Sounds of Silence Roll4It #13 - BESTIAL - Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition

[@carlosvassell1345]

"You're emotionally fragile that's why I have your son." That is the most savage thing I have heard in a LONG time.

[@fallenknight4383]

Really impressed with how Zach immediately got to work saving the coterie and showing off his new dominate powers. Have to say I might just be a little bit proud 👍

[@profmembrane8501]

Zach and Ava's new step dad. Oliver. XD and Dakota trying to look fancy but hating it. It's so adorable. The relationship between these 4.

[@rossnorris2351]

Mathas needs to find a way to use this voice all the time. I understand he is ill but his voice is perfect for this. Low, kind of creepy. I love it.

[@rossnorris2351]

1:13:02 Zach's face when they found out about Dakota and the computer. Which btw, awesome.

[@Korovjov101]

Wow, Mathas the Iceberg sunk that ship faster than the Titanic

[@MinecraftTNT64]

**minor SPOILERS** (time stamps) watch announcements if you wanna know about... -Roll4it con -Give away for the patreons 5:35 game start 20:38 Zach helps out? 38:18 making a call 41:02 at the orphanage 1:29:40 sorrow 1:37:05 knock knock 1:50:23 zach is scary 2:00:18 break starts 2:12:05 break ends 3:35:00 elysium if you have a favorite moment i'll add it above

[@alecchristiaen4856]

this is supposed to be all horrific and dramatic, but Dakota's venture to security was so funny.

[@llamasalas357]

What we do in the shadows moment

[@luckyleo25]

1:47:20 "No. He was mean!" That was such a Dakota Raines line! Operative word is "*He*" (Someone needs to illustrate or animate that scene). Seriously! I really LOVE Dakota. She is such a simple and straightforward character. She hates men! At the same time, there is a complexity to her character as she really cares for Ollie and she really wants to belong to a "family"

[@oakson3045]

It really is a master class in roleplaying!

[@matthewstorm4135]

Ollie’s home renovation service Zach: “Will you all stop making messes for me to clean up?!!”

[@TheFuriousBrother]

Game starts at 5:35 Break ends at 2:11:30

[@theone5258]

Dakota: I got presents!! Zack:no Probably best line this episode

[@ColonelRPG]

"You pull her head back from the wall, and in one fell swoop Strength plus Brawl check please!" HAHAHA! XD Brilliant delivery!!

[@silentcomedyW5]

Best thing ever!!!!

[@cdhewko]

Datoka, "He was mean." (I laughed . Nice.)

[@MrRodas777]

I absolutely love everyone in this show, including guests. This shit is awesome.

[@ColonelRPG]

22:33 EE's face through that bit had me cackling!!!! XD

[@Wismeril1993]

Hey ! I have that Red Dwarf reference EE ! (Hello from France :) )

[@nox503]

59:02 holy crap this episode, that roll I cannot believe it . Really enjoying listening to this series Thank you

[@thedapperlad7148]

Mathas's voice is nearly ASMR quality in this, wow

[@julianleverton7045]

Sending Dakota off on an important mission ... this is fine

[@johnjaeger2968]

*room is on fire*

[@christianwhite8877]

If anyone had me describe the episode it would be almost all tasks failed successfully and Zach saved the group multiple times from really bad accidents

[@christianwhite8877]

I don't mean that in a bad way through in fact it's a pretty good episode

[@GameCarpenter]

I get that the one guy gave himself up, but everyone seemed to forget about the guy who was left unconscious after being pulled through the wall... He also certainly doesn't belong there and has his prints all over a gun at the scene... Hope something comes of that.

[@brandonogden3498]

"I don't know what's going on officers! A man kidnapped us and I woke up washed ashore. I didn't know where my wife was, so I called my ex boyfriend because I was scared... I went home and these three guys attacked me! Have you found my wife yet? What is going on, WHY is this happening to ME?? Should I be afraid, is there some sort of gang after me?!"

[@enoughofyourkoicarp]

I am still loving these, kind of wish there was more progress per episode though, can't wait for the next one.

[@mythicalxeon]

As they were joking around while getting into the limo, i half expected a "so pleasant to meet you" from Siena (sp?, Ava's sire)

[@TheDanlovejoy]

2:27:55 let the wookiee win. Butcher in his mask, in a bunny suit, donnie darko anyone?

[@thedapperlad7148]

Fuckin Donnie Darko, now that's a memory of watching it, trying to figure it out on my own, failing and watching nightmind

[@enoughofyourkoicarp]

I got that image as well.

