The 'Blue Man' is a Cappadocian, no question. Their blue deadened skin and and lethargic elderly appearance is common amongst this forgotten bloodline. This would easily explain why Big-D said "You're dead," as the Cappadocians are thought to be long dead and forgotten in the modern day. Them being underground fits the preferred kind of Haven they prefer; Secluded, hard to reach and underground (Though often they used crypts). It's likely that this 99 Pound store is connected to the tunnels, and thus related and connected to the priory mentioned in Kitten's story in the first episode. This vampire might be the hooded monk themselves. In addition, I suspect this vampire specifically is a Premascine. They often remain secluded, performing strange necromantic rituals. Whatever reason they're doing in an underground grocer can't be good. And since Premascines are rumored to reside in Venice, It would explain the Blue Man's the relation with the Tremere Regent as both bloodlines could be colluding with one another in close proximity. When their face begins to pull back and their body becomes slender, this is them using 'Masque of Death,' a basic means of performing 'Necromancy', which is a discipline inherent to their kind. It is the most likely cause why it shook D's resolve as the ability gives a vampire enhanced intimidation. One other thing I noticed is that while the Blue Man talked, his voice did not echo throughout the store like Big-D's did. Since Cappadocians also have access to 'Auspex' as an inherent discipline, they probably used telepathy through the entire conversation and used the speaker/intercom to hide his mouth not moving. As for the mental assault through a cascade of laughter used against Big-D, that was most likely an effect also caused by 'Auspex', but a more powerful use of the skill. Being able to physically assault Big-D means only one thing... *This vampire is, at minimum, 5th Generation. A Methuselah...* Big-D did not dream. He was spared.
That comment about the encounter being sad... He said he and his family killed a methusula once, but he didn't say anything about his family surviving. It could be that Big D lost family that day, so seeing the methusula that his family "killed" turning out to be alive would mean his family died for nothing.
The most realistic part of this series is Giles becomes a better person after less than a month of working retail. That shit makes you realize how far little acts of kindness go.
Big D said to Kitten before that he's bested every type of supernatural creature, so it really could be anything. Houdini is an interesting guess, not sure if I agree personally.
I thought it would be the Mathuselah he killed with his family, since he said it was from the clan Lasombra and made a connection between them and the Blue Man, in the form of the Kiasyd reference (after all, facing a Mathuselah alone would be a horror story)
@@quinnholloway5400 But at what cost? He sure as heck didn't have the 99 quid on him, and yet the audiolog indicates that a transaction was completed...
@@caliburncelt1987on’t fight it, embrace it, the food is better and people actually know what to do about things. Use the boomer power carefully though, there are even more factions amongst the old blood than the zoomer. Oh and people defer to you for directions and advise it’s strange but you get used to it.
FYI, the hole is most likely a portal to the Shadowlands, a twisted death dimension that exists as a reflection of the world of the living, populated by wraiths, ghosts of the living who died unfulfilled or with unfinished business. And when I say reflection, I mean it: the Shadowlands are constructed from the memories of the dead, so most places, and especially cities since they are large gatherings of people, have a twisted equivalent in the Shadowlands.
Oooh, that makes a lot of sense now that you mention it! I just recently heard of the Shadowlands from another youtuber's video so this video's release is extra perfectly timed.
@@afinnishfishnet7366 first thought could be that the Camarilla would want to maintain oversight over something like this to ensure secrecy. Mortals stumbling on to it could be bad in the long run.
No I believe it to be an umbral pocket. If this is tied to the Tremere which the rank Regent would imply this is spirits not ghosts. Tremere lack the capacity to control ghost but they can control spirits.
Wait… if Kitten lost his job recently…and they are missing someone to keep the cameras running…AND there are cameras in the basement in working order… did Kitten losing his job unintentionally save D form being hunted?
Ooh, good catch! And it would make sense, especially since setting up CCTV wasn't exactly an easily accessible field (at least from a layperson's perspective) in 2006.
I guess it would make sense, who else to tamper with the evidence if anyone is caught on film than kitten? However there is a thing to note that the regent called the camera service guy "Too Powerful" Maybe?
@nikfighter262 didn't kitten note getting attacked by a vampire, and then surviving (with the vampire ending up dead) in his backstory? Too powerful might be to say that "Yeah our vampire assassin we sent got whacked and then the trail on him went cold"
@@nuclearcatpotatoe3714 Yeah but Kitten was not targeted at first for the vampire to be a assassin i think as it first attacked and was feeding in his roommate
the fact that there's like 4 things the blue man could be without going against the lore of the World of Darkness in the slightest might be my favorite part of this episode
honestly a $100 dollar store could have lots of deal unless its temu marked up crap. I'd certainly trust their chargers and ear buds to last more than a month compared to amazon.
I wonder... we already know Big D's crazy antics is to cope with the darkness of the world he fights in due to that episode where elderly lady was turned into a vampire, but this might be another reason, acting crazy with antipsychotics in your pockets could be another way to trick the Caramila into thinking he's not a threat.
How would a psychologist react to someone who knows everything that Big D knows without proof? He'd think he was crazy and would prescribe antipsychotic meds. That all the years and the horror he has seen as unbalanced Big D, that's another issue.
He could also have been abusing the anti-psychotics at some point, hence the fact that he has the pills at all. Also as a side note, considering what drugs we know Big D uses so far, I can say that he likely prefers to be disconnected but lucid. This would also explain his behavior, as it's much easier to act as unpredictably as he needs to be when you feel like reality is on the other side of a screen, and you're merely a player. At the same time, I think this would also point to Big D being caught between his pride in his own intelligence, and his desire to escape his reality. He can't bring himself to do the latter if it could diminish the former, even temporarily. This could also be the driving factor for him becoming a Hunter.
Imma be honest I really think and hope that he is just just unironically has schizophrenic episodes and he genuinely just haven’t been taking his anti psychotics
Or maybe it was never an accident at all. Maybe it's all meant to be exactly the way it is, almost like clues. A trail to lead us to an answer for a horrific reality that lies already before our eyes? Or something even more convoluted? I cannot say so myself. I mean I just might be thinking out loud ANNNNYWAYS...
@@TheBlaithe Like with the unanswered question from the very first episode- Why did Big D split up the party and then get so easily caught by Kevin? Or did he realize Kevin was the best way to fulfill his insane plan? Or, more likely, is Big D just that good at improv that he just comes up with this shit on the fly?
For someone who lives in Virginia and is only an hour away from Norfolk it was hilarious to hear that quick joke of people confusing Norfolk in the UK to Norfolk Virginia 😂😂😂
@@Michaelsmith-nd1hc a mixture of things. In short, it was unexpected because i never heard the words "roman empire" used for a joke. It makes sense because of what i assume is a centuries or millennia old vampire speaking on the other side and, lastly, it's true because the roman empire is one big case of "executive neglect" and fell out of that (plus another 1000+ factors).
@@giacomoromano8842 Which is super amusing because Rome was more or less the seat of the Ventrue for a good majority of the Roman Empire's existence. Tremere *fucking* despise the Ventrue and Tzimisce.
Could we talk about the fact that blue man sequence was both unsettling and funny at the same, the humor didn't feel like it was forced into the scene by the writers. Another massive W for team Alfabusa
The fact that the Blue man is also Houdini also adds to the sheer horror. Having a demon from one’s past who’s supposed to be dead is definitely off putting
The Great and Mighty Kevin can expect to have his entire grasp on accounting rocked by this horrible meat obfuscation addled by expired prescription drugs.
Kevin still won. The fact that Big D had to literally and accidentally fall into a hole leading to a 99P store, situated outside explicable and mundane reality, where he acquired the blender in the first place and was only *allowed* to walk out with, means that, without this supernatural and inexplicable phenomenon taking place, Big D *couldn't* have bought a blender for 99p. And besides.....he only had 98p on him. Meaning that he couldn't have bought a blender for 99p normally anyway
@@floricel_112 Giles was going to sell a 99p blender to Big D, so had he not thrown the coin into the pit, without any supernatural phenomena he would have destroyed Kevin's reality
@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 Firstly, that's not their merchandise, so what Kevin was gonna do was just an unauthorized private transaction, not an actual purchase. Secondly...... his superior stated that's not going to happen.
I kind inferred it when they mentioned that Kevin's name was a coincidence. That and her incompetent management style and her out-of-touch confusion with modern technology. Polydora is also definitely behaving like she's under a blood bond. All of that fits with Kevin's description of the Lady Regent.
I think the best part about this episode is that given the concept of customizable "Horizon Realms" (e.g. alternate dimensions/worlds/universes) are an actual canon thing in Mage The Ascension, it's totally entirely possible for there to be a "World of Darkness Infinite 99p Backrooms" ruled by some entity or another without it breaking any of the lore. I Fucking Love This Channel.
This blue man feels like a particular servant of the umbra, imho, not just a random entity. A certain … spider springs to mind. Especially given the power required to draw one into the umbra.
@@liamhogan4369 my guess was that it was the Wyrm from werewolf, what with the whole "corruption through things" I remember reading on tvtropes about the game. 99p, a subsidiary of Pentex.
This just proves that Giles is actually a good guy. After going through all that mess with Big D he pays for his blender I hope we see more of him and he gets well off. He's a kindred spirit.
