Episode 6

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23rd Aug 2024

TLMC #006 - Vaesen: Revenant to Rest

In the penultimate episode of our Vaesen actual play, the Society members find themselves in a dire situation. With the revenant wreaking havoc at the Witch Cat Inn, the pressure is mounting. Trapped in the root cellar and surrounded by ominous sleepwalkers, escape seems impossible. As the horror intensifies, the team must find a way to banish the malevolent spirit before it’s too late. Will they uncover the secret to stopping the revenant, or will they become its next victims? Tune in to witness the chilling climax of this gripping tale.

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

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Currently presenting A Vase and 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 6 of The Dance of Dreams.

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Prepare yourself for the fear that will flow into your soul.

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I will be honest, it is surprising that this group is still alive after everything

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they've seen at the Witch Cat Inn.

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And it seems they've finally confronted Oscar Yort, the man

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who has been creating such havoc.

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Well, they're in the Root Cellar, a place of magic, and they're dealing

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with Oscar's puppets as best they can.

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But will they be able to pacify Oscar himself or will our society

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members finally find an end?

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Tune in and find out.

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The fight is ongoing between our society members and four puppets now, I believe,

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uh, with Oscar watching on and we're back to the top of our initiative order.

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We begin with Helena.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

So, um, Amongst my equipment, I actually have a camera.

Evelyn:

So I'm going to pull my camera.

Evelyn:

Um, it's one of the writer's items.

Evelyn:

Uh, I'm going to pull it out and I'm actually going to hold it up

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and sort of say out loud to Oscar.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Evelyn:

Oscar, help me find your body.

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And she's going to, or I'm going to like kind of try to utilize the, the

Evelyn:

The camera to help me focus and scan the area more directly rather than trying to

Evelyn:

use my eyes because then I'm focusing on smaller sections as I'm scanning through

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to see if I can see, um, maybe his bones protruding through the earth somewhere

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or, you know, something that gives me a sense that it helps me sort of focus

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better on, on what I'm looking for.

Evelyn:

Oscar, come on, you've got to be here somewhere and I'll, I'll get you.

Evelyn:

Kind of pan the camera across solely as I, as I look.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: So a couple of things, uh, one, when you say, Oscar, you've

Evelyn:

got to be here somewhere, uh, the, the ghost, the creature turns to you and

Evelyn:

focuses directly on what you're doing.

Evelyn:

And you hear, as he says, And then you'll hear him as he finishes it.

Evelyn:

By saying, Helma.

Evelyn:

And, does the camera give you any bonuses?

Evelyn:

Uh, so, my camera provides me a plus two, uh, let me, uh,

Evelyn:

can't remember exactly to what.

Evelyn:

Let me pull that page up real quick.

Evelyn:

Camera.

Evelyn:

Uh, plus two, it's used to gain knowledge about a place with learning

Evelyn:

or investigation, is the effect of it.

Evelyn:

But yeah, the bonus is a plus two.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

Um, let's go with investigation on that then.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Cause that is what you're doing.

Evelyn:

You're investigating, trying to find, uh, what is obscured as it says

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directly in the investigation notes.

Evelyn:

Okay, so it's logic plus my investigation plus two.

Evelyn:

Is that how that works?

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Correct.

Evelyn:

Minus two or minus whatever mental you have.

Evelyn:

That

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just puts me at seven because it would be nine with

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my plus two from the camera.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: That's exactly it.

Evelyn:

All

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: right.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Evelyn:

That is two sixes out of the seven.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Evelyn:

Yeah.

Evelyn:

So by, um, searching with the camera, uh, you are able to find that

Evelyn:

Oscar's remains are buried in the direct center of the root cellar.

Evelyn:

Uh, the, um, the remains are not very deep, but they are, they are buried.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

So then for my fast action, I'm just going to kind of quickly point and, uh, call

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out, he's there, everyone, he's there.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Very good.

Evelyn:

I like that.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

We go to the creatures.

Evelyn:

Uh, the first one is going to, this is the one next to Tova is

Evelyn:

going to attempt to fight you.

Evelyn:

Tova, uh, will you be, yes.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Evelyn:

So you roll your dodge, uh, and I roll my,

TeaCat:

which is hold on two seconds.

TeaCat:

You're

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: good.

TeaCat:

I've already done my role.

TeaCat:

I know what you have to.

TeaCat:

I have to match, oh, no.

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To knock that doesn't, or

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: to move outta the way of another one.

TeaCat:

That

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sounds ominous.

TeaCat:

Okay.

TeaCat:

Dodges agility.

TeaCat:

Okay.

TeaCat:

Which I'm so great at.

TeaCat:

Yeah.

