Thousand Year Old Vampire - Ben

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  • Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
  • Welcome to Thousand Year Old Vampire, the solo roleplaying game where you tell the life story of an immortal being. Today we are joined by Ben, who's adventure starts in Ancient Greece in the shoes of Thaddeus, a lowly carpenter and sailor with dreams of adventure. This is Mystery Quest, a roleplaying podcast where we play a variety of one-shot roleplaying games with a rolling cast of special guests.
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    Tom: / angorytom
    Ben: // / @gamesnight

КОМЕНТАРІ • 331

  • @atahannd.9937
    @atahannd.9937 2 місяці тому +855

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

    • @openfly4u
      @openfly4u 2 місяці тому +71

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

    • @Mystery_Quest
      @Mystery_Quest  2 місяці тому +221

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

    • @mr.mcphoenix
      @mr.mcphoenix 2 місяці тому +17

      Canon*

    • @Cyrathil
      @Cyrathil 2 місяці тому +12

      @@Mystery_Quest Star Wars TTRPG when?!

    • @RubelliteFae
      @RubelliteFae 2 місяці тому

      Hype ✨

  • @ChrisM-z6b
    @ChrisM-z6b 2 місяці тому +494

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

    • @Mystery_Quest
      @Mystery_Quest  2 місяці тому +315

      That is an awesome idea!

    • @RubelliteFae
      @RubelliteFae 2 місяці тому +17

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

    • @jaxxsc
      @jaxxsc 2 місяці тому +27

      Leech Lord and Stone Boy.

    • @ChrisM-z6b
      @ChrisM-z6b 2 місяці тому +12

      @@jaxxsc Gunpowder movie star too 😂

    • @Kvalln
      @Kvalln 2 місяці тому +2

      @@RubelliteFae V5 is incredibly good

  • @DeltaEntropy
    @DeltaEntropy 2 місяці тому +247

    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.

  • @sam23696
    @sam23696 2 місяці тому +73

    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.

  • @Gakulon
    @Gakulon 2 місяці тому +133

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

  • @Thetruepianoman
    @Thetruepianoman 2 місяці тому +220

    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

  • @rogerexcell249
    @rogerexcell249 2 місяці тому +149

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

    • @CrossBreedTacoHD
      @CrossBreedTacoHD 2 місяці тому +12

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

    • @nathangriswold6999
      @nathangriswold6999 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @42ndguardian
    @42ndguardian 2 місяці тому +75

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

    • @gabrielwalton4097
      @gabrielwalton4097 2 місяці тому +6

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

  • @confusedcabbage6578
    @confusedcabbage6578 2 місяці тому +152

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

    • @NoKnownWeakness
      @NoKnownWeakness 2 місяці тому +17

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

    • @LeonieJMerry
      @LeonieJMerry 2 місяці тому +4

      What a horrifying concept!

  • @RubelliteFae
    @RubelliteFae 2 місяці тому +37

    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.

  • @jonathanhathaway54
    @jonathanhathaway54 2 місяці тому +102

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

    • @seanhoey5939
      @seanhoey5939 2 місяці тому +3

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

  • @jacobunderwood4957
    @jacobunderwood4957 2 місяці тому +38

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

  • @Drakoni23
    @Drakoni23 2 місяці тому +41

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

  • @JazzakRavenshade
    @JazzakRavenshade 2 місяці тому +40

    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.

  • @anononomous
    @anononomous 2 місяці тому +23

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

    • @svenrio8521
      @svenrio8521 2 місяці тому +11

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

  • @fiofofionomoto
    @fiofofionomoto 2 місяці тому +40

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

  • @TheGreatDevlin
    @TheGreatDevlin 2 місяці тому +24

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

  • @azogtheuglee4889
    @azogtheuglee4889 2 місяці тому +73

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

  • @william5404
    @william5404 2 місяці тому +122

    holy shit what a gift

    • @Toffolo2
      @Toffolo2 2 місяці тому +4

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

  • @Dungeon_Bits
    @Dungeon_Bits 2 місяці тому +33

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

    • @VanBourner
      @VanBourner 2 місяці тому +3

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

    • @Dungeon_Bits
      @Dungeon_Bits 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @Ali-ey9sz
    @Ali-ey9sz 2 місяці тому +19

    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.