[@lancedaray3618]

"How many more times are you gonna let them use you?".... As long as they keep paying me fairly......bc that is how cameras that already saw you work. Just because im big doesn't mean im not fragile. "you are emotionally fragile, thats why i have your son"

[@nonchip]

3:37:00 i pictured zach "is oli gonna be my new daddy now?" :'D

[@charcoalangel7536]

This is really gnarly.

[@Ghostneedle1]

2:23:06 Butcher about to pull a *Lenny*

[@dennisdreher4481]

2:57:20 ... that awkward moment, when it slowly starts sinking in, what a blood bond really means... :D

[@Revan_7even]

"Wrong client." Perfect

[@DarkAvatar1313]

2:30:44 that's not how suppressors/silencers work, still make a loud noise just more like a car door closing "slam" rather than a sonic boom like a normal gunshot. I know they are going for Hollywood style but I mention it since some people think that's how they really work. They are meant to allow a gun user to use their gun without the shots damage their hearing. Even a 22lr pea shooter that is "silenced" still makes a loud echoing crack.

[@Drewcatmorris]

As a player and storyteller I love blood dice.

[@dvidwayne1192]

Dakota's "Yep, yep, all day!"...

[@coltonbunja]

I feel like Dakota gets a lot of shit because she’s loud and brash re: her mistakes and missteps. Ava, though… I don’t think they see how SCARED she is. And that’s why she makes the decisions based on everyone else wants - if she is alone with three separate groups, and those groups ask her to do three separate things, she will agree with each of them every time because she just wants to be safe. But she’s also fairly ahead of them in terms of knowing what she needs to do, as a Kindred. Because you can’t be a human and a Kindred, you can be a human-like Kindred, but you will always need to do immoral (in the view of the moral compass of a human) shit in order to survive.

[@rossnorris2351]

Is Mathas running outside sessions with Suichi and Camille? If so I'd love to see these as well. Am dying to see the whole story.

[@charcoalangel7536]

No what you see here is what you get. Orginally they were just one off characters but people kept having to take weeks off so what ended up happening was that Suichi and Cami became an actual big part of the story.

[@EnterElysium]

@@charcoalangel7536 Actually we knew ages before people's time-off so they were planned to be big parts - but nah no side session yet.

[@Riptide555]

Skulls for the skull throne! :P

[@gmofkings]

Blood for the blood gods

[@fenriswolflp-verlierenmits5952]

I think there was something wrong with Dakota´s illiteracy. As I understood she wasn´t completely illiterate in earlier episodes, but with a just crude and rudimentary understanding of writing and reading works, like an elementary school kid or something.

[@AlricOfRahls]

Brilliant show. This level of roleplay is what I'd really love to achieve in my games, but I've got a long way ahead of me.

[@sacredheart9449]

Yeah. Just finished part 12 10 min ago. Lucky me.

[@dratheart]

Does EE wear special contact lenses for his cosplay? I've never known anyone with eyes so very blue as these...

[@manticore6963]

Damn...that whole Shitshow aside that happened during this Session (wich Zach seemed to clean up by himself basically) - It's fascinating to see, how Mathas does everything he can, so Sianna and the Camarilla look and are as unpleasant, cold-hearted and monstrous as possible. And still Ava licks their Boots like no other. As I've said in another Video, she seems to do everything and accept everything (even things, she would normally never do), just to be on the supposed Winner's Side. And I don't even think out of Lust for Power but because she fears being punished, if she helps anyone else but Sianna or the Camarilla. Btw, this is nothing against Miss Magitek herself, she's doing a great Job; I'm hating on the Character, not her.

[@TheFuriousBrother]

I love the character for that, every time she gets asked how long or why she's doing stuff she avoids to answer. I personally think that she is bloodbonded or even something worse

[@manticore6963]

@@TheFuriousBrother Oh. Ooooh. Oooooh damn, I never even considered that she might be bloodbonded...that would explain almost all of her Behaviour. And the Implications scare me.

[@MarkATorres1989]

@@manticore6963 Yeah I considered the blood bonding at the near end of the session when Zach went out of his way to vomit the wine out. Because one he is still hiding the fact that he can't be blood bonded. Though it is also interesting that a Vamp would be able to do that to get support/slaves into their cause without having to actually force or offer their blood right then and there.

[@CWCCryss]

Considering that Sianna is her sire, she would have a bonding to her. Even if the official "bond" was broken and a new coterie was formed, it would make sense for her to wish to please her sire.

[@CartesianDuelist]

I'm not sure how Mathas is playing this campaign but per the rulebook as written it's impossible to blood bond a kindred unless the blood is taken directly from the vein or immediately after. It loses the mystical bonding property if stored. Makes sense really, if any lick could just spike the punch and blood bond the prince there'd be total chaos :P

[@malcolmdarke5299]

I think that Dakota could probably rock the "barbarian queen" look if she felt like it.

