Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll podcast.
My Name Is Ryan. And TNT and key have the same
amount of letters. I'm Marco.
I'm from Spicy Tuna RPG. I make greenhorns and a lot of
sci-fi stuff. Happy to be here.
And I'm Adam Vass of World Champ Gameco.
I am the designer of Bloodborg, which we're going to tap into
today, and it's also excited to be here.
Yeah, look at us, look at, look at all the excitement we have
this this early morning also. Listen, if you out there, if you
can figure out what my like sign on was a reference to today,
I'll. I'll send you a hug.
Virtually, virtually, we should do more giveaways.
We used to do giveaways. We should do more giveaways
anyway. We're giving away Allen.
Bass today, so I'm going. To give a little.
Send them right to you. Yeah, just for you.
Plant blood, Borg. That's that's why we're here.
That's what everything around us says.
That's what Adam says or we're we're doing this very excited.
We love the Borgs here on the show and always love everything
that Adam has ever done in their entire life.
Go listen to the Brain Trust podcast.
Everybody but but Adam. Tell us.
Tell us about Bloodborg.
Take Take it away. Yeah, Bloodborg is a gutter punk
urban fantasy. It is obviously a hack of
Morkborg, but it is a stand alone complete game.
In it you play as different types of vampires in the shitty
city called Scab that's sort of built over the remnants of past
civilizations during which the apocalypse came and went.
We all know in Morkburg you're sort of counting down to the end
of days. Well, it happened and no one
really noticed. All the sinners were brought or
all the sinless were brought to their gods, which of course was
very few people. So no one really noticed the
apocalypse come and go and here we are 2000 years after the
setting and events of Morkborg in the city of Scab.
We have these high rises everywhere that block the
sunlight so you can walk around most of the time and not worry
about sun. At the top of these high rises
are the powers that be who have been there for centuries, these
other vampires who want nothing to do with you, the little shit
stirrers on the bottom of the social totem.
So because of that, we live in the gutters, we hang out with
our gang and we start bands. We just kind of get by in this
filthy sewer rotten kind of way. Today, the three of you are
going to be looking for a member of your gang who's gone missing.
But before we do that, we're going to make some vampires.
So Marco has made a character already, and Brian and Hunter,
we're gonna make yours right now.
This is again a Mortborg hack, so you're kind of already
familiar with what's about to happen.
We're gonna start. I'm gonna drag my rules over and
kind of go through the process with you.
We're gonna. Do you hear the jackhammer?
Now there's a jackhammer. It's worse than the saw.
I cannot. No, I can't hear it at all.
You're you're solid. I cannot believe it started an
hour ago. We're gonna make some
characters. So first up we are going to pick
what type of vampire you are. There are eights in the book so
you would roll AD 8 or you would choose.
We're just gonna we're gonna cap it at the 1st 6:00 today because
we're effectively play testing this game.
So I'll have each Ryan and Hunter roll D6 to choose what
your vampire type is. Then as we go through that,
it'll give you a little flavor text.
It'll ask you a couple questions that you get to roll D6 to find
the answers to. It will tell you how much money
you have, how much health you have, what your stats are, and
what kind of weapon you start with.
So, Ryan, let's start with you. I rolled A2, but I saw a Hunter
hold up two fingers so I re rolled and got a four.
All right, so #4 is the masochist.
Your taste for blood started long before you were turned into
a creature of the night, experimenting with pain and
pleasure for years prior to them becoming a means of survival for
you. To many, murder is a means of
survival to you, a craft to be studied, an art to be admired, a
God to be worshipped. So roll D6 to find out when was
the first time you tasted another human's blood.
I rolled A5. A kidnapped stranger during
escalating torture sessions. So you're sicko.
You're sicko mode. Sicko mode.
You. Start with D $20.
Your health is equal to your Toughness +8 just to backtrack
instead of doing the three D6 table thing which just never
really quite. I had a lot of difficulty with
first time role players understanding this.
Yeah, derived stats are weird sometimes.
Yeah, instead you get plus one and -2 to assign to whatever
your stats. Your stats are the normal Merck
Borg Strength, Dexterity, presence and toughness.
In fact, if we want to if you want to use like a Merck Borg
character keeper or something, that actually would probably
translate exceptionally well. But you can also just write
stuff down notebook style. I got, I got my stickies.
I'm good to go. Like, am I right in the right
notebook? I think it's raining in here.
This paper will hold. So yeah, you get a + 1 and -2.
You can split that -2 into 2 minus ones if you'd like.
So your HP is going to be equal to your Toughness +8.
Just as a highlight, instead of rolling for your health, here
you get what would effectively be the maximum value.
So in Mark Borg, Toughness plus D8 would be pretty common for
health. Here it's just plus eight.
Because we're vampires, we've got a little bit more ability to
withstand the pain, but that doesn't mean you can't die die.
And you know when a vampire die dies it it's fucking gonzo.
Then as a last note, you the masochist is going to get plus
one strength in addition to the way however you distributed your
stats. Before.
Are you good with me or you want to do any?
You're all set. I think I'll do it yeah.
I'll just solve this right off this down this pretty
straightforward. So you can do Hunter and we'll
get. I'll get a name and oh.
So I'm oh, did you do the rest of Damascus?
I was just sort of guiding, for audience sake.
You get to roll D20, you roll AD 20 for your starting weapon.
I've got the spreadsheet here, so I can just sort of dope.
OK, hold on. Yeah, relay that to you.
You you have it too, if you need it.
But I'm happy doing all this stuff.
And make the note all right, so AD 20 for my starting weapon.
Be a gun. Be a gun.
Be a gun. 16. 16 is a tooth blade, so this is like a plank
of wood or a baseball bat that has a bunch of loose teeth glued
on it. So it's kind of like a saw
blade. It does D10 damage, and then
lastly you get 2. Damascus has two special
abilities. The 1st is regrowth.
Your ability to heal is advanced beyond basic aid, so you're able
to regrow severed digits and limbs at will in a matter of D6
minutes. The second ability is that
you're a celebrity. Your name carries fearful legend
within both vampire and human circles.
They've heard countless rumors about you.
One of these four is true, so if you want to roll D4 for me, I'll
tell you which one is true. D4 Roll the two.
You keep trophies from each of your kills in or on your body.
I love how Ryan got the like, masochist, Edge, Lord character.
He honestly didn't be more appropriate.
I was. Like if I was a vampire, I just
made me so we're good. So you, yeah, pick your name,
your pronouns. You're gonna roll D100 for your
eccentricities and your history. Do you have all that stuff
handy? I can kind of leave you to that
while I move with Hunter. Yeah, yeah, I can do that.
It's it's just in the back of the dock, right?
And with the. Details that and like at the
character creation tab on the dock, you also get 2D12.
You get these one starting item from each column here in
addition to like your other shit that you start with.
Got it. Yeah, I got it.
D12. OK, cool.
You say just one from each of those. 01 from A and one from
column B. Nope.
OK. All right, Hunter, let's get AD
6 for your type, you said. 2. All right, you're the Leech.
You've been turned for longer than you care to remember.
The blood clogged and clotting in the recesses of your
intestines is older than some of The Vamps you run with these
days. As such, you have an intimate
you have an intimate understanding of life after
death and the fluids that flow through both.
Despite this, you've been cast aside from culture, relegated an
elderly hermit without care or purpose, but that you make on
your own. D6 For what horse?
In what historical event did you secretly have a significant part
5 The 250 years ago, the excavation of Earth's Icker, the
start of the anthracite era, and the industrial burst?
Hell yeah. So you're gonna get a lot more
money to start with than Ryan did.
You're gonna roll D10 or three. Sorry, 3D 10 and then you're
going to multiply that by 100 and that's how many dollars?
You get 240 big ones, baby. Then your HP is a little less,
it's toughness plus four, and you're gonna get plus one
presence as a Leech. And you said we had -2 and +2 to
assign to each stat, right? Like spread out.
However. We want -2 and plus one, minus
and plus one. And then in addition to that you
get the plus one presence that's like subverts the the other math
here. Then roll AD six.
I'll tell you what your starting weapon is. 3.
You got a switchblade that does D4 damage.
You also start with two random spell scenes, so I was
mentioning just before the stream.
This is how magic works in the game.
Instead of collecting these ancient dusty tones and hoarding
this information, we have our street level proliferation of
information through small press and DIY.
So the zines are printed on the shitty stolen copy papers that
we find printed in Blood Under the Moonlight.
There's a chance that they dissolve.
There's a chance that they contain curses.
But for the sake of your starting zines, why don't you
give me two D20 and? I'll give you.
Your spells. I rolled 22. 22 I'll give you A1
and A2 so you have two different spells.
Sounds great. Thank you.
The first one is Echo, so this is a difficulty rating of 10.
Some spell scenes either roll difficulty or you you spend
blood to cast them. So this one's a difficulty of
10. You use your voice to mimic the
voice of someone else or a sound effect, and everyone who can
hear you and is not looking at your mouth believes that sound
to be real. The second one is magic weapon,
which costs two blood to cast from.
Your open wounds pours rotten coagulated blood in the shape of
a weapon of your choosing. You cannot drop or lose this
weapon. It does D6 damage on hits, with
an additional D4 rotting damage to anything that's alive.
If you are brought to zero health, it dissolves and you
lose all of the all of your accrued blood.
Your two special abilities. You have a keen sense.
After decades of honing your senses at peak, your senses are
at peak performance. Deliberate hearing or smelling
yields interesting insights within a mile around you without
checking your stats. And you're also learned, so
you've taken advantage of your immortality with countless hours
spent studying. You're fluent in five foreign
languages, and you are an expert on local and National History.
So you're just an old hermit bookworm who knows all kinds of
shit. Very cool.
Then as mentioned, you're gonna want to pick your name, your
pronouns, and roll D100 for your eccentricities and your history.
I will again leave you to do that while we move to Marco who
can introduce his character who has been pre made and we can
learn one of our vamp friends. Yeah.
Do you want me to say so? I wrote a six which was Black
heart. Cool.
Do you? Want me to go through it or do
you want to kind of do the intros if I was ruling?
No. Since you already did it, we'll
skip the sort of pretense so you can just introduce your homie to
the gang, and by the time you're done, I imagine Ryan and Hunter
will have that information. We can kind of dive in.
Perfect. So I'm Black heart.
Real sad. Kind of lonely type like feeds
to survive, but at the same time just does not enjoy immortality.
There's like mundane. There's too much mundaneness to
it. I missed the simplicity of prior
eras and let's see. I did a plus one in strength, -2
in agility, plus one in presence.
I have 5 HPI think I rolled on the right column.
I got claws for weapon D4 damage and start with zero blood.
I have a lock pick set and a tattoo gun are the items that I
rolled. It's such a great pretty good.
Yeah, pretty damn good. My 2 abilities are Horse
Teleport so I can channel channel inner turmoil and
infinite hunger in an outward burst of energy, throwing
enemies and items with an arm's reach 10 feet away for one
blood. And then I have a familiar to
curve my loneliness. I've grown close to a specter I
can summon at will, it cannot inflict physical harm, and it is
a phantasmal form of a happier self.
That's right. So it worked out really well.
What? What is your character's?
Name and pronoun so I can. Yeah.
I'm Memo. Guillermo is like the full name
for that and Memo is like the nickname just like Spanish
version of Bill and and he him is are my pronouns.
And sorry, I was just looking at the other parts of my character,
and so I was turned by magician in what turns out to have not
been an illusion. Oh, that's so funny.
Let's loop back to Ryan. Did you manage to find
everything you were looking for? Yeah, I'm getting there.
The the D100 table isn't numbered so I'm just counting
down. On the shit it It was at one
point What actually what is? Quartz.
Pain. Corpse paint is like black metal
like. Oh, OK, well that makes fucking
sense. Yeah, if you want I can.
I see somebody's in the spreadsheet that is that is
numbered. I'll throw it in the discord
just in case you need it later. Can you Margo, can you send me
your name in the discord as well?
Yeah. Memo MEMO The weapon it's that
list is LinkedIn the weapons D8 in the document if you're there,
Ryan. Yeah, so I just sent the
spreadsheet with all the tables. It's like the weapons, the gear
for sale, eccentricities, names, all the D100 stuff.
Except for of course the D66, what you were before and who
turned you tables that are in the Google doc, everything is
like linked. I have 5 tabs open.
But the good news is, once you have your character, you don't
need to do this again. Where?
Maybe I'm dumb. So where's the histories?
Histories. Oh, so in the Rules doc, under
Further Details header, you have D66.
Who turned you? And D66 What were you before?
It's on page 11 of the Google Doc.
Again, I can. OK, that makes sense.
Hunter, Are you ready? Are you still tinkering too?
Yeah, I'm ready. Cool, let's hear about your
vamp. So he is a ghostly pale, which
makes sense to her vampire that is unbelievably ageless.
I was turned by a legend to preach their name to all who
would listen. Formerly, before I was turned, I
was a war vet. Oh, I forgot to say my name is
Sebastian. No.
And then was there anything else I was supposed to say?
Nope, I think you're good. Nice.
I did it. Yeah.
So I just, I I very much imagine him as, like, like as appearing
elderly because he's just so unbelievably old.
And like, I I feel like at this point, whatever legend turned
me, I no longer have this incredibly, like a like a
positive relationship with them, 'cause it's just been so long.
And I'm now jaded by like the first several 100 years with me
being fervently zealous and like, slaying people in the name
of this legendary vampire. And now I'm like, well, they
never came back so. Yeah, that's very on on Vibe
with this game, with just fucking being tired of it.
Old man, he uses switchblade, so it's.
Pretty golden. All right, Ryan, can I help with
any last steps? No, I think, I think good here.
Well, that makes sense. I love.
Well, that makes sense 'cause then you know you wrote a good
table and everything plugs in like.
That and then I'm just gonna roll for a name so I don't have
to fuck with it because name's the hardest thing ever for me.
And let's see what we got there. We're both names, Sebastian.
Yeah, wow. It's a good name, and it was
popular centuries ago. It was, you know it.
Was hey, bring it. Back I also like that this is
canonically taking place in like the modern day version of the
Merckborg world. Is that what kind of what you're
like? Yeah.
That's a crazy idea like. Merckborg happened 2000 years
ago. The masculist churches.
