Vaesen RPG - Firebreak, preshow and game

[Music] okay right so for those that are listening this is a bit of pre-game discussion that we're going to have the the pre-gens i've put together can be slightly tweaked and customized here and there and as they're also beefed up a little bit from starting pc level um they're going to have roughly taken place about five Investigations before this scenario starts so they'll have castle upgrades accordingly so i've selected a list for each pc that's relevant to their occupation stroke archetype and that they can then discuss between them what they want so we'll do talents

first because we've got a starting talent which i've selected and then given you an option of Ones that are specific to your archetype and also then a list of general talents which are also related so just going through alphabetically we'll start with the doctor you've got your chief physician one already uh what of the other talents which one would you like i'm gonna go with emergency medicine so when i'm performing medicine i ignore mental conditions Gotcha probably should rewind a bit then for thinking because certainly these are going to have mechanical terms that not everyone

is familiar with unless you've played year zero games before so a quick overview of how the basic mechanics of the game work on your character sheet the last page in the pdf that was sent across on your right hand side you'll have sections which are marked attributes Resources conditions and skills almost always when i'm going to be calling for you to make a role it will be for a skill role in which case you've got agility close combat force medicine etc going down that part of the sheet in brackets next to it it has the

associated stats you roll both together so if i ask for agility and it has physique after it you're rolling a number of dice equal to Your agility skill plus your physique's score as well so for example i've got the academics pre-gen sheet up here she has one agility and three physique so she'd be rolling four dice now in the section above skills you've got conditions if you fail a skill roll you have the option of What's called pushing the roll which is where you essentially exert yourself or you take mental strain however you wish to

narrate it happening and then roll any dice that you've rolled previously for that check that didn't come up as a six sixes are successes uh they're not subtracted by ones or anything like that it's just a straight six is a success The vast majority of the time you'll only be looking for one success but if the role is particularly difficult then it might require two successes or if it's very difficult might require three successes they'll be flagged at the time as to what you need and how many successes you require for a particular role you

generally select the first three of either physical or mental conditions first When you get to broken that's pretty damn horrible for you either you're falling unconscious or you're god being battered and bruised and ripped apart um in an ongoing game you would potentially pick up severe and ongoing permanent injuries from those things so things like maybe you've lost a leg lost an arm there's a whole table full of different Critical injury results that you roll for when you when you tick off that broken option they're divided into physical and mental conditions for each condition that

you have it's minus one dice off any dice pool that relates to those particular linked stats so your physical attributes are physique and precision uh precision Your mental attributes are logic and empathy so if you've got and it's cumulative so if you've got physical let's say exhausted and battered ticked that's -2 dice off any of your physique and precision base rolls if you've got just angry ticked on mental then it's just one of your logic or empathy based roles there's another type of role which will almost certainly Come up which is quite central to the

game which is called a fear check think of it as sanity check in call of cthulhu terms when that's asked for there's a number of different um modifiers which are going to come up in in play you choose to either roll a number of dice equal to your logic or empathy and as members of the society and as player characters you get a plus one bonus up to a maximum of plus three for Every other pc that's with you that can stack with certain talents like brave or safety in numbers brave gives you a plus

one safety in numbers gives you another modifier based on how many people are with you but it stacks on top of that ordinary rule of you're friends with you up to a maximum plus three so you could be rolling quite a few dice example with again the academic has a logic of five has an empathy of three we'll go with the five because it gives You the more dice so more chance of success if she's got three other people with her then that's an additional plus three if she's got the brave talent that's an additional

plus one they all stack and give more and more dice normally one success is good but creatures have or base and have what's called a fear rating where if the higher that number that's The number of successes you need to get if you don't reach that number of successes the number of successes that you get subtract from that total and you take conditions based on what's left so example you have a creature with a fear rating of two you roll one success on your uh fear roll you get the one remaining so two minus one

it's got one you take that many conditions On your sheet and roll one d6 to show um to show how long that's going to last basically how long you are flipping out that could be that you end up fainting cowering in fear running away attacking the beast uh irrationally it's up to you to decide how you wish to react it's a bit like a sanity check in a lot of ways there's one other way you can help boost your Dice rolls for skill skill checks that's called getting an advantage there's various steps that investigations in

basin are quite structured but you get the chance usually towards the beginning of the scenario when you know what's going on and you can start preparing you can start to think well i'm if i'm going out into the woods and i'm going to be Hunting creatures maybe i want to get maybe want to brush up on my range combat skills you choose a particular skill which you want to get a one time one single use plus two bonus on a roll and it's just a quick descriptive thing that you you tell me as the gm

for instance using like the hunter as the example um before we head out into the woods i'm getting out my gun i'm cleaning it thoroughly giving it a good Polish checking the sights and say i want to allocate my advantage to my range combat role now people have certain bits of equipment already listed on the sheet the reference pdf which i've sent across has the list of equipment because it's a very set list certain equipment gives a certain bonus in a particular situation so you'll have the bonus as the plus usually between plus one and

plus three On the equipment sheet there's an availability rating next to it which i'll get to in a second because that relates to resources and then you have the description of when that particular bonus applies and to what particular roles it applies to going down the right hand side of those of those tables for example you've got again the academic has a book collection which gives a plus one bonus to learning roles In a particular situation not counted as part of equipment but counted as an item which is mentioned in your backgrounds is a memento

example again for the the academic is it's her journals this is where she writes down all of her notes about her various findings her research and so on working for her magnum opus A memento is an item which you can say at one point during the game when you've got usually uh a free or quiet moment when you're not like in the middle of combat for example say i'm going to sit down and i'm going to interact somehow with this and again thinking in cthulhu terms it's a bit like interacting with one of your connections

or one of your uh background elements it's a way for you to get rid of a condition on your Sheet so you can do that once for one single condition so then therefore you remove the minus penalties that you get for for that one particular one now also during the game you might find in that preparation phase that you want a particular piece of equipment you think well we're going into a particularly cold waste i want to Have plenty of fuel to make fires with or wood to make fires with exact for example before game

we will get this out the way now rather than do it uh in the middle of game and plug it up with dice rolls you have a resources rating on your sheet everyone gets to roll that amount of dice at this point and then tell me individually how many successes you get How many sixes you get i have one resource so yeah the vagabond is not renowned for having lots of money i'm burning my uh burning my luck early i rolled three dice and got two sixes oh nice okay then what am i what am

i looking for when i roll uh you're looking just for sixes so generally the other numbers don't count really during play they'll count for Certain tables what are we rolling sorry matt yeah number of dice equal to your resources two okay nothing nothing for the doc nothing for the servant and the vagabond there we are right so you have two from the two from the hunter and two from the priest you have collectively four points of Resources that you can cash in and if there's particular pieces of equipment that you want you can go and

get them from the equipment list and the availability rating is how many points that's going to cost so those are in the upgrades section uh they'll be on the reference pdf that i sent across as a separate dog it's Equipment not the right right so it looks like but it's four spread across all of us like if tom spends one then we all collectively have three more to spend that kind of thing yeah you you put it in a pot and it's then down to you as uh as the group to decide well what do

we want between us and then also who gets the item or items that you wish to purchase We also we have our our starting equipment too though like our memento and whatever else yeah yeah yeah so because certain archetypes get things like weaponry for example they have that equipment to begin with but others there you go but others don't necessarily get weaponry as starting so they might have to buy it with resources so we should probably have between us at least one source of light Right so choosing a hurricane lamp that's two though well you

don't necessarily have to choose that now uh this because you might find that there is certain piece of equipment that you think this is more relevant to what i know i'm going to need to do later in the scenario once you know what's going on so we can sort of equip ourselves retroactively As long as we agree not so much retroactively but once generally what happens is that the scenario has the investigation has something that kicks it off oh normally it be something like and then a letter turns up at the castle saying please come

help my village blah blah blah and it gives you certain details about what's going on you would then think well this is the situation what equipment do i think i Will need and then go out and buy stuff so it's not something you have to do from the start you you get an idea of what's going on first so mr erickson uh oscar erickson i i happen to i i have a i have a lantern ah are we really going to you don't have to go to the lantern store No we're not i am definitely

not going to attempt so okay so when i'm looking at something like the chapel it says cost six does that mean six resources that would um the cost is mainly because i've copied it straight out of the uh the book that would be a development point cost that would be development points Because the when you when you undertake investigations in the game individually you can get experience which there's basically a long list of one-on-one it's a list of questions that you answer things like did i take part in the game did i learn something new

was this a new vase and that we encountered uh did we perform extraordinary actions to save people that that kind of thing and for each um each question that you as an Individual pc can answer yes to you get an experience when you get five of them you can cash them in and either increase a skill or buy new talent but also collectively as a group if you answer a different list of questions you get development points which you can use to enhance the castle now in the in the fiction castle gillankrupts has been derelict

For about the last 10 years after the the fall or disillusion of the society you as the new group that have come in here starting to uh basically resurrect the society and take on the mantle of trying to do the fight against the basin you are exploring the castle piece by piece in little sections that when it's safe to do so the place is dilapidated so various bits of it are not safe to go into but between sessions you might be Brave enough okay cash in certain development points and discover things like the chapel that

you hadn't previously found found before but it costs in that sense the cost is the number of development points out of your pool that you would need to spend to be able to get access to it certain ones also have prerequisites but for the for the sake of this i've tried to pull up ones that only have prerequisites of things like have a Particular archetype in the group rather than relying to someone else to have to buy a certain thing before you can then get something else because it's like a tree diagram it goes off

in lots of different directions so with with that in mind are there any other people having a look at their sheet and having a look at the available talents there any other mechanical terms that you Have seen that you want explaining i don't know if i missed this or not but i've played other year zero um games so is it for every condition you get a minus one to your dice pool i i've seen that mechanic in other ones okay yeah yeah yeah yeah make sure i had that right yeah that they stack yes and

then when you're broken is it you can't take any action at all that's a that's a feature in a different Year zero game yeah you're generally in cap or otherwise jibbering in a corner depending on whether it's physical or mental but there's also a permanent or critical injury table which you roll on to see how messed up you are as a result if if you get a lucky role you might not be messed up you might actually get an insight which is almost a almost like a superhuman quality in addition to having the site whereby

you can see basin All right yeah sometimes it can actually be beneficial never for me because my dice don't [Laughter] right so going back to the dock we've got the emergency medicine talent so you're ignoring mental conditions when using medicine correct medicine is generally more of a long-term use ability That it requires like a day of healing to take place in a controlled environment like a hospital wing etc or private uh private wing but the exception to that is when someone hits broken you can go in and do emergency medicine or like emergency first aid

so up until that point it's a case of no you've got to stay in bed but the minute you get to death stories now i can actually help you a bit quicker And next up alphabetically we've got the hunter so you start with marksman and what of the the other five which one would you like a bloodhound oh okay so plus two to vigilance when tracking your prey all right next up we got the priest so you start with blessing and which other one would you like and that's there's there's like five listed Here yeah

there's two specific to the priest archetype and then three which in theory anyone can get well not not completely understanding the mechanics of the game it does sound like absolution might be good a player character who confesses to you as an act as an activity heals three conditions instead of two yeah yeah so getting rid of multiple conditions at one time never a bad thing And next up the servant so you've got tough as nails as your starting talent which other one would you like um let's see so and and again i get to choose

between the archetype specific talents and the general talents correct yep that's right okay oh this is all so many of these are just ones per session i'm guessing session is is the duration of of the game yeah so let's see i'm gonna go for something Longer okay here we go this will come in handy brave gain plus one to all fear tests very good one now that's plus one to the die or that's plus one uh a die to roll well whenever it says plus on something it's an extra dice uh number of dice equal

to the number got it okay so you'd for your fear test you would normally roll either your logic or empathy you Get to add plus one dice to that yeah and the vagabond so you start with suspicious nothing ominous about that at all not at all uh and uh that gives me the opportunity to ignore mental conditions making vigilance tests when does one make a vigilance test right vigilance circumferences vigilance is a skill so that would be all right again i've got a one plus my Logic yep so that's the fourth fourth skill up from

the bottom of the list for everyone else vigilance is a bit like a spot hidden role it's it's for a general awareness of when knowing when stuff is about to go down wow yeah i am suspicious uh i chose the right to choose the right archetype um i think that that i should choose the general talent defensive Okay so each turn you get one extra action that may only be used to dodge or parry so i'm hard to hit gotcha now to explain how again that bit of the mechanic in combat combat works a bit

differently than regular just like roll initiative we have a series of cards to determine initiative now what i'll do for for this being online if it was in person i'd just lay Down get you to pull out a card from the deck and put it in front of you for this i'm going to shuffle it and then i'm going to lay out cards bit like what we do with when we play deadlands so i'll lay them out in order of where people are on my screen so i can keep track of who's on what number

these cards can move between players so at the beginning of A round of combat before anyone's acted you can talk amongst yourselves and swap cards with another player so for instance the doctor might want to swap cards with the vagabond the servant might want to swap card their card with the priest just as long as you're within in the fiction terms a talking range so you are actually in the same scene and the same location you can coordinate who goes when and goes in what order in terms of resolving the initiative Order low is good

so it starts at one and then goes up to ten it's not a count down its account up and also cards go to your opponents as well they're also for certain abilities that if you get extra successes on your skill roles there are certain effects which can mean things like you steal cards from your opponent if you get more successes than them in combat if you're going up Against an mpc for example and also then there's things like dealing extra damage if you get more successes but there's a whole list of options which rather than

go through them all now and bombard you with a lot of info on top of what you've already got i'll go through those options as and when you meet the criteria so you've got the list of what you can do then that thing there's also things like Giving other people successes as well in certain certain criteria so what how did the um vessen get where do they fall into that they have a natural number that comes with their type or same thing i draw from the same deck and there's basically num there's cars between one

and ten and generally you won't be fighting more than well it's almost impossible to fight more than 10 Individual participants in a combat um if it did end up having to share cards because you've got that many pcs and that many enemies groups can act on one particular number as well now why i went into this whole thing to begin with is because of your defensive thing each active participant in a combat unless otherwise specified like by your defensive talent has two actions that They can perform a fast action and a slow action the again

the reference sheet i sent across gives you examples of what fast action is and what a slow action is a slow action is something like make an attack it's or make a particular skill roll the kind of things that you would think would normally be an action in combat fast actions are things like trying to dodge trying to parry Etc or move as well you don't necessarily have to spend them on your turn you can use your fast action to say i'm going to try and dodge incoming attack that comes towards me before it's my

turn in combat but if you've done that and then someone else attacks you later and you haven't got any fast actions left you can't dodge you've already had your one attempt at dodging The vagabond has the opportunity of being defensive but having a second yeah you get an extra fast action so you get two chances to say either dodge or parry but so one of the that extra one you get can only be used for that right i think that's everybody's additional talent selected so going back to the the top of the alphabetical order castle

upgrades so which Everyone's got three that they can look uh that they can choose from this is on on top of the normal ones that every group starts with that you have the library and you have your uh your man servant algo frisk so of the ones that the doctor has which one would you like are you you're a muted sorry i forgot i muted myself it wasn't like this time i'll take the infirmary being the doctor that phil's fitting Good one so i've been able to push recovery roles this is uh what i mentioned

about having uh permanent or critical injuries you make recovery roles to see if they're going to be permanent or not so that is a good one to choose and that's all characters right not just me yeah anyone that gets a critical uh suffers a critical critical injury You can take them to the infirmary they make the recovery roll as normal but you then get the option to push it so you get a chance to as you take a condition and then try and help them yeah rather than being able to take the condition and be

able to push it next one the hunter which of the talent which of the upgrades would you like the kennel oh so you got some dogs There we go just highlighting these on my sheet so i've got a reference of which ones people are taking as soon as my machine responds come on right next up the priest which one would you like well i think i'll go for the chapel um You got both sides of the recovery roll then covered right the infirmary covers the uh physical conditions you're going the mental ones right and also

place with the you can potentially get holy water as well that's right yeah holy water plus it says they can push all mental recovery roles yeah so it's the same kind of thing as The infirmary but for mental conditions rather than or mentally broken rather than physically broken the alternative gardening gardener somebody to take care of the garden it does it does say that all the food is nutritious and you can also make poisons but i think i'll go for the chapel for them let's make sure our mental and physical state sir Right and next

up the servant okay i'm eyeing the gymnasium or the workshop the workshop it looks like it only helps one player though yeah it does whereas the janae gymnasium helps anybody who spends some time there can heal a physical condition that sounds like it's very helpful it's cost is more expensive though how what is that cost coming off of again Uh for the purpose of this don't worry it's development point costs that you would normally you accumulate them between scenarios or between investigations then you cash them in for these upgrades later but for this because it's

a just representing the fact you have had previous missions don't worry about the cost okay so i'm going to pick the gymnasium for everyone and again that's that's so that everyone Can play their character who spins one scene in the gymnasium heals a physical condition go for a workout suddenly get healed i have a feeling we're going to have a lot of physical in that condition yeah i think so yeah i'm saying nothing right now as appealing as choosing a local tavern is in part because we get to name it uh given that we have

two physical Recovery spaces i'm going to go with parallel to the garden the chef so we have an efficient housekeeper with a passion for large portions as a vagabond that's probably especially attractive to me um so yeah fancy dinners at the headquarters and provisions without having to roll for them for going out into the world So we have better than hard attack i should mention what the kennel does it's the kennel uh it's an enclosure for breeding and training dogs the asset being during the preparation phase this is where you potentially can assign your advantage

say that one that one time plus two bonus um each level allows the player characters to bring a gutter bring a guard dog or hunting dog without using resources so you don't need to spend Points to get a nice little doggie and those doggies as per your equipment list are pretty good yes i know i have a dog i believe eric said has a dog but this will give us another dog without i think i think erickson's dog is a pet dog which seems to be a little bit different than a hunting dog does the

kennel give you a hunting dog yes yeah okay it gives you a hunting dog or a guard dog interesting i have a hunting Dog and they are incredible i see that yeah oh what does a pet dog do that is so different i think it has from memory it's on your sheet as being what if it gives you close combat plus one in close combat okay so she protects me and doesn't track or something yeah they all the different dogs have slightly different advantages they have different uh Bonuses they give in different circumstances but yeah

they're usually pretty good um and i just learned the swedish pronunciation of my dog's name so again again with the i'm probably going to butcher pronunciation as well as uh as well as trying to avoid any offensive accents so just because we have a swedish chef doesn't mean you shouldn't be Impersonating swedish chef resist [Music] it's a total language though so um it's like i've mentioned before the johanna lund hog school in sweden is actually pronounced johanna lund and if you don't say it that way they don't understand what you're saying because it's a tonal

language like chinese And by the way it's been probably a month or so since the muppet tarot deck came up on the discord but it is it is now eight cards and the and it's the swedish staff guys yeah drunk i never drew a muppet horse before it's fun oh i want that to be a physical deck that is so fun right um I think the only other thing maybe that might be just good to reiterate uh for again a structure of normal characters as well is a little bit about the background of the setting

okay each of the pre-gens you've got has a personalized background but to put it in context of like the wider game that Your group has come together as a result of realizing that you all individually have the sight and so that you are you're also what's referred to as thursday's children as per one of the old nursery rhymes that you are people that have undergone trauma that has allowed you to see basin uh vasana say creatures from folklore in scandinavian mythology that have generally always existed alongside humanity But within the last well people aren't people

debate on how long it's been but within the last maybe 100 years or less that there's been a change in how that interaction occurs with humanity um it used to be previously that there was more of a harmony between the supernatural and the world of man now they're very much at odds i mean sweden at this point in time in the 19th century is A rapidly changing place this is the time of industrialization the foundations of the modern world and a move away from the old ways this is the rise of science over religion etc

etc but it's very much a time of conflict and change and tumult but you've all had brushes or encounters with vase and as say detailed in your Background and after maybe trial and error that you've eventually found references to this organization referred to as the society the long-winded uh more grandiose title that was given to it in the in the past was the society for the studies of the invisibles and protection of mankind a uh wonderful kind of just rolls off the tongue title that the various people shortened to the society The society was spread

