It's been a long day and you are now the whole squad sitting close to
the outskirts of the hive city you just managed to gain access to. There
are reasonably distant muffled sounds of battle in the distance, but for the most
part it's quiet. The city especially is quiet. What you have to do
for the rest of the day is essentially decide on watch and get some rest
and probably eat something if you have your rations, or which you do.
All have rations left small fire, not enough to cause much light, but
anyone walking past the building will be able to see it, and the prospect
for tomorrow when you wake up is to make your way through a bomb burned
out, sometimes on fire broken hive city and get to the other side find
your VIP that you're supposed to collect. The lieutenant has kind of laid out
in front of the fire a very haphazard map that he quickly scrolled down when
he met with the captain in the bunker and in the trench line. Gives
you a basic idea of where you're going to be starting from and where you
need to end up. Because of the damage and the destroyed nature of the
high city, the terrain may have changed so and the Lieutenant looks up.
I assume Serge is probably going over the map with him or nearby at the
very least next time, And the Lieutenant says, Sergeant, I think before
we designate watches and bum down for the night, we should discuss how we
are going to maneuver over the terrain, traverse the terrain tomorrow. I was
wondering if you had any thoughts. Well, I don't know how shaky everything
is here, but we can find the good route in. Might be able
to take that route back out? Yes, after the bullshit that happened in
that field, I'm trying to avoid as much open space as we can.
Hopefully it won't be too hard. My biggest concern is a looking down on
us. Mhmm. So what are you thinking about? Even from building the
building? You know I'm gonna jump in and threw one out the other depending
on how much is there, how much is rubble? I think my thoughts
and he kind of like hesitates for a second, is if we divide into
teams of two and navigate possibly the sides of the roads and streets, stay
close to the building so that we can move in if needed. We can
use roads, but not obviously walk down the center of them, which would,
as you suggest, it would still be dangerous. The problem is is
that if we try going through ruined buildings, there's always possibility that's going to
take longer, and also coming to a dead end will slow us down completely.
And time is of the essence. That's true. What we got a
couple of days, right, The captain said he could hold out for three
days. I'm assuming he was including today. All right, Yeah, that'd
be all right. And I think I think sar looking around, how close
everybody is right now? If anyone is close enough to really listen or talk,
since we haven't really sat down and done watches and everything, but I'd
imagine everyone should be close ish right now, right, Okay, So I
think after the eld he says that, like what all y'all think? Hmm,
I believe that will become more of a target if we take the roads.
Full disclosure, I wasn't paying attention, but yes, I mean,
good tear try button whatever you want. I think too. I think Ace
is probably right though, moving targets right in the strategic value And what comes
to the mind first is what also the enemy may be thinking if I'm on
the opposite side, I'm scouting roads, invisible areas, on rooftops, running
through buildings if possible, there's something that I wouldn't be attested too. I'd
be thinking that they're foolish for taking roots something that can collapse on them.
Taking the obvious route can obviously end up making us dead. But you do
what you want, I won't be seen. And he kind of sits back,
all right, what sort of ordinance have we seen around here? Did
we get any of that information before we left? I mean we're looking at
some rubble anyway, So m hmm. Captain said that the city itself has
mostly been abandoned, aside from vague pockets of soldiery and civilians who didn't make
it out. All right, So if we're not having as much of a
likelihood of running into too many people, we can make some time moving forward
on the road. But that's gonna put a lot of pressure on you.
Wais you think you got eyes for that? Me? I'm just saying there's
gonna be a lot of scouting. I mean, that's my job, and
I do it well. It's going to make sure you got it in you.
But of course all right, Well, I'll tell you what do we
do. Take the road. We'll go forward, We'll be careful, we
will move as fast as we can. But I want all y'all keeping your
eyes out for any exit at all times, because if shit happens, you
call it out. I don't I don't care what it is, ther way
window, it doesn't matter. You see it, you yell as soon as
you have shots fired, right m hm, Yes, get us some cover
fast as we can. All right, just a little bit of extra information
I'd like to glean from Ace. Ace, you maybe adjusted your opinion slightly
of war bitch, after it's been a couple of hours now and you were
treated to quite an interesting scene. For me, I'm wondering if at any
point there has been any competitiveness arised a Ace since seeing that kind of tableau
of call it destruction, because I know there's always been a little bit with
retail. Mhm. I don't know if it's competitiveness. I think it's more
of respect being built, the filledness of getting closer to where she is,
becoming more intriguing with her gunplay, which then leuld say in a field of
almost possible friendship, something that he doesn't care for, but will not use
the word because it's too loose, but definitely more of a respect role.
Okay, okay, good tonight, and it doesn't want to make but it's
carveyous. Yeah. Uh, Trooper Length, the elderly gentleman is sitting around
the fire a little bit out of the ways of the kind of people who
are grouped, trying to get the warmth there. It's not freezing cold.
It's not nice for the last day or so while you're traveling, it looks
like the weather's going to be getting worse, and it's distinctly nippy, to
say the least. The hive city is heavily damaged and mostly destroyed. You
do have the essentially you managed to get in to the let's call it the
ground flour of the high cities. High cities go up level level level level
level. A lot of the top of the hive sippit city. He has
collapsed on itself. There's still a few levels above you that seem to be
intact, so you do have a roof over your heads above the buildings and
in the distance. There are a few occasional equivalent of like elevators that take
you up to another level. Unfortunately, the city is depowered, so getting
up there is going to be a pain. The roof is probably a good
A couple hundred meters above you gives a lot of space for tall buildings.
So how about this, I'll take the roofs up. You go with Ootin's
plan, your eyes and ears, and maybe even covered via or a fatal
shot if need being. I can do it alone, but that will require
splitting as a This is your cause. It's not a terrible plan. However,
it may slow you down, and while you'll be able to cover us,
it will make you vulnerable in yourself. We also won't have the benefits
of you taking the vanguard and keeping eyes out for trouble ahead of us.
Perhaps, what do you think? So I can leave before you and scattered
hid and clear out anything that I see that's damaging to our mission, report
back, stay put until you catch up, and then go ahead again.
Yeah, I'm just worried about the the amount of time and doing that over
and over again. M hm. Yes, it is a tactically sound plan.
However, it's time. It's time to the time constraints, all right,
I tell you what, keep that off to the side. We come
to a place that's maybe particularly open, you know, that's when you go.
Now you're talking about doing a bit of two by two sort of thing.
Yeah, hmm, all right, Well, I'm gonna need Valcus and
Posible to be separate because I'm gonna need you to be able to do some
distraction if needed, or just cutting them down, blowing them up, whatever.
But I don't want you right next to each other, so you got
to stay apart. We're being sleeper righted well, just along a road,
but we're still together. She tell you anything, he wasn't me. No
no, no, no, no, no, no, no said nope,
nobody's in trouble anything. I'm just saying that we're gonna need to cover
as much as if we're all grouped up with just one big as target,
and we don't want to be that here. I understand my suggestion, Sergeant
would be pairs of two moving up this as I said, moving up the
sides of the road, with myself as the nerve center. If something happens,
we reconvene on me and set up a defensive perimeter to either enact Ace's
lead frog plan or to defend and push out from that. Also, as
an aside, is this the lt saying he wants to stay back because it
sounds a little a little bit, it sounds it's like it's a good plan.
It is. It is a little bit, That's what it sounds like.
I'm just wondering if that's what I'm picking up on. I would say,
given your time serving with him, give me a scrutiny with a plus
twenty. Okay, let's see that. Well, if the lieutenant is staying
bag, I would love to be his badner. Five degrees of success.
That's very good. Yeah, it may have a small amount to do with
it. I would say, giving your five degrees of success, you know
enough to know that he's not a coward, right, It's he has some
tendencies, some ways, he leans, some ways of thinking. Most likely
it's the thing that sounds the most tactically sound to him, because he tends
to be cautious and not want to go into dangel. However, it's not
intense. It doesn't seem like it's intentionally I want to be safe. Sorry,
Okay, that's fair enough. So maybe he's making it more higher,
edging towards survival in general. So that's that's fair, that's fair, okay,
all right, all right, lt it's a good idea. Like I
said, I want, I want Valcus and possible separate. We can do
teams too. Let's see who we got. We got Link go Hawk mm
hm. Who wants to go with who? And I'm looking at when I
do that, I'm literally looking at Hawk when I say that, Yeah,
I'll go with Hawk. I'm happy to go with Tooever you think his best?
Serge, what do you want for hawkta? What do you want for
Hawk? Uh? I wanted howk, but if you've already climbed him,
it's gonna give. I want a nutrient back. Yeah, well I don't
got any nutrient bars, So then you can just tell me one come with
me, come on, let's good. Well we're not going now right,
I thought we were. Oh no, I think I think it's best of
you spent some time talking about which you attacked. It's going to be you
get right close. It's fine treating bar mhm. Okay you next time hard
remember that takes so Link. I think you're going to be with Valcus and
it's going to be you and me. Oh time with the sergeant. Artistic
learism it'll be all right, of course, So what do you think lt
I think that we're going to be exposed nearly all of the way. H
The real test will be who the denizens of the Hive city are. If
there are a significant concentration of soldiery anywhere, then we're going to be in
trouble. If not, we can deal with random civilians easily enough. They're
not much of a danger. So until we're proved, until it's proven otherwise,
I think we should go cautiously but quickly. And we're going to be
relying on you for that ace m of course. Well, I will be
with Sarge, but not with him at the same time. I'll wear my
cloak. If something happens he was in danger, I'll be able to protect
him and and alert you at the same time. All right, Well,
I will take first watch, so figure out who's taking the rest. I
would like to make a suggestion to one too, off. I don't our
pairs make the watch together, not just one person. It'd be a shame
if something happened to you on this watch. This is better than a four
eyes is better than two, right, agreed? This a good idea.
Well, then I'll take the first watch and in two hours, whoever's relieving
me come and get me serge to sort out the watch rotor for me.
Wuddy, thank you. And he gets up and kind of walks to the
edge of this building. It looks out into the hopes that he can't really
see anything. Even during the day, it's quite dark. It's like dank
and a bit, you know, but right now it's dark dark. Yeah,
all right, mm hm. Any volunteers for the first watch, Well,
I can wait. Oh what what's it? It goes down to a
whisper read to remember back at our old house. Yeah. You can trust
people as far as you can see that. Yeah. I can't see him
very well neither, right Kennedy eye exactly, but I would like to keep
a EyeT on the legit. That's possible, as anybody else get any vibes
from him. I just not christ leadership. Mm hmm. But there's something
that doesn't add up correctly. It starts hearing this or are you away from
me right now? No, he's he's quiet and right next to you guys.
Yeah, I'm I like it. Everybody should be together because he's calling
rolls. Yeah, I'm not trying to start anything. I know how to
read a body. Languages and those languages and they're confusing right now, understood,
all right, all right, now, I'm not saying you wrong him.
What I'm saying is that this is a man in high position. Mm
hmmm, not the sort of people like us, not gonna run in,
not gonna do what necessary and time period. You know, He's gonna be
cautious and back all the time. Oh yeah, So it's good to be
aware of it. Just we gotta walk that line because he is the LT.
