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Some things went down last week. If you watched previously on some things,
some things, some truths came to light that have been brewing since season
one, and our crew has found themselves on a moon that actually is in
the forbidden system, the one they're not supposed to be in, the one
the radio broadcast was like, please don't go here. Yeah, okay,
they're there. It's not, as zallus. It is a hostile system,
not because the environment is inhospitable, but because this is the kind of locked
system of the order of the Parya. And based on all of the recent
events that have happened, we'll say in Zalos wait, does that mean that
was that a corruption bar? Mike? Why is your face? No,
I'm laughing, because like the whole system is a perpetual civil war. So
by definition the environment is very hostile, isn't true the physical environment, but
the yeah, the political environment. Yeah, but yes, it is extremely
hostile. And it's only got more hostile over the last little bit because well,
there was some miscommunication. The Order was trying to move it's it's to
to to grab the refugees off of Corio Listen kua Uh, and it didn't
all quite go as planned. They were trying to remove them and bring them
back to zallos Uh. They sent a beacon ahead to ask for these refugees
to receive passage through without harm, and unfortunately the probe did not make it.
The message never did, and so upon the arrival with all of the
refugees, the rest of the Consortium and the war vessels in space saw this
as a threat and attack of war when these lordships showed up and attacked the
Order of the Parya. Now, our crew is in the know of what
actually happened, but everybody else, including the media, is spreading the rumor
that basically the Order of the Pariah is working against the Consortium and things are
at unrest across a third horizon in total. But our crew, our crew
has found their way to a small moon. They had to. In fact,
they got tow from our dear dear Semina, the clone of all clones
t he and on this moon is one of the biggest, largest and most
important temples of the order. But when they arrived here, all they found
were refugees leaving. The military isn't even here anymore, and the city where
this temple was is now burning. Thanks to their contacts, they were able
to find a small bunker, gained some information, and the probe was found
inside of the temple itself on the other end of this burning city. And
we'll pick up in the actually question where we all headed there? Did we
want a moment? Good ques? Captain? Yeah, captain just checking?
Did we we already? Tamr use his mystic ability to determine where it was?
Correct? No, Malik actually ran through the computer down here and used
basically tech to ping it through like a sonar type system that's not sound but
anyways, yeah, pained it and that's how it was known to It was
inside of this temple, though the exact location is kind of unknown. It's
not quite that specific, if that makes sense, Okay, all right,
yeah, yeah, uh Malik, Yes, is there any sign of someone
leaving from that part of the temple. Uh? Don are there cameras around
here? Because I just the probe I was essentially doing one. Did you
get a critical success on that run? I did not. I got a
regular success. I got a critical success on on something. I got a
critical scess on hacking on her computer on the course there. Uh, you
can roll if you would like to try to see if you can hack into
what security they would have had nearby. Cool, cool, cool. Okay,
we're not on the ship, so I don't get any bonuses from the
ship. Let me see here data, Jim, there we go. We'll
start the game with a quid. Oh okay, yes, as you will.
Critical side. Well, it's a good thing this this crew here right
this little on the ground bunker. They've left you to yourself. Samina is
already outside. You asked for that. You have your little probe underneath it,
or your little like camera making sure that nobody's listening. And it seems
you are in fact alone. As you tap into the security system, a
couple of things are made known to you very very quickly. Uh. Most
of the power to the city is out where there was power it is burning,
but inside of the temple seems to be on backup power, some kind
of large generator type system, which is not unheard of for a building of
this level of high tech. But as you skim through the feet, it's
empty. There's nobody in the hallways, nobody in the temples. The hallways
stand in a bit of a disarray. You can tell people tried to leave
in a hurry if you scroll through massive tables where they might diplomats may have
met or converse about. Things are left exactly as they were. PaperWorks still
in place, data pads maybe on the floor, chairs pushed back. Everybody
left. This is empty and there's bodies. There's bodies all over the place.
I assume it's the future. What what what kind of camera situation we
got here? Is a four K a K digital? These bodies are they
riddled with bullets? Stab wounds? What's what's going on? Oh? Interesting,
you're okay? This is I'm gonna say, this is not like high
definition. You're not gonna be able to like zoom in and make pickles.
This is not fake sci fi in that regard. And I would say that
the camera, you you get the status of the tech, which is actually
really high technology. His setup is not, so it has to do with
the monitor you're running it through. His monitor is like old school. It's
like what's in you know, the Defiant. It's a little dated. It's
definitely not four k uh, you know, like little bulbous type screen.
He's had to replug into the back of it. So this is very like
radio Shack versus Apple. Yeah, this is radio Shack versus Apple. So
it's hard for you to tell. It is clear there are is some blood
spot batter like on the walls that you're not exactly sure what caused it.
From this from the angle from this place. Cool. Yeah, he looks
back. Uh, it's clear. It looks like an evacuation. No,
that's that's not quite right. It looks like they were chased out. Uh.
And he like he'll go to like one of the screens that shows blood
spatter. It's like if it was just a casualty, and he like points
to the corpse there that got like trampled in an evacuation, there likely wouldn't
be blood spatter on the camera, on the wall or the camera, So
I don't think that person got trampled, that they were alive staking the game.
Well, who would be looking for for this probe? Who would know
it exists? The person who's trying to hide it, who wants this water
to continue. Yeah, so they're probably either going to be trying to keep
people away from the evidence or get people away before they destroy it, which
means we probably don't have very long to get to it before it does get
destroyed. If it's still there, well, I mean you've painted it here.
Yeah, and we would have assumed we have seen someone leaving or entering
with it they had. We have no idea how big the probe is.
And also I illegally change our location all the time. It's really at that
heart if you're skilled to keyboard, so it could be a false trace.
I'm just saying expect the worst. So we go get it. Can you
get a map of this place? We can try to figure out where which
way to go through to get to it quickly. Yeah. He runs his
hands across a couple of keys in a space matrix printer. Pretty pretty,
He prints out a paper copy of the map. All right, now,
last time we infiltrated someplace, the entrance and exit weren't necessarily the same way
were they, I don't think they were. Who knows what could happen.
So let's try to at least take a look at a couple different ways to
get to whatever room we're looking for. It's a good call. Yeah,
here and he slides the map over. So how do we want to approach
it? Back entrance or front entrance point? I don't think it really matters.
Nobody's supposed to be in here. Everybody's already vacuated right as far as
I can see. The cameras only have a certain visibility. How easy is
it to leave right now if we wanted to get off this service? Probably
not very seeing is how we don't have enough power to actually get off the
surface on our own, not us someone who is looking for the probe or
taking it like they could still be here. Yeah, it also depends on
who it is. But I say, if you ping to the probe here,
we have to go to the side of the ping. That's first.
I guess, like we don't have any other leads on where it could be,
so that's where we need to go. Would we be able to hone
in further if we get closer to the probe or the location that we saw
Malik. You and I would be both of the brothers would know that's a
possibility. You would need to find the right things more on site maybe to
do that or build something you mean, hone into the probe. Yes,
the closer we get to it, perhaps the better way to triangulate the coordinates.
I mean, yes, I guess it depends. The signal it's emitting
is stronger to pick up on this and he like taps this JUNKI ass computer,
So maybe nothing about this is it is unique to track in this probe.
I could probably run some software on my tabula. I guess it depends
on how long the signal stays up, how close we're getting. It's not
going to pull up a wireframe map and say here's this, here's you,
and draw a path for us. It might give us a radius of like
your twenty five feet away. You just see a look of disappointment. But
that's how they all show in the vents. That's how the movies do it.
Yeah, she doesn't know. Well, we have other ways to find
things, I think, and Kal is eyeing to mirror. It's mechanical.
Hold up, I think, I know, I don't understand that. I
agree with Malik my my abilities to only be able to get us within a
couple of feet. Maybe, I don't know if it would be significant.
You knew exactly where that helmet was within a few feet. The helmet was
an artifact. Hold up, don't we still have salts drone? Yes,
and that's back with the ship. I mean, either way, the drone
is not gonna know where it is. We're just such a part of the
drone in there, and then we'll go in after the drone. I mean,
could be a good way to recon. I don't. I don't know
if we have time, Like there is only so much power available here in
this city. It is currently burning. We do not have enough time to
spend carefully mapping out and recon and all that. We don't have that kind
of time. We need to just go and hope that we beat whoever's trying
to destroy it. Take it. Well, let's go. First off from
above you you hear a ship pass. It sounds like it's headed for the
temple. Small vessel fast leak you are you wrote a critical success on hacking
it to security, so I imagine you have all the feeds up there like
looping. Yeah, right on the monitor. Actually with a quick can I
forward them to my tablet? Sure? Yeah, you can pull the whole
holding up. You're holding it and it's kind of skimming through the security feed.