all across scandinavia it wasn't just based in sweden it wasn't just based in upsala where you have found yourselves but it had little chapter houses all over the place and the one that you have come to find uh castle gillankarts is in uppsala northern northern part of southern which has historically been sweden's second city Um it's very much a seat of learning it's a seat of academia and there's various other key institutions in the city as well it's got its own cathedral there's various bits and pieces that you'll find here physically isn't a particularly big

place but it's more it's more prestigious than large and from here your characters have arrived and met up with a lovely uh lady who generally prefers to remain in the Insane asylum these days uh linear effort clint who has provided you with the keys and deeds to castle gill and crooks as a former member of the society well ten years ago something happened and the society just disappeared but that is somewhat shrouded in mystery and in fact the the deeper history of the society also remains somewhat shrouded in mystery But your group have come together

to try and pick up the mantle and either take the fight back against the vase and or try to put right the wrongs almost in a quantum leap kind of fashion there think of what caused the vason and humanity balance to be upset because not all vase and you have to go in there and smash them over the heads and beat them around because generally they're always spirits In a lot of cases physical violence isn't going to be the way you solve cases vasen have a particular way to deal with them like a like a

ritual that could be used to banish them or be used to drive them away violence is very rarely your friend but violence still works against people and people can still be a big part of the problem because something usually has Happened or been uh brought about by human intervention that has caused a problem to come to the surface with a basin so it's all about investigating the situation finding what's what's kind of upset the apple cart identifying which basin it is that's active in the problem and finding the ritual that can be used to put

that problem to bed like violence never never a guaranteed Solution um you've got a vast library in this in the castle which details a lot of exploits of previous uh previous investigations so that's always a good resource to dive into and do some research there also people know about basin they've encountered previously so you'll have your own knowledge you can draw upon but yeah that's the The general general aim of the society is to protect humanity from problems as they arise from the basin can we do a quick rundown of what the skills are applicable

to yes all right let me also do the stats as well as to what they relate to so physique um you'll see that each Attribute has three skills tied to it and it's kind of relevant to what the attribute does in this case so physique is kind of general brawn and it says physical activities excluding things like agility which is what precision covers so agility is like athletics uh close combat is weaponry com close combat not unarmed combat force is where your unarmed combat comes In but also things like raw acts of strength things like

pushing open um but bench pressing or forcing open doors that that kind of thing so brute force and ignorance uh medicine is pretty much as it says on the tin it's for using uh to heal physical conditions range combat is again as it says anything that is a combat attack which is done at range so Uh guns crossbows slingshots that kind of thing uh stealth pretty obvious investigation is a combination of kind of a research crime scene investigation or not the research that's learning um things like crime scene investigation is probably the best example it's

going into a scene searching it finding clues that are There learning is kind of like a no role in cthulhu terms it's what what you've got up here but also can be research like library use and so on uh vigilance or you said things like spot hidden awareness hey don't don't try and uh sneak attack me from behind nasty monster inspiration is the equivalent of first aid or equivalent of medicine but it's For mental conditions so this is the the role that you would make if you want to try and like a psych role that

you would try to calm someone down and take away their mental conditions from them manipulation is getting people to do what you want them to do and oh and inspiration also is things that you can like rile up will not rile up You can inspire crowds and generally like work a crowd doing public speaking but manipulation is more like hey i want you to do something and i'm going to say the right things that make you do what i want you to do observation is a bit like a psych role it's like a lie detector

so it's where you can where you can see what's uh what's going on in a person's head rather than necessarily what the words Are saying and then what do we do with the little experience thing underneath that if we succeed we click one uh that would be normally at the end of a session if you're playing a series of ongoing games um i would present you with the list of questions that i mentioned earlier and for everyone that you say yes to you get to tick one of those boxes and then when you hit five

you cash them in for advancement But yeah it's only only in ongoing games you need to worry about those [Music] are we about ready then yeah i think that pretty much covers all the bases greetings fellow investigators and welcome to our video podcast into the darkness where tonight my friends and i will be playing the vasen role-playing game i'm your host tom raley the scenario is called fire break it was written by matthew sanderson who Is also our game master and this is a one-shot so without any further delay let's can let's begin our journey

into the darkness matthew right thank you very much tom so it is the latter part of the 19th century in uppsala sweden and on the northern side of town we have castle gunkrutz this somewhat run down up until fairly recently was uh Thought to be abandoned derelict building which has now become the home to the newest iteration of the society as it's called five lovely members that surround us on the screen here it's about the look of midway through autumn hot summer days and evenings are a bit of a fading memory by this point the

skies are grey and overcast there's plenty of wind and rain and given the Castle is dilapidated that means that there's pretty much the sound of constant dripping water in various parts as there are holes in the roof um weak walls and yeah it's uh not the best of weather to say the least and we start on a gray wet saturday morning very early in the morning in fact Just after dawn and you are all let's say not living per se but you're definitely based in the castle because you never know when there's going to be

a request for the society's help come in so you have rooms at the castle where there are various areas that have been renovated over the course of the last few months that have been made more habitable Probably the those of you that are the unluckiest amongst the bunch probably still have a hole in the roof that you're trying to uh patch up but hey not everyone you have a man servant uh al got who pretty much turned up when you when he realized that you as a group had come together to form this new iteration

of the society and offered his services and he is got a grumpy Butler that's very much overworked and you're fairly sure he's not paid uh do we want to pause if we've lost him why not he's back see you're fairly sure he's not paid and that may explain why he's uh why he's so grumpy and we begin with a knock on each of your doors by the aforementioned now got requesting your presence as something Has apparently taken place down in the the entrance hall that he thinks you would probably uh want to have a look

at thank you al god yeah oh thank you be right down danger or not um he pauses in that kind of um i think the uh danger has passed for the individual in question but maybe not for the rest of us Fair enough male or female pretty sure he's male 1 but yes uh either i'd advise probably uh we we get this out of the way sirs and madames uh before having uh before breakfast is uh is served we don't want you to bring it back up again and he leads you to the entrance uh

the entrance lobby And it becomes quite apparent quickly as to what he's referring to that on the inside of the two large oak double doors that act as the main entrance to the castle there's something been written on the door across the door in blood the blood of which has come from the severed head of what looks to be a teenage boy who is lay uh just the head Is laying on the stone floor in front of the door in front of the double doors with a look of surprise and terror still etched onto its

very dead face and the message that's written on the door is thus where is jonah i think you have until sundown I don't i don't know johan do any of you know a johann well we're swedish we probably know 50 of them it is a rather common name do does the the lad look familiar at all nope you've none of you recognize him he's poor kid i wonder what the the rest of his body is uh gustav i'll call my my dog over oh god goes comes over wagging it's wagging Its tail uh i want

gustav to to smell the head i want to try to follow the scent to see where where because this is just the head where's the torso where's the blood the rest raining outside gotcha yeah you can give me for tracking Tracking the scent you can give me a vigilance roll [Music] we're gonna get plus three because of the dog does bloodhound help me out here or no check on the snaps of bloodhound because it says plus two visuals when tracking your prey this isn't really prey but does it is it just like flavorful when it

says pray i i think it's Flavorful because it is still tracking and it's something that you are trying to find so we'll give you the benefit nine days that is two sixes okay right so even with the with the rain it doesn't seem to be putting uh putting the little yapper off uh he does go straight towards the door uh he's kind of anxiously bouncing around waiting for someone to open the Door all right i'll open it okay and as you open it there's a lady stood on the other side who was just about to

knock who suddenly is taken aback by the fact the door opens immediately in front of her and behind her probably about six inches taller than her is a man that's in rather distinctive uniform lots of blue and gold of the local constabulary so he has a Sword down by his side as part of their normal normal attire um she steps back slightly oh uh you must have heard us coming um she reaches into her long coat and pulls out a small leather fold a leather document pouch and holds it up detective i've completely forgotten her

name a detective carell From the from the uppsala police police station i was coming here to ask a few questions as it seems like there's been an incident on your on your property yes yes come in come in yeah this is coming out of the rain we just became aware of it but matt does does the dog want to keep Going is he tracking ascent somewhere outside okay i want i just like go inside i want to keep following my dog okay and and one other point of clarification the the blood message was on the

interior of the door not the exterior so so somebody inside did that okay okay she steps in alongside along with the constable that she brings in uh Behind her and shakes herself down and then sees the head on the floor ah well that's where that got to then we found the rest of him but missing that bit that makes her she pauses as she turns and sees the uh the message on the door huh yeah anyone have any idea who this who johan is We don't know the last name so we don't have any clue

those two we're afraid not we're one of a hundred people well um should we get somewhere to sit down somewhere somewhere comfortable this this may take a few minutes to explain what's what's coming inside yeah i'll arrange for some coffee to go on yeah [Music] As you retire to a nice little sitting room where you've got some only partially moth eaten chairs and uh sofas and settees set up um tauren is heading outside following uh the little dog yapping through the puddles uh follows the path straight out to the to the road you've got the

castle if you think of it as being in a rectangular plot of land it's slightly pulled back from the Southern edge of that you've got a gravel path that leads through the slightly overgrown gardens at the front the gardens at the rear are much larger you've got a few features back there that you're aware of there's like a nice little fountain there's what you think might be the remains of a greenhouse back there but it's go overgrown by weeds if you had a gardener you'd be able to start uncovering some Some bits back there but

that's uh that's later down the line to employ someone to do that you've also got a mound out back that probably yeah probably no one goes near because it's when you've got close enough you realize there are a series of headstones just dotted along the top of it i think yeah not going to go there anytime soon and little pond and other other features but yeah little loggie goes down the Gravel path out towards the opening in this otherwise large eight foot tall wrought iron fence that surrounds the property and then starts walking along turning

right walking along the fence and when you go around the corner and start working down the long edge of the grout then the outskirts of the grounds You can see another couple of officers in blue and gold trying to lift up what looks to be from this from a distance it looks like something that's stuck on the top of the fen at the top of the fence as you get close enough to them you can see they are trying to dislodge the impaled body of a teenager or at least the body minus the head of

a teenager that's been impaled on the top of the spikes on top of the fence As they're trying to lift it off you can see these two rather inept officers are ending up pulling the body almost using the spiked tops of the fence like a saw and end up tearing the body in two as they finally pull it down onto the ground there's a splat of viscera there's entrails hanging from the fence and still two uh two legs which are now dangling on the other side And your cute little doggy just goes up uh goes

up to the body with a somewhat content wagging of the tail looking back at you as if as if to say i found it uh good good boy gustaf i'll give them like a little treat or something out of my coat pocket yep quite happily morning as it's this early in the morning it's just you and the other officers out and About there's no one else out in the rain at this point they they turn to you as you as you introduce oh uh hello there uh well we'd request this is a active crime scene

uh as you can probably tell or some kind of accident uh do do you live in the live in the castle i i do i'm one of the residents oh okay i believe one of the detectives Is heading in uh he's gonna be heading inside to to ask some questions yeah i've already uh i i saw her and uh the other uh constable who was with her uh go inside sorry to pass them ah okay you probably probably want to head in uh head in then uh i didn't miss to make sure that we have

uh we don't want any we don't want any missing part of the investigation i know Detective carrell can be a kind of a stickler for these these kind of things yes yes of course but uh please if you could just do me one small favor and try not to mangle the poor boy's body too man yeah they look between themselves uh almost as if kind of uh saying well you did you did worse than i did and while i am while i'm out i mean this is a Fairly tall fence isn't it eight foot tall

yeah so somebody is like somebody something is coming are there tracks out here or there like heavy footsteps in the mud like yeah main investigation investigation is not very strong i got the dog that is asics and a whole lot of ones thankfully ones don't do anything so don't worry about that four four ones one six Right you have a look at the corpse you have a look at the the fence and then the other side of the fence you do notice a few things that even though the body's been ripped in half and still

bits of it are still hanging from the from the fence you can see on almost like the shoulder blades on the back there are a series of long deep cuts that For someone as yourself who's been out in the wilderness and knows what animal attacks look like these look like claw marks but something grabbed this kid from behind and then looking on the other side of the fence you can see the impressions in the mud of what look to be two large feet i mean these are probably about a foot and a half to two

Foot long implying this is quite some large creature probably grabbed the kid from behind lifted him up and then thrust him down onto the top of the fence but you see that as well as that there are two sets of what look to be human footprints running from the direction of the castle to the fence One of them the footprint seemed to um looking at the feet that are dangling still from the fence would equate to that person but there's another set that a smaller i think this is uh johan where did they go is

it going back into the castle someone's running away from the castle and then to the fence okay and two sets of footprints so somebody's been Killed and the other one's missing all right well i'll go back and join the others okay and meanwhile as coffee coffee arrives uh the chef that you've employed also brings out a tray of cookies it says that i understand these these go down well normally so normally an afternoon treat but i've got uh got a tray of cookies for everyone and Some nice hot coffee and everything's quite nice and civilized

and that's about corresponds to get tore them back in about about that kind of same time frame elapses and the detective stands to address the group so as a quick um Proof as to what i would intend to do with uh you find folks here she pulls out a notebook from her pocket um there's been a an incident as i said that a body was found on the outskirts of your property uh impaled on the railings yeah yeah we were alerted to this uh about an hour ago when a young lady came into the police

station which is only a couple of blocks North of where you are so it's pretty close she was distraught she was claiming that uh her and her uh a friend maybe a uh quite intimate friend were walking down the edge of your property as they were they're heading home after a late night and Were attacked out admittedly some aspects of what she was saying we're we're counting her somewhat uh fantastical and it being dark she's obviously upset and we're waiting for her to calm down before we get a a bit more of a a rational

story out of her but obviously on her insistence we came to have a look and we did find a body so There's obviously something has happened so we'd like to take statements from everyone here just to account for their whereabouts over the course of the last few hours and we'd like to do that individually just to make sure that everyone's story matches up that's fine um detective could we ask what did the young woman say I mean you said fantastical but would you mind if we asked what did she say sure um she flicks through

her notebook so it's one of those ways this is page after page she flicks back and holds it up she describes a figure um a shadowy figure so we're imagining someone dressed in black that chased them along the fence And then grabbed her boyfriend um oh her male friend per his name is uh per backlund um her name is uh sophia all do either of these names mean anything to anyone so not two non people that you know here now there's a lot of bemused faces so these are not names you're familiar with well i'll

say this uh apparently sophia is the young lady who came came to us And reported the incident but apparently this this dark figure this assailant grabbed her and impaled impaled him on the fence and she was saying that this was someone that was about eight foot tall and was we'll see much larger and uh sounded more monstrous she was describing it almost like some kind of monster but obviously that's uh that's Just very awesome hairy or slick did she say did she say it was wearing clothing or was it hairy or oh a dark figure

i mean before that's all she said it was it was raining it was dark she just saw this tall figure long arms she said claws but could be a knife bro you know did we get a precise time on this well she came into us running in about An hour ago so we don't imagine that she uh she stopped anywhere along the way that she ran all the way to the police station as it's fairly close to here uh uh detective officer if you don't mind we were just informed of the intrusion before you arrived

uh i didn't really i couldn't tell how the uh young fellow's head was separated Uh do you mind my friend here is a medical doctor if we had a look since you're going to be interviewing people anyway maybe the officer wants to come with and we can see sure you can interview me first i didn't catch that i said you could interview me first if you want i mean we have a small chapel if you want to use that as a private place that's quite quite quiet Yeah that sounds that sounds wonderful all right so

which case she first of all leads uh the doctor and the vagabond out to the hallway so if you'd like to have a look at the we'll see the remains here and any insight you can provide would be uh would be much much welcomed uh constable furling here will stay with you and just oversee to make sure that uh everything's fine we'll see if we don't Want uh we don't need damage to the the evidence but then yes i'll have a word with your uh the good father here in the in the chapel i can

also see private messages starting to fly already right in response to the torrance question then uh you have one success if you've got two i would be able to give you the answers to that so you might have to go back and have a Look the garden is overgrown so you saw the immediate footprints but going out and trying to trace where back and forth has happened will be another investigation okay all right all right so looking at the looking at the head looking at what's left of it around the neck You're fairly sure that

this is a combination of brute force and what looks like claws that one claw has you can see through the hairline there are various indentations where something has been forced through the skull to hold the head in place grip through the bone and then almost tear the head off while another has then cut in the process so yeah this is Clause and brute force this is not a surgical operation by any means you know the the detective's idea that a knife was involved seems fairly preposterous when you look at this this looks like something that

a vicious bear might do or something smarter than a bear ripped his head clean off i don't they must not have any medical training whatsoever oh I can't imagine a bear doing something like this though and that that typical well quite yeah and then in town the the writing smeared on the doors is it clear that the neck was the implement yep if someone was using it as an ink well dip dip dip and then rope with Fingers oh it's okay finger is uh claude yeah if you have a closer look at the scratches scratched

under the blood yeah so much smarter than a bear i don't know any bears who could spell yohan literate bears are not something i've ever come across i Finally wasn't a bear well uh more coffee and cookies for me i think i'll go have a look at the rest of the boy doctor just just so you know the uh the boys out there have made a mess of it of course very well it was when i first went out there it was impaled on the top of a spike it is now In half and in

pieces on the grounds well let's see what we can glean from it regardless oh i'll go with why not yeah does the blood on the door in the message does that uh seem to match the the time frame it's it's really fresh for blood yeah it's not it's not dried definitely not but it's definitely sticky still okay so it's matching up okay Okay as you head towards the door the uh the constable very much uh is keeping an eye on where you're going and so if you don't mind our other company you just need to

keep an eye on all our uh folks to interview of course perfectly interested sorry hitting up i was going to ask if if soren's interview isn't um Is it coming up because oscar and the doctor are going to go look at the body but i noticed some footprints that were whoever it was the boy who was killed and the the lady who was with them they were on our grounds and they were running away from the castle i'm having a difficulty uh determining where exactly they were running from in the castle If you could help

me look maybe rather than oh okay or any of you if i mean if you want to i couldn't i was a uh i found i found the larger set of footprints and the size of what killed the boy i'm having i'm having a difficult time uh finding where exactly they were if you say this before we leave maybe The officer would like to accompany us through the castle to the yard to look on the inside since you've looked on the outside that makes sense yeah yeah they they certainly weren't our guests none of us

knew of them uh coming here so it's almost like they were uh either unexpected guests or trespassing in fact the uh the constable you can see him kind of nodding away to himself you can almost see the cogs turning in his Otherwise fairly empty head and well that doesn't match what the uh what the girls said she said they were walking outside the process yeah and i mean i'll show them the footprints it's like all the footprints are on the inside of the property line inside the fence hmm oh yeah i think i'd like to

like should should have a look at this and make make some notes And meanwhile inside rather than play through each of these scenes because the what she will intend to do is the detective will want to take you aside and ask you the same series of questions um basically things like where were you an hour ago which pretty much everyone is going to say asleep so i've seen Fairly standard response for everyone there but she is going to ask a few questions that uh we'll get a quick overview from everyone in turn as to what

you what you tell her she's going to ask about what what's actually happening in the castle that she thought this place was deserted that it's been like vacant for about 10 years or so So is it just the five of you that are here or have you got members of staff beyond the uh beyond the butler and the chef that she's seen already it's just us we're doing research on uh swedish folklore and uh and such okay she'll ask a bit more a few probing questions about what kind of uh do you work for an

academic body are you Part of the university or so basically trying to get an idea of what's going on here but without going into too much detail so just that you study folklore yeah um don't know i'm not should we just make something up well that's up to you uh university of sweden university of uppsala Yeah i mean the university of upsalar is quite a prestigious uh institution so she's uh she nods away at that as well it's very very respectable work otherwise yeah she's just getting an idea of who's here what what you folks

do that you're all asleep when the when the incident took place no one seems to know any of the names that she's fired out so far and Progressively you're all seeing it from an individual perspective but as she's writing things down in a notebook you can just see it not kind of getting disheartened but a case of oh same again same again see previous entry has this happened before does it seem oh i've i've only been working with the with the police here for about a year I transferred up from uh from stockholm and to