  • @Aussie_Archmage
    @Aussie_Archmage 2 місяці тому +8

    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.

  • @Cassius40k
    @Cassius40k 2 місяці тому +17

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

  • @secretscarlet8249
    @secretscarlet8249 Місяць тому +1

    I love MQ’s plays of a Thousand Year Old Vampire. Hopefully you do more and include your characters in one RPG game!

  • @Adam-rj7iq
    @Adam-rj7iq 2 місяці тому +32

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

    • @piddlepants
      @piddlepants 2 місяці тому +4

      Hope next week is better for you

  • @spectra20000
    @spectra20000 2 місяці тому +6

    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.

  • @festusmaximus4111
    @festusmaximus4111 2 місяці тому +29

    YES thousand year old Benpire!

  • @garethhughes7430
    @garethhughes7430 2 місяці тому +12

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

  • @Samboy64
    @Samboy64 2 місяці тому +15

    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

  • @madamebamberkaye
    @madamebamberkaye 2 місяці тому +7

    Sharky and Palp together again - makes me SOO happy

  • @JustAskMeTV101
    @JustAskMeTV101 2 місяці тому +32

    The creator of 1000 year old vampire has announced a sequel

    • @SirZeu
      @SirZeu 2 місяці тому +8

      The 2000 year old vampire?

    • @JustAskMeTV101
      @JustAskMeTV101 2 місяці тому +5

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

  • @ItsRinaldo
    @ItsRinaldo 2 місяці тому +4

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

  • @Zero-0N3
    @Zero-0N3 2 місяці тому +2

    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.

  • @tomyboy39
    @tomyboy39 2 місяці тому +2

    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!

  • @amys.6619
    @amys.6619 2 місяці тому +3

    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.

  • @shynarcissist
    @shynarcissist 2 місяці тому +1

    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

  • @jakevassallo4672
    @jakevassallo4672 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @redoli2
    @redoli2 2 місяці тому +6

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

  • @Yide29
    @Yide29 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @dr.corvia9528
    @dr.corvia9528 2 місяці тому +3

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

  • @ianalvord3903
    @ianalvord3903 2 місяці тому +7

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

  • @mononuk
    @mononuk 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @jikjakdude
    @jikjakdude 2 місяці тому +1

    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

  • @MCBunkerwelt
    @MCBunkerwelt 2 місяці тому +1

    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.

  • @shadeweave2
    @shadeweave2 2 місяці тому +2

    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.

  • @harrytraber8380
    @harrytraber8380 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @CharlotteRowe12
    @CharlotteRowe12 2 місяці тому +3

    Thousand Year Old Vampire are always my fave Mystery Quests.

  • @Jaklas1979
    @Jaklas1979 2 місяці тому +1

    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

  • @EWRPVM
    @EWRPVM 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @pascusrex4152
    @pascusrex4152 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @Reece_Hart
    @Reece_Hart 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @lukasmadrid1945
    @lukasmadrid1945 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @danhelll8768
    @danhelll8768 2 місяці тому

    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

  • @Littlehornification
    @Littlehornification 5 годин тому

    Great game concept, played so well by you dudes! Theres no cgi as good or bad as the human imagination. That was raw roleplaying.

  • @Dostwyn
    @Dostwyn 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @xavierreichel8254
    @xavierreichel8254 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @PhyloDT
    @PhyloDT 2 місяці тому +6

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

  • @killerkittycat13
    @killerkittycat13 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @THATguerroGUY
    @THATguerroGUY Місяць тому +1

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

    • @THATguerroGUY
      @THATguerroGUY Місяць тому

      Onto the next Vampire vod, thanks Tom and Ben!

