Like a Dangon Part Two

0:00 Daniel's Dread Tails is a show for grownups. It may contain adult language and adult themes. Please check the episode description for content warnings. Welcome back to Daniel's Dread Tails. I'm your host, Daniel Fernandez. Thanks for joining us. This week, we continue our high octane adventures in Tokyo. With Feng Shui Second Edition, the actions just getting started. All right, welcome back to like Dan, our Feng Shui 2 game.

0:46 We're sitting down for a new recording session, which also means, most importantly, all of the characters get their wound points erased. They're all fully healed, and let's meet our characters. Go around and folks, introduce yourself and your character again. I'll go first. I am Damien, He they and I am playing Leo. They them. Hi, I'm Nathan. He him. And I am playing Hiroto Shirogane. Also he him. Hello. I am Waffle they them, and I will be playing Sable, the redeemed pirate she her. And I am, Michael. I am. He him and I'm playing Izashi Muriyama also he him. All right, OK, let's get into it. When we last left our heroes, they had had some sort of weird time flashback, and now they are standing back in an alley, slightly confused, but having a general idea of where they need to go maybe.

1:48 What do they do? They will make sure she has all of her weaponry again. Yep, Yep, Yep. So it's. Fucking weird. Let's yeah, do that again. Yes, so dude, that happened for everyone else. That girl was going to see her boyfriend who ran the medicine shop, then got hit by a card. Sounds that is familiar. What I saw, yeah. I remember being an old samurai dude. I was a kimono saleswoman. It was a time.

2:28 I'm sure you did a lovely job selling kimonos. I was a I really didn't. I was a Shrine maiden, I think. Didn't want to be back in that position. Are we going to try to find, like that medicine shop? Are we going to try to? There was the castle. There was that district that we had the lead on that. I don't remember the name. Yeah, the one with Mom. It's the gay bar. Yeah, let's go there. Yes, the Champion District, so to speak. It's not the Champion District, it's the. Look, I'm filtering this whole thing through Yakuza. You should know that about me right now, all right? I mean also about this game, so. Yes, just give me a second while I look up the name of the thing. Edit this out because I definitely remembered what it was.

3:16 Oh yeah, 100%. To be fair, I did as well. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to need, Tom. They have some good bars over there. Yes. All right. How do you guys get over? I'm just curious how do you guys get over there? I mean, I know we probably like cut away and then then you're there, but how do you imagine you guys are traveling? Are you, are you actually like? Do you have like, bikes or something? Or are you just taking the public transit and walking? What? What do you think you're doing? Does anybody have a car? Yeah, that's more my question. Does anybody have a car? Not in, not in Like a komrucha type city that would. Feels like you're. Not in Tokyo longer. Yeah, yeah. My thought process is, once again, if we're doing this full Yakuza style, taxis are fast travel. Yeah.

4:01 Oh, we could do we all. Cram in one taxi, Yes. Yes, we all clown car into one taxi. I am here for it. OK. It's very uncomfortable. Hey, one person gets the people. Get in the back, yeah. I don't think they let you sit in the. Front. Well, one person gets in the trunk on the floor. All right. Yeah. So you are going to take a cab? Sure, the detective can pay for it. Oh, God damn it, I'm not. Do you think Do you really think they pay us that much? Expense it, I guess. Yeah.

4:42 Jesus. For for copy. You're not that corrupt. All of a sudden there are a group. All of a sudden the taxi comes to an abrupt stop. What's going on? Sorry, I got a you can't be it here anymore, I think, says the guy driving you. And you see that there are about a dozen women, heavily tattooed with katanas, who have surrounded your car. Damn. I mean, yeah, I'll go out there. This is a fight I've been looking forward to. If I would have known it was going to be this sort of party, yes. Tuesday already. There is a woman who is completely covered in tattoos, has a katana and is wearing a sort of hood that makes it look like she has cat ears, though she pulls it off to be dramatic. Who says I am Kure Yukiko, this place is mine. She she bows slightly formally and she looks over. This is a local boss of one of the gangs out here. They're yakuza affiliated, though Yakuza is usually male dominated and she is very specific that her gang is all ladies and do you think any of you would have run into her before?

6:03 Almost certainly me right. That seems likely. Yeah, yeah, I think I may have done like some odd job type work considering what my specialties are. Yeah, OK, OK, She looks over at you, Leo, it says. Leo Coon, I have heard about you and what you did in my parlor. We have some business to settle and her thumb flicks by the hilt of her katana, and she pulls out her blade like an inch. But first I must see the color of your soul.

6:45 She says that she draws her a blade. And if she nods to her gang, who are also drawing their swords, no one dies tonight. They're too talented to slay, I think. At this moment, a dozen flower petals that have fallen from a nearby Cherry Tree fly by, and you look at her and you think for just a second she looks vaguely familiar. But then then the fight is upon you. So just before we roll initiative in response to Yukiko. Yeah. I pull my the hood from my hoodie back and reveal that I actually have cat ears, dominance and Yukiko. Dom.

7:38 Me Oz. Ah, Damian. Damian. Nance, yes. Stop trying to make it work. Yukiko, I I like your hood. However, it masks your natural beauty. If we have business to settle, we can settle it here. All right? And I guess that's rolling initiative. Have you like sort of put up your Dukes? What does it look like when you get into your fighting stance? So instead of like a boxing stance, yeah, what you see is Leo kind of crouches down to the point where they're almost on all fours, that, like, their hands are just above the ground and like their back is kind of arched. And that's really the only time that you can actually see that they actually have a tail because they kind of like unravel it from where it's normally like kind of wrapped around them.