So there's like this sort of the intent is sort like part of the
Blood Burg experience is like you want to know more about
being a vampire, you have to kind of like look for it.
It's not like you can go to the library or you can't.
The people who turned you aren't around like to be your mentor or
some shit because there's this fucking class system that
prevents you from that axis. So part of what you can do to
sort of emphasize the compatibility to is use Merck
Borg dungeons and have that exist underneath the ground.
Like go through the sewers, under the skyscrapers to reach
these like ancient temples and shit.
That's a great idea. So, so just to be clear, this is
not inspired by Twilight. There are definitely nods to
twilight. Good.
I actually had a question. Are we considered undead or
alive? You're undead.
Yeah. Yeah, there.
Also, feel free to ask. Sort of etymological
etymological questions about all the vampirism, 'cause there's a
lot with vampires that like you kind of assume to be true or you
take for granted because they're just are, in our world, so many
different kinds of vampires. This game definitely leans on a
lot of those tropes, but it also chooses a few to not give a shit
about. So any kind of vampire thing
like that, feel free to ask. And if I don't have an answer,
that's great too, 'cause then I'm seeing blind spots.
But I'm pretty sure I I thought a lot, way too much about how
vampires work. We can enter without.
Yeah, so because the powers that be who built this city are
vampires, a lot of the buildings are owned publicly, so they've
sort of done away with the need for invitation, except there
are, like their own domiciles, like very wealthy places that
you can't access by design. That's cool.
That's a good way around that. So yeah, like, again, you're to
limited. You can go into a bar.
A bar is a public place, but you can't come to fucking Steve's
apartment because Steve says I don't want to talk.
To you do you like for this one? And you said sorry this.
Sorry, someone just rang my doorbell, so I'm gonna figure
out what that is real quick. Do that.
I'm just going to get our names put up here real quick and then
when Adam gets back I will go through my character replace
existing. Boom.
So we all agree when Adam comes back, we're gonna jump them,
right? Yeah.
Mm hmm. OK.
Yeah. Yeah.
Let's all just leave and then just.
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You know, hope this is fun. All right, cut this part out of
the recording for the podcast. Probably.
Or maybe we'll just. Leave it if I remember.
Yeah. So we're not having dead air,
Marco. Marco's been on the show before.
How's Greenhorns coming along, buddy?
I have Greenhorns is is coming along great.
I have the bounty hunting rules finished or in a spot where a
bunch of peers are looking at it.
Right now, Christian Sorrell is writing the introductory bounty
hunting mission, so I'm very excited about Very.
Excited name around. Yeah, I'm very excited with
whether they're taking it and other things that are happening.
I I've been a lot more like structured with my like dungeon
writing. So for each, since it's centered
around like adjectives and stuff, I write like a bunch of
D6 tables and then I roll on a bunch of those to make more
cohesive living spaces. Especially since it's modular,
there's like kind of things that interlap and kind of feel feels
very differently depending on what you play.
So yeah, I'm pretty very, very happy with it and glad I didn't
finish it last fall. Nice here.
We go, yeah. For those that haven't watched
the show or seen the episodes before, Marco ran the game.
We're talking about greenhorns twice on the show.
Part one and Part 2 and SPOILER alert plug ears if you don't
hear you fucking killed us so. How's outsource going?
Good. Well, good.
Good. Really.
Oh, mm hmm. Mm hmm.
I was just. Wait, there's something else in
That's the other thing. That's a great cover.
God, it's a good. Cover.
I got the advanced copies, but the you know, there's some,
there's some problems with my printer unfortunately, that it
came out awesome, but for shipping it was just like
delayed a lot. And so I've made that update to
the Kickstarter. But Jarrett, our good friend,
will be Jarrett the Legendary. Yeah, hopefully at the
beginning. Well, April 1st through 8th I
think is like the docking now 'cause it got changed kind of
again. But that is part of working with
overseas printers. I prayed in Latvia, but yeah,
super happy with it. All right.
Welcome back, Adam. Welcome back.
It's intense out there. Oh yeah, a lot of fights going
on. No, the they're like destroying
the sidewalk with heavy machinery.
And so they made me move my car. That was nice.
They didn't, though. They didn't tell us in advance
that this was happening. So anyway, let's go, Ryan, you
got a character? I do.
I do have a character. This is my boy.
This is 13. That is their name.
That is his name. Is he him?
Pronounced. What are we?
We talked about part of it, but I'll go through the whole thing
again. He's a masochist kidnapped by a
stranger. The first time I tasted blood
was when I kidnapped a stranger doing escalating torture
sessions. I was turned by a doctor and a
sick, unsanctioned experiment, and in my former life I was a
serial killer. Yeah, it's perfect.
I rock coarse paint and I rolled for a studded leather jacket.
I've $7.00 in my pocket, my tooth, my baseball bat with
teeth and an undead severed hand that is apparently trained that
I can bitch like people with. I think that's that's me.
Is that Did I need anything else?
No, I don't think so. I think.
We're good to go, I. Can't believe how good of a
character for you that is, honestly.
Yeah. I love how it makes sense too.
Like obviously, like the person was the serial killer that got
turned in an experiment is now the masochist with like, a
severed hand. Like, come on.
Yeah, love that love when a plan comes together.
Yeah, it's pretty. So if you're ready, we can just
go right in to the adventure I will share with you.
Let's see if this will work. Not quite.
Other thought. One other thought.
There we go. I'm sharing a map to you in
discord here. Then I will also, I'll just read
this the intro text. The homie Dakota Shreveport has
been running with a normie named Body lately who has been giving
you a bad vibe since day one. They've been talking all week
about going to this gig at the spot, which is a hipster club on
the north side of York Place. Vamps are explicitly not welcome
there. So you've never been there, but
they've been talking about it like non-stop.
Dakota is a vamp, but Body, it's just a normie.
Body is the one who invited Dakota.
So I They presumably have access.
When you don't, that's fine. Dakota can do their own thing.
Except they haven't been home in a few days and they left their
pet cat Thirst alone without a sitter, which is something they
would never do. So you can infer something must
be up. So we're going to go to the gig
at the spot, and we're going to see what Body has to say for
himself. I shared with you the map.
We are gonna be at the spot I mentioned.
This is a little bit north of your place where you all kick it
and live or I get live in quotes and yeah, so you're you're going
to the spot. As you can see on the map,
there's a few people in line outside of the main entrance.
Everything else I guess is obfuscated to you right now.
That's the interior of the of the spot.
So as you, I guess to get us started, Sebastian, who Who is
Dakota to you? He is a younger vampire who I
have occasionally taken, younger vampire who I've occasionally
taken under my wing in times of trouble.
I feel like they're they're the type who gets into trouble
often, yeah. Love that.
And Memo, how did the how did your game get here?
Did you walk? Did you skate?
Did like, it's not terribly far. It's maybe a mile from where you
guys live. Yeah, I.
Think if we're trying to get in, then we we would walk, we
wouldn't skate, 'cause we one more reason to be turned down at
the door. Love it.
And 13 well, I guess this is more of a group decision, but
I'm going to sort of make you the captain of making this
decision. You can see all the hipsters
outside in line waiting to get in.
You see two big ass bouncers at the door with the velvet rope
like letting people in and checking IDs.
And you also know that you can go around back and try to sneak
in if you wanted to. So how, I guess, are you guys
planning to get into the show tonight?
I think I I I feel like Sebastian's the type who's going
to he's just so ancient and like does not care that he's just
going to go through the front door.
I mean, I don't know about you guys, but.
I feel even though I'm a kind of lonely whatnot, I feel like I'm
like kind of entitled in a way, like, you know, I'm kind of
done. So I'm I'm also just like
willing to risk risk it instead of you know kind of be like not
caring because you know I'm going to go.
Are you the kind of sad depressed?
It's like, I hate everyone and everyone's terrible, but I'm
also better than everyone. Like, even though I hate me more
than everything kind of depressed.
You know what I mean? Well, I'm in.
I'm in the game, so I think my loneliness is kind of quelled by
that. But I feel so.
I've had so many friendships in my long life that I'm, you know,
really numb to it. I don't think I'm necessarily
like, I don't feel like I'm better.
I just feel like it all doesn't. A lot of it doesn't matter.
And until, until you go missing, you know, like they care about
our other gang member. Adam, do you want this map on
screen once we get in or what do you want?
Yeah. Yeah, that'd be great.
I mean, obviously this is a sketch, but it will help sort of
visualize what we're going through.
OK all. Right.
Well, I mean, here's the thing. Sebastian gives 0 fucks, Memo
gives 0 fucks and 13. Really hope someone fucks with
them. So I think we're just out in the
front door. Am I correctly interpreting that
you're not waiting in line, that you're just going up to the
bouncers? Yeah, I feel like that feels
good. Great.
So obviously they're gonna stop you.
There's two they're probably like 6-4, like 300 LB Dudes.
You can tell right away. Like they're not vampires.
They're just people. I guess an important note here
is that and how do I wear this? Vampires are vampires don't
exist publicly, but everyone kind of knows that they exist,
right? Like it's not a well kept
secret. It's like an open secret.
Plausible deniability. So you can tell if somebody's a
vampire, but they can't really tell about you.
So you can sort of be Incognito for as long as you want, but
once that, you know secret is spoiled that you can't really
put, can't put it back in the box.
So yeah, that it's an open secret that vampires exist and
are around and that there's magic and all the other shit is
kind of like tied to that. This sort of urban fantasy
aspect of it is around, but kind of like in your peripheral.
Most people don't experience it in their everyday life.
But this place is a little bit more in tune to the fact that
there's vampires, right? Because we're not really
welcome. They're aware of it in a more
explicit way, and yes, you're not, you're not welcome here.
But again, they wouldn't know on your face that you're vampires.
They might be able to tell from your they might be able to guess
from your clothes or how what you or the fact that we got a
couple 1000 year old dude here. Well, I haven't even described
what my guy looks like in my head either.
I'm like, oh. You can if you'd like to.
I would love to know. Yeah, he's like 411 and like
perfectly proportioned, like he's just 4/11.
He has white hair, like long white hair, no beard and like an
ageless face like he neither looks.
When you look at somebody and you're like, they look either
young or incredibly old. But there's no wrinkles.
So I have no real like, that's what he looks like.
I feel like he's dressed down. He's wearing like, it was like
nice black pants that kind of have like an elastic ish
waistband. You can tuck your T-shirt into
them and you look like a slim dude.
Yeah, that's what he's wearing, you know?
And then very long fingernails, because vampire, so.
Right. I think 13 is probably leading
the charge here, especially 'cause you're kind of wanting to
get into the fight. So the the the two bouncers,
they kind of like put their hands up like you.
They're not gonna touch you yet, but they're just like stiff arm
there. There's a line.
Can you not see that there's like a dozen people here trying
to get in? I don't see anyone that matters
at all. They kind of like, smirk at each
other and they're like, all right, well, do you?
Have a ticket. I have one second.
Let me check here. I have I have $7.00.
The the one of the bouncers just laughs at at at you.
And they're like, and I have a job to do.
So why don't you, you know, walk on and we'll pretend this never
happened. Child, child, please, please
come here though. The bouncers kind of like, look
at each other and laugh again and one of them goes like ducks
down because they're over a foot taller than you.
And like, what's up, little buddy?
I like. I pull out like a money clip and
I just feel like it is like a like gym encrusted money clip.
You know, like it's still magnetic and everything.
And I like pull out $50 and like, will this get us through
your door? He like looks the other bouncers
watching and he's like this is good for me but like and.
I put it back in and I I pull out $100 bill.
I'm like, well, this gets through your dog.
Yeah, he just, like immediately, like just grabs it and like like
nods to let you in. Thank you, child.
And a couple of the hipsters in the in the line start booing you
like. What the hell?
Fuck you like. But the three of you have gained
entry to the spot. As you can have.
Rich friends, you know. It truly is as you.
Walk in, you can hear this shitty band playing.
They're called Radio Slash Active and it sucks.
And it's like synth pop. It's they're off key and it's
really slow, but not in like a cool drony way.
It's just like high school dance music.
They're all human. You can tell that there's
definitely nothing special going on with the with the four people
on stage, Adam. Is this a reference to a real
band? Is.
I so I actually have been thinking that you know how
movies will be in comics will be like any any reference is
coincidental. This is not a band that I know
and it does seem like that might be a band name.
That's a real name. So like for the record, I just
came up with a name and I didn't look to see if it was real.
There's so many bands. I was.
Thinking this was like an Imagine Dragons dig, you know,
'cause they have that terrible song, Radioactive.
That's like. AI did think of that.
I did think of that retroactively, but it was not
intentional from the set. But it does suck.
And they do suck. So yeah, the radio slash active
is playing and it sucks. And it's just like the crowd is
kind of like, you know, the map says pit, but it's not like a
mosh pit. They're just like a bunch of
people dancing and kind of like swaying.
It's not super active and it doesn't even really look that
fun. But there are a few it's.
Radioactive. Radioactive.
Exactly, it's. It's a band.
The the band. And so that, yeah, they're just
kind of like swaying around. You can see over at the edge of
the room, perpendicular to the stage, is a long bar where there
are a few people getting drinks. You can see the back door, the
loading door by the side of the stage where all the gear comes
in and out and leads to the back alley.
There's some bathrooms in the corner, and that's effectively
the space of the show. So how what do you guys want to
do next? Do we see body?
Not on the not at first. But there is, you know, probably
60 people swaying around in this center pit.
You can tell that they're not at the bar right now because like
the bar has maybe 2 patrons who are awake and ordering.
You always have the couple people who are like slumped
over, barely able to hold themselves up.
They're they're at the bar too. But yeah, you don't see body in
that little clearing, so you can presume they must be either in
the pit or in the bathroom or something.
I think my first move is to go into the pit and I'm gonna kind
of do like a kind of like a joker dance, you know, just very
like slow. And it's like kind of and, you
know, into my cell, kind of eyes mostly closed, kind of peering
through my eyelashes, which are longer and just checking people
out. I'm going to come back to that
in a second. I want to see what the other two
are doing first. I have two.
Questions. Go ahead.
Physiologically, are we able to consume human food and liquids?
Yes. Don't beat me to it.
Do we now? How does it come out?
Just like fluid, like effectively like diarrhea.
