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production. Join us on our adventures as we take a jump to the left,
a step to the right, and time warp beyond the veil to find
out exactly what happens when you take the path less traveled in this original Tails
and the Loop actual play Atari Twilight, Age of Always, So, my
friends, as we did last time, as I welcome you all back to
Atari Twilight, the Age of Always. This is episode seven, Give war
a Chance, and so my friends, before we do anything, what I
like my players to do is introduce themselves who they will be playing, the
the playbook that they have for free leaks tales from the Loop system, and
then answer a question for me something I stole from my good buddy Trooper,
and the question today is the following. Has your character ever been in a
physical confrontation? What was the worst fight they have ever been in? This
could be something that maybe occurred in your past adventures that we have seen in
RP, or could be something as part of your character's backstory. I will
go ahead and do my intro and then go over to you all. We
will cycle through the cast and begin this lovely drama that is episode seven,
but technically the fiftieth episode of Atari Twilight here on Unmade Gaming. So,
my friends, if you're fans of episode fives, as has been pointed out
by Chris, this is ten times that supposedly, but we'll say so,
my friends, before we begin, I will ask one thing for you all
to buckle up, get your Spotify playlist ready because we will definitely be needing
that one. And if you could do me a favor and maybe just take
it down at touch as you are getting ready for us to roll in here
cup track number one, War Pigs by Faith no More. The age of
all Ways is growing. It lives, it breathes, and it has reached
a crossroads. Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches and black masses,
evil minds, the plot destruction, sorcerers of Death's construction in the fields,
the body's burning as the war machine keeps turning. My friends, war
has come to the age of Always, its beauty turned to violence, its
people conscripted into a batter eternal, a conflict with no beginning and no ending,
never ending in point of fact. On one side of the line,
Heather Scarlet, Ricky and the Wizard Mitch stands surrounded by the Witch's Three and
their faithful companions Van Halen, Lion and Randall Flagg. On the other side,
an army of black clad, mirror helmeted soldiers commanded by faces from their
hometown of Garrett George Butts, Jerry Baker, Shannon Locke, to name but
a few, and the army's head, Jesse J. D. Davis sits
as General of the Army of the False. The False move to surround the
Emerald City as giant catapults trebochets are quickly anchored and aimed at the city.
Sometimes, sometimes life needs war. Sometimes the only way to survive is to
fight, is to die for Victory comes when ideals survive and the future holds
fast to the sacrifices of the past. But inside this moment of mania,
the simplest reason fuels the fight. Differing ideals have led to arguments. Arguments
have led to lines being drawn. Wars begin when lines drawn, and if
you are not very very careful, you will find yourselves on opposite sides staring
at those you used to love before you stands a line? Are you on
the right side? Welcome again, one and all to Atari Twilight The Age
of Always, Episode seven, Give war a chance? And so my friends.
As G has said, beginning with G, who is your character?
What playbook are they? And the question that I asked, has your character
ever been in a physical confrontation? And if so, what was the worst
one they have ever been? In? G? Hi? Yeah, Hi,
I'm playing today Scarlett Blake. She is the class athlete, she is
the jock, and she definitely has been in a physical confrontation before. She's
been in two and both of them have taken place during their last adventure in
Twist of Fate. The first one, well sorry, not the first one,
but the second one not. The worst one was when she encountered when
they encountered Starscream in the library back in Garrett, she ended up twisting her
ankle pretty bad, but they managed to escape. But I think the worst
one of all would be her encounter with ALTA two nine in the construction site,
where she ran out to try and uh draw the draw the attention away
from this mysterious robot so her friends could escape but little did she know that
this was an armed robot, so she has she ended up running literally for
her life under a hail of gunfire, and the person who saved her was
JD the one who's now missing from the group. So yeah, and he's
not missing, he's right there tu. Yes, good point. He's on
the standing on the wrong side right now, so that's interesting. Yeah,
the wrong side, No, the different side. Very good, Very good,
Melissa, I believe you were next. Hi. I'm Melissa Meyer.
I'm playing Heather Jones, who is the group's weirdo. Heather is not a
stranger to physical confrontation, I think, through most of her life, so
I don't think that the two combats they experienced in Twister Fate were anything new
to her. She has been the victim of bullying throughout her childhood and mostly
led by her sister, who is something of a narcissist and maybe has been
jealous of any attention or resources or whatever that Heather has had. So I
think that there was definitely physical altercations there, and I suspect there was at
least one note where she got pushed around or injured, maybe some stitches here
and there. I think the Given that she was younger, she probably tried
to fight back early on but was overcome and so she learned over time to
just not fight and to hide. And that's where all herself comes from,
is hiding and in the avoidance of future you know, fights. So yep,
that's Heather. Fantastic in a morbid curiosity kind of way, but very
interesting. Last, but not least, Chris, who do you play,
Buddy? I'm Chris and I am playing Ricky Lewis. Ricky or was the
classhic and is now class jock before we joined the Age of Always. Ricky
wasn't a popular kid at school, so he would have ended up in altercations
with the bullies of the school. I think, thinking back to kids who
do have to deal with bullies every day, not quite to the level of
Ether having to deal with it at home as well, they blur into one,
right, every altercation is another day, So to pick one of them
out, it would have been anyone that a friend gets injured in the line
of fire of him being the target of the the bullying. But yeah,
any any altercation that it resulted in a friend being targeted rather than him.
Ricky wears a white hat for a reason. Everybody. All right, my
friends, I'm going to briefly position you all because we have a lot to
do in this episode, or at least a lot that I would like you
all to be able to accomplish. At the very end of our last episode,
you all were inside a structure called the Square, the home of the
Witches three, the home of Wendy, Alice, and Dorothy, all of
the heroines from various points of Fable of Wonderland, of Oz, of Neverland.
They have come together, formed their own group, and inside the City
of Emerald they are the right hands of the Wizard. And here, when
you were all inside, you heard warning bells going off and bells being rung.
