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and enjoy sup. What's the plan? Well, I thought I was just
gonna be selim and I pop it in. Well, I'm I mean to
make a big it. We definitely got to pay my tab. I mean
they've been they haven't even asked, So I'm gonna go in there make sure
I pay my tab because they've been very very gracious about it. I don't
know, y'all. Y'all want to maybe stand outside the door or something,
and I don't know. Actually I got a question about and this is for
the GM, the device that Skiff would be holden to read the thing.
How big is that device? Like? How bulky and noticeable is it?
I think we decided last time it was slightly bigger than a glow stick,
like I think in twenty forty nine. It's the size of a pen,
isn't it. It's like really small. Yeah, it's like it's like a
like a self recorder. It's like that. Yeah, it's like that big
so just going the way we develop technology is sometimes as bigger before we learn
how to make it smaller and more compact. So it's probably bigger than that.
So maybe like one of those old school Actually let's just go say the
size of the cell phone right here, and I know the audience can't see
it yet. That's okay, all right, that's okay, good, all
right? Yeah, and then how busy does the club look? Is it
just opened the line? There's definitely line, yeah, like people are ready
to at the club. All right. There's also clearly like a VIP section
or a line where you can go in and potentially maybe skip ahead. Mhm,
what do you mean? What am I thinking? Well, I mean
Skiff and Selma are the ones that have been here before. If you want
me to work the club, I can. I don't think we need to
do that. We got other plans, don't we. Yeah, I'm honestly,
I'm just playing on going in and getting out, getting beat on that
thing. I mean, it could be nothing. I hope it, but
it could be nothing. And some ALM's going to pay a tab and then
we'll be head out over to the snaked it. Yeah, all right,
anything comes up, just say the word all right, radio, that'll be
right in now. My problem here is I don't know if I don't know
how long it's going to take to get through that line. So what am
I supposed to do here? Flash my badge? I mean, it's been
a while since I've even been in a club. We got an all access
pass. The bouncer doesn't need to know what we're doing here. All right,
we'll be out here, Okay, all right, I'm going to get
out of the car. M just a quick question narrative wise, I know
it's it's it's a it's a open a lot of different like media and stuff
like that, where the cops like flash their badge and they just get let
in. Like, is that kind of the case here in this city or
no? I would assume actually that it would be, because you guys have
you know, that's just kind of the way things run here. I imagine
that they could put up a stink. But considering the reaction they had to
your badge last time you were you were here, I think you probably are
under the impression that they won't put up a fight. You might not even
need to flash your badge if you're lucky enough to get the same woman who
was manning the door, and she recognizes you, she might just let you
in if you're trying to be discrete in front of the rest of the crowd.
It was yep, that's rights was the name of the person who like
dropped their keys like what I mentioned, twas twas okay, and yeah,
well we'll be in touch if if we need any backup or anything. All
right, fair enough, All right, okay, guys, good luck,
thank you. I'm gonna head over to whoever's man in the line, whoever's
at the door. Okay, let's go ahead and either just roll me a
one D three. Haven't met anybody, Okay, I'll just determine who is
still at the door. Yeah, you got ursa look at that luck at
you. Yeah, so I think her reaction probably is not immediately to recognize
you, probably right away. But then she looks to Skiff, then back
to you and goes, oh, yes, I do know you too,
And once she sees Skiff, she kind of just stiffens a little bit and
then leans forward. What can I do for you? Hid hot? I'm
just here to pay my tab finally, right, okay, yeah, go
on in and all right, thank you of like let you in, thanks
so much. What what kind of attitude as we were just walking by walking
up? What kind of attitude did Ursa have? I'd like to roll before
Insight Insight? Oh my god? Okay, poor holy ship. That's two
episodes. Also did what did they have for breakfast? Like everything? Okay?
So this is Insight Okay, the double Yeah, okay, so Ursa
is. I think it's it's interesting to you because when you met Ursa earlier,
she obviously she fumbled her keys and she was very intimidated by you,
And I think it's very easy for you to see, Oh, now she's
wearing her persona, her bouncer persona, and so when she recognized you,
that slipped for a moment and you saw kind of maybe who she might be
outside of this mask in this persona that she's wearing, this like tough exterior
that she has for this bouncing job that she does. But she is actually
impeccably good at not letting it show. And that might be weird to you
because she was so intimidated by you earlier. But she seems a little bit
more relaxed now, like she doesn't really have a reaction, She says,
okay, I'll let you in and moves to the side. She's stiffed,
she's all business and she doesn't seem frightened of you anymore. And her eyes
are dilated. You rolled up four. She's on drugs, she's calm.
I was like, that's good enough, and then I went, no,
dude, you rolled a four. So yeah, yeah, her eyes are
dilated. She's she's she's on some drugs, having a good time, right,
m Okay, Now when you get inside, I'm assuming you're going to
try to Selma's gonna go pay her tab and you're gonna try to sneak through
the back right. Well, okay, in my visualization of the place,
the the bar was right next to like the the little alcove where the she
snuck off. So Selma goes up there is there is there a bathroom or
anything that way there is actually, so you can head towards the bathroom and
then actually just go behind the bar into the wall. Yep, that's that'll
be my that'll be my play then. Okay, So then you go ahead
and roll stealth and Selma, do you want to try to not really distract
but just kind of be have enough presence that maybe people aren't noticing as much
as they might normally. Sure, okay, sure, what would you like
sort be a distracting press? Yeah, necessarily like knocking things over and being
in an active distraction, but just having that kind of presence like hey,
the other night, of course, what would I need to interest? So
let me yeah a look and see, because it's sort of like meant to
be a distraction. But I imagine it would be somewhere either in connections or
manipulation. But I would also accept hand to hand, which I know sounds
weird, but okay, you're either yeah, you're either physically doing something in
which they find distracting or okay, all right, one which is a critical
fail on the roll, but you still got a success on the other dice,
so that's a success. Okay, okay, correct, I mean I
roll stealth with an advantage, yes, okay, cool, that's why we
had to do it first, all right. So I kind of run into
a chair, and a chair kind of wobbles a little bit like oh oh
oh god, sorry, sorry, clearly clearly don't see these walk and chairs,
you know, Oh hi, hi hi, I'm here to pay my
tab oh, okay, yeah, from the other night, and I just
start getting out my from which night? You don't recognize this woman. She's
not from the other night. But which day was it? Oh? A
couple days ago? Actually, Okay, I should be in a Whittaker.
Uh Whittaker, Whittaker, Whittaker, Whittaker, Whittaker. I don't see anything
for Whittaker. Do you know what you were? What you had here?
And then she just goes ahead and pulls out three different trays and you can
kind of look at the the tabs and the bills to see what was was
there. Would you like to push that role? Yes? I would yep,
okay, I rolled a zero, I got no successes, so I
would like to push okay and make some of that resolved damage. Just one
yep, yep, okay. Yeah, nice there, Okay, the push
got it? Okay, that's weird. I'm not sure I should be on
there. Uh. There was oh gosh, there was a gentleman. There
was gentlemen. He was just the nicest bertran. I think I want to
say his name was Bertrand okay, serving under me. Yeah, he definitely
was working the bar bertrand he he had some glasses kind of stubble. Yeah.
Yeah, uh. She pauses for a second and then looks at the
receipts. I'm trying to think like if they would be using paper because they're
analog, but it's also a blade runner, and so I'm just taking a
moment to decide what that probably looks like. I think the menus and everything
were on a like a iPad, kind of like PDA type thing, So
we'll say that that's kind of what you could scroll through the available receipts there.
So she leans over and looks through and then points to your tab which
has a signature the bottom some initials that we can assume is bertrand this one.
Yeah, I think that's my actually, narrator, I just want to
zoom in because I'm fairly certain I remember the name of the drink, yep,
which was oh no, I haven't totally electric Sunset. Yes, I
think that was the one. Is that the one that was served to me,
Electric Sunset? So I just want to make sure that that's on the
reset is on there, yep, Okay, because I remember having those and
all right, so that looks legitimate. But you're telling me that bertrand has
his signatures that you like this initialed it? Yeah. Okay, well,
yes, I made a new friend. I thought, I still owe.
Yeah, no, you're you're you're all set, all set, all right,
well, hey, thank you, thank you so much. Can I
roll inside just to see? Absolutely? Here? Absolutely I can, because
I'm picking up something there it's not supposed to be there. Let's see.
Actually would when inside or observation? Would insight be better? Oh? Well
you would just get different types of information depending on what you rolled, But
yes, I think insight would probably give you more of what you are looking
for for as observation is just body language and things like that. Okay,
do you want to push it? Yes, Okay, go for it.
Actually, I'm sorry. A press push and then and then you choose how
many you're going to push. Now everyone gets the opportunity to push too while
only taking one damage. So really, there's no point to not reroll both
unless one was already a success. Okay, okay, all right, it
was Nope. I think I will give you this though, because you're you're
still a blade runner, still a police officer, So I will say that.
She seemed a little surprised to hear that bertrand maybe served you himself,
and then and yeah, that's probably that's probably what you would notice. She
seemed very surprised by that. And then now she's calculating who you are and
what that might mean. Okay, yeah, well, thank you so much
for the help. Yes, I didn't need to be here. Yeah,
goodness, thank you for stopping by anyway. Yeah, yeah, have a
good one, Whitaker. You said it was right, Yeah, yeah,
have a good evening, miss Whittaker. Would you like to say on drinks?
You know, I wish I could. I really I had a great
time with you all the other night, but sorry I can't. All right,
we'll have a good evening. Okay, you take care, and I
go over to the door and I'm just gonna, I guess, wait wait
for Skiff. Not exactly sure where he is, but I'm just kind of
gonna maybe shuffle a little bit, act like I'm doing something with my hands
because I'm awkwardly standing there. Not sure where he went, but I know
that he had business, so yep, Okay, I think I'll just go
wait in the lounge. Just check my phone real quick, okay, Okay,
I rather yeah, or maybe I won't pull that out. Actually,
I don't pull that out because then I remember, and then I remember we're
not supposed to be obvious about this, so I don't have that out.
I apologize interrupt. Are we listening to both of you right now? That's
a great question. Did you have your comms open while you were paying your
tab and a skiff? Do you have your comms open so that you can
continue to shit talk? Honestly, if I wasn't asked to do it,
then no, okay, I think probably the same for me. Okay,
we're discussed. If we had discussed it, I would have left it on
no problem. But yeah, okay, I don't think it was a situation
that really called for it, So yeah, it's more than fine. Okay,
all right then, Uh so let's go to skiff here real quick.
So you have tucked around the corner and walked all the way to the end.
There's nobody down here. Uh, and what are you doing? Why
don't you describe what we see? You? You said I saw a flash
of like the wording on a I want to say it was on a fish
tank. Yeah, that's right, something like that. That's right. Okay,
I'm going to just take out my like I'm going to have my back
to everybody, and I'm just going to take out my the the my flashy
thing, and I'm gonna flashy thing the fishbowl. Okay, neuralize the whole
club. So what it was just to remind everybody. So basically, this
was like a long, skinny hallway that was tucked behind the bar and like
beside some of the washrooms that looks like it may be led somewhere. There
was a way to go down a corner, but it seemed like a dead
end and it was just wall to or Florida ceiling fish tanks on either side,
and then at the dead end it was just a fish tank. But
he managed to see I'm sort of like translucent words. Do you remember what
those were? What's this journey mine? Yeah? Okay, so that's what
you saw before with the naked eye, right, yeah, okay, So
now you're gonna go ahead and use this device. Let's just roll observation for
the rest of the scene. Obviously, I'm gonna tell you what you see
on the on the wall here, but this is just for other stuff as
well. Okay, yeah, advantage Okay, Okay, I had it still
on advantage my bad. Yeah, I mean even without the advantage, if
we just dropped the last one, I mean, you still want to that's
fair. That's fair. We could just do the seven and the ten,
which means you did it anyway. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. You
can also have advantage on your next role for being a you know, team
player and admitting when it was okay, so, oh dude, I'm I'm
a fail. I like failing, failing, failing result some stranger that you
know walking through the bar. Okay, yeah, okay. So as you
kind of as you swipe this device over the fish tank, two other lines
light up above what's this journey mine? And they are endless paths in twine
in choice. This is above it yep, so endless paths and twine in
choices. You define what's this journey mine? And you rolled three for observation,
so you are going to notice this before it immediately fades away and disappears
and is replaced by something else. It's one line now and it says hidden
face I wear and there's a comma after it. So two clear. When
when you swiped the device over the wall, it showed you the whole poem.
