Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll podcast.
My Name Is Ryan. And I'm a creepy child written
by Stephen King. And I'm a normal child, written
by Stephen King named Stella Condrey.
Hi, I'm Nico. Happy to be here.
And today, let me hide this for now.
She's gone. We are going to be playing The
Lost Bay, a suburban gothic RPG from our Game master here, Eco,
A game that I think my first interaction with.
It was way back in EF Con with you right Eco.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We played the EF Con, yeah.
Yeah, so. So why don't you tell us a
little bit about the Lost Bay? Yeah, sure.
So The Last Bear is a suburban gothic game set in the 90s where
you play like young adults. Like it's not the 80s, it's not
the Goonies, it's you're not kids anymore, You're like in
your 20s. And the world has become much
darker and well, it's called lost because we don't really
know where it is. I mean it's like snap struck
place, a huge suburban area close to the sea and stuck
between a desert and marshes. And like like the core
characteristic of the that huge implied setting and that's kind
of the mood of the game, is that like splits of contrast or
contrast. There's a lot of urban areas, a
lot of wide nature, ancient nature, there's ancient
creatures, there's kind of modernity, the 90s level of
modernity. And there is like the mundane
and the like supernatural words that are mixed together like
seamlessly. Like, I don't know, like
skateboards, DHS tapes, malls are part of the lives like like
blood curses and immortals and and like powers, which of your
character have. So yeah, like, yeah, mundane and
supernatural mixing and and you're you're in the middle of
it and you're surviving in a world that is becoming
increasingly more weird and more dangerous and more challenging
every day. Yeah.
It's a great life. You know.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right, so why don't we Do
you want to do you want to hop in?
And we'll start talking about characters and get all creepy
here on On the Weekly Scroll. Yeah, sure.
So like, yeah, we intro your characters and just, yeah, word
of intro. So like there's character
classes, they're called vibes. There's a bunch of them like in
the the Early Access version of the game, I think there's six.
And in the game, like in the full kicks, the version we're
going to be starter in March, there's going to be between 10
and 20 depending on the stretch goals we reach.
And the approach is kind of like our electric bachelor or troika.
There's lots of backgrounds that comes with specific abilities,
powers and growth opportunity. And so, yeah, do you want to
introduce your characters? And after that, maybe we'll talk
about safety tools and stuff and OK.
Sounds good. Yeah.
Aren't you? First, aren't you?
Kick us off. OK.
So, yeah, sure. Of course.
Yeah, yeah, go. Off that 10.
Love. Me.
Oh, OK. I you know, I'm going to be
playing Sarah. She's a fire starter.
He was maybe a little bit into flames.
She is only 18 and she is very chronically sleep deprived.
Oh damn, my character is also very chronically St.
Sleep deprived. Yeah, I'm playing Johnny.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Give Give us a SEC.
So, fire starter? What does that mean?
Like you have powers, right? You.
Want to have? Yeah.
What? What can you do with fire?
Yeah. So the the powers I chose were
ignite which gives me damages flow which is one of my stats
and I also have suffocate which allows me to eat up the oxygen
in a room. Additionally, just as a default
power that I get unburnt which says fire damage lose weird
instead of here well instead of heart.
Yeah. So you're a fire related
character and kind of immune to fire and yeah.
It says specifically that I am subservient to the fire demon,
which I am excited about. Yeah, because like all the your
your characters kind of got their powers as a chunk of the
power of an immortal, which you are kind of serving or who is
like supporting you in some way. Yeah.
So yeah, Hunter, what about you? I'm playing Johnny.
He's a scanner. He is also 18.
And yeah, he has iodetic memory, which I believe means that I
have. Like anything I read, I can just
remember. Yeah.
And my other powers are rewind. I can rewind time by one round.
And then I took D magnets, or magnetize or demagnetize because
that sounded cool. But yeah, he's he's like a late
night, like VHS freak, You know, like finding like weird boot,
like VHS's and like trading them with people and like mailing
them and like like copying tapes.
All the classic audio, video stuff of the 90s.
That's cool. That's cool.
And Ryan? Yeah, so I am playing as Dante.
I am a seer. So I decipher death threats and
chemtrails like it's very conspiratory kind of leaning, I
guess. Well, it in the in the vibe
explanation, there's like leaning into that or leaning
into more ritualistic and things like that.
And I think my character leaned more ritualistic when I rolled
my gear. I ended up getting some things
that tied into some other parts of the character.
So I went with that. The powers I have is I start
with a vigil, which means I can sense imminent danger.
Yeah. And then the other two that I
chose were darkness and Oracle. So Oracle, I can answer one
question. Darkness.
It says summon, and it requires A relic.
And I was actually gonna ask you about that.
So I can summon darkness or I summon something?
In the dark, yes. So some powers are like have
like little mechanical descriptions, others have just
like words or very loose description to allow you players
to make whatever you want of them, you know.
So I mean, we'll see like in game if you wanna use it.
So I don't know, it could become really what you want to do.
So yeah. So, well, some of the gear got
with me just to up my creepiness.
I rolled for the vintage Polaroid of corpses, of course.
Like stuff, yeah. And then and then the ritual
knife, along with my my bitter smokes.
So as soon as I saw, as soon as I got the ritual knife and
stuff, I was like, OK, well, I got a my kids definitely just
like some quirky, culty weirdo. And now I'm gonna go lean away
from the conspiracy bits and into the darkness corpses, you
know, bits. And I'm chronically sleep
deprived. I don't know if anyone said that
yet. OK, OK, that's cool.
So ritual knife is going to be super useful by the way, because
like to use one of your powers you require spilled blood.
So I don't know, might be might be useful to use Oracle.
And OK, cool. And I wanted to ask like Seer,
how do you see like how does that happen?
Like is it like actually having visual visions?
Is it like feeling? Is it?
Is it something else? What's the way you perceive like
the? Yeah, cuz it says I recover.
Well cuz yeah, I get to recover weird by doing something weird.
I feel like I really dig this. The Polaroid of the corpses
thing. Yeah, could I always have that
on me and like, I don't know, talk to the corpses in my
pictures kind of thing, you know?
OK, OK. So there are like your getaway
to the world where where you see stuff.
OK. Just but to clarify that what
happens if you lose the the Polaroid like is it in in kind
of do you lose that power or? I feel like.
I feel like I feel like I would, but it's one of those things
where this is just the like the block that I've made for myself.
So if I somehow lose it, it's something I'll have to overcome.
But I feel like I need it, but I don't think I actually need it,
you know? OK.
That's great. It's my comfort.
It's my it's my baby blanket. It's just a it's just it's my
old picture of corpses that brings me comfort.
Yeah, sure. Everybody has got a like, a
vintage like picture of corpses and it's like, it's really
reassuring, you know, to hold it and stuff like that.
Exactly. So yeah, there's a character, an
NPC, Sandra. They then they're like, maybe a
little bit older than you. Reckless.
Like fierce. Wild character I you folks all
live together and also to simplify like the back story of
your characters or to make it more complex.
I don't know like you don't live as your parents you're somewhere
together you I don't know squat place live together and and
Sandra is part of your tribe and I would like Sandra to be more
like like more closely bound or related to one of you.
I don't know how like could be anything.
Could be like romantic involvement, could be like
blood, could be anything, could be friendship or could be like,
so who, who that would be like? Who feels they are like super
close to that wild character who goes and comes from the from the
house, the squad. They're not always there.
They're kind of an independent spirit.
I think that maybe there's a good chance that Sarah, like,
just just has known Sandra for like a long, like since they
were like, I don't know, like since since they were like very
young maybe, You know, I know they're not like exactly the
same age. Sandra's like a little bit
older, but, like, it's just kind.
Maybe that's kind of the situation.
Yeah, cool, cool. And.
And so, yeah, yeah, OK. Stuff like that.
OK, cool. OK.
So before we jump, like had first seen the session and
that's a pun for later, yeah, we'll talk about safety tools.
We're going to use like veils, lines and X card for the
session. And I'm going to like go 1st and
tell what kind of veils or lines I have.
And I wanted to tell you like they're not a contract.
What I mean by that is that if you don't want to state some
lines and veils because you don't feel comfortable, but
later on you want to add a line or a veil, that's cool.
I mean, you don't have like just right now I'd like to tell
everything. So for me it's pretty simple.
I've got two strong lines, one against any form of sexual abuse
or violence and one against suicide, basically.
And Hunter, do you have lines veils you you'd like to to
mention? I think the ones that you put up
earlier are pretty much, very much the same.
Like, no, no. Like sexual violence or like
weird, like ultraviolence towards children or.
Oh shit. OK.
Like, you know, listen, if a kid gets punched in the stomach,
like, that's fine. But you know, I.
Mean We're all kids. Yeah, we're.
All. Yeah, I mean that's The thing is
like. 18 year olds is a kid. Yeah, I think for me, I'm
honestly fine with most things as long as like the descriptions
of like gore or to like graphic or whatever, you know?
Yeah, OK, Cool. Ryan, something you want to add
or? I'm good with what everyone said
that that's good for me. And for the listeners, I wanted
to mention that there's like content warnings about with like
related to, like water height, suffocation, possible
suffocations or suffocation or or possible drowning.
So like, yeah, the advice about that and yeah, OK, so let's jump
right in. So Dante you've been staring at
your photograph like in the past days, in the past week like for
I spent hours I guess through the week staring at it and and
and it's kind of changed like shape.
You saw like the corpses kind of immersed in water like in in a
dense brackish water. Their face like covered by water
and then like having kind of convulsions and trying to
breathe and without being able to probably come out of the
water. So it's it's been like, so yeah
the the photograph has been like telling you that thing in your
recurrent way for for for the last days.
And I should mention that it's the summer.
It's the heart of the summer. It's been the summer.
It feels like it's been the summer forever.
But yeah. And you wake up in the morning,
the three of you, after probably, I guess down to a
night spent like staring at the photograph trying to to decipher
what it means. And and so a morning is there
and and you find Sarah a note from Sandra telling that
something like, I'm going at the pool at the quarry, we're going
to jump, come and meet me. It's going to be so cool.
Come and meet me. And it's a bit weird.
Sandra hasn't been at home in the last days, so I don't know,
maybe maybe they came home and dropped the note or something
like that, which is not their usual way to act.
And and yeah, sounds like a summon.
And I'm not sure if you folks know much about that, that pool
at the quarry, we're going to see somebody wants to roll AD 6.
I got it all. No.
OK. 3. OK, so yeah, you you like,
You've heard about it. Like, like in casual
conversation. The place is a dump.
It's dirty. There's an abandoned quarry and
it's flooded and makes like a huge gigantic pool.
And folks go there and you have no idea why because like looks
like useless and and dirty and and not cool.
And it's completely like lost, isolated in the old woods that
are like like behind the place you live, like like in the midst
of wilderness. And yeah.
Sounds like a good way to get cancer with all the mining
stuff. Probably, yeah, but we're like.
But we're like young and invincible, so it's fine.
Yeah, absolutely nothing could hurt us.
Are we? Is everybody?
Are we? So I'm 19 and.
We're both 18, I think, yeah. OK, so we're we're all quote UN
quote of age. Yeah.
Are we, are we in? Are we in like America in the
90s? Are we in Europe in the 90s?
Because we can drink. In Europe we can't drink.
In America, I don't know, I don't know a single 18 or I
don't know a single SI 141516. Who's ever had that lost off
then? Well, I just feel.
Listen, I didn't say like not in the basement.
I mean like in in the in the out and about.
But so I'm the oldest, I guess, but you're but Sarah, you're the
closest friend with Sandra. So Sandra came to the house and
is basically saying, hey, get your shit, we're going to the
quarry pool. That's what's happening.
Yeah, I'm going to the quarry pool.
Come. It's going to be fun.
We're going to jump in the water.
I mean. I feel like Johnny's like
watching a video, so he's like, he's this far from a television,
just like. Hey Dork, are you listening?
He, like, looks over massive bags, just like, yeah, he hits
like, stop, you know, he pops the tape out, puts in a little
case like what's what, what, what?
Sandra told us We we best go to the quarry.
That's going to be fun. OK, OK.
And just like walks out of the room into like, I get we're like
squatting in the house, right. So whatever, like little hovel
of a room he has like walks and like grabs his grabs his gear.
You know he's got his hacked camcorder and some other stuff
that you would not possibly need for going to a quarry, just not
dressed to go swimming at all. Are there like a couple of
things when I grab from the house?
