Kitten and Big-D's Primer on the Supernatural and Local Folklore - Hunter: The Parenting Audiologs
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Important note! Chronologically, this takes place before Chapter 2.
In this our first Hunter Audiodrama, we bear auditory witness to some Father and Son-in-Law bonding, as Kitten goes deep into some local Norfolk Folklore, whilst Big-D ponders about the truth of these legends within the context of his own understanding of the hidden world beneath human society.
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Special thanks to the Weird Norfolk Podcast and the Hidden East Anglia website for providing ample inspiration for this series through their documentation of Norfolk's local urban legends.
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Our first attempt at delving into the world of audio-based content for this new era.
You will hopefully find the style similar to what we have done in the past with TTS Podcasts and Audiodramas where we cover various topics in a more relaxed and laid back manner.
Many have consistently said this kind of stuff was their favourite thing on the channel so we would like to reintroduce it and make it a more regular thing, assuming you enjoy it.
PLEASE ADVICE: DO NOT MAKE BIG-D'S HOMESTYLE OMELETTE AT HOME.
WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE IN RESPECT OF ANY PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH COMING AS A RESULT OF FOLLOWING THE RECIPE FOR BIG-D'S HOMESTYLE OMELETTE.
THE BEGETTING OF BIG-D'S HOMESTYLE OMELETTE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND IS NOT RECOMMENDED AND PROBABLY NOT LEGAL ALSO.
Keep up the good work. I really did enjoy “If the Emperor had a Podcast.”
His name is BIG!!!!-D. SMFH even the creator gets it wrong
Is this going to be deliberately incorrect like a lot of stuff from episode 1 was, or is Big D going to be straight with them?
Well, fuck, now I can't wait to hear this homestyle omelette recipe and do my best to recreate it.
I do love the audio roles you all take.
So much heart in it.
The voxcast and the audio only videos feel like a TV in my head are so exciting to hear.
I'm so excited to hear this one next^-^
BTW I saw what you did in the last video when you had door explain his cellar per square centimeter in his subtitle when he says square inch😆
A call back to the argument dorn and emps had in the black Templar voxcast👍
"I'll kill the Queen"
Queen- *dies IRL weeks later*
Huh, he actually dunnit.
Well shit…
based
Honestly it'd be rather messed up yet also rather hilarious if they did a special of Big-D running to kill the queen.. or attending her funeral. Alas I don't think anyone in Ogre poppenang wishes to deal with the shitstorm from britain that'd be...
So, which vampire clan is the queen from? Tremere?
It wasn't a threat.
It was a promise.
And here, in another universe, we have once again a return to the oldest and noblest of Alfabusa traditions: Little Kitten telling stories to the Emperor. Everything is as it should be, and I feel at peace.
Keep your eyes on me Little Kitty🎶
If you disobey you will miss me🎶
I only wish there was more gold... alas, he is doing his best. Therefore, the patreon subscription shall remain intact to see more of these amazing shenanigans
You can't convince me this isn't the same universe. 4th degree warp shenanigans.
@@JoelRiter I just think of it as them playing another tabletop game, and it eases the sorrow
@@olivermckowen135 Corvus Corax has arrived on Terra, he is the DM. It suits well with World of Darkness.
Adding rice to a vampire's torture meal? Oh that is *evil*
(Vampires in folklore are sometimes considered to be obsessed with counting things, to the point that if you have to flee from one, scatter rice in your wake - the vamp has to stop and count them, potentially until the sun rises and it dies. Big-D is forcing Kevin to count every chlorine-graphite-war crime bite of his food.)
wait.... is that why we have Count the fucking Count?
In VTM5 vampires can take a folkloric block: Garlic, Silver, Wild Roses, Uncounted Seeds are all options where they have to make a check or spend willpower to not be driven away by it.
@@Thejigholeman yup
@@wickedAberration In previous editions, it was more a Malkavian thing. Malkavians, in their insanity, could be obsessed with anything. I made a Malkavian, once, with exactly that flaw of counting -he HAD to count something, ANYTHING, at all times. Started out by counting his rosary beads over and over and over again. As he aged and went down some generations (it was the Middle Ages and I had gotten the merit that hid the fact I NOM'ed other vampires) his flaw became a strength. He began to count his enemies; every movement, the length of their limbs, the links in their chainmail, the width of their sword, the cadence of their voice, the flex of their muscles. Through this (and his high Auspex) he would predict the slightest movement before it would be taken. Add his Celerity and he would counter attack before an attack would even be launched. At the latest part of his existence, he counted and memorized EVERY star in the night sky and proceeded to, with unbelievable craftsmanship, to poke tiny holes in a metallic dome. If you put a source of light inside the dome, it would display a PERFECT map of every star in the sky. I miss that character.
@@lyravain6304 What happened to him?
You know WoD werewolves are dangerous as fuck when Big D stops acting like a drugged up lunatic and tells you *in a completely serious tone* that even a seasoned vampire hunter is screwed when fighting one of these things.
they're also objecively "heros' in a way most people cant imagine
Yes, in the sense they are actually heroes and they are just as responsible for screwed-up state of the world.
A normal day for table top adventures.
We stay away from the Lupines. We know better.
@@TheGoodLuc oWoD werewolves are ~mostly~ just as stupid and embarassing as old 40K lore, but the core concept of them is extremely funny in the same way as 40K.
there were other were-creatures, once. then the werewolves happened to them. if the collected wardens of Gaia were still around, the various horrors of the world of darkness would be MUCH harder-pressed. but every time the werewolves got bored of peace, they'd work themselves into an insane theocratic berserker frenzy over how one of the other were-creatures were a threat that had to be genocided out of existence.
and so now, as the world drifts towards apocalypse, Gaia's warriors rise up to fight it, realizing far, far too late that the healers, the scholars, the crafters, the spies, and the teachers would have been nice to have on hand around now. oopsie daisy.
(one group managed to evade being genocided, but their job is to be Gaia's survivors, so that's not a big shock. also their response to the impending catastrophe is "well, that's what we're for. we'll make sure something's around to crawl out of the ocean once Gaia is ready to give the land another try in a couple hundred thousand years. dump anything in the wrong parts of the ocean and you will be torn apart by weresharks. good luck assholes")
The implication Big D raided chernobyl for reactor core fragments is terrifying.
DEEPLY. Like, either he went there during the cleanup and is still standing, or he found a way to get beneath a lot of concrete to grab some seriously dangerous materials without dying.
But didn't you see? There was *no* graphite on the roof or ground.
I'm sorry, when was this?
They started to dismantle the Lithuanian RBMK power plant in 2004. It would have been a shame if all those reactor elements went to waste...
@@Lemon_Inspector this is also in 2006, so...
could work.
Something about Big-D is that despite how crazy he is any knowledge he delvers is so dead serious and straight forward that you have believe everything he ever says at least partly.
I'd like to think this is also TTS' basis of the alive god-emperor. An unbounded charismatic eccentric. Like Emmet Brown...as a shaman.
I mean it explains why Guilliman thought his father has finally lost his marbles after his final chat.
This sort of personality is anathema to him after all lol
I'd like to imagine this world is simply kittens creation for the man emperor to feel being human again before they return to the world of 40k, though that's up to gw loosening their dumb copyright ideas
Funniest thing is that a lot of it is true in context.
The more and more I watch, I grow to believe that Big-D is a mage.
*IN- **_DEED._*
"Of course you can! Wizards are nerds you can easily punch!"
Words to live by, my friends. Words to live by.
And a good summary of what being a mage in WoD is. Sure one can manipulate the quintesential energies of the universe, but they are mostly just squishy ordinary humans.
That's why a lot of the Harry potter cast got taken down by a fist and not a spell
Depends on wizard; though usually true, mages can be very versatile as any human, and buff themselves.
*dies to 1d4 of punching damage, but death curses back*
@@Merrsharr This isn't D&D; a hunter can be a very unpleasantly surprised. Especially if a mage is a Technocrat or Adamantine Arrow. Or an Euthanatos .
Vulkan and Corvus are driving around like the Winchesters in the Engine of Woe.
The Engine of Woe in this case being a 1999 Ford Ka that has been tuned to hell and back. With "Crow's" Marylin Manson CD blasting at full volume at all times.