Big D never directly responded to Kevin when he asked if he's a wizard, he only said "What??" If Big D isn't already a wizard I'm betting this was his (really messed up) Awakening - Big D wanted that blender for 99p so badly he warped reality to make it happen.
@@benhughes9838 here D is described as "a heroin addicit with a year left in him," so does mean he has illusion casted on him that the manager saw right through. I heard that line and that stuck as a bit off
I kind of figured right away that the voice at the end was the Lady Regent, since I had the picture that she's an out-of-touch elder vampire who surrounds herself with sycophants and mismanages her finances and manpower. That's how I figure she lost control of Guy Chapman. While feeding blood isn't "finances" in the traditional sense, Blood is what powers a vampire's healing, powers and ability to control a spy network. And given her cavalier attitude towards her workers and camera installation, I figure that it's not just that she couldn't feed Guy, she doesn't see her poverty as a real problem. She's already leaking intelligence through Kevin and Guy and doesn't have pictures of Big D. This is all foreshadowing a really rude awakening when our hunters kick down her door.
@@nickneckerman2220 Dude, she probably IS Boudica, or at least her follower Considering her jokes about the Roman Empire and Vampires being thousands of years old Also she's from "East Anglia"
So Polydora is Kevin's sire who is a childe of the Regent herself, and the Regent had the same theme, and apparently VA as the Fiddler from Episode 1, oh boy this is not good for the family
Oh I didn't catch they had the same VA! I had wondered if the Fiddler was the Regent, but that makes it all a lot more interesting - especially since the Fiddler's description matched the mysterious monks people reported seeing in the nearby abandoned monastery. I wonder if that's her headquarters?
How ... in hell ... You ... MANAGED ... TO MAKE A TRIP TO 99P STORE ... IN TO MORE EMOTIONAL AND ACTION PACKED MOVIE THEN MOST OF THE BIG BUDGET PRODUCTIONS OUT THERE!!! Never change and keep making stuff up otherwise it'll be a lose to a humanity as a whole
To me the best part about Vampires in the world of darkness is how haughty they behave as if they're better than anyone that isn't a vampire despite the fact the only reason they haven't been wiped out by Werewolves and Mages is that they have things of their own size to worry about.
That's not really true. Werewolves usually wind up dealing with nature stuff out in, you know: NATURE, and whenever they try to go after vampires in cities they get all turned around by the webs of false information, legal protection, and armies the vampires wield. As for mages, they actually are even more haughty than the vampires, and they went into something I like to call "The Chair War", where they thought that since vampires were so obviously beneath them that they would turn them into chairs and sit on them. The problems with that were: the vampires simple snapping the mages twig-like necks, the vampires that had ANY shapeshifting ability in Protean, Vicissitude, and maybe some others could simply turn back to normal when the mages sat down for a snack, and little to none of this was done by the Methuselahs and Antediluvians. Long story short: the MAGES lost. All the factions are pretty equal all things considered.
@@marmyeater Well Mage did zap Ravnos Antediluvian with orbital laser satellite and spirit nuke, and killing him in process. So that is one of antediluvian gone. But yeah mage have many thing restricting them and people often overstate their power especially on Earth. Paradox and all that. Vampire clan like Tremere that were an ex mage is fully aware of mage capability and weakness.
@@marmyeater The good ol' balance by giving everybody crazy game breaking bullshit, such that advantages become incredibly circumstantial and who has the overall better set of powers/abilities/resources/skills/etc becomes incalculable.
Chairification is a popular and time-honored method of humiliating vampires. However, contrary to what he said, you can't unbecome a chair using protean and vicissitude due to the fact that chairs are inanimate objects and both of those vampire powers are about changing living or undead things, not inanimate objects, not to mention when chairified you're not technically a vampire anymore and also have no blood inside you and would therefore lose access to your powers.
Honestly given the whole flesh shifting segment I was more expecting Tzimisce fleshsculpting with the blue man basically functioning as an "analog telephone".
@@asdrubaelvect8038 It’s a spirit of either Wyrm or Weaver origin. The whole thing screams weaver to me. Weaver is order and technological advancement while the Wyrm is decay and corruption.
@@asdrubaelvect8038 Blue Man is probably a wraith or specter of some sort, but the scariest and wildest possibility is it's the Avatar of Houdini. Mages reincarnate after all, and they can in fact remember stuff from their past lives.
@@MultiKbarry if it is one of them (and not some spirit) I’m leaning towards Wyrm. He talks about growth but only to replace the old and that “civilization does not bear fruit”. Honestly, it could fit with 40k nurgle’s ‘cycle of life and decay’
Talking about wards. The title is 'Regent.' They know a 'Kevin.' They're horribly bad at running a business, which was Kevin's major issue with his old boss... It's a Tremere. Given the title and the inability to use a phone, likely an old one. Chances are good they're the same group that ghouled the cop, too.
The way Poly is sycophantic to Regent, it's very possible she's a ghoul to her, too; her sychophancy being how she's vying for having her blood bond maintained and not neglected like Guy's was.
I'm not sure what's more hilarious, that this joke from one of the first set of audiologs has developed such a life of its own that its making me question the very metaphysics of WoD or the fact that *everyone* back at the house is almost certainly entirely oblivious to this entire undertaking.
Funny D mentioned Tzimisce, since that convo with the “Blue Man” almost reads like a bit from the Eldest. Ofc, could just be the meth he attacked, could’ve just been a Malkavian. Either way, it reads like auspex shenanigans
It does read like the Eldest. And. The Eldest has gone underground. Into sewers. And. Mine shafts. And. The Tremere used a lot of Tzimisce flesh and blood for their ascension. ... Holy ****.
It's good that the Regent didn't hear the name D was using. She'd recognize that was up if one of her former minions, Kevin Wettsworth was mentioned. Also what is Giles was sent to work in the store in order to spy on them by the Arcanum? He's friends with Remold's son after all. Or maybe Remold has been ghouled and serves the vampires? Regardless I don't think him being there was a coincidence.
Hm, you might have a point in Remold working for the vampires. There's a big leap in not liking someone to straight up erasing all knowledge they gave your institution
Maybe, aldoe i do think could be cool Remold not having any connection to the vampire. Just being a spiteful old man acting by pride. Besides, look at Big D, the man is absolutely paranoid, for good reason, if there was a sign of Remold working for vampires, i think he would have catched it up
Sausage, "It's a perfectly Anglian surname" .... due to the legacy of the Danelaw to this day variants are also found in areas of Denmark.....and Gotland!
Honestly, no other content creator could blend the unsettling urban gothic of WoD with it's equally natural propensity for batshit absurdity as flawlessly as Alfabusa and the team. WoD just so perfectly fits with your brand and I am SO invested in this series now. Keep it up. Also, holy shit, was that Timothy the Wine Gnome at the end there!? Is he back as a ghoul!?
Ok, the clown was 100% Houdini. I expected something when the regent heard....well, any name actually. I wonder will the gang take care of this on its own or....will they need "reinforcements"?.
There is a reaction, albeit brief one When she says "He told me his name was Kevin, what a coincidence isn't it?" And the regent laughs and agrees... Yes its a common name, but they recognized it, they know who our Kevin is, but of course this giant old man is not Kevin so its brushed off
@@Levyafan True, but it may be that they know more than even Kevin believes they do. At the very least, the Regent and the Manager seem really close, and seem to share a lot of info
@@Levyafan In old WoD, vampires aren't very numerous, even in big cities. They control their "reproduction" and they know each other to a certain extent, except when Anarquists or Sabbath start mudding things up. Remembering the names of low class vampires shouldn't be difficult.
@@Levyafan Since at least one of the 2 was the one that turned Kevin into a vampire and the other gave him his name. Shouldnt be that weird they know his human name.
It will be interesting to see what price Big D actually paid for the blender. He "bought" it from the "99 pound store", and didn't pay for it with money. Whatever it was, it was 100 times more than the price he was originally willing to pay. It wasn't stolen, since it said "Purchase successful".
@@Zero_01084 Taking this in mind and given the most recent episode with the potential werewolf on the loose in the chapter house, I think we should look back to the words of horse’s prophecy “The patriarch (Big D) in mastering Luna (His potential battle with the chapter house werewolf)” “Ends hamstrung” (Paying his due, 99 pounds of flesh lost in fighting the wolf) “He will wish death upon his flesh, but no mercy shall be given.” (Perhaps ending up painfully crippled from the encounter? Would also fit with his original TTS counterpart’s enthronement) All in all, I think you may be exactly right with that theory of yours
I Almost MISREAD this as "The ELDAR Crusade" Cause I almost thought TTS was back but I'm still very happy with these new projects I saw the update vid and all that love the parenting , the half life series, and what you do as long as it's from you I don't care ill love it ^^
The Emperor has always been senile. He created the Imperium to stay out of the Old Folks Home but he just ended up creating the biggest one in existence all for himself. He's never getting to go outside again.
Just convert to Orthodox Christianity and you'll have Christmas at January 7th! You'll probably need to learn some Russian since Russians are majority of Orthodox Christians left in the world.