be honest this is this is a lot more violent than than what i've seen in the big the bigger city this is uh this is new for me well i mean um we we have occasionally assisted in solving cases because of our expertise if you'd like us to assist Um we do know uh sometimes unusual cases whether they actually have to do i mean who believes in real monsters anyway but sometimes the perpetrator believes in the monsters and does crimes that seem very much like we can tell you which ones which avenues along which lines

they seem to be moving okay uh you can give me an inspiration role can i play my violin well [Laughter] your eagle sherlock on her at the time now we're ahead of the second show inspiration is empathy and two that gives me six and not a single sex okay well she's not hostile to the to suggestion she's she definitely nods to herself and thinking i mean as if if we do need to bring in civilian Uh specialists then i can definitely i've obviously got your details i can uh drop by and ask and present any

information that comes up so i'll bear you in mind thank you yes too all right and so eventually she's going to call ichiran in term but will then do the group that are going outside accompanied by the uh by the constable so on the inside of the fence you are trudging around The corner of the building of the castle and you've got this long three sometimes four stories in parts where it's got the various towers and extensions that come out but otherwise lots of lots of boarded up lots of broken windows this is from your

exploits having looked around the inside of the castle you think orientating yourself thinking well the entrance is here we're here You think this is part of the castle that you haven't explored yet but as far as you're aware is probably some old residential rooms there's nothing big as far as you're aware on this side it's not like there's a huge hall or anything that you can see but this looks like maybe what could have been smaller offices or research or maybe i say even residential wings that have uh yet to be get to be examined

from the inside Um having a look around the very overgrown gardens everyone can give me an investigation roll to see if you can spot anything from here i have one success one success zero okay tauren's definitely looking around thinking well i've seen footprints they've got to be around here somewhere and Besides the initial scene of a scuffle on this side of this side of the fence where the guy was picked up and then slammed down on the on the fence you're not seeing anything more than that there's just thick heavy undergrowth that's covering virtually any

sign of any tracks from here whereas oscar and dorothea start pulling back a little bit heading more towards the the castle Itself you know between you you notice a couple of things there's a set of footprints that come in at a different angle from the fence to the castle wall in fact there are three sets of footprints that come in one of them corresponds with the feet that are still dangling from the fence the others are two smaller sets of footprints so you think maybe One of them definitely male what's left on what's left there

one of them could also potentially be male but unsure the other one almost certainly female because the just the general size and weight of the weight distribution of the prince they come in from the fence at an angle through the grounds and get to the castle wall And then presumably some time passes you can then see two sets of footprints going straight out away from the castle wall as if to take the fastest route out of the grounds as possible and whereas the first set of three prints are coming in fairly stealthily fairly you can

see the footprints are fairly close together evidently implying that they are moving slowly when they're coming back they're running as fast as they can There's long strides between them and a good few feet away from the wall there's these two large between one and a half two foot long prints that they they're almost v shaped they have a very narrow heel but then much wider end of the foot where there are a series of what look to be claws that have been indented into the mud where this thing has dropped From a fairly great height

and then just these two footprints appear and then it starts running and chasing after the other two footprints as they head towards the fence is there anything like shredded clothing or the like not here but you would find the shredded uh shreds of the clothing from the dead the dead boy by the fence that correspond to that's where he was Attacked he was attacked he tried to climb over the fence and the two seemingly male sets of footprints they're shod right there's not any barefoot parties there's like a dainty or a set of shoe bearing

people and then two male ish male seeming shoe bearing people yeah human footprints are all booted or shoed Whereas the thing is evidently barefoot because you can find that there are the indentations of claw marks at the end of the footprint and they're huge and that as it dropped from a great height your instinct probably not instinctively but definitely logically thinking looking up one of the windows that's on the second Floor you can see it's one of these bay windows so it comes out and then it's got two sides an angle you can see on

the left hand side where it's angled the window has been forced open you can see there's what looks to be the mark of a crowbar or some kind of forcing implement that has forced it and broken it open but then on the other side you can just See curtains inside the pool shut so you can't see into the room itself on the other side of the window so that you've got that window has been forced open then you've got this one going down this side of the bay imagine as if someone had been playing golf

and a golf ball had gone through the window there's a hole about that big with radial cracks coming off it but it looks like a very old it's a very old hole in the um in the Glass the the forced open window is obviously much more recent but yeah the other one is really old you can always see moss growing in some of the cracks i have a feeling that the uh this johann is still inside but uh well right so you think johan was the third invader I mean i could see why they would

i see why they wouldn't want to talk about this they broke it into our into our uh yeah is there any sign of any i'm sorry that the bay windows are how many stories up it's one up from the ground floor so is there a trellis or a lattice or something that a human could readily climb to that height there's a drain pipe that goes up that's Uh that goes up that angle where the otherwise the bay part of the window or the extension meets the flat part of the wall so it is a relatively

easy climb to get up there uh constable uh the young lady sophie did you send her home or is she in custody or i i believe she's been sent uh she's been sent home we took us we took a statement from her and then she was she was allowed to go home we said we'd be In touch if we needed to uh to get any details from her she uh scratches his head i think she said she uh she lived in one of the apartments down by the train station well did you leave anything at

the at the police station [Music] um well other than the the whole load of Tears that she uh she shed um no she didn't leave anything with us now just made us came in we'll see fairly uh fairly distraught um jose gave her statement uh we calmed her down and then we had one of the constables escort her home any uh you know like tissues around you know do You have her exact address of the apartment or just the vague idea where she might be um you can see those those cogs start turning in sun

turning his head again oh and he probably he gives you an address i'm fairly sure yeah she said she was on the third floor of the apartment building okay well if it's same to you constable i'm gonna get Gustav to re-acquire um [Music] the scent of uh buckland uh and i want to find where that window is inside because they they came in so maybe the dog can pick up where they were walking around up there sounds like a good idea to me you ever thought about uh taking up a taking up a Detective role

we we could do with some good folks with you that have got some got some brains no no no i i much pref for uh working with and tracking animals than i do people oh right okay oh well if you change your mind i'm sure they'd put in a good word for you if we could put in a good word for you down at the police station yeah he's quite happy to head back Inside with you what's what's soren doing about this time um i'm simon assuming i've wrapped up with my interview yep you'd probably

be the next one that comes in so as uh as the father is led out back to the uh back to the sitting room she sees you're the only the person left at the moment says well um yeah i'll have a word with you next how do you elaborate on the same kind of Questions um well we collaborated together uh here within this castle to perform research into local and abroad folklore we've been doing this for some time and this was a great opportunity to take advantage of this also uh working in conjunction with the

university [Music] this has been quite a blessing here to To have this facility available for use but we're we're still we're not familiar with too much of the property just this immediate area so we are looking down the road to try to make this bit nicer this is quite shocking to see this this event occur yeah she probably at this point as there's a sound of dripping into a bucket that's out in the hallway outside the chapel So saying i presume you're uh are you doing some renovations as well then yeah place seems a bit

run down in parts oh yes yeah it'll take quite a lot uh unfortunately i think it might be a bit too much for our current budget but so it's going to be slow work nothing too quick i know i know that feeling yeah she kind of almost got lapses into more of a informal tone So yeah even down at the police station we've got our own uh trouble with some of the uh the lodges the uh the rats in various parts of that so yeah this this place is certainly better than some of our cells

i'll put it that way you know shakes her head and otherwise then continues on jotting down notes from from the conversation all right uh which point then Leads you back out to join uh join the father this is when is everyone else from outside coming inside or is anyone else wanting to do anything outside i wanted to get a look at the boy's body personally i'm assuming tauren shared what she observed but i also want to look at it myself so but after that i'll be heading back into the castle gotcha yeah the uh the

two fairly inept uh constables are now They've they've kind of ripped down the remains of the legs but realized they've then fallen on your side of the fence so they're kind of trying to reach through between the between the bars in the fence and then pulling it through the through the gap as there's still intestines just like streamers falling from the top of the fence uh they've they've been joined by a small wagon which has pulled up which They've pulled a black bag off and they're more they're not pouring or dropping bits of the uh

the boy into the bag rather than laying him out with any kind of respect or decency um and you said that this the body does have some of those claw marks yes shoulder blades so yeah it was attacked from the back does this look i know that i kind of have a story in my background about Someone being attacked by something does this kind of match those claw marks too is this something i've seen before this is there's definitely bells are starting to ring for you yes jesus okay very well and they do just just

for my own notification they do match the claw marks that we're seeing in the ground And the claw marks that we kind of noticed in the wood and the blood as well it was all match it's more that the the ones in the mud are obviously the uh claws on its feet but you reckon the ones on the door would be its hands and it's the hands that have definitely matched okay okay all yeah you're definitely seeing similarities then i'll go back into the the castle But i look very troubled now right so in which

case oscar and tauren and then a little bit later dorothea come in um the detective comes between tauren and oscar he says oh um before you wander off who would like to join me next in the in the chapel uh I'll go all right that's fine all right thank you explorer so i'll go leaves leaves the other two to then go and explore with the uh with the constable who's falling behind you he's very much taking his lead from from youtube uh i'll i'll ask him just so he's not uh given that there's a probable

intruder in our home uh if you don't mind if i grab my rifle just you know Oh sure he suddenly suddenly gets a bit more alert and puts his puts his hand on the hilt of his sword yeah it's just i just want to tell you before i go grabbing a weapon um but yeah so rifle in tow and the uh and gustav uh following gustav uh we're gonna go try to find the scent of these people who entered wait up if if you in the constable Wouldn't mind i would i would like to go

with you just to the more the merrier uh in numbers if there's a lunatic about does that want to come with us you see there's somebody in the in the castle we might have a breaker in yeah is there three of them uh the dead boy and the and the lying girl had a third friend with them and a window's been jimmied in that oh that you know this dark wing I'm gonna you know bring my walking stick to test stairs and things as well as we try to find that window because it's pretty moldy

over here sure so you get various bits of the various bits of equipment you need and then follow follow the doggy up the stairs and in the atrium you've then got a balcony Which runs back over towards the front of the building you follow that balcony round and then there's a corridor which you remember having gone down at one point which you're fairly sure goes down the front of the building and then turns away to that side of the building and you start heading down there occasionally prodding ahead of you with the with the stick

to make sure the floor isn't going to give way beneath You um there's definitely some waterlogged sections of floor here so the uh the floorboards are a little spongy but they're not breaking so it's uh definitely a few cautious steps in places but you start to head further into the building yeah you can always always walk on the left side close to close to the wall about what time of day is it now or night It's about seven in the morning so it's a little bit after dawn so are there some streams of light coming

through some of the windows and the passing rooms were passing yeah very very gray very dreary light with the sound of rain not quite hammering on the window but definitely patterning oh yeah so i won't need to light my lovely hurricane lantern then well not the moment but when you get round the corner you think probably you Do want to start lighting it up so we'll describe what's around the corner in just a moment so dorothea with the uh with the delightful detective what do you what story do you present her about what's going on

in the in the castle um we are a group of researchers looking into um local folklore obviously um having someone with a more scientific eye is helpful to these Things once we apply our knowledge of science and human anatomy and and logic to these folklore we can we can see where you know our ancestors came up with these interesting creatures and what they possibly could have been in reality it's a very fascinating study hmm you know she she nods dirk and he's nodding away to that i think well uh science and and folklore there's a

there's a Combination i wouldn't have put together everything can be explained with science detective believe me this is and this is this is my goal what can we explain using science yeah she she nods quite quite impressed otherwise we'll say continue jotting down uh jotting down some notes and eventually she'll be she'll say right well well we're done let's uh go out and find where where the rest of Your friends have got to yeah you'll be uh following up behind the behind the others as you get around that corner the first thing that greets you

is almost a lattice of what looks to be boards um long old probably even floor repurposed floorboards that have been pulled up and then used to block the corridor going ahead but they're not doing a great job some of them are falling down over time and There are gaps that could even have the head fit through one of these gaps and through them you can see going off into the distance a long corridor which runs the length of this side of the building but there's almost no light until you get to the end hence by

saying about maybe you want to like your lamp to go down this the dark bit of the corridor anybody anybody have a crowbar I believe someone does i i i do he really does have every prop needed in the arms region right so yeah uh so yeah with your uh lights or and i just want to see what's whether this obstruction was put up uh because of danger or because somebody wanted illicit privacy or some such Um so on the other side of this gap of this mass is there a floor yes there is floor

um you can see a long uh what's very much now threadbare red carpet which just runs the length of the corridor and either side of the corridor facing each other there are a set sets of doors that presumably lead into some obviously rooms that face the exterior of the building some that are Interior there's seven in total so there's two four six and then one that's on the right hand side which which equates to an interior room right at the end all of the doors are boarded up and once you're prizing these boards off that

block the corridor itself they're they're almost coming out without much effort at all These these boards have been here for a long long time right so it looks like somebody wanted to separate this area or keep something inside it but before any of us got here maybe before the society left well whatever i mean somebody's still back here and if they've irritated something i mean how's that you're gonna find whoever's Back here before they cause more harm how's how's your pup feel about this area yeah once once we get in past it uh the dog

sniffing around because we pick up the scent of the of our good friend who broke in yeah the um the doggy runs off into the gloom of reaching the edge of the lantern Light see the far end of the corridor there's a window which opens up but as you as your eyes become accustomed to the light and as you get closer with the lantern passing these rows of boarded up doors you can see big thick heavy oak doors behind them which are almost completely covered by the by the boards nailed into the door frames The

end of the corridor just doesn't seem to make too much sense but you've got three doors sat on the left four doors on the right you get to a long space of blank wall and then at the end of that blank wall it immediately takes a right angle and opens up into an empty space where there's then windows that represent this is the corner of the building Which having seen from the outside where you saw the broken the broken window frame and you saw the broken pane of glass it would correspond that that room is

the bigger room that's off to your left but there's no door into it is is looking down in the vicinity of the corridor in front of us i'd assume There's lots of dust does any of that seem to be disturbed weirdly no the the only just the disturbance that you're seeing in it is the footprints that you are making now it it almost appears as though no one has been down here in decades yeah the the entered i like kind of like put my like tap the wall a little bit there They entered behind this

wall as as you tap you you tap a couple of uh just like maybe a couple of inches apart uh there's a very definite thud thud of solid wall and then a hollow thud dawker tap tap tap when you tap again with the with the stick crowbar again yeah okay you start smashing away at the wall And as you start prying bits back you're finding that this is an old uh facade that's been put up covering completely another doorway so you start pulling back pieces of plasterboard and finding in that there's a door that's been

completely covered over you pulling aside the chunks of this and revealing the door frame itself and got another big thick heavy oak door which Matches position with the one that's on the other side of the corridor so you've now there are eight doors you can see they're four on one side four on the other they bordered up seven and plastered over an eighth and as you are pulling aside large chunks of it you suddenly find the edge of what looks to be a piece of parchment as if there's something nailed Or like a note nailed

to the door ah sauron bring the light up please all right and this is what you find nailed to the door order number 143 by order of the council of the uppsala branch of the order of artemis this room is declared off limits in perpetuity this room is never to be opened while castle Gillen creight still stands approved by the undersign cod red craters sigrid frisk stefan larson for what it's worth i am eternally sorry johan and the seal well we have a johann does does this does the uh this might be difficult to to

ascertain but does the uh that johann scratch note does that look to be much newer than the original post or does the original post look like super Old crackling crusted writing and that's newer ink right yeah you can you can give me an investigation role oh yes here we go i think i have a total of next to not many guys let's see that would be logic yep logic okay three dice and i got a six three three six you're fairly sure That the the note that's written say for for what it's worth is roughly

at the same time this this sheet was made it's probably an addition afterwards so that's you're fairly sure just by the got the angle and where it makes sure that it doesn't interfere with the other pre-existing signatures on there and the wax seal down in the bottom right hand corner but it also gives you an idea of how old This thing is uh this is well over a century old this has been here for a long time you are interesting that the note on our door well i if you know kind of speaking a little

low so the constable doesn't hear us talking about crazy things um our burglar trio Let something out of this room i think that wants whoever trapped it in here this johann to pay but uh whatever it is it doesn't have a good sense of time i think uh we'd have a better time finding johan amid the gravestones out back and then among the living but if it's already out you think there's further harm And taking a look at what was inside if it was already left out through the window i'm only superstitious but when i

see something that is sealed and promises to keep something closed in perpetuity i i want to keep it closed i i mean i would i would agree with agree with that but they've already yeah the room's already been breached i mean there might be another body so many Elves might be dead or hiding in here still who could tell us something yeah more likely dead do we have a sense of how big this this room is is it is it like a uh like a huge gallery type sized room that it sort of looks like

you know we can pop open the door opposite and probably get a decent sense it's just going to take a second yeah i'm curious to see if the if there's disturbance in there because There's no disturbance out here in the dust no but they they saw and they broke into the sealed room yeah so and there's no way from that sealed room for them who have gotten out it seems yeah so it exited just through the window hopefully that's the only accident when they closed that door forever 100 years ago it's been closed Uh so

this thing has been waiting to get out right and they let it out through the window and it leaves a message in blood for us downstairs it could be anywhere yeah it's not going to come back it walks right into the front door yeah we need to talk to the girl see why what their reasoning was behind doing this kids or kids but it's yeah we need to speak to her She's a liar even if there's some kind of rumor or local story i haven't heard anything about that so i'd like to know so if

we pop open the door opposite on the hall i assume that answers the crowbar readily yep the crowbar is easy to pull that down again these these rooms have been boarded up for multiple decades and it's more or less empty it's very dusty are there Connecting doors i'm wondering if that's why the whole hallway is closed off is because they were connecting doors there are connecting doors but not to either side you probably end up prying a couple of these open to to get the full picture of what's actually there that they open up into

sets of two so you end up going to the next one down The corridor going back the way you came pop that open and then there is an interior door but otherwise the entire room is completely empty there's no furnishings there's nothing in there even down to the floorboards and even it looks like maybe traces of salt were put down on the floor as well a long time ago and even maybe burns or these scorch marks in the in the woods wooden Floorboards that there is a door but it leads off to the door that's

going even further back down the corridor and when you open that one up there's the door corresponding going back the other way but not one that goes back to the one further down so it's sets of two that it's adjoining rooms so set of two set of two separate two Like an old hotel perhaps kind of but when you presume you haven't opened up the one that you um that's sealed with the order nailed to the door yeah if the same pattern continued there should be a door that would open up to that big empty

space at the end of the corridor where a room should be in the corner of the building but There's nothing there it's just as if it's empty space where they just forgot to build a room uh and if we tap that wall do we find another hollow solid it breaks the pattern which doesn't seem to make sense especially because in the doors on the other side of the corridor if you open those up the pattern continues and it does actually link those two end rooms together So this this is almost like a intentional prison cell

do we want to get the officials out of here yes and do this on our own yes and downstairs entertaining the damn detective [Laughter] in fact she is uh she is anxiously waiting for the last uh the last folks to come down and give their statements all right well i'll And if the dog hasn't picked up a scent um i can be relative uh well the dog does pick up a scent it goes to that door that you that wants to it wants it yeah so they were all inside this room so whatever harm there

was from breaching it it's damage done um i need to go talk to the detective i've been a little dodgy ever since uh going out with gustav in the morning So if you continue i'll i'll go back and i'll link back up with the constable wherever he's uh you know oh sherry perplex yeah yeah wherever he's looking about perplexed uh yeah let's get let's get him out and let's let's all go downstairs and make nice and get them out of here so we can do some work yeah the constable returns to doing the Thing that

uh requires the least amount of brain power so he goes down and basically stands guard over the head that's still still in the hallway somebody's got to do it you know important job he gets paid to do it too right so what does tauren uh give us her answer to to the detective well i'm not much in the ways of the brains as everybody else is around here But uh i help keep the uh the premises uh rodent free you know make sure that animals aren't eating their books yeah imagine with the i mean i've