And as the ship passes over, it passes through the flight bay ship
of bay, which is high up in this temple, very very high.
A vessel pulls in and lands off of it walks a few figures, all
dressed in black, of course, and they begin heading in. You can
see that there actually are a few, a few as the camera camera was
scrolling of these men in black, I guess you guess are these I should
say, these people in black like strolling about, But they're not very frequent.
You might see four or five, maybe six of them. The rest
of them seem to be civilians, order of the Pariah or Consortium soldiers.
But they get out and they seem to be headed for something. Things just
got more complicated. Yeah, we need to move faster. Yeah, I
just want to point this out real quick before we start running in there,
guns and places, and we have no way to get off the planet well
Moon. So even if we get in there successfully, get out, get
it back here, that's not gonna fly literally I could stay back, fix
the ship, will you retrieve? Just put it out there. Captain Lamar
kind of perks up for the first time in the corner. What if we
just followed them, good luck, they'll lead us right to it, right,
Yeah, And they've left a ship just ready to go and get off
this planet, complete with codes, and you could if nothing else, you
could pull our parts. M marcos. What if we went up like up,
well we have we have a crawler on the ship. Maybe he climbed
the side of the tower. Mm hmm. It is not a terrible ladea.
I like it. I guess we've had dumber plans. It's just the
thought. I mean we we haven't even turned it on yet. Yeah,
I've been itching to drive it. And frankly, the city is being destroyed
anyways, Well, perhaps time to scratch that itch. Oh yeah, Lamar
kind of like geeks in excitement because they haven't. We haven't done this in
a while. And I imagine we see all of you gather your things very
quickly. You grab what tech you need. There's some weapons, some ammo,
anything that you might be missing. They would have kind of the bare
minimum of to support you. You're greeted once again by the gentleman who offered
you the bunker, and Samina who stands outside. She's like leaning just so
on the edge of a crumbling building, and she simply says, do you
want any help? No, thank you, perhaps not this time, sister,
all right. Then she kind of looks at him and he looks at
her like, h and I imagine we get that. Oh, yes,
Aris, actually I was hoping to be out fast. Ah, of course,
I know. I know my crew doesn't trust you, and I don't
either, but you are really really good with a weapon, and we might
be running into trouble. I love trouble. Yes, I know you do,
so, uh you want to come along? All you had to do
was ask and she kind of like you hear her like a pull her jacket
back, check her weapons. And I imagine there's a little bit of a
montage as the four of you, five of you, along with au Semina
run back to the ship. When you get there, you can see the
majority of the refugees of the city, at least what's left, are being
loaded, finishing the loading process onto these these vessels. And uh, yeah,
I imagine we hear the cargo doors swing open. Who's driving the crawler?
Okay, tow barrels forward in this crawler. Now you have to understand
this crawler is kind of like a tank. Okay, yeah, it's like
right, It's like if you took a jeep and a tank and you kind
of merge them. It's got a hard exterior, but the inside is almost
entirely hollow. You're all strapped to the walls because that's where the seatbelts are.
You're kind of riding along. There are weapons on it. It has
a back drop like a door that drops out the back, but there's also
like a top circular port hole as well. The only window in this thing
other than the small med station, there's like a like a meta med tube,
I guess is what you can call it. Racks where weapons, wood
or might go, and the driver's seat and how you're looking out this kind
of very slim window with dark glass on it. And as this thing rolls
through, it barrels over almost anything in its path, crates old buildings,
burning wood, you're kind of you can even pass through like fiery areas where
you may not have been able to do it on foot, making it significantly
easier and This thing crawls forward at a rapid pace. As you draw closer
to the temple, you see it kind of rise over the skyline of this
city. The lower areas are burning, and you can see a few of
the windows or like pieces of glass of this very high tech building have been
knocked out and they're smoking some too. But it doesn't look like the building
is burning necessary. It doesn't look like it's massively on fire, but it
does seem empty where guard stands out front would have been, where post would
have been where, Yeah, and all of that is gone. Bodies on
the ground, some of them charred, some of them have bullet wounds,
some of them have knife wund But as you pull up to the base of
this there's a large set of stairs and a very kind of flat like twenty
foot piece of marble that leads into this building, and we can hear the
crawler like crunch up the stairs as it comes to a stop right at the
front. Well, this is fun. I was everybody doing? You just
see Alia like gripping the seat just like this is fine? So are we
just driving this through the temple? You could? You're assured how that you
could drive this frust straight through the front door. But it's not called a
crawler for any reason. You know, there is a large grappling hook on
the front and the back of this. It's how you would pull it out
of water. It's how you might kitchen cable another thing to pull it out
of something. I'm going to have you make a piloting check unless somebody else
wants to grapple gun the building. But there will be two checks here.
It's going to be a piloting check to drive it up the building, but
somebody has to make the tech roll to like grapple. I can do the
tech role. Okay, there's kind of like I would call it a seat.
It's like it's like one of those things did you pull down at the
eye doctor's office. We're talking about, like the piece that comes in front
of your face and uh in it, it's like a green screen in it,
like boooooooooop and like lines up. Sure, yeah, like a periscope.
And and I imagine for whatever reason, the computer system looks exactly like
when Luke is trying to nail the Death Star, and you know, the
like squares get narrow, more and more narrow. I'm gonna have you make
the tech roll, and then how is gonna make the piloting check. Remember
you only get bonuses tied to the crawler, not to the vessel. Oh
that's a one. Okay, that's a success. You've never shot a massive
uh one before, but a one one is enough? What about our piloting
check? All right? It was double checking if there were any bonuses with
the crawler, which there are none. I believe, I don't think so.
I think this is just a it's like driving a tank. Oh gosh,
it's all talent at this point. Failure. I'm going to give you
a dot Nes point. Yes, okay, so that gives me three start,
no failure. I was meant to fail this role. Okay, all
right, So here's what's gonna happen. The good news is the failure here
is not the grappling hook, which is way scarier than the magic check.
The grapple hook goes. Oh yes, Mike, I see you can I
roll for bullshit. I have a thing for this. I actually have a
remote control module that lets me control vehicles from my tabula. Can I roll
datagen to try to take ris can take an extra die on both of those
roles For your help, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, because it's
like a it's like a helping it's like help check. So one D six
and we'll add it to the first set of roles and then hot damn.
You see this building, I imagine there's like a scene of like twel like
trying to it and you just see you see Malik swiping on his data bed
like pretending like it's nothing, and it looks like a video game. It's
like driving basically, the building is not is made of steel and glass and
things that don't really do great under the weight of a crawler. This is
gonna be a very bumpy ride, Malik. You're able to kind of go
in and alter the hydraulic system to put less pressure on the exterior of the
building, making it more like a sled and less like a tank being dragged
up the side of a building. So then it makes it much easier on
towel to keep it kind of fresh and straight as you try to hide the
fact you're doing this. Back there as you play your video game, perfect,
well done, well done, well done. You you see this grappling
hook, massive massive grappling hook shoots out the front. It goes stories into
the air, the cable unwrapping behind it. You can hear it out of
the front as it uncoiled, and then it hits something successfully. It loops
onto the open bay, cutting through the steel, opening up and locking tight.
You get the like green check of go some mirror as you look through.
The cable pulls tight and you get the notification towel that you can begin
the ascent of the building. When at your go you press a few buttons
the usual tech sci fi stuff, and the crawler begins that like and it
starts pulling it upwards, to all of maybe your amazement, it works.
It takes you about three minutes to get to the top as it slowly cables
you upwards, dragging you in, and the crawler like comes up and cress
over the top, landing many stories in there, I'd say about fifteen or
so on this open bay where this vessel is now parked. The rest of
the bay is empty. There are bodies strewn about, and you can see
the gangway to this other vessel stands open as if and it's still running,
which means one there's somebody probably on board, and two they're looking for fast
escape. As the crawler comes to a resounding halt inside of this As it
does, I see these ships still on and I say, hey, look
they left someone with the keys for us. Well, well, how nice
of them. Yes, Samina goes, I think I'm going to be sick.