TeaCat:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

TeaCat:

Yep.

TeaCat:

So five plus one, but minus two.

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So four for me.

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Two successes out of four.

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Terry Jachimiak II: So as the sleepwalker attempts to swing at you,

TeaCat:

you very quickly move out of his way.

TeaCat:

Uh, I only had one six, so you were able to very easily dodge.

TeaCat:

Now let me double check to make sure there are no bonus, uh, with additional,

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each success deducts, the attack misses.

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Then required, you may choose to swap initiative to, would you like to

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swap initiative cards with the enemy?

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This would move you up to second in the initiative order.

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I would.

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Terry Jachimiak II: And that moves the enemies all the way to the end.

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And so what, what I'm going to do here then, is we move immediately to your turn.

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When it gets to the enemies at the end, one of them will have already gone,

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so only three more will be able to go.

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And so Tova, you're up.

TeaCat:

Oh, so it's standing right there in front of me,

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trying to get the best of me.

TeaCat:

Well, I am going to crack my knuckles, lean as far back as I

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can, and return a blow if I can.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yeah, that's totally acceptable.

TeaCat:

Um, it will attempt to dodge, because it has that ability.

TeaCat:

Let me look.

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So subtract

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two.

TeaCat:

Oh, I don't think it will stand a chance, but it could.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: It has no successes.

TeaCat:

I have three successes out of six.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Three successes on a, um, wow.

TeaCat:

On a close combat, right?

TeaCat:

Okay.

TeaCat:

Uh, or no, uh,

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unarmed attack,

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: unarmed attack.

TeaCat:

Where is that?

TeaCat:

Unarmed attack, uh, is just force, right?

Evelyn:

All

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: right.

Evelyn:

Um, so yeah, that's going to connect as you take your swing.

Evelyn:

Uh, the creatures unable to dodge out of the way you connect with its midsection.

Evelyn:

You see it keels in half and falls to the ground.

Evelyn:

Another one littering the floor of the root cellar.

Evelyn:

Tova, with that, uh, did you say you're going to save your fast action?

Evelyn:

Yes, I'm

TeaCat:

going to square back up and prepare to

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Terry Jachimiak II: dodge.

TeaCat:

So we go to Robert, or better put, the good doctor.

Robert:

So, at this point, Um, Helena has said, he's here, the

Robert:

body's here, pointed to the center.

Robert:

Uh, have I noticed any implements, like a shovel sitting somewhere or anything?

Robert:

You have not.

Robert:

Uh, what, how, where is she's pointing?

Robert:

Is the ground solid?

Robert:

Is it soft dirt?

Robert:

Um, it is,

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: um, as you look at it, it's hard to tell.

Robert:

Uh, it does look like it's, like, people have walked in

Robert:

this root cellar for 50 years.

Robert:

Well, you

Robert:

know, it's a really, really good thing that I

Robert:

grabbed that piece of the door.

Robert:

Uh, I am going to reach into, I am going to reach into, uh, my pocket, pull out

Robert:

my, uh, snuff box, give myself a good hit because, you know, I'm going to

Robert:

need the extra energy and like throw myself to the center of the floor.

Robert:

And using that sharp piece of, uh, the door frame or whatever

Robert:

it is that it broke off.

Robert:

Dig like crazy.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: So, uh, you're going to need to give

Robert:

me, well, that's pretty easy.

Robert:

You're going to give me a, um, I say that's easy.

Robert:

And then I forget.

Robert:

Can you remember who the doctor is?

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yeah, it's, it's gotta be physique.

Robert:

I mean, You're, you're, you're digging, but

Erik:

we have cocaine.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yeah.

Erik:

You know, um, I'll let you actually, well, force doesn't help

Erik:

you cause you don't have force.

Erik:

All right.

Erik:

Yep.

Erik:

That's physique role.

Robert:

Alright, with an extra die for the cook?

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: No, because for you it's just normal.

Robert:

Oh no, I gave myself a, a larger dose.

Robert:

I, I, I know myself well enough to know that I'm going to need

Robert:

a little bit more than standard.

Robert:

This isn't, this isn't me maintaining, this is, I need a boost!

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Alright, give me a, um, give me a D6 roll.

Robert:

Uh, that's a 5.

Robert:

All right.

Robert:

All right.

Robert:

Yeah.

Robert:

Uh, you'll get a plus one then.

Robert:

All right.

Erik:

I love the vase and cocaine dice.

Robert:

One out of three.

Robert:

When I say one, one six out of three.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: One six.

Robert:

Okay.

Robert:

You've, you've started digging into the ground and you're,

Robert:

you're starting to pull dirt up.

Robert:

So that is, that is working.

