Harlem Unbound - Harlem Hellfighters Never Die, Episode 6

September 20, 2023 • 02:43:26
Harlem Unbound - Harlem Hellfighters Never Die, Episode 6
One Shots and Other Mischief
Harlem Unbound - Harlem Hellfighters Never Die, Episode 6

Sep 20 2023 | 02:43:26

/

Show Notes

An all-Black cast of Harlemite investigators are on the case when a series of unexplained attacks rock their close knit community. Something is targeting the Harlem Hellfighters, veterans of the famous all-Black infantry regiment. When the war comes home, will these investigators be able to pull the community together in time to save their local heroes?

"Harlem Hellfighters Never Die" is sponsored by Chaosium Inc. and Darker Hue Studios, where Chris Spivey specializes in recontextualizing fraught genres to highlight the voices of marginalized communities. Take a new look at the Cthulhu Mythos with "Harlem Unbound", or explore the forgotten stories of the American frontier with "Haunted West."

Harlem Unbound: https://www.chaosium.com/harlem-unbound-2nd-edition-pdf/
Haunted West: http://www.darkerhuestudios.com/shop/5jzf1ll837tdgeyhcb1csp03d6qpsu

CONTENT WARNING: Blood/Gore, Corruption, Gaslighting, Occultism, Post-Traumatic Stress, Violence.

CAST:
Adelaide Warner - Laura Tutu (@laura_tutu)
Duane Bishop - Christian McKinzie (@afluffygoomba)
Johnny "JB" Williams - Robert Madison II (@maddrrob)
Ruby Sampson - Jas Brown (@cinderscoria)
The Keeper - Noir Enigma (@thenoirenigma)

Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/QueensCourtGames
Patreon: https://patreon.com/QueensCourtGames
Twitter: https://twitter.com/QueensCourtRPG
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/queenscourt.games
Facebook: https://facebook.com/QueensCourtGames
Instagram: https://instagram.com/QueensCourtGames

