Yo! I love the ol '90's WoD setting. Have no idea about the "new" stuff, but would love to see any of it. Especially considering all the variety we've seen in players' immortals
I really love the idea created in this story. A stoneman that drains the life from people to stop being a statue, but can exist for centuries immobilized as a statue until someone touches them. It means any statue could secretly be a stoneman just waiting.
I like the thought that the oracle saw you and knew from her own visions you would kill her one day, so she tries to get rid of you with a curse. When your daughter tracks her down she realised she failed to kill you by making you become a statue. She panics, and tries to get you killed by the monstrous centaur beast... but you instead had a bromance moment and befriended him instead and you show up on her doorstep once more. Desperate, she tries to get you to kill your own daughter knowing from visions you'd get caught when you hesitate, but she didnt see in the vision you managing to flee. Centuries later your cultists track her down and drag her to you, who's now a shell of a monster with selective amnesia and has self created false memories that she's at fault which actually turn out to be true, and she's killed as she foresaw by you all those centuries ago. Real Greek tradgedy.
The classic paradox where a predicted outcome can only become true because of the outcome itself was predicted. Something something about not fighting against fate as that will ultimately lead to your downfall (even though if you didn't fight it, you'd still die? What's the moral here ancient greece...) Very annoyingly Greek indeed haha
I think in the final shot it's present day. We see the logo on the bracer, zoom out to the statues struggling in the lobby. And, even though it's slightly out of focus, you swear you can see an eyeball move. The prophecy was correct, he won't die.
Love how different all of the vampire stories are. They always start so simple and then escalate super quickly, ending at no point you'd expect it. Hope you keep going with these inbetween other series.
The unthinkable... Tom doing the Ben work and Ben doing the crazy adventure with very little plans! Truly, the end times are here... except significantly better written
I have loved all the 1000 year old vampire games, but this one takes the cake. Ben came up with a super unique take on vampirism and all the initial story elements coming back later in the story was awesome to see, its not something that usually happened in the other games. Also, it was fun to see someone finally NOT rolling a -1 at the start.
Wedding rings did actually exist, and they had a myth related to Prometheus as to why they were used. Medusa's technically could have been around as it was a person's name, while her species was a Gorgon. Also the Argo was called that because the shipwright who built it was Argus.
I saw that there's an almost 2 hour long video with Ben playing 1000 year old Vampire. This is what this fucked up week needed to end on a good note. Thanks for all the great work you guys put out ❤
Kragmon, he was always there, with the power of slightly elevating your heroic statues. This was a real treat of an episode, our most canon brand risks in their element. One of the best stories so far, really loved the feeding mechanism.
Was playing a dnd game yesterday where the DM said we had solved his goblin water gate riddle. Instantly knew I had found a fellow MQ enjoyer, thanks Tom.
Amazing video! Also I adore alternate universe medusa, where instead of stone vision, she grants you wishes as an oracle type, but the price is the long term stone disease.
This episode was fantastic! I loved the completely different interpretation on vampirism and feeding, and that ending!!! The thousand year vampire videos are always so great!
Ben was so incredibly good at this. Even the pre-vampire story felt fleshed out and already seemed amazing, then through the game he had such interesting ways of going further! Really loved it
Tom and Ben are such good story tellers, I would love it if they took the plunge and co-wrote an adventure for a ttrpg. I know Mystery Quest is a Tom thing, but I can fully see Tom taking a break to be a player and Ben a DM.
Fantastic, well done both. Loved this. I'm amazed how different the stories get depending on the player. And great to have Ben's knowledge of history play a little bit in this.
This was such a great play through! I always love me a Tem and Bon, and the way this felt so collaborative and full of callbacks and jokes, was peak Bean and Toast
I absolutely adore every single Thousand Year Vampire, they're universally brilliant. All the guests rule and Tom is so fucking good at being a narrative sounding board!
This is such an interesting spin on the TYOV game. Making it about your own twist of a Vampire type based on Greek mythology. It truly shows how great TYOV is adaptable and how there are endless possibilities on how to play this game and what stories are able to be told. Since the author has watched one of these adventures on the channel before, I really hope he catches this one and maybe you guys even get to preview or stress test the announced sequel.
I love these Tom! I’ve been a fan of your RPG sessions for a solid couple of years but this channel made me really excited to finally play some myself. You’ve inspired me to run my own DnD campaign, Everyone is John and now I just got Thousand year old vampire and I’m gooig to have a go at it with my gf. Thank you for showing us DMing can also be fun TLDR: Tom fun, good DM, many thanks
Tom and Ben, my fav. You guys are really helping me through getting dumped. Weekends are the hardest, we use to do everything together and now I feel I've got no one to socialize with. Getting surprised by one of these vids every Friday gives me something to take my mind off things when I start slipping.
