Thousand Year Old Vampire - Ben

Welcome to Thousand Year Old Vampire, the solo roleplaying game where you tell the life story of an immortal being. Today we are joined by Ben, who's adventure starts in Ancient Greece in the shoes of Thaddeus, a lowly carpenter and sailor with dreams of adventure. This is Mystery Quest, a roleplaying podcast where we play a variety of one-shot roleplaying games with a rolling cast of special guests.
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[@atahannd.9937]

Seeing two CANNON star wars characters playing a roleplaying game is quite a novel concept!

[@openfly4u]

Just wait until you watch these cannon SW characters talk about Centaurs

[@Mystery_Quest]

Just wait they will certainly cameo in a game some time soon

[@mr.mcphoenix]

Canon*

[@Cyrathil]

@@Mystery_Quest Star Wars TTRPG when?!

[@RubelliteFae]

Hype ✨

[@user-lo3bw3lc2e]

Tom needs to run a Vampire the masquerade game (or something similar) where everyone plays the characters they've made in this game.

[@Mystery_Quest]

That is an awesome idea!

[@RubelliteFae]

Yo! I love the ol '90's WoD setting. Have no idea about the "new" stuff, but would love to see any of it. Especially considering all the variety we've seen in players' immortals

[@jaxxsc]

Leech Lord and Stone Boy.

[@user-lo3bw3lc2e]

@@jaxxsc Gunpowder movie star too 😂

[@Kvalln]

@@RubelliteFae V5 is incredibly good

[@sam23696]

I really love the idea created in this story. A stoneman that drains the life from people to stop being a statue, but can exist for centuries immobilized as a statue until someone touches them. It means any statue could secretly be a stoneman just waiting.

[@baseballjustin5]

Or... Don't Blink

[@DeltaEntropy]

This truly was a Grecian tragedy. Everything he did to try and escape his curse was the instrument of his own destruction. So tragic and so beautiful.

[@Gakulon]

Aw man, what an ending!! If this whole story had to be given a title, I think a fantastic one would be "Set in Stone".

[@Thetruepianoman]

This game works so well for this channel. Its great for slipping in between longer recordings. I'd be down to see even more people play over time

[@confusedcabbage6578]

The Syracusans absolutely called the USS bastion "The Whispering Wall" as people desperately call out from the blocks

[@NoKnownWeakness]

I wish there was more focus on the people entombed in the bricks I had tons of ideas when I heard that lol

[@LeonieJMerry]

What a horrifying concept!

[@42ndguardian]

The diary entry about the centaur adventure was definitely titled "Argos' Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean".

[@gabrielwalton4097]

He really is a part 1 & part 2 vampire as well 😆

[@rogerexcell249]

I like the thought that the oracle saw you and knew from her own visions you would kill her one day, so she tries to get rid of you with a curse. When your daughter tracks her down she realised she failed to kill you by making you become a statue. She panics, and tries to get you killed by the monstrous centaur beast... but you instead had a bromance moment and befriended him instead and you show up on her doorstep once more. Desperate, she tries to get you to kill your own daughter knowing from visions you'd get caught when you hesitate, but she didnt see in the vision you managing to flee. Centuries later your cultists track her down and drag her to you, who's now a shell of a monster with selective amnesia and has self created false memories that she's at fault which actually turn out to be true, and she's killed as she foresaw by you all those centuries ago. Real Greek tradgedy.

[@CrossBreedTacoHD]

The classic paradox where a predicted outcome can only become true because of the outcome itself was predicted. Something something about not fighting against fate as that will ultimately lead to your downfall (even though if you didn't fight it, you'd still die? What's the moral here ancient greece...) Very annoyingly Greek indeed haha

[@nathangriswold6999]

​@@CrossBreedTacoHDI think the moral is "the gods are assholes, and also fuck you in particular"

[@RubelliteFae]

I think in the final shot it's present day. We see the logo on the bracer, zoom out to the statues struggling in the lobby. And, even though it's slightly out of focus, you swear you can see an eyeball move. The prophecy was correct, he won't die.

[@Drakoni23]

Love how different all of the vampire stories are. They always start so simple and then escalate super quickly, ending at no point you'd expect it. Hope you keep going with these inbetween other series.

[@JazzakRavenshade]

Wedding rings did actually exist, and they had a myth related to Prometheus as to why they were used. Medusa's technically could have been around as it was a person's name, while her species was a Gorgon. Also the Argo was called that because the shipwright who built it was Argus.

[@jacobunderwood4957]

Best one yet, holy shit, you can tell Ben's heart is fandom-ridden.

