What's up everybody? Welcome the table story, Simmie Lanckram, Welcome to the
show everyone. How's everybody doing today? Hey? Hello? It was ready?
Hi? Really? That's it? Is it that I'm not ready?
We lived in a weird spot? Okay, I don't know anything. There
is a weird weird I mean every spot that we end in the Similarchrum is
a weird spot. Broom, it's true. Spoiling much. That's very fair,
That's very fair. Today will be no different. Today is gonna be
Uh, Today's gonna be a dig. It's gonna be a day. It's
gonna be a day. We will continue to day and I'm glad it's happening.
We will be continuing the emotional roller coaster right to get another one tomorrow
road work. We will be continuing the emotional rollercoaster that is Simi Lockerum today.
That that will be happening. People in the chat that haven't seen the
show before, it's a real weird show. It's a really weird show.
In this part where we're sort of setting up and getting ready for the show
here and just giving our introductions, we don't do any RP in the chat,
but during the show there actually is chat RP because this is a virtual
world show that's being done here. The players are playing themselves, playing characters.
So if you've never seen the show before, it's gonna be real weird
and just I guess, sit back and try and figure it out out,
because we're we've we've already started and uh, it's it's gotten pretty intense so
far, it's gotten pretty intense. So why don't we get started. Let's
go around the room and let's do some introductions and let's hop into things.
Because this is gonna be a this is gonna be a weird, a weird
situation today, and it's probably gonna it's probably gonna be a long session.
I don't know. I'm curious. I'm very curious to see how things are
gonna go a twelve hour session. Wow, your charity, Bosco, You're
gonna eats so much more food? He yells at me. More yelling equals
he needs more food. Can't you trick like the wood you kindly? Uh
the dingistry? Can't you make that? Can't you make them like dingus some
some ridiculous amount of can food for Bosco and your cats? I wish?
Are you kidding me. You just said, Jade, do you want to
save three grand a year? Yes? Yeah, of course with that cat
is Yeah, the would you kindly? Dingis is hard to aim their very
fair? How much? How much cat litter? Did see you get?
Fifteen pounds? Maybe fifty? Maybe don't? I can't. Fifteen is nothing.
That's like one thing of cat litter. She don't have a cat.
Thank you for that introduction, Jay. Now that's who I'm playing today.
Guys me still pissed off, but I don't have fifty pounds of cat litter
for him the black shadow behind me. Do you want an actual intro?
I'm playing an intuitive Jack who rages there we go? Is that really?
Who rages? Is that really? I think you? Just? Yeah?
Yeah, you just got a little taste of it there in and out a
game once? Is that this lies? Oh you weren't there for that episode?
Oh spoilers? Okay, thank you Jay, miss Hi. I'm Mythomatic.
I'm playing Mythematic who's playing Alrich Shiloh, a risk taking right who dances
with the dark matter. I'm pretty excited to play. We got a lot
of weird uh scenarios in the pipeline for what we're gonna be up against,
what we're gonna be I guess dealing with in n RP, as well as
probably what we're gonna have to fight. So I'm excited. It's gonna be
fun. Can't wait to play? Can't we to throw dice? Can't we
to role play? Let's do it, Let's do it. Obviously, we
have no Nega Orics today. She is uh, she is at packs West,
so she will not be joining us today, but her character is sort
of here. We'll see how that happens and works today. We'll see how
that works. I don't know what's gonna happen there. Pocket. Hello,
I'm Pocket, who plays Pocket, who plays technome the least role play name
out of all of us, and I'm a protective nana who works miracles.
I'm your What is it a mixture between? I mean I would say a
cyberpunk Magic, the Gathering Angel, lots of Gold, but cyberpunky. That's
about it. This is my first time. Oh, I can't spoil.
Never mind, I don't want to spoil because I don't know how much Pumpkin
does. I know nothing from the last two. Okay, then I don't
want to spoil. Okay, awesome. Quietly, this is my first time
if we enter combat that I'll be in combat. So if if, if,
and so I'm really nervous because I'm like, who to be the healer
and you guys survived without me last time, so maybe I'll just peace out.
Uh but yeah, so I'm really excited about that. I guess someone
can tell punk as you can put on her head set again. He paybe,
it's excited, he pocket peebe wit. Just to introduce yourself and your
I'm Pumpkinberry and I am playing myself stuck in the uh MMO. I guess
character that I made named Coralai, who is a mechanical delve who talks to
machines. Thank you. I'm Wax Stephen, and I will be the GM
with normally, however, in this game, I'm playing the administrator and an
interface known as Null. In this game, I've given the players a lot
of agency to take care of things and what they do with the world,
and they interact with a sort of pseudo GM known as Null to perform tasks.
They are in fact trapped in a world new min era of the Ninth
World. It is a world a billion years in Earth's future. Anything that
you can imagine that may have happened to the Earth in that time probably has.
Humanity has come and gone and come back. There have been alien races
that lived upon this world. They've been robotic races that have lived upon this
world, and just a little bit of everything is still there. It still
remains while humanity is the pervasive race across the Ninth World. There are all
different kinds of creatures and machines and strange things, strange devices called new min
era. They make up all sorts of different contraptions. Imagine, for instance,
if you brought a computer or an iPhone or something to the Dark Ages
with limited power, what would you be able to get out of it?
It would probably work like something like a flashlight. People wouldn't really know what
to do with it. They wouldn't be able to get past probably any passwords
or anything that you've got on there. They'll be lucky to get it to
work as a flashlight, and even then it's only going to last as long
as the battery. Then it'll probably get tossed. That's the kind of world
that they're living in. People with the sort of knowledge of the Dark Ages
However, a different kind that has these strange alien devices or devices that the
real understanding for has been lost for a long time, and people are just
kind of stumbling along trying to make their way in the world, just like
we are. It's just a very different and very weird place, a very
weird place. The creatures that live on the world don't really fall into our
normal classifications, our sort of breakdown of the different animal kingdoms. It's all
it's all awash, that's all thrown to the wind. Strange and really really
weird creatures exist in this world. That can be a combination of all the
things that I already talked about. There are creatures that are affected by the
world itself, which is covered in in sort of nanomachinery. It is pervasive
throughout the world, and there are people that can understand it and people that
can interact with these nanomachines. Pocket is playing one of those kinds of people
nanos in this game. They sort of see it like magic in this world
because they don't understand the reasoning behind the things that are happening. And that's
a sort of major theme. If you're trying to understand what's going on.
That's kind of the default way to think about things. A lot of the
things that we think makes sense are not really necessarily applicable here. There might
be strange laws of physics that are broken, things that just could not possibly
exist with our knowledge that we have exists in this world. And the players
were part of a sort of beta experience. They got access to a device
known as the vrt RIG and this was the first virtual tabletop world that people
were able to join, a sort of MMO like experience, and upon visiting
it, they became trapped. And as they've spent time here, they've experienced
some truly harrowing experiences. It felt real pain, and they've been unable to
remove these devices that they use to interact with this world when they first arrived.
They've also suffered some serious losses. One of those losses was when Umpkinberry's
character Corali when missing from the group. Everybody except Humpkinberry. If you could
be so kind as to take your headset off for me, please chat.
We're going to start our roleplay experience here. If you'd like to talk out
a character, feel free. You can talk out of character in parentheses that
would be great, but otherwise we're going to sort of switch over into ourp
mode. Chat has visuals on all of the players still through Twitch. They
have been able to see things that have been happening in the world, sort
of like a third person camera, so they've been able to see these things.
They saw when someone from the table story channel banned by Pumpkinberry managed to
find her in this world, someone that did not in fact seem altogether there
this person that's kind of identified themselves as Fang character that's playing a glave in
this setting. They are a sort of think of a combination of a fighter
and a barbarian and everything else. Very tough, very intimidating in a big
sort of simulacrum. The avatars in this game. We're starting here with CORALI
being bound in a essentially a bundle of blankets thrown over your head and tied
up. You've been gagged and you're sort of tossed on the floor of this
small room on a trade ship headed for the city of Bridges, the capital
of the sea Kingdom of God. I don't know that though where it's headed,
right or do I It's been spoken of, you would have overheard it
for sure, Okay, we're going to start with a role. Sure which
horral I horrall I please make hororll I please make a mite difficulty defense A
might A might defense check difficulty four. Yeah, it's good to be back.
As you've been sort of had these as you've as you've had these blankets
tossed over your head. You can't really see anything. You have a gag
in your mouth. All of a sudden, you are stabbed through the blanket
in the leg. You feel the blade goes slowly through your skin and into
your thigh. You feel the presence of someone close to you, like someone's
leaning in close to you. That's just in case you get any ideas and
you're going to take four might damage to your current might. I don't want
any trouble. This pain is real if you understand, and if you understand
not, if you understand, I'm not He's gonna push you over onto the
floor. You have your hands sort of tied behind your back. You can
feel the sharp agony in your thigh from where he stabbed you, and the
blankets are sort of tied roughly over you, over your bindings and over your
gag. It's hard to see. You have maybe a small bit of light
what seems to be some kind of light in the room. Maybe you saw
it when you came in, but it was it was a small light on
the on the wall, probably like a wall sconce near the door. Also,
it's like candle light. It's like flickering. It's not It would probably
be like a wall, a circular wall scance, something that had not a
light bulb in it, but it had some kind of luminescence that was pouring
forth from it. It's not a torch. In this world, they have
all different kinds of strange contraptions and things that would light the room. But
it's not like natural light. Yeah, it's definitely artificial. Yeah, okay,
yeah, you could probably see it through the fibers of the blanket.
Yeah. And he just kind of roughly kicks you over onto the ground and
he says, yeah, I bet you're not laughing now. Huh huh.
Yeah, Hey, you in your fucking group think you're so so fucking amazing.
Oh you're the best role players. Uh fuck you, fuck you.
You know what I'm gonna fucking do to you. You can feel him get
close to you again, how close He's probably like kneeling down like you could
probably feel you know, once when someone gets close you can feel the air
change. He's probably close down by like your hips or something, and he's
sort of like bent down. I can get a feel for his size correct
or did I did I? When he's a big guy. He's a big
guy, all right. He gets he like he like sort of kneels down
and he just says, he says, I can't wait to fucking get you
to the City of Bridges. You know, this is great. I've never
had a body like this my whole life. This game is the best.
It's the fucking best. I can't wait to get you there. I'm gonna
make so much money for you. There's got to be I mean, the
place is the City of Bridges, right, I gotta have pirates and shit,
there's gotta be some pirates that'll buy you. I bet I can sell
you for a lot of shins, live like a freaking king. Would you
like that? Would you like to move? I just lay there? Would
you like to be owned by a pirate? I wonder what they do to
you? Huh? And he'd kind of like I think you'd probably feel him
like you'd hear him, and probably I don't know if you'd feel it through
the blanket, but he spits you can feel them like kind of get up
and start to walk away from you. I'm biting really hard on the gag,
so I don't make a sound because my leg really hurts and I don't
want to give him this satisfaction. Yeah, you can hear the door open
and close. It's probably something along the lines of the ship was really similar
to the way that a lot of the exotic ships look in No Man's Sky.