I'm not talking about him being cautious. I'm talking about all the other
actions, the secret meetings they're telling us little by little, the visitingness,
the way he stumps his feet and taps his toes and he's being asked a
question, he looks away. He's cheap, jumps nerves, sir, all
over the place. Now, a man of a high position would hold himself
like you so calm, cool, collective, always planning a strategy and thinking
ahead of the speech. Nuts feeling like we're throwing into a hornet's nest.
Well, I think that if we fuck this up, we don't get what
we're supposed to get. It's gonna meet his head immediately. So, and
that's again, that's not something that we shouldn't ignore. Okay, someone who
is someone who is being held accountable like that, considering what this mission is.
It's not wrong being cautious. But I don't expect him to do anything.
No, I'm not worried about him. I mean, look at him.
I'm all worried about those above him. M hmm. Sometimes bad things
trickle down, watered down to us. We're there to clean it up.
So keep an eye on him may help our situation even more if we learn
more of what's really going on here. All right, I'll tell you what
you're good at watching always that been, So keep your eyes on him.
Something comes up, you're gonna let me know immediately anyway. Absolutely, let's
just say that I'm worried more about the lieutenant's safety, all right, even
on them. Then I'll have first watch with the lieutenant at a distance.
I'll take second watch. Yeah, we're good with second watch, right,
did watch it is? Then? Huk right, we'll get some decent sleep.
Them gonna give real good sleep mite. Yeah all right, well all
right, no more, wake me up. I'm ace puts on his cloak
in the darts. Not he's not trying to be sneaky about it. He
wants the lieutenant to see that he's moving in a different direction. And once
he puts his cloak on, he settles and stays on watch. I mean,
Ace has spent literal days in a sniper nest waiting for a CEO of
the b army, anything of interest, just to come into his sights.
And he's done that for days. You know, maybe a quick thirty minute
nap or something, but it's not like you're not used to sleepless nights.
So if you wish to stay up all olite, usually if you don't get
any sleep, there's a little bit of a negative you take for the next
day, a little fatigue. However, in Aces example, we won't have
a negative for not sleeping because fits his personality, his paradoia, and also
his job. Sorry, he'd have been used to it by now. He'll
probably go a little bit longer than the lieutenant, just to watch how the
timine it's holding up, and he's gonna just kind of calculate everything. And
again he is not too he's not thinking that lieutenant's going to do anything.
He just knows that this situation is a lot bigger than what it is,
and he hates being left out, not knowing what the target really is.
It's not suspicion, it's concerned, right, concern and almost suspicion of the
higher ups and what was actually you know, what's actually what we're getting ourselves
into. Yeah, there's no job that he knows or has done. Was
this I want to say messy or hy prioritistic, right, and to him
is not art, and he's trying to make art of it. So,
yeah, he'll stay up a little bit longer and he'll let who's going on
second watch Hawk, He'll let Hawks sleep a little bit longer, and he'll
he'll get up Valcaz first and then let her and then like pass information to
her. Okay, so what we're going to do is to begin with could
you please roll me an awareness ice, Yes, just to see if you
spot anything through your shift and beyond that is undercore, right, this is
whoa I'm great on the windows are moving all right, okay, Okay,
one's a great success, very nice. Past that on your shifts. If
you'd like to have a conversation with your shift buddy, feel free. We'll
have a roll for awareness, just to see if you pick anything up.
I can tell you ace that there is no movement at all, not even
any sound, not even any sounds of like shifting rubble or anyone maybe chomping
through streets or buildings, rummaging. It's just dead. Sorry, you eventually
wake up link and war bitch and they it's it's howken Rita is the third
shift. Okay, So I think he's gonna wake up Balcus first. Ye
before he wakes up, he's gonna go up to her and say, hey,
if you step on, are you gonna have to water? Do you
need? You need to take your shift as well? No, I'm good,
I'm good. God, I think yeah, nothing happened. Silence.
I don't know if that's a good thing a bad thing. Normally, when
things are too quiet, that's when we have to worry the most. But
I believe that this area is so demolitions and no one wants to come over
here and suspective getting injured of some sort. Being out of the way.
Now it's for the lieutenant steal little nervous sticks here and there. But more
so, maybe he's cold. Just keep an eye out for anything. And
if you hear anything, feel free to waken me at any time. I
don't need to leave much. All right, we'll do ye. Sweet dreams.
Mhm, sweet dreams. Like it's like clos wake up, little snore,
like, wake the fuck up? I chucked my boot at him.
Pork and beans? What yeah, pork and beans? Wake up? Not
watched to do? Watch? All right? Sorry? And like as he
kind of like rolls over and pulls himself up, there's like cracking of joints
and stuff. Oh sorry, not as young as I used to be.
Yeah, hear it, and he shoulders his lasgon. All right, let's
get through the boring bit. Yeah, and he's gonna sit down by one
of the windows, just kind of off to the side where you are,
and just stare out the window. And I can tell you right now he
is not going to talk unless you engage him, because he is not a
chatty dude. So, uh, you know anything about what we're doing here?
Game vi ip? Yeah? Did you get any other information by any
chance? Well, planet's voutful, so you know everyone has fucked. They're
getting people off, probably not many. It's probably why we're here. It's
a shame they didn't just hire us to exterminate the place after we pick up
the VIP. Well, they probably will once it's falling a bit more,
you know, Like, do you think I'll call us back? Oh?
Yeah, yeah. Most of the people here we're either going to be dead
or we're going to be killing them when we get back. Fuck yeah,
m hm, you are religious, manly? Oh, worship the Emperor like
any good imperial citizen would. I trust that he protects me, and he
has so far. That's true. You know, I find that good imperial
citizens aren't really good enough sometimes. Well, I mean the amount of time
we've had to go to worlds which have fallen, which are supposedly full of
good imperial citizens fall in to heresy or worse. Maybe one day we'll be
lucky enough to see it all go, all the heretics. I don't even
want to see them burnt. Just it's goad into dust, taken by the
wind. It's a good dream. But then again, when that happens,
who are you gonna shoot? Mm hmm, I like you lank think ahead.
So do you think there's a VIP is? I guess it's a noble
of some kind, you know, coming out onto the fringes, doing a
visit of imperial worlds, making sure they're all to regulation or some bullshit.
Go call up here, sent up a help me please mother, father,
and we got sent in there. Have to pull them out before everything goes
completely to ship. Well. See, I'm not a politician, but it
seems like sending a noble to a world that's about to fall seems fucking stupid.
Well, we don't know it's about to fool when he got here,
right, I guess. I mean, how long has it been since he
got here? Not a question? Do you see anything? No, it's
dead out there. Fucking weird happens. People left behind generally tend to destroy
themselves, fighting over what's left should be all right, and that's you know,
there's a few left who want what we got, but I doubt they'll
have much in the way of weaponry or threat to us. Yeah. Uh,
from focus, please rob me an awareness. Just as you go through
your shift two degrees of failure, I can tell you you don't notice anything,
and it's not like you're not keeping an eye out, but yeah,
to give you an idea, the likelihood of things that you would miss with
a fail would be things like a soft step or a bit of rubble,
you know, but you don't hear anything like that. Sorry, okay,
all right, shall we wake up creepy and scared? Who are you call
him? Creepy? Trito? I think Rita's creepy. I think anyone who's
too friendly is creepy. Yeah, or she's you know, doing you a
favor. Yeah, cool, Yeah, let's wake let's wake him up?
All right? Okay, hey parsiblee Yeah, your turn. You're up.
Gett enough, gett enough? Shut eye? Funny, No, no,
I didn't all right hey huh yes, yes, yes, it's time away.
Yep, sleepy I at the sheaft. Okay, oh, but he
like stands up and starts walking over to to like the little window bit that
looks out into the street. And then take it easy. You're going to
trip in four turns back around, goes back, picks up his lads.
Gun, put the shoulder right you are okay, it's a good little soldier.
Yeah, I yes, not really gotten a chainst really get to know
each other. Well, we talked a little bits and in the drop ship,
did we Yeah, you said you were upset that the mind you put
under my seat didn't go off. I don't remember that at all. Sure
it was me, pretty yes, I think so, yes, pretty pretty
sure I think it happened, mate, I don't remember it right anyway.
Anyway, I wanted to for some for some well, I think any interest
of vulnerability, the interest of really getting to know each other, you know,
forming a bond. What I wanted. What I wanted to do was
really to show you something. Okay, all right, it's my most prized
position. All right, right, Yeah, here's here's the thing, big
one to story two. You know, where me and Asif from Mechanics mete
a cook boy. You know mechinickis. You've seen one in real life?
Uh? We we did have a few in basic training. Yeah, all
right, just to oversee our gear and and bless things. Yeah, real
good at blessing things and mechinic things. So I meet a mechinicis. Yeah,
and he he told me a bit this this uh, this holy piece
of art. It's like you know they take care of art, ancient glyphs
and such. Right, well, he did, he did something for me.
Actually, let me have the chance to ad buy it. I have
in my book get right, the the deed to the ownership this ancient glyph
even got a little copy of it. You want to see it? Just
yeah, sure, sure, all right, here you go. Now I
have the deed of Alian ship right here, and uh it's worth a lot
of money, ton of money. It looks very arcane. It is,
it's very arcane. Can't even understand it. It's genuine old like ancient,
ancient ancient. Anyway, I'm thinking, you know, maybe it's time to
pass it along, you know, make sure it's it's It stays out there,
the title of alien ship. So I wanted to give you a chance,
you know, wanting a grand floor if you if you want it,
you can't tell anyone you have it, you know, you think they might
be interested. I only do this for a friend, right I doubt yes,
I think so, I hope so absolutely follow you in the beetle right
behind you. So what do you say you want? What changed your life
today? I just I don't see what I could have that would equal the
I don't know what are you good cost of something like this? I could
be reasoned with them, open and negotiation. I have a lot of money.
Make you very valuable, you know, very rich. If you look
on the screen right now, you'll see the ancient glyph in all its glory.
Maybe I could keep an eye out for uh uh, you know,
like fallen soldiers. They leave ammunition and things that can be traded. Like
maybe if I can let enough, or you could trade and I could have
the glyph and you could have see I'd be I'd be like your assistant.
What what do you call it scavengery? M m yeah, My old training
sergeant said that often they were called quarterbasters. You are right right, you
know, I think I think we want a deal. Okay, oh why
why did you spend You're spinning your hand in them, so you make a
deal, you know on But I just like that it's gonna be very rich
when we get big and now we clasp hands. Yeah, oh okay,
yeah, it canna be very rich, very rich. That sounds great.