Thank you so much for another round of this game. I bought it after watching it on this channel for the first time, and I'm going to run my own game this weekend so this is a beautiful refresher.
Wow. On holiday in Cornwall and drove past a certain landmark on the way. Now on the way back I will just see people taking pictures of the stone circle where the druids with their mysterious stone master sacrificed magical oracles 😅. Great adventure
Tom this channel is genius. 1000 year old vampire is my favourite format while Lydia is my favourite guest. Her RP and voices are always on point. Love her to bits.
oh man, that ending REALLY wrote itself as a Greek Tragedy.. a man running from his own fate, is destined to run straight back to it. or some such bullshit lol... LOVE the non-traditional vampire they managed to create here, almost more like a man slowly becoming a mindless golem... almost opposite the stoneman, who could have been trying to regain his own humanity...
My favorite one so far, I thought it was going to go eldritch horror (I guess stoneman kinda is xD) but this was really creative and the plot things worked so well together the dice really told a story
Seeing two CANNON star wars characters playing a roleplaying game is quite a novel concept!
Just wait until you watch these cannon SW characters talk about Centaurs
Just wait they will certainly cameo in a game some time soon
Canon*
@@Mystery_Quest Star Wars TTRPG when?!
Hype ✨
Tom needs to run a Vampire the masquerade game (or something similar) where everyone plays the characters they've made in this game.
That is an awesome idea!
Yo! I love the ol '90's WoD setting. Have no idea about the "new" stuff, but would love to see any of it. Especially considering all the variety we've seen in players' immortals
Leech Lord and Stone Boy.
@@jaxxsc Gunpowder movie star too 😂
@@RubelliteFae V5 is incredibly good
I really love the idea created in this story. A stoneman that drains the life from people to stop being a statue, but can exist for centuries immobilized as a statue until someone touches them.
It means any statue could secretly be a stoneman just waiting.
Or... Don't Blink
Pillar Men!!
Aw man, what an ending!! If this whole story had to be given a title, I think a fantastic one would be "Set in Stone".
This truly was a Grecian tragedy.
Everything he did to try and escape his curse was the instrument of his own destruction.
So tragic and so beautiful.
I like the thought that the oracle saw you and knew from her own visions you would kill her one day, so she tries to get rid of you with a curse. When your daughter tracks her down she realised she failed to kill you by making you become a statue. She panics, and tries to get you killed by the monstrous centaur beast... but you instead had a bromance moment and befriended him instead and you show up on her doorstep once more. Desperate, she tries to get you to kill your own daughter knowing from visions you'd get caught when you hesitate, but she didnt see in the vision you managing to flee. Centuries later your cultists track her down and drag her to you, who's now a shell of a monster with selective amnesia and has self created false memories that she's at fault which actually turn out to be true, and she's killed as she foresaw by you all those centuries ago. Real Greek tradgedy.
The classic paradox where a predicted outcome can only become true because of the outcome itself was predicted.
Something something about not fighting against fate as that will ultimately lead to your downfall (even though if you didn't fight it, you'd still die? What's the moral here ancient greece...)
Very annoyingly Greek indeed haha
@@CrossBreedTacoHDI think the moral is "the gods are assholes, and also fuck you in particular"
This game works so well for this channel. Its great for slipping in between longer recordings. I'd be down to see even more people play over time
I think in the final shot it's present day. We see the logo on the bracer, zoom out to the statues struggling in the lobby. And, even though it's slightly out of focus, you swear you can see an eyeball move.
The prophecy was correct, he won't die.
The Syracusans absolutely called the USS bastion "The Whispering Wall" as people desperately call out from the blocks
I wish there was more focus on the people entombed in the bricks I had tons of ideas when I heard that lol
What a horrifying concept!
The diary entry about the centaur adventure was definitely titled "Argos' Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean".
He really is a part 1 & part 2 vampire as well 😆
@@gabrielwalton4097 Yep, a vampire who is fished out of the sea after being trapped beneath the waves for 100 years feels very familiar!
You know how Roman concrete is stronger than modern concrete, that's right, it's made from people statues.
Love how different all of the vampire stories are. They always start so simple and then escalate super quickly, ending at no point you'd expect it.
Hope you keep going with these inbetween other series.
Best one yet, holy shit, you can tell Ben's heart is fandom-ridden.
The unthinkable... Tom doing the Ben work and Ben doing the crazy adventure with very little plans!