[@Khorane]

Dakota is a menace. So much for controlling her beast :P

[@manticore6963]

I was waiting forever for her to finally lose to the Beast.

[@crownprince76]

Yeah that was coming...

[@ColmMansfield]

2:54:10 I'd ship it

[@Dularc]

Shouldnt Zach have gotten a stain for mind-warping someone and ruining their life? Just like Ava got a stain for sleeping with a married man and trying to manipulate him.

[@MarkATorres1989]

It would apply if Zach felt guilty for ruining an innocent's life more or less. He was dealing with a drug dealer, so no reason to feel guilty for wrecking the dealer's life even further. At least that is how I perceive how vampires would rationalize it.

[@CWCCryss]

If I recall, Zach also has a boon on protecting his family. So since he was covering for Ava, it would have probably countered any possible feelings of guilt.

[@LittleRedDot]

Oh I got stains for this game. 2 of them in fact. :D

[@EnterElysium]

If it were a rando or not for a good reason totally! But you get -1 for acting in defense of your tenant (defend family) and I went out of my way to pick bad people. So I imagine it'd be a 1 stain - 1 for tenant.

[@WolfOfLegend]

Break ends 2:12:01

[@sansstk]

2:55:54 omg Zach I totally hate you for interrupting such an important romantic moment!!!!!

[@moehsenpai8855]

Bathroom fights are always the best...

[@cherylhubner3076]

Why she could have told him to leave and stay outside tell she comes for him

[@rf-cattleprod6207]

Best freaking episode. Way to go L_R_D and EE.

[@MinecraftTNT64]

Beast moments 54:34 57:15 1:43:44 2:26:20

[@LittleRedDot]

So many beast moments this game.

[@MinecraftTNT64]

@@LittleRedDot left out the last one because nothing happend, so Dakota 4, Olly 1 p.s. cant wait for dakota to frenzy, but id imagin after this session shes gonna feed more often ;p

[@thelast9021]

Thats some funny shit with Dakota and the cameras.

[@themastigosqueen3280]

I find it funny that they spent the entire first few episodes bitching about the coterie trusting each other, but the second Ava came in and told them classified information they freaked out on her. Where I her I'd find it hard to ever trust them.

[@WolfOfLegend]

Woo! No more conscience!

[@GameCarpenter]

Oddly appropriate that all these issues kick off as soon as their conscience leaves, go figure XD

[@lorefist3795]

Why don't they just give Dakota a suit. Ore just some dress pants a white shirt and tia. Boom problem solves. Also I know this is like 3. Years late.

[@anvos658]

A toreador was the one dressing her of course its going to be a dress, plus then you'd be angering all the neonate male torries, tremere, and ventrue that are fighting over new suits to make a good impression, by "wasting it" on a gangrel.

[@geridionarus]

did mathas say Butcher has been looking into lotion mafia bevor he said local ? whats a Lotion Mafia ? XD

[@Simon-gi8yr]

oh poor mathas xD

[@crownprince76]

Now as for the main theme.. I know it's late but I need to say th is before I listen further and see how it ends... 3 explosions that kill political figures and 3 or 4 days of war would bring ALL the Federal Government Alphabet Agencies to investigate. And if it doesn't then that all by itself would alert the 2nd Inquisition. No way it wouldn't. Ok my issues about Chicago politics. The mayor is the head of city council. 50 Alderman sit on the council and control the various boards that co tell the city. No one individual holds that type of power so getting the mayor in ones pocket doesn't give anyone complete control of the city.

[@higginsjedi85]

I wish it was an old lady that popped her head out asking for David. Lol. Throw back to original shadow run.

[@thelast9021]

Ollie The Matrix is everywhere. It's all around us, even in this . very room. You can see it when you look out your window or ... It has the same basic rules, rules like . gravity. What you must learn is that these rules are no . different than the rules of a computer system...some of them . can can be bent. ...

[@origamibulldoser1618]

What the hell happened to Mathas's voice? He's transmogrified into Caine from Diablo.

[@agrosia5199]

2:12:32 DAMN

[@moehsenpai8855]

Also MAKEOVERRRRRRRR

[@lyredragon]

I swear every time I hear bub speak his voice reminds me of David Draiman.

[@BubTalks]

Thanks! I love David Draiman, big fan!

[@cherylhubner3076]

Ollie the Easter bunny

[@9391862]

Im a bit confused. I looked up for Princess in Chicago. In this video I learned that previous prince was Maxwell who disapeared. From whitewolf page he served as a prince from 1837 - 1871. How then zach can have mobile phone? Next Prince on the list is Lodin, not Bella, who served from 1871 - 1993. Is this a different universe?

