Episode 4

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9th Aug 2024

TLMC #004 - Vaesen: Pyri's Sins

This week on The Loremaker Chronicles, our intrepid society members face a chilling encounter at the Witch Cat Inn. The inn’s owner, Sami, has been saved from a tragic fate, but something far more sinister has taken hold. Sami believes he is Pyri, his long-dead ancestor, and disturbingly, Pyri seems to know secrets about our investigators—secrets no one should know. As the line between past and present blurs, the team must unravel the dark forces at play. Intrigue deepens, and horror awaits. Tune in to discover the terrifying truth lurking in the shadows.

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Terry Jachimiak II: You're listening to The Loremaker Chronicles.

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Currently presenting a Vason actual play by Roll for Perception.

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Content warning.

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This episode contains discussion and roleplay related to domestic

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abuse, suicide, ghostly entities, and general horror related content.

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Please take care of yourself if these items affect you.

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This is episode four of the Dance of Dreams.

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Prepare yourself for the fear.

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That will flow into your soul.

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And welcome back to another eerie episode of the Dance of Dreams.

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Last time we heard from the society members, they had,

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well, had some issues on the second floor.

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A certain owner of the inn attempted a suicide by hanging but was unsuccessful.

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And then, as Nora's room, it seems as if Tova had been Taking control of giving

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the doctor a good smack in the face.

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Luckily, with some automatic rating by Elena, they were able to determine

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the type of creature they're having to deal with now, but are they

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strong enough to handle the Revenant letter C on this week's episode?

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All right, so last time we met, uh, you all had finished up in Nora's room.

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You had.

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Found Nora's journal, there was a bit of a body taking over a, uh, a Tova's body

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was physically taken over by something and Tova had decked to the doctor.

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Would that be a.

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Good way of putting that.

TeaCat:

Yes.

TeaCat:

I got a mean right hook.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Um, and, uh, if I remember correctly as

TeaCat:

well, uh, we got some information from Helena's automatic writing.

TeaCat:

Mm hmm.

TeaCat:

Um, pre previously to that, some other things that happened, you guys

TeaCat:

had saved a guy, which was real nice.

TeaCat:

Uh, I believe he tied him up.

TeaCat:

So, so I think we're in a good spot.

TeaCat:

So we're going to kind of continue from there.

TeaCat:

You all have these journal entries and as you read through them and for

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those listening at home, we'll go ahead and post these with this episode.

TeaCat:

So other people can read the journal entries as well.

TeaCat:

But as you read through, it seems as Nora had been having some sort of

TeaCat:

connection with a man named Oscar Short, the man that you all have heard about.

TeaCat:

Uh, it's, as you read through the Nor uh, read through Nora's journal,

TeaCat:

you found out that Pyrie writes of his guilt and feelings of remorse

TeaCat:

over the murder he committed.

TeaCat:

You learn that Nora eventually leaves the inn with a traveling theater troupe after

TeaCat:

Pyrie hit her with a fireplace poker.

TeaCat:

It's a lot of information to take in.

TeaCat:

You've got Sophia, they're in the room with you as well.

TeaCat:

What do you all do?

Evelyn:

Who turned up the, who turned up the journal exactly?

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Who found the journal?

Evelyn:

It was in the desk.

Evelyn:

Uh, it was in the desk drawers, and I believe it was like a combination

Evelyn:

of Helena and Klaus who found it.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Erik:

So, uh, look, I ain't the smartest pickle to ever fall out of a tube, but uh,

Erik:

I don't know what to make sense of this.

Erik:

So this, this, this fella ran off with Nora.

Erik:

And now one of them's back to get revenge on the witch cat.

Evelyn:

Uh, I don't know that that's necessarily, um, what's happened here.

Evelyn:

Dad doesn't really read how this, uh, her journal says.

Evelyn:

Uh, you may want to

Erik:

spell it out for me, because, uh, like I said, I ain't the smartest, uh

Robert:

Well, it is about time that we agree on something.

Erik:

Thank you, Doctor.

Erik:

I'm always glad to have you here to mellow me out.

TeaCat:

Well, to be fair, Doctor, I'm not too smart either.

Robert:

You do just fine, Tova.

TeaCat:

Yeah, Doctor.

Erik:

So what do we think our next move should be?

Erik:

We got the passed out innkeeper over there and some sort of aberration.

Erik:

Did we ever find out what that was again?