Truly, the end times are here... except significantly better written
I must say the script writers were on point for this one
Perfect ending. I want that statue in my front yard. The neighbors would love it.
holy shit what a gift
We have been waiting for it...for a thousand years
Finally after all these years.
1000 Year old Ben. Beautiful
Watching Ben slowly wind up Tom with his elaborate puns was glorious
I have loved all the 1000 year old vampire games, but this one takes the cake. Ben came up with a super unique take on vampirism and all the initial story elements coming back later in the story was awesome to see, its not something that usually happened in the other games. Also, it was fun to see someone finally NOT rolling a -1 at the start.
Wedding rings did actually exist, and they had a myth related to Prometheus as to why they were used. Medusa's technically could have been around as it was a person's name, while her species was a Gorgon.
Also the Argo was called that because the shipwright who built it was Argus.
So the Enterprise could be the "Thaddus'?
I saw that there's an almost 2 hour long video with Ben playing 1000 year old Vampire.
This is what this fucked up week needed to end on a good note.
Thanks for all the great work you guys put out ❤
Hope next week is better for you
Kragmon, he was always there, with the power of slightly elevating your heroic statues.
This was a real treat of an episode, our most canon brand risks in their element. One of the best stories so far, really loved the feeding mechanism.
Was playing a dnd game yesterday where the DM said we had solved his goblin water gate riddle. Instantly knew I had found a fellow MQ enjoyer, thanks Tom.
I loved Bates’ story.
Flax’s was very fun.
But Ben… 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 oh my god
(we don't talk about Lewis and his leech spawn)
@@VanBourner oh my god! The leech apocalypse. Thank you for reminding me
I saw Tom and Ben, I clicked. and I HEARTILY enjoyed. Man this was an awe inspiring ride through your brains
Tom and Ben's knowledge of history really fucking helps this
YES thousand year old Benpire!
43:23 I like to think that he didn’t name the new boat to match his old one, it was already named that just by happenstance
Amazing video! Also I adore alternate universe medusa, where instead of stone vision, she grants you wishes as an oracle type, but the price is the long term stone disease.
This is my favorite game you guys play it's always so different and I love how the stories come so naturally
This episode was fantastic! I loved the completely different interpretation on vampirism and feeding, and that ending!!! The thousand year vampire videos are always so great!
Ben was so incredibly good at this. Even the pre-vampire story felt fleshed out and already seemed amazing, then through the game he had such interesting ways of going further! Really loved it
The Benperor has a terrifying mind. It's amazing how poetic this game gets.
1:21:30 "None of that has to be set in stone" 💀
Tom and Ben are such good story tellers, I would love it if they took the plunge and co-wrote an adventure for a ttrpg.
I know Mystery Quest is a Tom thing, but I can fully see Tom taking a break to be a player and Ben a DM.
Fantastic, well done both. Loved this. I'm amazed how different the stories get depending on the player. And great to have Ben's knowledge of history play a little bit in this.
this was such an amazing episode, Tom and Ben together just have the best chemistry. the story they made together was just incredible
This was such a great play through! I always love me a Tem and Bon, and the way this felt so collaborative and full of callbacks and jokes, was peak Bean and Toast
I love MQ’s plays of a Thousand Year Old Vampire. Hopefully you do more and include your characters in one RPG game!
What a perfect ending! This was very cool, going in a more mystical direction, and still somehow ending up in one of the most grim ones so far.
I absolutely adore every single Thousand Year Vampire, they're universally brilliant. All the guests rule and Tom is so fucking good at being a narrative sounding board!
This is such an interesting spin on the TYOV game. Making it about your own twist of a Vampire type based on Greek mythology. It truly shows how great TYOV is adaptable and how there are endless possibilities on how to play this game and what stories are able to be told.
Since the author has watched one of these adventures on the channel before, I really hope he catches this one and maybe you guys even get to preview or stress test the announced sequel.
7:00 "The local version of the Olympics", AKA the Olympics 🙂
I think Ben meant his local city Olympics rather than the combined greek city state's Olympics.
I love these Tom!
I’ve been a fan of your RPG sessions for a solid couple of years but this channel made me really excited to finally play some myself.
You’ve inspired me to run my own DnD campaign, Everyone is John and now I just got Thousand year old vampire and I’m gooig to have a go at it with my gf.
Thank you for showing us DMing can also be fun
TLDR: Tom fun, good DM, many thanks
Loving 1000 year old vampire, it's the icing on the cake with everything else that goes on in mystery quest
Great game concept, played so well by you dudes! Theres no cgi as good or bad as the human imagination. That was raw roleplaying.