I hope I get the chance to spend it. Absolutely, I'm sure you
will. I've got a mind for these things. Sounds good. I like
you you going places, changing a well, the other side of the home
city hopefully, and then off the planets as well. You don't call it
s giveinging that, you gotta call it repurposing, repubs repurposing, right right,
requisition requisition all about the language you got to use, you know,
yes, but it is basically scavenging. Yes, you can't call it there,
right, okay, yes, yes, requisitioning. Okay, do you
see anything because it's kind of quiet, horseboy, with my little eye awareness,
you got nothing. Yeah, it's quiet or quiet okay. And a
little time passes, probably just Rita keeping up the you know, friendly banter
that she has. Eventually, it's the end of your watch, and it's
not that obvious because you are inside the high city. It is. The
lower flaws are mostly walled, but the small amount of light creeps in for
a little bit little holes essentially, you know, like like sunbeam rays kind
of like highlighting a spire or destroyed building, things like that. And it's
real pretty all right. Time to get everyone up. Oh eyes eyes,
sogege leave. Look, I haven't slept in days, soge I woke you
up. You haven't. You haven't killed anyone on else? Yeah, that's
been even killed anyone in ears. I don't want to do it yourself.
I don't want to wake up ves do it. You won't do it.
It's fine. Before I was wearing a bit no, let Hawk wake her?
What can you give me up? Velius m hm, you have to
do it, Ger, she loves when you wake up. I'll wait.
Look, link isn't top figure. You have to do it. This is
what we all have to do. Length please Lenk tell him that is,
he has not earned his rights yet to give orders. Now use the ear
loops, especially the left one with the scar length. Like wakes up like
the smallest we were moving out right after Hawk wakes up with Algaz sure go
wake up Fucus. Oh okay, like goes forward, like gets the barrel
of his lads gone, and just kind of like the left ear lob left.
Yes, the right one will get you killed, the left one will
get you sweet whispers in your ear. I'm not sure I want sweet whispers
in my Absolutely you do. Have you seen Valkis? Yes, a prayer
to might keep you alive on the battlefield as it does for her. Well,
I'm just hello, wake up LEAs and just kind of like put pressures
over the bottle of his gun. That's not good. Mm hmmm, Sage
m hm. He's got like a completing look of like I need assistance,
I need adults. He's hitting her lady, and I'll walk, I'll get
next to him, but I'll be like, go on. It's not how
to wake people up, but I'm there just so she does go off on
him. I'm telling you left hair lowge mm hmmm, she might kill you.
Well that's true. You don't use your gun, you use your finger.
Mm hmm okay great. He like he like crouches down and puts his
finger on Vocus's shoulders, like taptop from from focus. Wait, wake up,
wake up with sant Yeah please? Uh huh. He like jumps up
a little bit. It's like Jesus moving so fucking fast. What the fuck?
Mm hmm Are we good? Are we ready to go? And the
lt has broken up himself at this point, and it's yes, sir,
everyone grab your gear. Uh, get ready to move out. You'll be
moving in the teams you were on watch with, aside from obviously, as
you will be with the sergeant instead of with me. Yes, all right,
serge on your call, Yeah, all right, as soon as everybody
is ready, let me know. Yeah, basically kick some dirt over the
fire to to snuff it out. It was kind of embers anyway, because
you know people on watch kept it lit and it was close to the end
of the watch and grab your girl. Everyone kind of like limbers up.
There's a little bit of cracking from length as he essentially just goes like this
and you hear and you're ready to go. Yeah. I think Serge is
probably like we can eat as we go, you know, like worried about
the time itself. Yeah, shove it in a swallow and then sorry,
go on. All right, So you are heading off in teams of two,
you're going to be fairly close together heading down the sides of the road
as opposed to through the buildings. But if at any point you want to
jump into a building, there are ruined buildings and places to essentially take cover
as you go down the road. This road essentially there are times when you're
when it will be indicated to go left to go right by the lieutenant's map,
but we will assume that you know those things are taken. So for
now, the first thing I need, please will be for Sage and Ace
to roll me in awareness as we go. Aces also under his cloak see
just a future reference awareness. Okay, one degree of success, face four
degrees of success for so much nice? Yeah, it's quite quiet. As
you get deeper, even smaller sounds can echo. It's probably there are moments
when you hear a dislodging of rubble and something kind of crunches down. There
are instances where a disconnected bit of electricity that still partially powered, crackles off,
often the distance somewhere like a spark of light. And but you don't
see any signs of life. And it's not enough to worry you yet you
carry on. Take a left, take a right, go down a long
stretch of road. You go for thirty minutes, forty minutes, keeping your
eyes out until soge and ace. At this point in time, you're going
past the crossroads. This is always a much more tricky proposition. You essentially
have to check your left and right and go over the road. The problem
is is any train soldier will let the first couple go past and catch them
in confusion when the center people go past. So you make it up across
no problem, and essentially give a signal okay, next to go over,
next to a go over doesn't seem to be too much of a problem.
But roll me in awareness please both of you. Okay, So sage,
you've got one degree of success. Ace, you've got three degrees of failure.
Still no sign of anything too bad. You swivel around, everyone's cross
the crossing, no sign of danger. But you always get that little skip
of heartbeat moment when it's like, are we gonna get a shot at no?
Okay, keep going, And it's as you turn and keep going in
that kind of like almost almost not on purpose, relaxing of that was tense.
Now we can keep going. Ace, please roll me a scrutiny with
a plus twenty sure three degrees of success. There is a shadow right in
front of Sarge as you're walking forward and in front of you, just so
imperceptible running across the the uh this road, it's like a line and it's
kind of like mostly covered. It looks like a trip one. Ace will
dart in front of the sarge in like like an analyst. Yeah, it
just pops his hand out in his clock will shimmer and you'll see his hand
kind of come out and he just holds up two fingers signaling that there's a
wire something thin in front the rest of you. Please rob me at awareness.
So that's well, bitch, and reata please it's see anything when you're
stopping where let's cat quiet. I'm sorry, Yes, an obstacles in front
of us. No telling that this multiples. I don't think one will be
the intended round. We might have to be extra careful going from here down
there. So as everyone else kind of huddles to the side, you kind
of go down. I'll count your scrutiny for kind of carrying on this.
You can kind of crouch down and look at this trip. Essentially, it's
a double trip. What you have is you have a slightly more obvious one
and then behind it you have a less obvious one that's actually painted darker tones
to hide behind the first one. If you notice the first one, you
step over it and step on the second one. I'm assuming you want to
like follow the line to see where leads. Yeah, he's kind of like,
very very low. He's almost excited because to him this is beautiful.
Noticing that the person that set this up wasn't just an amateur putting one wire
and going through the pain of attaching a thinner one that's darker color. He's
more he's very intrigued with it. So, yeah, he wants to follow
this wire all the way to the source. Okay, as you go towards
it, Sarge, the lieutenant signals to you, like he's on the other
side of the road, so you have to Yeah, I'll be doing this,
you know, like just immediately, just so you're going over to lieutenants.
Yeah, as soon as well, as soon as I see him stop
because if he keeps going forward, oh no, no, like evil Evil
stopped and you're kind of like on each side of the road. He's just
on the other side of the road to you, so he kind of gets
your he gets your attention, like, signals you over. Yeah, I'll
come over. I'll fill them in, be like, because because Ace relayed
everything while we were over there, and we get some triple wire situation.
Ace is looking at it right now. I saw a couple of shutters in
that direction. Okay, when when we stopped, they shifted away from the
doorway, and he points over kind of back a little bit of some way
you kind of already walked past. It's over the other side of the crossroads.
Very small, small. I think if we where we are now,
if we move around, we can probably pencil them and capture them before they
know that we've seen them, all right, So just just be clear.
He saw these shadows up ahead behind where you just went right, all right,
Ace, just to keep you up to date. Essentially, the two
wires both lead to depp pacts essentially explosive like TNT. They are buried under
a lot of rubble. The rubble is quite small, so it looks like
the desired effect is a mixture of confusion and chaos with the explosion and also
death by debris. Essentially, shrapnel created from the explosion would kind of rip
apart into a group of people who were walking. Okay, I'll just go
up to me and kind of whispered to him. So it's like excellent artistry
environmental destruction leading to possible bleeding out starvation trap, you know, lessen with
too much damages. But this could have been a lot better. He's ultimately
disappointed. Yeah, if you were, if you were to want to diffuse
it, it's possible with Rita. Rita has a decent knowledge of explosives.
But it's easy enough to circumvent and go past without triggering it. Like there
won't be a role or anything. Yeah, if it was, if it
was more of a beautiful display of chaos and like death upon whoever would have
touched that, he would have been he would have got read involved. But
he got so disappointed he kind of just mopes back and walks over the wires
and everything without even looking because he like kind of like memorized where everything was,
and he's just like he goes up to read it and like the size
and like mopes and kind of like drops his head. Oh why he swore,
Amita. I thought that they had something good going on. Yeah,
the explosively stupid images with the dumb, imature heads. You want to kill
them. I think they'll kill themselves. The way they strung up those explosive
packs and the stupid environmental they expect us. And you want to come this
way to just step on these cords and die to debris. Horrible? You
know what? All you know it would get him back? What if we
took these explosives, pickached them up and then shove them real far inside their
iuses, find them, shove the explosives in there. Mm hmm, did
get him back? Just you want to take them, I'll take him just
as a note for Youta, because this is things. You You can diffuse
the the explosives if you like, you have the time and you have the
The other thing you can do if you want is to essentially re trigger the
the explosives so that when someone comes to retrieve them, instead of like disarming
them, they'll just explode. You won't be to detonate them. No,
So essentially it would make it so that when they come to retrieve them,
disarming them, it would explode. I got a better idea. Why don't
I do these? I could set it up right so that when they come
and check on them, they just blow up in the vices. Wouldn't be
funny, So you reverse in the effects of what they're trying to set up
exactly. They come back and check on them, and then right in the
face like kind of calculates, Yes, pretty sticky. That would make me
very happy, And yes, I think that's great. You want to learn
it to do it show, I'll definitely come with you and watch. Where
can I watch you? Sure? Just you sip bick a little bit.
I'd be sure not to step on that right there. I'm not going to
miss up, you know, but Gibbs, she has a heavy gun on
her. I just don't want her to make a misstep on the thinner wires.
So you watch as Rita goes forward, pulling out a few little tools
from her carapace of like just now, normally, when you're got to do
one of these bond diffusals and real reacquirings, the wires are all colored.
You see color blind. Say, hey, do you take the difference.
It's the thickness of the wires. Really, you gotta regular marine a little
bit which one not just kidding, And in a little bit of time,
Rita has switched the diffusal mechanism with the trigger mechanism, so that now if
anyone walks over the trip wires, nothing happens. But if they come in
and try to remove the bombs, they will immediately up. I say,
and that was beautiful. We will while that is going on. Soge you
and the lieutenant. If you'd like to bring anyone else with you, you
can. The lieutenant is intending essentially on you and him basically moving in conjunction
and going in both doors where he saw the shadow, so that there's no
way for them to get out. Yeah, I'd bring Link with me.
I would have called him over, especially while they're doing all this stuff.
Yeah, we might, we might have some friends nearby. So we're just
gonna our heads in, take a look around or your soge you want me
cover it? Yeah? Yeah, you keep your head on a swivel.
What is this such? And he kind of takes up position behind you,
ready to follow in and basically cover you. And lieutenant says like he like
hitches his ball pistol says, all right, sergeant, are you ready to
try? Yeah, I'll take a point. So I got my gun out
and I'm moving in. Okay, move forward, Uh roll me in awareness.