Evelyn:

Well, based on the information that he relayed during

Evelyn:

the shadow puppet, uh, play thing,

Evelyn:

it seems it might be Oscar Hjort.

Evelyn:

Based on the information we gathered before, there was mention of

Evelyn:

the French artist in Versailles, um, and all of those things.

Evelyn:

So based on this journal, this Peary Killed Oscar.

Evelyn:

Yes.

Evelyn:

Uh, Oscar is back for vengeance.

Evelyn:

It seems.

Erik:

Right.

Erik:

Well, do we know what sort of creature he is now?

Erik:

I know I, I ain't the smartest pumpkin in the bunch, as I've said about

Erik:

three times now, but, uh, we need to find out what that is and what we

Erik:

can do to, I don't know, appease him.

Erik:

Did you say?

Erik:

The memory's coming back to me.

Erik:

Didn't we say Revenant?

Evelyn:

It could be something like that.

Evelyn:

Um, could be a ghost or poltergeist of a sort.

Evelyn:

Um, seeing as he is, um, well, possessing people at random.

Robert:

It would seem that way, Helena.

Robert:

I do not think we have quite enough information, but that is as good a

Robert:

hypothesis as I can see at the moment.

Evelyn:

Yes, and it is Sammy Fellow, the owner of the witch cat.

Evelyn:

We saved him from killing himself, but we should be careful

Evelyn:

around him once he comes to.

Evelyn:

It seems based on this that his temper has been, um, well utilized

Evelyn:

on Nora as well as his daughter.

Evelyn:

And, and I'll kind of look back toward, uh, Uh, daughter's name, Sophia, I'll

Evelyn:

look back towards Sophia and kind of give a, uh, not a pitying expression,

Evelyn:

but a kind of trying to sympathize.

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I understand her, the pain that she's felt at the hands of her father and my sympathy

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about what happened to her mother.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Sophia, uh, kind of bows her head.

Evelyn:

And you see there is an extreme kind of, it's one of those things where she

Evelyn:

is hiding what she believes is shame in her family, um, she says, um, I, uh,

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she takes in a deep breath, I, um, I just, my, my father's all I have left.

Evelyn:

I understand.

Evelyn:

Family is complicated.

TeaCat:

Beg your pardon, Miss Helena, but, um, speaking of such

TeaCat:

things, maybe we should check on him to see if he's still unharmed?

TeaCat:

Perhaps?

Evelyn:

Yes, um, perhaps we should, in fact, check on him.

Evelyn:

And

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: now he was tied up in one of the other rooms.

Evelyn:

Uh, you all, uh, you, you get to, did you guys use rope or chain?

Evelyn:

I can't remember.

Evelyn:

The

Evelyn:

doctor knocked him out with some sort of medical

Evelyn:

application, if I recall correctly.

Evelyn:

And then he was bound.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yes,

Evelyn:

I might

Robert:

have

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: sedated him.

Evelyn:

It was, it was what, it was the old one, two punch.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: And how did, um, how did you bind him?

Evelyn:

Uh, specifically?

Evelyn:

Uh, probably with whatever was at hand.

Evelyn:

Hawk tied, hawk tied him.

Evelyn:

I just, just tied his hands up or, uh, I hear Teev, Teev,

Evelyn:

Teev, Tova saying hog tying.

Evelyn:

Was he bound to the headboard and the footboard?

Evelyn:

Tied to the headboard and footboard of the bed.

Evelyn:

Just.

Evelyn:

We have to exercise him.

Evelyn:

Um, all right.

Evelyn:

Not that type

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of exercising.

Evelyn:

Good thing we have a priest, I suppose.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: You see, as he does, he, uh, you walk over to the room.

Evelyn:

Remember, the door is down as it was bowled over, um, by our preacher friend.

Evelyn:

And you see that, uh, uh, uh, Sammy is, uh, sitting there.

Evelyn:

His eyes have kind of glazed over.

Evelyn:

And.

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He's trying to figure out how to remove the bindings on his hands.

Robert:

Seeing that his eyes have glazed over, I kneel, I kneel down

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next to him and check to make sure that his vitals are within reason.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: And it does appear, he seems to be fine with regards

Robert:

to his health, his physical health, he does kind of turn towards you.

Robert:

The eyes still kind of turn.

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Dead inside and he says, my sins must pay for them.

Robert:

These are not your sins, Sammy.

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These are the sins of one who is here before you.

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What sins have you committed?

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My,

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: my sins?