Robert:

And I'm, I'm shouting at the top of, Klaus, Klaus, get it together.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: We're going to need you.

Robert:

Okay.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: And speaking of Klaus, Klaus, you're up.

Erik:

Get off me, devil, diva, devil, demon.

Erik:

And I'm going to, uh, I'm not even going to try and break free.

Erik:

I'll grab him by the wrist, kind of grab him by the, uh, the cow, uh,

Erik:

the coat and his head, but, uh, the, the one grabbing me right in the

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: nose.

Erik:

Oh, I like it.

Erik:

All right.

Erik:

So that is an unarmed combat.

Erik:

Yeah.

Erik:

For cocaine.

Erik:

That's still not a success!

Erik:

I've rolled a three and a four.

Evelyn:

Do you have any other dice?

Erik:

I've been rolling everything in the case.

Erik:

Uh, you know what, Terry?

Erik:

I feel I'm gonna push it.

Erik:

I wanna I want it to work.

Erik:

I'm gonna I'm gonna die anyways down here, Tova's gonna kill

Erik:

me so I may as well do it.

Erik:

That's a success!

Erik:

That's fair!

Erik:

Yes!

Erik:

I succeeded once!

Erik:

A singular time!

TeaCat:

The power of Tova compels you!

TeaCat:

This is great!

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: This is very much unlike your internet.

TeaCat:

Um, you are able, you are able,

TeaCat:

you are able to knock that one out.

TeaCat:

Uh, that head, but, um, uh, yeah, you just, Boom.

TeaCat:

And he is, he falls to the ground leaving, uh, leaving two.

TeaCat:

Yeah, Tova's taken care of two already, right?

Erik:

And I just, I just want to double check real fast because I pushed it.

Erik:

I take a condition that is correct.

Erik:

You do

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: indeed.

Erik:

How many, uh,

Erik:

I am now maxed out.

Erik:

I'm exhausted, battered, wounded, angry, frightened, helpless, and broken,

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: but you're not broken on the physical side.

Erik:

I have not

Erik:

broken physically yet.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Erik:

Uh, did you want to use a fast action?

Erik:

Uh, I shall hold for the moment.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Alright.

Erik:

Um, that brings us to the enemies.

Evelyn:

Mm hmm.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: And the one that's, the other one that's next to you,

Evelyn:

Klaus, is going to take a swing at you.

Evelyn:

I wanna dodge!

Evelyn:

Of course you are.

Evelyn:

I have no issues with that.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

What do you get?

Erik:

All right.

Erik:

Uh, dodging was, uh, uh, agility.

Erik:

That's right.

Erik:

It is.

Erik:

Uh, no successes.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Well, uh, it swings at you, but good news.

Erik:

It was a little off kilter, uh, as, uh, You head butted

Erik:

the other one and it misses.

Erik:

Yeah.

Erik:

But the other one, sensing a sign of weakness, will attempt as well.

Erik:

Shit.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: That is one success.

Erik:

I have no more reactions.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: I know you don't.

Erik:

I need you to roll 2d6 of different colors.

Erik:

I shall.

Erik:

One moment.

Erik:

Let me grab the fancy colored one.

Erik:

Come on.

Erik:

That is gonna be a 66.

Erik:

I've rolled good for the first time.

Erik:

And it's a crushed chest.

Erik:

Uh.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: You feel as this creature uses all of its might

Erik:

and rams its fist into your chest.

Erik:

You immediately feel your ribs collapse.

Erik:

I need you to roll a 1d6.

Erik:

Uh, good news.

Erik:

That's a one.

Erik:

I'm rolling all the way across the chart tonight.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Your su you.

Erik:

Um, we'll get, we'll get to your effects when we come around to your turn.

Erik:

Oh, no, I just, no.

Erik:

Hey, wait, Terry.

Erik:

Okay, that's fine.

Erik:

Oh, no.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yeah, you just looked, didn't you?

Erik:

I looked at it, yes, sure did.

Erik:

Yep.

Erik:

All

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: right.

Erik:

We go back to the top, Helena?

Erik:

Uh, yes.

Erik:

Um, just a note.

Erik:

Um.

Erik:

Everybody sees this, and everybody hears the sickening

Erik:

crack of the creature's chest.

Evelyn:

Doctor, I think we might need your help.

Evelyn:

Um, and, um, she's going to look toward the creature that's attacking Klaus, and

Evelyn:

she's going to, or, I'm going to, um, you.

Evelyn:

He is, he is an easy target.

Evelyn:

You come and get me.

Evelyn:

I am harder to get.

Evelyn:

You, you, you, you should not mess with such easy things to hit.

Evelyn:

Come and get me.

