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Risking Dawn Episode 1 - Opening Night · Chaotically Balanced

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SPEAKER_01: All right, enough of that.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's dive into the adventure.
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let's get right into this I don't want to wait I'm excited so
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we did all the good
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stuff we touched on all the important things we know your
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characters you know them
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I don't know them as well as you do and I'm ready to find out
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some more hmm so
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SPEAKER_00: let's let's just set a scene the way I want it to
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SPEAKER_00: So it's been three nights.
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SPEAKER_01: That's how long you've been in this 82 Chevy G10 van,
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SPEAKER_01: those old school,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: rock and roll vans,
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SPEAKER_01: mystery machine almost.
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SPEAKER_01: The drive from Vegas to Wendover,
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SPEAKER_01: Utah should have taken you about six hours,
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SPEAKER_01: maybe less,
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SPEAKER_01: maybe a little more,
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SPEAKER_01: depending on traffic.
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SPEAKER_01: Instead,
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SPEAKER_01: taking you three nights,
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SPEAKER_01: three nights of double-backing through desert roads,
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SPEAKER_01: killing the headlights,
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SPEAKER_01: abandoning or hiding in abandoned lots,
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SPEAKER_01: and just wading beneath dead air,
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cold sands as you see the salt marshes stretch across the
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endless desert of the
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SPEAKER_01: Mojave.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a result of one of the five independent vampire lords,
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SPEAKER_01: Swan Naredo,
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SPEAKER_01: sending her bruja enforcer,
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SPEAKER_01: Dalton,
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SPEAKER_01: to quote unquote deal with you, whatever that means.
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For two days,
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or two nights to be more exact,
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the lights of his 69 Charger has chased you.
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SPEAKER_01: You've seen him miles back in your rear view, gaining on you.
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far out into the desert way off the beaten path on as many
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switchbacks as you've
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hidden on and for the first time in those three days tonight
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you have not seen him
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whether that's intentional or you've actually lost him who
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knows but these last few
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SPEAKER_00: hours it's been the three of you
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SPEAKER_01: in a dead silent car.
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SPEAKER_01: And not the kind of silence that's like,
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SPEAKER_01: oh yeah,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: just people who don't talk sometimes and maybe play in their phone,
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SPEAKER_01: tap their foot,
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SPEAKER_01: none of that.
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SPEAKER_01: Just dead air.
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SPEAKER_01: Like stillness and silence only the undead can make.
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SPEAKER_01: The breathing, the shifting of feet, there's no nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: Just the vibration of the van as you drive along the endless road.
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SPEAKER_01: Vegas is far, far away in your rear view.
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I'd like you to start the night for these last three nights
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with three rouse checks.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell me what you get.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm at hunger... ...free.
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SPEAKER_00: Because I'm starting at hunger one.
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SPEAKER_01: You are starting at hunger one.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Hunger free then.
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Hunger two.
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SPEAKER_00: Hunger two.
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SPEAKER_00: And what about you, Lev?
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SPEAKER_01: Hunger unchanged?
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SPEAKER_01: I like it.
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I'd be stopped with one hunger,
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so you'd be at two because you failed one.
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SPEAKER_00: Hunger two?
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SPEAKER_00: Very good.
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SPEAKER_01: You guys have weathered this fairly well.
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SPEAKER_01: Right now the little digital clock on your dashboard reads 9.49 p.m.
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The gas gauge is 17 miles to empty and the last mile marker you
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saw was 22 miles to Wendover.
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SPEAKER_00: It's going to be tight and as we take a look in the car
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not only do i want to know what we see but i want to know what
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these characters are
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going through some of what they feel they experience in these
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last few nights jacob
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you're the lead guitar you're the lead guitarist and the
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vocalist for your little
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SPEAKER_01: ragtag band let's call it let's start with you talk to me
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry,
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you're gonna have to give me a second No problem I suppose we
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can go with Logan In
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SPEAKER_01: the meantime I'm back,
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SPEAKER_01: sorry
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, never mind.
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SPEAKER_01: You're first.
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SPEAKER_01: Talk to us.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, this has all been very chaotic.
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SPEAKER_03: So it's just constant fear of does he still have our trail?
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SPEAKER_03: Is he just waiting for us to make a mistake?
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SPEAKER_00: Just anxiety of not knowing what's going to happen next.
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SPEAKER_00: It's rough.
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SPEAKER_00: What does Jacob look like?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh god.
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SPEAKER_00: He should say refers to her image.
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SPEAKER_01: Some terrible descriptions.
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SPEAKER_01: Give me a quick one.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't have to be crazy.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Jacob is 5'9".
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SPEAKER_03: Long hair was usually tied up.
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SPEAKER_03: with baggy trousers,
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SPEAKER_03: belt holding it up,
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SPEAKER_03: tattoos of what seems to be fawns down his sides,
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SPEAKER_03: well on his arms,
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SPEAKER_03: and a green jacket with a sewed-on patch to cover up a hole.
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SPEAKER_00: I like it.
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SPEAKER_01: Logan, you're the band's drummer.
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SPEAKER_01: Same question.
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SPEAKER_01: What do we see?
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SPEAKER_01: What is Logan going through?
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SPEAKER_01: Over these last few nights, and tonight specifically as well.
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SPEAKER_01: Talk to us.
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SPEAKER_03: Logan has spent three nights in a car,
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SPEAKER_03: rolled up somewhere on the floor,
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SPEAKER_03: getting jostled because she refused to not make direct skin contact with
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SPEAKER_03: the entirety of her dog, right?
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SPEAKER_03: So it's just her and Princess Dartmouth curled up in a corner some way.
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SPEAKER_03: And they are both cramped.
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SPEAKER_03: They are not having a great time.
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SPEAKER_03: They need out.
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SPEAKER_03: And
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it's there that you see curled up a very femme white woman with
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black hair in a
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SPEAKER_03: short bob she's wearing like
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punky club clothes like short skirt fishnets that sort of thing
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bright colors and
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she's currently on her phone and every time she gets towards
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like almost finishing
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SPEAKER_03: a Candy Crush level or whatever just small little like like
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Screaming If you can't scream Because you're being chased You
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know the quiet The
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quiet dying on the inside Of like I just spent two hours on
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this And My phone
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decided to turn off That's rough Everybody knows how much that
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sucks Trying to win
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SPEAKER_01: And you just can't Yikes I like it Robin Robin
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you're not even really part of this band yet you're you pick
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these two strays up
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and got caught up in whatever issue they had but you are also
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hunted you might have
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played a couple of sessions with them a couple of jazz but not
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a show you're not
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even part of this thing yet talk to me what do we see what's
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Robin going through
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SPEAKER_02: right now
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Robin is kind of leaning on her steering wheel chewing on the
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back of like a
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ballpoint pen that she had around just thinking these people
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she doesn't know well
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SPEAKER_02: she had the feeling that I mean she was already gonna hop town
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she never really likes to stay in one place for wrong times
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lets people get
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suspicious but now she has two people she knows only
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tangentially and she doesn't
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know quite yet how well she can trust him so she still her eyes
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occasionally start
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SPEAKER_02: to
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one of her stakes that she has in like the cup holder in the
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side of her on her car
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SPEAKER_02: door,
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patiently looking back at them through the rear view mirror and
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just thinking.
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SPEAKER_00: It's goddamn scary.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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car with kindred you don't fucking really know that well just
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trying to fucking
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survive how the hell did you end up in this situation that's
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crazy you take another
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SPEAKER_01: look maybe at the dashboard gas tank reads 12 miles till E maybe another
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe another 8 or 17, 18 miles to go.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you push it?
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SPEAKER_01: Or do you conserve gas, coast?
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SPEAKER_01: How are you driving the car?
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SPEAKER_01: How are you going about it?
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How are you going to make this distance knowing that you're
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this low on fuel?
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SPEAKER_02: Or should I probably describe my character?
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, you should.
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SPEAKER_02: Robin is...
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she's kind of this she's not muscular but she's fairly lean she
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did she used to do
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a good amount of exercise as a mortal she's around 5'10ish with
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like pretty long
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black hair with her bangs dyed like a dusty rose pink and she's
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just wearing these
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super oversized camel pants she bought off a thrift store with
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a belt that she
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didn't even bother to wrap around properly and just hangs off
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two of the belt loops
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as like a fashion statement of wearing just a bralette and a
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pretty baggy jacket
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SPEAKER_02: with
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a tattoo from some kind of video game that she enjoyed a long
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time ago on her shoulder.
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SPEAKER_02: And she looks back down at the gauge.
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SPEAKER_02: And she calls back to the two of them.
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SPEAKER_02: My phone's out.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you guys have maps or something?
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um I oh yeah uh what's it she says oh I do uh she pulls it up
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and then her phone
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SPEAKER_00: dies again and she's just like um no I don't shit you?
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I do luckily yeah he would pull up his phone battery says it's
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roughly like 28% as
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SPEAKER_03: he would open up maps
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SPEAKER_00: How close is the nearest gas?
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SPEAKER_01: So you're along the I-80, which is
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SPEAKER_01: fairly populated.
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SPEAKER_01: You've seen a few gas stations here and there.
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Being able to stop was impossible,
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though,
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knowing that Dalton was on your tail.
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SPEAKER_01: But these last maybe 50 miles or so, there's nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: There's no gas station.
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SPEAKER_01: It's you and the upcoming town.
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SPEAKER_00: There's nothing in between the two.
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SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, closest place is the next city.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you have enough fuel to get there?
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SPEAKER_00: Can we?
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SPEAKER_01: You can try.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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SPEAKER_01: you're going to burn out all the gas,
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SPEAKER_01: but how about you give me a...
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SPEAKER_01: Give me Dex and Drive.
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SPEAKER_00: Alrighty.
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SPEAKER_00: we'll call it a difficulty to roll.
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SPEAKER_02: Sorry, I'm just sorry, I usually use a different app for rolling.
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SPEAKER_02: How do you roll in this one?
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SPEAKER_01: Slash V roll, V space roll.
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space you'll put your pool in uh press tab and then a chart
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will come up it'll give
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you your hunger and then tap again and then difficulty and
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it'll should go right
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SPEAKER_00: through okay so what are the two again um Dex and Drive Dex and Drive Dex
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SPEAKER_00: What's the difficulty?
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SPEAKER_00: Two.
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SPEAKER_00: Four successes.
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SPEAKER_00: This is your baby.
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SPEAKER_01: You've kept this van together for as long as you've had it.
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SPEAKER_01: You've had to do repairs.
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SPEAKER_01: You know how far she can go.
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SPEAKER_01: Or he, depending on how you refer to your van.
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SPEAKER_01: Before it's done.
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SPEAKER_01: Before you're not going any further.
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SPEAKER_01: And whether it's between you
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just letting it coast and not accelerating or all the little
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tricks you know to to
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keep the car on the road keep the wheels moving forward because
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it's not the first
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SPEAKER_01: time you've had to deal with this you make it but barely you pull into
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There's like an on-road if you're familiar with American
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highways there's always a
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like an on-road onto a town and you see a sign right as you
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kind of see the on-road
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that says welcome to Wendover Utah and it goes to the right to
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the left of the
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SPEAKER_01: on-ramp
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there is not another one but you can see that there's a about a
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two mile what looks
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like overpass and in the same sign that says welcome to
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Wendover it says welcome to
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West Wendover and there's an arrow that points left across that
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overpass two miles
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you're not going to make that but West Wendover is Nevada not
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Utah the sign that
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SPEAKER_01: also says welcome to Wendover says population
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1196 there's another sign right underneath that says 0.2 miles
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and you see the
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little golden arches of the star of a McDonald's 0.6 miles you
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see the little green
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Starbucks symbol 1.1 miles there's the BP gas station and then
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in 1.6 miles it says
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SPEAKER_01: the Raven's Nest Bar Grill and live music.
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SPEAKER_01: As you pull in to the left is the McDonald's.
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SPEAKER_01: You can see it right there as you guys move into West into Wendover.
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SPEAKER_01: To the right is a mechanic shop.
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SPEAKER_01: It says Big Owls.
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SPEAKER_01: There's a little sign that says open Monday through Thursday.
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8am to noon and then there's a phone number underneath that
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says call if you need me.
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And as you get into town you feel the engine start to sputter
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because you've run out of gas.
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SPEAKER_00: Where do you want to go from here?
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SPEAKER_00: Because they can't get anywhere without gas.
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SPEAKER_02: She's gonna just
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SPEAKER_02: thrown for a little bit,
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SPEAKER_02: put on her jacket a bit more just so she doesn't get harassed,
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SPEAKER_02: and calls out to the others.
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SPEAKER_00: You guys good to get pushin'?
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SPEAKER_00: I can do that then.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: She's gonna take off her slightly healed boots.
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Just keep your eyes peeled She rubs her eyes a little bit and
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then pops out pats
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her precious van on the side a bit and then moves to the back
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to get ready to start
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SPEAKER_02: pushing it to the gas station
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SPEAKER_01: Excellent the gas station is like I said,
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it's about a mile down into town The engine again cuts out just
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as you pull in and
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you're kind of directly in front of the mechanic shop Big Al's
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which was right off
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the ramp and so it's you could say it's strategically placed to
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if someone were to
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break down that it's easy enough to pull in the mechanic shop
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and Big Al might come
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SPEAKER_01: by and
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SPEAKER_01: But it's as you guys get behind the car or the van and start pushing,
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SPEAKER_01: you get a real look at the town.
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SPEAKER_01: This place has got that kind of liminal America look to it.
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Somewhere between like,
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you can see it on the other side in West Wendover,
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you got all the
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SPEAKER_01: the lights, the freedom of Vegas.
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SPEAKER_01: You can almost hear the music over there.
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SPEAKER_01: It's on, it's popping on that side.
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And then here you are in the conservative old feeling town of
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Wendover,
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Utah.
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SPEAKER_01: The difference is stark and you can see it from this distance.
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SPEAKER_01: As you push, you're looking around
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SPEAKER_01: I'd like you all to give me wits awareness.
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SPEAKER_01: No difficulty.
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SPEAKER_00: I just want to know what you get.
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SPEAKER_00: Can Princess Dot Myth also roll?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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Let me take a look,
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because I think she has five dice or something like this,
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right?
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SPEAKER_03: She has four, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Four dice.
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SPEAKER_00: How many do I have?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm significantly worse.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, cool.
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SPEAKER_00: What'd you get?
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SPEAKER_00: Everybody.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm excited.
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SPEAKER_02: I got one success.
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SPEAKER_03: Princess got two successes and Logan got a bestial failure.
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SPEAKER_00: Goodness gracious.
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SPEAKER_00: Alright, I've got the sheet for the dog here.
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SPEAKER_01: I wanted to make sure I got that right.
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SPEAKER_01: Excellent.
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With one success,
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I mean,
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again,
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it's just,
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you notice all the little things,
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right?
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SPEAKER_01: This town is very, very
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it's very small there's not much you're looking around most
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things are closed
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you're pushing the van you can see the sign for the McDonald's
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says open open late
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SPEAKER_01: 7 a.m.
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SPEAKER_01: to 9 p.m.
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SPEAKER_01: it's crazy the dog Princess Dartmouth
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gives like a low wine and maybe Jacob that's what triggers you
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to what happens is
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the door the employee entrance of the door for the McDonald's
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you see it opens up
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and a girl comes out she's maybe 19 20 years old she's got
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shoulder length blonde
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SPEAKER_01: hair
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she's still in the in the black McDonald's uniform she's got a
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little visor on and
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she's on the phone and she's just yelling into it like you were
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supposed to be here
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half an hour ago what the fuck and she lights up a cigarette
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and she's like no you
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fucking asshole are you drunk again you know what and she hangs
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up and she yells
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SPEAKER_01: into the bar she goes Dave can you give me a ride
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SPEAKER_01: you hear somebody yell something back.
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SPEAKER_01: She's like, fine.
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and she goes up to one of the three cars in the parking lot
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like opens the door up
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she lifts like she can see her like reaching in clearly by the
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visor she's like yes
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she finds something she pulls it out closes the door and she's
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got what looks like
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a little rolled joint in her hand and she she flicks the
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cigarette like fuck it and
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SPEAKER_01: lights up the joint sparks it she's like oh fuck yeah
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She kind of looks around for a moment and sees the three of you
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pushing a van and
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SPEAKER_01: just like,
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SPEAKER_01: what the fuck?
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SPEAKER_01: As she looks at you.
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SPEAKER_00: Logan, with that bestial failure, what hunger are you at?
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SPEAKER_00: Two.
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SPEAKER_00: Two.
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SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, two hunger is two hunger.
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SPEAKER_01: And she looks like a mighty tasty snack.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to need you to go over there.
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SPEAKER_01: I need you to say something.
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SPEAKER_01: Introduce yourself even.
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SPEAKER_03: Um, yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: So she's going to catch a sniff on the wind,
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SPEAKER_03: look over,
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immediately stop walking and pushing the van with everyone else
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and go over
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SPEAKER_03: barefoot to this woman and,
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SPEAKER_03: um,
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SPEAKER_00: hey,
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SPEAKER_00: um,
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SPEAKER_00: uh,
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ever since I stopped smoking I never know how to approach a
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woman hi Jacob and
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Robin pushing this van gets just that much more difficult as
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abruptly Logan just
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stops pushing and walks up to the girl who's come out of the
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McDonald's we hear go
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SPEAKER_01: hey she responds she goes uh
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hi or she takes like a couple steps back she can see her like
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angling herself
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towards like the employee entrance door um you know where they
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would come out from
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like throw things in the dumpster she's not running or anything
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but clearly she's
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like what the fuck you got no shoes on like she's looking at
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you crazy but she
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SPEAKER_01: takes another hit hi um
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I think Princess comes and like nuzzles underneath one of the
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hands to get rubs
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while whatever's happening is happening and I might as well
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describe them right now
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they are a wolf dog which means that they're like one of those
29:40
freakishly big dogs
29:41
SPEAKER_03: which have like the same sized head as like almost a human torso and
29:50
SPEAKER_03: at shoulder is about chest height with Logan.
29:55
So this massive dog just comes up and sits next to Logan and
29:59
she starts tussling
30:01
SPEAKER_03: her behind the ears.
30:03
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
30:07
SPEAKER_00: No, I just thought I'd come over and...
30:12
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
30:15
SPEAKER_03: You're really pretty.
30:16
SPEAKER_03: That's kind of what I had to say, really.
30:19
SPEAKER_03: Distracting me pretty.
30:21
You know how it is,
30:23
women smoke,
30:24
and then all of a sudden,
30:26
urine over your head.
30:32
SPEAKER_01: She gives you like a, it's not shy, but it's more like a surprise smile.
30:37
If she takes another hit,
30:38
thanks,
30:39
that was maybe the nicest thing I've heard all day today.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: You got a name?
30:48
SPEAKER_03: It's a pleasure to meet you and I hold a hand for a handshake.
30:55
She tucks the joint in between her lips and she reaches out and
30:59
she takes it with
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SPEAKER_01: the other hand afterwards.
31:02
SPEAKER_01: Chris, nice to meet you.
31:05
SPEAKER_00: Nice to meet you, Chris.
31:11
SPEAKER_00: Do you know if anything will be open that'll get our
31:15
little van running tonight she gives you like she gives a shrug
31:23
but then like
31:24
gestures at the town nothing is open this is nowhere America
31:30
did you not mean to
31:31
end up here does anyone mean to end up here wait sorry no you
31:37
live here I didn't
31:37
SPEAKER_01: mean to say that she does look quite insulted
31:43
um no sorry we we've ran out of gas coming from Las Vegas um
31:49
and I've been pushing
31:50
this goddamn van like two miles that's crazy because it's been
31:57
all of like 0.11
32:00
miles but I like it while you're talking to her Robin and Jacob
32:07
what are you two
32:07
SPEAKER_00: doing
32:14
SPEAKER_00: Almost a second Oh,
32:16
SPEAKER_00: sorry You go first You go first Okay I was gonna say,
32:21
Jacob is just Still trying to push his van While kind of just
32:28
watching what's going
32:29
SPEAKER_03: on See if he needs to Step in Jacob,
32:36
SPEAKER_00: you're quite hungry It would be quite convenient
32:44
SPEAKER_01: It would be Do you keep pushing?
32:48
SPEAKER_01: Do you maybe also go and introduce yourself?
32:53
SPEAKER_01: I'll keep pushing for now Just keep pushing for now What about you Robin?
32:59
Upon noticing Logan going up to the girl She kind of nudges
33:08
over to Jacob and she's like
33:16
SPEAKER_00: Are they always like that?
33:17
SPEAKER_00: No, not all the time.
33:24
SPEAKER_00: Everyone has their moments.
33:28
You think...
33:30
You think she's gonna...
33:33
And she kind of,
33:34
like,
33:35
gives them a look?
33:38
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
33:39
SPEAKER_00: You don't know yet.
33:46
SPEAKER_00: who shouldn't.
33:48
SPEAKER_00: I've been around them for enough years.
33:54
SPEAKER_00: But I'll step in if it looks like they will.
34:00
SPEAKER_00: Sure.
34:01
SPEAKER_00: Let's just get this... Oh my god.
34:08
SPEAKER_02: Keep an eye on her and let's just try to get this goddamn...
34:13
let's get my girl over to the gas station so we can just find
34:18
somewhere to go and
34:20
she pinches like the bridge of her nose it repeats meanwhile
34:31
she again with a
34:33
little look of offense she goes honestly and she gestures at
34:39
Big Al's who's right
34:41
SPEAKER_01: there
34:42
so you can either go to Big Al or wait till the morning when
34:47
the shop opens.
34:49
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
34:51
SPEAKER_01: he owns the gas station,
34:52
SPEAKER_01: too,
34:53
SPEAKER_01: or his co-partner or whatever,
34:55
SPEAKER_01: but everything closes around here.
35:01
SPEAKER_00: Wait till morning.
35:04
SPEAKER_00: Damn.
35:05
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
35:06
SPEAKER_01: Um...
35:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
35:10
SPEAKER_01: if you call out,
35:10
SPEAKER_01: he might come give me some gas,
35:12
SPEAKER_01: probably not much,
35:13
SPEAKER_01: but enough to maybe get you from one end of town and the other.
35:17
SPEAKER_01: There's a hotel at the far end of town.
35:20
SPEAKER_01: If you're looking at something to do, there's the Raven's Nest.
35:24
SPEAKER_01: That's where everybody goes.
35:25
SPEAKER_01: But what else are we supposed to do out here?
35:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm sorry.
35:44
SPEAKER_00: I didn't mean to be like that.
35:48
I lost a lot of money in Vegas,
35:54
so I'm kind of just,
35:56
you know,
35:56
a little bitter.
35:58
SPEAKER_03: Are you getting off your shift soon?
36:10
Honestly and then you hear from inside Chris are you done with
36:15
prep for tomorrow?
36:16
SPEAKER_01: Did you cash out and then she's like yeah you asshole Yes, I'm done.
36:23
SPEAKER_01: Everything's where it should be I'm getting a ride anyway.
36:27
Just it's all ready and she kind of like rolls her eyes and
36:31
thumbs at the door was
36:33
SPEAKER_01: yeah,
36:33
SPEAKER_01: I'm like I will I should have been done an hour ago,
36:37
SPEAKER_01: but I
36:38
SPEAKER_01: You know, whatever.
36:40
SPEAKER_01: That's my problem, not yours.
36:41
SPEAKER_01: Don't worry about it.
36:44
SPEAKER_01: It's cool though.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: I get it.
36:46
SPEAKER_01: You lose a lot of money.
36:47
SPEAKER_01: She gestures over at West Endover.
36:49
You'd be surprised at how many people are bent out of shape
36:53
just losing money there.
36:54
SPEAKER_01: I can't imagine how much you lost in Vegas.
36:58
SPEAKER_01: Especially if you're here.
37:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
37:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that was messy.
37:07
SPEAKER_03: Do you want to
37:09
SPEAKER_03: If you're like, wrapped up, do you wanna come have some fun with us?
37:12
SPEAKER_03: You know,
37:13
SPEAKER_03: we're gonna be here tonight,
37:14
might as well get some fun out on the town She gestures to
37:19
herself and her,
37:20
SPEAKER_01: like me go,
37:22
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
37:22
SPEAKER_01: I'm...
37:23
SPEAKER_01: I need to go home,
37:24
SPEAKER_01: I need to shower,
37:25
SPEAKER_01: I need to deal with my idiot fucking boyfriend,
37:28
SPEAKER_01: but I mean,
37:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm...
37:30
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to the Raven's Nest later,
37:31
SPEAKER_01: just like everybody,
37:32
SPEAKER_01: I should...
37:34
SPEAKER_01: And she gestures at the other two pushing the car,
37:37
you guys should come you probably shouldn't let your friends
37:40
push their car by
37:41
themselves either that's kind of fucked up oh shit sorry um
37:46
yeah no you're just
37:48
pretty distracting um yeah thanks for speaking to me I'll see
37:53
you later tonight I
37:54
guess and then she's gonna run back off to the truck without
38:00
without like waiting
38:00
SPEAKER_01: to say goodbye yeah as you run back off to the van you hear going inside
38:07
SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, some weird girl out here.
38:09
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
38:11
SPEAKER_01: Fucking strangers.
38:13
SPEAKER_01: I think they come from Vegas.
38:14
SPEAKER_01: Who the fuck knows?
38:15
SPEAKER_01: And you hear, like, yapping as she goes back inside.
38:18
SPEAKER_01: You see her can maybe flick her joint as she goes back in.
38:22
SPEAKER_01: And you're able to rejoin your group shoving the car.
38:27
SPEAKER_01: What's your guys' scene?
38:28
SPEAKER_01: What do you guys talk about?
38:34
against it um and or she's gonna like walk backwards with her
38:38
shoulders up against
38:39
it so she can look everyone else in the eye while she's she's
38:43
going she's gonna go
38:45
SPEAKER_03: sorry about that really sorry I um I need to get distracted um
38:53
SPEAKER_03: But on the upside,
38:55
I know that the only thing to do in town is go to the Raven's
39:00
Nest and that we're
39:02
SPEAKER_03: not going to get gas tonight.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: Or not enough gas to get out of here.
39:07
SPEAKER_00: I don't do it.
39:21
He kind of looks up to the sign that you mentioned with the
39:27
phone number of Big Al
39:30
SPEAKER_00: and she's like You think he'd still be awake or up to help us out?
39:45
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we gotta try, right?
39:48
SPEAKER_03: It's either that or
39:52
SPEAKER_03: and she does one of those thumb across the throat motions.
39:59
SPEAKER_00: Christ, dude.
40:02
SPEAKER_00: How about we don't resort to that already?
40:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
40:07
SPEAKER_00: No, I meant us.
40:10
SPEAKER_03: I meant us.
40:11
SPEAKER_03: Aren't we being chased or something?
40:13
We were very dramatic for the past three days to suddenly be
40:17
very chill about being stuck here.
40:19
SPEAKER_02: I mean...
40:22
SPEAKER_02: Is the dude really gonna look in a place called Wendover?
40:26
SPEAKER_02: Like, this place is kind of a shithole.
40:28
SPEAKER_00: Damn.
40:32
SPEAKER_00: Be kind to shitholes, though.
40:36
SPEAKER_00: It's worse than that.
40:38
SPEAKER_00: We've got nothing open at this time.
40:40
SPEAKER_00: I mean...
40:42
SPEAKER_00: I could try to...
40:46
SPEAKER_00: I think the... Raven's Nest would have, like...
40:54
SPEAKER_02: open slots for us to play at.
40:56
SPEAKER_02: Maybe you could at least get some money for gas in the morning.
40:59
SPEAKER_02: Not in the morning.
41:04
SPEAKER_00: I know you are.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: That's another thing.
41:07
SPEAKER_03: How are we going to buy gas if things only open in the morning?
41:11
SPEAKER_00: I mean...
41:15
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it is.
41:22
SPEAKER_00: We just hope there's a place to open when we are awake.
41:28
SPEAKER_00: That's the best bet we have.
41:33
SPEAKER_03: Maybe catch them just before they shut.
41:37
Oh,
41:37
maybe we can find,
41:38
like,
41:39
they say everyone's down at the raven's nest.
41:41
SPEAKER_03: Maybe you can find some sort of doom prepper who will spot us some gas.
41:46
SPEAKER_03: Hmm.
41:48
SPEAKER_03: I mean...
41:53
What an insane idea But I fuck with it Not like Do you have
41:59
anything else to do?
42:02
SPEAKER_01: That's true If any of you look at your phone It's probably
42:08
maybe 10-20pm you got the rest of the night ahead of you no
42:12
money in your pocket no
42:13
gas in the car you can and a mile almost two to push this car
42:19
or van down to the
42:21
raven's nest if that's where you're going she kind of Robin
42:28
kind of groans for a
42:29
minute and then goes fuck it then opens up the back of the van
42:36
kind of like
42:37
tries to move the van at least to the side of the road a bit
42:41
more and then opens it
42:43
SPEAKER_02: up to scrounge around for her base.
42:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's back there.
42:58
SPEAKER_03: And she just kind of like... Do you want to try cool that big owl guy?
43:03
SPEAKER_03: See if we can at least get...
43:06
Lady said we could probably get enough fuel to get us to the
43:09
raven's nest.
43:11
SPEAKER_00: With what money?
43:16
SPEAKER_00: But what if we just, you know, we're so charming?
43:25
SPEAKER_03: As much as I love a good deal,
43:27
someone would be insane to spot us money for fuel and expect us
43:33
to then pay them
43:34
SPEAKER_03: back when we're
43:35
not from this place it's true I mean if you put it like that
43:45
it's not a good idea
43:47
but you know if Big Al's just a really nice guy who sees that
43:52
we're in a spot then
43:55
SPEAKER_03: and kindness and you know paying it forward is a
44:04
SPEAKER_01: This is Midwestern America.
44:06
SPEAKER_01: People are surprisingly kind out here.
44:10
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
44:10
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if kind enough to fill your gas tank up,
44:13
SPEAKER_01: but maybe kind enough to get you to the end of town.
44:16
SPEAKER_01: Who knows?
44:17
SPEAKER_01: I don't.
44:21
SPEAKER_03: I haven't dialed this number.
44:24
she's gonna break out her piece of shit phone it's one of those
44:28
phones where the
44:29
it's got like a full touch screen but when you slide it down
44:32
it's got a keyboard
44:33
that pops out the bottom like it's those old half and a half
44:37
phones um and she's
44:40
typing on that little keyboard and then she folds it back
44:43
together and listens for
44:46
SPEAKER_03: the tone
44:49
it rings like once and then hangs up not like like the call
44:54
dropped even though you
44:55
have like for like full service here uh do you just call again
44:59
your phone hates you
45:02
my phone doesn't hate me um yeah I'll do it again yeah this
45:08
time it rings a few
45:09
times you guys are still have you stopped pushing or are you
45:12
still pushing
45:14
SPEAKER_02: I'd say they probably stopped pushing for a minute.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you did.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: You pulled over to the side.
45:19
SPEAKER_01: You opened up the back.
45:21
SPEAKER_01: You stopped pushing on the side of the road.
45:22
SPEAKER_01: And on the third ring, there's that old man.
45:26
SPEAKER_01: Oh, shit.
45:30
SPEAKER_01: Big Owls.
45:32
SPEAKER_01: Shit.
45:33
SPEAKER_01: Big Owls.
45:34
SPEAKER_01: How can I help you?
45:37
SPEAKER_03: She's going to put on a very saccharine voice.
45:40
SPEAKER_03: She's going to do her best attempt at
45:44
oh you will want to help me I'm so sweet I'm so nice oh you
45:48
know like um hi like
45:56
our van just broke down I mean didn't break down oh my gosh I'm
46:01
so tired uh we've
46:03
been pushing this van for ages because we ran out of gas and
46:06
we're right outside
46:07
your shop are you open could we get like just a little bit of
46:11
gas just enough to
46:12
SPEAKER_03: get us to the other side of town
46:16
oh and you hear like a like a hot cough and then spit here's
46:24
you hear something in
46:25
the background like a TV maybe it turns off seemed maybe he was
46:28
watching a horror
46:29
movie or something and yeah sorry I said you needed your van
46:36
broke down car you gas
46:38
SPEAKER_01: what
46:40
yeah sorry no sorry for confusion it's so late oh my god we've
46:44
been driving like
46:45
all night from Vegas and we ran out of gas could you spot us
46:49
just a little bit of
46:50
gas so we can get to the get to the other side of town uh you
46:57
said you're in front
46:57
of the shop or nearby yeah yeah we are yeah yeah uh yeah I can
47:06
help you out I can
47:07
SPEAKER_01: get your feet um let me take a look
47:11
SPEAKER_01: Shaq, give me 15 minutes.
47:16
SPEAKER_01: I'll be right there.
47:21
SPEAKER_01: And he hangs up.
47:24
SPEAKER_03: She's gonna put her phone away with a very smug look on her face.
47:26
SPEAKER_03: She says,
47:28
SPEAKER_03: see,
47:29
you've gotta try these things because the world is filled with
47:33
kindness when you're
47:35
SPEAKER_03: not in Vegas.
47:39
SPEAKER_02: Robin just has this exaggerated frown Like,
47:43
oh my god She's not gonna hear the end of this There is no way
47:49
that actually works
47:57
SPEAKER_00: Do you guys just wait there?
48:07
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, I keep cutting you up.
48:08
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: Go on.
48:11
SPEAKER_01: It's you guys to see.
48:12
SPEAKER_03: Take it.
48:13
SPEAKER_03: Help me be more friendly.
48:16
SPEAKER_03: You're missing all life's opportunities.
48:18
SPEAKER_03: Sloan knew how to talk to people.
48:27
SPEAKER_03: You know, Jacob.
48:30
SPEAKER_03: Oh my God.
48:31
SPEAKER_03: This would be... Sloan would know just what to do right now.
48:37
SPEAKER_01: Hey guys,
48:38
SPEAKER_01: quick reminder to leave a like,
48:40
SPEAKER_01: a comment,
48:41
SPEAKER_01: and don't forget to follow or subscribe to us.
48:44
SPEAKER_00: Thanks!
48:46
SPEAKER_00: Don't need throne.
48:49
SPEAKER_00: They're gone, it's fine.
48:51
SPEAKER_00: I'm here to help.
48:52
SPEAKER_00: But...
48:54
SPEAKER_00: Somehow you've managed to pull this off.
48:59
SPEAKER_00: We now need money.
49:04
SPEAKER_00: Um... Shit, okay, um...
49:09
she's gonna go and like she's gonna dive into the back open
49:13
back of the van and
49:14
like rummage through a little purse to see if she's got change
49:18
left in there like
49:19
10 bucks 20 bucks anything you as you rummage through you might
49:25
have something like
49:27
three dollars and like 64 cents um she's gonna she's like she's
49:34
just gonna bring
49:35
SPEAKER_03: the bag back out and she's just gonna say I think I got it covered
49:40
SPEAKER_03: Do you?
49:42
SPEAKER_03: There is a skeptical look on Jacob's face at this moment.
49:48
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I got three dollars.
49:50
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
49:52
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's not going to be enough.
50:03
SPEAKER_01: As you guys talk,
50:04
SPEAKER_01: going through this back and forth about not having enough money,
50:08
SPEAKER_01: you can see from
50:11
uh the far side of town where you were pushing the the van
50:18
comes kind of uh if
50:19
you've ever seen like the the kids movie cars um it's like
50:24
mater it's like this
50:25
kind of old beat up uh tow truck kind of comes chugging around
50:29
it pulls up right in
50:33
front of the van so the two fronts of the car facing each other
50:36
uh the engine dies
50:38
SPEAKER_01: it was extra loud
50:41
in some he's an old guy big heavyset big belly big Santa Claus
50:47
like beard it's got
50:48
these really sunken eyes all white hair steps out the car like
50:55
or the truck makes
50:56
like a creaking sound and like shifts back and forth as his
50:59
considerable like bulk
51:01
it's out of the car it's like oh looks at it I've haven't seen
51:07
one of these in
51:08
SPEAKER_01: years
51:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, he comes around and sees you guys.
51:15
SPEAKER_01: Oh, shit.
51:16
SPEAKER_01: Hey, sorry.
51:17
SPEAKER_01: I mean, good evening.
51:20
SPEAKER_01: Good evening.
51:21
SPEAKER_03: Hi.
51:22
SPEAKER_03: Logan, we spoke on the phone.
51:24
SPEAKER_01: God, Logan, it's nice to meet you.
51:27
SPEAKER_01: You're your companions here.
51:34
SPEAKER_00: This is Jacob and Robin, and I think we're going to be a band.
51:39
SPEAKER_01: A band?
51:41
SPEAKER_01: Are you gonna go play at the Raven's Nest?
51:43
SPEAKER_01: I was just over there, actually.
51:47
SPEAKER_00: That's a great idea.
51:51
SPEAKER_03: Could you spot us?
51:53
SPEAKER_03: Just enough... Just enough fuel to get there.
51:57
SPEAKER_03: I have... She's gonna rummage through her bag very performatively.
52:03
SPEAKER_03: I have three dollars.
52:07
uh well let me take a look make sure that's that is what's what
52:11
before we we start
52:13
talking about that prices we'll see um he comes around you see
52:19
him like he doesn't
52:20
ask he just opens the car door uh like the front driver door he
52:25
kind of like slides
52:26
in a little the van like kind of sinks a little under his
52:28
weight it reaches
52:30
SPEAKER_01: anything he tries to like turn the ignition oh say again ignites with her
52:37
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
52:40
SPEAKER_01: He leans in and tries to turn the ignition.
52:42
SPEAKER_01: He's trying to, like, half in, half out.
52:45
SPEAKER_01: He steps on the gas.
52:47
SPEAKER_01: Zap, ain't no gas in it.
52:50
SPEAKER_01: He closes the door.
52:52
SPEAKER_01: All right.
52:55
SPEAKER_01: I own the gas station.
52:57
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm a partner at the gas station a mile down the road.
53:00
SPEAKER_01: We're closed.
53:03
SPEAKER_01: We'll open tomorrow, but I've got...
53:05
SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you what.
53:07
SPEAKER_01: I'll hook you up.
53:09
SPEAKER_01: I'll bring her along.
53:10
SPEAKER_01: And if you guys are going to the nest,
53:13
I'll leave her at the gas station for you and we can get you
53:17
all paid up in the
53:18
SPEAKER_01: morning.
53:19
SPEAKER_03: How about that?
53:25
SPEAKER_03: Look to everyone else and then look back.
53:28
SPEAKER_03: Oh, my gosh, that's so generous of you.
53:30
SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much.
53:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, no problem.
53:34
SPEAKER_01: No problem.
53:35
SPEAKER_01: We'll get you settled up.
53:35
SPEAKER_01: Don't worry about it.
53:38
SPEAKER_01: You guys, you sit in the van.
53:40
SPEAKER_01: I'll get it nice and hooked up for you.
53:43
SPEAKER_01: Jacob, from you, I want a... You're at Hunger 3.
53:48
SPEAKER_01: I want wit's awareness from you.
54:02
SPEAKER_00: Five successes How many?
54:05
Five Five Five successes is You can smell it And because you
54:14
can smell it Maybe you
54:15
SPEAKER_01: start looking around at him But you can see that on his knuckles
54:20
are like the skin is torn like the blood is fairly fresh around
54:27
them like he's been
54:29
hitting something or maybe someone he doesn't notice you notice
54:35
it because he's you
54:36
know more focused on like he's about to head back to the truck
54:38
to get it turned
54:39
SPEAKER_01: around but he's definitely been doing something or another
54:45
but he goes gets the truck and he starts to like you know back
54:49
it up to go and turn
54:50
it around talk to me what happens as he goes and he's trying to
54:55
like get your truck
54:56
your van hooked up to the back of his his tow truck Jacob would
55:02
talk in a hushed
55:03
SPEAKER_00: tone whoever this big L person is they aren't to be trusted
55:14
SPEAKER_00: What makes you say that?
55:15
SPEAKER_00: They're so nice.
55:17
SPEAKER_00: They're doing the petrol and everything.
55:21
SPEAKER_00: Next time he's around, look at his knuckles.
55:25
SPEAKER_00: He's... Not a pleasant person.
55:34
SPEAKER_00: Could be just a boxer.
55:39
SPEAKER_00: He was at home, wasn't he?
55:42
SPEAKER_00: Punching bags?
55:46
He looked like a two-year-old slogan Could you hear anything
55:51
when he was on the phone with him?
55:55
SPEAKER_00: Um...
55:57
SPEAKER_00: I think he was watching a horror movie Oh,
56:02
SPEAKER_00: oh,
56:02
SPEAKER_00: okay,
56:03
SPEAKER_00: yeah,
56:03
SPEAKER_00: I'll follow you,
56:04
SPEAKER_00: I'll follow you,
56:05
SPEAKER_00: Jacob
56:13
As you guys talk he gets it like a tow truck backed up it's
56:17
right like the back of
56:18
the truck where the hook is to the front of your van again he
56:21
comes out yeah
56:25
y'all don't sit in there you know not sit up front with me it's
56:27
a little messy in
56:28
there right now he you know he prices the button he brings it
56:32
down he gets it like
56:34
hooked up to the front press another button and starts to lift
56:37
the front of the van
56:38
up and y'all take a seat I'll get you down to the gas station a
56:43
minute or two and
56:44
SPEAKER_01: we'll be right there don't worry about
56:51
Now that Jacob has mentioned it,
56:52
the two of you can see that his knuckles are torn up again.
56:56
SPEAKER_01: It's not old.
56:58
SPEAKER_01: It seems pretty recent.
57:01
SPEAKER_01: But if you don't stop him, he's going to go right back in.
57:04
SPEAKER_01: You hear him like the truck was still on.
57:07
SPEAKER_01: He gets in and looks back, kind of like leans out the window.
57:10
SPEAKER_01: You all ready?
57:14
SPEAKER_00: Jacob would give us a thumbs up.
57:20
all right all right let's let's get it if you guys get back in
57:23
the van he drives
57:26
off it's clunky but again you're in the car maybe two three
57:30
minutes as he pulls
57:31
into the little PP the overhead lights are off it's pretty dark
57:36
over here but you
57:37
SPEAKER_01: can see the Raven's Nest just across the street and down the block
57:42
he pulls in right by you know he's got a little Bay Area pulls
57:46
it in over there
57:48
comes out lowers the van off the thing pulls the hook up is all
57:54
right I'll I'll get
57:56
this settled up I'll get her some gas and you guys can come by
58:00
in the morning or
58:01
whenever you get the opportunity and pay up but I need your
58:04
keys as I you know I
58:05
SPEAKER_01: want to just run off you know what I mean
58:14
Robin will kind of fish around in the glove box to see if the
58:25
previous owner kept
58:26
SPEAKER_02: the valet key in there.
58:28
SPEAKER_02: She doesn't want to completely give all the full keys away.
58:33
SPEAKER_01: Yep, yep.
58:36
SPEAKER_01: You find it.
58:37
SPEAKER_01: Do you give him that key?
58:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
58:41
tossing the spare yep not a problem I'll get you set up come by
58:48
tomorrow and pay up
58:49
for it make sure she's nice and topped off for you all right I
58:54
appreciate it and
58:56
not a problem not a problem that's why they appreciate calling
58:59
me well I'll tell
59:02
you how much for the toe shouldn't be too much but it's
59:05
inconvenience call so be a
59:06
SPEAKER_01: little fee
59:08
he kind of shows like shakes the key you guys you want a place
59:12
to stay he points
59:13
down the road there's a motel six and and so you can see the
59:18
Raven's Nest over
59:18
SPEAKER_01: there I've got a few things to take care of this evening but you guys
59:23
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead and make your way over there.
59:25
If you've got a band,
59:26
if you've got like drums and stuff,
59:27
they've got a set.