Nothing appeared in order or anything. It's like it was already there complete
and then once it saw the light, it kind of moved away. And
now something else has appeared. And it's just the one line, but it's
in the same place as the first line of the other stanza, if that
makes sense. And then but there's nothing, there's nothing out for that,
there's nothing after that yet. No, it just says hidden face. I
wear I'm uh them observing. I'm looking for like a microphone or something like
that, like seething one, but you know you don't need one to be
visible right now. But yes, you're right, do it. Your instinct
is on on point. I just kind of like look at it, and
I just kind of say under myself, under my breath to myself, you
want me to finish it? All right? That'll do for now. I
know, I know we gotta give We got stuff to do, and I
don't want to keep my partners waiting. And she's like that, but is
there a way that I can take a clandestine like a photo of that or
you'd have to pull out your k I A okay, I'm not I'm not
worried about it. I will like say the lines over and over my head
to memorize them. Endless pass and twine. This is your in your head,
you're not saying in my head. Yeah, okay, endless paths and
twine. That's right. I will actually entwine the choices you define, what's
this journey mine? And then hidden face I wear comrade okay, okay,
okay, I turn around and head back out. Actually, uh, I
will hit the head real quick. Yeah, okay, Yeah, I walk
into the bathroom. I don't actually go to the bathroom. I just go
and watch it the way it looks like you went down the hallway and we're
like, where's the bathroom and then turn around it yep, exactly. So
I'll wash my hands and as i'm as, I'm I wash my hands and
I like shake them off, and I look up into the mirror and I
see, uh, I see Lake again and the reflection and I just I
just look at him and I go hit it closer. Would you remind me
if I did Lake with an Irish accent? Yes, you did? Okay,
all right? And I just I just say getting closer. And it's
rare. You don't release see skiff smile a lot, but you see like
just The hint is like a crack of the upper corner of the lip of
the mouth, like, just it's getting closer. Roll an insight for me,
and remember this. You can use your advantage on this, but you
also don't have to. You can save that and use that whenever you want.
You say, insight. Yeah, okay, I won't use advantage of
time. It's happening. What is happening with you? I'm just real good
is connected? That's a four for those listening. Oh my god, we
went how many episodes without a single four? And then we've had three in
the last two episodes. Ridiculous? Okay, four huh, which means it's
three extra successes. Okay uh. Lake crosses his arms before you leave,
and he's looking at you like he's got something to say. Something on your
mind. Pal, Yeah, you're getting closer, but I don't know.
I feel like you're you're you're gonna miss something if you're not careful, you're
missing something right now? Well, I know I have to finish, or
at least I think I have to finish the poem. It seems like it's
a password, you know. You say the rest of it out loud?
Yeah, what am I missing. Why don't you stay? See if anybody
else goes back there? You really want to leave after all this, you
finally see her after how long, and you want to do something else.
I know this is the only thing that you want to be doing right now,
and you do too. I feel like you're testing me. I know,
I know. The most good I could do right now is the unselfish
choice of going back out there and going with my partners and unraveling that threat.
This one is personal, and you're right, I more than anything want
to stay here. But like I said, partners mean something to me.
Yeah, I know, I'll be back. I'm not letting this go.
You know me. You should call Natalie. That's a good idea. And
Lake is gone? Does he disappear Sometimes in the middle of conversation with you,
or I picture it like I'm I'm like looking at the looking at the
mirror, and then I look down. He says his last whatever he has
to say, and then I look up and he's gone, yeah, okay,
yeah, all right. Then he's gone, and I drive my hands
off. However they do it, they have towels or a blower or whatever,
and I walk out and uh in that in that that long hallway as
I'm going Now, does the k I A work like a phone? Like
I put like I pick it up and you can't. No, it's not.
You don't pick it up and put it to your ear. As far
as I like, if you take a look at looks like a big calculator
type object, there is something in the roll twenty where you can click on
it and take a peek at what it looks like. And those of you
watching, I will show you right now. But it looks kind of like
a weird like almost like a digital camera without a light, without a front
lens. And you don't use our ka is to contact dispatch, right,
no? You? I mean technically you would be rooting probably through your Kia.
But you guys have your pieces or something like that, you don't need
to go. Yeah, then I'll just I'll wait until I get back to
the car and use the car's com Okay, Kia kind of looks like a
game gear had sex Commodore sixty four. Yeah, that's a great description.
Only the best eighties style for us. Yeah, exactly. It's my game
gear so nice actually, isn't it. Yeah, have the batteries eight eighties,
early nineties. Yeah, commodore. I see if I walk out,
seem yeah, you get it all sorted out. Yeah, yeah, it's
a it's all taking care of a lot, a little more than I cared
to admit. Crazy thing is it didn't go on my card. It was
paid for, Isn't that crazy? Little A little bit, A little bit,
I'd say, I'd say we go talk more in the car. You
know, it's kind of loud. It's a good idea. Yeah, I've
got some stuff to say as well. Yeah. Yeah. And as soon
as we get out of the doors, you know, I see we see
ursa like thank you, thank you so much. I have good rest of
your night. She just nods at you, but doesn't say anything else.
Her eyes are focused on the crowd, right, okay, And I kind
of stop. I stopped by hers and I light up. I don't look
at her. I just stopped side by side with her, light up,
a fresh smoke, and uh, I say, apparently you got some got
a good Samaritan paying tabs for cops that happened here. Oh god, okay,
are you I feel like I want you to roll some sort of manipulation
or intimidation or empathy or something like that. But if you don't want to,
you don't have to. But you and I'll use I don't make it
more if you don't. Yeah. Okay, so you did get success with
that extra advantage, ye, which was really good. Okay. So you
said you have a good samaritan out here paying tabs for cops. Does that
happen often? And she, for the first time, instead of looking out
at the crowd, makes direct eye contact with you. We don't get many
good samaritans these days. Everybody always wants something. If you had to guess,
h why would someone be doing that because they want something? They got
a name, not for you? Fair enough? You have a good night,
no response, We have a cigarette. I turned a skiffs while we're
walking. What the hell's after that place? Huh? Someone paid your tab
and it's a known thing. It wasn't just some random person. It was
someone and someone, someone with probably not so good intentions. That's the impression
that I got. Well, it was the same guy that I was hanging
out with bertrand when I mentioned his name, really didn't get much of a
reaction. But I think there was something something strange. I'm not even sure
he works here proper. But his signature was at the bottom of my receipt.
And I don't know why I want something. It's a message. It's
one hundred percent said something. How about you. Well, as we make
our way to the our our new, our new, our new, ride,
open the driver's side door. I get in, close the door before
firing it up. I turned to everybody in the car. I got the
rest of it, and I got a start of a new line, and
it just stops, which makes me think there's a password, some something spoken
out loud that'll get you into a different area of the bar. It said,
and list paths and twine the choices you define, what's this journey mine?
And then that are scrubs and eRASS, And then a new line begins,
hidden face I wear, and I believe if you're in the know,
you finish that out loud and they let you in. Well, I mean,
is it is it a known poem? I mean, have you run
it through the I'm gonna do that right anything, Maybe maybe it's a known
author. I'm gonna run it by Natalie. Yeah, yeah, I mean
that sounds like it sounds like an actual poem. Mm hm oh man where'd
you find that? Have you? Did you hit the bathroom while you were
there at any any point? Nah? I mean not really. I think
they might have had another one on the second level. I don't know if
I went to that same one. There's a hallway past the bathroom, like
seemingly at a dead end, and there's fish tanks Florida ceiling fish tanks,
very ostentatious. But you've printed right there on the glass. You said that.
Ye, so you did the lot. You saw the poem, but
then it so it reacted to the lot like it you've seen it scrubbed,
it changed after the fact. Mm hm. So that might be a step
in the process maybe, or it's just a way of seeing one side of
rite, like a pass code or something. All right, it seems like
you got to finish the poem and then they'll let you in to whatever's back
there. But that's a mystery for another time. Well, if we can
make a few guesses, we can assume that it's nothing good, right,
I mean, what do you mean good? I mean it's hidden. Well
that's that, that's that's fair. But you hear about secretive clubs and get
together someone not But the fact that it reacted to that lot in particular.
Mm hmmm, that's where my head's at. Whatever's back there, tie up
on the food chain. Yeah, all right, not only that, but
should we wait? People come back? Oh god, I'm so sorry.
Okay, okay, what did I miss? I'm so sorry. My cat
was losing his mind. I'm here. Just we were just relaying the Uh,
I relaid the poem to him. For those of you who couldn't see
Pebe kind of d seed and had to I'm back. I just related to
them the poem. We talked about, uh, the fact that the light
is what made it show up, and that means that it's someone who has
the means to use a light like this, which is pretty new ship.
Yeah, so it means they're they're they're high up on a food chain somewhere.
And we discussed the fact that it's probably the we have to finish the
poem to get back there. And I was just about to say the following,
but that's not all. Someone someone paid Selma's tab and the bouncer,
who I've become I don't know familiar with, inasmuch said that the reason for
them doing that is because they want something I mean, it makes sense to
me. And this was also a gentleman that I spent a lot of time
talking to that night as well. He was just sort of listening, you
know, but he made sure I got water at the end. I remember
I'd been drinking and he actually got me water and then my receipt and so
it was odd when I asked the bartender about him, you know, didn't
get a great response, but I can only assume they must have known about
him or who he was. All right, it wasn't a cheap tab.
I mean I had like, probably had like five drinks five yeah, roughly
how much stout? And you're still standing? Yeah? Yeah, well,
I mean you know, I had, I had some water, but it
was over the course of a few hours. So yeah, So the the
calm and I radio in mmm yes patch. Yeah. Can you can you
hook me up in Natalie and Records place? Uh? Yeah, yeah I
can. One second, Hello, detective, Hey, how are you doing?
I'm good? How are you do you need something? Doing good?
What do you need? And you know me so well, I'm just on
my way. Yeah yeah, okay, one second, wait wait wait wait
wait, okay, okay, okay, okay, I'm on my way to
the office. Now, okay, all right, now I'm ready. Go
ahead, endless path and twine. The choice is you define what's this journey?
Mine? Okay, and then new poem starts with the line hidden face
I wear? Now what I want from you? Natalie? Okay, I'll
tell you what. Oh excuse me, Sorry, sorry, I didn't see
you. Sorry, girl. Ahead, I'll give you. This is going
to be at least three pieces of my you know what I'll do. I'll
go you one better. Okay, I'll give you a recipe for my grandma's
peach cobbler. You'd like. I got the peach cobbler. I'm not much
of a baker though, but okay, I accept. I just needed to
find the rest of that last poem. Okay, I can try. That's
all I asked. Okay, you're the best, Natalie. Oh, thank
you. Good luck detective. Thank you. Good luck to her as well.
And it disconnects. Do I know where she's from because she has an
accent? She does have an accent. Let's see. The accent is actually
like a Louisiana Creole Cajun French accent. But I don't know if that exists
right now in this alt world. But yeah, let's say you know that
she's kind of would be I guess from the Southern States before she moved to
La Okay, yeah, that's all I need to thank you. Yep,
all right. Well, considering the technology being used and where we're planning on
going to next, there's a good chance that the Nakayama is unvolved in both
places, right, I mean, if he was abducted and his job was
as intimate as it was with replicants, so hopefully now they'll be able to
get us something. Because you think this has something to do with what Skiff
found Doka Yama, Yeah, I mean, look at the fact that it
reacted to that very specific light that's being used in replicans. It's just it's
too coincidental. We can be sure that this place is harboring replicants or anything.
