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you are joining us for episode three of Blade Runner Electric Dreams. Very very
quick recap here. Last week left two of our characters had taken some downtime
as we had gotten into the fourth shift of the investigation evening of the first
day. Garrick Johnson and one of our replicants, Hector, had taken some
time off to rest and recuperate, while Haulbeck and our other replicant, Violet,
decided to work into the evening Violet, in particular, stressing herself and
straining to try to get more done in the limited time it feels like you
guys have and Halbeck ended up having to go back to the Kill magazine office
after getting a call from Deputy Chief Holden to try to put a stop to
the story that they were going to be releasing. He managed to convince the
editor there, or I'm sort of the publisher, Skyler, to hold off
on publishing a story the next day, but in return he owes Styler some
juicy information for a story, and Styler promised that if he does not get
that, he's going to make life not too easy for our Blade runners here.
Violet, on the other hand, went to Animoid Row to try to
track down information about the blue butterfly jar that you guys had found in Leah's
apartment, and you discovered after doing a little bit of looking around a shop
called the Arillion, which appears to sell a variety of different type of butterfly
animoids. He got some information from a young man there that was closing up
a shop called the Dragonfly, and he explained he had recognized a picture of
Leah that you had shown him told you that he had seen her go there,
and he also saw someone that matched the description of Styles going to that
shop as well. He explained a bit about the owner, and he also
mentioned that there are esper cameras in the area that might be worth looking into.
So I think we will finish off or start off, I guess with
Violet as she finishes up for the night. It's late. It's probably past
midnight at this point, and you are extremely tired and worn out, and
it's probably time to get some rest unless you feel like pushing yourself even further
into the morning. No, I'm definitely going to start heading back to my
apartment to get some sleep and probably take a shower. But on the way
I will pop open coms to haul Back and the rest of the guys if
I can reach them kind of update them. Well, that depends. Do
are other two characters who are currently on downtime answer this call or do they
even hear it? Derek probably would hear it, and you just let it
go to like voice mail. Yeah, I'd be slamming my phone off personally,
But yeah, okay, how about Hector. What's a kind of a
toss up other than the middle of a arm wrestling competition that really only requires
one arm, so I could answer the phone with the other arm and all
right, high or low? The guy HI could call I roll the ninety
seven you are you can answer the call if you so wish. Sure,
all right, so you've got everybody except Garrick. He does not answer when
you call. It's all right. So went down to anamoid row. Most
of the shops are closed up, so probably wasn't such a great idea to
go so late. Now I'm beat. I'm going to head back home,
but maybe we can link back up in the morning. There is a shop
that our girl Leah was seen leaving looking for a guy named the Aurelian specializes
in these bugs. I'll kind of show if I can link to the store,
Okay, so they know which one it is. Also reports of seeing
our tall friend there Styles. Uh, and that's about all I have to
say. You know they have any questions for me, I'll stay on the
coms. But Style, the guy from the bar. Styles is the guy
that we saw outside the bar, intercepted him, ran away from us,
but we're able to interrogate a little bit and found out well, I guess
Kyle did you. You briefed us on what happened with Skyler, right,
Yeah, I forget if we role played through that, so we know a
little bit from more from him that you know, he could have been part
of the instigation of the fight. Yeah, yeah, got youa got you
so again, I don't feel confident that Lee's gonna come back there necessarily,
but she had been there at some point, and I'm curious as there is
more to this insect. Is it just a pet or do they serve another
function. The other thing we need to check is the Asper cameras from the
area. I don't know if there's a time limit on when that footage gets
destroyed, so maybe someone can hop on that. If you all know it's
twenty four hours before stuff gets overwritten, Okay, I could come in the
morning, but if it's footage from right after the murder we were looking for,
that would be overwritten by tonight. Yeah, it depends exactly when you
know it'll you'll be cutting it close. But that's what I got two of
us up in the morning. One could shake down the Arelien, mone could
check the cameras, unless we think that I'll be there, in which case
might want to have more so the force. I don't feel like they would
be there. I could be wrong. I might want to keep it a
little clandestine and not, you know, make our presence super known so they
don't know we're on our trail. I already talked to two people that know
we're snooping around there, so I might want to keep a little pro That's
just my opinion, though I would agree. So hopefully, hopefully one of
you can check in the morning and yeah, we'll head back to avoid Row
when everything's all open. But I'm like a plan, I'll beg I'll give
you a call when I've got a little shut eye. Sounds good, all
right, Violet, you make your way back to your apartments. And what
kind of apartment does Violet call home? That's a fantastic question. I believe
I have a mid grade apartment, so it's yea, let's double check this.
Sorry here, but I believe it was mid grade. So it was
like probably the standard that most people get, huge but dilapidated old apartment in
abandoned building on Retirement Row with leaking ceilings full of debris. All right,
I'm wrong, It's it's worse. It is. It looks much more like
where what's his face found? Priss? I guess, yeah, yeah,
all right, Well, you make your way up the flight of stairs,
weary from the day's trials, and uh, you get home, and uh,
what do we see when you open the door? What does the inside
of your apartment really look like? I mean, it is, it is
bigger than the standard apartment. It's just obviously in bad shape. But take
us on a small tour. I think you walk in and immediately get hit
in the face with some leaky water, which causes me to grumble. And
I think there's kind of like a big fan in the ceiling, so maybe
like this apartment was butting up against, like you know, maybe part of
the building's inner workings. And so there's you know, some cool light that
kind of comes in through there, and it's you know, sort of the
beginning of morning. So I think there's that that ambient glow that comes from
morning coming up when you know you should have been asleep, but you're you
know, just putting your head down and you just kind of feel all off.
I think, you know, I have pretty sparse furniture. There's nothing
that's not broken. Let's say that I think I think Violet doesn't spend a
whole lot of time on housekeeping and h her her spouse is a little bit
older, and you know, he might be a little bit infirmed to not
be able to keep up with everything as much as he used to. So
yeah, so when you when you get in, you see that, um,
Sully is like a sleep in, uh, in the chair that he
has, watching the very old dilapidated TV that he's managed to get his hands
on. It looks like he's falling asleep to you know, one of his
favorite movies, probably waiting for you to get home. At this point,
tell us a bit about Sully. What does he look like? Who is
he? What do he used to do? So, Uh, Sully is
my spouse, my husband, and uh, he's a little bit older,
and he also used to be a detective. And the thing about Sully is
he sort of rescued me from an incident and uh, we sort of have
this relationship where it's you know, a little bit like father and daughter in
a weird way. And whether whether or not you know he you know,
is not really like um, I I would say, like you know,
sexually interested in replicants or however it kind of goes. It's sort of a
I think, like an asexual relationship, but uh, he is you know,
he tries to guide me a little bit, but at this point it's
to the point where it's smothering a little bit, and uh, it's often
brings us to to fights, mostly where you know, I think Violet just
bounces and goes on her way. But you know, she's still olves a
lot to him. She still cares about him, and she still tries to
keep this place together and uh, you know, food on the table as
it worse. Since he's retired, would it would it be safe to say
that the marriage was more of like a way for him to try to keep
you safe and protect you. Yeah, okay, Well you see, slowly
he's asleep as you come into the apartment and you said you're gonna go hop
in the shower. Yeah, I'll, you know, take a moment to
kind of cover him up there, you know, make sure he's comfortable and
kind of be quiet as I can so I don't wake him up, because
you know, just kind of want to give me a stealth check. All
right, very good, All right, let's sick. Wow, three success
cists. Okay, Yeah, So you're able to get him tucked away and
you do not wake him. You managed to get the TV turned off and
make your way into the bathroom to take a shower, and you're able to
get all of that done without making any sort of noise. You've probably grown
accustomed to kind of sneaking around to avoid any lectures or arguments, and it
seems this is one of the nights where you are lucky enough to not wake
him. And yeah, your night goes by relatively uneventful. After that,
you get some much needed sleep, and when you awake in the morning,
he is awake. Looks like he's making some breakfast. I meant to ask,
was he a detective or a blade runner? You know, I let
me see if I differentiated I I think I didn't want it to be so
on the nose, So I think he was just a detective. Oh no,
I did write a retired blade runner. I'll keep to what I wrote.
Okay, all right, I couldn't he was he was a blade runner.
Okay, so we see him. He's uh, you know again,
You've got a big apartment compared to most um, so you do actually have
a small kitchenette in here where he is preparing something, and uh, you
know you you come out of the bedroom and perhaps sit down at the the
table in the kitchen or you know the little table you guys have, just
a little crappy thing that has enough room for the two chairs and U.
You can see he doesn't turn to look at you or anything, but he
clearly hears you, and he says, long night. Yeah, I probably
should have gave in a little early. Oh. Working on this homicide case,
I have a weird feeling it's a replicant on replicant murder, and I
kind of detail a little bit that, you know, looking into two blade
runner replicant unit that was trailing another murder. One of them got shot inside
nightclub. A whole bunch of people saw it, but not exactly what happened.
So trying to trail this lady, Leah, do you know anything about
Lilith? Sorry it's our last name, Tyrell or now it is Tyrell.
Yeah, now anything about a Lilith Tyrrell. So he listens. You can
tell he's listening. Again, he doesn't really take his eyes off the breakfast
he's making, but he's listening, and he just you occasionally see him not
his head or give like a grunt of you know, yes, But other
than that, he doesn't see anything until you're done. And then when you
are finished, he says, yeah, I know a bit about about her.
She inherited the Tyrrelle Corp. After Tyrrell was murdered, and well,
company didn't do so well. Eventually they declared bankruptcy and sold everything off.
Wallace picked most of it up quietly. Next thing we knew they were in
charge of all the Replican stuff there was. There was an attack on her
too. Some people think it was the Replican Underground tried to assassinate her or
Killer Blade Runner managed to intervene and stop it, but I heard she got
pretty fucked up in that. Any idea what she did with herself after losing
the company, nobody really knows for sure. Seems to have fallen off the
map, but I don't. Just see today's paper and he kind of jerks
his head off to one side, and you see that there is a copy
of the paper that I think we had given a hector yesterday. I think
it has all of access to it, and you see there's an article about
her on the cover. No shit, let me take a look looks like
she's one of Wallace's Golden girls. Now Memory Designer. Let's see here.
Nexus nine replicant launch a resounding success Wallace Corps multiplies production. Looks like there's
a whole bunch of stuff here to read, though, but it's probably important
you want me to read it out loud here whatever you'd like. I mean,
the thing that says Rising Star of Memory Design, that's the part about
her. So that's, you know, below the picture of your favorite NPC.
This bitch, I'll say as a through it, amazing quality of our
products speaks for itself. We have a grand total of zero Nexus nine models
convicted of a crime to date. They laugh at that, but don't explain
why. All right, Rising Star of Memory he probably actually does kind of
scoff or laugh at that as well, just knowing all the politics around things.
Good. So it says, what would the Nexus nine replicants be without
their memories to keep them obedient? The Rising Star of n nine Memory Design
has an unlikely comeback story and a unique pedigree. When rogue replicants killed industrious
Eldin Tyrrell back in twenty nineteen, his niece and confident Lila Tyrell inherited his
empire. Her reign was as tumultuous as it was short. Spearheaded the launch
of the new Nexus eight models without limited lifespans, filed by a backlash,
with replicants being declared a threat to human existence and hunted down in mass.
After rogue replicants triggered the Massive Blackout in twenty twenty two to wipe out all
records of them, and the subsequent prohibition of all Replican production everywhere, Lilith
was attacked in her office by members of the Replicant Resistance movement. The plot
was sordered by an Lapd Blade Runner, but the Tyrelle Corporation crumbled due to
the prohibition soon went bankrupt, its assets sold off to the Wallace Corporation.
After over decades spent in obscurity, once replicants were again a proof for use
on Earth in twenty thirty six, Lilith Tyrrell appeared again in Los Angeles,
setting up a business as a contractor for the Wallace Corporation. She designed memories
for Nexus nine replicants and quickly made a name for us. Scott damn it,
I knew it, he says. What she got to do with it.
I think she implanted her memories in this Leah model. Could be you
talked to her. No, but we're going to At this point, he
has finished making the breakfast and it brings over two plates, one that he
puts down in front of you and one that he puts at the other chair.
He sits down as he kind of, you know, kind of sighs
as he u sits down and takes a breather, and you know, he
just starts to kind of playing with his food a little bit. How you
feeling today, Champ, m Oh, I'm fine, but you know a
call last night would have been nice. Yeah, I'm sorry. I got
caught up in trying to chase this lady. How many times I gotta tell
you gotta be careful out there, especially you know, being a replicant at
all and a blade runner on top of that. I know, I'll try
to be better. You see that he looks like he's about to say something
else, but then he does. He just maybe bites his tongue and just
kind of eats the food in silence that you kind of look over this newspaper
and probably pick up your breakfast too. Yeah, kind of keep reading it.