That's sort of like, oh yeah, bulbous, almost hg wells like
sort of appearance, metallic, and there's probably a sort of like hatch that
closes or something behind him. Am I able to wiggle and try to get
my bindings behind my hands loose at all? Or is it one of those
knots where you like the more you struggle, the tighter it gets. Is
he that smart? Please make a difficulty for speed check in regards to undoing
your bindings. Oh, you have rolled a natural one, right? Will
you try to cancel this GM intrusion or will you take the XP? Do
you have one XP to pay? Actually, I'll take the experience. Fortunately,
there is no one else in your party at the moment to share XP
with. Okay, so you just realized you're not talking to null. You
have a gang in your mouth, but somehow they are able to understand you
gain the one XP and you feel the bindings sort of get tighter and tighter
as you try and loosen them. Okay, I'll stop immediately when I noticed
that that's happening, Please make it might save difficulty for who I wish there
was a way to just do this without anything except the difficulty. You have
rolled a twelve. Maybe you hear him, but you realize that he has
not left the room. As you start to struggle, you can maybe hear
him start to laugh. You brace yourself as he kicks you while you're down
on the ground, sort of connects with your knee, and he says,
stop fucking struggling. If I see you fucking struggle again, I'm gonna stab
you. I'm gonna fucking stab you. That should hurt, didn't it?
Not your fucking head? I nod. Do you want to die? You
can feel him bend down and get close to your ear again. Do you
want to die? And you better not piss me off? You're gonna go
like a good little girl for this fucking city, and I swear I will
fucking kill you. There's no cod here. I can do whatever the fuck
I want. No one's gonna stop me. I'll just throw you overboard,
just like a wet piece of meat and feel him sort of get up,
sits on the bed, and probably hear the bed sort of move. In
this small room, you would have gotten a little look at it before he
threw the blankets over your head. Where's the door? Judging from where your
space is, he probably threw you on the door, on the floor near
the wall, opposite the door. It's a small room. Yeah, And
where's the bed by the door? Yeah, it's probably on a like from
your perspective, on the right side of the door. Okay, so he's
sort of between me and the door at this point. Yeah, I'm in
the corner. Okay, Okay, why did I ban this guy? Do
we know? Why do you think you banned him? I don't know.
I never have to ban anybody in the table story chat, so it must
have been really atrocious. I'll think on it. Maybe I can't remember.
I don't remember banning anybody, all right, Okay, we're gonna switch back
to the other group. Holy sure hebe if you could take your head set
off. Yeah, okay, the rest of you. Sorry, I'm just
amanted the rest of you. At the end of last session, you were
traveling through the the area north west of cap Ford, and Katie peters Play's
character Jax Castler was with you as you were trying to move to the city
of Bridges in the night. As you were traveling from Cafard, you were
traveling with a family that you had luckily found riding some creatures, some sort
of like pack animals known as a nine and they were named Coda and her
son Sem and her daughter Donnie. And as you were making the trip,
you had encountered some strange winds that had sort of picked up along the travels,
and there had been these alagmites that have thrown out of the ground,
sort of causing mass chaos and injuring just minor injuries across the board. You
stopped a camp for the night, and after about an hour or two,
the the by Jay Gamerson and Alric Shiloh was interrupted by the sounds of Katie
peters plays simula from Jack's Castler screaming in the night. Alric, you had
seen her grabbed by what looks like a shadow and pulled into the ground.
I think Jay, you were kind of lost in thought and technome. You
were asleep and were woken by the scream and you lose sight of Una.
Looked like she ran off. What does everyone do? She's getting pulled into
the ground or she was already pulled into the ground. She was pulled into
the ground quickly. Okay, okay, Una ran off, ran off.
Yeah, she was sleeping with me, but she just got up and ran
and I like took my time. I guess, mm hmm, I guess.
I ran over to where the where I saw her disappear into the ground.
I I call and I claw. I guess the ground is. Does
it leave any marks or anything? Yeah, it's like it's stirred. How
far away are Jay and Ulric from where we were sleeping, though not too
far right? They were staring at the fire. Yeah, Uleric was doing
like a patrol patrol around, so he kind of wasn't near us, not
not super close. Ye saw that. I run over to Jay and I
go, yeah, who's screaming? That's Katie? I think it's Katie.
Oh, he was here. She was here. I heard her scream and
now I and it looked like, I don't, I don't know, something
happens. So it looked like a dark shape of something and pulled her into
the ground. The character's gone. I don't know where she is, like
a demon. It kind of looked like a demon, like a shadow.
Oh ship like the movie ghost we'll get to get in the wife then,
and probably like the movie Ghosts. I don't, I don't know what this
means. She did say that she her character co worts with the Leviathan or
something, so this could just be part of what her character does. But
I don't, I don't know. I think it's dragged under to seemingly hell.
Yeah, there's no way that's like a character featured. Where did where
did Naga go? What do you what do you mean? What did you
see? Where she went? Did she ran off? I mean I woke
up and she was like already running. Uh, I thought it the exction.
You didn't see her message? Oh? Oh, what would you like
to check your message? Yes, yes, you know O'Leary has left the
party. Not this again. You gotta be kidding me. So she Sler
has left the party. Oh no, do you think the demon got both
of them? What does that even mean? I don't know. The shadowy
figures it like it's like the drag Me to Hell situation. You ever see
that movie? It's fucked up? Any fucked up? Don't watch it.
It's weird. Yeah, but it's it's it's Do you think both of them
got grabbed? The kid? The mom and the kid probably go back.
We shoul probably go back. I don't know. I don't know. I
mean, yeah, I'm turning. You don't know the mom and the kid
at all? How are they? Coda? Thank you? Yeah? Oh
I don't know. I just ran over. We should go back if we
want to, she she She would have probably been roused, and you probably
would have heard them sort of yelling, Okay, what's going on? Is
what's going on? Come over here to stay in the lights? We think,
No, yeah, stay next to the fire, don't our friends.
I'll tell her to come over here. Yeah where this is where people got
kidding. We shouldn't even be here far next to the fire. It's like
fifteen feet, it's not even that far. Yeah, but we're not next.
Let's just go next to the fire. Okay, just shadowy figures fire.
I already suggested that, Oh, I start walking back eggs. It's
going I don't know she if she left the party. She left the party,
I mean, I don't she could. I don't know. She may
have run off and this is too much and she's oh, we said that
about we said that about Pumpkin. There's no way that there's no I don't.
I don't believe that. I don't didn't. Can you say something was
like hunting her someone some guy that looked like a guy or was it literally
something from the ground. Was something from the ground, I don't, I
don't know. I didn't. I didn't get a good I didn't get a
good shape of it. It looked like it had arms. I don't even
know if it had legs. I don't know. I don't know. I
thought the guy was hunting her, the guy that killed But like the thing
is, we also don't know anything about this guy. So maybe he has
some sort of like can transport through the ground ability, he's a necromancer or
something, yeah, or like, yeah, that's scary. I was hoping
they didn't have those shadow mancer or something weird. I don't know. I
have no idea. It's a new mine area. Anything could happen, and
that's that's the that's the coolest part and also the scariest part of the Ninth
World right now, I have no idea. I should have went that,
probably, but I don't know if that's gonna help us right now. I
I don't know what to do. Zone is gone, Meg's gone, She's
out. I woke up to coda. I'm like, you know anything about
shadows that come out of the ground. Please please make a difficulty three intellects
check. This is based on persuasion. Yeah, you have rolled at thirteen
shadows They come out from the ground. I've heard of such things. They
look like people you have heard they look like they look like people you've seen
them. I saw one. Yeah, yeah, your friends. Two of
them are missing now that one screamed and then the other one ran off,
and now we don't have contact with either of them. We don't. We
don't know creatures. Yes, the shadow tuck them, that's what we said,
or slid. You sawid, didn't you? Yeah? Yeah, I
saw I saw our friend Jacks, one of the mohawks. She's was just
sunk into the ground. She was dragged into the ground by one of these
creatures, and the other one just and and and just ran off. She
ran off into the darkness. So I don't even know. I don't what
is the darkness. The thing here is that she looks extremely panicked. But
okay, well, maybe maybe we should just stay close by the fire.
Maybe make a couple more fires. I guess, I don't know. I
don't know. Yes, make more fire. They told you fire, let's
just burn everything, burn everything. Just I don't think we should burn everything.
I think we should just like have a very good like fire. Yeah,
controlled fire. Well, because me and fire we don't have a good
relationship. So okay, yeah, we'll just okay, so we'll start up.
We'll do like a ring with an entrance. We're gonna we're gonna do
the ring. I don't know, Yeah, why not? Oh, I
was thinking the movie sorry no, no, oh no, no, like
a ring of fire, like a ring of sorry. Sorry, at this
point, I'm not scary movies. At this point. Everything's scary now and
this reminds me of a scary movie. Point. So yeah, which,
yeah, ring a fire, ring a fire, that's right, Like the
cash song, yeah, if that, If that helps, I guess we
also don't need to do a ton like a huge ring. We can just
do some fires as long as just we have light. And I don't know,
I don't know. If you go into the darkness you get swallowed up
by whatever's out there. I can only assume that's maybe what's happening. Oh.
I just start to walk away as he's talking and like, no,
no, I have a quiequestion. This is no. I would like to
use my hedge magic to create a light. That's that's it, just delight
I don't I don't, I don't know. Just a big light, you
know, like a big light. This will not require any sort of check.
Your basic understanding of hedge magic would require this to be a difficulty zero
check. Oh goodness, okay. Yeah. And then and then what I
do is I hold my hand up and I go, hey, guys,
watch come ma. And then a light starts to appear, like in a
little ball, and it gets a little bigger. And I don't finish the
haw because I'm just like looking at everybody like you get it, Yeah,
you get it? Okay, yeah, And then I try to make a
light. Let's just illuminate the area around us? How long can you hold
hold that? How long did you comic light isn't very big? Oh no,
I have to hold this well, I didn't think about that part.
Yeah, you have to keep recasting it. Look, we all should have
like a glow globe on our packs. I'm gonna just lower my arm a
little. Okay, just going is that in my explorers? Pack him in?
Mind? Oh? Okay, yeah, all right, we can we
can cycle them. Okay, do you have any fire? Can you tell
us anything about the shadow of things? Can we do anything other than be
afraid of them? We have a campfire. We can just take a stick
from that. Yeah, why don't we just we already have a fire started.
We have see light and we have a fire. Sam, look after
your sister. I'm going to get some more wood from the anion. Bring
the in as well. Okay, but I'm gonna go with you because I
don't think it's safe to go on. Yeah, bring bring your light with
them, and Mith you should activate your globalobe already you smiled yesterday. But
you're gonna be good by yourself, So I'm gonna go with them. Stay
with the kid. Yeah, you might must stay with the kids. I'll
be here with the fire. Okay. Okay, So you go over to
the Aniene, who seemed to be like a little bit spooked after the noises.
You can sort of hear them making their sort of sort of whale like
noises, their throats kind of extending like a like a bullfrogs. And uh,
Coda is trying to just get some some wood to spill out, and
she's trying to hand you some as well. Techno, I like hold it
like this with the lights still in front of me. It's like, this
is not comfortable, but okay, And you gather some some firewood, and
she says, I've only heard of these creatures before. Tell me about this
is the first time. I mean that we've been this far, and honestly,
I've never heard of this happening of her. Their shadows come to life.
So is it a creature with a shadow or just a shadow? It
is it is some sort of some sort of creature. They say that it
was once It was once clothing worn to hide to hide people, but it
became possessed sorted eating people instead. Okay, yes, they have like ink
becomes like ink, like long fingers, claws, and there are many Is
there a way to fight it off? Or you maybe burn it or or
I just I do not know. This isn't good. This is not good.
Oh we should probably not be out here too long, because you know,
with the others, I'm going as fast as I can. I know,
I know I'm not trying to rush you. I know that this seems
like a very urgent situation, and I don't kind of I'm kind of scared
of myself. Never thought i'd say that, and again, never mind,
uh but yeah, oh god, oh god, is this light bright enough?