Let's just see if you can pick up any signs of movement or or
anything like that. Okay, yeah, little scuffling, maybe like a rock
shifted by foot. Just and both you and lieutenant move up with length covering
and you get to the door and the lieutenant heads to the other door.
It's like a it's like a corner on the corner of the of the crossroads.
A lot of the building itself has fallen in, but there's a decent
space with with doors and like a little pile of rubble, and there's there's
a reasonable open area inside as you are at the door. Please roll me
your agility all right? Is that the acrobatics specifically, just the straight agility,
but the straight agility, please, and no word there it is.
Okay, that is a critical failure. I'm going to use a fa I
can give you this right now. Okay, all right, it is not
dangerous. You will fail at something, but I can tell you that there
isn't anything that is imminently dangerous in this failure. All right, let's fail.
Okay. You are good at survival, which is possibly why when a
small figure bolts out from the door, you're not really expecting it, because
essentially you're used to things attacking you, not running from you, and it's
it's kind of a different thing. So essentially what you have is, as
you're about to go through the doorway with the lieutenant going through the other doorway,
figure really small, kind of like just above hip heights almost maybe maybe
a bit taller, just and takes off running. You can hear like the
flap of their feet they're not wearing any shoes, like up of their feet,
going down the streets away from the crossroads where you just came. At
the same moment as the lieutenant has breached the door and says there's one in
here, sergeant, it's a child. And trooper lenk like racist is las
gone? You hear the like click of powering up, and it's essentially should
I take the shot, serge? And lieutenant says, take a shot where
you are? The lieutenant says, I've got this one, sergeant. If
you want to go after the other one, all right, I got it.
Do you want to like to take a shot? Yeah? Because I
think that I know, I know what the mission is and I can't I
can't allow even a kid to pass any information anywhere. I can't do it.
So yeah, yep, ye, all right, so that is short
range half aim. He's gonna send me auto this Okay, he takes a
shot, he hits twice. I will give it chance to dodge as this
as as the probably child is like running back and forward. Oh no,
that's not a dodge, and therefore we go to damage. Yeah, quick
rattle of lasgon fire down the street and the figure falls not moving. At
the same time, you hear a little strangled sound from inside the building.
Right, I guess i'd move into Is this where the lieutenant is or is
this a weather? Lieutenant lengths a little bit further back, like covering you
both. Okay, the strangling sound does it sound like the lieutenant can tell.
Yeah, it's called a gurgly, all right, as soon as I
guess, as soon as i'd hear it, I'd move in carefully. But
I move in as you start moving in, another small figure like runs at
you, essentially trying to get either trying to get past you or trying to
go at you. Do I notice any weapons in either hand? When they
do? Are they wearing a cloak? No, just kind of raggy shirt,
trousing, anything that could cover anything underneath already? I mean they might
be hiding a knife for a club or something, possibly, but all right,
but not explosive, right, I mean, like I no, my
concern, No, Like there's not enough covering to cover something complicated and large
like that. All right, I'm gonna try and grab them. In this
instance, there's no competition. You can grab them. Okay, let's grab
them. And they're kind of like swinging and grunting and and swearing and threatening
to burdy you and eat you and like a whole load of stuff like that
essentially, right, I just hold them for a minute and then am I
still hearing the gurgling? Or now? Yeah, it's kind of all right,
so I'm gonna hold onto this guy and drag drag him forward person or
whatever looking for the gurgling. Yeah, as you go forward, it's easy
enough. In the corner, lieutenant's knife sticking out of his neck. It
looks like he's just about a life for fox sake, like coffin blood and
uh is there any chance for him just looking at it? No? All
right, I shoot him? Yep, gun, girls up, echoes real.
The kid's still like swinging and kicking at you and swearing and yeah,
uh I turned the gun everyone everyone, and drop him. Yep. Down
he goes and Link like you hear Link's footsteps like running up and like so
does everything? Oh shit, yeah, oh t dad, yeah stupid Oh
Ace is gonna love this all right? All right? So I think after
that, if there's nothing here, then we're just walking out. Should we
grab his gear? Already on it. Rita's already picking through the pockets of
both of the bodies. Is there anything good in there in either one of
them? Let me just have a quick look. Ah, on the kid,
there's absolutely nothing. The lieutenant has a new knife, but it's in
a snack. Is it a good knife? No, it's really shit,
it's like almost a bottom knife basically coins food of any cut. So there's
the cognomen tags, which I'm essentially like dog tags, which I imagine you
take solge. Yeah, I would take that. Anything it shows rank off
of them, anything that anyone else could pick up and use. It's it's
worth while mentioning. I imagine you'd remember what he showed you earlier on the
truck. Yeah, so you may want to, like because because you're there
first, you can one hundred percent grab that before Rita has a chance to
goblin all over the lieutenant. Yeah, I oh so sorry, such,
Yeah, you take whatever of your own? Is it good? What is
it? That's nothing? Take the badge, secret it about yourself. Yeah,
it's fine, okay, thanks, fine, Yeah, anything of rank,
like I said, anything that anyone could pick up and try and use
against someone else. I don't think it would happen, but I'm probably just
routine, you know at this point. Yeah. Also, just as a
note, that was a pretty loud echo gunshot, especially the bold pistol.
Alat's gone too, but it's not quite as loud that the bold pistol like
echoed all across the the thing. Yeah, all right, So if there
are more people here, they may know roughly where you are. Mm hmm.
For Rita, there are two fragrenades, two smoke grenades, a bolt
pistol with five mags. Two weeks. Sorry about a week and five days
of combat substance rations. So smoke, smoke grenades, two frag grenades,
a week worth of rations, a week and five days? Okay? Five?
A week of rations? Was that it? Bolt pistol with five mags.
Stop five grooming kids, rechargeable lamps, sleep bag, blankets, mess
kit and water canteen, sets of basic tools, sling bag, flack,
armor, knife, poor weather gear and his uniform. That's good essentially everything
that you have. Hark, waits how give me here? Yes? Yes,
it's still hot. Why is it that I got here before you?
Well? I was watched that. Yes, oh oh is that the lieutenant?
It's not important? He Why don't you help this for me? What
happened to me? It's complicated? You just hold this? Yeah, he
looks dead. Is he dead? He's very dead? Yeah, Wade,
he's dead. The lieutenant. That's who killed the lieutenant? Is it you?
No? No, no, what to speak to me? I'm shocked,
in a poll. Listen, listen, listen. What was that loud
noise? That was me? That was me? Listen, my big heart
got to me. I took the lieutenant out a little too fast. It
was loud. We need to get going as fast as possible. He was
dying anyway, he was dying anywhere. How did he die? You look
at him? He had it in you nice, I know. So yeah,
at this point, I'm sure stopped by a kid by kids, the
lieutenant. Actually, then, well, I guess we should start favor my
child. You should start calling our set the lieutenant now promotion it is,
Oh, don't give me that ship? All right? So I said it.
You think Sarge would stupid low? Yeah, I work for a living.
Now, come on, I don't think he's super low. I think
he did as a favor. I'm going to assume that this banter is carried
out as you are gathering up gear getting ready to move. Oh yeah,
yeah, now they're there's probably fucking so jovial right now. Now we see
this every day. It's like, ye and I love it as you are
kind of joking and bantering. Obviously, Hawk is a little bit more shaken
out and not quite so jovial, and he's we will take a break.
Here. Along the Sword Coast, at the northwest of Fehrun and the Forgotten
Realms lies the city of Luskin. It is known as the City of Sails
and was once a bustling city, but now it's a shadow of its former
self. It is a place where pirates, thieves, smugglers, and the
Host Tower of the Arcane Brotherhood reside. Snow falls and a cold wind blows
across the port, and such a thing as not unusual in the month of
Nighthall. However, on this day, a strange figure stares pressed fallen as
the doors to the host Tower closed in his face. Table story presents Ry
of the Frosty. Dear miss mister right, we are pleased to inform you
that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Sorry,
moving on, chatting Sage. You're in charge now, essentially, and as
you carry on, I'm assuming you're not taking a beat. You know,
you're not like pausing here and reorganizing things essentially. Well, that's not true,
so I know what the elt was trying to do before. Yeah,
Nerve center, we're essentially doing the same thing as we were before, but
I might have Ace a little bit further ahead of me, just so I
can spread out a little bit. But yeah, there's so much change he
can recon further and then yeah, it's really all right, Ace as you
go. How did you feel about lieutenant concerned? Mm hmm. It felt
that that lieutenant was getting a little soft nerves to get into him. He's
on his expliration date of being in the field. Not so much as a
dying wish, but more of a everything was slowing down with the lieutenant.
When you have something a week link in your chain, you can bring the
whole chain down essentially. So he's more so concerned about the team, his
safety, and the more importantly should the lieutenant even be here to begin with.
Yeah, essentially, a lot of what he did was leave things to
the sergeant. Well that does now is give the power of command to sogereant.
It means it doesn't have to go through the lieutenant. Right, So
he's he's not sad. He've seen this happen all the time. Yeah,
he was just like in his head, he's like, what a non artistic
way to go. It's kind of like disgusted it's kind of lame. Okay,
Well, carrying on, it's a good forty more minutes of heading down
and through and left some right, and there's an occasional pause you have to
you know, you hear some rubble shifting, might be people walking through,
you never know, kind of hold your hand up and everyone stops. You
investigate. Turns out you know it's rats, or it's just the shifting of
rubble, because rubble does that shit. You clear it and then essentially move
on. After another good forty minutes or so, you're holding your hand up
for a different reason, which is there is a giant hole in the ceiling
hold come into view gradually through the darkness of the high city. This place
is big, but you've been in hive cities before, so you're used to
it in that respect. There's essentially a large section of the floor that has
fallen and crushed some buildings and essentially formed like a rubble ramp up to the
next floor. Yeah, it's just kind of points up. Yeah, it
doesn't really say much. Yeah, Sarge, you can see that. Yeah,
I see it. So for your additional info on everything, forty k
this level of a high city is kind of like the ground level a lot
of residential. The higher up you go, the more the shorter it is,
and the smaller it is, and the more affluent it is. So
the higher you go, the richer people are and the more crap they have.
The problem is is going by the map and going by the intel.
You had the VIP year after was on this floor and he was like at
the edge of the wall, like a breach in the wall, like holding
that breach. So the option is there to go up level might be an
easier time of it. There's more light up there, there's less likely to
be you know, more people, but you'd have to find a way back
down, and you you know, right, uh, all right, So
with us all stop, and I think i'll, after making sure that we're
safe as we can be, I'll probably bring everybody together, go through all
of it, talking about options and then look around, what are we thinking.
Pork's like kind of staring off by in his owned little world a little
bit, but he's he's you know, what are we thinking? Well,
might have an easier way going forward, but coming back, I mean,
we're doing all right on time? Actually, how are we doing on time?
It feels like we moved through at a pretty okay pace. You're moving
through at a good pace. By this, you should get there maybe an
hour or two before somedown. Yeah, okay, yeah, I see.