59:28
SPEAKER_01: I don't know how good it is in comparison,
59:31
SPEAKER_01: but they probably got what you need if you're going to try to play.
59:34
SPEAKER_01: Talk to Mr. Chin.
59:35
SPEAKER_01: He owns the joint.
59:36
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I got to go.
59:38
SPEAKER_01: I was kind of in the middle of something when you guys called me.
59:42
SPEAKER_01: See you tomorrow.
59:48
SPEAKER_01: and he climbs back into his tow truck and he kicks it back onto life.
59:53
SPEAKER_01: It takes a moment like it sputters real quick and he drives off.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_00: It's up to you guys.
1:00:01
SPEAKER_00: Talk to me.
1:00:09
SPEAKER_00: To money.
1:00:11
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:00:12
SPEAKER_00: Very important.
1:00:14
SPEAKER_00: Here.
1:00:17
um yeah I guess we do have to go do a set um I have no other
1:00:25
skills I don't know if
1:00:32
that's depressing or not it's a little sad you know I mean I
1:00:39
can play the piano but
1:00:40
SPEAKER_00: it's hardly you know something people care about at night
1:00:50
SPEAKER_00: let's get ourselves together and meet up with the guy yes Mr.
1:01:00
Chin indeed we can probably figure something out with him yeah
1:01:14
hopefully we'll and
1:01:16
SPEAKER_02: if not we can probably
1:01:17
Maybe we can at least get a good amount from like tips or
1:01:20
something As long as it's
1:01:25
enough to get us wherever we want to go next Yeah We can just
1:01:32
keep doing that until
1:01:33
SPEAKER_00: we earn more Alright Excellent
1:01:42
so my assumption is the two of you grab your guitars and you
1:01:46
guys are going to walk
1:01:47
over to the raven's nest yeah Robin doesn't exactly have a case
1:01:54
for it but she just
1:01:56
kind of like swings it over her shoulder and just pats it on
1:02:00
the back a little it's
1:02:02
SPEAKER_02: not exactly like something super fancy but it gets her by has a few like
1:02:09
random scattered stickers on it of like bands or things she
1:02:14
liked that she's
1:02:15
SPEAKER_02: collected over the years.
1:02:19
SPEAKER_00: I like it.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_00: I like it a lot.
1:02:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Jacob has a case for his.
1:02:26
SPEAKER_01: Doctor, what does it look like?
1:02:31
I mean,
1:02:32
we don't see your guitar yet,
1:02:33
but got anything on the outside of the case?
1:02:35
SPEAKER_03: The case...
1:02:37
SPEAKER_03: is just your typical black case.
1:02:40
SPEAKER_03: Nothing really stands out.
1:02:45
There might be the odd worn down sticker he's had on it from
1:02:49
the past but you can't
1:02:51
SPEAKER_00: really make out what it used to be.
1:02:57
SPEAKER_01: I like it.
1:02:59
SPEAKER_01: You can't carry a drum set.
1:03:00
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you could, but it would be awkward as shit to do so.
1:03:05
SPEAKER_01: But he did mention that they have them there.
1:03:07
So,
1:03:08
Logan,
1:03:10
are you taking Princess Dartmouth with you,
1:03:13
or does she stay behind?
1:03:16
SPEAKER_03: Oh, she's absolutely coming with me.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_03: She goes everywhere with me.
1:03:19
SPEAKER_03: I've got the paperwork and everything.
1:03:20
SPEAKER_03: You know, the assistant dog paperwork.
1:03:26
big ass wolf dog just that's craziness can we she's also gonna
1:03:34
grab her like her
1:03:37
drumming shorts just these like little mini shorts that she
1:03:40
stuffs into her handbag
1:03:42
SPEAKER_02: oh yes and that reminds me Robin's really quick gonna grab her like
1:03:54
SPEAKER_02: hat.
1:03:55
It's kind of like this old military black hat with a bunch of
1:03:59
things sewed onto it,
1:04:03
SPEAKER_02: like pentagrams and fishnets and all kind of punky things.
1:04:11
SPEAKER_01: I like it.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_01: Let me talk a little about this place.
1:04:17
SPEAKER_01: It's an old town.
1:04:18
SPEAKER_01: It's an old railroad town.
1:04:20
SPEAKER_01: You can see the railroad kind of...
1:04:23
SPEAKER_01: run just alongside like the main road.
1:04:27
But a lot of the like the little signs will are signs are
1:04:30
clearly out of use.
1:04:32
The thing that kind of the arm that comes down to tell people
1:04:35
like a railroad
1:04:36
SPEAKER_01: crossing or the crane is coming hasn't been used in a long time.
1:04:40
SPEAKER_01: There are few signs that point to several miles out the salt marsh,
1:04:46
SPEAKER_01: salt marsh races that you people probably attend during the day.
1:04:51
but none of that matters there are no street lights as you walk
1:04:58
you know a couple
1:05:00
blocks down cross street down the block and so it's the three
1:05:04
of you in this
1:05:04
wolfhound walking through the darkness you see the lights of
1:05:09
the of the raven's
1:05:12
SPEAKER_01: nest it's not like a
1:05:15
SPEAKER_01: It's not like an on-and-popping thing, right?
1:05:18
SPEAKER_01: This is nowhere America.
1:05:20
SPEAKER_01: And so it's fairly small.
1:05:22
SPEAKER_01: You see the little sign that says the Ravens.
1:05:24
SPEAKER_01: That's at the top.
1:05:25
SPEAKER_01: It's a regular red brick building.
1:05:30
SPEAKER_01: The roof is this kind of like matte black-gray shingle.
1:05:39
SPEAKER_01: at the top of the sign,
1:05:40
SPEAKER_01: like,
1:05:40
SPEAKER_01: you know,
1:05:41
SPEAKER_01: pole,
1:05:41
SPEAKER_01: the sign on top,
1:05:43
SPEAKER_01: there's a big raven with its arms out stressed,
1:05:45
SPEAKER_01: and it says Raven's Nest on it.
1:05:48
And as you guys show up,
1:05:50
and you're walking down the block,
1:05:52
several people you can see outside,
1:05:57
SPEAKER_01: in the parking lot.
1:05:58
SPEAKER_01: For a place that's this small, there's a lot of cars here.
1:06:01
SPEAKER_01: Some of the cars are parked in the different parking spots.
1:06:05
There's like a patch of grass and some of the other cars are
1:06:08
pulled up there.
1:06:09
SPEAKER_01: Some of them are just parked on the main road,
1:06:12
but as close to the building as they can because there's no
1:06:16
real sidewalk here.
1:06:20
SPEAKER_01: There's a very nice Corvette.
1:06:21
SPEAKER_01: There's four.
1:06:22
SPEAKER_01: They've got to be...
1:06:24
I don't know maybe somewhere between 20 and 25 years old
1:06:28
standing around smoking
1:06:29
cigarettes hands on the curvet talking about oh man you just
1:06:33
got that shit that's
1:06:34
crazy as you guys get a little closer you can see that up on
1:06:39
the side of the bar by
1:06:40
what looks like maybe like the kitchen door there's a couple
1:06:44
making out her
1:06:46
tits are all out his hand is like squeezing one real hard
1:06:50
there's a couple of
1:06:50
people like smoking just kind of chit-chatting with each other
1:06:54
whatever there's
1:06:57
probably enough parking spots for maybe 15 cars but there's
1:07:01
like 40 of them here
1:07:04
and as you guys approach kind of materializing out of this
1:07:07
darkness a couple of
1:07:09
people like look up and a little like like nervous like oh shit
1:07:12
the fuck and they
1:07:13
see the dog and they're like what the hell and this is the
1:07:17
middle America strangers
1:07:19
SPEAKER_01: there's a little
1:07:19
like there's no silence and there's a little chatter like you
1:07:22
can hear them
1:07:22
whispering like the fuck are they and they smoke say they're
1:07:26
not hostile or
1:07:26
anything but they don't fuck are they I don't know some of the
1:07:30
people there like
1:07:31
they clearly again this is middle America like they have
1:07:34
weapons on their hips and
1:07:36
some of them put their hands on their pistols but they keep
1:07:39
smoking they don't
1:07:40
really even acknowledge you or anything like that what do you
1:07:44
guys want to do
1:07:53
SPEAKER_00: I guess the best thing would be to ask a rant for Mr.
1:07:57
SPEAKER_01: Chin You gonna come up to somebody and just ask?
1:08:07
Jacob would look out for the person who or anyone who does not
1:08:12
have hand on a gun
1:08:15
SPEAKER_00: or who looks the most approachable
1:08:25
SPEAKER_00: Who looks the most approachable?
1:08:28
SPEAKER_00: Give me... Give me what's awareness again.
1:08:31
SPEAKER_01: No difficulty.
1:08:37
SPEAKER_01: And yes, the answer is just like in the movie Sinners.
1:08:40
SPEAKER_01: You three are the vampires kind of materializing out of nowhere.
1:08:45
SPEAKER_01: People are like, what the fuck?
1:08:50
SPEAKER_01: Two successes.
1:08:55
there is um it took some time to like wait say 15 minutes to
1:09:00
wait for Big Al rather
1:09:02
you know chitchat with you guys for a moment tow the car it
1:09:05
only took two it takes
1:09:06
a minute to get it on the hook hanging up and so with two
1:09:09
successes you see there's
1:09:12
SPEAKER_01: a he's
1:09:16
SPEAKER_01: Clearly a Hispanic man.
1:09:18
SPEAKER_01: Like, he's got the tan skin.
1:09:19
SPEAKER_01: He's got kind of this, like, hair tied up in a ponytail.
1:09:23
SPEAKER_01: And he stands out in this crowd.
1:09:25
SPEAKER_01: Because this is, again, mid and Eastern America.
1:09:29
SPEAKER_01: But he seems pretty jovial.
1:09:31
SPEAKER_01: He's talking with some young dude back and forth about it.
1:09:35
SPEAKER_01: He's like, yeah, man, I... Oh, the...
1:09:40
Jessica the other day who is like I don't think she's gonna let
1:09:44
me but she did and
1:09:45
I was crazy The gentleman he's talking to is like shit that's
1:09:51
everybody's had a
1:09:51
SPEAKER_01: piece of that come on man gross There's a
1:09:59
another gentleman who's kind of just standing around he's
1:10:01
leaned up against his car
1:10:02
just kind of like watching everything he's texting on his phone
1:10:06
occasionally and
1:10:07
like kind of looking up at the sky he looks a little like
1:10:10
downtrodden but not
1:10:11
hostile just kind of like like clearly he might have been
1:10:14
waiting for somebody and
1:10:16
then you see the girl from the McDonald's she looks like she's
1:10:22
just changed might
1:10:24
SPEAKER_01: have like just ran a comb through her hair she's in this like
1:10:28
black pencil skirt that goes to right above her knees in this
1:10:34
black V-cut with frills.
1:10:37
SPEAKER_01: She looks nice.
1:10:38
SPEAKER_01: Cute.
1:10:41
SPEAKER_00: That's what you get with two successes.
1:10:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's going to look towards the coterie.
1:10:49
SPEAKER_03: I kind of point her out.
1:10:50
SPEAKER_03: Isn't that the lady from earlier?
1:10:54
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, Priz!
1:10:59
SPEAKER_01: Did you just run up to her?
1:11:02
SPEAKER_03: Big wave Yeah,
1:11:09
SPEAKER_03: do a little hop,
1:11:09
SPEAKER_03: skip,
1:11:10
SPEAKER_03: run She's back in her slightly healed foods and everything Once again,
1:11:18
SPEAKER_01: leaving your coterie to it You wave at her,
1:11:21
SPEAKER_01: she's Oh,
1:11:22
SPEAKER_01: hey Wow,
1:11:25
SPEAKER_01: you guys came,
1:11:25
SPEAKER_01: holy shit
1:11:27
SPEAKER_03: Oh my god,
1:11:28
SPEAKER_03: Chris,
1:11:28
you look practically edible Oh my god Oh my god She smiles
1:11:35
That's a word for it I
1:11:36
SPEAKER_01: mean,
1:11:36
SPEAKER_01: I haven't heard that in a while But I'll take it It's a compliment,
1:11:41
SPEAKER_01: right?
1:11:43
SPEAKER_01: Oh, absolutely This is such a cute first
1:11:50
SPEAKER_01: She like puts her arms up and kind of spins around a little.
1:11:52
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
1:11:53
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
1:11:54
SPEAKER_01: She's got a clutch with her.
1:11:55
SPEAKER_01: She opens it up.
1:11:56
SPEAKER_01: She pulls out like a pack of marble red.
1:11:59
SPEAKER_01: She taps one out for herself and then taps it again, offers you one.
1:12:04
SPEAKER_03: No, I don't smoke anymore.
1:12:08
SPEAKER_01: Not just tonight.
1:12:10
SPEAKER_01: You said we're here to have a good time, right?
1:12:12
SPEAKER_03: I look at Princess.
1:12:13
SPEAKER_03: Princess gets mad at me.
1:12:15
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:12:17
ah everybody's got a fur baby and she she like taps it puts it
1:12:21
away puts it back in
1:12:22
her clutch she lights it herself her own and takes a drag it's
1:12:27
like oh fuck yeah I
1:12:29
think it's good to be out of work uniform though so stuffy
1:12:33
smell like grease all
1:12:34
the time and she she looks like past you towards Jacob and
1:12:39
Robin that's what you
1:12:40
SPEAKER_01: guys that's your band you see they have guitars on them you don't play
1:12:45
She had stashed her drumsticks down the back of her shirt She's
1:12:52
just going to pull
1:12:52
them out And the drummer Oh shit Nice Are you guys going to try
1:13:00
to play tonight?
1:13:01
We always need somebody It's always cover bands of Fleetwood
1:13:07
Mac or Rush or
1:13:08
SPEAKER_01: whatever the fuck it is It gets old
1:13:11
SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh, yes, that's perfect.
1:13:13
SPEAKER_03: Guys, guys, come over here.
1:13:16
SPEAKER_03: Gonna wave the other two down.
1:13:22
SPEAKER_02: Robin is the first of the two to approach,
1:13:25
just kind of nonchalantly scratching at her neck and just
1:13:30
giving a little wave.
1:13:32
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Jacob would follow to the side and give away
1:13:41
give a wave himself it's a pleasure she waves hi she waves like
1:13:47
the you know she's
1:13:48
got a cigarette between two fingers she waves that hand at the
1:13:51
two of you she like
1:13:52
puts it between her lips loosely and she puts her sends her
1:13:55
hands out to both of
1:13:56
you do you shake yeah yeah you both shake I guess she looks a
1:14:06
little confused for a
1:14:07
SPEAKER_01: moment and she like you know
1:14:10
SPEAKER_01: I thought it was just her,
1:14:13
SPEAKER_01: because you guys might have been pushing the car,
1:14:15
SPEAKER_01: but you all are cold as fuck.
1:14:17
SPEAKER_01: You should go inside and warm up.
1:14:20
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it.
1:14:21
SPEAKER_00: Go on.
1:14:21
SPEAKER_00: No, you're good.
1:14:21
SPEAKER_00: We were told to
1:14:37
SPEAKER_02: Talked to this guy, Mr. Chin or something.
1:14:40
SPEAKER_02: You know where we could find him?
1:14:41
SPEAKER_01: Oh, this guy's an asshole.
1:14:45
SPEAKER_01: She like takes another hit.
1:14:46
SPEAKER_01: She goes, yeah, he's somewhere in there.
1:14:48
SPEAKER_01: You'll,
1:14:48
SPEAKER_01: he's,
1:14:49
SPEAKER_01: you ever seen the,
1:14:51
SPEAKER_01: what is that,
1:14:51
that Nickelodeon show with the guy with the white suit and the
1:14:54
stupid hat?
1:14:55
SPEAKER_01: He's, he's, he's in there.
1:14:57
SPEAKER_01: You can't miss him.
1:14:58
SPEAKER_01: His
1:14:58
asian guy dressed in pearly white suits somewhere he's like
1:15:02
king of the town he
1:15:04
owns a bunch of shit out here he bought up most of it when the
1:15:07
rails went it was a
1:15:08
thing you can't miss him honestly I'll be in there in a few he
1:15:11
doesn't like when we
1:15:12
smoke although we all do but I don't like to hear him bitch
1:15:15
about it gotcha I
1:15:18
SPEAKER_02: appreciate it
1:15:23
Yeah,
1:15:23
if you guys are going to play and she takes another drag,
1:15:26
I'm coming.
1:15:27
SPEAKER_01: I want to listen.
1:15:28
SPEAKER_01: God, I'm so bored.
1:15:31
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead.
1:15:31
SPEAKER_01: He's in there somewhere.
1:15:39
SPEAKER_00: He appreciates it.
1:15:42
SPEAKER_02: He gives her a tip of her hat and begins to make her way in.
1:15:52
SPEAKER_01: Yes, you all go in.
1:15:54
SPEAKER_01: You open the door.
1:15:55
SPEAKER_01: The doors are like old Western saloon doors.
1:16:00
There is a regular heavy metal door,
1:16:02
but it's just open and propped up with a rock.
1:16:05
SPEAKER_01: But in the inner door, those old saloon doors, you push them open.
1:16:10
SPEAKER_01: And the whole place is covered in cigarette smoke.
1:16:15
SPEAKER_01: It smells like steaks and beer and burgers.
1:16:19
SPEAKER_01: They smell onions, garlic in the air.
1:16:23
and there's it's packed and when I mean packed I mean like in
1:16:29
respect to how big
1:16:31
this place is and where you are again it's not meant for this
1:16:35
many people if people
1:16:37
SPEAKER_01: are up against each other trying to like slide past one another
1:16:41
SPEAKER_01: You hear them yelling at the bartender, hey, I need two chords, bro.
1:16:45
SPEAKER_01: Come on, come on.
1:16:45
SPEAKER_01: And he's like, bro, shut the fuck up.
1:16:48
SPEAKER_01: I'll get there.
1:16:49
SPEAKER_01: Somebody else is arguing.
1:16:50
SPEAKER_01: The jukebox is on,
1:16:52
despite the fact that there's some band up there playing like
1:16:56
Luke Combs or
1:16:57
SPEAKER_01: something,
1:16:57
SPEAKER_01: doing some cover song of it.
1:17:00
SPEAKER_01: And you can see at the bar, at the very, very far left,
1:17:07
SPEAKER_01: is what's obviously Mr. Chip.
1:17:11
SPEAKER_01: He's in, again, the same very nice white suit.
1:17:14
SPEAKER_01: He's got an old white cowboy hat with a gold band around it.
1:17:19
SPEAKER_01: He's got the Fu Manchu mustache.
1:17:21
SPEAKER_01: He might be in his, like...
1:17:23
SPEAKER_01: mid-50s kind of thing.
1:17:25
SPEAKER_01: And he's just kind of looking around at the place.
1:17:28
SPEAKER_01: The person right next to him,
1:17:30
SPEAKER_01: who's not like,
1:17:30
SPEAKER_01: they're not together obviously,
1:17:32
SPEAKER_01: but they're like smoking a cigarette and they ask him on a thing.
1:17:35
SPEAKER_01: And you see him like hit him on the shoulder like, what the fuck?
1:17:37
SPEAKER_01: Don't ask.
1:17:38
And he points at the sign that says no smoking,
1:17:41
but everybody in here is smoking.
1:17:46
SPEAKER_00: What do you guys want to do?
1:17:55
SPEAKER_01: Talk to me.
1:17:55
SPEAKER_01: Is your guys a scene?
1:17:56
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of people in here.
1:17:59
SPEAKER_01: What do you guys want out to?
1:18:01
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna start when we go inside with Blush of Life.
1:18:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:18:08
SPEAKER_00: Give me a Rouse check.
1:18:09
SPEAKER_00: Ooh, multiple Rouse checks.
1:18:12
SPEAKER_02: I'll go for it, too.
1:18:15
SPEAKER_02: Oof.
1:18:16
SPEAKER_02: I'm Hunger 4.
1:18:18
SPEAKER_01: Hunger 4.
1:18:18
SPEAKER_01: Oh, boy.
1:18:20
SPEAKER_02: Oh, God.
1:18:22
SPEAKER_01: Oh, goodness gracious.
1:18:23
SPEAKER_01: It's fine.
1:18:24
You're just,
1:18:25
you're not compacted and shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of
1:18:28
humanity.
1:18:29
SPEAKER_01: It's going to be okay.
1:18:39
SPEAKER_01: Again, you guys are seen.
1:18:40
SPEAKER_01: You talk to me.
1:18:41
SPEAKER_01: I want to know what happens.
1:18:44
SPEAKER_03: I suppose the plan is to go up to the person who very much
1:18:51
SPEAKER_03: is the definition of who we got described to who was Mr.
1:18:55
Chin mm-hmm mm-hmm you guys are gonna kind of jostle your way
1:19:00
through the cloud
1:19:02
yeah who's gonna who's gonna talk to him she's like she's
1:19:10
especially with what
1:19:11
she's wearing right now she's like I don't wanna be the one to
1:19:14
do this okay and to
1:19:18
SPEAKER_00: give a friendly smile back towards Robyn
1:19:23
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it.
1:19:25
SPEAKER_00: Jacob's really good with this sort of thing.
1:19:27
SPEAKER_01: He is, but he's very hungry, so we'll see how good he goes now.
1:19:36
SPEAKER_01: You guys kind of like shimmy your way through the crowd.
1:19:38
SPEAKER_01: Some people are like,
1:19:40
SPEAKER_01: You think, is that a band?
1:19:41
SPEAKER_01: What the fuck?
1:19:42
SPEAKER_01: You got a new band in town?
1:19:43
SPEAKER_01: What the fuck's going on?
1:19:45
SPEAKER_01: They see your guitar and shit.
1:19:47
SPEAKER_01: But you make your way over to Mr.
1:19:49
SPEAKER_01: Chin,
1:19:49
SPEAKER_01: who's,
1:19:50
SPEAKER_01: at the moment,
1:19:51
SPEAKER_01: he's in between you guys walking in and getting to him,
1:19:55
SPEAKER_01: he's lit a cigar,
1:19:56
SPEAKER_01: completely ignoring the no smoking rule that he put up.