View Full Transcript

Episode Transcript

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello, friends, and welcome to another single serving tabletop adventure from Queen's court games. I am Laura Tutu, and tonight we are wrapping up with the finale of Harlem Hellfighters never die, a scenario from Chris Spivey's Harlem unbound for Call of Cthulhu, 7th edition. We will get the ball rolling shortly, but first, we do have a couple of housekeeping things. If you are interested in purchasing the scenario yourself, go right ahead and throw exclamation point scenario into the chat. Also, Harlem Hellfighters never die does contain certain themes that viewers find disturbing or distasteful, including violence, the occult, PTSD, corruption, and gaslighting. As a cast, we have discussed our lines and veils in advance via a session zero and have all agreed on a code of conduct to make sure that we are running a safe and respectful table. But we want everybody who's watching at home to be safe as well. And as we are about to reach the end of our tale, it would be remiss of me as the producer if I didn't tell you about our Patreon exclusive Q and A. If you shuffle on over to patreon.com queenscourtgames and subscribe, you'll gain access to an exclusive talk back with the cast once this finale airs. And now I would like to introduce our table. First up, tiny and full of rage. [00:01:15] Speaker B: It's jazz, the walking, talking personification of fuck around. [00:01:26] Speaker A: And find out. It's Robert Madison II. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Hi. Here to fight shit or break shit. [00:01:34] Speaker A: It's Christian. [00:01:35] Speaker B: Hey, that's me. [00:01:36] Speaker C: How you doing? Hi. [00:01:38] Speaker A: And it's still me, your shitposter in chief, the social media maven of the court. You can call me Laura or Tutu. And lastly, but definitely not leastly, we would not have the game that we have created without our dashing keeper, the one and only noir. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Hey, that's me. Links to everyone's assorted socials will be. [00:02:02] Speaker A: Found by sending exclamation point cast into the chat. So you all know who we are. Our lines and veils are set. Noir, would you like to help us finish out our story? [00:03:49] Speaker D: When we last left off, it was the final conflict of a good portion of the populace of Harlem went to the armory to stand side by side with the Harlem Hellfighters as their captain had levied a challenge. Levied a challenge to who we discovered was hunting the Harlem Hellfighters here. Give me just a second here. Which is one Hans Wachter? The battle right now is fierce. The cops have joined Hans Wachter in attacking the armory. And honestly, it's just turned into a bit of a gunfight. But in the midst of that, Adelaide has tapped into a little bit of the magic that she has been exposed to, calling for aid from all those who have been unjustly killed or forgotten in the streets of Harlem and in the city of New York proper. The spirits have come and aided, levying a bit of a shield, protecting the citizens of Harlem in the midst of this firefight. As best they can, however, they are slowly being overwhelmed. Ruby takes. Has taken the initiative to steal or to hop in a car from the armory. Sod's permission, but we'll discuss that later. And is heading towards the 32nd precinct to get the rest of the folks from Harlem to come back up the hellfighters. Ruby slams her foot onto the gas and begins to head towards the gate, but the shield of martyred souls in the way. Undeterred, she continues. And the shield opens. And Ruby finds herself only a block away from the precinct, being skipped ahead quite some distance. And in the passenger seat, her deceased mother giving her encouragement to keep pushing forward. And a bit of a message of being proud of her daughter. So that's where we're gonna pick up in the car. As almost as quickly as you felt her presence and saw her face illuminated by the light of her spirit and a bright smile. Seeing the quiet Ruby, who sometimes is forgotten when he's in a room, being a fierce fighter for this new place that she's called home. You look at her and you see the pride on her face. And then you look back to the road, and by the time you look back to the passenger seat, she's gone. What do you do? [00:07:34] Speaker B: Um, I'm going to help. [00:07:41] Speaker D: Compartment? [00:07:42] Speaker B: No car compartmentalize. [00:07:45] Speaker D: I got you mercury. [00:07:48] Speaker B: Uh, thank you. I want to put that away. Start from there, please. I'm going to put that away. [00:07:57] Speaker D: Gotcha. Gotcha. [00:07:59] Speaker B: Because I got other shit to think about. So, yeah, you said I'm about a block away from the precinct? [00:08:06] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [00:08:07] Speaker B: Okay. Well, my mind is going at, like, a gazillion miles per hour because I have to somehow get help for my friends. But I can't take everybody from the protest because then, you know, there's a chance that the cops might use the distraction to hurt our. To folks inside. So, um, I'm. I'm thinking about the options that I have as I'm. As I'm driving, as I'm driving there. My. My priority right now is to find mama Bishop. [00:08:40] Speaker D: Okay, so you're driving. Have you slowed down like, are you slowing down to go, like, talk to the protesters or. How's this going about? Okay. [00:08:54] Speaker B: Yes. However, I think that. Well, okay, cuz protest right there. Probably folks in the industry, so I should probably be careful. Yeah, I'll slow down, but I'm still moving with a sense of urgency, so. [00:09:12] Speaker D: All right. I'm gonna say, since you are driving with a sense of urgency, this is gonna be a hard spot. Hidden to drive and try to pick one person out of the crowd. [00:09:25] Speaker B: Are you sure she's not, like, standing on top of a car? [00:09:31] Speaker D: One sec. Okay. Yes, yes. Sorry. My camera fills for a second. [00:09:41] Speaker B: No, you're good. [00:09:44] Speaker D: Right? So, no, she may be in the crowd. She may be on top of a car. In order for you to find out, you're gonna have to roll me a hard spy hidden away. [00:09:55] Speaker B: Jose. Yeah, no, nope, it's okay. I can ask somebody when I get there, right? Everybody knows who she is. [00:10:07] Speaker D: Yep. Uh, yeah. So are you gonna park and stop? [00:10:15] Speaker B: Can I see the. I can see the protesters from now, from here, right? [00:10:18] Speaker D: Yep. Oh, I'm gonna say that you basically just pulled up to the protest. [00:10:24] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah, yeah, I. Well, actually, I'm reluctant to get out of the car, so I'm just gonna, like, kind of slowly drive. Not through the crowd, but just, like, the perimeter. Yeah, no, the perimeter. I'm gonna see if I can. If I can spot her from the car, I'll roll my window down, too. So if anybody can spot me, that would be great, too. [00:10:47] Speaker D: Okay, well, here, let me roll to see if someone spots you. Go ahead and tell me high or low. [00:10:55] Speaker B: Hi. Oh, is that a good thing or a bad thing? [00:11:01] Speaker D: That's low. So that means nobody. Everybody's pretty much focusing on honestly protesting. I am going to say, since you kind of, like, slowed down, you're getting a fix of the situation. You do see that there are a few. About four or five officers, batons out, just standing in front of the riot, just making sure no one gets too close. [00:11:31] Speaker B: Okay, well, yeah, I'll get out. I don't have a lot of time, so I'll get out. Um, or actually, I'm gonna. I'm gonna reach the nearest person. I'm gonna say, have you seen misses Bishop? Have you seen misses Bishop? [00:11:50] Speaker D: Uh, you. You see. Oh, you see the drummer, uh, from the band that was played? [00:11:58] Speaker B: Manny? [00:11:59] Speaker D: Uh, yeah, you see Manny, and he just goes, uh, no, no, I haven't seen. I ain't seen mama Bishop since earlier. They were setting up the food stand just over yonder. [00:12:17] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't think I could drive there, though. Wasn't that in the middle of. Or actually, it's. [00:12:24] Speaker D: It's more like to this side. Like, it's. It's tucked off under some trees. It's not too far away from the protest. You can kind of see over there, and there's just one old lady who's just kind of watching over the food. And if somebody comes over, he's still handing out plates. [00:12:43] Speaker B: Okay. Oh, Lord. Okay. Noir. [00:12:51] Speaker D: Higher. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Low. [00:12:52] Speaker D: Hi. [00:12:53] Speaker B: Hi. [00:12:54] Speaker D: All right. [00:13:00] Speaker B: Okay. I'm going to park and get out. [00:13:03] Speaker D: Okay. [00:13:05] Speaker B: And I am. You know, I don't. I'm very small, so I'm just going to slip in between the crowd, and I'm very frantic, but I don't want to catch the attention of the cops, so I'm mostly just kind of, like, picking a direction and trying to find her or, I guess, anybody I know. [00:13:29] Speaker D: Okay, so you're walking around and just kind of. [00:13:34] Speaker B: I'm not walking. I'm, like, shoving people. Oh, okay. I am making a commotion, but I'm tiny. It's kind of like, you know, like a. You know, the high corn stalks, and you're like, sh. You know what I'm saying? [00:13:48] Speaker D: So. So you push somebody and you hear what the fu. Oh, oh, you're. You're Dwayne's little friend. And you see Najee? Uh, Dwayne's brother. [00:14:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, hi. Yes. Have you seen your mom? I mean, hi. Yes. I'm Ruby. Nice to meet you. [00:14:11] Speaker D: Hey. So how you doing? [00:14:15] Speaker B: No, no, no. People talking. What? I don't. [00:14:21] Speaker D: I mean, she was. By the food stamp. [00:14:24] Speaker B: She's not there? No. I don't know. I don't know. [00:14:29] Speaker D: Listen, you put a lot on me right now. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Like, let me get on your shoulders. [00:14:35] Speaker D: Whoa. [00:14:36] Speaker B: Let me get on your shoulders. Neil, please don't. [00:14:38] Speaker D: Don't you and Dwayne have a thing? He's, like, saying this as he gets. [00:14:44] Speaker B: No, man, do. I don't have a fitting. What? [00:14:47] Speaker D: Oh, okay. All right. I will put you up. [00:14:52] Speaker B: I'm sorry. I'm not usually this rude. I just really. I really need to find. [00:14:55] Speaker D: I mean. No, I get it. Like, you know that with Dwayne, you kind of got to be direct, so I think I respect that. Amy, I'm not. [00:15:04] Speaker B: We're not. I'm going to look for. [00:15:08] Speaker D: As you get up, you see a cop, point and go. Get down. Go ahead and make me a spot hidden. I will give you a bonus for being a bit higher. Cool. [00:15:22] Speaker B: Is it still hard. [00:15:24] Speaker D: It is no longer hard. You're not. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Yay. My spot. Hidden. Still terrible, though. I think it would be better than this. Yay. Oh, I am going to. No, it's okay. I have luck. [00:15:39] Speaker D: Oh, okay. [00:15:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm going to replace the six with a three, and I'm going to spend five luck to hit that DC. [00:15:49] Speaker D: Okay. [00:15:49] Speaker B: That's how math works, right? Five. [00:15:51] Speaker D: I get what you go. I get where you go. Thank you. [00:15:53] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:15:54] Speaker D: You see the biggest copy staring down? Misses Bishop. And misses Bishop not moving. Ah, cool. [00:16:08] Speaker B: Um, so is she up there with, like, at the. With. [00:16:11] Speaker D: She's at the very front. [00:16:14] Speaker B: I should have just guessed that. Um. Cool. I am going to kind of pat rock. Uh. Najee. Is that his name? Najee? [00:16:26] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [00:16:26] Speaker B: I'm gonna just pat him. Let me down. Let me down. [00:16:28] Speaker D: Okay, all right, all right. [00:16:29] Speaker B: I see her. Okay. [00:16:32] Speaker D: Okay. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Thank you so much. Um, me and Dwayne are not. We're, like, really not. Oh, yeah. Like, really, really, really not. I mean, no offense. I mean, he's fine. Yeah, yeah, no, he's great. He's cool. He's cool. I mean, I got. I gotta. I gotta go. I gotta go. [00:16:51] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, no, no, no problem. No problem. [00:16:53] Speaker B: Okay, thanks. Bye bye. [00:16:57] Speaker D: Go ahead and roll me a listing. Check. I love this game. [00:17:09] Speaker B: I don't wish I didn't. As you go. Bye. [00:17:11] Speaker D: And zip off, you just hear him go. Damn, do we both love it. [00:17:20] Speaker B: What is with the men in this town? Um, I make a beeline for. [00:17:28] Speaker D: Okay, so you. You're making a beeline? It is. [00:17:31] Speaker B: It's. [00:17:32] Speaker D: You're very supposed you're able to get through, and you get to mama Bishop and you hear the officer go, listen, don't think I won't clock an old lady. If you don't get back by the count of five. I'mma just have to do what I gotta do. [00:17:54] Speaker B: Hi. Excuse me. Sorry. I just need to bar her really quickly. Okay, bye. Thank you. Gonna tuck her away. [00:18:01] Speaker D: Go ahead, make a strength check. [00:18:04] Speaker B: A strength check? A strength. [00:18:11] Speaker D: Yes. [00:18:12] Speaker B: I don't even know what is my strength. Oh, that's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be. Oh, my God. I rolled a four. [00:18:24] Speaker D: I rolled a four over 40. You pulled. [00:18:26] Speaker B: I'm not that strong. [00:18:28] Speaker D: You pull, and for a moment it's like, granted, like there's no give until she looks at you and then just takes the step back and she goes, Ruby, sweetie, can you help me with something? Because I think me and the officer have a problem with something here. [00:18:50] Speaker B: Um, I. Well, actually, I was gonna ask you first. [00:18:54] Speaker D: Oh. What can I help you with, dear? [00:18:57] Speaker B: Um, I just kind of tugged her ear toward, like, took her hand. [00:19:02] Speaker D: She's like ear to lips. [00:19:04] Speaker B: Dwayne really needs help at the army work. There's. There's a lot of gun gunfire and, um, also some really hanky supernatural shit. Sorry for swearing. [00:19:17] Speaker D: It's okay. She also. [00:19:21] Speaker B: I kind of teleported here. [00:19:24] Speaker D: That gets, like, a. Okay. She puts a hand on your. On your shoulder and starts to head back with you, but then stops, and she goes, Ruby, before I leave to go with you, I was just wondering if you could help me out with something. [00:19:44] Speaker B: Um, if it's setting me up with your. With your boys, I really. I really, um. [00:19:49] Speaker D: Boys? No, no, no. But. No. Just. Dwayne's the only one that needs helping. [00:19:59] Speaker B: Okay. What were you. What did you have in mind, then? [00:20:03] Speaker D: I am not the best with math, so I was hoping that you might be able to help me with the math problem. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I'm really good with. With math. [00:20:13] Speaker D: Good. Thank you. The 32nd precinct has 40 activists, officers in the. In the entire station. [00:20:25] Speaker B: Okay, yes. [00:20:28] Speaker D: I. My friends and I report that there's about 35 of them at the armory. Six of them are on leave. How many do you think that leaves to watch the station? [00:20:50] Speaker B: Please don't. Actually, I completely forgot the numbers you gave me. I don't know what the answer. [00:20:56] Speaker D: She smiles and then looks at the officer that was talking. She goes, I'm not good with numbers, but I think the answer is not enough. [00:21:12] Speaker B: My palms get all sweaty. [00:21:15] Speaker D: Okay, well, I'll be seeing y'all later. [00:21:20] Speaker B: We got some. [00:21:21] Speaker D: We got some food at the table if you officers get hungry. [00:21:26] Speaker B: How do the office take that? [00:21:29] Speaker D: I kind of know how they looking. The big one looks at the size of the protest, and it hits. If there's a spark, they're fucked. And so you see the batons lower just a little bit. All right. Now my baby's in trouble. [00:22:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:05] Speaker D: And you're teleporting. [00:22:06] Speaker B: Uh. Um, I don't know if I could do it again, but, yeah. [00:22:11] Speaker D: And they shoot, um. [00:22:14] Speaker B: Well, yeah, also addy to some weird magic thing. [00:22:27] Speaker D: Real magic? [00:22:28] Speaker B: Real magic? Like, real. Yeah. [00:22:32] Speaker D: Well, it's about damn time. All right. [00:22:34] Speaker B: What do you mean? What? Mama Bishop, are you with the mafia? [00:22:46] Speaker D: Oh, sweetie, I'm with some. I'm with the group. That's far more effective. Can we take me to the car? [00:22:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's over this way. Also, I kind of stole it, but I'm giving it back, so it's more like borrowing. [00:23:01] Speaker D: It's fine. Janice, you see the. You see her talking to the lady, watching the food? I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be a couple minutes. You make sure nothing happens here, right? Make sure those boys stay right where they're supposed to be. And he see Janice move some of the food over, and you recognize Fredriko. Shotgun on the table. [00:23:31] Speaker B: She goes, all right. [00:23:33] Speaker D: Everything will be just fine. [00:23:38] Speaker B: I both fear and respect you so much. [00:23:45] Speaker D: Our job is to make a way for all of y'all, and then you'll do the same when it's your turn. [00:23:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay. [00:23:56] Speaker D: So you gonna take me, or. [00:23:58] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I'll just wake up, gets. [00:24:01] Speaker D: In the car with you. Now, you said something about teleporting? [00:24:07] Speaker B: Uh, yeah, yeah. Um. Well, it's a long story. My mom died when I was four. It was a really long backstory type thing. And I know I just met you, and it's really kind of awkward. No, when I got in the car and I started driving off, and then I was gonna run into this magical wall that Addie kind of brought up, and then I kind of looked over, and then she was there. [00:24:27] Speaker D: Magic wall? [00:24:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Full of, like, souls, people. And I kind of. I looked over, and my mom was there, and I really only, like. I don't remember because I was really little when she died, but I recognized her picture from the one that my dad keeps in the house. [00:24:46] Speaker D: So you came to get me. I hope you don't mind my asking, sweetie. What do you want me to do? [00:24:54] Speaker B: Well, you're really scary, so I was hoping you could scare them. I don't know. [00:25:08] Speaker D: You want me to scare them? [00:25:10] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe not, like, you know, all the, you know, the. The cops. Although you're pretty effective with that. But there's a. There's actually a really big, scary german person monster thing, and that's really kind of what I'm more concerned about. [00:25:34] Speaker D: Oh, okay. Well, you got this car from the armory, right? [00:25:40] Speaker B: Uh, yeah, I did. [00:25:42] Speaker D: All right, now, where these boys. You see, she's just going all over the car. There it is. All right, she's got a pistol. She goes, they boys always leave it under one of the seats or in the little dash thing. Man, um, take me to this big german fella, and if he hasn't been shot yet, I'll shoot him. And then you can just take me back to. To the protest. Okay, and if this fella has some kind of magic in the way that you say. Adelaide. Adelaide's doing real magic, huh? [00:26:29] Speaker B: Yeah. You can explain that. Or I'm, like, putting the car to drive. [00:26:35] Speaker D: Well, I imagine you sell enough voodoo, hoodoo, trinkets, then eventually something takes hold. [00:26:44] Speaker B: I guess that makes that. I really don't like that. That makes sense. But it does make a sort of sense, I suppose. [00:26:50] Speaker D: Sweetie, the world's too big for everything to be just. What? You know. [00:26:57] Speaker B: I just thought I knew everything. [00:27:00] Speaker D: Well, what fun would being alive be there? [00:27:04] Speaker B: I've never really thought about it like that. Um. Good food, good company. [00:27:13] Speaker D: Yeah, but everything starts from somewhere. And that somewhere tends to be an idea, a suggestion from something greater. Some people call it God. Some people call it the devil. [00:27:30] Speaker B: Some people call it magic. [00:27:34] Speaker D: They do until they understand it. Just because you know what makes a water doesn't make you any less amazing. [00:27:43] Speaker B: I guess. That make sense? I don't know. These past couple of days have, uh, really enlightened me to a lot of things. Like, a lot. [00:27:55] Speaker D: Good to have an open mind. [00:27:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess so. I have nightmares for the rest of my life, but, you know, who knows how much longer that'll be? [00:28:13] Speaker D: So, word around town is that you. That you rejected Fredrico. [00:28:22] Speaker B: That. Not today. Wait, was that yesterday? [00:28:28] Speaker D: That was yesterday. [00:28:29] Speaker B: That was yesterday. That happened yesterday. Oh, you know, that gets around. It does. Um. I mean, yeah, he's very nice. He's very nice. And, you know, maybe, you know, if I, um. If I was. If he was my type, maybe I'd go for that sort of thing. Um, but he's not. [00:28:48] Speaker D: So I just bring it up to say if anybody gives you a hard time about anything, just let me know. [00:28:56] Speaker B: Thank you. I really had a mom. And, uh. Well, ever. Really? [00:29:04] Speaker D: Sweetie, you in Harlem now. You got several mamas. [00:29:08] Speaker B: You know, I think I'm learning that. [00:29:13] Speaker D: At this point, you're getting close enough where you're starting to hear the shots ring out. And you see just. It almost looks like another protest, except all of the individuals are holding hands and illuminating. And you see. You see Mama Bishop look at it. She feels. I'll be damn. And there is one face that she sees in the crowd. And you see tears. [00:29:51] Speaker B: You okay? What's wrong? [00:29:57] Speaker D: Nothing. Just. It's amazing how much brighter lights shine in dark times. [00:30:09] Speaker B: Um, I agree with that. Even though I don't understand it. Sentiment is there. I'm gonna accelerate. [00:30:18] Speaker D: Uh, go ahead, Ruby. A spot hidden to see if you are able to spot voctor. [00:30:28] Speaker B: Spotted Hoya. Wow. [00:30:32] Speaker D: Okay, the Lord giveth. So, you're speeding over, and we're going to shift the camera over to Adelaide. You are holding this magic, but again, you feel every. Every shot that they deflect from an innocent. Every. Every bit of damage this shield is protecting folks. Every bit of damage that this shield takes in protecting folks. You feel it. And while it's not damaging your body physically, you feel it in your spirit. And it is rough. I am going to ask you to make me a composure check to see if you're able to maintain. Okay. Now, this isn't in any of the game mechanics, but this is. I'm gonna offer you something. I'm going to offer you a chance to maintain this shield. But you will have a mark, and I will describe what the mark is if you accept it. [00:32:01] Speaker A: Gotta hold the line. [00:32:06] Speaker D: Everyone near Adelaide hears as the shield is taking hits. Adelaide screams out. And you see the darkness from her hair and eyes drain. Her eyes are now gray, and her hair is stark white. JP, what are you doing? While you like. I'm imagining that you see this? [00:32:44] Speaker E: Is there any way I can help? Cuz, cuz, cuz, cuz. You got it? [00:32:54] Speaker B: I gotta hold it. Drops. [00:32:59] Speaker A: They'll run us through. [00:33:02] Speaker E: You are the most powerful person out here. They're not getting through ever. We're going to make sure that they understand that this is Harlem. They not coming through. Keeper. [00:33:16] Speaker D: Is there any way I can help Roni? I'll give you a choice. Intelligence or luck. [00:33:30] Speaker E: Moment. My intelligence is higher, so I want to go for intelligence. Regular success. [00:33:44] Speaker D: You don't know shit about magic. Not a goddamn thing. But you see what the wall is made of. It's made of spirits joined together. They're locking hands. And almost on instinct, you take Adelaide's hands. Roll me a composure check. As soon as you grab the hand, your mind flashes back to the dock. And the first time Adelaide accidentally used magic. And you see. You see your rival being taken over by magic. You see him getting riddled with bullets. And now you see him in your mind. All this. He still ain't better. You close your eyes, and you open them. And you see him in your face, clear as day. Twisted, corrupted, and gnarled. [00:35:19] Speaker E: Looks good on you, boy. [00:35:26] Speaker D: Your chest is broken as me. I done turned you into a murderer. And I'll see you in hell. [00:35:37] Speaker E: Not the bombs that kill you. It's the fall hell, boy. [00:35:42] Speaker D: I'm still up. His hand reaches for your neck, and you know he's not there. But you can feel it tightening. And you see a world on fire. You see him in a cage, burning. And then you look and you see yourself next to him and he goes, this is where we'll spin forever we can trade these words for eternity. [00:36:19] Speaker E: Nah, song's not right here. I got places to be. [00:36:28] Speaker D: Go ahead and make me another composure check. [00:36:40] Speaker E: That I can't spend luck on a computer check. Nevermind. [00:36:45] Speaker D: Unfortunately for any onlookers, and Adelaide, this would be you. Because this was him attempting to help. You see JB fall to his knees, look up to the sky screaming. And hellfire jets out of his mouth and his eyes. The screaming lasts longer than any lung can. Any lung could generate the air, it's non stop. And finally when it ends, you see he falls to the ground. JB, you are going to take one point of damage. His eyes are fine, but you still see smoke coming from the nostrils and eye sockets. And very faintly you hear. Best noise you ever made. [00:38:07] Speaker E: Cuz. Cuz you holding on. [00:38:17] Speaker D: Barely. [00:38:20] Speaker A: Every. I can feel every fucking bullet. [00:38:30] Speaker D: This point. Because of the fire and the sound, you have become a beacon. I'm gonna need both you and JB to make me a hard dodge. [00:39:05] Speaker E: And I spend luck the help, Addy. [00:39:12] Speaker D: I'm going to say you can, but it's double the cost. So for every one you spit, it's two. Be in the end game now, baby. [00:39:36] Speaker E: Addie's her. And if she goes down, there's more damage. Um. Yeah, I'll do it. What's that? Uh, 13. So, 26 luck. All right. [00:39:59] Speaker D: Adelaide, you can. You can see there's a light about JD that gets dimmer. And where a bullet was coming for you. You can see that light shine on the bullet. And for almost no reason at all, it looks like it curves and misses you. Could be a trick of the light, or it could be that. Now with your eyes open to the real world, you're seeing the effects of magic. [00:40:46] Speaker A: You need to find him. You need to find the fucking German. You need to put him down. [00:40:53] Speaker D: As you say this to JB, you see the shirt start to turn red. JB, you take three points of damage as the bullet that curved is the one that hit you. [00:41:20] Speaker E: Okay? Let's feel it. We gotta stop with this. We gotta stop with this. Alright, fun. I don't like this. I don't like this. [00:41:34] Speaker A: Get out of here, JB. Get out of here. [00:41:37] Speaker E: Yeah. I'm gonna go shoot a German. You are gonna be the strongest person in the world. Got me? No, no, you got me? Cause I got you. [00:41:52] Speaker A: I got you. [00:41:56] Speaker E: Lavender. Remember? Lavender soothes the soul. Soothes the soul. There you go. There you go. [00:42:18] Speaker D: The camera zooms away and we pick up with Dwayne. What are you doing, my friend? You saw all of this go down. Like it, depending on how close you are. That scream and the hellfire in the sky. Hard to miss. [00:42:38] Speaker C: Remind me of. I'm trying to remember where I am at in this scene because I was looking for the German. I was looking for him. [00:42:46] Speaker D: You were looking for the Germans, but you were also navigating. Are guiding the civilians. So I'm gonna say that Adelaide. Adelaide and them were kind of closer to the back where you were up and just kind of orchestrating everything. [00:43:14] Speaker C: Right, right. I think in the moment of seeing them both screaming and them becoming beacons, it takes. Normally, it would take a person going shoot them or look at them in whatever language you'd speak. He would have to direct their attention with a magic spell. I'm guessing with them, with that happening, would I be able to see where he is if he called out? So I can shoot him in his. [00:43:46] Speaker