Evelyn:

And she's going to, I'm going to try to persuade them to come towards me.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right, all right, uh, so that's

Evelyn:

going to be a persuasion roll.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

Which is, which is manipulation, I believe.

Evelyn:

Persuade.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Evelyn:

Yep.

Evelyn:

All right,

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: so go ahead and give me a roll.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

Um, okay.

Evelyn:

So let me pull up my sheet.

Evelyn:

So it's empathy, which I have five.

Evelyn:

Manipulation, I have zero, so that's three.

Evelyn:

That is no sixes on three dice.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Evelyn:

I

Evelyn:

rolled three threes.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: You see, as, uh, it looks at you again with no emotion

Evelyn:

in the eyes, glazed over, eyes wide, no blinking, but you do hear, as

Evelyn:

you say that, 26, You here as Oscar.

Evelyn:

Don't worry.

Evelyn:

Don't worry, Ilma.

Evelyn:

You are next.

Evelyn:

Alright, we go to Tova.

Evelyn:

Um.

Evelyn:

Oh

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: yeah.

Evelyn:

That would have been my slow, like, slow action, right?

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yeah.

Evelyn:

Do I get a You can,

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: or do you want to save it for a dot?

Evelyn:

And just understand that if you use your fast now, you don't have a dodge.

Evelyn:

Oh,

Evelyn:

I, I, I don't know how the, sorry.

Evelyn:

I didn't know how the

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: reactions

Evelyn:

were.

Evelyn:

So

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: I

Evelyn:

guess I will save

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: it then.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Evelyn:

Yeah.

Evelyn:

I mean, it's not

Evelyn:

going to do anything cause I don't have anything for agility.

Evelyn:

So you'll be

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: surprised so far it's 50, 50.

Evelyn:

So, so we go to Tova.

TeaCat:

Uh, so I would have to, uh, Sorry, move within the zone to get over to our

TeaCat:

good preacher who's flat on his ass.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yeah, yeah.

TeaCat:

Yes, so I'm going to look over my shoulder and see that he's gone

TeaCat:

down and knowing the doctor's probably going to help administer something

TeaCat:

to him, start making my way there because he's going to need some backup.

TeaCat:

And rear back my little bony fist and aim for square in the

TeaCat:

nose of the closest one then.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: I love it.

TeaCat:

And it's going to, it's going to attempt to dodge.

TeaCat:

That's okay because I have totally biffed it for once.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: You biffed it?

TeaCat:

I biffed.

TeaCat:

I have.

TeaCat:

I happen, there is no six S's.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Well, this is, gets interestinger and interestinger

TeaCat:

because I rolled a single six, which means that with a dodge, it can.

TeaCat:

No, it's not going to switch initiative.

TeaCat:

They wouldn't do that.

TeaCat:

So, so, okay.

TeaCat:

So you just miss.

TeaCat:

Okay.

TeaCat:

Um, so we go to, whoo, we go to the, I will definitely hold

TeaCat:

my dog Jackson.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yeah.

TeaCat:

And Eric, just a note.

TeaCat:

I need you just to make sure you real look real quick over page,

TeaCat:

uh, 67 on the insight stuff.

TeaCat:

Um, shouldn't take you but a moment to just really peruse it.

TeaCat:

So we go to the good doctor.

Robert:

Yeah.

Robert:

Hearing this sickening crack.

Robert:

Um, and having a good, pretty good idea of where it came from, because the things

Robert:

that have befallen this poor man, however much you may tease him, Uh, he looks

Robert:

over to see Klaus, or I look over to see Klaus fall, crumple to the ground.

Robert:

I stop digging immediately, and basically pretty much throw myself at

Robert:

his body, grabbing my bag, and look to treat his injuries as best as I can.

Robert:

Um, it, it should be a medicine check for pre critical.

Robert:

It is correct.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Medicine or inspiration.

Robert:

Um, any additional successes will treat further conditions along that line.

Robert:

Um, but, but yeah, what you're trying to do is get rid of

Robert:

that.

Robert:

And precision is four, so seven die.

Robert:

Dammit Klaus, we're not done with you yet tonight.

Robert:

We need you man.

Robert:

Stay with me.

Robert:

I have not given you permission to die

Erik:

I think those things like this is outside your hands, doctor.

Erik:

Ha ha ha, fuck.

Robert:

Your god may have abandoned you, I have not.

Robert:

Two sixes, out of seven.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Alright, so Klaus, The doctor comes over immediately

Robert:

attempting to treat the shattered sternum.

Robert:

On your body, he's able to get you wrapped up and secure it in such a way that it

Robert:

doesn't feel as if it will be fatal.

Robert:

Um, you're able to clear your broken and one other condition.

