and pleasure seeking Behavior actions and Pursuits leaves you all salivating there's no there's is an impossibility to not be so IM mesed in people seeking their best selves that even in the foulest of moods that it does not move you in that similar vein and while you all are just like l titilated in teas and moved into the proper mental space to enjoy being at the candy man's L that is the understatement of all understatements for you as a devout bagger as a devout person who very seldomly engages in the hot fresh hedonistic toe curling experience of feeding on the living directly the burden of your blood and your Clan makes what you engage in paralleled your kiss your bite your fangs are enough to drive most persons insane with the idea of escaping so as you are invited into the small Harlot the sh that was once formerly a trailer a container home of sorts various chains and implements and Furnitures designed to keep inverted grown or hanging from the ceiling as the circle of Associates you find yourself in not only understanding and How Deeply they can hurt but how deeply they can be hurt and still get to work the next day you didn't think the teamsters had in them let alone a group of Teamster Brick Layers what the hell and yet there you are with your just low enough that you are able to sing Fang and when you do the [Music] screams WS the outright attempt to tear his arm out of socket to escape it even as all of the physiological signs of pleasure explode from him it's unlike anything else you have ever taken part in because your fangs your bite your kiss is in fact so steering and the amount of pain at it listens and yet here you are F deep your victim hovering over your head fighting with all they have to tear free and you're able to share that moment with them cuz even as their soul is sheared you are able to enjoy and indulge in the fullness of the actual kiss would you be so kind as to go ahead and roll your unspent willpower DC4 as giving in to your hunger at this level is and could be extraordinarily detrimental W hope he's not too tasty that would be hilarious Annabelle she's just pretending to have never been here before just to keep her just to keep her cover just like uh because like it's it's absolutely the kind of uh place where uh you know lingering kiss would be real popular popular and expected so why will you wait on Lita's role making your way into the big house making your way [Music] into the actual center of the candyman's empire is ridiculously [Music] anticlimactic for those expecting a deep dark our maner of taboo are explored that's almost a complete total opposite the actual centerpiece of any man's Empire of seeking pleasure finding ones self is virtually a monastery virtually a church it is replete with aric signs of Faith as well as Asiatic Shintoism Zen doist Buddhist zor asrian ISM in such eclectic mix then it Blends together into one harmonious hole of an expression of Faith Beyond religion you have signs from the Satanic Church of America you have signs from Wick you have signs from the voodoo Empire thenen you have signs Catholicism Hebrew ISM Judaism you have Orthodoxy non-orthodox you have Pagan and full width and bread right alongside of something from Orthodox Greek you have signs literally from 90% of the religion from around the world [Music] and the moment you all walk through the door emance bounds down the stairs throwing her arms around you I knew you guys would make it and I knew the Shadows couldn't keep you come on in come on in hey hey how's it going welcome back Annabelle the Shadows yeah good good have you have you tried the Ina like you said you're going to wow yes wait you knew about the Shadows yeah is it a frequent thing nowadays no no not at all ever since you guys set the [ __ ] free it has been really really problematic IC you weren't supposed to follow through and help them achieve their goal of getting free but you know you did so there's that okay uh yeah that's enlightening I guess sorry about that honestly that should have been part of the you guys were the ones that were responsible for the for the vision I didn't know that all if I knew you guys specifically I probably would have told you unless question I forgot did I forget no I and Indie your brother says hi she's kind of blinks at her Emperor is out again something about communing I don't know what's wrong with him um so look um Monica's Here she doesn't like you well she doesn't mind you she doesn't like you because you broke her her her her boy toy you guys want to come have a drink or you want to talk or well there are other things we could do no wait no and no know's going to be jealous tonight tonight she's she's on her anyway so want to talk yeah I I I I came to talk to to to Coleman um some some shit's gone down and my my my house my my everything is gone now oh I'm sorry but I told you that was going to happen what when seven months ago when we were talking about you getting fire Insurance you not needing it because you had enough fire suppression systems no one listens oh yeah guess I should have listened better but yeah we I was wondering if if Coleman could uh help us out for the night and possibly see what he could figure out as who the [ __ ] did it oh that's easy oh yeah you did it what what you did it what do you mean I did it sure but I know you did it I know you pissed off someone who actually was going to follow through and take everything from you and leave you so that you were in a situation that you have to come anyway look we're not blaming the victim you're blam Jo's not the victim he's the hero you're the you're the victim you're the sacrifice you're the Vue virgin what but you're not virgin so I don't know why that works out the way oh yeah joi's the hero you're the Knight lead us the priest and honey sorry dear you're you're you're the sacrifice through you remember we will get the opportunity of taking over the rest of us if you know someone does take your place or stop you from sacrificing yourself but eventually you're going to go go through with it anyway and well that's a whole another idea has anybody been making progress on how to stop it oh yeah I'm