got got a glance at the places like uh was obviously walking up seems like the gardens are a bit overgrown so imagine you might have a bit of a vermin problem out there yeah well uh between between me and the dogs [Music] hopefully make quick work of them can't stand rats hate rats [Music] there's very very few people do [Music] yeah she's otherwise jotting down a few notes not particularly anything detailed you only see her make a couple of words at a time whenever she drops anything down Yeah otherwise he's quite happy with your description

of being the what was that the groundskeeper type and i think the last one then will be to bring in oscar yeah uh and not knowing uh i mean i assume that being that we've known each other for a few investigations in the past we have something of a baseline story um I'm not sure that i'm going to pass for somebody who works for upsell university but i'm a great manipulator so i'm gonna head that way mostly like you know it's a uh we have the deed of the place the place needs fixing up uh

we have similar interests and that's the long and short of it really gotcha yeah again she she takes down Some very very very basic notes alongside it confirms with everything else that everyone else has said it's just like the seven of you that are there so the five of you and then the two staff that you're doing some kind of folklore research the various people here just like tend the guard attend the grounds rebuild the place yeah she's quite happy with it it seems to match up With everyone and to put this in perspective as

well this is the first time you've actually had the authorities come to the castle because it's the first time everything's going to happen on your doorstep but inside in our doorstep no less indeed in our doors yeah so she takes her notes closes up the notebook pops it in a outside pocket of her long coat And then tries to gather everyone together so back in the sitting room just say well thank you for everyone for being so cooperative uh so sorry this has uh obviously happened on the property and there's disturbed and uh put a

real dampener on the beginning of your day if we do have any questions or anything arises uh we'd Like to be able to get in touch with you so we can say we're just down the road so we can easily come come down here and knock on the door or likewise if if anything that you discover uh if there's something that hasn't been turned up so far in the investigation that you want to let us know then please feel free to come come down and come down and give us a helping hand well uh detective

i mean if you do Manage to find uh that sofia again i'd be very curious what she wanted to take from us breaking into her window as she did yeah yeah i mean uh we've got her address um down at the someone in the train station i think it was uh once once we've once we've sorted out everything with the with the body and obviously made i've written up some of our Some of our preliminary notes i think we'd better go and pay her a visit i i think she she might have more information if

she knows that you know that she's lying um when you take the head away can we just mop it or anything do we have to yeah no we've taken notes as to what was here the message that was on the on the door um obviously we'll take the take the body and put it with the rest of the oh The head and to put it with the rest of the body um but yeah feel free to clean up we won't we're not going to ask you to have that up there in perpetuity yeah thanks so

much i should learn anything from blood anyway [Music] so what what forensics a pipe dream yeah i don't think we'll pursue pressing Charges for the breaking and entering that it's there's that area i don't believe there's anything worth uh stealing it's it's mostly in realm okay if you're not pressing charges then uh i don't see uh we won't treat it with kind of any urgency going to follow up and have a having a word with her then we can we Can do that much later much later point if we need to i mean she's still

a material witness to the murder of her boyfriend and there's a missing person involved yes there's there's somebody else at large and they they they they crept up to our property and you know lied about you know they gave you a false report um i wanna as to why i mean yeah someone who lives Here it's not uh every day that somebody comes you know breaking in through your windows and hmm yeah you can see her kind of thinking this through yeah actually i think we will probably go and pay her a visit then you

know hopefully maybe later on this maybe this afternoon you know going to have a word with her about what's what's going on with her okay thank you for that And otherwise she makes uh farewells and again thanks you all for being uh very helpful and being very open and honest and cooperative and uh al got the butler shows her out and along with the constable who promptly picks up the head and carries it away cheating so while i was busy with the detective and entertaining what um what did we figure out Well there's a some

kind of sealed space upstairs that they broke into from the outside window and it was sealed on the order of somebody including a johann but but did you say that the the break of the window was old no no no there were two windows broken one of them a long time ago and one of them probably last night Into a wing that's been boarded up for decades or a century or more on the second floor on the second floor on that wing damage that was from the rock all damage was yeah something like a rock

through a window the new damage was breaking and entering looking situation they probably scaled the drainpipe yes those windows were in separate rooms matt like we could find yeah we could Find the room with the rock thrown through it they're in the same bay window there's three sides to it oh there's three okay so the one in the center has as is curtained the one that was broken was broken a long time ago with a rock and the one that was pried open was pried open recently and that's probably what caused the escape of something

that was locked up in there For a hundred years the hallway is completely untouched but so i what i want to look at is that i mean i assume we locked the front doors at night so whatever brought the head in had to come in it didn't come in it didn't come down the stairs from that wing with the head apparently because it didn't leave any mark on the stairs But the dog did track the scent going that way right did the ceilings have any indication of movement no so we might have a floater i

don't know yeah so whatever i i've some experience with with this i i recognize the marks on that boy's body and all i can say is we are very lucky that he has Been torn apart otherwise he'd be rising up from the slab in a few hours what do you think it was i i don't i don't know all i know is i treated a man who had injuries similar to this he died in my arms father but on the autopsy table i tell you he got up again and i flew and i fled and

he begged me his dying words were when i get up again finish me off so he whatever whatever Happened to him he knew that he was going to get up again so well if there is another person in that room they might be getting up again around about now so i think it's in our best interest to take a look in there well the question is is do you think that if there is something trapped in that room that it needs a door opened to get out It's not it's not trapped it it got out

the window and put stuff downstairs i'm assuming breaking the window opened the seal like if it was sealed yeah and the window itself wasn't keeping it in it it could smash through ordinarily but there was some sort of seal some sort of rock like like the rock didn't let it out and there was there was like a salt along the base so i mean if they had broken into the window and disturbed Some kind of salt barrier or something like of that nature when they came in through the window physically breaking it open that the

rock throw the rock didn't but their upheaval of the window did yeah whatever it was it's incomplete now and it's gone or i don't know if it's still in there but the pronouncement said not to go in yeah somebody's already gone in yeah it's about i i think that is we're long past that and yeah Somebody's gone in and one of the people who's went in his head was put downstairs their body impaled and they rolled their blood on our door it's already out it it still might behoove us to go into the room we

might get a clue or two in where it's spent so long as to i agree i want to go in there i would like to do some more research i would like to know what it is we're up Against and what could be in that room beyond what what do you suspect are you thinking something along the lines of vampire or werewolf i don't i don't know i don't know i i oh the thing the thing father is whatever it was it's a footprint was about a large footprint vampire and clawed hands And whatever it

is it creates more of itself as it kills i don't perhaps lycanthropy or um i was just wondering if perhaps we should drill a hole and peek through it before we reach the door but maybe the first thing is we've got a large library and there were three names on the document that sealed the door in addition to johanns and one of them was A frisk so we need to get all gut in here right now and figure out whether or not what what the family tradition it was about what's in there and if there's

a document in the library about why they sealed it off let's also see if we can make some uh spiritual precautions did the butler come with the house basically or did we hire somebody on he turned up Pretty much after you after you had been to go and see linear down at the asylum and when she gave you the deeds and the keys that as you were getting settled in he just showed up and basically said yeah my family's been got servants to the uh to the society for a long long time i'm quite prepared

to offer my services yeah we need to talk to him then and yeah i mean if we don't have the drill through the door either to get a look The window is already busted open yeah can we easily scale the outside the same way they did up the drainpipe i will leave that to those of you who are more physical i will be able to probably i'll happily clamber up there if we don't want to go through the door here i'm sure there's a ladder somewhere here i think probably a ladder and the drain pipe

is a dual technology would be wise precaution But we might as well read if there's anything about it before we stick our faces into the dark unknown i can help with the research okay so is there are there bell poles to ring for fisk and the chef it's more like yell well in terms of mechanical uh procedures or at least the steps in an investigation You're getting close to the preparation stage because you're getting an idea of what's what's actually afoot so have a think about skills you might want to put your advantage into for

them so when you've got an idea of something let me know and say how you're how you're bringing that into the fiction and then we can we can make a note of that you yell for fisk and he promptly comes up comes up the Stairs with his heavy old feet slightly hunched over almost like a lurch type figure and so slowly comes down the corridor you you yelled sir we know that uh thanks for coming frisk um we appear to have had a recent intruder in that wing last night that released something that caused the

mayhem that you saw in the Foyer and the the rest of that lad uh i i fell in pair uh backlund is is being removed from the fence on that side um that wing or the second floor there are a series of rooms that were uh long ago uh barred to transit Hastily wooden barricade sort of thing um and there was an order not to disturb a particular room that was plastered over and a frisk is one of the signatories of that letter was your family always only in service or were they also society members

or [Music] oh yeah he always does that for a long exhale Well there was a there's talk of going back uh many generations uh sir that there was uh one member of the uh one member of the line that was uh part of the part of the council here but that was uh well i'm not too well versed on going back that far but i believe it the society wasn't always called the society back then the council it was Well i mean the the society was so called something else but they've had they've had a

council throughout the various iterations that the society was your uh does the name artemis ring a belt hmm because he got a connection with this ancestor yeah that that was it was the precursor to the uh this is as i said the society wasn't always called the society if i remember Right it was a rather famous individual uh carl linnaeus that renamed the uh the order of artemis to the uh the society yeah that was the name it had before yeah it was sealed the room was sealed under the council of the order of artemis

and there was a uh a frisk on there so i think this might be your ancestor oh no nice nice to see you nice to see little bits of the family Still still here do you have do you have family records journals something that might be from or is there a part of the library that has records of the society yeah he is about he was about to jump in and say well i personally don't have records but if there would be records anywhere here sir it would be in the uh oh um it would

indeed be in the library Oh excellent if you can if you can indicate the a likely area for us to begin it'll save time no i'm sure yeah i'll i'll go and have a look now it's been a while since i've actually used the library i've mainly dusted the the books but uh i'll go with you okay so you a few of you head off towards the Library so start to start looking hitting the books there so the father's going there who else is heading to do research okay that's that's easy it's one side of

my screen uh torum what about what are you doing well i am greatly concerned that something is loose in the house that brought You know that that's done this um and i would love to know you know where where it is so i think what i'm going to start doing while they're doing research i mean this thing seemed to like it didn't leave tracks but it came down the hallway uh so it moves through the air so i want to start like stringing up little like almost like bell wires like little strings with like bells

but High like we can duck under them but i want to catch things that are moving through hallways through the air cunning yeah you can you can start rigging those up will take a little bit of time but definitely doable and soren i'm going to go to the uh maybe get some salt like a like a sack of salt from the kitchen And i'm going to a company tour i don't want to be splitting up i think i will help torren start the the patrolling and scouring at this place no worries uh you meet obviously

the chef down there she's probably setting up breakfast and getting a nice uh nice array of bacon eggs and other such uh other such delicious food ready um she does uh ask you girl with one eyebrow raised and uh you're not planning on eating all that Are you oh no no this this is for an important experiment we're performing oh okay uh i'll add some salt to the shopping list then to uh to go and get some some more later oh certainly certainly yes all right so you start accompanying tauren uh going around that part

stringing up some second the second story Some major hallways you know downstairs but yeah again like about almost mid height um so i mean if you were not paying attention we could walk into them which is not ideal but i'm trying to cover so something tall floating couldn't would struggle going anyway if that makes sense because they're not they're not low to the ground because We're not trying to catch a human intruder we're trying to catch something that floats its movement so i'm stringing up bells in the middle yep no problem so that will roughly

happen about the same kind of time that it takes research to happen so in the library we'll go just down the list What is the father attempting to research in particular because you've got a few different things that as you've identified that you could potentially be researching here well i think the most important thing is to try to figure out what the thing is so uh we're in uppsala uh I'm going to look and see what are the more common um myths about you know creatures and see if anything see if anything matches a large

shadowy bigfooted clawed monster okay so you're trying to identify what base and this could be potentially be From the from the evidence you've got so far dorothea um i think i'll look into then um the council like these these people maybe even history of the castle if there's anything that exists maybe that would explain what has been sealed away yeah gotcha so yeah you specifically you're including that bit about maybe what's in there to see if there's any yeah I guess i'd double down like really focus in on the history of the castle and if

there's an account of like what happened that led to that yeah gotcha yeah i was thinking of journals and diaries of the or or notes of proceedings of the institution that's the sort of thing that should be like probably matching bindings they had meetings they had minutes i assume yep You have an order number that will give you something to particularly try and hone in on yeah right learning roles please from the three of you now is this a point that i might be adding things to my skill role before we if if you wish

to so if you're thinking that this is gonna be research is gonna Be something that you would want to focus in on you can say your advantages with that and then cash it in on this role now or another role later and the advantage does what it adds when one dice two dice two dice okay it because this is a weakness of mine i think it's a it's a good placement i think i'll be a more well-rounded human and i'm Eager to learn i got two sixes and i didn't use my advantage okay um one

from dorothea and any from oscar no uh the way the dice fall i rarely get sixes either so i i didn't get anything above three out of six times all right i'm going to send dorothea Via message a particularly long handout okay so hopefully that should be appearing right and actually i'll send you another one because you did kind of meet the criteria to say you were looking for two specific pieces of info so there you go should have another one All right oscar is looking through the books here and finding you know there's there's

various articles you've got that or various books that have the same kind of matching spine as if they're all a long series of books on the same subject and the thing that catches your eye is that they've all got that same kind of bow and arrow motif that even with Not getting any successes you can at least pin to a piece together that is a symbol that is related to the historical or mythological artemis is the hunter yeah so at least you you kind of you're honing in on the right area but you're just not

finding anything particularly relevant in here there's just there's so many books in this corner of the the library that it's just not really finding anything useful Yet but maybe given more time perhaps as father you start pouring through various accounts probably the more recent documentation here and even the most recent stuff is still 10 years old because the society just stopped or just came to a halt 10 years ago so there's definitely a bit of lag in the history here but with two successes You're able to start narrowing it down to a very particular type

of basin there's a few different encounters which are documented in the society's records with things like what the the good doctor mentioned about the things coming back from the dead and the one that you hone in on specifically when you think of well it isn't uh like a regular zombie that's a not a term that would be Used here but not like a walking corpse this is something that's more distorted more animalistic more monstrous and you come upon records of what is referred to as a revenant yeah these these are creatures which are born of

hate that when someone dies and they have so much hate and so much loathing left it's a force that almost becomes manifest in its own right that It's not so much made from the remains of the bod of the person that died but is a manifestation of their well intense will to come out to come back and that it forms this well he forms a being but the description varies slightly from entity to entity but there's monstrous Elongated uh dog-like skeletal these are all adjectives which are described to various different instances where these things have

been fought but you do get certain commonalities between them that maybe start to explain what happened in that corridor upstairs that they are known to be able to go in substantial and fly So they can be physical and they can be ghost-like so they could pass through walls they can fly through the air at great speed yeah they are particularly nasty creatures and did they do they always start with a person uh being being full of hatred a person full of hatreds particularly loathe some individuals uh create revenants upon their upon their passing which carry

their memories their Their goals their as i said their hatred carries with them so ask they are intelligent so oscar we might be looking for a revenant something or someone that maybe was part of this castle or part of the society that was filled with hatred uh sinful sinful very sinful and when They die they become a kind of undead monster not not so much corpse but a a spirit of evil able to take different forms possibly able to become incorporeal and fly um and that might have been what was locked up in that room

oh my god with two successes as well you do get a bit more information which is relevant in a in that short space of time You also learn of various rituals or practices which can be used to banish them there's various ways of doing it and they also have different bands or different banes they are repelled or at least they are unable to pass by crosses um if you were to paint a cross in tar on a wall for instance they wouldn't be able to pass through the wall um likewise hanging a cross on a

surface or Would bar an entrance they couldn't pass through they can't attack people that wear crosses although potentially they could manipulate the environment as long as they could get that cross off someone then they could attack them but ways to be able to destroy them would involve entering the body or the remains in sacred ground or or potentially destroying the corpse by Salting and burning the remains would also be another way to just save that if you didn't have sacred ground nearby well the chapel is probably consecrated ground sometimes there are places underneath the altar

where you can put bodies um i'll have to check that out you haven't explored that i'm sorry well i i've there's believe it or not there's actually weeds that have been growing right into the The building from the outside i've been cutting back the rose bushes and um it's hot it's an old old chapel so yeah there are also those headstones on the sort of north like north the east side of the plot i want to mess with the burial mounds don't mess with them no but i could consecrate them of course no don't i

Like i'm looking up from my work now don't mess with them don't mess with them father oh my god what what have you found i i i can go you if you want me to read that i can read the whole document it's the the account of what happened that led to that room being sealed away my god please tell us Minutes of the emergency meeting of the council of the order of artemis absolute branch 17th of may 1702 present conrad growers council member segward frisk council member stephen larson council member and johann faulkengard member

of order meeting called following the events of the previous evening a fire spread quickly through the majority of the city and as much of it Now lays and much of it now lays in ruins rebuilding will likely take decades to complete the death toll as yet is unknown the council acknowledges that the actions of jf spared castle guillen crates and its occupants however jf has admitted to overstepping the bounds of his authority in order to make this happen jf also admits to have been involved in a romantic relationship with another Member of the order emma

bachvist hereafter eb jf has informed the council that eb was actively involved in the interrogation of vason to learn from them examination of her quarters and documents found therein confirm that while valuable information has been obtained her methods were considered cruel and extreme by the council who were not previously aware of such methods being employed prior to the events of the last 48 hours eb was currently in possession of a fairy queen queen miadrama hereafter qm eb had previously torn off her wings and scarred her body with iron implements jf was familiar with the abilities

of the fairies when it became apparent the fire was encircling the castle jf broke into eb's quarters and confronted the imprisoned qm asking for its help to Protect the castle and its occupants with its magic qm agreed to assist if the council agreed to her terms specifically that qm would be given eb to quote do unto emma as it has been done onto her jf agreed to qm's terms thus overstepping the bounds of his authority to make a decision on behalf of the order as a whole to impromptly place an invisible barrier around the boundary

of the castle that The fire could not cross as far as the city authorities are concerned a fire break was created by manually clearing the vegetation on the extremities of the grounds before the fire came too close qm then removed the second room of eb's quarters from the castle containing her interrogation torture facilities eb vanished at approximately the same time in front of the other members of the order in the library that were attempting to move more precious volumes To the basement for their safety jf introduced qm to the council after the barrier was confirmed

to be in place jf explained his actions and his motivation for doing so qm informed the council that she and her subjects would relocate to the grounds of the castle so they could be close to their new pet eb they would inflict the same pain to eb as eb had done to her vasen victims the council agreed although note in this Meeting that they feel they had been put in a position where they had no other option the authorities have been informed that eb perished in the effort to establish the fire break across from her

has been placed on the old burial mound on the grounds qm informs the council that this mound will henceforth be the location of her new court qm informed the council that reparations would take place in eb's own torture Chamber now moved into nowhere which shall be still shall still be accessible in the hours of darkness from her remaining room given the nature of eb's fate it is the opinion of the order that there is a significant chance that eb may become irrevenant the door to nowhere has been sealed with a cross set with such a

basin which such a vacant is not able to cross a council order has been placed upon the Door to evie's quarters dictating that the room shall remain sealed so that the cross may not be removed and any revenant eb may become shall not be permitted to escape this has been logged in the order records as order 143 in response to the misconduct of jf overstepping his authority the council have opted to leniency giving the extenuating circumstances no formal reprimand will be made in light Of jf having preserved castle gill and crates its occupants in the

library of records the council do admit that the loss of eb is regrettable but also reiterate that her methods were aberrant and would not have been allowed to continue if they come to light earlier in closing remarks jf would like to express the depth of his sorrow for the fate he has condemned his beloved eb to he is also objected to her methods but remains hopeful that god Shall take pity on her when the end comes and prevent her from rising once again as a revenant well i guess that explains why she wants johann so

badly it's now we know a great deal my god i must find a way to drive the president back or destroy it as there was a very specific piece of information right towards the beginning Of that you can also everyone give me learning roles for a reference two sixes again nothing here oh okay in which case uh the good father maybe you have a fairly good knowledge of history of uppsala yes um they're referring to the great fire of uppsala it took place on the 16th of may 1702 and it reduced about three quarters of