And she like tries to like gather herself coming through, and she's like,
I'll take care of them, the one left behind go, but you're
not gonna have enough time. All right, that was fun. Everybody,
Let's go, h keep your keep your eyes out for anyone that's been left
behind. I'm going to turn on my eye, grab the pistol from its
holster, just waiting to run into somebody. Essentially. Yeah, I imagine
all weapons, if you own them, are drawn at this point as you
head out, maybe when Leak has the data pad out. She takes out
of the crawler first as the airlock opens, and she begins running at aever
a rapid pace, making zero noise, open for the door, and she
gives you that gesture one more time before she enters, like, go go,
everybody goes. I don't like that at all. Yeah, you're not
the one that is going inside. I mean, no, I know what
is any kay. She was very quick here, but yeah, yeah,
going to happen, just just for my own edification. She said, I'll
take care of the one guy left in the ship. Yeah, she said
she'd take care of him for you. Basically. If she tries to leave
before us, Malik points his pistol at her. I'm sorry, captain,
but no, you go in the temple. She's like, standing at the
door of this other ship. She's what, there's one person in that ship.
Any one of us can take out one person. There's a bunch of
people in the temple, and I don't trust you as far as I can
throw your dainty ass, So get inside the temple. She goes, you
don't know that there's only one. I don't care. It's okay. She
sawters back over much slower, She's sawnders back over most of it. She
knows, fine, I'll go in the temple. Good luck, Malik.
He like releases the hammer on whatever this vulcan pistol is. He was.
She doesn't seem at all concerned by your weapon, because she believed she could
have taken it from you. But she says, well, go go Captain
bab right now. Or do we want to do that when we come out.
Yeah, I was going to let her do that, kill the one
person. The assassin is going to kill the one person. I don't know
there's one person, that's true. You don't know that. I yes,
that's why we brought her the last time we turned our back on her.
Okay, you go kill them? Fine, yes, I don't think you
can kill them. Why can't I kill them? I mean it's not it's
not that you wouldn't. But if there's more than one of them, as
soon as you like reaches into his path, does the side hands maleak like
a little chunk of metal? He takes it. What is this chunk of
metal? Like bomb from three seasons ago? He's been holding on to it,
you psycha? Is this the one that was rolling around in the ship
made on Kula out of that stole from the stores. Just remember if you
blow it up, you can't use it for parts. Well, you kn't
use those parts. You can't use those parts for parts, right, Just
don't blow up the whole ship. We need to I was gonna say,
And there are probably all of that and then some in this bay right like
they're going to be extra parts the mechanics section, like you could scavenge what
they have left behind, or you could take their ship. There's like a
few options here. Yeah, I was on board with taking this ship.
Can we just go with the obvious plan that let the assassin take care of
the people inside the ship that we don't know how many there are. As
much as I know how my sister operates, I have to agree with the
captain here. She's the most qualified and as of right now, she's part
of the same organization we are a part of, and we don't have time
to take care of this as well as take care of whatever's inside that temple.
Whatever you say, just if it makes you feel better, you can
wait right here. Don't talk. Okay, you can go with her if
you want. I'll be back. It's your car. I start walking off
towards the temple because we don't have time for this. She begins her stride
once again, the opposite direction, and this time, without hesitation, goes
in the front door. Anybody that does stay behind may hear the sound of
combat. A few pistols like dity go off. I'm gonna make some rolls
for her. H Let's say she probably starts here, Oh, a failure
on her part. How does she fail. That was a stupid dice.
Bool too. Oh no, it's okay, Sorry, she's gonna go into
another. Okay, that one was a success, and then the end Okay,
she they're going to then attack her because that's new. That's probably why
she failed the first one. Oh bad for her, so bad. Okay,
So she failed the first one, so she takes the full amount of
damage, but that the wrong person. She takes a full amount of damage,
and then the second one is negated altogether, and then the third one
is a critical success. That super sucks for her. There's a lot of
commotion in the vessel and eventually the shooting and the sound of napping, which
is the sound of skin on skin. It's called napping the record, but
it doesn't know I thought you were trying to make the sound of skin on
skin, the sound that a fist makes when it hits a face basically.
And she comes like out, holding holding her side. You can tell she's
injured. She's already put the gun away, and she has one knife left,
like a dura blade left in in her left hand. And she comes
out and she says, I told you I'd kill And there were three for
the record, Malik three Aya runs over. I'm I don't know if I
can do anything. I don't have any You run over to your sister.
You can see she's been shot with a carbine and stabbed. Once. Lamara
also joins you, Malik. Malik absolutely has Lamara's hand in that very like
aggressive manner of don't go over there, like he's holding her hand. You
don't have to help her, Malik, I am a medical professional and she's
the one that stabbed you to death. You don't know that. I know
that. Oh hmm, role a manipulation because you're trying to convince her of
something. Okay, uh, where is that ability? There we go?
Manipulation against the EmPATH, gay manipulation the second highest that. Oh, and
she failed. She goes, But Malik, what if she dies, then
there's a dozen more of her. It's you. He said all of this
at audible level. Even even Alia can hear this. Leek please and you
just hear Alia like I know what they have said, then what this might
be, But it doesn't change the fact that she's still my sister and she's
dying in front of me. He looks at you with like there is a
cold that you have never scene. And he lets go of Lamara's hand and
like like allows her to walk forward. And he looks at you and says,
I lost her once I forgave him, I would not forgive you.
I understand. He puts his pistol away. Lamara quickly runs over and like
checks her belt. She checks her belt for something. She goes, well,
the good news is it was pretty clean the knife wound. She pulls
some like patches of what looked like they kind of look like circular band ags,
except they're clear. They like fake skin, and she peels back the
like leather piece that she's wearing and she slaps it onto the skin and it
singes. It clothes she just went on the front and back and each time
she screams out in pain as these burn and clothes off the bleeding. She
will keep a certain amount of trauma for this a mirrah. But Lamar feels
better and she says that that's all I can do for you right now,
so you know, maybe not kill people, kill me, kill me next
time. Don't don't please don't do that. A mirror kind of looks at
her and she goes, look, kid, it wasn't personal. You had
what I needed, and we're in the way where I will I'll make sure
not to be in the way anymore. Just at this point, Alia turns
to Samina and goes, I don't know what you are. I don't know
how all of this came to be, but notice what I did today is
whatever lingering feelings I have had for us and our relationships that I still grasp
too, but to me. And she turns the them and she kind of
gets really close. They are my family, and I promise you, if
anything were to happen to them and it's because of you, I will not
get in their way. Oh, sister, you still think we're not on
the same side, but do not fret. I have no plans to harm
your friends. And she kind of stands up. Lamara helps her up,
and she goes, well, I guess we should start running again. Yeah
Cal already went to the like gone. Yeah, Cal's been gone since Samena
went in. So Tamir, did you follow her? Oh? Absolutely,
Okay, you all turn around, and when she says we start running again,
she's hairs ass running behind the two of them, and I met the
hammer cuts forward to catch the two of you. I'm gonna need some some
some tracking here. Somebody's going to figure out where these guys have gone.
Yes, corruption bar number one, Uh I thank you. Malik would have
followed after Samina. Great, Yeah, Lamar was that fast after her.
Samena does not does not even seem to be faced by the injury, or
at least she's not letting it show. And I think Alia Alia is like
falling close behind Malik and then kind of turns to him and under her breath
just says thank you. Then it kind of just doesn't really expect an answer.
There's like the barest of nod, like it could be him running like
it's so slight, and he doesn't say anything. It just continues forward.
But before you, uh you know, it did take a few minutes,
Tamir and Tao have gotten a head start. What I need to know,
no, close roll twenty. What I need to know is, can you
figure out which way these guys went? How would you like to try to
track them? Mmmm? I mean this is a very dirty, dusty place
with my eyes, with my eyes so a perception to start and would like
to just use your eyes like an observation. Yeah, that's what I was
gonna say. Yeah, observations. Fine, I would also take infiltration if
you have it, or survival. This is also a great survival trip er.
No survival, no infiltration, we're just observing. We are to look
around to go in somewhere alone. You're not in a scientist. She can
punch, also shoot, she could shoot, he can grapple. Okay,
well, a big six foot eight woman is totally great for stealth. By
the way, to say, the first thing that you note is this entire
behind us made in a cylinder. It's like round, and the loading dock
is kind of what's kind of at the front the way you might put a
CD into a drive almost it's like a slat in the building. And as
you run in the hallway's arch right and left, and you can see there
are bodies here all over the place. People were gunned down trying to get
into the loading docks at a limited success. You don't pick up on much
more than that. There are civilians, soldiers alike. Bags have spilled open.