[@irontemplar6222]

Its V5. However from all indications its modern day (for instance Zacks character taking all the blackberries he could when they closed down) the use of smart phones, etc.

[@Miss_Distress]

Probably just GM storytelling licence?

[@anvos658]

Believe this is GM homebrew, since I think official V5 Chicago by Night was only published in like 2020 and this is a 4 year (by now) old stream. Still its a nice change from Kevin Jackson and the official starting scenario guide.

[@diago951]

Could somebody explain wtf is going on here. Are they playing a visual video game or is it mindfantasy rollplay with your imagination type thing?

[@charcoalangel7536]

They are playing a tabletop rollplaying game (like D&D) which has a core rule book but the gm does the majority of the work (coming up with the story playing the npcs ect)

[@manticore6963]

Adding to what charcoal Angel said, Imagine it like they are mixing a Board Game with Impro Theatre. The 4 Players are assuming Roles of Characters with their Stats and Abilities dictating, what their Characters can and can not do and react to, what the Storyteller - or Game Master (short GM) in most Pen & Paper RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons - is presenting them as a Situation. The GM is basically the Director and knows, how the Story will progress, to some extend influenced how the Players react to the Situations the GM gave them. The GM is also every other Character that is not one of the Players-Characters. All of the above are dictated by the System they are playing and require different kinds of Rules depending on what the Players want to do.

[@zesky6654]

It's theatre of the mind.

[@crownprince76]

I'm finally getting a grip on messy crits and beastial fails. I don't really agree with the loss of control on both ends. It feels unfair to the character to me.I'm going to have to keep digging into that a bit more...

[@sage7149]

It’s kinda like failing a saving throw to be possessed. Your character isn’t in control it’s the beast.

[@vitalyzabelin5685]

Seriously, why does Gangrel needs to dress? Their curse sounded "Ennoia, you animal!". Why not go in an animal form?

[@thedapperlad7148]

Don't think she has the dots in Protean for that

[@LittleRedDot]

I can't change into animal form yet. I've taken more points in Fortitude than Protean.

[@thedapperlad7148]

Aye, protean has less direct usefulness than fortitude in your current situation, though being able to transform would have helped in the information gathering portion of the Orphanage mission, maybe avoided that poor ladies brutal murder

[@LittleRedDot]

@@thedapperlad7148 I'm really loving the idea of maxing out Dakota's Fortitude.

[@thedapperlad7148]

@@LittleRedDot Yeah, maxed fortitude is great, in the older editions atleast, 5 fortitude made you basically invulnerable to small arms of a reasonable caliber, like, if someone wasn't goin at you with a Barret, it would bounce

[@harvestblades]

I am not extremely familiar wity V5 rules, & it sounds like some of the characters are as well & it sure seems Matthas & Zach are extremely rusty at the rules as the ST should of reminded the players at the beginning of each round to heal damage which in V5 I believe requires a hunger check. Just would of been odd if combat continued or Ollie took a bunch of agg from a 9mm. *Also suppresors are not silent the are quieter but it is still noisey. An easy way to think of it is a gun is loud enough to hurt your ears & a supprezor (the proper name) will make it just quiet enough that it won't hear your ears.

[@anvos658]

My impression is some of this is just due to how many other table tops they stream/play. Bouncing between too many different systems likely made it hard to keep everything straight.

[@giakseven3120]

LET OLLY AND AVA ROMANCE YOU COWARDS!!! LOL

[@Kizzy-qb9si]

Ava and Dakota is just as entertaining

[@BishamonS]

Why did she get a beastily anything on that guy?

[@luckyleo25]

She hates men. And "He was mean" That's Dakota for you

[@manticore6963]

@@luckyleo25 I think he meant rules-wise. Wich I forgot how it was worded exactly, but I think the Rule is - she had a Beastial Failure, because she rolled no Successes at all and her Hunger Dice (the right one in the Roll20-Dice Screen) rolled a 1, the lowest possible Number, wich means a Failure. (represented by a red 0) Or short, No Successes, and at least one Hunger Dice showing a Failure means a Beastial Failure. But please don't hold me accountable for that, I don't own a Rulebook and I couldn't find it explained on the Internet.