All right, Well, you do gain point of resolve back for doing
your downtime and resting, so that's good. A. Meanwhile, we'll switch
it on over to all back. So all back. You are finally at
your breaking point here, especially after dealing with Skyler and all the threats in
the chief. So what what are you gonna do? Originally I was going
to say go to the cemetery, but instead we will be making it back
to the apartment in the Financial district. Okay, and what kind of apartment
does Haulbeck call home? Haulbeck is in a very luxurious penthouse in the Financial
District that was left to him from his parents, so his dad, his
dad has passed and his mom is actually off world, so it's just him.
Got this very very nice penthouse, very not very furnished, doesn't have
much in the way of personal effects. Does he have a bed or is
it one of the pullout beds out of the wall. No, he does
have a He does have his own bed, but yeah, he owns about
three of the same kind of suit, has about one set of everything,
just to make things simple. So yeah, there's not much to look at
in the place. Okay, And what does Halbeck do when he returns.
I think the first thing he would do would be too rabbits shower, which
out probably get into the next day's suit, and after probably catching some shut
eye, he would head down to the the bar or the first floor.
All right, well, you do manage to get some shut eye after a
refreshing shower. And however, your shut eye is cut a little short as
there is a knock at your door early the next morning. Oh interesting,
I think Silas would have his side arm with him, okay, and saddle
up. Do do the doors have basically a viewport? I mean I would
assume one as nice as yours must have one. Yeah, so let's let's
uh, actually, yeah, why don't we Why don't we check really quick?
You see the familiar face of your sister standing at the door. Stylas
would let out a very exasperated sigh and put the piece away and open the
door and just kind of extend his arm out as in like a well,
better come on in. And who do we see on the other side of
this door when he opens it? So Silas has a sister, Lissa,
and she works in animoid research. So she's got a nice, decent paying
job. Unfortunately, has a bit of a drug habit to kind of sustain
her work ethic. So I'm kind of a lot of oppers. And unfortunately
Silas and his sister do not get along too well, so their relationship is
a little strained. What does she look like? She is probably about three
inches taller than him, so probably skirting around six feet tall, Very wiry,
and very kind of messy brown hair that's pulled back in a very messy
ponytail, just like think of the most worked out, uh you know,
ho pre med student. Try to look um and yeah, has has developed
a little bit of a of a tremor. Okay, is she older or
younger? She is the younger sister. How old is she? She's probably
in her late twenties, because Silence is in his late thirties. Okay,
you open the door and Lissa gives you kind of a awkward, tense smile,
and she walks in after you extend your arm out and she says,
uh, good to see you. What's going on, Lissa? What happened?
Nothing happened. I can't I can't come say hi to my brother.
You'd never come say hi to me unless something's happened. So can we just
not go through that, and you just let me know what's going on.
She gives a kind of an equally exacerbated sigh, kind of rolls her eyes,
and she crosses her arms and leans up against the wall, and she's
kind of looking down at her feet as she speaks. She says, Um,
I was you know, I was just hoping I could uh uh maybe
just borrow a little bit of chinyon, you know. Yeah, I'll pay
you back, um. And she kind of looks up at you like kind
of like with her like her tongue kind of like on her teeth, kind
of like tensely waiting for your answer. Is this just gonna be how it
is? Every time I see you? It's just for a handout? Well,
hey, you know you don't. You don't ever come by my place,
now, do you? When's the last time you stopped by to see
how I was doing? I know how you're doing, And the last time
every time I try and talk to you about what's going on with you,
you push away, and so I just I stopped reaching out. She looks
down at her feet again, So she's not sure what to say to that.
Silas would kind of sigh and very sharply reach for money to hand her,
and as he was doing so, uh would just before she would reach
out, he pulls back and um says, this is the last time before
we have that talk. Okay. She just kind of nods, kind of
her eyes darting between your hand holding the chinion and back to your eyes.
Yeah, Silas would hand it out. She takes it, puts it in
a like her front jeans pocket, and she says that thanks, I appreciate
that. And she stands there for a moment and there's this awkward silence between
the two of you, and finally she goes, so, um, so,
how how are you doing? What's what's going on? How's work?
Uh? Silas would kind of lift his head up a bit as if to
like, you know, have something click, and then would turn to her
and say, what do you know about animoid Row. There's a lot to
know animoids of all types you can find down there. Why how about the
Aralian And as he's as he's asking, he would be like making coffee.
Okay, she says, I've heard of his shop. He's right, I've
heard of him. He has a shop by the same name in Animoid Row
specializes in butterflies. I heard he's one of the best, been around for
a long time. Just like it got something to do with the case you're
working on. Yeah, we're trying to figure out the importance of butterflies.
You know, her place wasn't where we're you know, casing a suspects place,
and you know, there wasn't much in there, but what stuck out
was a couple of blue butterflies. So she asked me to describe them more.
Uh ooh, I mean, so withoud silence, U would it be
against regulation for him to show her the photo of the butterflife. I mean,
it could be considered in some cases, but you know, it's also
not like a graphic piece of evidence or anything like that. I mean,
you know, it's like if you showed somebody, you know, a picture
of like somebody's pet, like you know, it kind of kind of teeters
the line. Okay, well yeah he would, he would think about it
and then just show her. She takes a look at it, she goes,
wow, pretty, yeah, these are these look pretty convincing. I
mean, you know, animals and you know, and things like that.
Everything has different symbols. But you know, it could be something specific to
uh the owner, and maybe they just like the way they look. Yeah,
I mean that's you know what most people just get an animal force because
we don't have real pets, so it's the next best thing, right,
and uh, butterflies be easy to take care of even if they were real,
you know, not whole lot to cleaner feed. Yeah, Silas would
be kind of just nodding along, listing. Yeah, she looks at the
picture a little bit more, but you know, she doesn't really have much
more to say other than than those sorts of things, you know, without
any other context. She doesn't really you know, she's not a butterfly expert,
so but she can instantly tell when she looks at it that they're they're
animoids and not real. Okay, yeah, so, uh, Silas would
kind of put the evidence away and just kind of give her like a mug
if she wanted it, and turn and start grabbing his things and say,
well, I better get back on this. I'm good to you to stop
by say hi. She says, yeah, thanks, thanks. She you
can tell she's kind of mentioning both the coffee and the money. And please
deduct one point of chinyon from your character sheet. Let's say it, but
you will get a point of resolve back if you we're missing any because you
did manage to actually get some sleep and your interaction with Lisso is not as
terrible as you thought it might be. All right. Meanwhile, as uh,
you know, as you two have slept through the morning shift, we'll
switch over to Hector and Garrick. So it is morning the next day,
so shift number one of day two, and the two of you are up
and ready to go while your companions are taking a break. What is it
the two of you are going to do next? I guess I'll start by
filling Gerrikin on the call from last night and sort of the the details of
styles and potentially Leah going into the Aurelian and that we may or may not
have a lead at the Esper wall if we can find footage of them there
which might be erased if we do split up, though, I guess would
it be possible if the Esper wall is a bit of a dead end to
like pull information on what the blade Runners we're doing the night of the like
what their job was. Yeah, you could potentially access that through the mainframe,
which could be done at the same time as going through the Esper wall.
Two things I want to point out for the two of you. Garrick,
you would have official word that your request to get access to the Wallace
Replicant Records database has been approved, and if you would like to, you
can go to Wallace Corp. And they will let you have access to that.
Second, the bullet fragment that you recovered from the crime scene should be
done being processed at this point so that you could check up on as well.
Okay, that could also probably be done at the same time. If
somebody stays here to work the Esper wall in the main frame, Well,
Hector, I'll take some time at the lap D look at the main frame
and the Esper wall while you go mingle with the regulars. I guess I
can check out the shop. That sounds like a plan, all right,
let me know if anything comes up. All right, Well we'll start with
Garrick as Hector takes off and makes their way to elsewhere. Okay, so
you're here, where do you want to start? I guess check the Esper
wall all right. I will need a promotion point and then I'm going to
need a You can make a tech role with advantage to access. But because
the ESPER walls restricted, you have to spend a promotion point to get access
basically, and I give a call to Silas and ask him to get me
in. You just want basically to have him spend one Yeah, oh yeah,
if I can do that from afar, absolutely well. I mean you'll
probably take a little time, but you know, considering it's a whole shift
works worth of work, we can assume that maybe he can do that.
Unless Matt, you've got something. Yeah, I was gonna say, I've
got to pay it forward. I could use the promotion point this time,
okay, yea and up anyway, Yeah, probably faster because he keep in
mind this as well, him and Violet or a sleep right, So okay,
yeah, regardless, as long as somebody pays a promotion point, you
can have access. Not a big deal. You guys are on the same
team and on the same case, so I don't think it'd be that big
of a problem. Okay, I will roll the tech test with advantage.
I'm push that because no successes. Yeah, it's rough, that's rough.
Oh and it takes a point of stress damage or resolve right off the bats
with the real successes. So, Derek, you search and search for hours,
and you realize, after probably an hour or two of just pulling your
hair, the footage has probably been overwritten. At this point, you're like
maybe within thirty minutes of like the time that it would have been overwritten.
Shit. Oh right, Um, so then needed to check out the bullet
fragment or that casing. What's a caseless shell? I guess. Yeah,
so that's you can go down and talk to Coco if you want, because
I'd be down in the crime lab there. So yeah, yeah, oh
go see our very professional looking Cocoa. All right, Well you get down
back to the crime lab and he is sitting at a table. He's got
like a microscope that he's looking into, and you see that the cat,
the lapd cat Biscuits, is lounging over on a table nearby, keeping an
eye on you. Sharply as you walk in, Cocoa looks over his shoulder.
Ah, good morning, Garrick. What can I do for you?
I suppose you're here about the bullet you brought in yesterday, ing ding Coco.
That's why I'm here. Well, tap pears, it is as we
expected. It is a forty four caliber caseless round and I can pretty much
guarantee this came from a blaster. All right, Um, there's just a
sean asking Chris, there's no way to tell like who was given which ammunition?
Right, they don't have, like not unless you had the weapon that
was fired from. Then then they could test to make sure it was fired
from that gun. But all he can tell you is that it's the type
that a blaster would use. And you do know that the ammunition that the
LAPD blaster uses is pretty unique because your blaster has three firing modes and so
the one that he's referring to is the basically ammunition that you would use if
you're trying to kill somebody or put them down. And yeah, it's you
know, it is a revolver in a sense, um, but it's a
special type of ammunition. And he says, yeah, vum, it's uh,
it definitely came from a blaster, either either here or potentially you know,
from a third party source. Oh, did uh we ever recover Sanders
blaster? Yes? Is there any way we can test to see if he's
blaster or fired shot? Oh I've already done that. Come on, No,
so not not that night, not recently. All right, then the
gun was the gun was still full. No no expense casings or anything like
that. All right, then it's looking like Leah, well at least Leah's
gun shot Sandor. Mm hmm. That's a thought. Yeah, let's not
spread that around of course. Not all right? Well, um, was
there any like I guess blood on the casing, the shell casing. No,
okay, so there's no way to make sure that, like this is
the bullet that killed Sander. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah,
I get. I mean, I'm no firearms expert, so I don't
know if like in reality if if there would be but if there is,
or if there would be, then yes, there's blood and it matches sand
Or definitely the definitely the shot that kills it. Yeah, there's the bullet.
Okay. Well, I guess that's all I needed. Now, thanks
for your help, good luck. I hope, I hope it's not what
we think it is. Me too. So he'll leave and he'll try to
like sort of almost pet the cat. Oh, it takes off as soon
as you start walking towards it, and it disappears down all the way.
Damn, she really does only like you. I've been trying that for a
while. I'm lucky, I'm fortunate enough she stays in the same room with
me at this point. But all right, well you take care and then
he'll go back up. All right, was there anything else you were going
to check while you're here? He would like to try to find out what
case Leah and Sandor were like working out? Right? Yes, okay,
I would it be possible to use like a connections talking to various people in
the department, Yeah, because you might not necessarily have access to their case
files depending on what they were working on. Yeah, give me a connections
role and we'll go from there. Okay, one success. I'm not gonna
push that. Okay, Yeah, you you are able to find h you
know, as another another personnel'll give you access to that and or it's probably
in the mainframe or something like that. And you know, being blade runners,
their stuff is restricted, so a regular officer beat cop probably would not
be able to have access to this. However, you yourself, being a
blade Runner and also being assigned to this case that they're part of, you
definitely would have access to this. So you do find that they were it's
mostly general information, but they were they suspected that there was some activity from
the Replican underground going on through or at the snake pit, and it seems
like that's why they had been there several times, was to basically investigate,
stake it out, follow up on that sort of thing, and see what
was happening. There's probably a few notes about suspicions or you know, what
they suspect might be going on, but there's nothing. There's like nothing hard
or certain in the notes, okay, or you know, it's possible they
have notes elsewhere that you don't have access to, where you don't know where
they are, or they stored somewhere else or maybe just kept it in memory.
But okay, Yeah, yeah, I guess that's pretty much it.