Robert:

It does not change the fact that you do have that, uh, Insight.

Robert:

And so go ahead.

Robert:

Can I like gently as much as possible and hopefully with him, uh,

Robert:

with, uh, Klaus assisting by use of his feet, like try to drag him over

Robert:

towards where the, the body is already,

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: you already moved towards him.

Robert:

Okay.

Robert:

All right.

Robert:

Figured I'd check.

Robert:

Yeah.

Robert:

All right.

Robert:

Can, can, can you.

Robert:

Can you find it within you to consecrate that ground from here?

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Oh, consecrate.

Robert:

So we

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: go to Eric, to Klaus.

Erik:

The whole area.

Erik:

I don't know, but, uh.

Erik:

Ah, fuck.

Erik:

My flesh and my I don't care

Robert:

about the whole area.

Robert:

There,

Erik:

man.

Erik:

There.

Erik:

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion.

Erik:

Forever.

Erik:

So yeah, get me over there.

Erik:

Uh, and I want to spend my, uh, fast action to get Get to it.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Erik:

All right.

Erik:

Now, uh, I would, we know where it is.

Erik:

I want to use this insight.

Erik:

This, now I believe it just grants me supernatural strength.

Erik:

No,

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: no.

Erik:

So, so

Erik:

I could be vision, open their eyes or control my own destiny.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yes.

Erik:

There are four things you can choose from.

Erik:

Uh, increased skill, which is on the list, which is a plus four to force,

Erik:

I think, for what happened to you.

Erik:

Uh, a vision.

Erik:

Open your, oh, go ahead.

Erik:

I will demand a vision.

Erik:

What do I have to say?

Erik:

What do I have to do to get this thing done?

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: So as the good doctor heals you up and you feel the life force

Erik:

within you at being ever so slowly out, you close your eyes for an instance.

Erik:

As they're closed, warm.

Erik:

Light shines.

Erik:

It's as if you're standing on the edge of a plateau, looking out over the open

Erik:

plains of an area you've never been to.

Erik:

You see the sun low in the sky, shining directly at you.

Erik:

As you're doing this, as you're seeing this, everything around

Erik:

you in the root cellar disappears.

Erik:

It's peaceful and silence,

Erik:

and you begin to understand things.

Erik:

It's as if ideas slowly make their way into your head.

Erik:

You realize that Oscar has mistaken you all for those that killed him.

Erik:

He believes you all are Albert, Katja, Hilma, and Empyree, he knows and feels

Erik:

within himself a need to make all of you suffer before your ultimate demise.

Erik:

You, Preacher, also hear and begin to understand that Oscar

Erik:

can be put to rest, but he must be buried in consecrated ground.

Erik:

You know that you, as a priest, have that ability to consecrate the ground,

Erik:

but that the remains must be dug up first so that the ground can be

Erik:

consecrated before the remains are buried.

Erik:

As you begin to realize this, the sun starts to go dark, and in the

Erik:

next instant you're looking up at the doctor telling you to go and

Erik:

work on digging up the remains.

Erik:

I grab the doctor's, uh, coat.

Erik:

Dig him up first.

Erik:

We got to get him up.

Erik:

Then I can consecrate it.

Erik:

Oh dear lord, someone has destroyed this sanctuary, but I will make it better.

Erik:

For the

Robert:

first time since knowing him, the doctor does not think to even Disagree,

Robert:

ingest and gets back to work digging.

Erik:

Uh, if, uh, I have not yet, uh, used my action 'cause I don't know if

Erik:

using an inside dust, so I will also attempt to dig with my bare hands.

Erik:

Blood still dripping out of the wounds fresh on my body.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Erik:

Yeah, you can prepare to do that.

Erik:

You won't be able to do it, uh, this round, but you are very

Erik:

easily able to do just that.

Erik:

We moved to the two, I believe there's two creatures remaining.

Erik:

No, Tova took one out, right?

Erik:

No, Tova

TeaCat:

missed.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: That's right.

TeaCat:

So there are two.

TeaCat:

The one is going to take a swing right back at you, Tova.

TeaCat:

Okay.

TeaCat:

I'm a dodging.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yep.

TeaCat:

I figured you would.

TeaCat:

And so go ahead.

TeaCat:

Give me your role.

TeaCat:

Okay.

TeaCat:

Two successes out of four.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: It has no successes, so you easily dodge it.

TeaCat:

I'm assuming you don't want to switch initiative though because you're

TeaCat:

in a good spot with initiative.

TeaCat:

I'm a

TeaCat:

very good spot.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Uh, the other one seeing the doctor assist with, uh, Klaus

TeaCat:

will try to swing at the good doctor.

TeaCat:

Uh, do you want to dodge?