Like it's And this part of it won't be in the book, but
you're. You just.
You just ingest things for the fun and the flavor of it.
You don't get any nutrients from it.
The only thing that you can really subside on is the blood
of living creatures specifically and and by that I I specifically
also mean humans. You can't subside on the blood
of animals. One of one of the vampire types
can, but that's like a rare ability.
Gotcha. So do we have like, I'm not
gonna get medical on it? Never mind.
It comes in, it goes out at some point.
My second question was, if we die here, are we in a time loop
going back into the same concert?
Over and over again. I had that thought as I was
designing it. It's funny cuz I was like, I
gotta make an adventure. I want my starter adventure to
be at A at a show and as I was designing it and like shows have
bars, here's the room and I was like, no, we've played, we've
done this before but that's just that's the Adam Vas.
Template Yeah. Oh.
That's all, yeah. That's all you have you're not
gonna do. Anything.
This is a note. This is a a editor's note to
check out No Future by World Champ Game Co, played on the
weekly scroll for more show shenanigans.
It's great. It is great.
It was such a fun game. Like I would play that over and
over again. Well, we did, kind of, but like
we would. So.
So 13. I mean, so we we described
Sebastian our little our little man here has so I rolled for
corpse paint. So it's the, you know, it it
kind of looks like, well, what I googled.
Corpse paint. It reminds me of KISS a whole
lot, which I don't want. But no, you look like a Juggalo.
Yeah, I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a Juggalo.
No. So it's definitely stop yelling.
It's definitely more of like The Crow, but later in the movie
where it's still white but it's kind of faded a little bit.
But instead of like but and definitely like around the eyes,
dark but around the mouth instead of like a smile.
It's that fun, like Halloween makeup that's kind of like
skeleton teeth with like the high cheekbones.
So it's that kind of like faded makeup of that.
So it's not like taked on white. It's more of, you know, like a
white foundation with like this makeup.
This will come through a little bit.
So it's not super obvious, but it's definitely there.
But I feel like this is the kind of dude that's just, like always
smiling because he's always like, one second from like
slashing someone's throat and he's just totally good with
that. So I'm just going to come in and
just like bask, like hardcore, walk in the middle of people's
way. Like put two hands on my hips
and just be like like this is just a buffet of opportunities
here and I will just survey and wait for Sebastian to do
something. Yeah, Sebastian.
What? Once you gain entrance, what's
your What's your move, your stance?
So I first of all, as I walk in, I take a deep, deep breath and I
use my keen senses to see if I can smell.
I assume I know what my friend smells like because I've had to
house them before. Yeah.
So yeah, I take a deep breath and I just try to notice if I
smell that I have their scent anywhere.
I think so. The first thing that hits you is
just the smell of Bo of within the pit.
Like it is like, sweaty. It's it's that's like food to
me. Yeah, maybe it's like going to
the the butcher's section of the grocery store.
Yeah, and you do get a faint with of, I guess, like vampire
essence, that sort of undead smell.
It's not quite a rot, but it is something, I guess more, less,
less delectable than the the smell of the human flesh around
you, and more dirt dirty, more tainted.
Like a sweet. Putrefaction, kinda, yeah.
And almost like a fermentation smell.
And it's faint like they're yeah, you you can smell it.
They're not probably they're probably not in the pit based on
what how faint the smell is. Either that or these people
really stink and you're not quite sure because the yeah, you
you get a little whiff. But it's not like enough to be
like there he is. OK, well then I'll walk up to
the bar and I assume they're like bar stools, right?
Because I'm like, I'm under 5 feet tall.
So the there you said there are people passed out at the bar.
Always. Yeah, so I like scamper up one
of them to sit on a stool next to them.
OK. You know, just to make sure this
is. I want this guy to be as weird
and off putting as possible because I feel like for several
thousands of years, thousands of years, you stop being any type
of human. And I I waved.
I I signaled to the bartender politely.
You know, yeah, I want to get back to it's a memo, but go for
it. But I also think I'm going to
ride the bartender train, especially because we're in like
another marked location on the map.
So I'm going to give you a little more information.
You see, the bartender's pretty hot.
She. Her name's Mila Mila Z and she's
tending bar. There's hard liquor, there's
beer, there's cocktails on the bar.
There is like a little plastic thing that's advertising this,
the drink special for a taste of death, that's $9.
And as she takes orders, they sort of appear in this dumb
waiter that's behind her that keeps going up and down.
So she'll like take an order, put a tab in the dumb waiter and
and for cocktails, for for shots and whatever.
And beers. She can just serve them up.
You can also tell, because you're so old that there's
something she's not just a human, that she has some kind of
like infernal presence. You can almost feel the heat
radiating off of her skin from where you're sitting.
And so she'll like put, you know put one of those shitty napkins
down, drop a plastic cup of water and like scoot one of the
placards with the drink special over towards you as she
continues to kind of like make her rounds with the other
patrons. So give you a, give you a second
to, kind of like read the special menu and and.
Pick a drink. And while we do that, I'm going
to get back to Memo who's in the pit.
You are looking for body, Yeah. And you're just vibing like
fitting in. Yeah, kind of fit in.
Maybe I'm a little bit sticking out if they're like very
mundane, but I have, I have my eccentricity is like silent
steps. So I'm like very fluid, you
know, and you actually. I think because you're so
because you can catch the vibe so easy and the band is so bad,
you're actually kind of like more on time than what they're
playing like. It's kind of.
A There's a disconnect between the your body's movement and the
music that you're hearing. Yeah, that's the other part is
like, I'm not dancing great. It's just like, you know, it's
almost, it's not like this, but you know, it's like doesn't look
good, but it's like fluid. In this moment, this the song
ends and there's just this weird, awkward kind of silence,
Like nobody applauds and the singer kind of like Mumbles
something into the microphone and two or three seconds later
you hear this kind of like weak forced applause.
And they're like all right this next song is called Imagining
Some Things and they start another song and the the vibe
kind of like again, people had sort of been not quite still but
the music restarts and the vibe restarts.
You can see through like through this moment of stillness.
That body is like dancing in the in the crowd.
You might have to like weasel between a couple people to get
over to them and 13. You're also in the pit, right?
Yeah, you're kind of like stirring shit in there, Ryan.
Are you on media? Sorry, I I thought you were
talking to me for a second 'cause I forgot my name is a
number, no? I.
I don't feel like I'm in the pit.
I feel like I'm kind of like circling around the pit, just
being creepy as fuck and just like randomly just like walking
around like maybe like dancing every now and then doing the
thing, like sniffing people hunting, like very openly.
Which makes me feel great because they don't know that
that's what I'm doing, but they all see me doing it and just
like zeroing in on like a target for at some point, possibly
something. So I'm just like meandering kind
of around the edges of the pit randomly, like being creepy.
You can see a memo kind of like spot body and start to kind of
move that direction through the crowd while you're bumped by two
people who are carrying out a passed out person.
And they're like lookout, get out of the way, like the crowd's
like kind of half assed getting out of the way.
But they're really struggling to get these and this person is
just black out, like can't, can't walk and they're just
getting dragged away by their friends.
So memo, you're on your way to body, you're going to be able to
get over to him pretty easy, relatively.
Like, you're going to brush up against people it.
It's gonna be awkward and smelly, but it's not gonna be
like terribly difficult before. I do that.
Can I? So I'm like kinda, you know,
moving or whatever. I would like to before I would
have approached. I'd like to like turn around and
just kind of stare at 13 until we make eye contact and just do
like a little nod. He can.
Just like. Feel it, Yeah.
And then just go. But yeah, so protein body,
though by myself not waiting so. I'll also just make a note for
the sake of power stuff that everyone starts with zero blood.
You got a accrue blood if you want to use it, which is your
choice, but I just wanted to make a note of it in case that
comes up soon. So body kind of like, yeah,
makes eye contact with you in the dance pit and kind of just
like turns and is like trying to vibe and like keep their back to
you. Yeah, I'll I'll approach and I
do apologize I I kept body and thirst but I lost their friend's
name. Oh, Dakota.
Dakota is yeah, Dakota. Shreveport is the vamp you're
looking for. Cool.
Yeah, I'm just gonna approach, but make sure that I'm at least
side by side, if not like kind of face on.
So I don't want to be like if they're turning their back and
there's like squish, I would walk around so I could be and if
there's not a squish I would just insert myself.
There's not enough squish that you can that you'd have to.
This band's not that popular. So you're you're gonna be able
to to get in where you want to get in.
And it's not, it's not gonna be like super abrasive.
I'm just, you know, I I feel, yeah.
So they're like trying to have like a good time, but every time
they kind of like see you or make note of you, they're like.
Yeah. It's like spoiling the vibe a
little bit and they're gonna just kind of continuing, try to
like maintain their vibe, their energy and pretend you just
don't. Exist.
Yeah. I'm just gonna not be like, too
abrasive with it, but just be like, hey, I look, I just needed
know where Dakota is. Who are you again?
I'm Dakota's buddy and his cat's been neglected and we know
that's not like. Body like taps somebody that
they're dancing next to and it's like like gonna love this dude
but like you're kind of get the you can kind of tell even the
person who he taps like, OK, man, like not his homie, like
just a guy. Yeah, at this point.
Can 13 just do that? Like super bro Y like extra hard
clap on the back and like come around, like put an arm around
the neck and just be like body buddy.
Like give him a couple paths. Like, I'm like behind him and I
got like, got him a little bit chill cold.
It's like kind of funny, but like, it's that weird.
Kind of like Broy, like, are am I going to fight you or are we
just joking? Kind of funny.
And when I slap his chest, I want it to be a little extra
hard, you know? Yeah.
It's like, what the fuck do you like, get off?
Oh, buddy pal, buddy friend. We're friends, pal.
Buddy, body, whatever the fuck your name is.
How's it going, pal? He just is like, get off.
He's like looking around the room for security or something.
To be like, yeah, dude. So my strength is +2.
I would like it to be like I wanna be as immobile as like I
want it to feel like when he moves away that it's literally
like. He's trying to get away from
like a metal frame, like he does not move so that my strength is
apparent to him. I I won't make you.
He's like not trying to start a fight so he's like trying to
ride out but he's not like it's not violent yet you know.
So I won't make you roll for anything yet.
You got you got him in your grasp for sure.
And and the memo is kind of like circling the Yeah, and they're
like. Dude.
Just help us out. He says just go, go fuck
yourself, man. I don't know.
I don't know anything. I'm gonna, I'm gonna give a
couple of claps on the chest. Again, like real friendly, but
like hard and just feel like Buddy.
Buddy, listen, we're friends. You wanna stay friends with us
because it would be bad for you if we weren't still friends.
So tell us what we wanna know, friend.
Where's Dakota? So body obviously knows you're
vampires because they know Dakota.
I think this moment is definitely like a fuck.
Like how would I get out of this kind of I I don't, I don't know
the way out of this situation. He just goes.
I'm not telling you shit. You know what?
I'm OK with that 'cause I'm. I'm hungry.
I'm a hungry boy body and I've been looking around and you, you
smell tasty. What's Boddy's friend doing?
Oh, that was not Boddy's friend. That was just some dude that he
was acting like was his friend. So that dude's just back to
dancing. OK, perfect.
Perfect. While you're in this sort of
standoff, another person gets dragged out of the pit, passed
out, like again, like right, Kind of through you, maybe
between Memo and and 13. Like someone just kind of gets
dragged by their friends out of the pit and trying to like, tap
their face and like, keep them aware in some way.
But they're fucking gone. Their eyes are looking at
nothing. Got you.
Hey, that. You know what?
That's almost like a a premonition, 'cause I feel like
you're gonna look like that in just like a second or two.
Yeah, maybe some more bodies might hit the floor.
Yeah. At this point I think.
He I think he realizes. He's not getting out of this
without a fight, and he's gonna try to elbow you in the gut and
try to get out of this. So we're gonna have.
Our first. We're gonna have.
Our first dice moment, right? And like in Merckborg, you're
rolling for defense rather than me rolling for attack.
So to I guess this could be a strength.
I mean, you're probably because of who you are gonna just try to
take it and not try to evade it so much as like you wouldn't use
agility, right? You would just kind of like flex
it off and you want to maintain your grip.
So I think of this as a strength test.
Yeah, what? God, I haven't played Mark
program forever. What is the big difference
between strength and toughness? Toughness is sort of like
constitution. It mostly is how you actually
toughness is better in. So I would say I'll give you
this option. You can toughness check to
offset any damage or any kind of pain from this, or you can
strength check to keep your grip on him and get hurt.
But I'll give you like either one of those choices.
So if I just, if I choose to, you know, absorb the damage
potentially, I mean he would escape my grasp if I fail.
No, I'll sit. So like, if you test toughness,
you're going to keep your grip on him.
Wait, I'm fucked enough. So basically, yeah, strength.
I don't want to do 2 dice rolls, so I'm going to have you choose.
Do you want to worry about maintaining your grip and
potential and then taking you just will take damage?
Or do you want to not take damage and you'll have to let go
of your grip? No, I'll grip saying I'm like I
gorilla grip on this guy right now.
So yeah, do a strength test, I'll say.
I mean, it's a difficulty of 12 as like a standard.
I think because of this menacing position that you've put
everyone in, I'll lower that to a 10.
OK, well I rolled A-17 and I have a +2, so I got a 19.
Perfect. So you'll take like, he'll elbow
you and you feel it like it's an elbow in your gut.
I'll say it's only one damage. Absorbed by my studded leather
jacket, so no damage. Love that.
But yeah, you maintain you got him in the headlocks grip.
Still, you don't lose any grip at all.
Yeah, after he elbows me, I I've been doing kind of like the this
thing, like, you know, but I want to actually like crank it
down and kind of give him a nogi and he's felt like, oh, body,
body, body, body, body. Yeah.
Oh my God, I'm so glad you did that.
Cool. I'll wait like a second to see
if Memo or or he does anything before I I I do.
Anything else? So no, I I I would move so that
I would block the like. I'll take my action after yours,
but my main like movement is going to be to block any view
from like the front door where like security might be so like
the stage can see us but whoever's behind us can't.
But I'll make my action after your choice.
Yeah, you for the again for like the Borgian parallelism here,
you're in initiative and they went first.
So like you get a turn still your your defense is not your
turn, that's a reaction to theirs.