And as we all know, bells can ring for many reasons, the
celebration of wedding, the marking of a death, the passage of some grand
event, or in this case, an emergency. And as the bells throughout
Emerald City sounded, you all rushed out and were greeted with a sign of
chaos as the city itself kind of evolved into that moment of mania before moments
before a true catastrophe. Several things happened in this moment, film as when
Ricky rushed outside. His father, Reggie Lewis, now twenty years older than
Ricky, remembers was met outside the man weeping, claiming that six months after
Ricky disappeared, a tornado came picked up his family farm and dropped it here
in the age of Always you know that old tale. In addition to that,
there was a platform where the wizard Casey, Mitch Mitchell, and several
of their friends waited. As they climbed up onto this platform, it began
to creep into the air, and once it passed the buildings and gave them
a proper eye line to the surrounding area. There they saw an army of
thousands, the majority of which were clad in black uniforms with mirrored helmets on,
almost like motorcycle or motorcross bikes mirrored all the way around, but without
those figures. There were some very familiar faces as mentioned before, people from
Garrett. We have Jerry Baker and George Buttz, and Shannon Locke and Ben
McKenzie. You saw all of these people that seemed to be mounting, speaking
commands and mounting attack preparations. As the army began to flank and kind of
bleed around Emerald City, and there on a platform way across the battlefield,
but with the augmented vision gifted to you by the Age of Always, clearly
seen facing you on the other side of the chessboard was none other than Jesse
JD. Davis, who seems to be commanding this army, an army that
you are on the other side of. And so now as even though war
is eminent, the weather is still perfect here in the Age of Always.
It is a crisp, clean autumn day. And as the wind blows through,
just a hint of a chill on the air, the smells so rich
in this abundant place. A war is brewing, And as the two sides
stare at one another, we have a few moments, preparations across realizations in
the local What do you all do? I think, I'm not sure where
they're standing. In my mind, I have Scarlet in the middle than Ricky
and Heather on either side. And she stands there and she's looking out over
over the city and the army that's coming, and she's just unblinking, like
disbelief, like her mouth hangs open in shock, and she looks utterly crestfallen
in this moment, and she says quietly but perfectly fine, perfectly loud enough
for the others, the other two to hear her. She I never said
this before, but I'm I'm sorry. You guys both said you were sorry,
but I didn't. I'm sorry too. And she's breathing heavily. Others
gonna reach over and just hold her hand. Yeah, she squeezes it like
really tight. Mm hmm. I'm sorry I ran away and that I was
weak in that moment. I don't know what happened. I I just I
had I had to get out of there. But I think I think I'm
better now, and I'm not I'm not going anywhere, but I'm I just
wanted to say I'm sorry, and she will, she'll squeeze Ricky's hand to
I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm here, okay. Rick
Ricky smiles and says, get together. You're my quarterback, Scarlet. Yeah,
I don't know how to and I don't know what the play is.
H I think I think we're on the wrong platform, guys. She shakes
her head and she and she lowers her voice even more. I don't know
what the right side is anymore? Can we agree? At least we shouldn't
be here and she she will turn her head sleigh and too it towards Heather.
Roland is coming for flag and maybe we should be back at the square
Ricky. Ricky gently shakes his head. I don't think it will matter.
Yeah, we're on the side of a line, Ricky. Looking around,
Greg, does the city have defenses? Is there like a wall around the
city or is it just like the city kind of ends. Yeah, the
city has no wall. It's not like the movie where you know, there's
an understandable definition or a division between the city and the surrounding area. There's
no big door to go through, there's no gate, there's no obstruction.
It's simply the country and then it becomes Emerald City. So if you're asking,
you know, from a student of sun Zoo, this place will be
very difficult to defend. The other question I have is looking down at the
citizens, is there an army on this side at all? Is there with
the gods? Is there anyone more than that? From what you can see
at this point, there's a lot of citizenry that seems to be very upset.
They don't seem to be mounting a defense. You don't see them kind
of like arming like a like a militia. Would you do see several people
that are dressed in the same way that you saw. You do not see
Rugen is not present at the moment if I said so before. He is
not on the platform with you all. But you see people that are dressed
in the same kind of you know, emblems and kind of iconography that Rugan
had when you saw him. In the guards that surround him, you'd say,
there's probably about one hundred that you can just see. You would suspect
there's probably more but those hundred that you see, and looking out at the
army of thousands, Ricky sort of gestures to where George Butts is setting up
catapults the trebuchets out in the field. They don't need those. Get into
the city. They can walk in. She'll glance down all these people.
What's going to happen. Cabouchets don't have to be used on the walls.
They can be used on buildings. Ricky, Exactly, that's a square.
It's just another place for it to hit. I think we need to leave,
but we can't what happens those she and she points mister Darry's there,
and Hannah, what about them? And Heather's pointing out at the army of
people in black. I think they were in black? What about them?
That's what I'm talking about. I mean, they can get hurt too,
I know. I don't. I don't think we should leave just yet.
What if people need our help? I just don't want to be on on
this platform here. She cuts her eyes over to Mitch and the three women.
What are they doing? Yeah? And I was gonna say not to
interrupt all you saw as much time as you would like up here, but
during your conversation, right at this moment, Dorothy would move over to Mitch,
and she doesn't take her eyes off of everything. This fanning force that
is creeping. It's not surrounded the city yet, but it's creeping around towards
the sides, presumably to engulf it entire and Dorothy looks over at Mitch and
says, I told you. I told you that there was a lot of
them. What are your orders? That is a lot of them. I
was expecting you to over exaggerate here. As soon as they enter into the
city, you'll have the monkeys, grab the tidman, and we'll have Alice
get big and then we'll see how it goes. I think this will be
fun. On do you see how many there are? Yeah? But have
you seen everything else we've been able to achieve. I know that things have
gotten a little complicated, and there seems to have been some confusion about this
man in black, this walking dude, but that's the one I know.