[@anononomous]

7:00 "The local version of the Olympics", AKA the Olympics 🙂

[@svenrio8521]

I think Ben meant his local city Olympics rather than the combined greek city state's Olympics.

[@TheGreatDevlin]

Perfect ending. I want that statue in my front yard. The neighbors would love it.

[@william5404]

holy shit what a gift

[@Toffolo2]

We have been waiting for it...for a thousand years

[@jonathanhathaway54]

The unthinkable... Tom doing the Ben work and Ben doing the crazy adventure with very little plans! Truly, the end times are here... except significantly better written

[@seanhoey5939]

I must say the script writers were on point for this one

[@Cassius40k]

You know how Roman concrete is stronger than modern concrete, that's right, it's made from people statues.

[@fiofofionomoto]

Watching Ben slowly wind up Tom with his elaborate puns was glorious

[@azogtheuglee4889]

Finally after all these years. 1000 Year old Ben. Beautiful

[@Dungeon_Bits]

I loved Bates’ story. Flax’s was very fun. But Ben… 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 oh my god

[@VanBourner]

(we don't talk about Lewis and his leech spawn)

[@Dungeon_Bits]

@@VanBourner oh my god! The leech apocalypse. Thank you for reminding me

[@Ali-ey9sz]

Was playing a dnd game yesterday where the DM said we had solved his goblin water gate riddle. Instantly knew I had found a fellow MQ enjoyer, thanks Tom.

[@Adam-rj7iq]

I saw that there's an almost 2 hour long video with Ben playing 1000 year old Vampire. This is what this fucked up week needed to end on a good note. Thanks for all the great work you guys put out ❤

[@piddlepants]

Hope next week is better for you

[@festusmaximus4111]

YES thousand year old Benpire!

[@JustAskMeTV101]

The creator of 1000 year old vampire has announced a sequel

[@SirZeu]

The 2000 year old vampire?

[@JustAskMeTV101]

@@SirZeu So You've Met A Thousand Year Old Vampire

[@Samboy64]

43:23 I like to think that he didn’t name the new boat to match his old one, it was already named that just by happenstance

[@redoli2]

1:21:30 "None of that has to be set in stone" 💀

[@eviem5658]

In my head, all the Tauroses and Igoriuses are just Toms throughout the centuries

[@dr.corvia9528]

I think it would have been great if they had called the diary his "Captain's Log"

[@garethhughes7430]

I saw Tom and Ben, I clicked. and I HEARTILY enjoyed. Man this was an awe inspiring ride through your brains

[@spectra20000]

I have loved all the 1000 year old vampire games, but this one takes the cake. Ben came up with a super unique take on vampirism and all the initial story elements coming back later in the story was awesome to see, its not something that usually happened in the other games. Also, it was fun to see someone finally NOT rolling a -1 at the start.

[@Aussie_Archmage]

Kragmon, he was always there, with the power of slightly elevating your heroic statues. This was a real treat of an episode, our most canon brand risks in their element. One of the best stories so far, really loved the feeding mechanism.

[@killerkittycat13]

Ben is such a wholesome shark, this wont get to dark right, right?

[@ItsRinaldo]

The Benperor has a terrifying mind. It's amazing how poetic this game gets.

[@madamebamberkaye]

Sharky and Palp together again - makes me SOO happy

[@harrytraber8380]

Ben itching to drop the centaur memories. All but begging to forget.

[@Yide29]

This episode was fantastic! Please play this again with Tom and Ben! Maybe switch places and let Tom be the one playing.

[@tomyboy39]

I absolutely adore every single Thousand Year Vampire, they're universally brilliant. All the guests rule and Tom is so fucking good at being a narrative sounding board!

[@mononuk]

this was such an amazing episode, Tom and Ben together just have the best chemistry. the story they made together was just incredible

[@ianalvord3903]

49:30 Love it when the payers make Tom make this face!

[@THATguerroGUY]

"i love how wholsome these guys can be sometimes" 54:20 "Damn"

[@THATguerroGUY]

Onto the next Vampire vod, thanks Tom and Ben!

[@EWRPVM]

We missed the golden opportunity for Ben’s companion to be called Chewbaccus!

[@jakevassallo4672]

Loving 1000 year old vampire, it's the icing on the cake with everything else that goes on in mystery quest

[@amys.6619]

What a perfect ending! This was very cool, going in a more mystical direction, and still somehow ending up in one of the most grim ones so far.