Head canon approved.
yes
I'd definitely like if this is how they re-emerge into the story
Fulko and Coovoo
32:04
[Extreme distress]
For a moment, he forgot he and kitten were alone. For a moment, he thought he SERIOUSLY fucked up. For a second, he feared he doomed his son in law.
He isn’t just a madman. He is a trauma ridden, hunting master who knows more than any other and needs heavy drugs to not fall to literal shards. He loves his family, and the idea he might have put a target on their back horrifies him.
What character in a funny crazy dad.
This is a guy who is so on edge that, when noticing another person in the kitchen first thing in the morning, his _immediate_ knee-jerk reaction is flipping out and pulling a sword on them. And it wasn't even _his_ kitchen.
(Not to mention, to begin with, he's the kind of guy who carries a sword when going to get breakfast, apparently as a precautionary habit.)
So, yeah, the guy is traumatized to the point of constant paranoia and the way he acts is probably just a coping mechanism.
I never thought of it like that, such an ingenious way of characterization, i love this new "POV" on WoD.
Considering how incredibly precise and obsessive the Camarilla are with their masquerade, it makes sense knowing he’d try to keep quiet.
Hunters who have made it any length of time are seriously insane. Not like fruit loops but like I have to constantly mind literally everything around me at all times, as I walk the line between normal society and the supernatural, and am the sole person in most areas who can do anything about it in those moments.
They are just humans, however, so tactics and planning are all they have to balance the scales. If their targets learn of them they're dead, and if their foibles are noticed, they're chucked in a looney bin. They relocate often.
I'm always astounded by how good the Alfa team's characterizations are, in whatever medium they're in. These are literally perfect H:TR Characters.
A bunch of neophyte hunters who are all breaking in whatever direction comforts them, but haven't been at it long enough to harden and shatter like Big D.
@@Anbutou Right, I was reading the wiki recently and I recall something about hunters leveling up basically means they go increasingly crazy. With that in mind, Big D makes even more sense.
"I once went to a haunted hotel in LA...A GHOST THREW A PHONE AT ME!"
what a great part of that game
A lightbulb just went off in my head when he said that, made me laugh proper ! What an awesome part of Bloodlines though, that reference made me real happy.
man...absolutely FUCK that part lol kept glitching out towards the end of that mission every god damn time lol
So like…does that mean Big D is/may have at one point been kindred? And not just a kindred, but the Bloodlines protag? Like, I’m pretty sure there ARE ways for vampires to regain humanity or survive sunlight - albeit very few.
His mix of incoherent ramblings and legit wisdom ARE reminiscent of a malk
@@jim7644 Big D is much older then the protagonist of Bloodlines. He may be the father though, with how prolific he was...
@@TheArklyte Its also possible he simply investigated the place before the Bloodlines PC went in
Fun fact: Big D's remark about the New World Order is a reference to Mage: the Asencion, one of Vampire's sister games and (somehow) tied with Wraith: the Oblivion for being the most potentially hopeful game in the Old World of Darkness. Specifically, the New World Order is one of the five conventions comprising the Technocratic Union (technically one of the antagonist factions in Mage), and their overall schtick amounts to being the Union's ripoff of the mind police which regularly gets into fights with all of the other conventions (case in point? Two different conventions defected to the Council of Mystic Traditions at different points BECAUSE they were just that sick of the NWO's bullshit).
As for Louis Pasteur, the dude managed to turn himself into a vampire in-universe and managed to come up with a chemical cure for vampirism... and proceeded to get obliterated on false charges because a Nosferatu elder found his success in both regards insulting.
If only Big D learned the truth about Pasteur.
HOL' UP!
There is a chemical cure for vampirism?
It isn't even something esoteric or spiritual, not alchemy but a scientifically explainable mixture of known chemicals?
And it completely cures any of them, not some pseudo-cured but fully human again?
Wha...
What happened to this formula?
Also, the New World Order isn't even the right group of evil wizards. They mostly do mass media mind control social engineering stuff. Bioscience is the Progenitors' deal.
Damn Orlocks…
Typical Nosferatu behavior tbh
I am a sucker for a very specific and oddly rare trope: Parents-in-law getting along really well with their children-in-law. So that's another reason I absolutely loved this.
If Big-D is actually called Duck, it would likely explain his favorite son's name: Horse.
Lionel Johnson and Robert Gilmann are my favorites.
I like Konner Curse
Nah markus the ginger
Who would win, a Horse sized Sir D or a thousand Sir D sized Horses?
Made me think of the quack like A duck guy
Fanbase: We Miss The Emperor had a text speech device
Bruva: Too bad, here is a quirky spin off with the same voices, now Kitten and tomato boy are canon, happy?
Fanbase: Yes.
if TTS ever returns i would love if Big E ended up pulling Big D into their universe, even if very briefly
Kitten is definently happy because a certain other thing is now definitively _not _*_FUCKING CANON_*
Very infact
For tau to be canon you'd need a world of darkness about space aliens trying to take over and failing comedically. So changeling
I am happy about the spin off.
But kitten and tomato boy? Absolutely not! We all know kitten's true love is a blueberry!
I always kind of disregarded the people who said they couldn't get into WH40k lore for being convoluted but now I understand. The WoD wiki makes Shadowrunner look like baby's first urban fantasy setting
Im new tonthis whole thing and goddamn. 40k lore is like well established historiography, this feels like cultural anthropology. Glimpses in the mist
@@alejandrorivas4585 also it was the early 90s and a bunch of edgelords from the deep south accidentally tripped into getting to be paid decent money to be edgelords
when 40k is good it is very good, and when 40k is bad everyone just kind of ignores it for sucking. when oWoD-era white wolf is good it does very interesting things, and when it is bad it is 'the DM may or may not get beaten up because Jesus Christ Tom what made you think putting that in a game was going to be fun for anyone.'
as an example, there is a source book on the holocaust. there is a source book on gypsies. there is a grand total of one usable idea in either of them that won't get you, at best, looked at by your players with a 'why the fuck have you put this in the game you fucking weirdo,' and it is that if you tap into the astral plane anywhere near one of the major concentration camps you are going to explode, for much the same reason that if you use sulfiric acid to wash your face you will stop having a face in a hurry. this has been used by some desperate and/or thinks they're clever souls as a way to dodge arcane attention, but this is a little like building a clubhouse next to an unexploded nuclear bomb. yeah, nobody's going to come knocking at your door without good reason. Theres still an unexploded nuclear bomb.
you may say 'that's still really heavy and not very fun for my session of getting together to play with my friends,' and you'd be correct! trust me when I say that every other part of those books not only has that problem, it's not even interesting to interact with. Just some edgelord from the 90s jerking off.
We're can I read the rest of this? Apparently there's more than the videos released
@@kassidytucker8431 It's a setting for tabletop rpgs called World Of Darkness, and originated in the early 90s. This is fan-made, just like TTS. There are wikis, if you're interested.
Also: there are actually two Worlds of Darkness: the "Old" WoD and the ”New" WoD. This series Is based mostly on the "Old" one.
@@kassidytucker8431 honestly, there isn't one coherent timeline for the world of darkness. you see, the first two editions of the world of Darkness are commonly referred to as the old world of darkness. the first edition had a lot of lore and second edition was just a revision of first editions game mechanics. those had a rather coherent story and lore, where every year the supplements were all themed cross-platform culminating in the year of judgment. at that point they wrote out final battles for all of their core systems. mage, werewolf, changeling, vampire, wraith. they also had a sub series of books called Black Dog industries, which covered the darker mature audience material but usually delved into edgelord territory.