8:36 It's like slightly prehensile enough to do so. And yeah, it's like basically at that point, like you can tell they have a tail and they kind of mean business and hopefully I can roll well. Yeah. Everybody roll your initiative and also say like, how do you start off this fight? Wow. Oh wow, not well, that seems. Holy crap, I actually rolled better than someone. I can afford to put my wounds back to normal. Probably good idea. It has been a hot minute so. Nathan, real quick. What was your melodramatic hook? What was your deal? Masked A masked gangster killed my mom.

9:16 Masked gangster killed your mom. OK, got it. Got it. Of course. Oh. I've got a real OK. Cool, Cool, cool, Cool, Cool, Cool, Cool, Cool, cool, cool. All right. We got everybody in. Sable's kind of slow, but that's OK. Hey, she's surrounded by beautiful women, so I don't know. She's she is excited about. That's fair, beautiful women. I'm yes, yeah. Also, it's like, what the fuck is the color of the soul? Yes. Should I not kill anybody? These are a lot of questions. There are four of these. Yukiko is the leader, and she has her three lieutenants, Hikara, John, Goodbye, Pity, and Dorama, Mama. And there are also a dozen other less accomplished one might call the Moocs in the. So I'm with the Moocs right now, yeah. Cool his Sashi.

10:07 How do you start the fight? What do you look like when you're getting ready? And what do you do because you're first? Well, I think I'm a squeeze in the middle of the back of the taxi. So I like, kick out the sunroof and jump on top of the car. And then I do a dramatic fighting pose of, you know, put sunglasses in jacket pocket, pull nunchucks out of other pocket, and just like flip off the top of the car towards the nearest pile of two Moocs. And attempts to a martial art them. What Cha Kid center them.

10:48 What? Chad Mooks are pretty easy to hit and you got it 18 so. Yeah, two mooks down. I knocked them out and then I give a dramatic turn towards. I'm imagining they're in a circle. So I land on the one side circle, turn back towards the center, tuck the nunchuck in the armpit like, you know, fighting things. And then the other hand, do a little like, come on, gesture all. Right. You could move yourself down the Initiative, you could go grins. She doesn't recognize you, but is digging that. You're seem to be pretty strong, and she runs straight at you with her sword because you're the one who's done anything. She was mostly looking at Leo before, but so let me roll my dice.

11:32 Okay. So that is a 12 to hit you, which is Nope, not a 12A14 to hit you. Still not a hit. It's still not a hit, all right, She she goes at you very quickly, just runs straight out to you going. But I think you dodge out of the way just in time. I don't know how you do it, but all right, now it's Leo or Shiragone. So I'm going to start off by spending 2 genome points, and what that's going to give me is very fast. So until the end of the sequence, the shot cost of all my actions decreases by 1 to a minimum of 1. And I can move up to 30 meters per sequence, Okay.

12:17 So I'm very fast, Okay. And I'm also going to spend one shot on very strong, which is the same one I used last session, which to remind people I spend one shot until the end of the fight. I add 3 to my damage on any successful hand to hand strike, including strikes with hand to hand weapons, and I can use absurdly lurbed objects like parking meters and people as improvised weapons. This is a relatively busy street, by the way, but all of the people have seen bunch of girls with katanas come out and then you weirdos and they've all sort of backed away except for there's maybe a dozen or so who are like sticking around to watch. That's fair, thrill seekers.

13:00 They're acting as the invisible wall, so we can't leave the the random encounter. OK, I think I'm going to attack Yukiko with martial arts. Just start with a basic martial arts role. No one's attacked me yet, so I can't do any of my bullshit. And while I'm doing it, I'm just going to say, God damn it, Yukiko, we let you slide because you were doing a good thing for the women in the underworld, but. Can't just attack people in taxi cabs. There's gonna be so much paperwork. You also know that her father is very well connected in legitimate businesses, so that will be another nightmare. Anyway, I've rolled quite poorly. Oh no, yeah, that's a miss, my dude. I think I get something from Yeah, yeah. When you miss an armed attack, you take. Spoon points equal to the absolute value of my swerve, which is 3.

14:00 So how do you hurt yourself? Presumably she just fucking stabs me while this is going on. I would say it was going to be more comical than that, but. Just a little Shank as you go past. You know what? I think she actually smacks you in the face with her. She just really hard. That's about right, yeah. Setting you sort of wobbling backwards. Anyway, plus three bonus to my next Martial Arts attack. Yeah, very nice. There you go. Hikari Chan, the largest of the henchman, if you will, is gonna go after Leo. That's fair. Yeah, three. She is going to 17 to hit you.

14:44 That definitely hits. Okay. And she gets you with her katana, which is doing 10 damage. How much did she beat your defense by? Let me go back to that. Yeah. Defense was he got 17 by 4. OK, so 14 damage. So 14 damage. Minus. Minus topness. Yeah. So that puts me at six, I believe. Yes. So 8. OK. Yeah, that's math. Yeah, Ow. And she smirks. It says Bad Kitty. OK, so I have a question. How close are the lieutenants to one another? They're sort of spreading out.