1:20:00
SPEAKER_01: He's puffing on it, kind of looking around in the cloud.
1:20:04
SPEAKER_01: It's almost cartoonish.
1:20:05
SPEAKER_01: You can see the dollar signs in his eyes as he's looking around,
1:20:09
SPEAKER_01: knowing tonight's going to be a good night.
1:20:12
he takes Jackie like as you guys approach he kind of looks at
1:20:14
you looks away then
1:20:15
looks back like who the fuck are you people but you make your
1:20:19
way to him you take
1:20:23
you see him he's got this cigar in his mouth he looks at you a
1:20:25
little confused Mr.
1:20:29
Chin if I'm correct yeah that's me just the person I would like
1:20:37
to talk to if you
1:20:38
SPEAKER_00: have the moment I mean
1:20:41
SPEAKER_01: and we talk here but I'm not going to my office or nothing.
1:20:45
SPEAKER_01: I'm busy.
1:20:48
SPEAKER_03: That's perfectly fine.
1:20:49
SPEAKER_03: I'm just telling you the moment of your time.
1:20:53
SPEAKER_01: He takes a few drags from the cigar, pops it down on the side.
1:20:58
SPEAKER_01: It's all wet right at the edge where he's got in his mouth.
1:21:02
SPEAKER_01: What can I do for you?
1:21:03
SPEAKER_01: What do you want?
1:21:05
SPEAKER_03: We would kindly request to let us play
1:21:11
SPEAKER_03: here for just a bit of money,
1:21:13
SPEAKER_03: if possible,
1:21:14
SPEAKER_03: or just let us take tips so we can have enough to fuel our car.
1:21:23
SPEAKER_01: He looks over at the band, looks at you guys.
1:21:26
SPEAKER_01: I mean,
1:21:26
SPEAKER_01: I got Rush up there now or Rush minus five,
1:21:29
SPEAKER_01: whatever you want to call them at this point.
1:21:32
SPEAKER_01: I mean, they're doing good work for me.
1:21:34
SPEAKER_01: I mean, he looks at you guys.
1:21:36
SPEAKER_01: You got some skill?
1:21:38
SPEAKER_01: What are you doing?
1:21:43
I'd say we're plenty of talented he'd look at look over to you
1:21:48
the other two
1:21:51
SPEAKER_03: wouldn't you agree?
1:21:54
Logan's gonna say I went to Juilliard Juilliard that big old
1:22:00
fancy school yeah
1:22:05
alright so got Juilliard what about you you got music
1:22:08
credentials got a card or
1:22:10
SPEAKER_01: something
1:22:14
new band yeah new bands new band he picks up the cigar all
1:22:25
right and yeah he looks
1:22:28
at you kind of sizing you up you can see him like processing
1:22:31
numbers in his head he
1:22:33
blows a cigar smoke almost in your face but like there's just a
1:22:36
lot of smoke in
1:22:36
here so there's really nowhere to go I tell you what when these
1:22:41
morons get on stage
1:22:44
SPEAKER_01: I'll let you guys go up.
1:22:46
SPEAKER_01: Here's the deal.
1:22:48
I don't know you,
1:22:49
so I'm not going to give you my usual rates,
1:22:51
but I'll tell you what.
1:22:53
SPEAKER_01: If you can get any gestures to the crowd,
1:22:56
SPEAKER_01: you get these people up,
1:22:57
SPEAKER_01: moving around,
1:22:58
SPEAKER_01: just enjoying the sound,
1:23:00
SPEAKER_01: I'll pay 200 bucks.
1:23:03
SPEAKER_01: If they like you, they'll spend money.
1:23:05
SPEAKER_01: They'll drink.
1:23:06
SPEAKER_01: They do that out here.
1:23:08
SPEAKER_01: It's almost taking candy from a baby, honestly.
1:23:12
SPEAKER_01: If you suck,
1:23:15
SPEAKER_01: No, I'm not gonna pay you a damn thing.
1:23:16
SPEAKER_01: Maybe I'll give you 50 bucks and get you off the stage quicker.
1:23:19
SPEAKER_01: Whatever the need may be.
1:23:23
SPEAKER_01: However,
1:23:23
SPEAKER_01: if you're gonna be in town for a few days and they do like you,
1:23:27
SPEAKER_01: you come back tomorrow,
1:23:28
SPEAKER_01: maybe earn a little more money.
1:23:30
SPEAKER_01: What you think?
1:23:34
SPEAKER_00: Most of that's quite agreeable.
1:23:36
But how about if we get them up and moving and spending much
1:23:40
more than they
1:23:41
SPEAKER_03: typically do,
1:23:42
SPEAKER_03: you give us a bit more of a bonus.
1:23:45
SPEAKER_03: 50 to 100?
1:23:48
SPEAKER_03: And I would like to use Awe in this moment.
1:23:54
SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
1:23:55
SPEAKER_01: Give me charisma and persuasion.
1:23:59
SPEAKER_03: Awe is manipulation plus presence.
1:24:03
SPEAKER_03: It's saying here.
1:24:06
SPEAKER_01: Add your presence for Awe.
1:24:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:24:09
SPEAKER_03: My bad.
1:24:10
SPEAKER_01: I just want to know what you get.
1:24:13
SPEAKER_03: Do my two merits apply here?
1:24:16
SPEAKER_01: You have looks and what else?
1:24:20
SPEAKER_03: And scene kids.
1:24:22
SPEAKER_03: So scene kid and beautiful.
1:24:27
I would say no because this is like a country bar and I don't
1:24:33
think this gentleman
1:24:33
SPEAKER_01: is interested in you.
1:24:37
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:24:38
SPEAKER_01: But...
1:24:39
I lied We'll add your looks Cause he is looking at you guys
1:24:41
Like you guys are Like
1:24:43
prized meat And it's not that he's interested But maybe your
1:24:45
looks Will earn more
1:24:46
money So yes Your looks will apply And what's the dice pool
1:24:52
again Sorry Uh Charisma
1:24:55
Persuasion And does bargaining count here Let's take a look at
1:25:01
bargaining What does
1:25:02
SPEAKER_01: bargaining do It's a specialty Yes Absolutely
1:25:11
SPEAKER_01: Is there any difficulty?
1:25:13
SPEAKER_01: No difficulty here.
1:25:14
SPEAKER_01: Just tell me what you're getting.
1:25:19
SPEAKER_00: Six successes?
1:25:21
SPEAKER_01: Six successes.
1:25:26
SPEAKER_01: I like you.
1:25:27
SPEAKER_01: You have a good bargain.
1:25:27
SPEAKER_01: I tell you what.
1:25:29
SPEAKER_01: You get them up and moving.
1:25:30
SPEAKER_01: You get them spending good money.
1:25:32
SPEAKER_01: I throw an extra hundred bucks in there for you.
1:25:34
SPEAKER_01: 150 if it's real, real good.
1:25:36
SPEAKER_01: How about that?
1:25:39
SPEAKER_00: I think you have a deal.
1:25:41
SPEAKER_00: until he told his hands to shake.
1:25:46
SPEAKER_01: He keeps the cigar in his mouth.
1:25:48
SPEAKER_01: He shakes your hand and pulls the cigar back out.
1:25:50
SPEAKER_01: He speaks for all of you.
1:25:54
SPEAKER_00: Aye.
1:25:56
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
1:25:58
SPEAKER_01: Good, good.
1:25:59
SPEAKER_01: You guys need some time to practice?
1:26:00
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I got a little...
1:26:02
SPEAKER_01: It's not exactly a backstage,
1:26:03
SPEAKER_01: but I got an area back there for you to prep up if you want to prep.
1:26:09
SPEAKER_01: I didn't catch your names, by the way.
1:26:13
jacob jacob jacob juliard what about you robin robin jacob
1:26:24
juliard and robin i like
1:26:25
it you guys got a band name or something you know what don't
1:26:33
tell me you tell them
1:26:34
SPEAKER_01: when you get on stage you got one if you don't don't matter
1:26:37
Go ahead if you guys need to practice it points to the back
1:26:40
like right behind the
1:26:42
stage there's like a it's almost like one of those Walmart like
1:26:47
dividers and that's
1:26:49
quote unquote backstage y'all head on back then get ready if
1:26:52
you want Thank you
1:26:55
SPEAKER_00: very much Appreciate it Good luck
1:27:00
As we're leaving I'm gonna lean into Robin and just whisper I
1:27:04
didn't go to Juilliard
1:27:24
oh my god she just kind of like thighs heavily as they head in
1:27:31
yeah you guys go to
1:27:35
the other side of this like walmart divider it might be like
1:27:39
six and a half feet
1:27:40
SPEAKER_01: tall uh
1:27:42
SPEAKER_01: and you're just on the other side of this thin thing.
1:27:46
But it's enough privacy that if you wanted to change or do
1:27:50
something or anything,
1:27:51
SPEAKER_01: discuss strategy,
1:27:52
SPEAKER_01: you've got a few minutes before Rush Minus 5 gets off stage.
1:27:59
You know,
1:27:59
I didn't take you two for smooth talkers the way you were
1:28:03
running a few days ago.
1:28:08
SPEAKER_00: That was...
1:28:11
a very much different thing but when it comes to deals I'm
1:28:17
quite happy to be of
1:28:19
assistance as long as we don't get run off to this again we
1:28:31
shouldn't I'd be
1:28:32
SPEAKER_00: concerned if they've already heard about what has happened in Vegas
1:28:42
Oh my god,
1:28:42
if we get enough money do you think we can sleep on beds
1:28:45
tonight?
1:28:46
I know we don't really feel it but it's like Princess is
1:28:50
struggling Princess looks
1:28:52
SPEAKER_00: perfectly happy Your dog is back there with you
1:29:05
She kind of looks up at the name puts her head back down like
1:29:08
between her paws just
1:29:09
kind of on the lookout make sure nothing jumps on you You hear
1:29:16
They're on their
1:29:17
last song there van on stage without one more for you guys and
1:29:20
there's like a like
1:29:21
a Kind of like unenthusiastic applause like how many times have
1:29:26
they heard them?
1:29:27
SPEAKER_01: There's like whatever they're they kind of suck in that like
1:29:32
people have just gotten used to it,
1:29:34
but it's something to listen to that isn't the jukebox.
1:29:38
SPEAKER_00: Mhm.
1:29:40
SPEAKER_00: I don't think we could do worse on them.
1:29:43
SPEAKER_02: Might as well.
1:29:44
Though,
1:29:44
uh,
1:29:45
before they end off,
1:29:46
it's probably good we think of a name first.
1:29:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that would be a good idea that we don't have one.
1:29:58
SPEAKER_00: Um, since we need money before
1:30:02
we have oh my god since we need money before we have to pay for
1:30:07
petrol in the
1:30:07
SPEAKER_03: morning what about like risking morning?
1:30:09
I mean um you know I think I think kind of like a lot of the
1:30:17
time I mean I like
1:30:18
SPEAKER_02: risking like risking,
1:30:20
SPEAKER_02: risking morning,
1:30:21
SPEAKER_02: risking,
1:30:21
SPEAKER_02: risking,
1:30:22
SPEAKER_02: risking,
1:30:23
SPEAKER_00: risking done no complaints here
1:30:34
You get kind of like Snickers to herself because of the myth of
1:30:41
a vampire.
1:30:45
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's painfully on the nose if you know.
1:30:47
SPEAKER_00: All right.
1:30:58
SPEAKER_01: Before you guys get up there.
1:31:01
I'm curious as to what's on your mind as you get up Robin
1:31:05
you've never played with
1:31:06
them before the two of them obviously have some sort of
1:31:10
connection to one another
1:31:11
but you've never played and you're just gonna you've had you
1:31:14
know one or two maybe
1:31:15
practice sessions but this is your first time getting up on
1:31:18
stage with them what's
1:31:21
on your mind what are you going through as you as you prepare
1:31:23
to as you hear the
1:31:24
SPEAKER_01: end of the song play for them and you guys are up next Robin
1:31:30
SPEAKER_02: kind of looked down at her base.
1:31:35
SPEAKER_02: She's cared for this base for a while,
1:31:37
SPEAKER_02: only usually playing it for herself whenever she was on the road,
1:31:42
waiting in the middle of nowhere or in an urban sprawl whenever
1:31:47
she had to hide
1:31:48
SPEAKER_02: away from other people.
1:31:49
SPEAKER_02: And now she was here in
1:31:59
sure it's kind of a quaint town but she was still performing
1:32:08
for people this
1:32:11
feeling isn't exactly anxiety it's just a weight in her in the
1:32:19
pit of her stomach
1:32:22
SPEAKER_02: she just takes a deep breath in deep breath out and then looks to them
1:32:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:32:33
SPEAKER_00: Jacob, same question.
1:32:37
SPEAKER_01: Let me rephrase.
1:32:39
SPEAKER_01: Not Jacob.
1:32:40
SPEAKER_01: Logan.
1:32:40
SPEAKER_01: Because Jacob, you're the vocalist.
1:32:41
SPEAKER_01: I want to hear you last.
1:32:42
SPEAKER_01: But Logan, you first.
1:32:45
SPEAKER_03: Logan is so excited.
1:32:49
The thoughts of all the other things that are happening right
1:32:53
now are kind of
1:32:56
SPEAKER_03: concentrated purely into her drumsticks.
1:33:00
and she's gonna hit some things really hard and very skillfully
1:33:05
and by doing that
1:33:08
she's gonna have like just a ton of fun people are gonna look
1:33:11
at her and enjoy it
1:33:13
SPEAKER_03: and she'll get to like get swept away by the music and the beat
1:33:17
SPEAKER_03: and the momentum of it.
1:33:21
SPEAKER_03: Just let it take her over.
1:33:24
SPEAKER_03: She can already feel it building in her mind.
1:33:27
SPEAKER_03: The one, two, three, four.
1:33:30
SPEAKER_03: The ticking in the back of her brain.
1:33:34
SPEAKER_03: The little metronome that keeps her moving.
1:33:36
SPEAKER_01: I like it.
1:33:42
SPEAKER_01: Jacob, you are the
1:33:45
SPEAKER_01: vocalists.
1:33:46
SPEAKER_01: You're the face of the band for the moment.
1:33:49
SPEAKER_01: Talk to me.
1:33:50
SPEAKER_01: I gotta know.
1:33:53
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, this is all a very surreal moment.
1:33:58
He's had this electric guitar for a while now where he's been
1:34:03
off practicing on
1:34:06
SPEAKER_03: occasion,
1:34:06
SPEAKER_03: maybe playing with a few friends in the past.
1:34:11
SPEAKER_03: But nothing in
1:34:13
but nothing in front of people or taking it super seriously to
1:34:20
the point that money
1:34:23
SPEAKER_03: is the concern for this moment.
1:34:26
So it's a very surreal moment going from being a person
1:34:31
watching people perform on
1:34:33
SPEAKER_00: stage to now being that person in the lights everyone is watching.
1:34:45
SPEAKER_00: I like it.
1:34:47
SPEAKER_00: I like it.
1:34:49
SPEAKER_01: The cover band, sign off.
1:34:54
SPEAKER_01: You can hear them shuffling off stage.
1:34:56
SPEAKER_01: The drum set is still up there because no one's moving that motherfucker.
1:35:04
SPEAKER_01: I'd like you all to roll me composure and resolve.
1:35:14
SPEAKER_00: No difficulty.
1:35:15
SPEAKER_00: Just tell me what you get.
1:35:25
SPEAKER_00: Messy crit 4.
1:35:27
SPEAKER_01: Messy crit 4.
1:35:29
SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
1:35:30
SPEAKER_00: Four successes.
1:35:32
SPEAKER_01: Four successes.
1:35:34
SPEAKER_01: What about you, Robin?
1:35:36
SPEAKER_00: Uh, just getting it done.
1:35:43
SPEAKER_01: My heart's racing for you guys right now, if your heart... Oh no!
1:35:47
SPEAKER_02: Do you get roll power?
1:35:50
SPEAKER_02: Roll power, please.
1:35:53
SPEAKER_00: Just click re-roll for my nose.
1:35:55
SPEAKER_00: Or select re-roll.
1:35:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, good to you.
1:36:01
SPEAKER_01: Oh dear, oh, one success.
1:36:04
SPEAKER_01: So we get a messy crit, four and one success.
1:36:10
Maybe it's cause you've never played together Maybe it's the
1:36:14
anticipation of the
1:36:15
moment The feeling of humanity running through your veins
1:36:20
You've got blush of life
1:36:21
SPEAKER_01: on But each of you in your own way Except you,
1:36:25
SPEAKER_01: Logan You're fucking You've got this shit
1:36:31
Jacob and you Robin especially can feel it the beast at the
1:36:36
surface whether it's
1:36:38
nervous or wild excitement it's hard to tell but you can feel
1:36:42
it in your blood so
1:36:46
SPEAKER_01: you guys come around get up on stage
1:36:51
SPEAKER_01: The crowd is,
1:36:52
SPEAKER_01: some of them are close,
1:36:56
SPEAKER_01: interested,
1:36:57
SPEAKER_01: they're looking at you guys,
1:36:59
SPEAKER_01: like heads tilted,
1:37:00
SPEAKER_01: like who the fuck are you?
1:37:04
SPEAKER_01: Most of the people there are just kind of like smoking,
1:37:07
SPEAKER_01: sitting at like the bar counter,
1:37:09
SPEAKER_01: just drinking,
1:37:10
SPEAKER_01: some people are just chit-chatting and talking.
1:37:13
SPEAKER_01: Part of the crowd's interested,
1:37:14
SPEAKER_01: part of the crowd's disinterested,
1:37:17
SPEAKER_01: and part of the crowd just has other things to be focused on tonight.
1:37:26
Logan you take your seat at the drums you feeling yourself
1:37:28
through or through it
1:37:32
Robin Jacob you're up there you've got your guitars in your
1:37:35
hands get your bass in
1:37:36
the other sound off how do you sound off tonight it's your
1:37:45
first time doing it
1:37:48
SPEAKER_01: you're the lead vocalist Jacob how do you get the crowds attention
1:37:55
Yeah it's very much just introducing the band and out of the
1:38:01
blue just going we are
1:38:03
risking dawn and maybe play a few notes just to grab their
1:38:09
attention a bit more
1:38:12
SPEAKER_01: Give me charisma and performance,
1:38:15
SPEAKER_03: just you Any difficulty?
1:38:21
with that messy crit it's going to be a difficulty three roll
1:38:42
four successes four
1:38:44
SPEAKER_01: successes you play a few chords
1:38:47
the crowd gets your attention but it's not enough of them right
1:38:52
some of them have
1:38:52
looked up some of them have stopped what they're doing and now
1:38:55
is when that messy
1:38:56
comes into play you've you've got to get control of this room
1:38:59
you want their
1:39:00
attention you want to eat it all up you guys have never played
1:39:06
it together before
1:39:07
SPEAKER_01: so a lot of this is going to be improvisation I'd like you all to roll
1:39:14
SPEAKER_01: the dice for your playing.
1:39:17
SPEAKER_01: I believe for you, Jacob, that is charisma and performance.
1:39:24
SPEAKER_01: Robin, for you, I think it's dex and performance.
1:39:28
SPEAKER_01: And Logan, for you, it is strength and performance.
1:39:35
SPEAKER_01: This is your first group role.
1:39:39
SPEAKER_01: The difficulty is going to be
1:39:44
SPEAKER_01: I think you guys have like 19 dice.
1:39:45
SPEAKER_01: I think the difficulty here is going to be 11.
1:39:50
SPEAKER_01: Not each of you, but collective.
1:39:54
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:39:55
SPEAKER_01: 11 will meet what you want to do.
1:39:58
SPEAKER_01: It'll get you paid.
1:39:59
SPEAKER_01: It'll grab the crowd.
1:40:00
SPEAKER_01: But 5 up or down is going to be where things start to get weird.
1:40:08
SPEAKER_01: Give me some dice.
1:40:09
SPEAKER_03: May I use my...
1:40:11
Or as well,
1:40:11
because I've got mail on my knee,
1:40:13
so I can send it through just voice.
1:40:16
SPEAKER_01: You can.
1:40:17
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna stop you.
1:40:25
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to willpower.
1:40:33
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
1:40:39
Remember you've got willpower you can spend If you would like
1:40:43
to I got four
1:40:44
successes Four successes Seven fucking successes Let's go Let's
1:40:58
go Robin with two
1:41:01
SPEAKER_00: successes What is that 13 successes
1:41:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:41:10
SPEAKER_00: You guys launch into it.
1:41:15
Between the awe,
1:41:17
the amount of success you have,
1:41:19
your first song,
1:41:22
you hit it off.
1:41:23
SPEAKER_01: You've never played before and the sound just comes together.
1:41:28
SPEAKER_01: What's the sound like?
1:41:29
SPEAKER_00: Tell us all what the sound is.
1:41:43
I think that from Logan the drums are heavy right it's it's a
1:41:49
lot of bass on the
1:41:50
drums it's a very strong beat for the other band members to
1:41:55
follow no one's gonna
1:41:57
go off beat while she's playing that's kind of the the deal and
1:42:02
it's it it moves
1:42:05
SPEAKER_03: between like moments of just
1:42:09
punctuated doof doof doof to like intricate little intricate
1:42:16
little drum bits where
1:42:18
she's you know doing little riffs and you know there's the toms
1:42:24
the hi-hats all
1:42:26
coming into play yeah Robin's bass is very thick like playing
1:42:35
it very much playing
1:42:36
SPEAKER_02: in harmony with
1:42:38
SPEAKER_02: Logan like if you ever heard the intro to Feel Good Inc.
1:42:44
by Gorillaz like that kind of like punchy bass it's like a very
1:42:53
nonchalant but
1:42:54
where it's not going to grab your attention but like if it's
1:43:01
not if it wasn't there
1:43:04
SPEAKER_02: it'd be so off
1:43:09
SPEAKER_00: Jacob?
