Thousand Year Old Vampire - Ben 

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

holy shit what a gift

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 ❤

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.

YES thousand year old Benpire!

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

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

Sharky and Palp together again - makes me SOO happy

The creator of 1000 year old vampire has announced a sequel

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Thousand Year Old Vampire are always my fave Mystery Quests.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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...

VAMPY AND PALP

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The two of you improvise so well together!

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

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

Loved this very different take on the immortal curse

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

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!

This game would be a fantastic writing prompt for a novel

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

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.

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

The centaur adventure felt like the star wars christmas special

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

I think Ben is my favorite one of these so far

Geez, the narrative stayed so solid throughout!

Always love Thousand Year Old Vampire.