3rd Edition was commonly referred to as the new world of darkness. they released the same Source books as came out in old world, but they were no longer tied to the ongoing story arcs and were a little less convoluted. Third Edition introduced Prometheans the created, a setting for playing a Frankenstein monster. overall, there is some lore involved but it is completely separated from the first to two editions.
pass this point, there are two separate companies that are putting out material for the various world of Darkness settings. there are fourth and 5th Editions, and at this point I'll be honest I don't know the lure all that well. I only have a few of the books.
so I guess you have to kind of pick your poison. my favorite setting was old world of darkness, I just tended to ignore the day of judgment supplements and I toned down any of the Grim dark components. which, old world of Darkness was a little more Grim than 40K can be.
where everything I've said above ties into Hunter the parenting, the original version of Hunter from Old World Of Darkness was that God had given up on the world because of how messed up everything was, but his angels hadn't so they were subtly bequeathing subtle abilities on normal humans. people gain the abilities to recognize a monster, and were quietly manipulated into meeting up with each other. the idea was normal Baseline Humanity was going to take the world back. those books and the supplements were the most fun to read because they were all written from the perspective of an average human who suddenly finds out that there are a couple of vampires living up the street, a werewolf pack in the neighborhood park, and his neighbor's house is haunted. most of those books are fun to read because they are written in the form of Internet posts, journals, etc.
new world of darkness is Hunter the vigil and since it's a completely different storyline there is no overarching interconnected plot. now Hunters are broken out into organizations, some hunt for fun some hunt to protect Humanity and others hunt because they're psychos. there's not a lot of core books that came out for third edition, because it was around this point where they started to go digital. I'm not sure if there's a new addition of Hunter Beyond old world and new world, but if you're interested and you can find the games on something like steam or GOG there are a bunch of older generation games based off of gauntlet themed from hunter. they are a lot of fun.
There's a thing that stands out to me about Big D's madness. Whenever he is having one of those hilarious insanity induced rants, it seems like he is desperatly trying to find a way, anything to get back into reality, as if his spirit is drifting further and further away into a pit of madness that he might not come back from.
Just at the first story, he is immediatly going into a rant about the nature of the apparition and Kitten has to remind him that is just talking about the road. Big D seems to have like a huge disconnection from reality, and the word "Road" allow him to pull himself back from the brink, stating that "road is what his bus ride on".
It's amazing because while funny as hell, it shows a Big D that might constantly struggle to stay anchored into what's real, or worse, what people around him perceive as being real, and sometimes such mundane facts and nonsensical statements allow him to get a grip of himself, with his mind coming back to us after wandering way too far.
It's like his mind was permanently shaken up by a storm that's constantly trying to take him away, and he is desperatly holding on, diverting constantly his attention for dear life to either ignore the storm, or to come back whenever he is starting to lose that mental battle.
horrifying thought: he's a changeling with low clarity.
@@liamzakhaev He absolutly could be, it's one of those very plausible theory alongside him being a life mage.
@@saphirone8030 The way you described him sounds like he's using semantics to keep his clarity just high enough to avoid becoming part of the gentry
@@liamzakhaev A 1d4chan editor even pointed out that being a hunter and raising a family to become hunters would work very well at staving off Banality.
@@saphirone8030 It seems to be working too well, given that Big D appears to be at the second threshold of Bedlam, Too much whimsy from the hunting
"Does he even know what goes on in the ocean? I DON'T, AND IT'S TERRIFYING!" Ah, so there will be cosmic horror in this series.
Considering this is Old World of Darkness, here's a list of things in the ocean that I know of:
- Two breeds of vampires; Lasombra Pirates and Mariner Gangrel
- A shapeshifter breed of Weresharks known as the Rokea
- Entire kingdoms of Fae mermaids
- Sailor Ghosts
- Greg
@@WarMonger_the-One-and-Only Greg?!
@@datkhornedog899 he's just some eldrich god who just likes to look at human boats don't worry about it we're fine
Kinda but no. You get shadow vampires and weresharks tho
@@WarMonger_the-One-and-Only Greg? Is it it's real name or something that the fan calls him?
I just realised something. Big D is the opposite of the Emporer in alot of ways. He expresses his care and affection for his sons as individuals, even though he playfully teases them.While he keeps secrets from them about the larger picture, he does so for a good reasons (and explains why that is the case to them), but still teaches them as they need to know. He takes pride in what he knows but acknowledges his limitations. He is ok with playing the fool while still being serious about his quest.This makes me like him more than the emporer in alot of ways.
that or he hasn't gotten rid of the star child yet hell even then he still cared for Kitten siting the last TTS episode and almost made a new eye of terror on the mere thought him dying was unacceptable with or without that part of his psyche
You know I can see what you mean, even after the Emperor acknowledged the failure of his old tactics, he went right back to trying to manipulate his sons rather than telling them what he needed them to do and why.
BigD meanwhile provides some answers and a practical reason for why he can't just tell you all of it at once.
I mean speaking as a long time VTM player, he's not wrong that the Kindred have eyes all over the place and will respond swiftly to any perceived violations of the Masquerade. I have seen multiple PCs get executed over Masquerade fuck ups, because they know full well that if they get revealed to the world at large then it is OVER.
@@JamesTobiasStewart I know what you mean. As soon as Kitten dropped Antediluvian, I wanted to tell him to shut up. I can just imagine an agent hearing that in public, reporting back to his superior, who in turn goes to the local prince. They would have a target on their back immediately for just the slightest possibility they know about Antediluvians.
@@nickchavez720 Oh yeah and not necessarily because they believe in them, many in the Camarilla don't (or at least claim they don't) but because knowing that term in context suggests a depth of knowledge with regards to the Kindred that no Kine should ever have. They'd want him dealt with (either dead or his memories scrubbed) & they'd want to know just how he learned that to begin with.
@@JamesTobiasStewart Honestly, and they may do this later in the series, Im surprised they are not already being hunted by the Prince. I would be shocked if the Camarilla already didn't know about the Sabbat and had tabs on them. It would not surprise me at all if a scout saw them attack and reported this back already.
"Which is ironic, considering the computer is the devil." 26:26
You guys do your homework huh
>king's pact binds them they cannot show themselves or speak to us
>create a ways to see without seeing
>create a ways to speak without speaking
Wait what?
@@jefferycrouse4652 There's a legend of the Jewish King, King Solomon, where he controlled many great demons using his seal (hence, the King's seal), forcing the demons to do God's work. This legend has been kept alive by many Arab, Kabbalah and Esoteric traditions, but a contemporary occultist copypasta arose recently which presupposes that demons are still limited by King Solomon's seal, but the inventions of contemporary life have allowed loopholes for demons to once again act on humanity (cameras see without seeing, screens & speakers speak without speaking). This would fit perfectly into the WoD setting where almost every myth and legend is true
@@noaccount4 Additionally, it is said that IRL computer motherboard circuitry is shaped similarly to the Seal of Solomon, capturing and housing demons within it for the computer systems to work, somehow.
LIKE A CERTAIN TEXT TO SPEECH PROGRAM?!?!!
Oh God, not this sorcerous superstition.
The Lesser Key of Solomon, demons doing the work of God, what next...
That scene at 29:36 is probably my favourite bit. Big D, whacky and crazy as he is, getting serious really sells the threat that a werewolf poses. Absolutely terrific to listen to
Thank you for pinning this, because I have actively tried to show this to people to explain WoD lore. And yes, it is so damn epic.
combat in the WoD is dangerous, the fact that their werewolf game is a combat game, especially telling.
My Number One Rule that I will always follow without question when pertaining to World of Darkness is DO NOT FUCK WITH THE WEREWOLVES.
I love how Big D and Kitten both go from riffing on Markus for being a picky eater and calling him a baby to seamlessly gushing over him because Big D loves his kids and Kitten is engaged and then go back to riffing again.
well they both love the man, but are very VERY aware of his flaws.
Is it me misinterpreting things Or are Zegram and Thunder Psyker actually an Item if so I never saw that coming and I wish the best for them
@@axtondragunov1784 They haven't come out about it, from what I've remembered. So, don't worry too much about the thought.
@@axtondragunov1784 They are either superb actors or at the very least good friends. They have a great vibe in their scenes together.
“All things are ordered and explicable. Even chaos harkens to the beat of unseen principles”
This is honestly a great quote
I wish he got censored when he said cHaos
Reminds me of Elisee Reclus's quote (renowned French geographer) "Chaos is a form of order harder to recognize [as such]"
if orkz can manipulate the waagh to do whatever they want choas can be beaten maybe even by the waaagh itself XD
@@ethienosinsky5186 Anarchist too.
@@colonelautism9957 quickly convince the orks that chaos doesn't exist
"...even in the smallest of places entire worlds may exist."