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The of the death.

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I, I must, I must.

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I must repent and my sins, and he continues to kind of repeat this.

Robert:

Uh, this is the same.

Robert:

I smack him.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Oh, oh, damn,

TeaCat:

damn.

TeaCat:

Uh, you smack him.

TeaCat:

He's been taking lessons from me lately.

Robert:

But dear Tova, I do pay attention.

TeaCat:

Just next time, doctor, a little more oomph behind it

TeaCat:

would be more satisfactory.

Robert:

His head.

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I shall endeavor to do my best.

Robert:

His head whips back, and

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Terry Jachimiak II: you see his, he burrows, furrows his brow.

Robert:

Thank you.

Robert:

It's me again.

Robert:

If you insist, I smack him again.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: You see there's some blood coming from the corner of his mouth.

Robert:

He turns back to you.

Robert:

Again and don't stop.

Robert:

Um.

Robert:

I'm beginning to grow concerned that you may be enjoying this.

Robert:

I do not take any pleasure in doing this to you.

Robert:

You

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: I'm just trying to bring

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you to your senses, man.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: You are helping me repent.

Evelyn:

The greatest repentance would be to apologize to your daughter for the

Evelyn:

pain you have inflicted on her, rather than pitying yourself and sit wallowing

Evelyn:

in your own quote unquote repentance.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: When you say daughter, he looks at you confused.

Evelyn:

What, do I notice this as well?

Evelyn:

Oh yeah, he's gonna say, what daughter?

Robert:

Before I answer that question, who are you?

Robert:

Are you?

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: My name's Pyree.

TeaCat:

Oh, well, good.

TeaCat:

Klaus, you're very much needed in here.

TeaCat:

The doctor.

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Terry Jachimiak II: Good job, Klaus.

Erik:

Right, hang on.

Erik:

I'll walk on over there.

Erik:

We just hitting this man?

Erik:

What the hell?

Evelyn:

It seems he might have company.

Erik:

He got toved.

Evelyn:

I just furrowed my eyebrows at him.

Evelyn:

She didn't give him a right look.

Robert:

I, I, I turned to the doctor.

Robert:

Oh, not to the doctor.

Robert:

I turn to you, Klaus.

Robert:

I am the doctor, hello.

Robert:

Probably not, I'm, everyone is not feeling themselves these days.

Robert:

Uh, it would appear, preacher, that Sammy is not home at the moment.

Robert:

Meet Pirie, or so he says.

Erik:

Well, well, uh, nice to meet you, Pirie.

Erik:

Ah.

Erik:

So, uh, I hate to tell you, but this ain't, uh, ain't your form, you're

Erik:

normally, you said, uh, earlier, you want to repent your sins.

Erik:

Tell me exactly what sort of sins you want to repent on.

Erik:

I'm a man of our Lord God.

Erik:

And well, if you're going to repent, then glad I'm here.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Uh, as you ask that you see, as he begins to stand

Erik:

up, try to at least try to stand up.

Erik:

I

Erik:

suppose I'll offer him a hand and help him stand.

Evelyn:

With his hands and feet bound, he's going to fall on his face.

Erik:

Yeah, I'll, uh, yeah, I forgot about that.

Erik:

Uh, part of the connection issues, I suppose.

Erik:

Yeah, I'll actually, uh, lean him up and I'll put him on his

Erik:

feet and kind of hold him there.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: He, uh, takes a moment.

Erik:

I must repent my sins.

Erik:

My sins.

Erik:

Of murder.

Erik:

Murder of who, son?

Erik:

Don't worry.

Erik:

In the eyes of the Lord, all sins are forgivable.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: He looks at you.

Erik:

I only did what I was told.

Erik:

I obeyed my orders.

Erik:

And I slit his throat.

Erik:

Whose throat did you slit, Pirie?

Erik:

The blood was warm as it dripped upon my hands.

Erik:

I could feel his life ebb out of him.

Erik:

His eyes fluttered into the back of his head.

Erik:

Whose?

Erik:

Pyrie, answer the question, please.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Oscar.

Erik:

Well,

Erik:

uh, I, uh, I hold my Bible out in front of me.

Erik:

Well, son, that is, that is a grave sin.

Erik:

Who ordered you to do this?

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Give me a You're gonna need to roll on that.

Erik:

Uh, I'm gonna need a Brah, brah, brah, brah, brah!

Erik:

Manipulation check.

