Update 02-08 - UNREMITTING HYPE
🕑 Added 2025-02-07 23:42:49 +0000 UTCHello and Good Evening or Morning or whenever Alfa gets this to Patreon, everyone.
It's me Earndil again with a- IT'S A WEEK AWAY. WE'RE RELEASING THE NEXT EPISODE COME HELL OR HIGH WATER BY NEXT WEEK, 2/14.
ARE YOU READY?
CAN!
YOU!
DIG IT!?
That's right folks, after almost a year of talking about how we're working hard on the next episode (We do that a lot you know, it's a lot of hard work) we're FINALLY able to get it out.
We are spending the next few weeks all-hands-on-deck preparing and quality checking the episode. That's the main reason we've not had any updates really over the past month besides the post-christmas thank-yous, and we're finally getting this ready.
Please, do us all a huge favor when it comes out, and share it around as best you can to whoever cares, or might be interested.
We don't e-beg often (by my reckoning we make a concerted effort of it only once every two years or so) but this has been a huge undertaking, and we are really hoping the response reflects just how much we've put into it.
As indicated, we're hard at work on this, and this alone pretty much, so we're focused on this almost exclusively (save for me doing odd-jobs about the company for video comp for future works, get excited for that I suppose), so don't expect many more updates until then!
You will know more next week, so please... keep your eyes and ears out on socials.
Until then, have a poppeng rest of your day!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Week!!!!!!!!!!!
-Earndil
Until next time, have a good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comments
Kyle Armstrong
I think Amanda is the ghoul. And that Matilde is a BG ragabash homid born. Curious to see if I'm right.
GitBot3994
Iv been rewatching chapter 5 and noticed at least 3 times characters take great combat poses for a walpaper, but becouse of it being in video it would be only PC screeen resolution. So i wanted to ask will you ever make a from combat part of 5 chapter but for pfone resolution ?
Mister Joshua
After seeing the episode a few times, I'm changing my mind on who it was. I went in kinda certain, but I think Git told us exactly who the Ghoul is, and they've been using the Elixir of Domination Big D says Kevin mentioned.
Smiling Walrus
Och, fuck all kinds of duck.
Benjamin Pointer
I absolutely, positively, without-a-doubt did NOT fucking nail it! 😀
bluefeatherearring8
I burn with the anticipation of an absolute corker of a dénouement. It is my Valentine’s Day gift to myself and my partner.
Hal Embers
I mean Git is a very simple background character, in my opinion the best candidate to use as a mole, he stands around and listens, goes home > day job, gets mind probed by his master then > back to be a mole
Kyle E Johnson
She called the vampire countess only after he was out of earshot, so he might not be in on the scheme. But, it could also simply be that he's not high enough ranking to be worth informing, if he's just a ghoul
Electro_Static
That’s the most logical
Electro_Static
I think I know who it is, I like them as a character and that is a bummer.
GideonWells
I’m not voting. There are so many possible red herrings that the chapter house could legally qualify as an aquarium.
MuffinTime
Please don't kill them, I need them! I am not saying I have an addiction but I *will* burn down my local Blockbusters if they die!
Hal Embers
I think it’s spit (correction Git), remember that he works at the 99p store lead by Nymphadora, one of the lady reagent’s daughters
Graverobber Jake
'ere we go. 'ere we go. 'Ere We Go. 'Ere We Go. 'ERE WE GO. 'ERE WE GO. WAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGH!!!!
rowan williams
I just want to ask. Can I borrow some of you're voice samples and certain voices used in you're "TTS40K". I wish to make my own WH40K fanfic story and I'd really love to have permission doing so. If I don't I'll think of something else in place of those
Stuart Stone
Dig what? A grave? Yes I have.
Yormolch
Clearly it is the first and last option, that are the same.
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
*to the tune of "Bob the Builder"*: "ARE YOU READY? CAN! YOU! DIG IT!?"
Robert VS
Why are the last two options the same?