Yess, can I leave the bodies can to mirror doesn't have weapons,
it has a knife. There's a gun. I would like you almost trip
over it as you come out the way that when the doors open up to
the loading dock, you can tell they were locked from the inside. You
as a tech person would know as you'd like opened the doors, it was
locked from the inside, which means all of these people, people's soldiers alike,
were kind of bottlenecked to this point and then they were gunned down in
this single area. There's a large building of bodies, and as the door
slide open, what are the soldiers that had fallen kind of tumbles in his
body tumbles and in his hands is in fact a vulcan pistol, which you
would be able to pick up if you would like. Okay, thank you.
When we were back in the bunker, I made sure to look at
take a really good look at the math that we got and tried to like
at least get an idea of the areas that it probably would be. I
don't know if the labs were or different areas were labeled or anything like that,
so I try to do that. So I'd probably use that in addition
to what I'm seeing where the where the shots seem to be coming from.
This probably the direction we want to go. So the blueprint you got basically
it showed you that this sits about fifteen floors up. This is about twenty
high. The upper floors are going to be temples, meeting rooms, where
the kind of convening room or I don't hate to call it a stage,
but that's the best word I have for it, would be where they would
gather to change over who's in charge of the order, really formalized places below
it, you're going to get Below you'll start to get things like living quarters
for people that actually physically lived inside of the temple, mostly for people that
cared for this place. Right, you would get eating establishments, minimal ones,
but eating establishments nonetheless, and then they would have a variety of other
things from like storage rooms to the you know, kind of the works lobby
downstairs, because you would want to be greeted. There would be a bath
house in this temple, a place to actually cleanse yourself before you moved up
the floors to the temple. At the top, you kind of get the
that's kind of the rough idea that you got, so really important places are
up. The loading dock kind of breaks out in half, and everything below
seems to be more functional for the general public. So we probably still want
to go up well, you did roll a one. Both of you rolled
a limited success. So as the bodies like dump open in this door and
you can hear something of fighting behind you, you're able to look around and
see that let's see a limited success. Yes, one of the bodies that
this pile of bodies that had spilled a lot of blood, there are shoe
prints where they clearly kind of stepped in and over them and smeared it in
one direction, and the direction is the left, So we go left,
and I you have my welcome pistol, ready to run into anybody, but
also looking for more signs, especially because someone stepped in a bloody footprint.
Then I will hopefully see that footprint again somewhere. Yeah, and it does.
It kind of trails off, you know, once the blood wears off
and the stickiness is gone. But it leads you directly to the only thing
really on this floor is an elevator. There's like a small office more than
likely where the loading dock, like head of the loading dock may hold council
themselves. But this leads to a elevator and kind of the central piece of
this tower. And you can see that it currently is not on floor fifteen.
It is on floor fourteen, almost to the top, and it stopped
there. You're going to have to call it down. It's on floor fourteen.
There's stairs. There are stairs. Always let us take the stairs.
And before they even maybe start taking off to me, you're just going to
take his like foot and just make a big arrow in the blood spill nice
easy for like towards the staircase. You mean, okay, off, The
two of you go up three flights of stairs, not that much. If
you had to run more than that, I might actually make you make a
check for that. But three floors isn't too bad. You're still gonna have
to catch your breath as you get to the top. And as you've been
working out for a whole that's true you have, which is why I was
like, you know what if you had maybe, but you know, if
you were running like six seven, eight floors, I might make you.
Don't you remember the spicy engine room scene. Yeah, the old boys are
ripped moving this story. No no, no, everybody's checking their watches and
playing volleyball from that. So uh, as you too kind of creak the
door open, which is it? It is like a manual door. But
because it's to the stairs. Uh, this opens up into another hallway.
But the sign near the oh yes, before we go, I turned into
me and I say, hey, is there any way you can make it
so this elevator no longer works? Yeah, get them stuck on that floor.
Yeah, and two year old pop open the the mechanical panel and there's
usually just a button yeah that you just like kind of They would be able
to turn the stop button back on unless you sabotaged it in some way.
So if you want to just sabotage it so they can't take like gang control
again, I wouldn't. Oh yeah, great, let's do that all critical
success. Yeah you want to like duh you jimmy it open? It pops
off? Yeah. Basically, Uh, you see the stop button and the
best way to assure a button doesn't get pressed again is to just poop the
button and you as he reaches in and just like removes the entire piece of
the on off button from it and pockets it. Uh. There is no
way that this elevator will turn on again unless they replace the button. Perfect.
They can't take the elevator down past us looks okol. The sign here
right points an arrow up or like shows floor fourteen is the is the temple.
This floor says a conference room, right and ballroom, and one leads
right, and of course one leads left, like back around the circular hallway.
The shoe prints, from what you can tell, are not there anymore
where they got off. You to not which room they went into? You
do not, ye, I say extremely lead just in a whisper. I'm
not gonna whisper now, but I say it in the quietest whisper to make
sure that if there is someone paying attention out like as a lookout, they
don't hear us. I say too, Tamir, do you think we should
wait for them or I don't think we're dying? Well, if we wait
for them to come out, we can trap them and surprise them that they
may have already destroyed what we're looking for. They don't need to take it
anywhere, They just need to destroy the information that is on it. Pair
we also need to find out who they are. Sister called captain, What
do you say? I will do? Cal just stands there for a moment,
looking very shrewd, looking all around to see if they're what resources she
has nearby. I'm assuming it's pretty standard conference rooms stuff on one side,
and here in the hallway it's like some vases. There's some really beautiful like
pictographs and things that have been put into the walls, like painted onto the
middle. But the rooms themselves is like the conference room and the ballroom.
You'll have to like go in the doors. You're not in either of them
at one goes each way around the circle. But if you peer around the
side, you can check and see that one. You would want to make
a stealth check for them, or an infiltration check. I believe I would
also just take a straight agility check. Termain quiet. Yeah, don't have
infiltration, I have dexterity though, Okay, I'll let you make a deck
check if okay, yeah, agiloy. Yeah, that's all uses agility,
why not? Okay? Critical TWI like eye balls like peaks around this circular
corner. You look towards the conference room, and you do not You see
that the door is closed. It doesn't look like there's any activity necessarily from
the inside of that one. You come back, you pass to me,
or you go around the opposite side, and you kind of creep around the
edge, and as you do, you see that the door to the ballroom
stands open, it is cracked. There are there's movement inside that you don't
care or see any one. I sneak back to ta mirror and I say,
they're in the ballroom once again, as quiet as I possibly can.
They're in the ballroom. There's obviously multiple people there. I don't the defense
listening. What do I do? Just jump down and start shooting if they're
about to break something? Just I can be here by the door, wait
for a signal. All right, I hope the others come quick. All
right, I will attempt to What can your your state of mind, your
trance? What if we do that instead? What can you possibly see?
Maybe lets us know how many are in there or what not to do?
I will help you. Yeah, yeah, we could try that. I
like that more than being alone in a room with a bunch of people that
probably are armed. Okay, yeah, conference room. We know that that
was empty, Yeah, or at least the door was closed. The door
was closed. That doesn't mean it's empty. Maybe here okay, that's yeah
here? So are there still stairs going up a little bit more? Yeah,
there's basically the stairs are in like kind of a small hallway I guess
you could say that comes out right in front of the elevator. Yeah,
but are there stairs that continue upwards? Yes, continue upward one more floor.
Okay, so we're gonna go up at least a few stairs so we're
not immediately in the view of the door if they come out while we're still
in assurance. Going to sit down just in case, pull Tamir to sit
down with me and just grab his hand and say, okay, let's breathing,
just like just like we were taught give about this, and going to
try to mind walk into one of the mines in the room in the ballroom,
see if we can see what they see. Okay, let's make a
mystic ability check. One of you will get a bonus for working with the
other. Uh what's your mystic at I thank you. Yours is high as
your tire. I have a total of five, die, I have six,
follow you through yours, and I'm going to get a plus one for
the other to help correct. So that's a seven okay, okay, one
one One's all that you need. As the two of you connect here in
the hallway, I'm actually going to I was gonna try to show you Matt
but as you do, uh, things kind of blur out for a seconds.