They don't have like a desk garn office I can rummage through. That's probably
where I'm finding all their stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty pretty basic,
all right. Um, And can I look up where Sanders apartment would
be where he lives, Odd, you could, but I will just I'll
just point it out. It has nothing to do with this investigation. Never
mind, we will break the wall there for that. Yeah, there's there's
nothing to find there. Okay, Well, um, last thing he would
do is he would ping pretty much everybody and just let him know. Uh.
Bullet casing we found came from a blaster and it it looks like it
came from Leah's. So if you see her, be careful. I don't
want to add another blade Runner to her list. Okay, Well, as
this is going on, Hector, you hop in a spinner and where exactly
are you heading? I think I was gonna go straight down to the Animoid
Row? Gotcha them check out the Aurelian, all right, But we'll go
back to this scene here then. So another dreary day in Los Angeles twenty
thirty seven. As you make your way through the quote unquote sun rising upon
the city, still foggy and hazy, but it's not dark. It's just
or it's not night, it's just dark. And you make your way over
to Animoid Row where we saw Violet Land the previous evening, and now we
see a much more busy area of the street, traffic congesting the street itself,
metro cabs taking fares to and from this area. You see plenty of
people bustling. The foodstalls are filled with steam and heat rising off of them
as they're preparing meals and breakfasts for people. And you see many of the
shops beginning to open with their signs being turned on and various people opening the
doors, opening the blinds, you know, removing these security shutters, just
like if you were at a mall and it was beginning to open, kind
of a similar scene here. What do you do when you get here?
Yeah, I think I'm gonna right to casually walk up and take a look
at the Aurelian sort of like I guess mill about what say, seven star
prons and see if anybody goes in or out the door or if it's if
it's just open, I'll probably it is open. What you see is there
is if you zoom in on the map, you can actually see what the
sign looks like. It's a it's right here. It's a vertical sign from
top to bottom. At the top there is a digital butterfly in like a
blue hologram type look, and then beneath that vertically going down as a variety
of I believe it's Chinese lettering which labels it. And then underneath that you
can't see it even if you zoom and it's really hard. But just beneath
that it says the Aurelian in English, and those that and the Chinese writing
are all in red letters. And that's sticking off the side of yep,
that part right there, that's sticking off the side of the shop, just
above the door, and it is open. You can see the sign is
on. It's lit, and you can see that the there's a light on
inside the store as well. It's good. Well, I'll hop on in
and let's see if anybody's manning the shop. Okay, yeah, What what
you see when you get inside is just a small, pretty simple looking store
and you walk in the main door here, and immediately to the left of
the doors the front window. You can see that there is the front desk
or counter, and then along the three walls are a variety of shelves,
all filled with a variety of different species of butterflies in various jars of various
sizes and styles, and you can there's a chair behind the main counter.
And in that chair you see that there is an older looking man who is
here. And let me give you his profile picture here pictures the right one.
Yeah, okay, so you see a older king man. He is
bald, with a very wrinkled, furrowed brow. He's got very thick,
white gray bushy eyebrows, just a little bit of hair on his chin and
under his lip, very very close shaven skins, a little bit darker as
though perhaps he's had a very heavy tan. And he's wearing a tattered black
with white pinstriped suit jacket with a white dress shirt underneath, and a kind
of a dilapidated red bow tie. And you see that he's sitting there at
the chair. He's got his hands up on the top of a cane that
he's got in front of him, and he turns in your direction when you
come through the door, but you can tell it doesn't seem like he's really
looking at you, but looking in your direction, and you can see as
you get close or it looks like he's probably blind. You see his eyes
are very heavily cataract, that kind of milky white look, and they don't
really focus on anything in particular. As you walk in, you just hear
him go, oh, hello, can I help you? Good morning,
sir. I was wondering about a particular species of butterfly, or more of
course, an animal but there's just a coloration pattern I had seen that really
captivated me, and I was hoping to learn more about them. Oh,
well, you've come to the right place, Please come in. Thank you.
I sort of like amble up to the counter and then hold my hand
on my chin for a bit. I was hoping originally to just show him
a picture of the other butterflies. Okay, and now, ah, well,
keep in mind, you don't know how blind he is. He might
be like totally blind, or he might be able to see something. You
know. Yeah, even if you're quote unquote legally blind, you might be
able to see something up very very very close, or with a microscope or
magnifying glass. So it all depends. It's like a a friend of mine
had purchased these, and I'll show him a picture from the So you you,
you know, you hold out your keer or whatever, and you can
tell that when you hold it out, he obviously doesn't see it, but
he realizes that you're probably showing him something, and you see, he kind
of fumbles around with his hand trying to find what you're you're showing him.
And then assuming you let him, he then you know he can feel it
and he kind of brings up really close and he says, you'll have to
excuse me. My eyesight isn't what it used to be. And you can
see that he's looking very intently, squinting his eyes, and he says,
can you describe them to me? That often helps. Yeah, I'll actually
like take a quick look around the room to see if there's anything on the
shelves. Then that would be a short cut. Yeah, definitely, there's
You see a couple of things that look pretty similar, if not identical,
sort of blue speckled, sort like the ones in this corner on the third
row. He says, oh, you must be speaking of the blue morpho
butterfly. Yes, yes, those, he says. Uh. He actually
kind of makes sure that you have whatever you're handing him. He like puts
both hands on it to make sure you've got it before he lets go.
And then he gets up and you know he's using the cane. No,
he doesn't seem like totally crippled or anything, but he's definitely using it a
little bit as he walks over to one part of the store and he looks
up at that and he says, yes, right here, Um, yes,
these were the largest butterflies ever, usually between five to eight inches in
width at their their widest point. Beautiful creatures, vivid, iridescent coloring.
They have tiny microscopic scales on their on the backs of their wings, which
reflect light. I've tried to capture that my work. As you can see,
it's a shame we don't have them around anymore. They were the largest,
to say, how big, as I said, about five to eight
inches in wingspan. Interesting? And he, you know, as he holds
up the jar, he says, my renditions here should be more or less
accurate, maybe maybe give or take an inch or so, considering any kind
of points at his eyes. Yeah, that's quite impressive work you've done here.
Thank you. Would you care to buy one? Well, I believe
I might, But before that I had a couple other questions. Sure,
this friend of mine, honestly more of a coworker, has gone missing,
and I was wondering if she had come through here, sort of maybe early
thirties, short red hair, kind of like continue through Leah's description. It
doesn't ring a bell um. I mean I do get a good amount of
foot traffic here though, so especially with my eyesight, I can't really keep
track of everyone. Of course, that's fair. Uh what about well,
I actually kind of out of character here. Do I have a recording of
any of the conversation with Styles that I could like play, Hey, this
is his voice? Do you recognize this guy? Which conversation are you referring
to? Literally any conversation with Styles? I just I just don't think.
I don't recall anyone recording any conversation with him, and they were, so
that explicitly happened. But yeah, no one specifically said they were recording him,
so I imagined they were not. Okay, that's fair. Um,
well, yeah, I don't think I could really describe him in a way
that would be helpful. Uh, I guess, can I like nupe around
for like a upstairs, a secret passage or something like that? Sure,
give me an observation test, please, that's not that big, all,
right, to successes. Okay, you're looking around and you do not see
anything of the stort. You don't see like a back room, so to
speak, or like a hidden latch or anything that would make it look like
there's something above. You could tell these buildings all have probably apartments in such
above them. But it looks like this particular shop doesn't have access to something
directly from here. I've that's one other angle. I'll ask him, sir.
He seemed to have something of an affinity for I suppose what's might say
artificial life, and can certainly see the beauty in it. Would you perhaps
be able to help replicant who has fallen on tough times? Oh, I
don't quite follow what you mean. Well, it's hard to say. There's
there's a lot of strife in the city and sometimes people are just looking for
a place where they can feel safe. I wish I could, but my
only comfort that I can offer is my work here. I'm sure I've sold
to a few replicants in my time, but that's about the extent of my
charity. Okay, well, I appreciate your time. I think i'll have
to return. I think I'm getting a call and I'm following the keya out
and and walk out the door and phone into uh Garrick and be like,
I'm completely flabbergasted as what to do out here. Yeah, you can.
You can call him when you're outside if you want. Yeah, I think
I'll do that, bounce some ideas off of them. So Garret, perhaps
as you're getting done, getting ready to bash the esper wall in stupid fucking
keyboard. Never type. Oh, he Hector, what's up? Hey?
Yeah, so I'm calling in. I've talked to the proprietor of the Aurelian.
Quite a nice fellow, completely blind, it seems, And I'm not
really sure what would bring Leah or Styles into this establishment. That's quite lovely
the animoids that are out here. But he just seems to be a nice
fellow and talented craftsman. Yea, not necessarily particularly sympathetic to replicants or well,
nothing interesting over here if he's blind the other doors, yeah, if
he's blind, does he have like cameras in there to make sure people aren't
stealing? That's an interesting question. He does not? You would you did
not see any cameras? Okay? I did to take a good look around.
Imagine they're just sneaking fast as blind well into some secret door. When
when I look through Sandor and Leah's previous case, they were looking into information
on possibly the replicant that was like a replicant underground, right, Chris,
I'm sorry, Sandor and Leoh we're looking into the replicant underground, right,
yeah, okay, so I mean maybe when people ask him about replicanc he
as an act like he cares. But maybe this is up front for the
replicant underground, and Silence was coming here because he's part of it, and
Leah came to inspect it. Mm hmm. Unfortunately, all the esper wall
footage seems to have been overwritten at this point, so I can't really tell
you anything about that. But um, yeah, I mean that's maybe it.
Maybe as a part timer who comes in and helps. I mean it
seemed like he was the guy. He he knew what was what in the
shop and h Now, this is quite all very confusing. Would you find
out about the um? I guess the butterflies. All the butterflies are large
and morphaux, but a fly one of the largest of its kind extinct,
as he might have guessed. H think that was about it. They have
like something about their scales where they have like scales for wings or something.
Yeah, little scales mixco scales on the back of their wings, which reflect
light and make them kind of shimmer. Right. Well, um, I
mean if he doesn't know anything and he can't really see people, might be
a good cover. Maybe want to scope it out later at night. Perhaps
I'll take a look around some of the adjacent shops to see if they I've
seen something else. Uh yeah, maybe ask grounds see if they've seen specific
people going into that shot. Yeah, that's something I'm not here anyway.
Um, Chris, would Garrick be able to try to scan not the previous
time before when Leah and sandor we were not styles might have been there,
but in the last like day, to see if he sees any footage of
suspicious people going in and out of the butterfly shot. Yes, you could
give me another tech at advantage. Well, I can't spend another promotion point.
Will assume you still have access. Okay, I'll give this a shot.
Fuck successes, I'm gonna push that. I'm gonna take a point of
at least a point of resolve. But if we can get a success here,
there we go. Another point of resolve taken. Love to see it,
man, that's how we started off. Dude, Bro, you're getting
your ass with by computer right now. Yeah, he's a people person.
It's not a computer person. All right. All that's good for me.
Yeah, you're you don't find anything as you spend some more time furiously punching
in commands and getting you know, data not found, access denied, no
data to be examined, data written. He's just doing breathing exercises, squeezing,
squeezing a stress ball until it explodes all over the screen. Please specify
parameters, Please specify parameters more. Muh hector, What else would you like
to do while you're here? I guess I'll just go next door and talk
to people and let's say animal memories, okay, And what what are you
asking? What are you trying to find out here? That's a great question.
I guess. I don't know if I could like casually float what it's
like being next to the uh the Aurelian gives me a connections role okay,
and then tell me specifically what you're trying to do or find out or ask
you've got one success? You're happy with that? Or do you want to
push? Uh? I'm gonna leave that. I guess no, I'll push
one. Okay? Cool? Nice? Too successful too? Okay? So
yeah, I guess what I'm thinking is to ask around and see if there's
any unusual activity like late at night next door, like cause any sort of
noise or how how busy is it generally? People buying a lot of butterflies
out there. So you you go next door and the shop owner is a
middle aged woman, probably like in her mid to late forties, and she
as you start talking and asking her some questions and things like that, maybe
show her some pictures or something that you got a critical success here, so
that's good, she says, well, um, nothing like that. You
know. The Arilian mostly keeps to himself. He keeps a pretty quiet shop.
He does get a good amount of foot traffic, though, I would
say he's probably got some more of the popular things here on Annimoid Row.
He's got some of the best work. I mean, anybody, anybody who's
around here has heard of him or knows about him. And he's been here
forever. But I've never really seen anything suspicious or anything like that. But
I do recognize this woman in the photo referring to Leah. I've seen her
a couple of times in the last few last week weeks, weeks, you
know, I've seen her a few times coming there. I know she left
at least once she had purchased something. And I've seen another another man too,
come and go, and she describes a guy that sounds like styles.
I don't know if he's a friend under a relative, maybe a son or
a nephew or something like that, but I've seen him come and go.