Should I make a can I make? Is this bright enough? Do
you think? She just she looks back, and she's just in panic shock
mode. You know, she's like trying to grab as much wood and kindling
as possible from the from the packs of these anine, and she's she's she's
basically filled up, and she's trying to grab the reins and pull the anine
towards the towards the circles. Oh yeah, yeah, we got it.
Yeah. I start walking walking back with her, and I try to keep
try to keep pace because she's walking a little slower because she's doing so much.
But I'm also like you can. I'm just getting very visibly like,
come on, we gotta go. Okay, oh my god, this is
effy. Ye walk back to the circle. The anine still sort of warbling,
obviously bothered about the situation, and uh, yeah you you you make
it back to the to the group and uh what what were you two doing
while they were off gathering this? It probably took them a couple of minutes
or so to get this wood. I've I'm building two other separate fires,
so there's three fires in a triangle at least stacks of wood. Yeah,
yeah, so it's so yeah, if you're making a triangle so there's no
light shadows, yeah, I am probably gonna be patrolling from eyesight with her
her her nanoglobe and back to the fire. I do want to make sure
that I always have eyesight on them, because I do not want I'm sort
of the middleman if anything is to happen, I kind of want to sprint
and help someone else because I don't trust being split up. At this time,
I'm over, I'm fidgeting now that I'm back at the fire, and
then I suddenly take the ball and I put it like into the chest part
of my armor, and the light glows through and goes to my payda Win
wings that I have on my cosmetic wings and they glow and I'm like,
that's much easier. I forgot all about these. These costs a lot of
money. Why did I buy that? Because there's like a faint sort of
glow that's emanating from the wings. It's not as bright as the concentrated you
know ball that you had, but it's sort of spread out across the wings.
Yeah, kind of like I would imagine, kind of like a night
light, not like a flashlight for me. You can hear sm sort of
gawk for a second as you do this. Yeah, there's another miracle.
Guess it's really cool. Come on, help me put these fires together?
Yes, yes, done, yee, help as well. I'm trying put
that one over there, and then bring that wood coda. Put it here.
We all sit in the middle of this thing. How's it coming,
Jay, It's good. We have wood, all right. I'm also looking
around making sure looking for uh nega ork stick come out of the shadow?
Is there some ship? Okay? Ohna Jax, Ohna, Did I I
have a question for y'all? Did I well, actually or if you just
come here, and I want to say it's too loud. Actually, you
know, did whenever that thing happened to me, did I leave the party?
Or was I? I didn't leave the party. I didn't drop No,
the only person wh's ever left our group was the first person was eb.
Oh. Then that's that's really not a good sign if she left the
party, because I was thinking maybe what happened to me could have happened to
her, but maybe well if it if it did, then we'd still have
the their body as a as a as a prop I guess I don't know.
I don't know. We didn't. There's just we have no we have
nothing of them. Yeah, that's what that's what's concerning. See. No,
that's what I'm worried about. I thought maybe that that sucks. I
was you were you were pretty much just dead. You were a dead body
and we and we just had no idea how or what to do. But
you're here, and that's great and that's cool and really awesome. But I
just have no idea where they are. Well, now what do we do?
We have the fire with the triangle of fire, which shape is this?
And he's a triangle a triangle. Are you I mean that that sid's
a little bit longer than you know, they're like a lot longer. It's
a little crooked too, JJA, Are you sure? List Yeah, that's
the one the kid builds. But all that matters is that we have lights,
no shadows potentially and lights still a triangle. Yeah, light sources and
we can put the glow globe somewhere in between the triangle to even it out
if we need to. As long as we have some sort of splash of
light, I think it'll be okay. I Mean, the only thing is
I don't know how well we're all going to sleep. What if it's more
light, Wake needs to keep all three of these yeah living. What if
more light makes more shadows, and if they come from shadows and it's the
triangle? Oh she she said. Coda said something about them being lighting,
being wet clothing that went evil, grew like claws and started like basically eating
people. So maybe that's what the clothes was it? Clothing was it?
I look at Coda and I'm like, I'm pretty sure I heard clothes,
but I was kind of fixated on, you know, my light. I'm
not getting it. These these creatures I have I have heard. I'm trying
to remember their names. There are names are important, maybe maybe Chivern Chivern.
They they they were once like clothing that would hide your presence, but
it became possessed visibility. Uh No, I would say that based on hiding
your presence, it would be that you wouldn't be detected by others if someone
specifically was looking for you. Is what my guess would be. If you
can detect, I don't know anymore. If you can, well, just
based on my assumption hiding your presence, if it was stealth, that would
be ridiculous. Well, I have a literal van spell, like an invisible
spell. I think it's it was the equivalent of the ninth World cursed item.
I think someone somewhere tried to tried to benefit from I don't know,
having a suit or having some clothes or something, and and I guess they
had the powers they needed, but unfortunately also a curse. And I think
that's what's happened. Hmm. How these things are intelligent intelligent clothing? What
the fuck? I think? So? So we can't even wear the clothes
we pick up. Well, I wouldn't pick up anything off the ground.
What my guess would be, if they're clothing, we could burn them.
That's a very good assumption. Yeah, but the clothing that we saw was
a material that could phase, well, at least I saw phased through the
ground. So I don't know. I don't know if it is going to
be corporeal enough for us to catch on fire. Could always try, Yeah,
of course we can try. I'm not saying we I'm not poopooing the
idea, but I'm just saying it may it may not, it may not
work, but we can try it. You you have to be ready.
Does anyone have any what can anyone asks know about this at all? I
don't really have much to know about. I don't really know what to ask.
What what? What are these creatures? What are the the the chiburns
stibburns, no slur, anyway to know it was? Howld he help us?
He just helps us. He he tells us when a conflict happens.
Yeah, he's gonna tell us. Please please make a difficulty to intellect check
in regards two beasts. Oh well, that's good to know. Oh,
okay, at beasts. I don't know about beats. About cats? That's
it? Jacamerson has rolled a three. Techno has rolled an eight. I
guess I will also roll one. Ulrich Shiloh has rolled a sixteen that off
putting knowledge suddenly rushes into your head. You can start to visualize these creatures.
They sort of they look like shadows on a wall without a wall.
There's a sort of vague humanoid like shape with a slender sort of body,
elongated arms and legs, and large claws in place of hands, fingers extended
significantly longer than they should be with with claws on the end. And uh.
They they are known as shivern. They killed for pleasure and their talons
are like steel hard shadow related. They usually they usually move in groups.
Well okay, yeah, they're a packed creature who kills for their enjoyment and
apparently their corporeal part about them is their steel hard claws. Shadow of shadow,
mother, what is that? Ah? Fuck? You see Sem by
the fire sort of like illuminated the front and he's just warily pointing out beyond
the fire whatever it is. Don't go near it, yes, stay back
here? What is it? Sam? Get down by the fire, Doney,
you get down by the fire. Now. They immediately like rush towards
the fire and sit down, Yanine. Yanine are seemingly worried. Obviously,
they're sort of moving about, bucking beyond the fire. All of you can
see shadows extended too long on the ground from rocks and things that have a
sort of humanoid like shape. Some of the moonlight illuminates them a little,
and you can see they're not actually resting on the ground, only their feet
sort of extend towards the objects that are creating them. And you can see
five of these around the ring that you have kind of created, maybe about
thirty feet away. Fuck that and that and that. Yeah, I'm actually
not so worried. I'll keep my distortion lens the ribbon, I'll keep the
ribbons of dark matter up, and I'll want to stay inside as a target.
And I reach inside my coat and I take out the cipher that I
created like an hour or two before, and I spray myself down with it.
It is a It is a slash retard and spray of level four.
I guess you start to see. I guess you start to see like when
I move. I guess if you were to think like oublack kind of where
like you move and you add pressure to it, it will harden. But
instead you add pressure to it starts to shimmer. So when I move and
stuff around my joints and stuff, it'll start to shimmer. And I guess
I slowly approach and you see it like my hands out like I'm ready to
you're gonna leave the firecasting. I am probably closest to them, but still
in the fire triangle. Okay, I go for the go for the legs.
It looks like we could. I'll distract them. You guys, if
you guys can hit them, do it. But if you do the hokey
pokey, we can just stab them. Yeah. Yeah, I'm I won't
be able to do much besides keep the lens up. If I can distort
the area around them and they can attack me, they can't. If they
if they can hit me, they won't do much and it'll be hard for
them to hit me. So if I can distract them and do like an
evasion tank, and I kind of I kind of just like gesture towards pocket
because I am an MM ownered and and I'll be like, I'll just do
some evasion tank stuff here and I'll try my best to see what we can
do and you guys just I guess hit them with range. I don't know.
I mean, I think this might be the Canadian the meet here.
What are they going to attack or I don't know. Let does it look
like they're doing right now? They like? Are they just standing there?
Are they? Like? So there's three of them that are grouped up near
each other and two others that have sort of so they've just sort of formed
a triangle with one group of three and then a group of two that have
sort of spread out around the fire. They're about thirty ish feet away from
the fire. I push Coda and her children between between us, so Jay
and I on the other side because it's for the two behind us, Like,
well, we got to keep these two from doing anything. So if
you can keep those three, I know it's a lot, that's asking a
lot, but we got to keep these two from from doing like coming in.
I don't. I don't think they can't. Seems like they're I take
up my whip and I I uh, it starts to glow in my hands
and then I uh, I look at Jane. I'm like, what do
we hit them? Let me try. There's some movement with a group of
three. Never mind, you see something moving and it looks like it looks
like they throw something. Let's see they they toss something rather large near the
fire. I can see you can see immediately as it hits the ground that
it is the body of Jack's castler. Oh fuck covered in slash marks.
Well that confirms it. It's kind of messed up. I'm gonna whip my
dagger at the If there's like three, I'll take the top right one on
the triangle, the isolated one, just in like a fit of fucking rage.
I'm just gonna like I'm try and throw it. You're gonna throw the
dagger? Yes, I'm gonna let off a very loud expletive as I do,
but I would like to activate my enabler frenzy before I do. Dagomerson
has initiated combat. Yeah, please roll initiative. Ull Rick Shiloh and techno
H. What level the difficulty is to? Yeah? I mean mine didn't
succeed past the two, so I failed. Jake Emerson, Ah, sorry,
difficulty to initiative yeah A fifteen. Jake Emerson and Ulrich Shiloh will act
before shivern five fuck five whip Jake Emerson, please roll a speed check difficulty
to speed check? There a culty? What does it look like when your
frenzy begins? That's me yelling fuck as loud as I can as soon as
I see Katie. I think it just I just get really mad. I
don't think there's any sorry I missed up the role here, I'm going to
cancel it. I don't think there's any crazy indication. I think I'm just
really fucking mad, out of control. Yeah, and I'm I'm not even
trying to aim with the dagger. I'm just as hard as I can at
that thing. Also, I sorry, I have four edge speed right now?
Does that do anything crazy? Is that? Or I just get to
basically use an effort for free. Edge will allow you to make certain roles
easier. However, you can only take one kind of advancement per tier.
If you have already taken the edge upgrade for your currentsier, you must wait
until the next tier. Okay, thanks song, I still have three edge
because of my frenzy, but thanks very well. Your dagger sails off.
You can see you can see that it starts to get darker around the shiver
as soon as you throw the dagger. They actually like you see them illuminated
partially by the fire, but it just seems to dim as if the fire
light loses some of its intensity. You can see the darkness just start to
spread out around the shivern to toss the dagger, however, you see that
it hits one of them. Yes, how much damage do you do with
your dagger while you were frenzied? It only gives me a plus one to
my mid edge and and speed edge. Okay, so it doesn't give you
actual damage, Buffy. Yeah, it's not like a two. Yeah.