So 13 gets to do something still before.
Gotcha. Could I?
So I'm at headlock and people are like passing out and being
carried out, so I would love to just suffocate this person until
he passes out. I agree.
I'll say again, it's a strength. A strength with a difficulty of
10 and. I.
So to just like to hurt him and I'll say because this is like
it's a technically like an unarmed I guess it would be AD 4
damage but if you want to like knock him out same role I'll say
if you get higher than 16, so difficulty of of 16 to choke him
out. I rolled a 21.
OK, yeah, so he just kind of goes limp in your arm and you're
just holding him up by the neck at this point.
For also the sake of, like, this is sort of a skirt around some
rules, Rulings over rules. He's unconscious and not dead.
You didn't break his neck unless that you're trying to do that.
No, I was trying to. Just like I had him in a
headlock. I just wanted to like, you know,
make him pass out. The distinction here, besides
the fact that like you might not want to murder yet, is that
vampires you can only drain the blood of things that are alive
and the second you kill somebody their blood is is poisonous.
Like not literally like going to kill you, but like it doesn't
nourish you anymore. It's been tainted by death.
So they're, yeah, body's unconscious in your arms, lip,
body and yeah, see, so you said you want to do you want to drag
him off out of the pit a little? Yeah, I I said memo like as he's
passing out. Like, I'll just wave memo real
quick and we'll do, like, I almost want to like do a mockery
of what the other people are doing, like how to, like, stop
his face a little bit. Oh no, we got another one.
Oh. No.
And I just like drag him out. Can I, like, throw like a look
over and try to fuck that little short bastard?
And like try to like. You guys can try to.
Weekend and Bernie's him to the bathroom, not to, you know.
I mean, that's true. Yeah.
I'd be like body. The shitty music knocked you out
the. Song ends again and again.
There's this pause before anyone applauds.
Two or three seconds before anyone kind of claps.
And the singer said, like takes a sip of this plastic cup full
of water that he's kind of staging, spits it.
It's like shit tastes like shit, fucking water tastes like shit.
And like there's no, there's not even any, like acknowledgement
or fanfare from the crowd. And they just start another
song. I'm gonna go back to to
Sebastian at the bar, who's maybe not quite able to see this
flag down from 13 across the bar due to your height and the
situation you're in. Yeah, I by the way, I did Google
this beforehand. I am the in the exact average
height of a full grown chimpanzee and that's very much
how I imagine this like elderly ageless creature I am.
Perfect. My luck comes over and says,
like, what can I get for you tonight, sweetheart?
Oh, child, Yeah. And he sounds like that you're
just like, you can't let me play a vampire game because I'm gonna
play a little freak guy. So the specialty menu that's
being the stuff's coming like being toted from like some.
Yeah, from the. Dumb waiter thing.
What was on that menu? Just just that.
It's a drink called the Taste of Death.
It's $9. It doesn't really say what it
is. It's just like a rocks glass
with this, like dark liquid with some ice and it's almost like
not, not quite I guess it's like steaming or smoking like it.
There's almost like a cloud coming out of it.
And is there like a this is like a regular bar, just there's like
a shelf behind her with liquor, right?
Yeah, yeah. So child, I'll have one of the
death bruise and he'll have two shots of that tequila and he'll
point up to like like a like a higher shelf, maybe not the
highest shelf tequila, but something that's old, you know?
OK, she says. Sure thing like she'll like
knock on the bar twice. And while she goes and reaches
up for the tequila, you see the dumb waiter come up.
It's got a drink on it, and she comes with the tequila bottle
and your taste of death, she says.
What? I don't know how much shots, 20
bucks for everything. The person who didn't drink made
a game with a bar in it, so. So if we're talking about the
tire shelf tequila for a shot, yeah, like, yeah, I feel like
$22.00. But it's also the 80s.
Oh, probably like 15 or $13. All right, let's say 50 for the
for the two shots and the and the special.
OK, I give it to him. And then I immediately I scoot.
One of the shots towards her and I, you know.
Cheers. Yeah, she she takes it.
She tucks the money in her bra. She kind of like winks at you.
So tell me about this this drink, child.
What's in it? She just says, oh, you know, a
little this, little that. You have a very interesting
nature around yourself, child. Tell me, where are you from
originally? She.
Like looks at you for a second. And she.
Like is this like a vampire thing where like my eyes can
like change color kind of thing, you know, like you?
Know I'm talking about I don't know what you're.
No, you know, I'm like vampire stuff.
When they get like hungry or angry and their eyes turn like
red in color or whatever, it's OK.
If it's not, I'm just asking. I'll say no, I don't think
that's there is like stuff with spells and powers so that you
can like, change your appearance.
OK, so so she'll she looks over. Like.
She gives you an up and down and she just laughs and kind of says
through like I'm from down South.
I can tell the heat rising off you is palpable.
She says. Look, I I know your secret and I
don't know that this is the best place for you.
I understand and I appreciate the warning.
Now tell me, child, have you ever heard of Dakota Shreveport?
He is one of mine, and I describe Dakota.
I can smell him in here but we have not seen him in a while.
She. Just said, like a lot of people
come through here and they're all kind of the same to me.
So, like, I don't know. I don't know, dude.
Am I kind of the same to you, child?
You're. You're.
Certainly something but. I pull up the gold encrusted
money clip. You know that I have canonically
that you've just just gone along with this whole time and I
appreciate it. And I tapped.
On the table, I'm like, how much for seeing Dakota Shreveport?
How much for your knowledge? She's like, seriously?
But I I can't help you. You you should put you should
put that away like she's like looking around the other bar
patrons. This place is a dive.
What's up? This place is a dive like you
pointed out. This, yeah.
So I'm like and I tuck it into my pants, which is funny, 'cause
now there's only like 90 bucks in there, so it's not like.
They're. Not gonna roll for that much
now. So do I have the death drink in
front of me? Yeah.
I'm gonna stick my pinky in, and then I'm just gonna taste my
pinky and I will once again call upon my keen sense in this
moment to try to just, like, pull apart what's in this.
I feel like thousands of years old at one point in time.
I've worked as maybe a bartender, you know.
Sure, yeah, you can definitely tell there's some.
Again, don't drink. So make up a drink.
It's got like charcoal. It's got some like charcoal in
it to make it black. It's got almost this taste of
like sulfur, like this nasty that that kind of like fog
that's coming off of the drink smells like hell, smells like
sulfur and and rot. The taste you you taste some of
the like metal of blood like, but it is very clear to you that
it is vampire's blood. I see.
But there's like a rot in it. And then all of this, of course,
like mixed with the cold of the ice, the water of the melted ice
in some kind of liquor. Yeah, there's a it's a well,
it's a bourbon based drink. You know, it's a yeah, cool.
I so there's a guy passed out next to me, right?
Is there any way to covertly feed?
I mean, if no one sees you, no one sees you.
Well, I just was thinking, I'll take the glass and I'll just
pour it out directly below me, because this is just a this is a
shitty dive bar with shitty lighting, I assume.
Sure. Yeah.
And I was going to take the
guy's wrist next to me and prick it with my long nails and just
squeeze out a little bit of blood into the cup.
I'll. I'll definitely let you do that.
He's black out, so there's no role here.
Cool. I'm.
Not going to. I'm not like going to drain
everything by the way. I'll, I'll break it.
I'll. Yeah.
So you gain let me find the blood header here.
Also, I'm so sorry y'all listening at home for my voice,
but I'm I'm. Gonna stick with it.
So you would do deal. You would do D4 damage to your
target, which doesn't matter 'cause this dude's blackout, so
already unconscious. You gain D2 blood, so you get 2.
Two blood as of I don't remember if I mentioned, but you can
never have more than three. So three's three's your cap but
you get 2 and you would regain D4 HP but you haven't taken any
damage so you're at full health still.
Cool, I did. By the way, for the record, I
did do 2 damage to that guy, so if that matters.
Cool. How much do how much HP do
regular people have? That's a good question.
So it it varies. A normie or a hipster has three
or a hipster has three. The people like Normie usually
has five single digits. OK.
But just like in any game, like more important.
So the bouncers would have had 12.
They kind of scale based on how important they are and how much
like power I guess they have. Cool.
So yeah, you get you got a little blood in your tummy.
We're going to go back to the other two who've got this
unconscious body of body. I'm.
Going to move to join them by the way.
Yeah, great. Just a cool, cool display that
anymore. Yeah, great.
Yeah. So you walk over, maybe licking
your lips a little bit, The other two can tell you just fed.
You're a little more chipper. And yeah, you can see they've
got body bodied. Another drink.
Are we? Are we?
I probably think I'm probably going to ask memo this like
already and I've been going one of the two directions.
Are we going to like the bathroom?
Are we going to like the back door or like what's our plan
memo? Sorry, I should also make note,
because it's on the map, but it's not numbered, that there's
a downward staircase between the stage and bar in that top
corner. But you have definitely drag
access to any of those locales. Do we know?
Is there like a sign that says like worse than appear or
anything? Sorry, there's this.
You know there's a the stairway is lit enough like it has a like
an exit sign or something like a glowing sign there.
I think the safe bet to talk to body would be to go to the
alley, but I I feel like we shouldn't necessarily not go
downstairs so we could also. I'm down to bring them down.
I would be. So are the the downstairs.
Are people coming up and down there?
Is it like actively used? No, I mean you can presume from
having been to shows that that's probably where the green room
is. I think that we should go
towards the bathrooms, I say in my creepy voice.
People will definitely be using the bathrooms.
I'm OK with like the green, the the downstairs.
We could probably make that work you.
Don't think we'll draw attention if people aren't regularly
walking up there. The bathroom we can like get
into and you know, some people in there, we can wait for them
to leave or get them out. Are they family size or would it
be weird for like 4? They're like single stalls,
yeah. Yeah.
Perfect. Like it's single.
Like one person bathrooms. Yeah.
Oh yeah, that's perfect. Emma, you've been to a show
you've seen like four people go into one bathroom to do.
That before like that's. Not at all unusual.
All right, yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll drag this
dude behind the old man towards the bathroom like, oh, get let's
get some water on your face there, friend of ours, and just
drag him in there. Cool.
Let's see. There's two stalls, so you're
going into the first one. You can see as you approach the
door, there's water cooling out at the bottom.
The the toilet is overflowing and it is leaking out into very
slowly into the general show space.
As you open that door you are you you see you can hear and see
the overflowing of the toilet and there are three sewer crabs
kind of like around the toilet bowl trying to kind of like get
out of like go back down and when they see you.
And by sewer crab, I just mean a crab that lives in the sewer it
is, you know? A little bit.
Little bit bigger than a beach crab, I guess.
Yeah, normal, normal sewer crabs, like we've all
experienced. No sewer crabs, yeah.
And they're going to. We're gonna roll initiative and
have you fight some sewer crabs real quick.
Oh. Yeah, first first question and
you'll you'll all get to go before the crabs do is what do
you do with body here? We're in the bathroom right now.
Right. Yeah, I was 13 because you've
got the grid. So we we, we open the stall and
there's just like crabs, just like chillin coming out of the.
Toilet like, yeah. I would guess.
I guess I wouldn't call them chillin.
There's like, I feel like a crab is not a chill creature.
They're always like Skinner in and like they're out.
They're out there. I don't know.
There's three sewer crabs. They want to fuck you up.
That's more than enough information.
Yeah. I mean, if we're in the Did you
say we were alone in the bathroom?
Besides the. Crabs, yeah.
And the and the toilet's overflowing.
And then there's the three of you and unconscious body.
Yeah, fuck him. I'll drop his ass right into the
fucking water. Right in the fucking water on
the ground. I get zero fucks about this guy.
Cool, yeah. The three of you get to act
first in Initiative, and there are three sewer crabs.
Kind of like pinching the air around you.
The fucking ready to ready to throw down.
Cool. I acted first last time.
I think I I was following Sebastian and SO.
I'm the least combatty person here, like I have no HP and I
will die immediately. So I think I'll let you guys
take care of this and I'll hold down our body.
Just I'm a sit on body. I think y'all got this.
It's just a couple crabs. Yeah, I'll clump right away.
Be like these damn bastards, you know, because we, like, live in
the sewer, more or less. Yeah, fucking crabs.
Yeah, you to. You that that's like a Roach in
your cabinet. Like you see sewer crabs all the
time. It's fucking no big deal.
Yeah. Roll D20 to hit.
They're a difficulty of 12. I don't remember you got.
So you would use strength. Sorry.
I rode an 11. OK, so yeah, you are swiping
your claws at it. You like scratch it, you see
kind of. The scratch marks on the back of
its is the right word that I'm looking for carapace.
Yeah, I think so, Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
You scratch into its carapace. You see the scratch marks from
your claws, but they're crabs, so they can just, like, take it.
They don't even really notice that they got swiped, and
they're just still kind of like scurrying around.
You, 13, do some violence. Yeah, so I do We we don't happen
to have like our weapons and shit here, do we?
So you just bought your way in 'cause they're one of the
bouncers jobs, was to like check for weapons, but since you just
paid them off, you do have like whatever your shit is.
Gotcha. Well, yeah.
So then I have a baseball bat with teeth that I must have just
like, Oh yeah, you know. Let's say it's.
Like under your clothes or something like yeah, at least a
little bit hidden. I tucked it into, yeah, like my
my jacket or something. That's that's I'm not just happy
to see you. If it's tucked in my pants and
I'll, I'll whip that out. And it's a baseball bat that I
have. You know what is it?
One of the things that I keep trophies from my kills.
There we go. So I keep some of the teeth,
probably other things too, but I definitely take the teeth from
some of my victims and I just attach them into the bat, cause
what I actually do is I extract the teeth with the bat and all
the ones that stick, you know, I keep in there, love it.
Yeah. So I have that and I hit a crab
with it. I hit a sewer crab with it.
That's what I'd like. Yeah, roll.
D20 and add your strength. 10 + 2 OK.
Yeah, how do you like, are you under handing, Are you over
handing like describe your motion here, how you going to
annihilate some crabs? Well, so I I'm at, so I'm
thinking of the camera angles here, like, so there's a stall,
there's a toilet, and there's threes like sewer crabs, like
kind of like on the toilet bowl, right?
Yeah, Yeah. Well then, yeah, I definitely
would have like kind of got in one of these like sumo and I
just want to. Gallagher.