Oh that's interesting. He doesn't seem to purchase anything, though, does he
not that I've seen? Okay, well, it's good to know. Um,
I don't suppose you share any customers. They've never come in here for
anything. Oh well, we get plenty of window shoppers who are making their
way down the strips, so yeah all the time. Yeah, okay,
I guess, uh kind of out a character? Would I know what an
animal memories does? Like? What the is? This doesn't give me description,
So I'm going to assume that this is a type of shop where you
can have of memories made for your animoid so that they react in a specific
way or perhaps recognize you even more as their owner. M yes, okay,
that sounds fittingly. Bleed runner sounds right. Probably always money for somebody
keeping butterflies. Uh yeah, you're not sure how that would work with an
insect? Oh boy, okay, I don't know. I don't feel great
about like trying to lean on a blind guy any harder than than that.
They can just be popping in and out. But for what purpose That's a
mystery. M hmm. They've been in and out in the past week.
Let's struggle over here. Okay, Derek will give Hector a call back.
Okay, bring, bring, bring, bring, Hello. Can you buy
one of the I guess butterflies that leahhead? H? I know what I
might be able to afford one. I suppose I'll give it a shot.
I confront you the ginine if you need. It'll just be a single gin
yin point h you know, because these are specialized, and you know,
he does have kind of a reputation that he's really good at this, So
we'll just assume it'll be the equivalent of one chinon point worth of money.
Yeah, let's give it a shot. Are you buying one similar to what
Leah bout? Yeah, I'll pop back in and say sorry for the interruption.
I quite all right, but yeah, as I said earlier, I
think it would be nice to purchase one of these for myself. The morphoe
excellent choice. And he goes over to the wall and even though he can't
see, obviously, he's very acute of what's around him in the store,
and it's almost like he isn't blind as he gets up there and he you
know, reaches and gets one, and then he brings it over to the
register and he begins to very carefully wrap it in um kind of that like
that nice almost like tissue paper that you have for gifts, and then he
puts it in a small bag and it's got the symbol of his shop on
the side. And then you know, you exchange and he gives you the
receipts and he says, I appreciate your business, sir. I hope these
bring you a little bit of color and peace to your your home. Oh,
thank you. And I'm gonna like scoot backwards and look at the shelf
where you removed the thing and like do it, do a little once over.
Yeah, has nothing there, it's just an empty shelf. Okay,
Well, I appreciate your time. Do come back again. It's been a
pleasure. Have a good day, sir, And I assume you depart.
ANI might row at that point. Yeah, I'm gonna, well, maybe
I'll just sit at one of the tables with my stuff at the moment and
like cut the door angrily, hoping hoping that the case will fumble into my
lap, all right until someone calls me later breakfast or whatever it. Yeah,
you see not the Prons place crown noodles. Okay, what you do
see? As you sit down? You know, you eventually get your food.
You're eating, and eventually, as you're kind of you know, getting
about halfway through your meal, you look up from the table and you see,
like, like across the sidewalk, you can see there is a hooded
figure that appears to be staring in your direction. You see a very tall
man with a black hoodie pulled over his head, and it looks like he's
trying to be nonchalant, but you can tell that he's looking in your direction.
Okay, he's just looking. I'm gonna, like for a quick beat,
continue eating, and then I guess push the bowl found the counter and
see if I can like walk through the normal thoroughfare to get slightly closer to
him. Yeah, as you do, you can definitely tell that he's watching
you and paying attention to you. And as you start to walk towards him,
he puts out a cigarette and he starts trying to casually walk away from
you and kind of blend into the crowd. Yea, I think I might
uh escalate here and open fire. No, not that, but uh quickly
try to catch up to him, as me a observation, as he's actively
trying to, you know, hide amongst the crowd. I don't try to
use a short cut. We're not in the chase. Just oh now,
okay, this is opposed. If you'd like to push that, yeah,
I'll push wolf. All right. Well that's that's where we're at. Okay,
So you take a point of resolve. However, you are a replicant.
You can push a second time if you'd like. I don't think that's
gonna help anybody, Okay, man, we are just not rolling well tonight.
So you try to follow him through the crowd and you round a warner
and you think that you've lost him. You're looking and you just don't see
anything. And as you're kind of standing there looking around you, someone like
bumps into you from the side as they're walking past you from behind, and
you know, kind of like where someone like walks into you with kind of
like their shoulder and you're not sure if it's accidental or if it's on purpose,
but it feels pretty rough when they walk past you. And hit and
kind of bump into you. Okay, well I'm gonna spin around and see
if I can look. Well. So, I mean they walk, they
come from behind you, so they walk past you, so they kind of
they hit you as they walk past you, and they keep going to another
in front of you, walking away, and you see the guy looks over
his shoulder and gives you a real dirty look and keeps walking. Oh it's
just some guy. What I can see their face? Yeah? Um,
he gives you a scowl. He uh, you know, he's also got
a hoodie on, probably like trying to keep out of the rain and such.
But I don't know. All right, I'm I'm gonna shout at him.
Yeah you got a problem, mac he uh. He stops and looks
over, looks over his shoulder, and he says, what's it to you?
Maybe just get out of the fucking way and stop lily gagging around?
Do you mean lolli gagging? I mean making a good face here. If
he's not raining, where's the fire? And he starts to walk away.
Yeah, I'll make a rude gesture, and I guess just like walk briefly
and a ran direction, hoping that I had bump into somebody and then just
call it a day, not a day day. He notices the rude jesture
gesture, and he actually comes back and he's like, you got something to
say, buddy, Yeah, just watch where you're going, Bud. It
ain't hard. You've been walking all your life. Presumably he gives you a
very violent shove to the chest. You don't want to start that, my
friend. Oh no, why's that? Put you in a headlock and give
you a terrible haircut? Then what'll you tell your co workers the next day?
All right? So, without warning, this guy takes a swing at
you and cracks you right in the jaw. You're not expecting it. Yeah,
I don't see anything specific here, so I'm just gonna assume it does
one point of damage. So you take one point of health damage. Well
he didn't get a criticals. Criticals don't matter. Okay, we'll just say
you take one damage as he strikes you across the jaw and then he takes
off. Oh what, just the sucker punch and run away. I'm gonna
try to print and tackle him. Okay, give me a mobility test,
please, I blame my strong So, uh, would you like to push.
I don't know, there's like a pretty good chance that I will go
down if I've pushed this and blow it. So I think I'm gonna let
it go. Okay. So you you chase after him, and he makes
his way around a corner down an alley, and he's actually not as fast
as he probably hopes. You're able to keep up with him. You round
the corner down the alley as you're chasing after him, and eventually you actually
do kind of catch up to him, only because he comes to a dead
end and you know, there's like some dumpsters at the end of the alley,
and he stops and then he looks back over his shoulder at you.
You've got him cornered, all right. I think I'm still gonna I'm gonna
tackle him. Okay, let's start with that. So this would be a
hand to hand and this would be like a grapple. So the way this
works is you're gonna make your attack roll here, and then we'll start combat
after this goes down. So um so in this game, if it's opposed,
because when he struck you, you weren't aware, you weren't expecting that,
so it was unopposed. But normally close combat is an opposed test,
and so you both roll your close combat and whoever rules more successes wins and
does damage. Now instead of doing damage, you can do other stuff like
knocking people to the ground and grappling them and things like that. So let
us first roll our post test here, and let's let's get a little bit
of fight music going. Go ahead, thank your roles and a hand.
Oh pretty good. Okay, So three successes, he rolled two, so
you do beat him. You don't do a critical because you have to do
at least two or more to get a critical. So you can either hit
him with an unarmed attack, or you can do like a special maneuver,
so you can you can start a grapple if you want, or you can
knock him to the ground or push him basically like to another range bracket.
Or if he had something in his hand, you can like knock it out
of his hand, or wrestle away from him. Yeah, I think I'm
gonna start the grapple and then just kind of a wrestle a bit. Okay,
be like, what's your problem guy? All right, so please give
me an initiative role. He let me put you on the map. He
has a five, you have a nine. So this is um I don't
know why it's making you go first, because in this game is just like
Alien, you draw a card one through ten, one being the fastest,
so they are actually going to go first, and I believe all he can
do is try to break the grapple. Yeah, so he has to try
to break the grapple. All right, now the benefits here. If you
are still grappling him on your turn, you the only thing you can do
is either let him go or make a grapple one another grapple, which either
means you can try to do a special attack like knock him to the ground
or something, or it counts as a melee attack. But he doesn't get
to defend himself because he's restrained. But he's going to try to break out
here, so it's going to be another opposed hand to hand. All right,
you got here, so you kind of shoulder tackle him a little bit
and he grabs you or you grab him, and now he's obviously trying to
break loose. Here. You have one success, he has two. So
he manages to basically throw his arms out and you kind of stagger back and
he gets ready to start to fight you, and you see a wicked smile
come across his face. Wicked. Oh gosh, he doesn't draw a weapon
or anything. Yet he does not give me an observation test please yet.
One you notice out from the shadows behind you, two more figures emerge.
One of them you do not recognize. The other one is the person you
were chasing. It is Styles. We're going to add them to the initiative
as well. Oh boy, we'll keep it the way that we were going.
So Styles is last. Uh, he's he's got a nine or I
guess at ten because there's no nine. Yeah, that's weird. How do
we go up and numbers? Well, one goes first. I don't know
why in this tracker it's going the other way. It works in alien like
that anyway. So you notice the one guy, uh that's come up behind
you, He like draws out a switchblade and Styles has like a bat that
he's you know, clacking into his open palm or choice. Coming here,
detective, and the one guy is going to lash out with the knife.
So you can make an opposed close combat role here as you try to defend
yourself. I would that also be hand to hand and yes, poogle beans.
Okay, do you want to push? Are you happy with one?
I'll try for one this time. Okay, it is a tie. Oh
if there's a tie, no one is hit and only the attacker can push.
Okay. Well, so he takes a stab with the knife and you
manage to basically grab him by the wrist and keep him from shanking you.
However, the other replicant who has was fighting unarmed, he's going to try
to grapple you, and I'm going to give him advantage because you are outnumbered.
Right now, you can attempt to defend yourself. Okay, are you
happy with that? Success? That seems like maybe a good one to push.
I'll give it a shot. H A, all right, another tie.
This guy comes up behind you. He gets his arms around you,
and you basically like give him a headbut with the back of your head and
knock him back so you're not restrained. And then it is your turn.
I guess I'm gonna call out to styles. It's like, come on,
aren't we all friends here? No need to resort to violence, so we
just need to talk. We've done enough talking. You stuck your nose in
too many places, and you see he's getting ready to swing that bad at
you, and I'm gonna, I guess punch the guy with the switchblade and
guess that's a I'm gonna punch with a switch blade. Go for it.
Okay, he is gonna try to offend you off with the knife. Okay.
He only has one success though, So you do get past him and
you do a point of damage. You crack him, score a good hit,
but he don't like he's anywhere near finished. Nice styles. Then runs
up with the club. The bat takes a swing at you. Okay,
so you actually beat him with one. You duck under the bat and you
manage to give him a good punch to the gut. So in this game,
whoever wins with defender or attacker, they do damage to their opponent.
So he overswings and you strike him in the chest, right in the gut,
and he uh lets out. Um. You know you can hear them
like kind of lose the breath for a moment. But then we are back
to the top of the round and it looks like these guys are not about
to let up, and the one with the knife comes back at you again.
Oh my god, right, please roll It sounds great. Yeah,
oh oh, there is a crit but it is from hector as I don't
know why your token says Matt. That's not right. Somehow, this guy
rolled three ones, so you actually will score a critical here. Well,
let's let's do this. Did that work? There we go? So you
do a point of damage because you're using a damage one weapon, and then
for every extra point you can do another point of damage, and you score
a critical here. Well, here we go, unarmed does one damage?
The crypt dice is equal to your strength, so what is your strength value?
D twelve? Oh god, damn. Okay, So the way criticals
work in this game, unlike an alien criticals usually don't happen because you got
dropped to zero health. They happen because you get a critical in combat.
So since you have two or two successes more than he does, you score
a critical. So he's going to take two points of damage, and then
you're going to roll a D twelve all right, so you're gonna do critical
injuries. Crushing, so there's crushing and piercing damage in this game. This
is obviously crushing because it's a blunt object. Yep. So this is The
charts are from one to twelve in this game. So having a D twelve
means you can potentially get a really good score here, depending what you roll.
Okay, so I can, I think just hit roll. But if
it was a lower die, uh oh, we'll figure that out later,
I guess. Yeah, I don't ever go. Oh, you can change
it in the when that window pops up. Oh is that what this is?
Nope? I tried rolling into broken fingers. Okay, so broken fingers.
So it's not fatal. Obviously, this is a thing that would it
would take a week to heal, and it gets disadvantaged to firearms and hand
to hand combat. So he comes in again with the knife and you grab
his wrist and you basically just fold his fingers back. There's an audible crack.
He shouts out in pain, drops the knife and yeah, you've you've
done that to him? Can I put this on his character sheet? Oh?
You can? Excellent? Okay? Perfect? All right, However,
you have the other replicant to worry about, and I've lost my initiative tracker
here there is guys, are you sure you don't just want to talk replicate
number two. He's gonna take a swing at you. But this guy's unarmed.