TeaCat:

No, you used your fast action.

TeaCat:

Well, I've got good news as he misses you as well.

TeaCat:

So you are safe.

TeaCat:

We go back to the top of the order, Helena.

Evelyn:

Uh, Helena, uh, uh, I am going to just sort of stop my foot.

Evelyn:

No!

Evelyn:

You do not get to ignore me!

Evelyn:

Come get me!

Evelyn:

Leave them alone!

Evelyn:

And I will try to persuade again, to try to get the thing that's attacking

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Alright, give, give me, give me a roll.

Evelyn:

Okay, let's see.

Evelyn:

Persuasion is manipulate, uh, yeah, manipulation, yeah?

Evelyn:

Yes.

Evelyn:

That was just five, because I had a minus two.

Evelyn:

Oh wait, no, that'd be three.

Evelyn:

Minus two, plus one, minus one, manipulation, that's right.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

One success out of three that time.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Evelyn:

They do, they immediately turn to you.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

And they look at you.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

And give me a perception roll, not perception.

Evelyn:

It's called I can't

Evelyn:

roll for perception.

Evelyn:

I don't know what that is.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: I know, give me an observation roll.

Evelyn:

Oh, okay.

Evelyn:

So then that would be a straight five because I have plus two for observation.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Evelyn:

Um,

Evelyn:

Ooh, that's good.

Evelyn:

I got four sixes out of five.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Evelyn:

For a brief moment.

Evelyn:

Yes.

Evelyn:

In the faces of the two that have now turned to you and are moving upon you.

Evelyn:

Mm-Hmm.

Evelyn:

. Terry Jachimiak II: You see the images of your siblings?

Evelyn:

Will you be holding your fast action?

TeaCat:

Yes.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: And we go to Tova

TeaCat:

Terry, I messed that up.

TeaCat:

I believe I had used my fast action to move in to get there.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: It's fine.

TeaCat:

They failed.

TeaCat:

So,

TeaCat:

okay.

TeaCat:

. I was like, oh wait.

TeaCat:

So, I forgot to add that.

TeaCat:

But I will try to return the favor back to the one that just tried to take me out.

Evelyn:

And you know what?

TeaCat:

I'm feeling really feisty, so I'm gonna switch it up and try a My left hook.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: And see how that

TeaCat:

goes.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: It will defend, of course.

TeaCat:

Um, I have a quick Cocked one.

TeaCat:

I don't know how you, it's on its side, but it wouldn't matter

TeaCat:

anyhow, because it's not a success.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Any successes?

TeaCat:

No.

TeaCat:

Zero out of six.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: Wow.

TeaCat:

Your, your, your roles have turned away

TeaCat:

from you.

TeaCat:

I know.

TeaCat:

The creature went down and I'm like, all shambles.

TeaCat:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

TeaCat:

I will hold my action.

TeaCat:

We jump over to the good doctor.

Robert:

Uh, yeah, digging.

Robert:

I am digging as though our lives depend on it because they do.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: Yes.

Robert:

Give me your force or not force.

Robert:

Um,

Robert:

it doesn't matter.

Robert:

Oh,

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: that's right.

Robert:

I forgot.

Robert:

It's the doctor.

Robert:

It's all zero anyway.

Robert:

Uh, one six out of three.

Robert:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Robert:

You put a bit more of a dent into the digging.

Robert:

Uh, you would have needed to move over back to the area, so that

Robert:

would have been your fast action, because you moved to, you moved to,

Robert:

uh, the priest to heal him, right?

Robert:

The preacher.

Robert:

Or the preacher.

Robert:

Was that last turn or the turn before?

Robert:

Yeah, that was last round.

Robert:

I guess it was last round, yeah.

Robert:

Okay, so we move to the preacher.

Erik:

So I'm gonna continue digging as well.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Alright.

Erik:

Uh, so force, right?

Erik:

Here we go.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Uh, no, it's just, um Physique?

Erik:

Oh no, it is force, it is force, yes.

Erik:

That is a single success.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: Alright, uh, as you hit it, you see a bag, the,

Erik:

the beginnings of a burlap sack.

Erik:

Uh, you know with just a little more digging, you're

Erik:

gonna be able to pull that up.

Erik:

Alright, I'm, will hold my fast action.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: The two enemies come to you, Helena.

Erik:

One of them swings.

Erik:

Are you dodging?

Evelyn:

No.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: It will be two successes.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: So when an attack has two successes, which

Evelyn:

this is a close combat, um, you choose to deal additional damage,

Evelyn:

additional damage.

Evelyn:

So it will be.

Evelyn:

Two physical conditions.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: All right.

Evelyn:

Uh, the second one, will you be defending that one?