I had a similar thought on vacation a few days ago. I was driving around the backwoods and mountains of northern Pennsylvania. I passed through town after town and farm after farm. Each house and town seemed well kept and cared for. It suddenly struck me. There are people here living normal lives. People I have never met and will likely never meet. They own houses, work jobs, run business, and live their lives the same as everyone else. Yet our two worlds will only cross for the briefest of moments as I drive through the one road in their town.
Always a sober truth when it hits one
The word for this is "sonder" and for me it tends to hit when I make eye contact with someone in another car. We may never see each other again, never exchange words or ideas, and if we ever actually meet neither of us will remember this moment, but we are equally real.
@@briannadragonrider yeah, i've been having these kinds of thoughts for a very long time. it really makes the outside world seem unreal, doesn't it?
Co-Worker: "What did you have for breakfast this morning?"
Me: "World of Darkness lore with a side of English folktales..."
I too enjoyed english muffins with some Aaaaegg
Ha Cool
And sulfuric omelette
"There is no true 'randomness', merely spontaneous whimsy" is weirdly inspiring.
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Pretty sure it's a World of Darkness version of the Imperial Truth
I'm fucking stealing that line.
He sounds like a changeling when he says this... Let's keep an eye on him...
Mmmm... *_eÄgg!_*
I just realized something. For as hilarious and interesting as this episode was, it also gave me this odd sense of familiar comfort, though I couldn't figure out why at first. But it just hit me.
This is basically the first time we've seen Kitten and the Emperor having a conversation about lore in a LONG time. Yes, the setting is different and they're not technically the same characters anymore, but I had forgotten how much I missed their dynamic. It's like having a couple of old friends return and picking up right where they left off. However this series continues to progress, I'm happy to have them back.
Yeah, that's honestly one of the things that turned me off TTS. After a while, it stopped being about Kitten telling the Emperor about all the shit going on in and around the Imperium, and that was the part I really enjoyed.
I've been parceling this out because it's like a comfort blanket and that's why.
Truly feels nice to have there amazing dynamic again I'm happy
Yeah kinda. It's a bit different, but the basic character is there - Big-D is certainly a much nicer, openly caring person than the Emperor was, and Kitten... hasn't changed much, honestly, but yeah.
I agree even if from a different reality
i really love this version of the emperor.
when not raving like a mad lunatic, his philosophy is so beautiful.
and the amount of genuine love and care he has for his family, blood related and not with his son-in-law is great.
it makes me warm and fuzzy inside hearing him revering to kitten as "beautiful child"
calling markus his small precious child
and constantly telling his family how proud he is of them.
The emperor loved his children but couldnt bring himself to be overly open about it.
this feels like the emperor reset and is trying to do things "right" this time, showing the parental love he never did and trying to undo the terrible parenting of his throne self.
firstly by actually being a caring father, even though his lunacy can make him seem like a bad dad.
and someone else pointed this out to
he was SO DAMN DISTRESSED when he slipped up and panicked before remembering he and kitten are alone, thinking he might have put his family in danger.
this is the reaction from someone more concerned with what his actions do to his family than himself.
because if it was himself he was worried about, he would certainly be careful enough not to let that word slip out of his mouth.
this man would throw hands with any supernatural being for his family and im all for it.
Big D referencing Ur, along with saying "time is an odious concept" makes me feel he is much, much older than he seems.
Then there's the theory he's a Changeling
@@GregoryMom The oldest changelings were children during the moon landing, reawakened by the collective wonder the world felt that moment. Given that Big D has grown children in 2005 the line is incredibly thin.
@@GregoryMom Hmm, after seeing more of the series I'm thinking maybe...Mummy?
@@elijahgrimm8052 Mummy, as in the Amenti, are not even 5 years old. Like Demons, the Orpheus institute and well... Hunter, they are an unforeseen consequence of the Week of Nightmares. That's not to say there weren't any, just that those are completely different beasts.
And yes, Big D's advice about Names is spot on. Toth's art is definitely the mummy meta.
I'm thinking he's a solar exalted.
I'm pretty proud of this one!
Forgive my mic issues-- I'd just moved when this was recorded.
And watch out for Colges and Giraffes!!
Did Earndil choose to be Kevin so he could bite your character and get back some repressed aggression towards Pi? Inquiring minds have to know!
You sounded great, no need to worry about the mic.
You did well *BIG D!!!!*
Speaker it was glorious as usual!
you did great mate
"There is not a statute of limitations on being a goblin!"
*oh my god this writing is the best*
Goblin Slayer agrees
I'm still dying from road is what my bus drives on
I am sickened by this remembrance, and hope you will be as well: "Ian Watson, Sewer Goblin Extraordinaire!"
Yes, so eloquent and charming!
So the High Marshall got to pass his Goblin illegality law after all
I love when Big D said "how could he walk around with no legs?" and Kittens reaction implying that no one really questioned the story. I didn't realize Big D's point outright on my own
Well he was a sailor so he had sea legs
I assumed it was just a weird ghost trick or something.
This series has made me realize that the thing I missed most about TTS was ThunderPsyker's voice. Though it's a bit strange to hear it without the distortion caused by the Captain General's helmet.
Their shared love over "The small baby precious boy child" is wonderful.
Especially since Marckus seems to be the tallest member of the family
@@georgerose1252 My man spends 99% of his time on that treadmill playing CS and lifting weights. Guaranteed. Power-nerd.
@@tilly4273 is that what it was? i thought he had a growth spurt and disliked sitting
“That is entirely *my* choice and you know it”
I'm glad to see that Kitten has finally returned to the Imperial Palace and is once again regaling the Emperor with information on the current state of affairs
This Age of TTS looks great
“Hope is the first step to Disappointment.” - The Librarian, WarHammer40k - Dawn of War
The joined [Contented Sigh] from both Big D and Kitten is honestly some of the most wholesome shit I've ever seen. Both of em' love Magn- I mean Markus dearly and it shows, in spite of all the fun they poke at him for being a doof.
7:16
HE DID IT! THE ABSOLUTE MAD MAN DID IT!!
Finally
OH MY GOD SHE WAS A VAMPIRE, IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
Man, the voice actor for Big-D really gives his throat the full course huh? Such an awesome thing to listen to.
SpeakerD is an amazing voice actor with an insane range, and they always have him portray the most eccentric, hammy and flamboyant characters. He also voices Asdrubael Vect in TTS and Pi Braine in WarHams.
He also voiced Pi-Brain.
Check him out in zoran the bears dnd campaign, Rotgrind. Flipping fantastic!
@@RelativelyBest his elf is one of the more stable roles and even then he is flamboyant.
I actually think Pi Brain was even more unhinged
“Of course it makes sense! It’s just a sense we don’t understand yet.” That line is crazy in how profound and true it is. I’ve never realized how true it was or even that it was a thing until now. Props to Alfa! That was amazing.
Do you know what a pistol shrimp is?
That little thing can see more colors than you or I could imagine because it perceive light in a different manner.
And it pushes physic to it's limit with it's hunting technique.
Human perception is incredibly limited, lots of stuff around we can't understand, nor even perceive.
@@medramonmasquedecendres2966 so you are saying…. Pistol shrimp are VAMPIRES!??!?
Indeed
@@medramonmasquedecendres2966 don’t you mean Mantis Shrimp??? Or they both have it. Because the mantis shrimp is the one more known about due to its sharp/blunt limbs?
@@brandonvang3242 the pistol shrimp can literally shot an air bullet hotter than the sun
I just want to point out that due to the fact Changelings aren't mentioned at all, despite being incredibly relevant to the area's mythos due to their fae origins, Big D either doesn't know they exist, meaning they are doing such a good job at hiding that one of the most experienced hunters doesn't know about them, or he understands that for the most part, they aren't dangerous unless you fuck with them, with a couple exceptions.
Or he might be one, and doesn't want anyone to learn enough about them to start connecting the dots.
@@danielmclellan1522 I don't think that's the case. He seems to be a fairly isolated person, and changelings require somewhat frequent contact with humans to feed
Unlike the delirium, the mists affect even other supernaturals. So whatever Big D is, he's probably not immune and so doesn't know much if anything of the fae.