We're worried about getting there and then worry about getting out when we have to
get out. But I'm not a strategist or a sergeant. No, no,
no, this is good. This is good. You're not wrong,
and they're fast as good just coming back out. You know how difficult it
can get. So anybody else m hm, Well, we do not know
if the package is alive or dead, in my correct, that's correct.
That's going to improve some obstacles that is being on both which if the package
is alive or are they in any kind of condition to be able to trick
back if the package is dead, the size of the package matters, or
in if who carries it, and or if well this is a trap or
not seeming that we don't even know. All right, So you're saying you're
thinking slower way, or we can guarantee or at least to some degree,
our way back. Well, I'm thinking more of planning our way while we're
going there. That way we can plan an escape route instead of just going
and hoping for the best. All right, Link, what are you thinking
if there's anyone looking for us, then we're gonna have to foll him at
some point, and if everyone's dead, then heading up and off a level.
I don't think it's gonna help us much either way. But that's just
me pers of what what do you think I'm gonna be awner to the sage?
It makes no difference to me or Hawk, since we have one mind
now right right? All right, Hawk, Well I want to ask you
then, all right, well we won't go up? What are we thinking
they're good and good with our such? Yeah, I was just gonna say,
I mean, I don't know about you, Ice, but you know,
to have advantaged point for somebody, you know, Yeah, absolutely,
I mean yeah, I agree, M Maybe I can, as we just
said, have advantage over the situation. If I maybe I should go up,
And I don't know, it's up to you, Sage. I don't
want to split up too much or have any influence over this, knowing that
I do not know what I'm getting myself into, and that's been the problem
all along. Here he goes up, we'll be terribly split, right,
not really any or many holes looking down. Sorry, that's fair enough.
Yeah, all right, sit together, we'll keep going for the way we
are. Then hold the front. M all right, let's get back to
it, wrote your sorge. So you keep going, yeah, down the
roads, following the map. Every now and then again, distant noises cause
quick delays, just making sure you're not walking into anything. You don't see
any more traps, possibly that was one just left over from when they were
defending the city, or who knows. So it feels empty as we're going
forward. I guess, I guess I should say this doesn't feel like a
necessary choke in any way. Okay, to give you an idea, like,
it really varies from planet to planet, but high cities can be the
size of like circumference wise, the size of New York or bigger. So
when it's empty, it really feels empty. So even if there are people
around, they could be you know, so far up. Yeah, okay,
yeah, something like the pistol shot will echo through a fair distance.
So but being able to triangulate that, I was getting ready to say,
it's gonna be really hard bouncing off all those walls. So yeah, fair
enough, So you keep going another hour already seeing much of anything. Ace,
Can I get another awareness please, sage, you're quite far up front
too, right, Yeah, awareness from YouTube? Please? M h,
there we go, Ace. You hear the shifting of rubble again and rocks
bouncing down off some sounds like to your right, a bit down a ways
in some buildings. Four degrees of success with this one. You do hear
a secondary shift of rubble that's more like little bits, like someone walking over
it instead. It's close enough that you would say hottel, But you would
say that if they aren't aware of you now, they maybe soon if it
is people which isn't one hundred percent conformed. So do you hear that about
forty five degrees to the right eastward there is some shifting in rocks unlike our
own, a little bit more then I would like to admit to be a
safe route. It might be someone or something in that direction too far off
to tail, but we might want to step up a caution and have our
arms ready just in case. All right, I'd probably relay the potential threat
to everybody. Yeah, say, I don't know what's up there, but
there's there'd be something, So everybody on your guard. Don't post up yet
what sounds such? And let's keep going, but let's try and be quiet
about it, taking a slightly more steady pace and just a well, okay
in this instance, could everyone please rob me awareness. That's a degree of
success from Rita. I think that's the first awareness test you've passedport on.
Uh. Five degrees of success. Five degrees of success for Ace, one
degree of success for von Valkis, and four degrees of failure for the such
all over the plath. Yeah, essentially, Ace, you hear this first,
Von Valcas and Rita you hear this a bit fainter and a bit less
clear. But a little bit after Ace starts to hear it. Where is
it. It's got to be around here, somewhere. I mean, we
heard it not that long ago. Let's just keep looking. Essentially the echoed
mumbling of I mean for five degrees of success A, I'm going to give
you the numbers as well. It seems to be about six or seven people.
It sounds like they're searching for the people who made that control. Immediately
a kind of goes in like a snake pattern. He doesn't stick to one
path. He circles himself around and he perks up, and his cloak is
over him and right now, immediately he darts almost like a bloodhound, darts
in the direction and slowly points his gun as a signal to everybody that yeah,
there's danger, and he'll hold up his and he'll go like without speaking.
Yeah, And this is the type of thing that you guys train.
You guys have fought enough together to know exactly what's going on. And we
can assume that you actually action stations, post up, post up, yep.
So something I need, if I can, if I can get what
does the terrain look like that we're in right now, rubbles piles, any
anything like that. So it's essentially a straight shot a street. It's it's
gonna it's gonna take you on. You've got a couple more turns, like
depending on if there's anything that's fallen across the road, which has happened a
few times, you may have to divert, but mostly a straight shot for
the next hour will take you to your general area of where you need to
be. Okay, and for the any debris in the road and open doorways,
any anything like opened doorways, ruined houses, but not destroyed houses,
so there's cover there, and there's places you can essentially like honker down for
a bit if you want to wait. And then in the road there is
bits of fallen building like you know, kind of but they walk around the
ball. If you need cover, they'll suffice for cover. Okay, um,
this is so stupid. There's a book you give me here for a
minute. Yes, such, what can I do it for? I got
two questions? Yeah, one you got anything? I can make a small
popping noise, just a small popping noise, almost like gunfire. Really,
just a smart one. Don't do it now. I'm just asking you got
something like that. I don't know. HOWK do we have something like that?
Hawk? You're grenades? Think hook Think what makes a popping noise?
HOWK? Come on? Explosives? Yeah, we have lots of explosives here.
We can do it. Oh. I thought the swords said that that
was a bit loud. Here we can make him small air? HOWK?
All right? Can we Is there any bodies? Any dead bodies lying around?
Do you see any hawk nor? Yeah? Alright, lieutenants like there
are always there? All right? Yeah, we can make a small popping
noise if you are looking for a distractive noise. Rita, Yeah, rita,
you can rip rip out the detonator essentially the ignition in your in your
grenade launcher, with a lot of things that can make a tiny popping noise.
Yeah, and you get those. You got a friendsy gin, you
got when those ready to go, never leave, have him with it.
It's sad. They need it remotely. Yeah, you said a timer.
Do we have a remote anyway? And you're big remote remote? Remote?
Didn't either? No, like this one? Yeah? Oh wait, there
it is. I got it right here. It's armed. That's not mind
such, it's fine, it's fine, all right. So this is what
I'm thinking. We can get them to come in this direction. Now,
we're gonna pile back a little bit. There's a little empty little building right
there. We can get a Papa noise go off. Get a few of
them close enough. You've set that off. Maybe they take care of themselves.
Oh you want me to drug them? Yeah, absolutely good. Only
you hear a very soft fucking from so web beehind you kind of heart.
Right, we're gonna be using fringis in today. Mites. You know what
it means, masks on? Yeah, yeah, possible, doesn't put a
mask on UH is essentially up something not too far up, but he's up
something enough to be able to watch cover and hand signals. I want to
say, they don't know how multi story building that has been completely it's a
little bit tricky, essentially, Roman athletics with a plus twenty A failure essentially
means that it's just going to take you a bit longer to get up there.
You may not be up in time to cover them, depending on how
they do this. Oh he's nice athletes sucks great? Yeah, you got
there. Three degrees of success pretty good. So yeah, you essentially make
your way up. It's kind of like a corner of a building that's still
standing, and essentially the higher the floors go, the less floor they have,
so you can essentially jump from one and pull yourself up. That's why
acrobatics doesn't work on that, because that's a lot more athletics than acrobatics.
Yeah. Yeah, you post yourself up in the corner. Got a nice
little divot that you can kind of expand a little bit. Put your rifle
on night day it is day, but there's not that much light that comes
through, so no sense. It's why the why the collapse ceiling. Took
a while to see because essentially slowly it comes out through the gloom to you.
Okay, well you can't in the signal via sun. So the radios,
Yeah, we have the radios. I need to I want to make
any noise. He's gonna relay back to the sage. Yeah, absolutely,
looking for us your performance with your pistol earlier as attracted as some fans.
I'm singing, hearing thinking about anywhere between five to seven individuals. What do
you want me to do? Let's keep walking on from now. We're gonna
try something. Can you get down easy when well, if things go down
the way we need, can you get back to the street best? Oh?
Yes, all right, the fastest way is to fall. I'm just
kidding, all right, So I think I will go over to parsible.
Almost done? Such war witch? Yeah you got any more gum and more
the delicious drugged up gum. Sure take a little piece of it. He's
just pretty right nice. Ugh, it's gonna break it around the water perfect?
Oh? It such? So you uh we gave the popping what a
timer? Yeah, it's a little tiny kid. As to this, it's
gonna make a sound like a gun, and then the frings age and nighters
set to this little baby. All right, Roland, all right in this
rubble here, everybody sees where it's it, right, We're not gonna touch
the piece of rubble, all right, watching you hook. So I would
try and find an area far enough away upwind if there is any but enough
away. Yeah, I know it should be dead air, but it is
pretty well. I would find a place up enough away from it so that
we don't have to cross it in the direction and we have to go to
try and get us as hidden as possible, let's see, And I would
have falcus. I would have you get ready, but pull yourself to the
side as much as possible. I know, wan't you being seen? All
right? And then I'll have a howkin link. Stay back. You're gonna
stay back with me right now. We just need a little noise. Have
them come in this direction, not the popping noise yet. You think at
that point of me and tell me how loud is my my my chainsword?
Yea, from where they are where we think they are right now, it's
not massively noisy, but in this silence, it's not quiet. So it
will broadcast around a fairly large area. But also it's consistent, so you
can keep it going and it will allow them to, you know, be
a bit more clear about where you are. So perfect goods. Yeah,
so in a fire up the ripper stick such, Yeah, I think I'm
going to a little bit ace. Can you do me favor? And this
is your discretion. You know where we are and you know the direction they're
gonna be coming from. I'm gonna use my chainsword to start some noise.
Now. I need you to keep eyes on and I need you to tell
me when to turn it off. Is what I want them to do was
come down here, not nowhere in this building, but no, it's from
this area. Okay, I got you absolutely as well. You're gonna be
ready on my signal. You're gonna make the popping noise when they're in the
right position to hear it. Okay. Well, the popping noise is on
a time as such, So I'm gonna have to be out here set the
timerh maybe ten seconds if it's and didn't run away. Mmmm hawk, Huh,
she's wearing too much. You're gonna have to do this OSNA show,
all right, Hawk, It's real simple. You're gonna take this part,
twist you round, make sure it's only this this angle here, all right,
then you're gonna let it dan gently damn throw it because it's very explosive.