As of yet, we know they're doing something illegal. I think we
can agree on that there's no other reason to have any sort of hidden area
of the club. We can make a pretty big leap, and we can
say that it has something to do with replicants, but we're not sure about
that. Well, but it's not that big of believe. I mean,
we've got the blonde lady that detective here knew from his past, that had
a familiar look. We've got an image that has been shared that had Lorenzo
in it, and the lady, and now we've got technology being used that
is replicant specific or at least to our knowledge. I don't know any other
uses for it. There's just there's too many things that are just He's not
wrong. Vanya was in both places. She was at the club and in
the photo, so she's sold both both events. And you saw her go
in that direction, right, That's that's why you went back there originally,
and that's when you stumbled upon it. So that's great. I just I
don't I don't see the full picture. But there's just there's too many things
that are just starting the line up. I agree. I agree. I
mean I have never seen Skiff like that. When we were at this place
for the for the first time, it felt like, I don't know,
Skiff, it felt like you were unraveling just a little bit, and that
I think, I think that scared me. So I've got a little bit
of fear. I've got apprehension about this place and I'm gonna trust that.
So there is something here that makes me uneasy. But Skiff, you know,
I want to follow whatever intuition you have. So I'm not exactly sure
what the best next best step is to get you back into a position where
you can solve this on the premises. But I don't know that's gonna that's
gonna require some some verbal tactical planning, galing, get ahead of ourselves.
We still got this right in front of us. We got right Eric Wakeman,
snake pit, adding something which possibly maybe drugs to Nakiyama, And that's
where we're going. That's where we're going right now. I fire up the
spinner. Yeah, yeah, I think the snake pit is definitely an important
destination right now. So you got any uh, you got any contacts in
the area, Galen, anybody give us the inside scoop to this, uh
this snake pit. I've got context everywhere. That's why I asked, Yeah,
do you want to go ahead and roll for it? Yeah? Oh,
I will push that role okay, Uh yeah, one success, I
don't forget to mark off your resolve. And how do you what is this
connection that you have? Uh? This area is Sector one It is also
featured in the first film. For those who don't are unfamiliar, Sector one
is can you give me a little bit of info about Sector one? Uh?
What kind of info are you looking for? Just like, uh,
I mean like what kind of place is it? Well? Sector one contains
a lot of different entertainments stuff, like the stadium is there? I believe,
yeah, yeah, yeah, so it's it's basically just kind of like
your there was a sport that's prevalent now too, right, yes, let
me take a look too. I know a bookie okay, yeah, Like
there's the beauty salon is there too? The Red Light district is there?
I wasn't sure for sure. Yeah, this is like you've got night club
Row as well, there's magazine A and B sports stadium. Like it's just
all where you go for entertainment. Okay, the entertainment district. Let's see
what is close take bit early Q. There's the other night club Row,
and then there's some other stuff that's unlisted, so we can just make up
whatever we want, okay, but close by. So if you look at
the map on the on the roll twenty, there's the snake bit and then
there's the Red light district and A and B Sports Stadium makes a little bit
of a triangle, so we could say there's like a gambling strip as well
if you want. Okay, that's where you know the bookie from. Yeah,
uh former fighter? Oh okay, yes, this person's a former fighter.
I see there's a spot marked kumite, which yeah, means it's the
blood sport. Uh So, former fighter turned into a bookie. We'll say
their name is uh so bad at names. We'll say I can I can
help you out because I have a bunch of like blade Runner, Pheeley ones.
But my question for you while we're thinking of this name here is you
said he's a former fighter and now he's a bookie. My question is,
does he did he used to have replicants fighting, because I feel like I
think that's why they're no longer a fighter. Was there? Replicants kind of
got phased in the fight fights, and so they ended up retiring before they
lost their head. Yeah okay, yeah, Errol Sterling. Do we have
somebody named Errol already? I don't think so. I don't think we do
either. Okay, Errol Sterling? It is is that? Okay? Sure?
All right? They just called him sterling sterling silver. Oh yeah,
okay, perfect because he shined in the ring. Yeah, love it?
What is he in you? If you were to imagine what you look like,
what would he look like? And everybody I think can just join in
on this. Uh kind of muscular and has like U but has a belly
now let himself go a little bit. Yeah, still has those like thick
like thick fighter arms and legs, but like the belly's there now all flowered
ears like salt and pepper, yeah hair yeah, and uh my elephin eyes.
Yeah, kind of like I think they're either hit or miss, like,
uh, they're either really nice or just in a ship mood. You
never know what you're going to get. Like they're probably their nose has probably
very clearly been broken multiple times. It's like brook it a little bit,
and he's probably on a lot of painkillers. So that probably determines whether or
not you're going to catch him in a good mood or cranky mood, depending
on if he's the end of your redo. Yeah. Yeah, And where
do you meet him? Do you call him? Uh? No, I
never call Okay, you always meet him in person and you go down to
Sector one to do so correct. Yeah, okay, oh okay, Now
what is your relationship with him? Like I know you said you never know
if you're going to get him in a good mood or a bad mood.
But is he Yeah, let's find out. But also I just need to
know how not the best okay, how forthcoming he is with information and whatnot,
or if he's even happy to see you. So that'll be good.
Okay, you guys head down to uh this Bookie Stirling probably like it's probably
really crowded here too, Like there's lots of foot traffic, lots of street
food and stuff like that. It's definitely like one of those scenes from the
First Thing the film where there there's just a ton of people everywhere and lots
of neon and there's a lot of umbrellas everybody's getting deluged and a lot of
a lot of wonderful smells and things that are cromping up people trying to fry
whatever protein they can and interesting ways street meat. Yep, it's also Galen's
nickname. Sorry, okay, I have a map actually for this area.
Not to scare you, but go and scare all right, we're gonna we're
gonna put this one in here, and then what I'll do is, actually,
you guys have your tokens right. It's basically Stream can't see this map,
which is fine, but I just want you to know where you guys
are starting, and like where you are, all right, and then let
me know if you're being stealthy or not, and then Stream hang tight.
I'm gonna show you the map in just a moment. You guys take a
look at that and figure out. I'm digging this music. By the way,
yeah, so good. It's very uh first film this sector. So
I heard it. I was like, yep, here we go. This
is Blade Runners shit. Okay. I would say that wherever Galen is expected
to meet this person, like, I would need to know that, and
then from there, Okay, I'm sure we could pick our locations. Yep,
So why don't you go ahead and choose where you're gonna meet him?
I would say, somewhere in the middle or somewhere in the back. It's
up to you. You can decide where you want to meet him. The
pawn okay, all right, just far enough away from the bar to get
some people that are going to make some bad decisions. Yepkay, and close
enough to the pawn shop so that they can sell some stuff to go ahead
and play some bets. Are you outside the pawn shop and are you street
facing? Are you meeting in the alley or behind it? I would imagine
that that Sterling is probably is uh just kind of making their way around the
whole block, you know they do. They do once around, probably grabbing
some food here and there, so how they got the belly, So I
would I would say that probably street side all right. So I imagine as
we are getting closer to this where we have the street plan up on our
are okay anyway? Right? Yeah? Like as you're planning, yeah for
sure. Yeah, and you're telling us where you're going to meet him,
you know, I'm asking you stuff like you know what, but is he
going to be looking for you to be alone? That we need to hang
back dramatically? Like what what is? Is this guy spook easily? Sterling
is not someone you want to piss off. I've pissed them off before,
and it's you can get kind of violent. Just keep an eye out,
all right. I think I've got something that might sweeten the pot for him.
I point at the at a spot in the map and say, there's
a store here, looks like it sells watches. And I'm hope were gonna
stand outside there. What are you two thinking? I don't know. Maybe
we're just staying in the vehicle, but I'd like to get out inside.
See So what do you think skiff Sterlin's not running anywhere? Bad knee?
Yeah, no, I just need to be closed in case something happens to
you. I don't think we need to be there. I'm fine with waiting
in the car. Yeah, I'll just wait in the car, all right.
I'm gonna keep happens. Yeah, no, I'm gonna keep it open,
but I'll be far enough back i won't be able to I won't be
in earshot. So you know, signal Galen if something happens, all right,
Uh, what's the signal? Well, you're gonna know where I'm standing.
I'll be looking in that direction. If at any point you turn your
body towards me, fully towards me, that's enough. All right? All
right, and I imagine we probably park a little bit of ways. I'll
let Galen go first down the street before I get out of the car.
Okay, Galen, good luck, Thanks I needed you guys should be able
to see the map. Now, if you want to place your tokens where
your characters will be standing or posted or positioned, that would be great.
Sure, let me grab it. Mm hmm, all right, let me
move him? No, I dropped him? All right? All right,
so he's here ish, I mean, I think I'm trying to window shop
essentially. Where are our tokens here? You just drag him in from your
car where your character sheet is. You just click on the text and drag
him onto the page. Okay, perfect. Well, then I'm actually gonna
go ahead and see if I can just capture the what I'm looking at or
stream. So hang tight, folks, somewhere we are. I think that's
right. Oh my goodness. Okay, yep, all right, so you
two are going to be in the car. Yep, I see it?
Perfect? Okay. Errol is this guy's name? Okay, So I think
I'd like for you guys to roll some stuff. But we can choose one
person to roll from each like group who's gonna either roll stealth or observation.
So I feel like Skiff and Selma, you guys might want to be doing
observation potentially, m hmm, Yeah, I could roll observation. Okay,
do you want me to do that now? Yeah, go for it.
And then why don't you go ahead and roll stealth bob? Sure? Oh
god yeahhh okay, just about the best role you get a made. Almost.
Yeah. All right, So I'm gonna kind of just approach what I
would like to have done on my way here is I want to have picked
up a little to go sushi from the sushi place across the street. Okay,
okay, and this will be uh shrimp tempoura role? Is that like
his favorite? I have no idea. I know it's fried, all right?
Hey he is? So I've got like a little bento box kind of
you know a bit of sushi that I'm kind of walking over there with.
Okay, uh, he notices you as you walk over. You're not trying
to hide it, and why don't you just go ahead and roll me a
lundie too, so I know if he's already grumpy or not, just for
me? Okay, perfect, perfect, Okay, he sees you and rolls
his eyes. Okay, it's going business good. Just cut to the chase,
man, what do you want is that for me? And he's already
grabbing it like extended out words. Yep, that's you need feeling like shit,
Like it's always feeling like shit. Just come with the chopsticks. They're
in there, and just look in the set. All right. I realized
now in this moment, he's the type of person that's already doing the thing
as he's asking you. Are there chopsticks in here? He's already opening it,
and then he just begins to just eat this with his fingers, even
though he asked. And then there are the chopsticks there and he just picks
it up and dips it. Yep. Oh yeah, it was just good.
All right? Why did you ask me? Is your need particularly bothering
you today? It's raining pretty bad? Do you sell him drugs on occasion?
Is that what's happening right now? Okay? All right, just wasn't
sure if that was the thing you were offering him. It might be,
but this isn't something that I've done before. Okay, it's not something you've
done before. Okay, yeah, man, you know what it's like when
it rains. It's uh, you know, it's it's awful and I don't
want to think about it. I just want to eat the sushi and give
you whatever it is that you came here to get. What do you want?
Look, we got a pretty big problem, hoping you might be able
to help out. You see a lot of people around here. We've got
a few, well, we've got a few pretty dangerous people that way through
recently. He's wiping his fingers on his pants. Okay, we're looking through.
We're looking for three individuals and an unwilling passenger. Okay, there's a
lot of that around here. Yeah, but you've got your ear to the
streets. I know that you you keep an eye out specifically around Then I
reach up and I'm scratching the back of my call a flower ear now,
and then I look towards the snake pit in the direction where it would be
three military types. Okay, got anything more than that? Going to take
out the kia? Oh? Kind of show him the picture, all right?