Um, actually, you know what, at this point, he's gonna
pull out like a small club and try to like hit you over the head
with it because he realized you aren't sucking around. What are they sucking around
the whole time? Damn you think they are with these roles. Got to
learn to read people better. Yeah, all right, go for it,
all right, here we go. Oh wow, three successes. Not only
do you beat him, but you get another critical. He only has one
success, so two points of damage and please run me another critical. Nobody
told me you were fucking Bruce Lee over here. I didn't realize that was
strength. Jesus, why did we put you on tech? Right concussion?
Okay, what does this do? Dude? You're like fucking daredevil disadvantage to
observation and tech. Okay, So this guy takes a swing. He comes
up from behind you, tries to bring the club down on your head.
As you do, you catch his arm over your shoulder, and once again,
you smash the back of your head into his face and he stumbles back,
holding his head as he's clearly stunned by that. And it is now
your turn. All right, I'll I guess I'm gonna try to go for
styles and yeah, I guess hit the bat out of his arm. Okay,
like a disarmed sort of thing. Yeah, well you can um since
your own arm. You don't really have to call that until you until you
hit him. We'll see what if I just eat eat my own lunch right
off the bat like with a role like that. Oh that's not great.
I'm gonna push that. Okay, that's a lot better. Okay, So
you have three successes, but so does he as you you try to grab
the bat and he basically uh pulls it out of your reach and then he
kind of like jabs the back of it at your hand and kind of knocks
you back. So nobody takes any damage there, but he looks like he's
ready and then he's gonna follow up. All right, go ahead, Oh
yeah, Marls, here we go. I'm gonna have to live with one
here. Okay. So he beats you by one, you're going to take
what is this two damage? As he hits you like in the side,
like between your shoulder and your elbow, and he hits you pretty hard there,
but it could be worse, you know. He kind of he's getting
ready for another swing. It's like he had enough. He had copper.
I told you stop sticking your nose where it don't belong. And you can
see his two friends here are not as confident as they were perhaps a few
minutes ago, but he looks like he is still ready to keep going on.
Replicants got to stick together. I need to know what happened to l
Yeah, right, Well, the one guy with the broken fingers picks up
his knife in the other hand, but he's had disadvantage now because he's using
his off hand and his fingers are broken. Now, let's see if it
does this automatically, because it's showing on the role that the broken fingers are
here. No, it says here that if somebody picks up something from the
ground with an active and standing enemy at engaged range, that's one of the
triggers for a free attack. Oh okay, then yeah, he probably wouldn't
do that. He'd probably just just punch. You guess. Either way,
it's just us rolling close combat attacks again, she against each other. It's
not like you know what though, I'd also say that'd probably be hard to
do because you're fighting them three on one. So I think he'd be able
to pick it up and not get the attack of opportunity because there's three of
them. Oh, it's just automatically makes me a rule disadvantage. Okay,
well here we go, all right, you hie? So he takes a
swipe and you matched dodge it, maybe cuts your your suit jacket a little
bit, but he doesn't hit you. The second replicant comes in a little
stunned but still trying to hit you with the bat. Here. I'm gonna
wait, can you can you push if you're the defender? No, no,
you cannot. Okay, so I guess I get to eat this one.
Yes, and he has three successes, so you are going to take
four damage and a critical hit here, and his critical is a D ten.
Well if I'm at four health, now, uh does that have further
implications? You are broken? So let's do the critter. It's showing two
D ten. I don't know why. Let me see here because I think
there's Yeah, if you have additional successes, it escalates it. Oh that's
right, you get to roll multiple and pick higher one. That's what it
is. Yeah, okay, so I have to roll two two crits here?
Okay, so ten two of them I don't know. I sinks styles
because I was token selected, that's why. Okay, so you have three
broken fingers and three broken fingers, so your fingers are broken as well.
I'll put that on your character sheet. You should see it on your combat
tab now. And you are at zero health, which means you are broken,
and I believe that means you fall to the ground in a state of
semi consciousness. I know you're not gonna die, Okay. If you drop
to zero health, you are broken by the damage. This means you fall
down or taken out of action. You can crawl and mumble through the pain,
but you can't perform any other actions, and you can't roll for any
skills. You can't go below zero health. But each further attack that causes
damage triggers an automatic critical. So this guy gets a great swing in and
smashes it right down over your hand, breaking some fingers, and then takes
another swing and hits you in the chest, and you fall to the ground,
collapsing in pain. And you see these guys standing over you starting to
kind of swarm and close in on you like wolves, and everything goes black
as you pass out. And I think that is a perfect spot for our
break. We'll be right back, folks. Son of a gun. I'll
see you guys for the next game that we do in a few weeks.
Why have you not just shoot them? My aim is terrible? Strength is
pretty good, bro. He was killing he was he was dunking on them.
But like it's three verse one and he's doing one damage a hit.
Yeah, it was pretty funny though. I was definitely picturing you, like
dared Devil, just fucking beating some face and crime alley or kitchen. You
can get you like one of those nightsticks or stunned batons. Yeah, that
could be your next thing. You can get some fucking batons. Yeah,
like a riot field and a baton. Just go in dude. All right,
folks were back. What a cliffhanger break we had there. So we
are now into the second shift of the day. It's afternoon on day two.
As Violet and haul Back, you guys finish up your breakfast. You're
meeting with your sister, and you guys are ready to head back and rejoin
the group. What do the two of you do? I'd probably call haul
Back and check in see where he wants to meet up. Mhod morning anything
exciting happen. No, nothing exciting at all. Why don't we meet at
the station? Well, figure out where to go from here? We're from
there, all right? Ten to four? Okay, you guys gonna go
meet up then? Yeah, I'll hang up and I'll get ready and I'll
head out. Okay, we'll assume you either meet up with Garrick or you
get everybody on a group call. As you guys are making your way towards
the tower, Garrick, you're finishing up. You've just gotten off the phone
with Hector not too long ago, as he said he was checking out the
Arilian and uh yeah, what are the three of you guys do once you
reconnect? Well, Garrick would bring him into I guess they have like a
private office they can talk in. Sure. Yeah, so, um,
Boss Violet, we checked the shell and that we found out the crime scene
snake bit. It definitely belongs to one of our guns, and Sandor's gun
didn't have anyone any shells missing, So looks like it's Leah's. You can
pretty much guarantee at least her gun killed Sander. Okay, they're the last
case they were working on. Had to do with replicant underground. So currently
Hector's out at the Butterfly shop trying to drum up leads. See if anything
from Leah's apartment those butterflies matches or we can get anything. Okay, I
backed from him at all. I mean I talked to him like twenty minutes
ago. He should be fine. Ah, okay, all right, what's
your next moves? Do we hear anything? Do we hear anything back from
Wallace Corp? About anything into this styles guy? Yeah, the data is
available. Just have to go and take a look at the records. Okay,
maybe we'll have somebody do that. See uh, I'd say we should
look into this into the memory designer. I think Lilith is our biggest lead
right now. Yeah. I don't know if she's going to be at the
Wallace Corp necessarily if she works out of there. I really don't know much
about her. He's a private contract as far as we know. Yeah,
well, we can ask around. The Wallace Corps should be able to tell
us, right. Someone gives me a feeling they're not going to be so
helpful. Probably not, but they implanted human memories and Leah or one of
their prime memory designers did. I gotta try to find out why. So
what's the what do we want to do? Who wants to go wear?
I guess I'd like to go to Wallace Corp. But I don't know if
I'm the best one to speak to Miss Quell Deerck. I would point out
that you're the one that made the request for the records, so you would
assume that you at least should go, because if you send someone in your
place, that will probably cause problems, okay, or delay things as you
get it all straightened out. Right. Well, since I put the request
in, I'll probably go with you know, we can talk to Quell and
take a look at the records all at the same time. Um, well,
Violet, I wonder if you follow up on Littlis be wherever she is
and go pay her visit. Well, presumably she'd be at Wallace Corps.
That's where she works. Anyone anyone, Uh makes sense? Yeah? All
tracks should tell Hector where we're going. Maybe you can meet up with us.
It's probably more that not dead not dead. It's like thirty seven unconscious
going on listeners. Hector's token is just showing how unconscious he is right now,
which is very um, so, oh, go for it. Sandor
and Leah we're investigating the replicant underground and then big ass guy we think might
be replicant made contact and Leah shot Sandor. Kind of thinking at this point
she might might be part of the underground, but she might also not.
She was waking out, so to speak. I mean, we can assume
that she did shoot him, but it might have been involuntary. I mean,
those those baseline tests are to make sure that you're you replicants aren't getting
overly emotional, right yep, And she failed about three of them and was
calibrated. So there's something wrong with her programming, or she's just feeling lots
of emotions, like maybe she should join the underground. Could be too Yeah,
I'm just saying. Hard to say, but but my two theories.
If we see her though, she might shoot us, so be careful.
You should assume she's dangerous. Absolutely. Yeah, all right, let's buzz
Actor see if he's got any leads or anything good happened. You get no
response when you message Act or trying to call him up. That's weird.
I'm just having a real bad time with all this technology today. You see
his office there's just a shattered keyboard on his desk. Must have been playing
while Yeah that that goddamn new rage just can't beat it. Mm hmm,
it's not answering, h m hm. Well maybe give him five minutes.
Yeah, do we want to swing by and scoop him up or leave him
a message to meet us there? Well? M I mean he took a
spinner or cell. He should be good to get there by by himself,
right, Yeah, give him a little bit of time, you know,
he should he should answer. Okay, So what are you guys gonna do?
Who's going where? Who's doing what? I think Garrick and Violet are
going to Wallace Coo. Okay, Yeah, and I heard you guys mentioned
something about Lilith Tyrrell. Well, presumably she would be at Wallace Coo.
Right, so we kind of want to investigate her talk to her. So
you you guys know, according to the article and what you've learned so far
is that she works at a memory lab designing memories. And it also says
that she's a contractor for Wallace Corporation. So um, you guys would all
know enough or you could easily look up that she has her own memory lab
called Lilith Memory Labs that you could go visit. Well, she doesn't work
on site at Wallace Corporation. I'd say Violet should go there. All right,
Yeah, that sounds right. Uh Garrick, Yeah, so Garrick's going
to Wallace then, yeah, and then Halbeck is going to visit the Chief.
Okay, well you guys part ways and we'll stick here in the Lapd
tower. As you make your way up to the floor where the Chief's offices,
and once again you walk past the the secretary I forget her name.
I think we called her Jenny earlier, and she says she sees you and
gives you a wave. She says he's in there. It's in a bit
of a mood. Uh. Silas would take his hat off and kind of
not at her and just walk in. And he's got the door behind him.
Yeah you uh you see that. He gets off the phone and he
slams slams down on the buttons and the VID call that he's on, and
he looks at you once again, wheezing, why is it? Haulback?
Make it fast? Hope you got something good to tell me. Look,
Chief, this Skylar guy, he's gonna be trouble. I bought us,
I bought us time. But you know he's sitting on this powder keg and
you know, the more we investigate, the more it's looking like it could
possibly be true. And this would start, this would start everything all over
again with these people. Tell me something I don't know, Haulback, Why
a fuck are you here in my office telling me this? I think Silas
would would sit down and start fidgeting with his hat because he's kind of dancing
around the notion that, you know, Skylar, is that a guy that
might have to be told to be quiet? And he's not sure he's hit
that that level yet. Well, what do you say to the chief because
he obviously looks pissed and annoyed that you're here and not out solving the case.
Yeah, look, Chief, you said to you said to keep you
updated. So that's the biggest deal right now. As I gotta keep tabs
on this guy. You still got a keya that fucking works. Don't you
send me a goddamn message and get your ass back to work. He'd look
at the chief, got quell asking me where the fuck you guys are?
I heard Garrick put in a request for something and then he isn't even there.
What the fuck are you guys doing? Gerk's on the way right now.
Yeah, he should have been on the way six hours ago. Do
I have to hold your hand and do your fucking job for you? Get
out? Silas would he said? Get out? You walk out, And
now he gets up as you leave, and he slams the door shut behind
you, and you see Jenny goes Um afternoon detective. He'd put his hat
on and tip it towards her and walk out the rest of the office.
Okay, and what are you gonna do for this shift? I would once
again try and hail hector. There's no response. I mean, is there
like you know, like a GPS or or whatever on his h spinner or
his person probably on the spinner. I would imagine he'd probably just have to
call up dispatch and put in a request for them to track it. Okay,
here did tell you that he was at the butterfly shop on animate like
wherever that animal? Well, I mean he would he would start headed out
that way, but he would still put in a request to make sure.
I don't think so. I think it's something simple enough for basic security.