Erik:

Alrighty, well, uh, manipulation is empathy, which I have five in, and

Erik:

then I have two more in, uh Manipulation itself, so that'll be seven total.

Erik:

That is, uh, not a single success.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Well done.

TeaCat:

Well, it was nice knowing you.

Erik:

I've outlived my usefulness.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Uh, Sammy slash Pyree looks at you.

Erik:

No, no.

Erik:

And he's going to Sorry, I'm Yeah, he's going to try and dive on to a

Erik:

shard of the door that is sticking up.

Erik:

Um, he's essentially trying to impale himself.

TeaCat:

Oh no.

TeaCat:

Tova!

TeaCat:

I tackle him, I lunge at him, and shift my little old body.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

TeaCat:

Uh, we're going to need a force.

TeaCat:

Okay.

TeaCat:

Force.

TeaCat:

Force is with physique.

TeaCat:

Yes.

TeaCat:

Physique.

TeaCat:

Force.

TeaCat:

Yeah.

TeaCat:

Oh, this'll be good.

TeaCat:

Cause I have a five in physique.

TeaCat:

And three in force.

TeaCat:

I love this.

TeaCat:

Okay, good.

TeaCat:

I got all my dice.

TeaCat:

Hopefully there'll be a six in there.

TeaCat:

No.

TeaCat:

How does he know?

TeaCat:

Well, it was nice knowing him.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Would you like, would you like to push it?

TeaCat:

Yes.

TeaCat:

Yes.

TeaCat:

I think I will.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

TeaCat:

So re roll all those dice.

TeaCat:

You will take a condition.

TeaCat:

Oh,

TeaCat:

let me at least have a six for condition.

TeaCat:

I think that is, oh, yep.

TeaCat:

Only one.

TeaCat:

Only one six.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: One is better than zero.

TeaCat:

So, uh, you.

TeaCat:

Begin to lunge and he twists ever so slightly beginning to move out of the

TeaCat:

direction that your lunge occurs while in midair, you're able to very quickly,

TeaCat:

um, grab him and pull him around so that he misses the shard of wood completely.

TeaCat:

You though, do you manage to catch a piece of it?

TeaCat:

Do you have any conditions yet?

TeaCat:

No.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Alright, so we will go ahead and give you, uh, let

TeaCat:

me grab the, where the conditions are.

Evelyn:

So physical or exhausted, battered, wounded, mental or

Evelyn:

angry, frightened, hopeless.

Evelyn:

Wounded.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Thank you.

Evelyn:

It'll be perfect.

Evelyn:

And he falls to the ground and he, you can see him start to shake his head.

Evelyn:

Oh, let me do what I need to do.

Evelyn:

Let me do what must be done.

Evelyn:

I smack him again.

Evelyn:

How hard are you smacking him?

Evelyn:

Just how I showed

Robert:

him.

Robert:

I'm not like trying to take his head off or anything.

Robert:

Just,

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: just enough.

Robert:

All right.

Robert:

All right.

Robert:

Yeah.

Robert:

So, um,

Robert:

So, yeah, you hit him, uh, and he stares right back at you again.

Robert:

You're not allowed to do anything without my say so.

Robert:

Now, we, uh, you and I are going to have a talk, Pyre.

Robert:

You say you killed him.

Robert:

Where did you bury his body?

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: You see a change comes over his eyes,

Robert:

and he just shakes his head.

Robert:

Right.

Robert:

Information is not for you to know.

Robert:

Not for me to know.

Robert:

Perhaps.

Robert:

Or perhaps we can make a deal.

Robert:

I open my medicine bag, and

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: I show him a syringe.

Robert:

Do you know what's in here, Pyree?

Robert:

No.

Robert:

Oh, it's most

Robert:

exquisite.

Robert:

I use it for those who are in so much pain that they can no longer

Robert:

handle the suffering of this world.

Robert:

And they yearn for its release, like you yearn for yours.

Robert:

If you tell me where the body is buried, I will grant that which you ask.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: He stares at the needle on the syringe and you

Robert:

see that deep down he wants that.

Robert:

And he, you see his mouth starts to move as if he's going to tell you.

Robert:

By the way, I'm keeping it way,

Robert:

way from him.

Robert:

Oh yeah.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yeah, you're not putting it right up next to his, uh, neck.

Robert:

Oh man, there will

Robert:

be, there won't be no.

Robert:

Oh,

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: he just wants to go.

Robert:

Oh, thanks doc.