the city to ruins the Scale of the destruction ultimately resulted in uppsala losing its status as the country's second largest city and coronation city two of the city's most prominent landmarks were severely damaged in the fire but remained standing repairs to uppsala cathedral and uppsala castle took years to complete for example the repairs to the castle were only completed in the last 1750s Very few of the city's major buildings survived unscathed uh gustavianum uh the university building with its prestigious library was one such lucky structure other parts of the university were not so lucky such

as the botanical gardens the rebuilt gardens after the fire would become the linnaeus garden another building that was miraculously survived by uh the great fire was castle uh gillen cruz which had dated back to the early 17th century the only Districts that survived the fire intact were those to the northwest and west of the cathedral following the fire a number of districts in the city were completely redesigned to reduce the chances of any future fire spreading as extensively as in 1702 buildings were not permitted to be built so close to the riverbanks and buildings in

the vicinity of the cathedral were only allowed to be built from stone otherwise many of the ruined structures Were rebuilt as before keeping the city's plan much as it had been before the reconstruction of the city led to a distinct contrast of styles either side of the fritz river the western side of the city dominated by academic and religious institutions was mostly built of stone while the business district in the east was mainly built of wood lesser fires hit the city again in 1766 destroying a quarter of uppsala uh Mainly affecting central uh kung stun

uh and the borders of neighboring uh svarkpak and uh and 1809 mainly affecting uh fjar deegan uh and that's what i know off the top of my head that's what two sixes gets you so we've not only had that original fire But we've had other fires and other buildings that miraculously survived that's interesting now yeah as a as a faithful person father uh [Music] do you think that it's possible that the capture and torture of the queen that emma instituted was the cause of the fire That she then saved the institute from certainly could be

revenge it it it worked out for the captured and tortured queen that the city was ruined and the castle in danger if a queen of the fairies was captured it's very likely that her court Took some action i don't know i mean that's what we would do with the line from the account the the council felt like they had no other choice classic dealing with fairies it sounds very much like a couple of them were doing some rather incredibly unethical thing it's very upsetting it's monstrous I mean we're hoping to find some balance with these

creatures and not best protect our own people but so these records give us the name of emma buckfist they don't give us the full name of johann but the last name falcon guard oh falcon card oh i'm sorry good i was afraid it was a frisk and that we were going to have to turn our man server deborah to the berries Um well now we know also that we don't want to go into that room during the evening exactly yes um i guess we should also look to see if johan is in the the graveyard

i don't i think he died i'm assuming he must be there he must be dead right now why doesn't she know i mean like i don't know what revenants no i we should go and join uh soren and torun yes and and we should paint crosses on every surface Yes and make sure they don't i don't go digging up that mound in the backyard or anything on that note that seems a good natural point to break as we've reached about two hour marks people want to take five minutes or so for a quick restaurant break

yes please if we're gonna deal with fairies in any capacity we should probably look up what the order has to say about Fairies also well we know we know that fairies are very dangerous well yes they all have their own attendance there might be records about this particular ferry that's taking up residence on the grounds right i mean it's hosting its courtroom in the backyard of the place they might as well well then she's presumably still alive it's only been probably trapped Yeah yeah well i mean too yeah oh the queen elizabeth is still ruling

under the mound um i will after this revelation i will travel into town and see if i can secure at least four other well give them to everybody in the 10 the household if they don't already know the dogs yeah are you getting Crosses oh given that you've got the chapel as well you can certainly have crosses they they come all the stairs or even makeshift ones yeah sorry soren's demonstrating i want to get something you can put around your neck with a chain is it um i'm not familiar with the lore of vason do

you have to have the faith to back it up or does the religious object Itself uh act as a ward we all have the face because this is a as far as you're aware so far because this is actually uh a kind of a big part of the background to the game and there's conflicting evidence to suggest one way or the other that the physical item itself has power as far as your it doesn't necessarily have to be the person that's holding it but Then other accounts very much is the faith of the person that

has an effect so yeah there's there's evidence just to point both ways but the priest would say it has it's not magic it's not it's not your faith that's scaring it it's the object itself because it's a symbol of the thing the creatures of freedom i'll put my faith in all these books as saying that the scary invisible monster Thing can't kill me if i wear one right i have faith that it will that will work now if i wanted to make something like holy water um since it's like not a skill or anything what

do i how would i do that you use the chapel you simply head there and say i'd like to make some okay well i'm going to make some vials of holy just in case i'm going to go Sorry so that you can make one batch of it how this is what's called an item of power um how items of power work is that you have in this case a like a canteen full or a chalice full or a bowl full of or fontful of holy water every time you use it Is going to involve that

you're splashing a certain amount of it at a target there's a role that's made every time you do it to see basically whether your supply runs out so you don't know necessarily how much or how many uses you've got of it because it might be you accidentally splash all of it in one go or it might be that you it might be that you're able to do it in Small doses you're you're never too sure exactly how much you have left of it so i can't make a font of it and then fill up little

bot little vials with it so that we can each have uh things mechanically it doesn't work like that okay yeah you essentially have well what it would be is you could make a whole batch of it but you wouldn't necessarily put it in vials you would have one A map one mass of it that you then use but you can only do one um so you can do one you can only make a batch one batch of it per day okay yeah all right so i'm gonna i'm gonna go on cross duty and get a

bunch of crosses i'm filling everyone in on what we've learned what is our deadline what was the demand for you by tonight you happen you have until Sundown it said i think we need to see if johan is buried out back and maybe also go talk to that young woman no i don't i don't know how much a revenant is going to buy into a poetic sense of justice of he's dead now so you should just give it up well it's i mean if he's if he's dead back there then we know for sure They're

creatures of hatred so they would just be more hatred filled if they they're they couldn't get to the target they wanted now we understand that emma the now revenant has been released by the intrusion of these young people she killed one she let one go [Music] what's happening with the third is she feeding on it i don't know if she let her go as much as she can yeah well so she hopped the fence i don't know if the revenant can get past whatever barrier the fairy queen set up on the perimeter enough yes but

i'm less concerned about how sofia escaped than what the status is of the third boy whose name we don't even Have no i think he's going to be in that room and i think we've already ascertained that going in there there's not gonna cause any further harm unless we do it at night just don't do it at night yeah i don't want to do it at night and we only have until sunset to resolve this matter or emma is going to act but that break-in just happened So yeah but we didn't hear anything interesting actually

yeah yeah long distance boarded up room that's completely plastered over i'm gonna go see if johan's buried in the backyard and then maybe go find that young woman so would you like company yes of course oscar you're welcome to come with me All right so we'll we'll form the exploratory graveyard and sophie team okay so dorothy and oscar graveyard and then young lion girl what's everyone else doing uh well i have been laying like you know the bells but this that doesn't seem like it's going to be much hinderance to this thing that could go

in Contorial um i'm uh i'm going to the local uppsala uh cross shopping store what i will what i will do and the idea of home defense along the lines of the bells i want this we can restrict its movements through painting things with the tar crosses so that's what i'm going to be working on Is going through and like literally like all day i am like i want it going through always like the rest of us i don't want to go on through any any wall i'm not entirely sure if i can go through

ceilings or floors so i'm painting them on the ceiling and the floors like i don't want to go in i was deliberate i was deliberately going to ask what surfaces are you painting Them this is right this is a big place so i'm going to make sure i'm going to go concurrently with you and make sure no spots left undone all we have to do is surround the room right you're not painting everything in the whole castle well we can't paint the whole castle but it's kind of the area that we know that It's been

yeah i want and then if we could even dangle cro because i mean we've put lions everywhere we could dangle crosses from some of them i don't know if we'll stop it from going down the hallway but it might um who knows plus emergency backup process will be on stream so you know emergency The bell the bell lines will be completely useless should we investigate that room should should should one of us do that yeah i i i want to i definitely want to i i don't want to until i have a cross and once

i do i will then investigate that's right so if we spend the afternoon i mean it's early in the morning we follow up outside Leads the father funds us some quality crosses that even those of us who don't necessarily believe can clutch with good faith based on the data we have from the past you guys paint off that area you you you know you try to bar the thing so if we intrude on it while there's still a few hours of daylight before it reaches full power it can't get out after us We have to

find a way we've got a way to ward it off but we need to find a way to destroy it so can i do more research to see if i can find that or do i just know you pretty much got everything you needed with the with the two successes previously so you know the various ways to or rituals to cast to be able to banish it and the crosses are one way that you can manipulate where it moves And kind of confine it to where it could be as you mentioned you wanted to go

off to the old ye crossy shop and buy some crosses i believe you already have one as part of your equipment well if you want because before game we did our resources rolls you got four successes i will take a cross on a one for one Basis if you want to uh get crosses with points of resources okay yeah i'll spend my four res i've got five resources well as the group you got four successes that was the the roles we made okay so i'll buy four crosses for them yeah i cannot think of a

better use of the resources at this point the chapel is probably off limits to the thing Just because of the chapel so if you're in big trouble get to the chapel did the rituals that were were written did they explain more how salt is used i heard that that was part of something because yeah salt wasn't connected with the revenant at all oh it wasn't connected at all okay so apart from like destroying the uh the body which the one of the Variants on it is you could salt and burn the bones whatever they call

it they call it the uh the dean and sam method yeah what about fairies do fairies care about salt fairies don't but if you want to give me a learning role you could there is no way because there was salt there was salt yeah oh like a six with my three days again salt is a general it's almost like a Default or a common denominator that it affects a lot of things but not fairies uh fairies actually the weird thing with them is to try and get them out of their burrow or out of their

mounds um cold iron is definitely the traditional ban but also bellows that if you have a set of bellows that are blessed by a priest and then you force air into the mound That will expel them we don't necessarily want to get rid of the fairies at the moment we really definitely don't want to piss them off no no no no we don't want to have a war i'd rather not deal with fairies at all if we can avoid it if she won't talk to us we might have to be tortured she might be incredibly

pissed off at human beings so yeah hopefully a hundred years of Torture well yeah both it's rather vindictive though so that members and the clergy neither one probably fairy favorites well we'll all see so you've got say dorothea oscar heading to already mentioned tauren having a look at having a look at fairies and then going around with plenty of tar and a Brush and taking every every surface possible yup sauron um let's see if there's if there's enough tar i i i would like to help expedite that because this is a large area and i

just don't know like i've painted rooms before and i know that doing one room can take a lot out of you so since we probably got like a lot more than that That might be good to help so later on in the evening tauren and soren are not like all cramped up and totally spent having also done such a horrible redecorating when we when we moved in you're on to something there so having two people doing this will definitely be you're able to cover a lot more ground so that's two of you going around with

buckets of tar and plenty of brushes the father heading off to the yogi crossy Shop so we'll go to the mound i presume you're heading to the mound first and then going to the going to the apartment yes yes looking for johan's grave i think to tentatively looking at the mound maybe from from a distance but yeah okay when you start heading over to the mound the first thing you notice is that having seen the place from a distance before you know there's plenty of bushes And hedges that surround it something big came through here

with a fair degree of force fairly recently clearing a path directly to the mound and having a look at the beaten up vegetation on the floor has a rather large and distinctive almost triangular-like foot so yeah this this thing when it got out of the room upstairs last night definitely went through here Came towards the mound and you can see started to dig at the surface of one of the graves yeah who's the grave so you'll have to get up close and personal to to read it then as we're as and we're following these tracks

these substantial probably maybe traces of blood and the claw marks of these tracks i'm not so much in the feet but there Will be droplets of blood around here spatters uh they're only going one direction they go towards the mound and then you also see them coming away from the mound heading in the direction back towards the broken window okay so very well but as you approach the amount of getting more of a detailed look at the graves in particular there are seven Headstones that form an arc over the top of the mound these are

not ancient but they're decades upon decades and more than likely heading into three figures old having been exposed the elements for that long the woods not been treated the the woods themselves some of the crosses have almost crumbled completely and the only one that you can even Vaguely see any hint of any letters left on that crossbar are the letters e at the beginning of one word and b at the beginning of another word that overlooks this hole that has been dug up by hand or rather by claw which is the seventh cross right at

the very end the others are completely unreadable okay And and the the desecrated pole uh is there a casket sign is there a they haven't got down that far uh it looks like they've only gone down a couple of feet so evidently either didn't spend too long doing it or maybe perhaps they were interrupted perhaps the sun coming up some yeah Dorothea do you think that uh emma was trying to find her own body because she doesn't understand what she is i i i suppose so i didn't think that i i hadn't thought they buried

her here i thought that you know they just told the police the lie that she died in the fire and i thought the fairies must have her right they put an empty box in perhaps and she doesn't understand what she is she's been locked up for so long yeah I don't know i don't feel comfortable just continuing to dig up this mound it makes me nervous i don't want to no i don't want to interrupt anything i wonder i want to send the father back to sort of consecrate this ground and see if that can

help her rest although she probably wasn't here what was that girl's last name sophie uh it was the uh the lying little girl as it's uh She's been referred to uh so uh sofia or o r e didn't know if there was a familial connection maybe that was tying all this together okay no i bet those kids just have like rumors about the place it was empty for a long time yeah okay well i mean let's go find out you know maybe maybe there's more to the story uh so i will stop in the camp

the castle and I i'd like to advise the father to come and sort of bless this space if he casts time is that going to like that doesn't disturb well that's the question is is it going to anchor the queen more than it appeases the corpse yeah i don't know what uh well he it's his religion we'll ask him and then go and grill the uh yeah the girl So you're heading back inside to have a word with the father yes father nystrom we uh we found evidence that's my child we found evidence that emma

was trying to dig up her own grave we don't know if her body is truly down there it was not successful and fully digging it up or anything uh it was trust her the revenant She was trying to dig up her grave we don't know if the body is truly down she may be just confused not understanding her situation there's a there's a marker that suggests that it's hers based on its placement and what's left of the writing and it was scratched at by the a creature whose marks match what we've seen we found any

evidence that the creature went Back to the room don't know where he went she went we're not sure i believe that bridgeton said to me yeah i was gonna say that there was the fact that you saw the trail uh initially went through the hedges towards the mound and then did go away back in the direction of that broken window afterwards okay because sometimes the revenant can get Stuck uh if it uh if the sun comes up while it's out yes i believe that's what happened yeah but i think that it must have gotten back

my the feeling that i get from this is that she doesn't understand what she is or what's happened which is why she's still angry at you on why she's looking at her Own grave i also don't think that it's as simple as blessing the grave it has to be consecrated ground and there's a kind of a ritual that goes with it you can't you have to carry the revenants the the body over the wall you can't just walk through the gate of the churchyard just i don't want to disturb the residents of the mound right

i wonder if we put Perhaps we should put some crosses around the mound so that she can't bother each other yeah it won't hurt yeah i bet even uh simple you know two pieces of wood would help with that sort of thing too since it's already occupied space she was in but she was in the graveyard with all of these crosses as that are Acting as grave marks this is not a probably not a consecrated graveyard yeah most the grave markers are probably not cruciform they're probably just stones right well she said wooden so they're

probably just wooden slabs for the fall rotted away well here's your crosses oh yes oh thank you i'm gonna go i'm gonna go find that girl Maybe maybe she knows more maybe maybe it's just rumors and kids being kids but maybe there's more well i'm sure there's nothing but rumors and kids but she knows what she saw it's true what what is it tauren oh no i was gonna talk uh with once i have my cross um what i'm what i'm going to do is i have my lucky rabbit's foot and i'm going to put

it on the same chain As my advantage so two dice to resist whatever the hell it's gonna try to do it's like no i'm not gonna remove my lucky rabbit's foot even if it's the cross i'm like i'm not gonna ditch this so i'm putting them conscientiously and putting them on the same the same chain don't you remember that the devil is a trickster he can convince you that oh i don't want to get my rabbit's foot wet Take them out now this but it's been me been with me through hell and back some so

memento right so with tauren and soren nice bit of rhyme um you too can have gone around with your brushes and tar having pretty much systematically gone down that length of corridor going along the ceiling going along the floor going on The walls as you've opened up the connecting or at least the adjoining rooms you can have all of those surfaces covered pretty much the only the only area that hasn't been covered by tar at this point is that room itself but the the outer walls you've covered on all besides the outside you've covered five

of the six surfaces Of that cuboid space so do you want to go outside and plaster ones on the windows as well yep that sure could help okay so yeah you which case you cover all six surf exterior surfaces of that wall uh that room without having gone inside so by by logic of what you've been told about this thing can't pass through surfaces marked with this in theory it shouldn't be able to get Out of that room assuming that that's where it will appear when some uh when sundown happens so if you wish to

join either dorothy or do something else then you can certainly do that i won't have you just painting crosses for ages because that's that's a bit dull with our crosses uh tauren didn't didn't you want to check out the room just to see yes so i mean when we go up to paint the Windows yeah um i'll i'll peek in through the window that's been busted open we're up there anyway with the ladder might as well look inside okay so you've got the three main parts of the bay window that window that was forced is

still open but you can see there are big thick heavy almost like blackout curtains on the other side So you reach in and part them so that you can see inside there's plenty of gray light i mean it's still it's drizzling by late morning now so you're still getting a little damp doing this but there's enough light coming past you that you can see into the room this is very different to the other rooms on that corridor this is not an empty room this is still furnished And looking into it it looks like a bedroom

there's a large poster bed which takes up a large part of what you can see from here the interior curtains of it have been open though so you can see through it and beyond there's got the sink of a dip in the middle of the bed where it obviously implied that it was used for a long time In that one particular spot but there's also a thick layer of dust over the sheets and also over the floor and a few other bits and pieces that you can see in here as well you can see the

door that would have led out to the corridor the door that shot that hasn't been opened yet that the note was uh that the order was pinned to on the other side that corresponds with where you'd expect to see it then there's a big empty patch Of wall and then there's another say another patch of empty wall then you've got the four poster bed on the right hand side of the room there's a wardrobe that looks like it's been opened and there's clothes that were on hangers which have been pulled off and they're littered on

the floor there's a desk further along the wall closer along the wall to that where there's various bits and pieces On there and then there's a big old chest with a like a padlock but like a latch that looks like it was opened but with a pin that the pins been dropped and the latch is now open so you could just lift up the lid if you wanted as i mentioned there is plenty of dust in here you can see evidently signs of footprints on the floor there's footprints that look like three figures or three

people came in through The window they went around the bed and then went to the far side of the room but that's the point when the bed obscures where the footprints go so you can't see on the floor down that way but you see two sets of footprints running back clambering through the window and then bigger sets of prints chasing them all right from what i understand about about Revenants um that door that's been seen that the door that was sealed off is there any like is there a cross hanging on it what is the

you know from the inside there is just blank wall there is no there is no sign of any other door other than the one that leads out into the corridor but because you've looked at the adjoining rooms Where a door should be there is just blank wall and so it's covered up wall this wallpaper or a plaster of carrots they've plastered over the doors or there's a or it's they no longer lead here like this isn't a space apart somewhere that the fairies put it like it's not quite Part of this world in a way

yeah like there's there's the inner door which is the only so like if we were to go through this window it would be almost going into some place other than the castle wherever at night there's another entrance this opens up somewhere else there's egress to wherever they tortured Emma the fairies did at night so if we're gonna find her body as much as we all hate the fact the only way to get to her body is if we come here at night at night yeah which means that perhaps some people are gonna have to play

a run around with a revenant as somebody else sneaks one or two people sneak their way into Here and yeah we're gonna give the body make sneaky sneak sneakers and all our prep is gonna be for naught if it just goes through the floor or the ceiling in here unless we went yeah you i said you've covered all six sides if you think of this as a cubic room yeah we we've got a little size all right what if you Forced the revenant to another room in other words you made a corridor where it could

go right if we keep it yeah that's a good point so if we keep it permanently trapped in here we can't get past it so we need to let it out we need to let it come out go into another room to try to find a way out and then seal it in so yeah we need to Make a maze we need to lead it somewhere else yeah but aren't they aren't they they're smart though they're not smart they're not like rats that we can just they're they're they're smart but they're they're they're full of

