HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Blood Tales of Depravity 2: Mummy Issues

*Listen, if you SCARE! Light up the cauldron and sell your soul to the lowest bidder, for Ru-no, I'm sorry-BLOOD TALES OF DEPRAVITY returns for another chilling adventure. Join Count Dracula (Christopher Hastings), Big Frank (Ali Fisher), Caleb (Joe Lepore), and Count Dracula (Tim Platt), as they race across that macabre metropolis NEW YORK CITY to save the Halloween Community. And who will stand in their way? Why none other than that twisted mastermind, Branson Reese!*

*And in two weeks: Get out the kleenex. Rev your monster truck. And PREPARE THE CHAMBER OF YOUR HEART THAT FEELS CATHARSIS because it's the finale of Rude Tales of Magic: Class Dismissed! You don't want to miss it!*

The Halloween episode is played in a modified version of Lasers and Feelings, using Blood and Culture as the replacement stats. It appears to be in the same setting as the first Blood Tales of Depravity but does not contain the same characters or bear any major connection besides involving vampires in New York.

## Summary

We enter The Empty Neck bar on Halloween night, finding it to be a hedonistic vampire bar. We are introduced to Big Frank, a tiny mosquito-like vampire, and Caleb Dark, a handsome werewolf who is famously a friend of the vampires. Count Dracula himself makes his presence known, much to the joy of the crowd, only for a second Count Dracula to introduce himself. A contest is arranged by who can best command a Renfield familiar, but he is so torn between his choices that he rips himself in half. The matter remains unresolved.

Gill, the Creature From The Black Lagoon, eagerly enters the bar, happy to be among fellow monsters. He suddenly remembers that he came to seek help because the mummies are planning to turn all of New York into sand. The group engages in a quick vampire orgy before they summon a Lyft to drive them to the museum. The driver reveals himself to be Tony, a werewolf in disguise who veers off the bridge to try and kill the vampires inside. Caleb recognizes him as his own father too late to stop the crash. Caleb escapes the car and turns into a more monstrous (but still handsome) werewolf form and drags the car the rest of the way across the river. Along the way, Big Frank helps himself to some of the driver's blood, gaining some werewolf powers and growing larger from his feeding.

The party is threatened by a gang of werewolf toughs, allies of the mummies and enemies of vampires. Big Frank drains the blood from some of them while Caleb transforms again and throws them underground where they are pulverized by a subway train. Realizing they will need more allies, Caleb calls on an old favor from The Blob. They also travel past The Copafirebadna, a Frankenstein bar. The Frankensteins are wary at first, but they are met by The Bride, their bride of Frankenstein boss. Caleb forms a peace between them by proposing to The Bride on the spot, which is officiated by the Count Draculas.

The party sieges the museum, which has turned into a pyramid. They use their various powers and allies to battle a giant head of sand, a sphinx, scarabs, and possibly Godzilla before the mummies are driven off. Count Dracula sees that it has just turned 12:01, meaning that Halloween and the time of public peace between monsters is over. They hastily retreat, knowing that All Saint's Day is coming and saints come pouring out of various buildings.

## Links

Episode: https://art19.com/shows/rude-tales-of-magic/episodes/d5c7d6a1-26ef-4c83-930e-bb153aead265