And he points obviously across the field to JD and he says, and that's
the primary target. If we take you cut the head off the serpent,
everything sort of falls away. I think the ten men can handle most of
you. I think they're just people. We're not trying to hurt them,
just sort of I guess arrest all of them, which Rugan can sort of
take care of. We can adjust the size of the prison if we need
to. There won't be prisoners of war. They'll just be until we can
figure this thing out. But we've identified the primary targets before, so I
think take those and Alice can grab flag. You want us to ride out
and meet them, well, we'll wait. Perhaps they'll they'll they'll have a
conversation. Maybe they just came to talk. Maybe it's just a show of
force, that's what I would do. Are we here, Yeah, yeah,
you can. Dorothy's eyes kind of like her brow furrows a bit.
A show of force, okay, and she nods. And the siege weaponry
they have could have reached the city by now. They haven't fired or shot.
Let's see how it plays out. Who do you think they're here to
talk to? Well, I would assume me. I do more or less
run this, okay, So why are they here in the first place?
I don't know. Yeah, Dorothy would turn and she would just say,
they've been mounting some type of campaign of conscription. The camp's grown over the
past bit, and it looks like they just want us. They want the
city to believe that they can rule the age of Always and that the seat
is here. Dorothy nods to yeah, I'm sorry, Bud. Dorothy nods
to me. You just seeing the Emerald City, it's a fairly nice place
to be. We're not mounting an army against them. They are the aggressors
here. Alice standing there, she's at the same height as your platform,
but you can just basically see her massive head beside you. She's listening in
all of this, and she basically says, in the much deeper, booming
voice of hers, she says, I don't go to the wall. And
she moves not towards the wall, but towards this long, kind of broken
piece of masonry that leads down, almost like an old country wall. But
she begins to move in that direction, right where it would give her kind
of like a starting block if she were to follow the wizard's orders and rush
out and grab JD or the man in black as he is being told called.
Now, I understand that things are confusing. I spoke to a few
of you, and I've heard you know, bits and pieces of your conversation.
I understand that you're not from here, and I understand that things here
happen. It's a jumble. Things happen here at the same time, but
also out of order and faster, and also at the same time slower.
I understand that it can be confusing. I was confused when you called that
raggedy man Randall Flagg. What I know Randall Flagg to be that man at
the end here, and from what my sources have told me, this is
his army of the faults. These people are already responsible for several deaths in
the High Court of the Age of Always. I have reason to believe they've
killed the Bishop. I believe that they've killed Pan the Hatter, many others.
They are a dangerous group of violent malcontents, and they have been working
their way through all the important people in the Age of Always. I assume,
gathering information and conscripting armies by force to siege the Emerald City. He's
going to turn to dot if that's Randall flag. Why was our friend and
your friend apparently carodly Lyon? Why were they in the cart? You'd have
to ask Rugen. Yeah, where is he? By the way, you
criticized us for having strange friends, being a new terrorist, and there you
are with children and women killing Chief Rugen, the sheriff. He hasn't done
any of those things. He's a very bad man. He's intense, but
I wouldn't say he's a murderer. Yes, he's never murdered anyone inside the
confines of the Emerald City. And you just told us, You just told
us that this place is very strange, and things happen out of order,
and they happened fast, and they happen slow. We know that that is
a very bad man. Dot doesn't dismiss what you say, but Dot kind
of puts her hands up and looks over at Mitch and just says, well,
that's neither here nor now. We need to focus on something. But
if you want to have a discussion about the sheriff later, we I'll listen,
but we need to And she kind of nods over to Wendy, and
Wendy's pulls out a bag of pixie dust and begins to sprinkle herself as she
lifts up off the ground and is just kind of floating there waiting for further
commands, and Dorothy pulls out her broom. My friends, at this moment,
I would like everybody who's watching to hit your Spotify playlist, give me
a favorite, and put on track number three Led Zeppelin's The Battle of Evermore.
And for my players, what I would like you to do is roll
investigation. And I will let you know that success here requires two successes.
Let's go one for Scarlet. Question for you, Greg. During this conversation,
Ricky has been watching out into the army. So while everyone's been talking,
he that's not his comforts worry at the moment, He's been watching the
looking for generals within the army, because you know that those are the ones
to worry about. And I'll try. I'd like to try and use my
iconic item because this is if this relate warhead one good one? Oh?
Any want success? Okay, so those of you, anybody can, but
you know, Scarlet and Ricky have one success already. I will allow you
to do anything that you would need to try to reroll it keeping one of
the successes. You can add pride to this. You can push to try
to get another success. I will let you know this too, and I
shouldn't, but if you succeed on this one, it kind of gives you
a handwave going forward with similar roles. Mmm, I do like hand waves.
I would like to use my luck, Greig fantastic, just the one.
Uh m hmm. Yeah, I'll use my luck to re roll yes,
one success? How very interesting I do. Can I do this as
well? I'm sorry? May I also use the luck to reroll? Absolutely?
Absolutely you can. You'll need to here, but that's yes. Oh
hell yeah. Okay. So Ricky, I'm going to give this to you
because you did get a success. So as you're looking through everything and you're
identifying the different pockets, like the different divisions basically that are kind of housed
among this. You notice that there is a George Butts that seems to be
in charge of all of like the long wing range artillery, all the trebuchetes
and the catapults and everything, and they are quickly going up. You think
that these are definitely like they're not building these siege weapons from you know,
a scratch there. They've been pre assembled. They just literally are bringing them
into place and beginning to like lock and mount them down. You see huge
some of these like black clad soldiers are swinging huge mallets and driving steaks into
the earth to keep these these catapults locked whenever they were were to fire.
You seem like, you know, there's like three hammers on each steak is
a dug du dud dung dug du du dud dung. As all these different
people were kind of getting all this huge array of catapults set up. You
identify and you see that there are a couple younger Jerry Baker's that seem to
be going around and they have like the infantry kind of lined up. You
see several of these mirrored helmeted black uniformed soldiers kind of falling in and it
seems like it's just the Jerry's. You see that the Jerrys seem to be
with what you would associate being a student of war as the foot soldiers.
