In today's video, we're finally going to take a tour of the storyteller beast mode. So let's go!
What is going on youtube! Greetings from beautiful Utah. Got another spot on blm land,
nice and private for us to do this tour today. I'm really excited about it if you haven't watched
my previous video called first impression of the storyteller beast mode make sure you watch that i
talk about the outside of the van a lot but since it's so windy today we're going to go ahead and
jump right into the van and i'll show what you really want to see which is what's going on inside
of there including the shower area so let's go okay so let's start off with the front cab area
this is obviously a mercedes so the comfort and style is about as good as it gets when it comes
to a van these seats are incredibly comfortable and the leather just looks nice storyteller
added its own little touch to the seat which is pretty cool and up here you have all the
mercedes gizmos this works really great with apple airplay i'm not 100 sure about android but there
is an android app on here so i'm assuming it works just as well with android phones as well
let's talk about the drive i've owned mostly jeeps in my life and that ram promaster and this is by
far the most comfortable ride i've ever had like i mentioned the seats are super comfortable but also
the van is sealed up so well you know the mercedes part of it which is the front end and then
obviously the stuff storyteller has done which we'll talk about in a moment help keep the ride
in this van extremely quiet sometimes when this van started up i don't even realize it started
and i hit the start button again and once you get on the road there's hardly any road noise this van
has the same ko2 tires as my ram promaster did and people used to always kind of use that as
an excuse as to why my national park edition was so noisy when i was driving but this has the same
tires and it's nowhere near as noisy so that's definitely one of the cool parts of this mercedes
it comes with these little overhead things it doesn't come all the way out which i actually
appreciate because when when it does i'm constantly hitting my head i was always
hitting my head in my ram promaster and i know some people put the modification in here that
allows this to come all the way out but i personally like it this way i like it where
i can stand up here and i don't have to really worry about hitting my head although i have hit my
head on this a couple times so even these ones can be problematic for me but i like having him here
like right now i have you know like a selfie stick stored here and a an outdoor chair so
really cool this is a beast mode so this has all of the kc lights on the outside of the van and it
has these really cool aircraft switches you feel like you're in an airplane or something with these
things the kc lights are super bright they go for like miles when you turn them on in the middle of
nowhere like i am right now so as you can see both of these seats rotate around which gives you extra
living space this one doesn't have a workspace which i kind of wish it did maybe something that
comes up right here and folds over because i would actually prefer to work from here but this one
works pretty cool too so you can transition over here and sit here i have my laptop here right now
because this is where i normally work just whip out the laptop and go to work here so it's pretty
cool you got this lagoon table that is adjustable goes in like this so really really clever
clever design so that's the front of the cab let's move on to this little middle area here
okay we're in what's called the lounge area and we'll come back to this groove lounge in a second
but first let's talk about the instrument panels up here so the first one over here
is the water monitor system and all that does is provide a place for you to turn on the water pump
so you can get water out of the sink it also shows you the levels of your fresh water and gray water
tank so pretty standard in an rv so the thing up top is the system you know i love it's the
volta system it reads like a gas tank it tells you how much electricity you have left to work with
for those that don't know and aren't familiar with the volta system the volta system in this rig is a
true 30 amp system it has 12 000 usable watt hours which is a crazy amount that's like a
thousand to 1200 amp hours of battery you can run the ac for like 12 hours on it straight so it's
a pretty robust system it also has a 3600 watt inverter so i can run everything the microwave
the air conditioner all at the same time no issues what i've always liked about the volta system is
the ease of use so it has this gauge here that looks like a gas gauge and that tells you what
percent of usable energy you have left and when it gets down to zero that means you need to recharge
this volta panel is a little bit different than the one in my travato it has an inverter on
and off button which is pretty convenient in the travado i would have to mess with this other panel
over here to turn the inverter on and off but in the storyteller you really don't have to mess with
this the next control panel over here is the air excel so what this one does is controls the heat
and the ac so the air excel is kind of like a climate control panel the panel next to it
is what you use to turn on your furnace so for your heat and for your hot water