Down right, over the top, yeah. Yeah, you just fucking explode
one of these crabs. It's it's like.
Goop. Kind of strings over the walls
of the toilet stall, and you hear the kind of like clatter of
its shell kind of clanking against the ceiling in the wall.
One of them is just completely eviscerated.
And Sebastian, I know you're watching, but you saw, you just
saw one of the crabs absolutely explode.
But you got two more. And one of them's kind of like
making its way towards you, like doing its whole like, let's go
bro. I like sigh and stand up and
like brush off and I'll slip out my switchblade that I keep on
me. For some, I assume it's like an
old switchblade, like whatever year this.
It's like 40 years old at this point, you know?
And I'll go ahead and I'll stab at it.
Give a little stab. Yeah, hit me with that strength
test. I rolled 11 + 112.
OK, same thing. You're able to just like.
Swoop. This knife in and you just have
it like a popsicle, like the crab is just kind of like on the
end of your switchblade handle, and it very slowly stops moving.
It's just very quickly killed. Boom.
I just pull up the switchblade and I wipe it off on body and I
like flick it close and then sit back.
Down. You know.
Love it. The one remaining crab that's
not eviscerated is going to try to pinch Memo for that for that
failed strike. So you're gonna roll an agility
test to try to defend yourself here?
So I rolled a three and I've -2. That's bad.
So it's like climbing up. You like, like chittering so
fast and you try to like quickly, like brush it off, but
it's pinching into your shirt as it climbs.
So it's not just like you can just like, brush it so easy and
it's gonna just clamp right onto your chin and it's gonna do four
damage. It'll like, immediately break
the skin and you start to, like, bleed this black icker down your
chin and neck. Oh shit, that sucks.
Oh, so I'm well, I'm potentially exposed if I turn around.
Yeah. I mean, if it's if it's back to
us. I'm getting that.
Yeah. Yeah.
So I'm clawed in the face. What the fuck?
Y'all of crabs. I'm just going to try and throw
it at the bar. Cool.
Do it a strength test to see if you can do that. 19 + 1.
Hell yeah, yeah, we'll say like somebody, for the sake of this
like, moment, somebody opened the bathroom door that wasn't
locked, like, doesn't lock, like, you just can't lock it
because this place sucks. And in that moment, they're
like, oh shit, somebody's in here.
They turn around, the crab zooms over their shoulder.
They don't even like, really know what They kind of feel the
whiff and you just like fling it like a Frisbee.
It like ricochets into the dumb waiter that just goes down and
you just see it like it is gone, gone so so the three crafts have
been swiftly disposed of. You're in the bathroom with the
overflowing toilet and body. Who is soaking wet with toilet
water? Yeah, I'm gonna do like a full
motion spin. So I'm facing back, so I'm kind
of covered still. And I guess just use like my
shirt. I think I have some sort of a
jacket too. So yeah, just gonna kind of burn
that, just be like this and. Cool.
That's that's good luck. Thank you 13.
Yeah, So fight's over as you're kind of, like coming down from.
And this was brief. This was like this whole
exchange happened in like probably 10 seconds of just, oh,
I'm sure there's crabs and then they're gone the the toilet kind
of like stop. Like you can hear that sort of
hiss from the toilet bowl, but there's no more water coming
out. It's like the the room is
pretty. It's got maybe half an inch of
accumulated water that's spilling out into the pit room,
but the water stops running. And yeah, what?
What? What's next for the gang?
We should dunk his face in and wake him.
Up. I was thinking a very similar
thing. The exact same.
Thing. I literally was just gonna like
pick him up and just like, dunk, like just fucking then, yeah.
I like hop off to standing, you know?
Yeah. What?
So it's a toilet? And is there like a Is there
actually like a? Well, like a.
Seat. No, the thing behind the seat,
like an actual. Tank.
Is there actual tank?
Yeah. I would like to, because I
assume this is a small, tiny little thing.
I would like before I'm going to pick up Sebastian under his arms
and put him on the tank. Sure.
He looks at you so indignantly. I'm so just.
I'm beaming as I do this. Oh, I got you, little buddy.
And I'll, but I'll stick him up there and I'll say that too to
him. Oh well, I got.
I gotcha. I won't pat his head even though
I want to, because he's old as fuck, which means he's probably
really powerful. And then yeah, like me and Mimo
will just kind of like take him in close the stall door behind
us and then just kind of like just dunk him in there.
You know, take. Turns yeah.
Oh it. I mean, like, he comes to, but
he's fucked up and he's like trying not to barf.
What do you what the fuck? Oh hey buddy, How's it going?
What the fuck is this? Oh, hey, so we're just looking
for Dakota. And I don't know, you weren't
feeling well when you passed out.
You know, we're just kind of, we woke, Yeah, you woke you up a
little bit, you know, splash a little water in your face.
Here, let me give you a little more.
And I'm going to, like, dunk him like a bunch more times and then
bring him back up. Yeah.
He's not doing great. He.
He's trying not to throw up. Oh, you don't feel so good,
buddy. Is that when I said you just
need to give us a little information?
He like, looks like all fucked up, looks up and just sees
Sebastian at the back of the toilet.
He's like, what the fuck? What?
And Sebastian like has a wide terrifying smile.
I assume that his teeth do not look like normal people teeth.
They are all kinds of fucked up because he's so bored and this
is so much fun for him to watch. So.
I'll say, Sebastian, because of where you are looking down on
this whole thing, you can see a zip lock bag full of pills.
That's like plugging up the toilet that's causing it to
flood. What's this?
And I like lean over and like I like, but I feel like he like,
you know when you go touch your toes but you watch like a weird
yoga person do it and then go so far past because does that and
grabs it and and stands all like slithers all the way back up to
standing. Yeah, some cartoon logic.
How uncomfortable can I make this guy's movement?
Also, by the way, as we go through, because I'm going to do
it and I hold up the bag of pillows.
I'm like, interesting. But yeah, so body's all fucked
up. What do you guys?
Want What the fuck? Hold his head up.
Let me see.
Listen, I know how to torture somebody, Sebastian.
All right, come down. I just want a single eyeball.
So here's here's the thing. We just want to know some
information about where the fuck Dakota is.
This isn't hard, but this creepy fox is going to take your
eyeball if you don't. Tell us.
Take an eyeball. Yeah, See and listen.
And I'm just going to take literally everything else.
So you could just tell us anything about where Dakota is
and we can decide what to do with you after.
I don't know. Fucking shit.
I'm just some. Fucking guy.
What the hell? Do we believe him?
Oh, I am waiting for the chance to ram one of my long
fingernails directly into his eyeball like a weird little
freak. So don't ask me, man.
Is bull right? Is there like capability to like
erase memory and stuff or? Yeah, yeah.
Some vampires can can glamour and, like, manipulate people's
minds. You can presume, I guess.
Like, you know, if vampires can do it, then witches can probably
do it. Then.
Like you. Yeah, it's entirely possible
this dude's brain is scrambled. It's also impossible that he's
lying, and it's also possible that neither of those happen and
he's just a fucking idiot. Mm hmm.
Mm hmm.
So you were saying?
Yeah. So I'm gonna ask you one more
time, right? Because after that, either
you're lying to us and I will literally slaughter you, or
you're telling us the truth and you're fucking useless to us.
So here's the thing. You either tell us where Dakota
is, or the three of us will fucking eat you.
We hooked up like twice. I don't even know his last name.
Like this is not AI. Don't fucking know.
Where is the last place you saw. At your house.
OK, hold his head up. Yeah, I think.
I think that's it, Memo. I guess.
OK, what what did you guys do while you were here?
Is there somewhere that he would be taken since you know?
I don't know. I haven't.
I haven't seen him since we got here.
Listen, listen children, I have found some interesting
information at the bar. So why don't we dispose of this
one and I'll regale you with my tail of drinking?
Fine. All right, all right, all right,
all right. I'm gonna pull his head back and
aim his eyes up towards you. I'm just going to poke a mini
eye really hard, yeah. You.
Know it's just like extremely hard.
Yeah, I don't. I'm not going to make you roll.
You just get a little eyeball skewer going.
We. Probably.
Shouldn't we probably should have triggered warning this
episode at the beginning for the fact that we're playing it
terrible vampires in a Merc Borg ass hack?
Yeah, so at that point, if he's wailing and stuff, I'm literally
just going to keep his head pulled back and just like right
into his fucking throat and just rip his throat out.
But like, be drinking it and just like, pouring it into the
toilet bowl. Yeah, you can do that.
I was going to feed two. I feel like you shouldn't rip
his throat out though, because you don't get blood because
he'll sour if he's dead. He's not.
It takes a while to it. It's not instant.
OK, like I mean. It's.
Draining now, so. Drink or yeah.
I'm drinking. I'm drinking separate, separate
puncture. Yeah, and I'll drink.
Until it starts to sour, you know.
You both get D2 blood shit. I'll drink a little bit as well.
Yeah. Fuck it, Hunter you.
Can. Top yourself off.
Yeah, that. Yeah.
No, I can. Sorry.
I got two blood dope. OK.
Shouldn't have been a Dick head buddy.
Yeah. I want to come.
Down. Nice.
Yeah, he's got a wallet and keys, has maybe like a little
thing of coke. Dope.
I take all that. Yeah, and also for the record,
Sebastian, you got a bag of uppers that were clogging the
toilet. You can snort them or swallow
them to get double movement until sunrise, but there's a one
in six chance that you overdose when you take them and
immediately go to 0HP. I think I'm gonna keep them as a
currency there. Have them in your bag.
That's that's how they are for now.
I would love to. This is obviously the first time
it's being played. I would love to make some more
robust drug stuff going on here, but for the sake of this
adventure, those are just some speeds.
Cool. Nope.
All right, so I am going to go ahead and regale everyone with
the tail of my grabbing a drink at the bar.
Dumb waiter. The weird like, sulfuric, like,
almost demonic drink that definitely had hints of vampire
blood. Yeah.
Weird. Cool.
Well, we're looking for a vampire, so.
Yeah, yeah. So you think they took it from
someone unwillingly? Or do you think a vampire
willingly was just like, oh, you need one of those drip, drip,
you know? I guess we all know until we go
see. That's true.
So this guy, like, I assumed we had him kind of like laid at the
bowl, eyeball poked out. We did it.
And I just now we just like put his head in the water and it's
all just like full of red water. That's like kind of pouring all
over the floor now. Yeah, the water stopped flowing,
so it's just kind of pooling, but it's exactly that, just the
little corpse in the toilet. Nope.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna go clean up, touch up my makeup a little
bit and all right. Yeah, by now I'm not bleeding or
anything. No, it's.
So actually, since you fed, the wound is is.
Oh yeah. Closed.
Oh yeah. And you heal, Yeah.
Yeah, So what? Let me.
Do it now. I think now we should sneak
downstairs. Now we're not weighted with a
with a potential and now actual corpse.
Obviously the last Twilight movie where they they won
vampire. I have not seen any Twilight
movies. No, I have not.
Oh, you're sleeping on those. They're awful.
You should watch them. Maybe one day.
Yeah, that's.
I mean, sure, let's fucking do it.
Yeah, lead the way, you little creepy fuck.
So I like, you know in in the understanding that we're like
things are about to get probably worse especially has long hair
like he got he like pulls his like rub band off and he ties up
his hair. This is this is acting for me
because I don't have hair so I get to experience this.
And play. And he's like, let us go and he
we walk out the door, casual, like.
Yeah, I mean, no one really. Best to lash at you.
Cool. Like.
You said it's not that weird for a group of people to go into one
stall together at this place. Sure, we're a group of normal.
Looking people too, none of us look weird at all so.
Yeah, yeah. It's not that none of you look
weird, it's that everyone looks weird.
So it's fine. That's so funny.
Yeah, I guess we're going to try to make it down those stairs.
You're able to, no problem. I think maybe the singer, the
band kind of like gives you a side eye while you're walking
past the stage, but they're in the middle of the song and he's
not trying to interrupt, He's trying to be professional, you
know? Also, maybe it's kind of a thing
where it's like if you act like you should be somewhere people
are less likely to like, you know?
Yeah, yeah. There's no security over there.
You're able to just get downstairs, and I've shared in
Discord a map of the downstairs. It definitely has some stuff you
shouldn't know, but we'll just roll with it anyway as you reach
the bottom so you know it goes down, turns 180, goes down like
1/2 light, half light. So you're underneath the stage
now in what's effectively just a concrete floor common space.
There's some support beams that are covered with stapled up
posters for past and future shows.
There's some stain like the floors is kind of sticky with
old beer and some like spilled blood and you see like a bunch
of closed doors around you. There's one one of them's
labeled with just a like a laminated piece of printer paper
that says radioactive. That is presumably the green
room where they would just put the whatever band is playing
every day and put that label there.
And you can also see that there's an like the door right
in front of you, right like as you descend in straight in front
of you has like a little glass opening with the like chain in
it or whatever the like fencing in it so that you can't
breakthrough and you can see the lights on and somebody's working
in there. Wait, so you said they're
working in which room? Like so it's #2 on the map.
Just straight in front of you is a lit room with a little bit of
like see through glass part. We just fed, so I feel like
really just confident in in also suspecting foul play.
So I think I I would just go up and knock on two unless someone,
anyone, has hesitation about it. Goodbye me, you just, you hear a
woman yell out. What do you want?
Hey, we have a problem out here. We just need a We talks to you
about it. Hurry up.
Is the door unlocked? Yeah, as you open it, you see
there's this woman behind her desk.
She's signing a bunch of paperwork.
The radio's on playing WSCB, which is like, you all know,
because you listen to it every day too.
It's like the sort of scabs, local radio.
It's like actually kind of cool. They have pretty reliably good
DJs. And it's also how a lot of these
sort of magical underbelly of the city can communicate with
one another by requesting songs or speaking in kind of like
coded language, buying ads or whatever on the radio station.
So she's listening to the radio, she's signing these papers,
she's wearing these really long, like floral plant, floral print,
flowy garbs, has really long kind of dreading hair and she
doesn't even look up from what she's doing and says what do you
guys want? Is she human?
Does she smell human? She smells human.
Hello, yeah. You smell human.
That that voice immediately like she like looks up from her
contract and she goes fucking vampire.