In fact, with your success I'll let you know this. The only face
you recognize among the foot soldiers is the face of Jerry. Now it's repeated
many times, but you see just that face. The other two you see
everything, you know, maybe not to the same detail oriented extent that Ricky
sees things as far as like looking through it through the lens of sun Zoo,
but the rest of you bear the two of you in particular, bear
witness to this. And Scarlett, even though Heather had three successes, I'm
gonna give this one to you, and I think you'll both understand why.
In a second, from out of the crowd, and again, you guys
can see perfectly fine. With this crystal clear age of always vision. You
now realize that your hearing is also amplified, because there is no way that
you could hear from this distance, but with a focus of your gaze,
it's almost like a sound directed microphone. You begin to pick up the sounds
of the area in which you are watching, and through the crowd beneath the
mirrored platform that JD stands upon, you see an older and by older I
mean mid twenties man stepped forward. He's got blonde hair down to his shoulders.
Face claim is Austin Butler. And as this person moves forward, you
hear this clear as day. As the older Ben Mackenzie yells up to JD.
Mitch, we're ready. We're beginning our attack. Run until the day,
and the entire army says, until all are one. Huck. You
hear JD yell down. We've got you covered. B bring it down.
And the first rocks fire from the catapults. Mitch. You would see them
streak over your city. They do not seem to be peppering the area at
the edge or border of the city to weaken it. They don't seem to
be shooting towards the square or any buildings of state. These are headed towards
one thing in particular. As you see these rocks flying towards the loop,
I will let the wizard contemplate that for a second, as you all tell
me what you think in this moment of mania, what we think or what
we do one and the same here in the age of all with I think,
Scarlett goes, oh my god. And then because she's still hold I
feel like they're still holding hands almost or if they let go now she grabs
them and she like clenches their hands as there as she's watching those first shots
fired. Scarlett, we're on the wrong side. We're on the wrong side.
We got to get off of here. I don't, I don't.
I don't know what to do. These people have never been our friends.
We need to go. Are sorry? Are you talking about on the platform?
Mm hmm okay. But the girls said we would they would protect us,
that we would be safe here, safe from our own friends. She
looks like, Ricky, maybe we should get down. We can't do anything
from a peer either. I don't think there is a right side. And
he's looking from the platform. Is there a way down? Like, is
there a building that can get to or anything? From the platform? It
would take a role, but you could jump over to a building and then
make your way down, you know, on the exterior catwalks of the building.
But if this thing can raise and lower, so I mean, it
would just be a simple matter of probably asking Mitch or Dot or somebody that
would know how it would work. I mean, you don't see any like
lever or anything that looks like it's manipulating this, But I mean you were
on it when it lifted up. It presumably goes back down. Yeah,
Ricky looks across to Heather Cross Scarlett. I don't think there's the right side.
You don't bring an army to a defenseless city. Are you sure that
they're here to hurt the city or the people. They're aiming at the loop,
And at that moment the first rocks begin to and that just a couple
seconds of exchange as they kind of crept through the sky and begin to drop.
The first of the stones misses the loop, the second misses. The
first barrage basically misses except the last stone that is fired from this first volley,
it hits the loop square and almost makes a kettle drum sound. Somebody
rolled me a D six. Who well that one of you two roll that.
Ricky looks across to Heaven says they're aiming at the loop, but that
all me needs to get to the loops. They're going through those people,
Ricky, the city is holding people prisoner. You know what everybody said,
they gets stuck here one on those D six. So when this one rock,
it doesn't seem like a does any a visible damage to the loop when
it hits and makes that OOO. All of you are standing right beside Wendy
who is floating there about six twelve inches off the ground. And immediately when
that resonance, heoho creeps out through the city. You see tears burst from
her eyes and she screams out Peter as she drops to the ground, and
she's on her knees, and the tears are just lancing down her face,
and she starts to scream as she frantically is looking around everywhere. You don't
see her gaze of light on anybody, You don't see it like she just
seems to be searching, faces, searching, searching, These tears just pouring
from her eyes as she continues to scream Peter. And when the fades,
you see her look down at why she is kneeling and seems confused as she
stands back up and worcibly presses her hands against her cheeks. What do you
think they're doing? They're trying to bring the whole city down and Mitch pulls
out a smaller version of a walkie talkie and he clicks it and says Clatto
brata nick toe into it, and you can hear a activate from somewhere near
the towers. And he says, Gort, you're on aerial defense. Dot,
do we have any more of the poppies? Put as many asleep as
you can grab that in aerial assault with the ten men. This is not
a conversation. She just nods and you see her jump into her broom as
Dot leaves the platform. This Wendy is still dangerous. Yeah, Wendy is
still very shaken up. She doesn't seem to remember or know what's happened,
but she knows that something had happened to her. She was affected in some
way, and you see her she's not She can't lift off the ground again.
She seems you can see her visibly trembling, and you can see that
she has no idea why. It's almost like she's in a state of shock.