Okay. So the dagger sails out. You can hear like whispers kind of
moving about, some laughter beyond the fire. Ah. Fuck, the dagger
sails out. You can hear some like response, the start of startled response
as your dagger hits I hit something. Could not do it again? Keep
doing it? We got to keep hitting them. Yeah, are you moving
or are you staying in place? I'm staying right where I am, which
is like in the middle of the three. Okay, I imagine Katie's body
that landed right next to me. So do I have to roll anything?
Sorry for the damage there? Or no? There's no damage? Rolls that
are made in this game. It's all flat unless you have some kind of
modifier where you roll really high. That's the random factor. You get it.
If you do the the eighteen or the eighteen to twenty or twenty,
you'll get bonuses to the damage. That makes so much more sense. Cool.
Thanks, So dagger sticks in the ground. You can we can hit
them. We can do it. That's good. Now to have them not
hit me. And I guess I'm still staring at the I'm staring at the
body of Jack's and of Katie, and and as he throws the the the
knife, and as he swears and screams, I guess I kind of just
I have my hands are already out and I just pulled them up. And
then I start to I start to then rip the ribbon of dark matter,
and I start, I guess, breaching the gate of this of matter and
antimatter and hoping to distort the lens around what would be the darkness. Let's
see how darkness matter goes. And I'm gonna I have an edge of two
it costs to so I'm gonna trigger this iodum or not the iotem ray excuse
me. The ribbons dark matter I think is I think it's two. It
wouldn't be free, but now it is, okay, and I will drop
a ball or the ten foot sphere of distorted dark matter energy this lens of
distortion around more introducts. Please make an intellect check difficulty to you have rolled
at fourteen? Oh, Rick Shiloh. The dark matter expands outwards around you
were trying to hit the three they were grouped up. Okay, I think
I want to hit it like in front, so if they move, they
have to move through it. Which one did you hit? Jac Emerson?
The top right? Yeah, one of the out liars. I've just assumed
the right one, one of the singular ones or one of the three the
singular ones. Okay, okay? Uh So the dark matter spreads out,
and again, what does this look like? So? I think, uh,
it seems as if I pull something from my sleeve, but I'm actually
drawing a line through. I guess this material realm, I guess you would
say, And I'm splitting the seam of reality. Uh And I think with
that rip, I I guess I with that rip, it also launches towards
and as it does, the wound within this within this realm stretches and warps
and lands on the three, and then from there you see a shimmer of
blue and maybe even a plume of this just unfathomable distortion as the I guess
as if we're looking through a heat wave. I guess these We start to
see these shadows flicker and wave beyond this lens, and I'm trying my best
to keep it where they are, and I'm going to continue to channel this
and keep it where they are, even if they do land on top of
me. Okay, it starts to spread out, and you can hear Coda
and Simon and Donnie basically like screaming in fear. And as you do this,
you can see that it sort of encompasses three of them. Their turn.
They all start to move. Looks like they're trying to The three that
are in your in the dark matter are trying to move out of it.
The other two are rushing towards them. Seemingly everyone is. They're sort of
trying to rush towards each other with their full action. They do that,
they rush together and you can see a larger shadow forming Mega's word shadow oh
Man, like a voltron shadow fock technome. It is your turn? Oh
man, if they're all together, they're now at Ulrich's dark matter? Are
they entrapped in it with the other did like they did they join into the
dark matter with the other three? You know, they would have used their
their action to move out of it. And oh okay, so they moved
out of it and then they all joined together. Yeah, probably just outside
of it, and the other two would have rushed to join as I start
like trying to join the way, it's not like the same shape. You
can see multiple shapes, like you can still see their individual forms as part
of this larger shadow, so you can see like claws and things moving about,
but it still makes like a larger shadow. Okay, guys, I'm
gonna try something. Just don't be too close to the edge. I guess.
I'm just I don't know if I can even do this. Okay.
Well yeah, and I I kneel to the ground and I sort of like
like swish at something, and it's the nanos below me of like uh,
sort of the small breeze we have going and I lay my hand and you
see them just shimmer out. Well, I see them just shimmer out,
and then I focus my energy into increasing the strength of the fire next to
where these these guy things are, these shivering are specifically. My goal is
to basically like just amplify it to a point where they can't like ignore it,
like it's too strong. So tech. Now, it seems like you
are trying to use some sort of hedge magic. Is this correct? I
think I yes. Unfortunately, due to the nature of hedge magic, you
are unable to do what you would like to do. Even if I'm not
trying to harm them, I'm just trying to lighten it up to the point
that they can't ignore that. Correct. Oh that sucks. Well. Then
I lean over to Jay and I put my hand on them and I go,
I listen, man, I don't know what to do. And uh,
I'm gonna stay back here with these guys, and if any of them
jump at these guys, I'm gonna I'm just gonna be the shield. And
then I cast a word on myself. Okay, just wash my ass.
Oh yep, yeah, I mean I don't really want to. It's not
that pleasant like that. Okay, just keep keep everyone safe, keep us,
keep us healed if we take damage, just trying to help us.
I don't know I don't know. I don't even know how, don't feel
how men die? Yes, I mean we just let someone in a party
die, so I'll just try not to let another die, I guess.
Yeah, And then a glow forms around me, just this like small emission
of like what appears to be just a shield around me. So I was
like, sorry, guys, I there's a There's also this sense of like
this encroaching darkness as well, and the fire feels like it's growing dimmer.
So having this other glow start to emanate from techno, albeit minor, is
another sort of light in the darkness. A new round has begun. It
will go first, all Rick Shiloh or Jay Gamerson me, I'm going to
reach into my pocket portal again and pull the dagger back out, and I
think you should always go before me. I've got I I will be moving
the lens around, so if I move it on before. If I move
it on before you, would you act you will actually be taking disadvantage,
so you should go before I do. Okay, all right, Yeah,
And as I'm pulling the dagger back out, I'm gonna if I'm fighting,
let's say, the right one here has the is the left gaining ground at
all, or I'm trying to do with these two outliers. They're not outliers
anymore. They sort of merge together. Yeah, they're performing. They're like
the power Rangers forming. Amazing. Oh okay, I thought, just a
three giant shadow right now. Then I'll just throw it at the big vulturon
looking motherfucker. You you are using a light weapon against a creature. Make
sure that you roll your light weapon ability. This is a difficulty for check
with light weapons. Okay, you have one asset because you are using light
weapons. Thank you. No, whoah, you have rolled in nineteen the
option of a minor effect or a bonus of three damage. Three damage very
well. So you can see the dagger whip out sticks into the shadows that
are sort of still doing their creepy whispering, but it's louder now forgot it
again, and you can see the shadows sort of recoil a little bit from
the from the hite. That's all I can do, I think, Yeah,
I'm not doing anything else. Okay, uh so they just use their
action to converge onto one being in the previous round. Yes, all right,
I will I'll move and they're still what thirty feet away? Ish mm
hmm. I'll maybe a little bit maybe like a little maybe like a little
bit closer, maybe like twenty maybe like twenty feet Okay, I will could
I I'm gonna I'm gonna drop the lens or scoot the lens about if seventeen
feet between me and them. Therefore there's still some spill over and there's still
more on the side between us. Uh, yeah, I'll just do that.
Please make a difficulty for intellect's check. Four Is that that I win?
There? Four is a you have rolled a fifteen. The lens of
the dark matters still moves. It still seems to encompass them. Their forms
get like all distorted and weird in the in the shadow and this dark matter,
and I start to move a little bit closer. I start to close
the distance between us, but I still want to stay within relative light radius.
Okay. On their turn, Uh, they will basically move out of
the dark matter. It looks like they're moving towards a rock in the ground
that's just kind of like partially embedded, and that's going to be it for
their turn. They moved into a rock. They moved. Yeah, basically
right next to a rock maybe about the size of, oh, a watermelon.
I'm gonna take out my whip and try to hit them as they as
they are are on the move. Techno, please make a difficulty for light
weapons check because you are using light weapons. You have one asset. This
will be a speed roll. Oh you have rolled in eight. So when
the whip sort of like kicks out, you can see like even though they're
they're sort of like one form, they're they're a bit amorphous. You can
see that there's still the different shapes of the different shadows individually amongst the larger
shape. And I think they're just kind of moving in such a way that
you just crack the whip and miss the the the area where you try to
perceive them. The whole perception thing because they this is a shadow and it's
not on the ground is like a weird thing, right, like just trying
to start it. Yeah, it's it's a it's a strange feeling. So
I think that's thrown you for a bit of a loop. The new round
has begun. Jacamarson or Ulrich Shiloh, who goes first. I'm going go
I'm going to again reach back into my pocket portal and get the knife ready.
But I want to aim this time at the shadow coming from the rock,
the exact portion if I can directly where it does meet like our reality
of perception, like where it does kind of blend in where it seems like
they're coming from, like attacking their leg. Please make a difficulty for speed
check. Jacamarson, you have one asset since you are using light weapons.
Okay, for one effort assets. You have rolled a natural nineteen. Would
you like a minor effect or plus three damage. You can see the shadow
overall start to get a little bit smaller. Best, and you hear the
whispers again as the shadow seems to shrink in size. Look, it's getting
smaller. Keep hitting it, keep going good, good, good, I
can do all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna continue doing this. Uh,
everybody's spread out. I'm not happy about what that that rock looks like and
may be thrown and I uh, I just moved. I moved the entire
lens. I distort where they are now. If I keep doing this,
it's gonna keep costing them to move to get out of it. Yeah,
please make a difficulty for intellect check. H h Yeah, yeah. H
m hmmm, pardon a difficulty to intellect check. Oh, so I might
have rolled a natural three. Unfortunately that is a failure. M hm.
When you try to move the dark matter, it starts to swirl around,
like maybe you kind of lose your control a little bit. Your concentration starts
to wane. Maybe you're a little worried by this thing heading towards this rock,
and you should be. As you see the rock get ripped from the
ground. But as it does get ripped from the ground, you can see
that the shadow falls apart and four of the hivern spill out of it.
The chivern. One of them is sort of pulling the rock, but they
have sort of fallen apart. The rock gets launched over towards the fire.
There were three fires. One of them has gone out. Can I take
a second in turn with my know what to do, ability to react and
get in the way of it. I also have reacting as a skill.
Yes you may, oh, please use your reacting skill. Difficulty to effort.
You have a roll of fourteen. I want to throw myself in front
of it around the rock. If I see the rock coming, I'm gonna
try and like catch it. In the chest at least. I'm not gonna
like try and catch a bullet, but I'm gonna try and catch it in
the chest, and if I can, I just want to make sure the
fire doesn't go out. Please make a difficulty three speed check. In regards
to defense. You have rolled a natural seventeen. You catch it. It's
it's it's put a care in the world. What the hell is that blowing
in the sun rightwing? Goddamn? Is she stupid? Is that peebe?
Oh my god? Wow, god, god damn is she stupid? So
Cat, you catch this rock? Yeah, Cat on the soundboard. It
hurt, but you caught it. It was I mean it was like like
catching a rock. I mean it's a big rock. You caught it and
it was uh yeah it was. It was painful, but you don't actually
take any damage. Yeah, I imagine I like kind of go down with
it into like a sitting position too, and then throw it off of me.