This guy is way too banal to be a Changeling, and way too weird to just be a vampire. His sheer commitment suggests paradigm, so I think this has got to be a marauder or a weird ass wraith
*[LAUGHS AT THE IGNORANCE OF MAN]* *[purchase successful]* This is so completely and utterly cursed and I LOVE IT 😂 Edit: also can’t wait to see Kevin’s reaction to D’s success with obtaining a blender for 99p, and not just any blender, but a high-quality one at that
A lot of things in horror are scary because of what they can do to you. There are a lot of truly terrifying ends The Blue Man is something different tho. He's not threatening; he responds to D's antagonism passively. He doesn't even resist the violence. It's what he says that is uncanny and ominous. He's some kind of dread dancing at the edge of comprehension Absolutely top-tier horror content imo
I like that the conversation between Big D and "The Blue Man" highlights two opposing views of reality. With Big D representing a view of complete control through an individual's will, and "The Blue Man" representing total resignation to the course of nature or "growth" as he puts it.
@@wolfrine5674 Actually, The Regent is the leader of a Tremere Chantry. They are charged with its upkeep, the Tutelage of Apprentices, and Management of the Tremere within the local Town or City.
It feels like the supernatural zoned off and bought the area to study the SCP anomaly as even they are weirded out about it. Probably related to Kevin's old group, but amazing how the anomaly store was more terrifying to Big D than any supernatural threat he had fought.
Considering the madness that happens with an encounter with a Malkavian, Wraith or a Wyrm spirit, I loved that they went for a mysterious surreal horror moment and we didn't get to know what the actual f*ck was all that about.
@@gege0298 marauders don't work like standard mages, no spheres, qliphotic or otherwise, what they want to happen, it happens, and any normal mage gets the burden of the marauders paradox generation.
@@somedouchemcbag987 it can't be Big D, marauders don't have random episodes of marauding, it's permanent, imagine a mage that was driven insane by his awakening, and now reality warps to fit his insane understanding.
I stuck around after TTS, and didn't know a thing about this lore set. To be honest, still don't know very much. But damn if this isn't the one time I've seen someone jump to another franchise and still *absolutely nail it*. I am loving every bit of this, and it gets better each successive release!
they're doing very good work with the core part of the lore: "if you treat the lore as 100% reliable, you're doing it wrong" you ditch the parts you don't like and you riff on the parts you do. really like the idea of colloidal silver twisting people into the servants of something Really Bad
I am surprised that the Regent has trouble with her telephone and "Telled-Vision", but seems to understand what antipsychotics are. Those are much newer than telephones and televisions.
Medicine itself is fairly old though, and it shouldn't really take anyone short of caveman old to wrap their head around what "anti" and "psychotic" means when put in the context of it
Yeah medicine isn't new at all, as well as the concept of being "ill in the head". I also suspect she might have used false antipsychotic presciptions to campaign agaisnt witnesses in order to preserver the Masquerade.
There's been a long and sordid history of various concoctions, decoctions, tinctures, salves, suppositories, poultices, and more fashioned to make the raving, ranting, howling, frothing, moon calling, bird chasing, dog fighting, God and daemon touched madmen of the world over to calm the fuck down. Video screens and electricity channeled to vibrate pieces metal and plastics to make discernable noises are utterly new inventions, less than 200 years old for phones,....but people ramming weird shit into each other's orifices for medical purposes is timeless.
I Want to know all about the things he Said while thinking what the Blue man was. Edit: i feel Like if the lady regent heard his actual name she might actually start panicking. If the stories he told Are True And if he is famous.
The Lady Regent probably doesn't know his True Name, since knowing someone's True Name in folklore grants a person power over the named person (which is even mentioned in a prior audiolog), which would be especially bad if a powerful vampire like the Lady Regent knew it. Its definitely why Big D hides behind all his aliases since he needs to keep his name a secret. The Lady Regent has probably heard of his deeds (hence all the coincidental links between prior adventures Big D has been on), although they still haven't pieced together that its all 1 person behind it
@@johnroach9026 Cool info. My knowladge of this Universe is bassicaly non existant. But i do wonder what her reaction would be if she found out it is him. Would she know of him. Is he Like a legend, a Well known thing or do only the upper generations know of him.
Changling: a type of fae that feeds on dreams and inspiration. Vulnerable to banality “a type of death of dreams caused by conformity and boredom.” Wraith: an undead. Ghost++ capable of creating realms and stretching time and space in weird ways. Tzumisu: a type of vampire who can modify there flesh in terrifying ways. They make the flesh chairs of the dark eldar look somewhat normal.
@John Roach It's highly unlikely that anyone at all knows D's true name. He's given all least three false names already (Kevin, Anthony, Officer Ernesto) and is implied to have made even more false identities with his story to Horse. Given that we only know him by an initial and his rampant paranoia, even his family may not know anything close to his real name.
Something worth noting is that "Harry Houdini" isn't the only person to have that name (in fact it was a pseudonym), his "mentor in magic" was named Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdini and was balding with white-hair in the image listed on Wikipedia. While it is probably coincidental, one of his tricks was the marvelous orange tree, where he put a blue flame under a tree which caused it to grow significantly. So theory time: I believe that the "blue man" rather than being a ghost was likely a vampire that Big D killed at some point (I doubt there are many ghost around north norfolk outside of the ones that KItten has told us about), given the way that he speaks in riddles and the future of growth, and when asked who he was he gave an unintelligable answer, I would guess that he is a Malkavian (one of the insane vampires who somehow can speak about the future - we haven't heard mention of any of these vampires yet so it'd be interesting to see if Big D has interacted with any of them), it would make sense that the horrifying visions that Big D experiences would come from an insane vampire. Given that Big D said that he killed blue man and said what sounds like "Houdini" I'm going to guess that Houdini was the blue man, who might have been a Malkavian vampire (capable of making illusions and being somewhat insane).
Another move made on the chess board All paths come together Kine Kindred Beast and man The battle is neigh Soon the curtain will rise and the dance shall begin.
Giles asking to be called by his actual name is a nice touch! Looking forward to that favour! Amazing job as always! The only unsatisfying part of that episode is that it wasn’t longer! Looking forward to your next upload! 😊
Theory: In The Probing of Kevin, Kevin mentions that after falling out of favor with the regent, he was forced to scrounge for arcane lore from the 99p store. Maybe he was being literal here. It would make sense for why the store manager seemingly knows him.
holy- the sound mixing of this episode is so damn good, it was like I felt the Bus starting up. the vibrations of my music box probably sold that feeling even better. In general the sounds of characters interacting with all the props and the Environment is absolutly stellar. fantastic work. 👏👏👏
I haven't seen the whole video for now But the way that manager has said "Kevin" tipped me the off What if this woman is Kevin's sister? UPD: Eeeeh, it still might be her. Yeah, there is already a tie to the Regent with her, but that "coincidence" line would be super-layered if she is Kevin's sister that is a total opposite of Kevin - where he fought off bunch of bullshit to be himself and be independent, even as an accountant, she is super-into hierarchy, very submissive to her Regent, and while Kevin and D give each other shit, but as comrades, Polydora and Regent talk like gossip-girl-sisters, right until Regent establishes that she is the Master here
Polydora being Kevin's sister would be a nice twist, but I doubt it. If she really was Kevin's sister, it would be strange for her to repeatedly submit missing person reports which would be picked up by another goul of the regent and no one put two and two together. It's more likely that Polydora simply had to work closely with Kevin, with him being an accountant and her being a store manager generating revenue for the regent.
ok so aside from the fact that known Budica role player the lady regent appears and runs a 99p store some folk in the premier chat were suggesting that what D experienced was the shadowlands of Wraith: The Oblivion fame
him being described as a "crack addict with barely a year left in him" honestly aligns more with Kevin. He has to have some form of shapeshifting/illusion power.
@@proto303 Ahhh. Interesting note. Maybe they very well did perceive him as Kevin. Strange. He definitely has some sort of hidden power within him, that he may or may not be aware of
The instant hit of dopamine hearing Big D describe the Kiasyd gave me made my night. I have a soft spot for the weirdlings, and it's nice to hear them get mentioned!
Good to hear more about the literal ood and tears that went into telling grandmas story, I'm moved to tears by the passion of the creators, and mourn the multiple deaths of those who gave all to tell this dark tale.
When the subtitles mention Vampire clans or individuals, the text turns red. There is one notable exception to this rule however. The text also turns red when the Blue Man claims that he is Big D. (11:15). Could Big D be a Vampire that has walked the path? It would explain why he seems to be very old, and why he seems so youthful despite having an adult son with a full head of white hair.
You know...this whole episode really reminds me of a mall I would go to as a kid: pretty standard small town mall, food court, toy store, JC Penneys... But there was this ONE place in the mall. In the middle of the floor, between the KB toys and some other stores, there was this black opening with a short escalator to the bottom. Looking down all you could see were some old 25 cent rides, like the kind they used to put outside of grocery stores, illuminated only by a single overhead light. Everything else was just swallowed by shadows. This video is exactly the kind of thing me and my brother would say was in that hole. To this day, we still don't really know what was down there, but it has been somewhat of a legend between the two of us for years.
14:39 Something's off. Actually, a lot of things are, here's another: The break room wall changed color. It was yellow before, but now it's blue. But why? Why!?