After telling uh Dorothy to go handle things, Mitch goes to comfort or
Casey goes to comfort Wendy. Given that you said that they all remember that
the platform was raised by some means that there would have to be a way
to reduce, to bring the platform back down. How there's going to look
around to see if she can find such a lever or such a button or
some way to manage the platform. Absolutely, roll me either a comprehend or
let's go with Ah, it's you're not building this, let's go with a
calculate. So either a comprehend or a calculate. Well, when success,
it takes you just about a second you realize that right towards the middle where
the wizard was standing, there's simply a like a practical mechanical foot pedal that
just seems to have a setting for up and a setting for down. That's
going to release Scarlet's hand and walk over there and press that button that pedal
in casey, you would have a chance to stop her, if that's something
you would want to do. Otherwise it's going to begin to slowly move back
down same speed that it went up, but you know, slowly begins to
retract. Uh does Heather say anything as she does this? Nope? Now
he lets it happen. And as soon as it starts to go down,
like he's like knelt next to Wendy and sort of like rubbing her back,
and he looks over and says, it might be safer if you get back
to their house. Yep, thank you, he cuts She cuts her eyes
to she cuts her eyes to VH and Ricky, and then she looks back
to Casey. You should surrender before people get hurt, and she looks and
she looks down at Wendy. As that happens, as you're asking the Wizard
or commenting to the Wizard the potential surrender might be the course of action for
this battle. Just as we're beginning to creep back down, I'll give you,
like I said, this handwave for free. Everybody can go to your
Spotify playlist, go down to the very last track, number sixteen please a
favorite of mine, Dare by Stan Bush. As you are moving down,
you hear the throaty roar of an automobile and you see out from behind the
ranks of catapults, a yellow Volkswagen bug spins around into the road of the
Eternity Road. It actually connects. You see the wheels as it jumps onto
the road, and as it hauls ass towards the front of the Emerald City,
you see Ben Mackenzie behind the wheel, and as he goes by,
you see all the jerry Bakers punch their hands into the air and electricity lances
up into the sky, clearing the way for Ben McKenzie as he and his
mighty steed make their charge. The game is afoot, my friends. As
the platform lowers to the ground, what do you dog? As he is
coming through in his beautiful ew bug and the jerry Bakers are doing the punch
into the air to clear the way. Are the citizens of the city moving
out of the way? Are they being harmed in any way during this Now
the citizenry seems to be fleeing towards the north of the city, which is
the area that is not yet completely They're moving away from the conflict and moving
in the opposite direction. Now, at some point there will be no opposite
direction. If the army in fact lays complete siege to the city, there
won't be anywhere to run, or there won't be any place that's not a
front line. But as of right now, there's no citizenry that seems to
be in the way. There's no pedestrians, there's no innocence. You know,
then, is simply driving and hauling ass down Eternity Road, and I'll
give you this one for free, Ricky. No one else is touching Eternity
Road. No member of the army seems to be standing upon it. So
is he driving away? He's driving right towards the city. Oh okay,
Ricky looks across the Heather. I think you're right, but I'm more worried
about the people than the city. I don't care if this place falls.
We need to end this fast. We need to end it fast, Ricky's
that's what we have to do, and we can do that in a couple
of ways. But maybe we should talk privately, right And Ricky points out
to be coming along and says, I think we need to talk to him.
I will let you know this too, as this is the platform just
lowers down. You can be talking like conspiratorially, very quiet if you wish,
But if you're trying to keep your voices down, I'll let Mike roll
for Mitch if he wants to hear. If you're not trying to keep your
voices down, Mitch will hear. Absolutely. I don't think Ricky would have
been quiet when he turned to Heather and said, you're right, and he
doesn't care if the city falls, then Mike, take that for what you
will, as you at least hear Ricky side of the conversation, and you
can roll for hearing heatherside if you wish. I have to keep pausing the
awesome soundtrack. He hears Ricky's and he looks and sees that there is a
second half of that conversation happening, but he doesn't actually do anything to stop
that. He he continues dealing with Wendy, and again he pulls out his
his walkie, his his Mitchie talkie, which he hasn't come up with a
better name for yet. Uh and uh, you said they're coming. The
false is coming from the east technically, if we're looking at this, but
just as points of a compass, the northern northern end of the Emerald City
would be the area that is currently not surrounded. The east and the west
have the army kind of flanking, but the majority in the bulk of the
force is at the south, is at the centenes. Okay, okay,
great, yeah, he he calls into the walky. Reverse the polarity on
the streets, head them all towards the Kilken Lands, and you would see
all of the roads start to move like airport walking pathways to accelerate the citizenry
to the north side of the city so they can flee. His concern is
not three children, it is the safety of his city, and he is
acting so to try to protect the citizens and the people here from a possible
attack or a ventual attack. Another round of stones, you see kind of
breach the horizon of the buildings. As as this, another barrage is fired
by the Army of the False and it is again aimed directly at the Loop.
Casey, I know that you have talked into things or done anything.
Is any of that going to affect this barrage as it comes? So as
a common passphrase to activate Gort. Gort is a giant metal robot that has
made a few guest appearances here and he is now on aerial defense. So
his job is to shoot anything out of the sky that puts the Loop in
danger. Very good, if you would, my friend roll me a D
twelve oh one. Nice Okay, So, as you all are moving down
on this lift, Gort goes up and you see this large very kind of
strangely enough iron giant esque looking, you know, very like smooth skinned robot.
As it launches up into the air, some type of laser begins to
fire from this creature, and it strikes each of these boulders as they are
coming close. You see that it is using geometry to its advantage, as
it will shoot and move the trajectory of one boulder to take out two others.
It's working efficiently, it's working smartly. It's working the way a wizard
or somebody of genius level intellect would program. And as this robot moves up
and immediately forms this aerial defense, the rocks in and of themselves don't seem
to hold the same chance of making it. Save one one makes it through
and clips the building again of the loop, the structure of the loop,
and again that resonance that oh it's off, and I'd like you all to
roll me. Somebody roll me a D six. But somebody can't be Scarlet,
because when Gort goes up and begins to play pinball with all of these
rocks, a huge chunk flies down towards the platform, and just as you
are were talking, you see just a piece, just the corner strike Your
friend Scarlet slides twenty feet and rolls to a stop. You see underneath the
cobblestones of Oz, the cobblestones of the Emerald City. It is not green.
As Crimson begins to lance in along the lines of the brick, and
your friend is very still. But I still need that D six, Melissa,
Yeah, I'll go one. I don't know if it one's good.
They've all the ones so far. That is the second one that you have
rolled. And Mitch, as you are comforting Wendy, that resonance goes off
again the same pitch that it was, the exact same pitch that it was
before. And again Wendy stops and her back gets straight, but this time
she spins and looks right into the face of the wizard you killed him as
tears spring from her eyes, and Mitch, she launches herself at your throat,
Greg, I messaged you. Uh heuh. He puts his hands up
to catch her in in a like a defensive, like non aggressive sort of
way to like stop her from hurting herself or others. Uh and sort of
pulls her in uh and and like almost like into like a hug and uh.