@@pyryhartikainen608 i saw a commenter before argue thats why he keeps his family around, to stave off second threshold bedlam. Too much whimsy, and uses mundane things to pull himself out of his zany fits. Like "the road is what my bus goes on"
@@autumndidact6148 that's a fair point
As a long standing WTA storyteller and player, that werewolf part where big D just went "don't fuck with werewolves, they're going to mess you up" felt amazing.
Before WTA: "If not fren why fren shaped"
After WTA: "I am.... not going to get even remotely close to them. Or I wont make it to tomorrow"
@@dreameater8548 Even the kindest Child of Gaia can absolutely maim any vampire short of an ancillae. I've heard so many parties discover their fate with this simple sentence of disbelief: "what do you mean they fucking regenerate?" or "Why does it deal 6 aggravated damage a turn?"
@@ShiryuCain and the Garou aren't even the worst of the Fera to confront
@@draochvar9646 One of the most trigger happy though, and you're more likely to encounter a Garou as vampire than a Rokea for exemple, or a Gurahl (which I think you were thinking about)
@@ShiryuCain those two are up there but I personally think that the Mokolé and the Nagah are even scarier. The Mokolé for their INSANE war-form and the Nagah for how good they are at being the knife in the dark.
"Oh, this old thing? It was a gift from an old friend of mine" *Big D puts the flaming greatsword away*
Big D It is a perpetual of the same lineage as the Emperor. That explains a lot.
@@edalmirneto4246 d is e
The man canonically eats radioactive waste, so it's not a surprise.
@@albertdutzman8292 I'd wager he's a shard of E.
@@lanterns_glow Gonna be that guy here and mention that the graphite rods in an RBMK don't take up radiation. That's part of why they're used as cooling rods. They can suck up neutrons without sucking up the radiation that makes them dangerous.
"We shall hunt him down!"
"The Golf Union might find that...
...divisive"
Not detestable, not unnacceptable, just *divisive*
Maybe the Golf Club needs to be investigated
Pretty sure that's Kitten being thoroughly British, understating the reaction.
Nah, they’re just British.
gotta love how whole positions have been killed and overrun because of the classic brittish understatement. "its bit sticky" for 'we are actively being bombed into slurry right now' when getting a call from american allies comes to mind.
the loveable dumb bit is we still do it. and noone seems to realise its limitless a brittish person can call the terminal cancer report they got that morning as "having an off day".
so in true brittish fashion:
i hope you manage to have a pleasant day as mine is about the same as the rest of them.
Why does this sound so damn natural? Well, for a madman and his beloved son-in-law having a remarkably evolving conversation that is...
Almost sounds unscripted, honestly.
Crazy conspiracy theory
Big D fought a French werewolf and lost!
I know, it sounds crazy, but hear me out. Big D is very knowledgeable about the supernatural and he trust his sons and grandsons enough to actually fight them. Even with the great and mighty Kevin he was respectful but dismissive. Very “I could take him” about it.
But not with the werewolf. The werewolf was pure “don’t fight them you will lose” with no mention that he isn’t including himself in that directive.
But if big D lost he should be dead right? WRONG! Cause if he lost but the werewolf took a fancy to him it may have spared him to have some fun with the lesser big d. Which would of resulted in the birth of his probably werewolf son
Le Mann Rustle!
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 or Big D just knocked up an alpha female werewolf
@@chiefkeef74 dont give the internet ideas
@@itsmegoodbye9227 too late.
Big-D shagged the Beast of Gevaudan is what you're saying?
HUH
"Only as deep as the ooze water at Yarmouth's Pirate Cove Adventure Golf Course! "
Once again, Alfabusa and team proving they've done their research. This Golf course exists, I've played it before, and holy crap, I laughed my pants off when he said this!
So it really is weird, murry, and not natural?
@@bthsr7113 at times, yes. It does not look nice
Hey that place got a map?
jeez, looking at pictures of the place, yeah, D's description of the water is very accurate
Ngl I love all the little bits of real life they've put into this series. Like I know ThunderPsyker (Kitten's voice actor) is from Norwich so he likely knew a few of these already and has probably been to a few of these places (or can easily go there as Britain is not that big of a country) and get eye witness information about the places they set these stories in.
"You have my incredibly variable attention" is a quote I relate to on SO many levels.
Laughed so hard at that one
What exactly does it mean?
@@manuelkfc7916 Big D is flat admitting his attention span is as ephemeral and unpredictable as Tzeentch's sock drawer arrangement.
@@requiem762 Oh, then i can definetly relate to that too, Big-D had so many amazing quotes in this audio-log, it's cool.
@@manuelkfc7916 It means that the level of his attention is not constant.
Basically means that he's easily distracted and can either be very focuses on what someone is saying or he could just not notice.
Has anyone else gone back to TTS material and imagined Throne Emperor's dialogue delivered with SpeakerD's voice and mannerisms?
It's a closer fit than you might think.
Now we really know how the Queen died...
Man, the complete and UTTER tone shift when the idea of fighting a werewolf comes up and the music really hints just how seriously Big D takes them. Even when dispensing important advice and lore about other supernatural threats and the oft-immense powers they possess, he still mixes in some joviality and lightness to his speech. But werewolves are treated as something too dangerous even for him to make light of.
Vampires? Ghosts? Magi? He'll learn how to kill them out of spite and laugh at the absurdity of their actions. Werewolves seem to... well and truly scare him even beyond his mad bravado, at least a little. I get the feeling that fighting a werewolf was truly, genuinely terrifying for him at some point to the point of never wanting to do it again if given any other target. Considering how bullshit werewolves are in a straight fight in their war form, that checks out. It takes one hell of an experience gap for even a vampire to tackle a werewolf head-on without being mauled to effective helplessness in the process.
Also, Russ's counterpart Russell, a Homid Ahroun from the Get of Fenris, was likely birthed from the most terrifying of Big D's ex wives.
Vampires, mages, hell pretty much everything in WOD fears Werewolves with the possible exception of the weresharks, and the giant kaiju werelizards and Mummy's because you really can't kill them. Werewolves have magic, magic weapons and servant spirits sometimes on top of their OP PLZ NERF battle forms and Rage. A family of hunters without even any shown edges would do a pretty good imitation of a frog in Kittens new blender then anything approaching a fight. At least not till they've gained a bunch more experience and gotten some better gear.
No kidding. Having played oWoD as a Get Philodox, I was at times astonished in just how different the scale of power was between a Crinos and even a 7th generation vampire.
A rank novice Werewolf, utilizing warform, would have slaughtered every single one of those vampires without breaking a sweat. No fighting skills, no hard knock experience. Literally some bright faced college boy who never picked a fly in his life... he wears the Crinos skin and the Great/Powerful Kevin's little speech would have fallen on dead ears before he had the chance to complain. They'd have been a pile of mangled limbs in 60 seconds.
The Garou are goddamn nightmares.
Just how powerful are werewolves in WOD? Never played it nor read much about the lore. Like how do they compare against Vampires? What about other interpretations of werewolves from other mediums?
@@joshuabonife7573 Think of it this way, in WOD Werewolfs are supernatural super soliders tasked with stopping the apocalypse spirtual manifestations of entropy itself, they fight a shadow war against invisible spirit monsters trying to bring the end of days at any cost, so supernatural creatures like Vampires, ghost, and wizards are more speed bumps in the war path, insects that infest the world but aren't the true threat to it but must be sqaushed all the same. They are to a human the same as a space marine is to a dog. Sure not theoretically impossible but the dog would have to go through so many layers of protection the space marine would basically have to let it happen for it to kill him.
In all seriousness, I genuinely love the part where Big D drops his whole facade when talking about fighting werewolves. As it even lets people who aren’t even aware of the World of Darkness know just how big of a threat they truly are.
I don't know anything about World of Darkness at all, but that scene let me know full well *not* to fuck with werewolves.
It isn’t a facade, but the werewolves tear through the madness and bring true, pure fear.
It does pretty effectively tell us newcomers that you don't mess with the Werewolves unless you're packing extra heavy and have done exhaustive prep.
On one hand, you can kill one by running it over if you made your bumper silver.
On the other hand, just about anything shy of that is being ignored, or instantly healed from before they turn and shred your fucking soul.
Some werewolves summon gods.