Big D accidentally fell into the backrooms infinite Ikea but aside from the shitpost, you really did a good job of making this unsettling, more than any 13 year on the backrooms wiki it truly takes an eldritch horror to make even Big D terrified. I suspect that him not paying himself with have unintended consequences
someone who is fully blood-bonded to their boss and so wants to tell her that actually everything is fine so she won't be mad, despite everything really, really not being fine this is an IRL problem a lot of powerful people face! how do you keep your subordinates willing to tell you bad news you need to hear, if they also know that telling you bad news can get them fired?
Man, it's already been 3 months since this came out? wow, time flies. I imagine if they're not working on the next part of the main series, the next HtP video will focus on Door or Boy, since they haven't really been given the spotlight yet. If I were to wager a guess, the next episode is going to be: >Door taking Marcus and or Boy to the shooting range and/or meeting his own group of friends. or >Boy going to school or having his own small contained adventure I think learning more about the local camarilla would be nice too, though I imagine they wouldn't want to reveal too much about them too soon.
The minute this quicksilver poisoned Einstein Knockoff smiled I knew there was gonna be some creepy shit, BUT DEAR GOD I WAS NOT READY FOR *THAT!* I feel like I just played through a Call of Cthulhu campaign AS one of the Characters.
The 'Blue Man' is a Cappadocian, no question. Their blue deadened skin and and lethargic elderly appearance is common amongst this forgotten bloodline. This would easily explain why Big-D said "You're dead," as the Cappadocians are thought to be long dead and forgotten in the modern day.
Them being underground fits the preferred kind of Haven they prefer; Secluded, hard to reach and underground (Though often they used crypts). It's likely that this 99 Pound store is connected to the tunnels, and thus related and connected to the priory mentioned in Kitten's story in the first episode. This vampire might be the hooded monk themselves.
In addition, I suspect this vampire specifically is a Premascine. They often remain secluded, performing strange necromantic rituals. Whatever reason they're doing in an underground grocer can't be good. And since Premascines are rumored to reside in Venice, It would explain the Blue Man's the relation with the Tremere Regent as both bloodlines could be colluding with one another in close proximity.
When their face begins to pull back and their body becomes slender, this is them using 'Masque of Death,' a basic means of performing 'Necromancy', which is a discipline inherent to their kind. It is the most likely cause why it shook D's resolve as the ability gives a vampire enhanced intimidation. One other thing I noticed is that while the Blue Man talked, his voice did not echo throughout the store like Big-D's did. Since Cappadocians also have access to 'Auspex' as an inherent discipline, they probably used telepathy through the entire conversation and used the speaker/intercom to hide his mouth not moving.
As for the mental assault through a cascade of laughter used against Big-D, that was most likely an effect also caused by 'Auspex', but a more powerful use of the skill. Being able to physically assault Big-D means only one thing... *This vampire is, at minimum, 5th Generation. A Methuselah...*
Big-D did not dream. He was spared.
Why the blender though?
@@CountDVBproof of the encounter, and thus proof that he only lives because he was ALLOWED to.
That comment about the encounter being sad... He said he and his family killed a methusula once, but he didn't say anything about his family surviving. It could be that Big D lost family that day, so seeing the methusula that his family "killed" turning out to be alive would mean his family died for nothing.
I'm only curious why the fuck he decided to role-play as a manager.
@@theyoda55 That Methuselah was mentioned to be a Lasombra though, which Big D had already dismissed for the Blue Man.
The most realistic part of this series is Giles becomes a better person after less than a month of working retail. That shit makes you realize how far little acts of kindness go.
The fact that he was yelling about how the person was supposed to be dead means he knows him. Which means it's either Houdini or a vampire he killed
It's obviously a Stan Lee cameo.
I thought it was Margaret Thatcher
Big D said to Kitten before that he's bested every type of supernatural creature, so it really could be anything. Houdini is an interesting guess, not sure if I agree personally.
I thought it would be the Mathuselah he killed with his family, since he said it was from the clan Lasombra and made a connection between them and the Blue Man, in the form of the Kiasyd reference (after all, facing a Mathuselah alone would be a horror story)
Or it's some lost family...
Its kinda fitting that Big D, who spent this little adventure as basically a Karen, is defeated by The Manager
Big-D: I demand to speak to your manager!
Blue Man: So you have chosen death.
And ironically he still got what he wanted
@@quinnholloway5400He sure did, lol
At least this manger is leagues better than the surface 99p store one.
@@quinnholloway5400 But at what cost? He sure as heck didn't have the 99 quid on him, and yet the audiolog indicates that a transaction was completed...
Well it wouldn’t be the World of Darkness without inter-generational conflict
The high caliber of this joke gave my brain an additional wrinkle.
-boomer- Old World of Darkness
-zoomer- New World of Darkness
It is the cycle as it should be it is Caine’s curse.
@@anoninunenso this is how I learn I am become boomer.
@@caliburncelt1987on’t fight it, embrace it, the food is better and people actually know what to do about things. Use the boomer power carefully though, there are even more factions amongst the old blood than the zoomer. Oh and people defer to you for directions and advise it’s strange but you get used to it.
FYI, the hole is most likely a portal to the Shadowlands, a twisted death dimension that exists as a reflection of the world of the living, populated by wraiths, ghosts of the living who died unfulfilled or with unfinished business. And when I say reflection, I mean it: the Shadowlands are constructed from the memories of the dead, so most places, and especially cities since they are large gatherings of people, have a twisted equivalent in the Shadowlands.
Oooh, that makes a lot of sense now that you mention it! I just recently heard of the Shadowlands from another youtuber's video so this video's release is extra perfectly timed.
@@afinnishfishnet7366 first thought could be that the Camarilla would want to maintain oversight over something like this to ensure secrecy. Mortals stumbling on to it could be bad in the long run.
So he has a horrible ghost blender made from a wraith
No I believe it to be an umbral pocket. If this is tied to the Tremere which the rank Regent would imply this is spirits not ghosts. Tremere lack the capacity to control ghost but they can control spirits.
I’m gonna be real with you, when everyone in the premiere chat was saying shadowlands, I thought of the WoW expansion
Wait… if Kitten lost his job recently…and they are missing someone to keep the cameras running…AND there are cameras in the basement in working order… did Kitten losing his job unintentionally save D form being hunted?
Ooh, good catch! And it would make sense, especially since setting up CCTV wasn't exactly an easily accessible field (at least from a layperson's perspective) in 2006.
That sounds a bit like a reach, for now..
I guess it would make sense, who else to tamper with the evidence if anyone is caught on film than kitten?
However there is a thing to note that the regent called the camera service guy "Too Powerful"
Maybe?
@nikfighter262 didn't kitten note getting attacked by a vampire, and then surviving (with the vampire ending up dead) in his backstory?
Too powerful might be to say that "Yeah our vampire assassin we sent got whacked and then the trail on him went cold"
@@nuclearcatpotatoe3714 Yeah but Kitten was not targeted at first for the vampire to be a assassin i think as it first attacked and was feeding in his roommate
the fact that there's like 4 things the blue man could be without going against the lore of the World of Darkness in the slightest might be my favorite part of this episode
HE IS THE BLUE MAN
@@QuantemDeconstructor IT IS.
@@Jampolo_OG WHAT IT IS
A 99 pound store is more horrifying than any mere vampire
That entirely depends on what they sell, if their items would be valued at 120 pounds than it'd be a heck of a deal.
honestly a $100 dollar store could have lots of deal unless its temu marked up crap. I'd certainly trust their chargers and ear buds to last more than a month compared to amazon.
@@AngelSaintCloud
Most chargers and earbuds shouldn't cost more than 10, 20 tops
I wonder... we already know Big D's crazy antics is to cope with the darkness of the world he fights in due to that episode where elderly lady was turned into a vampire, but this might be another reason, acting crazy with antipsychotics in your pockets could be another way to trick the Caramila into thinking he's not a threat.
How would a psychologist react to someone who knows everything that Big D knows without proof?
He'd think he was crazy and would prescribe antipsychotic meds.
That all the years and the horror he has seen as unbalanced Big D, that's another issue.
that IS a very good point
He could also have been abusing the anti-psychotics at some point, hence the fact that he has the pills at all. Also as a side note, considering what drugs we know Big D uses so far, I can say that he likely prefers to be disconnected but lucid. This would also explain his behavior, as it's much easier to act as unpredictably as he needs to be when you feel like reality is on the other side of a screen, and you're merely a player. At the same time, I think this would also point to Big D being caught between his pride in his own intelligence, and his desire to escape his reality. He can't bring himself to do the latter if it could diminish the former, even temporarily. This could also be the driving factor for him becoming a Hunter.
Imma be honest I really think and hope that he is just just unironically has schizophrenic episodes and he genuinely just haven’t been taking his anti psychotics
Kitten mentioned Big D not taking his anti psychotics briefly in the Horse episode.
Only Bruva and his team could turn silly random throw away joke into a major plot point
Or maybe it was never an accident at all. Maybe it's all meant to be exactly the way it is, almost like clues. A trail to lead us to an answer for a horrific reality that lies already before our eyes? Or something even more convoluted? I cannot say so myself.
I mean I just might be thinking out loud ANNNNYWAYS...
@@TheBlaithe Like with the unanswered question from the very first episode- Why did Big D split up the party and then get so easily caught by Kevin? Or did he realize Kevin was the best way to fulfill his insane plan?
Or, more likely, is Big D just that good at improv that he just comes up with this shit on the fly?