He says loud enough for everyone to hear. I know, I know
it was my fault. It's my fault that he fell. But it was
him. It was him, It was him and the faults that killed him.
She is, as you're talking, she is literally like clawing at your
neck. When you would you message me if is this the target in front
of you? There is no effect. Oh, spicy, we didn't see
that coming. Yeah, he didn't expect two back to back once either.
Yeah. Right, he continues saying that, and he kind of like,
this is what they do. They poison your mind, They plant false memories.
We've we've been through this before. You know this. You know this.
You were one of the scouts with him, and he's doing his best
to like comfort her in this time of stress that she is feeling. Pears
are flying out of her eyes, but there is a look of rage,
absolute in her eyes as she again she is clawing at your neck. She
is just going straight for your throat. And I'm assuming, like you said,
you're kind of like just holding her too. Yeah. Yeah, so
she kept comforting her too much damage. Yeah, she looks at you and
she says, know what you did, and she wraps her legs around you
and lifts off into the air. Okay, so you all would see Wendy
and Mitch begin to lift up off the ground, but at this moment,
Scarlet is lying and bleeding on the cobblestones. Reggie runs over to Rick as
soon as the platform comes down. He runs down just as he sees Scarlet
go over, and he doesn't even complete the run towards his son. He
immediately turns and starts running towards Scarlet. Sixty year old Reggie Lewis is en
route. But the two of you, what do you do? As Scarlet
was knocked from the platform visibly. Ricky is going to use anything he can
find to get off this platform to the ground. And I said it was
twenty feets. But if there's any buildings he can use or anything, if
there's anything to slide down, he's going to do everything he can to get
to that ground as quick as possible. Roll me a move, They move.
Not failed this one. On success, you're able to basically do a
little bit of parkour as you kind of like jump from the descending platform over
to a building, kind of grab a window so for a second, and
then throw yourself down to the ground. You get there faster than Heather,
unless she wants to do something too anything Heather wants to do. I don't
know if this is a good idea. Line's pretty big, right, He's
a pretty big kitty cat. Oh he's he's a big boy. Yeah,
kitty cat's really good at jumping. So Heather is going to crawl up on
lines back and wrap her arms around his neck and say jump, go to
Scarlett, hurry, Kitty, roll move for lion. Oh zero successes.
Oh, actually, go ahead and roll that again, because Lion's got a
little bit more movement than I'm sorry, a little bit more movement than Heather
does. But there we go. One success. So as you wrap your
arms around lion, lion doesn't need any encouragement to run. That is a
default mechanism. And so lion hearing run, I mean, you're giving him
a direction, but run is away from this area to someplace else, and
that is absolutely top tier in the wheelhouse of the Cowardly Lion. Yeah,
okay, and he jumps and you all kind of fly through the air,
and both Ricky and the lion riding Heather jump down and are you're going to
make it there before Reggie Lewis does, but just barely. As you all
kind of run towards and again, as the roads are now is mentioned,
the roads are now moving people movers towards the north. I would see that
even though the cobblestones are still there, they are kind of bleeding and melting
and stretching like they would if they were made of rubber. And the puddle
and everything that has become Scarlet begins to creep towards the north as well.
Heather's going to say to Lion, to Scarlet, to Scarlet, line,
but we need to go to our friend. Yeah, you're able to catch
up. It's not that fast, so you're able to make it to her.
But just be aware that as you are kind of stationary with Scarlet,
you are moving north, so you're moving away from the position where you were.
So she'll she'll be off the back of Lion and onto the ground beside
Scarlet as fast as she can, and then she pulls her head up and
cradles it. Scarlet, Wake up, Scarlet. I'm giving you this one
for free, Melissa. When you pick Scarlet up, she is completely limp.
There is no rigidity to her frame, no muscles or firing. She's
dead weight. She's breathing, but she is unresponsive. She's not moving.
Ricky, Ricky, he looks up to his dad running towards us. We
need to do something, and he looks to have a Reggie runs medicine.
I can't fix it. He immediately pulls off his jacket and he kind of
bundles it up. He puts this under her head. He leans down,
and you hear like every joint from his ankles to his hips pop is a
because he gets down and begins to kind of assess her. You see that
he is you know when you are and Ricky, you know this too.
When you're on a farm, One you're usually not right beside a hospital.
Two you're a farmer and shit happens. Three you only go to said hospital
if there's no other choice. And so when he gets down, you immediately
see him checking. You know, he lifts open one of Scarlett's eyes and
he just kind of as he kind of works through things that he is observing
to himself. And he again he just tearing off pieces of his his shirt
and like pressing them against the wound that's just behind her right ear, and
you see him just hold out there, hold up there. Son, Ricky
holds it as he's instructed and he looks, he looks up the road that
Ben was driving along. How far does the road come up towards us?
Slash the loop? Well, now Eternity Road, and you would know this
the best of anybody, Ricky. Oh, everybody, go to your Spotify
playlist and just play track number five. That's the Land of Confusion by Genesis,
So you would know this. That Eternity Road bleeds right up to what
would be the main street of the Emerald City. Eternity Road doesn't seem at
least with the construction. It's not the same materials, it's not the same
asphalt with the yellow line running down it. It ends and then the road
that you're currently on, this kind of cobblestone street begins. So if you
know, Ben were to continue driving, he would actually eventually be on the
road that you are are tending to with scarlet Eternity Road becomes this main street.
But you know what does Ricky perfect I was just going to say,
you know, I would assume to kind of gauge this, Ricky would look
in that direction, right? Is that too much of a stretch for me
to think? If you were, you know, looking uh huh as you
look back or look to the south again. It's that distance thing here in
the Age of all Ways, where your vision takes over and as soon as
you focus a bit you can see things from a great distance in perfect clarity.