This is a limited success, but you've my well, I will tell
you that your vision comes to inside of the ballroom through a mask. It's
like you're looking through like a dark shield over most of the mask, and
you can hear breathing because you've looked through this mask before and you know the
face on the other side of it. You've seen it in the glass of
this very mask. You're brought back to. Uh what's her face with the
helmets, Kashah bitch. Kasha makes herself known. Gosha makes herself known.
I say that to some degree, and you can see she's like pointing.
You can't quite with elimited suess make out what she says, but you do
get the idea that something that that they are working on something. And as
the man kind of part, you can see this this Uh actually no,
you see them searching around. They're searching the room. Uh. There's like
beeping and stuff, but they can't quite ping what they can't find what they're
looking for. The ballroom is set up for some was set up for some
kind of large event. You can see they are like tables, there's a
small stage at the back. But it doesn't seem that they have managed to
locate yet the uh whatever it is that they are seeking. There is six
of them, including Kasha, right, Uh so they don't they must not
know what that is. They just know it's here, or they haven't found
it yet. So wait to find the first and hang hang on a second.
Some mirror is going to go ahead and communicate with Leak's tablet through his
internal communication Okay, Alak, are you trying to communicate to like alenks like
lee headset or are you just typing text? Like is it speech to text
on his tablet? No? No, No, he's like trying to like
yeah whatever his communication device is, okay, cool, cool whatever the coms
device? Yeah, Yes, we are on the fifth fourteenth floor. Are
six people? Would they soume? Heavily armed? They are looking for what
we're looking for. They all right, do you see the probe? Now?
Are they on the same floor as you? Yes, you said you're
on the fourteenth floor. Yes, he pulls up the map he has.
That's actually wrong there when I say twenty floors, Oh, I'm so sorry.
Did you say forty? They're on the fifteenth floor. There are twenty
floors or five floors up, so you're actually on the nineteenth floor. That
was my mistake. Best way, I said, cool, God, noise
the floor that we're on is what I tell is what you say? Yeah,
is there a you said it was an elevator, right dot, So
there's like there's a unique feature on all Basically what happens is you get pinged
by your brother as all of you are standing in front of the elevator that
would be on the floor of the loading bank. It has big red letters
that come across the hood screen up top this is error and you can see
all of you see in the ground this bloody arrow pointing the direction of the
staircase or the stair well. And then your brother pinged you. Now,
so there is there's an elevator, right, So there's a unique feature on
all the floors. I just want to confirm that correct. There is a
elevator that goes to every floor. He pulls up the schematics so that he
has like the old school schematics. Okay, if you're on floor nineteen,
direct me from the elevator where you see these people, they're to the right
the ballroom. So he's got to look on the map. Is it easy
to figure out where the ballroom would be on this map? Dot? Uh
if he told you which floor? Yeah, nineteen and to the right of
the elevator. Probably. Basically the two rooms are kind of set up the
same. Can y'all see the what I've what I brought you to on the
on roll twenty? Yeah, lukes as oh oky, look at that,
so you can see basically downstairs, right of the loading bay, y'all are
standing. This is the elevator here in the middle. Yep, y'all are
standing right in front of it, four floors down from them. Great,
And there's like a small which I don't have on here. There's like a
small tunnel that leads from the elevator out into like the open area. But
basically y'all are standing staring at the elevator and the stairs on the four floors
down from them. You would be here, four floors down. This is
the room where the activity is happening. Cool. He continues talking to me.
Okay, I have a plan. Can you see the probe? No,
no confirmation? Okay, I don't even don't if it's on this floor.
We just great, there's six people here and there are Okay, I
have a terrible idea. Sit tight. He looks over. He looks over
to you and Lamar and says, okay, uh, nineteenth floor, I'll
catch up with you. And he also starts like heading up the stairs.
But Malik is gonna get off at the eighteenth floor. Okay, uh love
it? Uh. They head up and meet you, Tamir al Uh Lamara,
Alia, I'm and then who else is with us? It's just Semina.
Yeah, so they all basically meet you, but there is no Malik
where it's the lake like I'm quiet, no idea. He took a Titur
said to me, to you here, he took off on his own.
I had no option to stop him. Okay, I think he got off
on the eighteenth floor, Tamy, or what's your brother doing? I don't
know. He didn't tell me. It's really good at that. Yeah,
so what are we supposed to just wait until something happens? Yes? No,
we have Samina and all. Yeah, do what what is if they're
looking around in there? It's probably in there. We're close enough either way,
we're going to encounter them. We need to take them out. Now,
what if it's not in there, then we take them out and can
freely walk in Rome wherever we want. The best I can do is incapacitate
them and have perhaps act as a distraction. I don't know what more I
can do in the situation, and we don't have to kill them. We
just lead them out of our way. They're going to be trying to kill
us. You realize this, right, we could cause a distraction. How
many people are in there? Again? Do we see? Six? Including
a friend that we've seen before named Kasha, who has somehow survived quite a
lot. I don't like her very much. Yeah, she's not great.
I thought she died. Yeah, me too, apparently not. You know,
we seem to be very loose about that term friend. Did I say
friend? Yes? I seem like we have a lot of those friends that
trying to kill us moments. I definitely didn't mean to say a friend someone
that unfore just fancastic, like she's just like anyways, so many people in
their lives trying to kill them? Uh? Is there there's no way at
all to find it? Gosh, we do have the bomb. There's a
bomb. Malik has the bomb. Oh, here's a bomb. Well,
now, I know what he's doing. Okay, so because of distraction and
let him do what he's going to do. What if he blows up the
actual thing that we're supposed to find, he's the only one of us that
knows how to locate it. Hang on, relik a little busy. Yeah
that's great. Hey, do you know what the probe is? Yeah,
my hands are kind of full. Can I let you know in a second,
okay, if you're just waiting for your signal or like, what what
do you want to do? Yeah, yeah, you'll you'll see it.
I don't like the sound of that. Help us tonight. The maleik,
you had to the floor down. It is the eighteenth floor, very similar
in layout. You get off the elevator, there's this kind of small tunnel
that leads you back into kind of a main lobby. The difference is the
only sign you see when you get off is it says public baths love that
you can smell or feel the moisture in the air. The saunas may still
even be running. There is no wall here between these. It's one entire
room. As you enter, there are two very large pools on either side,
big ones, a couple small like hot baths in and around tables where
they may do some kind of physical alleviation of people. You can see there's
a lot of herbs and oils and things of that nature. That's all I'm
going to say to that you can tell based on the based on the quality
of this place. This is meant for the upper echelons. This really isn't
a public bathhouse. It's probably a private bathhouse for those that are the best
of the best. The the ballroom is directly above one of the pools.
How so this is a bathouse. How deep are the pools? I assume
they're only like a couple of feet deep. The two the two large ones
are way weight No, those are like swimming pools. They're much deeper.
They have deepens to them. Uh, it's you know, they do all
kinds of like therapy here, right, healing here, So they may do
take people down in tanks. You have no idea what happens here, but
there are the two pools are very very deep, and then these like smaller
pools around. And this whole place is not really it's not tiled. It's
made to look almost like an outdoor mm right, Like the whole thing is
fake all the plants, the atmosphere. You can see that the glass walls
that definitely, if you broke through, would drop you inside of the city
show like a totally different low cow beautiful jungles. You can hear fake birds
and things of that nature. Yeah, okay, so there's are the tables
affixed to anything? There are very few, you mean, like the white
ones, yes, like the ones that people would like. Yeah. Yeah,
they're like massage tables. They basically look like massage tables. Cool.
Malika is gonna pull one over towards like the closest he can get to the
center of the room that's not in the water, and then he's gonna get
on it and he's going to use whatever he has on him, bubblegum,
hope, dreams, and he's going to try to secure the bomb to the
ceiling. Okay, the ceilings are very very high. Okay, you were
gonna have to throw it? Great, Yeah, that's that's that's cool.
Can I, since you know, since this is an explosive device, can
I roll raged combat to throw it? Oh? Yeah, it would have
to be ranged combat, and I'll let you send a timer for it.
Basically, you're lobbing it to like stick it to something. What are you
using I'm guessing you've got you're gonna make shift something? Yeah, you know
what, don I'll give you a darkness point. I will use the faceless
one's talent. I have something whatever, whatever you want to call it.