What joke?
and Big-D unravels an entire Vampire Sect, just because he wanted to prove Kevin wrong, and get his cheap blender.
Alfa is very careful with his plot. the Fabricator General went to Mars to serve oil margaritas as a joke too.
Calling it now. All this talk of Houdini was not a mere joke…
Is there anything like mere joke in this series anymore?
At this point anything that comes from D's mouth should be taken literally at any moment.
fun and jokes not alowrd
@@juliane.mfarias9285 Big D jokes. He even taught Markus a joke.
@@hpph7133 Still.
For someone who lives in Virginia and is only an hour away from Norfolk it was hilarious to hear that quick joke of people confusing Norfolk in the UK to Norfolk Virginia 😂😂😂
Please keep looking at this channel in the coming months. This little joke was only the beginning.
Calling it now Big D is Virginian because that’s where all the truly insane people are from
well now we know what they meant by that, what do you think of norfolk wizard game?
"What executive neglect! What are we running here, THE ROMAN EMPIRE!?"
As a history student, i rolled on the floor for that one.
why, what was particularly funny about line?
@@Michaelsmith-nd1hc a mixture of things. In short, it was unexpected because i never heard the words "roman empire" used for a joke. It makes sense because of what i assume is a centuries or millennia old vampire speaking on the other side and, lastly, it's true because the roman empire is one big case of "executive neglect" and fell out of that (plus another 1000+ factors).
@@giacomoromano8842 ahh okay, i should probably look into roman republic and empire. thanks for your insight
@@giacomoromano8842 given that the Regent is also described as a Boudica fangirl by Kevin, she's definitely a Rome-hater as well
@@giacomoromano8842 Which is super amusing because Rome was more or less the seat of the Ventrue for a good majority of the Roman Empire's existence. Tremere *fucking* despise the Ventrue and Tzimisce.
Could we talk about the fact that blue man sequence was both unsettling and funny at the same, the humor didn't feel like it was forced into the scene by the writers. Another massive W for team Alfabusa
Yeah I audibly said “oh I don’t like that” when the blue man started changing
The fact that the Blue man is also Houdini also adds to the sheer horror. Having a demon from one’s past who’s supposed to be dead is definitely off putting
@BruvaAlfabusa- oh great, a bot
[BAZINGA]
@@carmraman111 he might be Houdini, but he might be someone else
The Great and Mighty Kevin can expect to have his entire grasp on accounting rocked by this horrible meat obfuscation addled by expired prescription drugs.
Or he will see that the blender is not of the material realm.
Kevin still won. The fact that Big D had to literally and accidentally fall into a hole leading to a 99P store, situated outside explicable and mundane reality, where he acquired the blender in the first place and was only *allowed* to walk out with, means that, without this supernatural and inexplicable phenomenon taking place, Big D *couldn't* have bought a blender for 99p.
And besides.....he only had 98p on him. Meaning that he couldn't have bought a blender for 99p normally anyway
@@floricel_112 Giles was going to sell a 99p blender to Big D, so had he not thrown the coin into the pit, without any supernatural phenomena he would have destroyed Kevin's reality
@@floricel_112 He had 99p again after Giles spotted Big D a pence.
@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 Firstly, that's not their merchandise, so what Kevin was gonna do was just an unauthorized private transaction, not an actual purchase.
Secondly...... his superior stated that's not going to happen.
If the 15 seconds of silence are meant to represent the time that D fell for, he fell about 1.1 kilometers, and didn't suffer a scratch.
i would really like to see this calculation
@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 Just used a calculator online, to be honest.
@@CC-rg3tc ok, I'll try to calculate it myself
It's cause he landed on his glorious behind. He simply bounced
@@ImperialFister From hearing about his past relationships I'm sure that mine wouldn't be the first shaft his ass has shattered.
When the Lady Regent said the Roman Empire, I instantly knew it was her. Budica and her unshaved private spot, *shuder*
I kind inferred it when they mentioned that Kevin's name was a coincidence. That and her incompetent management style and her out-of-touch confusion with modern technology. Polydora is also definitely behaving like she's under a blood bond. All of that fits with Kevin's description of the Lady Regent.
Boudica
I kinda figured it was something to do with the vampires with the “coincidence” part too and still squealed when I heard “Lady Regent” ngl.
god imagine the smell 🥰
@@jackdraid CEASE AND DESIST INSTANTLY
I just want to see Kevin's reaction to D getting his blender for 98p
I mean, still for 99p even if Giles/Git paid for a penny.
@@mophia339 technically speaking, he still left that 99thp in the store
I think the best part about this episode is that given the concept of customizable "Horizon Realms" (e.g. alternate dimensions/worlds/universes) are an actual canon thing in Mage The Ascension, it's totally entirely possible for there to be a "World of Darkness Infinite 99p Backrooms" ruled by some entity or another without it breaking any of the lore.
I Fucking Love This Channel.
So what your saying is that the infinite ikea SCP could be canon in WoD
@@krisztiansturm1690 For WoD belief is power and the Umbra lets you see beliefs made physical.
This blue man feels like a particular servant of the umbra, imho, not just a random entity. A certain … spider springs to mind. Especially given the power required to draw one into the umbra.
@@liamhogan4369 who is it?
@@liamhogan4369 my guess was that it was the Wyrm from werewolf, what with the whole "corruption through things" I remember reading on tvtropes about the game. 99p, a subsidiary of Pentex.
He's gonna end up paying a whole pound for a blender and the after effects will rock the world
Big D will never get his margins.
@@Scarifar1 but the margins on a 99 pence blender would be 29 pounds in the red you oil barrel!
First sign of Gehenna
I don't think he has a whole pound with him, so to do that he would need to find an extra penny.
He should have just used a spoon.
This just proves that Giles is actually a good guy. After going through all that mess with Big D he pays for his blender I hope we see more of him and he gets well off. He's a kindred spirit.
Giles is one of *insert that bully's name here* cronies
I want that moment where slack jaw calls him git, and he replies 'my name is giles!'
@@GivenForverThen SlackJaw gets Quadruple teamed by all the people from the pub audio-log
I think he be a ghoul.
Just wait until Giles bumps into Marckus and Big-D in the same room.
Big D never directly responded to Kevin when he asked if he's a wizard, he only said "What??" If Big D isn't already a wizard I'm betting this was his (really messed up) Awakening - Big D wanted that blender for 99p so badly he warped reality to make it happen.
I remember The Defective Detective stating that Big D was a huge dude of Middle Eastern Extraction. Any bets that was actually Cimmerian?
@@benhughes9838 here D is described as "a heroin addicit with a year left in him," so does mean he has illusion casted on him that the manager saw right through. I heard that line and that stuck as a bit off
@@benhughes9838 Big dude from Anatolia with godly like abilities I think I know who it is
So based on the fact that the Lady Regent has Timothy as an assistance, she’s either a stand-in for Vect or Malys.
There is only one person I know who sounds old and ends conversation with "toodeloo" ; it's definitely Baldemort.
@@DaLkalts baldemort is a girl?
I would expect the WoD versión of a Drukari would be a Tzimisce
@@manuelescuderoberdino3470 the hommunculi and the vampire flesh carvers are definitely cut from the same cloth
@@jj_ai382 Tremere are a Tzimisce bloodline.
I kind of figured right away that the voice at the end was the Lady Regent, since I had the picture that she's an out-of-touch elder vampire who surrounds herself with sycophants and mismanages her finances and manpower. That's how I figure she lost control of Guy Chapman. While feeding blood isn't "finances" in the traditional sense, Blood is what powers a vampire's healing, powers and ability to control a spy network. And given her cavalier attitude towards her workers and camera installation, I figure that it's not just that she couldn't feed Guy, she doesn't see her poverty as a real problem. She's already leaking intelligence through Kevin and Guy and doesn't have pictures of Big D. This is all foreshadowing a really rude awakening when our hunters kick down her door.
Kick down her door, blow up the entire bloody place, use so many guns that she might as well be spaghetti sauce same difference really
Also She is a Bodica role player
@@nickneckerman2220 Dude, she probably IS Boudica, or at least her follower
Considering her jokes about the Roman Empire and Vampires being thousands of years old
Also she's from "East Anglia"
@@RazorsharpLT She's a Tremaire. Tremaire didn't come around until a thousand years or so AFTER Boudica.
She feels like a idiot, but I feel she'll still be a major threat in combat
Big-D is the true definition of the saying "be ungovernable" and I love it.
Were there not a minefield there, rest assured he'd be growing corn on Kitten's front lawn.
Ah yes, the lifestyle of my favorite shotgun owner
@@TheAngryXeniteGROW CORN
@@everythingwithashton5876milk for the khorne flakes.
The ultimate Karen
So Polydora is Kevin's sire who is a childe of the Regent herself, and the Regent had the same theme, and apparently VA as the Fiddler from Episode 1, oh boy this is not good for the family
I want Big D telling him this story now.
Oh I didn't catch they had the same VA! I had wondered if the Fiddler was the Regent, but that makes it all a lot more interesting - especially since the Fiddler's description matched the mysterious monks people reported seeing in the nearby abandoned monastery. I wonder if that's her headquarters?
Fiddler from episode 1 Appears to be Big E’s Warhammer fantasy character
@@cxfxcdude No, check again.