Semy Mhedhbi
HYPE!!
LiamOfOrmonde
Take Horse’s name out of your mouth! He is Big D’s precious boy!
A Small Dog
I don't know shit about fuck
Benjamin Pointer
I am still going to shitpost my theory that Occam is a hidden Sidereal Exalt, specifically the exaltation of Chejop Kejak. It probably isn't true. But I will still stand by it, because I'm a huge Exalted 2E fan.
Benjamin Pointer
I had some additional rambling about why I didn't think it was the others. I don't see it as D, Marckus, Kitten, Remold, Brok, Git, Spit, or Harry. Most of that lot are visibly accounted for or consistently in the presence of others -- And of them, Spit's the only possible one, and I am pretty positive /his/ secret is being a Garou. I don't see it as being Grimal -- While she was definitely suspicious, what with her wide-eyed and terrified looks, I chalk a lot of that up to general mental instability, self-consciousness, and legitimate terror at a possible vampiric agent in the chapter house. It's suspicious, yes, but explainable. I don't see it as Elise -- While she definitely had a bit of curious placements, they all made sense. I posit that her placement outside the security room area was because she went down to Matilda to allow Grimal to hide out in the security room. Matilda's shown to having been leaving the security room, in the map. Matilda would have been bribed with Giles' cigarettes, and Grimal would hide in the security room because it's /literally/ a super-secure room. If Grimal's afraid, she'd be safe there. It'd also be quiet and away from everyone else, and she could get herself in order. Elise would just be being a good friend, here. But /those/ three are accounted for. Dr. Waters was in her office doing cocaine. I believe you can /see/ the cocaine on her after she went to her office, she /definitely/ has the pep in her step from an upper, and.. Really, I think she's just on the up-and-up of being a drugged-out hyperknowledgable individual. This leaves Amanda unattended for a time, and she /could/ possibly be the ghoul.. But I don't really feel that one. Her blathering "baba yaga" after having been shocked shitless is a red herring, to my thinking, to grab lorewhores like myself and make us /think/ she's it, because we're super-confident in our lorewhoreyness. But it just doesn't hold up as well as the possibility of Fatigue, to my thinking.
Benjamin Pointer
YOUTUBE CAN SUCK MY SALTY BALLS, THEN. Okay. So, recreating from memory -- I think the ghoul was Lord Fatigue. There's several things pointing toward this, and what I recall included the exchange that was had in the pub. The way he spoke to Giles regarding where Simon went off to, it felt off when I watched it initially.. And in retrospect from the Disciplines audiolog, this feels like a very subtle expression of the second- or third- level Dominate power. Dominate being one of the Tremere's signature Disciplines, and the ghoul being in the thrall /of/ a Tremere.. It'd fit. There's also the fact that Fatigue was in the Break Room, when the map was displayed. It's an odd choice; His getting up and leaving the conversation when he did implied that he /knew/ where Simon was.. .. And the break room wasn't it. He's also an old man, and the break room is on the third floor. It's highly unlikely that he went downstairs and then /back up/ to the third floor, let alone in that span of time. Fatigue is also one of the few with access to the Archives. He's also been there a truly lengthy span of time, and it would make sense to target him as a potential ghoul -- People clearly defer to him. I want to say there was more to the theory, but those are the strongest initial points I can recall. Simon is almost certainly an Ahroun, and if I had to guess is either a Fianna or Bone Gnawer. At first glance, I'd think he's a Ragabash, but the presence of the full moon -- And the fact that I seem to recall a Garou's rage waxes heavy when in the moon of their auspice -- lends toward Ahroun in context. Acting under this thought, Simon /absolutely/ ripped Fatigue apart. What triggered it? Not sure, but it's immaterial -- There's a /lot/ of reasons why a Garou would rend a Wyrm-tainted creature to ribbons. If this is true, Simon also 100% knows he's Garou, and it's not his First Change; His uniform is definitely under the Rite of Talisman Dedication. .. I think that's it. Enough for me to hopefully claim internet points if I got it right. :D
Alfabusa
Oh no, we did not delete it at all, must've been youtube.