So the faceless one's talent allows me to do bullshit, which it allows me
to make something kind of appear cosmetically that can can assist in this right that
you need. So you go through your pack as somebody that often carries stuff
needed for explosives, some kind of putty or tack is not unheard of for
you to have on you, and so you kind of mold it up really
quick using the heat of your hands and stick it onto the back of this
explosive. And you're gonna need to lob it at the ceiling. Are you
ready to do that? Yes? Great, We're gonna cut the camera upstairs.
Actually before I how high is the ceiling you're looking at about eighteen feet
twenty feet that's a good fall down. So I'm like, if a table's
like four feet high and I'm I don't know, six feet, that's ten
got somewhere between eight to ten feet between you and the ceiling still, so
my Mike. The reason I ask is Malik has a he has an item
that he's been carrying on him since he left XR, which is the spear
that was basically what saved his life there he had had as a weapon.
It's a scrap spear. I don't think a spear is eight feet long,
but I don't know. I don't know. I've never used the spear before.
Could he like stick it to the end of the spear and like stick
it to the ceiling, like try to stick it? Okay, So here's
the difference. You can either use ranged combat to throw it, yep,
or you're going to have to use a dexterity agility to try to stick it
with the spear. I will do a rage combat great, okay, because
basically what you're going to be doing, because even then it's going to be
just the tip. Basically you're gonna be standing on the edge of this thing
trying to stick a bomb to the ceiling, and if it lands in the
pool, it's no good. Yeah, Okay, the camera cuts upstairs,
the line for your brother goes silent, Semina goes, what are we going
to do. Tripe of your arms. I don't know what he's going to
do. She pulls two knives. Ready, be burke knives to a gun
fight. I have guns too. She shows you, like four strap to
her legs. This is why we brought her. You know, the weird
onees idea of potentially starting a distraction is not a bad idea. If it
is in fact in that room and the bomb goes off, we may lose
it. Yeah what is he doing? Did he say? No? Oh?
He said, I'm busy. Oh fucking great. That helps us none
at all. So I'm going to build it. Okay, Well we'll have
to do a distraction, Lamara. Yeah, you are really good at getting
people's attention. Oh yeah, I am. Yeah. Do you think that
you could make them page to do without wanting to shoot you? I sure
could try. Why why would why would we do that? I have an
idea. I'll be right back. No no, no, no, no,
no. You tell me the idea and then we we are not just
running off and doing ideas. Oh uh okay, Well I was just gonna,
uh, you know, we'll make myself down it and cause a distraction.
How oh I was going to go to the other room and make noise,
thinking maybe they'd hear me through the wall and then they'd come running out
and all of you could shoot them. I like that idea. She's three
of them, okay, So she runs into the conference room. You hear
the door like slowly click behind and there's a pause, moment of breath as
then you hear her say, actually, she comes over the calm. This
is about to happen. Where is my no This is doctor Lamar speaking.
Please bring out your dead. All the way to the conference room. Please
bring out your dead. This is doctor Lamar. We are going into that.
I'm waiting for them to come out so and that I can shoot them.
There's a moment if you peek around the corner. You did bro really
really well for this. You kind of go back around the corner and kind
of peer at the door, and I imagine you're all kind of leaned up
against this wall so you can't be seen as they come out this door.
You just Monty Python this. I totally Monty pythe on the hell out of
it. And you know, little mc cop you've never heard anyone. And
Dallas, you look around, you see that all the shadows that were moving
around. Stop and there's like silence in the room for just a second.
You can hear like muttering from people. And then the door swings open and
two of the men step out, or two of these these soldiers in black
step out. They're wearing a similar helmet to Kasha, but it's not exactly
Causha's helmet, and they have their bulbs. Yeah, I hold first because
I don't want them to immediately start taking fire, and then hole up in
that room knowing somebody is coming after them. And I'm gonna say, I
mean, y'all have cover. They can't see you from that angle, but
they are going to roll. They failed. They come out and you can
see them both like look around. They look up and down and they turn
around and you hear them say into the room, I don't see anything.
There's nobody out here. You hear cautious voice. Go into the other room
now. And the two of them go to round the corner. They don't
they're like running, they don't even know that you're there. But they go
to round the corner. Can they be seen through the door. They're on
the hallway side. Yeah, they're like here and here everybody else. The
other four are still in the room, y'all are kind of hidden against the
elevator wall or like inside of this alcove. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna
I'm gonna wait until they're out of direct line of sight to the door,
because if we can take them down when they round the corner, then they
just left and they haven't come back yet. And you hear their feet begin
to kind of tread forward as they round the corner. Uh, if you're
in the stairwell or in this alcove, they definitely don't see you, and
in fact, they pass right by you as soon as one of them goes
by. Oh wait, we just stink silent? Is that what I didn't
hear the last part. It was just taking Oh okay, because that you
and Semina would I was gonna talk about like this great, I love that
so like like I think like at that moment, Samina and Alia would take
a like have a like a look and a nod, and as soon as
they go out of the side of the other room, like you just see
like Alia using the actually whichever would be the more successful method. Alia has
never used her door steel sword. You've never anybody. It's just been always
on her side. Yeah, if you want to use the sword, but
I want to, I will. I would like to think that it is
like it has a sharp side and a blunt side, and she uses the
blunt side or the hilt to just whack them make a melee combat attack.
They are not going to get except for their armor. They're not going to
get any kind of defensive role or anything like that. Semina will do the
same. I will give you a darkness point. Great real okay, reroll?
Yeah, okay, come on, don't don't don't okay, Yes,
a limited success. They are wearing armor, so they basically absorb the majority
of this attack from you. Their guns do not go off, but they
are going to try to fight back, so they're going to make an attack
against you. They can't in close combat. They can't fire off the weapon
basically, so I'm gonna need to know are you wearing any armor? I
wear anonymous clothing. Doors in the dermostatic suit is my I have anonymous clothes
dermostatic clue. So fail on Alia. The guy kind of turns around to
get you and fails at doing so. He does not hit you. The
other one, though, pulls a dura knife and stabs it into your sister's
back as she was kind of reaching to slice his throat, his helmet kept
her from doing it. If this is possible, could I use premonition in
this combat? That's one of those I have seen this coming just overall,
just kind of predict their next few moves and in that process probably have seen
this. I was gonna ask initially anyways, but the roll the mystic ability.
First, Let's see if you're successful at at the premonition at all?
Oh God, nope, um ut, yeah, racking up today. Hey,
Yes, there's this moment as they go around the corner and it's almost
sow motion. You see your sister go to move and it pans into a
premonition where you see she stabs it, tings off his helmet, he jabs
her in the shoulder, She goes down, and all of this begins to
play out. They yell jump back because I don't think I have enough time
to react. Sorry, okay, So I'll give her a dexterity save basically
air. So we've kind of like check to see if she would anyways,
what is her armor? Yeah, you cue her, so she it is
not basically a critical success anymore. Uh. He still he almost like slices
her open, but he doesn't manage to stab her in the back, but
he does get hit off. She takes some more damage. You hear like
ah, as she tries to keep her scream under control. You yeah,
and it goes back around. Does anybody else want to do anything? This
happens kind of right in front of you, right right in the middle of
the hall, like out between the stairwell and the alcove to the elevator.
Can we see in the room, Not unless you have put yourself in a
way to see in the room, Okay, but we can see what's going
on in front of us. So I'm going to I'm going to try to
shoot the guy that seems to be a little bit will make noise, shit,
No, I'm not. I'm going to my other hand. I switch
hands on the gun, and I dip my one hand into my pocket and
grab my brass knuckles. Nice, and I just run across the hallway and
start throwing punch punches, make a melee combat attack. I believe the knuckles
would give you more damage. But let's see if you make the hit.
Ah. No, what is with these walls? We are not a combat
crew and we are not. Ah, gosh too, I even giving you
another doctor point. Okay nope, oh my gosh, okay, uh no,
go he kind of dodges you punch and he he slings back, and
there's kind of this almost like kind of quiet combat that's happening. The three
of you now entangled, Tamir, do you want to do anything? Oh
yeah, okay, hands a knife and seeing that the scuffle is now all
there, the one that slashed at Samina is distracted. Yes, he's gonna
take his and just shove it somewhere, mate, shake him. Yeah,
okay, go ahead, make another melee combat attack. No, I'm not
giving you ad no, God damn it tings again off of some kind of
padded armor underneath all of this black wrap. Uh. These you can tell
that these whoever these people are are well trained. Uh. Samina will take
another attack with a single success. Yes, with a single success. Does
that seem right? Yeah? Oh it's why because it's based off of her
strength, not her agility. She does manage to get another slice off on
him, but it is not enough to do any kind of major damage.