Robert:

That's fantastic.

Robert:

Uh, no, it was

Robert:

actually an effing headroom.

Robert:

Does

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: he keeps, he keeps.

Robert:

Um, trying to say something, but it's as if something else is holding him

Robert:

back from releasing that information.

Robert:

Uh, uh, uh, uh.

Robert:

You see he's exhausted.

Robert:

Just end me now.

Robert:

Please.

Robert:

I could not end your pain until we are able to lay the spirit to rest.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: And you see he kind of surrenders himself to his current fate.

Robert:

You do notice that there is ideas rumbling around.

Robert:

You can see his eyes are looking around the room, almost as if he's trying to

Robert:

figure out other ways to end his life.

Robert:

He doesn't say anything more.

Robert:

Okay, I'm going to do a shot in the dark here.

Robert:

Do I have anything in my medicine kit that I think might be able to help

Robert:

loosen, help him loosen his tongue in a way that is whatever's keeping him,

Robert:

you know, if, if it's a, if it's a brain function of his brain, as opposed to.

Robert:

Whatever else it might be.

Robert:

Loosen his lips.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Um, possibly, uh, I mean, most of your medical gear is going

Robert:

to be, uh, generally for making sure that people are, uh, safe and, um, healthy.

Robert:

Other than that one particular item I'm carrying.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yes.

Robert:

That item is slightly different.

Robert:

You know what?

Robert:

Hang on, doc.

Robert:

Oh, go ahead.

Erik:

No, I got something that might help.

Erik:

Um, and he digs into his, uh, his, uh, hip satchel, uh, and

Erik:

pulls out a fine bottle of wine.

Erik:

Now look, I don't know, uh, exactly how y'all's medicine work, but I

Erik:

know this right here is plenty enough medicine to keep my lips talking.

Robert:

I'm staring at the bottle of wine in utter shock.

Evelyn:

You're going to get this.

Evelyn:

Man drunk too.

Evelyn:

It might work.

Erik:

Buzzed at the very least.

Evelyn:

It might work.

Evelyn:

Worth a shot after all.

Erik:

If you ain't got nothing else, it's the best idea I got.

TeaCat:

Well, if it doesn't work, we are in an inn and I believe

TeaCat:

there's a full bar downstairs.

Evelyn:

We could definitely ply him with plenty of alcohol, I am sure.

Erik:

Situation like this calls for the fine stuff.

Evelyn:

The communion wine?

Erik:

It's not communion wine.

Evelyn:

It smells like communion wine.

Erik:

This right here is a 50 year old red.

Evelyn:

Someone ripped you off.

Erik:

This

Robert:

is not stuff.

Robert:

Damn it.

Robert:

A 50 year old red.

Robert:

And at that point, I'm no longer in envy, I'm just shaking my head.

Erik:

Look, look, it's fine for what I usually get, alright?

Erik:

It's not ale, it's not beer, it's not whiskey.

Erik:

Well,

Evelyn:

he might do the trick no matter what, so we should try it, I think.

Erik:

I'll, uh, I'll sit down beside him and, uh, I suppose I'll take a

Erik:

couple glasses that he might have used to drink water in the night and I'll

Erik:

pluck those off and grab a, uh, grab him and pour a couple glasses and kind

Erik:

of, since his hands are tied up, I kind of hand it to him for a second and

Erik:

then I'm like, Oh, hey, wait a minute.

Erik:

Uh, and then I kind of like, uh, put it up to his lips.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: As you begin to raise it to his lips.

Erik:

He turns to you, squints, and says,

Erik:

How are the nightmares going?

Erik:

One night at a time, I suppose.

Erik:

He, uh, he takes a deep breath in.

Erik:

And

Erik:

does she continue to follow you?

Erik:

Who's this she you're talking about?

Erik:

Hmm, I know your little secrets.

Erik:

The night terrors?

Erik:

Yeah, well, this helps me forget about those too, so, if you're

Erik:

looking to offer yourself this is the most relief I can offer in that time.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: You do know it's your fault, right?

Erik:

Yeah, yeah I do.

Erik:

But I ain't gonna leave.

Erik:

Not till I make it right.

Erik:

It may haunt my every dream until then, but I'm not leaving till I make it right.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: They're not dreams.

Erik:

What?

Erik:

They're not dreams.