He moves his neck and it cracks, and he looks over at this
device, maybe looks up and looks around for a moment to see who's looking
and noticing you before looking down. Can you show him the picture? These
three it might very well be involved in pretty large group of killings. There's
that bomb that went off recently. He saw the news. No, man,
you know, I don't read the news. Well, one of them,
we think, blew up building? Which building? Did they deserve it?
A bunch of regular people? Oh, regular civilians? All right,
it's weird. Yeah, Usually when reps are going to do something crazy like
blow up a building, it's usually something important. Well, we're trying to
catch them so that they don't do it again. Right, And these are
them, you're saying, I think so, m I've never seen them before.
Sorry. They look pretty generic, to be honest, daring pretty intently
at sterling here. What what the fuck? This is? Like a side
profile? Barely This other guy's wearing some sort of fucking beanie. What am
I supposed to do? Am I supposed to have X ray vision? I
can barely make out her chin, it's covered by the scarf. She's blonde.
Look around you, there's a blonde. There's a blonde. There's a
blonde. Do we have a picture of what was their name? Nakayama?
Uh? Well you could if you wanted one. Yeah, Like, I
don't think it's difficult to get that information from terminal and stuff like that.
Like he's a famous EU, so people would recognize the face as they saw
it. Your average person probably probably, It depends on if there if they
pay attention the news or whatever. I don't know if he would. To
be honest with you, I have to think about like corporate culture, and
I feel like the in this dystopia in my brain. I'm not saying that
this is, you know, for sure canon for the whole series, but
my interpretation would be like, there are present day celebrities almost kind of in
a way, you know, because they don't really have Hollywood the way that
they did we do. So I imagine that it's since everything is run by
corporations and advertisements are everywhere, then it's kind of like a big deal which
corporo you run and which one you're involved with. So I imagine that,
you know, somebody walks by and you're like, whoa, that's a CEO.
In the same way you'd be like, oh, that's an A lister
or something. It's all influencers in the future. Yeah, it's all yeah,
uh, okay, I will I will pull up a picture then of
Okay, I'm so sorry, I'm forgetting there it is I did say,
okay, okay, I'm going to pull up a picture of Nakayama then and
say what about them? Oh yeah, it's blue shits. I'm sorry,
that's what we call him, blue shits. Does does that mean he does
L nine? He's shipping blue all night? So this person is a have
you drug either? Oh yeah? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Who's the
dealer in the area? Okay, now I need you to roll please before
I do this. Huh. I purchased something? Okay, and what did
you purchase? Instant fix This is a pharmaceutical that helps with pain relief and
such. So when you were like, oh, he's got a bad knee,
you were just setting up the use of this ability. It's okay,
cool, I got you. I got you. It's some GM brain and
happening there, that's all right. It's called foreshadowing, yeah right, also
known as GM brain. Yeah, so I yeah, I'm going to I'm
going to say for your knee, just to might help your might help your
recollection too. He glances at it. How do you take it? It's
in the book. Actually, yeah, I think it's a plunger, right,
it's one of those like stems and then it's just still straight in.
Yeah, Okay. He immediately puts it right above his knee and takes it
it. How effective is it? How quick? Uh? Well, so
the mechanical aspect of it is that it instantly heals one health. Okay,
all right? Oh yeah, okay, and I have advantage? Yeah,
okay. And would you say that this is a manipulation? Yes, absolutely,
there we go. That's a three. Three Holy shit, hold on,
let me show I can see it. Okay, that's a three.
Ah yeah, all right, you're telling me you don't know. I see
you guys sniffing around all the time. I'm not in vice anymore. Yeah,
but you can't ask one of your peeps, so I don't get in
trouble. Oh, I don't get yapping. If asked, I asked them
for the info. How is that nobody will know? You told me?
Ah, it doesn't do well to burn any bridges sterling. Ah. He
just luckily, he said, if he starts eating more of the sushi,
it's like he's thinking of what he wants to do. Ask me something else.
Okay, if you're unwilling to part with that information about this. They
were seen around the snake pit last we saw them, and I'm trying to
find the actual info where they were lost you have, okay, yep,
okay, And are you telling them this? I was hoping it was still
Sector one. Yeah, they left Sector one and went all the way to
Secure. And then there's a specific place where they were last seen, which
you do have somewhere yep, okay, okay, Yeah, I won't say
that. What I will say is, what about any what about any military
personnel in the area, you know, anybody, anybody that specializes in weapons
or anything. Listen, we're not trying to bust these people. We're trying
to stop these replicants from killing a lot of people. Yeah, well,
they're not coming around. I'm killing anything that I'm involved in right now,
and I would prefer to keep it that way. I don't want ship right
now down on the that's going to take Are you threatening me now? Not
me? Sterling the replicants? Look, oh man, I don't have any
problem with any reps. Reps don't any problem with us. They just want
to hide. Oh really, what's to stop them from blowing up the building
that you live in? If we chase them down to that building, you
don't think they'd blow the whole building? To cover their ass. Yeah that
sounds like all right, all right, all right, what else you got?
Got any chicken? I'm sorry? Do you have? So? I
feel like I feel like I'm gonna I feel like I'm going to take out
like the backup bag. Okay, right, it's gonna have something even more
decade in it. Oh okay, so we had we had the shrimp tempoora
roll sushi, and then this would probably be forever. Roach are chocolate chocolate?
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like
it, you said, so as long as it's fried, we're good.
Yeah deep yeah deep fried tilbera be sure? Okay, sure? Ship Oh
getting fancy, And he's already reaching for it. You know what they say,
if it's chocolate, isn't triangular in shape, it's not chocolate? Did
they say that? I don't, Probably right? All right, So he's
slowly I think he's like he's making eye contact with you as he messily eats
this fucking chocolate. And it's clear he's trying to decide if he's gonna give
you the information or not. But either way he likes making you wait.
Uh and then he you know, in his mouth as fall he's like he's
not even taking really his time with this fucking deep fried chocolate bar. And
then he eventually like starts wiping his hands back down on his pants, and
he's looking around for something, like, you know, maybe something to write
with or because he's not gonna fucking say it out loud. And then he
looks to you with chocolatey hands, deep fried chocolatey hands, and is like,
you got something to write with? You got something I can I'm gonna
hand over a notepad. Okay. So he's gonna he's gonna make a mess
of its, no bad, He's gonna have chalk, but all over it.
That's why sighed first. Yeah. Yeah. And so he will write
down the name that I believe was already given to you of the dealer that
was last seen at the snake pit. He'll write down a couple of other
names, but that one would absolutely uh stand out to you. And it's
actually a person, So give me a second. I don't want to suck
it up. Roderick Wakeman, Okay, probably just confirming the information that we
have already, which is fine, that's a good thing. Uh. I
will look at Sterling and say, listen, just keep an eye out if
you got anybody placing any strange bets, you want to place a bet?
I got a good fight coming up. I'm sure you do. It's a
really good fight. It's undefeated. This kid good to know. Come on,
if you got if you uh, if you got these people coming by
anytime soon? Uh, let me know. And I'm gonna give him my
number. Okay. And as I'm doing it, I look at him and
I say, for emergencies only, Sterling. Yeah, of course. Okay,
come on, what do you take me for? If you abuse this,
I'll be back in a different capacity. Right what you think I'm good?
Do you think I want to call you you? I would prefer to
see you as little as possible. We know that's not true, Sterling.
Yeah, I get get out, get out. Okay, that was amazing.
I will give you a couple of other names that he gave you as
well, if you want to follow up on those. But yeah, Roderick
Weakeman is confirming the info that you got from Sawyer, and you also learned
that he has they have a name for this guy, blue Shits. Blue
Shits is Roderick's name, or no, it is not m's name because of
the drugs he takes, which is l O nine. Yep. Yeah,
so uh I will. I'll just kind of make my way back towards back
towards Skiff and Selma and just kind of meant motion over my shoulder, just
one finger to follow to Bob. Yeah, I'll start making my way that.
I have a question, actually, Galen, did you have your columns
open or was that a closed conversation? I would have kept it closed.
Okay, Okay, got a little bit of info. Not great stuff,
but we got one good lead. Nakayama is apparently very much a connoisseur of
certain drugs, specifically Hello nine. People addicted to it are often known as
blue shits. Now, remind me of that one? Is that the one
that makes your sho Oh no, no, I know, I know what
it does there, Thank you very much. But does it have a steep
come down on it? Is he gonna have shakes? What do I know
about ELLENI is established or it's not established? It you can make it up
if you like. However it is, it's definitely an upper okay, uh
yeah, they come with shakes. Usually hits pretty pretty quick, pretty hard,
all right. You'll often see uh if you try to look somebody in
the eyes. You'll see their eyes kind of dance a little bit. Uh.
Do you know if there's heavier distribution zones? This is something that's been
out for a while. I've heard it, but I don't know if it's
So that is a great question. Let's let's do a roll or two for
that. You guys just go ahead and roll like a one D five everybody.
I feel like, okay, oh no, unless you want to make
it up black. I was just gonna say that I was in vice.
Oh yeah, yeah, make it up, go for it. It's all
you Okay, drug real quick. N So. But he's been addicted to
it for at least a year, so it's at least the year. Okay,
so holds up. Yeah. Uh, it's in the more heavily populated
areas for sure. So here in Sector one, in Sector five primarily.
So, and this goes to you, pbe. So this is an upper,
right, this established? This is an upper Is this a designer drug?
Or is this something that is explicitly considered illegal? Oh it's not legal
at all. It's it is. It's definitely it's been added. Okay.
Yeah, but I would say that it's it was made for because I have
to think about this for a second, because we're dealing with pharmacies right now,
and corporations rule everything, so I don't know if I feel like cook
stuff. Yeah, they would absolutely be making basically a version of this that
is released pharmaceutically, and then they've added some stuff to it, like experimentation.
So you might not be able to necessarily bust unless you were able to
pull that exact vial and then dissect the vial, right because it's probably still
in the same nine canister or something like that from Corpo version. So it's
probably actually a little bit harder to bust people for cooking solo drugs nowadays,
all right, and probably wrapping them in like already legal pharma labels and stuff
like that. So so it's safe to say, you know exactly what the
pharma level of l O nine does, which is like a you know,
maybe red Bull, a little bit on crack, and then you've got the
whatever they're cooking with this specific version, which is why they call them blue
shits. Is your shit's certainly not blue when you just take the regular pharma
version. I think they had wind decks, Yeah, exactly exactly. All
right. Okay, Well, with that sort of information, finding the specific
supplier for that's probably not that difficult. So specific supplier, he has a
specific supplier, Okay, Sterling confirmed Broderick Wakeman for a potential seller, which
is the name that we have in the file. Okay, all right,
any specific information about the snake pit, like anything that would be helpful at
all or did you sorry, did you already go over what the drug is
used for? Uh? I know it's an upper but anything else, Like
I think it's probably pretty popular among corporate people who need to stay up late
or working late hours. Cocaine in the ages, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's a great comparison. Cocaine yeap blue cocaine. That's awesome.
Dun't do drugs unless you can do them safely, exactly exactly. That's
amazing. All right. You're asking about the stake pit. Yep, yeah,
yeah so it did he say anything about the snake pit? Is that?
I mean, I know that's it's destination, but it was hard enough
to give up well this bit of info. So he's being a dick pretty
much. All right, all right, you have a few directions in tracking
down the sky selling drugs. Proderick feeling you have the equivalent of a kiss
emoji multiple times come through on whatever your version of a phonus. Yeah,
that's like a little shrimp. I uh I glanced at it for a second,
look really confused? Is that important? And definitely not? All right?
So what are we thinking here? Everybody? What are we thinking?
I mean, it's hard not to feel like it's it's not all connected,
you know what I mean. I'm not trying to look I'm trying to look
at it as separate instances, but a lot of it is just starting to
feel like it's two coincidental, you know what I mean. All Right,
now, I say we go to the snake pit. I say we stick
to our plan. But now in that picture, in that picture that we
have of Brodrick giving something to Nakayama, is is it just them or is
it the picture with the blonde lady and everything? Yeah? No, you
don't have a picture of Nakayama giving anything to or like getting anything from Roderick.