1:43:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:43:11
SPEAKER_00: And for Jacob,
1:43:15
SPEAKER_00: for his guitar,
1:43:16
it is there to kind of highlight everything while not taking
1:43:24
all the attention away
1:43:25
SPEAKER_03: from the others.
1:43:28
SPEAKER_03: But with his singing,
1:43:30
it is there to kind of make everything flow a bit more
1:43:36
homogenous together.
1:43:39
I like it so everybody who may listen or is listening has a
1:43:46
better kind of cohesive
1:43:47
sound I think you guys agreed on like a like if we had to pick
1:43:52
a song that this
1:43:53
SPEAKER_00: sounds like what is it I believe we had you guys discussed like it being
1:44:07
SPEAKER_01: kind of like samurai from cyberpunk.
1:44:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:44:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:44:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:44:13
SPEAKER_01: That's the sound as you go through it.
1:44:16
SPEAKER_01: Two successes and four successes from you, Jacob and you, Robin.
1:44:20
SPEAKER_01: Robin again, you're new to the band, but
1:44:24
you get the rhythm you understand what's what to do and you
1:44:27
play your part Jacobs
1:44:28
doing his thing but the star of the show here is Logan as she
1:44:33
does not let you guys
1:44:35
fall under even any time you slip up or might have slipped up
1:44:40
that um is just in
1:44:41
there banging on it the crowd is taken there what the fuck
1:44:46
people who are like
1:44:47
looking at you are like eyes wide like holy shit Jacobs are
1:44:51
doing work as you guys
1:44:53
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SPEAKER_01: Without further ado, let's get back to the adventure.
1:45:25
SPEAKER_01: Give me the same dice pool.
1:45:28
as you've gone through maybe your first song or so and you're
1:45:31
trying to keep the
1:45:33
crowd in difficulty here as you beat the first one difficulty
1:45:37
here is nine as you
1:45:40
SPEAKER_01: kind of go to like keep them engaged with maybe the next song or two.
1:45:52
SPEAKER_00: Two successes.
1:45:58
SPEAKER_00: Four successes.
1:46:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh, three successes.
1:46:08
SPEAKER_00: So nine all in total.
1:46:11
SPEAKER_01: You make it.
1:46:12
It's not the same crash and opening as you started off with,
1:46:16
but you've got them.
1:46:17
SPEAKER_01: You keep the crowd going.
1:46:18
SPEAKER_01: The same amount of people are like, they're engaged.
1:46:22
SPEAKER_01: They're liking it.
1:46:23
SPEAKER_01: They're enjoying themselves.
1:46:25
people are moving people are starting to like rock out hard you
1:46:28
see couple people
1:46:29
just like downing beers like get me another and they're
1:46:32
enjoying the shit out of
1:46:34
themselves one more as you bring it to a close difficulty eight
1:46:44
you can blood surge
1:46:45
SPEAKER_00: all the things still apply do your thing
1:46:59
messy crit 10 wait uh uh ignore that one I for I didn't type it
1:47:07
out right yeah no
1:47:09
no problem messy crit 10 is crazy three successes two successes
1:47:22
so 15 successes and
1:47:24
SPEAKER_01: one of them is messy
1:47:31
that's five over oh my god you guys bring this fucking crazy
1:47:39
energy at the end
1:47:41
SPEAKER_01: absolutely nuts everybody in this bar is up and fucking moving even Mr.
1:47:48
SPEAKER_01: Chin is like you can see him like nodding his head hard his his uh
1:47:54
SPEAKER_01: his Texan hat is falling on the floor and he's headbanging with you.
1:47:57
SPEAKER_01: Cigar, he looks excited.
1:48:00
SPEAKER_01: Crowd is spending money.
1:48:01
SPEAKER_01: They are throwing dollars at the bartender like, give me four.
1:48:06
SPEAKER_01: It's going nuts in here.
1:48:11
SPEAKER_00: You guys bring it around with that messy crit, however, though.
1:48:20
SPEAKER_00: Jacob.
1:48:22
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to...
1:48:24
SPEAKER_01: However, you're going to get hungrier.
1:48:26
SPEAKER_01: That's what I want.
1:48:28
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
1:48:31
SPEAKER_01: What hunger are you at now?
1:48:33
SPEAKER_01: Five.
1:48:34
SPEAKER_01: Hunger five.
1:48:35
SPEAKER_01: It's that.
1:48:37
SPEAKER_01: You are riding the beast through this moment.
1:48:39
SPEAKER_01: You are eating this shit up.
1:48:43
SPEAKER_01: When you guys get done and you finally do it and you sign off,
1:48:48
SPEAKER_01: crowd goes absolutely fucking apeshit.
1:48:55
do you guys people call for an encore they want more do you
1:48:59
play more or are you
1:48:59
like we got this shit Jacob would look towards the others to
1:49:10
see their thoughts on
1:49:13
playing a bit more Logan's eyes are so dilated they're so
1:49:20
dilated laughing
1:49:24
You all can see that Jacob is You don't even know that Jacob is
1:49:28
hungry And on like
1:49:29
the verge of it But it's wild Jacob talk to us Tell us what you
1:49:34
look like in this
1:49:34
moment Hungry and full of fucking fury I love it Yeah like the
1:49:42
adrenaline from
1:49:43
Playing on stage Has not died down yet So he's kind of just
1:49:49
Continuously pacing
1:49:50
SPEAKER_03: about In the act
1:49:54
Nancy way at the same time like whatever like whatever's going
1:50:03
on in his head is
1:50:05
not just the excitement of playing that Robin will almost
1:50:13
immediately notice and
1:50:14
SPEAKER_02: like kick his leg a little and and and like
1:50:21
they're quiet enough that people won't hear too loud and she
1:50:25
just said let's call
1:50:27
it here let's just call it edging them on Jacob you are fucking
1:50:39
bleeding fury and
1:50:40
it's not just the excitement right it's the hunger it's
1:50:44
everything that you are you
1:50:46
SPEAKER_01: are kindred and they are eating from the palm of your hands
1:50:51
SPEAKER_01: you guys call it here you come off the stage and immediately Mr.
1:50:55
Chin comes around and he's he's got like a wad of cash and he's
1:51:00
just peeling back
1:51:01
money he puts two like right in front of you like on a little
1:51:06
table two he peels
1:51:08
SPEAKER_01: two more back
1:51:10
SPEAKER_01: two more.
1:51:11
SPEAKER_01: That, that's what I'm talking about.
1:51:13
SPEAKER_01: That's what I wanted to see.
1:51:14
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, yes.
1:51:18
SPEAKER_01: Oh, man.
1:51:20
SPEAKER_01: He's still smoking his cigar.
1:51:22
SPEAKER_01: Again, his hair is like a mess.
1:51:24
SPEAKER_01: His hat is nowhere to be found.
1:51:25
SPEAKER_01: The crowd is still losing it out there.
1:51:29
Oh,
1:51:29
man,
1:51:29
y'all,
1:51:30
I'd have paid extra if you went back on,
1:51:31
but,
1:51:32
but I get it,
1:51:32
I get it.
1:51:33
SPEAKER_01: You gotta, gotta keep more and more.
1:51:34
SPEAKER_01: Indeed, indeed.
1:51:36
SPEAKER_01: I tell you guys what, um, he takes you
1:51:40
SPEAKER_01: You want to play tomorrow?
1:51:45
SPEAKER_00: We'll consider it.
1:51:46
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, if we're still in town, we might.
1:51:49
SPEAKER_01: Oh, look, I sweetened a deal.
1:51:51
SPEAKER_01: I sweetened a deal.
1:51:52
SPEAKER_01: He peels off another hundred.
1:51:53
SPEAKER_01: That's five total.
1:51:55
SPEAKER_01: The extra hundreds to retain you for tomorrow evening.
1:51:58
SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
1:51:59
And if you play good and the same you did now,
1:52:01
I'll break you off another five.
1:52:02
SPEAKER_00: What do you think?
1:52:09
you know what don't tell me don't tell me I'm excited if you
1:52:13
show up tomorrow I
1:52:13
know what's what keep that on it just a whoo and he like he
1:52:18
turns away and you see
1:52:19
him like go to the ball how much we make it a nod appreciate it
1:52:27
and she's kind of
1:52:28
like she her what her eyes are like almost completely locked on
1:52:34
to Jacob because
1:52:35
SPEAKER_02: she can like feel some that
1:52:38
SPEAKER_02: that something is very wrong.
1:52:40
Yeah,
1:52:45
Jacob's trying to keep a bit more of a distance between other
1:52:49
coterie members.
1:52:54
SPEAKER_01: Feeling that, right?
1:52:56
SPEAKER_03: Logan's also hit hunger for, because she roused for that last song.
1:53:03
SPEAKER_03: And so...
1:53:05
she's got like the zoomy cat eyes going on Robin these two that
1:53:13
you're traveling
1:53:14
with you can see that they're hungry and like hungry hungry
1:53:20
yeah that was a rush
1:53:22
right but what's she thinking as she sees them despite the rush
1:53:26
is she worried
1:53:27
SPEAKER_02: what's going on in her mind so the thing is Robin's not stupid
1:53:35
she's a salubri she's been she's seen a way that a kindred
1:53:42
looks when they're
1:53:44
hungry hungry and she and her like the hair on on her neck is
1:53:53
like standing up and
1:53:55
SPEAKER_02: she's like and she kind of like her first she just kind of like is
1:54:01
the one to take the money and like stuff it in her cargo pants
1:54:05
and she she's like
1:54:07
let's get out of here now like not not still pretty low in her
1:54:13
voice but she
1:54:13
doesn't want to route suspicion but she she wants them out of
1:54:18
here yeah do you guys
1:54:24
SPEAKER_01: do you two follow her or do Jake
1:54:28
SPEAKER_01: Here's what I want.
1:54:29
SPEAKER_01: Logan, do you agree?
1:54:30
SPEAKER_01: Do you follow Robin out?
1:54:34
I think that them big dilated cat eyes have kind of locked onto
1:54:43
Robin a bit.
1:54:48
SPEAKER_03: So she'll go wherever Robin's going.
1:54:50
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, because Logan has a problem.
1:54:54
SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
1:54:57
SPEAKER_01: Jacob.
1:54:58
your I mean it's it's obviously a false kind of warmth but
1:55:02
you're feeling warm
1:55:04
blood's moving through your system the heart's beating hard
1:55:07
adrenaline is still
1:55:09
flowing through you or what passes for adrenaline right it's
1:55:13
all a false sense but
1:55:16
all those warm bodies in there screaming for you guys it's hard
1:55:21
to resist not going
1:55:22
SPEAKER_01: back out there I want to roll I want more composure and resolve
1:55:28
SPEAKER_01: difficulty two.
1:55:44
SPEAKER_00: Three successes.
1:55:45
SPEAKER_01: Three successes.
1:55:47
SPEAKER_01: It's hard, but you pull away.
1:55:49
SPEAKER_01: You can do it.
1:55:50
SPEAKER_01: You're in control.
1:55:53
SPEAKER_01: And do you follow Robin out as well?
1:55:56
SPEAKER_03: And just before they leave, Jacob would make a quick comment.
1:56:02
SPEAKER_00: Maybe take one for... Maybe take one with us.
1:56:09
SPEAKER_00: As he would, like, slightly gesture...
1:56:12
I'm assuming then,
1:56:13
like,
1:56:13
the back,
1:56:14
he would gesture to...
1:56:15
Yeah,
1:56:15
yeah,
1:56:15
yeah.
1:56:15
SPEAKER_00: ...out to, like, the main area.
1:56:18
SPEAKER_00: Um...
1:56:25
Logan will like look both ways and see if she can spot Chris
1:56:34
You don't see her
1:56:35
initially but as you guys kind of like open the door to the
1:56:40
outside and you get
1:56:41
that like fresh blast of air you look around like you're on the
1:56:46
side of the
1:56:47
building right around where you saw the two people making out
1:56:51
they're no longer
1:56:51
SPEAKER_01: there
1:56:52
There's trees just to the left Or just like in front of you
1:56:56
Because you're on the
1:56:56
left side of the building So in front of you there's just like
1:56:59
woods And around
1:57:01
Like from the side of the building Like four or five people
1:57:05
Just kind of come
1:57:06
around like What the fuck Chris is in the front of them Like
1:57:10
holy shit You did not
1:57:12
SPEAKER_01: tell me you guys were so good Holy shit And there's gotta be Maybe
1:57:22
for three or four other people with her like they're not like a
1:57:26
group they're just
1:57:27
people like kind of come around in the building like they
1:57:30
anticipated where you
1:57:31
guys are gonna go and have come around and they're like fucking
1:57:34
mind blown Robin
1:57:43
just kind of like um look yeah first before she she makes her
1:57:48
approach Robin just
1:57:50
SPEAKER_02: looks at Logan and is like
1:57:52
SPEAKER_00: be smart about it.
1:57:58
This second of be smart about it kicks something into gear in
1:58:03
Logan's mind.
1:58:04
So she does what she was going to do anyway,
1:58:07
but she's cognizant of what she's doing now.
1:58:11
SPEAKER_03: She knows what direction she needs to go and how she has to
1:58:16
SPEAKER_03: direct the energy she's currently got.
1:58:18
SPEAKER_03: So she's gonna like,
1:58:19
you know that thing where someone almost jumps on you and they
1:58:23
wrap their arms
1:58:24
SPEAKER_03: around like
1:58:26
SPEAKER_03: around your shoulders.
1:58:27
SPEAKER_03: She's gonna do that to Chris,
1:58:28
SPEAKER_03: like the little,
1:58:29
SPEAKER_03: the hop skip up towards her and then wrapping her,
1:58:33
just sort of having Chris's head like in the crook between the
1:58:37
two arms as she
1:58:38
SPEAKER_03: wraps them around her shoulders and going,
1:58:41
SPEAKER_03: oh my god,
1:58:41
SPEAKER_03: Chris,
1:58:41
SPEAKER_03: did you see?
1:58:42
SPEAKER_03: And then she's gonna like spin Chris around a little bit.
1:58:47
SPEAKER_01: She's like,
1:58:48
SPEAKER_01: oh yeah You guys are,
1:58:50
SPEAKER_01: you are on one Holy shit No,
1:58:53
SPEAKER_01: that was,
1:58:53
SPEAKER_01: that was wild That was fucking wild Risking Dawn,
1:58:57
SPEAKER_01: I love the fucking name Holy shit Oh my god,
1:59:01
SPEAKER_03: it's so good Oh my god,
1:59:04
SPEAKER_03: it's gonna be so fun I'm so excited Hey,
1:59:07
do you wanna like Weird thing about going and get a motel room
1:59:11
Do you wanna come
1:59:11
SPEAKER_03: like just hang out with us for a while?
1:59:13
SPEAKER_03: You can like swing by, um
1:59:17
SPEAKER_03: I don't know You wanna just come hang out with us?
1:59:22
Fuck yeah Fuck yeah And she looks over at the people behind her
1:59:27
Can we all come?
1:59:28
Cause we wanna fucking party And as you kinda look at them
1:59:32
They're all maybe
1:59:34
somewhere between like 19 and like 23 They're young Um I think
1:59:41
Logan's gonna make
1:59:42
SPEAKER_03: like a very disappointed face And be like Oh okay I mean
1:59:48
I'm not sure I'm gonna look towards Logan and I was gonna look
1:59:53
to Jacob and Robin
1:59:55
after saying that the like oh I'm not sure Look look we all
2:00:04
just want to party all
2:00:05
right but we can and she like gives you like a wink fuck my
2:00:09
boyfriend tonight I
2:00:09
don't fucking give a shit about him she does she does two
2:00:14
little hops like
2:00:16
i knew your boyfriend couldn't play the drums the rest are like
2:00:23
extra excited like
2:00:24
yeah yeah we want to fucking come you guys are getting hotel
2:00:28
rooms like fuck if you
2:00:30
SPEAKER_01: guys rent one we'll rent one we'll just fucking party
2:00:39
He's still pretty much a little out of sight and behind Jacob,
2:00:44
but he is glaring at him.
2:00:51
SPEAKER_03: Logan looks at Robin for approval.
2:00:54
SPEAKER_03: She thinks she did good.
2:00:55
SPEAKER_00: I hate these people.
2:01:03
SPEAKER_00: One or two wouldn't hurt.
2:01:07
yeah uh does does Jacob say that out loud yeah okay Chris pick
2:01:17
pick your favorite
2:01:18
two there's like a there's like a disappointed and she's like
2:01:24
look look look um
2:01:27
you and you uh Mark and Lisa come on you three go rent the
2:01:33
other hotel room or
2:01:34
there's like there's it's always vacancies just go grab another
2:01:38
and we'll meet up
2:01:38
and they're like fuck man come on fuck it fuck it we'll meet
2:01:42
you guys there and
2:01:42
SPEAKER_01: they like run off
2:01:47
SPEAKER_01: It's Chris, Mark, and Lisa with you.
2:01:51
SPEAKER_01: They are looking at you guys like,
2:01:54
SPEAKER_01: oh shit,
2:01:55
SPEAKER_01: Lisa goes in and she doesn't have a clutch,
2:01:57
SPEAKER_01: she has an actual handbag.
2:01:58
SPEAKER_01: She goes in and she pulls out a couple bags.
2:02:01
SPEAKER_01: It's clearly Coke.
2:02:02
SPEAKER_01: And she's like, you guys want to party for real?
2:02:06
SPEAKER_01: And she takes a bump immediately.
2:02:12
It doesn't do anything to Kindred,
2:02:13
so I think that Logan's just going to go,
2:02:15
yeah,
2:02:15
sure.
2:02:17
just take one two oh my god you've got bless your life it
2:02:25
doesn't do anything but
2:02:26
like you feel the jolt for a minute you're like oh yeah fuck
2:02:29
yeah and immediately
2:02:31
she's like yeah and she passes it Chris takes one Mark takes
2:02:36
one let's get this
2:02:38
fucking party started and they're like you guys got you guys
2:02:44
got a car like you
2:02:45
SPEAKER_00: want to hop in mine
2:02:51
SPEAKER_00: Yes, drive us!
2:02:53
SPEAKER_00: Yes!
2:02:55
SPEAKER_01: Fuck yeah.
2:02:57
SPEAKER_01: Mark leads you guys around.
2:02:58
SPEAKER_01: He's like, come on, come on.
2:02:59
SPEAKER_01: He's got one of those super big
2:03:04
SPEAKER_01: Ford F-150 King Rancher's Lifted Edition.
2:03:08
SPEAKER_01: So it's got the big front of a big cab and then the huge bed in the back.
2:03:13
He gets to step up and he opens the door and he hits a button
2:03:18
with his fist and a
2:03:19
SPEAKER_01: little step comes down,
2:03:21
SPEAKER_01: lowers down so it's easier to get up on.
2:03:23
SPEAKER_01: He's like, hop in, get in the bed, doesn't matter.
2:03:26
SPEAKER_01: Let's fucking do it.
2:03:34
Robin kind of like tips her hat down like now that there's
2:03:40
other people around
2:03:41
she's gonna she's deciding to put on this like kind of like
2:03:44
cool nonchalant person
2:03:47
like like appearance and hops in even though internally she's
2:03:53
like oh my fucking
2:03:55
SPEAKER_01: god oh this can only go badly it's all bad um
2:04:03
the if you guys all get in um Lisa and Chris get in the bed and
2:04:12
Chris is like
2:04:13
pulling on you Logan to get in the bed with them like the back
2:04:16
of the truck just so
2:04:17
you're like out in the night sky yep Logan's in there get back
2:04:23
there hell yeah uh
2:04:26
SPEAKER_01: so in the front it's Mark driving um
2:04:32
SPEAKER_01: Jacob Robin and in the back in the bed is Lisa Chris and Logan
2:04:40
SPEAKER_01: And Mark,
2:04:41
SPEAKER_01: like,
2:04:42
SPEAKER_01: you hear,
2:04:43
SPEAKER_01: like,
2:04:43
SPEAKER_01: the diesel engine turn off It's clear,
2:04:45
SPEAKER_01: like,
2:04:45
SPEAKER_01: this thing could tow a fucking building Like,
2:04:49
SPEAKER_01: you hear rattling,
2:04:50
SPEAKER_01: couple of alarms go off as he,
2:04:51
SPEAKER_01: like,
2:04:52
SPEAKER_01: revs the engine And it's a monster He goes,
2:04:56
SPEAKER_01: this shit is,
2:04:56
SPEAKER_01: I built the hell out of this fucking thing And he,
2:05:00
SPEAKER_01: like,
2:05:00
SPEAKER_01: shifts gears into drive And the engine,
2:05:04
SPEAKER_01: like,
2:05:04
SPEAKER_01: screams as he pulls off
2:05:07
SPEAKER_01: Literally,
2:05:08
the Meltel 6 is like a quarter of a mile down the road But he
2:05:14
jumps from like zero
2:05:15
to like 80 in like four or five seconds Like this shit is a
2:05:19
machine And in no time
2:05:22
SPEAKER_01: at all,
2:05:23
SPEAKER_01: the laughter,
2:05:24
he's cackling He's taking a few more bumps as he's driving
2:05:28
Lisa's back there,
2:05:29
just like handing fucking pills out like it's candy now Just
2:05:33
knocking them back
2:05:34
SPEAKER_01: It's a thing
2:05:37
SPEAKER_01: As you guys pull into the Motel 6, there's two cars in there.
2:05:44
SPEAKER_01: One of them is in the employee spot and there's one more further down.
2:05:49
SPEAKER_01: You can see that the one person there is standing on the balcony,
2:05:54
SPEAKER_01: smoking a cigarette,
2:05:55
SPEAKER_01: looking crazy at the engine.
2:05:57
SPEAKER_01: It's goddamn 2.30 in the morning.
2:05:59
SPEAKER_01: What the fuck?
2:06:01
SPEAKER_01: Whoever's behind the counter,
2:06:02
SPEAKER_01: you can see them peek their head up,
2:06:04
SPEAKER_01: looking around like,
2:06:05
SPEAKER_01: what the shit is that?