Like extra stuff, extra gear, like small stuff?
I don't know. Considering that you're leaving
the house and there's probably a lot of stuff there, you could
like bring extra stuff with you, Is there something you'd like?
So there's there's one thing that I rolled as part of my
starting gear and it was specifically there was a slice
of pizza and I saw that the the foods have various effects or.
Whatever. I'd I'd like to imagine that I'm
grabbing that slice of pizza. We don't know how long it's been
there exactly. OK, sure.
It's been on the table, yeah. Yeah, it's been on the table and
I think that I I have not rolled the what's it called.
I I have not rolled the effect for it but I think when I eat it
I want to roll the effect. Sure, that sounds cool.
That sounds cool. Sounds really cool.
OK. Anything.
Else do you like roll it up and put it in your pocket or?
I think, I think that she's, you know, she Sandra, she's a modern
woman. She has like a she has a tote
bag or something. So I.
Yeah. Please go ahead.
So as a seer, you know, I I was trying to figure out if I'm
like, the person who's going to, like, freak out and try to stop
everything when I see visions or if I'm the kind of person who's
going to sit back and watch it happen.
And I've decided I'm the kind of person who's going to sit back
and watch it happen. And so I'm staring at my
picture, slowly drowning over the course of, like, the last
days and days and days and days. And then Sandra, who don't
haven't seen in a while, just shows up at the house and says,
hey, we're going to the quarry pool and I immediately go, all
right, and yeah, this is this is happening.
And then I have some of my. I have my stress ball, which is
just going to be this canonically so that I can just
play with it on screen. But I I grabbed my pack of
bitter smoke. So I tuck my ritual knife into
into my my docks and. Is it like?
Is it? Is it like ritual knife?
Is it like could be a butcher's knife, which is ritual knife.
Could be like an ancient engraved knife?
What kind of knife is he like? The most generic dark fantasy
WAVY blade like like ritual ass, ritual ass knife that you could
possibly imagine. It is like absolutely the most
generic thing. OK, cool.
If if this guy was not in The Lost Bay, he would have been
playing VTM. Yeah, my God, yeah.
Black docs. Black ripped jeans, black
hoodie, black T-shirt, black underwear, black socks, black
sole, black ritual knife. Perfect.
Yeah.
OK, well, you're leaving the house.
I guess that Johnny who has has heard about like the the quarry
before has got like a notion of where it is.
And and you are like in slip country which is like a
residential area. And very quickly, like you leave
the part where there's these infinite networks of houses and
houses and houses. And then you step into the part
where there's an IFFIT like a gigantic network of unfinished
houses, unfinished houses, unfinished houses like
construction sites. And then dumps trash, and then
the wilderness and then and then the wood starts and and it's
taking you fucking forever to Oh yeah, am I allowed to to curse?
Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
So yeah, it's taking you fucking
forever. Like, I don't know.
I don't know, probably. I I guess you woke up kind of
late like as you are all all having like like sleep issues.
I would say so, yeah. OK, yeah, exactly.
But anyways, anyway, I don't know.
It's probably like ready for 5:00 PM, something like that.
And and we we gonna do a weather role we're going to roll 1D6
somebody rolls on D6 and. That's a.
Six. That's a six.
OK and oh OK that's cool. So weather, the weather changes
and and and by the way, like, I'm pretty excited about like
the weather Flower which is being designed by Pierre
Philippe Renault, which is a French Canadian designer.
And yeah, it's going to be super cool playing the game.
So we don't have it finished yet, but like with a lot of blue
FX tied to the game. But for today, what's cool to
know is that like there's the wind, like raising first a
slight breeze and then a stronger wind and then the sky
becomes darker and of course it starts raining.
So, yeah, like, it's like very gentle rain, but it's both hot
and raining today. And yeah, perfect weather.
And yeah. And to answer your question, are
we in Europe or like in the US? Well, I don't know.
It's up to you folks. Or maybe we are in a totally
different place. I mean like the way it's
designed is like for you to imagine wherever it is.
I know there's folks in Taiwan who are into the last day and
we're talking about like translating it in like like in
Chinese and they're going to write some Taiwanese related
stuff. There's people like in Latam who
are into the last day. So I mean it's really, I don't
know, it's wherever you want to be, but I think you know that
any in any case, in the last day, like people who are 18 like
drank alcohol probably or even younger or I mean, you know,
there's not, yeah, there's not like a very strong sense of like
being of police and cops. It's very like unorganized place
I would say. And I know like.
This whole walk Johnny's had the camcorder out is that is just
like is just recording and like several times has probably been
well as everyone like turned right or left has just like kept
walking forward until someone pulled his like attention.
It's like, oh, you know. Yeah, Are you Are you, like,
feeling your feet or are you like?
No, I'm filming around me, but almost like as an unconscious
action, Like I just filter all things that I see.
I just filter through a camcorder, yeah.
OK. So you are you like absorbed in
the camcorder? Yeah.
Absolutely. Sometimes I it's it's the 90s.
So I assume that they are. They also have the ones that
were like the little screen flips out, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I like he sometimes he's got
it up to his eye and he like flips it open and like messes
with some settings on it and like adjust the light levels.
OK, let's see what what that does to you.
Like like walking absorbed, like on the screen of your camcorder?
Roll the D6 please. Yeah, absolutely.
I hope it. I hope it bugs me up terribly.
I rolled A6. OK, OK.
So basically, yeah, you you, you see like in the screen like
something that you can see like with your like naked eyes.
You see somebody like, like following you, like in the
woods. Like, the woods are pretty
dense. And actually the thing about the
place being a dump, you don't know if you're getting closer,
but it's getting dirty. Like there's, you know, leftover
food packages, trash stuff here and there, like rusty bikes,
like there's a rust bike on the tree, in the tree, like on the
top of the tree. It's kind of weird place.
Yeah. And like in the screen you see
some something or somebody that looks more like a somebody who's
following you, like walking. And when you lower the camera,
you can't see, you can see them or eat and yeah, they're
following looks like the following.
So I can see them even with without the camera or I can only
see them in the camera. No, you can see them only in the
camera. Oh, I'm like I look.
Are you recording? Yeah, absolutely.
OK. Hey, Hey, guys.
What? Look at, look, look, look, look
at just like I hold, I it's got in the little hand strap, you
know, so I'm not handing it off, but I turn the camcorder
towards. Oh, still, I forgot your
character's name. Sarah.
Sarah.
Yeah, I I like hold it with Sarah.
I'm like, do you you see the do you, do you do you see?
Do I see? Yeah, on the camera, definitely.
You see, you see, I mean like I guess, I mean it's not super
high definition so it's it's all it's a small like figure, a
little bit pixelated. But yeah, definitely you, you,
you see somebody wearing swimming trunks, completely wet,
and a young person like a teen, like a like a teen or somebody
in their 20s, they look like sheets, like the machine is
completely like super paleish with blue spots here and there.
And they look toward the camera, towards the camera with a tilted
heads, and there's water coming out of their mouth and they're
just staring at the camera like that.
Weird, right? I'm always filming weird shit.
Yeah, yeah. Why can't you just be normal?
Uh huh. For once.
And pulls the camera back up. And he's like talking at you for
sure. Uh huh.
She she's She judges you. So much for being obsessed with
video. Like she doesn't spend like 20
minutes at a time, just entirely zoned out staring at a fire.
She has no self-awareness. There's the the group of the
most normal people walk into the corridor.
We're literally like 1 stares into a video screen, one stares
into a lighter, one stares into a Polaroid camera.
We have no concept of what's happening around this.
Yeah, You're like a perfect family.
I would say. Like, you know, like, it makes
sense. There's a circle, consistent
character. Yeah.
Also, just purely because this is who Johnny is like, I I think
he's got a power cycle. The camcorder like turn it off
and on just to see if that like fixes the problem.
The problem. OK, No.
Yeah. Yeah.
So you're turning it off and,
like, turning it on again to see like, yeah, yeah, It's still
there. It's still there.
I'm like, oh OK, just desensitized from like horrible
like bootleg VHS tapes of like, untold terror.
Faces of death, you know we're just.
Yeah. OK.
So I guess you force like continue like hiking, it's more
hiking than walking right now. Like it's kind of like yeah it's
a tiring walk somehow And you you you start to hear like
sounds of like music like music being like from a record using
being played. You know probably it's it's nice
and I just it's a grunge song or something like that like in the
distance and some some folks shouting and and and like very
distant splash and some people chanting.
Blast and Pearl Jam, you know. Sounds like you're getting
closer to the quarry slash pool and and yeah, as you you you get
there. Basically what you find is like
a a huge square hall like a like shoe box.
There's a hole like in a it's marble, it's like in the marble
in the marble mountain and there's a very dense like forest
all around it and there are a few terraces and there are like
folks on the terraces. There is, at first glance what
you see some some some dudes are making a BBQ.
There are some folks who have a small tent and there's people
there and they're they're jumping from the terrace into
the pool. The place is both like super
beautiful and super weird and dirty to their stuff floating in
the water. And on the northern side of the
water there's kind of a like a spike, like a a rocky formation
that has like it's kind of a Promontory review or something
that has like at the top some sort of balk natural balcony or
slightly mouth shaped. And and you see like somebody
like on the top, on the edge, working on the edge of of that
terrace, like it's super fucking high and and there's silence all
around the pool and the the dude jumps, disappears in the water
for a long time then comes back to the surface and everybody
kind of. And then it's kind of a swimming
jumping in a water party or something, Yeah.
So you're on the edge. On the edge of it, like the
southern edge, just opposite that kind of like peak.
That kind of peak, yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna scan the crowd. Do I see Sandra anywhere?
Are they are they visible or is the crowd feel like dispersed or
whatever? The crowd.
The crowd is dispersed like on on the on the edges or like off
of the pool. But yeah, you see them, they're
kind of walking. They're talking on a terrace
opposite yours I would say like on the north.
So the same side where the peak is just beneath it.
And they're they're talking with somebody and sounds sounds more
like they're not arguing but almost arguing with that person,
not not talking and and yeah. Do we know who that person is?
No, I mean you're looks like a guy, but you don't know.
I mean from there from from where you are, yeah, you you
can't really tell his face and but doesn't look familiar.
Looks like someone's bothering Sandra.
Do we know that we have powers and that the other rest of us
also have powers? Like we aware of our weird.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. So we're going to talk about
that. Yeah, sure.
So you absolutely are aware of your weird and your power.
So the weird. Weird is a thing that is all
around the Bay everywhere. And like, almost everybody knows
that there's weird. Weird is what makes the Bay the
Bay you know like and not like the rest of the world if there
is something the rest of the world so and the weird is what
makes like there's no gods in the Bay.
There's immortals and they live among people.
Some look like humans. Some look different.
But you can't really tell who's who And like they are called the
living Saints that just die and are reborn like forever and ever
and and they got the weird and like they're like involved
somehow of in that weird like circulating everywhere.
And weird is also responsible for some shitty stuff happening
like you know like wicked stuff happening as well and some
something happened to you and and you got the weird and and
and you became what you are now that gave you powers and and and
maybe we could talk about how you got the weird.
I'm not sure if you rolled that Oh yeah you did so so so Stella
do you want to go first What Yeah.
How?
Did you? So the the three things that I
rolled for, how I got the weird was sports, field, blood and
money. I have AI have a feeling like,
like the first bit of, you know, some of the weird creeping into
my life was me. You know, like kind of just
hanging out underneath like some high school bleachers or
whatever. And like seeing some people get
into a massive fight over some money and like stuff, you know,
escalating from there and. It.
It just just witnessing that kind of stuff maybe opened my
brain up to influence from stuff.
But like, you're weird is fire related.
Did something happen then? Like, I mean, I see you've got
the lighter. I don't know.
I was just wondering did something happen that is fire
related like in that moment with sports field blood and money and
that you either witnessed or that you caused?
I think maybe I wanted to get away from that and like in the
process, like maybe I ended up, I ended up tripping into a
campfire or something that was going on in the woods.
You know, I was just like when I was just like hauling, asking
like I I don't want to be a witness to this or whatever that
that's what I think. I think that's that's, you know,
just seeing. I think maybe like seeing
something go wrong wrong for like the first time, combined
with like that fire injury opened me up to something
related to. The fire.