[@RabidBlackwatch]

The noise Tom makes at 1:33:45 is hilarious

[@Zero-0N3]

Tom and Ben are such good story tellers, I would love it if they took the plunge and co-wrote an adventure for a ttrpg. I know Mystery Quest is a Tom thing, but I can fully see Tom taking a break to be a player and Ben a DM.

[@MCBunkerwelt]

This is such an interesting spin on the TYOV game. Making it about your own twist of a Vampire type based on Greek mythology. It truly shows how great TYOV is adaptable and how there are endless possibilities on how to play this game and what stories are able to be told. Since the author has watched one of these adventures on the channel before, I really hope he catches this one and maybe you guys even get to preview or stress test the announced sequel.

[@capacamaru]

"And my new boat will be the..." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-xg5dw2gm8f]

VAMPY AND PALP

[@PhyloDT]

I think they should make a 90s PC game of this where Tom has read all the prompts and when he talks it's the really choppy photoscan graphics

[@Jaklas1979]

Wow. On holiday in Cornwall and drove past a certain landmark on the way. Now on the way back I will just see people taking pictures of the stone circle where the druids with their mysterious stone master sacrificed magical oracles 😅. Great adventure

[@shadeweave2]

Amazing video! Also I adore alternate universe medusa, where instead of stone vision, she grants you wishes as an oracle type, but the price is the long term stone disease.

[@chloe-historyandgames]

thank you ben for setting this story in ancient greece, not just another middle age english peasant haha

[@danhelll8768]

Only these two could make a story so goofy but so real and cool at the same time. Like, this is a good backbone to an actual book/series

[@shynarcissist]

This was such a great play through! I always love me a Tem and Bon, and the way this felt so collaborative and full of callbacks and jokes, was peak Bean and Toast

[@jikjakdude]

Ben was so incredibly good at this. Even the pre-vampire story felt fleshed out and already seemed amazing, then through the game he had such interesting ways of going further! Really loved it

[@lukasmadrid1945]

Gotta see more people on this, especially love that ben chose ancient greek (and knew the setting pretty well)

[@ihesketh4135]

i love that it always comes back to centors with you two i love you both so much

[@pascusrex4152]

Tom this channel is genius. 1000 year old vampire is my favourite format while Lydia is my favourite guest. Her RP and voices are always on point. Love her to bits.

[@Reece_Hart]

Very happy to see thousand year old vampire back after how fun Pyrion's went a couple of months ago.

[@CharlotteRowe12]

Thousand Year Old Vampire are always my fave Mystery Quests.

[@morm6206]

Absolutely amazing. Plot twist - the Stoneman was named Toma (Thomas) :D "Eternal Struggle" was perfect.

[@Vinewood8]

Had to pop over from Spotify just to state how amazingly well build this world was and what a cool story !

[@Squif2809]

Haven’t finished yet but 26:00 sounds like Count of Monte Cristo 😂

[@JustAskMeTV101]

The movie maybe not the book

[@xavierreichel8254]

At last! Always happy to watch more TYOV, and Ben’s roleplaying is just delightful.

[@aurorabora7557]

The centaur adventure felt like the star wars christmas special

[@Blitzkrieger17]

oh man, that ending REALLY wrote itself as a Greek Tragedy.. a man running from his own fate, is destined to run straight back to it. or some such bullshit lol... LOVE the non-traditional vampire they managed to create here, almost more like a man slowly becoming a mindless golem... almost opposite the stoneman, who could have been trying to regain his own humanity...

[@swearimnotarobot3746]

You walk down the woodland path, basking in the sunlight and enjoying being in nature. You're enjoying gazing at your surroundings, so you don't see it, the giant hole in the path. The hole is almost 2 meters in diameter, so you realize you should have gone to Specsavers when you had the chance. But there's no point thinking about that now, you're busy falling. You keep falling, surprised that you haven't hit the bottom. You're smart enough to realize that most holes aren't this deep. You fall, and you fall, and you keep falling. After the initial shock and screaming, you calmed down. Now, you're just confused about why there's a hole in the middle of nowhere. Above you, you can see just a small amount of sky and sunlight still visible, but, what's that, there's light below you too. Weird. You wonder what it may be, a bioluminescent cave, a civilization of mole people, or maybe the burning magma laying at the center of the world. You're not smart enough to figure it out yet though. You fear that one of two things will happen. Are you going to fall forever... or are you A MYSTERY QUEST!

[@Dostwyn]

I just finished rewatching Lewis playing through this with Tom on a livestream, so this couldn't have come at a better time.

[@cyclonesfan7205]

:Are they, ya know *mimics moving a model and rolling dice* special friends?"

[@poMocnyMichal]

Historian in me cries in pain, but my inside gamer is laughing so hard!