2:06:08
Mark gets out he comes around he opens the door he opens up
2:06:12
like the Little hatch
2:06:14
for the bed let you guys out he helps you down He's like we're
2:06:17
fucking partying
2:06:18
tonight you guys get one and we'll get the other and then
2:06:21
another car like pulls up
2:06:23
SPEAKER_01: and it's the other
2:06:23
who like they're in like a little like 2016 like civic and
2:06:28
they're thrilled clearly
2:06:29
they've been knocking them drugs back to and drinking one of
2:06:33
them's got like a
2:06:34
bottle of vodka that just like their driver has a bottle of
2:06:37
vodka and is just down
2:06:38
and getting hands it off what do you guys want to do I would
2:06:47
like to try beating
2:06:49
SPEAKER_00: from
2:06:53
SPEAKER_03: Two of them, not at the same time.
2:06:55
Maybe like one after the other under the guise of some sort of
2:07:02
weird enjoyment.
2:07:04
SPEAKER_03: What also involves blood.
2:07:07
SPEAKER_01: Alright.
2:07:08
SPEAKER_01: You want a chance to feed.
2:07:10
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get there.
2:07:11
SPEAKER_01: Logan, what do you want to do here?
2:07:17
I think Logan's like holding hands with Chris and going to get
2:07:21
a motel room.
2:07:25
Robin Robin's going to First she's gonna just fight at her
2:07:35
finger a little bit
2:07:36
because oh my god but she's going to just follow behind them
2:07:42
and just kind of watch
2:07:44
to while she just tries to think of what to do about this and
2:07:51
just follow behind
2:07:56
and you guys kind of get to the front desk the lady at the
2:07:59
front desk sees you
2:08:00
she's just like you can see she's like already exasperated with
2:08:04
it all and she goes
2:08:07
um until 6 we got vacancies she points at the sign um $69.99 a
2:08:18
night if you get a
2:08:19
SPEAKER_01: week it's 25% off cash apart
2:08:27
SPEAKER_00: cash just one night, please.
2:08:31
SPEAKER_01: Robin, you have the money.
2:08:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
2:08:35
SPEAKER_02: She takes it out and pays for some rooms for the Coterie members.
2:08:44
SPEAKER_01: She goes, I need some IDs.
2:08:50
SPEAKER_03: Logan pulls out her fake ID.
2:08:54
SPEAKER_03: So, Jacob.
2:08:56
So will Robin She takes them She looks at them She looks at you
2:09:02
guys and looks at
2:09:02
them Whatever She writes down on like a little piece of paper
2:09:09
Like normal check in
2:09:10
She takes your hundred dollar bill She breaks it with cash Mark
2:09:14
comes up He says
2:09:15
same thing She goes I don't need your ID Mark You're here like
2:09:19
twice a week With
2:09:21
SPEAKER_01: whoever the what Whoever you're banging tonight One of them I don't care
2:09:26
SPEAKER_01: Same thing.
2:09:28
SPEAKER_01: He slaps down 100 and goes, keep it.
2:09:34
SPEAKER_01: She just kind of rolls her eyes.
2:09:35
Would you see her count out the difference and then pocket the
2:09:40
rest of the money
2:09:41
SPEAKER_01: that he left 100?
2:09:42
SPEAKER_01: And so she pocketed 30 bucks and was like, whatever, Mark.
2:09:45
SPEAKER_01: And she gets you guys two keys.
2:09:47
SPEAKER_01: She goes, 101 and 102.
2:09:52
SPEAKER_01: Try not to break anything this time, Mark.
2:09:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah?
2:09:56
you either Lisa you guys are gonna pay for that and I'm gonna
2:09:59
tell Daddy Warbucks
2:10:01
if you're misbehaving they like waver off like they're not
2:10:06
gonna do anything and
2:10:09
SPEAKER_00: you guys get into these rooms Logan Chris takes you into 102
2:10:22
and the rest of them like there's like a ooh kind of sound but
2:10:28
everybody else kind
2:10:28
SPEAKER_01: of goes into 101 Robin where do you go?
2:10:34
Robin will join Logan in 102 but like just like say I'm just
2:10:42
going to be smoking on
2:10:43
SPEAKER_02: the balcony yeah and I would like to ask something mm-hmm
2:10:53
As you know,
2:10:55
Robin is quite the survivalist and enjoys her fair share of
2:11:01
steaks.
2:11:02
SPEAKER_02: Do you think she was paranoid enough to keep one in one of her pockets?
2:11:08
SPEAKER_01: You tell me.
2:11:09
SPEAKER_01: Is she paranoid enough to keep one?
2:11:11
SPEAKER_01: Then you've got one.
2:11:14
As she goes to the balcony,
2:11:16
she'll be keeping her ear out into the room and bring this
2:11:24
SPEAKER_02: stick from like out of the pocket and like into like her waistband.
2:11:30
SPEAKER_00: Just in case.
2:11:32
SPEAKER_00: I like it.
2:11:36
Oh.
2:11:40
SPEAKER_00: Jacob.
2:11:43
SPEAKER_00: Hello.
2:11:46
SPEAKER_01: Robin and Logan have gone into 102 and it's you with
2:11:52
SPEAKER_01: Mark,
2:11:53
SPEAKER_01: Lisa,
2:11:54
and these two other mortals that are just like doing drugs or
2:11:59
offering you pills
2:12:00
SPEAKER_01: and alcohol.
2:12:02
SPEAKER_01: What are you doing here?
2:12:07
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he would take some of the drugs.
2:12:11
SPEAKER_03: No reason not to.
2:12:12
SPEAKER_03: They don't affect him.
2:12:15
SPEAKER_00: No reason not to.
2:12:16
SPEAKER_00: They don't affect him.
2:12:20
SPEAKER_00: And he's going to
2:12:22
try to go feeding on them under the assumption of some weird
2:12:33
blood kick some weird
2:12:37
SPEAKER_00: blood kick I like it why don't you give me
2:12:52
SPEAKER_00: manipulation and persuasion.
2:12:58
You are at hunger five,
2:13:00
and so we're going to need some tests from doing multiple
2:13:02
roles.
2:13:06
Give me manipulation and persuasion at a difficult,
2:13:10
I would say four,
2:13:11
but they are imbibing.
2:13:13
SPEAKER_00: So at a difficulty three role.
2:13:20
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to do Pavel.
2:13:27
SPEAKER_00: Messy crit sex?
2:13:30
SPEAKER_00: Oh boy.
2:13:34
SPEAKER_00: Oh boy.
2:13:40
SPEAKER_00: Normally, there's a frenzy test here.
2:13:45
SPEAKER_00: However, with that messy, I don't think you can stop.
2:13:59
no I don't I don't think you can stop who who who's gonna bite
2:14:06
the big one tonight
2:14:08
Jacob two of my options again sorry Mark Lisa and two unnamed
2:14:18
mortals I haven't
2:14:18
SPEAKER_01: given their names are Chad and Marcus
2:14:28
let's just take out Chad from the situation he does not sound
2:14:33
pleasant to be with
2:14:35
Chad's kind of a douche he's overindulging as usual you can
2:14:41
tell because Lisa's
2:14:42
like Chad fucking relax bro but he's like starting to like act
2:14:47
like an asshole and
2:14:48
overly aggressive and as you you sink your fangs him you've got
2:14:56
to take all of it
2:14:57
SPEAKER_01: here
2:14:58
talk to me what's happening yeah he's diced it under some weird
2:15:08
love kink and maybe
2:15:09
as it goes on Jacob just feels the urge to not stop to satiate
2:15:18
the beast mhm mhm
2:15:24
SPEAKER_00: and I'm forced to stake it all aren't I
2:15:27
you just gotta slake it all you go down to zero yeah just kind
2:15:35
of under under that
2:15:39
goes off blood kink maybe they go into a bit more of a private
2:15:46
area yeah I mean you
2:15:48
SPEAKER_01: like Chad's kind of a dick
2:15:53
but you can get him alone in the bathroom and you hear him
2:15:58
punch a mirror or
2:15:59
something like that and he's just like fuck he's such a dick I
2:16:03
hate partying with
2:16:04
him and maybe you go in there and follow after him and you're
2:16:09
talking to him and
2:16:10
you convince him like you're into some shit he's like you know
2:16:13
what fuck it I ain't
2:16:14
done nothing crazy in a minute and you're drinking and it takes
2:16:20
time to do this
2:16:21
SPEAKER_01: though
2:16:22
And while you're doing that Let's turn back to Robin and Logan
2:16:32
Can I ask something?
2:16:34
Yeah I have in Auspex heightened senses Would it be possible
2:16:42
for me to tell that
2:16:44
SPEAKER_02: something's going on in the other room?
2:16:47
SPEAKER_01: I mean you can hear it with heightened senses
2:16:53
I'd say yeah you could you're not you're probably not going to
2:16:57
make it in time to
2:16:58
stop whatever horribleness is happening but it's at some point
2:17:04
in in all of those
2:17:05
shenanigans that you might smell the blood you might hear the
2:17:09
sound of like glass
2:17:11
breaking but Pete you can still hear the laughter it's a lot
2:17:14
though right all the
2:17:16
senses are it's overwhelming if you're going to use heightened
2:17:19
senses that is
2:17:22
SPEAKER_02: and I'll do that.
2:17:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:17:26
Give me...
2:17:32
Give me wits and resolve at a difficulty three to kind of
2:17:37
contain it all.
2:17:38
SPEAKER_01: Because it's loud, right?
2:17:39
SPEAKER_01: You guys are playing music.
2:17:40
SPEAKER_01: There's drinking.
2:17:41
SPEAKER_01: There's screaming.
2:17:42
SPEAKER_01: God knows what's going on in the other room.
2:17:44
SPEAKER_01: And who knows what Logan and Chris are doing.
2:17:48
SPEAKER_00: So we're at six...
2:17:56
SPEAKER_00: And did you say difficulty?
2:17:58
SPEAKER_00: Three All right,
2:18:07
SPEAKER_00: that's three successes Three successes,
2:18:11
you're able to kind of like filter it in and you can you can
2:18:16
hear like the crash or
2:18:17
SPEAKER_01: like somebody like a mirror obviously broke
2:18:22
You still hear laughter you hear like people just like fuck
2:18:25
he's such a dick and
2:18:26
you kind of hear that going on in the other room simultaneously
2:18:30
Hold on to that.
2:18:31
SPEAKER_01: We're not going to exactly leave from you yet Logan,
2:18:34
what are you doing as Robin's on the balcony and Jacob's in the
2:18:40
other room.
2:18:41
SPEAKER_01: What are you in here doing with Chris?
2:18:45
SPEAKER_03: I Think she's just she's like
2:18:49
quietly flirting you know they're like oh there's someone in
2:18:52
the other room so
2:18:53
there's like we have to we have to whisper and be very close to
2:18:56
each other as we
2:18:58
talk and kind of like sitting on a bed I think it was kind of
2:19:03
where Logan went she
2:19:04
just immediately went and flopped down onto this bed and saw
2:19:08
where tried to see
2:19:09
SPEAKER_03: where Chris landed after that
2:19:13
the flirting's good she's got drugs in her system she's got
2:19:17
alcohol and her
2:19:18
boyfriend's a fucking asshole she's all into it Robin you can
2:19:23
hear them with
2:19:24
heightened senses flirting whispering sweet nothings she's like
2:19:30
her top is off like
2:19:31
she's just in a bra at this point and she's like clearly like
2:19:35
on it like she's like
2:19:36
yep this is happening amazing then you know you do the regular
2:19:42
progression of like
2:19:43
SPEAKER_03: Oh,
2:19:43
SPEAKER_03: whispering something close to your ear,
2:19:45
SPEAKER_03: then a little kiss,
2:19:46
SPEAKER_03: then making out,
2:19:47
SPEAKER_03: et cetera,
2:19:47
SPEAKER_03: et cetera.
2:19:48
SPEAKER_03: Mhm.
2:19:51
uh Robin you hear the sloppy sexy sounds of two people
2:19:55
beginning to get it on in
2:19:57
the room that you're in but you're on the balcony maybe you
2:19:59
turn around and see it
2:20:00
but it's as you do you can smell blood like it's sharp now and
2:20:07
it's way more than
2:20:08
just like the droplets or maybe somebody breaking something
2:20:12
there's blood like
2:20:13
SPEAKER_01: blood blood and it's coming from that other fucking room she she
2:20:21
While Logan was going and she kind of like makes an exaggerated
2:20:26
gag motion she
2:20:29
immediately like stops in her tracks as she as she senses the
2:20:35
what was happening in
2:20:37
the other room and immediately immediately she look can she can
2:20:43
I look out and see
2:20:44
SPEAKER_02: like if there's anyone watching like from the outside
2:20:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no rule necessary.
2:20:51
SPEAKER_01: Nobody's looking outside.
2:20:52
SPEAKER_01: Like, you're on the balcony.
2:20:53
SPEAKER_01: You can even go to the front.
2:20:55
SPEAKER_01: There's nobody out there.
2:20:56
SPEAKER_01: There's, like, nothing going on.
2:20:57
SPEAKER_01: It's pretty good.
2:20:58
SPEAKER_01: Other than, like, the trucks, it's nothing.
2:21:01
Then she'll try to get to essentially just hop over to the
2:21:06
other balcony to go in.
2:21:11
SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
2:21:13
it's all on the same floor it's not like something you have to
2:21:16
like do a bunch of
2:21:17
like maneuvering you can literally just you know climb over the
2:21:19
balcony and climb
2:21:20
under the other one you slide the glass door open maybe and the
2:21:26
four in there are
2:21:26
like kind of like or three of them in there they're just kind
2:21:29
of like laughing and
2:21:30
drinking and they see you like why didn't you use the front
2:21:34
door what the hell one
2:21:39
SPEAKER_00: second I'm just looking at some things on my sheet mm-hmm
2:22:00
SPEAKER_00: I'd like.
2:22:03
SPEAKER_02: So how many people are there?
2:22:05
SPEAKER_01: So there's three people kind of like, again, it's a motel.
2:22:08
SPEAKER_01: So it's just like a bedroom TV.
2:22:11
SPEAKER_01: There's like, you know, a little hanger area.
2:22:13
There's no closet and then the bathroom and then like the
2:22:16
balcony back door.
2:22:17
SPEAKER_01: That's it.
2:22:19
SPEAKER_01: And there's three people sitting on the bed drinking and doing drugs.
2:22:23
Can I ask how hard it would be to use the dominate skill,
2:22:28
compel,
2:22:29
to get them to leave?
2:22:32
SPEAKER_01: On each of them?
2:22:35
SPEAKER_01: I mean, not easy, I guess the answer is, to do it back to back to back.
2:22:40
SPEAKER_01: You can just do it, but they're gonna be like, the fuck?
2:22:44
SPEAKER_01: They're gonna have questions.
2:22:46
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
2:22:47
and it's gonna take time though too like each person it's gonna
2:22:51
take time and you
2:22:52
can smell the blood in the bathroom like you know that's where
2:22:56
it's coming from I'd
2:23:00
like to try and roll to convince them that like the two to like
2:23:06
just leave the room
2:23:08
SPEAKER_02: because they're getting like really into it
2:23:13
and like try to convince them that like you don't want to be
2:23:16
here while they're
2:23:16
like yeah not just anything like special just like like trying
2:23:25
to convince them
2:23:26
yeah let's do it Lisa's like looking at you like you didn't use
2:23:33
a friend or you're
2:23:35
just trying to like tell him like look Jacob's doing his thing
2:23:38
you don't want to be
2:23:38
SPEAKER_02: here yeah
2:23:41
um there's they grumble they're like what the fuck it's a party
2:23:45
like we literally
2:23:46
just paid for the room like what the fuck we can go on the
2:23:49
other one but they're uh
2:23:52
Marcus like you don't bro like come on give me give me charisma
2:23:59
and persuasion um
2:24:03
no difficulty just don't fail that's what I'll say yeah
2:24:08
persuasion persuasion
2:24:30
okay one success one success you they're like you know whatever
2:24:41
let's just go in
2:24:42
the other room like they kind of look at you like party pooper
2:24:46
and as you're kind
2:24:48
of like ushering them out Jacob you can hear him although might
2:24:56
be somewhere in the
2:24:56
SPEAKER_01: back of the mind
2:24:58
SPEAKER_01: You can hear Robin like getting them out of the room.
2:25:02
SPEAKER_00: But at the moment, none of that matters.
2:25:09
SPEAKER_00: You're warm.
2:25:11
SPEAKER_01: For the first time in how long?
2:25:14
SPEAKER_01: Talk to me.
2:25:14
SPEAKER_01: Tell me, how does this feel?
2:25:16
SPEAKER_01: How long has it been since you felt warm, since you felt satiated?
2:25:23
SPEAKER_00: Talk to me.
2:25:27
Jacob has been kindred for 18 years now so the last time he's
2:25:33
had this feeling was
2:25:38
15 years ago when only 3 years into his own life where some
2:25:46
accidental mistake
2:25:47
happened at a party where he overindulged a bit too much
2:25:53
without realising
2:26:02
so to go back to feeling like this it's kind of a weird sense
2:26:12
of deja vu being at a
2:26:14
party and accidentally overindulging because the beast was able
2:26:20
to convince me yeah
2:26:25
SPEAKER_00: does it feel good?
2:26:28
SPEAKER_03: of course it does it's a vitae I'm
2:26:31
SPEAKER_03: Now I'm no longer able to hear the beast.
2:26:35
SPEAKER_03: It is not pestering me to feed.
2:26:38
SPEAKER_01: It's true.
2:26:39
SPEAKER_01: It's quiet.
2:26:42
SPEAKER_01: Mind is quiet.
2:26:43
SPEAKER_01: The beast is silent.
2:26:45
SPEAKER_01: Satisfied.
2:26:47
SPEAKER_01: That warm vitae in your system you feel.
2:26:51
SPEAKER_01: Could anything be more alive?
2:26:53
SPEAKER_01: You had that show brimming with adrenaline.
2:26:57
SPEAKER_01: Fucking focused.
2:26:58
SPEAKER_01: And now to be
2:27:02
SPEAKER_00: full to be satiated.
2:27:06
SPEAKER_00: Is it a good night?
2:27:08
SPEAKER_00: Is it a good night?
2:27:10
SPEAKER_00: It's a good fucking night.
2:27:12
SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
2:27:17
SPEAKER_00: Robin, as you get them out, do you just open the door?
2:27:24
SPEAKER_02: I'd like to try and like
2:27:27
like while he's like focusing and like taking in the moment
2:27:30
like I want to like try
2:27:32
and like covertly try to get at him to stake him you want to
2:27:39
stake Jacob just to
2:27:42
paralyze him while to get him the fuck off she doesn't she
2:27:48
still doesn't quite know
2:27:49
SPEAKER_02: if the guy is dead dead you open the door and
2:27:56
SPEAKER_01: Jacob, you've finished.
2:27:59
SPEAKER_01: It's done.
2:28:00
SPEAKER_01: He's dead.
2:28:01
SPEAKER_01: What's the look on your face as the door opens?
2:28:04
SPEAKER_01: Are you blissful?
2:28:06
SPEAKER_01: What does she see as the door opens?
2:28:12
There's that look of relief initially on his face,
2:28:19
but as the door opens,
2:28:22
you would see him
2:28:26
trying to cover the place of standing in front of it with a
2:28:35
look of fierce trying
2:28:39
SPEAKER_00: to be hidden under a enjoyed look.
2:28:51
SPEAKER_00: Robin, as you open the door, that's what you see.
2:28:54
SPEAKER_01: There's no need for a roll here.
2:28:57
SPEAKER_01: You've got your stake in your hand.
2:28:59
SPEAKER_01: You may be traced up, ready to plunge it into Jacob.
2:29:02
Jacob is kind of like blocking the view of the body,
2:29:06
but if you take a look,
2:29:09
he's gone.
2:29:11
SPEAKER_01: There ain't nothing left.
2:29:12
SPEAKER_01: That's an exsanguinated body if you've ever seen one.
2:29:19
SPEAKER_01: What's Robin's thought right now?
2:29:21
SPEAKER_01: Like, what's the first thoughts in her mind?
2:29:24
the face that Jacob sees is one of a mix of how do I say just
2:29:35
pure what the fuck
2:29:38
SPEAKER_02: did you do like eh and the stake raised to in anticipation to stake him
2:29:52
but that's immediately paused noticing that he is dead and she
2:30:00
doesn't drop the
2:30:01
snake but she dashes for the body and she's like what the fuck
2:30:06
did you do I didn't
2:30:10
SPEAKER_02: mean to the beast and she like just checks the body just examining it
2:30:23
SPEAKER_00: Give me intelligence in medicine.
2:30:32
SPEAKER_00: Three successes.
2:30:48
SPEAKER_00: Three successes.
2:30:50
SPEAKER_01: You take a look.
2:30:52
i mean you knew it you saw when you saw he's dead but it
2:30:56
there's there's no way to
2:30:58
cover this up kind of thing like there's no accident there's
2:31:04
maybe little droplets
2:31:05
of blood on the floor you can't even pretend like oh man maybe
2:31:07
he slipped and he
2:31:08
SPEAKER_01: fell he there's he has been exsanguinated
2:31:21
SPEAKER_02: She's kind of like speechless for a moment.
2:31:25
SPEAKER_00: I have a question for you.
2:31:30
SPEAKER_00: Robin, have you ever taken it all?
2:31:38
SPEAKER_00: Can you say that again?
2:31:39
SPEAKER_01: Have you ever taken it all since you've become kindred?
2:31:42
SPEAKER_01: Have you satisfied the beast in its entirety?
2:31:45
SPEAKER_01: Felt warm since your embrace?