D: Face, roll me a spot hidden with a bonus. Thank you. So. So, you know that. [00:44:03] Speaker C: Should I roll anyway to see if it's. [00:44:04] Speaker D: I mean, you can if you like. [00:44:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:10] Speaker E: Okay, I'll do it. [00:44:13] Speaker D: Uh, you see that voctor has found his target, Samuel Wright. And they're making a beeline to each other, and it's almost like neither one of them are acknowledging the fight. The. The cops, like, Voctor has pretty much told the cops to just kill everybody but Sam. [00:44:36] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:44:37] Speaker D: And they're about, like, they're about to. They're about to lock up. [00:44:43] Speaker C: I don't care about epic showdowns. I'm gonna shoot him. I don't care about confrontations. I don't care about drama. Soon. As soon as I see him lining up and firing as much. As many times as my finger will hit this trigger. [00:44:57] Speaker D: Okay, go ahead and. Go ahead and roll your gun. That's. That's a hard success. It's a hard success. Okay, um, and if I'm not mistaken, you are using a service pistol. And a service pistol does one d ten damage. [00:45:37] Speaker C: No drama. No drama. Only death. I only want. I want his demise. I want him gone. I want his family dead. I want his friends dead. I want his, uh, anyone who knew him dead. I want it gone. [00:45:51] Speaker D: Okay, so, uh, shoot. Let me, uh. Let me roll his dodge to see. To see if he can get away from this. Oh, my God. I hate this. I hate this game. Redemption. [00:46:16] Speaker B: Take that, you nazi punk. You bitch. [00:46:19] Speaker D: You see him stomping and getting ready to, uh. To, uh, fight? Oh, oh, do you see him getting ready to fight Sam and just did. I don't know where. You just shoot and it's a direct hit in the heart. And you see him drop to his knee. Uh, well, somebody starts playing fair and you see, and he opens his hands and the bullet comes down. You do see blood beginning to soak his white shirt, but you can tell that it did not do as much damage as it potentially should have done. [00:47:21] Speaker C: Can't let me win against these nazis, huh? [00:47:25] Speaker D: No, we gotta. We gotta drag out there ass little bit. [00:47:28] Speaker B: I count that as a win. [00:47:31] Speaker C: Sees that? Not shock. Just pulling the trigger again. All right, I'm Dumbatrix. I'm dumb. [00:47:40] Speaker D: Go ahead, roll again soon. [00:47:42] Speaker C: As soon as he's like, haha. I bulletproof. I'll spend eight. I don't care. [00:47:53] Speaker D: Go ahead, roll. You dt cool d. Ten out. Okay, that's better. You see the second shot, he doesn't even flinch this time. And there's no blood in the spot that he got shot. The second time, he begins to point his gun at you. And then Sam is actually going to intervene. All right? So Voctor gets ready to shoot. He points his gun at you. Is Sam just. WHOOP. Uh, let's see. [00:48:38] Speaker C: Come on, boy. [00:48:42] Speaker D: Ec vocta just. They are. It's a full blown fight. And it's now vodka's turn. Let's see what he is going to do. Oh, boy. Ain't that. [00:49:06] Speaker B: Why do we make it sounds that. [00:49:09] Speaker C: Of these types of caliber? [00:49:10] Speaker D: Why. [00:49:10] Speaker C: Why this lame? Why are we doing that? [00:49:13] Speaker D: Bakhtir holsters his gun and pulls out a sword. It is a saber. [00:49:23] Speaker B: I hate this man so much. [00:49:26] Speaker E: Why are you keeping that? Come on out. [00:49:29] Speaker D: I'm sorry. [00:49:31] Speaker B: It's just what's in the book. [00:49:38] Speaker D: All right? And here he goes. He's going to swing, you see? Sam punches him. Doctor takes a step back, pulls out his sword and just slashes Sam in the chest. Ac Sam falls to his knee, and Fox has the sword up very clearly. If anyone has seen Highlander, this is the I'm about to cut your head off stance. And that's when everybody turns to see headlights coming. The camera goes back in the car. Uh, you did not find Bachter. Um, so now we got to see if mama Bishop does. So here we go. [00:50:38] Speaker B: I got really distracted by the violent fire in the sky. Can I give her my luck? [00:50:47] Speaker D: There is no need. She has enough luck. Uh, she she's gonna give you a bonus if she goes. Sweetie, if you could just hit that motherfucker right there, please. [00:51:10] Speaker B: Yes, ma'am. [00:51:13] Speaker D: Thank you, sweetie. [00:51:16] Speaker B: I'm a push my foot down on that pedal. [00:51:19] Speaker D: All right, go ahead. Roll me your auto with. With a bonus. [00:51:23] Speaker B: Oh, my God. My dry bottle is not good. Mo m downack. Oh, boy. [00:51:33] Speaker D: Well. [00:51:36] Speaker B: It'S okay. So remember that I have, like, so much luck, actually. Uh, so I am going to spend. [00:51:46] Speaker D: Sweetie, five to spare. Are you kidding me? [00:51:49] Speaker B: I have 65 to spare. Oh, I'm going. That motherfucker. [00:51:54] Speaker E: Let's go. [00:51:57] Speaker D: All right, so that's gonna be two d, twelve points of damage. [00:52:01] Speaker B: Oh, love it. [00:52:03] Speaker D: Now, here's. No, go ahead. I'll let you roll it. [00:52:07] Speaker B: No, no, please, go ahead. [00:52:07] Speaker D: What we gonna say? Oh, please. Really? [00:52:10] Speaker B: All right. Who d twelve. [00:52:16] Speaker D: Boom. [00:52:18] Speaker B: Damn. [00:52:22] Speaker D: Tragic. Okay, so I rolled a two out. [00:52:25] Speaker B: Of ten, by the way. [00:52:27] Speaker D: Here's the deal. Um, he's got an armor that absorbs up to six points of damage, which that has already kind of gone down. Thanks, dude. Thanks to Dwayne, however, he has the ability called tough guy, where he can spend ten luck points to shrug off five hit points of damage, take it in one round of combat. So he's going to do that. He. So you hit him, and he goes flying and lands and take fall damage. Unfortunately, he didn't go flying that high. But he gets back up and his face is just. You can see. You can see bone in his face. That's how. That's how much he ate. Shit. [00:53:32] Speaker B: Oh, my God. That's really unsanitary. [00:53:35] Speaker D: We've got, like, a two faced situation happening here. And he's getting up slowly and he goes, that is not enough. You pieces of America. [00:53:49] Speaker B: I drive over him. I just drive over him. [00:53:54] Speaker D: I have a car. I'm gonna give him a dodge this time because he sees it coming. So if he succeeds, he's fine. But if he does not, well, this. [00:54:15] Speaker B: Oh, f. You. I'm. [00:54:17] Speaker D: He wrote it. No, it's fine. He wrote that. Extreme success. So you go to run over him again, and he puts his hand out and the car, and he's just stopping it with his hands, and he goes, I am going to kill everyone. One of you black bastards. [00:54:38] Speaker B: Yeah, we get that. Enough. [00:54:44] Speaker D: And I am going to ask the cast if they're okay with this. Mama Bishop is in the car with the gun. Are y'all okay with her attempting to take what could very well be the last shot? [00:54:57] Speaker B: Shoot his ass. [00:54:58] Speaker E: Shoot his ass. [00:54:59] Speaker B: It's for Harlem. [00:55:00] Speaker C: Kill him, mama. [00:55:01] Speaker E: Kill him. [00:55:02] Speaker D: That makes. [00:55:02] Speaker C: Kill him. [00:55:04] Speaker B: It does. It does. [00:55:06] Speaker C: Patriarch. Kill him. Matriarch, rather. Matriarch. [00:55:09] Speaker B: Brother. [00:55:10] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:55:10] Speaker C: Matriarch guys kill him. [00:55:13] Speaker D: So he goes, I am going to kill every one of you black bastards. She goes. Everybody's trying. [00:55:24] Speaker B: Oh, she misses. [00:55:28] Speaker D: Oh, she shoots. And he just eats it. [00:55:33] Speaker B: Like, literally. [00:55:35] Speaker D: No, he just. He just takes it. The camera is going to zoom away from this confrontation. Adelaide, you feel. You. You feel that the shield is taking less of a beating. And it's not refreshing, but it is a relief. What would you like to do? Would you like to risk putting it down, or do you want to try to go out and observe what's happening yourself before you make that decision? [00:56:19] Speaker A: Um, yeah, I want to. I want to see if I can see where everyone else has gone off to, um, and assess what kind of defense the armory still has. Because if. If I drop this shield and we immediately get overrun, then, well, we're all gonna fucking die, aren't we? [00:56:44] Speaker D: So. So you go out and you see a number of cops unconscious, some dead, and a few of them flee. Quite a few of them fleeing. You can tell that everybody watching Bachter lose this fight has demoralized their side. And some of them are trying to get out while the kid is good. [00:57:19] Speaker A: Just like a fucking cop. Does it look like if I drop the shield, our people will be able to handle the rest? [00:57:32] Speaker D: Roll me an intelligence check. [00:57:39] Speaker A: Oh, wait, it's still on hard. It's still on hard. [00:57:41] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, still. Are you good? You're good. Nope. [00:57:43] Speaker A: It's still a fucking failure. [00:57:45] Speaker D: You're exhausted in trying to. You're exhausted in. You're. You're not trained in battle tactics or any of this. You feel like it. They may be safe, but if even one person dies because you dropped it, can you live with that? If you can drop the shield. [00:58:31] Speaker A: Can I see Dwayne? [00:58:35] Speaker D: Oh, you. You were able to see this encounter. Uh, you. I mean, you saw from the point of voctor stopping a moving car with his hand and then getting shot and not flinching. [00:58:51] Speaker C: And I think now. Now that that whole scene's played out, you have seen that my expression is very much more angry because my mom is here and she is in imminent danger. So take that with what you will, I guess. [00:59:09] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:59:10] Speaker D: It's all good. It's all good. I got it. It's fine. [00:59:14] Speaker E: We got this. [00:59:15] Speaker C: It's gonna be okay. [00:59:17] Speaker A: All right? We're calling this infernal mathematics. [00:59:23] Speaker E: I was sent to go shoot this man. [00:59:26] Speaker B: Yeah, you know what? [00:59:27] Speaker D: That's fair. That's fair before. If. As long as it's okay with you, La JB, you do have it. You I will give you two shots. [00:59:42] Speaker A: I have some. I have a thing in my pocket if it doesn't work, but it's gonna have to make the shield drop. [00:59:50] Speaker E: Now, I'm not good with shooting things, but my cousin said, shoot this man and kill him. [00:59:57] Speaker D: Throw me one more composure check first, though. [01:00:04] Speaker E: Okay? [01:00:07] Speaker D: Your shots are going to be hard because you feel the warm breath, toady, as he goes. You ain't gonna do it. You can't do shit right, boy. [01:00:24] Speaker C: And I walk up next to JB, holding my gun up as well, and just say to him, make every shot count. And then count again as I hold up my gun to shoot with him, to get them some kind of aid. [01:00:43] Speaker E: And I sort of breathe. I look at you and breathe heavy and sort of turn. You can see, like, the blood, like, start again from the shoulder. [01:00:54] Speaker D: Just kind of throw off it a little bit. But Mama Bishop's awfully close. What happens if you miss? [01:01:03] Speaker E: Been there, done that. And I will take two hard shots with a handgun. Back to what? A handguns, y'all. But first one. Now, that's bad. [01:01:26] Speaker D: That's. Yeah, that's really bad. [01:01:33] Speaker B: Is this, like, some kind of, like, karma? [01:01:40] Speaker E: My question. My question was going to be, Dwayne did say he was going to try to help me. [01:01:45] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [01:01:46] Speaker E: So would I have gotten help? Would he have been able to help me there? [01:01:51] Speaker D: I'll let you roll a button with the 100. Even a bonus. Save you. I'm sorry. Okay, on your next. On your next shot, I'll give you the bonus. [01:02:01] Speaker E: Okay, I see that you succeeded. [01:02:04] Speaker C: A dodge roll check, you monster. [01:02:09] Speaker E: That's only fair. [01:02:10] Speaker B: So if she's in the passenger seat and I'm in the driver's. I'm just curious. [01:02:16] Speaker E: No, it was. It was wide left. [01:02:19] Speaker B: Okay, okay, okay. I was just asking. [01:02:23] Speaker E: Come on down. [01:02:26] Speaker B: I'm just asking. [01:02:29] Speaker E: Wide left. It was wide. [01:02:30] Speaker B: I was the child. [01:02:32] Speaker D: I am gonna say checks. Adelaide, remember how that bullet was glowing and it hit JV instead of you? This time when JB shoots, you see, the bullet burning in the fire is in the shape of a hand, and it's doing everything it can to push the bullet to this bitch. To mama Bishop. And she just barely ducks out of the way, and it hits the headrest behind her scream. Is that scary? Everybody else just sees a bullet fired and shot at. That's what you see at a lee. Um. [01:03:17] Speaker E: I don't see that. I don't see that. [01:03:19] Speaker D: Uh, no, you don't. But you do hear. Go ahead, shoot again. [01:03:30] Speaker E: Lane. [01:03:33] Speaker D: What'S up. [01:03:37] Speaker E: Like, I'm. I'm okay, but it still hurts. I think I'm still angry. Been a rough couple days. Yes, little assistance would be appreciate. [01:04:09] Speaker D: But. [01:04:10] Speaker C: This is gonna hurt like a bitch. And it's gonna try to lift your arm properly. [01:04:20] Speaker E: Oh, this is not fun. Not fun, not fun. This another hard roll? [01:04:29] Speaker D: Uh, yeah. But you do have a bonus. [01:04:32] Speaker E: Yay. [01:04:35] Speaker D: Hey, you can swiggy. [01:04:43] Speaker E: All right, so let's see what the bonus is. It has to be low. Oh, I'm gonna spend three luck points and. [01:04:54] Speaker D: Okay, seeds, it does select 33 down. [01:05:02] Speaker E: To with the bonus. Plus, we got a one. So it's down to 13. [01:05:04] Speaker B: Spent three friendship. [01:05:09] Speaker D: This could be it. Let's see. I'm sorry, motherfucker. You shoot. And it's coming directly at vodka's head. And he dodges out of the way again. Oh, and the speed is super. Was almost supernatural, especially with the amount of damage that you can see on his body. But he is not giving up. In fact. [01:05:44] Speaker C: Does helping take away my turn? [01:05:47] Speaker D: Um, I'm gonna say he's gonna do this, and then we're going to. Gonna break and we'll come. Oh, my God. [01:05:58] Speaker C: Here we go. [01:06:00] Speaker D: All right, y'all dodges out of the way. It reaches forward, it drags Boba bishop out of the car and goes. I think I'll start with this one. [01:06:20] Speaker E: The fuck you will. [01:06:22] Speaker D: And that is where we're going to seek. [01:06:26] Speaker E: The fuck you will. [01:06:28] Speaker A: Okay. [01:06:28] Speaker B: Why? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. [01:06:36] Speaker A: All right, friends, foes, and fiends, we are emotionally fraught, and we are going to take our ten minute allotted breakfast to vent and come up with a plan to put this german bastard in the dirt where he belongs. So get some water. Take some deep, deep breaths. Drop your shoulders down from your ears. Christian. [01:06:58] Speaker B: I will see you back here in ten minutes. [01:07:07] Speaker A: Hello, friend, and welcome back to the finale of Harlem. Hellfighters never die. A scenario from Harlem unbound by Chris Spivey. We are in the shit. Chips are down. Bottom of the 9th. Insert another harrowing sports metaphor here, Noir. You want to carry us through? [01:07:31] Speaker D: When we last left off, Voctor pulled Mama Bishop out of the passenger seat. It now has her by the throat and is looking at all of you. With his other hand, he lets go of the car and reaches into his back pocket. His gun has hit the floor. His sword has hit the floor. And he goes, I'm going to start with this one, and I'm going to take all of you bastards with me. And you see he picks up a very familiar item from his back pocket. You recognize it because you had one yourself not too long ago. A grenade? [01:08:33] Speaker C: You mean he can't pull the pin? [01:08:36] Speaker D: Cuz he's got my mom in his other hand. [01:08:39] Speaker C: Oh, please. [01:08:41] Speaker B: I was gonna say you can use his mouth. [01:08:43] Speaker E: Shoot him now. Shoot him now. [01:08:45] Speaker C: I'm doing them now. [01:08:46] Speaker D: So this is what we're going to do. [01:08:50] Speaker B: This is very scary. [01:08:51] Speaker D: This is the last. This is the big one. So we are going to determine how this all plays out with dexterity checks. So everyone throw your dexterity and let me. Let me see what his is. [01:09:20] Speaker B: I'm so sorry, JB. [01:09:24] Speaker D: So Rufi, you get to go if bid. He gets to go. Okay. [01:09:30] Speaker B: Um, I was already lunging after misses Bishop. [01:09:39] Speaker D: Because. Oops. [01:09:41] Speaker B: So. Oh my God. So what? I'm going. Oh my God. I am going. I'm going to scramble onto the hood of the car and I am going to take the grenade from him. [01:10:00] Speaker D: Okay, this will be a slighter hand check or a strength check. [01:10:11] Speaker B: Do I even have sleight of hand? Um. I'm gonna. I'm gonna go with strength. [01:10:20] Speaker D: Even though he's probably stronger than me. Okay. [01:10:27] Speaker B: Ew. I hate this man. [01:10:30] Speaker D: You have to be 38. [01:10:39] Speaker E: Sorry, I have my thing on. Let's go. [01:10:46] Speaker A: Motherfucking hard success. Not just a success, a hard success. [01:10:50] Speaker D: I don't think y'all understand. Vodka's strength is an 80. Rubies is a 40. She's literally half as strong as vodka there. And please describe to me what it looks like in this moment where this man who stopped a car, who's lifting an entire human being with one hand. How does little Ruby take this from him? [01:11:22] Speaker B: Um, Ruby? I don't know anything. I just know that I brought her here. And also, that's a grenade. And my mind goes completely, completely blank. And I just kind of go, oh. And I jump on. I jump onto, like he. He, like has it like in his hand and he's about to like, bring it to his mouth. I just kind of like jump onto it. And then my. My weight and gravity carries me down and I wrench it out of his hand. And then I just kind of like, oh, grenade. And then I run. Run, bitch. I'm running. [01:12:11] Speaker D: Now, whenever we do anything with grenades here in call of Cthulhu, unfortunately. [01:12:19] Speaker E: There. [01:12:19] Speaker D: Is a luck check that is involved. You just fell with a grenade. [01:12:27] Speaker B: I'm gonna die. [01:12:35] Speaker D: Oh, go ahead. Ruby in luck. That's a failure. All right, thanks. Failure. All right, you. You grab the grenade and you got it. And then you hear tink as the pin falls next to you. [01:13:04] Speaker B: Oh, shit. [01:13:08] Speaker D: All right, go ahead. [01:13:12] Speaker B: I cheated. [01:13:13] Speaker D: Go ahead and be a strength check. [01:13:20] Speaker B: I'm not strong. This can't happen. Multiple. [01:13:25] Speaker D: I don't know. [01:13:25] Speaker B: I guess it can. Never mind. I got it. You're good. [01:13:29] Speaker C: So the strongest you've ever been, with. [01:13:32] Speaker D: The success, you're able to throw it far enough where it can't do any harm, and he just goes off in the distance. The next person to act, he is furious at this. Um. [01:14:06] Speaker B: I'm in danger. [01:14:10] Speaker D: I don't know what to do. [01:14:12] Speaker B: Like, everything I can. Everything I can do is so mean. Be me. It's okay. [01:14:18] Speaker A: Be me. [01:14:19] Speaker E: He turns over a new leaf. He just finishes. [01:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he decides. He decides that he has. It was so incredible. And now he respects this tiny little. [01:14:27] Speaker C: Human he sees that is embarrassed by. [01:14:30] Speaker E: He got. [01:14:30] Speaker C: He got stripped by such a tiny human. He's like, I got. I gotta pack it up. That. That's. That's a better me. [01:14:37] Speaker D: He is going to throw Mama Bishop at me. [01:14:41] Speaker B: What did he have to succeed on that? [01:14:52] Speaker D: You can go ahead and roll me a dodge. [01:14:57] Speaker B: What if I want to try to catch her? [01:15:01] Speaker D: That'll be a strength check. [01:15:03] Speaker B: God damn it. [01:15:08] Speaker D: I will say it's. It's a strength check with a bonus because she would be helping you in this regards. Like, trying to slow herself down. That he has been needed. [01:15:20] Speaker A: Trying to catch her own body weight. [01:15:26] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't imagine they're just, like, letting loose. [01:15:30] Speaker B: Cool. I mean, yeah. I'm not gonna let an old lady fall. It's messed up. [01:15:38] Speaker D: Oh, my God. [01:15:40] Speaker B: I don't know what's happening. I rolled a five. I rolled a five. I'm the hulk. [01:15:50] Speaker D: Strongest. [01:15:52] Speaker B: Strongest. [01:15:57] Speaker D: You catch her in your arms and all you hear from her is now time y'all start to put it together. [01:16:07] Speaker B: I'm so sorry. [01:16:10] Speaker D: And I forgot to roll Mama Bishop. Uh, I forgot to roll her, uh, dexterity. So let me just see where she is in terms of everything that's happening. [01:16:28] Speaker B: She should have just shot him in the face. [01:16:31] Speaker D: Okay, uh, so it's Mama Bishop's turn. She does still have the gun in her hand. Are we okay with Marvel Bishop getting another? [01:16:43] Speaker B: Yes. [01:16:43] Speaker D: Okay. All right, all right. I just. [01:16:48] Speaker C: Oh, mama Bishop succeed when it counts. [01:16:52] Speaker E: Fine. [01:16:53] Speaker B: It's fine. It's fine. Next time. [01:16:56] Speaker D: So she. She missed again. She goes, ah, damn it. From there. Who is Dex is, uh. It is. I believe Adelaide is next. [01:17:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:17:20] Speaker A: Well, at least mama Bishop isn't in the firing zone anymore. [01:17:26] Speaker D: Okay. [01:17:31] Speaker A: All right. Wachner's focus is elsewhere. Unfortunately, that. Elsewhere is people that I care very much about. And I can't stand by and let that happen. I'm going to shout to the people behind me that the shield is dropping. I'm going to pull that magic back to wherever it came from. And I will focus my pain and my terror and my anger. At that shit brick house german piece of shit. I want to hamstring the son of a bitch. [01:18:42] Speaker D: All right. Roaming your composure. That is a heavy failure. Okay. Now, with this failure, you can still do what you're trying to do. But you know that it will have a cost. [01:19:18] Speaker A: Can I focus the cost on me? [01:19:23] Speaker E: No. [01:19:32] Speaker A: He's got to go down. One way or another, he's got to go down. [01:19:37] Speaker D: Are you going through with it? [01:19:39] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:19:41] Speaker D: All right. Adelaide, you are one. JB is two. Dwayne is three. Ruby is four. Mama Bishop is five. And Harlem is six. Okay, I wrote a six. So, good news. It won't hurt one person you love. [01:20:17] Speaker A: I know it's wrong. It feels wrong, whatever it is that I'm pulling up and pulling out and throwing across this fucking battlefield. And I think by the time I realize that it's too late to stop. But he has to go down. He can't. He's gonna keep coming after us. Keep coming after the hellfighters. Keep coming after Harlem. So I scream. And it's fear and frustration and anger. And the spectral razor that I call. Sends its trajectory towards the back of Wagner's legs. [01:21:25] Speaker D: You conjure all of your hair. Hate and rage. And it manifests into this humanoid figure. Its skin made of pure ebony. And its eyes as bright as embers. It begins to slowly form into a silhouette. That looks very much like your own. And as it conjures this saw from you. It places its hand on your heart. And you hear the sound of a gate closing and wailing and crying. Your eyes close, and you see the martyred souls stuck in here. All of you see a flash of metal. But more than that, you see the head of voctor separate from his shoulders. The body takes a couple of steps backwards. It falls like a tree. Everybody making a listen check. Only Ruby and Adelaide hear Mama Bishop's eyes wide open. And almost add a whisper. You hear, baby? What did you do? [01:24:16] Speaker B: I'd drop. [01:24:24] Speaker E: How do you. What was that? We did it. You did it. You did it. You did it. [01:24:38] Speaker C: The rest of the worlds look like what happens when Wagner drops. [01:24:50] Speaker D: The remaining officers surrender. They have been overwhelmed. And the only ones that stayed were the true believers that believed that doctor could do anything. And he has fallen. The fighting is over. And you look to the floor. There are bodies everywhere. Most of them, however, in uniform. [01:25:37] Speaker B: Ray. Raymond. Raymond. Ah, hell. I guess low this time. I did high the other two times. Ugh. [01:26:03] Speaker D: Stop screaming. Got a headache. [01:26:07] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I run into his arms. [01:26:15] Speaker D: He just gives you a hug, and he goes, glad you're okay. But we're not done yet. [01:26:22] Speaker B: Okay. If not, the word I would use. [01:26:26] Speaker D: Gotta get our boys out of the 32nd. [01:26:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a car. Oh, it's not my car. [01:26:39] Speaker D: Yeah, I know. [01:26:42] Speaker B: Okay, I'm still holding him, and I have not moved. [01:26:48] Speaker D: You know, I can't get our employees if you don't let go. You do see that he does have a mean black eye and some bruises about. But. But other than that, he's no worse for you. [01:27:11] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. I just point him in the direction of the car, but I have to go back for Addie. [01:27:21] Speaker E: So. [01:27:24] Speaker D: Just as he hits towards the car, he sees all of you and just. Y'all did good. You should, uh. Should head home. It's gonna be a mess in the morning. [01:27:35] Speaker B: We're gonna meet you over there. [01:27:39] Speaker D: I think y'all are done for the day. [01:27:41] Speaker B: We're gonna meet you over there. [01:27:43] Speaker A: Not done yet. [01:27:46] Speaker B: Shut up and go. We're gonna meet you over there. Go. [01:27:52] Speaker D: And he heads over to the car. [01:27:58] Speaker C: And Mama Bishop definitely run over to them. [01:28:04] Speaker D: Did they look shocked? Like. [01:28:05] Speaker C: Did they look shocked or, like. Because you said they whispered something. I didn't hear it, but, yeah. [01:28:11] Speaker D: She looks a thousand miles away, like it's. There's just. Hold on. Hold on, baby. [01:28:28] Speaker C: What's wrong, Ma? You all right? I'm checking over her. [01:28:36] Speaker D: Rome, a psychology check. [01:28:38] Speaker C: Oh, good. [01:28:40] Speaker E: Psychology. [01:28:44] Speaker D: If I add book or psychoanalyst, and you'll roll this at a bonus. [01:28:50] Speaker E: Cool. [01:28:51] Speaker C: I need a one. Oh, well, you know, could I. Yeah, because I'll replace the six with the four and then use for 40 points. [01:29:04] Speaker D: I mean, you could if you want to. [01:29:06] Speaker C: Yeah, I'll use. I'll use 441 to see what the hell's wrong with my mom. [01:29:18] Speaker E: You. [01:29:20] Speaker D: You stop looking at her eyes, and you start looking at her hands. They are clenched and shaking. You put. You take a closer look at her. You see she's biting down. Of what could easily appear as distant, you're starting to realize is fury. It's pure, unadulterated rage. And she's doing everything she can to tamp it down. [01:30:03] Speaker C: I think their hands are clenched I think I try to put my hands in theirs and squeeze down to bring them to reality. Or try to grab onto them, make them realize that I'm there with them in the moment. Like placing my forehead against theirs. [01:30:24] Speaker D: Dwayne? Yeah. Dwayne? [01:30:26] Speaker C: Yeah, it's me. Everything's gonna be okay. We won. [01:30:31] Speaker D: Who you telling? I don't see her for the whole thing. [01:30:33] Speaker C: I know. I know. I mean, like, you took a couple shots. They weren't the best shots, but you did. You did. You distracted. You did good. [01:30:43] Speaker D: I'm a little old lady. What do I know about guns? [01:30:47] Speaker C: You. I don't know what you know. You know a lot more than you let on. [01:30:55] Speaker D: Her brows furrow. A one of her hands goes to her ears as though she's trying to block out a sound. I got a. I got a sweetie. Yeah. She takes a deep breath and is very still for a moment. [01:31:22] Speaker E: She goes. [01:31:26] Speaker D: I'm gonna have to leave. [01:31:27] Speaker E: Harlem for a couple. [01:31:31] Speaker D: I'm gonna have to leave Harlem for a while. [01:31:36] Speaker C: I'll come with you. Go together. [01:31:41] Speaker D: My baby gotta. You gotta take care of the house. You gotta. You gotta job. [01:31:49] Speaker C: You take precedence over a job, Matt. [01:31:54] Speaker D: I know I do. That's, uh. That's why I raised you right. So when. When I had to go, you'd be ready for it. [01:32:13] Speaker C: Just because I'm being ready for it doesn't mean I would want it anymore or any less. You're not trying to leave? [01:32:20] Speaker D: Leave, right? Ain't no baby bird ever been born I was ready to leave. Nest. [01:32:28] Speaker C: Why are you talking like this? What's going on? You know you can tell me anything. [01:32:33] Speaker D: I know some things can't be told. Some things ain't words for you. But I did write with you. I don't know what the hell happened with Najee, but I did right with you. [01:32:59] Speaker C: You gotta use. [01:33:00] Speaker D: Took a little break. [01:33:01] Speaker C: It's fine. [01:33:05] Speaker D: A tear comes down face wipe it. I gotta go. And I don't know if I'll be back. [01:33:21] Speaker C: You will. Bishop's always come back. [01:33:29] Speaker D: And Harlem always leads. Bishop, take care of Lauren. Knows I leave Agnes by herself a little bit. She always has some ragamuffin come to her house, eating all her food, being no good. So I'm gonna need you to keep out for the neighbors. [01:33:52] Speaker C: I'll get the fly swatter. It's fine. You know I love you, right? [01:34:00] Speaker D: I love you, too. Your mom, she just points to your heart. She goes in my home. Mundo. You got room in that car, son? Yes, ma'am. Just gives you a kiss on the shoulder. All right. Walk. Saw. [01:34:47] Speaker C: Confused. Angry. Don't know where to go from here. And I think. Turns back. I turn back to the group, seeing Addie look back at my mom one more time before I rush over to them to help them stabilize and stand up if they want to stand up. New hair looks good on you. [01:35:30] Speaker B: I I'm running over there, and I'm collapsing to my knees, and I'm immediately throwing my arms around Addy. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I tried to be gentle, but I'm just really relieved that you're okay. [01:35:45] Speaker A: I don't know if okay is how you'd put it. [01:35:48] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. That was amazing. You did, like. Like, an actual real, like, magic thing. Like a lot of real magic things. Are you okay? [01:36:08] Speaker A: I think it works. [01:36:18] Speaker C: Can we get a medic over here? [01:36:19] Speaker E: We'll fix that up. That's fine. Cousin. Cousin. [01:36:24] Speaker D: You see, medics are tending to quite a few people. They take a look and see that y'all are kind of standing. They'll be like. And then one of them goes. We'll be on the way. [01:36:37] Speaker E: No problem. [01:36:37] Speaker B: I'm not gonna interrupt JB and Addie's thing, but I do want to, like, try to. Can I do, like, a medicine or first aid check to, like, stop his bleeding? [01:36:46] Speaker D: Yeah, absolutely. Go ahead. Roll me first aid. [01:36:51] Speaker B: I don't know what I'm doing, and I'm panicked, which so much. [01:36:54] Speaker E: Lucky guy. [01:36:56] Speaker B: Not enough. Not in for that. I rolled a 92. Ow, ow, ow. I'm sorry. Okay, okay, okay, sorry, sorry, sorry. [01:37:05] Speaker D: Okay, okay, okay. [01:37:07] Speaker E: We'll let the professionals do that. [01:37:08] Speaker D: That's fine. [01:37:09] Speaker B: It's, like, a lot of blood. [01:37:11] Speaker C: We're not okay, but we're alive, so that's a start. [01:37:16] Speaker E: Cousin, you're not laughing. You would normally laugh at that one. [01:37:26] Speaker A: I don't know what it cost. [01:37:29] Speaker E: Going on. Come on, talk to me. [01:37:31] Speaker A: I don't. I don't know what it cost. [01:37:38] Speaker E: What do you mean? [01:37:43] Speaker A: The last one. You know, when I took his fucking. [01:37:47] Speaker E: Head off, I. Yeah, he did that. He did. It. [01:37:52] Speaker A: Felt like somebody slammed a door shut. [01:38:01] Speaker E: What do you mean? [01:38:05] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:38:09] Speaker E: No, no, no. Look at me. Look at me wearing this together. I got you. That's a door that's closed. Open it. It's not good. May just be a little bit tougher to maneuver. We're gonna get there. [01:38:29] Speaker A: Honestly, I think I kind of missed just dealing with the cards. [01:38:37] Speaker E: Okay, so I will concede that the hokey shit is real. See, if you win, you win this one. Okay? There you go. [01:38:50] Speaker D: You just. [01:38:53] Speaker A: You do me a favor. [01:38:55] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, there's. [01:39:02] Speaker A: I just need you to say, addy, you were right. [01:39:07] Speaker E: You like that, wouldn't you? Fine. Fine. How about this, everyone? My cousin Addie was correct. She was right and I was wrong. On this occasion. [01:39:34] Speaker D: Don't nobody fucking care. [01:39:36] Speaker E: Who said that? Who said that? Who said it? [01:39:42] Speaker D: I just dissolve into giggles. [01:39:45] Speaker A: Cause, yeah, I think I leave it hysterical. [01:39:49] Speaker B: Finally start laughing. [01:39:52] Speaker D: A medic finally makes their way over to EJB. [01:39:55] Speaker E: Once I get patched up, I'm gonna find who said that. Cousin, you good? [01:40:03] Speaker A: Um. [01:40:05] Speaker E: That's a spiritual smile. I saw a smile. I saw. It may have been a hint, but I saw one. [01:40:12] Speaker A: I don't. I don't know if I call it good. I got a lot of work to do. [01:40:23] Speaker E: Okay? So here's. Here's. How about you make me a deal? You say that you have a lot of work to do. I say that we have a lot of work to do. Cause you're not gonna do this by yourself. Deal? One. [01:40:57] Speaker D: Maybe you heal. [01:40:58] Speaker E: One. [01:40:58] Speaker D: D. Four. [01:41:00] Speaker E: Am I gonna roll it? [01:41:02] Speaker D: Yeah, you gonna roll it, at least. I need you to roam me a composure check. [01:41:14] Speaker A: No. [01:41:15] Speaker D: Ask. The medic is working on JB. Putting a tourniquet on and band aids. You see, they are laser focused on taking care of JB, but it looks as though they're trying. The face stays still. But another face is kind of turning, looking at you. It's almost like a long exposure shot of someone's head turning. And it locks eyes with you. An act of malice and rage. So hate. So full of hate that God himself is close the door to harm. Look at life. And the face slowly turns to that of the trumpeteer. Look at what you've done. Playing with things you don't understand. Are you okay? Bleeding stopped. You good? [01:42:37] Speaker E: All right. [01:42:39] Speaker D: All right. I gotta get to the others. [01:42:42] Speaker E: Thank you. Cotton? [01:42:45] Speaker C: Addy? How do you look at me? [01:42:49] Speaker E: Cotton? [01:42:54] Speaker C: What'd you see? [01:42:57] Speaker A: God herself has closed the door on Harlem. [01:43:06] Speaker B: Okay. [01:43:07] Speaker A: God himself has closed the door on Harlem. [01:43:10] Speaker D: What the hell? What? [01:43:11] Speaker C: What does that mean? [01:43:14] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:43:17] Speaker E: Look, like. Who told you this? That's not true. That can't be true. [01:43:24] Speaker A: I saw it. Whatever I've done, whatever keeper is, there. Is there any precedents for this? Anything? [01:43:44] Speaker D: I will let you roll me. Either Cthulhu Mythos or an intelligence check. [01:43:55] Speaker A: Could I make an argument for a cult? [01:43:58] Speaker D: I will give you that as well. With a bonus. Oh, never mind. [01:44:05] Speaker A: Hard success. [01:44:09] Speaker D: There's nothing concrete about God closing the door on the city. You have read different myths about a city being damned. However, first one comes to mind is Sodom and Gomorrah, the plagues of Egypt, the. The fall of Babylon, all of Rome. They're just. All of these stories have touches of occult rumors about them. And there. There are some, through lines of acts of magic being the cause of these curses, cursing the land. But there are also stories of curses, of the land being removed. You're not certain about what has happened, what could happen, but you have a small inkling of hope that whatever has happened can be undone. Now, I'll let you roll me an intelligence check as well. [01:45:57] Speaker A: Failure. I'm exhausted. [01:45:58] Speaker D: I'll give. I'll give you. I'll give you a bonus. We'll see if it helps. [01:46:07] Speaker A: Yeah, that makes it an 18 under 50. [01:46:14] Speaker D: You think back to Mama Bishop and how quickly she decided she needs to leave. And all these stories of cities falling and spiritual decay. She seemed like she was going somewhere to do something. And you have an inkling that if anybody knows what's up, it's probably her. [01:47:01] Speaker A: Dwayne? [01:47:03] Speaker D: Yeah? [01:47:06] Speaker A: Um, your ma. Did she say anything before she, um. Before she left? [01:47:14] Speaker C: You just said she had to go somewhere. Can you tell me where? But she's. Wherever she's going, she's gonna handle business. Wherever it is. [01:47:23] Speaker A: Okay. Um. Might need to. Might need to make sure that we can get ahold of her at some point. [01:47:40] Speaker C: Knowing her, she'll get a hold of me somehow. Resources all over the city and then some. [01:47:46] Speaker A: Good. Good. All right. If we are operating under the impression that this wasn't just some ridiculous hallucination, there is more work to be done. [01:48:18] Speaker D: There always is. [01:48:25] Speaker A: Magic always has a cost. I just have to figure out who to pay. [01:48:40] Speaker E: We're all together so we can figure it out. Together. [01:48:46] Speaker C: And when they do come to collect, we'll be there, too. [01:48:53] Speaker A: Yeah, we gotta. We gotta get our boys back. We gotta get our boys out of that station. If anyone's left over there, they're gonna be looking for vengeance. We gotta go. [01:49:07] Speaker D: So y'all heading to the police station? So you head towards the police station. It has been a little bit of time, and there are no protesters. The food table is still there, still full food. No one's there. [01:49:46] Speaker C: Even the cops are gone. Or is. [01:49:49] Speaker D: We don't see anyone. [01:49:51] Speaker E: Ruby, were there people? [01:49:52] Speaker B: Did we see people on the way there? [01:49:56] Speaker D: Oh, God. [01:50:00] Speaker C: Head into. Head straight into the police station. [01:50:04] Speaker A: Wait, Keeper, is there blood on the steps? Okay, I'll. I'll follow. Follow Dwayne in if Dwayne's gonna go. Look, go to. [01:50:31] Speaker D: You all go inside, and there's not a soul there, and you finally get to the cell of Javier and James. I need everybody to make me a composure check. Look. [01:51:02] Speaker A: I'll spend luck. [01:51:07] Speaker D: You see? Every remaining cop of the 32nd precinct in the cell of Javier and james, mangled, ripped from head to toe, and in the cell, written in blood. Harlow is ours. [01:51:49] Speaker B: I take a picture. [01:51:53] Speaker A: Or five. [01:51:58] Speaker E: I turn and immediately throw up. [01:52:07] Speaker C: That's fair as hell. [01:52:08] Speaker B: I succeeded my sanity, by the way. That's why I'm taking pictures. [01:52:10] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I pushed luck for mine, so I'm just. [01:52:14] Speaker E: I failed. And I'm not burning, but. [01:52:16] Speaker C: Well, yeah, I don't have the luck for it. [01:52:21] Speaker A: I'm just watching. [01:52:26] Speaker B: Um, so who's, like. Who's. So ours is such a. Like a generic term. Who is. Do you need a second, JB? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Take your time. Where is everyone? [01:52:49] Speaker C: Regret asking this question, Kieber, when you say the bodies are on, they're on top of one another. Are there any distinguishing marks on them, or are they just ripped? [01:53:02] Speaker D: You would have to roll me a medicine check. [01:53:04] Speaker C: Good lord. [01:53:07] Speaker D: Can I spot it? [01:53:08] Speaker C: You'd be like, oh, yeah, those are things. Those are marks of some kind. Medicine. That's not happening. That is not happening at all. [01:53:22] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I was gonna say I didn't think it was gonna happen with that mythos rolling. [01:53:28] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:53:35] Speaker A: Keeper. Is this something that I could pop in a cult roll on? [01:53:39] Speaker D: Sure. [01:53:46] Speaker A: 19 under 75. [01:53:50] Speaker D: You whisper the question. Ruby just asked, who is ours? And you hear ours, and you take a look back and you see Bex and all of the other murdered hellfighters. [01:54:27] Speaker A: I think that answers the question. [01:54:31] Speaker B: Can I see that? [01:54:35] Speaker D: You can roll me a composure check. If you fail, you will see it. [01:54:42] Speaker E: If you fail, you'll see it now. [01:54:47] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [01:54:48] Speaker D: Let's see. Let's a. [01:54:53] Speaker B: Do we want to fail this? Exactly right. Do we want to fail this? [01:54:57] Speaker D: Everybody loses. Everyone who failed loses three composure. As you see the ghostly forms of these hellfighters standing perfectly straight. But their skin is made of the same ebony material as the specter Adelaide summoned. And their eyes burning with fiery embers, they salute Adelaide, and they walk into the walls that leaves a scorch mark in the shape of a humanoid figure. [01:55:51] Speaker E: Thank you for your system, where all. [01:55:53] Speaker B: The living people are. [01:55:55] Speaker E: Thank you. [01:55:57] Speaker C: Thank you for your service. [01:55:58] Speaker D: I guess. Hey. Here, JB. [01:56:03] Speaker E: Then the left handed salute. [01:56:10] Speaker C: They're back at the apartments. [01:56:13] Speaker A: We should go home. Yeah, no, let's go check on Ralph and Celestina, make the rounds. [01:56:22] Speaker C: Yeah, that sounds good. Don't touch anything on the way out. [01:56:30] Speaker E: No. [01:56:36] Speaker D: Okay, so you make your way to Celestina and Ralph's apartment, and as you get close, you hear the same music from the rent party. And you walk in, and you're in the rent party. Everyone's dancing, smiling, but the smiles are forced. The trumpeter is playing, looking at JB like a marionette. [01:57:33] Speaker B: Oh, I think we broke it. [01:57:42] Speaker A: Oh, God. [01:57:49] Speaker C: What happens if we try to stop one of them? Like dancing, if we try to interrupt? [01:57:58] Speaker D: D hate that. I will. Yeah. [01:58:04] Speaker B: I need to find my brother, so. [01:58:06] Speaker D: Yeah. Who are you stopping, Emily? [01:58:08] Speaker C: I'm looking for Najee. Shit. [01:58:11] Speaker A: Um, yeah, I'll go. I'll go for Celestina. [01:58:19] Speaker D: So Celestina is sitting on the wall, just talking again, the smile, like, pulled crosser space. Just chatting with someone, and you try to call her attention, and it's almost like she can't hear you. What do you do? [01:58:39] Speaker A: What happens if I reach out and grab her arm? [01:58:43] Speaker D: You reach out and grab her arm, and you see the skin relaxes, and the smile fades. And then her eyes close, and she falls unconscious. [01:59:03] Speaker A: And touch the person she's talking to. [01:59:06] Speaker D: Say. [01:59:10] Speaker A: I'm gonna do the next one. [01:59:14] Speaker D: Hi, Ella. Oh, God. [01:59:18] Speaker B: Hi. [01:59:22] Speaker D: Welp. [01:59:23] Speaker B: Wait. Is it d four? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? [01:59:26] Speaker D: You touch this person, and their eyes get big and filled with tears, and they go, where am I supposed to go? And you see a bullet hole form and blood. Where am I supposed to go? And then they vanish. [01:59:59] Speaker B: Uh, can I go find my brother? [02:00:03] Speaker D: Yep. Uh, I'm not gonna make you real spy head. He's upstairs with the hooch. [02:00:09] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the first place I would have look. [02:00:15] Speaker D: So you go to your brother. What do you do? [02:00:18] Speaker B: I shake him. [02:00:21] Speaker D: The smile recedes. He looks you in the eye and goes, oh, God. Oh, God. [02:00:29] Speaker B: Are you okay? What? [02:00:31] Speaker D: Oh. Falls asleep. [02:00:36] Speaker B: I continue to try to shake him awake. All right, well, he's not dead, right? Like, he's just unconscious. Okay, he's just unconscious. That's fine. This is a lot for one day. So I'm just gonna sink to my knees and pull his head in my lap, and I'm just gonna cry. [02:01:01] Speaker C: I mean, I'm gonna look for Najee, but I also want to look for anyone who's trying to fight what's happening to them or looks like they're. [02:01:15] Speaker D: So you find Naji, and it falls asleep. [02:01:25] Speaker C: I don't want to touch anybody else, but can't leave them like this. [02:01:35] Speaker A: No. [02:01:36] Speaker D: Do it. Get his ass. [02:01:39] Speaker E: I am going to walk up to the stage and look the trumpet player in his face. What did you do? [02:01:57] Speaker D: Just smiling and playing. [02:02:07] Speaker E: I wrap them and pull them close to me. [02:02:11] Speaker D: What did you do? Bullet holes start to open and starts bleeding. It goes. Oh, not me. Her, if you please. Say Adelaide. [02:02:33] Speaker E: I throw him off the stage. [02:02:38] Speaker D: Banishes. [02:02:48] Speaker A: Get down to the city. [02:02:49] Speaker E: Awesome. [02:02:57] Speaker A: I told you. I told you. I. I didn't know what it would cost, but I knew if I stopped. I stopped. It could have been worse. We could have been dead. [02:03:19] Speaker C: Go up to Addy. Take their hand. Look at me. You made the right choice. We are alive because of you. You made. Look at me. You would be dead so many times. [02:03:35] Speaker D: Over if you did not make the. [02:03:36] Speaker C: Decision that you made. [02:03:38] Speaker D: And now we can fix this. Cause we got you. [02:03:47] Speaker A: There are some things worse than death. [02:03:53] Speaker E: And we just gotta be worse than that. We'll fix this. [02:04:07] Speaker D: I need all of you to make me a extreme constitution check. Help. Nope. [02:04:21] Speaker B: Pretty sure that's my dump. Stat. [02:04:25] Speaker D: It is. [02:04:27] Speaker B: Gotta be the six. You know what? Is this where I use all my luck? Uh, yeah. I'll. I'll spend. How many is that? [02:04:44] Speaker D: $19. [02:04:50] Speaker B: Is this gonna kill me? [02:04:52] Speaker D: Who knows? Ugh. [02:04:56] Speaker B: No, I won't. You're part of Harlem now. If we all go down, I should, too. [02:05:08] Speaker D: Well, take a moment and close your eyes. And you wake up in your beds the next day, completely healed. Completely fine. Yes. [02:05:37] Speaker E: What do you mean, completely? [02:05:40] Speaker D: There's not a scar from your bullet wounds. [02:05:50] Speaker E: Do I have function in my right hand? [02:05:57] Speaker D: You do not. [02:06:02] Speaker E: No. Two fingers. [02:06:07] Speaker C: Where do we. [02:06:07] Speaker D: Wait. [02:06:07] Speaker C: We go. Where do we all wake up? In our respective beds. [02:06:10] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [02:06:15] Speaker B: I scramble out of bed to Raven's room. [02:06:24] Speaker D: It's too early in the morning for you to go banging on those stairs like that. What the hell is wrong with you? [02:06:31] Speaker B: I throw myself in his arms. [02:06:32] Speaker D: Ah. [02:06:32] Speaker B: What? [02:06:33] Speaker D: Okay. This is happening. [02:06:35] Speaker B: What? Are you okay? [02:06:40] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm fine. [02:06:42] Speaker B: Are you okay? [02:06:43] Speaker D: I'm good. Yeah. The fighting was a little hectic, but all's well that ends well. I told you we got it handled. [02:06:52] Speaker B: Oh, I don't think that's. That was it handled? [02:07:01] Speaker D: Just a couple of guns. Just a couple of gunshots. You know, it's fine. [02:07:07] Speaker B: What happened? What happened last night? I. Weaver and you were just, like, unconscious. [02:07:14] Speaker D: No. Sam put out the challenge. Fucked up german dude showed up. They had a scrap, got popped, and that was the end of it. A couple of cops got rung out. We're all good. [02:07:34] Speaker B: What? [02:07:36] Speaker D: What? [02:07:36] Speaker B: Wait, wait. Go back, go back. You said that he got popped. [02:07:45] Speaker D: What do you mean? [02:07:47] Speaker B: He got his head cut off. [02:07:51] Speaker D: That's a weird way to say shab the fucking head, but, you know. [02:07:54] Speaker B: No, like, actually decapitated. [02:08:00] Speaker D: Okay, well, I mean, maybe pieces of his head came off. I don't know. I was. I wasn't really in the mix of that. I mean, we would have been. We would have been thoroughly fucked if the 32nd didn't help us out. [02:08:12] Speaker B: Um. What? [02:08:16] Speaker D: What? [02:08:17] Speaker B: The. The 30? The 32nd precinct? [02:08:23] Speaker D: Yeah, the black precinct. No. Ex soldiers get hired, go to the 32nd. That's, like, the only precinct that hires us. [02:08:41] Speaker B: Oh, oh, oh. We broke it. Oh, we broke it. We broke it. I run out of the room. [02:08:52] Speaker D: You just see your day go into Raven's room, and Raven just sides. I don't fucking know. [02:09:02] Speaker C: I guess I wake up, see things are healed, and. Okay. [02:09:08] Speaker D: Mm hmm. [02:09:09] Speaker C: I rush around the house to see who I can find. [02:09:13] Speaker D: Yes, yes, your brother. [02:09:15] Speaker C: Yes, my brother. Not my mom. [02:09:16] Speaker D: No. [02:09:18] Speaker C: Maji, where's mom? [02:09:22] Speaker D: That's not funny, man. [02:09:24] Speaker C: I'm not one for joking. You know this. [02:09:34] Speaker D: I don't know why you're being a dick this morning, but that's not fucking funny. [02:09:37] Speaker C: Najee, what the fuck are you talking about? [02:09:39] Speaker D: What do you. [02:09:40] Speaker C: What happened last night? [02:09:42] Speaker D: What? [02:09:42] Speaker C: At the precinct. [02:09:43] Speaker D: Mom ran off. She's been gone for God knows how long. Najee, what. [02:09:53] Speaker C: What happened last night? [02:09:56] Speaker D: We all went down to the armory to fight some racist dickhead. No, you got the. You were at the precinct? Yeah, I'm the one that told the 32nd to get their ass over to the armory to help us out. [02:10:10] Speaker E: Would he. [02:10:12] Speaker C: Why would the 32nd help us out? The 32nd is the reason we're in this shit in the first place. [02:10:18] Speaker D: He just goes. [02:10:26] Speaker C: Okay, tell me what you were at. [02:10:29] Speaker D: Oh, my God. [02:10:30] Speaker E: I don't. [02:10:30] Speaker D: I don't have time for this shit. This morning. [02:10:39] Speaker C: I'm gonna. Well, that's work. [02:10:45] Speaker E: Okay. [02:10:46] Speaker D: Okay. Yeah, you said. [02:10:50] Speaker C: Wait, when was the last time you saw mom? Just answer it for me. [02:11:02] Speaker D: Last. Six years ago. What did he say? Five or six years ago? Man, she walked out on this. I've been trying to do my best to take care of this ever since, and it's a lot easier when you don't wake me up with these fuck ass questions. [02:11:25] Speaker E: Where do you. Where do you work? [02:11:29] Speaker D: At the docks. I'm gonna. [02:11:35] Speaker E: Of course I want you. [02:11:39] Speaker C: I'm gonna. [02:11:40] Speaker E: I'm gonna. I'm gonna head out. [02:11:41] Speaker C: I'm gonna go see Addie and JB and Ruby. [02:11:46] Speaker D: Yeah. Don't be later. I have to write you up. [02:11:49] Speaker C: You write me up. [02:11:54] Speaker D: Get out of here. Go. [02:11:58] Speaker C: Race to. Race to those two. Race to Addie's shop. [02:12:02] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm sure Addie's shop is where we reconvened. [02:12:07] Speaker B: That's where I'm going. That's where I'm heading. [02:12:14] Speaker D: What? I. [02:12:19] Speaker A: Think. I think I wake up and. [02:12:29] Speaker D: Let'S have a conversation. You see at the foot of your bed a man in a black suit, a large black top hat and paint on his face. I think we need to have a conversation with her. [02:12:58] Speaker A: Who are you? [02:13:03] Speaker D: That is a question. What is a name? A name is just a lazy story. Not important. But is important is one door closes, window opens it. [02:13:28] Speaker A: Keeper. [02:13:29] Speaker D: Yes. [02:13:32] Speaker A: You said top hat and face paint. My family is originally from Louisiana. [02:13:37] Speaker D: Oh, are they? [02:13:40] Speaker A: Does that sound familiar? [02:13:45] Speaker D: Yes, it does. [02:13:48] Speaker A: Wouldn't occult role do it? [02:13:50] Speaker D: It does. And an occult role is enough for you to know not to say his name. [02:14:00] Speaker A: That's an extreme success. [02:14:10] Speaker B: I. [02:14:13] Speaker A: Was always taught by my mama to be respectful of my elders. And I know better than to call names to things that have power like that. But should I just call you bound? [02:14:32] Speaker D: Apple works for now. [02:14:39] Speaker A: Yes, sir. [02:14:43] Speaker D: You consider me a friend of the family? This ain't the first Time Warner done called my name. It won't be the last time, I'd imagine. Warner. That ain't even right. I hate how they dilute you so. [02:15:04] Speaker A: That's all I've ever known. Sir. [02:15:07] Speaker D: Apologies. Now, you made a proper mess of things and I put it back. Mostly in the right place. I like to think now that I've done that favor for you. I think only right and civil that you might be so inclined to do a favor for me. [02:15:37] Speaker E: Really? Please. [02:15:45] Speaker A: I know better than to turn down the likes of you. [02:15:50] Speaker D: That makes it sound like you ain't got a choice. By the way, your friends, they're gonna be here in about ten. [02:16:06] Speaker E: What do you mean? [02:16:07] Speaker D: Ruby is particularly frazzled. What do I want? See that? Vodka and his friend, they're messing around with old things. Real old things. They tore a hole in this wonderful place for you. Took your finger and ripped it even bigger. Some things came out. Some things that belong to me. A soul in particular, that I'm quite fond of hiding itself in the residence of Harlem. Ain't that a bitch? And I need someone of your inclination to sniff that soul out, give it back to me. Problem is, person with hiding them well, it will require a deft, surgical hand to leave them cogent, but I have faith in them. [02:17:30] Speaker A: I'm good at counting cards, and that's about as far as it gets, sir. That is where my dexterity ends. [02:17:42] Speaker D: And two days ago, you would have told me that magic isn't really real. Now look at us, having this conversation. No idea all the fantastic things you can do at late. I'm keen to show you. [02:18:07] Speaker A: I already made the mistake of ripping into things before looking at the price tag. I take this offer, I take your hand. I agree to whatever bargain you decided to saddle me with. What is the cost? And please, please, just be straightforward with me. I'm tired. [02:18:38] Speaker D: The door to all manner of afterlife is closed to the fine folks here in Harlem. Anybody dies in Harlem, they'll spend the rest of their days walking here until this little, pretty blue ball. Then they just linger in non existence. It's forever. All because one moment in time so filled with hate and malice. Now, I think that that is just too much. That's just too much. And I'm willing, ready and able to open that door again for the fine residents here in Harlem. I just need one soul. Just one. [02:19:25] Speaker A: Who? [02:19:27] Speaker D: Well, I don't know. But I have a feeling that you'll be able to figure it out. And I will give you the means to do so. I just need a. Yes. Your friends will be here in five. Your eyes are prepared to see me. You've been inoculating yourself to the otherworldly nature of things. They come in here and catch sight of me. I don't know what'll happen. JB might survive it. I think his eyes might melt from his sockets, but he'll survive it. Oh, steadfast, hard working Dwayne and little, little old Ruby. I don't know that they'll make it. All right. [02:20:25] Speaker A: God damn it. All right. Do God damn work. [02:20:32] Speaker D: I need to hear you say yes. Real Zeno. [02:20:40] Speaker A: Yes. [02:20:42] Speaker D: Wonderful. And he leans backwards and falls and falls into his shadow. You just hear the faint sound of jasmine sinking. And at that point, the chimes of your store go off as your friends have made it to be shot. [02:21:12] Speaker A: I'll, um. I'm gonna get up out of bed, splash some water in my face, and wander down. My hair's still white. [02:21:28] Speaker B: We broke it. We, like, really broke it. I mean, like, it's not really a bad thing, but it's not really a good thing, either. I feel like we just, like, mess with the laws of time space. Hi. [02:21:40] Speaker A: Hi. It'll be fine, honey. [02:21:47] Speaker B: Are you sure? Cuz the 32nd is all black now, which is not a problem. Well, I mean, I'm assuming it's not a problem since I came and helped. [02:21:58] Speaker C: But, Maddie, you know someone we don't? [02:22:06] Speaker A: I know that voctor and his friends ripped holes in things, and I made it a little worse. JB, you're hearing a little bit of the old draw. The real draw. [02:22:34] Speaker