hate and pissed off so exactly i think they'll think so getting them permanently stuck somewhere might be tricky but leading them away from here uh and then somebody else Sneaking up through the window or whatever somebody else coming through a different way um to get at the body that would work so we don't we don't want to we don't want it going outside necessarily right off the right off the back because that then we have really no control over it but it can move faster if we keep it inside the castle And we let it

out into a pre-defined space that gives us okay so we okay with that in mind we will remove straight tar we'll give it a way out into the hallway and then expand our little lamp like you know we'll set it up you've got plenty of options for corridors that come off here further down the further down the corridor past The area that was uh boarded up and you've got all the side rooms that you can play around with so you have plenty of opportunity to set up a little warrant for it to go and explore

and then potentially trap it in that is not a problem we will do that we'll prepare my hunter instincts will prepare a trap gotcha that will take a little bit of time and say father's got father's got his crosses what else would you like to do Um i'm probably going to um [Music] i'm just going to prepare myself for possibly having to use you know prayers and stuff to keep this thing at bay okay in which case that if you wanted to assign your advantage you could uh use that as a particular bonus to Inspiration

okay i'll do that yeah right so that's your advantage if and when you want to cash it in and then two of you heading off to this little apartment so this is about a five block walk from where you are it's heading roughly south east towards the train station this is still got the more Run down part of town but there's as was mentioned by uh by the good father there is a very different sense of architecture between the east side of the river and the west side of the river this is the more commercial

business area as well as where people live so lots of more wooden structures and generally not as high quality or not as affluent as that on the west the west side of the river But after having taken a couple of moments of walking down the road you know gradually working out it must be it's not that building it's not this one must be this one you find it's a fairly rectangular fairly basic structure there's always almost identical to the ones either side of it the three floors there's an entrance way and then there's a couple

of uh fairly Rectangular basic living quarters on each floor and as mentioned she was on the third floor you work your way going up one set of stairs then back along a landing then up another set of stairs then back a lot landing and up to the top floor and you find the apartment as as numbered door shut what do you want to do So duratia being a physician and a lady you might be poised to uh get into good [Music] you know but i can be pretty charming so then we should explain because i

don't look professional Yes i suppose the story we could at least open with is that you know we're following up on what happened with her friend and you know what did she see etcetera etcetera it it's very much our doorstep after all so it is yes honestly we don't exactly well i don't i don't know they didn't tell us which room she was in so i suppose we're just going to have to Knock uh the the lab looked to be about 16 about that mid mid to late scenes so you know where i assume it's

it's a daughter about to go off into the world so you you you seem smart and i'll make nice okay excellent good idea start you know go once we get up there i suppose it'll just be knocking on every door until we find her there's only the two doors oh well then Yeah which you you knock on the first one and there's a female voice responds that sounds roughly like a teenager at least a young young girl anyway so one one moment one moment and there's a rummaging around sound inside and then footsteps going across

the across what sounds like bare wooden floorboards it's a fumbling a latch and then the door opens and a yeah a teenage girl or maybe Late teens or maybe early 20s oldest dressed pretty much all in black opens the opens the door up uh looks between you oh um you're okay yeah who who who who are you uh sofia own yeah you don't look like a career like a wife oh sorry i was expecting i was expecting Someone my name is dr doratea lukonen and this is my associate oscar ericsson um we live in castle

gill and crates her eyes open a bit wider at that we would like to know your side of the story of the events this morning we're not here to press charges sophia we just want to know what happened she she looks a little bit Skittish at this john's give me a manipulation role oh no oh no oh i'm not a very empathic person it's all i'm good at so go ahead and fail and i'll scoop her up all right oh no oh i actually did get one yes out of three days maybe it's the way

you've said it maybe it's that there's no real hostility in this as you said those magic words no charges That she she looks a little bit timid but so oh okay as long as as long as i'm not in any trouble or anything then uh yeah under the bridge yeah okay come come on in come on in and she opens the door up a bit wide if you just step on inside it's a modest apartment to say the uh to say the most that there's bare floorboards there's a single table with a couple of chairs

That looks like they're maybe even slightly wobbly uh that sat sat next to it over which is a long uh a long coat which is thrown over one chair otherwise it's very basic furnishing there's a rudimentary open plan kitchen off at one end and then a single room that goes off that that looks like it's almost an empty room apart from the bathtub that's Just sat in the middle of the middle of the room the kind of bathtub that you need to bucket water into it because there's no internal water piping here and then a

bedroom where there's pretty much a mattress that's on on the floor it's uh yeah it's it's a bit of a hobble but yep she closes the door behind you there's not really any latch but there is a chair that she has ready to wedge under the door handle should uh should she need to Uh yeah sorry i can't uh not really much places to sit and i've not got much besides water to offer but uh that's all right when you said my side of the story what what kind of thing what kind of thing do

you want um start from the beginning what what were you doing what was the purpose of you breaking into our castle Well she she again looks a little bit furtive you you sure i'm not going to get into any trouble for this absolutely none at all well um well me and my my friends we we have a little um a little business that we uh that we run we um we can procure Items for for people but we don't really ask questions as such there we simply we take our instructions and we go and we

go and get things for people with folks if you uh you get what i mean it's one of the things that got attracted certain type of uh certain types of customer to us that's those that don't like questions being asked and well we had a we had a customer come to us She she said she wanted uh wanted us to go into the uh into the castle and she showed us or pointed out the particular room that we were supposed to go into and said that once we got in there that we would find there

would be some kind of cross nailed to a door in there and that we was to retrieve retrieve the cross And bring it to her and in the meantime if there was anything else in the room that we that we took the fans took fancy to that we could have it but we weren't to go and go into any other part of the castle because the folks living there that they might hear us so it was supposed to be a quick in and out job i she you can see that her skin starts to Turn

a little bit pale and her eyes open a bit wide as she thinks back to a particular moment but i got there was two doors inside inside the room and i i saw the cross pretty much immediately could have nailed the four four nails that were holding it in place on the door i just had to pull them out and then the cross came out I mean the others leaf and pear were were looking through some of the like the clothes in the wardrobe but there was this big old case full of junk that uh

that leaf was having a look at and then as soon as as soon as that cross came off the door that that thing came out came out of the dark came out of that the door grabbed leaf and just dragged him Folding him up like paper and running off with him into the dark we we turned and ran well i don't i don't know what what we what we've got involved with but i don't want anything anything more to do with it i was supposed to be meeting with the with the woman that gave me

the gave me the job this morning but i got a note saying that she was sending she was sending a courier instead that she Wasn't able she wasn't going to be able to meet up but she had something for me yes uh we'll need to get uh her information because that woman if she was even born of man set you up very cruelly to have this uh happen to you you didn't see what the thing did to leave yeah it folded him up i mean we heard the bone with bones break we heard it But

then it also it pursued you in pair yeah he ran back with him into the into the into that corridor just this dark corridor that went off into the distance and we we managed me and pair managed to get out down the yeah as we were running i managed to climb the fence and just as he was coming over that thing bounded out through the out of the dark and grabbed him and pulled him back and then i just heard this squish and he Was the next thing i heard he was he was on the

we couldn't even scream he was just hailed yeah no it's it i'm sure he died more quickly than it seemed uh what's what's what was what is leaf's last name uh leave it on grin honda okay um i mean not that anything can be done for him but it'll help perhaps with our completing the investigation Is this thing going to come after me because i still got that cross i think actually the cross the cross was keeping it inside that room and that's why you were tricked into going there to remove it i think you

want to wear a cross i know that you have to destroy it but i think you you might not want to keep it on your person either But i if you you know if you go to if you want to see a priest and get something for your own protection it's not a bad idea because it might know you might know that you saw it well she goes she goes over to that long coat that she's got uh thrown over one of the chairs and kind of flicks it round and dives into what would otherwise

be a normally fairly concealed hidden interior pocket and she pulls out This cross that's about like that by like that so it's almost about a foot tall by three quarters of uh across and about 100 years old it's it's a nice piece of work actually it's made of solid silver and it's inlaid with it's inlaid with gems at various various points so yeah this there's also four faint marks of scratches around where the other two bars meet that would imply Where some nails have been driven into wood and then being bent around it so that

it would hold it in place hold it in place this this might be the most effective thing to keep that monster back where it came from [Music] yeah she she's got nodding i i just i don't want i don't want to see that thing again Oh no understandable outside you can hear the sound of footsteps coming up the coming up the stairs compasses pose who are you you said you were expecting someone sophia yeah i i got a note come through the door uh that was saying about that uh so the alva wouldn't wasn't able

to make it that she said that she was sending a Courier with something for me in her place i presume payment yeah alva uh i'm sorry uh sophie why don't you get she got a wardrobe to hide behind or something yeah well there's a there's two adjoining rooms uh because it's a fairly small place all right dorothea and i maybe we should uh Both sides of the door yes because this is a villain coming okay you you position yourself either side of the door and there's a knock-knock knock and a again probably a mid-teen boy's

voice there's a package for a miss or i'm like 17. from whom oh yeah i've got a got a package from this all Who sent it i i don't know just been just told where to deliver these leave it at the door okay there you go over here this the muttering guess i'm not getting a tip mutton mutton the boy probably you can hear a uh you can hear that a box or something being put down outside and then voice wanderer or get mutters Away going ah cheapskates and stomping down the stairs it's the third

floor so if it gets down two floors and we open the door and it's not a bomb then i'm gonna toss a copper down the stairs for the poor lad well now i mentioned the now that you mentioned the b word give me a give me a vigilance roll Both of us are you know you're both close enough you might hear it oh wait that's five dice for me just one success from five dollars two successes okay right in which case uh both of you hear the ticking um that there's a box roughly the shape

of roughly the size of what would be the equivalent of a modern shoe box with a very definite tick tick tick tick Tick tick tick tick of what could be a small carriage clock or an alarm clock inside um with uh dorothy's extra success you notice that it's wrapped in brown paper with string going around it but there's a note and then a wax seal at the end um the wax seal is a stylized letter r and it just says with thanks the rosenbergers and that's definitely realized ticking okay uh Get sofia like run into

a room shut the door i don't i don't know how big of a bomb this is that that's what i'm doing i don't know if oscar's doing anything differently but yeah i'm grabbing the girl and like running into a room and shutting the door okay we stopped her behind that armoire um if it's if it's actually ticking uh i'm So we're in the third floor is there are there stairs to an attic or a roof door or is this the very top there's a hatch which would presumably go out to the article but there's not

there's not a stairwell no um [Music] but yeah so yeah i'm just running into the bathroom I've grabbed sophia we're running okay that's fine i'm i can i will set your difficulty accordingly okay so it looks like oscar's wandering and maybe may is on the verge of spending a little bit too much time wondering what to do yeah right i think it has to go out of the street i'm gonna grab it and rush through the apartment to throw it out the window because i think in the building it might Not be okay okay so

dorothea and he's rushing back away from the direction that oscar's running and oscar's trying to throw it out the window we will go for a the name of the skill now it's going to be an agility role for uh dorothea so your agility plus physique And it's going to be precision and ranged combat for oscar to throw this uh to effectively launch this thing out of the window i'm cashing in my advantage now because i have very poor physique i am not a physical person two successes yes oh okay that's pretty good and what does

oscar get one success right That's the main thing you need to launch it out of the way you throw it through the window as as fast as you can and as it soars out above the street it goes off in mid-air there is an almighty boom the windows on the front of the building shatter um you are forced back by the blast whereas dorothea has two walls effectively between her and The explosion the door into the apartment gets blown off its hinges um you need expectedly going to do 2.2 damage so two conditions to you

dorothea gets enough to cancel both of them out oscar cancels one of them so you do pick up one physical condition of your choice as you are effectively thrown back by the force of the blast and smash into one of the interior walls and then end up crumpled in a heap on the floor Uh i the way i uh imagined what you know my indecisive panic like shoebox stairwell shoeback sticking apartment i think that i sort of ran through the apartment and thrust it forward so i might have missed some of the direct blast but

i just smashed my face in because i didn't You know there was a way to protect that so that's the kind of injury that i've taken i've you know damaged my nose maybe snapped a tooth so sounds like you're a bit battered or wounded yeah one of those two yeah indeed there are indeed some days you just can't get rid of a bomb in time but yeah outside you hear there's screams there's uh people running there's commotion there's yelling and Pandemonium just seems to be breaking out on the street outside um you can hear people

in the apartments downstairs there crying some in pain but obviously not too major pain but definitely there is there are people hurt down there but yeah if that had if that had gone off inside the building that would have been a hell of a lot worse especially for you pretty much being at ground zero you reckon that was a yeah A fair number of bundle of various sticks of dynamite with a with a timer good job oscar good uh you oh god you look terrible i'll patch you up back back at the house can you

walk uh yeah it's wesley up here we have we should move the girl yes uh rosenbergs i was just reading about them in the library or rosenbergs rosenberger there was a Schism in the society years ago and they branched off and created their own vassen studying group and there's there's been a history of violent conflict between us and them ever since somebody knows what is happening somebody else let's get out of here let's get the girl let's get out of here and then i can patch you up at home are you so you taking uh

sofia with you yeah i don't know that we're gonna take Her to the castle but at least away from this building i don't i'm afraid they're gonna come back for her or something yeah if you're well depending if you're willing to let her go as soon as she gets outside she's quite happy to just run as fast as her uh little legs will carry her in any direction i don't know who we should ask her i don't know that we should let her go what if they come back after her if If we don't let

her go like we walk out of the street i'm all bloody there's char here we've all got bits of plaster and she starts to tug away sophia like we're not trying to kill you and somebody else is so why where do you want to go i was planning on getting on getting on a train and getting the hell out of here just getting as far away from here as quick as i can If you can afford to go i'll give her some i'm a doctor i'll give her i'll press some money into her hand get

away from here yeah she takes it and just says yeah you you look after yourselves as well but i'm gonna go somewhere even i haven't been before if i don't know where i'm going they won't if you oh where's yeah where's the cross do we have the cross yeah you've got she had it out so yeah She kind of knocked throws it at you but definitely you give her money in one hand she gives you the cross with the other and says take the next take the damn thing i don't want it if you find

yourself ever coming across something that makes me makes you feel as you did in that confrontation at the castle you know where to find us also where were you supposed to be Matt who was going to come and pay you of alva alvarez tell me about elva lampardon because she's the one who set you up to die well she she said she was so she just had this job for us there's a point we didn't ask questions because that's that's how we kind of a selling point that's how we get customers she just said she

wanted the cross and that she said she was gonna meet us Here for payment today and that yeah then i just got this note when i came back and said no i'll send it by by courier yeah so courier was deaf payment was death how do you how would you otherwise find alveolar she found us you did did you meet her in a bar at a train station how did you ever at the train station [Music] What does she look like oh she gives a description of someone that could almost be every woman or every

man that's fairly average height fairly fairly slender build long black hair normal complexion yeah it honestly could be it could account for a good 50 of the people you've got out on the street which are kind of gorping at the remains of the bomb or these the explosion having gone Off in mid-air of course and and uh when you say that she found you and then you know began to suggest jobs that you could do you never went to a place other than the train station to meet her or associates of hers she came in

on a train she went as she went out on a train 28 32 i came up from came up from stockholm headed north right all right we need oscar you need tending too and i don't want to be around when the police come by constable seeing us after having just dealt with us this morning not a great look you can indeed hear whistles being blown in the distance that are coming closer Yeah we need to relay this to the to the group as well back at the castle sounds like you've got your little maze set

up and you've uh looking at the notes uh in the chat you're setting up partial process all you need to do is do a quick flick and then you've yeah good plan so you're all set with the most optimal way to close Close her in into a particular room yeah to give her the run around and then isolator away from the fairy chamber gotcha yep you can have that all set up by the time the others uh by the others get back likewise say your father is already and spiritually spiritually fortified for uh Doing battle

later and so it's probably gonna be about one two o'clock in the afternoon having gone across town come back again done the bits of the mound so yeah we'll say that it's about one o'clock that you can all be back together and have shared exploits so uh why'd you're not dead um [Music] That's a uh you're very sweet that way doran the the rosen burgers they must just be in it to cause trouble for us i mean they must i mean when there's a schism that you said that you read about i mean they must

have known that the revenant was here and they must have heard that somebody else has moved back in and decided to try to kill us by essentially revenant yeah the accounts i said i read were violent Confrontations were common no i mean i can't see him i'm uh against committing violence back on them if i ever meet one uh i don't appreciate it when people try to kill me and my friends i'm gonna um uh have uh a fairly high thought of brandy because this this particular patch hurts And i'm going to look in library

but uh anything regarding alva lampanen or another [Music] because i don't understand the coordination over 100 years when was this how long ago was this is in between the different parts it doesn't say this the the history of the society notes Um i i guess it's not like a specific year matt it didn't yeah it just kind of said yeah it's it's an ideological split that happened over a while yeah and it was it was all about how to interact with that vasen and how we get our information some believed we needed to live amongst

them and marry them and some you know wanted to use witchcraft yeah one of them they took it doesn't say which if it was the Rosenbergers or not it there's an implication that there were many schisms and many factions but one of them the leader married a vason and that's that they believed that to live amongst the basin was the way to learn about them i don't know oscar do you need uh medical treatment i wouldn't object yes let me let me look after you oscar is that just a medicine role or well the medicine

role would for having Just the one condition would take uh would take pretty much a day of healing um it's only really until they get broken that you can start administering medicine as almost like a first aid role but with um with a good look over him and your professional diagnosis would be if he has uh pays a visit to the gymnasium then that would be mechanically a way to eliminate one physical condition Yes to get rid of all the glass in your face go work out for a little go go walk it off it's

actually mostly splinters and i guess they've got some good bomb in there yeah so you go to the library i'm gonna go to the gym and uh use the mirror and you were only minorly exploded just suck it up top it out um was there a lampanan that signed the Order to seal it away uh the three names on the order were growers frisk and larsen so it lasted let me see it has an l in common but no not the yeah that's one name i wanted to make sure because there was something that was

with him were there any previous records in the library for the society that was here before us yeah it was the the society was previously known as the order of artemis So it has records that go back way back over 150 nearly 200 years i'll go check and see if there's rosters of the members and see if there's a lamp again there's nothing that crops up going back but the thing that will become obvious quite quickly is that there is still that 10-year gap that you know that 10 years ago the society ended that stopped

or came to a halt here right no records in that Period so it's possible that this lampanen character came into prominence or joined the rosenbergers or whatever happened may have happened in that 10 years that 10-year period and also they are a rival faction that your your your society here may not have particularly in-depth uh knowledge about its enemies rosenberg himself was a founding member Of our society schism interesting cross i wonder if it's more significant than just they wanted to release the thing while you're pondering there is another bang bang bang at the door

uh is it a bomb for us personally i'll go check with the dog i'll come down at the distance okay the two of you had to head to the door um particularly uh your dog just Before you open the door there's kind of contented happy yapping as it's uh you read you know your body language of your uh of your faithful canine friend recognizes the scent of whoever's whoever's out there and is happy and you open up the door and there's detective carell stood there ah hello again glad uh glad to uh catch it you're

still here Uh i was wondering did i leave my notebook here uh i i don't know well let's see you were sitting over here is he is he all right oh she she yeah yeah she's just she's kind of looking Maybe a little bit absent-minded but you do notice actually that uh her hair is slightly more ruffled and there's almost like a little abrasion or scratch on her forehead uh are you are you feeling okay uh yeah it's just a little shaken up that was all uh some um Some lady bumped into me uh actually

not too uh not too long after i'd left here a couple of hours a few hours ago and i was i was just going and heading back to the station to uh to write up my notes and i realized i must have left the left my notebook here a lady um describe the lady the description matches the one that sophia gave you of alva Hey can the uh can my dog friend pick up a new scent all right i mean this is hours ago it's probably not gonna yeah you and there's no way it's certain