15:28 But to Rama, Mama and hello, Pity. Goodbye. Goodbye. Pity. Excuse me. Have not moved yet. So those two are near, are still near each other. OK, alright. Mauryama, do you have anything you want? To do, I mean, continue to punch things pretty much. Well, yeah, that's I think the plan. It's a good plan. This is a good plan. I think I'm gonna go after Yuki code now that we were somewhat engaged and I will spend one chi as I make this attack and if I hit all my ninchacu attacks for the rest of the fight have a damaged value of 14. Nice. So we just hope I hit. You can do it. I believe in you. That's. Not right. That's probably good 16.

16:08 That will hit her defensive 13. Okay, nice. So it is 14 + 3. So 17. 17 damage, sure. Yeah, minus, you're talking. About well, damage to her, all right. And so you get this quick little shot of like she rushed at me with her sword, right? She missed. I get a little smirk and just like spin around and hit her like across the back and just pose now on the other side of her. Love it. Now you're up, Leo. All righty, So Hikara is the one that attacked me, so I know that she moved away from the other two lieutenants. Would she be reasonably close to the lieutenants or either one of the other two? What do you want to do? So I'm going to attack multiple targets technically with what I want to do. So what I'm picturing is she came in to slash at me and like connected, but essentially I roll with it, grab her arm. And take a couple of steps and like use her to strike at one of the other two.

17:07 You know what? Sure, that we've decided that's the thing you like to do. So we'll try to hit two people. We'll have that count. Let's try to. I'll say goodbye. Pity. So that is. And I am going to spend a genome point which is gonna be that and then, yes, fortune of 1. And that is a 16. That will hit them. Alrighty and that beat. Them by three. Beat them by three, so that's 13 damage. OK, Dang. And then that only costs me two shots, so I am at Initiative 8 now.

17:53 And did you throw them? No, no, it is basically. Well, it was kind of a toss, like I didn't throw them away. It was more of like a shoulder throw into the other one, just with some extra force. So yeah, I did let go after. Well, now Pitty's gonna target you and is going to try to attack you. It's fair. Yeah, cuz you just threw somebody into her. She you see her jump onto a nearby low roof and then jump down at you with a full attack, trying to take you down with the force of gravity with her strike. And she got oh God, and she misses.

18:37 She got a 13. Nice. Yeah. So she she jumps down, but honestly she was trying to look really cool and mostly had trouble actually getting up to the the little roof that she was coming out and by the time she was jumping down you you would easily moved away. Nice try though. And Dorama Mama is now looking at the totally unengaged Sable. That's like just points her sword at you and sort of nods her head slightly. If she was close enough, she would probably actually have a question. Are you still in the taxi? No Sable got out. I think Sable got out, yes. Yeah, I mean, I partially want her to lift her cheek slightly with her katana.

19:22 No. Fucking do it. Do it. Look my chin, motherfucker. Yeah, Okay, that's what she's going to do. Look you right in the eye and then try to slash at you all. Right. Yeah, yeah. Oh, oh, that's an explosion. And this is when Sable fucking dies. That was fast. OK21 to hit you. That does it. It's versus my defense. Yeah. Yep, and minus my. Toughness, right? Well, no. How much is 21 over your defense? That my defense is 14, so you beat me by 7. Seven.

20:07 OK, so I do. The katana does 10 damage, and I beat your defense by 7:00, so I do a total of 17 damage to you, minus your toughness. All right, well, I have a move for this actually. When the first time in a fight you take 10 or more wound points. Spent one shot as an interrupt to reduce wound points taken to 1. So she's going to slash me and I'm going to pair it with my Saber and like it still cuts me along the cheek as I take a step back. Like, you know, you really should decide if we're flirting or fighting. Yes. Perfect. A very sexy cut on the cheek.

20:47 Yes, there you go. And I'll move down to seven. Yukiko is feeling a little surrounded right now, so she's going to spend one shot to jump up into the air. She could drop up to 14 meters in any direction and she jumps up and has now landed on top of just a little string of lights that's going over the streets and she seemingly possibly balanced on top of it, looking down at you, but that's her whole action. Well, when someone's out of range, this probably won't kill her, he wrote.

21:31 A draws his gun and says for the record, I respect you, so I'm aiming for your leg. It's still very bad. Arteries are in your leg. Yeah, a lot. I equaled her defense, didn't I? Yes, which is enough to hit her. Okay and. I was using my pistol because I didn't think about it, but I believe that is the first number is damaged. Is the damage right Nine? She has a toughness of five, so you do a little bit of damage there. She sort of winces in pain but doesn't really move besides that, that's. That's actually really impressive.

22:12 Yeah, she seems like almost like supernaturally strong and very graceful. Actually, you know what the shot does Get her a little bit and she falls backwards. She does 3 flips as she's going down and then lands on her feet. So she's at ground level again. She is at ground level again, yes. OK, well I have an idea as well. Unless you have anything else that you have to do get Roto. Now that was gun was my turn, I believe. Gun was your turn, yes. So I'm going down another three on the. Board. Alrighty. So I am going to make a three shot ranged attack. Well, technically A2 shot ranged attack because of my very fast and I'm going to use push.

23:02 I'm going to you know what, this time I'm going to grab goodbye pity because they came, they kind of tried to jump down to slash me. So essentially what's going to happen? Is as they kind of go past and just barely miss. Leo is going to grab their arm and this is going to be again another two person attack and use push to throw them at Yukiko. All right. And remember, when you're attacking 2 people, you're at minus two. To. Your. So a dude, a dude, And that is with that. And I'm going to spend another genome.