All right. Okay. If it starts ticking, it's working. If
it's not ticking, not working, probably all right, okay, all right,
all right, So Hawk, what you're gonna do is after excives me
the signal that they're gonna be getting close, you're gonna be You're the one
that's gonna be running out. You're gonna do this, tells you to do
it. Okay, so you make sure you pay attention. See if we
can get this in motion, I will be your DM from now on.
Oh, you have lost a sheep dog. Luckily I know how to run
only war at the most pivotal time. Ok I told you the other why
it's going to be at the angle night. Please hold while we try and
contact sheep Dog. Soon his internet dropped. Yep, his power flicked on
enough. Oh that's fine. I think maybe it wasn't me, it was
your fault. I think if we were to blame anyone, I think if
anyone was siphoning power from sheep Dog's house, Arsaal sub Wilson, are gonna
mind my ancient glyfs? Might she's super powered the chain sword to make more
noise. It's going to be the loudest thing in the world. Wow,
yeah, it would be a good Actually, if you are all in fact,
I guess Aaron, you are going to have to do the chainsword dot
MP three noise because I don't have one. So if you can on prepare
that now frightens me that you'd seem to have it opening up as folder weapon
noises. It's fine. I just have to switch Naudio social fast and use
all my brain power immediately. So it's fine. It's fine, it's fine.
I'm fine. The sometimes sheep dog will say things to me like I
need a chain sword sound, and I go, no, idea, what
that is chain saw sound? I really thought, No, the thing is
I don't I wish I did. Is it just a chainsaw sound? I
don't know. Essentially it will be okay, but with like chucking some sounds
of like swords, I don't trust that. It isn't like uh, like
there's griffins in this and they aren't animals. No, hyah, Yeah,
that's that's a change. That's a chain saw. That's gonna be what it
is. You're in charge of a sword, all right, that's the only
thing you're in charge of yourself. Yourself. Okay, done, He's back
everyone, and now we return to our regularly scheduled chain sword. Thank you,
your love. You're pissed out for a moment, hark. I thought
you were done for I think I saw the emperor. You got binging nees.
Mate, Right, so the plan is set mm hmm, everything is
ready, hope. So m hm okay, all right, mhm sorry,
who's setting off the noise? Oh? I'll be doing that. So I
really up to and be like, all right, you tell me when they
turn this thing off. All right. When you are here, we go
echoes through the hive city and immediately you hear that way wait wait over there
and the stomping of feet at ace. You even see some shadows moving through
some of the houses heading towards the main street, like further down and in
range s I can see their shadows. You can ease up on your and
then coming down the street towards you, you can see a group of figures
like they're not trying to be quiet, really they're essentially gripping beams of wood,
pipes, hammers, just general every day debris that can be wielded like
a weapon. And they have like a very drawn, desperate look to them.
It's enough to assume probably civilians or deserted soldiers who just you know,
been here for too long, sage before you do anything drastic. These do
not look like threats by all means. They look like they'll probably end up
taking themselves out eventually. You're cool? Mmm all right, now fuck it
just in case I don't want coming up behind us. Understood, I will
clean up whatever mess that does not get hand, all right? Perfect?
Also, all right, So I'm gonna need hark. I'm gonna need you
to run out before they get here and do what you need to do.
And as soon as the ship goes down they start doing what they're doing,
we need to hall ass because it's gonna make a lot of noise, right
soldier already, such, all right, get out there, I mean the
scene. Okay, So hawk has the good detonation gradade the Prendigen is it
no, no, Forensigen's already in the rubble he's putting Is he like hucking
it? Or is he placing it. I know you're gonna do it quietly,
gently, just turning the thing, pup it in on the grand gently
because it's explosive. Get the hell Yuh So Hawk runs forward with his kind
of like trying to you know, it reminds you very very slightly of Ace
except for dumb badly he's not super stealthy. And he goes and he kind
of weaves. He gets it there and he like starts fiddling around a little
bit and let's just have a little bit of a sea of just don't roll
a critical face here and we should be fine. Yeah, it doesn't take
him long at all. Actually, once he's there, he manages to set
it up apparently he's a good listener even when he's not, and then kind
of scuffles back towards you and takes takes position. Hotshot has gone up and
ready. So yeah, so what I'm hoping what happen is they'll get They
should be able to get hopefully close enough to hear the noise, not not
anything huge, just enough to be like what the fuck is that? Which
I imagine uh part of all would have figured out the best like distance for
them to be curious and then when they get close enough, that's when the
other one will go off. Yeah, So essentially there's like a kind of
pop the echoes around and the the shadows, the figures who are like further
down the road, a kind of like looking all around, like trying to
figure out where the noise came from. This like chainsword noise kind of swing
around towards your direction, and you hear like not even that echo anymore because
they're a lot closer now. Essentially, I heard over there quick that way,
and then just start like pounding down the road like and just head straight
towards the I mean it's a road. They head there directly towards the point.
So they get to where you kind of secreted the the friends ging grenade,
you know, fifty meters twenty five meters twenty meters, and then the
first of them like starts start stepping over it and heading in direction. When
when you're ready, yeah yeah, nice change click, and there's just amp
as the gas expands, and immediately there's like a confused kind of like what
the and you know, people like they stop in their tracks, they look
around. There's this thick gas that adds to the darkness. Already currently there
and within a couple of seconds, even because this acts really fast like you've
designed it to be inhaled, and just immediately you know, good stuff.
It's good stuff. It's a nasty concoction. And within seconds you hear the
sounds of thumping and hitting and snarling and shouting as they essentially inhale this in
their confusion, stop for a few seconds, and then feel that frenzy,
that anger just boil up, and it sends them at the nearest thing closest
to them. Are they using weapons or they just turning each other apart mix
of both. It doesn't completely take away your senses. It's it's a little
bit of a berserker vibe where essentially you lose a lot of your reason and
just try to kill the nearest thing close to you. Okay, and how
far because I was hoping we'd be like hopefully they would have gone past us
and we would have been down enough, because it didn't sound like these are
trained people anyway. But how far away are we from them? There's probably
a good hundred meters or so, like down down the road. It is
in the direction you want to be heading. I mean, that's just where
they were in the first place. But if you take a quick sideways through
a through a slide road and then up, you can just essentially take take
a square of a shape and just kind of cut around them if you want.
That's what we do. I can tell you very quickly, even as
you're you know, like preparing and everything. You know, they do tear
each other apart, like they're a good five minutes and there's the lightest sound
of scuffling and everything. The problem being in that area, of course,
is it's filled with Rita's friends are in gas which is not something you really
want to walk for. You do have gas masks, you can you know,
go through it, but they've never really been tested with gas masks.
To be fair, it's probably fine. I don't think it is, all
right. So that's what this is what we're going to do. We are
going to take side Street. We're going to go up a little bit before
we come back onto this road so we can avoid that ace. You think
can get down meet us. I don't know, block up. Yes,
I'll go around the becks. I don't want to be a part of any
of that abstract decision making. We're gonna be allan ass. We got a
little bit more time before we get there. This is gonna make a little
bit of noise. I'm hoping it's enough to draw some people. But if
we're gonna fast, someone might be in front of us, so just pay
attention. But we're gonna all ass. So you head forward a little bit,
cut right through a little side street. It's a bit more dangerous just
because it's a bit more compact and you know, it's a bit more rubble,
but it's essentially yeah, you move through it, and you can still
hear some sounds of essentially the movement. Possibly there's one or two of them
left, just running around looking for something to smash, but they don't come
in your direction an ace. You can actually see them from where you were,
So essentially there's two left. One runs kind of towards you, but
to the side, like they don't see you or anything. They don't have
that type of awareness with them currently, and just essentially kind of like runs
down a side road in the opposite direction from where the squad went, and
the other one kind of like runs back up the road where they came from
and then runs back down the road and then kind of like searches like kind
of like rips through the kind of huddled bodies that are down there, just
kind of searching for anyone alive. Probably, so I guess see those two.
Yeah, I want to take a shot shout then you can obviously,
However your shot will make an echoed noise just be However, I didn't know
if I had a silenced sage he's gonna report. Yeah, two rn't noways
here? We need to deal with them. I don't know how long reads
Gus last. I don't know if they affect any neural passages their brain leading
to any kind of remembering of what just happened and knowing that there was something
down here, seeing that we probably left to breathe something around. Maybe someone
can such and know where we are. Should we take care of them or
leave them to their animalistic ways? All right, So let's see how what
direction are they going? Like, can we converge on them? Are they
going the way we're going? They're sporadic at the moment, and we can't
get close to them just to take them out in a lot of we can't
get close but no, no, no, no, it's all a big
noise from them already yeah, I'll go ahead and hang them out, but
then we gotta go because that's gonna be a big noise. Yeah, or
they could be the cause of the noise and we leave them. My concern
is what they remember. They haven't seen any of us, so we can
probably leave them. But I know you wanted to be thorough as we were
with the kids. Mmmm. Pars of all she after effects of this ship?
We want some no, no, no, no, I'm just wondering,
like, oh, yeah, it's fec Well, it depends, you
know, how much you have, how many matter as you do well you
run. It is really up to fight, really say, probably a good
maybe three seconds for the come up and then yeah, you know you're all
for good twenty thirty minutes and then there's a come doown. You know,
you be king over very often they've pushed themselves past their limits so much that
they essentially collapse. And can you know, baddy move for a wall.
It's a pretty big high, you know. Fuck them. Yeah, No,
that's fine, Just leave them. You know that's going to give us
enough time more about it. Wait, I hate shit like this, Ah
okay, but they will remember, right, I mean, this doesn't like
anything's possible such it depends on the will power of the individual. Arita is
no offense good at what she does to cause chaos, but she is no
doctor, nor does she know how the mind works. She knows how to
corrupt it and want it. No, No, I would leave them if
it fox them up long enough that they're just going to be disoriented anyway.
If they don't remember, they don't remember. If they do, they do,
it doesn't matter if they don't see us them. Let's just keep going
forward right now, all right, So Ace, you quietly descend, Please
rob me your stealth. You get a plus thirty because you have your cloak,
and you get a plus twenty because it is dark, so plus fifty
total, which is just silliness, jesuless. That is a critical failure,
which counts even if you succeed. So if you'd like to use a fate
point to reroll. Interesting, Yeah, I'm going to use a point of
course. Okay, Well I didn't fix my own lass, so I still
have one. Yes, your fate points do come back after a recession,
so you leave it there and that yeah, oh that's more like ace for
sure. Yeah, so quickly you rejoin the group. You actually walk past
one of the frenzied, the one running down, and you just kind of
like step out of the building. They run right past you like a whiff
of air as they like shoot past you, running down at something imagined or
whatever. It doesn't really matter to you, and you just quietly, like
a ghost, slip through the side streets and without anyone noticing your back join
the line. Yeah. I think he'll creepily just run past Valcus and the
sergeant stop and he's like anything that I miss. He'll just say that without
having his cloak up or anything. It just kind of freaks him out,
and yeah, yeah, voice just comes out. Yep. Yeah. There's
probably a second where Sarge has is going out and he doesn't raise it,
but he just twitches forward and goes, yeah, all right, just enough
to go all right, yeah, now let's get let's let's double time and
let's go. Okay, picking up the pace in that case, Ace,
please roll me your awenness as we keep going through the hive city. Okay,
seems quiet again. It's possible there are more roving bands, but you
hear no sign of any and the minutes and then a few hours take past.