I'm perfectly fine oh think you could hook a brother up no you don't you're stuck you you don't have enough love yet oh yeah I I guess I kind of knew that well the only way to beat the darkness is with light unfortunately the only way to let yourself be filled with light accept the dark so you have to not mourn you have to live and to live you need to love unfortunately as long as you're mourning you won't ever get to love and as long as you feel alone you never get to love and that's a whole bunch of thing to really get love you have to understand that it comes from you and it's not from anybody else and that's a whole different lesson that's a pain yeah well thank you for your insights um it would it be would it be fine for us to talk to Coleman or is he busy he's a little busy Monica's a little demanding she needs to let her hair down and get over the fact that somebody's tearing the Chantry into she can't count on who she thought she she could count on and free for is doing whatever fre for is doing and you're probably going to take it in but hopefully Angela will be the prince that we need yeah yeah I would love to be able to give her my sympathies but oh you can give her sympathy she's not going to believe you you think you're responsible I would love to be responsible for any and all all troubles that they are experiencing at this point in time well you are thank you you're legitimately making my night better well you know I try um though I if if because I really don't want himer to die that way I want to be responsible for him you know to stop living so would you be so kind just potentially y because your enemy is your greatest Ally in this um he takes a uncomfortable Step Closer now Emperor much like Emperor is very very open always smiling always seeing the brighter side of whatever there was to see embracing things for as they were not as they were wished to be yet and when they stand close to you you can feel electric moving in your veins when they stand close to you you can hear that annoying Buzz of tube lights in the distance no matter where you are alone in the middle of a of a plane play next to a Roaring River in your car with nothing on or in your closet in the dark with them same thing close to them feels very much as if you are being bathed in all sorts of strange radioactive energies it's unnerving it's comfortable at times and yet she smiling brightly the old idea aphorism was smiling from ear to ear and she steps in close close enough that you can smell that she's wearing a very lovely Citrus based parfume of some sorts there's definitely Citrus notes maybe Parsons and is that lilac no that can't be lilac like lilac is too but there's citris floral and sweetness so for me to be free and perfectly safe emperor needs to die by one of our hands I can't tell who hand it was can you guys show me your fingernails uh sure just kind of the the shocked compliance like the I don't really understand what's happening right now oh you need need to clean those why do you smell like why do you smell like loris's fish from uh my house was bathed in kerosene from a sprinkler system I in kerosene a sprinkler system oh that's a shame yeah you have a cigarette no I no oh well Annie Indie Lita fingers fingers fingers let me see your fingers India holds out her hands knowing her manicure is trash here's my finger my manicure was impeccable until I started clawing at nothing earlier today um oh oh no that won't do okay so I can't help you guys any longer um none of you guys are responsible for killing my brother unless of course you want to be um I love him but I want him nice and safe permanently the only way for that to happen is for somebody that I that that's one of us to to make sure that he's no longer with us us because if long as he stays on this side then we won't be able to complete the plan and I can't go to the other side cuz then I won't be able to tell him what to do because you know I don't believe in lying so he needs to go to the other side and he can't get there he's not strong enough to do it himself you guys need to help us do it for him so that he's on the other side with your brother Andy have you talked to Coleman about this no we don't want to bother Coleman right now he's he's making sure that Monica doesn't seek revenge against everybody we need Monica to only go after Jackson because if Monica goes after anybody but Jackson she'll probably win we we need her to lose it's a house of cards made of glass oh um so are you I I I don't are you and Coleman and you guys are supporting the the shuffling of the deck up in treport right we don't have a choice in that if we don't then we'll get swept under too again the whole point is to survive because as long as you survive you can build your own happiness afterwards but if you don't survive you can't build any happiness afterwards there's no point in dying just to die we need to make sure that we win not them not the bad guys not all of you other who don't care cuz if we win we'll get a chance to make sure that Carlson Garcia gets back to Power cuz you know she's not going to quietly go along with this and she didn't realize that Monica and Liam despite all of their supposed loyalty are actually part of the whole thing going on in sh for [ __ ] trir I hate them all so I need you who's going to volunteer to kill my brother so we can make sure that we win I I I I don't I don't want to but if it's I I I don't want to but what kind of K there's only one kind that's the permanent kind kind or the like coming back we got to end the physic so that he goes into the spiritual because he can lie and with him being on the other side him lying to me to help me means that well we need to stack everything just right so that when all the cards fall and shatter into a million in one pieces the pieces are big enough for us to put back together cuz we're going to lose but we can only lose for a very small amount of time and you to find love you don't sacrifice yourself completely somebody else have to stop that but that's another matter Charlie first things first we need to make sure that the king is dead he's hiding from me brother he think because you