right now you have something ever anyway yeah i wonder if the lady lifted them off of i did deliberately uh describe that she put her notebook in her outer pocket of her long coat that was when you last saw her with it Now you i whoever did it i think uh has your notebook ah she she kind of looks angry at herself right pick pockets no what the what would they want with my notebook all they had was the discussions of everything about what we talked about so saying how many people were in the castle

your names Numbers what you're doing here yeah yeah it's odd that somebody would want to know so much about us well looks like i'm gonna have to go and report that to the uh to the constable see if we can get uh see if we can catch this uh little pickpocket oh sorry to bother you again and she uh turns around and starts heading out So while i'm picking bits of wood out of my face in the bathroom no one says there was an explosion twenty-one from here i don't want that tied to us because

you punted it out the window it was a good call eventually you do hear the chef muttering about oh algot's been trying to clear the drains again that's probably what that uh what that boom was i heard Thinking it's not it's not james bond you probably could open the box up and just pull the wires out it wouldn't have gone off well you know hindsight uh father it's 20 20 and uh when there's a bomb in front of you you might react it with a little more panic and urgency in the bathtub and filled it

with water but i mean telling her that we know of a bomb explosion at somebody who had broken into her house And people who have died like there are people who got were killed on our property after breaking into her house that would go to their house and then blow that person up i'm actually surprised hot i'm surprised that she didn't say something about it that was well i think i think she got i think she got hit over the head and was just robbed and still was still coming out of it I don't i

don't think it was a light thought street yeah i mean she could be have been phased in a park somewhere between here yeah yeah wondering if the body of that other boy is somewhere in this house well he was you said he was folded up and brought into the dark corridor i think he was brought into the inner areas of The fairy room yeah you're right so it would only be able to find that at night is it worth i'm inclined to think no but i want everyone's opinion is it worth trying to finish what

the revenant started and see if emma's body is there i'm concerned i don't want to disturb the fairies but we need the body yes if it's there well what do we have Say did they say that they buried the body back there oh it says that they took it away into nowhere never nowhere okay then yeah i know that i can't see the fairies properly burying her or anything like that i think having the cross back i mean the door that it was nailed to no longer exists or won't exist for another couple of hours

again if i got the right impression it was the Door into the fairy chamber that the cross was blocking we might want to put that back the problem is i mean again we'll be you know playing run around with the horrifying monster uh during the night but whoever goes whoever sneaks their way into finding the body on their way out might want to or at some point we might want to refashion the cross there After the revenant still but well you talked now about getting her back in there i'm not sure that we're going to

be able to do that no no no no no no no i no that's that's what i mean i'm saying after this is all said and done after we've dealt with the revenue we it may behoove us to put that cross i shake back on the fairy door i don't think that's going to stop the fairies from coming to see us or anything though So it's still i don't know but we're iron yes not silver no that's true um well the uh the the cross is silver and the nails were iron i believe okay i

see not that that necessarily is the key my concern you know and as i say this like my face is covered with bits of plaster and blood over all the splinters and my nose is Like right here um my concern is that they've got an agent that's acting in the world yeah like who is this woman who inspired these kids who's the woman right like how do they have somebody acting and she's not going to go away when we scope a house up if we can yeah she'll keep on trying to break the records state

that the society has no Idea where their headquarters are but that their numbers are growing increased presence we don't have we don't have the time to track this person down right yeah we have to permanently deal with the revenant we can't just seal it up somewhere because they'll let it loose again and we have to do this all all over again we have to kill the revenant and we can work on trying to find this We travel in another room while we go in and get the body i i think some people need to give

it the run around in the house while other people simultaneously go after the body well then let's let's determine who's to task for that so we're not running around chickens with our heads cut off in the moment i can bless whoever is in the most risk but revenant can move quickly so be careful i'm i am not fleet of foot So i do not believe i should be the one to get how do we know how fleet of foot we actually are is that just the agility i'm assuming yeah okay i have i have a

high physique and i have good agility i have good stealth i have good combat i have i actually have good stealth myself don't be willing to sneak into the room yeah i think i think with my propensity to run around like to evade to be stealthy And evaded uh in a chase might be better that way than this but i mean also with the stealth i mean going in with whoever is also going in a pair i don't i don't know father's right though if we if it gives chase to us and we are not

physically fit we could die and then i want to know now if i die in this Battle i'm counting on you all to make sure i don't come back we believe father that uh a thorough fire prevents these sorts of things thorough fire yeah if we burn the corpse completely it can't they can't return [Music] that's true i'm checking with you because frankly you know in my Corner of the forest we have different traditions that usually does it um i've always believed it needs a christian burial but but in terms of not being uh able

to do whatever emma is doing which we think is the case right that's our universal assumption that this is angry emma oh yes Um okay well i don't know how we've figured this out but i um once we get it into a room we can hang across on the door so that it can't come back out well here's the problem that i think is worth worth noting the text said that putting across the surface prevents it From traveling incorporeally through the surface it can go physical as well it might just batter the door down or

it could be perfectly trapped i don't know but i can't i don't think we can 100 bank on it like it's not a hang the cross in that door and then just sink down and relief it's a hang across in the door and keep running like hell isn't there why didn't it get out before that's a good point i don't know is There anything in the texts that show what can maybe keep it from changing forms anything that referenced that at all and likewise what what what's the deal with the foot shape like it's a

clawed long triangular foot is that a thing that happens when angry dead revive or is that a specific form that has a meaning it's a monster because the father got two successes Which is a pretty good deal on the initial learning check to learn about revenants the main weakness it has the main thing about it going incorporeal or being physical is it can only hurt you and only do damage to physical items when it or physical objects when it is physical if it's threatened it can go incorporeal which effectively is haha you can't hit me

But it can't hit anyone either so if you do pose a threat to it it can go incorporeal and basically go yeah you can't hit me but i can't hit you either normal weapons will they hurt the thing you could potentially hold it off by doing by threatening it with physical damage but killing it may be the only way to physically do it would be to destroy its body here's another concern are we going to Incur the wrath of the fairies if we destroy this thing that they've been playing with we can't century we can't

worry about about that at the minute i mean this this thing is going to kill us if we don't deal with it or it's going to be a massive pain and my other point then is i don't know maybe this is a terrible idea do we enlist the help of the fairies this is like this is their end of the thing too And say you know that we have this thing it's been it's escaped it's well you might have to bargain with them when you go through that door i just i i worry that when

we kill it we're going to have another enemy of the fairies because it's theirs emma is theirs i don't let's let's but let's consider that we have to live here in castle chilling cruise yes and there are fairies living in the mounds yes We need to strike some sort of bargain with them so that we can co-exist that's what we would much rather do than have them as our enemies oh exactly we don't want a war we we want to be in unison how does one strike up a a conversation with the fairies i don't

know i think we might have one tonight if you go through that door to get the body I would we might have to offer them gifts or because we have offerings or we still have a few hours maybe i i'd like to look up fairies and yeah what do fairies want yes dealing with fairies how to contact them etc if we can get a hold of them before nightfall we might end up having some help yeah that's the morning roll i like that sometimes all they want is cupcakes Can we all go to the library

for this yeah you can always all right i'll help as little as i can learning learning yep learning logic got it with my pitiful three dice i actually got a success i didn't find anything okay i said one success as well okay any advance on one just for one okay so three of you've got did someone get anything About zero five five one you're you're looking in the same place as the as the father but it seems like the uh the other three have found the particular shelf that is all about the uh the fair

folk and there's there's various different uh bits and pieces you're coming across that offerings are things like milk cream foods also politeness and respect will get you A long way as well in terms of establishing contact open up the open up the mound or call them out they're wrong yeah but that's not polite to open up that down that'll piss them off well don't open it up call them out call them out and bring them up i think i think we should bring up a jug of uh cream And and sing sweetly because they might

because i i think that they are not going to like all of uh lampang neither and if we could really use support that's my guess i i agree i completely agree um oscar i do not have your silver tongue i i will support you physically but i am not going to be talking to him very well apparently i'm going to need to be sent Back together periodically so [Laughter] let's get chef to make some cookies and some sweet breads well sweet breads [Laughter] some nice some cardamom buns oh you just mean sweet breads you don't

mean sweet bread do you mean brains an aspect i'm sure testicles yeah yeah no i i want i want rich creamery Butter i want the the extra fat stuff good quality very pale and cool no cold iron no iron make sure you have anything like that leave it behind no it's true i'll uh i'll bring my uh staff but not my crowbar so i didn't offend okay so you are gathering stuff from the chef deliberately ditching certain pieces of equipment and then heading out to the Mound yes okay but getting the stuff from the from

the chef and having a breakups and stuff probably doesn't take too long so by about two o'clock you're out by the mound and after having done a little circus circuit around it you do find that towards the back there is what could almost be thought of as maybe like a little rabbit hole That leads leads into the base of it right not very big but also it's it's it can't be actually a rodent told because it's all grass there's no brown tunnel that's that's uh yeah we should set up a little little tray or something

we don't want to get dirty a board a nice board a non-iron tray a piece of a piece of fallen wood apple water cherry something nice How is everybody singing [Laughter] you're the most gifted here father what is that under is that manipulation empathy or i wouldn't try to out manipulate a fairy to be honest yeah i think that's why i would sing them some sweet little song and then ask them to come out fairies come out well more along the lines of inspiration I'd say got it well i've got my my uh advantage with

some of the inspiration i have some fine wine i don't know if they would like that or not but i i i'm a i don't think i don't know um i actually end up with two four eight dice if i do the inspiration if if i could do backup singing for a bonus die maybe and i could Actually add one more point to that if i play my fiddle while i'm doing it do you think that those people like fiddles do a little irish jig or i'm just getting it hold the cheese board and look

friendly i will look stoically on from a distance me too I'll drop a sick beat for backing up the father so just having a look at the definition of inspiration and because it includes six beads yeah you get to beatbox with five successes on it now getting extra successes doesn't give you any other mechanical advantage like some Certain other skills so it's just you do it really well if you get multiple successes so if you wish to try and sing and play your instrument and while the others provide moral support give me a role holy

[ __ ] i got one six out of nine dice that's better than me normally i have to roll like 20 before i get anything It was all about the funky beats i was really hoping for like six sixes so my singing is not so great but true but uh with persistence finally that as you're as you're sat there watching uh watching the plate and thinking is is this actually working uh is there anything in there at all and maybe as your uh moral support maybe starts to flag slightly and begin to question is this

really such a good idea You see movement from the entrance to that hole and tentatively stepping out into the light is this little figure that's about yay tall wings almost like a butterfly or a dragonfly almost slightly translucent coming off her back dressed in what looks almost like the world's smallest suit of armor carrying Uh carrying a sword this yeah this figure comes forward out into the out into the light and looks up at uh looks up at you and raises a raises a hand in almost like welcome or acknowledgement good afternoon uh hello we

uh we don't often Have visitors is this uh is this an offering for for the queen indeed we we hope for a parley with queen mia drama ah well i'm i'm part of her personal guard i'll uh i'll inform inform the queen that an audience is requested we're honored to meet you and thank you for your assistance Oh i'm i'm a lonely soul lonely soldier uh i don't command or in that respect but yeah plea please please please wait here i shall i shall return and she turns around the little wings float flickering remember she's

a queen so yeah okay also jessa are scary and and crazy But they're real actually descends back into the hole and a couple of minutes pass and then there's this buzzing sound that starts to come from the hole and swiftly emerging are four of these other armored swerves small fairy-like figures wings buzzing as between them they are carrying a litter it's like a throne with uh poles on Either side and sat upon this throne is immediately still while she's pretty small what one once you think would have been a beautiful a beautiful woman if she'd

been a normal normal stature but instead there's this scarred almost hairless figure that's sat upon this throne still wearing armor herself Void of wings unlike her so the fairies around her she has none but she is carried forward and hovers in the air about three or four foot off the ground they go swoop up so they can get something more easy to look look upon rather than having to bend down and look And this this voice carries plea please rise i it's been a long long time since we've had visitors uh please what what brings

you what brings you here uh your highness thank you for this audience uh we have come not to disturb you But because we fear that there has been an interruption between matters uh in your realm and ours [Music] uh does the name emma bockfist mean anything to you there's a almost like a twitch and a scowl that comes across her face momentarily we we are aware of uh our pet yes It it seems to have been released is that possible released you can see the the royal guard around her there's a quick few glancing looks

but they're counterparts on each side of the the litter and looks of worry go between them then the the queen herself looks looks back up it's In in theory possible that that our pet could have escaped but she's been in there for a long long time this is couldn't be herself that escaped on her own volition surely it's revenant your majesty yes i believe that's the word that you assigned to it um The room in the castle that was meant to keep it imprisoned has been violated not by us but by someone trying to cause

problems we are attempting tonight to return the thing or destroy it don't you you believe it's still still inside we don't know uh i don't know we know that it's it's it's capable of killing mortal creatures And we know that it was released with the intention of something called alva lumpanen does that name mean anything [Music] shrugs human names i've i've certainly not met met anyone that's given their name and had that name we have attempted to Set a trap for it in the house but in order to destroy it we need the body would

you be willing to parlay with us on what we could do we certainly want to be friends with you we are the new residents of the castle indeed and we wish to show you all the respect and tribute you desire but we also need the body We want to enter the the place where it is and remove it if you will allow so that we can destroy it so you are offering to destroy our pet which is now able to leave its pres its prison you don't go on father we don't wish to deprive you

of Uh your satisfaction for what that human did to you what it did is unspeakable to us we simply want to destroy the thing that's attacking and killing people here perhaps if if you would rather keep her as a pet we could work together to bring it back to your realm and and close it back there seal it up again the the the enemy that Wants to cause disruption uh to all of us though knows of its current prison and will likely disrupt the prison again if if it's put back where it is now if

you wish her return to you we we would happily help you with that we just she should be moved i think you can see her evidently contemplating she looks down she's going to crosses her or Links her fingers together rests the mona chin my concern here is that you say there is some some other party this uh this one that deliberately released her and that's my understanding yes if we were to just put her back in her prison as you say there's They've already found one way to get her out we might not be so

fortunate next time and that she might complete her job of she turns and looks back up the mound digging her way into our home i would be very grateful to take you up on your offer if you wish to remove her and destroy her It's it's unfortunate that only only 150 years of torment could be enacted upon her but i'd rather have it be 150 rather than her then being able to get at least a few minutes of satisfaction getting to us the the easiest way for you to get to her would be to go

through the door to Nowhere when it manifests after the sun drops beneath the horizon if you are planning on entering nowhere you will need a guide otherwise you will run into the same trap that has kept her occupied for the last 150 of your years she caught gestures to one of the fairies that's holding up the back of the litter And she raises a small trumpet up yay big and just blows a quick and another figure in armor flies out from the hole in the ground uh with her arms wrapped around because in in relation

to her it's pretty big but relation to you it's still pretty small um she's carrying a small glass vial with a little cork stopper put into the top And inside is what for a second looks like a dead fly but as she holds it you realize the fly twitches and it moves slightly inside and its rear lights up it's a little firefly and the queen gestures the fly will be able to guide you just ask where you wish to wish it to show you the way to If you wish to go to her resting place

then just ask of it if you wish to find your way out of nowhere just ask of it i only ask that please return return it to us once you are once you are done and your task is completed ah we appreciate your assistance your highness go on darren i i i will i will protect it with my life And this poor struggling little uh little royal guard fairy comes over to you and just lets go of the vial once it's over your palm and then with evident look of relief as she's no longer carrying

a weight several times her size um starts heading back towards the towards the tunnel into the mound and the fair there the queen Is like nods towards you and says i will i'll be here eagerly awaiting report of your success in the morning thank you anything the the litter turns descends and heads back into the hole this is why i am a follower of the writings of the german karl marx this whole system is corrupt Said once she's out of earshot white all right so we now have a better success now some of us occupy

her while some of us go into nowhere and attempt to retrieve her body is that the plan then that is that is the plan uh i think i would like to go into nowhere because I want our way to the body if it does return i can help protect whoever's with me with my rifle i can at least make it think twice before materializing after us because once we're down on that tunnel and nowhere i don't think we'll have any room to to maneuver so there should definitely be something armed uh going that route in

case our diversion doesn't pan out which is not i I'll stay with the diversion i have a revolver if if it does change into the physical i can hopefully deter it so it stays i'll also stay at the diver as a diversion with the crosses and um let's uh say let's uh have a look of a gardener um let's dig a pit in the garden And put some wood and stuff in it so that we can light it on fire and toss the body into it to destroy the burn the body preferably at the window

we don't that the time of getting the body to destroying it needs to be pretty quick we can prep the wood also with uh some kerosene there's lots of skates so we've got to Be careful oscar are you going to go into nowhere or or be a part of the distraction i wouldn't send you uh anywhere alone taurune should not go alone no i figured one of us would go with one and one of us would go with the other oh right i'm uh i'm pretty good at despite this i'm pretty good not getting killed

What does that imply to you in terms of best choices if if you are if you are good at staying alive perhaps you would be best used in the team destruction i have no help but i i'm more likely to be i think i think the three of you should go in okay because you can keep each other safe okay Well right that's also the the realm we don't understand as much so maybe it's better yeah okay that's true you father you and and soren could always seek refuge in the chapel if nothing else right

okay we'll be fine go godspeed sounds like you've got a plan ready So it's now just a case of waiting for the sun to arc through the sky and hit the horizon so as we gear up to a climax uh we've got another two hour mark hit do people want another quick five minutes to hit the toilets or restroom and then clown for the end are you happy to carry on i'm cool but i'm getting battery low for my earphones so i do have to switch sorry okay yeah it's a couple of 16 minutes Two

faster later right so the sun is angling towards the horizon we're going to treat this as rounds so we're going to start break out the initiative cards for doing combat so we can resolve who goes when and in what group so i'm just going to start shuffling cards someone yells stop at some point at Which point i'm then going to dish them out in the order i see people on my screen and then also hand one over to star okay so father father neustrum you are going on a nine sorry direction i'll keep a track

of it and basically call right now it's your Action now it's yours and so on and so forth uh next round is dorothy you're on a seven then for tauren you're on a one so you're acting first then for oscar 10 and then for sauron you're a three and then the revenant to go on a five so before actions occur do any characters wish to swap cards With anyone else maybe those fleeing the revenant get like the highest gets to get the one yeah it's just the higher means going first or what low um lower

is good so lower that's what i'm sorry i meant lower yeah the better did uh father did you get us our our cross our crucifix yeah and who wants a blessing You to keep the blessing for yourselves i think we'll be okay i'm thinking that if i swap with the father and i go later that will give that will let both soren and the father go before the revenant so they can get a head start and lead the revenant and then their evidence will go before the rest of us who are hidden well if you

want to take if you want to take the lead tauren we can swa i have seven father has nine So if you want to take the seven and i'll take the nine and oscar will take the ten you're kind of you you've got the firefly then i'll then i'll go for okay that makes sense to me all right and then what do i have one you have one and soren has three i have three so the one is going to the father and then the nine from the father is going to tauren Now it's going

to me and i'm giving seven to torun if that's allowed to kind of do that like that's what's stopping yes because you you basically do one swap that way and then one slot that way so yeah that works so i'm going to give soren a blessing which gives you a plus two on one of your tests anyone you want nice right so that's my order set i'm Still on five so whereabouts are you positioning yourselves when uh when sundown occurs well we don't know well we know in game the way the trap is supposed to

work so we're positioning ourselves in spots that block the creature from going in that Direction i guess okay so you're maybe out in the hall waiting for it to come out of the room right and bracing ourselves for how scary it looks okay and is anyone attempting to hide so i'm guessing that say you've got the one group is going to be obvious that's going to run off and try and lure it away the others are Probably then hiding to waiting to sneak into the room behind it yes okay all right those of you that

are hiding so that will be tauren and soren i'm guessing and and uh dorothy and dorothy right so you i'll move those cards over slightly so you've got your group set so the ones that are running uh i mean the distraction are victor the father and oscar or by oh no and soren so Thoren are running right and then the other three are going into nowhere yes gotcha all right because you are hiding you don't necessarily want to see this thing or do you no No so you are at least so well hidden that you