Only these two could make a story so goofy but so real and cool at the same time. Like, this is a good backbone to an actual book/series
Sharky and Palp together again - makes me SOO happy
At last! Always happy to watch more TYOV, and Ben’s roleplaying is just delightful.
The creator of 1000 year old vampire has announced a sequel
The 2000 year old vampire?
@@SirZeu So You've Met A Thousand Year Old Vampire
Tom and Ben, my fav. You guys are really helping me through getting dumped. Weekends are the hardest, we use to do everything together and now I feel I've got no one to socialize with. Getting surprised by one of these vids every Friday gives me something to take my mind off things when I start slipping.
This episode was fantastic! Please play this again with Tom and Ben! Maybe switch places and let Tom be the one playing.
Thank you so much for another round of this game. I bought it after watching it on this channel for the first time, and I'm going to run my own game this weekend so this is a beautiful refresher.
Wow. On holiday in Cornwall and drove past a certain landmark on the way. Now on the way back I will just see people taking pictures of the stone circle where the druids with their mysterious stone master sacrificed magical oracles 😅. Great adventure
Tom this channel is genius. 1000 year old vampire is my favourite format while Lydia is my favourite guest. Her RP and voices are always on point. Love her to bits.
Loved this very different take on the immortal curse
This has to be one of my all time favourite series on UA-cam. It's just so creative and fun, every damn time!
"i love how wholsome these guys can be sometimes"
54:20
"Damn"
Onto the next Vampire vod, thanks Tom and Ben!
49:30 Love it when the payers make Tom make this face!
This was brilliant! Please keep doing these, they've all been among my favourite content on the channel :)
this was so dang good.
You two just have amazing chemistry, and so many hours of making up silly stories, I knew it was gonna be good!
Ben itching to drop the centaur memories. All but begging to forget.
Gotta see more people on this, especially love that ben chose ancient greek (and knew the setting pretty well)
10:50 Tom will never let the flute episode go haha
great episode. Love how we're just getting to see multiple episodes with different yogs.
Dudes, that was awesome.
The Tom'n'Ben dynamic never disappoints!
You mean to tell me a stone vampire goes on a bizarre adventure
God this was perfect! After every roll I was saying to myself "man it'd be so cool if they went in this direction" and they did!
So good, so nice!
i love that it always comes back to centors with you two i love you both so much
The centaur adventure felt like the star wars christmas special
These 1000 Year Vampire games are so awesome! Please continue to do more of these!
"And my new boat will be the..." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We missed the golden opportunity for Ben’s companion to be called Chewbaccus!
This was great! Always good fun when Tom and Ben get together.
Thousand Year Old Vampire are always my fave Mystery Quests.
Every mystery quest video is a blessing.
Loving the Thousand Year Old Vampire with all the yogs. Its been amazing.
Had to pop over from Spotify just to state how amazingly well build this world was and what a cool story !
I swear this story could be an awesome a fantasy book series, great job Tom & Ben!
I think it would have been great if they had called the diary his "Captain's Log"
34:20 so fucking prophetic
In my head, all the Tauroses and Igoriuses are just Toms throughout the centuries
These are always my favorite episodes. All the games are fun, these are special.
Plus Tom and Ben!
Someone make a movie already, all of these tales are amazing
oh man, that ending REALLY wrote itself as a Greek Tragedy.. a man running from his own fate, is destined to run straight back to it. or some such bullshit lol... LOVE the non-traditional vampire they managed to create here, almost more like a man slowly becoming a mindless golem... almost opposite the stoneman, who could have been trying to regain his own humanity...
Loved seeing the Enterprise B, or the Benterprise if you will
Two hours of additional Tom-n-Ben this week? Sign me up!
I just finished rewatching Lewis playing through this with Tom on a livestream, so this couldn't have come at a better time.
Very happy to see thousand year old vampire back after how fun Pyrion's went a couple of months ago.
Ben is such a wholesome shark, this wont get to dark right, right?
The two of you improvise so well together!
What an ending! Love seeing some Tom and Ben (Or Ben and Tom, take your pick).
Please never stop making these. Love it.
7:52 "...he's allways dropping stuff and fffffffff....messing things up" 😁
Two extra hours of Tom and Ben! What a treat!
My favorite one so far, I thought it was going to go eldritch horror (I guess stoneman kinda is xD) but this was really creative and the plot things worked so well together the dice really told a story
The noise Tom makes at 1:33:45 is hilarious
I fucking love seeing you and Ben roleplaying, please keep it up, get him in more!
Absolutely amazing.
Plot twist - the Stoneman was named Toma (Thomas) :D "Eternal Struggle" was perfect.
thank you ben for setting this story in ancient greece, not just another middle age english peasant haha
Love the little pause in the cold open!