Pallia, Sorry, my dad, My wife was asking something. Uh uh
I'm a knee one in the nuts. Okay, uh, let's get a
melee combat attack. M hm hey nice none, I'm just like sorry,
yeah, you need this one. And he kind of goes more like accidental,
like I feel like she wanted to like like kind of going in for
a roundhouse kick, and instead like he kind of jumps forward and just right
into right right into right into his goes down in in a like uh this
this this guy does making him he'll be easier to hit everyone, and he
drops his weapon. He drops the vulcan pistol kind of clatters off to the
side. What about Tal and Tamir? Can I can get the weapon further
down the hallway and also punch him or can I just do you get?
You get three? You get three action points. Kicking the weapon would be
considered a minuscule action in this regard, so you can still make your attack.
I forget about that, Like so I forgot to hold on. Let's
yeah, did I put that? Yes, it's towards the bottom combat actions.
Yeah, there you go, so you can see the list. Remember,
you get three action points. I believe a melee attack a free action
is so I'm gonna consider you you're kicking a free action, so you have
to worry about that. If that's the case, then I would then as
as he goes down, I would just use the butt of my my sword
and then just black him on the back of his head too, you know,
go to sleep, Go to sleep. Yeah, go ahead, make
another attack. Okay, where did it go? No? Where did it
go? And there it is? Maybe? Hey did it? Did I
do it? Yeah? You got a single? You got a single?
Success? Okay, and you bunk him on the head and he he goes
down. There's one still up, which I'm gonna guess is probably the one
towels after this one. He is not dead. He has passed out though.
Yeah, so I'm going to uh attack the guy who is still up,
trying to knock him down. God, oh, limited success, a
limited success. He's going to roll for his fail. So you do manage
to get through his armor? How much damuch does your knife do? No?
Two is dura knife brass knuckles? Oh so okay, so, uh
you get a hit off, you break through. You can now see that
it's a woman underneath you break through their like hell meant to crack the glass.
It shatters and they take a pretty deep I believe it's still too with
the brass nuckles andos of two, and they're like as they they kind of
are knocked a little off guard. Uh you get a second. It doesn't
say anything about melee, but I'm gonna guess this is considered close combat,
which means you get that was one or two action points. You have one
more if there was something else you wanted to do. Does would it?
Uh? Would them falling over prompt an attack of opportunity? Sure? Okay?
Yeah, they stumble and I'm going to just try to hit them again.
Okay, see if I can actually knock her out? Uh that is
this one? Nope, not that time. They stumble and in doing so
miss the second incoming punch. They still get an action one that is up.
They are going to have to recuperate, so they spend yeah, attacking
and close cart. There we go, that's what was important. They're going
to get up off the ground, which one, and they're gonna also try
to make an attack this time against U Town a melee combat attack with a
critical success. How much armor are you wearing? I have a protective jacket
for two armor for two armors. So roll two D six. No,
what is your agillia? How does that work? I can't remember. It's
like you have to roll armor a D six per point of armor, and
if you get a six, it negates one damage person one damage. That's
right, So roll two D six is you got one, so it negates
nicely done. It doesn't agate two of the dura knife damage. So really
they don't even get a stab. They just kind of make that like swing
and it slices across your jacket, catching the majority of the damage. But
you can see it does slice your neck just a little bit, like a
kind of across her collarbone because it splits open and begins to bleed. So
you will take one point of trauma. Okay, you're seeing that for his
herd is just gonna like grab like plant like his hand firmly on this dude's
armor and just stab stab him. Make a melee combat attack. I'll give
you that down this point. Yeah, these rolls tonight, that's a single
success. They just have to roll for their armor, just like towles.
Just two. They did get the one and it doesn't you stab. You
do manage to get in, but you see you stab into one of the
padded pieces on their shoulder, and as it comes out, you're not even
sure if it made it all the way in. Uh, there's no blood
on the end of your knife, but you have successfully stabbed. That is
a two point? Is there a single point activity you want to make?
Uh? What I would like a grapple be considered a single point. Let's
see getting in, taking a quick shot, picking up an item, drawing
a weapon, getting off the ground, hitting the ground, taking cover,
sprinting a short distance. I would consider a grapple. Suore, It doesn't
really say maybe, yeah, I just grapple, But like I think he
just wants to put himself in between top. That's easy, dude, and
just easy. Yeah. So you kind of almost like push towel back out
of the way and step between them to keep to keep your distance. Samina
is going to make her attack again, please a single success. Got a
roll against this guy's armor fail fail, So he takes both points of damage
and you see this time she gets him really good across the gut and its
kind of slices open the clothing and you can see she's hit like skin flesh
as it begins to bleed in he kind of barrels over She looks to uh,
to Alia and to towel and to all of you and over her should
she says, quick, put their bodies in the elevator. Yep, don't
have to tell me twice. Uh and uh. You can see he's like
panicked. Now he doesn't get his he's not on his turn yet, but
it looks as if he may scream if we don't get him down this route
that was semina, you know, makes it Alia's turn. Oh boy,
So there's one guy remaining and he's he's very injured though, okay, but
he's about to scream. No pressure, I punch him in the face.
You want to punch him right in the face whole make a melee combat attack
or oh no, actually can try to grapple him, which would be a
force check. Yeah, I think I'll I think that's yeah, I think
i'll That's what I'll do. I'll do grapple and I basically will try to
like cover his mouth up, cover his mouth. Yeah, let's see what
your successes are. Come on, god, oh my gosh, come on,
I'm gonna give you that point. Okay, come on, what is
today? Man? Okay? Here we go again. We have made it
this far for kids kill a single person with that. That's help. Hey,
it doesn't have to be with my help. Just wait, things are
things are not done yet. Things are not over yet. Where's the boom?
You try to grab him? He moves very dexterously. Actually, you
know what, it is a failure. But I'm gonna see if he actually
was a dexterously they'll say. Yeah, he kind of weaves as you try
to get your hands on him. He moves with such agility even with the
injuries, that kind of like a snake in a certain way, confirming that
they are well trained and they fight in a style you may not have seen
before. You style, right, that is two action points? You still
have one? Oh okay, okay, wait what was the first one?
Your grapple attempt was two points? Oh that went straight to two. Okay,
uh mmm, I I punch him. Okay, we try to take
take another punch. Yeah, because my I didn't do the punch. I
just did the grapple to try and cover him up. But yeah, let's
sef you can get a punch in. Come on, Hey, there,
it is fail fail takes all of the physical blunt force right to the gut
on this wound. All. Oh no, I was going to do it
right to his face to kind of like the entire purpose of Alia at this
point is to, Okay, you're gonna bare fist hit through his helmet basically,
Oh yeah, that's because she's wearing she's wearing a helmet. Yeah's though,
so you can put your hand on glass while you're at it, that's
fine. Alia is a big girl. Alia punches straight through glass. It
cuts your hand open as you feel your fist meet her nose and there's a
small crunch sound as her body like goes limp and falls to the ground and
Alia you kind of pull your hand out, slicing it open even more.
But her body does go limp. You can hear a rip as Tel had
ripped part of the back of Tamir's shirt because she was about to stuff it
in their mouth, and instead of doing that, she hands it to you
here, thank you. And then you just see her like, take the
shards of glass or plastic or whatever it is out of her hand and just
wrap it up. It'd be fine. And then I start trying to bring
the bodies to the elevator. Yeah, the bodies are grown in the elevator.
Also, can we loute them? Do they have better guns? They
both had dura knives and some kind of vulcan type pistol. It's pretty standard,
they weren't. They don't seem to be very bulky soldiers, right,
They're not wearing a lot of armor. Their lean mean fighting machines. Would
their armor fit on any of us? Uh? Yes, everybody, but
Alia Ali is a smitch too tall. Sorry, Alia, don't worry.
I think that is as soon as like one of them, like Tamir's helping
pull them in, is just starting to take it off. And then like
as soon as tal comes in put this on. Great, puts on a
helmet. Yeah, helmet, y'all you rewrap You can tell they've got like
a lot of wrappings and things. You kind of try to rewrap yourself.
Scarf, the belt, whatever kind of tunic style shirt they were wearing.
And you don't I wouldn't say they're naked. They're down to you know,
whatever skivs they had underneath, and you you toss their limp bodies. Uh.