You just have seen by yep scene by uh well, because uh and
I believe I'm almost positive Sawyer told you this that he went solo and did
not feel comfortable like pulling out his ka to take a photo of the of
the transaction. But he said that the military types that were identified had been
seen kind of like following him around and kind of outside, but they and
that I actually can't continue further because I don't know what Sawyer told you,
but they were not There's no photograph of Broaderck doing that, but you have
one on your Kia, like you have a shot. Everybody knows who this
guy is at work. And then but the photo that you have of the
three is taken sort of kind of like from from behind them as they're walking
by. So it's not a clear shot of all three, but it was
clear enough for you guys to know Tyson Renzo's face is there. And then
of course obviously Skiff, you recognized the lady, the blonde woman, even
from a profile. I feel like you would just you just know her.
Okay. Yeah, and that was also taken by Sawyer as he was tailing
them. Mhm. Now to your point, I mean, there's nothing really
connecting this uh drug deal to anything we're exploring. Nothing hard anyways, It's
just some of this some of the same people are involved, but like you
said too many coincidences, So I think still our course action snake bit at
least at least shake up, wakement, a little bite. What's going on
with him? If he has any more info to give us? Do we
have any leverage on him on weightman? Yeah, he's got a rap sheet,
so I don't think hard. Yeah, this is involved with replicants.
After the act has passed, we can get pretty aggressive. Yeah, all
right, I say, let's go. Yeah, yeah, let's go.
Bob. How's your head feeling? Oh I'm fine now I'm doing all right?
Oh yeah, no problems? Good? Good, thanks for asking.
Well all this going in? No, I think I'll say outside, I
don't know this place. I'll don't know it was going to be coming in
and out of it. This is my kind of place. All right.
Well, wait a minute, if you and let's think this through, Skiff,
you and Galen you want to head in and Bob and I can stay
behind? Or what are you thinking? Read my mind? It's good,
okay, okay. I also have a map of the snake pit hold.
So excited. You guys are hitting all the things I've like prepared. You're
just doing it in an order. I had not at all expected and anticipated,
and I love it. It's great. Just regular police work, that's
right. Well, I think then Skiff wants to go to the airport and
get on a plane. I want to go to Timbo. I just forget
everything else. That's all right, Well you can do that if you want.
Bob wants to open a bar. I'm okay, I'm okay with narrator.
Is there a coffee shop like near nearby? Or is there any place?
Yeah? I mean sure, I don't see why not? Cafe literally
across the street. Oh is there okay, right here where I'm poking dude,
Nick soon Arcade? Oh yeah, all right there? M hm oh
yeah yeah. Supermarket cafe is literally right across the street, along with some
sushi. Are you doing anything before you had to snake it? Or there's
another tea house inconvenience store in a flower. I think there's a short conversation
that me and Gallenge. I'll tell you what. Yeah, Solmona, let's
go to the cafe. I'm gonna see if they got some boba. Oh
of course they do. So do you want to play this? Well?
I never met this wakening before. We need to find out what they're all
about. Because there skittish, we gotta play aggressive. I think you know
this place on a scale of high class to gutter trash. Where we at
it's called the snake Pit. Good point, but you never know with people.
If wakeman is the hard ass type, we gotta play it slow and
cool. Follow your lead. Listen this place. Well, there's a lot
of working types here, a lot of a lot of a lot of escorts,
prostitutes, whatever you want to call them, a lot of sex workers.
If we can't find what we need, sex workers or generally pretty willing
to rat on anybody that's a piece of shit, it's another route we can
take. Well, I won't go into detail, but I'll just tell you
I'm not saying it so I I hear what you're saying, fair enough,
Dad saying? Are we cops at the door? Are we saving that for
later later? I at least like the snake Pit, we don't want to
be to announcing there we're crops. I could very well get a shot.
All right, are we going to this at this point? Yeah? I
mentioned at this point in Bob and Selma going back up, mm hmm,
I'm definitely holding a boba yes, what fleavor? What does get? Oh
god, it's pretty no frills. I mean this is like, yeah,
like a melon like tappy op. Yeah, I mean maybe there's a just
there's a dag. You know, there's there's a used dash of milk in
it. But it's yeah, it's spartan, all right. Selma has the
lemon strawberry cream swirl with dream chocolate, a giant straw and half of it's
filled with with boba and she's it's pretty good. Unicorn diarrhea. I love
it. I love it. The original blu shit. All right. So
about food color and you know red five? You know what that does?
Do you ride it? Okay, So you guys are going to head to
the Snakepit. It's really loud in here, very crowded, very divy.
Again, this is featured in the first film. If you guys have seen
it, they'll have dancers. They've got these dancers are usually dancing with snakes,
and that's why it's called the snakepit. So there's a section of the
snakepit that has the dressing rooms. And then as you can see, I've
put a I've put us on a new map page that'll show you kind of
where the dance floor is, the stage and the lounge, and where you'll
be entering from. And again, if we want to do the same thing
this time, and go ahead and drag your tokens and just put them so
that I can see where you're going to beat those listening, I'll go ahead
and I'll put this up for you so you can see kind of what it
looks like on the inside. All right, now, I imagine this place
doesn't have a line. All right, No, no, some more?
Are you doing here? Get out of here? I'm not sure where I
was supposed to be going. Here walks this massive just like I'm meme for
pulp fiction. He's just like, all right, I okay. So then
the other question is is outside the front? How how? Because I know
I'm not I don't have my gun on. I look pretty normal, clean
but normally cleaned up, a normal But how many people are out and about
in the front? Why don't you have an idea about what this place looks
like? Yeah? No, go on, Actually you continue, What do
you think the the idea looks like in your mind? I mean, so
as as a bar like this, you know, yeah, there's people inside,
there's regulars. There's regulars outside. I think that there's you know,
those sort of conversations between the ne'er do wells that that come and go from
time to time. There's probably some regulars that hang out in the front watch
people. I don't know much about sector sector one, but maybe around the
side here you know a homeless person or two or three, or maybe this
entire alley. It has a grimy feel to it, definitely a big grimy
feel. But I'm i'm when we start to approach, I'm looking for a
place for Selma and I to essentially lend in, but on the outside.
On the outside, yeah, absolutely, the outside. Yeah, that's why
I'm wondering. How many people are about? Yeah, one of you roll
stealth and depending on your role with the side, if it's easy to wend
internet, one of you get of you because I got a d in that
well, well, I also have a day. So oh, you're gonna
be fine. Okay, here we go, it'll be fine, super stealthy.
You got it. Oh my god, well you did get it all
right. So how many people do I think it's probably a bit crowded out
on the street. If I think back to the first film when he chases
her out on the street, it's full of people. She ends up running
through glass right to try to get out of that. True, does that's
right, And that's the street that you're on essentially. So it's a lot
of a lot of advertisement, a lot of bright lights and neon and and
a lot of people walking around and people eating and outdoor seating and stuff like
that. So it's pretty busy, I think. Okay, all right,
so blendin in for us isn't gonna be too hard. I will jest that
we hang out around here ish, just around the side, just a little
barely by the side you have the street on the corner of the ore entry.
Yeah, just a little bit. And for no reason at all,
that puts you out of the active combat zone, right, so you'll have
to do you see the red lines, those are your combat zones. Ze
yep, just pointing it out that you would have to enter into the building
to be then in the entrance combat zone. All right, okay, I
will say before we go in, Yeah, no, are we going completely
after seeing this place, after being aware of what this place looks like,
We'll check in with Galen and Skiff and and just confirm we get outside or
do you need to send this? So, so, normally I would have
you wait outside, but I've been here before. I know this place is
pretty seedy and it can be it can be trouble, So I don't think
I would let Bob just wait outside on this Okay, into plans? Then
all right. If if that's the case, then we'll come in a little
afew too, just so we don't look like we're all together enough. I
like that, all right, Yeah, okay, So similarly, just gonna
hang out here for a beat or two after they go in, and and
then make our way in and I'll wait for them to post up. Before
you know, someone I figure out where we're going to be sure, Uh
so I'll I'll just mention to skiff hit the bar, get some drinks,
mingle, and then we'll maybe ask for something. Let's go pick me up.
Hey, well, good yep. This bar is quite different from the
previous one. But we've experienced in the show in that the bartenders basically just
kind of there's multiple at this front, and they'll kind of look at you
wait for your order. If you don't give it right away, they're already
moving on to somebody else, and there's no super pleasantries. They're not chatting
you up or anything. They're just like, what it is your order,
so I can grab it and then they put it down and then they're back
doing whatever. I'll just get a simple kind of like cocktail or something maybe
something with say maybe like a rum and coke or something. Yeah, okay,
something easy. So yeah, you just ask for a rum and coke
and they're like, got it, and then it's probably out within you know,
thirty seconds, fifteen seconds, got it, boom, and then I'll
kind of ill kind of make my way like around the dance floor a little
bit, and like if anybody looks like they're alone, like and they're out
to flirt or like out to hook up with somebody or something that night,
I'm keeping my eyes out for somebody like that just to kind of like dance
with and mingle and stuff. Okay, all right, obviously you're definitely gonna
find at least somebody like that, So you can go ahead and make a
move in towards an individual like this, just let you know what they who
they are, what they look like. I'm sorry, did you just adjust
your lighting to match the snake pit whack, oh oh acidence, because I
was like, what the thing? Yeah? Do you also have a lot
on me? So it changes city? Yeah, yeah, it looks.
It looks good for our positions once they're in there for a beat and then
for someone and I to come in. Are there two seats at the bar
that are open? Yeah? Absolutely. I'm just gonna let you guys control
the narrative. You don't need to ask me stuff right now at this moment.
I'll interrupt you if something needs to be changed, but yeah, let's
let you guys just go ahead and take control. All right, Let's describe
what we see it, because this is the first op that you guys are
kind of like doing together where you're moving in and I want to know what
it's, you know, like movie wise, what we see. I'm going
to open the door for Selma, thank you. Yeah absolutely, and then
get to the next door faster than her and open that one too, and
then yeah, yeah absolutely, And then I'm I'm almost like ushering her over
to one of the seats and like, O, there's two right there.
I've got literally in my hand out. I'm like right, here's good.
Yeah, no, this will this will work. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
go and put myself two drinks. What do you think that's a lot
to start with? But I mean if you want to, I mean like
one for me, one for you. Oh here, here, here,
here like you, Oh my god, here here hang on, Bob.
And she gives him us some cash. I feel like, do we carry
cash? Okay? So I give him some chinion, and I say,
here, get me something something with vodka. You just whatever wherever you want?
Yeah too, vodkas? Uh? And then I just literally just too
straight vodka straight. Okay, this is gonna be an adventure. Yeah,
bob, bob, straight straight vodka. You we can mix that, you
would, I don't drink you would drinks? Well, what am I supposed
to do? I'm not my bodka go to waste. Okay, oh god,
okay, I'm I've got the vodka to my lips. My lips are
like super tight together. Oh yeah, I'm gonna chink you. Yeah.
Uh. And I put the vodka up to my lips and I can feel
the vodka against my lips. I don't know, I don't know my mouth
at all. Just pull it away and put it back down. I am
acting like I'm drinking hmmm, I think they must use well these it's uh,
well, it's it makes you go, well, it's not the best,
it's not the best. It's it's fine, Bob, you know what
you just you just sip that and I'm gonna I'm gonna sip mine. And
uh what, I mean, what we've hadn't we've been having weather, weather's
been, we are, we were having we're small talking at the That's what's
happened. I think that's what's supposed to be what's supposed to be happening.
I mean wrong, Is there a role for small talk? Know what there
can be? Just remember that every role is difficult to do in this in
this world. Look, so, so the bar is pretty clear, and
yes, we need to have a conversation. I mean, as Galen would
would tell you, Bob's not particularly good at at stealth and all that sort
of stuff. So I would never say that, I never say it.