It would seem weird to me if they didn't. So yeah, I mean
you know where he went, and you would have the location of the spinner
itself so you can see exactly where he landed it. Okay, all right,
I think we will start with Garrick hopping in your spinner and making your
way to the oppressive, dominating form of the Wallace Core HQ once again,
going through some checkpoints into that same underground garage that you went to before and
being led by what you're guessing is the same replicant who met you guys the
first time, and then bringing you up to a you know, up to
h to meet with once again everyone's favorite MPC, miss miss Quell. Miss
Quell. She is uh once again dressed very nicely. She's in a different
outfit this time looks much more like business formal, like perhaps she's got a
meeting or something to go to. Um, she's got her hands gently crossed
in front of her as she's uh, you know, kind of clasped as
she's standing waiting for you. Yetive Johnson, it's so nice of you to
join me, miss Quell. Pleasure's mine. Your request made it seem like
this was urgent. Yet here we are waiting. I'm beginning to doubt the
sincereah of your efforts to get this case solved in a timely manner. And
after she says that, she turns and indicates for you to follow her,
as she wonderful. You're not sure if she conspects an answer or not.
It doesn't give an answer to accepting the dreaming he's getting from both his boss
and this person. You quietly walk down the halls, your footsteps echoing,
and after a few moments in silence, she says nothing to say. No
excuses or reasons, plenty of reasons, none that would probably make you any
happier. So on that we can agree. Very busy person here, Detective.
I made sure that your request went through. You stated that it was
urgent, and seeing is how urgent this case is to us here at Wallace
Corporation. I made sure it was at the top of the priority. Yet
you rudely waltz in here, it seems, whenever you feel like it,
which makes me think your request perhaps was not so urgent. No, I
guarantee this is definitely a suspect. At this point, you make your way
through a door and we see a scene similar to what we see in twenty
forty nine when Officer Kay meets with the bald reception clerk in that big open
area, and eventually Quell takes you to a similar area where we see Kay
meet up with Love and she has like the little Santa Crystal data thing,
that little ball that goes into the computer to kind of check records. You're
in a room similar to that cold steal, very oppressive room. There's several
monitors in a big keyboard display terminal, and she walks over to it and
she says, fortunately, there's not much to go on. It's all you
have is a description and no sort of serial number. However, I can
show you a few things, and she brings up a profile, and she
goes through a couple and eventually, maybe on the second or third one,
you see one that looks pretty similar, if not identical, to Styles.
She says, do any of these match the description of your suspect? Yeah,
And he'll point to the one that looks similar, if not exactly like
Styles, that looks just like him. Actually, well prayed to say that
this is a Nexus eight model. So this was before Wallace Corporation truly started
developing replicants. We have some records, not all of them are complete,
of course, because the blackout and Tyrrell's meddling and incompetence, I can confirm
this is a series of replicants. However, without more specific information, I
don't think I'll be able to provide you with anything beyond that. Right if
you weren't aware, some replicants are made as a model line, multiples of
the same replicant made over and over that look practically identical. It's a less
intensive that way to customize them to all be unique, at least in the
fiscal sense. Okay, well, miss Quale, I appreciate that, and
since you'd previously asked for updates, remiss of me not to share one of
these. She gives you a very pleasant smile. He's very uncomfortable with the
creepy business smile used to scowls and getting yelled at by his boss. Looks
like one of these lines was actually involved in the killing of our blade Runner.
Currently, we suspect it might have been the other blade Runner did the
shooting. Her smile quickly turns to a frown. You are telling me you
believe that one of the Nexus nine blade Runners murdered the other, that's what
we're seeing. But then, please indulge me. What does this model and
she points her you know, motions her hand at the screen have to do
with the investigation. You said it was a suspect. Please elaborate. Yeah,
he was at the scene of the murder. He seemed to instigate the
issue with the anti replicant movement that you had mentioned. They were there,
and he is the that Skyler is as scummy as you said. But this
replicant, going by the name of Styles, it seemed to make the situation
worse. Wade into a fight with a few people, and then one of
our blade Runners ended up dead, killed by one of our shells, and
you instantly think it was the blade Runner that pulled the trigger. How do
you know this model didn't steal it from her or one of the anti replicants
people that were there, or Skyler himself. Possible, But then why did
she run? Most people tend to run when they don't have a weapon and
they're being fired upon, wouldn't you agree? Yeah, But then she would
have come back to the lapd right if she was able to, or if
she was innocent. She got in a cab pretty quick, could have taken
her here or to the lapd HM. Well, for what it's worth,
I'll point out that this particular line of replicants, and she turns back to
the terminal is a combat model designed for m what's the best way to put
it. A robust endurance, increased capabilities in physical labor and combat. Almost
seven feet tall when I saw him, So yeah, it makes sense.
Sounds like the type of individual that could over power a blade Runner. No
good possible. Now goes through a few more things than she kind of turns
back to you, as if expecting you to say more or see what you
have to say. Let's say, does end up being the case that one
of the Nexus Nines on our side, guild sand or how would you prefer
it be dealt with? She stares at you blankly for a moment. You
can't tell if she's grinning or or not. Very hard to tell. She
kind of just bores her eyes right into years for a moment. It makes
you very very uncomfortable, just the absolute silence and eeriness, just the hum
of the terminal behind you. Finally, she says, finally, it seems
you're beginning to understand things here, Detective should such an anomaly as unlikely as
it is, indeed, be what you discover and are positively certain, without
a shadow of a doubt is true, then I would expect the utmost discretion
and cooperation. I would expect you to give me those results, in that
information, that conclusion directly personally, so that we can make sure the proper
steps are taken. Well, you do understand, don't you? Yeah?
I think i'd do. Wouldn't want anything like this getting out to the public
and starting another series of unfortunate events. I see you've done your homework.
Then I wonder is your partner, Detective Holdbeck, as agreeable as you are.
I know that he's been on the force for quite a bit longer than
you don't know, and I probably won't ask him while we're on this case.
How can I trust the integrity of the investigation? Then, if your
whole team is not aligned with our goals, I can't guarantee that they all
would be, as long as one of us should make a difference. She
once again stares at you for a moment in absolute silence, clearly judging you,
sizing you up. Let me be blunt here, Detective you seem to
be a smart man. You seem to be, how do they say?
Picking up what I'm throwing down? We have use for individuals like you,
people that we can trust, especially people in such a unique position as yourself,
being a blade runner and all, and with your career just getting started.
Will cooperation with us, I can absolutely guarantee, would see your career
beyond a rise indefinitely. Really, should you proved to be the type of
person we can work with. Mister Wallace is very particular about everything surrounding the
Nexus nines, as you can imagine, it would be good to have someone
we could truly trust in such a position as yours. Well, that does
sound enticing, and I've been known to be a bit of a people pleaser,
so I think we could work something out. I'm very happy to hear
that, Detective. Please keep me updated the moment you have any news.
I'll send you a private channel that you can securely send things to me directly
encrypted. There will be no interference, will be from my eyes and those
of mister Wallace alone. All right, do you say anything else to her?
It's a pleasure doing business. She nods her head and says, likewise,
just remember your career Detective. It could be a shining star, or
it could be a snuffed out candle. The choice is really yours, not
really a joyce then, is there. There's always a choice, Detective.
Some are just better than others. And at that she walks past you and
she says, they'll see you out now, And like if I'm out of
nowhere, that replicant appears and as ready to show you back down to where
your spinner's part. Right, he will exit and go back to his spinner.
Sorry, I should have I should have had this out for everyone to
enjoy one last time. I see she's totally agreeable when you do everything she
wants. Yeah, looks want to mug. I just want to trigger.
I just want to trigger. Tyler here cleaner clock at the end of this
suffering from PTST already. So while Garrick is talking with the best NPC NPC
of the year, really, we will switch over to violets popping in a
spinner. Derek stop on and gets like that. I mean, he's on
the ballot for sure, but I don't get that. This kind of reaction
from from Zin gets like I do with her. So hold on, I
got a cat in my face. Who wants to I don't know if you
guys heard him earlier street boys been quite vocal tonight he wants to play.
So Violet, you hop in your spinner and you are making your way.
I'm sorry, we're again to Lilith Enterprises or Memory Lab. Yeah, memory
labs? Okay, So what me can I I'm gonna try reaching Hector again
on the way. No response. I take an intuition test or an insight
test for what he's not answering his phone and it's been a while. I
don't think you need to make an insight test. I think you can deduce
whatever you feel like. I mean, I feel like, you know,
Violet's a detective. If he's not answering, something is probably wrong. And
I feel like Violet maybe cal Halbeck say hey, Paul Beck, you're there?
Yeah? Are you here from Hector? No, I'm heading over there
now. Got a bad feeling. I'll reroute mitya. No, no,
stay on the memory laps. We need to start looking into this stuff.
I'm heading over there now. I'll check it out. Okay. I don't
say anything, and I turn it off Classic and I don't listen to him,
and I we see the spinner bank off towards Animoid Row. Yeah,
okay, all right, U I love it. That's that's very very detective
of you. Okay. So uh well, I don't need to describe what
you're about to see then, so we'll just switch this over to something else.
Uh street, go your your block in the path here, Well,
let me get the cat out of the way while I do that. All
back, you take your spinner soaring over the city streets, making your way
towards the Animwaight Row. As you do, you eventually lock on and ping
to where his spinner is located, and you find it off on the side
of the street. Here. You know, there's nobody really near it,
nobody's been messing with it or anything, but you do find it, okay,
Uh can um? I think you would just go near it, double
check and make sure that it hasn't been fired up, like it's pretty cold
to the touch. Yeah at this point, definitely okay, um. Yeah,
Silas would look around from where the spinner is. Can he see the
butterfly shop the Aralian probably? Yeah, okay, if not, it only
probably takes a minute or two to find it, just depends on the angle
that he's parts, but you find it fast enough, okay, I think
So is it like the track? Is it raining right now? Yeah,
there's always there's pretty much always rain, Okay, just a light result.
It's not heavy or anything. But gotcha. Well, Silas would unholster his
piece and just shove both his hands in the pockets of his trench coat and
kind of look like he's huddling up against the light rain, head over to
the Aurelian and kind of be keeping a sharp eye out while he's walking.
I mean the observation test. Please, Oh let's see that. Is this
one all right? That's two successes that I will accept? Okay, So
you do not see anything. It's it's busy here, but you don't see
anything out of the ordinary. You instantly can see the signs the Arelian shop,
and as you're walking by, you hear someone at one of these food
kiosks like say to the person they're sitting next to. They're clearly talking about
you as they see you walk by and land the spin everything. You hear
one of them say like, man, a lot of a lot of lapd
out here today, Huh, I wonder what's going on? And you see
the other guy next to him like kind of nod as he shoveling some noodles
into his mouth. Oh oh, Silas would know he's on the right track,
I think. Yeah, so still making his way to the butterfly shop.
Probably wouldn't go in. Maybe would kind of circle the building see if
there's anything going on behind it. So there's an alley behind this row of
buildings, and then it gets to the end of the block over here in
the bottom right hand corner, and then that goes off the map where the
sidewalk goes further into the rest of the neighborhood. But yeah, basically there's
a there's an alley that goes behind this row. Some of these places probably
have like a back entrance, or you might see like the fire escape,
metal stairs and ladders that go up to uh, like the apartments and stuff
above. But you know, you don't see anything out of the ordinary.
You know, dumpsters and trash cans and things like that, but nothing out
of the ordinary. Is there, like a newspaper stand or something nearby?
Yes, okay, just really quick for sort of stealthing's sake, Silas would
buy a newspaper and kind of walk with it. Well, looking at it,
yeah, this is probably like a news stand or something over here,
so you grab one. As you do, you can't help but notice as
you turn to the second page, another police spinner lands over by your guys,
and you see violent hop out. Okay. So Silas would pull the
very nineteen eighties move of pushing his glasses down the brim of his the bridge
of his nose and look and looking over them like mouth a gape. It's
her, yep, and realizing he just wasted money on a fucking newspaper,
would roll it up, swipe it under his arm, and just start marching
over to her. All right, you do so. So, not only
do you ruin my time out here, you're disobeying me and not going to
see the fucking memory lady. Oh you're my boss. I thought I was
running point on this. I mean, to be fair, everybody's been calling
him boss, so well, I'm tired of old men telling me what to
do. A good idea. Something happened to him. You're gonna go there
and alone and what get done in the same way. Come on, get
over yourself, let's find him. Realizing arguing is pointless, Silas would sigh
and then gesture towards the Aralian with an arm and UH say, after you,
all right, walk over to the Aurelian. Okay, you see the
shop you saw earlier or in the late last night, and this time you
see the old man. I go up and introduce myself. Well, sir,
Detective Violet. I mean you see that he notices when you walk in.
You know obviously you're not being quiet or anything, and he says,
oh, hello, detective, how can I help you? Looking for a
fellow detective that may have been in here earlier. I haven't had any police
come in today. I've had a few customers, but you know, the
first officer to come in, I give Silas a look. Anyone coming in
asking about butterfly wars looking for a missing person? I mean just about everyone
that comes in here is asking about butterfly wars. How about a missing person?