23:44 For the extra D6 or yeah, you Nope, I miss. Yeah, that's a miss. Ow. So you try to grab her, and she swings her katana at you to drive you back, hands off. Ah. Yeah. But the kid, he just wants to play. Man, who do we think the mooks go after? You know what? I think they split up. I think there are 10 mooks left, I think. No, I think they all go after. I think they all go after Asashi. Yeah, I did take out two of them. I wasn't going to point that out earlier. All right. What's your defense? 15. No, that that would explosively failed. That one explosively failed.

24:29 No. OK, one of them hits you for 12. What was the attack value? Oh, they got a 17. I dodge it. That is how that works. It gives you +3 right? It gives you +3 and you got to go down one shot and that's it. They rolled really bad. I mean, they have to roll pretty well to hit you. They're just little boots, but they rolled really bad and he Carrichon is feeling a little overwhelmed by everything that's going on. She's been in fights before, but not that are usually so actually difficult. But when she saw the gun come out, she goes after the person who has the gun. Smart.

25:11 Yeah, that's fair. And she rolled. Oh, no. She got a 12. Yeah, that does not hit me. Yeah, no, that wouldn't. That wouldn't get you. So she's just she's just running towards you. But honestly, she's getting kind of crowded with everybody and she kind of runs into the other people can't even quite get to you. Meanwhile, who was the last person hit? Yukiko. That was you, Asashi. I was not the last one to hit Yukiko. Yukiko got shot last. Oh, Yukiko got shot, of course. Everyone just kidding me. Oh boy. Maybe it's. The people's elbow. You've brought a gun to a sword fight. Don't you know that's a bad idea? Yeah. Yeah, here we go. Yeah, let's see. So she got a 20 to hit you?

25:59 My defense is 14. Okay. So she does 18 damage to you. Minus 7. She has the ability to disarm and she knocks the gun out of your hand with the attack. OK, so. She slashes at your hand, which makes you drop the gun. All right. Eleven additional wound points and down a firearm, that's, yeah. And she after she does that, she sort of wiggles her finger at you and says, we're not trying to kill each other, Detective. That's why I was aiming at your leg. Do you know how many arteries are in a leg? That's what I said. It can't be that many, right? Big one, no? Alright, Sable, you're up.

26:42 Sorry, I should really focus on you. I say to the Rama Mama just like throw down, place the beer bottle I was nursing with one hand on top with a cab, get into shape and then just take a lunging slash. Esther Rama Mama? Yeah, trying to get her off guard. We don't feel me now. Yeah, they failed you now. I'm sorry. All right. That's me. The the two of you continue to sort of you're almost like play fighting with each other. I mean, you're not, you're both taking it seriously, but as the camera is shooting it, it is a very sort of flirtatious looking fight, so. Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm up on top of four at least. That got them.

27:23 And pity is going to go after his sashi. Why not? Nope. That's an explosion, but not a great explosion. 18 to hit. That will hit. What's your defense again, 15, OK. I mean, I guess you could try to. No, that you. Would if I dodge it would make it 0. So I don't feel like that's worth it, but OK. OK, so they their Cartanas do less. Wait, your defense is 15. You said yes, so I beat it by three. So 13 damage with the katana, my first injury. What does it feel like? No one makes me bleed my own blood.

28:04 So Pity is just sort of in the thick of it and is trying to go is trying to disarm your nunchucks, but again, doesn't quite have the same skill that Yukiko has. All right, now it's Leo or Hisashi. Hisashi, if you want to do your thing. OK, sure. Well I I was fighting the boss and then the boss left, so I guess. Goodbye. Pity has signed up to be my new opponent here. I'll just do a tack on her oof. That's not gonna work. What are you saying about this being fast? And then, Leo, you're up. Alrighty, So since it looks like all of the lieutenants decided that they didn't want any more to do with me. Yeah, no, you're trying to throw people around.

28:44 They're like. I am going to go and help out Hiroto who is currently being attacked by Yukiko. So what everybody sees is Leo is going to kind of do a fairly long leap and kind of bounce off of a light pole and try and do just a just a mealy attack against Yukiko with a little bit extra momentum. Just kind of try and land a punch across her jaw and I will spend another genome point for that. OK. They don't do you any good if you don't spend them. Exactly. And I can get them back. Oh yeah, if I roll well. And that's a 25 to hit.

29:29 Think you up well? Well, her defense is 13. OK, so that is. You beat up like 12, yeah. So 22. Great. 22 damage. Damn. So yeah, minus toughness, of course. Yeah, minus toughness, but it's still 17 damage to. Her. That takes her to, what, 35? 33 or 30? Three. Cool. Wow. And with that, I gained back four. Sorry, I gained back six genome points. 6 genome points. Yes, Paineer, when your attack takes a foe from zero to 1 impairment, which it did by 25 or from one to two impairment, regain 3 spent genome points.

30:16 When an ally does the same thing, I only get one back. OK, so you get 3. OK, nice. Well, three per. Oh, I guess, yeah. So both of them. So the zero to 1 or the 1:00 to 2:00, so you get 6 back. Yeah. That's how that. Yeah. And that refills my genome. Nice. And she is thrown backwards. Hit a real way. Where did you hit her? I was like, I was aiming to like land a punch, like a straight punch right across her jaw as I was flying past. So essentially like, I'm landing off to like her. Her right, yeah, when I land, but yeah, like I came across her left side. OK, Dang. She is sort of shaken by this and thrown to the ground almost. She does that thing where she goes back and she puts the katana down to slow herself.