Yeah, I'd never say it's very rare. So yeah, I'm just wondering
to what degree am I gonna do this small talk? Yeah? Fuck yeah,
I'm curious as well. Now go for it. I think it will
probably be like empathy or somewhere in that that line insight, you know what
I'm gonna you know, I'll do an insight to see if I can.
I don't know, sound casual with the Cummings and nope, okay, yeah
we have weather. Yeah there's rain and uh it's mostly rain. Yeah yeah,
like every day, yeah, every every day at this You have a
jacket? I do you do? Yeah? I got I got a couple,
got a couple of jackets. You have more than one jacket? Why
would you need more than one jacket? Well, well, the thing is,
Bob, some people like variety in their in their wardrobe. I am
one of those. I am one of those people up to a point.
You know, two jackets is enough. One jacket. It's got you gotta
you gotta switch it up. Oh a backup. Oh I see that.
Yeah that's good. Yeah. My eyes are kind of like scanning the horizon
because I'm realizing, you know, at this point, I think Bob's looking
for something to just keep them going. And so yeah, literally that looking
around, you know, yeah, Dan, I'm you I have a good
good anymore that soaks up water too much? Does well? You know,
it's it's retro. It's you know, yes, that's true fashion. Holy
vodka. That's the episode. That's how about that vodka? Yeah, that's
so good. Okay, where are you two? Then? Where is skipping
where? Yeah? I'm on the I'm on the dance floor. That's right.
You were trying to I would like, so it's not I'm not just
doing that. I am. Uh. I'm trying to judge if anybody's on
what I believe to be yellow nine. Oh. I'm just going to get
this to you because I think it's like, you know, you worked Vice,
so yes, absolutely, Okay. So I think I walk up to
a woman with her hairs kind of like up in a little like bun ponytail
kind of thing in the back, and she's got on like a probably a
jacket that's like way too warm but is very fashionable, and there's yeah,
just like a slight erraticness to her dancing and what have you. And I
will I'll just kind of try to I'll probably try and put on the charm
a little bit and make my way in and just kind of try to match
her dancing and stare really deeply into her eyes. All right, go ahead
and roll manipulation. Yeah, yep, she's super into it. Success she
begins dancing with you, and I'll say, any place I can find to
pick me up here? Yeah, absolutely, She doesn't even she doesn't even
hesitate. She like gestures towards the lounge, but like kind of maybe in
the way that maybe she's dancing to the music, so it's not super obvious,
but you know, she kind of like turns her body and then asually
points over absolutely, And before I leave, I'll say, I like your
jacket. She smiles and then looks sad that you're going. But I think
she might also assume that you're going to come back and dance with her.
She even shouts, you know, come back and dance with me maybe if
you're lucky. Well, all right, and I'll smile like really like really
like absolute shit eating grin. Yeah, as I as I walk away,
it's effective. All right, are you heading straight to the lounge where she
gestured, No, I'm going to look over towards Skiff. What do I
see Skiff doing. I'm I'm just I'm sitting at the bar, I got
my drink, and I'm i'm I've got my I'm I'm kind of got my
like I'm parallel or perpendicular to the bar, so I can see the bartenders
on my right and the dance floor my left. Oh, yeah, I
see it. I see it. He's tucked himself into the corner on the
map. Very cool. And I'll look towards skiff and I'll sort of point
my chin over to the lounge and I'll start making my way over there.
Now, when he when he does that, when he looks at me and
he chin swords the lounge, I just I do I do one of these
for those listening. He pointed to his chest and then pointed to uh galen,
and then I pointed to my chest and then I pointed to the lounge.
Oh, to the lounge. Okay, yeah, I'll nod, and
I'll just say two fingers put two fingers up. Okay. I get up,
grab my drink and slowly follow him. Hey, I imagine Selma and
I have no problem clocking this, Yeah, no problem. You guys are
seasoned detective seed seasoned blade runners even as well. And also it's very clear
the guy that you guys know to be Roderick Wakeman is sitting there in the
lounge like he owns the place. He might even have a couple of people
around him as well. Yeah, is there like a guard watching the door
or something. There's no guard in front of the lounge. There's you know,
there's just maybe a couple of people in the lounge with him. But
you two approach Roderick in the lounge. Yeah, and are you pretending to
be inebriated or like, you know, what's the level of manipulation that is
going on here yet? I am. I have my drink in hand and
I'm just doing that like can't find the straw thing? Oh yeah, yeah,
okay, And I no, I'm serious, Like I come up behind
him and I put my arm around him and I grabbed the straws and I
guide him into his mouth. Nice, okay, yep, okay, perfect.
I think you see. And you've been here before while you were working
Vice. I need to know something, Galen, when you left Vice?
Why did you leave Vice? Was it you were transferred or Georgia cover blown?
You don't have to give details, but basically, is he gonna have
a chance of recognizing you? Oh boy? So I'm going to say that,
uh my cover was I'll make the decision. I was going to roll
for it, but I'll make the decision. My cover was blown. Okay,
I love this. I love this so much. Okay, in this
spot, it's so wondering to learn a little bit about your back story a
little bit. Okay. So I'm gonna I'm gonna type something to you.
Okay, uh oh wow, Okay, So then you know who it was?
Yeah, okay, and is it someone that Wakeman would know? Because
that changes everything about the way this might go down. And if you want,
you can roll for it. Yeah he does Okay, all right,
cool? Okay, so you approach, why don't you go ahead and you
roll to the manipulation? Do you want to roll another one between the two
of you for this entire interaction with Wakeman Skiff and yeah, one of you
too should roll something, whether it's manipulation or connections or something like that.
How what kind of information will change depending on what you two decide to roll?
But feeling lucky manipulation? Okay, what do you have in minip I'm
very good at it. Okay, that's my that's my lowest one. Okay,
Okay, that's all right. So why, like I said, I'll
let you take the lead, baby, yep, all right, let's do
it. It's gonna mean I'm going to push for sure. Okay, then
don't forget to mark your result. Go and push. And you said it
doesn't matter if we rolled both or single for the right, because you have
the ability to do it with only taking one damage, that you might as
well do the two anyway, as long as you haven't rolled success on one
of them. Yeah, you need okay zero again with that, you have
the option to push one more time, but you're gonna take damage for it.
Do you want to do it? Yeah, I'm going to. Yeah,
I could not roll over a six on forty twelves. There you go.
Wow still still oh no, says oh yeah. I was gonna say
you're only able to reroll one of those, but yeah you did already.
Okay, all right, so you got a success. Okay, so we
know Broderick Wakeman, let me see, I think I put his thing up
here, and yet I see you trying really hard and I go cigarette.
Yeah, that result down one. Yeah, Yeah, that's a good idea.
That's a good idea. Well, so I think the cigarette only works,
not to be a little shit, but I think the cigarette only works
if you have the ability to calm yourself with a cigarette. Otherwise you need
counselor. Right, I could be right. I think you were. The
description only says light one and he'll want stress for shift. Yeah, but
I think you have to run the pubble mock the ability to do it like
it's yours. So I'll double check, but I'm pretty sure that he needs
that. I'm gonna go ahead. And I thought you took that ability.
I took counselor counselor. Oh I am, I'm actually going to take a
pill. Okay, all right, I've got some Soviet happy that I'm going
to dude, So you're just gonna pop this drug right in front of us,
right in front of wakeman. Yeah, okay, that's very also very
clever. I'm just saying, all right, which will give me another resolve
point. All right, good, because I feel like you're getting kind of
yeah, yeah, that's so great. Okay, all right. So he
looks at you for a moment, but it's like he's trying to place where
he might know you. But then he just does the standard salesman thing of
pretending like, hey, nice to see you again. What can I get
for you? Gentlemen? It's going well, but it could be better.
You want it to be better. Maybe maybe maybe you can help with of
course you wouldn't be standing here if you didn't want it to be better.
What can I What can I get for you? Experience? Are you looking
for? Well, I've been feeling a little bit run down. I'm hoping
for something that might pick me up. Pick me up, all right,
and what about you? He looks this gift. I'm just hearing him.
What kind of friend is this? Oh? I'm participating? Oh, just
so whatever, he can make all the choices, all right, he's along
for the ride. All right, Well let's give you a ride then.
Okay, So I rub his shoulders a little bit as wakeman. Okay,
yep, just make sure I was like, it's like a fucking okay,
that's that's that's not a man to distract, you know, you know,
all right, Okay, So I think he will reach behind his back pocket.
He like reaches into his back pocket and then pulls a couple of things
out. I'm very much trying to figure out, uh, wakeman, And
like basically what I'm trying to do here is determine if this person looks like
very skittish, No, not skittish at all, very very confident, like
he has no fucking reason to be this confident. He's not like a super
high level thug or anything. But also the police don't touch him because they
want everybody he knows and interacts with, So he kind of feels a little
untouchable a little bit, and he's maybe acting with a little bit of that
arrogance, like he's not hiding at all what he's doing. He's sitting in
this lounge like he owns the place. He doesn't even have a Like Sawyer
was able to witness the transaction between Nakiyama and Wakeman from inside the club.
They weren't hiding it then either. So I think it's just well known that
he's the guy that hooks you up when you're at the snake bit. Oh
right, yeah, so you have anything that might help with that? Yeah,
And he slides forward stuff that looks like it's in i don't know,
like maybe a nightclub looking like container, something that looks like it came from
a pharmacy. Obviously we know it. Let's say it's blue now also like
yeah, and so then he slides that forward. It's like in a little
it's got a little cup for you to go ahead and have a sip.
So I look at it and I'm like, wait a minute, is this
the stuff that makes she shit blue? Yeah? Baby, it's totally worth
it. But you heard of it, have you? I think I have
in deject Well, it's where it gets around on the street. You know
how it is. Sector one isn't exactly like you know, the place you
want to go to keep secrets. Everybody's business is all out there, right
yeah, I guess. So his eyes moved from you to skiff and then
back to you again. You know, I have to say that this place
seems like you probably get a lot of business. I get enough. I
don't worry about my businesiness. Let's worry about your business. Okay, how
much? Uh? And he'll rattle off something that seems fucking reasonable. I
wouldn't know what drugs would be in this world, so we're just gonna avoid
saying something concrete, something that seems reasonable, right right? Okay? Reasonable
for drugs? Rat Yeah, I'm I'm I'm uh. Is this going to
cost any chinion? Absolutely? Okay, So just to give you an idea
that there is some like pricing for some of this stuff. Perfect. Also,
did I have Selma. I had Sma role self, but no observation.
Selma hit me with an observation while you're I mean or Bob, either
one of you. Here we go. Okay, I'm gonna just yeah,
I think actually, so I'll do I'll just I'm gonna put it in the
group chat. But I'm gonna spoiler taget so only Selma and Bob click on
it. Okay, Okay, So I would say that I know that we
would have seen Galen and Skiff walk past to go over there, probably clock
the guy. But I'm trying to be incognito, and with with Selma's self
roll earlier, I actually which Galen would know this would show a fair amount
of trust. I'm keeping my back, but I'm looking at her like I
looked at the dance for every now and then, and I'll try and get
something in my preferral of them. Yeah, but I'm obviously watching them.
Yeah. Okay. Oh, then so then Bob, you don't see what
I just spoilered. Only Selm essay, yeah, yep, because your back
is to the yep. Yeah. Okay. Now there's so there's a few
different entries in the book, and I'm curious how you want to do this.
The instant fix and the Soviet Happy are one, and then the there
is a drug called Experience that's a light narcotic that is considered incidental and there's
no cost for it. Okay. And then there's Zillish, which is a
hard and narcotic and that's gonna be Yeah, it's going to be up in
there. Okay, let's just do one, all right now. I know
I don't see anything, but do I see Selma react to that. I
don't think she's decided to roleplay that it's happened yet, I said, I
thought it just happened it whenever, So yeah, I'll pay for it and
say, you know, I gotta be honest with you. One of my
friends recommended that we stop on by were good. Who's your friend? Uh?
He said, well, it's a bit of a problem if well.