Polydora is human/ghoul, shes manages a shop in the day time
How ... in hell ... You ... MANAGED ... TO MAKE A TRIP TO 99P STORE ... IN TO MORE EMOTIONAL AND ACTION PACKED MOVIE THEN MOST OF THE BIG BUDGET PRODUCTIONS OUT THERE!!! Never change and keep making stuff up otherwise it'll be a lose to a humanity as a whole
Kinda like Regular show that way
Most recent big budget productions no longer have writing
Easy answer
Effort
Honest to god effort
It's the power of actually TRYING and being able to write characters and not telling the audience EVERYTHING in the first five minutes.
All these "i say X has more Y and Z than stuff i consider garbage" comments make me ILL
To me the best part about Vampires in the world of darkness is how haughty they behave as if they're better than anyone that isn't a vampire despite the fact the only reason they haven't been wiped out by Werewolves and Mages is that they have things of their own size to worry about.
That's not really true. Werewolves usually wind up dealing with nature stuff out in, you know: NATURE, and whenever they try to go after vampires in cities they get all turned around by the webs of false information, legal protection, and armies the vampires wield. As for mages, they actually are even more haughty than the vampires, and they went into something I like to call "The Chair War", where they thought that since vampires were so obviously beneath them that they would turn them into chairs and sit on them. The problems with that were: the vampires simple snapping the mages twig-like necks, the vampires that had ANY shapeshifting ability in Protean, Vicissitude, and maybe some others could simply turn back to normal when the mages sat down for a snack, and little to none of this was done by the Methuselahs and Antediluvians. Long story short: the MAGES lost.
All the factions are pretty equal all things considered.
@@marmyeater
...Do you happen to have a link for that "chair war" thing? You have piqued my interest.
@@marmyeater Well Mage did zap Ravnos Antediluvian with orbital laser satellite and spirit nuke, and killing him in process. So that is one of antediluvian gone.
But yeah mage have many thing restricting them and people often overstate their power especially on Earth. Paradox and all that. Vampire clan like Tremere that were an ex mage is fully aware of mage capability and weakness.
@@marmyeater The good ol' balance by giving everybody crazy game breaking bullshit, such that advantages become incredibly circumstantial and who has the overall better set of powers/abilities/resources/skills/etc becomes incalculable.
Chairification is a popular and time-honored method of humiliating vampires.
However, contrary to what he said, you can't unbecome a chair using protean and vicissitude due to the fact that chairs are inanimate objects and both of those vampire powers are about changing living or undead things, not inanimate objects, not to mention when chairified you're not technically a vampire anymore and also have no blood inside you and would therefore lose access to your powers.
The "You're dead!" bit made me think that maybe D had an impactful encounter with a Malkavian in the past. It would explain a lot about him.
yes
Indeed he did.
AND THAT MALKAVIAN WAS NAMED HOUDINI!
@@gatodestructo4933 Houdini in WoD is a Tremere.
@@gatodestructo4933 Amusingly Aleister Crowley was a Malkavian.
Honestly given the whole flesh shifting segment I was more expecting Tzimisce fleshsculpting with the blue man basically functioning as an "analog telephone".
It's impressive how you can mix the wacky 99p blenders with with getting pretty Lovecratian with the blue man
What is the blue man? I was wondering as it seems a non standard enemy, but the others are pretty standard
@@asdrubaelvect8038 It’s a spirit of either Wyrm or Weaver origin. The whole thing screams weaver to me. Weaver is order and technological advancement while the Wyrm is decay and corruption.
@@asdrubaelvect8038 Blue Man is probably a wraith or specter of some sort, but the scariest and wildest possibility is it's the Avatar of Houdini. Mages reincarnate after all, and they can in fact remember stuff from their past lives.
@@MultiKbarry if it is one of them (and not some spirit) I’m leaning towards Wyrm. He talks about growth but only to replace the old and that “civilization does not bear fruit”.
Honestly, it could fit with 40k nurgle’s ‘cycle of life and decay’
'I am you. Or perhaps I am someone else.'
That part stuck me as being a little Tzeentchian.
The universe breaks if he pays the blender in any other price. That is the price for protecting humanity.
He can't afford the blender anymore, he tossed a coin into the pit, and unless he finds it, he will only have a maximum of 98p
i thought there was no hole, hmm
@@KingLich451 No definitly was. Just didn't fall in it. "Apparently so".
Nah he got it, Giles paid for him
Hah, it was mentioned in the vid too.
My first thought when he woke up was “I hope he grabs his coin before going into the new store”.
The Blender was red in the 99P store, and blue back in the 99p store.
I never noticed that, good eye.
Holy [Redacted] the Blue man went from being really silly to genuinely terrifying. This was such a damn good video :D
you can say that again, I'll be having nightmares tonight 😨
The Blue Man was always creepy and wrong to me... and then it got worse.
I couldn't make out his face when he became the...chief executive
And honestly I'm happy I couldn't
I just noticed, the first episode has a Pound Store box in the tunnels haven't seen anyone else make that connection yet
Someone mentioned it in the chat of previous episode. They theorized the 99p Store steals all their merchandise from Poundland.
The VA for Polydora did a great job capturing the personality and reactions portrayed in the artwork
Talking about wards. The title is 'Regent.' They know a 'Kevin.' They're horribly bad at running a business, which was Kevin's major issue with his old boss...
It's a Tremere. Given the title and the inability to use a phone, likely an old one. Chances are good they're the same group that ghouled the cop, too.
The way Poly is sycophantic to Regent, it's very possible she's a ghoul to her, too; her sychophancy being how she's vying for having her blood bond maintained and not neglected like Guy's was.
@@Levyafan Possibly, or it could be the intense bloodbond of the Tremere pyramid.
I'm not sure what's more hilarious, that this joke from one of the first set of audiologs has developed such a life of its own that its making me question the very metaphysics of WoD or the fact that *everyone* back at the house is almost certainly entirely oblivious to this entire undertaking.
Damn, first a Tex Talks Battletech now a Hunter: The Parenting? I must have been very good this year!
Talk about a double whammy of high quality youtube series
Best Christmas.
I swear tex is on the background radio of the pub audio drama with mark can anyone listen and see if they hear it
Absolutely, christmas gifts this year.
Vampires and Stompy Robot Mayhem... Best X-mas weekend in years.
Funny D mentioned Tzimisce, since that convo with the “Blue Man” almost reads like a bit from the Eldest. Ofc, could just be the meth he attacked, could’ve just been a Malkavian. Either way, it reads like auspex shenanigans
It does read like the Eldest.
And.
The Eldest has gone underground. Into sewers. And. Mine shafts.
And.
The Tremere used a lot of Tzimisce flesh and blood for their ascension.
...
Holy ****.
Need to understand to, the level of hkw the laugter effected D, thats HIGH level auspex meaning an early generation vampire, im thinking a methusalah
It's good that the Regent didn't hear the name D was using. She'd recognize that was up if one of her former minions, Kevin Wettsworth was mentioned.
Also what is Giles was sent to work in the store in order to spy on them by the Arcanum? He's friends with Remold's son after all. Or maybe Remold has been ghouled and serves the vampires? Regardless I don't think him being there was a coincidence.
Hm, you might have a point in Remold working for the vampires. There's a big leap in not liking someone to straight up erasing all knowledge they gave your institution
@@thatoneboi9245 and Remold does look thin and aristocratic to be a Vamp.
Maybe, aldoe i do think could be cool Remold not having any connection to the vampire. Just being a spiteful old man acting by pride. Besides, look at Big D, the man is absolutely paranoid, for good reason, if there was a sign of Remold working for vampires, i think he would have catched it up
nah its probably a coincidance giles is working for the kindred
@@setsunatenma9467 "Coicidance? I think not!"
That part about the blue Man laughing.....
*,.....by the sons of Dorn, I felt fear.*
Sausage, "It's a perfectly Anglian surname" .... due to the legacy of the Danelaw to this day variants are also found in areas of Denmark.....and Gotland!
Good to see you guys keeping Karl busy and therefore off the streets. We don’t need more “incidents”.
Honestly, no other content creator could blend the unsettling urban gothic of WoD with it's equally natural propensity for batshit absurdity as flawlessly as Alfabusa and the team.
WoD just so perfectly fits with your brand and I am SO invested in this series now. Keep it up.
Also, holy shit, was that Timothy the Wine Gnome at the end there!? Is he back as a ghoul!?
Ok, the clown was 100% Houdini.
I expected something when the regent heard....well, any name actually.
I wonder will the gang take care of this on its own or....will they need "reinforcements"?.
There is a reaction, albeit brief one
When she says "He told me his name was Kevin, what a coincidence isn't it?" And the regent laughs and agrees... Yes its a common name, but they recognized it, they know who our Kevin is, but of course this giant old man is not Kevin so its brushed off
So they do remember the name Kevin Wettsworth after all, huh? And here I thought they only knew him as Herbertus...
@@Levyafan True, but it may be that they know more than even Kevin believes they do. At the very least, the Regent and the Manager seem really close, and seem to share a lot of info
@@Levyafan In old WoD, vampires aren't very numerous, even in big cities. They control their "reproduction" and they know each other to a certain extent, except when Anarquists or Sabbath start mudding things up. Remembering the names of low class vampires shouldn't be difficult.