[@MagicAndWires]

great episode. Love how we're just getting to see multiple episodes with different yogs.

[@boomslang3946]

I imagine that Ben and the other stone man aren't even fully dead yet. If someone comes too close or touches the statue for too long they get drained

[@eDWICHt]

Dudes, that was awesome. The Tom'n'Ben dynamic never disappoints!

[@Flutezor]

Two hours of additional Tom-n-Ben this week? Sign me up!

[@seafox21]

God this was perfect! After every roll I was saying to myself "man it'd be so cool if they went in this direction" and they did! So good, so nice!

[@HailHydra27]

The Enterprise B refit bit went right over Toms head

[@andgodsaiduntoabraham]

This game would be a fantastic writing prompt for a novel

[@madmanwithaplan1826]

I really liked this one on one hand it felt more like a published story than the other thousand-year-old vampire one, because it had that through line of characters and ideas and. But on the other hand those stories felt more like a real life experience at a mortal might go through. Like those ones felt more like a living character because they just had all sorts of crazy crap happened to him and I don't know a better way to describe life than crap happens it's crazy.

[@Ruisno]

I wish ben had named himself Thaddeus Trip from yogsquest 2

[@nicolewright5795]

The two of you improvise so well together!

[@elisjones984]

This was great! Always good fun when Tom and Ben get together.

[@kraken_egg6261]

7:52 "...he's allways dropping stuff and fffffffff....messing things up" 😁

[@angryjugplayer1884]

I'm 17 minutes into the video and Ben mentions he wants his vampire to be something Greek. Tom's first playthrough of this game inspired me to get it and play it with a couple friends and we also went the Greek demigod route. The mark that we used was that the main character, Polemarchus, was shot in the Achilles tendon by Hermes, and from the hole where he was shot, little wings grew out. We then had the character hide it by saying they were a part of his shoes. stylistically referencing the God Hermes' foot wings. There is one problem with going the demigod route and that is that you have to come up with a reason for why your character and fellow demigods eat people. The reasoning that we came up with was that the source of a god's power came from the prayers and offering of their followers, but since demigods were unknown or despised, they had to forcibly take the life force from people. It basically comes down to: Gods require ambrosia as the source of their power, ambrosia is the physical manifestation of a souls will that is normally transmitted through prayer, and so for the demigods the will of the soul must be forcibly sucked out like a vampire sucks out blood.

[@totallyathome]

I really want a ttrpg series where Tom gathers the various 1000 yr old vampires to regain their mortality. Each from their respective time periods, the last thing they remember was their deaths but Tom the allmighty DM has seen in himself to give them the challenge to earn a second lease at life, curse lifted.

[@BadVideoWatcher1]

I was surprised with how thematic this was

[@justsayin5288]

Favourite 1k Year Old Vampire yet

[@malazar]

What an ending! Love seeing some Tom and Ben (Or Ben and Tom, take your pick).

[@dillonthemerc3406]

Goats and olives, sounds like a wonderful time.

[@Salmon_Samurai]

Always love Thousand Year Old Vampire.

[@HerbertDole]

I love these Tom! I’ve been a fan of your RPG sessions for a solid couple of years but this channel made me really excited to finally play some myself. You’ve inspired me to run my own DnD campaign, Everyone is John and now I just got Thousand year old vampire and I’m gooig to have a go at it with my gf. Thank you for showing us DMing can also be fun TLDR: Tom fun, good DM, many thanks

[@trurouni]

Love we now have the epic story of the 3 hideous monsters of the battle boys lol

[@jakewilson5418]

Fantastic, well done both. Loved this. I'm amazed how different the stories get depending on the player. And great to have Ben's knowledge of history play a little bit in this.

[@zunalter]

Thank you so much for another round of this game. I bought it after watching it on this channel for the first time, and I'm going to run my own game this weekend so this is a beautiful refresher.

[@lauraokeeffe6399]

This has to be one of my all time favourite series on KZbin. It's just so creative and fun, every damn time!

[@cloudsora]

Finally got around to finishing this, god what a friggin rollercoaster tragedy. Loved it, it really just went wild.

[@Adumb_]

This episode was fantastic! I loved the completely different interpretation on vampirism and feeding, and that ending!!! The thousand year vampire videos are always so great!

[@Jcornman24]

This is my favorite game you guys play it's always so different and I love how the stories come so naturally

[@sonaxaton]

I swear this story could be an awesome a fantasy book series, great job Tom & Ben!

[@lewisjohnson4207]

We never know who statue man was what if it was the harbor master’s son