Others are just physical beasts.
Their starting point of raw lethality is far above almost everyone else's, and their peak is insane.
Demons and Mages are their only real equitable completion, and Mages is an iffy call case by case solely due to the raw bullshit flexibility of a strong mages.
That is, their ability to not actually fight you.
@@scribese7en
Yeah, like Kevin said, only Mages have a hope of matching the kind of bullshit a Werewolf can bring- though even then, they might need quite a bit of prep time and it WILL cost them. Honestly, if you're a Mage and you're up against a Werewolf, Big D's advice is pretty much on the money; it's just that as a Mage you'll have more tools than the average Hunter would.
So I gotta know does anyone feel a strange nostalgia while watching this ? I feel like I’m 7 years old again back in the early 2000s watching the golden age of adult swim shows when I watch this and it makes me so happy.
Actually yeah now that you put it like that it does
"I`ll kill the Queen"
The madman...
He actually did it...
I've never been more terrified of an image in my entire life but I'm also excited for this
Any time im lookin to Big-D's face i get terrified
“I keep illegal firearms”
Spoken like a true American
Indeed
USA!! USA!!!
Numbah wun! Numbah wun! Numbah wun!
I will neither confirm nor deny any statement about "True Americans." Unlike the "No True Scotsma" falacy, True Americans are whatever they want to be because, "Freedom!"
3D PRINT! 3D PRINT! 3D PRINT!
As the great and mighty Kevin would say every episode is “A sweet nectar, A delight for the senses! Addicting! Magical! Lemon Scented!” We demand more!
Don’t leave us hanging.
It says a lot about how authentic TTS felt that I thought "wait are they still allowed to use kitten? Isn't he trademarked by GW?"
If there is a werewolf on its way in the series that happens to be Big D's Son: Lemon Rust
I hope Zoran voices him.
Please let him be a Fenrir…
My name for him is Russell.
@@____________838 Get for Life
LEMON RUST!
@@supersaiyandiclonius3056 Russell Crow could be Corvus Corax
Okay so, this was all excellent, Big D's Vampire Lore especially. I also loved how genuinely protective he seemed discussing Werewolves.
However, the implication that your National Insurance number is just your True Name, but in code, is so existentially terrifying I cannot put it into words
What's so terrifying about the true name ? I don't know anything about WoD lore could you enlighten me ?
@@nets9970 Hey! So I'm not exactly sure on WoD lore in general, but I'm a big Folklore buff.
If WoD follows anything like actual folklore, anyone in possession of your True Name could speak it aloud and give you a command, and you would have absolutely no choice but to obey. If it is beyond your physical capability to do, you will seek the easiest solution to make it possible, then do it. I believe the only thing they cannot force you to do is harm yourself.
They could tell you to hand over your banking details and never change them. They could tell you to degrade yourself, sell yourself, serve them... They could demand your complete and utter loyalty forever. They could tell you to commit atrocities on other people and claim it was your idea. They could demand to know your most terrible fear, and force you to put yourself in that very scenario.
The idea that the Government has that knowledge for everyone in their country is terrifying.
@@nets9970 in whatever stories a true name shows up in, they are always considered to be very powerful. Your true name is basically the name of your essence, of what makes you, YOU. If someone can find that name and use it against you, well… see you in prison bud
“I’m built different”… wait, is Big D an Imbued!?
In the world of darkness, it literally is your true name. The Technocracy can use your SIN as effectively as Merlin could use your name. Perhaps even more so, considering how much aggregate data you produce these days, even just living in a city. Your IP address is as good as a lock of hair or fingernails, and your email address? A wizard might know you as Chuck and never be able to hurt you. A Technocrat can kill you in a Starbucks because you left your wifi on and got a notification, delivering a fatal malware curse your spam folder didn't stop.
These intermediary videos of Hunter: The Parenting are so fucking gooood. I cannot stop re-listening to them while doing my work
29:46
Best part. You realize D is not a crazy dude, he is actually very good and very vise person who tremendously loves and cares about his family ❤️
I love this. World of Darkness told through the imperfect lens of Hunters.
I _really_ love how Big D got super serious talking about fighting a werewolf and going "No. This is not a thing you want to do." They're my favorite 'group' of the WoD, and seeing him take them so seriously gave me a huge grin, even though there's a basic thing that he (and tbf most portrayals outside of that specific system) get wrong.
A 'medium' power vampire and werewolf, if they squared off on even terms, the vampire has a good chance of winning if it came down to a fight. The thing that even other books get wrong that is a fundamental part of werewolves is that you're _never_ facing just one werewolf. They're pack hunters, so there's always someone backing them up. If you're *super* unlucky, you're facing a pack of 5 which is their ideal pack, one of each of the moon phases which means that they're diversified enough to deal with most problems while still being a murder machine. The basic part though is that they're angry, social creatures that almost always has someone else ready to step in and make the fight uneven. Almost all of the WoD portrayals, outside of the Werewolf roleplaying game, has them being a single, really tough fight when it's really a group of crazy murder machines trying to tear apart a target, coordinated on a supernatural level.
Also, Russ's counterpart Russell, a Homid Ahroun from the Get of Fenris, was likely birthed from the most terrifying of Big D's ex wives.
@@supersaiyandiclonius3056 I'd probably say that Russell would be a Silver Fang, either an Ahroun or a Philodox because of how judge-y Space Wolves are while also being super fight-y.
And werewolves are anything but dumb. Both in "uneducated but a quick thinker" and "educated badass who still can tear you apart" sense.
Wow, that's really cool!
And incredibly terrifying, cause while vampires only have to worry about dealing with several werewolves, humans have to deal with multiple werewolves _and_ delirium. Great!
@@dazeyndrowsy TBF, if there's a werewolf who has done their research (and has good enough connections), they'd be able to figure out that vampires have this overwhelming fear of fire, and can take advantage of it.
“I just do not trust you with this.”
-Big D, 2006.
…And there it is.
Gotta admit, considering both tts and the actual 40k lore, he said that a lot sooner than I was expecting.
At least this tike round he says why
and it does make sense with this one, i wouldn't trust anyone else to make special sauce
"Trust has little to do with it!"
“Does he even know what happens in the ocean?! I DON’T! ITS TERRIFYING!!”
I’m relating to Big D pretty hard right now
"Yeah I think your brain might be wrong" and "Aah no I'm built different" I love it
I find great joy in the knowledge that Big-D wears a pink fluffy dressing gown. It’s his “oh my husband/wife/unspecified is missing Officer? How awful” outfit.
It’s just like the good old days… kitten informing his boss/dad/king…
Some things even dimensional travel can’t change…
I hope we get LOTS of episodes like these.
I have lived my entire life in Britain, and up until now I had no idea we even had these kinds of urban legends and stories.
This video is not only hilarious, but educational as well - a perfect blend, really.
Kind of love how the laughing and bombastic attitude immediately dies and D gets soberingly serious when he tells Kitten not to fight the werewolves. That pretty much tells you everything you need to know right there.
Yup, Werewolves are one turn killing machines. Even the non warrior ones can kill you or at the very least severely wound you in a matter of seconds ( turn ). Wanna know something even more scary ? Werewolves are foot soldiers designed to fight things that kill them like flies. They constantly fight against monsters that severely outpower them. The reason they are so effective is that they are pack hunters and fight on groups. Alone ? There are many things out there in the World of Darkness way stronger than them.
Yea, werewolves (and just the Fera in general) are f*cking terrifying. They are Gaia's big red "Fuck you"-button and unless you're bringing the BIG guns, you're better off just not tuching that can of worms.
This is so lovely for all of us who missed Kitten and Emps' dynamic, especially since these incarnations of the characters have a much more emotionally healthy and equitable relationship. And Sir D / Not!Emps actually tells Kitten that he's proud of him!
Big E did tell Kitten he was proud of him. Just not often enough
@@Novictus Never really as openly as this, though. Like the main occasion I can think of was Big E commending Kitten for landing a good burn on Magnus. Big D is a lot more open about his feelings and thoughts with Kitten where Big E was constantly speaking from behind 10,000 layers of bitter irony, frustration and pain, and while Big D is still pretty secretive he's at least willing to acknowledge Kitten's questions and explain to him why he has to be cagey. The OOC Is Serious Business moment with the werewolf lore could never have happened with Throne!Emps, and it reads a lot closer to a father cautioning his son in a mindful, responsible way without dismissing his capability and personal agency. Makes me curious to see more one-on-one interactions like this between Big E, Marckus, Door and Boy.