Yeah, yeah, I, I and it says in in my vibe, you serve the fire
demon son of the Sun. Yeah, exactly.
Whatever that means. Like, like, like.
And by that I'm saying that the lore is super open, like for
like players and GMs to interpret it.
So yeah, that's cool. OK And yeah, Hunter, how did you
get the weird? How did you become a a scanner?
How did you? The three words that I ruled
were video game night and tarot. And so I feel like I was having
like one of the meetups I assume that I have with other like, you
know, like VHS, like audio video nerds.
And we're just like drinking and maybe smoking and we like did
like some weird tarot card readings.
As you know, it's very like post satanic panic, like weird
kitschy alt kid stuff like proto goth.
And we did like a tarot reading and it was just like bad.
Like it was awful. It was just like something
really traumatic is going to happen.
To whom? To you or to somebody else?
I just, I guess I get it's if I took a tarot readings about me,
maybe it wasn't like traumatic but like something weird and
changing was going to happen. And then we booted up like this
like weird video game, like Nintendo, like NES game that
someone got through the back of a magazine and during playing it
like just odd, weird, haunted stuff began to happen around us.
Cool. Yeah.
Cool. Sounds cool.
When I woke up the next day and was just weird forever, you
know? Yeah, and this year, That's when
I hit puberty. And this year, Ryan, how did
Dante get the weird? Yeah, so actually, so I instead
of rolling my items, I kind of picked them after I rolled the
three words. That's what I started with.
My 3 words that I rolled were secret Blade and photograph.
So I was like, well then I have to take the ritual knife in the
Polaroid, cuz that's what makes sense.
Sure. I feel like.
I feel like I had this photograph, this vintage
Polaroid of corpses from somewhere.
I don't know if I, like, yanked it from like like a no.
You know what? I shoplifted it from a stack of
stuff at like a Goodwill. It was just like tucked in there
and I saw it and it was creepy and I liked it, so I took it.
But then I came across this knife as well and I end up
buying that and I took it home and when I was playing with it,
I accidentally cut myself pretty like pretty bad with this knife
and actually spilled blood all over the photograph.
This vintage photograph of the corpses, but it just like
absorbed it into the photograph. And then after that I always had
this photograph with me and then I started seeing things in it
that would come true. And I also realized that the,
you know, one of my powers is the Oracle and requires me to
like draw blood in order to use it.
So I realized that I basically merged these items or like you
know, used one with the other and made this Polaroid like
somehow connected with the kind of like Oracle Ness of that by
soaking it in my blood. So.
Cool. That's really cool.
And yeah so you know you have
powers and you know that there's other people having powers and
you know that Sandra has powers as well like you you don't put a
name on it but Sandra is is tough that's that's their power
and that's a lot of powers behind that.
Like they're just tough They they they take sheets and and
they're restless and and and I don't know how much you know
them. Yeah.
I mean probably probably Sarah. You know you know stuff.
Yeah. So Sandra Sunrise like like if
if they were a player there would be a splinter they serve
the hardcore wanderer. There are restless stuff super
resilient person and and kind of valuing freedom above above
everything and and and so like yeah in debate there's the
normies and there's folks who have powers and and and but yeah
you do know that you have powers and Johnny something catches
your eye is that you see like on one of the terraces there's a a
dude an older dude which has a video gear.
It's got a huge camera never seen something like that like
that not like your handheld recorder.
It's got, it's got kind of like a bazooka thing.
Like it's big camera and they have like, I mean probably
you've never seen one like for real.
But you know what it is, it's super old like black and white
camera. And they have like it's got a
detached recorder. The recorder is like a like
suitcase you have to carry basically.
And there's cables going from the camera to the recorder.
So there's that dude. Super old.
Like 3035 or something like that.
Like ancient, Yeah. Let's say like, yeah, Super
Bowl, I'm 32 in real life, but yeah.
Yeah, so you know, so you know what I'm talking about.
Right. So, so wearing a leather jacket
or some. Yeah.
Leather jacket. And.
And and yeah, kind of filming. And actually he's.
Yeah. And he's talking with people and
he's filming like, I guess he's filming in Sandra's direction
that. So like, yeah, that argument
like that's that's kind of slightly escalating, yeah.
I'm going to go talk to him if I can.
Yeah, sure, sure. Yeah.
You have to like, yeah. Yeah, like I I walk around and I
like approach and then. Before before, as you're walking
away from like the group, I want to just grab your arm for a
second and just like pat like the pocket on my jacket, which
you know is like where I keep the photograph and I'm like
don't go in the water. I look at my, like, fully
clothed outfit and I look at my bag of only audio video
equipment and I'm like, Oh yeah, OK, OK.
Yeah. So you're splitting folks,
right? You're splitting.
You're not saying or like. I just wanna go ask the guy
about his camera and what he's doing.
OK, so you know, you know what? I'm gonna ask everybody around
the table what they do, and then I'm gonna tell you what happens.
So you go and meet, try to meet that guy.
Yeah, yeah. Dante, anything you wanna do or.
I'm gonna. I'm gonna stick with Sarah,
whatever she does. I know that we saw Sandra
arguing. I assume maybe she's gonna go
see what that's about. And if she does, I'm just gonna
stick with her. And then, like, I want to make
sure that when I told Johnny about, like, stay out of the
water, I like, looked at her too and made sure that, like, she
heard me, you know? And like, you know, you know
that I see stuff. So just don't don't go in the
water. Don't let Sandra go in the
water. I think what Sarah would be
interested in doing is going over to like where the where the
argument where Sandra they're arguing with the other person
and she would do what she thinks is is solving the problem which
is insulting the the person arguing.
OK, makes sense. So like you kind of splitting
into opposite directions, right? So like, yeah, sorry, Dante and
Sarah, you're going east on the east side and like you walk on a
small path that goes like really on the edge of like that quarry.
And and yeah, I mean like it's not super safe.
You can do that, but it's not super safe.
I mean you should like, requires a bit of concentration.
You go through a 1st terrace where there's folks like who
are, there's there's a dude who's catching hair to other
dudes, so they're like underneath, like like a tent, a
makeshift dent and scouting hair.
And there's music there. This is where the music was
coming from. And they're they just say like a
very casual and quick hey, hey, and they go back like tomorrow
catching hair. And you reach the terrace where
where Sandra he's and Dante, you take like the opposite rouse and
yeah, and you reach that person who's who looks Normie, who's
older, who's got that like super old camera and who looks
extremely involved into what they're doing.
And as you approach he's talking with some of the kids there and
like like looks like an interview, like yeah, and have
you jumped, have you jumped already have you jumped from the
mouth and and how was it? Yeah, man, what's cool, What's
cool? The weather is cold and but I
couldn't I couldn't reach the rocks down there.
So yeah, I felt bad about it. So but I'm going to jump again
today and I mean, I've been training a lot and like in my
bathtub, you know, doing apnea and stuff.
So yeah, I'm going to reach rocks.
I'm going to grab a rock. So I feel super confident.
Oh, so that's cool. That's cool.
Yeah. Yeah.
And and and goes on like that and and looks at you stops,
stops and looks at you and like stares at your camera.
Are you making movie or? Yeah.
Are you making a movie? No, no.
It's a What are you? What are you recording?
What are you doing? Yeah, I'm just it's research.
It's yeah, somebody rolls. What's it called?
What kind of camera is that? It's, it's, it's, it's It's
experimental stuff. Imports.
So doesn't really have a name. So but I've put pieces together
and you can see that you know that's like it's kind of
makeshift thing. There's you recognize bits and
pieces of several several like different cameras and I don't
know like probably like like in your in your group of folks
you've been hearing about a camera that's kind of a legend
that camera like super high definition black and white
camera and yeah so hey Hunter, do you want to roll AD 10
please. Absolutely.
Thank you. I rolled A2.
OK, cool. And yeah and yeah, do you want
to try it? I mean, it's cool.
If you want to try it, do you want to give me yours?
And yeah, yours should just just hand over your account.
Yeah. Do you want to try it?
It's really cool. It's really cool.
Do you want to give it a try? Yeah, I'll try it, but I'll just
put my camera in my bag. I'm weird about my camera.
You OK? Cool.
That's. Cool.
I close the camcorder and I power it down and I put it in my
well, actually, I assume I have a backpack with me instead.
That's right. So like reaching out.
For a bag but. No problem.
Like if you can have like items that are not mentioned, I'm not
super strict about that. In the in the gear list.
They're not going to give you like mechanical bonus or you
won't be able to use them to do like crazy stuff.
But backpack? He's OK, I guess.
You you, I put it. In my Jansport, you know.
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, it's all like, yeah,
yeah, pleased that that's that's really, really cool.
Thank you. I want to try it.
So yeah. So you grab the camera it's
super heavy like the the portable recorder is huge deck
heavy deck that that's in that's in the bag you know and and and
the quality of the image, it's black and white.
It's just black and white. But I mean it's so fucking
amazing and and it's like it's like you see a lot of stuff that
you don't see, you know, with your camera or with you know,
just your eyes and specifically you see like through the water
of the pool. First of all it's extremely
deep. It's fucking deep.
And then you see that there's like small dots like blooming at
the bottom of the pool and and yeah, basically you might be
able to see more if you spend more time investigating and
stuff. But that's, you know like on the
first look what you grab, yeah. I'm gonna keep looking down, but
I'm not. I'm gonna say I'm like, So what
are the what are the dots in the water?
Yeah, they're they're, that's the that's the kid answering.
They're the stones. You know, you're supposed to to
grab them. They're good luck, you know, and
there's not many of them left, you know, and but it's tough.
What do you what do? You do with them after you grab
them. Well, I don't know.
I never grabbed them, grabbed one.
But it makes you stronger, makes you different.
You know, I've been told, like, This is why folks come here.
Like to grab them, makes, makes them different, you know?
And yeah, some people go and like, swim down to grab the sun.
But then, yeah, that doesn't matter.
Yeah, I know why they don't, huh?
Yeah, you've heard the stories. You've heard the stories.
Like, like everybody probably. You know, Anyways, so.
Well, Johnny is a skeptic, even though he's experienced truly
weird shit in his life and he's just like, yeah, whatever.
And I I mean, if I, if the guy lets me keep using the camera,
I'm going to keep like trying to examine like the water and then
like the big pillar or like the big like more mountainous piece
that they jump off of that has like the little mouth, OK.
Sure. So yeah.
So the guy is going to let you keep it for wide and as you like
Shields and pan your camera to like the peak to the bottom of
the peak. First of all, what you see is
Sandra that is taking off their shoes and and like by taking off
their shirts and looks like somebody who's preparing to swim
or jump or something like that. And I'm going to go back to you
in a SEC. And right now we're going to go
to to Dante and and Sarah. OK.
So yeah. So you reach like the that very
small terrace basically. And there's there's 333 persons
right there. There's Sandra who's arguing
with very tall skinny dude covered with tattoos basically.
And and there's there's another dude who we going to call Boris
just to give name to people, even if you don't know his name
yet, but just to for the sake of clarity.
And there's there's another dude called Samir who's sitting on
the floor and who's just eating stuff and looking and listening
and and as you reach the terrace Sandra starts climbing through
like what's a series of stairs and like rope stairs and ropes
and wooden stairs that climb up the peak and and and yeah and go
towards like the mouth slash balcony slash terrace and and by
the way it's starting to get darker as as sunset like the sun
is getting lower and yeah Sandra didn't didn't probably didn't
see you arriving yeah and they're starting to climb that
thing. I She really shouldn't get in
the water. She like you like you should do
like you should. I mean, she's more good friend
than my friend, But, like, I'm telling you right now, like it's
not gonna like I. Something bad's gonna happen
today. Listen.
I I don't control them like, but I think I'm going to I'm going
to turn to the the tall fella and be like you.
Lurch. Why'd you scare her?
Sarah's not very nice. She's she's going to turn to to
self appoint the the man she is determined is Lurch.
And she's going to be like, why'd you scare them off?
Why'd you bother them? So.
So the guy speaks in a very low like broken voice.
Low as not not very low volume and and who the fuck are you
kid? What?
What even are you doing here? You are not invited.
What What are you doing here? Who are you?
And I didn't scare. Who could possibly scare Sandra?
Why'd you fucking bother them, then?
Get in a fucking argument. No goddamn reason.
Oh yeah, Sandra. If there's anything I if there's
anything I know about Sandra, it's that they're in the right.