As you make your way as quick as possible, it is starting.
Even as you get closer to the other end of the hive, it is
starting to get lighter, but it's also starting to get darker, and you
can see at this point a reasonably large hole in the size side of the
hive. Essentially the wall has been breached or collapsed or something that has a
decent amount of enough to bring through, like some soldiers or whatever it was
that they wanted to get through. And you can hear It's not a lot,
but you can hear some firing light light arms fire, mostly nothing heavy,
but it sounds like there is some combat going on in the direction you're
going to. We may have chipped upon our location. Do you hear that
it's light? Maybe moore? Then the distance and I would like to Now
normally I'm very good at picking up on locations, but this sound is disorienting
to me. I apologize, you know, apologize for that shit. All
right, So you're close enough for a visual on the area. There's a
few flashes, not particularly you know, it is still lightish outside. The
sun's going down. You essentially have straight shots kind of edging around the side
of the wall of the hive at this point, probably take you about five
minutes ten minutes to get properly close to where the essentially there's a big hole
in the side of the hive. There are buildings kind of mostly around it,
but as you go close towards the whole, less and less buildings,
more rubble, and yeah, it's essentially that's that's what you got. Heading
towards where the hole is, where the fighting is the same thing, all
right. So as we get closer, probably communicating with Ace constantly any information
that he's able to pick up, glean, focusing on if this is something
we need to deal with, or if this is something we can get around
again. I'm so sorry that this sound is so disorienting, that's all right.
Going around is normally something I take. But with it echoing off of
every sound and direction, I can pinpoint, but I can go further and
get a better look. But that may also put me in danger. But
you don't have to worry about me. I'm hard to find, do see.
Shall I investigate further? Yeah, get a peek, all right,
stay put, and I used to do that. Please roll me your stuff
with your plus fifty, which makes it very hard to fail. Although you
did manage it for a second, there never put past the curves. Mhm
okay. However, five degrees of success sees you going quickly and smoothly.
I'm assuming you want to get eyes on the engagement. Essentially, you get
a few streets closer, head into a building, climb up like the rubble
to the top where you can get a good look over. What you see
is essentially some firing, some like movement of people on the outside who are
kind of it looks like they're trying to get in. There's quite a wide
gap, so you know. There is a essentially like a trench, a
very custom bods job trench line with a with a like slap together bunker in
the center of it, and you can see kind of like flashes of fire
coming from the bunker. It looks the best, the best guess I can
give you from this distance is it looks like there's a minor assault on the
bunker and resistance from said bunker. You can't really tell uniforms or sides,
and you know it is what it is. Za This area doesn't look like
anything professional. It's more so in desperation of survival. An attack. Looks
like it's something that they're just trying to throw as much cover fire as possible
and or push the objective. We can go straight through the middle with the
war bitch and let her do it he does best. Or we can go
around in a stealth way and manner of sorts and take out anything on the
outskirts. Now the trenches are meager. Minor Rita wouldn't have the pleasure of
blowing anything up with that because these are quite out in the open. And
again it looks like it was a desperate job to get these done as fast
as possible. The bunker is stable, but not to a degree of successful
means of standing long if this continues your call? Mm hmmm, all right,
So I'm gonna have to ask some questions, and let's see considering where
we are, where we're trying to go, what he's relaying to me,
going straight through God, this is a shit situation. Uh, I mean,
bunko, Yeah, I know, Yeah, I don't know. We're
gonna what we're gonna see trying to go around. I think we're going to
try and just well the funk out of them. Yep, all right,
do we all hear it? Do you see any unexploded ordnance complimentary explosions from
where I'm standing, nor you? Is that an idea? Seems like a
lighter salt. I got an idea. What you got about this? I
mean, I kind of want to see a stears thing, you know,
go around. But we had a deal ace you had to try to be
a little bit more abstract in your art. That is true. But in
this situation, this canvas is already dirty. You see, these two were
into destroying each other. I don't see any uniforms, don't see any representation.
It's going to just be at a desperation of just wanting whoever can be
King of the Hills. Yes, Roman awareness, please take a plus twenty.
As you're talking, you hear something else. The rumble of treads,
squeak of something heavier as busting through the trench line. Looks like a camera.
Maybe couldn't be a Leman ross unlikely, but it does have a big
kind of like turret on the top of it, and it just busts over
the trench line past the bunker, goes straight through one of the buildings and
takes a shift turn to the left and starts heading down the street. Well,
hold on it. Well, things just got very interesting. It is
heading towards the squad down that street, our squad. Well, as much
as I would love to entertain you, Vocus, I would like to see
you alive for another day, sergeant. We have a major problem, alright.
Wea god. There is a vehicle of some sort, maybe a como,
maybe something a little bit smaller, but it has heavy fire on it
and it's coming straight towards you. All. I suggest you prepare, pick
up your arms, and be ready to fight for your lives. Such you
don't have much of anything to penetrate the tank. I'm just gonna give you
that, all right. We gotta get out of here. We gotta we
gotta go with the side. We got them, We got them. Detonations,
maybe a little bit of detonation from them down the streets is a large
tank. Everyone rolled me awareness Because they're as closer now you'll be able to
get a good look at it. I can't what U it is. Something
it is It is a Leman RSS. These are very rare in the PDF
and surrounds. It's probably been captured and put to use for the Well,
we're gonna guess the enemy, because you know it doesn't look friendly as it's
rolling down. There's no fire because it doesn't see anything to hit. But
you do hear this kind of as it draws closer, you hear like a
crackling energy sound, and the entire tank as you hear this big kind of
like warmth, the entire tank shifts for the side and cut skids along the
road. And you see in the road standing there next to the tank.
A well, let's let him describe what he looks like, shall we?
What do we see? Well, you would most definitely see a wonderful agent
of the inquisition. This bunker has not held as long as I'd like these
fools. My last me I was called damn it, it was yesterday.
Where in the hells is my backup? Before that? You have something to
see too. He gave it a good smack, but there's still people inside
and it's still operational. As hm hmmm. I think you're in need of
some horriy ilustration, and I would like to tear the lid off of this
tank. M You jump on the top as the turret starts to swivel,
you power up your power fist, clamp down on the top, of it
and rip it off, throwing the lid as it swings across the street.
Yeah, I had as ends today. Planet's shouting like what the fuck is
going on? Yeah, Ace is kind of just like I. I think
I had some of that guess earlier, because I can't believe what the hell
I'm seeing. I think I'm in love, so I don't see anything you
have at your disposal with you, your bolt pistol, your power fist and
grenades. Are you wanting to keep this quick? Would you like to jump
in and say hello? And this is personal jumping it is you see the
figure for a second, look around, then have the bolt pistol, have
his fist power it up, electricity courses down it, and then he just
jumps down into the tank and you hear like the electricity kind of like you
see like a big dent come out from the side of it, like little
trickle of blood, as well as you hear sounds of fighting coming from inside
the tank. M M. And then how did they get they want to
use it any more? I'd like to jump out, Yeah, just get
yourself out stand there? I would you are you keeping your heads down or
are you making yourselves known? Okay, is that making themselves known? Okay,
that sarge really doesn't know what's going on right now. I think there's
a lot of action really fast, all right. In that case, Yeah,
for now, I'll call you inquisitor, even though you are not inquisitor.
There is a front line to be seen too, and there are still
some of them trying to get Like you came off the front line. You
came out of that bunker to take care of this tank. But you gotta
get back there. You've got to defend the line. You're the only one
left, all right. Maybe be a little old, but I can handle
this now problem. Maybe in a finally show up tomorrow. And you see
as he like turns away from the tank, like drops down and then storms
through the side streets. We're gonna follow you, inquisitor, as you storm
through the side streets, and you kind of someone jumps at you from a
doorway with like a kind of sword type thing, and he's a ah,
he just gets a back hand or fist isn't worth it, yeah, just
and he flies back through the doorway through a wall, crumbling, and just
keep striding as you get back to the As you get back to the trench
line. You see a couple of stragglers still trying to make their way over
the trench line. They have auto guns. One of them sees you and
it's like there he is, like, brings his auto gun around, single
sad pistol. Yeah, takes in between the eyes and he goes straight down.
The other one kind of like fumbling with his belt trying to get a
grenade out of his belt. Self sacrifice. Maybe you're on here in a
damn sun. I give him a second before I fireed him as well.
Yeah, he kind of like he like, here's what you're saying, but
he's too busy trying to get this grenade off his belt. And the second
that he gets his grenade and he's like ha ha is the second that you
just swivel a gun. Bang another one down? Anyone else start was light.
I'll go to take my seat and see if I can heat any water,
some last class of tea. Yeah, the the body of the corporal
who was the lost man standing. Unfortunately, he was bayoneted. What was
it like a day ago, a day and a halfgoe yesterday? He used
to bring you your your tea and and dinner. Unfortunately he's propped up past
away. Yeah, when he was a good soldier. I did like him,
said to see him go. Yeah, good service there. You're used
to people serving quite well around you, probably your leadership. I definitely me.
When you you sit down in your bunker, put your feet up.
Put your feet up. Now, that's against regulation. It is against regulations.
Uh, sit down at your table. It's like missing one leg.
But that's fine because you know it is what it is. You have essentially
the leftovers of some of the ration packs you've managed to get. You've arranged
them neatly and nicely, you know, order by day all that type of
thing. Looks like you've got three days left before you need to worry about
food, and you can always go looking for more. The problem is them
have in their pockets or something. Yeah, the problem is you run out
recaff. So that's that's going to be annoying for going forward. And yeah,
sit back and wait for whoever's coming to relieve you. You had your
orders. Hold here until relieved, and I will and you will. So
back to the squad. So who's all seen? Everything? Is just me?
Oh? All of you saw that, you know, So serge,
what's that a space marine. Serge. It looked like a space marine.
Mmm. I don't want to make any assumptions it's an angel from from I
imagine from I don't know from from a distance that we are, because you
know, everything is assessing, you know, friend or foe. So what
we just saw, considering what they did to that line facing that way,
I had to assume that that's probably someone on our side. Yes, it
seems like some news. We're defending the Hive City still, which is weird.
But okay, all right, all right, so I think let's go
forward cautiously. I guess this cautiously just a gonna talk to that guy.
Yep, are you telling me that's our package already? Hard isn't a commasaw
because I don't hold weight with commissaws, Like, let's get up there,
let's not. It's not chatted too much. I don't like as being out
here like this grif. Probably go ahead and start pushing forward past this fucking
tank. I guess that's right in our way. It's not really on far
or smoking or anything. It was essentially destroyed from the inside out. There's
lots of dents in it, and it's yeah, I give it a pat
as we walk by. Yeah, I like big guns. Okay, so
you keep going, Yeah, we go past that the street streets. Yeah,
I mean I think I think we're trying to worm our away there as
much as possible, still trying to keep relatively not stealthy necessarily, but we're
not trying to be pulled into anything, right right. Yeah, as you
go, you see no signs of any remaining soldiers or citizenry. Yeah,
you get to essentially this big rubbly open area. There's a trench which is
basically you can see a lot of dead bodies there PDF and also you know
the uniform of the enemy now, so the enemy rebel uniform as well,
kind of draped all over the place. It looks like this has been quite
a long battle going on for quite a long time, and a lot of
people died here. Yeah, and then where from? Okay, So,
and we I assume we saw him go back in. I mean, I
know we were a distance off, but it's an ass a bit of a
bit of rubble and buildings and the way Ace would have seen him going.