2:31:50
SPEAKER_02: It happened
2:31:51
once once so I have to ask good is is there any any jealousy
2:32:02
you know what what
2:32:04
Jacob feels the there's no there's silence in his mind you
2:32:08
remember that the
2:32:10
feeling of being full satiated satisfied warm does any twinges
2:32:16
of jealousy come up
2:32:19
SPEAKER_01: for Robin
2:32:21
it's there it's there in like the pit of her stomach but it's
2:32:26
mostly dominated by
2:32:27
her most like the instinct that fills her most which is her
2:32:35
instinct to survive and
2:32:38
now that has been near completely destroyed as we have a body
2:32:43
on our hands
2:32:45
SPEAKER_01: I like it.
2:32:46
SPEAKER_01: I would like a composure and resolve role from you and Jacob.
2:32:52
I want a I want a wit and insight role with the difficulty of
2:32:58
whatever Robin rolls here.
2:33:06
SPEAKER_00: Results of it.
2:33:14
SPEAKER_00: Is that three successes for that role?
2:33:19
SPEAKER_00: One success.
2:33:20
SPEAKER_00: One success.
2:33:25
SPEAKER_00: Two successes.
2:33:29
SPEAKER_01: Robin, that feeling of jealousy maybe rises to the front a little bit.
2:33:38
it's it's hard to keep off your face right maybe it passes in a
2:33:43
moment of like fuck
2:33:45
you like maybe the look on your face like fuck I wish I could
2:33:47
have and whatever it
2:33:50
is Jacob you notice it you can see that like that moment of
2:33:56
longing maybe in in
2:33:58
SPEAKER_01: Robin's face we're gonna come back to the two of you Logan
2:34:08
You've no idea what's going on over there You are otherwise
2:34:13
engaged I'm busy here
2:34:16
SPEAKER_01: You are busy,
2:34:17
SPEAKER_01: busy,
2:34:18
SPEAKER_01: busy I have my hands full Definitely,
2:34:22
SPEAKER_01: definitely that She's a wildcat Wildcat in the sack She is something else
2:34:34
Why don't you give me...
2:34:36
Oh,
2:34:37
you've got Blush of Life on,
2:34:38
so give me Charisma and...
2:34:44
SPEAKER_01: I don't know, maybe Charisma and Subterfuge to, like, really enjoy this.
2:34:51
SPEAKER_01: Or if you've got an argument for a better role, let me know.
2:34:54
SPEAKER_03: No,
2:34:54
SPEAKER_03: I was gonna say I'm at Humanity 6,
2:34:56
which means that I can fake it by winning a Dexterity plus
2:35:00
Charisma versus...
2:35:02
SPEAKER_03: either composure or wits from the other person.
2:35:07
SPEAKER_01: Give me Dex and Charisma.
2:35:09
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
2:35:30
SPEAKER_03: Two successes.
2:35:31
SPEAKER_01: True successes to success is enough success Do you enjoy it?
2:35:38
SPEAKER_01: What's the question?
2:35:39
SPEAKER_01: She's good, right?
2:35:40
SPEAKER_01: She's enjoying herself.
2:35:41
She knows where to do shows where to put her hands She kisses
2:35:44
all the right spots.
2:35:46
SPEAKER_01: Are you enjoying yourself?
2:35:48
SPEAKER_03: I Think it's sort of like
2:35:52
SPEAKER_03: extended foreplay.
2:35:53
SPEAKER_03: I don't get it.
2:35:55
SPEAKER_03: As a kindred,
2:35:56
SPEAKER_03: I don't get all the pleasant,
2:35:58
SPEAKER_03: lovely feelings that might come along with it,
2:36:02
SPEAKER_03: but the mood is right.
2:36:05
SPEAKER_03: The motion and momentum of it is what's doing everything.
2:36:09
SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
2:36:11
SPEAKER_01: You're still riding that high from banging on the drums.
2:36:15
SPEAKER_01: You've not let that go.
2:36:17
SPEAKER_03: My fingers are still vibrating a little bit
2:36:22
she's she is all over the place with it and once you guys are
2:36:27
like in it like
2:36:29
halfway through she's like fuck I needed this she's like oh
2:36:35
shit and jumps like
2:36:36
right back into it with you is there anything you want to do
2:36:41
other than engage in
2:36:44
physical activities with Chris um there's nothing else on her
2:36:49
mind whatsoever
2:36:50
SPEAKER_03: unless
2:36:52
Unless Princess can notice the commotion in the other room and
2:36:56
perks up Um Give me
2:37:04
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two successes right when she's like fuck I need this and she's
2:37:28
like ready to jump
2:37:29
back in Princess whines and like kind of like ears perk up she
2:37:36
stands up and she
2:37:37
starts to like pace back and forth like from the front door to
2:37:41
the back door like
2:37:43
smelling the ground obviously she smells something you don't
2:37:46
know what but like
2:37:47
something's got her attention as soon as Princess is very well
2:37:51
trained and very
2:37:52
SPEAKER_03: well behaved
2:37:53
um and so as soon as she's like oh I've drawn attention to
2:37:57
myself Logan pushes
2:38:00
SPEAKER_03: Chris off of her like just off and up uh putting pants on um you know no
2:38:09
explanation whatsoever just looking at Princess while Princess
2:38:13
waits at the door
2:38:14
for her yeah you lift her up push her up and off you and she's
2:38:20
like what the fuck I
2:38:21
SPEAKER_01: what the fuck
2:38:22
and she like covers herself up kind of like the indignation
2:38:25
like what the hell um
2:38:28
sorry sorry princess is gonna you know you're in an apocalypse
2:38:35
um I'll take care of
2:38:36
this I'll be back so quickly I promise and then just like a
2:38:39
little a little kiss
2:38:40
just a little kiss on the forehead she's she still looks a
2:38:44
little like miffed she's
2:38:46
SPEAKER_01: like really in this moment but like she's just like she's like oh
2:38:51
whatever and like she pulls out her phone as you open the door
2:38:56
and Princess like
2:38:58
goes out and it immediately starts moving towards 101 in the
2:39:03
meantime as you're
2:39:04
like as this is all happening Jacob and Robin Jacob you saw
2:39:10
Robin's face that
2:39:11
moment of longing or jealousy it's your two scenes take it away
2:39:17
look if I wanted
2:39:19
SPEAKER_00: this to happen
2:39:22
SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't be panicked.
2:39:26
SPEAKER_00: I did not mean for any of this to happen.
2:39:29
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well it did.
2:39:31
SPEAKER_02: How do you expect we're gonna cover this up?
2:39:38
SPEAKER_02: People know that we've been here with them.
2:39:42
SPEAKER_02: Fuck!
2:39:44
She still has,
2:39:46
even though she doesn't entirely plan on it,
2:39:50
the steak is still ready.
2:39:54
if she doesn't know whether or not they're gonna they're still
2:39:57
gonna do it again
2:39:59
Jacob would kind of lean up against the wall and kind of sit
2:40:10
down I know I fucked
2:40:15
SPEAKER_00: her up I'm trying to think on how to deal with this myself
2:40:28
she's kind of like trying to grasp her for a word because as
2:40:36
much as she's like
2:40:37
piss the fuck off at him she's like she did does know what it's
2:40:44
like when that
2:40:45
SPEAKER_02: happens and the whole hatred can't fully manifest
2:40:55
yeah it's as you're like grasping for a word the bathroom door
2:41:02
flies open again and
2:41:04
it's Logan and Princess Dartmouth in the door and Logan no role
2:41:11
necessary there's
2:41:12
an exsanguinated body on the fucking floor Jacob is like like
2:41:18
back against the wall
2:41:19
SPEAKER_01: like like maybe facing his hands on the floor like fuck and
2:41:24
panicked looking Robin like hand on the body like looking at it
2:41:28
like equally like
2:41:29
fuck I don't think Logan looks at the body I think she moves
2:41:35
directly to Jacob sort
2:41:37
of take leans down and takes his face in her hands and she's
2:41:41
like looking at moving
2:41:42
SPEAKER_03: around looking at him like are you okay baby?
2:41:50
SPEAKER_00: Trust
2:41:54
stressed okay okay um then she'll she'll stand back up and take
2:41:59
like a step back um
2:42:02
and then I think princess is just gonna come and be very
2:42:05
affectionate with with
2:42:07
SPEAKER_03: Jacob um
2:42:11
SPEAKER_03: as she's gonna lock eye contact with Robin.
2:42:15
SPEAKER_03: Um, oh.
2:42:16
SPEAKER_03: Uh, what's going on?
2:42:19
SPEAKER_03: Sorry.
2:42:20
SPEAKER_03: I can't just watch in there.
2:42:21
SPEAKER_02: What do you think is going on?
2:42:22
SPEAKER_02: You have a fucking dead body!
2:42:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh, shit.
2:42:28
SPEAKER_02: Her leg is, like, bouncing up and down rapidly.
2:42:31
SPEAKER_02: She's... She just doesn't... She just, like,
2:42:40
SPEAKER_02: the spatters for a minute.
2:42:42
SPEAKER_02: The clerk at the front knows our fucking eyes, knows what we look like.
2:42:46
SPEAKER_02: They know what our fake IDs look like.
2:42:50
SPEAKER_02: What the fuck do we do?
2:42:52
SPEAKER_03: Um, Sloan showed me a trick with the rats.
2:42:58
SPEAKER_03: I don't know if it's... Look at the body.
2:43:02
SPEAKER_03: I don't know if it's gonna... What the fuck are you talking about?
2:43:07
SPEAKER_03: You know, you tell the rats to eat it.
2:43:12
SPEAKER_00: The rats.
2:43:19
SPEAKER_00: The rats.
2:43:20
SPEAKER_00: You call them all up and you tell the rats to eat it.
2:43:23
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
2:43:26
SPEAKER_00: We need to move them though.
2:43:27
SPEAKER_00: Tell me this.
2:43:32
SPEAKER_00: What fucking rats?
2:43:34
you know in the city or town or whatever you just you call them
2:43:38
up and then they
2:43:39
come out running and then you tell them to get to work well you
2:43:43
ask them to get to
2:43:43
work politely oh my fucking god I can't believe I did this I
2:43:54
don't understand like
2:43:57
SPEAKER_00: why you're so shocked about the rats right
2:44:05
she's just she's so overwhelmed in the moment and she just like
2:44:11
screams into her
2:44:13
hands to not alert anyone but she's like oh I'm so good deep
2:44:22
breath deep breath
2:44:25
deep breath I had such a good night and now we're here and okay
2:44:30
okay okay okay
2:44:41
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
2:44:45
SPEAKER_00: So, the rats.
2:44:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:44:51
SPEAKER_02: Prove it.
2:44:52
Prove you can just get a bunch of random rats to get here and
2:44:57
eat this fucking body.
2:44:59
Um,
2:44:59
well,
2:45:00
I'm,
2:45:00
like,
2:45:02
I don't think we should do it here,
2:45:05
because it's a bit weird for,
2:45:07
like,
2:45:10
you know if it works it's a bit weird for 200 rats to come into
2:45:13
a random motel room
2:45:16
it's also weird for there to be a dead body in a motel room so
2:45:19
listen it's still
2:45:25
SPEAKER_00: the dead of night nobody oh god the other party goers
2:45:34
Logan as you like went into like you you left your room or 102
2:45:39
and went into 101 um
2:45:43
Marcus Lisa and Mark were passing by a little miffed about
2:45:48
something but they like
2:45:50
SPEAKER_01: as you were
2:45:51
going into 101 they were like walking past you and going into
2:45:54
102 so it might be
2:45:56
easy to assume that the four of them are probably in there
2:45:58
doing something and
2:46:00
goddamn Chris is definitely telling them that you ran off
2:46:03
somewhere that's probably
2:46:04
a given considering the situation okay um so you want me you
2:46:10
want me to try to do
2:46:11
SPEAKER_00: that like right here right now are we gonna move the body
2:46:20
she's a bit quiet for a moment and then just leaves the
2:46:24
bathroom and goes to the
2:46:26
balcony and like question are we like in the front what way is
2:46:32
our hotel room
2:46:33
looking is it like behind the building in front so the motel is
2:46:41
like the front of
2:46:41
the building aims towards the street your balcony aims towards
2:46:44
what's essentially
2:46:46
SPEAKER_01: like
2:46:46
so there's the main road and then like running adjacent to the
2:46:50
main road is a
2:46:51
railroad track so the balcony like you're on the first floor
2:46:55
that back like sliding
2:46:56
glass opens up to like woods and like a train track that's
2:47:00
clearly been disused
2:47:02
over the last 30 50 years something like that so you're kind of
2:47:07
looking at train
2:47:08
SPEAKER_01: tracks and woods in the back the parking lots in the front okay
2:47:14
would there be like a dumpster like in that area can she try
2:47:18
and look to see if
2:47:19
there's one the dumpster is in the front where like so like
2:47:26
because the parking
2:47:27
lot's in the front the dump's in the front back there like what
2:47:29
you look at it's
2:47:30
SPEAKER_01: just like
2:47:32
It's literally just woods and the and the railroad that that's
2:47:36
all that's back there.
2:47:37
SPEAKER_01: And then,
2:47:38
SPEAKER_01: like,
2:47:38
SPEAKER_01: if you go past the woods,
2:47:39
SPEAKER_01: you guys kind of saw it as you came or like the salt flats out there.
2:47:43
SPEAKER_01: So it's just open salt flats.
2:47:46
SPEAKER_01: But in front of that is trees and then the railroad and then the motel.
2:47:53
everything is in the front because nobody wants to like the
2:47:56
railroad has taken up
2:47:58
so much of like the infrastructure that it's just not worth
2:48:01
undoing to put things
2:48:02
SPEAKER_01: back there.
2:48:04
SPEAKER_03: Right.
2:48:06
um I think Logan will like keep explaining the rats a little
2:48:09
bit because like just
2:48:11
the moment of silence dragged on where she's like I need to
2:48:14
justify this yeah no
2:48:16
Sloan taught me that um you make it look like they passed out
2:48:20
from an overdose and
2:48:22
then rats get them okay I don't know who the fuck this Sloan
2:48:29
person is whatever
2:48:31
SPEAKER_02: whatever whatever whatever
2:48:33
there's some woods back there if we can manage to get it out
2:48:38
and your rat trick she
2:48:41
just like puts up like finger quotes works how work hopefully I
2:48:48
don't know I don't
2:48:48
know she's like she's used she's she's she's hide a body before
2:48:55
she's done that
2:48:57
SPEAKER_02: But whenever she's done these kind of things,
2:48:59
SPEAKER_02: she's always been responsible for her own actions.
2:49:03
SPEAKER_00: And now she has to deal with other people.
2:49:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:49:17
Logan's gonna seriously think about asking Jacob for a hit But
2:49:22
then like looking at
2:49:23
SPEAKER_03: Jacob Jacob's been through enough.
2:49:25
SPEAKER_03: Okay,
2:49:25
so we gotta move the body first and Logan's just gonna pick up
2:49:30
this body Jacob you
2:49:33
SPEAKER_01: have been very very quiet Talk to us He's trying to process everything
2:49:47
Reminiscing partially into the past Back to that night Where he
2:49:51
did the exact same
2:49:53
thing As much as he hates Sloane Sloane was also there to help
2:50:00
cover up And hearing
2:50:05
SPEAKER_00: Logan continuously go on about her Kind of just makes him
2:50:16
SPEAKER_00: so further into his own thoughts.
2:50:25
SPEAKER_01: As you're,
2:50:26
SPEAKER_01: you know,
2:50:26
SPEAKER_01: introspective and going through these moments,
2:50:29
SPEAKER_01: thinking about history and Sloan,
2:50:32
SPEAKER_01: you watch as Logan kind of helps this body up.
2:50:37
SPEAKER_01: It seems like their plan is to drag it into the woods and
2:50:45
SPEAKER_01: Logan's gonna call the rats.
2:50:46
SPEAKER_00: It's an old Sloan trick.
2:50:52
SPEAKER_00: And that's the last part about it.
2:50:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
2:51:00
SPEAKER_01: Do you watch?
2:51:01
SPEAKER_01: Do you help?
2:51:02
SPEAKER_01: Do either you or Robin help?
2:51:04
SPEAKER_01: Or do you let Logan do this on her own?
2:51:07
SPEAKER_01: On her own?
2:51:08
SPEAKER_02: Robin is begrudgingly helping because she...
2:51:13
She just wants to make sure Part of her is very curious to hear
2:51:18
about what the fuck
2:51:19
the rats are about And partially because she just wants this
2:51:25
over with And makes
2:51:26
sure that this is done correctly I'll try to keep our guests
2:51:37
occupied in that room
2:51:44
uh Robin how do you feel about Jacob going to entertain the
2:51:55
other guests knowing
2:51:56
that one of them just died to that this entertainment as much
2:52:06
as she really wants
2:52:08
SPEAKER_02: to dig into him and like stop it right there
2:52:12
She knows because he drained it full that he's not probably not
2:52:17
going to be hungry
2:52:18
now or for a bit so she wouldn't oh she's just like it's
2:52:28
probably safe but she's
2:52:29
like she as he lays she like does the motion with like pointing
2:52:34
your eyes at him
2:52:35
SPEAKER_02: like I'm watching you
2:52:44
yeah Jacob you go and into 102 to entertain the three of them
2:52:53
are sitting on the
2:52:53
SPEAKER_01: bed with a very very covered up
2:53:00
Chris just like the bed sheet is just covered down she doesn't
2:53:03
seem to be like
2:53:04
modest about it but she's like not trying to just breast all
2:53:09
out as you come in
2:53:11
there to try to talk to them they look up at you like what the
2:53:15
fuck bro like what
2:53:17
SPEAKER_00: happened to what happened to Chad Wade freaked out he's
2:53:29
SPEAKER_00: He's okay now.
2:53:31
SPEAKER_00: I suggested that he goes home and rest.
2:53:35
SPEAKER_00: A bit too much for him.
2:53:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's like that.
2:53:55
SPEAKER_01: He's definitely like that.
2:53:58
uh whatever whatever let's let's fucking ugh and Chris is like
2:54:04
it's getting late
2:54:05
anyway guys we should whatever it's is he gonna stay is he
2:54:11
leaving is he staying
2:54:12
with you and they like kind of look up at you he said about
2:54:19
going back to his place
2:54:23
SPEAKER_00: I guess his truck's gone then whatever you guys can ride with me
2:54:33
that's what uh that's what Marcus says because he came in the
2:54:36
other corner and
2:54:42
you're there with them as like Chris starts to get dressed they
2:54:49
like she does she's
2:54:50
you know not like she's not again she's not shy she's not
2:54:54
modest but she like turns
2:54:55
her back she throws her clothes back on and is like all right
2:54:59
whatever uh that was
2:55:01
SPEAKER_01: fun but yeah
2:55:03
tell Logan I said maybe another time and she's like whatever
2:55:09
like it's not worth
2:55:09
her getting all upset about but as they kind of step out they
2:55:12
light a cigarette and
2:55:14
they see his king rancher there and they look at you like I
2:55:19
thought he left he must
2:55:25
SPEAKER_00: have called him I suggested Uber Uber here?
2:55:36
the similarity is they kind of wave it off they're all fucked
2:55:42
up they're like
2:55:43
doesn't doesn't Miss Neil drive Uber maybe she was awake who
2:55:48
cares I'm sure he'll
2:55:49
be fine he might have stumbled home who gives a fuck and
2:55:53
they're just like he'll be
2:55:54
fine like this is a small town nothing bad happens here and
2:55:59
they all kind of pile
2:56:00
SPEAKER_01: into Marcus's car and they drive off
2:56:05
while that's happening Robin and Logan you drag this he's got
2:56:12
to be like six to 250
2:56:15
he looks like a linebacker you drag him into the woods what
2:56:20
happens I'm up against
2:56:26
SPEAKER_00: a tree I'm gonna step back and
2:56:31
um she's gonna just sort of like crack her neck and go oh fuck
2:56:36
I really hope I
2:56:36
don't she's she's gonna have this very like this look of
2:56:42
consternation on her face
2:56:44
um which I think that Robin immediately realizes oh shit this
2:56:50
girl's still hungry
2:56:51
SPEAKER_03: yeah so
2:56:59
She's gonna then use feral whispers to try summon all the rats
2:57:05
in the area Give me
2:57:10
SPEAKER_03: manipulation and animalism Amazing Okay Can I blood surge on that?
2:57:24
SPEAKER_03: Sure Such a bad idea from Gunnar
2:57:29
um wait I'm gonna roll to see if I roll my rouse check for the
2:57:36
ability first and if
2:57:37
that doesn't work then it's bad yeah no that's not happening
2:57:43
she's at hunger five
2:57:44
SPEAKER_01: now mm-hmm that's hunger five Robin for the second time tonight
2:57:53
you can see one of your two new companions like the humanity
2:57:57
start to slip away as
2:58:00
that recognizable hunger leashes into Logan's face but Logan
2:58:06
you're still in
2:58:07
control kind of I want to bring up something I used my intenses
2:58:16
earlier and I think
2:58:19
SPEAKER_00: about now
2:58:25
um Logan's gonna start seeing something a bit of blood start to
2:58:32
drip from her
2:58:32
forehead as the towel inside of her hat has soaked up too much
2:58:39
blood and it begins
2:58:41
SPEAKER_00: to leak oh that's not good he he he
2:58:53
okay I got one success which is not enough successes it's not
2:59:00
enough successes as
2:59:03
you're um you're down and maybe like two rats show up and
2:59:10
they're like the fuck
2:59:15
SPEAKER_00: they're like hey what the fuck hey um
2:59:20
SPEAKER_03: You wouldn't be able to call some friends,
2:59:23
SPEAKER_03: and then they could bring all their friends around,
2:59:26
SPEAKER_03: and then y'all could eat this guy?
2:59:27
SPEAKER_03: Or eat this big ol' meal here?
2:59:30
SPEAKER_03: You know, pretty, pretty pleased.
2:59:34
SPEAKER_01: Do you mean manipulation and animal kin?
2:59:36
SPEAKER_01: As they're very skeptical.
2:59:37
SPEAKER_01: They're like, what the fuck are you?