OK, OK, cool. Cool.
Are you like, Sandra's mommy or something?
Or like they're not in the fucking right.
They owe me. They owe me a fucking lot of
shit, right? So they're not in their fucking
right at all. And and I'm not arguing and
she's not arguing and she's just gonna do what she's got to do,
you know, She's gonna get me those fucking stones.
Scam. Fuck.
Whatever. Whatever.
And he looks up. He looks up.
Yeah, yeah and yeah. Sunrise progressing quite slowly
actually the whole thing path through the top of the terrace
is, is is he's pretty, yeah, it's super steep.
And while you were fired, like, I don't know, like arguing with
Boris and Samir, dude, who was like sitting and and eating
probably looked at both of you, Dante and Sarah.
And it was like, like, like, looking at you, Dante.
And yeah. So back to I guess, our friend
Johnny. Yeah.
So what are you doing? What are you doing again?
You're I think I was trying to. I was taking a better look
around. I mean, he's let me use this
camera like I'm a I'm a big camera and video nerd, and if I
see weird things, I'm going to try to zone in on them.
And if he's not paying attention, I'm also going to try
to mess with the settings of the camera to clear up the image of
what I'm looking at, you know? Sure.
So yeah, I mean, like what you see is definitely a couple 234
dudes who look like the person you've seen in the woods.
And they are, they're, they're like they're disseminated all
around the quarry, you know, like some kind of beige figures
and and kind of standing still and looking towards the quarry.
And yeah you see a few of them like that with the camera and
you can you have you can do very good zooms like the zoom is
super powerful and and yeah they don't look very much in good
shape and probably probably not super alive I you're not sure
about that but but anyways you don't see them like without a
camera so. Where, as you said, where are
these guys standing? Well, they're they're like kind
of all around the quarry. They're not groups in a specific
place. You know, they're all around the
quarry and and there's probably, yeah, there's probably 1 not
super far from you. You know, like, I don't know,
like do we speak in meters or in feet or how?
How do we do? That three feet close enough?
Yeah. OK.
So yeah, I don't know, like 510 meters from you, that would be
like 30 feet from you. Like, like in the bushes.
You see one of those figures? Yeah, staring downstairs like
that. I like, I, I well, this guy.
I'm gonna walk towards this figure and like with the camera
at it, you know? OK, like, camera dude grabs your
arm and wait, wait wait, where? Where are you going?
I just want to see. I just want to see what.
Would you want? Yeah, the.
The guy, the guy in in the Bush. You know, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
You shouldn't talk about those. I've seen them, but you
shouldn't talk about those and. What?
Why?
Wait, wait, wait.
Yeah, yeah. Don't, don't, don't talk about
it here. You know?
So yeah, I mean let's, let's, yeah, let's, yeah, I'll come
with you all. I I don't know.
That's why I'm here, basically. I don't know.
You know, I'm, I'm. I'm trying to get that story,
you know. Do you imagine, do you imagine,
like, I make film with that shit?
Do you imagine, imagine how many awards I'm going to win with
that stuff? You know, you know, like kids
jumping and yeah, man, if somebody dies tonight, I mean,
it's going to be epic. That's going to be like the like
the ending sequence. Like, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's hard playing the the character that I am because the
whole thing is that I'm desensitized as hell.
But I think even I think even Johnny being like super
desensitized and kind of like apart from human humanity, even
he's going to be like, well, that's a real piece of shit
thing to say, like. Like you say that, you say that.
Yeah, I'm barely, yeah. Like it's like, for the most
part, Johnny's like, very monotone and he just says like a
kind of short phrase. And I keep, like repeating
things and making it less and less.
But he like pipes up and was like, well, that's really shit.
That's really, really shitty. That's just shitty.
Yeah, so right. I know, I know.
That's shitty job, you know, I mean, but somebody's got to do
it, you know? So.
But I'm gonna. Hand him back.
I'm gonna hand him back the camera and be like, thanks.
Thanks for letting me look. Thanks.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
You're welcome. Anytime, anytime.
I'm Marcus, by the way. I'm Marcus.
And yeah, anytime. John.
Are we, are we still going there?
What? Or.
I think, I mean, like I, you know, yeah, let's go go.
Let's, let's, yeah, let's, let's.
Yeah. And I Johnny pulls at his camera
and like turns on the camera, his camera, and then like finds
where he was looking at the maybe dead person that doesn't
show up and does it appear on my camera.
OK. Right now, no, but yes, that's
you're not super far from that spot, right.
OK. And I'll get back to you.
So you keep working in that. Direction, right.
He's going to investigate the thing.
But yeah, absolutely. Good time transition.
OK, I'll get back. So folks, excuse me, I've lost
track of time. I don't even know at what time
we started like we've played like it.
So just to know how much time I have etcetera, so I've been.
At this about an hour. An hour.
OK. Thank you.
So, yeah, back to the Northern. Yeah.
Please excuse me. Question Powers right?
I have a power. Is that just active?
Do I need to do something? Spend something.
OK, cool, cool. So there's you've got two kinds
of powers. You've got like, passive powers.
OK, you've got you've got the weird narratively that made you
whatever you are, whoever you are right now.
And it's a resourcing game. So there's kind of two, two
stats slash resources and three attributes.
You've got like characters have a heart, which measures kind of
health points. To put it simply, you recover,
you have low hearts, you lose it pretty quickly, and you'll
recover it pretty quickly as well.
Taking naps, eating, resting, and once you've lost all your
heart, you start losing your force attributes.
You got 3 attributes, force, flow and focus.
And when you've lost all your force, you're dead.
And then you've got the weird. The weird is like resources,
like that energy inside you and you've got to spend weird to use
your active powers or you've got to have weird to use your
passive power. Your passive power by default is
always on. OK, so for you, right now, what
I would say is that you have your like rational brain.
You know, you have those visions whole week.
Plus, frankly, I mean, you don't need like to be like an expert
medium or seer or whatever. You see like the kind of
situation you are in. It's dangerous place.
So like, your rational brain tells you, OK, it's getting
darker, There's that very deep pool.
There's a friend climbing on that ropey weird ladder.
That's fucking dangerous. But you don't feel shit.
You don't have like your your, you know, vigil power that
should tell you when there's like imminent danger.
But that doesn't click. It's like, you know cognitively
that's weird That's, I mean that that doesn't work.
So you're yeah, some there's something, there's something
weird here. So.
So that's what I was asking specifically.
It was like the vigil. So I'm not sensing any imminent
danger right now. But let's talk frankly, like
usually you're always, it's like you're always on, you always
sense stuff. Like like, then right now you
don't sense anything, which is probably another way of, like,
feeling this weird shit going on.
But but you don't have clarity. You don't have clarity about it.
You know, it's kind of like, it's kind of like silence, like
a deafening silence. That's that's weird.
So it's kind of like the fact that I'm not sensing something
is just as weird as like like sensing something super bad,
like, 'cause there's always something, but here there's like
nothing. So it's it's kind of like the
sense of, like being in the forest and realizing that
there's like no noise when there's always noise in the
forest. But that's the weird, yeah.
Yeah, there's no noise. Like all the animals went quiet
and that means something. But The thing is, you don't have
a clue about what does that mean.
Yeah. Yeah, I just want to hug on like
Sarah a little bit more and be like I'm I you.
We should we have to stop her. I know we we can't stop Stop
them. Like we can't like they're full
headed. But something's wrong here.
Can you do anything? I I think I'm going to, I'm
going to divert my attention away from this, this dangerous
man I've decided to insult and argue with having talked to for
all of three seconds. I'm going to pull away from that
guy and be like, yeah, we should just, I'm just going to very
quickly like just flip him the bird and going to start heading
up in the direction of of Sandra.
I just wave at him. I just completely ignored him
entirely, this tall person. And when she flicks the bird,
I'm just like, oh, hi. And then like, yeah, I'll, I'll
go with, I'll go with Sarah. OK, OK, so you you you climb
like you climb the the rope slash rope stairs slash, pool
slash. If if Sarah starts climbing, I
will stay at the bottom and tell her and tell them that like stop
her. I don't.
You could you could like, you know what I mean or whatever.
But just they should not go in the water.
But if Sarah starts to climb, I'm like, I'm like, I did, I
did. I.
Did as best as I can Do I pull my Polaroid out again and I look
at it. Does it look any different?
Yeah, it looks different. Like, yeah, so.
But just give me a SEC. So, like, to recap, Sarah,
you're climbing. You start climbing like it's
real. It's real climb.
OK And super. I don't know, it's like 30
meters or something like crazy. Yeah, You go, you go, you go
there. OK, cool.
That will involve some rolls. And yeah, I'll get back to you.
So yeah, the Polaroid has changed.
There's a bunch of folks like, it's exactly like, I don't know
what's like the situation usually of like like, I mean the
context of your of the Polaroid like the corpses, but where
where are they? Like what's what's in the photo?
What do you see usually? I feel like there's people in
it, so like when I get a vision, the people stay the same, but
their circumstances. Like.
Change, you know what I mean? So, like, I don't know who these
people in the picture are, but there's a, there's a number of
them. And like when I've seen before
that there was going to be a car accident happen.
I see these people like in a car accident, like when I.
But it's not like I'll see new people or that the thing that
it's happening to, It's more that I get a sense of like
what's going to happen in a broad sense based on the
consequences of what happens in the picture.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, so right now what you see in the picture is like like usual
group of persons who are all standing there are like like a
pack all packed together all facing the same direction,
looking, looking like had tilted like looking down like that and
they are in a very dark environment which is which?
Which looks probably natural, like a cave or something.
And and they don't look alive and there's a bunch of them
right now and you feel like you're looking at something from
the past. Probably you like like your
visual sense is broken and is faced towards the past instead
of the future and you're looking backwards if that makes sense.
OK. So yes, sorry.
You start like climbing that thing and and and and like the
first, the first like 323 meters are are kind of easy as in like
there's that's where like the stairs are in the best shape and
like and it's not it's not like a flat wall.
There's like small terraces so where you can stop and maybe you
have to walk a meter or two and then you start climbing again
and let's say two things happen first we're going to roll.
No, we're going to roll to see how how that works for you.
But before that you see that that that Sandra is kind of is
not climbing anymore. They're kind of stuck.
There's like and there's there's pebbles pulling down and you
hear them like cursing like fuck, oh shit.
And they're they're kind of stuck up there and we're going
to roll. So we're going to use unless you
use one of your powers, but I'm not sure.
I don't think I have a relevant power unless I want to ignite my
friend. Yeah, you could.
OK, cool. So we're going to use, we're
going to use one of the attributes.
So the attributes do not. There's three of them.
There's force, low and focus and they describe how good you are
at doing something a certain way.
And and for the record like like the the the engine of the Last
Bay draws a lot from a lot of indie games but a lot from two
games which are there like for the Scar system that that is the
thing that can happen to characters when they're use
their powers. And from the Lumen framework
from Gil RPGs and RPGs and Spencer Campbell, Spencer
Campbell, we've the powers, the way, the power, the powers and
the attributes. So attributes describe the way
how much you are good at doing things a certain way either with
brute force or in a swift and quick way or like using focus,
whatever that means rational, emotional, concentration,
spiritual and. And so you're going to pick them
depending on how you want things to happen narratively.
And if you fail, depending on the attribute you've picked for
for for your action, you're going to fail in different ways.
Basically and and you can use an item to give you a bonus for the
action and I don't know if right now that's relevant but the idea
is that you're like players are encouraged to to use items like
in the most creative way possible.
I would say you have Rainbow sleepers like Rainbow sleep you
could like the rainbow sleepers could help you climb like.
Of course, I mean, everybody climbs better with sleepers, so
I don't know if you want, if you want like the Rainbow, sleepers
can help you climb in a more easy and fast way, someone
who's. Currently wearing slippers, I I
don't think they would help me climb that much.
But yeah, I think, I think just looking at my inventory and
looking at my powers, I think I don't really have anything up my
sleeve to help me with this. I think, I think at least in
this case it would probably be force because this is just like
me trying to just go on ahead and like pretty strong about
that and I've got a three in that.
So yeah, you rolled 3D6 and you gonna keep your higher results
and you need a five or six. The six is a full success.
The five is our success with the complication.
All righty, that is a six. OK, so basically, yeah, I mean
the six means you reach Sandra right now and you're you're
beneath them. I mean and and and and.