Okay, so i'd probably going off of that then, and then we would
keep going forward, ready to either engage if it's the enemy, or to
you know, don't shoot if it's someone. One problem you will have is
it's a bunker. Someone sticks the head in a bunker, you may want
to announce yourself. Uh what does what does the bunker look like? Exactly?
It's just essentially a plastical concrete kind of it's half semi circle, like
a yeah, like a semi circle facing out. What's with kind of like
a metally bolted door type thing, you know. Enough, just we started
like a grenade, but not much past that there's slats for guns or anything
like all slits of the front, you know. Okay, So probably have
a hand up or something like that as we're walking forward, just you know,
I don't know what we can see through that, you know, as
we're getting close and we would be seen. And I don't want to sneak
up next to the scene because then that's suspicious as fuck. So yeah,
probably walk slowly and methodically up there. I don't think i'd have us all
plumped up, yeah, having them looking around as we go forward, because
with the noise that was made, I don't know if people are going to
push in from the sides. Yeah, and then we'll announce ourselves. Okay,
sorry agents, Yeah, amerus, you hear from the outside a hail?
What does the hell sound like? Oh? God? So our our
squad specifically, Yeah, it is our name because we had something, I
mean, because we're a spentelist squad. Right, what's that? Uh?
The regiment is uh the toast story and Ultimus Ultimus Fideli a story in Ultimus
Fideli. All right, so that's pretty much what we would probably announce.
It's like, and I'm you know, I'm Sergeant Keith. Uh, we've
been sent here to pick something up. And just wait, Sergeant Keith,
you say, mmm, I'm no, not Sergeant Keith. Who's your commanding
officer? It's a little if he died on the way here, ah shame,
but as a lieutenant Erasian. If you're looking for a name, Now,
there's a captain that was my contact. Shall we say who was that
we met? We met the captain on the other side, still alive,
losing men holds everywhere in his line. He was Captain Lesarq. Just you,
oh, that's right, Captain Lasak Yeah, Captain Lasak Aha. All
right, you got to know he's alive at least. Yeah, well,
I'll step out after and I gather my I have nothing to gather. Well,
that's on me. Mm hmm. And I opened the door. All
right. You see the man who tore apart a tank. He's dressed in
official inquisitorial robes. Doesn't seem to be I had a guess you'd say he's
not an inquisitor, but you don't really know. I doubt you've seen in
quin inquisitor before. Okay, I probably wouldn't ask any questions if this is
the guy that we're looking for, essentially, and and that's that's what it
would be. I'll give a shit a bit about is grabbing him and getting
out of there. So, uh, the name you were given was Amorus
Amorous, So that Amorus That makes sense to you? Yes, I am
Than Amorous, an agent of the inquisition. I believe you are my ride
mm hm hmm. Were your escort? Yeah? Yes, I suppose.
So. You mentioned your lieutenant died. Does that not correct? Yeah,
that's right, he got himself stabbed. Well, enjoy your field promotion,
lieutenant. Congratulations, Lieutenant Keith. I need more of you around here.
We seem to be lacking them. Heavily, as the captain had told me
earlier. I haven't seen a sergeant for a week or two. I'll take
a promotion if you're handing them out. And who the hell are you?
Oh right, well, my minutes. All right, let's go. We'll
go through one at a time. This is troop of link right here.
It's a RecA ace slowly like, come from out of his cloak, right
behind the armission agent Ambres ambras. Yeah, he'll come right behind age and
he says interesting, yes, and then he'll back off real fast. All
right, this is possible. I'm sure you can see that. She likes
to blow ship up hill are impossible? Read it possible? Not important,
really, I just you know, you have a lot of things on me.
You're hungry. I got some recaff, some food, I got some
recaf. Yes, it's all yours, big fan of your work, huge
fan. Maybe we can get to give it some time. She sweps stories
something, you know anyway, Sorry, so I continue, all right,
he's all right, right, all right there, that's that's alcus. She's
a she does work. I mean, I'm madge. She's got a gun
on her. So he's just like slung yeah, and the old one.
Who is that? What's that? The old one looks like he's got a
few years on me. Hawk. No, I think he means me sold
oh for that one. No, no, no, I'm sorry I did
no no, no, no, yeah, no, no, that's Link.
That's Hawk. I'm Link. That's Hawk. And he points out to
like a dead looking low guy who's like he's just happy he's not paying himself
right now, to be honest. Yeah, if you're looking for any answers
to be answer, questions to be answered, Hawk's your guy. He's got
all the information. M good and educated. Trouper is helpful. I don't
run too many of those. I will let it slide this time, lieutenant.
But this is not regulation dress. If I was not in dire in
need of getting off this planet, I understand next time if there is one,
if we survive, you're gonna be all right. We're gonna get you
out of here. Don't worry. I'll get out alright. So where to
I had a moment to waste. You have about an hour of daylight left.
Question do you want to essentially bunk down for the night or do you
want to go through the night. You have probably a day and a half,
two days maybe that the trench line is going to hold out. How
close the night is it right now? Oh? No, till the sun
actually disappears? Mmm? No, okay, yeah, we need to move.
We'll go for for about an hour or so, all right, and
then we'll find a place. I don't want to stay here. This has
been the focal point. I don't want anything else showing up right here.
So let's get out a little bit. Okay, why you stop moving?
I'm assuming you're going to alter your formation slightly now that we have him,
it's gonna change a lot. I'll probably still keep a similar two by two,
but I'll have two in front of him and two behind him. Yeah.
I was going to ask if you're going to essentially like focus around your
VI and then across the way they'll be the Yeah. No, it's essential
flank. If anyone's gonna get hit first, it's gonna be us. So,
okay, me and Hawk is gonna volunteer to be upfront with the Yeah
the V I p's fine, well, as is up front. No,
no, no, he's is farther upfront. You too can stand right there
all right? Inside? So do we all still call you sage if you're
a lieutenant ousage lieutenant sir, No, no, no, okay, so
that's fine, yes, sir, As you move off, I would like
the I think the only person who has a chance of seeing this. However,
you mayle roll this if you like, I need a scrutiny at minus
sixty. Oh I love it. Okay, that's mm hmm. Wait and
amorates, you may also roll this if you like. I'm taking my faith
because I want to see it minus sixty minus what is sixteen? You said
sixteen? Or sixty? Oh? Minus sixteen? Yeah? The minus sixty
on the way down there. Damn it. Yeah, that was not happening.
It is a hard one. Think you're minus sixteen. You do all
have a fake point if you if you create succeeds even if your target is
minus, you can still succeed. Yeah, I'll give it a try.
Why not? Could I use both for this? I just mean one.
You can't roll twice on a on a again. So you said scrutiny minus
sixty minus sixty please now has everyone rolled to their satisfaction? Okay, same
ruleways. Interestingly, Ace had a target of zero, so not too bad.
And you ruled twenty one three degrees of failure. Okay, given your
specialty, Ace, a failure isn't always a full failure. You see what
it is we were looking for here, but you don't have time to react.
What you see is the unmistakable flash of sunlight hitting a scope and before
you can react, there is a shot that rings out and we'll find out
what that is next week. Yeah, Ace will just be like lit.
Yeah, it's kind of like, oh, so well, thank you ever
all who I think we should start with? On you addition applies for that
introduction was amazing, so good, awesome. So we didn't have any tankbusters,
Yeah, i'd be useless. Welcome, Welcome to Inquisitorial Agent Thahn,
amorous of the IP and also down Hello, how are you doing? Hello?
Doing well? Yeah, totally didn't hyper focus and finish this power fist
last night. It's cool. I love it it cool. Yeah, definitely
centered most of everything of this around that. But Hi, I'm doing Dan
uh or Dan and uh, I'm here on this show. I've been on
this show. But they needed to find me and there was a chance they
didn't find me today just might not have and by show up next week instead.
But yeah, I've been watching every week because I'm like, I need
to know these people. I need to I need to know these characters here
because they're so absurd and wonderful and I love them. So thank you for
having me. Yeah that's all I got. I do things on the internet
and twitch. Okay, next stop, newly promoted. Wow, like lieutenants.
I was about to say Lieutenant Arassian, but he's dead, Lieutenant Keith
and also Aaron Hey, Hi, Yeah, I'm Lieutenant Keith who killed some
kids today. That was fun. So you know, whenever you chance,
you get to do that and get a promotion in the same day. I
can't that moment. I was like, I can't do that, don't have
to do that. Fuck, So that was hard, really neat, really
neat moment. Yeah, but yeah, I am a writer and wrote a
book called Firewall Down. It's a cyberpunk detective mystery and you can find more
information about that at Twitter, at air and b Wrights and yeah that's me.
Okay, moving over to Vira Woolbitch fon Falcus and also mgles Hello,
this is a super fun episode. Lots of crazy stuff happened. I'm Irgles.
I played Warbitch for you today, and I do some stuff on the
internet. I'm making a film, an animated film from scratch, and I've
been working on it since February twenty twenty, and I went on hiatus for
like six months because life happened. But i started working on it again this
past week and I'm pretty excited about it. So if you want to come
see me make a film live on Twitch, you can do that on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays. Thanks now over to our explosive expert who also likes
to drive people crazy, Rita Pausvil and also nine. Hi everyone. My
name is Nicotine. I do a lot of role play, and I do
a lot of role play. You can find me a Twitch on TV slash
Nicotine. That's n I K A C I n E. I'm also very
active on Twitter at Nicotine Prime coming out. It's a lot of fun.
Nice. Finally, the Maestro himself or reconn to Kyle Asinius, also known
as Ace and also technically Hello, I'm to call sineus Ace No. I
really enjoy playing this guy is completely different than anything I've ever played. I
am an actor slash voice actor. Slash hosts, Slash do things on the
Internet, sosess the trend today and I love RP and I love being a
different person in different and different times of the day. So if that floats
your boat, if you want to see some RPG's games being played, if
they don't have a voice, I give them voices and the characteristics and everything.
Come by the channel. There's Technique with no U no e, and
on Twitter is Technique TV because Rita has not gotten to that one that has
my name yet. It's pleasure to be here, and thanks for having me
on the show. It's been very fun. I've always wanted to have a
sci fi twist two things and learning about forty k is awesome. It's really
cool. And me and myself, I am sheep Dog. And before we
go, I have two questions for everyone. Did sheep Dog kill the lieutenant
so he didn't have to play so many NPCs? Did sheep Dog ask the
first question to distract from the fact he didn't do a proper oultro again,
See you later everyone. Bye,