Benjamin Pointer
.. Unless OP wants to confirm that they did /not/ delete my comment on YouTube, in which case I absolutely will seize my internet points and recreate the whole damn theory. >.> EDIT: For clarity's sake, my YouTube handle is "Sye Cole", and I /did/ tag SpeakerD on BlueSky shortly after I had posted it.
Benjamin Pointer
I don't have a copy of it written down just this moment, and out of respect to our Ogrey Overlords and the possibility (absolutely not confirmed) that they deleted the post because I was right, I'm gonna hold off on it until I see the episode. Admittedly, sad about losing possible Internet Points, but c'est la vie. Even if I'm wrong, I'll probably reply to this comment thread with my original assessment.
CheeseySword
My money is on Horse.
boomerpro87
i'll be honest i dont actually have EXACT answers but... i have a few names with a few roles attached to them. i have guesses on whos the ghoul, or ghouls and whos the werewolf or werewolves and a few different ideas on the "Why" of things from every situation... but imma need the actual episode to confirm my theories.
Will Nelson
I think it's Simon Spires, who is secretly a werewolf
Crimson
I don't recall exactly but it was something along the lines that Horse in the audiolog predicted everything. That the "Patriarch in mastering Luna ends up hamstrung" is in relation to blacklaw being a ghoul to a Malkavian and getting got, basically lol. I sadly don't remember the nuances, but I'm convinced blacklaw is the ghoul.
Kyle E Johnson
Since people are posting their guesses in the comments: It's definitely Occam. He's Irish, you can't trust the Irish. Therefore, Occam's razor, he did everything. ... ... ... ... ... ... (if he's actually one of the villains and this shitpost is proven right, I'm going to flip)
Kyle E Johnson
Do you have a copy? I'm intrigued
Kyle E Johnson
This might genuinely be a fantastic idea. You've definitely got enough footage from all of your videos to clip some things and post them on social media to help build hype and draw eyes to the series in general. It might have been a waste of time before you finished 5 episodes, 8 audiologs, and the 4 or 5 shorts, but now there's GOTTA be some sufficiently-quotable & zany clips to put out on social media. The hard part is picking good ones, but making them is as simple as clipping video from what you've already got, isn't it? And, I may be wrong about this, but "bad" clips would just get passed over or forgotten, not harmful to you in the algorithm, so there's room to just throw a bunch at the wall, right? I think the guys from Something Witty Entertainment do this so their YouTube channel never goes too long without "content" in the eyes of the algorithm, because they're another one of those teams that puts in ungodly effort into writing and releases one or 2 big videos per year
PunchingTucan
It is most likely grimuld I think. I really wish it wasnt, but I think it is her.
RedPhlannel
I’m still convinced it’s Elise and she is my PRECIOUS CINNAMON ROLL
Banammock
Nope- they had the next story all worked out and everything, and even had other story arcs running in tandem with it (see also: Bro Trip 40k), so whoever this flamer is, he's incorrect.
Eve Mizgala
I’m really looking forward to more Occam. The delivery of his last line in Chapter 4 was magnificent!
Erik Franzén
To reach out as much as possible, maybe do a teaser? And post it on various social media, like bluesky, tiktok, youtube and others? Get the hype going for peeps without patreon?
Benjamin Pointer
I am all but 100% certain I know what is going on in the chapter house.. .. And my stupidly long theory posted to the Chapter 4 on Tuesday was either deleted by OP or deleted by YT. Either way, keeping it to myself and finally subscribing to the Patreon here. 😀 Looking forward to watching it.
Gohu lacd
I'm like... 68% sure that Gloria Waters is the Ghoul, and the last mini-episode reinforced that theory. I do believe that she is the one that knock-out Occam to then access his office inconspicuous. I do not believe however that she killed Fatigue. Like many others I share the idea that a werebeast is the one who teared him apart, with the most likely suspects being Simon (bit too obvious of a red herring) or Matilda Wild.