What the fuck do you want? I'm walking behind the desk.
I'm going like, right next to you.
I believe we're looking for a friend.
She like as soon as as memo starts coming, she like kind of
pushes her chair out from her desk and like like kind of like
readies her body. You want to tell us about your
drink upstairs? You like it?
No, we don't fucking like it. Well, we got beer.
What else do you want? Child, where does the vampire
blood come from for your special drink upstairs?
She looks at you and she says a more virile source.
I'm not actually hiring right now.
I I I hop up onto the desk. Because I'm a little guy, you
know? Do you know a name?
Dakota Shreveport. Do you know the name Ligma?
God damn it. Not Sebastian, do you?
I know this joke, but like Sebastian being like the most
boomer E vampire ever, I'm unfamiliar with the name Ligma.
She goes the Ligma balls. Or get the fuck out of my
office. God damn it, I.
Forgot that you can walk into that one you.
Know she fucking got you. That's funny.
What's your name, bitch? She stands up now and she's
taller than you are on top of her desk.
Well, that's not. Hard.
And she says this is your last chance to leave the spot right
now, willingly. And 13 are you next to the door?
I I didn't really go in too far, so I think I if you're on the
desk and he's by the desk, yeah, I'm probably by the door.
Ish. Yeah.
I look back. I'm like 13.
Close the door and come in, won't you?
As as soon as you say that, she's going to cast a spell.
She casts a. She's a witch.
She casts a spell called God's Fist where she is going to like
punch out and just like send like a beam of of force
basically at at 13 before you can close the door.
I didn't even say anything. I support this all.
Right. So you got to do an agility test
to evade God's fist. -113 -, 112.
So and sorry, there's there's two.
There's two fists here. So you'll dodge the first one
when you roll a second one for the second fist. 10 -, 1 That'd
be a nine. So the first one actually let's
just like reverse them for the sake of narrative that she just
like cast this spell you see like almost like as she extends
her arm this kind of like spectral phantasmal shape of a
fist exit her fist God, this is exactly like the greenhorns
game, isn't? It.
I don't even connect the dots. That's great.
And the. Go.
Flying at you. The first one just clocks your
jaw and as it kind of like, it's so forceful that it kind of
knocks you out of the way of the second fist that then goes back
past you and smashes against one of those support beams in the
cement room. Some staples and some old
posters just kind of like flutter off of the beam and
you're gonna take D6 damage, which I'll roll and is a six.
That's awful, yeah. What all can I use blood for?
Again, this is just. Power.
So yes, Blood is how you cast most of your spells, and also
most of the classes have have powers that you can use blood
for. And then blood is sort of as
like a peek behind the curtain, a supplementation of omens in
Murkborg. So part of what we are doing in
part of what my goal is in this test is like, how do you use
blood for not spell casting? Since you're a strength
character, you're probably not carrying any spells.
I think you can so for the sake of future roles, you can spend
one blood to get plus one on your dice rolls.
Just one to one. And then if you deplete them,
you got to feed again. So, and rather than being a meta
currency, it's a the opposite of that, it's it's a currency
within the game. So like you control how much you
ever have at a given point. Yeah, sure.
Is it. So is it How?
How difficult is it normally going to be to feed?
Because like a + 1 on AD 20 is pretty small as opposed to like
even. If you want really.
OK, gotcha. I feel like we've been pretty
hesitant just because we know it's like anti vampire and we
don't out ourselves. Yeah, that's very fair, and I
think that's probably smart. I think the way I would consider
it like because one of the major vampire inspirations here is
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, that like a vamp could drain somebody
in the pit and no one would really notice 'cause it just
looks like people making out or whatever, like.
Cool. It's kind of and and like you
said, people black out. It's kind of OK No one's really
paying attention. So like.
Kind of Pillar of Bloodborg. Bloodborg is like the ease at
which vampires can feed regularly.
You can, yeah. You can feed all the time.
That's basically. So yes, great highlight.
It's like one of the important functions of bloodborg is that
you're feeding and spending, and feeding and spending and feeding
and spending. It is kind of an additional like
microsystem on top of just the regular skill check thing.
Cool. Yeah, I like the idea that it
like, takes in. It's potentially like some of
these spent an action on there in combat, too.
It's like, oh, hey, I'm gonna go get it.
Yeah. Feeding is like an attack so
like yeah, you could bite in the middle of of it does very little
damage but the idea that you get more blood and then you could
turn around and use a power is kind of.
The Yeah, that's really cool. I'm making a note besides the
spend one, blood get plus one, which I agree is minor to make
sure every class has something cool to do with it.
What if it was like for for what?
For for the combat players instead of like a + 1 since so
much of the game is like dice rolls and stuff?
Like the armor for example is like AD 4:00.
What if it was like AD 4 instead of one?
And that would give an option for kind of like a swinginess in
combat instead of just go one for one.
Oh, you mean like spin the blood and get plus D4?
Yeah, so like, if I'm saying like, oh, I'm trying to avoid on
this check, it could be like, OK, like I spend a blood and get
like AD four for the check. That's just a pot just throwing
out there. Yeah, I'm taking notes.
So good to know. For.
For now, as we'll dive back into this fight, we'll just say like,
yeah, you can spend a blood to get a plus one.
And as I like reformat the next thing.
But before my next play, I'll make sure that every class has
something cool that's worth spending blood on, 'cause I
think most of them do, but I also, off the top of my head,
can't think of what they all are so.
Well mine. My class has free abilities like
learned and keen sensor. Great abilities, They don't cost
anything now. So yeah, generally each class
should have one free one and one blood one.
Nope. Nope.
Cool. All right, well you did Max
damage on me, which is 6, and I rolled A2 on my D4 armor, so I
took four damage from that knock.
That's half my HP. Yeah.
Oh, you're not knocked out? I for some reason I thought you
were knocked out 'cause. No, I think I get I get plus
toughness. HI get toughness plus 8 HP so I
got 8 HP. Nice.
Yeah. Well, I'm.
I'm glad you got attacked because I think, yeah, 'cause
that was killed. Sebastian and I are both, yeah.
I have 5 health so. No.
Whose turn? It's your gang's turns, yeah,
she you just saw her, you know, puncher dude from far away and
she's not fucking. Around, yeah, I think the first
thing, I think I want to use the force teleport, even though
we're in a small area. What that allows me to do is
push anything within arms rate up to 10 feet.
So I think what I want to do is just like completely clear, like
the desk and everything because I'm on that side and like push
her into the wall. So Sebastian has like easy go.
If you do that, Sebastian will fly too 'cause he's on top of
the desk. You're right then you said
feeding's AD 4. Feeding does D4 damage, Yeah.
I'm gonna do that. Cool.
So since she's like, since you're in combat, I'll have you
do it like you would do an attack roll.
It's difficulty 12. This I'll I'll let you sort of
decide how you approach and whatever stat you wanna do to to
manage that 'cause this is not just a strength thing if it
doesn't. If yeah, so before I I actually
do that, what would be the main difference between using like my
claws, which would do four, and then feeding if there's like a
benefit to using the weapon overfeeding.
I so you can only have up to three blood in your stomach.
I think there will probably, there should have to be some
kind of penalty for like feeding if you're full to sort of manage
that because you're right, like if they're both doing D4 damage,
why wouldn't you do the one that helps you every time?
Yeah, you might also. I mean, I only if you're like
taking, so just I don't even know if this is the right one,
but you might also like give it a disadvantage of some sort
like. Like feeding in combat is
harder. Yeah, well, because you'd have
to be so close. I feel like this situation, I'm
like, right on her, you know, she chose not to attack me,
which is great for me when. So like, it's kind of the same.
I I feel like maybe, well, I'm not running the game, but maybe
it just will be waived for that reason alone in this situation.
But if it's all the same, I'm feeding for this game, I'm
feeding. Yeah, right.
That makes sense. Is a good thing to think about.
For For the sake of now, why don't you roll?
Choose a stat and like however you're approached?
Like you said, you're already right up on there.
Yeah. Strength, I think or yeah, if
I'm choosing, I would choose strength just because I'm there
and I'd want to kind of have some sort of it.
Definitely makes the most sense, but I also assumed you didn't
have strength for some reason, so.
I have plus one strength and -2 agility, and I have plus one
presence, so, but I think presence is more like spells and
stuff, right? Yeah, yeah.
Well I already rolled and I rolled it too.
So which girl? So it's a 3 total, but I'm just
gonna like. Yeah, I think she just ducks
your, like, approach and maybe you kind of, like, spill over
you're you're like kind of behind her, but she's gonna like
do a back body drop kind of like you're on the ground.
Yeah. OK.
And Sebastian, you're just on her desk.
I. Am as this is all happening
happening Sebastian like from I'm wearing like a fairly I
guess those like humpy pants I'm wearing have deep pockets.
I reach in my pocket I pull out this like decrepit looking black
scene with red like riding on it and I flip flip it open and I
dig my long nails into my hands just for a little blood.
And I will go ahead and I'll cast magic weapon and I'll spend
2 blood to cast it. And because it's a spent one,
there's no rule right. I just do cast it OK Yeah.
And I I summon like, I feel like a like an S talk or like a very
classic, like fencing style weapon.
You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, it doesn't matter
something old, something old and pointy that he would have used
1000 years ago. And I summoned into my hand.
I can't cast and attack the same turn, can I?
No, but I just added to the spell because this makes sense
that you're going to use presence to attack with it
rather than Strength, because this is a spell.
OK, that should help you. I have 0 presence and plus one
strength so. Actually, all right.
I mean, I think, I think that. That's just a that's that's on
you. That's a weird build.
Yeah, well. I didn't you know I think your
rule makes sense so but yeah I was going for a tiny strong guy
like the joke is just got when it came up I was gonna be like
yeah he's actually like incredibly strong.
For the I pictured, I pictured the Leech as like a bookworm,
like an old mage. That makes That does make sense,
but I do have a weird build because I'm weird.
This guy he's. Been picking up those books for
so long and he has to put him so.
High on the. Shelf.
He's just had to get a workout. The build is whatever you want
to be. Whether or not it makes sense is
a totally different thing. Yeah, you're magical boomy man.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to.
I don't want to fudge the rules too much while we're going,
'cause that's totally part of the test, is seeing what is and
isn't intuitive. But I'll just make yeah, I just
made a note of that. So 13 you just got decked in the
face, but you still get a turn this round.
Yeah. I'm just gonna be like, man,
she's got a she can she's she's she can swing.
And I want to do like my best, like Harley Quinn impression,
like strut, like hip swaying, bat spinning, the whole fucking
thing that she does, you know, And kind of like skip at the end
and hit try to like, you know, like Joaquin Phoenix at the end
of that terrible fucking M Night Shyamalan movie with the alien
with this teeth bat right on this lady's face.
OK, roll string. OK, 20 can I is this an instance
where you have anything for I can like spend blood to gain
anything or or just no on this? Yeah, we'll do that from now on.
OK. Don't matter.
I rolled a 13 + 2 so I got a 15 unless I need more than that
because it will spend blood. No, that's good.
OK. And how much damage do you do?
Baseball battle with teeth is D 10, so let me roll that 7.
All right, yeah. You give her to go with this
allegory or whatever comparison. You give her that joker smile.
It like the teeth tear into her cheek and she and you see the
blood kind of splatter on the back of her office wall and she
spits out a big like wad of that thick blood from her mouth even
like she'll spit out one of her teeth too.
And you kind of see it and it almost like listens to you.
And so she is going to counter. She's fucking, she's mad.
She's like, actually I'm going to do a morale role because it's
Morkborg and she says like her, like her, like fingers are like
fizzing like sparklers and she's like last chance.
Seriously, get the fuck out. Yeah, I'm gonna give you a break
in the in the action to reassess.
I'm gonna hold up my hand and another hand is gonna like crawl
up and around me out of my jacket and crawl down my arm
onto my hand and it's gonna pop up and turn over and do like the
come at me bro thing before it like, crawls up onto my
shoulder. Sebastian, what happened to you?
I can't remember. I summoned a bloody rotten S
talk from my own blood. And yeah, that was my So she.
I feel like when she does that, I do like the fencer stance with
one hand behind the back, you know?
And I'm like. Yeah, you're not.
You're you're doubling down here.
She's going to cast God's fist again.
This time both both arms go out like Power Ranger style.
She's gonna send 1 to 13 for that that tooth bite and the
other to Sebastian, who's kind of taunting from right up close
since since memo is kind of on the.
Ground behind her. Not.
Not an immediate threat. Still a throat.
Go Power Rangers. Yeah, so you both need to roll
agility tests. That difficulty is 12. 14 -, 113
baby. And Ryan?
Oh, I thought it was Sebastian A memo.
Bah Bah Bah. I don't know why.
No, I'm the least threatening. I ruled an 18 plus whatever you
rule. X or Agility. -117.
You both are able to get out of the way before the impact, and
again you see the impact hit like the walls behind you and
paperwork and all the shit on her desk.
Everything's just like flying around the room like it's a
little calamitous. It's not a very big space.
I do like a little dexterous twirl you.
Know. All right, your turn.
The three of you and whatever. I'll hit it.
I'm not hit it with the the the weapon.
Yes, dope. You said I'm rolling presents to
hit. Yes.
So the magic weapon, which needs a cooler name, does D6 damage on
a hit an additional D4 to living beings, which she is.
So if you use this against a vampire, it would not do.
That extra damage. I rolled in 18.
All right. And then?
I also rolled the two damage on D6 and three damage on D4
because I rolled them all at once.
OK, yeah, describe what's the Oh, you got like a fencing
sword, right? I do, yeah.
So, like, it's very much like she did a front punch.
I like, it's like almost like a gallop step forward and then you
like lean, you know, and just like poke them out and then pull
back. Yeah, And as you poke with this
weapon that's made of coagulated blood, you can see it almost
kind of like spiral down, like her fresh blood, kind of like
mix into it and absorb it. And she, like, winces from the
pain and she, like, screams out. Yeah, whichever 13 or memo with
whoever wants to go next. Yeah, of course.
Dang. Well, yeah.
So I'm on the ground. I'm just going to get up in a
really, like, smooth, like, cool way like I I mean, I mean, I'm a
I'm a I'm a handsome Latin fella is what I am.