@@GhoultownBlues Acknowledged
You have me intrigued. You have jingled the keys to my enjoyment, and like a baby, I have come over ready for entertainment.
Like a werewolf and a chew toy?
@@csmrookie9600 Everything is a chew toy to a Garou…
Mmmm... *_eÄgg!_*
Oh poor fair angel. Your gellar fields are down once again arent they.
@@timloth2994 you said the thing, now it'll happen! Knock on wood, *Immediately!*
"No i'm built different!"
Big D really means that his amount of Drugs makes it hard for the Delirum to really settle in
Rewatching this and realized the context of D's "Horse" mug which really confused me the first time I watched this. God I love this show.
Oh, wow, I just realized that this is just like the earliest episodes of TTS. Kitten telling the Emperor the current state of the Imperium, and the Emperor sometimes elaborating and filling in the gaps. Here, Kitten tells Big D about folklore, and Big D explains more about what's really going on.
Having big D doing a DND one-shot that runs wild due to spontaneous brainstorms and it's " what my NPC would do" would be a game for the ages.
I think my favorite theory about Big D is that he's a Changeling. I had a bit of a hard time following the lore I read about, but what I did understand would honestly explain a lot. Basically they have a very tenuous grip on reality and the idea is that D's occupation as a hunter is a way to keep himself... "anchored."
Edit: Upon further reading, it might be more accurate to say that reality has a tenuous grip on *them,* in a fairly literal sense.
Not gonna lie Bruva.
At first with this series I was like "Oh its just a copy of characters from emperor TTS"
Then went hold on......how is that not valid? You came up with an entire lineup of characters and personalities and voices. Based on a TTG.....
This was AWLAYS EMPEROR TTS.
You made this. The creativity is untethered.
Do you realize how fantastic this is ?
There are ENTIRE OFFICES FULL OF WRITERS AND DIRECTORS, who, and I cannot stress this enough, CANNOT even come up with a single original character or concept.
And here you are, a couple of people creating this from their rooms.
I swear, as soon as my internship starts, I WILL be a patron on patreon.
Keep up the great work
difficult to wield actual creativity within overly defined limits. and practically impossible to do on demand.
creativity needs space to be allowed to be before you start working out what created bits you actually want to use. mind you try telling corperate that creativity doesnt work to a repeatable formula and you get confused looks so some people just dont get it i guess.
bug ups to the patrons though. allowing real creatives the space and livelihood they need to do their thing as apparently human civilisation hasnt patched out the leave the artists to starve bug yet.
talk about necessary... daymn
Update: got interviewed for a 40$/h internship. So patreon thing might actually happen 🤞
@@marcantoinelab12321 good shit man, 40$ an hour is nothing to sneeze at
@@ianharrison5758 Exactly !
And ty 💜
Although it's not assured and it's a research assistant position for metallurgy which is fine. But it's far away (6hrs)
BUT I do have one assured in a dairy factory of all places. But the job description is amazing.
They literally have a list of 12 projects/problems, and I get to pick which one I work to fix.
For example, one of them is : find a way so that we don't have to clean the air vents as often, or make it easier to clean.
And another is: we have this big 500k$ piece of equipment, find a way to fit it into this room, the doorway is too small.
Which is just fantastic because I get to investigate, research and come up with a solution by myself.
That one is closer (1hr) but only 21$/h.
I don't mind because the job looks 5× more interesting.
@@marcantoinelab12321 Congrats either way! Hope you have a jolly ol' time with whichever one you choose, my dude.
Hey kids please ignore Alfa's comment and go ahead and make Big-D's Homestyle Omelette. The greater sects of the Euthanatoi wholeheartedly recommend it.
... ask Odo to make it to bring over to Speaker? 🤔
And I was wondring why he was putting in so much garlic powder...oh,
I genuienly thought he was just barking mad.
Kids, do not listen to this Reality Deviant! The NWO knows what is best for you, now run along and ignore the nice people in black suits and shades.
Thanks Dad, will do.
Using acid to turn the wheel, and the Technocracy say the Traditions don’t get physics
"I will remind you that i own illegal firearms" is the best line ive heard in a loooong time haha. Love the day when new Alfabusa content drops!
the threat got a lot less impressive when I remembered they were in the UK, because that widens the range of what is "illegal" to include some pretty mundane and boring guns, here in the USA that would imply some extreme firepower.
I mean, sure, firearms of any legality are all pretty deadly to humans(unless it's the Zip.22), but still, the difference between being a corpse with a hole or two in it, or being reduced to a meat puddle does still matter doesn't it?
@@RipOffProductionsLLC Its just a bunch of muskets and flintlocks XD
@@RipOffProductionsLLC I'm mean, considering that a Barrett 50cal is technically legal if you spend the time, money, acquire the correct permits and pass the right checks, it can still be something quite powerful.
@@connorirons4542 In the UK? Highly doubtful to the point of near impossibility, but sure go off lol
@@LordVader1094 th-cam.com/video/aSwEGcngHF4/w-d-xo.html
A video on gun laws in the UK. It may be near impossible to get a 50cal, but its technically within the law.
This and tts are easily my favourite things released on TH-cam. You can feel the love and passion put into every single part of it. I'm thankful that you guys didn't stop making stuff and continue to provide everyone with this awesome content. Seeing an episode drop has honestly turned some of my shittest days around and I'd just like to say thank you for all the work you do to bring us these series
Getting into this series very late, and the Emp...ehr, Big D's Masquerade explanation is fantastic.
"In this age of cellphone cameras, phosphorous grenades and thermonuclear bombs, the Masquerade is more important than ever." - Sebastian Lacroix.
The gist of it is that Kindred don't just abhor publicity because it's in their blood - so to speak - as a predator race that wants to walk around sheep. It's also a practical survival tactic: Vampires have massive weaknesses. They only function for 12 hours and that even is debatable according with how much in touch the vampire is with his own humanity. They fear both the hated fire and the scorching sun. They have specific clan ( bloodlines ) weaknesses that can be exploited.
Their entire society is based on lies because vampires are extremely touchy with revealing any information that might give others an advantage over them. This is a constant throughout VtM in general, no matter the edition: You are a creature of deceit, of lies, of darkness. You're not a person, no matter how much you lie to yourself about it, and your society reflects that. Vampires don't engage in human society to stay at the bottom, at least generally ( some clans do that but in more figurative ways, they don't do that to stay weak, they do that because there is strength to be found by exploiting the weak being among them ), they seduce, intimidate, persuade and bite their way to the top.
Living in the age of dragonbreath ammunition, nuclear warheads and everyone having a fucking stove at home, the vampire darwinist viewpoint has thrived greatly. The best adapt, and the worst among them die pathetic deaths. Thus, the masquerade is kept, thus they keep thriving and adapting, and you don't even know they're there, having webs of influence and intrigue.
The reason why Big D says they have to move is because it's highly likely a Kindred will pick up that conversation in the restaurant. Not just that, when it comes to the Masquerade, Kindred society IN GENERAL will agree to keep everything under wraps, so it's not just a specific vampire you must fear, but any vampire that picks that convo up.
It does a great showing that for all the powers, the longevity and the posturing, how vampires *ACTUALLY* fight. They don't dirty their hands. Rivals find themselves having gas ducts being built on the street of their main haven. Garou ecologists realize that the lines of protected land have been reduced thanks to political fuckery that they can't mitigate, and the sacred zones are under threat of becoming a new high class resort. Anarchists find out that the day they were planning specific maneuvers for their neighboorhood to have a "suspicious" increase in police activity. Companies devour other companies, people are removed or placed in high places, all through the whims of said-immortal lifestealers.
That's the true threat a vampire poses. For all the claws and teeth, their best weapons are their eyes, their ears and specially their tongues. Kindred are at their most powerful if their mouth functions.
13:48 - Wraith: The Oblivion lore begins.
17:20 - SHE'S A WITCH!!! SHE'S MADE OF WOOD!!!!