31:05 And then sort of kips up and is ready to go again. But you see that she has seen better days. Meanwhile, Dorama Mama is going to attack Sable. Hell yeah, that's a 13 day that. Misses. Okay. Just just fall. Down on the job, I say like I'm not falling down on the job. Yes. All right, Shira, Gonay. All right, well, because getting fucked up is my character's specialty. Due to a combination of factors, I have +5 to my next martial arts attack. Very nice. So I am going to see if I can just take you could go out of the Fight 21. 21 Oh right, because you have to add your Yeah No 21 hit, Sir, turns out.

31:57 Probably, since she only has two. No, you you take her down, You take her down. So what do you do when you take her down? How does that work? So since she's kind of staggered, I take the moment while she's off balance to just grab her by the legs and power bomb her. Nice. Nice. Like you hear the sound effect that start that starts every heat action and yakas as I do it all right. And she is down. She's not knocked out, but she is just so she's on the ground, like she can't get up. She's just on her knees, sort of like breathing heavily. She's doing, she's. Out of the fight.

32:38 Yeah, she's writhing, yes. And did any of her lieutenants happen to see this? Yeah, everybody. Everybody saw this. I could. Have been busy. Well, at least I healed those 3 wound points. Yeah, from that. So I'm at 11 instead of 14. She raises her hand up and says stand down, stand down, and the girls are all sort of looking at her in particular to Rama. Mama seems disappointed, but it's sort of they're putting their swords away. I think we've seen the color of their soul. They're warriors. Did you have to find us to find that out? I had a good time.

33:23 That that is generally how that is discovered and at this point Leo is putting their hood back up. Yeah. I think at least half of our souls are all less pride flags, just not one color. But yes, I'm glad you could find that out. I mean, you've seen the city we live in. You have to be a warrior to spend more than 10 minutes here. Yes, but you didn't kill me. You had me at your mercy. You let me be here. It's fine. We're good. I know. You're decent enough. Yeah. Yeah. And I figured you wouldn't be attacking us without a reason. I wanted to see if you were and you sort of gestures, and the girls are starting to get ready to go, she says. Do you want to have some tea?

34:07 Do you want to talk? Sure, you know what? This might be a good. Idea. I wonder if your entire gang will be there or you lieutenants. Can all 12 Moocs fit in one booth? That's the question. She gestures, and most of them leave. But the three lieutenants come along and you're all beat up a little bit and she gestures and leads you guys into she said some tea and she brings you into a karaoke parlor. Oh, hell yeah. And does anybody say anything to that? I just did. Oh, hell yeah. OK. They serve good tea here. And we can. Sing horribly and she leads. Lead you guys into a room. She sort of nods at the person to charge.

34:47 So this was other must be a front for her as well. And she says also, you know, it's hard for them to hear us in here. That is true. And you're looking at her more as you're sort of sitting down and getting, well, I don't know, how do you guys react to all of this? This is sort of what she's doing. But what's everybody's reaction to this? Staples been with enough underworld stuff that it does these kinds of eccentricities don't surprise here like most like criminal people of decent reputation who aren't like that crazy killer will be like, hey, you're cool, let's go party now or let's get drunk after we just try to fight each other. OK.

35:28 Yeah, so she's downloaded. Okay. And also drama Mama's there. So fuck. Yes, they are. The two least speed up people in the whole. Group This is true. I love it. What are other people doing as you're going in? Here I think Leo is basically they just got out of the fight. You know, they exerted themselves. They just want to kind of have a sit down and rest. So I think what's gonna they're not really gonna do much until they get into the room. And if there's space like behind one of the couches or something like that like up on top, they're gonna kind of climb up on top there and just kind of get into a comfortable position to like relax. Yeah, like a cat. Yeah, pretty much. How about the other folks?

36:08 I think I am harshly judging whoever is singing. Whatever way is appropriate, determined on how good they're doing their button inputs, you know? Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no. Not sure is just wishing he could. It is just wishing for some alcohol right now. Yes, drinks come through. Do any of you guys want to sing? Do any of you guys, do you think your character would sing? Oh, in a heartbeat. OK. Oh yeah, I mean, I'm here for the cops singing first, so. OK. And once she gets a few drinks. We have a little montage of the character singing give me one shot of what you're doing in the montage as we we go through this.

36:53 Give me, give me maybe one, maybe two things of what we see in the montage. OK, heroes, definitely singing vac Amethai and the the dramatic photograph is is of a large Lego castle. No further context is provided, OK? And are we going to provide comments for Baka Metai or is that also going to be no context? I mean. It's it's all. People know what people can Google it. OK. They'll figure it out. Honestly that every time I think of Yakuza singing I think of 24 hour Cinderella. That's definitely what table singing and I don't know, I'm my brainest. Are you like, are you dancing along with like, here's our cushion.

37:36 Disabled good at Sega? She's. Confident. That counts for a lot that counts. Yeah, I think she will be. I think she will be singing like dancing this and if her Rojo is makes this mistake of standing anywhere near the stage while she's doing it, she's going to wrap her arm around him and like pull him up, try and get him to join in on. Like some of the verses. Leo is just having a rest, but their tail keeps like you just basically kind of every now and again it kind of pans back to like the booth where they're all sitting and their tail is just quacking Hikara Chan in the side of the head, just as it's kind of going back and forth and you just see her get steadily more annoyed with it.