Ah, good work, thanks techno. It is your turn. Yeah,
I'm gonna grab a stick, I'm gonna light it on fire, and
then I'm gonna throw it at him. Just please make a speed check difficulty
to In regards to throwing, throwing a fiery stick, throwing a fire stick,
throw a fire stick. It's a good like skill. That's a good
call, I was thaying, I doing the same. You have rolled a
natural seven. The stick uh gets sort of tossed over towards one of these
creatures. And again it's not as bright as it should be. It's like
a little bit darker than you would expect, but it it lands nearby,
and you can see the the flames sort of like licking up this this creature.
H And it's sort of it's it's sort of it does seem to react
to you doing this. You can see the shadow maybe flicker a little bit
because the start of a new round. Who will go first? Jacob Erson
or all the words? Try low me youah like standing up really tired.
I'm gonna breach back into the pocket portal. Pull a dagger again. Throw
it with a hindered action at the thing. I'm a bob ah. Hindered
means that it's one step higher. However, you can just roll normally.
For a thrown dagger, you have no ass set difficulty to okay, two
effort efforts. Now you have rolled a fourteen. The dagger sort of sticks
into the ground nearby where pockets are technomes impromptu torch was thrown. You can
see the the same preacher sort of like recoil a bit. And yeah,
they're they're sort of there's sort of looks like they're starting to spread out.
Okay the week I'll be going in a second, all Rick, it is
your turn. How far are they? Approximately fifteen feet away? They have
changed position, however, Sorry, they've changed position around the They've been like
skirting the edge of the light basically and sort of they've been moving around the
area. Try out. Okay, it's picturing. They're a mob that's trying
to figure out the pathing. Okay, I will There's other cool things I
want to do, but the thing that I should do is the same thing
I've been doing. I'm going to go ahead, and I'm going to activate
and try again. I pull something out of my ear. It looks like
I pull something out of my sleeve, and I rip a tear in reality,
and I try to launch that this wound of reality and try to lasso
the area where they are and hope to keep hope this one sticks. Did
a please make a difficulty to intellect check yeah, you have rolled a seven,
so you see your rent and reality start to spread out across the the
uh several of the creatures. How large is it? Again? Ten feet
doesn't catch all of them? This time, catch two of them. I'll
allow it, all right, Okay, I can't, I can't get I
can't get that one. I'll get it. I'll get you should have hit
that one too. I mean, I'll try every missed. Once you see
the four of them start to spread out, the two that are in the
dark matter are moving much slower. They're gonna have to take their turn to
get out of it. The other two, however, spread out and you
can see the You can see that they're they're picking up like what looks to
be rocks, and they're starting to throw them at you. Please make a
speed defense role difficulty to ja gamericon. Ah okay, hmm, oh wrong
one you eleven roll than eleven fucking oh yes? Yeah. One of these
rocks just whips by you. They're about the size of baseballs. Yeah,
and you just barely get out of the way as this one's tossed. Another
one gets launched towards you. Techno, Please make a speed difficult defense roll
difficulty to technome. Yeah, you have rolled an eight technom. You also
sort of dodge out of the way, or maybe you brush your hand to
sight aside, and you see, like some nanites just alter the course of
the rock as it moves towards you. I would say, since I'm standing
in front of the fami and that that's what happens. Is it like kind
of like just goes past h A new round has begun. Oh I didn't
get to call. Oh, I'm sorry, technom, it is your I'm
just gonna do the same thing I did. I've already started lighting another stick,
and I'm just gonna like try and chuck it again, probably the one
I didn't hit, if that one's not down already, the one I didn't
hit last time. There are four of them that seem to be moving around
right now. Does one of them still have a stick in them? And
are they still on fire? It's on the ground, Okay, Yeah,
they've all moved away from the fire at this point. Okay, you're gonna
just toss another one, yeah, okay, at a different one, at
whatever one's nearest. Honestly, okay, please make a speed check difficulty to
Yeah, you have rolled a nine. Another one of your fiery sticks gets
launched out, and you're like probably burning yourself a little bit every time you're
pick and one of these up to throw it. I mean it's on fire.
You're like reaching into a fire to grab a stick to throw. So
it's it's you're you're you're burning yourself a little bit every time you do it.
Not enough to cause any major damage, but it fucking hurts. It's
like it splattered with oil when you're cooking or something, and uh, you
toss it out. You can see it lands near one of them. This
must have been the same shadow the shivern that you hit before this one.
You hear more of the whispers as they get dimmer and it fades away.
They can die. Yeah, I think we only have three more, so
yeah, good luck guys. My hand and I like lift up my hand
and my gloves have like have like havel them are burned away. Like it's
a cool look, but this really hurts. My fingers are like black.
Be careful. You have torches in your back that you can use. Two.
Uh, the ground has begun. I don't give me your torches,
give me your your take one out of my back. It is like turn
it, whip another dagger at one. Please can't get it. Check difficulty
to Jacamarson, you have one asset. I'm putting an effort in to think
that's an auto succeed. Anyways, you have rolled a twelve. You see
the dagger connect with one of the shadows. Which one were you trying to
hit? I'll say, whatever one's closest, we'll go with the one that
is that he doesn't have. I know he's got two within his dark matter,
so whichever one hasn't been touched by that then okay. Yeah, the
dagger connects and uh, you see the shadows start to like recoil a little
bit. The shivern. Yeah, I'm gonna yell at them. You stayed
the buck away. I'm not dying today. H that's it, ull Rich
Shiloh. Yeah, h I continue, I continue, uh focusing the lens
and I trying. There's there's still only the two there. I can't get
three correct, that's my uh, I'll keep it too, intellects check h
hold on h m hmm. Yeah. You have rolled a four. The
dark matter tear dissipates and it's at this point. Shit, it's at this
point that you hear more of the whispers and a voice from out in the
shadows. Give us one of the little ones and we will leave you.
No, give us one of the little ones and we will leave you.
How about you fuck off. We will shred your skin like we did with
the other. I doubt that. Yeah, a question, can I see
where these uh? Can I see them at all interacting with the nanosystem at
all? Like where this is coming from, or any faint hint of where
this is coming from, where that specific sound came from, like the with
the you know, the demon voice whatever we just heard. I don't think
so. Yeah, they're not there. So they're just they're like elusive even
to the nano. Probably nan eightster all around, Okay, probably, Okay,
Okay, the darkness has been creeping this whole time. The light is
very minimal around you. Techno. Please make a speed defense roll difficulty three.
Do I do anything? Se get plus one armor? Do I add
anything? No that is in relation to damage? Uh huh, Okay,
you have rolled a three. One of these baseball sized rocks comes whipping out
sort of unexpectedly, maybe as you're trying to scan, trying to figure out
what's going on with the nanotechnology moving around and you You just turn your head
for a second and one of the rocks hits you in the side of the
head. Oh, techno, you take four damage before armor. Armor reduces
damage per point of armor by one for each so three damage. Correct?
Now what do I where do I mark the damage? Sorry? Oh?
Okay, this is related to your might, your current might. You could
take might damage, you can take speed damage, you can take intellect damage.
If one of those pools goes down, we're hindered. Because second pool
goes down, we're unconscious, and the third one goes down, we're dead.
Okay, of course stats are also our health. Okay, jag Emerson,
please make a speed defense roll difficulty three paired not hindering. Sorry,
are you wearing leather armor? Yes, while wearing leather armor, any speed
defense tasks are hindered, but making it one more difficult? Och, Oh
cat didn't know that? No assets? Correct? Oh, you have rolled
a sixteen. You barely get out of the way as another one of these
rocks like whips over your head. However, two more comes sailing out towards
you. Ulrich, please make two speed defense roles difficulty three M two speed
roll difficulty three. Is that we said, correct? Mh they have I
have a slash, retard and spray. I don't know out of character what
that gives me? Does that does that hinder them? Or does that help
me in my role? Right now? Level four checking? Mm hmm.
Did we put a description in there for you? No, just slash,
retard and spray. Okay, hm hm nope, nope, what it does
not? You don't You don't get anything. I get nothing from it.
No, I'll let you retconent because I didn't put it in there, but
you wouldn't have used it on yourself. Oh no, okay, oh no.
I think that's the whole reason he walked in. It's meant for It's
meant for walls and structures. Really, right now, he is a structure.
I am a I am a structure, all right? Hold on it,
all right, I will I will copy paste that at some point.
I am a wall, all right, I am an absolute wall. I
guess I will roll that roll that speed. I use effort. I could
use effort twice, but I'd be spending four It's almost the same amount of
damage I could be doing. I'm gonna go ahead and still just roll it.
Difficulty we I'm sorry. Difficulty three three speed defense, you got this,
I have pizza, You've got this. Fuck you've ever rolled a seven
and the seventeen you take four damage as the first rock connects. This is
to your mic pool. The second one. Maybe the first one hits you
and you dodge out of the way, just barely. The second one it
just kind of like clips out of your shoulder or something. But yeah,
it's it. It fucking hurts and changes if tech. Now it's your turn.
So when I heal myself, that restores to my stat pool. When
you hear yourself, it'll it will give you an amount, and then you
could choose which fool you want to put that in. Okay, back to
your maximum. Oh okay, So like if you lost health right now in
your mind, you can hear yourself and choose to put that health in your
might. When we recover and get a D six, you can you roll
the D six and then you could put that in your pools accordingly the same
way. Okay. So we're constantly using our stats and our abilities as a
currency to overcome either social interactions or even combat, which is super crazy and
scary. Okay, I'm gonna take this torch. I'm gonna light it.
I'm gonna I'm gonna chuck it at the motherfucker that just hit me in the
head. Hopefully I hit because I'm a little boozy. Still. Please make
a speed chack of difficulty three. Oh, you can fancy on me,
Noel, this sucks, but I did you have rolled a ten. Another
one of the fire sticks gets launched out, and you see another one of
these creatures fade away. A new round has begun. You keep doing that,
and I'm gonna keep doing thismling a bunch of cuss words as like blood
kind of just drips down my face. Perfect another dagger throw. Please make
a difficulty three speed check in regards to light weapons, okay, three one
effort one. Ask that because of light weapons, you have rolled a seventeen,
giving you an additional one damage. Nice. You see another one of
these creatures get hit by the dagger and sort of recoil. More of the
whispers occurring. Should turn around. If you don't want to die, give
us one of the small words. Turn around, or we're gonna kill you
all. Oh god, you're just gonna threaten him. All Rick, Shiloh,
it is your turn? How many? How many are left? Yeah?
I don't I can't see them. Where are they? He says to
the others in the party, I don't know that you are you flying?
Where are you? I mean, I'm like just sitting there. I'm already
began lighting the next torch, and I just got like blood looking down where
time? Jay? I can't them? Why don't know that book? I
guess I'll just there, okay, all right, and then I go ahead,
and I guess I follow the dagger as I as I hear a five
right in the darkness, and I just try to rip open another tear in
reality, same as before, and they please make the difficulty three intellects check
h m uh yeah, yeah, perfect, you have rolled a four.
Your dark matter sort of sputters as nothing seems to happen. I think my
character's too overwhelmed right now to know where anything is. And I'm trying to
and I just I can't concentrate to rip the tear, and I just it
kind of fizzles. Fun. Just back up, collect yourself, come back
on their turn. The shadows start to dissipate. Okay, worked, they're
going, we will take what we want. Weare for mind, like looking
around, you are out of combat. But oh my god, it worked.
Okay, okay, uh Coda, she's kind of like shock in shock
and and sort of breathing really heavily. Relight the fires. I don't think
any of us are sleeping tight. I'm sorry, we're definitely not sleeping.