I mean, it reminds you of This must be how kellel felt,
you know, when Clark Kent could all of a sudden see everything that he
needed to see, and he was under no restrictions with you know, the
physical form that he was in. This is very similar to that where your
eyes now seem to possess much greater powers than they had before, provided you
just concentrate a bit, and as you look down this road you see the
people that are running, but again they kind of fuzz off as you focus
even farther down and you can see in the distance, maybe a mile off,
you see the yellow Volkswagen a haul and ass when he turned to your
road. But as you are looking you can again see past and beyond that
towards the army of the False As you can see the catapults reloading and getting
ready. You also see what looks to be swirling above. You see dot
beginning to move in, and there are a battalion of other aerial items that
you have not recognized before. Some of them see to be kind of glinting
in the light. Again, it's it's something that you're not necessarily focused on.
You're kind of peripherally checking out these things. But as you look,
you focus beyond the Volkswagen Bug and you see JD again on his platform,
and as something streaks above him, you can hear him as if he were
beside you, and the shout has this the same velocity and the same ferocity
that you would expect if you were standing right beside him. JD yells out,
no blue but wait, not yet, and you would see this metal
owl flying towards you. It's again your your perfect vision on this which should
be impassive and unremarkable face of a metal bird, but you see within that
face and especially the eyes that are charged with magic. You see love eyes
that have seen his best friend for the first time, and god knows how
long they've spied Ricky Lewis, and not a force on this or any other
earth can stop him, and he quickly overtakes the Volkswagen as you see Bubo,
the owl of Legends, streaking towards you, having been lost since you
first arrived in the age of always. What do you do? My friend
Ricky, even though he's holding something against the injured head of scarlet, has
a huge smile on his face to see Bubo. And he looks up to
him and he says, ah in so long, And he looks at him
closely and says, what are they doing? Well? Boobo isn't towards you
yet you can see him. He streaks and enters in to the city proper,
moving as fast as an owl of feather and bone wood. And with
that additional kind of looking and regarding of him, you would see that there
is something clutched in one of his talents. You cannot tell what it is,
but there is something. One of the talents is open, like a
bird of prey in flight would be. The other is clenched small. And
as you watch one hundred yards away, fifty yards away, you can actually
see the light in Bubo's eyes glow when something knocks it from the sky,
and you see sparks fly off as Bobo one wing unresponsive, the other continuing
it's frantic battery of the air. But now without its companion, it can
no longer keep the creature aloft and Bubo smashes to the ground and slides and
spins and out from one of the alleys, you see Sheriff Reugen with a
crossbow as he sees Boobo get hit with something. Sorry, Scarlet, but
Ricky's going to drop Scarlet's head, not slam it into the ground, but
he's gonna place her back down. He puts a hand onto his dad' children,
looks to Heather and he says he's in good hands. And Ricky starts
to run towards Boobo. As he's running, he pulls an arrow from his
quiver and when he sees cheap Rugen, he is going to fire at him.
Okay, roll me a force. As you move in towards Reugen,
he spies you as you begin your charge. He seems to have been looking
in your direction anyway because of the flight path of Boobo. If you're six,
this is I like that role, but I mean there are other ways
to change that role if you'd wish. But I think it's a great role.
But yeah, Ricky's gonna take it. Take the l He's angry.
He doesn't stop his charge. Okay, so the arrow is loose and as
you fire it just maybe it's because of the awareness that Rugen had as the
arrow comes flying in Rugen for someone again to define Chief Rugen or in this
case Sheriff Rugen. Rugan does have a potbelly on him, but he has
also built like a fire plug. He's got a huge chest and huge shoulders,
so he's just kind of just this little boulder unto himself. But he
moves very deathly as that arrow comes in, and he just watches it go
right past his head and into the wall behind him, and you see him
crank and arm his crossbow bol He arms his crossbow with a bolt, and
as he looks at you, he says, you know what here, I'm
not a chief, I'm the sheriff, and I know what you are,
Locksley, and he is going to fire. My friend, I need you
to roll a move roll as this bolt comes flying at you. Hey,
moves successes you can use. You can bank one of those, so you
have a success for the move ability if you need it. Okay, hold
on a second, downloading downloading. Okay, so as this shot comes in,
you're able to move out of the way in a mirror of Rugen.
Did you know you're able to just kind of dodge it as it flies by
you. The bolt, you know, with the elegance of the fletched arrows
that you fire, These these beautiful constructs that you seem to have a limitless
supply of that comes from the quiver of Locksley. You know, they're just
they're they're finely hewn, straight as a board, and these bolts that are
coming out of you are coming at you look like these stubby little hand carved
like ballista. They're just ugly. And it's not something that you know,
it's gonna make Ricky stop and you know, ponder, but you know,
it just seems like the extension of the man itself. The ammunition that he
fires is also grotesque, and so he fires and dodges. As the two
of you begin to string and he begins to crank his crossbow bowl as much
like a medieval matrix. You all begin to spin around one another on this
moving walkway. That battle has begun. Heather, you are alone with Scarlet
Lyon and Reggie Lewis. Reggie is looking up and sees a fucking person shooting
at his son, and he looks at you, Watcher, and he gets
up and he starts to move towards the fight. Heather doesn't pay much attention
to Reggie Lewis's departure. If you were to look inside of her mind,
there would be like a montage. I think of memories of Scarlet, you
know, Scarlet encouraging her in Castle Gray School, as you know they're moving
through that dark area, and Scarlet again holding the bat outside of the green
silo and hitting the monsters as she's defending Heather and Scarlet, you know,
with the with the I'm sorry at I forget the name of the machine firing
her uh, and Scarlet's sacrifice, you know, in as they were traveling
here to the age of always as well. And I think in that moment,
she's going to try again the thing that I keep trying to do and
keep rolling terribly at, and she's going to try. She's going to try
magic. So she's a romantic at heart. She leans down and she places
a kiss on her forehead and tries to wake her. All right, So
everybody, this is our special mechanical skill. Just to remind everyone, including
myself, you're using magic here, Heather, So roll a D twelve.