Fluffer
I have no fucking idea who the culprit is
Alfabusa
Happy birthday!!!!
Kyle E Johnson
Mmmm. They're definitely someone saying things for the sake of pissing people off and giving him attention (even if it's angry attention)
Draco Meme
I care not who the Ghoul is I simply wish to enjoy the wacky charatars and their hyjinks
Scryer
Grimal spent the time between when they split up and when the murder was discovered being interrogated/tortured by the Blacklaws. Eve if she's somehow the Ghoul, she's not the murderer. Have seen people theorise that Simon's spastic, hysterical actions seemed reminiscent of a Garou about to frenzy.
Retro Doofus
Great update thanks I look forward to it (not the comp thing the episode 😂) HTP is my favourite series currently been recommending it to everyone long before now
Mersharr
The ghoul and the killer need not be the same person.
rowan williams
yeah well. He's even saying it deserved to get cancelled and that the WH40K setting is only good for horrid jokes
Trevor Bond
I understand the Ogre group was essentially told by GW directly to cease and desist like many another, so, don't see how that was unclear. Definitely no sign they have run out of ideas and they weren't in a corner, they were smack in the middle of a story arc.
Kyle E Johnson
In grimal's defense she was planning to order beer before they got distracted by conversation, because they were only talking for about 15 minutes before the thing with Brock started, and is heavily implied she went home and drank with Elise. So, she's not a full vampire. But a vampire is only one of the things that could've killed fatigue
Kyle E Johnson
Grimal is already a weeb ghoul so she's immune to blood that hasn't been folded over 1000 times, and Harry's smile is literal sunlight so he's also immune. (That's definitely how it works and not cope at all pleasedontleteitherofthemdie)
MorningCock
Oh yeah, it's all comming together.
Arch_The_Protogen
Happy Birthday!!
LiamOfOrmonde
Don’t think it could be Harry. He was carrying the box, spent the whole time up until discovering Occam with Markus, actually helped point out that Occam had been out of contact for a while and should be checked on, and post-Occam he helped carry Occam away. He is all accounted for. Additionally, as discussed in 4.1 when they discussed the possibility of a full blown vampire killing Fatigue it can’t be Harry, because we saw him drinking beer in the pub. He’s clean. Grimal on the other hand…
Kyle E Johnson
Blatantly false. When people are hurt & angry they will invent all kinds of false things to say just to try to hurt someone. No way in hell they "ran out of ideas". They've created 2 new entire series since then and the TTS story was cut off in the middle of a plot. Even if they "ran out of ideas", they were in the middle of executing a plan, and had plenty of material left to create episodes. It's just someone pissed off about something, who is trying to stir up angry reactions from others
S.P.D.C
M'yes, nice and VIGOUROUS. Where is the "Mommy come pick me up there is a murder and I have no clue what's going on." on the poll tho'?
rowan williams
I'm not gonna be on here for much longer. But I have something to ask a collective opinion on. Some new guy on the Discord Server calling himself, Arrowhead and he's spouting this out: "Emperor's TTS got cancelled because the creator was afraid of the new policies. However I believe that this is no true and it was cancelled because they have written themselves into a corner and ran out of ideas. Otherwise that decision was too hysterical" I don't know if he's either stoned or some crack pot. But I don't think he's trustworthy. What's the opinion from all on here? Cause all I'm seeing is this guy calling all the people who made TTS40K as either a bunch of P*****s, brainless or worse both. And I don't even see that as true or if he's worse than that
Jessica Wood
If the ghoul is Grimal or Harry, I am performing a 1000 year curse on Ogre Poppengham.
Ogre, pop a nang!
A RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT ON MY BIRTHDAY? I HAVE BEEN BLESSED
Sir Jimmy
I hope Grimal's the ghoul
Deltarno
I've got an unhealthy interest in the werewolf theory, so fingers crossed! See you all next week!