20:00 - Mage: the Ascension lore
25:53 - Werewolf: The Apocalypse lore
31:57 - Vampire: The Masquerade lore
Yeah I agree with the 17minute and Mage lore since the story could easily fit into the witch being a Verbena Life mage.
@@Tygragdas known that she was likely charged with spreading disease
Fucking Technocrats ruining a lady's hard work, smh
Pretty sure the mention of giraffes was a Owl House reference as well.
And the whole video making me think Big-D might be an Imbued
Big D warning Kitten about the Werewolves in the most sane, composed voice has unnerved me more than any moment of his madness, and I don't know if I can HANDLE him sane.
Edit: Holy MOLY! I have never have had a thousand likes before and now I'm scared. Thank you and oh boy here's to waiting for the next audiolog!
The scary thing is he was also underselling the danger.
The best part is. It's accurate.
Russ's counterpart Russell, a Homid Ahroun from the Get of Fenris, was likely birthed from the most terrifying of Big D's ex wives.
That seriousness is necessary.
@@nonya1366 If anything, D was underselling it. He didn't mention the regeneration, or the spirit magic, or the pack tactics, or the non-wolf shifters with different rules.
Alpha and crew, rest assured i would watch these characters read the phone book. In all seriousness. Just listening to them speak about anything makes me happy. You’ve created some truly endearing personas that are too much fun. This is a success. This will thrive. Your future is safe and sound with this content.
I’m back for the fifth or sixth time to watch it again. Just sayin’.
This just proves that whenever Alfabusa gets into something, him and his buddies go *HARD* into the lore. The accuracy to a lot of the older World of Darkness lore is as intense as a lot of the 40K info
Oh, I absolutely adore Big-D's personality. The answer to "what if the Emperor stood up from his Golden Throne and then did ALL THE COCAINE ON TERRA?"
True lol.
COCAINE CAN NOT SATISFY THE EMPORER. HE YEARNS FOR SPACE COCAINE.
@@HacesAndCo All the stash on Commorragh.
To be fair, Cocaine gives him more actions, for some reason.
@@TooBadThatDidntKillMe That would imply he would take the time to find and raid ever single drug stash in that hell hole, instead of kink shaming the hell out of it with cyclonic torpedos.
"I once entered a hotel in LA, a ghost threw a phone at me!"
I took that to mean big D is supposed to be the protagonist from bloodlines but more likely he just wandered into the hotel and assumed he was tripping
I doubt he is a vampire. I think his sons would notice that he never walks around in daylight.
Unless he somehow learned the Greatest Trick. Or achieved Golconda, either one seems unlikely.
Maybe he hunted the Bloodlines protagonist at one point.
But given how he's overpowered as fuck and modding seems to be canon...
Quite presumably, he was tripping. And assumed the phone coming at him was a result of that.
@@KopperNeoman Big D is clearly incredibly knowledgeable, far more than we can guess even through the slips in his insane ramblings. If he wanted to kill the protagonist of the game I’m sure he more than well could. It’s not like trickery is out of his bag of tools, and he might even be magical given his knowledge on wizards.
@@cryamistellimek9184 Dialogue implies capital M Magical.
The more I rewatch these, I have a strange feeling that Big D is like a reincarnation of Abel, either dying and being reborn with the memories, or they have just been living for ages at this point.
Adds a lot to that "What are you, Cain to Cain? Gonna find a big enough rock, big boy?" line from Kevin.
Table Of Contents
0:00 Good Morning!-WHO THE FUCK IS IN MY KITCHEN
1:04 Making Breakfast & The Special Omelette
4:22 The Water In Pirate's Cove
6:01 Legendarium Of East Anglia (segue)
7:48 The Happisburgh Torso (intro)
8:45 The Happisburgh Torso
11:54 The Happisburgh Torso (outro)
12:30 Ghosts, Order, and Wonder
13:45 Evaluating The Torso
15:54 Crolge
16:20 DO NOT MOCK ME, PHILISTINES!!! (Evaluating The Torso-outro)
16:59 More Norfolk Urban Legends! (A Spookoy Witch!) (segue)
17:20 The Witch of East Sommerston
18:55 Got Em! (+ Evaluation & Death Hexes)
20:02 The Dangers Of Fighting Mages
21:44 G A R L I C P O W D E R ( & something else!)
22:01 Black Shuck
24:50 DOG PROPAGANDA! (and also werewolves)
25:51 All About Werewolves
29:35 A Solemn Werewolf Warning
30:42 OMELETTE TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!!!!
32:03 ...Tremere?
32:25 Two Cruel Truths (The Masquerade)
36:00 Vampires are DUMB!
36:20 On "Sludge Lads"
39:12 The Many Caveats of Vampirism
40:40 Fare Thee Well!
Sludge Lads aka the Nosferatu
I felt I didn't have enough Big-D during the second episode of Hunter: The Parenting. Glad to hear him non-stop during 40min!
As someone who lives in Norwich, this is genuinely hilarious and surreal- wait till Sir D finds out about Wymondham and Costessey to name a few weird Norfolk names... and of course Great Yarmouth is full of vampires.
Thank you Alfa, Speaker D and everyone involved! I can't wait for more episodes!
Hi Norfolk dweller I too dwell in Norfolk bacton to be precise
Love Norwich. Though I'm stuck in fucking Yarmouth 😭😭
Woolfardisworthy
Toseland
Yelling
How it's living there???
Norfolk gang
21:52 I don’t think that was a glass breaking sound they just added in, I straight up think the guy playing Big D broke a plate.
I can imagine Big D and Trevor Belmont (the netflix one) hanging out at a bar discussing their professions (in the castlevania universe, no way the masquerade wouldn’t abide such a public discussion in the masquerade universe.) and livelihoods and all that. Trading their insights and tactics and stories, the differences in their universes and etc etc.:.
So, I suppose this explains why Big-D didn't explain what 'Diablerizing' (Diablerization?) was and why it was a bad idea to let the leeches indulge in it.
And yet again the big red-maned nerdy son tinker with the supernatural and screws up.
@@medramonmasquedecendres2966 Resulting in the supernatural trickster breaking his father's barrier.
Honestly in this case, not letting them know is a good idea compared to chaos.
@@medramonmasquedecendres2966 if anything this one is Door's fault; Markus and Kitten were ready to pull the plug when things got barbaric, but Door insisted the vampires deserved everything coming to them.
The Doorian Heresy come to life
Kitten and D have one of the most authentic father/son-in-law relationships of any series yet.
as a drunk teen staggering home from west runton to cromer I once saw shuck on the cliff tops. scared me sober. or it was somebody walking their dog at 3 in the morning. Equally scary.
For those who haven't seen the public patreon post, the next audiolog will be released soon. It'll be about the interogation of the great and mighty Kevin.
I really want to introduce my D&D group to the World of Darkness and this series has been doing a good job of convincing them.
It's kind of funny, I'm a world of darkness fan who doesn't play DND. I'm wrapping up a campaign I joined where I'm playing a Malky...my friend invited me to join his dnd group's camarilla campaign...and man, the 2 people who haven't played VTM:B just don't get the world. It's kind of hilarious
With the right group it can be great. With the wrong group it can easily turn into back stabbing and hurt feelings. I know entire groups that broke apart into explosive arguments because of the mechanics of Wraith since well it's been long confirmed white wolf staff were high when making these games.
I'm a big Mage fan myself. Being able to do anything you can imagine...ANYTHING AT ALL....is pretty awesome!
@@OpenBiolabsGuy Yes, but you must do it discreetly. Paradox builds stupid quick if you're not careful. (I know you know this, that was entirely for the benefit of new players.) That being said? Yeah, no, mages are busted as fuck. But the Malkavians will always be nearest and dearest to my heart.
@@superanimeniac How can you “not get the world”? Like… It’s our world, just darker!
Big D goes from super wise to utterly insane in a heartbeat
Insanity and genius are a mere change in perspective
It's like he took a joyride through the H.P. Lovecraft universe and came out so scarred he healed on himself enough to be held together into a somewhat stable foundation.
It’s amazing how often those two go together in the World of Darkness…
"Wizards are nerds you can easily punch!" I love this line and I am stealing it