Erik:

You can see that he smiles ever so slightly, and when he does,

Erik:

you notice, um, out of the corner of your eye, through the doorway,

Erik:

in the hallway, Just momentarily, standing next to Sophia is a creature.

Erik:

It looks like an old, almost decaying figure of a woman, long, thin arms,

Erik:

long, thin fingers, the lips pulled up, the teeth showing bare, no shirt, very

Erik:

little rags covering her lower half.

Erik:

And a pair of black wings that just jut out of the back.

Erik:

There for a moment, you see her.

Erik:

And when you lock eyes with her, you see that she smiles.

Erik:

When you blink again, she's gone.

Erik:

Oh, fuck.

Erik:

Uh, I take the glass I was gonna put in his mouth and I drink it all in one slug.

Evelyn:

Hey, hey, you're, you're, you're, you're, you Getting

Evelyn:

rid of our coaxing method.

Evelyn:

Stop drinking all of the supplies.

Erik:

Sorry, I needed one then too.

Erik:

Oh, fuck.

Erik:

Um, you conjuring these bastards?

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: The hell was that?

Erik:

He shakes his head.

Erik:

I do not I don't need to conjure them when they're already around here.

Erik:

It follows you.

Erik:

Usually happens at night though, so you gotta be doing something.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: He kind of tilts his head to the side

Erik:

again, with a grin on his face.

Erik:

I suppose it's better to have that follow you around than other things.

Erik:

Like what's happening here?

Erik:

You see that he kind of looks around the room momentarily, kind

Erik:

of stopping at each of you, before he then looks off at Sophia.

Erik:

I'm not the only murderer in this room.

Erik:

I look up towards Sophia.

Erik:

Now, sweetheart, he's just saying words, trying to make you do something.

Erik:

Don't, don't listen to him, alright?

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Oh, I, um, I've not murdered anybody.

Erik:

I'm, I mean, best I've done is protect myself.

Erik:

And she looks at the four of you.

Erik:

Could he have been talking about one of you

Robert:

all?

Robert:

Sophia, that is not even your father speaking.

Robert:

It is a creature of lies that currently inhabits him.

Robert:

Your father hasn't killed anyone as far as we know.

TeaCat:

Doctor.

TeaCat:

Uh, perhaps we should move Sofia into her mother's room for safekeeping.

TeaCat:

Sofia maybe lock the door, so she doesn't have to listen to

TeaCat:

whatever this is trying to say.

Robert:

That's a good idea, Tova.

TeaCat:

Come along, Miss Sofia.

Robert:

Uh,

TeaCat:

oh, oh, okay.

TeaCat:

You lock the door as soon as I leave, okay?

TeaCat:

And don't let anybody in.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Alright, I won't, I promise.

TeaCat:

Okay,

TeaCat:

good girl.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: She shuts the door and you hear as it locks from the inside.

TeaCat:

I walk back

TeaCat:

to the room.

Erik:

Now, I believe you were trying to tell me where the location

Erik:

of that corpse was so we can put an end to this little nightmare.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: You waste your time.

Erik:

You waste everyone's time.

Erik:

I do appreciate this little conversation, though.

Evelyn:

And why is that exactly?

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Because it allows me to think and learn about you all.

Evelyn:

How is your mother?

Evelyn:

I wouldn't know.

Evelyn:

He

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: chuckles softly under his voice, or under his breath,

Evelyn:

you can tell that whatever he's doing, he's enjoying the little games, but you

Evelyn:

also realize very certainly that this is definitely not Sammy, or at least

Evelyn:

it's Sammy, his body, but definitely not who he was when he was downstairs.

Evelyn:

The entire floor feels as if it gets easier.

Evelyn:

Even chillier.

TeaCat:

Isn't this where you perform some kind of fancy

TeaCat:

exorcism or something, Klaus?

TeaCat:

Or, I don't know, something useful from the future?

Evelyn:

I mean, you got the wine out and you drank it instead

Evelyn:

of feeding it to this man.

Evelyn:

Are you not going to do that?

Erik:

I was going to, then you started talking about my goddamn knot tears.

Erik:

Forgive me if I got a little distracted.

Evelyn:

Refocus.

Erik:

Now, look, you want to offer yourself to, to do get

Erik:

back at, uh, to repent your sins.

Erik:

Look, I can offer you this help, uh, ease the pain,

Erik:

put yourself right.

Erik:

Cleanse yourself a little bit.

Erik:

Would you take a sip for me son?

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: He looks at you and he says I hope the glass

Erik:

out again.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: I just want

Erik:

to die.