They can sleep, but we can't sleep. But yeah, I start relaying
the fires Katie instead, Who are real? Who are real? I turned
back to sim. I'm like, hey, and I see there. I'll
panic. I'm like, hey, you got any like bandages or first aid
at all, like for this, And I point to the blood that's like
on the side of my face. Coda is completely in panic shock mode.
She's just kind of repeating over and over again. They really not taking the
torches out of my bag and throwing them five three of them, and so
I'll throw each of them on the fires. Not the one in my hands.
Not the one in my hand. Oh okay, I have one in
my hand. I'm just gonna keep this by us in case these run out
and we need to fire randomly. It's a good place for us to take
a break. Yes, okay, buck PB, you can come back.
Pebe. Oh she wasn't even allowed to listen. No, no, I
wasn't allowed to listen, So I was just watching your faces. I may
or may not have took some screen caps, like like video recorded some video
of you guys so that I can do a dub of whatever was happening.
There was one moment where Wack was just like and I'm like, what is
he doing? What is happening here? Also, I'm so sorry about the
soundboard. My cat hit My cat like laid down and I didn't realize he
had hit something because I didn't have my headphones on, so I had no
idea. It was perfect timing because jay I just got hit by something.
It was like the most clutch moment. Yeah sorry sorry, yeah, okay,
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chat if you are still there, and I hope that you are. There
would have been several messages going out across the Twitter verse as all of these
events have unfolded. People that have entered into this game world have been reporting
lots of different things. Mostly people that have gone in have appeared to be
stable. They're breathing but unresponsive. Certain players have in fact gone braindead.
There would have been a message shortly after Katie Peters's character was killed from her
husband that the probably on Twitter or something that the doctors would have announced that
she was in fact braindead. This would have been information that was spreading all
around. Is going crazy all over the world. Monte Cook Games is coming
under obvious and insane levels of scrutiny, blame, and they have no idea
what's happening. According to them, makers of the vrt rig are claiming that
they have no idea what's happening as well. Everything is being thoroughly investigated and
the channels on Twitch have been well. When players are seemingly killed, they're
going offline. When any attempts have been made to shut down Twitch or the
Twitch servers physically or via software, even unplugging the servers, the servers have
remained online, howered seemingly by some kind of foreign energy source. Attempts have
been made to destroy the servers, and while the servers have been destroyed,
seemingly the streams remain. Simulackerman will be back in a bit. H Welcome
back, everybody to table stories. Simu lockrum, Hi, hallow, welcome
back. Hi. We're gonna uh, we're gonna stay in the same scene
for now. And you you've just encountered these these creatures that seemingly have moved
off. I try to perceive what the time is, like, how long
it's been if I can, because we don't I'm assuming we don't have watches.
Look, does anyone have a watch? A dark matter around? It's
just gonna be weird time relatively. What is happening? I don't. I
don't have a watch. Now. Well, I mean, I'm I'm more
so looking like is the sun coming up anytime soon? I'm in my ten
minute recovery here. Yeah, it's probably only been a couple hours since it's
gone dark. I need to rest. Well, I could, I could
do an hour, but I don't think I would let my guard down.
I know. Yeah, I'm resting out of pure exhaustion. Here I think
for the next ten minutes. Yeah, I won't make the role yet,
just in case we get interrupted. But I'm like sitting on the ground link.
We just need to just get the fires up. The rest of somebody
just kept would we need we have clothes, I have rope for a rope
in there. I don't care. You can work miracles, right pocket,
Yeah, what about miracles? Sorry, I was I was spacing out because
you know, I was trying to catch my breath. And that was a
lot. That was very real, I guess, I uh, yeah,
that was too real. That was too real. This is too real.
Could you bring Katie back? Oh? I can. I can heal,
but I don't know if I can revive. I mean, that's a big
task. I guess I might have to consult nol and and I don't know.
I don't really think I can do that. Okay, all right,
I I uh. After after about ten minutes, I get up and I
walk over to Katie's body, and I say, nol, is it possible
that I can bring this person back to life? If such a thing is
possible, it is beyond you. And then who can do this? Who
can bring someone back? Please make an intellect check difficulty seven. She's the
only way to make this easier for you to possibly succeed is by using effort.
I'm going to use effort. I guess two effort. How many effort
is your current maximum? Oh? One effort? One efforts my current maximum.
Then you may only put one effort in. Okay, Well, have
an asset somewhere else in your character sheet, like anything else that you like
work. You can try to pitch it for understanding a skill. I have
understanding new monera. I have like knowledge based task and healing, but I
don't I don't know. That's all I have. You may add one asset,
Yeah, colllege based tasks. Yeah? Did I do it? You
have rolled in nineteen Yeah? Okay. While there may be no people that
are capable of resurrecting the dead, there are new monera that exists that can
do such things. I look over at j and Olrik and I'm like,
well, I mean, what do we do now do we sure it is
possible mh that the Eon priests may know of such a device and priests gotta
go to the obelisks? I remember that? What? Uh, the the
monolith, the amber monolith, the Amber monolith. Yeah, that's that's gonna
be north northeast of us, somewhere Coda are are the the amber monoliths?
Are those things work close? Do you know where any priest is? It's
way out of our way. I mean, we we'd have to we have
to find Peb first. But there are sometimes there are sometimes young priests in
the largest cities in the meantime, the city of Bridges in the main town.
We're going there to find Peb. We don't that's days away. I
mean, we're gonna have a body for days. Is there a way?
What are we gonna do about the body? So we bury it? I
carry okay, so keep it for up to a week and then we bury.
We bury Jacks. I think we're gonna be quick with this, Like
we gotta get going as soon as we can. I know, yeah,
we're not in very good condition. I think we should bury her now and
come back if we need to. I mean, we gotta make something to
bury her. If she's dead, then she's dead dead because no, let
you make that role, right, miss when when you died pocket and No,
wouldn't let you make it. We couldn't make the role. So she's
dead dead and she looks dead dead. So yeah, I I don't think
that. I I don't think it would be wise to carry a dead body
with us along our journeys. Could raise a lot of concern, and it
might be better if we just bury her in a place that we will we
remember it and come back if we can. Yeah. I think in the
real world it raised a lot of concern. But this is in the real
world. This stuff happens all the time here. I mean, I got
hit in the face of the rock and that's pretty real to me right now.
So yeah, we can't. She's right, we can't. We can't
drag Katie, okay along with I don't. This is all right? Yeah,
we can we can bury her high. Yeah. Now I'm gonna reach
into my pack. I've got a thing of a like light nanotols. I
assume one of them is like an extendable shovel. I'm gonna and start to
dig the ground here Knowle's responses, M, yeah, in the party,
Yes, okay, So yeah, I'm just gonna get the work on digging.
When we get to a good place, i'm gonna start crafting. And
when he's digging, I'm gonna sit beside him and I'm gonna start wiping my
head with some like just a cloth I found, and I want to use
healing on myself. Please make an intellect to check based on healing others.
If you have any skills that you are trained in, you may apply those.
Yeah, you have rolled a four. Please roll a one D six
to determine how many points of your current stat pools are healed. You have
rolled a one. Rag sucks. I like, still got a little bit
of semeared blood, and I'm like, well, I didn't get it all.
But this isn't really the time I walk up to jam like, do
you have any more of those shovels? No? I think we all started
with one. I don't know. I didn't I started with I didn't start
with a lot man. I went for cosmetics and healing. I didn't go
for practicality. So now, I mean I thought it was a game and
it wouldn't matter. I would get that eventually. But now look at me.
I walked back to uh, Coda, and I'm like, you're doing
all right. Coda is obviously freaked out. She's huddled with her children by
the fire as close as she can without like burning herself. Like she's loosely
holding the reins to the anan that have just barely sort of like calmed down.
They're still like freaked out. They're kind of like walking around, like
moving around, kicking up some dirt and stuff here and there, and and
she just she says, no, no, I'm not your friend is dead.
My children are not safe. I don't I don't know what to do.
We're doing our best well as long as we're here, I mean,
I won't let anything happen. I know the others feel the same. So
come back to our coming. Oh, do we have something to cover the
body? Maybe, you know, cover it up to forget the children.
I got so distracted, you know, with us fighting that there's a there's
a body right here. Yeah, Coda would be trying to sort of try
and shield her children from looking at this. Yeah, but they've obviously seen
it. Yeah, yeah, I was trying and cover this up. This
is pretty gruesome. Yeah, well that's why I'm digging blanket in the tenth.
I don't know what you're gonna have to ask. You're gonna have to
ask Coda, don't. I don't have anything. I don't even ask her.
I just go on the tent and I look for a blanket, and
if there's one in here, I take it. I just yank it out.
Yeah there's a blanket in there. Yeah. I just yanked the blanket
and walk out and I lay it over the body. Actually, you know
what, I start rolling the body, wrapping the body in it, because
yeah, I'm gonna bury the body wrapped in a blanket instead of just with
nothing. Yeah, this is gonna take you some time. Yeah, we'll
take us the rest of the night, take us as long as it is
him digging grape by himself. Yeah, you're the strong one. You dig
it, so you you get to your sort of morbid task. We're gonna
switch seams. So if you could remove your headsets please and uh try and
get Peebee back. See if she's here. Yeah, I'm here. I
saw you do it. I just have to take a second to put my
headphones on. I like to wait a second before you do that? Okay,
So would you have been trying to do anything as uh as fang,
like laid on the bed or do you just kind of sit there? Uh?
Well, he's still in the room, right, Do I ever hear
him snore or sleep? Please make a difficulty perception check. Okay? Uh
sorry, I had my roll twenty just refreshed. Okay, Okay, you
said intellect right correct, difficulty three correct, and I believe I get an
asset because I'm trained in perception. You can roll the skill on your character
sheet. If you were trained, it should apply. Did that work?
You have rolled a four? It said trained is minus one? Right,
that's correct. It's lowering the difficulty by one. Oh, I see okay,
okay, ouch unfortunately now okay, then no, I don't move.
A long time passes. You're not really sure how long, but it's painful.
Did he like leave my leg open and bleeding? Or he did?
Cool? You can technically you are resting right now, albeit very uncomfortably.
If you'd like to use any recovery roles, you can. Yeah, sure,
How do I do that? On your character sheet under the recovery section
near the top. Okay, I see it. Each successive recovery role requires
more time. Okay, how long has it been? An hour? Two
hours? It has been, It's probably been several hours, okay, So
just do the one hour one. Then well you'd get three okay, because
it's one action for the first one, ten minutes for the second one,
and then an hour for the next one. Okay. So then in the
recovery slot, do I just put the three Just hit the recovery roll at
the top there. Yeah, yeah, that's fine, and this brings my
mite back. You have recovered a total of eight points to your stand pools.
You can apply them as you'd like. Okay, great, then I
might actually roll that third time then yeah, ah, perfect, Great,
you have recovered three, five and seven points to your stand pools. Are
you doing anything else in this time? What's going through your head? Oh?
Man? Honestly, I I want to cooperate because I don't want this.
I don't want this guy to stab me unnecessarily. I will this is
really dark, but I will probably cooperate up until the point in which he
gives me no option. And if I'm sure he's gonna flip his lid and
kill me quickly, I might allow him to do that. I think I
still think I'm in a game, and I think I might wake up if
he does that, but I'm too chicken shit to do it myself. But
then that also scares me because what if I don't wake up? So I'm
thinking about probably that. I'm probably mulling that over for the last three hours.
Is it worth risk? What if I don't wake up? Do I
want to be stuck in a game? If I'm not going to wake up
anyway? Yeah, probably think about the aching pain in my leg and probably
think about this dumb ass hat. That's it. Okay, after this time
has sort of passed, you would have heard Fang move about, hear the
bed creek or something giving you an indication. Does that startle you? No,
I've probably been up. I didn't sleep, There's no way I slept.