So, you know, I'm very smooth and I just, I'm gonna claw at
the like, at the legs, at the calves, great.
Yeah, roll a strength test. 19 + 1.
You guys are nuts. Yeah, so we're.
Big empires. Yeah.
It's like the best I've ever rolled in the game.
I'm just gonna throw. It out.
It's funny too, 'cause it's like, I don't know, you said you
all haven't played a Merc Borg in a while.
They're fucking hard. And part of the approach here
was like, OK, you're vampires, you're a little stronger than
normal. So I would, I don't necessarily
want to make it easier, but I want to make it more bombastic.
And I guess I did because, like, there's a lot of blood flying
around. In this, in all fairness, I feel
like this is like a really without these really good roles,
this is a really heavy damage encounter.
For sure, Yeah. She's sort of the boss of this
part. So like.
She. Could be kicking your ass, but
everything is just going crazy with dice.
Yeah, I wrote 3 for damage. Three.
No, you're getting damaged. All right, she like drops to a
knee, 'cause you claw the back of her calf and she's on like
one knee now, like screaming out you.
See behind you 13 'cause you didn't close the door on your
way in, A couple normies like look in and scream in terror and
they run upstairs I. Thought I did, but I guess I got
punched before and didn't think about it.
Yeah. Oh well.
Fuck Em. And I'm just gonna do a call.
A call? Babe Ruth shot over the over the
wall. You know, it's one of those and
then just kind of, you know. Yeah.
And see what? Happens.
Well, I ruled on that 20. OK, I think you just do the Max
damage then, which is 10, right? Yeah, I mean, if a crate is just
Max damage, then yeah, it's a 10.
I don't really actually have crit rules yet, so it just makes
sense in this instance that you hit that home run.
You know this? Is a while so.
We gotta start putting the dice up on the screen so people
believe some of these. Yeah, I like.
That you put the screenshot in because it's so unbelievable.
Oh. Yeah, so for, for so, for, for,
for the podcast land. And I guess everyone else that
doesn't know. We're all in a Discord channel
together. And anytime I get a roll that's
like that seems like really high or really good for the
situation, I screenshot it and put it into our Discord so that
the other three believe me that I really did roll at 20.
Yeah. So you're gonna, without ever
having learned her name, you're going to knock this chick to
another plane of existence? She started.
It I think for the sake of extremity, you got a you got a
good jump start with that first tooth blade strike on the 2nd,
you're gonna cleave all the way through and just leave this
bottom jaw attached to a neck of a lifeless corpse.
Kind of like splurt some blood upward in that fireworks display
of death. Yeah, that you all will just get
covered in as the top of her head goes flying off backwards
and around her neck. This is so extra and like gamey,
she has a set of keys on a necklace that's like swinging
around and it kind of like swings off since there's no head
to keep it there and it just lands on the desk in front of
you. I'll.
Pick it up. Nope.
When I inspect my bat, are there any teeth sticking into it?
Oh yeah, yeah. Would you prefer some Some
canines or some molars? Some like fresh.
Paying that a little bit, a little bit of bolster trying,
whatever. Half of like half of her head.
I guess more than half of her head.
But like half of her teeth are gone.
They're not attached to her body anymore.
So like you got some some fresh. Wisdom tooth.
Great. Don't really see that one often.
Yeah, yeah. And any of the extra ones laying
around on his pocket in case I need to pop someone in the bat,
Yeah. Just if you if you want to write
that on your inventory, you got a handful of which.
Teeth. Yeah, I imagine this bat at this
point like is almost gosh, I'm trying to think of like that.
I I think it's an it's an island weapon where they have like like
is it Obsidian, You know what I'm talking about?
Like it's kind of like that at this point where it's just
there's teeth to the point where it's like a saw.
Yeah, so that was sort of the, the motivation or the intent
behind that weapon. Perfect.
But it also sounds like because you're using a round like a
baseball bat, which is round, that it's like that curved
around itself. Like, it's so gross.
It's awesome. So I love this so much.
Yeah, it's like a bat saw. Very appropriate for the serial
killer Edge Lord. Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, you've. We've killed.
Her now, like the radio's still playing.
You can hear upstairs. There's still music going on.
What do you do next? It's spot, there's there.
There's a dead body and you got the keys.
Well, we just were seeing, so we should probably move quickly.
You. You guys saw that though.
Did you see the I? Did see that?
When I did the point thing, I saw all that.
Yeah, I was there when Babe Ruth did it.
You see? And I put the bat in MMO's face.
I'm like, you see the bonus teeth?
You see that? It's a wisdom tooth, buddy.
Yeah. Do you see that?
I'm really happy for you there. Let's.
Leave this room immediately. Yeah.
As we as we step out of this room, I mean do whatever you're
going to do first, but then OK, so I'm going to say I'm going to
lock the door behind because I'm going to try the keys and try to
lock the door. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Takes a couple keys, but you can lock the office.
Cool. You guys want to start poking
around to other rooms? Before we leave if I can.
Oh yeah, bit is does she still have the scroll or the Zine?
Oh, like. So, so since she's a witch, she
doesn't cast from Zine's, she just knows magic.
But if you want to raid her desk or say that you raided her desk
before you left. You can take.
Actually, roll AD four. I'll tell you which Zine you
get. Oh hell yeah, 4.
Yeah, you get God's fist. Oh.
Yeah. Does 2 missiles that are HD six
damage? What's the cost of it?
It's. Let's say it's one blood per
missile, so you could actually like under, under, or overcharge
it. Perfect.
For her, it cost her life. Did you get that, 'cause I
'cause she died When she did her test.
Did you guys get that? This is all in character.
I love that Marco's frozen in that joke so that no one
laughed. There, he's back.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I did hear what it was though. So we're good.
He heard it. He did not laugh.
But let's go. I don't know what's happening.
My Internet is being awful. I thought it was good that was.
Funny. Oh, wow.
Pretty good. I just have the bloody bat over
my shoulder now and I'm like strutting around, like wherever
we're going I'm following Sebastian.
I'm taking like. Twice a minute, seeing that.
S turning around just like I'm just so happy.
How long does my magic weapon last?
Until you would reach 0HP. Oh, cool.
So I have it still so. Perfect.
As you walk out and lock the office behind you, you can see
the door to the green room is open and it's a fucking mess in
there, but it seems like it was evacuated during the violence.
It seems like everyone split. But we still hear music
upstairs, right? Yes, there.
Were other people there? That makes sense.
That's why they were downstairs. Yeah.
I guess we'll just start going through and open doors and
unless anyone else has a plan. Yeah, I think.
We're looking for the lock. I'm just gonna be.
Like, like with my bat. Like when I open the door, I'm
like off a rocker At this point. I give zero fucks.
I'm covered in blood. I killed a couple people.
I'm stoked. Yeah, so like in three, you see
the green room? It's a fucking mess.
There's like chips everywhere. Empty beer bottles.
It's just like the couch is overturned, but there's no one
left in here. Is there any like lighters or
anything laying around the green room or like smell the
cigarettes or anything? For sure.
I'm in a pocket of lighter if that's OK.
Yeah, it's all yours. Yeah, there's within the green
room, there's another bathroom, but it's closed then if you want
to continue or, you know, checking doors.
Is that what you said the plan was?
Yeah. Next up on four I don't know if
you're sharing this map or if you've looked at it.
I sent it to the Discord a minute ago.
Or. Is a closet.
It's got a bunch of bullshit in here.
Toilet paper, plastic cups, cleaning supplies.
There's some chains, some padlocks, broom, shovel.
Just kind of generic supply closet.
Is there anything in the cleaning supplies that has a
flammable warning? Oh yeah, there's like, Windex is
flammable, right? I'm pretty sure it's like mostly
alcohol. Probably, I can't remember, but
I'll just if there's a bottle with a with a warning that says
flammable, I'll just, I'm just going to pick it up and bring it
with us, yeah. Good.
Yeah. But I also have a flask of
gasoline, so we're just when we when we leave, we're going to
leave nothing. So.
Oh, we all live together in a house, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going to. Grab like a bottle of like,
Windex and something else and just like hook it on the back of
my pants and he's be like we're we're out at home.
So this isn't. The time.
Realistically, I mean, this works for us.
I wish I could take the TP too. Hey, grab one of those and I
have my hand. Like, go down and grab like A
roll of toilet paper and it's just going to carry it with us.
Yeah, I want a little thrill too.
So I'm going to get a chain. That's what I'm going.
To get there you go. Next up there's a locked door.
You have the keys, so no problem here.
This is a little shitty studio apartment that seemingly the
woman that you killed was sleeping in.
You can see some other like flowery dresses in like a heap
of laundry. There's a stained mattress with
no fitted sheet on the ground there.
It's shit. It's like an ass apartment in
the bottom of a of a venue. Like it's not nice.
There's that there's no people in here, I guess.
What are you looking for? Anything in particular or
you're? I mean so.
Obviously looking for Dakota. Right.
So they wouldn't have any. So witches can learn zines from
spells, or sorry, spells from zines.
Gotcha. So just like a wizard would
maybe have a collection of of tones, she might have like some
zines around. OK.
I think we'll maybe flip the room real quick.
You know, bought dresses and drawers and.
Under under her mattress, she's got two random spell zines and
50 bucks in cash. So if you want to or I'll
actually just roll 2 to 20 and I'll tell you what those random
scenes are. One of them is punishment for
two blood. You can cancel incoming damage
from up to three hits. Your body withstands more pain
than most subsequent attacks. After those three, do maximum
damage until you rest. So you basically get like auto
cancel three hits and then Max damage any.
After that do. You like to gamble.
The other one is shift. You can spend 2 blood to take AB
steal form. Then you return to your shitty
corpse AT0HP, and there's 6D6 little animals that you can turn
into when you cast that. Hmm.
I feel like those are both great for both of you.
Like, I feel like there's a very clear and I'll take the 50 bucks
if that's cool with everybody. Yeah, I mean I'll.
Take I'll take another Z. The masochist that has a spell
called punishment, where I don't take punishment and they take
too much punishment. Yeah, that's.
I mean, I'll take that all day twice on Saturday, you know?
Yeah, and then Marco, you can take the shift Z and both Shift
and punishment cost 2 blood. I'll also say well, no, never
mind. I was going to say you're topped
up, but it was after you severed her head, so that blood's no
good. Yeah.
I mean, she's still. I mean the blood still pumping.
It's a more of a spiritual. Death.
What is life and death really? Purely mechanical function,
yeah. So we'll keep moving through
these rooms. OK.
So you're at six now, which is another locked door that you're
able to unlock with the keys from her neck.
This is where the alcohol is kept.
There are shelves of alcohol or hard liquor bottles and crates
of beer. There are 4 Imps in here who are
making drinks and sending them up and down the dumb waiter.
There's also towards the edge like a grate where the sewer
will sort of collect all the spilled liquor and sweat.
The imp sweat and all this extra fluids that are flowing around
the room. They got a drain to this sewer
grate. One of the Imps says look, look
at this, take a look at this guy.
So the so the little man. It's like they're smaller than
you. They're like 2 feet tall, but
they're still like denigrating to you.
Mm hmm. Family.
Family of yours is this man. Tough crowd.
Can I ask you a question? Make it quick.
I'm at work. The drink you're making, where
does the vampire blood come from?
It just points up and there's like like they've basically like
running a line from what seems like the water system, like
where the where the fire sprinkler would come from is
instead just like a little plastic tube that they're like
dropping blood in from. Interesting.
Do you know where they procure the blood?
They just like, shrug. They're like taking turns.
They're almost like one of them will talk shit and then get in
line to make a drink. They're all kind of like playing
this cup game and having this conversation with you in in not,
I think tandem means 2, but you know what I mean?
In a chorus, almost like everybody's kind of doing it.
Together. So these are like those little
weird alien things from Men in Black.
It's like talking shit and being all good.
Gotcha. Cool.
So the dot line that they're like dripping blood from, can we
follow it? Yeah, it's a utility line.
There is in the basement kind of like kind of I I guess from here
there's like a what looks like a closet door, like a shittier
door that goes into like a utility space.
So yeah, that's what you want to do.
Gentlemen. There's a couple furnaces, a
couple water heaters like more than one, you know, that are all
like linked up to these pipes and this utility system of the
building. The room smells like rot and
Sebastian, because of your keen senses, you can smell
specifically. This isn't just like the mold
that you would expect in a dive bar like this.
This is like flesh rot. This is the the smell of death.
OK, I guess we'll crack open one of these water heaters.
Yeah, crammed inside of the metal casing of the water heater
looks like. Hard.
To kind of differentiate where one body begins and another
ends. But there's just like a heap of
corpse in here that you can see these lines kind of draining
into the bottom of it, where it goes into the water line.
I like Sky climb down a little bit and I look back at the other
two and I'm like, I think we found our answer.
One of the you can hear a voice muffled from within this water
heater that you cracked open. That's like.
Grooming the fuck out here? Like, reach in with my little
feet kicking up, you know? Yeah.
And I'll pull, pull, I'll reach towards the sound and pull it
out. Yeah, you can.
You grab what's like effectively A severed head of a vampire.
That's like like you can see all those cheekbones.
It has like very little meat left on very gaunt eyes that are
kind of like glazed over and it's trying to like, like talk,
kind of, but his jaws kind of just like flopping there.
Can I pull out some other body parts and try to put them
together? Yeah, absolutely.
I'll let you make like just. Half, you know.
Hideous half golem. Yeah, yeah, you can.
Just kind of like play some like Legos and they kind of click in.
Nice. And you got half a guy.
Hi. OK, he like looks down like,
dude, what are you doing? Well, it was this or the the pot
right there, so. He's also just, like dripping
like bodily fluid. Like even even he kind of like
gags, like this shit is disgusting.
Well, do you know Dakota? Yeah, I think he's in, actually.
I think like, his arm will kind of like Twitch.
It's like, yeah, I think he's in there.
I guess I just keep fishing out Dakota's parts and try to put
Dakota back together. Yeah, you kind of end up with
this puzzle. Pieces of like mismatched corpse
parts is. Dakota's head in there.
Yeah, it'll take some shoveling or some sifting, but you're able
to kind of like extract Dakota's head and he's just like subject.
I like I just disconnected the other head and put Dakota on OK.
Yeah, he's like, let's go. I don't want to talk about it.