Joseph Elenbaas
Read the comment on horse's prophecy. Also....BRUVA LIVES *STOMP STOMP*
Eji1700
I refuse to conjecture on who the culprit is solely on the concern i'll actually figure something out and possibly enjoy it less because of it OR because a nagging worry you'll pull some weird bait and switch thing despite your proven track record now of years of good writing YOU MIGHT JUMP THE SHARK NOW OH GOD WHAT IF THAT HAPPENED!!
FedupN
Looking forward to it! And to be honest, I have been MORE than content with the Norfolk Wizarding Game. It is FANTASTIC!
Mithril-blade
Why do you give us such a cursed poll. :(
Chibi Penguin
YES YES YES FUCK YES!
MrInsecure
And they would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
DamaskFlame143
The perp....is probably in Inaba.
Kyle E Johnson
I am 100% forcing my partner to watch this. On her own device, after I watch it, so it counts as an extra view. Also where's the "I saw a video essay that made a strong argument but I like that character so I hope he's wrong" option? Because my literary analysis and deduction skills are long gone. I absolutely did not reach my current suspicions on my own. I've guessed maybe 3 twists in any movie or game or book ever
S014rw1nd
THEY DID NOTHING WRONG
Alberich
I’m betting it’s Gloria.
MFullstop
Spoiler everyone is the ghoul roll credits shows over forever
Smiling Walrus
Please don't be Mathilda, please don't be Mathilda, please don't be Mathilda...
DrSalty
Bruh there is no 14th month
Alec Miller
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO I’m so hyped for this and my group chat will be getting the link to the video as soon as it’s out
Roguekelsey
Looking forward very much to this episode, but even more so to more NWG!
Arklaw
I'm too stupid to even guess who the ghouls may be. I could spend days in front of the map watching where everyone is at what time and not succeed in finding out who they are.
Mister Joshua
I am horrified at the idea that I think I know who the Ghoul is, and I am terrified at suspecting what the culprit is.
Mr. L
I hope my avatar in this amazing episode
Rowan Hawthorpe
I still have no idea who the culprit is but I hope they get a People's Elbow from Big D
the third dirty plate on marckus’ desk
also. i totally know who it is. i hope they don’t die
the third dirty plate on marckus’ desk
thank you so much for putting all this work in for us- bought a sub today just to tell you how much i love the show and how glad i am to get to keep watching your work. let yourself take breaks, too- we love you !!!
Bombushka
Damn it Blessed… HOW COULD YOU DO THIS?! Pfft hahaha XD cheers again for the news!
Faux
digging it with my bare goddamn hands, raw and bloody from the bedrock
william crisler
YES YES YES MY BROTHERS WE FUCKIN RIIIIISE! IM TELLING MY WHOLE FRIEND GROUP
info_saturation
The day this leaks into reality in its full form will be a blessed day. Fuck yes, can't wait. I shall yeet it into the faces and various other extremities of all whom are even slightly susceptible
Decius
Ooooo blessed Val Tine Day
Daniel Vasquez
I will make an effort to share it with the KU TTRPG Club! I’ve already infected the leadership with Vampirism! We play Sunday! And I’m presenting VtM to the club on the 20th!
SomeWierdNinjaPatreon
4th option : I do NOT KNOW who the culprit is, but my SWORD IS READY TO CUT DOWN ANY VAMPIRE FIEND WHO MIGHT BE HIDING WITHIN OUR RANKS ! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH !!! *Runs sword in hand, and crashes down the stairs*
LiamOfOrmonde
Where’s the option where I say I have no idea who the culprit is? Cause I have no idea who the culprit is! Could be literally anybody! In fact, more than one person could be the culprit. One person could be a ghoul, and the other a vampire. Or multiple ghouls or multiple vampires!
Lego Cathedral
DIGGING IT! WITH AN EXCAVATOR!