@@Levyafan Since at least one of the 2 was the one that turned Kevin into a vampire and the other gave him his name. Shouldnt be that weird they know his human name.
It will be interesting to see what price Big D actually paid for the blender. He "bought" it from the "99 pound store", and didn't pay for it with money.
Whatever it was, it was 100 times more than the price he was originally willing to pay. It wasn't stolen, since it said "Purchase successful".
My pet theory is that he will end up paying 99 pounds of flesh in a fight with a werewolf
@@Zero_01084 Taking this in mind and given the most recent episode with the potential werewolf on the loose in the chapter house, I think we should look back to the words of horse’s prophecy
“The patriarch (Big D) in mastering Luna (His potential battle with the chapter house werewolf)”
“Ends hamstrung” (Paying his due, 99 pounds of flesh lost in fighting the wolf)
“He will wish death upon his flesh, but no mercy shall be given.” (Perhaps ending up painfully crippled from the encounter? Would also fit with his original TTS counterpart’s enthronement)
All in all, I think you may be exactly right with that theory of yours
Big D has achieved victory, even over fall damage
I Almost MISREAD this as "The ELDAR Crusade"
Cause I almost thought TTS was back but I'm still very happy with these new projects I saw the update vid and all that love the parenting , the half life series, and what you do as long as it's from you I don't care ill love it ^^
It feels like Big D stepped into an SCP story...
You are not wrong
Yeah I had that feeling too, it gave me the instinct of “where’s a gun when you need it?”
i thought it was the backrooms
@@LanderKoenig In WoD guns are more a safety blanket then a proper weapon.
@@MultiKbarry which is why there are some exceptions.
Like a 4gauge shotgun revolver or a shotgun mini gun
Man Giles is just a really nice bloke
I hope nothing terrible and unfortunate happens to him
He's not. He's just very good at being adaptive.
*reverse drinks your beer
@@juke9674 the most polite British bloke
@@theliveing maybe just hanging out with slackjaw made him like that, cuz he and spit dont seem so bad when he's not around
What a wonderful gift! Big-D getting into all sorts of mischief! I hope he has enough time afterwards to burn the Yule Goat with those FOOTBALL KIDS.
Did they burn the goat this year? I know it hadnt happened in a few years
@@cxfxcdude In a belated answer to your question, no, but it was full of seeds so birds ate it.
The Emperor has always been senile. He created the Imperium to stay out of the Old Folks Home but he just ended up creating the biggest one in existence all for himself. He's never getting to go outside again.
Its almost an xmas miracle, a slightly after xmas one.
A Boxing day Miracle
@@Bioshocker66609 This is way better. I go with this.
Just convert to Orthodox Christianity and you'll have Christmas at January 7th! You'll probably need to learn some Russian since Russians are majority of Orthodox Christians left in the world.
I didn't think the Ghost of Jacob Marley gave out 99p blenders. Who knew?
Well I mean technically, Xmas extends into January. Y'know that song, Twelve Days of Christmas? Yeah mate that *starts* on the 25th.
This guy is way too banal to be a Changeling, and way too weird to just be a vampire.
His sheer commitment suggests paradigm, so I think this has got to be a marauder or a weird ass wraith
I like how D has only proven Kevin wrong 10% by his own calculations.
*[LAUGHS AT THE IGNORANCE OF MAN]*
*[purchase successful]*
This is so completely and utterly cursed and I LOVE IT 😂
Edit: also can’t wait to see Kevin’s reaction to D’s success with obtaining a blender for 99p, and not just any blender, but a high-quality one at that
A lot of things in horror are scary because of what they can do to you. There are a lot of truly terrifying ends
The Blue Man is something different tho. He's not threatening; he responds to D's antagonism passively. He doesn't even resist the violence. It's what he says that is uncanny and ominous. He's some kind of dread dancing at the edge of comprehension
Absolutely top-tier horror content imo
I like that the conversation between Big D and "The Blue Man" highlights two opposing views of reality. With Big D representing a view of complete control through an individual's will, and "The Blue Man" representing total resignation to the course of nature or "growth" as he puts it.
I shall prepare for his words to enter my brain with his powerful voice!
That reveal of the queen was both hilarious and terrifying at the same time. God I love this shit, keep it going man.
She's a clan leader not The Prince the regent is title of Tremere's leading vampire not Camerilla
It's kevins sire or hus sire's sire
@@wolfrine5674 Actually, The Regent is the leader of a Tremere Chantry. They are charged with its upkeep, the Tutelage of Apprentices, and Management of the Tremere within the local Town or City.
@@shaunweiss8949I'm pretty sure Poly is Kevin's sire
@@vojtechkorhon4159 Polydora is most likely a ghoul of the lady regent
It feels like the supernatural zoned off and bought the area to study the SCP anomaly as even they are weirded out about it.
Probably related to Kevin's old group, but amazing how the anomaly store was more terrifying to Big D than any supernatural threat he had fought.
Considering the madness that happens with an encounter with a Malkavian, Wraith or a Wyrm spirit, I loved that they went for a mysterious surreal horror moment and we didn't get to know what the actual f*ck was all that about.
@@Jake007123 It's someone Big D knows by sight, and likely watched the demise of or was very much involved in slaying.
It would be funny if Cain shows up in the series, is ready to start Gehenna, but then he sees Sir D.
Cain says, "Dad? What are you doing here?"
Imagine if D was Abel the whole time
@@anhthai7005 cain:...Abel? What in-how are you here!?
Given that big D has mentioned hunting with his father and brothers it is unlikely that he is Adam. Although he is probably very old.
Going by the words "tumor on reality" it's not gonna be a Normal elderly person, it's gonna be a fucking marauder.
imagine... a marauder whose sphere of power causes all things to cost only 99p...
@@gege0298 Honestly, I was thinking that D may do the marauding
What with him actively challenging reality and common sense for the sake of a bet
@@gege0298 marauders don't work like standard mages, no spheres, qliphotic or otherwise, what they want to happen, it happens, and any normal mage gets the burden of the marauders paradox generation.
@@somedouchemcbag987 it can't be Big D, marauders don't have random episodes of marauding, it's permanent, imagine a mage that was driven insane by his awakening, and now reality warps to fit his insane understanding.
Two days later, any new insight?
A Christmas gift from Alfabusa! Lovely. Merry Christmas to you Alfabusa, and the whole team, but especially Carl for those outtro skits.
The lore just gets deeper and deeper in this realm of insanity
I stuck around after TTS, and didn't know a thing about this lore set. To be honest, still don't know very much. But damn if this isn't the one time I've seen someone jump to another franchise and still *absolutely nail it*. I am loving every bit of this, and it gets better each successive release!
they're doing very good work with the core part of the lore: "if you treat the lore as 100% reliable, you're doing it wrong"
you ditch the parts you don't like and you riff on the parts you do. really like the idea of colloidal silver twisting people into the servants of something Really Bad
I hope Big-D gets the blender for Kitten soon.
That blender belongs in the event horizon.
This Blender Joke has gone on waaay too long, and I love every single second of still, its at the Peak when kevin is involved though
I am surprised that the Regent has trouble with her telephone and "Telled-Vision", but seems to understand what antipsychotics are. Those are much newer than telephones and televisions.
Medicine itself is fairly old though, and it shouldn't really take anyone short of caveman old to wrap their head around what "anti" and "psychotic" means when put in the context of it
The medicine itself might be new but what it deals with sure isnt.
with latin/greek knowledge it’s just means “abnormal mind preventative” so it’s an easy jump that it will make him a hard witness to believe.
Yeah medicine isn't new at all, as well as the concept of being "ill in the head". I also suspect she might have used false antipsychotic presciptions to campaign agaisnt witnesses in order to preserver the Masquerade.
There's been a long and sordid history of various concoctions, decoctions, tinctures, salves, suppositories, poultices, and more fashioned to make the raving, ranting, howling, frothing, moon calling, bird chasing, dog fighting, God and daemon touched madmen of the world over to calm the fuck down.
Video screens and electricity channeled to vibrate pieces metal and plastics to make discernable noises are utterly new inventions, less than 200 years old for phones,....but people ramming weird shit into each other's orifices for medical purposes is timeless.
I like how blue man is legit being as direct as he can and Big D is like :"TELL ME THE TRUTH YOU FOOL!"
I Want to know all about the things he Said while thinking what the Blue man was.
Edit: i feel Like if the lady regent heard his actual name she might actually start panicking. If the stories he told Are True And if he is famous.
The Lady Regent probably doesn't know his True Name, since knowing someone's True Name in folklore grants a person power over the named person (which is even mentioned in a prior audiolog), which would be especially bad if a powerful vampire like the Lady Regent knew it. Its definitely why Big D hides behind all his aliases since he needs to keep his name a secret.
The Lady Regent has probably heard of his deeds (hence all the coincidental links between prior adventures Big D has been on), although they still haven't pieced together that its all 1 person behind it
@@johnroach9026 Cool info. My knowladge of this Universe is bassicaly non existant. But i do wonder what her reaction would be if she found out it is him. Would she know of him. Is he Like a legend, a Well known thing or do only the upper generations know of him.
Changling: a type of fae that feeds on dreams and inspiration. Vulnerable to banality “a type of death of dreams caused by conformity and boredom.”