I'll get back to you in just a SEC.
So two things happen when you reach Sandra First, they're
totally surprised. Like, dude, what the fuck you
doing here? It's dangerous.
Like get down, get down and and and then pause and then fuck,
I'm so stuck. I'm stuck.
I'm stuck.
I'm gonna.
That sucks. That sucks, dude.
I'm so stuck. I can't move.
And then I'm going to get back to to, yeah, let's say to
Johnny. So you went deeper right into
the woods by getting away from like the edge of the quarry
where like the party is happening and you looked around
with with your camera and for a while you didn't see, yeah, that
person like figure anymore. Marcus is following you and
asking a lot of annoying question, even filming you.
Is that OK? If I feel you, I could be in a
movie and I don't know maybe you could be one of the many
characters or I don't know. And I like it's kind of
annoying. And yeah.
And so yeah. I'm not replying to it, just so
we're clear. I'm not replying to any of them.
Like if he's asking like questions, I'm 100% not like
it's zoned out for me. I don't even like I might not
even actually hear him at all. So yeah, I yeah.
So that you make a perfect pair in the sense that he keeps
asking the questions and you keep not answering and that's
kind of works in a way so and you walk like that in the in the
woods and yeah so I assume you keep like looking that's what
you're doing right. With the camera and look yeah
and yes so no dude anymore and and and after a while in the
spots you are dude comes back not comes back as in walking but
appears and again and more dudes dudes like yeah more persons
yeah like like. I'd like to approach one as
close as I can get to it. Yeah, so you you get close to
the place where you suppose the person, yeah, that's that should
should be there. There's nobody but it's it
becomes extremely cold and and it's wet.
OK, now I'm going to look back and acknowledge was Marcus.
'S name? Yeah.
Marcus. Yeah.
I'm like, how close am I to the guy, the thing?
Yeah, I'm gone. Give me, give, give me a SEC.
So because you need, it's, it needs like a sack, you know, to
boot and to start up. So yeah, Do do you want to
really know or like? Yeah.
So I would like to really know, yeah.
Can you move, like, one step to the left?
Like it's for the frame, you know?
Yeah. OK.
Stay, stay still. Don't talk.
Perfect. Yeah.
So you're extending exactly where the dude stands, right?
You're you're you're in the same place.
That's a beautiful image. Oh, thank you for that so much.
Oh, and yeah, and pulled around you and cold getting inside you
as well. Yeah, which is super weird.
I'm going to step back. The cold inside of me makes me
feel bad, so I'm going to take a large step backwards.
Cool. If you take a large step
backwards, are you still looking or?
Yeah, I'm still looking at my camera.
Absolutely. I'm always looking at my camera.
OK, person is the closest. Person is looking at you like
through the camera. You do a step back, they do a
step towards you. I step towards them.
I mean, like, they're, they're, they're, they come, yeah, yeah,
they follow you. They follow you.
I like, I'm like. I'm like.
I'm like hello. You just hear like the breeze,
like in the trees and the sound of the rain.
For I guess I just reach out and kind of like through them just
cold hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just cold, like cold hair, cold air.
I should really go tell Dante. Yeah, you know what?
Says Marcus. It's really cool.
We're making a really cool sequence right here, but I don't
know, it's getting really dark and I feel that maybe I'd like
to get back to where other, you know, like people, more normal,
visible, normally visible people are.
How would you feel about that and?
I'm just like, no acknowledgement, just Johnny's
going to walk off. Like, I'm going to start walking
back to Dante and where Sarah's risking her life because I'm
going to be like, hey, there's like ghosts in the woods, but as
I'm walking, I'm gonna look behind me and see if the the
thing's following me at all. There.
You know what I'll do? I'll flip the screen on the
camcorder and point at myself so I can see me and behind me.
OK, cool. So yeah, what happens is, well,
they stay behind, but you, they kind of like regroup around the
person you were kind of trying to talk to and they start kind
of very slowly walking towards you, like behind you, like
towards, like towards towards like the pool, yeah.
Good. Really good.
So yeah, back to Dante and Sarah.
And so at this point, Sameer, as like standing up and there's, I
think that I think that Boris is starting to climb the rope
ladder as well. Like fucking corn.
What the fuck is happening right there?
What the fuck is she doing? What the fuck is happening?
And he starts like climbing the rope, the rope thing.
And yeah, Dante, what you want to do the guy with sandwiches?
This is not looking good. No.
Boris is so pissed off. He's so pissed off, you know?
This is not looking good at all. You know he's an asshole.
When he's pissed off, he behaves like an asshole.
He seems like he's having an asshole all the time.
Yeah, well, yeah, you could say that.
You know, he's my brother, but he's really an asshole, I think.
I don't want to see that. Yes, I stand by what I said I.
So fine. Oh God.
So right now he's. Calm down.
What the fuck are you doing? Go, Samir.
Come on. It's it's getting it's getting
dark. Stop your fucking nonsense.
Calm down. Yeah.
Please. So darkness.
Yeah, almost. Almost like like you look
towards the West like, ah, darkness.
Sorry, you're using Darkness. A tower out of Darkness says it
requires A relic. What do I have a relic?
Do I need to find a relic like? Yeah, you would need to.
You would need to have one, you know, Let's do something like
roll a lock die. If you've got A5 or A6, your
your Polaroid is RELIC. That's what I was gonna say if
it Yeah, roll the four. It's not relic.
It's a fucking amazing item object, but it's not relic.
What about the ritual knife? What about the ritual knife it?
Doesn't matter. I roll the thrift.
So no, I don't. Be fucking relics.
So relics are objects that were owned by the Saints at some
point and. Well, yeah.
The knife had a beautiful little bit bonuses, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I pull out one of my smokes and just watch for a little bit.
Like I listen. I see, I warn, I watch.
That's just. Oh, wow.
I see, I warn. I watch.
That's that's a cool. Yeah, put that on a tattoo.
Yeah, I need a teacher up like that.
I've done, I've done. What I can do.
And then I now I have like this like kind of fascination with
seeing what I said would happen happening.
So yeah. OK, so like some year the dude,
like the dude, the younger dude, he's starting to get super,
super, yeah, like agitated. Like he's he's, he's, he's
anxious. He's clearly anxious since Boris
brother started climbing and and and and and Sarah.
Pretty quickly you feel like a hand, like dropping your your
ankle, not like pulling you down, but like like hey, what
the fuck are you doing here guys?
Like, yeah, climb up, climb up. I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to
be like, Sandra, what the fuck is going on?
It's it's broken like the rope is broken like it's it's it's
like it's it's rotten like I I can't climb up.
I, I, I I'm stuck. I'm stuck.
So they're they're probably, I don't know, like one or two
meters above you and they're like holding with, like super
tightling to the to the, yeah, to the Rockwall, to the wall,
like to and to the to the marble.
And yeah, I'm, I'm fucking stuck.
I'm fucking stuck. What?
What are you stuck on? On nothing.
There's nothing here. There's me holding to the wall
and I have nothing to grab above me, and I am.
I don't know how to get down. I'm I'm gonna gonna turn to the
the the guy below me and he's like you fucking heard them back
off. We need we need to get down.
It's not going to be any help if you're riding on our asses.
Now let me, let me, let me climb.
I'm going to climb. I'm going to climb.
Like, like I'm going to get past you.
OK, OK. Move, move, move on the side.
Move. Move.
All right.
I'm going to, I'm going to try to to maneuver that, I guess
then. OK.
So yeah, you kind of slide on the side and and and I think
where you are like it's like the classical rope ladder made with
like branches instead of being like it's not surface rope or
something like that. Yeah.
It's just like branches and and and the dude, yeah.
Climbs past you and almost at your level.
Slight. Slightly above you and and and
yeah it kind of puts his hand like beneath Sandra's feet and
and and yeah kind of kind of pushes her and well I'm push
you're good you're good good. I I just just just pull and I'm
I'm pushing you and you're going to make it You're going to make
it and 123 and it kind of jumps somehow and pushes Sandra and
Sandra reaches something and pulls and and she's good She
keeps climbing and and Boris after having done that jump push
kind of falls down and and and and yeah like trickle down.
Can I say that in English I don't know like kind of like
pulls down. Yeah.
Louder. And he is hanging by the ladder
like that and he's beneath you like oh fuck.
Oh fuck. Oh fuck I'm good.
I'm good. That's Sandra and you can't see
her and now anymore because there's no enough light there.
It's not it's not night already but like against the the Cliff.
You can't you can't see her you're here her she's above and
she's getting like more distant. I'm good.
I'm good.
But you can't see her or who does what.
Boris is climbing down, by the way.
I I think I'm going to climb up actually OK or at least try.
I'm going to, I'm going to attempt to to do that jump or
whatever that the Sandra needed help with, but I'm reckless
enough that I'm going to try and do it by my lonesome.
OK, so just, I mean for you to know like it's it's that job is
really bad. So you're going to need to like,
I mean, Sandra was stuck sunrise like an excellent climber.
I mean she's super physical. She's like, I mean she's
probably the strongest person, quickest person, more like she's
tough and she can do everything and she was stuck there and The
thing is a fucking nightmare, nightmare.
Plus now it's dark, so if you want to continue, you're gonna
have to do a critical success, which is super, super.
Yeah, that's. Like, yeah.
The only of that I'd chosen Daredevil is my power.
Yeah you you you're weird would allow you to re roll once if you
fail pending one weird, but still you would hit a 66.
OK. Yeah.
No, I think so. I think that that Sarah isn't
particularly reserved, but I don't think she's actively
suicidal. I mean.
You get there, but once you're there and like you assess the
situation, fuck you. See, I mean, that's just that's
just not possible. Yeah.
Yeah, these aren't help, you know?
Well, in that, in that case I think I'm, I'm heading down
because at this point it feels, it feels as if the, the the
wheels are in motion, you know, Yeah.
But I'm going to tell you, you know what's getting down.
It's easier said than done right now because it's fucking dark
and and Boris probably has tore down a piece of the ladder when
he fell. So that's gonna that's gonna
require another role and I'm going to get back to you in just
a SEC and see what our friends are doing.
Like first our scanner Johnny I. Was I was heading back to Dante?
Haven't made it there by now. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Let's assume you're there.
Yeah. I like, I'm like, hey look,
look, and I just. Just one thing before before you
get there. As you were going there, you
noticed that like around the pool, like most of the the
people who were there were kind of have already left or were
packing their stuff and were were going away, right?
OK, good. So.
Which which makes sense. I mean, it's I mean.
It's it's only becoming more alone in the dark around this
creeping quarry. Yeah, I'm getting.
It there's there's just like the hairdresser with another person.
They're like, like under that that that makeshift tent with a
BBQ. They're like grilling meat.
But except from that, like, yeah, you hear like voices of
people who are kind of disappearing in the woods,
getting away, and yeah. Terrible.
Yeah. So I go, Johnny, I'm like, hey,
look. And I scrubbed back through the
footage that I just recorded of, like, the things in the woods
and then like, kind of walking out, not necessarily following
me, but locking behind me. And I'm like, hey, I think, I
think people die here. Yeah, yeah, they absolutely do.
That's they do. Are they?
When, when? So you recorded that earlier?
Yeah, just and you. Told me about that.
That that weird guy too. Yeah.
Mm hmm. Yeah.
Are they are they still follow or were they following you or
just coming over to the water? Oh yeah, I guess I'm still
recording behind me for a bit, so I'll look over with my
camera. Do I see any of them still or?
So, yeah, so you see, you see like, so now you're in different
area of the quarry. So those persons were not like
following you like they're not training you.
They didn't follow you on the path.
They were rather getting closer to the edges of the quarry.
And like all around the quarry you've spotted like like smaller
groups like 2 there, three there, five there.
Like of people like kind of like closely like get it like, yeah,
getting to the edges of the quarry, yeah.
And if you look from where you are right now and you pan and
look like, like they make like a glow all around the quarry.
So like, I don't know, there's twenty of them.
Probably there's a bunch of them.
And then when I pull out my Polaroid, I see people in a
cave. Yeah, yeah.
You see that thing? Yeah.
They look like drowned. Or do they just look?
Like they're in a cave. No, no, no.
They look, they look drowned, yeah.
Blue lips and everything. Blue lips.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, swollen bodies, partly
swollen bodies. And some of them are in worst
state, as in like partially rotten.