know where he at find him [Music] oh lovely great I need no not yet we got a party seems like going place you guys should probably go find uh leer right about and she looks at her wrist where there is no watch and you can hear her counting the seconds under her breath you uh in 10 we should get there in 10 because she's going to be facing a battle of faith and only someone who cares for her will be able to save her from sending that Soul screaming into hell I I don't think we're supposed to send anybody here screaming into hell in front of anybody uh thank you for your help uh we'll I guess get around either way we got to go that he'll kind of break off and start frantically looking for the soon to be Blood Sport India just kind of sigh turns around and trudges away finding Lita is not all that hard there are screams and peels of Joy all throughout this in several places at once people clapping because they're seeing some of the best entertainment that they could possibly see for no cost of their pocket people engaging and indulging in all sorts of play that would not normally be possible for them people reive and giving things that they might not otherwise consider receiving or giving and underneath it all mixed and mingled within it is a cry from an adult that is so impassioned that you are hard press to believe that the owner of that r I would live to see tomorrow it it's hard to believe that whoever owns that voice in that amount of pain might even survive tonight yet because of all of the noise the The Confident sound of persons finding themselves and exploring the world around them Plumbing their depths and others most people don't carear it for what it is you all is Kindred so close to the very edge as you are know what that sound is you feel it in the core of your being your inner Predator understand lights begin to dim and later there is a fixed point a Tipping Point for everything when you reach the point where the only outcome is definitive you're not sure where you get the reserve where you got the reserve or strength from but you manag to not reach the Tipping Point really considerably more than than what was allotted and yet you manage to not end your victim hunger down to hunger one as you all burst through the door into the space the container home that has been changed into a place for indulging in all manner of red play you find Lea our mask move forward up onto our forehead as her head is angled back and looking Skyward almost as if she's in prayer and above her head hinging from a raised platform is her victim of choice leaking and screaming Into The Ether the wound where Lita bit them still free floor their Associates believing this is all part of the ACT playing along not understanding that yes that Soul searing screen that escaped their friend and the sociate was 100% go ahead and click that little red button from oh [ __ ] as you all enter as Lita is staring into all of their existence it very much does look like she's in supplications if she's staring into heaven in prayer [Music] you guys are up I don't know her well enough to do the love thing India just crosses the distance she didn't really even stop she saw where Lita was and kind of we through everybody and just kept going to get close um standing in front of Lita snapping you got to lick it closed good advice what three times in as many hours Lita as you come face to face with your other that's three times in as many hours when the beckoning of the dark amounted to nothing for you that's three times where you see how much farther and deeper the depths of you might reach all of your training and time to control yourself clearly paying dividends in the moment because not only did you deprogram yourself long enough to take a bite not only did you deny your future potential yet in this moment when your inner voice your truer self demands more you're able to wrestle it back within control to put it back on its leash it's not a small feat and like everything such moments of Victory have their the other blade that cuts deep and as you let the wound close you realize with the amount of blood that you've taken from this one particular person without medical assistance there is no tomorrow for them you might as well go ahead and finish him off take a bite again finish them end them save them from the painful and sanguin of their existence After all you've taken too much blood but it's not just the blood you know that what you as a member of the Kindred do is not just taking the blood it is taking the energy of their life and is taking a portion of their soul each and every time that's the trade-off for the kiss and you've drunken to deeply of that ineffable something that invisible portion of them their their soul but no one else does yet you don't have to tell them in fact you probably shouldn't just give it to yourself right that's your burden to bear not theirs I'll lick the guy's wounds close I probably need to get him to the hospital I think I probably got a little too carried away then then that is what we shall do he's got friends and his friends care about him don't they and she looks at his friend wait wait you guys weren't playing this was serious holy [ __ ] he's a little dehydrated it may be a little anemic and they fix him up at the hospital real quick so you might want to take your friend you probably take your friend get him a little bit of liquids he'll be fine as long as you take him [Music] there are safety protocols in place most of the people who give blood or or engaged in red play don't realize just what's at stake every time they do everyone believes that they're going to be the one to survive they're going to live forever Blas they people Ru that's where you all are in this moment with this particular group of of persons they didn't and don't realize how real what they've been doing how it and as you will unmask that truth for them and they have to deal with the ramifications of their fantasies taking such a large portion of their being and they struggle in frantically begin trying to bring their friend down I to thank you all for a lovely episode and see you guys next time yeah good night good night everybody