2:59:57
three successes yeah let's re-roll faders five successes there
3:00:03
again what the fuck
3:00:04
what the fuck even are you and they they see the body and then
3:00:07
they see Robin and
3:00:09
they're like I mean yeah we could we could what's in it for us
3:00:15
um food for your
3:00:17
SPEAKER_03: families and your family's families and prosper question mark
3:00:25
SPEAKER_00: They kind of, they look at you, they look at the body.
3:00:29
SPEAKER_00: We could take him?
3:00:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, I've had him.
3:00:34
SPEAKER_03: You know, just eat him as quick as possible, I suppose.
3:00:40
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're going to bury some, like, food for later?
3:00:43
SPEAKER_00: I'm not fussed about that.
3:00:49
SPEAKER_01: There's like, again, there's like two or three of them.
3:00:51
SPEAKER_01: One of them is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's...
3:00:54
shit I haven't had a person I've never had a person fuck yeah
3:00:59
and like they're like
3:01:00
discussing with each other and like a ratatouille moment and
3:01:02
like we could bury
3:01:03
parts I hear they stink I hear they're good fuck it like the
3:01:07
pigs like them fuck it
3:01:08
fuck it yeah they're like alright we got this but fuck off
3:01:14
though you got it
3:01:18
And then I'm gonna look to I'm gonna look to Robin two thumbs
3:01:23
up Like a visible
3:01:25
shaking And see the blood She just like mouth agape Holy shit
3:01:35
you actually Got the
3:01:39
SPEAKER_00: rats Huh It's usually more impressive than that
3:01:51
um you yeah before you even see it is you can smell the most
3:02:01
delicious fucking
3:02:02
vitae that you've ever smelled ever oh my god compares to this
3:02:15
absolutely fucking
3:02:19
SPEAKER_00: nothing
3:02:22
you've fed from Jacob you've you've fed from from a variety of
3:02:27
things but nothing
3:02:30
is like this okay I don't even know if I should give you some
3:02:36
dice for this or if I
3:02:37
SPEAKER_01: should just shit happens I
3:02:42
SPEAKER_03: Could I have a role?
3:02:44
SPEAKER_03: And then also Princess is now hackles raised at Logan.
3:02:50
SPEAKER_03: This is one of the things Princess is trained for.
3:02:55
SPEAKER_01: Give me a give me Hunger Frenzy.
3:03:00
SPEAKER_01: Amazing.
3:03:04
SPEAKER_01: It's going to be a it's going to be a difficulty for
3:03:11
SPEAKER_03: What do I roll?
3:03:15
SPEAKER_01: Hunger Frenzy Let's take a look Manny do you know off the top?
3:03:19
SPEAKER_01: Sorry Rich A Hunger Frenzy?
3:03:25
Difficulty 3 I know that And then it's Unspent willpower Plus a
3:03:34
third of your
3:03:35
SPEAKER_01: humanity Yes But this is a difficulty 4 roll
3:03:40
SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
3:03:41
SPEAKER_03: I failed because I have only one unspent.
3:03:44
SPEAKER_03: Wait, I could crit.
3:03:49
SPEAKER_03: I could crit.
3:03:49
SPEAKER_03: I was going to say, crit surfing.
3:03:53
SPEAKER_01: Crit, crit, crit.
3:03:57
SPEAKER_01: Does this entire Chronicle end on the first session?
3:04:00
SPEAKER_01: Holy shit.
3:04:03
SPEAKER_03: Very funny.
3:04:04
SPEAKER_03: This is so fucked.
3:04:07
SPEAKER_03: This is so fucked.
3:04:14
Oh No Then I suppose it's going to be a contested role between
3:04:24
me and Princess as
3:04:25
Princess tries to pin me down Yeah She knows to stop you in
3:04:34
these kinds of
3:04:35
SPEAKER_01: situations Give me her Yes
3:04:42
SPEAKER_02: Can I assist princess?
3:04:48
Maybe You've not seen this before You don't actually know
3:04:52
what's happening So what
3:04:54
I'm going to say is I'm going to let them roll And then once
3:04:56
you realize what might
3:04:57
SPEAKER_01: be going on Then we'll get your roll in Indeed Logan,
3:05:04
SPEAKER_01: give me strength and brawl And then I will
3:05:13
roll no no yeah yeah I'll roll I'll roll for princess which is
3:05:18
just a brawl roll at
3:05:20
six yeah at six strength in brawl for me is seven four
3:05:32
successes also four
3:05:35
SPEAKER_01: successes you are this is not a kindred and you are the active kindred um
3:05:43
she goes to like jump on you and like attempt to pin you down
3:05:48
and you can't you
3:05:52
have to have it you don't mean to but like as she like jumps on
3:05:57
you and tries to
3:05:57
like sink her teeth in your arm to kind of drag you away you
3:06:02
just fling her and in
3:06:04
that moment Robin you know something bad is going down this is
3:06:10
not fucking good
3:06:13
SPEAKER_01: What do you want to do?
3:06:26
SPEAKER_00: You can fight, you can run, whatever you want to do.
3:06:36
SPEAKER_00: I...
3:06:36
SPEAKER_02: I'm going to start by running to the side to see if I get to like...
3:06:43
SPEAKER_02: Almost get in... Get to see if I can sense if...
3:06:57
SPEAKER_02: If Jacob is near enough to call out to him.
3:07:05
SPEAKER_01: Give me... Give me Dex and Athletics.
3:07:11
SPEAKER_01: Logan, give me...
3:07:14
gimme strengthen athletics as you're like flinging the dog off
3:07:20
but you're gonna
3:07:21
between like the hunger between princess like trying to drag
3:07:25
you away and you fling
3:07:26
her off um it's gonna be at a minus three okay how does this
3:07:36
happen this is session
3:07:37
SPEAKER_00: one people
3:07:52
would princess get a roll to resist being flung she's the
3:07:58
reason why you're at a
3:08:00
minus three so she's like you're trying to fling her off you
3:08:03
and like her teeth are
3:08:04
in your arm so it's not like she goes flying but you're like
3:08:07
trying to shake her
3:08:07
off like just fling her off as you like drag your way towards
3:08:11
Robin Robin you're
3:08:14
SPEAKER_01: trying to get away from this monster
3:08:16
SPEAKER_01: and there's nothing in there.
3:08:18
SPEAKER_01: There's nothing in Logan's face at all.
3:08:24
SPEAKER_01: Zero.
3:08:25
SPEAKER_01: As she like claws her way to you.
3:08:27
She's got one arm behind her dragging it and she like grabs you
3:08:31
by the throat and
3:08:35
SPEAKER_01: you know what's coming.
3:08:36
SPEAKER_01: There's no stopping this.
3:08:39
SPEAKER_01: However...
3:08:41
SPEAKER_03: I spend...
3:08:43
I was gonna say can I spend my last willpower to pause long
3:08:46
enough for her to stake
3:08:47
me you that is all the hunger dice will maybe we'll find out
3:08:53
okay Jacob as you you
3:08:58
know maybe you followed them out and like they were like you
3:09:01
were obviously out
3:09:01
SPEAKER_01: there with them when they took Marcus's car and it's been a few minutes
3:09:12
Is it fair to say that because you haven't heard from Logan and
3:09:17
Robin that maybe
3:09:18
SPEAKER_01: you go looking?
3:09:19
Yeah You come around and you're not going to be in time to stop
3:09:28
it However,
3:09:31
SPEAKER_01: you're going to be in time to maybe prevent Logan from absolutely fucking
3:09:36
SPEAKER_01: Diablarizing Robin
3:09:40
But as you kind of come around the side of the building towards
3:09:42
the woods,
3:09:43
SPEAKER_01: maybe looking for them,
3:09:45
SPEAKER_01: you can see as Logan's teeth,
3:09:48
SPEAKER_01: Princess dragging her arm away.
3:09:50
SPEAKER_01: She's got Robin by the throat, just sinks her teeth into her throat.
3:09:54
SPEAKER_01: You know Logan, and you know what Logan drinks.
3:09:59
SPEAKER_01: It's bad.
3:10:01
SPEAKER_01: Robin, you're going to take two points of aggravated damage.
3:10:07
SPEAKER_00: Alrighty.
3:10:10
Logan you're gonna start to slake your hunger so I just take
3:10:19
one off just for now
3:10:21
just take one off Jacob what do you want to do you know Logan
3:10:28
is very strong very
3:10:30
SPEAKER_00: very fucking strong talk to me what's the plan here
3:10:40
I think the best way is to try to separate them and kind of
3:10:47
substitute Robin
3:10:52
Robin's neck for Jacob's arm here just gonna try to peel them
3:10:58
apart yeah yeah um
3:11:05
SPEAKER_00: you have one actually one I love
3:11:12
I'd love to hear a better idea than one dice I just realised
3:11:18
this also affects
3:11:19
kindreds I would like to use chemistry on Logan to affect da da
3:11:35
da da that's going
3:11:39
SPEAKER_00: wrong
3:11:41
SPEAKER_00: I don't think we'll get them away here We'll go with like Scent...
3:11:54
Affects their sight and smell We're trying to cause like an
3:12:01
extra body In the line of sight but
3:12:10
SPEAKER_00: Um,
3:12:10
SPEAKER_00: with a str- Trying to be a stronger...
3:12:13
SPEAKER_01: ...scent of blood Okay I think Sima Street affects one sense So I mean,
3:12:21
SPEAKER_01: are you gonna try to fix their sense of smell?
3:12:24
SPEAKER_01: So like maybe other blood?
3:12:27
SPEAKER_01: Newer?
3:12:27
SPEAKER_01: Fresher?
3:12:27
Because she's already drinking So something to pull the
3:12:30
attention away Yeah,
3:12:33
just pull the attention away Yeah There's only one I thought
3:12:36
you could do multiple
3:12:37
SPEAKER_03: There might be a Feta Morgana thing
3:12:39
I think it is Oh you're crazy It's okay I'll just use Facebook
3:12:43
and Garner then Same
3:12:44
thing Same thing Give me manipulation and obfuscate Logan I'm
3:12:49
gonna need composure
3:12:51
and wits And I'm gonna need a minus I'm gonna need a minus one
3:12:57
die Because you are
3:12:59
otherwise distracted From the most delicious blood you've ever
3:13:03
had Ever Jacob
3:13:05
SPEAKER_00: doesn't compare
3:13:15
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, is that minus one to me there?
3:13:18
SPEAKER_01: No, that's the minus one to Logan.
3:13:20
SPEAKER_03: Okay, that's two die.
3:13:23
SPEAKER_03: And then I have a difficulty of three for this.
3:13:28
SPEAKER_03: I mean two successes.
3:13:30
SPEAKER_03: Two successes.
3:13:31
SPEAKER_00: I have a difficulty of three because I'm affecting two senses.
3:13:35
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
3:13:42
And I need to make a rush check I got four successes Four
3:13:51
successes It's enough
3:13:54
SPEAKER_01: It's enough Logan
3:13:58
whatever it is the smell of blood a new body the fresh it pulls
3:14:02
you away for just a
3:14:03
moment you like unlock your teeth from Robin let her go and
3:14:08
maybe like look to
3:14:09
where you thought it come from and it looks like a fresh course
3:14:13
but your teeth like
3:14:15
a princess's teeth are in your arms you can see Jacob looking
3:14:18
at you you can see
3:14:19
SPEAKER_01: Robin maybe horror struck at what's going what just fucking happened
3:14:25
SPEAKER_01: You are down to four and you've retained some sense of yourself again.
3:14:34
SPEAKER_00: It's your guys' scene.
3:14:37
SPEAKER_03: You stand up and stumble backwards.
3:14:42
SPEAKER_03: Hands up to her face like, no, no, no, no.
3:14:46
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
3:14:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
3:14:54
I mean she like fetal position you know the little fetal
3:14:58
position crouch as she
3:15:00
like she makes a lot of distance between her and and Robin up
3:15:08
until she like backs
3:15:10
up into a tree and then she she goes into a little fetal
3:15:13
position crouch You okay
3:15:19
SPEAKER_00: Robin?
3:15:25
SPEAKER_00: Dawn's like silent for a moment.
3:15:31
SPEAKER_00: Can you hold her down for a minute?
3:15:37
SPEAKER_00: I just need a little bit.
3:15:43
SPEAKER_00: We can get through this f***ing night.
3:15:52
SPEAKER_00: I can do with that, don't worry.
3:15:55
SPEAKER_00: and Jacob would start to walk towards Logan.
3:16:07
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, not again.
3:16:08
SPEAKER_00: Not again.
3:16:10
SPEAKER_00: Hey, Logan.
3:16:28
Unless you like touch her she's just gonna keep muttering Yeah
3:16:33
if you don't as
3:16:34
Logan doesn't initially respond Jacob would gently tap her on
3:16:44
the shoulder Big
3:16:48
SPEAKER_03: flinch open face looking at you fangs still out uh just shock fear um
3:16:57
SPEAKER_00: And Jacob,
3:16:57
SPEAKER_00: I might hurt you Just open your mouth I don't want to hurt you You won't,
3:17:13
SPEAKER_00: I promise And he would give a consoling smile Um
3:17:24
Yeah okay she's gonna close her eyes and open her mouth sort of
3:17:28
just a thing of
3:17:29
like keeping her hands away from things like just trying to
3:17:35
make it very much like
3:17:38
oh I'm not I'm gonna make sure that you have all the say here
3:17:45
like she's not even
3:17:46
SPEAKER_03: gonna fully close her jaw when she bites
3:17:52
SPEAKER_03: She will, but she won't, like, she won't grip, you know?
3:17:56
SPEAKER_03: If she can help it at hunger for... Yeah, so... Jacob is going to...
3:18:06
He's going to gently tilt Logan's head back so her mouth's more
3:18:12
facing up.
3:18:15
SPEAKER_00: And he's going to... kind of pierce his own skin.
3:18:21
SPEAKER_00: and just to let blood slowly drip into her mouth.
3:18:34
And with that,
3:18:36
she waits a few moments just to let a little blood,
3:18:40
just to satiate it a little.
3:18:43
SPEAKER_02: And while her, while Logan's eyes are closed, she goes in to stake her.
3:18:50
SPEAKER_01: Good.
3:18:51
Lord I would like to say Jacob is in front Jacob is in front
3:19:03
this is one of those
3:19:04
things where I ask where things like PvP come into question is
3:19:13
if it's for a
3:19:14
SPEAKER_01: narrative reason I like
3:19:17
normally people are okay with it but this is between not the
3:19:21
two characters but the
3:19:22
two players both you Whopper and you Lab Whopper are you okay
3:19:28
with this like
3:19:30
happening in a narrative sense absolutely cool with it but if
3:19:35
what's it Princess
3:19:37
notices that you're like coming with intent she's gonna growl
3:19:43
yes so as long as you
3:19:45
SPEAKER_01: guys are okay with it
3:19:46
here's what happens um Robin you're you're just gonna come up
3:19:57
and try to jab it
3:19:59
into Logan yeah she's not trying to hurt her per se but she
3:20:06
knows that it'll
3:20:07
paralyze her for a while and that's just she just needs them to
3:20:13
be still for a
3:20:14
SPEAKER_02: while so
3:20:16
she gets it ready kind of like rushes off a few splinters
3:20:22
because that probably
3:20:23
won't be comfortable to get out and then readies it she looks
3:20:28
down at Princess and
3:20:29
gives like a kind of sympathetic look like I'm sorry she'll be
3:20:35
fine I promise but I
3:20:38
SPEAKER_01: need to do this Princess is an extremely
3:20:46
well-trained dog and as you approach she's huge she like cats
3:20:53
up like she was kind
3:20:54
of like growling like laying down next to the two of them but
3:20:58
she stands up and she
3:21:00
clearly goes to interpose herself between Jacob whose back is
3:21:04
to you and Logan
3:21:05
who's against the tree and so now it's you princess Jacob and
3:21:11
Logan in a line and
3:21:13
SPEAKER_01: princess is growling at you
3:21:16
she doesn't attack you but obviously she has no intent to let
3:21:20
you do whatever she
3:21:21
doesn't know what you're doing but whatever it is she's not
3:21:24
happy about it Jacob
3:21:27
and Logan you can hear her growling but the two of you are
3:21:30
otherwise like engaged
3:21:34
Robin are you going to try to bypass this dog and stab Logan in
3:21:39
the chest Jill
3:21:44
SPEAKER_02: first
3:21:45
try to see if she can communicate that she doesn't she's that
3:21:52
this is like a for
3:21:55
the greater good kind of deal where she needs she's not trying
3:21:59
to kill her but this
3:22:01
needs to stop so you're gonna try to calm this dog down uh yeah
3:22:11
you don't have
3:22:11
SPEAKER_01: anything in Animal Ken oops
3:22:15
but I think that's the only thing that's really gonna work here
3:22:18
so why don't you
3:22:19
give me wits and animal kin even though you don't have much
3:22:23
there you can blood
3:22:24
surge if you like I'm gonna roll for her she's only got one
3:22:35
text or something like
3:22:36
SPEAKER_01: this so let's see I will roll it
3:22:43
SPEAKER_01: here because it's not my thing, it's your thing.
3:22:46
SPEAKER_00: That's success.
3:22:59
SPEAKER_00: It's fine, but it's messy.
3:23:08
SPEAKER_00: As you try to calm her down,
3:23:14
she's she doesn't step aside as much as she kind of like not
3:23:21
relaxes don't worry
3:23:22
she kind of settles her hackles aren't raised but she like
3:23:26
drops down like all the
3:23:28
way like a belly on the ground her paws in front of her and
3:23:31
like her head on her
3:23:32
paws and but she's still in between the two of you but she
3:23:36
doesn't go to stop you
3:23:39
SPEAKER_01: however with that messy
3:23:42
your intent is still to stake Logan and this is all this has
3:23:49
been some kind of
3:23:49
night you've been with them for a few days you've driven them
3:23:53
you've tried to do
3:23:53
SPEAKER_00: the right thing and it has not gone well I'm gonna need you to make me a
3:24:13
give me dex and melee as much as you're trying to not as this
3:24:20
might be for the
3:24:21
SPEAKER_01: greater good there's real rage here and I'm gonna put you under a I think
3:24:35
a compulsion I don't really know what to call it but like
3:24:38
you've got to do this for
3:24:40
greater good doesn't matter what the fuck it is you need to put
3:24:44
Logan down because
3:24:45
this is bullshit between the two of them this is fucked and
3:24:49
anything not related to
3:24:51
like staking one or both of them is going to take a minus two
3:24:55
penalty so gimme
3:24:57
SPEAKER_01: strength and or dex and melee dex and melee
3:25:08
successes Jacob your back is to this Logan you are being fed
3:25:20
from Jacob Jake the
3:25:26
two of you as this is about to happen Jacob you guys are
3:25:30
talking you're doing what
3:25:32
SPEAKER_01: you can you know that Logan didn't mean this did you
3:25:38
SPEAKER_01: Logan?
3:25:39
SPEAKER_01: Was this like a triumphant moment?
3:25:41
SPEAKER_01: Was this an accident?
3:25:43
If Logan could go back in time,
3:25:49
she would stake herself so it wouldn't have happened.
3:25:57
SPEAKER_03: This is very much something she's going to regret for a long while.
3:26:00
SPEAKER_01: Would Jacob know that?
3:26:10
SPEAKER_03: I think with Sloane Oh,
3:26:13
SPEAKER_03: I'm not going to speak to you,
3:26:14
sorry I think you definitely saw how she reacted after Sloane's
3:26:19
death and you can
3:26:20
SPEAKER_03: see that there's some sort of some sort of reliving happening here Yeah,
3:26:34
SPEAKER_00: I think Jacob would know Yeah
3:26:38
SPEAKER_01: and you're feeding her anyway, despite all this.
3:26:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
3:26:49
SPEAKER_01: I think that in this moment, it's... Give me that humanity role.
3:26:54
SPEAKER_01: That remorse role.
3:26:58
SPEAKER_00: I'll roll one of those.
3:27:06
I lose a humanity going down to humanity 7 yeah it's rough
3:27:17
maybe he didn't matter
3:27:19
but this does Logan you can see Robin coming Jacob's in between
3:27:27
you don't know who
3:27:27
she's going for do you I'll give you a choice here you can
3:27:33
attempt to like
3:27:38
get Jacob out of the way or like interpose you know what I mean
3:27:48
like you don't know
3:27:48
what's happening so either you're gonna take it for yourself or
3:27:51
attempt to like
3:27:53
save Jacob because you don't know where it's coming from does
3:27:55
that make sense
3:27:57
she's absolutely gonna like push Jacob behind her in like a
3:28:02
defensive posture but
3:28:03
she also realizes she's done like a lot of harm tonight so
3:28:06
she's still gonna like
3:28:07
have her hands out to the sides I think instinctually they go
3:28:11
into like a bit of a
3:28:12
claw posture even though she doesn't have claws but she's she's
3:28:16
got like she's
3:28:18
outspread trying to make herself look big in front of Jacob I'm
3:28:25
gonna need a
3:28:28
SPEAKER_01: Dex Athletics roll from you,
3:28:30
but with minus two dice from moving Jacob out of the way and
3:28:37
getting him behind you
3:28:38
SPEAKER_01: in that amount of time it takes for Robin to strike.
3:28:42
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
3:28:47
SPEAKER_00: Robin, how many success digits did you get?
3:28:51
SPEAKER_01: Five, and it's messy.
3:28:52
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
3:28:53
SPEAKER_01: It's a difficulty five roll.
3:28:55
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
3:28:58
SPEAKER_03: Would I have slaked any more hunger from Jacob?
3:29:02
Yes,
3:29:02
I'd say one more in the amount of time it took Robin to come
3:29:06
for you.
3:29:07
SPEAKER_03: Okay, fabulous.
3:29:12
SPEAKER_03: That's three.
3:29:15
SPEAKER_03: The important part is if she can make sure that Jacob is out of the way,
3:29:19
SPEAKER_03: out of the way,
3:29:19
SPEAKER_03: then she'll be satisfied with that.
3:29:26
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna let this go.
3:29:28
I think that as the stake plunges into your chest,
3:29:36
that is where we're gonna call the session.
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