And I kind of like look towards Skiff like like kind of playfully with a
smile on my face, and I say, he's kind of famous. He
loves the name drop Nakayama. Oh yeah, your you? You? He
looks for both of you again, are friends with Nakayama? I say,
absolutely, Oh yeah, that clocks Uh, I actually haven't heard from him
in a little while. Has he been through recently? Oh love sick?
No, I haven't, I haven't. You haven't seen him. No,
he hasn't been around in a couple of days. But you know that's him.
Sometimes sometimes he decides to frequent somewhere else for a bit. Fuck.
I hate to do this and I'm just rattling this off in the background.
Yep, mhm, sip your vodka. Bomb, don't look around. I
don't tassen Renzo. Just walk through the door. I don't sip my vodka.
It's held here. Where is he? Where's he going? One o'clock
near the bar? He's going over near Galen and Skiff. I don't know
if he's noticed who I am yet I get up. Oh God, with
thought, I'm not gonna stand up. Yeah, we can't. We can't.
We cannot even we cannot even radio them. I think, yeah,
I think you see. My legs twitched to get up and I stopped,
and I'm like, all right, Uh. I clipped him. Is he
is? He? Is he? How's he walking? He looks confident.
It doesn't look like he's holding his side. He doesn't look like No,
I don't think he's I don't think he's noticed me yet. I keep my
back turned h and I hunch down closer to the bar with this vodka,
which the smell is nauseating. It's like, Okay, he would have seen
both Galen and I outside of his apartment. Now, he doesn't necessarily know
that Galen is a police officer. But I announced myself as such to him.
How do we know this is the same. I don't. I don't.
But if he don't have it, I mean, this could be a
difference. I know. So if he recognizes Galen, there's no guarantee that
he will look. He won't necessarily know he's a law officer. He doesn't
know he's a blade runner. He can't see me, which means as soon
as his back is turned, I need to get up. I'm gonna go
towards the restroom. Okay, okay, calms on, let me know what's
going on, and I am gonna I'm waiting for her signal. Essentially,
when Tyler has his back, excuse me, Tyson. When Tyson has his
back to me, I'm going to wait for her to say go, and
then I'm gonna go. Hang on, mm hmm, still got his background.
It's best. I think it's best we don't do anything until he pulls
something. I'm watching him. I'm gonna trust her and I'm gonna sit there
now. I'm hunkered low. Okay, Okay, his back is turned.
You want me to go now, Jesus, I thought you wanted me to
say. And then I'm gonna walk. I will get into the restroom.
Yeah, I'm waiting in the restroom, but I'm comes on and I'm listening
to and I chatter backing. So you guys can see the map now Tyson
is basically or the person who looks exactly like Tyson is going to saddle up
to the bar. He's maybe three or four seats away from you now at
this point. Uh, and you too, Skiff and Galen, you kind
of have your You're in the lounge, so I don't think that you would
have noticed this. But if you want to roll for it, you can.
But I feel like you were focused on your target. So okay,
all right, back to you too, So look, if you could help
us out, and just I really love to see him again. Oh uh,
you do you maybe know where I might find him? Oh? Man,
I can't. I can't help you. I'm sorry. Like I said,
I haven't seen him for a couple of days. Comes here parties sometimes
you parties are other clubs. But this is where I see him. I'll
I'll look out of the corner of my eyes towards skiff. Oh my god,
are you guys? Okay? I feel like you are about to grab
him and be violent, So I'm ready here for it. So what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna is he sitting down? Yep, I'm gonna sit
on his Oh, here we go. Okay, yeah, I mean if
he if he does that, then I will. Uh how's he situated?
Is he surrounded by people? Oh? There were a couple of people in
here, maybe a few of them cleared out to give you guys some space
when you were buying something. But okay, I'll sit on the other side
of him and around him, around around uh wakeman this time? Right?
Yeah, okay, all right, so you guys have squished him now,
all right, I kind of I have a feeling I know what's coming next,
or at least Yeah, okay, I'm gonna set my drink down on
the table and just kind of look at wakeman and say, well, what
about the three replicants that kidnapped Naki Yama. You happen to know them,
Broderick, And uh, I have my arm around him, whichever side,
and I take like I have. I have my my revolver, and I
just kind of like nudge him with it under my coat, and I kind
of like make make kissy faces at his ear. Oh my god, okay,
with your gun kind of pointed them all right, all right, all
right, oh man, man, man, what what the fuck? What
the fuck is this? I don't know anything about I don't know anything about
any fucking keep it down, not so, Roderick. We wouldn't want to
make a mess in here. I don't know anything about any skin jobs.
Broderick, Can I call you Broderick? Look off, man, Look the
act just passed. Anybody that's associated with replicants, Well, we've got a
lot of license kind of do what we want with them. Yeah, I
heard. And right now, Broderick, you're giving me this vibe that says
that you might be involved vibes. Fuck off with your vibes. Man.
I don't know anything about anything other than what I'm doing. I don't know
who he hangs out with all right, he's some fancy ceo. But when
he comes here, he usually comes alone. He dances with whoever's here,
and then he goes on about his way. Sometimes he has a lady or
two or a fella when he leaves. But that's it. I don't I
don't know anything about anything else. I just I just give him a shit
three replicans, Broderick. I don't know what. I don't know what.
I don't know what that is. I don't know who that who that would
be? I'm going to oh sorry, go ahead, your fucking ease up.
How about a blonde lady about this high? His eyes dart around the
entire club like looking you know, I don't I don't blonde. That's not
that's not very descriptive. We got dancers that are blonde. Yeah, okay.
I pull up my k and said in his lap, Oh my god.
No, Now they're gonna think I'm a nark. And I think he
immediately just like jerks his leg and your ka will hit the floor because he
doesn't want to be seen helping you guys. Oh, I'll roll stealth with
a K. I wasn't doing it, like oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
okay, yeah, go for it, go for it. Yeah yeah,
if there's a table, I plan on like sliding it out of the
table. Okay, yeah, yeah, alright, then that's fine. Then
that's fine. So maybe he as you pull it out, he says that,
and he's and you're like, fucking relax and you put it underneath the
table. Okay, don't even need to Oh shit, oh shit? Why
why did I say stealth? How about yeah? Stealth? Stealth? It
is because you are trying to hide it. Unfortunately, I'm sorry, I'm
sorry. Wish me luck. Look at that he succeeded. I get a
run? All right? Nice? Do you have advantage on still? Or
no? No? Okay, all right, okay, and I just I
just I go to his ear and I go just take a look. I
don't know anybody. How am I supposed to fucking high off my ass half
the time? Do you know this? Lady? That's all I want?
Yes or no? No? I'm sorry. I wish I did. I
really wish I did, but I don't insight. Yeah, go for it,
yeah, fucking pushing, all right, go for it. You only
get to push that, yep. Okay, yes, wow wow. So
for those listening. He failed the first one and then pushed and got a
success by one. Okay, I took this tress damage. Yeah man uh
he he seems to be telling the truth. He does not seem to recognize
anybody in this picture, although to be fair, the photo isn't like a
good front on shot of anybody's face. That's fine, Yeah, I take
I take the photo back it or I take the ka back and put it
in my pocket. See who was that so hard? Yeah? But I've
been telling you that from the start. Are you gonna shoot me? But
come on? And I kind of like lean over and look at look at
Galen. Are we what? No? I'm like, I don't know yet.
What do you mean? You don't know? I I help you guys
find the other guys that you really want. What's happening here? You're not
helping us, assholes, all of you. We don't want this to be
a wasted trip here. Broderick, you know something. Nakayama is a regular
customer. What about the other two. I'm going to uh making a dash?
So he's making he's making a dash. He immediately is like as soon
as you're like, well, you're not helping us he goes, yeah,
fuck this, I'm out. We're on either side. I know you are.
So does he knock the table over it? Yeah, he's going to
go forward and try and go down and out the lounge. Now I did
roll it two success for mobility. So but however, Skiff has a gun.
So I feel like Skiff, you can roll reaction with advantage if you
decide to shoot him. If you do not shoot him, you guys will
have to chase him and do your own mobility. I'm not going to shoot
him, yeah, okay, well I wasn't sure. I thought i'd give
you the option. No, No, you know, I'm not going to
kill a guy in cold blood like the club. Okay. So, uh,
I do have my arm around him, yep. So if I I
mean, it's not gonna be good. But if I can roll hand to
hand, yeah absolutely, I'd love to, like, you know, move
the arm from his shoulder to a little bit more around his neck. Yeah,
yep, absolutely. So I feel like he does that thing where he
just like does the shrugs his shoulders and dockson tries to like tip the table
over and go zero hand hand. I'm not going to push it, yeah,
okay, it's my worst stat. Okay. So he is up,
and Galen, did you want to try to roll a reaction or like hand
a hand to stop him from passing by? Yeah, I'm gonna try and
trip him. Okay, yep, all right, that's the only thing I
think I would be able to do. He knocks the table over him,
just stick my leg out, you know, yep, which I think isn't
improvised. Yep, hand to hand one. Okay. So what that means
though, is that because he rolled a two and you've rolled a one,
that those successes cancel each other out and that leaves him with just a one.
So he is absolutely gonna stumble over your foot, Galen. But he
does managed to get up and start scrambling out, and he is gonna try
to head immediately for the door, which is right as you guys can see
on the map behind this lounge. So now he is in this zone.
Oh no, that's my money. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna try and
chase after him. I'm just yelling, give me back my money. Okay.
When that happens, yep, when that happens, you hear this,
and so does Tyson soon turns and looks yep, I've got my eye on
Tyson. Are you well communicating with me? Oh? Right now? Should
I? Should? I? Should you have your comms on? Yeah?
I said open comms yeah before I walked away. So you can give me
updates about what's going on. So I've been listening to you telling me what
what's happening. Looks like fro for the exit. Galen is shouting after him,
and Tyson is also interested. They could get Harry, Bob, stay
on, Tasha, I'm on him. I actually I don't know if this
is cop cop sense or whatever, but like, if Galen's going after him,
yep, my instinct is to stand up and look and see who is
taking notice of this and make and because everybody's seeing it, but who's taking
action on this? Yep? Okay, So go ahead and roll observation for
me if you like. Kay wow, Okay, So not only skiff,
do you clock that a couple of people maybe on the dance floor look over,
but the music's loud, so it's not really you know, you've got
a couple of people. But when you stop, when you see Tyson Renzo
at the bar next to Selma, who has acted this or a movie.
The camera would like kind of pan into him and go motherfucker. And then
I immediately once I see Tyson, I would immediately look for Selma and Bob
m M yep. So Selma is right next to him and probably makes eye
contact, and you guys go ahead and describe what happens next. I look
at them and I kind of like look over to Tyson, like, are
you are you seeing this? Okay? So Bob's missing. He's in the
restroom. Ye, not next to Selma. Okay, we gotta like,
okay, are are we on comms now? Like since since we go for
Okay, okay, I get on comms. You see him? Are you
Selma? Absolutely, I gotta take him. I'm gonna wait to see what
he does. And I start, I start, uh, it's where's Tyson
that he's at the bar? I start. I started making my way with
my drink and my smoke in my hand. I start going towards this way
so we can wow. Okay, wow, okay, all right, and
Galen, you're still chasing after Broaderick, right, yeah, okay, I
don't think I would have seen Tyson. No, I don't think so.
I think you were hyper focused. Okay, do you want to pull a?
Do you have the chase cards on here? You're the g No?
I mean like, do you have the ability to pull or do I need
to turn that on? So the chase cards we see? Yes, okay,
so can you draw one or no? Let's see how this works?
Or do I just need to deal it? Let's find out you need to
deal it. I don't have a draw, but oh I can select you
and then deal it to you specifically. That's cool if that works, because
you must deal to at least one player. All right, that's fine.