Evelyn:

No.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: So you all see this, two of them move to Helena.

Evelyn:

She does not defend herself.

Evelyn:

That one misses you completely.

Evelyn:

And you hear Oscar.

Evelyn:

Oh, you don't stand out of the way.

Evelyn:

Good.

Evelyn:

Feel the pains that you sent to me.

Evelyn:

He's then gonna look down at the two digging members.

Evelyn:

And what do you two think you're doing?

Evelyn:

Your death will come soon enough, Albert and Katja.

Evelyn:

Soon enough.

Evelyn:

Helena.

Evelyn:

Um, she's going to Ah.

Evelyn:

I'm going to look at Am I still seeing my siblings looking at me?

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: No, it's gone.

Evelyn:

Ugh.

Evelyn:

I don't like you messing with my head, Oscar.

Evelyn:

Nobody said that was possible.

Evelyn:

Fair play.

Evelyn:

You are a coward attacking people who has nothing to do

Evelyn:

with you and using these others.

Evelyn:

It's pathetic.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: So, uh, you said that.

Evelyn:

Um, would you want to?

Evelyn:

And you don't have to.

Evelyn:

Mm hmm.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: But you did see he kind of tilted his head to the side.

Evelyn:

Mm hmm.

Evelyn:

When you said you've got the wrong person.

Evelyn:

Mm hmm.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Um, would you want to try?

Evelyn:

A manipulation test to help Oscar understand that he's no longer alive

Evelyn:

and that it's been way more years.

Evelyn:

Oh, absolutely.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

All right.

Evelyn:

So then that's just going to be three dice.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Evelyn:

Okay.

Evelyn:

Let's see.

Evelyn:

Go with those three.

Evelyn:

Well, it's two, six out of three.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Oscar looks at you.

Evelyn:

Oh, what do you mean the wrong people?

Evelyn:

I mean, it was 50 years ago when you died.

Evelyn:

I do not know who this Ilma was other than one of the people

Evelyn:

who killed you, but I am Helena.

Evelyn:

He is Klaus.

Evelyn:

She is Tova.

Evelyn:

That is Tomas.

Evelyn:

We are here to try to put you to rest properly.

Evelyn:

Let these people go.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Fifty years.

Evelyn:

It, it can't be.

Evelyn:

It feels like, it feels like yesterday.

Evelyn:

Fif Wait, wait, you're not, you're,

Evelyn:

you're not Albert, my love, can't you hear me?

Evelyn:

You see he kind of backs away a little bit.

Evelyn:

No, fifty years, they are dead already.

Evelyn:

You see as he Takes his hand and brushes it to the side.

Evelyn:

And the two still conscious sleepwalkers crumple to the ground.

Evelyn:

And I immediately kind of kneel down to them.

Evelyn:

I don't know how to check pulses or anything, but I'm They're breathing.

Evelyn:

You can see

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: physical breathing.

Evelyn:

I, I am making sure that they seem okay

Evelyn:

for letting them go.

Evelyn:

Terry Jachimiak II: Fifty years.

Evelyn:

And at this point, you can see that, that he's starting to understand things.

Evelyn:

Um, this is a chance to continue your digs.

Evelyn:

You don't have to roll.

Evelyn:

You're not being attacked.

Evelyn:

You're not, you don't have anything on you.

Evelyn:

You're able to finish digging up and Oscar just kind of watches you, the

Evelyn:

two of you, as you do this, as you finish digging, you see, The burlap

Evelyn:

sack, all that's left in it is bones.

Evelyn:

All of the organic matter, the flesh, the skin, the blood gone.

Evelyn:

What do you do?

Robert:

I very, very gently pick up the bag, um, and move it outside

Robert:

of the dug area because Uh, did I understand correctly that all he needs

Robert:

to con he can consecrate this ground and we can put the body back correct.

Robert:

So, very gently I pick up the bag of bones and light on the side and move out of the,

Robert:

you know, move out of the burial spot.

Robert:

Klaus, it is your turn.

Erik:

Then, uh, I, I spend my slow action to perform this ritual.

Erik:

I, uh, I take, uh, the piece of wood from the doctor and I, I

Erik:

carve out, uh, of resting place.

Erik:

Not haphazardly, but one that was made for this particular soul, a task for him.

Erik:

I hold my rosary in front of me in this new consecrated space.

Erik:

And I say, our loving God, be close to those who dwell in this room.

Erik:

May its walls be a reminder of strength and the shelter

Erik:

that you offer your people.

Erik:

May they remain strong to provide sanctuary and peace to all who

Erik:

enter and to all that will remain.

Erik:

May its sturdy shelves hold provisions for a long winter and a fast summer

Erik:

and all those who would lean on them.