38:19 Lovely. I think there's a quick shot of like. Is actually like sitting there drinking tea, sitting very properly, trying to keep it maintained. But somebody's singing a song poorly or whatever, and he's getting irritated in the way that you get that little Red Star that gets put next to your face. And then like, I twitches a couple times and then. Joins anybody else of jeering or cheering depending on what's going on. All right. I think the scene is sort of wrapping up. Is somebody singing a ballad a little quieter as the conversation is going to be going on here. And Yukiko, who is is now sort of talking to you folks is like, look, I know you know that we are not the ones pushing the drugs on the street, right?

39:06 You understand this? You know, I figured as much. It would be a bad plan to turn your clients to monsters while they're in your pachinko parlor. Exactly. So I just, you guys were coming in here and I know that you're looking for the people who did this, so I thought you might be coming onto our turf to to start some trouble. No, not at all. Figuring this out. My employment is relying on figuring this out. So you know, I'm kind of invested on figuring, you know, getting to the bottom of this. Okay so. Do you know anything about the Poppy White? Oh, what? Could you share anything with me? Have you figured anything out else about about it? Why are you even coming here? We heard about. We decided to go here before the flashback, right? It was the graffiti.

39:49 It was the graffiti that was sort of indicating it. It was sort of like indicating some sort of mystical stuff. And you were sort of heading this direction because you you had knowledge that there was like, oh, there was some mystical stuff maybe going on in this area. And also that similar graffiti had been up in this area more importantly. Yeah, some graffiti pointed us this way. And do we want to tell her about the vision? What vision? Well, I can't speak for everyone else because we confirmed we saw it, but after the graffiti we all had the strange vision we were back in, I think. Ito period. About we were all different people and a shrine maiden who looks like you ended up getting hit by a cart on the way to see her boyfriend, who was a Chinese fellow running a medicine store.

40:35 She was not a shrine maiden in the flashback, by the way. She was a girl visiting the shrine. But a girl visiting the shrine. Her face sinks and she looks very sort of sad and she says I've had similar dreams. I don't. I don't think that really has anything to do with what's going on here. All right. Well that being said, the the alley that we had had this vision in was a drop, a dead drop for whoever is peddling this drug okay. And the those markings, that graffiti I think has something to. Do with that vision you you said you had these dreams yourself. Who were you in these dreams?

41:20 I've seen. She deliberately ignores the question. I've seen that graffiti up on a store called the Healing Flower. It's an apothecary shop. You might want to look there. I don't think that you might want to look there. Also, she said was going to give a look, like who do you think she was? Well, I have a theory, but I'll keep it to myself. Until we're out of this room, OK? Look, just try to get this wrapped up quickly. This is things are getting pretty nasty. And if I we try to keep things here relatively peaceful. My father gets involved in this. It's there might be a bloodbath. Of course. Shiragone. Do you think you'd know who her father is?

42:02 Almost certainly. OK, yeah. Her father is president of a research firm that also technically that's his role, Like he's the chief scientist at a research firm, but he also like owns it and owns several other things. So he's, you know, both a brilliant scientist and also a bajillionaire in a way that only really happens in fiction. And he is in charge of the Diache Abe Research Enterprises group, which. May sound familiar to Leo because that's the that's the group that turns you into what you are. Yeah, a killing machine. A cat boy.

42:44 A cat boy killing machine. A cat then cat person. Beyond binary. Beyond binary, Excuse me, I can't. Believe you guys made me fucking say that. Then the on binary killing machine. But my love of gender overcame my hatred of puns. I love both. I just forgot she sort of no one. Takes that out of context. She she sort of gives you a card and says, look, we can't get involved. I don't want to start a gang war, but if you get any more information or I don't know, just just let me know. She seems like she maybe was going to say more but that you bringing up the time travel thing has really thrown her off.

43:25 What can I say? I do have one more question before. Just a bit of personal business on my end. Yeah, I'm looking for a gym about yay big, greenish. I'll let you decide how big Yay big is. Have you seen it? Can't say I have. I know that sounds like I did hear something about something like that being brought into the city, but I think the Triads got a hold of it. The this group that's been coming in there, they called themselves the Lotus, The Lotus Eaters. I don't know what they are. They're magic of some sort and sounds like a big green gem. Might be kind of magical. Well, if they have my gym, I know exactly what they are. She gets up from the couch, They're dead.

44:08 And she gives you directions to the apothecary shop where she saw the graffiti and her group ends out. All right, I will wave. I will wave to the drama, Mama. Yeah, Do you, Have you been chatting? How have you been hanging out with the drama Mama during this? Time I've been I've been flirting with if she, if she wants. If she would have it, I would have like an arm, like over the couch, like behind her, like. Well, oh, she's she's definitely down for it. Yes. Oh yeah, you 2 have been flirting the whole time. She she says call me as she said ago. I never got her e-mail address. That ends our little in between scene and the taxi driver does pull up again outside. It's the same guy if you.

44:49 Would like, God, hey, sorry about that before. I don't think we're going to get interrupted this time. Probably. I'm not sorry, he. You kicked us out. Look, I'm just trying to I I respect the. I respect the the girls. I don't mess with them. I mean the the young women, the. Look, look, I'm a supporter of women's wrongs. Also, I like it when they do bad things. But also, we need to go to an apothecary shop. Oh okay. To be fair, I also kicked myself out. Yeah, I know. Sorry about your ceiling. Yeah, we'll we'll call that one even. Wow. Yeah, it's he seems very angry about saying that, but. After he says that, the camera pans to like the group and you see Leo just putting their wallet back into their pocket and like, OK, fine, that's gonna be calling it even.