But they've. Been, yeah, all bloated from the
water and my vigil is still picking up like an absence of
danger, which is very weird. No, let's let's say that your
your vigil triggers right now. And and and and right now it's
it's it's kind of pointing at at above you like Sarah Sandra yeah
your visual is you've got you've got like the red light blinking
and. Gotcha.
Yeah, I People die here and someone's going to die here
tonight. Oh, OK, OK, OK, What?
Where? Yeah.
And I I look over and I can. I see Sarah climbing down.
Yeah, you see Sarah climbing down and Sarah is going to do a
roll and we'll see how how the climbing happens.
Now get to know, should I just roll that now?
Yeah, please, if you want to, yeah.
The highest roll was a 5. OK, the highest role is a 5, so
give me a SEC. Yeah.
I would say like, you climb down.
OK, Like, you don't. You don't fly down.
You climb down, but you sleep just at the end of the rope and
and and twist your ankle. 5 is a success with the complication.
So you're going to twist your ankle so you didn't fall 20
meters, but you fell like just probably a couple of meters and
you're going to lose 1 hard point, but you got a bunch, so
you're good. So.
There's got a lot of heart. You know, yeah.
But yeah, like, narratively, you've got a you've twisted your
ankle. You can't, you can't run it.
It hurts. It's it hurts super bad and and
yeah you can you can barely like put your feets on the ground
without without feeling pain and and yeah
so you're old. Now yeah, I'm, I'm, I was just
thinking my course of action because I do have that weird day
old pizza or multi day on pizza. Yeah, that's right.
That's right. I could roll the effect for
that, that would. Be cool.
So you're eating it right? Yeah, yeah.
No, I'm. I'm her.
So I just like, you know what, Fuck it.
I'm going to. I'm going to just eat that slice
of pizza and hope that it makes me feel better.
So that's one D10. And one D 10 OK, that is 0 slow
motion plus one focus for 24 hours.
Yeah, so I would, I would say that.
I would say that like the pizza like tastes like fucking
disgusting. I mean, no doubt about it.
It's rotten or it's gone. I mean, you shouldn't have eaten
it. And yeah, as you eat it, like,
yeah, I mean you kind of things kind of slow like down around
you. You feel like you're in the
moment, like you feel so much in the moment and you get your plus
one focus for the rest of the night, 24 hours.
So Boris back down and and Samir wants to leave.
He just wants to leave. It's dark and it's scary and he
wants to go back and and and and and Boris answers that that just
wants to wait for the jump, wait for Sandra wait for his stones
and and above you Sandra goes like I made it, I'm going to
jump. I'm going to jump.
I'm going to go for it. And actually folks you can see
like those like I mean it's a very faint lights but you can
see like glowing spots at the bottom of the pool and and and
yeah it's very silent moment. Is there anything you want to do
right now before presumably, Sandra jumps or?
Oh, I I yell don't jump. I'm a don't jump.
OK, well, Dante, I mean, he's kind of he's resigned.
Resigned. Yeah, he's resigned, he said.
He said that. I.
I you know I think wait I I might have one way of
discouraging jumping in in my inventory I have.
I believe it was 3 Phoenix fireworks.
Yeah. OK.
I think what I what I might want to do and yeah I'm not entirely
sure how how how this. Is going to to grow interesting
to be interesting. Yeah, no, no, what what I want
to try and do is I want to like, kind of, maybe I want to use my
weirdness to try and like throw the fireworks out in, you know,
like and ignite them in the air. Sure.
And be like and be like, no, I'm not letting you jump like that
kind of OK. OK, Jess, but to clarify, like
do you want like the fireworks, like to scare Sandra to meet,
write something in the air? So what's like?
I it's it's May. I'm going to be like, I'm not
letting you jump and like holding these fireworks and
being like, you know, like you, you know what I can do with
these kind of thing. You know, just like I'm Yeah,
no, if you're if you're going to, I'm going to try everything
in my power to prevent you from jumping.
So basically it's like it's like if I'm done, if I'm getting this
right. Kind of.
Kind of kind of menacing them right.
So I'm going to get angry. I'm going to get angry.
Don't do that. So OK so the only that's cool,
the only thing I we we need to clarify is are you using your
power to do that or are you just throwing the the fireworks and
shouting something and. I'm I'm going to, I'm going to
use my powers to do that. OK, so you have ignite.
What ignite could do is like like make like your like
fireworks. Like do a fucking huge screaming
explosion, like like like bursting towards Sandra.
And you can do that. Absolutely.
So cool. We're using the power.
The way that works is the power is going to succeed.
So I mean it's gonna it's gonna so the way you're using it is to
attempt to have like not a mechanical effect but an effect
on the behavior on on one of the characters.
So we see how that happens but what's sure is that you're going
to obscene the mechanical effect that you want to obtain for sure
and but we're going to see if the if the power triggers A scar
and for that you need to do a weird sift.
So rolling. How much?
Weird. You have 333 Weird.
So that's rolling three dice and you need A5 or A6.
All right, I got two sixes actually.
OK, perfect so means means that you you you're in perfect
control of the weird. You light the fireworks and and
well, you don't have a lighter, but we don't care.
Or maybe you have one. You light your power so you'll
pinch them. Doesn't matter.
Well, you'll light them with with your power you.
Yeah, with my mind. And yeah, you called, you called
the fucking fire demon and fireworks like fucking make a
huge fucking blast, gigantic blast in the sky.
And before finishing to resolve this action, I wanted to ask,
want to ask Johnny, do you like you're recording video but also
sound, I presume? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm using a oh, I just closed the window.
I had the camcorder pulled up that I was using.
But yes, it does have sound. Yeah, Are you, do you have, do
you have like do you have like head headphones or?
Yeah, I I mean, I think that he'd have like a single one in
because he's kind of an AV nerd, you know?
Sure. Of course.
Who needs both? Yeah, yeah.
OK. It's.
Always like. So, so, like, the fireworks
explode. They make a beautiful fucking
huge light, Sandra answers. What the fuck dude?
Are you fucking crazy? You could have killed me.
And and and and and I guess that you hear them run and and you
hear they're jumping, they're. Jumping well that that was the
closest thing I could think to to influence on them.
Absolutely. And and and Johnny, after like
the explosion, you hear like in your camcorder, like very deep,
twisted, weird screams like coming from kind of like like
echoing like all around like the fucking pool.
And I think that yeah, I really cool.
I think that I think that Dante feels in his gut.
You probably don't really see it, but you feel Sandra now.
You know what she fucking screams like.
You hear them. Sorry.
This screen then. And and and and Johnny.
The screams starts to. It gets closer.
It gets really closer. And the things I mean, I mean
your camera you. Well, you can't see.
You can't see shit with your camera.
I mean, you don't you don't have a a night mode or do you have a
night I? Haven't I absolutely.
That camera Doesn't that have a? Night.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait. We're gonna see if you have a
night mode. I mean, let's roll that.
You. You.
Yeah. I don't roll much, but usually,
but today, I don't know what happens.
We're rolling a lot. So, yeah, let's roll the lag.
Die five seats. You've got a night mode.
I rolled the five. OK, great.
Let's go night. Mode.
Night mode. OK, cool.
So you see two things like if you're weird twisted night mode
and you see like Sandra like going down down and after a
while like you you you lose her. You can't track her.
You lose them. Sorry you can't track them
completely. They kind of disappear, like in
the darkness of the water and and and yeah, and you see the
things they're they're walking the path that leads through your
terrace. They're they're getting closer
to you. I'm like, hey, hey guys, they're
they're all around us now. Like they're coming, they're
coming this way. They're, they're, they're,
they're, they're coming. Do I sense the danger?
Oh yeah. Do I sense it from them or do I
sense it from like the water? OK, You sense it from them.
You sense it from the warrior. You sense it from behind you.
There's something behind you, like.
So like, we are like dilating time right now.
We're talking like like out of game, but in game there's
something behind you. Like now.
I grabbed Johnny and I turned towards the thing and I want to
see through the camera at the thing with Johnny, OK?
OK, so that's. So cool.
OK, that's so cool. OK so so there's Boris.
There's just just Boris with a rock and and so basically he's
he's I think he's gonna yeah I I don't know I think he's gonna
hit the camera. I think he's gonna hit the
camera. So you see that on the screen
and both of you you see like night mode, like Boris hand,
like rock, and like the camera fucking shatters and explodes
and right close I'd. Like to use rewind?
Right close to you, there's Marcus saying, oh shit, and he's
still there, like filming and. Following me around.
Yeah, so like the the rock he did.
He didn't throw the rock like he used it, like asking him.
The Rock, Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, so like like the the camera saves you.
Like, like basically saves you both.
So you want to use rewind. Cool.
That's so cool. Yeah.
Let's take a SEC. So you can rewind one round,
which is perfect right now. But how, how does that happen?
Like, like their particular way. Like it happens like or just
close your eyes and rewind. So what do you do?
What do you feel? Just like that, like a I close
my eyes really hard, you know I get I feel like a little drop in
my stomach you know as I close my eyes like you know when
you're like. Oh yeah.
Yeah, like when you're going like losing altitude or
something, like you feel the drop.
Like I feel that as I close my eyes.
OK, cool. And so again, your power is
going to work. Oh, by the way, sorry.
I'm not sure if I mentioned that, Stella, but after using
your power, you've lost one weird point.
OK, OK, so before using your power hunter, we're going to see
if it triggers A scar. The scar.
So the power is going to work, but the scar might change the
way it works. So.
Oh yeah. You're rolling a weird set right
now, so how much weird do you have?
Before I spend the point, I have 4:00, so do I.
Yeah, yeah. Before before before.
OK, so 4. You need A5 or A6.
I've got a 5 and a six. Perfect.
So clench your eyes and your back one round.
So basically, your back one round means you're towards,
you're facing the pool. There's, there's, there's Dante
in front of you. And no, wait, what was the.
No, there's Dante behind you, right?
You. You.
There's Dante behind you. Yeah, Yeah.
So you're facing the pool, there's Dante behind you.
What do you do? Oh, I OK, so he's about the he's
about to swing the rock. I'm basically.
About to swing the rock at Dante's head, you know.
I'm going to turn and pull Dante like down and towards me, like
towards the ground and down. All right.
Towards the ground and so basically.
Just like just basically fucking tackle me down.
Yeah, yes. OK.
So sure. Sorry, making a little grid.
Way to make this as creepy as possible.
And then just like now you're getting fucking attacked.
It's like. So you do that.
Yeah, sure. You do that.
You grab Dante. And I mean I would say that you
you, I mean you go down both of you like with the the full
weight of your body, right. You just like fall on the floor
and like worries like you you you hear like a or whoosh like
that and we're that's cool because we can experiment with
combat mode. We are we are entering combat
mode. Combat mode works with rounds
and each in each round like player characters get their
turns 1st and then the NP CS act, so and yeah, so that's the
first round. You can act in whatever order
you want to, like the player characters, whatever makes sense
for you either narratively or in a tactical way.
So right now you're Dante and and Johnny are on the floor.
Sarah is there. Like, it's a small space.
Like I would say like, I don't know, it's like 10 feet across.
Like it's a really small space for everybody's there and
probably you. So Dante has rock and you see
the glimmer of the of of the blade coming from a small blade
coming from from Samir's hand. And the sandwich, the sandwich.
Little brother, little brother. I mean, he's not a kid like he's
a slay teen like you, but his little brother and and yeah,
during each round you can move and go for an action or or use
the power. So who wants to go first?
But it makes sense for Sarah if both of us are.
On the line, Yeah, yeah, so kick.
His ass. Yeah.
You know I so the the way I I had imagined it is that I wanted
to specifically use like because I had three of the fireworks did
did I use them all up in that display because I I.
No, we no, we'd say, we'd say that you've you've consumed one
of the Phoenix fireworks like, yeah.
I've I've got a plan then. It's.
Cool. So OK, with that, I've got two
Phoenix fireworks left. I'm again, I'm going to, I'm
going to try and use my my power to ignite and specifically like
kind of kind of like just grab one of the fireworks and almost
kind of use, you know, you know how like Roman candles are where
it's just like a like a stream. I kind of.
Yeah, I I wanted like, I want to try and just like look at them
and be like, fuck you as I unleash this, this stream of
demon fire. I guess, yeah.
Sure, sure. So yeah, that's cool.