OK, let's leave. So I think you have like this
naked Frankenstein Dakota. Like some of it's him and some
or and some of it's just whatever and he just like
doesn't like he's so ashamed and also completely drained.
And. Just like, let's fucking go
home. Can we can we swing by like the
girls room and see if she's got like a duffel bag or a backpack
or something? Yeah, so say she's curse.
Yeah, there's there's she's got an empty Jansport or whatever.
Jeez. Yeah, hey, by the way, as
relito, I'm gonna start spreading chemicals on the
ground, the flammable chemicals. Oh yeah, naturally.
Because we're only dealing with this once, so yeah.
Yeah, good call. This place sucks anyway.
Yeah. And then, I mean, are you guys
good to leave? Like what are?
Yeah, that's what we doing. Here and stopping us.
We're just going. I think as we start going up the
stairs, I light that lighter I picked up early and I just throw
it back behind us. Sorry, Ryan, we.
No, I just if we as if we're getting to a point where we're
leaving. I just I wanna picture the slow
MO. I'm just.
Gonna see the same. 3 vampires like yeah.
I'm gonna throw my jacket around, Dakota for yeah.
Nicer. Yeah, great.
He's. Making put him in the dance
board, I thought. We just tucked him in the
backpack. No, we built him.
He's a whole person now. He can't fit in.
The backpack. Oh, I thought we were just
grabbing the backpack to stuff his parts in and leave it.
Gotcha. No, we built the whole thing.
Got. It got it got.
It Well, you can get some ladies underwear and like some stuff
too. Like we can piece together an
outfit for him. He's just like, dripping out of
it, you know? He is.
He is naked except for Memo's jacket.
So if you want to grab a dress. I'm sure she's got some
sweatpants or something. And then that we could toss,
yeah. She was tall.
She was big, yeah. Yeah.
She's like 6 and six. Five.
Yeah, so. Exactly that the the four of
you, you 3, and your Homie Dakota walk.
Slowly. Past the shitty band, past these
wasted normies and hipsters, towards I guess you go out
there, it doesn't really matter, but you go out the alley or you
go out the way you came in. Probably the alley, right?
No, right. The front door on door.
Yeah, because at this point it's on fire.
So I assume like the guards and stuff, like the people are like
running in. And if they're not, I'll be
like, hey, it's on fire in there, but fire.
Yeah, the Sprinklers Act. So we're gonna have the blade
moment that cause the sprinklers start going off since you
started a fire, but because they're linked into this
vampiric water line, it's just spraying blood all over the the
spot and in slow motion it's raining blood and you have this
eruption of all these explosive chemicals in the basement behind
you as you just swaggly walk out the front door of the spot.
Real quick, can I rip that chain off of like, Mimo's belt or
whatever and like, shut the front doors and just kind of
like, spin it in and just like, twist it on?
Like, yeah. Yeah, I think that the other
three like, walk past the camera, right?
And we Then you see the masochist at inaction, murdering
every radioactive especially. I'm gonna, I'm gonna like jog up
behind and like take my bat and just like smack Dakota like on
the arm and it just like flops off and just like laugh and like
run away. Yeah, that's the end of our
adventure. You managed to rescue some shape
of Dakota Shreveport, and you also managed to kill the worst
band in the city of scab vampire haters.
Vamp haters. Yeah, they deserved it.
And that's a little intro to Blood Borg, baby.
Fantastic. That was great.
That was so. Much like that.
Was a good time for sure. That was a blast.
Yeah, like with most games that we play together, I feel like
you kick the tires a little bit and you're like, all right, then
let's let it rip. Like, and I think this is a game
that's obviously begging you to let it rip from from character
creation, like giving you the powers of that are fucked.
Even just having a class, that's the masochist.
It's like go, go hard buddy. So for the sake of this video
being embedded on the Kickstarter page, could I get a
little praise from each of you in turn?
Like what were your thoughts? What was like a favorite stand
up moment? Just like, yeah, how are you
feeling in the post game? Let's start with Ryan.
So with Hunter, I feel like he had his lips pursed, ready to
say something. I feel like there's something
very satisfying that comes along with playing not a human
character, which I know technically vampires are human,
but there is this like freedom that you get when you play a non
human character. Especially when you're given
like the flavor that you're like for me, for the Leech, which is
like an ageless vampire. It's been around forever, like
there's coagulated blood in their system, old and old
people, and allowed me to like lean into being a weird guy with
these, like heightened senses and like, almost like an
inelegant, like ancientness. And I I think, like, for being
like a a merckborg hack, I think this is a really great use of
that system and it still felt very like you're you're a weird
vampire, you know? I think that sort of nihilism is
obviously like an important theme in vampirism and immortal
things, and I think you all took it in a cool way of like that.
And I think this is also a big theme in in vampire media is
like, if you're undead and you're not human any more than
like, what's holding you to any kind of moral standard?
Obviously the masochist is the case study of this, but like,
even what you're describing, like you are so old that you
just can be a little weirdo for fun because like, you've
experienced everything and that's just a fun thing to get
to experience. So I think that nihilism is
definitely a central theme, but in a fuck it, let's party kind
of way. And I think that's also in a way
tied to why I used Merck Borg as my backbone.
Say like, yes, the apocalypse is happening, but we're gonna go
out hard. That's definitely like something
I want a bell. I wanted to ring on this game.
Yeah, you know, I mean here's the thing about Mark Borg is it
such like a it's a it's a very simple system that works and I
wish that more people. One thing I've said from the
beginning of Mark Borg, especially when so many people
are making Sephora, is like this game is so hackable.
I don't need a like a 50th supplement that's giving me more
ways to have grow shit in a dungeon like use the system and
give me something new. And I feel like this is such a
good way to use Mark Borg because it still feeds into like
the weird darkness that was like Mark Borg but just transfers it
to like this vampire state, which is so much fun.
I fucking love vampires and I love the the flavor that you
infuse in all your games. But this one like it's still the
Mark Borg world. It's just like 2000 years in the
future is so fucking good. And and yeah, I usually say
like, I love evil characters. I've run whole evil campaigns
before. And one thing I always say is
you don't always have to be the Joker.
But then with the math gist, I was like, yeah, but you kind of
can be touched. On a little bit.
It was just fun. Like it felt clean, like the
the, you know, I mean we are seeing stuff that's streamed and
get to see. There's so much good flavor, so
many good tables. I think it's just really, really
fantastic. I'm super excited to play this
again and like I said, Mark Borg was a perfect backbone for this.
Like I said, because it's such a nice adjacent ish darkness, but
definitely like a different, a much like a a different flavor.
A familiar but different flavor, which is really, really fun.
So thank you. How about Marco?
Yeah. I I mean, I liked it a lot.
You know, I usually don't. I'm not really like Murder
Hoboby necessarily by nature. But the adventure is very US
versus them, which doesn't only exist from what I'm picking up
doesn't only exist from like humans that hate vamps and vamps
that hate at least humans that don't like them but also with
the class system like you're always working against
something. Everything's bad.
So because it like it took me a while until like Ryan was really
like just really bad body that I was like, yeah, well, he
obviously a freaking asshole. You know, like he, you know, he
doesn't need to be here and I I like that like it's like very
survival related, you know? Yeah, I I hesitated to call it
survival horror, but it is horror and survival tied
together because like like you said, the everyone hates you,
the vampires hate you, people hate you, witches hate you.
And so it is US against the world.
And I think that is a theme that's common in a lot of my
games, because I want it to feel hard, like the world that we
live in. But I also want there to be joy
in your community. And like, obviously it's this is
a game that has a little more humor than I'm used to also.
Which again, kind of reflects how Merckborg is like Grim dark,
to the extent that it's funny, but.
The Gonzo, yeah. Yeah Gonz, I mean like I would
say most of my work is gonzo, this included.
And because I want it to be like I've got 10 homies and it's US
against everybody all the time. And to me in role-playing games
and and guess in reality like there's comfort in that in your
squad and being able to work together and like team up and
yes, you're vampires and you're nasty and you drink blood and
you kill things. But like we all live together.
We're going home after this sort of like chill and like that's
just such a cool vibe to me in RPG is is like, we aren't
unfortunate friends or like we're we're not doing the same
job. It's like we're we're homies,
like we're doing all this shit together.
Because we at the table are friends that are playing a game.
And I want it to feel fun. And like, it's funny to think
of, like the friendship theme in the grim Dark game, but that
really is meant to be heavily present here through and
through. You grabbed toilet paper, 'cause
we were out at home. Like, like, that's dope.
And it just, again, like I I mentioned early that Cyber Metal
2012 kind of feels like a game about my 30s, that this game is
a game about my 20s. And it really does feel like
we're we're walking to the park at 2:00 in the morning, just to
see it, who's there. Or, you know, like just like
causing innocent trouble does. Do you feel less innocent?
Do you feel like you're like the Grand Rapids, MI like music
scene bleeds over into this as well?
Maybe when like from my younger time.
Yes, like the DIY scene, trading scenes, like that.
Whole culture for sure. And even like, I'm still
developing a lot of aspects of scab the city, but it is very
much based on where I lived when I lived in Boston.
So like there was a band that practiced underneath the subway
and we lived 1/4 mile from the river and we would go like run
in the park. And I remember my friend was in
wrestling school, we would practice wrestling moves in that
park at like 1:00 in the morning and shit like that.
So I'm trying to kind of boil that feeling down of that stupid
23 year old who thinks they can't die, and that's exactly
what kind of vampire I want to be.
Yeah, I I mean, I like the whole family thing because it's, it's
interesting. Clans are such a thing in so
much vampire literature, so they just have it be a bunch of like
fucking punks, like in a shitty apartment.
But we all are vampires. And like, even at the end where
I was like, Oh yeah, I hit the guy at the bat and his arm falls
off. Like if I like I was, we were, I
don't know if you guys had the same friends I had, but like in
my 20s, like our love language was like picking on each other
and beating each other up and shit.
Like, that's just, yeah, So if I was a vampire and I could just
like knock some guy's arm off and be like, oh man, come on, I
have to regrow that. Like that's absolutely what I
would do. So I even.
Dakota. Yeah, even Dakota just being
like, I don't want to talk about it.
This was just a rough night. Let's go home like.
I'm sure we've all been there to like just having that one night
where you're the fuck up, you're the main character in a bad way
and you're like, let's just go. It's like, oh, my head hurts and
it's like, well, it's not attached to your body buddy.
Let's get out of here. Yeah, but yeah, this is
fantastic. So this is for if you're on the
Kickstarter page, go go pledge I guess when this comes out.
But for those that you know are watching this prior to the
Kickstarter launching, like what's what's the plan for for
that? Like when's that coming out and.
Yeah, and whatnot. You can pre save it now at
bloodborg.com. You can also go to world champ
dot IO where my website is and it'll link you there and also
all my other games. But bloodborg.com will forward
you to the Kickstarter page where you can get notified when
we launch. It's going to be a very world
champ thing insofar as like we have a hardcover book and it's
nice and that's the whole game and that's great.
We have a variant where we're going to screen print and blood
splatter the covers of all the books that just are through the
their campaign exclusive. So however many people buy that,
we'll screen print them and we'll get in there and get
splattery. I'll have a merch bundle that's
called the Blood Bag that you can add on or get at the high
tier and it's 20 bucks, but it will grow with stretch goals.
So, like, it costs the same amount, but we're going to keep
adding shit to it, including a Zine of more adventures and some
stickers. There's a hypodermic pen like
one of those pens that looks like a needle that is in there
just because it's cool and there's like a foam heart with
some with like a very particular rule instance on it.
Just some dumb vampire blood shit in a bag, in a biohazard
bag that comes with your game. Because I'm extra and I love
that stuff. And other than that, that's
that's it. It's basically combinations of
the core book, the special book, and the blood bag.
So I'm really stoked to see it come through.
I've been working with a local artist named Mitch who I really
like. We get along really well.
But is also, this is their first time doing anything like this,
so we're doing a bunch of really cool shit.
They're a very analog forward artist doing like cut and paste
and print collage work and photo work.
We went out this weekend in that very 20 year old way of dressing
up like vampires and going through the alleys and like
climbing on shit we're not supposed to climb on and getting
a bunch of art for the book. So I'm really excited to work
with Mitch on this and kind of show their artwork to a much
bigger audience and got some cool collaborators writing
adventures for the expansion scene and yeah, just got a load
up on all the goodies, all the good bloody Bloodborg content it
went. Super excited This is such a.
Sorry, I don't think I mentioned this.
Launches April 9th. April 9th.
Tuesday, April 9. About a month away, so excited
for this. I mean, the vibes are always
Immaculate with World Champ game stuff.
I mean, it speaks obviously to our hearts.
I think I I think at one point you said I might have more World
Champ game stuff than you. Which is crazy.
But but obviously fancy on the show.
Who said over and over again this is an adamant Adam Best Dan
podcast. This game, it's just so much
fun. Again Mark works such a light
system and to be able to play exactly that like to the
nostalgia is so heavy with new late 30s.
So to be able to kind of like re reimagine that feeling of like
that like you said early 20s immortality feeling but you
actually are because you're fucking vampire is so much fun.
I'm really excited for this really excited for the vibes.
R looks fantastic. The whole project looks right.
So thank you so much for coming on with with us and being, you
know, playing this with us, So I mean.
It's a blast of. Of course, you're going to see
Adam on the show more, and if they're not on the show, we'll
probably talk about every game that they put out on the show as
well. So be prepared for that.
We'll make sure that all the links to the Kickstarter and to
all of Adam stuff are in the links below, wherever you watch
this or listen to it. And yeah, and that's where we're
at. And Marco, thank you so much for
also coming on the show once again.
Playing with us, not killing us this time.
Really appreciate that. I know we got.
Some stuff coming out from Spicy
Tuna soon. Outsources is is hitting the
mailboxes soon. Ish right?
And Greenhorns is still waiting to come out in April.
Really excited for those as well, yeah.
Hell yeah, yo, I love playing Super happy to have played Blood
Borg. I've been talking to Adam a
little bit about it since we played Greenhorns and a little
bit after, and yeah, it's awesome.
Thanks for having me. Yeah, hell yeah.
Absolutely. So, anything else you want to
say about Bloodborg, Adam? Let's get ready to back it in
april@bloodborg.com. There we go.
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