45:38 And you are brought to the michome district and you end up in front of the Healing Flower apothecary. It's adored only with a single piece of graffiti on the side that seems to be this Lotus graffiti. You do see a couple come out, both men, because this is mostly a gay district. I'm holding hands carrying a little paper bag, and they seem very happy with it. This place seems, you know, it's it's sort of, it's down a seedy alley. But this couple doesn't seem, you know, they're just a normal couple coming out. They seem fine. They don't look like hardened criminals. They just look like two people like each other. And there's just a black curtain. There is a door, but the door is open and there's a black curtain.

46:23 In front of the sort of entryway and well. Who would like to go first? Wow. Sure. Do you want to go in at the same time COP works for? Me Are we just going in there and flashing badge or what are we doing? Badge gets flashed if badge needs to get flashed. Same with gun, same with sword. Oh, did you get your gun, by the way? Yeah, I picked my gun up. Right, Dan? I assume you did. Yeah. You're not Harry Dubois losing their gun. I should beat that game sometime. All right. So who's going in? I guess you're all going in. Nothing in particular. Sure. Yeah. OK, You, you head in the shop, looks like something out of it's a cross between like a hippie, dippie, new age place at like an ancient.

47:05 Alchemists shop there are. You mostly smell herbs, soy wax candles, but dried flowers and stuff like that. The whole place is covered with heavy art pieces that are highly lacquered, and they sort of look Chinese. And there's a dozen cabinets lining the walls holding countless herbal and magical ingredients. It's also. Playing some light music, just like some sort of light tinkly new age music is playing and you don't see anyone in here at the moment. Is there a bell on the counter? There is a black curtain which you didn't even notice was a black curtain. It almost blended into the wall. Maybe it wasn't weird.

47:47 Opens up and a figure steps out. And this. Is the young man that you saw in your vision, and he does not look a day older than he did before. Yeah. What is your skin care routine? His long, dark hair is pulled back into the ponytail. He's not wearing a kimono anymore. He's wearing jeans and a graphic tshirt, and he's got a very androgynous, beautiful look to him. He has the kind of body anyone might envy, and he speaks in a soft, gentle voice. Greetings. Says this ancient youth. I'm afraid we have a great deal to talk about, don't we? Why does everyone know who we are? Well, you saved me from that samurai in the bar fight. Oh, maybe you haven't done that yet. Oh God, yeah, let's time travel.

48:36 Are we about to do the Time Warp again? I don't think so any. Anyway, it's it's good to see you again. I was. Kind of. I'm going to be honest. You saved my life. I was looking to get myself killed when I pissed off that samurai had nothing left to live for. But you. You saved my life. Are we talking about after your girlfriend back in EU 2P got hit by a cart? Really kind of found a better way to put. That, yeah, that's. The worst way you could have put that in the world. No, I couldn't. That. Look, you should keep me from talking somehow. Look, I'm. Too tired to role play? I yes, I After Yukiko died, I couldn't bring myself to live anymore.

49:25 But you saved me. And I I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Of course. Trying to trying to make things better. But what seemed to be extremely immortal. How'd that happen? I am a sorcerer. Yeah, that makes sense. I must say I I would like to know your skin care routine. You're beautiful. Well, thank you. It's a Mystic ritual that I underwent when I was younger when I was inducted into the Eaters of the Lotus. They are a group of Unix that were controlling things in China at the time Eaters. Nowadays we would call it China. Eaters of the Lotus that sounds familiar. It does. That was the name of the the sorcerers that you fought.

50:08 Yes. OK, except I think they were called the Lotus eaters rather than the eaters of the Lotus. Yeah, they were called the Lotus Eaters, but it's the yeah, yeah. So did you happen to lose some people in the pachinko parlor earlier tonight? He looks very confused. What? No, no, the I'm I got on the outs with them. I didn't like what they were doing. I felt that my life was sort of in danger with some of the things that I knew, so I fled here to Japan. Sable wreath sheaths her blade well. You had that drawn the whole time she was. Going for it once he's mentioned Lotus Age, so. So I understand the whole running away from your problems thing, but you apparently didn't run far enough. Because they're in the city.

50:53 They're actually why we're in this district right now. Yes, I know they've improved over the years. I believe there was a man by the name of Dawnson who looked me up here in Japan. We traded some notes about Mystic secrets and whatnot, and then he. He went on his way I think. I think he was doing some experiments himself He he's not particularly a Mystic but you know he works with the Lotus eaters. He yeah they I was sort of giving them something to maybe help out some of the people that wanted to leave the Lotus. What was done to me to to many young boys in these ancient courts what's still done it's. It's a terrible act of child abuse. It's it's worse than just taking away our ability to sire children.

51:44 It it makes us immortal in the worst possible ways. It I was, I was trying to help him out. I I shared some of my alchemical formulas with him. He said that he was looking for ways to sort of reverse this and give give some boys their lives back. I think you got lied to. Yeah, the. I'm pretty sure you got lied to. What? What do you mean? They're making monsters. Or at the very least, they're making a drug that makes monsters. No, they. No. I told them that they needed to be careful because they're. Son, you need to tell us everything right now. It's Okay what happened.