Erik:

Well, each sip of this is like a little death.

Erik:

Here, open up.

Erik:

And I'm just gonna kinda pinch his lips.

Erik:

And I'm gonna kinda pour it down his mouth.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Okay, yeah.

Erik:

No, he takes it into his mouth.

Erik:

And then he spits it into your face.

Erik:

You feel the wine warm as it hits your skin and drips down, dying the white

Erik:

parts of your outfit, a maroon color.

Erik:

I turn to the rest of the party.

Erik:

Well, I'm out of ideas.

Evelyn:

I told you it was cheap wine.

Evelyn:

Nobody likes that.

Robert:

I admit that.

Robert:

It's not cheap.

Robert:

I freely admit that my.

Robert:

Dealings with matters of faith and the church and whatever your church is, uh,

Robert:

maybe a touch out of date, but Don't you have anything in the fire and brimstone

Robert:

category that you can bring to bear?

TeaCat:

A holy water.

TeaCat:

Where's the holy water?

TeaCat:

Please, Klaus, please don't tell me you're the only preacher who

TeaCat:

doesn't even have holy water on them.

Erik:

Oh Lord.

Erik:

I had a choice between a Bible and holy water at orientation

Erik:

and I chose the Bible.

Robert:

And

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Uh, do you plan on using the Bible anytime soon?

Robert:

Um,

Robert:

quick question,

Evelyn:

Klaus.

Evelyn:

Could you not find water to bless to make holy water?

Evelyn:

I mean, isn't that sort of what priests do?

TeaCat:

Oh, thank God for Miss Helena.

TeaCat:

Oh, you're so smart.

TeaCat:

Somebody's smart in the here.

TeaCat:

Besides the doctor.

TeaCat:

The doctor is also very smart.

TeaCat:

I might point out that Miss Helena is second.

TeaCat:

That's smart.

TeaCat:

Thank you, Tova.

Robert:

Yes, uh, thank you, Tova.

Evelyn:

Anytime, Doctor.

Evelyn:

I mean, you have this nice As far as

Erik:

I'm aware, there's no way to make items of power

Erik:

without, you know, doing stuff.

Erik:

I don't exactly have the things to do it.

Robert:

I feel compelled to ask at this point.

Robert:

Are you really a preacher?

TeaCat:

That is quite fair and sensible.

Erik:

This is not helping us, this is not helping us solve this mission.

Erik:

I'm just saying, guys.

Evelyn:

We might be able to find a vessel and fill it with water

Evelyn:

and you can bless it, perhaps.

Evelyn:

I only know what I have learned from research for my book writing,

Evelyn:

but that is I think in the basics of exorcisms, from what I remember?

Evelyn:

Uh, is

TeaCat:

there not a washstand in this bedroom, perhaps?

TeaCat:

You mean like that

Evelyn:

one right over there?

Evelyn:

And I'll point towards

TeaCat:

the

Evelyn:

picture.

Evelyn:

Miss Helena is so smart!

Evelyn:

Perhaps we can collect some water from the

Erik:

I can try.

Erik:

I can, I can offer a blessing, but as far as I'm aware, making the actual

Erik:

item requires a lot more than that, but you know, I'll give it a shot.

TeaCat:

Miss Helena, have you ever considered being a preacher?

Evelyn:

I think I like being behind the words more than I

Evelyn:

like shouting them at people.

Robert:

Quite sensible.

Robert:

To be, to be fair, Miss Helena.

Robert:

Our resident preacher apparently isn't fond of shouting the words

Robert:

either, so where I stand, you're already ahead of the game.

Evelyn:

You can do this, Klaus.

Evelyn:

I have faith in you.

Robert:

I never thought I would be counseling a preacher

Robert:

with performance anxiety.

Evelyn:

I mean, I imagine an exorcism be fair.

Erik:

There's a whole section of the church about exorcism.

Erik:

You know what, fine, I'll give it a shot.

Erik:

Uh, I'll walk over to the vessel of water and I'll pour it into the glass.

Erik:

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Erik:

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Erik:

Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us for our trespasses, as we

Erik:

forgive those who trespass against us.

Erik:

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Erik:

For thine kingdom, the power, and the glory, is forever and ever.

Erik:

Amen.

Erik:

I bless you, water, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Erik:

And I take it, uh, a little sprig, and I just start spraying him with it.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: And so, this is gonna be an empathy roll.