The way I see it is that like the like, the damage would be
localized, so meaning you would have to pick one of the two one
of the two boots like. I'm going to say the the one
with the knife. Yeah.
OK, cool. And so and.
I'm going to have to make a weird save.
For that, yeah, we're going to make the weird save and then I'm
going to tell you what what happens.
All right. That is a six.
Perfect. Perfect.
So I mean, like I think you guys on the floor you see like little
like like you see Sarah's eyes like almost getting flame flamey
spark like for a second you grab the fireworks you you, you.
I mean like like the fire demon demon is in you.
Like with you for a SEC and you you fire that feet thing at
summer's face and you literally burn and cauterize his face and
he remains like still for a SEC and falls on his back and you've
killed it because you do fucking three damage and three damage is
a lot like in the last bit. You don't roll for damage unless
using some specific things and one damage is standard, 2 is it
starts to be a lot and three is what like tough NPC would do
each time they hit you and and you've got a high flow so you
this is. This is what I get for not
putting anything in focus. Yeah.
Rest in peace, Samir. I'm only mildly demonically.
I'm only mildly, demonically possessed.
It's fine. Yeah, exactly.
So and the last day, we just want to make it burned to death
in front of us, you know? Yeah, things happens.
Things happen. Yeah.
Shit happens, you know. Sometimes you lose the face, you
know. I think Johnny's going to go for
a punch now. I don't really have any weapons
or anything, so. Oh yeah, bare hands doesn't do
damage. Then.
Hey, listen to Dick Punch always hurts.
That's all I'm saying. Man.
As he's. But you.
Being you could use your camcorder, you could hit with
the with with the camcorder. It's not broken anymore.
Yeah, but that would break it, of course.
I mean, it's your call. No, I don't think that that's
something Johnny would do. I think that this is like AI,
think I'm going to get up and like move back, move away.
You could try and grapple, you know and but but you wouldn't
deal damage. You would.
You would just. I don't know.
OK, yeah, I'm gonna try to. I'm gonna try to wrestle.
Oh, would that be force? That would.
Be. Yeah.
Probably force, I guess, yeah. Big Bitch.
I put nothing in the force, but this is the least combat focus
character I could possibly make. I was like, no, this is gonna be
a weirdo who's really into VHS. They have this thing he picks up
is like the VHR, the the, the tape player when he has to.
That's it. I think is there any way that I
could so for magnetize slash demagnetize is that me or what
I? Touch or I mean, it's what it's
what, whatever you want, honestly.
OK, I'm going to try to magnetize this guy and hopefully
something flies at him that hits him and interrupts him, so.
There, there is that knife, that the.
OK, I'm going to try magnetize them then.
OK. Cool, so you you you.
Yeah, sure you do. You use your your, your your
magnetized power. And for my weird my weird role,
I rolled A5. Oh, that's cool.
And a two and a one so of. Course you're having you're
having good roles that's that's that's that's cool So yeah sure.
So you you put your hands on him I guess or like it's like the
the imposition of hands and I I'm.
Imagining it more just like a slap, like I slapped him real
quick. Oh yeah.
It was a moment to touch him, to magnetically charge him so.
OK, you magnetically, magnetically.
Oh, I can't say that. Charge him, you charge him and
the yeah, the knife. It's a pocket knife.
But that's enough. There's enough like metal in
there for each fly. From, from, from the, from the,
from the dead, Samir's hand and to, to stick and to reach.
Like Boris Boris stomach And I think yeah, so he.
Spurted these guys. So, so, like, actually in the
back, not in the stomach, probably.
The knife reaches him in the back and he's stuck in his back.
Yeah, so. That's gotta hurt.
Can I even, like, grab the my ritual knife out of my docs and
just like stand up into him and just like put the knife into his
chest? OK, you can do that.
You can do that so. As I do that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. You'll have to roll for that,
OK? I assume that'll be force.
I mean, yeah, unless you wanna you wanna, I don't know, pray or
or or you're doing like super quick reacting after what
happened that could be flow as well like well, I.
See I also it's a it's a metal knife.
Do I get a boost for it already being magnetized towards his
body? Could be, yeah.
Could be. So let's let's say that you got
plus one die for using the knife interaction and you we're going
to give you yeah plus one die for kind of following the flow
like the the flux of of the Mac and dice field.
So magnetic field. So Oh yeah you have the same
force and flow. So anyways, that's four dice.
OK. I.
Got 1/5. OK, 300, you get 15 S OK, this
is what happens. So this is what happens.
If I'm too gory, just just stop me.
But this is what happens. Like.
I mean, it's not you stabbing. It's your knife going.
You know, I almost. Like it comes out of my hands,
yeah. As soon as you start the
movement, but it pulls your hand.
It pulls your hand like your and your hand is like it's firmly
gripping that the the handle and the knife gets into Boris
stomach and your hands with it, your hand with it, so you're.
Do you drum ish? You're you're stuck in it and
give me a SEC. That's going to be Boris turn.
All of these nice sticking out of him.
He's not dead yet. No, he's not dead yet.
He's a tough one, but he's he's he's like kind of puking blood,
you know, so. We're a bunch of weird nightmare
teens. Yeah.
Just like real life, Just like me when I was a teen, you know?
I I don't think I was ever possessed by a demon in my
teenage years. Maybe we were and we just don't
know. That's.
True. I possessed by the party demon
so. Oh yeah.
So here's what happens. Oh, sorry, sorry.
Please go ahead. I know I was going.
To just diatribe about how my my parents were.
My parents saw that I was like such a nerdy shut in as a teen.
They were just like, they're just like, Are you sure?
Like you don't want to have a party or whatever?
I'm like, I'm, I'm sure I just want to stay home and read a
book and they're like, OK, that's really weird.
Anyways, continue. Yeah, I can relate to that.
Honestly. I can.
I can most clearly relate to
that. Yeah.
I didn't have the party demon. Yeah, So, so fucking Boris is in
a like, extremely bad shape. You feel something squishy, wet
and warm like on your face and that's more spitting blood on
you. And he grabs, he grabs your
wrist, gets close to you and and and give me a SEC.
Actually he he grabs you by the neck and starts walking, pulling
you towards the edge of the Cliff.
And you gonna need the force save or you to to free yourself
from the hold, right? But that's.
That's going to be for the next round.
So like everybody has played that's cool Boris has played and
next round I I assume, I don't know how would you want to play
that. So here's the situation right
you you got like Boris is kind of holding half choking you like
arm goes around the neck, hand on the throat holds your holds
your your wrist. He's he's against you and he's
like with whatever strength, strength left he has is like
pulling you, sorry, pushing you towards like the edge of of the
Cliff. Yeah, I mean.
Yeah, you're there. You're close, Dante as well And
and right now, Yeah, OK. OK.
Please go ahead. No, I I suffer the consequences
of my own actions. I stabbed him.
I'm stuck in him, so I imagine he starts choking and like
stumbling forward. But he's bigger than me and
there might be like a hill, like a slight slope.
So it's actually getting faster and faster as he's kind of like
moving down and I'm like having to get faster and faster to like
stay up and I imagine. That like it's a very it's a
very short. I mean it's very short run,
mostly so. So I want to try to break break
the thing off of me. So what I want to try to do is
right before I get to the edge of the Cliff, I want to like
drag him down with me and then do that like.
Kick. Thing.
So like we almost go like this and he flips, but I believe.
Yeah, you you want to fall and pull him above you?
Yeah. Yeah.
And but I want to try to keep my, my, my ritual dagger, OK.
But so I just want to like kind of pull that out and then like,
yeah, use my feet and hands and everything and just like trying
to flip them off me and I it's forced, right?
So I only get 2. Yeah, Yep, again.
What what you can do is after you've rolled is spend one weird
to roll again. OK, cool.
That's probably a good thing. Yeah, yeah.
I roll the five and the six. Let's fucking go.
Wow, Perfect. Perfect.
So yeah, you you do a couple of steps backwards and then you
just sit and you don't know where that comes from and you
put your your feet, you know, like like on his lap and just
push with everything you have and like just goes and flies
over your head and and and yeah, and you keep and you keep your
knife. Keeping the knife.
So two things happen. Three things happen right now.
So yeah, Johnny, just to clarify, are you filming?
Are you not filming? Where's the camcorder if?
He's able to. He's always filming so.
OK, so you had to stop like here and there, but probably like
you're you're taking your camcorder back and and you see a
few things. You see first Marcus, who's not
filming anymore, who's totally in shock and and who's looking
at you. And he's like, this is
traumatized by by what he's just seen.
And you see Sandra who's who's all wet smiley and walking,
she's getting close. I mean she probably climbed back
or something and she's getting close and and she's super happy.
She's got a glowing stone and she's what the fuck happened,
guys? I made it.
I got a stone, you know, And are
you good? What happened here?
Where's Boris? And behind Sandra, you see that
glowy pillage thing of people who were getting closer to
getting closer to the edge of the of the pool.
Now they're kind of all converging on the path and
they're coming towards you super quick.
They're kind of not running, they're not able to run, but
they're moving super fast. They're getting towards us or
towards Sandra. Towards Sandra.
And so, like, to clarify, there's you in front of you,
there's Sandra. Behind Sandra, like, I don't
know, like 50 meters behind Sandra, one hundred 150 feet.
There's the bunch of people who are coming closer.
I want to. Yeah.
Have my ritual knife in my hand. That and I want to reach out to
whatever it is that answers my questions.
Yeah. And ask how do I stop this as my
hand and knife are covered in the spilt blood required to ask
that question. OK, that's so cool, man.
Yeah, go for it. Like, roll your weird save.
That's so cool. I got a full.
I got four. Weird.
Let's fucking go weirdest guy we know. 1266.
That's. Amazing.
That's fucking amazing. Yes.
So just before answering, you said I want to reach to whatever
answers my questions. Let's take a SEC to tell what
answers your questions. Like there's the photograph you
serve Lucy the Eyeless. That is whatever you want it to
be. So you're you've got blood on
your hand. You've got your, your, your.
You're asking that and how does the answer come like I?
Feel like it all comes back to the photograph.
Or at least that's the thing that I think it is.
This is the thing that triggers. So when I reach in and I pull
out my Polaroid, there's always one of the figures.
Like I said, the figures are always the same, even though the
circumstance is different. But there's one that when I ask
a question and the photograph's always a photograph, except when
I ask a question and then I can see the lips move on this one
woman who always answers my question.
Which is I love it. Which is?
Which is, if that's good for you, probably that's probably
That's Lucy the Eyeless themselves, or an avatar of Lucy
the Eyeless. And they whisper to you, drop
the stone, right? OK.
Did you get that? Was that two or?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Drop the stone run. Yeah, I tuck the the Polaroid.
I jam the bloody knife into my boot and ignoring everybody
else, I run to Sandra with my like hands still covered in
gore. I want to rip the rock out of
her hand and just Chuck it back into the water.
OK, well, she sees you coming. She's so happy to see.
I mean, you you can't really see much, but I mean like, she's
smiling at you. Basically, she's just school
with you running at the Rock and yeah, the Rock and grab the
Rock. What the fuck are you doing,
dude? Then you flip it like in the
water and Johnny. And I just scream I.
Just run and yeah, yeah you you see Johnny like that the dudes I
mean are like like the figures like the palish glory figures
are are are kind of slowing down but they're not like totally
stopping. They're like, I don't know, like
probably they look at each other they're they're they're trying
to K this is when you know that's I always have this moment
when I play in English. After a while my English goes,
goes like she goes, I don't know what happens.
To native English speakers as well, yeah.
So OK. Yeah, I mean, no judgment.
I only speak one language, so. So it becomes weird dialects.
Right now it's becoming a weird. I'm losing the words.
So anyways like there's this stop, they're assessing the
situation, but what I'm trying to communicate is that yeah,
probably is just a pause or something.
So anyways, yeah, so The thing is Sandra doesn't really
understand what the fuck is happening.
And right now she's angry. Angry at you.
I don't know if you're listening to what she's saying, but she's
like, I mean, she's not she's not going to hurt you or
whatever. You've you've had probably
already those kind of conversation with her.
But she's fucking yelling at you like like she's 10 centimeters
from from your face and she's so fucking pissed at you.
What the fuck did you do? And that's some that's if you
want to go away, that's probably something that needs to be to be
resolved and taken. I'll grab her by her shirt and I
got this bloody hand and I'll just scream in her face.