I just mean it's been quiet from him for like we'll say, three
hours. Yeah, but I can hear his breathing right like, I know
he's still in the room, So probably doesn't startle me, to be honest.
Okay, it's very sudden, like I mean, is he like jumping
up all of a sudden or is he just shifting in movement? And he's
being loud. Then I'm sure kind of you can hear him spring to his
feet. Oh then, yeah, that probably startles the shit out of me,
you know, me, hands doors, people springing out of bed after
three hours. Yeah, absolutely, I just thought he was waking up,
springs up out of bed. M h. And he starts to take the
blankets off of you. The light just kind of like blinds you as he
pulls the blanket off, and he's like looking at you. It says still
not dead yet, good, feeling hungry, maybe thirsty if I am,
I don't make any movement. I just look at him, he says.
He sort of like stands up to his full height, which is pretty tall.
He's probably like in this simulacrum that he's using, probably like six'
five. Very he picked an intimidating simulacrum. Yeah. Well, I happen
to know he's a weenie in real life, so that makes me feel a
little bit better. He says, You know, you should really consider cooperating.
I can make this so painful for you. Do you like pain?
I shake my head now, some people do. I like it, at
least the way that this body feels when the pain happens. It's so different
but the same. You know, what do you think your friends are doing?
Now? I shrug. He's gonna, yeah, think out the gag
from your mouth. It's probably really dry. I'm probably really thirsty. He's
gonna pull out like probably some kind of container of water and he'll just start
to pour it like on your face. Yeah, I'll drink it. Fuck
that. I've got no pride to whatever. I'll drink it. What do
you think your friends are doing? Your guess is as good as mine.
Thanks for the water, sure, figured Uh, it'll be easier to sell
you if you're not dead. I mean, I don't know what they'd use
you for if you were dead, but I can probably find some kind of
money if you are dead. Sides, it might be fun, could be
so. When you entered this game, you thought you were gonna have another
one of your table story adventures. I thought I was gonna role play with
my friends, Yeah, have some fun. Apparently you thought you were gonna
role play as well. You joined the same server. It was lucky.
You know how many servers did they have? Ten? I don't know,
fifteen, Yeah, something like that. I joined the same one as you.
I even run into you. What are the odds of that happening?
You know, I used to watch table Story all the time. Yeah,
you said I banned you? Right, yeah, what'd you do? Don't
know, my man, I fucking remember. No, It's super rare for
me to ban people on table Story though, So you must have done something
pretty crazy, crazy crazy. Mm hmm. You're a bitch, you know
that. I guess I do. Now. I think this is funny.
No, actually I don't not at all good because it's not. You don't
have any power here. You don't have ship. Look at that fucking avatar
that you chose whatever they call them, simular What about it? She's fucking
hot? Is that the default avatar? So what pathetic? Okay, look,
it's not your avatar. It's what you do that gets remembered, your
user name, like all the cool ship that you do, that's what gets
remembered, buddy, Not what you look like, right right, yeah,
not what you look like. M Okay, sure, keep telling yourself that,
Keep telling yourself that. Yeah, that's the way you get through life.
All the good looking people get whatever the fuck they want. All the
strong people, all of them get what they want. I don't get shit.
Okay, I don't get anything, but he he want here. Here,
I've got all the fucking muscles I punch somebody's fucking head off, and
he'll like get up close to you and just like try and make you flinch.
I will flinch because I think it will make him feel better. But
he doesn't scare me. See, I can fucking make people do what I
want here. Nobody can tell me what to do anymore, but he can
ban me. I can do whatever the fuck I want. Yeah, this
is so much better than the real world. This is the real world.
Now I'm gonna be a king here. Good luck with that. He's gonna
like kneel down and get close to you. I won't mean luck. Got
all the skill and all the muscles to back it up. Now how close
is he to me? He got right up in my face right, Yeah?
Probably. And you, I'm gonna sell you and make all kinds of
whatever the fuck they call it here, shin, money, whatever shin.
I'm gonna make all kinds of shin. Maybe I'll buy a ship or something,
would be like a pirate king. I love that. Anime sounds like
a great way to spend your money or shin or whatever. You know,
all you people look down on me. Oh you streamers, all of you.
We give you money, we give you views. We just constantly are
padding your egos. You're not ship, You're nothing special. Look at you
tied up on a boat. You're gonna be sold. Mh whatever. He's
gonna he's gonna like start to stand up and uh, he's gonna cram the
the gag back into your mouth, start to come to the blankets. God,
I want to bite his fucking fingers so badly, but I'm not gonna
all right, He's he gonna grab the blankets and throw them over you again.
Yep, I just wait it out. It's really it's really tough.
I'll be honest with you, because I part of me is like, this
is just a game, and this guy, you know, he's gonna scream
at me and he's super unpredictable people like this, So I just have to
sit there and kind of yes and navigate my way around the conversation where I'm
not really I'm antagonizing him a little bit to see what kind of crazy he
is. And then once I figured that out, I just want to sit
back and wait for the right moment if there is a moment, but that
moment is not now, so don't I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bite his
nose or his face or his fucking fingers. I'm just gonna sit there and
wait. Please make it mighte difficulty check difficulty too in regards to endurance.
Okay, ye, luckily you haven't had the urge to relieve yourself through this
whole time. Maybe you've been sweating so much that I have had any water
either except just now. So yeah, but another few hours we're going to
sort of pass by. Okay, And as you're sort of spending time here,
there's like a few sounds around the ship that you can hear, like
some clanking and stutch, and you can hear there's probably like a door that's
in the next room or something like that that you can hear that kind of
like opens up. But it's it's brutal. This just sort of waiting hied
up. You've been stabbed, it hasn't been like a major wound, so
it comes probably sort of closed on its own or sort of healed up on
its own. Weird. Okay, yeah, but it's a it's a it
hurts. It hurts like a son of a bitch. I mean, it's
like a burning pain. Is it on the same leg that already had the
injury on it? No? Okay, great, so the uh, the
time goes by really slowly, really really slowly. It's brutal, it's agonizing.
Okay, however, you can start to hear this person not off.
There's probably like very light snoring that's happening. Oh was he wearing any weapons?
Yeah? How many? Please make an intellect check difficulty too in regards
to memory. Yeah, you have rolled a fourteen. He had three weapons
that you could see. One was a sort of like sword staff like weapon.
That was the weapon that he was primarily using. It kind of looks
like the weapons that the l's used in Lord of the Rings, like those
sort of frontline l's They have those like sharp it's kind of like a double
bladed halbird kind of thing, like a blade on each side. And uh,
you saw that he had some daggers as well, like some wicked looking
some like wicked looking gaggers. Okay, okay, what would I do?
Everything was taken from me, I assume correct. Yeah, okay, do
I see that? Does he have that stuff. You've got the blankets over
you. Well, I meant when he sat down, I didn't want to
interrupt, but I would have tried to walk. He probably would have had
this stuff bundled up near his pillow on the bed. Okay, actually,
there probably wouldn't even been a pillow. It probably would have just been like
okay, okay, holy shit, I have to just word vomit for a
minute my way through this. If this were a game, or if this
were D and D, obviously I would just try to because my arms are
behind my back. I would add absolutely try to like slide them up underneath
my feet and lift them up so that I had them front so that I
could grab something and stab him. But if this is real life, or
if for some reason we are stuck, and if I were to actually kill
this person, I'm killing like a potentially like a thirteen year old boy,
and I don't know how I feel about that, I would probably sit there
and freak out. And then this whole time, I've been kind of sort
of weirdly calm because I think this is a game. Still, you know,
yeah, I'm feeling pain, but I'm fucking plugged in somewhere else.
And now I'm starting to sweat a little bit just at this idea that I
might have to maybe do this. I don't know if I have the stones
for that. To be honest with you, I will, however, try
to very quietly and very slowly move so that my hands are in the front.
Please make a speed check in regards to stealth difficulty three. I will
use effort. You have rolled a natural nineteen minor effect or damage? Can
I do damage to the rope? So in a non combat situation, it's
only the minor effect. So what would you like to happen with a minor
effect? I imagine it's still in my space, in my zone, like
of where my body is, or can it be something I'm sorry, can
you say that one more time? Yeah? Is it within my person?
Like something related to the rope and what I was doing. Whatever you think
is a minor effect in this situation, It's very tempting to be like a
sound somewhere outside, but I think that's a bit too He'll roll over away
from me, absolutely rolls over amazing, and you're able to get your feet
out from under you. Yeah, okay, And I can pull the hood
off right, how are you trying to do that? You're just trying to
pull it well, because it's is it tied around me? There's a blanket
that's been tied around you. Yeah, okay, so I guess I would
untie that and then lift it up. How tight is it around my neck?
It's it's it's tight around your body. So like you have to somehow
try and get your hands out and under and over, try and and and
get this so I can do that. I can actually take my hands from
behind and up and over. So then where do I need to get?
Is it down by my feet? Or the blanket is not going down all
the way to your feet. If it's thrown over your body, it probably
goes down to your knees or something. Okay, so it's okay. It's
very awkward as you try to do that. Okay, sure, I'd still
like to try. Please make a difficulty five speed check. That should have
been my minor. Okay, I didn't realize it was tied around me.
Holy fuck, I will use effort. You said it was speed right,
correct? Yeah? Fuck? You have rolled in eleven so you can't seem
to get this blanket off the top of you. You're trying to pull on
the knot or whatever that's this this thin rope that's kind of tied around the
outside of the blanket, but you just can't get the leverage to get it
untied. Okay. Still, you know your hands are still bound and you're
trying to reach under and over a blanket and trying to pull a knot out.
It's not really happening, okay. And it's a it's a blanket,
right, Like what is the material made out of? Do I know?
It's like probably just a cloth. It's probably just some kind of cloth similar
to Okay, I'd like to hold it taut, grab it with my teeth
and try to tear it open quietly and slowly. Please make a mite check
difficulty for I'm trying to decide if I'm going to use effort or not.
No, I'm not going to Oh god, oh god, you have rolled
in eighteen. Also you have to minus the speed effort that you used before.
Yeah, how many of that? When I've got an edge two that's
from the pool or the current current pool is max? I didn't want it.
I didn't want to interrupt. Okay, So you tear a hole in
this in this cloth using your teeth. You know, you you kind of
like gaw on it a bit to get it going, and then you're kind
of pulling the bottom of the blanket with your hands and just you tear open
a hole. You can see through it. Okay, you can see that.
You can see that he's just he's on his side turned away from you,
towards the wall. You can see your stuff is kind of like next
to his head in the corner up against the wall that he turned towards.
No is PvP on TVP as in player versus player. That's correct, Player
versus player is always on. Can you tell me about stealth kills? Please?
No, in what regard what is my best way of taking out this
opponent? Please make an intellect to check difficulty three in regards to calm or
Stealtham, did I do that right? I don't think I did the difficulty
on that right. I think I put it on the wrong thing. Oh
yeah, no, I did you have the rolled in eighteen? So without
null telling you, you feel this knowledge kind of going into your head.
You see yourself going through various motions in regards to trying to kill this person
while they are sleeping. You see yourself running through different scenarios in your head,
grabbing their weapon, stabbing them with it, No, that's too slicing
their throat, route force. There's lots of different ways to kind of rush
through your head, and you see like a lot of them ending poorly.