Maybe was a customer of yours? No, nothing about a missing person
or anything like that. Silas would kind of walk forward, hat off,
Hello, sir, inspector, hallback. Anyone you've brought a friend, Hello,
inspector, what can I do for you? Hello? Anyone inquire about
maybe blue butterflies today? As a matter of fact, Yes, there was
a man in earlier today had quite a few questions about them. He showed
me a picture that he had someone that had purchased one of my pieces,
said he was looking to get it for a friend, or to get one
after his friend had shown it to him. Gave him a little bit of
a history lesson, and he stepped out for a call. Eventually he came
back and purchased one silas would look to violet. Sounds like him. So
he came back, purchased a butterfly, and then laught and then he departed.
Yes, you wouldn't happen to have noticed which way he left. I'm
afraid not. I don't have much in the way of my eyesights anymore.
And you can tell that his eyes are canteract over pretty badly. My apologies.
Oh quite all right? Is everything all right? Is there anything else
I could do to help? Ernie? Cameras outside that you have that could
maybe we could look at, Not that I have no other too expensive,
but there's asper cameras on some of the corners around here. I appreciate your
time, No, happy to help. I hope you find your friend.
Yeah, so holdback, would kind of motion for Violet to follow. I'll
walk out. See if there's anyone else around close by. We could talk
to tons of people out here, probably more someone at one of the shops
here, so like an owner or an employee, Yeah, anyone that would
have been there during the day, you know. So uh, go across
to this, I mean would to me. It makes sense checking with this
stand, and I'll learn my lesson and sit down and buy something to eat
or buy something to drink. Okay, So yeah, you get some prawns
and the small that you know, I could sure scarf down or yeah,
most of it's meant to be eating on the go, and stuff too.
So they start whipping something up and start putting in like one of those little
you know, the like the Chinese rice container you get from a Chinese restaurant
and you know, tells you how much it is, and uh, did
you say anything to them or ask them any questions? Yeah? Say,
see, looking for a guy. I guess I'll try and I'll describe a
hector as best I can. Uh. You know, I don't know well
how well I know him that I can describe him. But I look like
kind of like a detective looking guy went in and out of the shops around
here. Give me a connections roll with advantage, got glasses? All right,
I'm sorry, just yes, very good. Oh two successes. Ye,
she says, uh, oh, yeah, I recognize him. He
uh. He was about to buy something here, but he went over to
the noodle shop and she points to the store next door. I see,
Well, thanks, I hope you're hungry for some noodles, Halbick. Go
over to the noodle shop. Do the same thing. Buy from every shop
until you get the infant. I mean it's working okay, yeah, uh
kind of noodles you want in Halbick, Uh, plainist you can get and
I'll take a tuh. He would motion to uh whoever is behind the counter,
like for a tea. Yeah yeah, coming right up. When he
comes back, I asked him, you know you see a detective looking guy
with glasses, come grab something from here earlier inside the Uh give another connection
at advantage one success, he says, yeah, yeah, that guy.
He sat down and I had some noodles not too long ago. Sam right
there and he points to a now occupied chair. Did you see which way
he made went? Yeah? He uh. He eventually got up and u.
He started, uh wandering over this way, and he kind of points
like down the sidewalk and uh, yeah, he went off in that direction.
He points basically to the east side of the map here. All right,
well that's the start. And then he finishes up. He's like,
here's your grub, all right, thank you? All right, so he
points over here, Yeah, all right, all right, well so take
a look down this way. See what else is over here? So you
started making your way down the row here, and you see that there are
plenty of shops, he asks, and other you know, terminals and things
like that. Eventually, when you get to the end of the actual map
here, that's where the sidewalk then turns south and heads you know, down
the block, or you can eventually cross the street and get to the other
side. And then in the sorry I forgot how I turn on the as
that's the w right, yep. So we're over here on this side,
okay, sort of, I'm guessing we walked this way. Yeah, all
right, your turn hallback and when you buy something Nasty's fish ladies, they've
seen our guy. Yeah, so silists would uh saddle up? What can
we what can we purchase here? This is an animoid shop. It's for
exotic fish, uh and like crustaceans and aquatic mammals. It's one of the
bigger stores down here. I just buy some food or something no can get.
You can get food from one of like like these other shops here or
plate. Yeah, let's maybe go to a place that we can we can
use a purchase to. Okay, yeah, give me another connections with advantage,
okay, connect all right, all right, what do you ask?
Uh? So I do I have a picture of of Hector? Yeah?
Okay, so yeah, i'd ask have you seen this flashy suit around here?
Uh? Might have seen any which way he went? Uh, it's
a young girl. She takes a look. She's chewing the only on you
know, some artificial bubblegum. Ah, how do I think here? Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, he uh he was. I thought he was
following somebody and uh yeah, he made his way made his way over here.
Um, there was a was a really tall guy in a black hoodie
and he kind of he kind of ducked. It looked like he was he
was getting followed, and he was kind of ducking between people, trying to
stay low. And then this this guy your friend. Uh. He got
to the end over here, and craziest thing, some other guy came up
behind him, bumped into him, you know, like like a like a
shoulder type thing, and they started getting into it. And then the one
guy took a swing at him, cracked him right in the face and took
off, and then your your buddy went chasing after him, and she points,
you know, down the way south here, like down the sidewalk.
Oh goodness, Uh yeah, Silas would look at before we start running that
way. While he's talking, I'm gonna I'm just gonna call Sully. Okay,
Yeah, you can call him up, call and say, hey,
yeah, let's go check it in, check it in, like Y asked.
So thanks. How's the investigation going, Hey, listen, I gotta
go, but one of our partners may have went missing. We're down in
animal role. If you don't hear from me by third shift, give the
chief a call. You see, there's a little hesitation in his voice,
but he kind of steals himself. He's like, yeah, you got it,
be careful, all right, I love you, I love click ah
huh. All right, let's get going, all right, so you can
guys make your way south down the sidewalk and eventually, um what you see.
You know, you're basically just on a regularity block. You know,
tall buildings mostly all around you. Similar across the street. It's just a
two lane road here. Nothing, nothing fancy. Um. And then there's
there's an alleyway that you come up to on your right hand side, or
you can continue down the the sidewalk here. Um, my instinct says,
check the alley. Yeah, bad things happened in alley's. This is true.
That's that's not metagaming all of that. You make your way down the
alley and it's not very long before you come to a dead end. We
see any signs of a scuffle, give me an observation test at disadvantage since
it is drizzling out here, a little bit. One success, all buck,
You may do so as well if you like, sorry disadvantage, Yes,
okay, okay, all right. Well, between the two of you,
you do indeed find some quickly running spots of what you're assuming our blood
and you probably uh I don't think they would have left any weapons. They
probably would have grabbed him, but yeah, you definitely see that. Maybe,
like we'll say, you probably find like a piece of his suit because
he got cut by the knife. So you see like a tatter of his
uh you know, otherwise nicely dressed suit. You know, it matches the
color that he was wearing. Hi, this would look up? Is there
can I see any of the aspert cams? Yeah, he probably saw some.
There's note in the alley, but you would have seen some outside on
the main streets. Okay. They usually go into alleys. They usually go
over like large public areas to cover as much ground as possible. But yeah,
there's definitely aspers in the area. Okay, so there'd be a way
to see like something whatever entrance or exit to this alleyway right, yes,
okay, so yeah, he would just make a note of that. And
I think at this point we would have to call it in. Let chief
know that actor has gone missing. All right, So are you when you
say call it in? Are you saying you're just gonna tell the chief or
like in general, like, hey, dispatch, we've got an officer missing.
Put out a you know, alert to the team to the four Uh.
Actually I would I would probably uh call the chief first, your favorite
that should be your stick. You just call him constantly. He is just
gonna yell at you again. All right, you call him up on your
keia yep, and uh the vidphone comes in. You can only like see
like his shoulder as he's obviously out of frame and doing something else. And
you just hear from you know, across the desk, this better be fucking
good. Haul back. It's not. Uh, I wanted to let you
know before I put out the word to dispatch. Uh, pactor hasn't returned
any of our hails. And we've found a spinner and traces of a scuffle
and no hector, so fuck find him. Put out the put off the
dispatch now you got it? And uh yeah, Silas would hang up and
then immediately hail dispatch, let them know we have a blade runner missing,
so dispatch in. This is actually like a it's a DG type AI.
And uh, you know she has quite the the attitude. But you have
learned over the years that if as long as you're not too demanding with your
requests and you you treat this AI with respect, she can be very effective.
Although she usually gives you a little bit of a lip or sas,
but you've been on the force long enough to probably know how to you know
how to deal with her. Yeah. Uh, everyone's got an issue with
doing their jobs here. Does does dispatch particularly have a name? I'm I
think it's just called dispatch, but let me check, okay, Hunigan,
No, it's just it's just dispatch. That's like her name. Okay.
I think there's an image of her in the rule book too. But she
she manifests like as a like a female AI, kind of like Cortana,
like that holographic type. Look you know, um, so you hear the
you know the female voice. This is Dispatch, Go ahead, it's factor
Silas holbach Uh was wondering if you can put out a request. We am
a missing blade runner. Hector, what's what's Hector's you gotta? Have you
been paying attention? You tell me? Yeah? Put out yeah, missing
blade run from doctor Bantov of course, detective. Would you like that on
all channels and frequencies? Yes, please, very good. Just a moment
and then, you know, a moment, A couple of seconds goes by,
and then you guys start getting alerts on your Keias and Garrick. You
get an alert from dispatch, and when you turn it on, you hear
Dispatch's voice come through. She says, attention, all units, we have
a missing blade Runner missing in action. I repeat M I a blade Runner
Hector BANTV last scene around Animoid Row approximately twelve fifty eight pm today, detectives
all back and violently currently on scene, and then he goes through a couple
other bits of information, probably like about the you know, signs of a
struggle. Any additional units please report the Animoid role and that's how you find
out that your friend is missing. Shit, I should have went with him.
Is there anything else to take a look at? Or I guess investigate?
Or was our roles for the signs of scuffle as much as we were
going to find you feel? I mean, you only Haulbuck could have gotten
two if he rolled at ten, So you did as well as you could,
Violet, and he did pretty well. Yeah, all things considered,
you don't think there's probably much else you can find here. However, I
will point out I think the three of you should each take a point of
resolve stress damage when you realize that one of your bros is missing in action
here? Okay, and you know, the two of you, you know,
Garrick, because you know, like you said, you probably feel a
little guilty, and you're finding out about it as you're just like on their
she is there's dispatch. You find out about it as you're just getting the
call like everybody else. And then the two of you you get a point
of stress because you not only find signs that he was here, but you
find blood and you're worried that something bad may have happened to him. Am
I am at two out of six? Or solve boys, it's been a
rough day. You get a lot of resolves. Yeah, yeah, well
I was hoping find a little bit more idea of where they dragged him off
to. I guess we can go take a look at the espers, but
I feel like we should still look around the area. I can't do any
more. I can't see our success. Isn't that like three of the result
of damage? Yeah? Wait, what what kind of tests are those?
Those are tech tech? Yeah? Yeah, even if like I mean,
I don't I don't know what we're necessarily gonna see, Like we're gonna,
you know, see him get beat up and then dragged off camera, you
know, right my mind, we have to figure out where we can find
Styles and his guys that or you know, we investigate we do go investigate,
uh Lilith, see what she has to say, because I feel like
she's a lynchpin in a lot of this, and then see if anyone else
can point us to this replican underground. Well, but also we'll be be
able to look at the footage, like say, they beat the shit out
of him, but you know, loaded him up in a They probably him
up. It's not thinking it somewhere. Yeah, yeah, we might be
able to track a vehicle. Sure, but I mean, I I feel
like we shouldn't. We should do things at least in bears from now on.
I don't think we should unless it's at the station, you know.
But like I, you know, I'm not going to go visit Lilith alone,
just in case something weird happens. All right, Well, at this
point that is going to be the end of the afternoon shift, So we're
going to move in now to as afternoon begins to turn to evening starts to
get a little darker here in LA, we're gonna switch back over to Hector.
Three of you guys can decide what you're going to do in the meantime.
So Hector, you awaken finally, and you're at one health. You
can put yourself back to one health, actually be to health, because you
get a point of health back every shift, and it's been a shift that's
pasted dret to health. Your head it's throbbing, you're dizzy and disoriented.
You feel like you've just got a terrible hangover headache, although it's obviously not
from drinking. When you come to wake, come to consciousness, you realize
that you are in the middle of a room that doesn't seem to have any
natural light. It's just the light from outside. Maybe there's one of those
advertisement blimps going by with the big spotlights and the big advertisement screen. And
you realize that you are tied to an old shift each chair when I come
to are you sure you don't want to talk now? Um? When you
awaken, you get a look around yourself. You see that they're this um.