haven't even got line of sight on this thing i think that i'm probably gonna have to peek i don't yeah you know in which in which case nightfall comes and there is almost the sound of something dropping As if something hit the floor like maybe a sack full of sand and then the creaking of the door where previously there was only blank wall in that in that room that was set up with all the remnants of emma's possessions left where they've been just sat for the last 150 years this door creaks open and for a

moment there's just silence and then this ruffling sound all these Sound of wind and motion and finally this awful sound that's almost like something with a raspy voice just continually inhaling and just seeming to get closer and closer and closer until it emerges out from this from this open doorway the thing almost has to expand and unfurl itself as it comes out through this small gap it's Almost impossible that something so big could come out such of us of a small entrance way the creatures about between eight and nine foot tall elongated limbs this roughly

skeletal face with two large globe globular burning blue eyes that almost burn like fire in its face long protruding teeth almost like sabretooth tigers Long claws at the end of its long hands and feet these giant almost roughly triangular feet that come up in this large pointed almost sharp heel and this wide spraying open open front of its feet with these long claws that come off the front those of you that are seeing it it is a fear 2 test so you need to roll your choice of logic or empathy Do we not see it

yet it hasn't come out of the room into the hall it's in the room at the moment right so so but it will come out into the it will come out into the corridor but unless uh oscar is peaking unless he does anything really adverse reacting to this uh to this test you do have people around you and for benefit as you are acting as a group or still take it that you get plus three so you have your logic or empathy Add three for the number of pcs that are with you and then don't

think you have brave or safety in numbers no but i rolled two sixes in the first four so i'm relieved yep you're fine um you're able to hold yourself together but yeah this thing as well as having this utterly repulsive ghastly appearance There is this odor of excrement and urine that follows it wherever it goes it smells violent it looks ghastly and as it just moves through the room with this intake of breath that never stops it goes out into the corridor and that's when the others will see it there so we'll try to kind

of drive it down the hallway the way we want it to go yeah can the uh the father and sorren give me Fear tests as well please how do we know then logical empathy your choice got it okay additional plus three for having the group with you even though you say you're not physically in the same place but you're like a wall dividing but you are acting as a group so i'll be i'll be kind and give it to you for acting as a as a cohesive unit and i'm brave and plus one dice for

being brave yes i got two sixes Here we go oh my gosh that was close seven dice one six right uh so soren doesn't get the two required oh it's two oh no it's a it's a fear to check you remember you got the can he use the blessing not on fear checks i don't think it says on anything To to out to a test of their choice so yes if you wish to use it on fear we'll say you can use it on fear and what does that do allow me to roll one more

die two more two two more uh okay yeah come on come on come on yeah yeah i'll do it okay come on please be good be good be nice oh come on no that also this failed Where you this is where you potentially might want to play the odds so at the moment if you let it basically if you let it run then you're going to take one condition but you're also going to then be terrified for 1d6 rounds which could be that you attack it you flee from it you cower from it you fall

you faint which puts you out of the puts you out of the action for Potentially up to six rounds or you can take a condition anyway and re-roll every dice that wasn't a six and hope that you get the second success so you don't take any further conditions okay i'm going to do that i'm going to do that because i only got so that was seven plus the two more that was that was nine so i keep the six out so i get to roll eight dice yep and just all you need is One six

i'm not gonna say what i would ordinarily say oh yes look at that i got two more sexes so a total of three sixes there you go so you still take the condition so it's a mental condition that you take because theaters is based off your mental stats okay so i'm angry now i could fix that but you are still capable of action that's the key thing so One vowel spirit right so you're you're trying to compel it or at least force it force it backwards by hold by holding the cross up to it right

all right that will be uh give me a manipulate manipulation role manipulation empathy for six Uh two sexes again the dice like you they hate me whenever i play this game right you force it up and as as per your plan this thing gasps its eyes flash with a glitter blue flame it turns and starts fleeing in the direction of your little maze okay all right that's one three sauron over To you um i will let's see it's going in that direction i guess yeah i guess we want to move in that direction kind of

follow it up yeah we want to push yeah that room yeah keep going i'll try to again continue the intimidation factor I mean maybe it can help okay again you can roll me in you can roll me manipulation as well all right and that's uh okay so that's three four that's not a lot but okay hey wow i got two sixes out of four dice wow there you go this is very easy right you you also had round the corner where it's it retreated round around the corner to be basically out of line of sight

of the cross you Come around and are brandishing one of your own this thing hisses and then moves further along the corridor so you are progressively forcing it further and further ahead of you next up is the revenant hey you are both holding crosses which is which is a major pain in its ass so um it can't attack you but it can certainly do stuff to your environment so Magic i have nine dice so four five six that sounds like a lot of dice when it's aimed our way yeah well they say can't aim at

you but i say it can affect the environment it's going to set the corridor on fire even though there's crosses on the walls oh no there's tar there's tar everywhere all this is jesus christ they're screwed oh my god oh bollocks We like that right you um you may get to make a force test for both of you okay force test so this is just your force stat so your character oh there it is uh wait a minute oh oh oh wow look at that my force is super duper okay let's fail okay Boom uh

wow well one six one is all you need because one is all i got okay so say nine dice one single success so as it just it just gestures with both of its hands across the corridor and the walls immediately as say nice lots of tar here lots of flammable stuff it's erupt in flame And while sauron is able to dodge out of the way but at least be outside of an area you get pretty warm but you don't get yourself set on fire um the father's robes catch fire so you take uh one condition

at this point in time that's a physical condition yes and that's exhausted Yeah they go in order it's your choice of which one kind of reflects uh how you are reacting to i'll i'll say battered is really what because i i'm set on fire um now when it comes to round to your next turn if you yeah you can start packing it out it's an agility role to be able to put yourself out you need one you need one success but if you fail I get to make a roll and potentially the fire might spread

to other parts of your body and become even more of a problem for you to try and put out but we'll get to that in your in your round in your next turn so that's five next is seven tauren into the breach into nowhere so you run forward into the dark yep out of out of our Out over hiding under the wherever we were conceal ourselves in that room just probably under the bed in the wardrobe close enough and now i mean my my dog is pretty disciplined as a hunting dog could it have been

not moving with us yeah i like its vigilance it's got a good nose and i have no idea what the hell is leaning behind that door it's all right dog let's go Right you rush on forward i take it that uh dorothy on nine and oscar on ten doing the same thing yes right the three of you then emerge into uh after having dived down this corridor this corridor itself is it almost resembles an underground passage that it just goes off into the dark as if it was some kind of subterranean tunnel but off ahead

of you after what seems to be a few moments perhaps it's a bit hard to judge exactly how long you're running That you can see a blue light emerge from the darkness up ahead and you run i say the three of you in quick succession into what looks to be a hexagonal room there are around you so six surfaces there's an arch in each of the six center of the six ways out of here the only arch that's marked is the one that you came in by which has a little cut out of what looks

to be a lock or Other a symbolic representation of a lock in the keystone above the arch you enter by the light in this room the otherwise again has this very subterranean feel to it it feels very much like you're underground is a blue ball of what seems to be almost first at first glance maybe crystal but as you gaze at it is completely filled with Blue fire which just illuminates the room but the light doesn't go beyond the end the archways into the dark well a little firefly take us to the resting place of

emma okay and you start moving your hand around so when do do something fly and as you move your hand as you go across to the the archway that's immediately in front Of you the little firefly lights up all right okay back to the top of the round so one the father you wish to put yourself out um yeah but i'm still holding up that can i still hold the cross while i'm doing it yeah you can do it so give me an agility role you need one success is Step three i did not make

it right so i roll one dice oh i get a six ah go ahead uh a quick action uh quick action uh as can i can i stomp him out for a quick action can i pat him down for a quick action you just check the slow actions and fast Questions so so this isn't aimed and methodical this is more like you know oh [ __ ] there's some oh sorry oh gosh there's some fire and and i just sort of go right for it it's all right my son there there's a situation acceptable terms

right now i'm yelling [ __ ] [ __ ] i mean we just hit [ __ ] on the stew me stupid all right Things are bad i'm even holding this thing this is terrible it's not worth work better sorry it wouldn't be a fast action it would be a slow action but you could attempt it to try and put him out without a candle is a fast action that doesn't count he's a bit he's a bit bigger than a candle all right yeah my goal was was to to try to preempt Before he took

more damage was what i wanted so okay so could i try uh i'll i'll buy it for that because you're only well you're only two down or two up the initiative order from that so after your uh agility attempt i will then roll the dive to see if the see if the flame increases okay okay so i do agility okay i can do this now i can do this i've got agility i've got whoops that's the wrong shard this is it Agility stay on target okay okay agility all right so i can do this bunnies

nope nope uh one one two three just defending the flame that's a big fail okay so let's see if the flame gets bigger bye everybody i rolled one so it is still a small Flame so as of next round you still only need one success uh to get out of it but it is still burning so you take another condition this round remember these are going to be cumulative minus ones on your physical actions as well so it becomes a bit of a death spiral don't die unless uh sauron wanted to take a take a

Condition and try and uh re-roll the agility the agility dies oh oh oh oh but with the condition drive drive the creature back yeah i'm gonna have drugs yeah i gotta stay focused on the creature actually if soaring gets ahead of me to drive the creature back then i can just take off my damn robe yeah you can you can Drop and and tumble drop and roll that that'll be that'll be on the next round so both this round both uh both the father and sauron both tried to put out the father and didn't get

too far so at the minute the thing is still forced up forced back but you're not pushing it any further back this turn it's just standing there and if it doesn't advance but it just likewise doesn't pull back um can't do anything directly against you it's already set The corridor on fire that's it's content to wait at this point hopefully what what you burn so that moves us round to seven which is now that my screen has completely changed because of the engineering torrent [Music] all right so i mean i still have the firefly i'm

seeing if it's flickering colors um It seems to light up when you you've asked your question to it at least you put your command to it and then once you've moved it around it lights up when it meets a particular doorway off here yep and that's where yep heading that way then just keep following the firefly right and you're moving up first presumably as you're the first one to act okay can i have a d6 roll please oh one Okay you all move forward presumably you're doing the same as before rush uh rush into the

dark and as you rush forward not only is it that it's very dark in that corridor everything goes completely black uh can i have another d6 roll please six oh okay Once you wonder you're looking around wondering what what is everything you suddenly can't hear everyone around you it's just the light's gone the sound's gone everything's gone and as each of you is trying to twist and turn and find out any full reference even trying to hit the wall with your hand or try to grab uh grab anyone in front of you you realize your

limbs are being held And that what was once horizontal horizontal suddenly goes vertical you're lying down on what seems to be almost like a wooden bench around you there's these benches around the room and around this circular room or roughly circular maybe hexagonal it's a bit hard to tell from your position with hooks coming down from the walls upon Which implements are hung and this female figure that just seems to be like a giant leans over the table and in that moment we think well she can't be that big if you realize it's because you're

really small and that you are strapped down onto this bench as this female figure that you presume to be emma With relatively short cut hair this malicious grin on her face just says i'm i'm almost disappointed it's this easy to harm you i was hoping you'd last longer as there's nothing that you can give me now i just guess i'll have to enjoy the time we have left together as she reaches forward with a seri what looks to be almost a set of pliers That she grabs hold of your leg and starts to tear you

limb from limb um can you each give me fear checks please oh good god we get plus three because we're together uh you do not see anyone else around you so for this purposes you do not get the plus three nothing nope uh oscars also yeah i'll say no sexes Right now this could potentially slow you down quite a bit if all of you are going to go into being terrified so it's potentially 1d6 rounds that you are going to be gripped by fear do people want to push the role take a condition but obviously

then if you do succeed or you need all you need is one six that it would mean that you don't have to worry about losing d6 rounds i'll push it sure pushing it yeah ditto Okay no baby come on yes okay so tauren is uh out of it for roll 1 d6 three okay so tauren is out of it for three rounds as he's gripped by effectively part of this prison is that it would reflect back all the torches that emma did back on herself from the perspective of being the vase in In her torture

uh you're out of it for three rounds and you're the one with the firefly so uh you take two conditions you take the one for pushing and the one for for failing the fear check whereas the others only take the one for the push and it's mental right yes yeah i got angry as the push and now i feel hopeless especially as you're angry your anger does nothing I agree okay and we're back round two number one well i took i'll describe nine and ten um you as you push through this realizing that as you're

being ripped apart something in the back of your mind tells you this is just some kind of memory or trick or fade fake illusion you then push through and stumble into a room That looks pretty much like the one that you just saw in your in your mind's eye there is a bench in the middle of the room there are these horrible implements which are hung all around you on hooks and chains from the walls and on benches the smell of feces and urine is intense in the room as is the smell of decay and

poking around on the floor from Behind that table you can just see two skeletal almost mummified feet poking out of a corpse that's evidently on the other side of the other side of the bench background to the father on number one do you want to try and give me a role to uh put yourself out again yes hey agility please Chilla t now let's see maybe wait a second hold on agility i've i don't have any inagility i do have three in physical but now don't i have two minus ones if you've got two conditions

yes because that would only give me one dice i'm wondering if if he ran forward can i just take off the cassock and throw it to the ground that's Probably what's on fire it's it's all that's part of what your agility role manifest is called shedding and burning clothes one dice look i got a six honestly on a red dice as described you literally just launched yourself out of your burning clothes you're somewhat scorched and singed and in a great deal of pain but you're no Longer on fire all right cool soren you're up oh

damn thing okay give me another manipulation roll all right uh let's see go that's right this is not getting any better that's just empathy and if you okay here it is Okay okay that means you've reached a cumulative five in terms of pushing it back you now have it where you want it so if you wanted to barricade it into a room as you were discussing that it is now in that room at the far end father get painting those crosses um i Work out that's what i'll do the next round i think right well

you can use a fast action because as uh tauren did uh did state that you're putting pretty much everything in place apart from just a single brush stroke across okay that's i would count that as being the fast action to just go whoosh how do i do a fast action just you just you just declare you're doing it okay i'm doing it i'm putting the crisscross on the bar On the cross and at which point you have a very very angry uh revenant inside the room on a five yeah it's going to it's going to

lash out in any way shape or form it can do you see the room completely the interior is suddenly engulfed in flame and you can start to smell burning wood damn that thing We've got to get that thing killed depending on how long it takes to get out of there roll it roll it's nice would you believe on nine dice zero these old houses are built really strong but it gives me time to get my [ __ ] together it's also super moldy so all the fires like yeah it's all there's all the uh wet

Yeah yeah it was raining wasn't it yeah yeah it's probably the room above it's got a big hole in the roof and it's just got like a swimming pool full of water up on the floor above it so uh tauren is currently going maybe in in his nightmare vision whereas the other two of you find yourselves in the torture chamber and around the back of the table is the remains of what was Once emma blackfist where's torn hey we we can't leave without torun we oscar let's grab that body at least yeah i'm gonna yeah

well yeah it is my turn i'm grabbing the body but i'm gonna stay put and i'll say that to you like i i think we should we can't we're we're gonna get stuck in here without that firefly i don't i Don't know what happened to tyrone but maybe she'll come back i don't what's the um [Music] what's the uh body seem like is it she's what what it looks like has happened is that she was curled up in a semi-fetal position just with her feet sticking around the back edge of the table And that it

looks like she had just laid down there and finally given up all hope around her in an ark on the floor is just a series of scratches that one two three four scratch through for five as you're not sure if it's hours days or however long it might be that she was trapped down here but she just laid down and gave up and then the final act of Defiance was i'm just going to wait until i either die of thirst or die of hunger and just counted down time until it finally happened so there's this

mummified corpse that's left there very dry very uh very brittle so if you did one if you did have anything you wanted to try and set it on fire with you could probably do it here oh that's right we need to set it on fire um I don't know that i have anything oscar do you smoke uh that is a vice of the wealthy um i'm practical there so i can probably strike something together if there's material appropriate or we can look around you've got a crowbar and you've got stone so if you want to

try and get a Spark going there we go yeah okay uh normally doing ripped uh doing rituals don't require roles but this is a bit more of an improvised step to try and get uh to try and get to your end goal here do you want to give me a force roll to see if you can strike the ground hard enough to try and get generate a spark Surely uh physique is five and force is one more so i've got six dice uh and i've got four sixes four yeah i guess four sixes are five

and a one there is you seem to hit whatever part of the stone you hit it not only gives a single spark it's like a firework going off as you just rake the metal across the ground Sparks fly and she is like a tinder box because there's no moisture has made it down here and she is she has been lying there in state for a long long time her clothes start to smoke and quickly almost like a roman candle she just erupts in flame and for the father and sorren outside as you realize or as

it realizes what's happening you can see it start trying to Bang on the door trying to get out trying desperately to get back and flee back to its body to stop whoever's doing this to its remains and not only is the room going up in flames she goes up in flames with them and this awful terrible loud screech and scream fills the entire castle for what may only be a few seconds but will Permanently be ringing in your ears this is not a sound you will forget lightly that finally the remains of what was once

emma mingles with the flames and they them they themselves extinguish what tauren does staggers out from the dark a few a few moments later i think firefly still ain't still in Hand but there's a nice little fly there you could if you had some marshmallows it would be quite toasty let's get the hell out of here okay i presume then with your little guide you turn around and ask for the way out yep we wrap up to a coder as it were so the next morning After having put out the corridor that was a blaze

outside and realized yeah tara is quite flammable that's and that's annoying that you've got uh maybe a few little streaks of smoke heading up to meet the morning sky the morning sky you head back out to the mound to take the firefly back to the queen yeah yeah bring bring that More offerings bring it yeah bring cheese and cream milk and cream and just been just said it there uh i'll i'll let somebody else do this i'm still a uh i'm still rather uh i'm gonna have to talk to the priest i'm just yeah i

just i had a job to do i wanted to protect people and i failed i failed Everybody and i just hate being powerless so that's fear often gets the better of the best of us yeah the the queen arrives on her litter takes back the well she doesn't take back she one of her one of her royal entourage takes the firefly back in its little glass jar she looks up at you and society i thank you for for that for Taking care of our our former pet and i i like to think that we can

be good neighbors if you do require my services such as has been provided in the past you know where to find us and if you need anything you can contact us she smiles and nods kind of i think you gotta read the expression on her faces i was hoping you would say that And she heads into the mound and as a last image imagine that's when the curtain comes down and if there was a mid-credit sequence there'd be off on a train heading back towards uh back towards finland there's a lady in a long dark

coat just having a flick through a notebook that she stole from the police detective That the whole point to learn about what members as this is the society are still left in castle gill and group so they can start planning their next move the uh the rosenberger faction has a little piece of information that might come in might become useful at a later date and that's where we'll end our story excellent excellent Yeah that was a lot of fun thought thoughts on vase and then is that the kind of kind of thing you like yeah

it's funny yeah it's good that was a lot of that was a lot of fun i loved the uh the whole research and prep idea of it you know where it's like you're going on a hunt or you know it's you have knowledge of the mystery and you get to you know make decisions and plants i found that Preparation part of it a lot of fun yeah well unlike the cthulhu mythos we could actually learn about some of these things in order to fight them yeah it's it's i love it it's a great it's a

great little game and it's it's quite formulaic in that sense that the the mysteries have the same kind of structure but even within that structure you still have a lot of you can play around with it a lot so these the Scenarios never quite feel the same it's like oh finding learning about your enemy realizing what you need to do and then encountering a problem that yeah violence isn't the only way well isn't the way you solve it you have to find that method of dealing with it and you know some there's some some of

the bases in the book have some quite uh quite tricky ways of dealing with them um really kind of makes you think how The hell am i going to be able to get rid of this one all right our players included holly butoh stuart lively david gassaway morgan lewellen and myself with matthew sanderson as the keeper of the secrets we have a discord server where you can chat with our other members you can set up private games and you can learn the finer arts of gameplay and game mastery we provide audio only versions of our

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