I'll just reveal it table the line thugs I have, which is gonna be
we get hugs. This is the six dogs block the road. Wow six
Yeah, that's what it says. Six streets. Oh, thank you,
thank you, thank you. It's too cool for me to see you on
the screen. So roll me. Oh no dogs block? Did you roll
a six? I am going to yeah? Hey, okay, So to
thugs that block your way from reaching him or from moving forward, the prey
must roll connections to be allowed to pass. A failed role means that the
thugs will attack the chosen maneuver fails automatically and one thug attacks in close combat.
If the connections role succeeds, the thugs will attack the pursuer instead,
So everybody knows what's about to go down. So I'm yep, yeah,
Roderick is the prey. So he's going to roll connections here, broddy,
where's your thingy? There? You are? Okay, success, They're going
to attack you immediately, engaging in one hand to hand though, do I
have just I do have a standard thug perfect, I'll just roll hand to
hand here. Wait wait, wait, that's not right. That's not right.
That's a hand to hand roll instead of an unarmed right you're supposed to
will now I am rolling hand to hand to defend. Sorry, you would
also do unarmed as well. Right, you both roll an attack role and
you have the opportunity to do damage. Whoa, yes, here we go.
So technically, I think our criticals would cancel each other out right.
I didn't roll a critical. I rolled a one? Uh one? Okay,
I want to push use my happy pill already. M yeah, I
think I have to. His is no longer a crit His is no longer
a crit right, right, it's just a success. So I'll just take
it actually yep, okay, and that's one damage because it's unarmed. I
hit the damage button, but nothing seems to be happening, so I have
no clue should be I have? I have unarmed on my shoots. One
damage yep, okay, yep, so one damage okay. Yeah, So
I think I just get like just cheap shot, like right in the face
as I'm trying to get past these guys and they're just kind of grabbing me
and get punched in the face. And yeah, I mean I'm gonna keep
trying to chase after Okay, hold on. Sorry, So a failed role
means one thug will attack, but if the connection role succeeds, the thugs
will attack the pursuer instead, so you have one other attack coming in from
the other thug. Okay, yep, And we're gonna say that this is
like okay, it cancels itself out perfect, Wow, so good. We're
gonna say that these thugs obviously are friends with or work with or whatever with
Wakeman, so they notice and they try to get in your way. Now
we're gonna go ahead and do a maneuver here which Wakeman needs to roll to
move to move one step forward. So let me pull these cards out for
you as well. And I'm assuming you're chasing, right I am, yep.
Okay, so let me pull these up here, Chase maneuvers. Here
we go. You can see these too, right, both of them are
perfect. So the only thing about these is that you get to choose the
chase maneuver. So if you can't pick through the deck and pick which card,
then that's you know, just something you can we cannot, you cannot?
Yeah, okay, So do you remember your shavne draw what it is?
It's yeah, it's chase maneuvers. Pursue yep. I'll find the pitch
number here in just a second. It's eighty two. Perfect. Yeah,
so I'm going to pursue. And normally you roll mobility for driving, but
this is a foot chase yep. So I assume this will be mobility just
agility. Yeah, probably mobility, Yes, is under the agility category.
So yeah, mobility works. Seems like it works for me. That's one
success. Okay, let me do and I do the same thing because I
am running as well. Is this the right Nope, this is the thug
Please hold broderick. Here we go. Uh so they cancel each other out,
lord, which means I only move one and you don't move any Okay,
oh, I have managed to get around the corner and the thug,
the guy one of his friends that has hit you or attacked you whatever,
it has just slowed you down. That's it, right, yep? Okay,
Now we're switching here to Selma at the bar with uh with Tyson.
Now, Eisen hasn't noticed you, but he has absolutely noticed Broderick bailing,
and he's noticed Galen and he recognizes Galen. He recognizes Galen. Yep,
yep, and he immediately heads to the back door. He starts running.
I've got the rep heading out the back door. He's running. I'm going
after him by the back. Okay, yeah, I around but the upper
right is that correct? Oh? Yeah, sorry, Yeah, he's heading
for the back. But as you can see, there looks like there are
multiple doorways that you can go through. He's going to leave it one closest
to the bar, like right here. If you can see on the map
back towards the drive rivers. Can I hear them now because they're talking about
everybody's on calms. Ye, I'm going to make my way out of that
exit then okay, yeah, as soon as he as soon as he gets
up, I make that uh Comm's message, I get up and I'll pursue
him. Can we show the audience? Yeah, yeah, I can show
the map. Just give me one quick second. Oh but that's not what
I wanted to do. Okay, So you guys now are all on comms
here. You are going to pursue. So I need you to roll me,
which is the same thing the pursuit. I'm gonna pull up a card
here, which is gonna tell us what the obstacle is. Let me just
go ahead and deal another obstacle card. Oh it's not deal, it's revealed.
Hold On, there we go. Now everybody should see that dealt card
right where it go I said deal. We each have a card that was
dealt. Okay, garbage. There's garbage and debris all over the street making
the ground slippery. Any pursue or flea maneuvers get a disadvantage this round,
while block gets an advantage. So both you and I will be rolling at
disadvantage when that means I got to reroll mine. Hey, hold on,
doesn't that just happen on the next round? No, it would be for
this round. Okay, yep, one of my and I just rolled first.
We're rolling mobility because you're chasing me and I'm running yep, but at
disidcation, at disadvantage. Okay. Well, I'm I don't know which way
they're going, but I am attempting to block the upper right hand back door.
Yep. Okay, So you need to so you would need to move
into a next space, So you have to do the flea move to move
into the next combat zone, so past from where you are, past that
red line. Okay, So if you want to do that, just go
ahead and roll like a mobility maneuver to pursue. But then you can block
in the next round unless you're trying to block that specific door. But I
mean you can see that he's not trying to use that specific door. So
okay, two successes. Oh wow, Okay, so you can move two
zones so you can get all the way to the door if you want.
I'm I'm gonna move here and see like which way yep? Okay, which
way Tyson's gonna go? Yep? Okay. I think I must trip like
over a glass or something. Mine looks like he's headed out towards the middle
near bar area. You don't need to trip. Fails in this don't have
to be that you're just like, you know, not good or a bad
copper or whatever. Yeah, because I'm just not a fan of that.
So we don't have to say that you trip. But I mean, if
you want to trip, that's fine. He's just a fucking replicant. And
he moves very quickly, and he gets around that corner real fast, and
he was kind of already on edge and yeah, he just whips around the
corner. However, when he moves one space, uh, he does see
skiff blocking the only exit. I still need to a right Yep, absolutely
same thing mobility all right, if you are pursuing, I am pursuing,
I will push that absolutely is it this one? Wow? How many times?
Is really bad at rolling dice? Yeah, that's very true. So
I take a result in the previous one that you don't need a trip or
anything. You don't you don't, you don't need to trip. However,
this is pretty bad. The bathroom is you know, there's this blue stuff
everywhere all over the floor in the bathroom. Okay, so I just took
a point of resolve. How many times? Can you can you only push
once? You push once, but you get to reroll two dice because everybody.
Basically that's a replicant ability in the book. But I'm g being it
to everybody because that way we're not revealing who is and who isn't a replicant.
You can't push it any You can't push anymore because you got two ones.
Oh yeah, yeah, so critical feels sorry, you know, just
sent its two ones. What I will say is this door definitely swings in
as I try to push through it, so I end up just okay,
and no one saw it, and that's that's my turn. You did,
though, Bob is just gonna sit there like in the shower, cold shower,
sitting on the floors going. One of my favorites, like memories of
my dad, is that he laughed his ass off when he showed me the
Far Side cartoon. It shows School for the Gifted and the kid is pushing
it and he's leaning against it. Yeah, it's such a good one,
like this is you and I went, God, damn it dead. Yeah,
that's tired, all right, Okay, so that is everybody, I
think, yes, because I already rolled wakem in this round as well.
Okay, so next round, I'm gonna go ahead and do the chase.
Obstacle here is that it's all of us, because we're all it's just Galen's
chasing somebody else. But but Roderick also goes this turn as well, So
dead end ahead. If the prey has chosen to pursue, flee, hide,
or block, the maneuver fails automatically. So this is very good for
us. Yeah, very Does that work for both of them? Yeah,
yep. Oh wow, it's the maneuver for this round. I mean,
technically we could do two different prey, but really you're only supposed to be
in a pursuit with one one character and one prey. But that's not fun
for all of us, so I'm kind of improvising. So yeah, we're
gonna say he hits a dead end, and I think it's obvious. I
think it's just there's a fucking line out the door for whatever reason, or
there's a crowd or something. I think we said there was no line for
this club, but like there's a huge crowd outside, or you know,
somebody's drunk in puking or something like that, and that's his obstacle, Roderick's
obstacle. So he's going to fail moving forward at all, and so does
Tyson. So you guys, but I think that means if you choose to
that's just everybody. Oh no, it's only if the phrase just chosen.
Yep, yep, yep, yep. Okay, So you guys can choose
to make basically a free maneuver. So I know that Tyson is here now
yep, I'm going to on the calm say uh oh god, we back
up right now, and I'm going to go ahead and call for backup.
Okay, we have to follow that pretty heavily. Let's see LAPD resource requests.
I think it's one for backup, U rest now, backup or suppressed
crime in progress is nothing. It's an instant turking around, all right,
all right, perfect, So you're gonna call for backup. But this is
suppressed crime in progress and not stop a chase, right. This is basically
if shit goes down, you get worried about Renzo than I am about Roderick.
Yep. Okay, So you've called the detective Galen Edwards badge B three
three seven dash four one. We have a replicant insight. Replicant at the
snake pit, repeat the snake pit. We need backup immediately. Replicant is
presumed to be armed and dangerous. What do the other three do specifically?
Yep? Go ahead, Yeah, pursue, I mean yep. I want
everybody to the way through the door. Roll your pursuit options here? All
right? All right, you were able to move one zone forward? All
right, I'll just put myself here like I'm yep, I'm out and I'm
running. So am I still rolling with disadvantage? You're good? You can
roll regularly yep, normal, yep. Quality. I'm going to assume that
that was my turn. Yep, yep, that was like an incidental or
your other options. So Selma, I'm gonna say that you actually move up
here to block him coming back out this way because you saw Skiff go this
way. So all right, Skiff, are you going to move in on
him or you? Yeah? Are there are there people in this hallway besides
me and Ronzo? Roller one? D six yeah A roll a zero mm
hmmmm. Five other people in this hallway? Wow? Okay? Are they?
Are they in between me and Ronzo? Oh? There's five of them.
We're gonna say that there's some people backstage, there's one in between you
and Ronzo in the dressing room heading out of the dressing room. Then,
because I'm honestly just what makes sense to me, Uh, there's probably one
behind Ronzo in the dressing room. Here, I'll put this up on the
screen so everybody can see it. There's probably one behind him. There's probably
two or three in the backstage. Or let's say there's two in the backstage,
and then there's another one in the dressing room. And yeah, some
of them have snakes around their next that's me ye m hm. Just throwing
it out there in case anybody needs an improvised weapon. Yep. Oh you
want to just Oh, I have a survival knife on me. That's true.
The option to do that, okay, so go ahead. One are
the options to stand and shoot? Yeah? Are you going to do that?
Yeah? And I'm going to yell at that person that's that's uh in
the middle of us, if they're by the dressing room, I'm going to
yell, get get back in there, okay, go ahead and roll to
stand and shoot. Pull out the gun. Now. I am not aiming
for like God, I want him alive, but I also am scared of
him. Ye center mass as best I can. Okay, all right,
all right, okay, let's see uh. And then you go to uh
isn't there a tab or fire? Oh no, no, it's down below
there it is, magnum there it is. And then I just pressed arrows.
Yep, okay, push it if you want sixty eight. Does that
mean I fire a second shot or is that still in the first shot.
It's still on the first shot. It means that you are just re rolling
the ability to kit in one shot. You can reroll both of them because
neither was a success. Okay, that's what I'm gonna do. Then yep.
Uh so okay, when it brings up the push thing, you do
plus the D six yep, okay, get them both? Yep okay,
Oh fuck, okay, you fucking with him? Yeah, okay, Renzo
stop fucking don't know what else to do. Yep, Uhrenzo pulls out a
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