so pretty simple all right let's talk about this groove lounge again
so i mentioned before that this is a storyteller beast mode but storytellers claim to fame
is their vehicles are modular hence the name mode and so you have all these separate
modes that you can put your storyteller in right now i believe this is called work mode or i don't
know eating mode dining mode something like that it's just a typical kind of dining work table
setup but this thing here does so much more so let me show you that real quick i forgot to mention
that there are seat belts here for two people and you can fit in here pretty comfortably actually
and storyteller says that this thing is rated way above what the requirements are for safety
so you shouldn't have any worries putting people here seat belted in okay so let's start
messing around with this groove lounge here and show you its different modes
so the first thing you do is you
take this thing off right we're going to come back to this though and we're going to use it
right here by the way is the shower pan and if you lift it up you can
see i have the toilet sitting in here we'll come back to this in a moment
so as you can see this comes down here and you can take this thing and repurpose it so now you have
kind of like a little love seat here so someone could be sitting here you could be sitting here
and just chilling and relax relaxing i like just putting my feet up like this looking out this door
and it's just a really cool view so i guess this mode would be called the lounge mode
all right so there's one more mode this thing does if you're enjoying this video please hit that
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hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any of my weekly videos and so now you have kind of a bed
that you can lay on so you can you can sleep on this you can sleep another person on this you can
kind of work here with your computer you know if you want to just relax this thing comes up more
so kind of like this you can just chill here look out your back doors if you have them open it's
kind of a cool like little chill mode here i like it i'm digging it so i haven't really used this
that much i need to sleep on this to see how comfortable it is but i think i would really
like it because i like the smaller twin size beds so for me i think this would be perfect so
yeah you've got all kinds of different options with this thing which is what i think makes
this van really cool you can basically customize it to whatever your needs are which i think is
really cool all right let's check out the kitchen real quick so we're going to start off talking
about the kitchen out here because i think the kitchen is up here but also extends to this area
so outside you have this fold down counter and you can put your electric grill right here and
cook when you're outside what i love about this refrigerator here is you have access to everything
so if i want to get a drink if i want to get one of these keto coffees and drink it out here i can
just reach into the refrigerator i have my little electric hot plate right here cooking it works out
really well all right so you also have this little instrument panel here so this controls the awning
lights if it was dark you see those come on it also has the awning in and out button so right
now i can put it out as you can see the audience going out i don't use the awning very much but
you do have one to work with here uh let's come up here and see the rest of the kitchen so you've got
your counter space here you'll notice there's not a propane stove which i love everything in
here is electric but you do have a little portable electric cooktop you can put it up here or you can
take it outside and put it on that little table i showed you earlier so i like that storyteller made
it really flexible on what you do with this thing and then it stores really nice in this drawer here
that leaves this area open to prep food if you want without having your cooktop be in the way
all right so you got a sink here it's a deep sink this thing comes up and turn the water on
turn the water off pretty self-explanatory there's also a bunch of drawers down here
i didn't mention this in the last tour i did but there's actually a lot of storage space here so
you have that small drawer to hold your electric cooktop but then you have these bigger drawers and
they actually hold a lot of stuff i've got like cleaning gear in here and then there's another
one down here currently i'm keeping plastic bags the air hose and the shore power cable down here
but you could you know use it for anything you wanted so there's actually more storage in here
than i first thought in my initial first impressions video i also have this little
kitchen caddy that storyteller sells it's pretty cool it comes with the beast mode
throughout the rig you have these usb ports scattered throughout you also have
110 outlets and this right here controls the max air fan i think it's really cool that it's right
by the bed so you have the max air right here it's really sunny so i put the cover over it
but you can control it from the bed so that brings us to the bed now okay so we're in
the bedroom now but i forgot one thing about the kitchen the microwave so it's just your standard
microwave it doesn't have an oven in it like my previous vehicle but i never use the oven anyway
so this is perfect for me so this is the bedroom this is the bed it's pretty self-explanatory um