52:27 While we were in a pachinko parlor earlier, several people who had taken a drug that has been hitting the streets recently transformed into hideous monsters. When black lights came on overhead. Oh, God, that's Oh no. The black light, of course. Oh, God, it must be Danson. I he's producing a drug using what I told him. Daniel, can I use my my police skill to just do a quick check to see if this guy's telling the truth? Absolutely yes, that seems like a good idea. Very much so. You have no idea. Fucking hell. Dice hate me. Yeah, that was the wrong kind of explosion. I I might be able to cook up some sort of anti toxin or something.

53:15 It would take me a couple of days though. Well, that may help people who have already taken the drug but have not been exposed. But what we need to do is, well, cut the head off the dragon, as it were. Well, he would need some sort of massive laboratory to produce that meant. Oh no. When I first came to Japan, I had a laboratory set up on on an island out well in the ocean near near the city. He might have taken that over. He must have taken that over. He clearly can't come up with anything himself. I've created more monsters. Well, Yep.

53:58 Right now the best thing you can do is work on that cure. While we go, make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else. Yes, I he just seems serious. I can't believe it. I just. I thought I could be happy again. It's taken me a long time to get there and I I guess I'm just a fool. Hey, you're not dead yet. I'll never, I'll never know love I'll never. Hold on one moment. You know one of like, the big business owners like Boss. One of those bosses got daughters named Yukiko. We've met someone who looks exactly like you're. Girlfriend. I know, Yukiko. All right, Okay. No. Souls never go anywhere. They just return in new forms like yours did. God, I was a shrine, man.

54:44 Shit. But I don't want to. She has a whole new life. I can't interrupt her life. She's been having this, the train, so it's already a little late for that, yes. Her. Her soul is speaking to her about her past life. I think for your sake and her sake, it might be a good idea to at the very least talk to her. And if it doesn't work. Wait, wait, so you're not Mystics in this time? He's just actually putting it together right now? You're not sorcerers yourselves. I'm a cop. Yeah, that just means you're a bastard, not a sorcererer. Yeah. So I.

55:25 Get that a lot. That means that, oh, the time stream must be being disrupted by the oh, Lord, you need to find him, right? You need to stop Danson. You have to. And he he starts giving you directions. Because if you went back. Oh, no. Oh, no. This is Okay, okay, this is. Oh, look, I need to do some. Research, please try not to harm the members of the Lotus. That mean well. There's a secret laboratory. It's an artificial island off of Tokyo Bay. You cannot see it. OK?

56:07 You cannot find it unless you know to look for it. Well, now we know to look for it. Exactly. You could find there's a rowboat that I have stashed. There's some ruins on it. Let me tell you where it is. You also won't be able to find that until I tell you where it is. Not to be able to get you to the island and and maybe you could stop the the Lotus Eaters before. Maybe they were trying to make an army but they're going to destroy the world. Yeah, we should probably stop that I I, you know, or at least have some unfinished business. Yeah, I still need to get home. Or at least this juncture. I this doesn't this travel exists outside of the Qi War?

56:47 And he is sort of muttering nonsense to himself. Yes. I I need your help. I'll. I'll be with you. Well, I I'm not really a fighter, but perhaps you are. Stop them before it's too late. And he goes back. He actually goes out closes the door puts a sign on it that says closed, and then goes back into his lab and you hear like sounds of just like a chanting and like. Oceans Brewing and stuff like that. Don't forget to go talk to Yukiko. I'm not going to do that. There's more important things and he he goes back. Well. They guys never getting laid. Hopefully I don't fall off of another row boat today. Let's go. That guy's never getting laid. Might be an insensitive thing to say to someone. Who.

57:30 Pegging exists. Fair enough. There are more forms of sexual activity than just. Genital based. OK, yeah, but but you know, fair enough. Out. I know what you mean and I'll take that under advice anyway. Can you believe we were all Mystics before? Nothing surprises me in this fucking city anymore. Fair enough. I suppose we could just sort of next shot. You're in a boat. Motherfucker, This is real estate, kids. Yeah. Do you fall out of the boat? Do we think that happens again? I think I try to get on it first. OK. I'd just accidentally tip it over. It tips over and then flips right back up because it's enchanted in some way, but you are in the drink.

58:15 Ripperoni. And you said you were a fisherman in another life. Well. I mean, I mean. Not just one. Die by drowning, so who knows? That is, you put me who's not good at boat in past life fisherman me. I don't what? Well, I don't know what's going on. Fisherman, you should be in you you so you can channel some of that. Past lives are I don't need. Fishing. You should at least buy you. Dinner. Here's what I know. I gotta go to that island and I gotta beat up a dude, so that's what I'm looking forward to. We're probably. Gonna have to beat up a bunch of dudes. More than American? But yeah, let's pilot of the boat and not tip it over this time. Thanks for listening Ghost Schools and all those who lay beyond that binary.

59:10 Our cast this week featured Michael, who didn't want me to plug anything. Waffle, who hosts the excellent dice themes podcast Damien streams regularly on Twitch under the name Magical Hack. They're playing Blades in the Dark on there, and it's a great watch. Check it out. You can find Nathan on Kingdom Hearts A Forgotten Era podcast at KH under score a Fe on Twitter, which is another actual play podcast that is always a great time. And I'm on Twitter at LOTR. under score DANLOTR, Dan, I like Lord of the Rings. What can I say? I tweet some good stuff there sometimes. Check it out.

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