  • @seafox21
    @seafox21 2 місяці тому +1

    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!

  • @capacamaru
    @capacamaru 2 місяці тому +3

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

  • @Vinewood8
    @Vinewood8 2 місяці тому

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

  • @MagicAndWires
    @MagicAndWires 2 місяці тому

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

  • @Blitzkrieger17
    @Blitzkrieger17 2 місяці тому

    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...

  • @user-xg5dw2gm8f
    @user-xg5dw2gm8f 2 місяці тому +48

    VAMPY AND PALP

  • @Jcornman24
    @Jcornman24 2 місяці тому

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

  • @eviem5658
    @eviem5658 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @swearimnotarobot3746
    @swearimnotarobot3746 2 місяці тому +16

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

  • @RabidBlackwatch
    @RabidBlackwatch 2 місяці тому +3

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

  • @jakewilson5418
    @jakewilson5418 2 місяці тому

    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.

  • @lauraokeeffe6399
    @lauraokeeffe6399 2 місяці тому

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

  • @morm6206
    @morm6206 2 місяці тому

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

  • @ihesketh4135
    @ihesketh4135 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @eDWICHt
    @eDWICHt 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @sonaxaton
    @sonaxaton 2 місяці тому

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

  • @zunalter
    @zunalter 2 місяці тому +2

    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.

  • @Adumb_
    @Adumb_ 2 місяці тому

    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!

  • @Squif2809
    @Squif2809 2 місяці тому +4

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

  • @madmanwithaplan1826
    @madmanwithaplan1826 2 місяці тому

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

  • @Flutezor
    @Flutezor 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @AnimumbleTem
    @AnimumbleTem 2 місяці тому

    This was brilliant! Please keep doing these, they've all been among my favourite content on the channel :)

  • @AegisKazu6244
    @AegisKazu6244 2 місяці тому

    These are always my favorite episodes. All the games are fun, these are special.
    Plus Tom and Ben!

  • @HerbertDole
    @HerbertDole 2 місяці тому

    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

  • @cyclonesfan7205
    @cyclonesfan7205 2 місяці тому

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

  • @MrSorryNo
    @MrSorryNo 2 місяці тому

    These 1000 Year Vampire games are so awesome! Please continue to do more of these!

  • @nicolewright5795
    @nicolewright5795 2 місяці тому

    The two of you improvise so well together!

  • @chloe-historyandgames
    @chloe-historyandgames 2 місяці тому +2

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

  • @malazar
    @malazar 2 місяці тому

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

  • @cameroncoyle5506
    @cameroncoyle5506 27 днів тому

    Loved this very different take on the immortal curse

  • @Kaiyato_
    @Kaiyato_ 2 місяці тому

    Tom always does a really good job of encouraging the players in these TYOV playthrough!

  • @RoronoaZoroSensei
    @RoronoaZoroSensei 2 місяці тому

    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!

  • @andgodsaiduntoabraham
    @andgodsaiduntoabraham 2 місяці тому

    This game would be a fantastic writing prompt for a novel

  • @MontySaurusRex_
    @MontySaurusRex_ 2 місяці тому

    Every mystery quest video is a blessing.
    Loving the Thousand Year Old Vampire with all the yogs. Its been amazing.

  • @MagWolf11
    @MagWolf11 2 місяці тому

    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.

  • @kraken_egg6261
    @kraken_egg6261 2 місяці тому

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

  • @aurorabora7557
    @aurorabora7557 2 місяці тому

    The centaur adventure felt like the star wars christmas special

  • @dgenaraition
    @dgenaraition 2 місяці тому

    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

  • @normtrooper4392
    @normtrooper4392 2 місяці тому +1

    I think Ben is my favorite one of these so far

  • @heli0ns
    @heli0ns 2 місяці тому

    Geez, the narrative stayed so solid throughout!

  • @Salmon_Samurai
    @Salmon_Samurai 2 місяці тому

    Always love Thousand Year Old Vampire.