i'm 511 and because this thing has the bump outs i can sleep in here pretty easily as you can see
i've got plenty of room here there's also these little lights over here these push button lights
so that's a really nice touch and you know obviously you can look out the back if you
want if you have the back open you could do the you know the instagram pose where you're you know
laying on the bed and looking out the back but what's really cool about this bedroom is
this is only one of the modes this bedroom is transformable into two other modes
so three modes for the bedroom let me show you the other two modes here unfortunately to do these
modes you got to unmake the bed and i'm huge on making my bed every day so this kind of hurts me
okay all the blankets are off the bed so we can pull this out here
turn it this way so it's out of the way push this over all right do this one too
all right so this is the second mode it's called work mode so i can just lift this up here
and i've got this workbench here i think
it holds two or three hundred pounds it might be more than that but um i mean i could definitely
sit on it so that's pretty cool you got this whole workstation if you want
the next mode is called garage mode so you can just fold this up
folding the legs here
latch this thing up and now we're in garage mode i could definitely drive my motorcycle up into here
that's one of the really appealing things about this rig so i could have my motorcycle
in here protected from the weather protected from road debris when i'm driving and then
when i get to the spot i'm going to like this i can just drive it out set up my
bed we're good to go for two weeks at a blm site i've got my bed i've got my motorcycle
i'm set so i love this mode okay so that's the bedroom now let's check out the last
room in the storyteller my favorite room the bathroom okay we're gonna start down here first
there's this really cool towel rack right here i'm gonna take this stuff off here though so i can
show you this area all right so we're gonna start with the toilet not the shower
so the toilet's down here but this isn't how i use the toilet
so normally the toilet is positioned like this on here so when i get up at night when
i'm just hanging out in the rig out here in the middle of nowhere with nobody around i can just
it's at that level right it's at the correct level so that's the toilet i mentioned this in my first
impressions video that i wasn't too crazy about this but it's kind of grown on me and i actually
really really dig it it's so easy and convenient to dump usually i just head to a pit toilet in a
national forest get rid of the liquids and we're good to go people always ask me about number two i
do a boy scout style i go out into the wilderness i dig a you know eight nine inch hole do my thing
and then move on it's not that big of a deal although i'll be honest with you because i'm in an
area with so many national forests i really don't need to do that i just go to a pit toilet at the
national forest campground okay so let's get this toilet out of the way and i'll show you shower
mode okay this is probably my favorite part of the rig either this or the rooftop deck i have a whole
video devoted to this shower so i'm not going to go too in depth on it but i did want to include
it in the rig tour because i think it's the best selling point of this rig what i didn't like about
mercedes van adventure van type of things like the revel was the bathroom right in the middle
that blocks the view you don't have that open feel it makes it very claustrophobic feeling
and storyteller kind of solved that issue with their shower setup so it's called a halo shower
and it's pretty simple to use like i said go check out my shower video and you'll see
a really in-depth review of this shower here but you just turn these things here
there we go and you got a little shower caddy you can put soap or whatever in this thing you got a
little mirror to shave and this is the star of the show here so let me take out this real quick
you just pull these straps and this material here reminds me of like parachute material in
the military or something it really like wicks water really well all right we'll pull this out
and that's it the shower is ready to go it has these magnets on it and so they just snap into
place here i'm not going to jump in the shower and use it you can check out that other video
but you can see how easy this thing is to use and store you just roll it back up it's really quick
it dries pretty quick as well actually just use this today and it's not wet at all
okay fold this back up in here so that's how easy it is i mean i take navy showers to conserve water
so from the moment i decide i want to take a shower to the moment i'm done
taking a shower is about five minutes because it's so easy to set this thing up and put it
back up it's exactly what i was looking for in a rig i don't want to shower you know a bathroom
blocking the view and making it feel like some kind of cave so this was perfect for me okay so
what do you think of this van is it up your alley is this shower like too weird for you maybe the
toilet setup's weird or do you just love this adventure van and if you had the money you would
definitely go out and buy one right now let me know down in the comments and if you enjoyed this
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