So you find yourself and what looks like an old, dilapidated apartment building,
um brick crumbling, probably from years ago, and we're talking probably at
least over one hundred years ago. You're guessing this place looks fairly old and
untouched. Inside there is what was once some fairly nice perhaps marble or granite
floor. It's lost its shine, chipped in places, and dusty, damaged
by water leaking through the roof. In front of you, to your right
there is an old grand piano that has seen better days. Looks like it
probably doesn't work, if at all, it's probably out of tune. To
your left, there's an old sofa that has a dirty blanket on it,
and in front of that is a circular coffee table with a variety of things
scattered about. And then all around you you can see there are little bits
and bobs. There's like little like nightstands or tables. There's a dilapidated dresser,
and like shelves with bookshelves and things like that. You do see that
there are two doors out of this room, one directly across from you,
and then one of tier left in the corner of the room. It also
looks like there is an opening the doors. Both doors are double doors.
By the way that you see, they look like they were at one time,
probably very nice and elaborate. There's a crumbling fireplace on the wall to
here left, and then across the room in the right hand corner there's an
opening. It looks like there were doors there at one point, but they
are no longer there, and from where you're at it looks like there's another
room in there. Hard to tell what. There are windows on the side
of the wall on your right hand side. They're raised up, they're not
like ground level, so there's light kind of coming in from higher up.
And there's a what once was a very fancy chandelier above you that is also
acting as a light source. There's you know, it's like out like a
lamp almost and it's uh, it's got almost like shades around the side.
It looks kind of oriental in style and design, and then it's got these
like tassel things hanging from the bottom. It's like a circular at the bottom
and inside the middle part of that circular thing is where the light is coming
down from. And other than that, looks like there's you know, a
little desk lamp over on this table over here. I guess that's the other
actually have a light beam there, and that's that's what you see, okay,
And there's no people in here as far I can tell. Well,
once you say that, you do here someone walking and then coming out of
the kitchen, and you do see your friends styles oh, hey, guy,
you see that he's wiping his hands off as he as he comes in,
says, patched you up as best I could, and you you can't.
Yeah, you can't tell because your your hands are bound behind your back
on the chair and then you're um, your feet are bound like each leg
is bound to one of the legs of the chair. Bandage, gentle are
a little tight. Yeah, well, I didn't go to med school,
so it is what it is. Oh, yeah, that's great to finally
meet. I told you to keep your nose out of this business, and
you wouldn't listen. I mean, you said that briefly before hitting me with
a baseball bat. It wasn't like and most people get the point, you
know the first kid, Oh, hey, keep your nose out of it,
and then like stepped aside so that I could peacefully walk away. You
had every chance to leave it didn't take it. Also, your one hand,
your your left hand is in excruciating pain. You can tell that it's
broken. How are your other guys holding up? They'll be fine. Look,
I don't want to hurt you anymore than we already did. All right,
I'm not here to kill cop blade Runner at least too much trouble.
I just want to know what exactly it is that you want here, and
what exactly you know about what's going on here. A great question. Well,
if you're not on board with a killing a cop, I think maybe
we could help each other out. But of course we're we're looking for I'm
looking for my comrade Leah, who was involved in the incident that the snake
pit. But essentially I'm worried for her safety and we're just tracking down all
leads. And wants it to you killing blade runners obviously have personal interest in
making sure that doesn't happen. Give me a manipulation role, please, He
takes a deep breath. Look, you just need to leave this one alone,
all right. Leah's fine, fine, Fine, you're looking after her,
then nothing you need to worry about. She's safe, all right,
didn't hurt her, didn't lay a hand on her. She's in good hands,
and you don't need to worry about her anymore. It's best you stop
worrying about her. That's good then, But what happened with sand Or,
I mean, if people just wanted to skip down, I can't be that
hard. He kind of shakes his head. I wish I knew the full
answer, but I don't. All you need to know is that she's not
going to be your problem anymore. So I guess by this time tomorrow is
you can shut this whole thing down and called click case closed. Well,
I guess what our problem is then, is those humanity first guys, because
they're gonna cause a ship starve with their whole story, this replicant on replicant
violence. Yeah, well, maybe you and yours can do something about that.
Maybe do something for us once in a while, you know, how
do you mean, your copper? Make sure they don't talk about it.
You probably got Wallace's here two. I'm sure they don't want to hear about
that sort of thing. Mhm uh I suppose. So. Look, you
and I aren't so different, all right, You get it, You get
what it's like out here. Yeah, chill, I know what I know.
You know what it's like even though you're on the force. You got
that badge, the looks, the comments, snide remarks, the threats,
the hate. Why do you even help these fuckers? And don't give me
the it's because of what I'm programmed to do, nonsense. I don't want
to hear that shit. M hmm, well, what's sort of complicated,
but ultimately trying to work my way back into a missing person's case. Old
mentor of mine up and disappeared a couple of months back. We were working
not with the Replicant Detection Division but an internal affairs at the LAPD, and
he disappeared and they shifted me here so that I couldn't be involved with the
investigation. Yeah, you're still working with him. I mean what, I
guess I could just start mugging people. I won't really have a whole lot
of general skills. M here. You should tell that to my two boys.
I think the results they to differ with that statement. I could take
it under consideration. It won't get me any closer to finding my guy,
though, to give it up. And this, uh, this friend of
yours is he uh? He a replicant too, like us? I don't
believe so. And why do you care what happens to him? You can't
care about something. Somebody, even if they're not exactly like you, looks
like he's mulling that over, as if he's not sure if he believes it
or believes you. Come on, if if you thought that you wouldn't give
a nexus nine another thought like Leah, yeah, she's still a replicant though,
right, they're a little closer. But six seven, eight nine,
what's the matter? It's just a number? How many more numbers that need
to be until we're just like human? I don't think that's ever gonna matter.
Humans don't give a fuck about us. We're here to do all their
dirty work. We're just like shit, We're just disposable. We're garbage to
them, trash. Well, I think you'll find a lot of humans think
that about other humans. Yeah, well they're not wrong. Well it's all
relative, I guess. Yeah, well I guess for what it's worth.
Sorry about your buddy, but I really can't help you there. Yeah that's
fair. But what you could help me with? It's getting out of here?
Or do we just want to continue chatting until here's a nig deal?
Actor you behave? It's time tomorrow. You're free to go. No one's
gonna hurt you, no one's gonna kill you, no one's gonna beat you
up anymore than you already have. Can you stay here? Don't give us
any trouble, Let you go. Matter of fact, might even be an
open door for you if you want to come back and give your career choice
here, real insightful second thought, could use somebody like you. Could do
a lot more help here than you're doing right now with them. That is
a nice place. What is this h sixth floor, ten Harby Here?
We're not that high up, just an old forgotten place. But more than
more than two looks can be deceiving. Detective. Oh well, Andy,
you all play a piano? He uh turns over his shoulder to look at
it. You know he's sitting on the piano bench. He says, uh,
not not quite my forte. Unfortunately, not exactly what I was built
to do. Not many were built for art. But it doesn't stop us,
although my broken hand does stop me. I know it sounds like I'm
Tupekin Sharedo here, but I'll have to disappoint you on that end. Well,
I'll tell you what you behave. I'll see if I can find one
of my guys that might be able to uh set those bones for you,
or nothing else can get you some Some meds would be great. I'm sorry,
what being a real medic would be great? Yeah, well those are
in short supply around here. But you play better rules. I'll make sure
you stay as comfortable as we can deal. I'd like a good deal.
He stares at you for a moment, as if he's appraising you. What
your answer might you know, if you're telling the truth or not, And
then he gives you a nod and it looks like he goes back off to
that kitchen area. I'll throw you something together to eat meanwhile back, well,
I guess do you do anything after he after he leaves, I guess
I'm gonna see if I can look more out the windows. It's like if
I can figure out from either blimp lighting or just scooting over and peeking out
them, how high up we are? Uh, give me an observation role,
please, alrighty or insight whatever is better. Oh, we'll definitely do
that, all right, Yeah, really okay with your critical success here,
The blimp, for one, seems very high up. You feel like you
are probably not very high up, if at all. The windows themselves are
high up, but that's the design of this place. They're more decorative than
like a normal window. This definitely was a fancy place at some point,
but it doesn't seem like you are very high up at all. Also,
you recognize the blimp from earlier this afternoon, which would lead you to believe
that you're probably still very close to Animoid row or where things went down.
You don't feel like you've gone very far. Okay, um, it's pretty
good. So when you say the windows are are not high up, or
the windows are high up, the floor is not high up as thinking like
like like a garden apartment window like six or so feet of concrete and then
the window above it something like yeah, exactly, yeah, and it's it's
like the half circle arched window and it's like the top half of the circle.
That's how the window is shaped. And you can see there's like what
four or five of them. Okay, he's just in the other room.
Yeah, you can hear him. You can hear the sounds in the kitchen.
There's some water being poured, and you can hear the clank of some
you know, instruments or utensils, I should say. Okay, you also
notice with your your two success of there your critical you notice that your gear
is over on this cupboard this or bookshelf, whatever it is, it's on
top, so your your blaster or what your gun that you had your badge,
your Kia, and anything else that you have on you. If you've
got your wallet, that's probably there too. You do see that the gun,
the clip has been taken out. The clip is sitting on the table
next to it. Hold on, I'm definitely not looking up what falling damage
might potentially be. Well, we'll leave Hector to think about what he's gonna
do and how he is going to get out of this jam as it begins
to uh, you know, it's it's definitely becoming evening at this point,
and we'll go back to our team really quick here before we call it tonight.
As the three of you have put out the I guess it's not an
APB, but it is a oh no APB on a missing person. Yeah,
so you put out the call that Hector's m I A. What are
the three of you gonna do as you plan for the evening shift as it's
about to begin. This is third shift, then third shift. I'm gonna
just touch base with Sully and just you know, say that I'm okay,
we're following up and that you know he is missing, just so he doesn't
call the chief. Yeah, he thanks you and says good luck. I
hope your friend's okay. Silas would go up to Violet and say, well,
we have the whole lapd on it now, so could you please maybe
think possibly about inquiring as to any of our questions with the memory labs?
Please maybe? Sure? Thank you? I love it, but I'm not
going alone. Either you or Garrick is coming with me. Thas's head would
drop and and go uh and I guess I'm going with you, all right,
Eric, what do you do? Well? Uh, good question.
I don't There aren't really any other leads. We need to like pull it
right, that's the lead currently. Um. The only the only other thing
you would have is you could also check uh esper footage and see if you
can find anything about what went down here. And I will say, if
you do, it will not cost your promotion point because it's been known and
reported what's going on, So they would let you, uh you know,
okay, I guess you won't have to make you know, you don't spend
the promotion point. Um, you probably shall have to make the test.
You make the test to use it, but okay, I guess that's what
Garrick will do. But before they do that, he will talk to haulback.
So, um, well, just I guess both of you found out
that Styles is most likely almost certainly a Nexus eight combat model. He's a
real dangerous that's good to know. Yeah. Yeah, and I know right
you found out before any of us, super slooth. I double check my
service weapon as he's saying that. Yeah yeah, so um, did Habbig
tell us he had made a deal with Skyler? Or no, I don't
know, did you? I mean, I'm asking Kyle. I did not
know. Okay, then I don't say anything else. Okay, So Violet
and all back load up in a spinner finally head to the Memory lab unless
they decide to change route again. And Eric, you're gonna head back to
LAPD and see if you can pick up anything on the Esper wall. Correct,
Yeah, and he's gonna is it possible to interact with my second tritem
during this time of travel? Or no? Let meache just because Yeah,
I'm going to the Esper wall looking to lose another couple of resolve points.
I'll suck up someone else's desk. Let's see here, Can I just give
Shot a promotion point? Why? No, you're not his superior? Unfortunately
call him boss. I feel like it makes sense if it does. It
definitely does, especially at least you because you've been on the force longer year
or two. Yeah, I think you're you're like two years, right,
so yeah, you've been on here a little bit longer. But yeah,
it's once per game session. Okay, So and that just gives me a
resolve back or yes, cool, we will do that. And in case
it isn't obviously this point stress and resolved or use interchangeably in this game.
Yeah. I think it might have been an oversight by them because it's like
called resolve, but everywhere in the text they use refer to it as stress.
Yeah, so same thing, okay, and then yeah, Matt,
you were healed for one hit point and then the other one just came from
naturally healing because it's been a shift. That's why you're at two. Got
Yeah, it does resolve, he'll naturally like that or no, I believe
resolve is only when you actually rest point downtime okay, yeah, probably because
otherwise, Yeah, it's once per session. So yeah, well Evans,
okay, well we will call it tonight. At that folks, I wasn't
sure if we were going to get through or finished I was not expecting Hector
to get captured, so that was exciting, but we will definitely one way
or another, come hell or high water. Next week will be our fourth
and final session as we finish up Electric Dreams and end our time here in
the Blade Runner universe for now. So thank you all so much for joining
us. I hope you've enjoyed what you've heard so far. Excellent role playing
tonight, guys, some really cool, very believable stuff with how you guys
are reacting to things, So we will see what happens next week. Can
they rescue Heck? Can they track down Leah? Will they what? Will
they find out at Lili's Memory Labs. Will check in, same time,
same place next week to find out. Thanks again and ninety nights