Erik:

As that is your main attribute.

Erik:

Um, one thing though, this is not an easy thing to do.

Erik:

And as such the level of difficulty, it has been raised to difficult.

Erik:

That means you need to achieve three successes on Empathy Roll.

Erik:

Yep.

Erik:

How many you got on Empathy?

Erik:

Five, so.

Erik:

All right.

Evelyn:

Well, it was nice knowing you, Klaus.

Evelyn:

A question really quickly.

Evelyn:

Yep.

Evelyn:

How do the conditions affect the rolls?

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Oh, do you have any mental conditions?

Evelyn:

He has two.

Erik:

Uh, angry and frightened.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Which means you subtract one die for each mental

Erik:

condition, as Empathy is a mental.

Erik:

Ah, perfect.

Erik:

I have three dice, and I must roll three successes.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Um, okay, good, good, good, good.

Erik:

Don't forget you do have your advantage to use if you so wish during this session.

Erik:

I don't remember what your advantage was.

Erik:

Uh, mine is actually applicable.

Erik:

Mine is reading the Bible, so.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Okay, okay, so that would add two dice back to your pool.

Erik:

Perfect.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Perfect.

Erik:

Alright, now we're back from impossible to lightly possible.

Erik:

Alright,

Erik:

here we go!

Erik:

Uh, that is two successes.

Erik:

Oof.

Erik:

So close.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Um, alright.

Erik:

You, you begin, or you, you, you, you have attempted to bless, uh, the water

Erik:

and as you've been doing it, um, you do indeed feel a sense of, of something

Erik:

that begins to kind of take hold of you.

Erik:

Uh, it's, it's been a while, but you do feel as if God is,

Erik:

uh, channeling through you.

Erik:

But in the next moment, you feel a hand on your shoulder.

Erik:

No one sees anything, but you feel the long, thin fingers as a gently

Erik:

place themselves on your shoulder.

Erik:

You feel the cold breath as it moves towards your neck and in your ear.

Erik:

You hear not

Erik:

today, preacher, you feel the cold.

Erik:

seep into your bones as a shiver.

Erik:

And everybody sees the manifestation, this shiver that encompasses the

Erik:

entirety of the preacher's body.

Erik:

You will take a mental condition.

Erik:

Ah, I'm broken.

Erik:

You are not the fourth one.

Erik:

You go broken.

Evelyn:

You're angry, frightened, hopeless now.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: At the same point that this happens, um, who's watching Sammy?

Evelyn:

I've

Robert:

got my eyes on Sammy pretty much the

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: entire time.

Robert:

Um, as he's doing the blessing, you see, as Sammy's eyes go wide,

Robert:

as you said your prayer, they.

Robert:

Um, the, the, the, the pupils dilate fully and you hear him

Robert:

as he kind of exhales it's time.

Robert:

And as he exhales, you see his whole body goes limp.

Robert:

In the next instance, his eyes close and he falls to the ground, fully unconscious.

Robert:

I checked to make sure that he's breathing.

Robert:

That he has a pulse, the strength of his

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: pulse, he has a pulse.

Robert:

It is, it is weaker than say, uh, someone who is perfectly healthy.

Robert:

Um, but the pulse is there, you know, that he is breathing.

Robert:

Um, it is as if he is in a deep slumber, as if something had

Robert:

taken all of the energy with him and wiped it out completely.

Robert:

I'm trying to slap him again is it's time for what Sammy it's

Robert:

time for what what is it time for

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: and he doesn't respond as you're smacking him who's

Robert:

closest to the door of the room

Evelyn:

probably me

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: okay um you hear coming from downstairs

Evelyn:

well that is an awfully eerie noise for our society members they've had quite the

Evelyn:

adventure this week haven't they Dealing with Pyrie, who is Sammy, who is Pyrie,

Evelyn:

who is Sammy, the Doctor seems slap happy and, well, there's the whole situation

Evelyn:

with what Pyrie has mentioned regarding murders and mothers and a ghostly

Evelyn:

creature that follows the preacher around.

Evelyn:

It'll be interesting to see how they handle this, come next week.

Evelyn:

Thank you for joining us for the Dance of Dreams, a vase and actual

Evelyn:

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Evelyn:

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Evelyn:

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Evelyn:

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Evelyn:

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Evelyn:

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Evelyn:

Until next time, stay vigilant and keep your mind calm, for you never

Evelyn:

know when a VASIN might appear.

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