The mark comes around the corner, she goes, didn't work, Oh,
there's mar should I do it again, okay. Uh, and and
she kind of covers her mouth, sees that you're both now wearing it.
There's a broken helmet and non broken helmet, and uh. There is almost
a silence as the bomb goes off underneath the floor of the other room.
I believe there's actually roll mchann for an explosion. There are I've completely forgot.
I remembered them, like back in season one because that's what I was
doing. Explosions page ninety eight and one twenty five. You don't want me
for now, I don't remember one twenty Make it go there. There are
there are explosions. There's rules for those. But we made up this bomb
so it doesn't actually have stats, right, but I could base it off
something. Yes, you need to figure out it's going to be beard.
You need just a second, say ninety eight explosions. Let's see shrapnel below.
Tell me what is this bomb made of. It was basically like a
C four type bomb. We were Yeah, it's not it's not meant for
shrapnel. It was meant to what we were using it for. We were
we were going to try to blast into we were trying to break down a
wall. We needed we needed a large distraction, and it's a it's a
it's an im DYEA. Would you consider this a powerful explosive or would you
consider this a short range explosive like a contained one. I mean, I'm
pretty sure we rolled a buttload of rolls to get all the parts for it,
so I would assume it's it's not contained. Uh, it's definitely like
it's it's an I d it's it's it's it's designed to cause as much destruction
as possible. He doesn't produce shrapnel, but like it would blow out a
wall, it will blow projectiles. Okay, okay. The explosive goes off.
There's a rattle like the floor like shakes underneath you. Hm hm explosion.
Okay, no, great. The door to the ballroom blows outwards,
off the hinges. It smashes into the side of the stairwell like heish anybody,
everybody not in cover is going to get to make an agility. Oh
check, you're gonna need to make a deck sterity agility save. Uh what
does it? What do you mean by not in cover? If you are,
if you are in the hallway, which is where you were fighting,
basically everybody if you are no longer here or here, nobody's in the stairwell.
You're gonna need to make face. Is everybody in the elevator, I
don't think. I don't think. Whoever we were, we were dragging bodies
and taking the armor. So you close the elevator back up. I mean,
technically, dot, if the explosion was set in the middle of the
room, the walls would protect them, right, depends on how bad the
explosion is. That's true. You got me there, and what's flying is
a door. It's the explosion of like of shrapn knowing things going flying from
outside the room. So the door blows off the hinges and blows this direction.
I need to know if anybody's in the hallway. I think Alia would
be at this point in the hallway. Okay, so I need a dexterity
agility roll to me. It's also going to make a dexterity agility roll.
Yeah, I had. If we had the time to get back into the
stairwell, we probably would have tried to. But we're probably all in the
hallway at this point. Out. Ali's a big girl. She's not It's
true, She's not the most dexterous our doctor. In fact that everybody kind
of dodges out of the way into the stairwell as this door comes flying off
the hinges. Alia, this door smashes into you with rather great force,
pins you down to the wall. You said, how much armor are you
wearing? Are you wearing any Uh? The only thing I had? Where
do I checked? Double check that? You don't your thermo suit is like
it's like one of the suits from Dune. Yeah, that's all I have,
Like the thermos suit and that's it. I have like an anonymous place
I have armor. I don't think it has things, so it just recycles
the water protect no protective clothing. Three the oh perfect, Okay, you
were gonna take three damage as the door smashes you against the wall, but
the thermo suit you wear under your robes absorbs the majority of that. I
will need you to make a force check to lift the door off of you
because you are currently pinned. Okay, there you go. Yeah easy.
Uh. There's a moment as the dusk settles and it comes to Ali is
like under this metal door that's blown off the hinges. Yeah. See you
like lift this heavy door and toss it to the song. You see like
the veins like popping on our arms and just like, oh yeah, I
kind of needed that moment. Yes, yeah, as you your sister.
Actually, Samino runs over to you to check on you. She managed to
dodge out of the way, so did Lamara as well as the rest of
your team. So nobody seems to be terribly injured. But as the dust
settles down, you can see that the walls to that ballroom have it's like
you know a can. If you explode it from the inside, it kind
of like pops out. So the walls are they're not concave, they're convex
because they're coming towards and convex outwards. Uh. From the explosion on the
inside, smoke billows out. But we're going to cut downstairs because there are
four more martyrs, including Kasha, that basically have to fall through the floor.
They take the full brunt damage of all of the explosion, so Kasha
just can't fill fail explosions fail. The explosion does excessive damage to all of
them. They will each take five points of trauma. As you watch the
ceiling came through. Now, Malik, how do you avoid being part of
the debris that's falling from the ceiling, or do you I do because you
said I'll allow you to set a timer. So he set a timer,
tossed that fucker up there, and immediately ran out of there. He knows
what bombs do. I don't need to be there to make sure it goes
off. I trust him here and he books it. So he's probably,
I mean, depending on like the terrain, he's probably in the stairwell when
it explodes. Probably the safest place actually to be as it goes off.
You hear it, no problem as you're kind of I'd say you probably between
floors. The explosion happens. It right if you were in the room,
you watch as the four bodies, the floor, tables, chairs, anything
that was in this room comes tumbling down and splashes into all of these pools.
One of the I'm going to give two of them a chance. Two
because not only are they taking the explosion, they have to take fall damage
as well. You know, since we're since we're pushing that envelope dot I,
you know, there's a lot of debris and floor and they are falling
into water. Okay, one of them completely misses a pool, falls twenty
feet and basically goes splat. Uh, they stop moving all together. The
other three of them managed to catch pools of water. Uh, they fell
twenty feet. I'm going to say they take a point of damage for each
ten feet they fall. I don't know if that's so the rules, but
that's what I'm calling. So they'll take another two points. The only one
of them that survives is Kasha, but she floats face down in this pool
of water debris around her. These beautiful springs now are mucked with dirt and
dust and all kinds of strange things. We cut back upstairs, Milik,
you are able to join the crew. I think he like bursts out of
the door and the great how do we find it? Now? He said
it wasn't in there? Who said it wasn't in there? Yes? Who
was in there? I did say it was not in there? I yes,
if you saw it in there? You said no, Yeah, we
weren't in there. Well, I asked if you saw it in there?
You said no, So I assumed you could see in there. Would you
like to go peering into the room? Yes? Please? You crawl forward
to like a charred out area and the doorway all of you imagine Scooby Doo
style, like all six of you. Now peer your head around the corner
and you can see where the floor has given way. The only things that
remain are the small bits of floor that hang tight to beams and such that
are part of the main structure. The glass that stood on the far side
is gone. It has been blown out, and smoke is billowing out of
this empty space, kind of venting it. I guess you could say you
can smell the smoke of the burning city from outside, and now you can
also see it. The only thing that's left in this room are the small
chunks of floor. Actually, pull an observation, everybody, as you're looking
around, everybody, roll an observation. Oh A five, critical fucking success.
Whole shit. You're looking around and you look down and you can see
their bodies like broken, sunk to the bottom, conscious, face down,
floating in one of the pools. But tam Or, you watched them search
this place for it, and they never found what they were looking for,
but they seemed assured it was in this room. The only thing left in
this room is a chandelier that hangs in the center of the ceiling. It's
now broken. The crystals are gone, but right in the middle of the
kind of tiered system of this massive, what once was beautiful chandelier is a
basketball sized probe. It has been kind of set on the inside of the
chandelier that now hangs in the center of this twenty feet actually forty feet above
all of your heads. Do you say anything to the group, No,
not to the group odors You see that? Yeah, what is that?
I think that's a problem. How are we going to give you another pro
with giseful? Uh? Okay, my calculations say that that's roughly twenty feet
across and forty feet up if you count the four below. If you do
from this trajectory, someone's going to need to jump at an extreme rate to
be able to even get to it. Or we could just use the we
have a crawler. We could just crawl up the wall. You're going to
get the crawler in here. It goes off to the side, we go
to the ceiling. You wouldn't know you've got to bring the crawler up four
floors. It does. It's not gonna fit in the stairwell and it's not
going to fit in the elevator, so you'd have to go back outside crawl
up, which is not unheard of, but you're gonna have to do some
some strange, some strange things. Captain. That being said, Aurora simply
goes, well, we could just bring the chandelier down. Oh yeah,
I'm tired, but cow thank you. And as Tamir talks in his head
to Aurora and tries to sort out how they're going to get the probe from
the chandelier in the center of the room, hanging above the collapsed floor into
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