The one that doesn't end poorly. The easiest way that you see this working
is if you are able to take the dagger and slit his throat. That's
not that's like so many options for him to wake up. I can't just
like knee his neck and break his neck. I can't just like fucking jump
on his head and break his neck. Or I have to try to stealthily
take a dagger out while my heart is pounding. You ran through those options
in your head. But he is a big guy, and you would need
to get up on the bed to try and get the right leverage to do
this. Is the door open? You haven't tried it? Oh? I
meant hanging open. No, the door's closed. Okay, I'm already on
a ship. If I kill this guy, I'm still imprisoned. Do I
know anything about this ship? Like when he brought me on here, did
he have to talk to somebody? Is it a big ship. Yeah,
it's not a huge ship or anything. There were a lot of people walking
around. He would have threatened you before you got on the ship, like
if you said anything, he would have would have killed you, and he
would have killed Yeah. So it's like you have to pretend to be on
the ship with me, not you're it's not a slave ship type thing.
Yeah, this is a trade ship. Yeah, he would have threatened not
only you, but all the people on the ship. He said he would
have killed everybody on the ship. Do I still have the wound on my
leg? Yeah, it's just kind of a nagging pain, but it's not
really it's not bleeding anymore. Oh my god, I'm sorry. I know
it's thicking forever. Okay, I'm gonna Jesus Christ, I am sick to
my stomach. Yeah, I'm gonna try to do this, I guess,
Yeah, Okay, which way fuck. I'm gonna take the dagger out of
his I'm gonna take the dagger out and I'm going to try to slit his
throat, which really isn't gonna work too well for me. I'm probably just
gonna have to talk myself into driving it down into the side of his neck
and pulling out because I won't be able to I won't have the fortitude to
actually do drag it across his neck like that. That actually takes a lot
of strength that I'm I just I can't. I can't even think about this
right now. This is so traumatic. Okay, all right, sure,
yes, I'm gonna try to take the dagger out. Obviously, Please make
a speed check difficulty three in regards to stealth. I'm sorry, did you
say speed correct? Yeah, I'll use effort. It's two right, correct?
Yes, you have one edge, Yeah, you have rolled in eleven
take a dagger, just barely have enough room to sort of grab the dagger
off of his belt without seemingly any notice. And again you've got You're like
underneath the blanket with your hands as you do this, so it's a weird
kind of angle. You're trying to like angle yourself down lower with your shoulders
so that you can try and get yourself into position to do this. Did
we just lose somebody? We did? We lost Jay. I can't do
this. Man. Kid's a dick, but that doesn't mean he need deserves
to die. And he's not trying to kill me. He's trying to sell
me. I can't fucking murder this kid. Will they charge me with murder
if I kill this kid and he dies in real life? Of well,
i just spend my whole life in prison. I'm just thinking out loud,
obviously, don't answer that. I'm just sharing with the chat what would actually
be going on in my brain right now while we wait for Jay to come
back or for you to fix this. The chat would see CORALI with the
stagger over this person? Is he just likes what does he look like?
Whack? He's a big six foot five, muscular, simularckrum here, probably
wearing some kind of like vest that you could probably see, like big arms.
You know, there's probably some minor cybernetic stuff has to do with his
hands just kind of resting on his side. His arms just kind of you
know, over his side, one arm underneath the uh, the head.
Do I get any bonuses because he's sleeping and prone? No? Where is
this A regular might check the difficulty for such a task would be decreased because
of the current state. What would the difficulty the difficulty would be based on
your knowledge of the situation. Please make an intellect check difficulty two in regards
to combat. The difficulty to attack this target while they were sleeping would be
three. However, you have one asset. Yeah, okay, yeah,
okay, please make a difficulty three speed based check you have one asset you
have rolled in nineteen Yeah, Dagger drops down into his neck and that's where
we're gonna end the session today. H Jay fucked everything up. I'm so
sorry. My net just died out of nowhere. You two froze in a
hilarious position though. So yeah, that was That was a session, guys,
holy ship, that was the end. Yes, that was the end.
So much happened. I think, oh yeah, yeah, this is
really terrible because we were joking about you guys, like buying pepperoni or something
because we couldn't hear it. So now it just seems like the most serious
fucking belly cry speak can you ask? Oh my goodness, no, just
some like tough soul searching, you know, it's fine. Wait, fucking
hell, god, what like I wish my internet when out in like twenty
fucking minutes. I'm honest, like, after all this is done, to
go back and watch these sweet moments that I can never know what has happened
here. You can never know. Please. Oh there were some tough choices
made. Oh, there were some very tough choices made. I saw a
success and then saw PB start crying like that was right when I came back,
and I was like, fuck, yeah, she got the pepperoni.
But it was not the pepperoni. It was not the pepperoni. Yeah,
so chat, I know, Uh, you guys like watching it like chick
out intense. We'll we'll have it. We'll have a chat after the show
today, just so you're aware. We do like decompression and stuff, and
I'm guessing PB is gonna need a lot of that. Let it out,
Let it out. I told you indigestion. Yeah man, yeah, man,
that was rough. That was real rough. But yeah, and again,
the players don't know what's going on. They are taking their headsets off
and stuff. They don't know. They legit don't know. So yeah,
good session resorts. Talking to Jay in the zoom chat the whole time.
It's something I could do. Uh, the the players that weren't PEB today
get two XP hey and uh, PB don't do it. You're gonna get
reward me for that. You're you're going to get uh, probably four XP
nice congratus. It's even worse that we're congratulating guys. We literally have no
fucking idea what's happened. We just have to joke because she's actually crying.
Okay, now I'm not joking. Fuck. Oh so intense session, guys.
I know again, when we talked about this with the players beforehand,
I let them know that this would be pretty intense, and it is.
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let everybody do a shout out here to wrap things up. Hebi Hi,
I'm Pumpkinberry. That was fucking rough. I hope I can sleep after that
choice. I love you all. Thanks. Sorry for the word vomiting and
for the you know, we should have been playing the what what what is
that theme song that they played during that game show where it's like you have
to win that one, you have to win a million dollars, you know
that like impending like heartbeat songs, and that should have been playing the entire
time. Anyway, Thank you, Hi. I'm Pumpkin Mary. I do
stuff on my own channel, usually like narrative games. I love roleplay obviously
IgM a mystery thriller horror show here on Wednesday nights called Nocturn about a group
of people stuck in a time loop and that's wild fun. And on Fright
nights, I do scary games. So those are the things that I do.
And yeah, I'll see you next Friday, if not on any other
time in those periods before that, See you next Friday. Thank you,
Pep. I love you. Peep. I love you guys too. Pocket
oops as needed, I had to mute everything. That's why I was late
to coming back because I was like I could still kind of hear whack,
and I was like muting everything, and so I was just kind of spacing
out looking at stuff. But now I'm really curious what happened. Meanwhile,
like we're fighting Shadow, I'm going to tell them. By the way,
Chad, don't worry ever, Probably ever, you might find out. I
don't know. Oh I will find out after this all ends, I guess.
But uh no, I'm Pocket p okk e T and you can buy
me at Pocket. On most things, something's a little bit different. But
I'm Pocket everywhere and I stream full time every day. But Monday I'm playing
Resident Evil seven tomorrow. There you go. It was. It was a
deal from last year's birthday stream. So do you not like those games?
I am terrible at scary games. Okay. I got scared in ocker inga
time. Hey, I feel you. I fell down, are you kidding
me? My stand up de desk today? And all that happened was a
light went off on the screen and I got so scared I fell on my
ass. So kid, I'm right there with you, girl. I just
yeah. For me, it was one of those like I just get scared
way too easily, and then I get anxious and it's exhausting. So but
that was a deal. I have to play it and I have to beat
it, apparently, So good luck, thank you, see you next week.
Thank you so much. Obviously, Nega ORCS wasn't with us tonight,
but she's packs West, so go shoot her a message and say hi on
Twitter or something. Make sure you follow her. Myth What a sash?
What a sash? I'm bummed it's over. It was so quick, it
seemed, but I guess so much happened. I guess. I think if
you were in chat, it's probably just like no, that was a lot,
no stop it, but I would love to keep going. But it
was really great. I can't wait for next week. I'm really interested to
know what's happened, super curious and also the anxious about it. But that's
I guess that's what that's what this is all about. My name is mathematic.
You can follow me anywhere that has that name. You could probably just
give it a Google and you could also see where those things you can follow
if you are so interested, if you're not just hanging out here, there's
some great, awesome content throughout the week here. But tomorrow I'm gonna try
and do I think because piracy and Star Citizen is a thing, you can
blow up ships and take the cargo now, so I'm gonna do that.
It's gonna be awesome. You're like used to blow them up and just be
like ha ha, you saw shift, But now we could take the cargo
and sell it for ourselves. So I'm gonna try that out tomorrow and we'll
see how well I do. It's gonna be a lot of fun. It's
also gonna be terrifying. I think I'm gonna try to roll play as much
as I can. It'll be great. See then, thank you Jay.
Hello, this has been sick uh pbe. I'm really glad that you made
the hard choice between black Forest Ham or Rosemary Turkey tough, especially since they
don't eat meat. They were trying to say what you had to eat it.
I had to eat it, and that's why I cried it was it
for xp for eating meat? Yeah? It was so good and I haven't
had it in so long that I just started crying. It was like I
heard angels. You know. Yeah, sometimes you don't think it'd be like
that, but it do. I run I run Ragtags here on Thursdays once
a year. Make sure to go check out the clip that we tweeted out
yesterday thanks to Pebe one of the funniest moments I've had in a role playing
session, where the rogue finally admitted that he was a master thief for the
rest of the party. It was hilarious. If you guys like Wold Classic,
I'm playing Wild Classic tomorrow. We're sitting down to record the podcast,
and I am recording a podcast of my own on Sunday. So if you
guys like streaming and deli meat, that's gonna be the topic, all right,
Is it really going to be Deli meat? I'm gonna throw some Deli
meat in there for you, Okay, I'll mention Rosemary in there. Yeah,
you know. Uh, thank you past, thank you Jay. I'm
Mike Stephen and I have been your administrator today. I have done my best
who administer the situations to these players and uh yeah, it's it's there's some
difficult choices here that have been happening. So thank you everybody for for hanging
out with us chat. We really do appreciate it. Thanks for being here.
Much love to you, thank you, thank you for all the support
and love. And I saw those those biddy's being thrown in there. Thank
you so much. And uh, if you, if you're not doing so,
come join us on the discord where we're chats still spoilering stuff so the
players don't look and they're they're trying to communicate and and sort of still role
play a little bit in the in the discord. So come hang out on
the discord if you haven't done so. And thanks for role playing in the
in the chat today and experiencing that with us. Also, I posted pictures
of the kitty that sat on the go excelr and ruined your immersion in the
discord. So go look. Is that Peachy? Somebody tweeted Peachey, Yeah
it was. It was. It's Peachy. Peachy recorded it for me.
Do you want to hit it again? Look at her that blowing in the
sun. She's glowing. God damn is she stupid. It's even better because
there was like some fucking ominous music playing there and like it sounded like whack
could like put some whispers in our Ears or something. Yeah, it was
very good timing with what was happening in this show, and we're just like,
what the fuck? I thought Whack was doing it, and he was
like wax, like what those I thought somebody was watching YouTube. I was
like, what the fuck is going on? He was like, well,
fuck it, I'm bored. I'm gonna learn about headphone. I couldn't read
because I didn't know when i'd get called back because it was all via signal.
So I was like, sitting here, just like with coupling my cat.
And then he got up and laid down and I went, oh,
you should probably not sit there. I had no idea even yeah, so
uh if you uh, if you haven't done so, like I said,
follow these people and thank you myth, thank you PB, thank you J
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