E: I think I would have got there after you guys. I wouldn't have been able to get there as fast as you. So right now, I would think you guys are talking to each other, and it would be about now, like now ish, that I walk in the door. No tie. Still doesn't work. [02:23:14] Speaker A: No. [02:23:18] Speaker C: Did you figure out the price? [02:23:29] Speaker A: I've got some research to do. Some study. [02:23:35] Speaker B: Nope. [02:23:40] Speaker E: Gotta do. [02:23:45] Speaker A: JB, you remember Auntie? The stories that she told? The altar she kept? [02:23:56] Speaker E: Yep. Shouldn't have played around with that. That one sucked. [02:24:03] Speaker A: You remember how up until about two days ago, we didn't think magic was real either? [02:24:13] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:24:15] Speaker B: What are we talking about? [02:24:22] Speaker A: Ruby Dwayne. I, um. You wouldn't know this. Ruby Dwayne knows. My family's originally from Louisiana. The, uh. The root work, the hoodoo, some of it is family recipes. And up until 15 or 20 minutes ago, it was all supposed to be bullshit. Okay, okay, okay. [02:25:00] Speaker B: I don't really understand what you're. What you mean, though, by, um, alter. [02:25:12] Speaker A: I can't call them by their name. They don't like that, and it's dangerous. [02:25:18] Speaker C: They have a title they'd like to be called instead. [02:25:29] Speaker A: I am supposed to refer to him as papa. [02:25:33] Speaker B: Talk to him. Are you in any danger? [02:25:46] Speaker A: Me? Probably. You remains to be seen. But at the very least, he may be able to make sure that the door that was shut on Harlem is opened again. Otherwise. Otherwise? Long story short, anyone who perishes here stays here. [02:26:16] Speaker D: Oh, right. When you say the word open, the chimes to your door go off again, and you see Fredrico. Uh, sorry. Y'all looked like you were having an intense conversation. I didn't know that was gonna go off. [02:26:37] Speaker A: What do you need, Freddie? [02:26:42] Speaker D: You look at Fredriko's eyes, and one of them is now blue. [02:26:49] Speaker B: Oh, no. Oh, how do I know. [02:26:57] Speaker D: It'S not? I come to say, what's up? And Adelaide and JB hear the faint sound of jazz music in. And that is where we're gonna end our story. [02:27:23] Speaker B: What do you mean? [02:27:25] Speaker C: Just a regular old goosebumps over here, ain't you? [02:27:28] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Regular? [02:27:32] Speaker C: Are you afraid of the dark? Ending, huh? [02:27:34] Speaker B: Yep. [02:27:39] Speaker A: Well, um, friends, foes, teens, and all of those beyond the pale, apparently. Um, this has been harlem hellfighters never die scenario for call of cul, 7th edition by Chris Spivey. Um, I would like to send out a personal thank you to mister Spivey for his continued support and, um, general inspiration and badass writing. Hopefully you don't mind that we took a bit of a detour. [02:28:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:28:21] Speaker A: While I piece my brain back together, I would like to take this time to let our wonderful cast introduce themselves. And I'm going to go ahead and start off with not jazz, because jazz looks like they're distressed. [02:28:37] Speaker B: Rob, who are you? What do you do? [02:28:41] Speaker A: And if people want to see what you do, where can they find you? [02:28:49] Speaker E: It can't work. You'll be fine. It's okay. Hi, I'm brav. I'm fine. Um, what's up, y'all? I'm Robert Madison II. I have played your horn, man, the one hand band, JB Williams. Uh, it has been an honor and a pleasure of playing with all of you. This story is not over. We're just taking a quick pause. You can find me at mad doctor Rob on the everywhere. Um, yeah, I'm processing, too. I just have to go first. You see, this is not fair, but that's fine. Um, yeah, uh, typically, you can catch me hanging with obsidian brews, a group of black TTRPG creators that are working to get people of color, especially black people of color, into tabletop gaming. We have been all over the place. This summer, we were at Lerpcon, we were at Gen Con, we were at Dragon Con, and any other con we happen to be at, you can find us at. You know, if you see us at a con, stop by, say hi. When I'm not at a con or doing stuff, I like to make maps in my spare time. And yet again, if I'm made, obsidian bruise, uh, every so often for Monday, maps with me, mad Doctor Rob. Uh, how to make DMG battle maps, world maps, things of that nature. And, you know, come stop by, hang with us, uh, via message. That's fine. You can always check it out on our YouTube or twitch. Um, this has been a lot of fun and stressful and fun, but stressful. And I'm still mad about that 100. [02:30:45] Speaker D: I'm. [02:30:45] Speaker E: I'm so, so salty, y'all. Y'all, look at me. Look at me. Salty. That's fine. Um, yeah, I think that is all the things. Obsidian bruise. We got other live streams going on, so we have a cult divinity, lost livestream that we do and I'm sure other things. So yeah, come hang out with us. I think that'll do for now. [02:31:20] Speaker B: Y'All. [02:31:20] Speaker A: I promise. These usually go better. We're all just, um. Loading. [02:31:27] Speaker B: Loading. [02:31:28] Speaker D: Welcome to the call of Thulu feel bad. [02:31:40] Speaker A: Jazz. My dear, my darling, my love. If you do other things on this Internet, please tell the people where they could find you to watch you do what you do. [02:31:51] Speaker B: I do a lot of things on the Internet. You can find me on the everywheres you see social media except for Instagram because somebody stole it and won't give it back. So instead on Instagram. I am silver star soul. S o u l. Silver star soul. Mostly I just upload covers on there. Um, I'm also discombobulated. Lol. I don't. This is coming out, what, September? Like 18? It's out there. It's out. It's in the future. Well, I don't know when I'm allowed to talk about it, but I've been cast into cool things, so hopefully I could talk about it soon. But you might want to keep an eye on my socials so that you can see me go be really badass and working the one of the other facets of my ethnicity. Yeah, I'm sorry if you also, I like write stuff and stuff. So if you want to read a short story that I wrote, I wrote a short story in the anthology being Ace, which will be out October. You can pre order it on pretty much everything now. And if you want to see me talk about the short story that I wrote, I am going to be doing a little talk with some of the other authors anthology at a place called oh Gosh. Jan's I believe in Beaverton. Beaverton, Oregon. That is going to be October 10, evening time. I'm not sure exactly when, but I'm sure I'll pin it on my profile when it comes out. Come see me talk. It's going to be me and Rosie Thor and Lindsay Miller, I believe, and possibly other folks, I'll let you know. But yeah, if you want to see me write words, if you like the words that I said, you can read the words that I wrote. [02:33:56] Speaker E: I'm done. [02:33:57] Speaker D: I'm done talking. [02:34:01] Speaker B: That's it. Move on, Christian. Tell the people what you do where they can find you, please. [02:34:09] Speaker C: Hi everybody. There's a lot of time. [02:34:11] Speaker D: Hi everybody. [02:34:13] Speaker C: I'm fucking furious. But also, hi, my name is Christian, aka Fluffy Goomba. Here on the Internet, mainly on TikTok and Twitch, you can see me playing several games with several of my friends on several days. I don't really have a schedule now anymore. I'll figure it out. But you can also find me on places like roll for Dylan. Rol, the number four. Dylan for vampire. The masquerades. Darkness over New Orleans. And on Sundays, you can catch me on total party kisses. Tragic theologian, greek myth inspired by v campaign. We got spooky, y'all. We got spooky, spooky and. [02:34:57] Speaker D: Fucking shadow men. [02:35:01] Speaker C: That want to be called papa. Gross. That's fine. That's fine. Our dear, dear black investigators can fix the timeline. It's gonna be okay, scumpy, okay? My brother has a job, and it's better than me. He got the promoter before me. Fuck that. Had to fix that immediately. That's outrageous. That's wild. How dare you, papa? How dare you do. How dare you take my job and give it to that man. How dare you? That's what I'm most mad about. Gave this motherfucker employment better than me. [02:35:33] Speaker D: Fuck you. [02:35:35] Speaker B: You're more mad about that than the fact that your mom ran off. [02:35:38] Speaker C: I mean, she said she was gonna run off. [02:35:39] Speaker D: I don't know. [02:35:40] Speaker C: I don't know what adventure she going off on. She fine. [02:35:43] Speaker D: She aight. [02:35:45] Speaker C: Capitalism's on my door, at my neck. That's the spookiest thing of all. [02:35:54] Speaker D: See, we're. [02:35:54] Speaker B: See, we're all. [02:35:55] Speaker C: We're all laughing on the show. [02:35:56] Speaker D: See, it's all good. [02:35:58] Speaker A: I'm so scared. [02:35:59] Speaker B: We're fine. [02:36:00] Speaker E: We're fine. [02:36:01] Speaker D: Everyone. [02:36:03] Speaker B: Now that you're done traumatizing us, if people want to see you torment other. [02:36:09] Speaker A: Players at your table gleefully, like, don't get me wrong, this is a fabulous fucking story, but my brain hurts. [02:36:18] Speaker B: Please tell the people where they could find you. [02:36:22] Speaker D: I'm not doing what you. I had a great time. Oh, she's chilling. I'm living. [02:36:26] Speaker E: Yo, we were supposed to be cool, man. [02:36:30] Speaker C: We supposed to be transitioning to other adventures, but this might be the last. [02:36:32] Speaker D: Time we talked to each other for real. [02:36:34] Speaker B: Shut the fuck up. [02:36:38] Speaker D: Honestly, this is all y'all fault. And let me tell you why. Y'all were so much fun to play with. I was like, I need to put in a campaign hook. So I was just like, what if. [02:36:51] Speaker B: What if y'all closed the door to. [02:36:52] Speaker D: Heaven, y'all, for me? Fantastic people. Hi, everybody. I'm Noah. Um, shoot, you can find me all over the Internet as Dinard with us. Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram. Hi. Blue sky threads your mama. Ugh. [02:37:17] Speaker B: Excuse me. [02:37:18] Speaker D: Even my mama. [02:37:20] Speaker B: Damn, that's forbidden. Horrible. [02:37:26] Speaker D: All of Elsa here. I'm starting to open up games on. Start playing games. So if you want me at your table to GM, you do some stuff. I mean, look at my players here. [02:37:39] Speaker B: They. [02:37:44] Speaker C: Just take, like, a screenshot, and that's it. We're all just disparaged in different ranges. [02:37:52] Speaker D: Other than that, though, you can catch me at my usual places, go look up my socials, and you'll see what's up. If we have any american horror story fans. Yes, that was Papa Legma. [02:38:05] Speaker C: What happened to black joy? [02:38:09] Speaker B: We had a lot of black joy. [02:38:15] Speaker D: So that's. That's me. I hope. I hope we all have fun tonight. I like the vibe we brought here this chili's tonight. [02:38:27] Speaker A: I feel attacked. [02:38:29] Speaker B: This is Margaret. And when I'm not being traumatized by. [02:38:33] Speaker A: My DM's and GM's and game masters. [02:38:36] Speaker B: And when's that being gaslit, gatekeeped, and game mastered. [02:38:44] Speaker A: Hi. You can call me Laura or Tutu or Laura Tutu. You can find me on the Internet as some iteration of probably Laura Tutu. You might have to remove or add a couple of underscores, because fuck me. [02:38:56] Speaker B: I guess. [02:38:59] Speaker A: I am on Elon Musk's hell site and blue sky and Insta and the TikTok. And more often than not, you can find me hanging out with the folks at Queen's court games. When I'm not hanging out at Queen's court games, I am occasionally tormenting Christian on darkness over New Orleans. And when I'm not tormenting Christian, I'm being tormented by Rob with obsidian Bruise. Jazz and me are just kind of in the shit at the Queen's court. [02:39:34] Speaker B: To be honest, for being bullied. I'm kidding. [02:39:39] Speaker A: I love you. [02:39:40] Speaker B: Send help. [02:39:45] Speaker A: Wait a minute. I think I might be hr. [02:39:47] Speaker B: Crap. Laura. Help. Joke, joke, joke, joking. For legal reasons, this is a joke. If you would like to witness more. [02:40:00] Speaker A: Of this fantastic storytelling that you can get here at Queenscourt Games, you can find us at Queenscourt games. You can check out the Patreon for all sorts of exclusive [email protected]. Queenscourtgames. You can join our discord, which will probably be showing up in the chat. [02:40:18] Speaker D: Here in a second, I don't know. [02:40:20] Speaker A: And hang out with this lovely cast as we scream at our DM's about things that we agreed to let them put us through. [02:40:27] Speaker C: How dare we film the Q and A before this? [02:40:31] Speaker B: I know, right? I thought. I really thought that the. It should have been after, but I'm kind of glad we got the longer. [02:40:40] Speaker A: Goodness gracious, great balls of fire. [02:40:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:40:42] Speaker A: That Q and A you'll be able to find on our Patreon. Exclusive to Patreon subscribers. We do this for most of our productions, so if you want to see more casts, talk about what they loved and what they hated and what ripped their souls out and threw it in place. A blender. Check out our Patreon. But on that pointy ass plot hook. [02:41:05] Speaker C: We were so young. [02:41:06] Speaker A: It was so delicious. And we're gonna grab it like silly little mackerels. Thank you, friends, foes and fiends, for joining us here. We will see you next time. Be excellent and have a great night. Bye.
Previous Episode
Next Episode

Other Episodes

Episode

December 06, 2023 • 02:19:26
Episode Cover

Beam Saber - MEKONG: Symphony for the Devil, Episode 4 [Out Damned Spot]

The party is ambushed by the Lost Boys, a rag-tag band of exiled young men discarded from Mekongese society forced to take up space...

Listen

Episode

July 05, 2023 • 03:32:45
Episode Cover

Pathfinder 2e - Menace under Otari, Episode 1

Set in the town of Otari just across the bay from the city of Absalom the party take a simple job to figure out...

Listen

Episode

February 08, 2023 • 02:44:10
Episode Cover

Vampire: The Masquerade - The Dying Fields, Episode 1

When a courier carrying an important message for the Prince of Chicago goes missing, four Chicago Kindred are dispatched to Willerton, Illinois. Getting there...

Listen