[@BishamonS]

I pulled out the rule book and take a look and it was a learning experience for me and realized that yes your hundred percent correct if it's a failed role and there is one critical failing hunger dice or more it's a least you'll failure and I didn't see that she had rolled a one

[@missmyk]

2:50:45 NOW KISS

[@sansstk]

After this episode I definitely ship Ollie and Ava

[@kaasmaster8892]

Fortythird

[@MinecraftTNT64]

-First- I just want attention really, i wont lie to you

[@enoughofyourkoicarp]

Well I'm so broke I can't afford to pay attention but I do have a charged particle under a tarp, so that's kind of like "a tent ion", will that do?

[@anvos658]

Your conscious giving you a thumbs up can also be a sign you've lost humanity and everything isn't alright, but its stopped caring. . You have a Toreador Prince of course everything is a social event. . Zach seriously needed to shut it about picking a side when one of a PC's touchstones is in danger, that is not priority #1, especially when your not making an informed decision before you meet the new prince. . Given Dakota looks like somebody who should only just be leaving an orphanage, that might be concerning for that guy's career. . Kind of feel like if you beastial succeed and have the mortal at your mercy the beast is going for nom time. . I think you forgot category three the hunter gangrel. . Well that is just ironic, we jump on Ava for doing the nobody died part of a scheme to help Bella be the Prince, and then Dakota directly murders a young woman working at an orphanage. . And that dear viewer is how the haven got security cameras and a computer. . Do you make the episode title after the fact as this is becoming ridiculously convenient for the title. . Well that happened Zach makes a drug dealer confess to murder then Ava has the computer equipment found at her apartment. Though the plus side Ava wasn't seen there, so maybe they'll assume home break-in and looting gone wrong. . Awe I was hoping for toreador social powers don't fail me now, convince the cops nothing was wrong and it was a false alarm, a pipe burst in that wall. . Yeah, I've always found soaring leap a wee bit ridiculous, especially considering how much distance it can cross without a rouse compared to celerity blink. With the crushed hands that is definitely a masquerade breach. . Its not unusual its just the toreador is throwing up on the inside, touching the nos. . That is ironic that Dakota hit upon one of the biggest kindred problems, thinking like what this looks to a kindred. Though Zach was also forgetting the simple defense that this only happened because somebody else attacked her apartment and there is no way her sire wouldn't have cleared Ava keeping that apartment in somebody else's domain before she was released. . I get going ramboo to protect his sister is Zach's thing, but at minimum doing that so late at night should have required spending the day in a sewer. . LoL Olley gets his first real, "In my day Nosferatu entered via the sewers moment". . Ah so this was a people's family "died" scenario. . Kind of feel Ava should have had a hunger roll when she found out the beverage was wine at her hunger. . Fairly sure vitae in V5 lost the ability to bind people when too long separated from the body, but a fledgling mightn't know that.

[@frankparker1191]

I am the 69th like... Oh my.

[@adamostler7929]

Love the show! Love the personalitys of everyone. I just have a hard time with zach... I dont like how hypocritical he is to everyone (including his sister) but still goes against his codery constantly. I understand you all play bad ppl.... But im hoping ollie snaps and properly teaches zach a lesson for all his betrayal.... But thats my opinion.

[@gothknight6]

EE needs to stop playing the role of the story teller. Interrupting Butcher and Eva when its not his call to interfere with the timeline of others. It’s nuts how much that guy bothers me.

[@GameCarpenter]

I wasn't too keen on him inserting his characters expertise into a scene he wasn't in either. I mean, I got the feeling that they had forgotten all about the computer, and that could have made things significantly more interesting.

[@jamescagley6248]

OMG. I thought they FINALLY picked a faction after 12 episodes, but less than 20 minutes into this episode they're at the same blah blah blah who are we going to brown nose discussion again. This is the first episode that I started skipping swaths of repetitive dialogue. Made the episode pretty short.

[@GuilhermeCunha1337]

Again, not a fan of EnterElysium leading the narrative. He shouldn't be the one saying when he got back during Oliver and Ava's conversation.

[@ChilluminatiPod]

Too minor of a thing to worry about honestly. WoD is a Storytelling system, and players narrating is highly encouraged. If it had mattered or changed the plot in any meaningful way, I'd have said something. All the players do it too, and I encourage them to do so, so long as it adds to the story and no detract from it in a significant way.

[@GuilhermeCunha1337]

@@ChilluminatiPod OK, Mathas. I'll defer it to you. You are the GM anyway. By the by... is there going to be a season 2 of the Changeling series after this? Really wanna know what happens next there.

[@GameCarpenter]

I don't have a problem with it in general, but... I would like to give the other characters an opportunity to choose their own path and interact with each other from time to time.

[@jimc7022]

Oh man the GM really really needs to take 20 mins and actually read the advanced combat section of the book. Story and RP is awesome but the combat is run so incorrectly it’s frustrating

[@rossnorris2351]

Break ends 2:12:04