Erik:

May it provide its strength.

Erik:

May its door be a reminder that you stand waiting at the door to our hearts, and

Erik:

may it always remain open in hospitality to the stranger and to the outcast.

Erik:

May the fullness of peace and joy embrace all those who come here

Erik:

to wash away the decades of agony that once filled these walls.

Erik:

In this, to our Lord God, do I pray.

Erik:

And, uh, I take what little burned remains of my bible and I scatter it in the hole.

Robert:

Surprisingly, you hear, Amen, and then suddenly I'm, find

Robert:

myself looking to the left and right as if, did somebody else hear that?

Robert:

I, hmm, okay.

Erik:

I take, uh, the burlap from the doctor and I, I set it,

Erik:

uh, I, I take the remains out.

Erik:

And I set the bones in the way that they would have laid in the space, the arms,

Erik:

the shoulders, the legs, the skull.

Erik:

Facing towards our Lord God.

Erik:

And as sanctimonious a way as I can.

Erik:

Now, uh, to finish this guys, we need to, uh, each throw a pinch of dirt.

Erik:

We're the last ones to see it, so it needs to be all of us.

Evelyn:

All right.

Robert:

Where I'm kneeling down, I just grab a piece, uh, a bit of dirt

Robert:

and, uh, Toss it onto the bones.

Evelyn:

I'll move over, grab a handful of dirt,

Evelyn:

and I feel it crumble in my hand.

Evelyn:

I will tell your story, Oscar.

Evelyn:

It deserves to be told.

Evelyn:

And she'll throw the dirt into the grave.

TeaCat:

I'll walk up.

TeaCat:

After Miss Helena, and squat down to pick up some dirt.

TeaCat:

And look over at Klaus.

TeaCat:

Not bad, Preacher.

TeaCat:

Not bad.

TeaCat:

And toss it into the grave.

TeaCat:

Klaus.

TeaCat:

Here.

TeaCat:

And I reach into my pocket and pull out a little black book with

TeaCat:

a cross on it and pass it over.

TeaCat:

It'll do in a pinch.

TeaCat:

Not what you need, but just enough.

TeaCat:

And I have some pass of my, um, memento hymnal that's been

TeaCat:

passed down from my family.

Erik:

I take it.

Erik:

Sure will do in a pinch.

Erik:

Thank you, Tova.

TeaCat:

I've mocked all my favorite hymnals.

TeaCat:

Dog eared them.

TeaCat:

They're all dog eared.

TeaCat:

Ha ha

Erik:

ha!

Erik:

Um, Klaus, uh, the last to bend over, takes, uh, the softest bit of

Erik:

dirt he can find, sprinkles it over.

Erik:

Now, be at peace and let our song accompany you to heaven.

Erik:

And I will turn to page, uh, 42 and, uh, begin the song on that page.

Erik:

Terry Jachimiak II: As you begin singing, you see, you see Oscar,

Erik:

Oscar's visage, the ghost.

Erik:

starts to reform from a skeletal, ghostly, glowing, ephemeral creature to something

Erik:

that looks more like a person who lived 50 years ago, the same person that you

Erik:

saw in the vision when you entered the root cellar He looks at each of you,

Erik:

nods, and in the next instance is gone.

Erik:

As you stand there, the rest of the root cellar starts to change before your eyes

Erik:

until it looks like a normal root cellar, normal size, looks like it should be

Erik:

on the inside as it is on the outside.

Erik:

You listen and realize the rain has stopped.

Erik:

The bodies that have been knocked out, you all move back into the inn.

Erik:

The next morning, they do wake up, but they have no recollection of

Erik:

what happened the previous evening.

Erik:

Olaus Klint looks at the four of you as you recount the story to him.

Erik:

He's bewildered, curious why the four of you were kept awake and

Erik:

why he ended up falling asleep.

Erik:

Once you ensure that everybody is okay.

Erik:

You all return back to your home and make note of what it is you learned,

Erik:

what it is you saw, and what it is to be a member of the society.

Erik:

Well, you now know the story of the Witch Cat Inn and Oscar Yort.

Erik:

Our society members were successful in staving off the dangers that

Erik:

come with dealing with a revenant.

Erik:

But, the preacher went through much in his ordeal.

Erik:

What will happen to him in the future, no one knows.

Erik:

Nor the rest of our society members.

Erik:

But it can be assured that there are more Vaesan out there,

Erik:

and they will be prepared.

Erik:

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

Erik:

play podcast by Roll for Perception.

Erik:

If you enjoyed the episode, please subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or

Erik:

wherever you listen to podcasts.

Erik:

For more information, And keep your mind calm, for you never

Erik:

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