Wraith: an undead. Ghost++ capable of creating realms and stretching time and space in weird ways.
Tzumisu: a type of vampire who can modify there flesh in terrifying ways. They make the flesh chairs of the dark eldar look somewhat normal.
@@zackv4850 Thanks. My knowladge slowly grows with each vid.
@John Roach It's highly unlikely that anyone at all knows D's true name. He's given all least three false names already (Kevin, Anthony, Officer Ernesto) and is implied to have made even more false identities with his story to Horse. Given that we only know him by an initial and his rampant paranoia, even his family may not know anything close to his real name.
Something worth noting is that "Harry Houdini" isn't the only person to have that name (in fact it was a pseudonym), his "mentor in magic" was named Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdini and was balding with white-hair in the image listed on Wikipedia.
While it is probably coincidental, one of his tricks was the marvelous orange tree, where he put a blue flame under a tree which caused it to grow significantly.
So theory time: I believe that the "blue man" rather than being a ghost was likely a vampire that Big D killed at some point (I doubt there are many ghost around north norfolk outside of the ones that KItten has told us about), given the way that he speaks in riddles and the future of growth, and when asked who he was he gave an unintelligable answer, I would guess that he is a Malkavian (one of the insane vampires who somehow can speak about the future - we haven't heard mention of any of these vampires yet so it'd be interesting to see if Big D has interacted with any of them), it would make sense that the horrifying visions that Big D experiences would come from an insane vampire. Given that Big D said that he killed blue man and said what sounds like "Houdini" I'm going to guess that Houdini was the blue man, who might have been a Malkavian vampire (capable of making illusions and being somewhat insane).
I still adore how awful Polydora is.
Honestly it is kinda cute how the Regent treats her and vice-versa.
I've worked for managers like that.
It's as horrifying as you think it is
She's both a literal and figurative GHOUL
Another move made on the chess board
All paths come together
Kine
Kindred
Beast and man
The battle is neigh
Soon the curtain will rise and the dance shall begin.
"The battle is neigh"
Horse proves most prophetic.
All puppets are moving to their roles
The Abbot Will Know
didn't know Horse made a yt account
@@rokkraljkolesa9317
Nope just a wayward DND player/DM
Giles asking to be called by his actual name is a nice touch! Looking forward to that favour!
Amazing job as always! The only unsatisfying part of that episode is that it wasn’t longer!
Looking forward to your next upload! 😊
Theory: In The Probing of Kevin, Kevin mentions that after falling out of favor with the regent, he was forced to scrounge for arcane lore from the 99p store. Maybe he was being literal here. It would make sense for why the store manager seemingly knows him.
holy- the sound mixing of this episode is so damn good, it was like I felt the Bus starting up. the vibrations of my music box probably sold that feeling even better. In general the sounds of characters interacting with all the props and the Environment is absolutly stellar. fantastic work. 👏👏👏
I haven't seen the whole video for now
But the way that manager has said "Kevin" tipped me the off
What if this woman is Kevin's sister?
UPD: Eeeeh, it still might be her. Yeah, there is already a tie to the Regent with her, but that "coincidence" line would be super-layered if she is Kevin's sister that is a total opposite of Kevin - where he fought off bunch of bullshit to be himself and be independent, even as an accountant, she is super-into hierarchy, very submissive to her Regent, and while Kevin and D give each other shit, but as comrades, Polydora and Regent talk like gossip-girl-sisters, right until Regent establishes that she is the Master here
Besides, "Polydora" sounds ABSOLTELY like a Camarilla name for Kaitlyn, just like Kevin's being "Herbertus".
Polydora being Kevin's sister would be a nice twist, but I doubt it. If she really was Kevin's sister, it would be strange for her to repeatedly submit missing person reports which would be picked up by another goul of the regent and no one put two and two together. It's more likely that Polydora simply had to work closely with Kevin, with him being an accountant and her being a store manager generating revenue for the regent.
Polydora is the one that turned Kevin...i think.
@@weismeister121 But she seems to be working the 99p store at daytime.
@@captainj6475I think Polydora might be the one he was “passed over” for by the regent.
I'm waiting for the episode where Big D doesn't joke around and goes into serious hunter mode, kinda like he was in the Halloween special
Me too,i want some more serious and dark episodes.
jokes stop where a real threat emerges
I wind up doing 2-6 hours of research after every research episode from the shear amount of lore in every one of these audio logs or animations
Then the series does it's job well
yeah... i know the feeling
I have played WoD for over 15+ years and still I am not very sure what the f*ck that blue man and the entire scene was exactly.
Oooh, starting almost immediately after I'll be back from work after finishing the big deadline I'm working on? Pinpoint perfect timing, Alfabusa.
ok so aside from the fact that known Budica role player the lady regent appears and runs a 99p store some folk in the premier chat were suggesting that what D experienced was the shadowlands of Wraith: The Oblivion fame
I'm really starting to believe that Big D was a Changeling, likely an Eshu, and that the family he bested a Methuselah with was his motley.
him being described as a "crack addict with barely a year left in him" honestly aligns more with Kevin.
He has to have some form of shapeshifting/illusion power.
@@proto303 Ahhh. Interesting note. Maybe they very well did perceive him as Kevin. Strange.
He definitely has some sort of hidden power within him, that he may or may not be aware of
@@proto303 if that was it, then guy chapman wouldn't have percieved him as a "giant, middle estern meatslab".
Also if they saw him as Kevin, they would had done more than bat a eye at the name.@@OperatorVanta
The instant hit of dopamine hearing Big D describe the Kiasyd gave me made my night. I have a soft spot for the weirdlings, and it's nice to hear them get mentioned!
D's violent tendencies are entirely warranted by his background but at the same time god DAMN it I wanted to know more about the Blue Man!
Good to hear more about the literal ood and tears that went into telling grandmas story, I'm moved to tears by the passion of the creators, and mourn the multiple deaths of those who gave all to tell this dark tale.
When the subtitles mention Vampire clans or individuals, the text turns red. There is one notable exception to this rule however. The text also turns red when the Blue Man claims that he is Big D. (11:15). Could Big D be a Vampire that has walked the path? It would explain why he seems to be very old, and why he seems so youthful despite having an adult son with a full head of white hair.
D walks around in broad daylight constantly. That would sort've dust him so its kinda silly.
is it worth noting that there is a large bloody hole in the backroom and Polydora is a genus of burrowing worms
You know...this whole episode really reminds me of a mall I would go to as a kid: pretty standard small town mall, food court, toy store, JC Penneys... But there was this ONE place in the mall. In the middle of the floor, between the KB toys and some other stores, there was this black opening with a short escalator to the bottom. Looking down all you could see were some old 25 cent rides, like the kind they used to put outside of grocery stores, illuminated only by a single overhead light. Everything else was just swallowed by shadows.
This video is exactly the kind of thing me and my brother would say was in that hole. To this day, we still don't really know what was down there, but it has been somewhat of a legend between the two of us for years.
It's not everyday you see Big D in real actual horror. But he still proved Kevin wrong so, you know, pretty cool~
There just needs to be a 5 minute long video of Big D laughing at Kevin over the blender.
14:39 Something's off.
Actually, a lot of things are, here's another:
The break room wall changed color.
It was yellow before, but now it's blue.
But why?
Why!?
One is the entrance, and the other is not.
This turned from buying a Blender for 99p to a Regular Show episode.
That's just an average Regular Show episode
Big D accidentally fell into the backrooms infinite Ikea
but aside from the shitpost, you really did a good job of making this unsettling, more than any 13 year on the backrooms wiki
it truly takes an eldritch horror to make even Big D terrified. I suspect that him not paying himself with have unintended consequences
The Inifinite 99p Store
If you want to see the Backrooms universe done right, go on over to Kane Pixels’ channel. Another I’ve become a fan of recently!
Infinite IKEA is SCP, not backrooms
If you really want surreal horror done right, there's a million SCPs that does it fantastically.
He would have lost his soul if you bought that blender at full price.
What kind of person looks at Big-Ds build and says that he's only got a year left in him?
someone who is fully blood-bonded to their boss and so wants to tell her that actually everything is fine so she won't be mad, despite everything really, really not being fine
this is an IRL problem a lot of powerful people face! how do you keep your subordinates willing to tell you bad news you need to hear, if they also know that telling you bad news can get them fired?
Man, it's already been 3 months since this came out? wow, time flies.
I imagine if they're not working on the next part of the main series, the next HtP video will focus on Door or Boy, since they haven't really been given the spotlight yet. If I were to wager a guess, the next episode is going to be:
>Door taking Marcus and or Boy to the shooting range and/or meeting his own group of friends.
or
>Boy going to school or having his own small contained adventure
I think learning more about the local camarilla would be nice too, though I imagine they wouldn't want to reveal too much about them too soon.
Well, it did end up being focuesd on Marcus and Kitten, then the next part, but I'd still like to see a more boy focused episode
You keep outdoing yourselves, freaking amazing episodes. The tension pulled me to the edge of my seat! One word: BOLD
The minute this quicksilver poisoned Einstein Knockoff smiled I knew there was gonna be some creepy shit, BUT DEAR GOD I WAS NOT READY FOR *THAT!* I feel like I just played through a Call of Cthulhu campaign AS one of the Characters.