Boris is fucking dead. Run and I'll push her off of me
and I'm just going to take off. OK, what do you do the others?
I I think I'm going to going to hear the run.
I'm I'm just fucking booking it. I I don't want to get caught
having melted a guy's face off either, so.
Yeah, I I think Johnny's inherently not like a fighter
and he just magnetized somebody and that happened to work out.
So I think even the moment Dante started heading over there, like
he also was just like, I want to get out of here, but I'd also
like to point out that I Is it Boris who I magnetized?
Was I magnetized Boris or his brother?
I know his boys brought his boys there.
He's. Still magnetized, man, So
there's stuff around him. It's all kind of slowly heading
his legs. OK, cool.
OK. Let's hope it didn't affect any
of the tapes. Nah.
Let's hope it did affect the tape that Marcus had of us
murdering somebody. So.
We'll get to Marcus in a SEC. So you folks run and you folks
run and and and as you, the three of you like, like flee and
like Sandra, basically she grabs her sheets, puts her, puts her
shoes and starts running behind you like asking like 10 times
what the fuck is happening, what the fuck is happening.
And we're going to make it simple.
We're going to say that you, you make, you make it, you flee.
We're gonna roll like a lag die for everybody of you and you for
for the three of you to see if like, I don't know, anything
happens during the run. Because, I mean, it's super
dark, you're in the woods. Are you losing something or is
that affecting you in any way? But but Johnny, probably, I
don't know. The last thing you see through
your camcorder is, is is Marcus still on the terrace Like like
filming those dudes looking looking at you guys, looking at
the dudes who are filming and and being like you're not sure
why what but like those ghosts half dead have drown people.
They go over over him and and they kind of pull him and and
and pull him down into the into the the pool he.
Not my good friend, Marcus. Yeah, your good friend Marcus.
You're super close friend. So yeah, let's see if whatever
something happens, some shit happens to to you.
Like, please, Everybody rolls 36.
If you roll five or six, you're fine.
If you roll less, probably something happens.
Roll the five. I roll the. 5.
Really. Well, today, Real.
Friends. High fives.
I don't. I'm not sure.
I can't remember, but I'm not sure if you failed even a single
roll. I.
Know no. I definitely.
I wanted to make all of my stuff relics, and none of it was
relics. But I also only rolled like
twice, I think. I really.
Besides, I wrote this place all night, so.
Yeah, that's cool. So takes you half of the night
probably to reach an area where you find like civilization on
civilization and city lights and you walk back to to the house
and yeah like Sandra is is pestering you with questions
about about what happened do you do you is there some do you ask
do you tell them and is there something you want to you want
to ask them or or. I think.
I. Think I'm going to go to the
bathroom and throw up because that nasty pizza slice and the
adrenaline wearing off. Finally, it's just like hitting
me all of a sudden. Yeah.
Sure. I think I ignore and just.
Explain. Now I'll just wash my hands and
just ignore everybody and just slam the door to my room and
like, absorb what happened. Yeah.
And I mean, I'm like, there was all these like, like, it looked
like dead people on the camera. It's like Johnny's like all like
awake for once, you know, he's like fully there and he's like
not repeating words and he's like clearly communicating.
He's like. This affected him a lot.
Yeah, I really did deeply. He saw somebody die in person,
which he's only ever seen on video.
So he's like, yeah, I like, but what's up with the Boris tried
to kill us with a rock. You're telling that Sandra or
Yeah, yeah, the. Good thing about what happened
though with like the killing and everything, is that our
fingerprints aren't on Samir's blade, and Boris died of being
stabbed from a blade that has Samir's fingerprints on it.
So hopefully we're OK. Yeah, well, about that.
Like you, you grew up there, so you all know that, like, law
enforcement is not really a thing that happens in the day.
Like, there's less uniforms, but they're more like factions
fighting for power than anything else.
But there's not. You said fascists, factions,
factions. Either one.
Yeah. Factions like like other
factions. There's not really a 911 you can
call and and probably there's one if you call the the just
don't come. So so I mean there's there's not
really a police force as we know it.
So yeah. About Sandra.
Yeah. So she's super like she defects
the conversation. She doesn't want to talk about
it and she basically like you feel she's genuine and she's,
she's she, she doesn't believe it.
She says it's not possible. Like here, like we were friends,
like, like, like, I mean, I mean, that's just not possible.
I I I don't know. I don't know why you're making
this up, but that's not possible.
Oh, I recorded everything. Oh yeah, yeah.
And I pull up the camcorder and I scrub through the footage back
to like the fight, which I assume it's like a tussle.
So it's like there's footage is shaky and.
Stuff. But yeah, yeah, it's it's, it's
Blair Witch Project basically. Yeah.
But the. But the fight, yeah.
So she looks at it like silently.
When it's finished, she goes, OK, she stands up, go, go to,
they stand up, go to their room, slam the door.
Everyone's big into door slamming nowadays, yeah?
We're we're like 19. We're 18.
We're slamming doors and and everybody slams the door.
I mean, that is exactly what a household full of like late
teens, early 20s would be like, so.
That's exactly, Yeah. And yeah, Congrats you.
You survived. You survived deep, deep water
and everybody made it. Good job.
We're teens. We did it.
We survived. So this has been the Lost Bay
suburban Gothic RPG here on the weekly scroll.
When is The Lost Bay going to be hitting Kickstarter?
Because that is sooner than later.
The last Bay is going to be is going to be on Kickstarter the
second-half of March. Still doing extremely complex
scientific calculations to find out the perfect day.
But it's going to be, yeah, most likely the second-half of March.
Yeah. And yeah.
Can I say a word about like really quick about what's new?
Absolutely. Sure.
Like, so there's the, there's the standard like there.
There would be very little tiers, but they're packed with
stuff. There's like the standard tier
where you have 3 booklets, one for the GM.
So AGM guide like it's tools, tips, frameworks for building,
running, advanced rural campaigns, and advanced rules.
There's the user guide. User guide is like character
creations, character creation, all the vibes and like very
essential rules you need to to play the game.
And then there's the travel guide which is a setting in
which you'll have several districts of the Bay, each one
with the point crawl, actually with two point crawls, a small
point crawl and a larger point crawl.
And and the point crawl. The nodes of the point, the
nodes of the point crawl are either very simple locations and
sometimes like mini dungeons. And today like we've played, I
don't know like a kind of eerie slow slow slow burn or slow
drown like game. But I mean like the game can be
played in a lot of ways. I've been I've been playing and
and with with different flavors from like almost magical realism
like slightly weird reality to super gonzo almost Ala Markburg.
I would say like with so much weird shit happening that it's
funny and like in the in the in a higher in a in a higher tier.
We've got a lot of adventure modules and and written by other
designers who are Sam Lee. I'm sure I'm going to forget
that someone let me let me grab the press kit real quick because
I'm a bit tired and I want to I don't want to forget anybody.
So, so yeah, adventure modules that basically show how you can
play the game in different ways, you know.
And so we got Sam Lee writing a Tamagotchi related module.
There's Alfred Valley writing on Hexscroll Watt from Cloud
Empress. He's writing a very melancholic,
weird module, kind of a micro setting.
And there is Dave Kenny and myself who are writing together,
more cruel gonzo survival thing. And with this Ariel, we're
writing a slasher adventure which is actually kind of taken
off taken from the adventure we first played together, Ryan and
Hunter if the swine. So it's been different.
It's more more more intense and and so 6 adventure modules and
then we have a higher tier with like like tools and stuff like
additional tools like character sheets and and still thinking on
the box. I don't know maybe a box.
I don't like to put everything in your box.
But yeah, and we have like sorry, I'm sorry, I'm a bit
tired right now, but I'm really excited about sharing all that.
And the stretch goals are not so much more content because like
in the tiers you've got already so much stuff.
The stretch goals are mostly tools, either tools for the
facilitated playing for the GM's and and community oriented tools
and I'm super excited about that.
And there's a few fun things. There's a choose your honor,
adventure style, character creation.
So instead of picking your vibe, you answer a few questions and
then you know who you what your character is and that's a
stretch gold. With Christian Sorrell from Mid
Castle we have a these. Names you're dropping in this
I'm just like, oh, these this is the best of the best.
You definitely. Purged off a lot of those mother
shit people from the from the overall bundle.
Huh. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. Yeah.
But we've questioned, We've been working on previous stuff like
the the Mark Borg bundle. We have a Digital Point Cruel
Generator by Jack by Jacob Marks, who's been doing the Varn
digital generation which is on each IO and it's just splendid.
So we're going to do a point if we reach the the stretch goal,
several stuff like helpers and stuff and there's two stretch
goals which are I'm super excited about.
One, it's not really a stretch, I mean it's not really for the
last day. So it's it's about
accessibility. It's an accessibility guide.
So basically, the way the stretch goal will work for the
last day is like help the team create accessible content.
And I'm working on this in collaboration with Wilp.
Not sure how to pronounce their name.
And if we reach the stretch goal, we're gonna build like the
guide and workflow and set of tools that is going to be just
free for the community. If you're doing a quick start, a
Kickstarter, you're designing your publishing, and you want to
make your work more accessible, there's going to be, yeah, like
a workflow and list of tools you can use to do that.
So that's that's something I'm really excited about probably.
This is a crazy project I'm so stoked to see this whole way.
Also, like the Jacob Marks drop, I'm actually a huge fan of like
he he does the the the Foreign Atlas and he does the Sent
Pilgrimage. I'm a really big fan of their
stuff. So that's the.
Last last thing, last thing is so the like the game is very
much influenced by the community.
Like every every big step I take, I ask because there's an
early version like out. He's been out for for 6-7
months. So there's people playing it and
like publishing things for it. So I asked like the community,
are we doing things the right way, etcetera.
And I asked what was missing from the Kickstarter and people
said what's missing. It's different flavors of the
last day like from like different cultural backgrounds
or or or different different like physical, regional,
regional location. So one of the stretch goals is
about that we are working a lot for.
I'm saying we because there's a lot of people like not only the
team but members of the community involved to facilitate
like people who don't speak English, like making the game
more accessible. So plan is to have a stretch
goal where we have content written in other languages and
right now I'm discussing with like a Mexican creator to have
like a micro setting in Spanish because there's people in Mexico
who are kind of interested in the last bit and somebody in
Taiwan as well who's there very much into like urban legends,
teen urban legends that they told me.
So they're they're they're kind of we're working to kind of like
produce basically or a quick start 4 pages version easily
translatable into other languages and and and support
that and make it easy for the community to grab it translate
it in something else. So somebody's offered themselves
to offer it to translate it in German.
I'll translate it in French and yeah, that's that.
Stretch goal would be having content produced by folks
designer in their own language and then translating it in
English so that people who don't speak Spanish or Chinese or
French can can still read the content.
And I'm super excited about that.
This one would be probably just PDFs because we won't be able to
print everything but. Yeah, right.
Yeah, that sounds crazy fantastic.
Yeah. Not only accessibility for like
the the first thing you said, but accessibility for like the
entire world. Because like you said, like not
everyone has the same kind of like Euro or American like
Western like weirdness. So it's really cool to be able
to have accessibility into the weirdness of other people's
regions and cultures and stuff like that.
So that's absolutely fantastic. So super excited for that, yeah.
So me too. Me as.
Well, so you will hear more about that as it comes closer.
Well, I mean obviously we're gonna talk about it as soon as
it drops on the show. We'll make sure we go over the
key starter page and everything. Obviously again we are huge fans
of of eco here on the show and everything that they do and and
obviously all the people that are involved with it.
So again thank you so much for coming on the show.
I. Always.
Appreciate. It, yeah.
And again. Still again going to be one of
our our our regular guests you know West Coast best coast
people here so thank you so much again for.
Coming on, this was really fun. If I could have a very quick
call to action. The first time I was on here I
had a call of action telling all of you stop thinking about
learning an instrument, Start learning an instrument.
I my second call to action, I know that if you started
learning, you probably spent a lot of months not practicing.
So start practicing again. That's my call to action.
I'll pull the bass out of my closet.
We'll get on I'm. Going to go buy a keyboard?
Yeah, cool. Admittedly, I have not been
practicing because my nails have been too long, but whatever,
it's fine. No same.
All you got to do is think about it and then it'll not not change
anything, but you'll think about it.
So there we go. Once again, eco.
Stella, thank you for coming on. That has been our show today.
Everyone, have a wonderful day. Bye everybody.