What this will mean is anything six or above is a success. Anything ten
or above is two successes already fingers crossed. The dice tell a story,
right. You reach down, you reach down to kiss and you do.
I mean, but there's something. There's something wrong with scarlet. You know
again. You can feel you feel the magic. You can feel it.
It's just at your fingertips. It's like a word that you can't recall.
It's the tip of the tongue. It's the moment before you touch somebody or
hug or embrace somebody you haven't seen in so long. It's that moment of
almost vile anticipation that you just can't get over that moment to what the reward
will be. And it's that roadblock that you hit in your mind that causes
I don't know if this is something. I don't want to take agency from
you, Mellissa, but there is a moment of this isn't working. She
is hurt. Something is wrong. And as that all occurs, kind of
in the field of your vision, you would feel Lion perk up beside you,
but Lion doesn't do anything. As you see two hands come into your
field of vision. They are fingerless gloves, and you see these hands sort
of rough with callouses, as they reach in and begin to if you don't
stop them, they are going to place they're going to begin to touch Scarlet.
But you just see them kind of come into your field of vision before
Heather looks up to see she uh turns rapidly and punches at whoever is trying
to get at her. Alrighty, Scarlet, roll me a move, please,
Heather or Melissa. Heather fires a punch, just you know, in
the direction of where these two hands will be coming from, and quick as
a whip wielded by a rattlesnake. One of the hands pulls back and you
end up punching the fingerless glove fist. And as you move your gaze away
from the fist to the hand, or to the hand that caught you,
and then finally the eyes that control that hand, you see Scarlet, Scarlet
twenty five twenty six, much older than she is now, an easy fire
cracker, easy, I'm here to help. Okay, can you kill you?
I don't know. And she she looks at you, and she's got
an eye patch over her left eye and like fingers of scarring underneath, and
so go ahead, oh, just describing, and her other eye just gives
you a just looks at you with like a fiery look. You're not an
evil version of you? Are you? No? Are you okay? And
she will put our she'll put she'll move her hands away from Scarlet, young
Scarlet and put them on your shoulders. Are you okay? No? I
know, yes, I'm good. You need to fix yourself first, and
then I think we need to go destroy the loop. Well, one thing
at a time, okay, And she's she smiled, Oh, all right,
good to see you, my friend. Sure. Just at this moment
Van Halen with Randall flag. She's kind of helping Randall because Randall still has
that brace on his leg. You know, he's able to walk with it,
but his weight is not fully support They come from the square and kind
of reach where you are are now, but they have to walk north to
get to you, as you're being kind of swept in that direction. They're
standing beside you now, waiting not for instructions, but Van Healen is looking
back and forth and back and forth, as I need Mike to roll me
another D twelve. As several rocks come flying through the air, they seem
to have increased their spread ten ooh okay, So with this one, it
seems that the compensation for Gort is at least successful in that there are more
elements of artillery in the air. My friends, roll me a D six
and reroll anyone that you come up with. But I would like two rolls
here. As several stones strike the loop, Gorg's taking most of them out,
but a few are slipping by. So how many we're all rolled D
six? I just need two D six's, a D six and a D
six from whoever would like to roll them it. Chris is up. Yeah,
that's way better than I did. Good job. I think you need
to do another one, though, I'm going to roll another one. Yeah,
h no, got to reroll that one. Reroll that one. That
bell has already been wrung. Six. Oh that's great. I'm gonna put
a pin in that one. And that is actually I have a stored up
a Michigan that I've been waiting for, so we'll just we'll put a pin
in that six for right now. But with that three, there is a
strike on the loop, and this time a tone comes off the loop that
you have not heard before. This one almost sounds like you know what I'm
gonna make somebody roll for this in of you. Scarlet, Ricky or Heather
can roll me A comprehend for me? Do you want to hold all that
right? Yes? Please a comprehend for me, chip yep, okay,
Heather one here. No success for Ricky, Heather, as you are the
only one that's sort of like, you know, there's a lot going on
here. But Heather, when you hear that strike on the loop, you
know there's the pressure of the strike is the same, that thud is the
same, but the residence that occurs after that, for you, it sounds
very odd. It sounds almost synthetic. It almost sounds like electronic that comes
off of it, and it isn't. It's for two or three moments seconds
beats of your heart that you kind of shake your head it can't possibly be
that, and then you realize it is. It's that long synth infused note
at the beginning of Let's Go Crazy from Prince, and you see van Halen's
back tense, and you see her hands drop as Randall kind of loses his
support for a second, and you see her eyes go wide Bobby's throat and
you see a tear rolled down her cheek and as the ringing of the tower
continues, I remember, and then it stops and you see her face fall
again. What's coming on, Scarlet? Scarlet? You you and Ricky never
listen to me. We need to go destroy the loop. It's the loop.
It's doing something to people. You guys need to listen to me.
She will, she will scoop up Scarlet into her arms and stand up.
You are easily scooped. Easier said than done, Heather. But I think
you're right. So Heather's going to step off of the off of the road.
Wait, and the road is heading which way is the loop compared to
the heading of north. The loop is in the very center of the city,
and so as you are moving north, you're actually getting closer to the
loop. Eventually you will continue past it, but right now it's a slow
crawl, but you are the loop is becoming more and more prominent in your
view. We need to go. And then Heather starts to run down the
road to the north of the south, to the north in the direction of
the loop. Okay, wait, where's riggy And she will turn and look
around. That's a good time to go back to the standoff in the streets.
As I am going to need both a force and a move role from
Ricky as arrow and bolt break into the air of the Age of Always.
You also can do anything that you would like. But this is a standoff
time that holy shit, God five one force Greg and the zero one move
s. Yeah, let's get to got a bank move. I do have
one bank move you do? Now do you want to use that? I
need to know if you want to use that right now? Yes? Please?
Okay, all right, So as you fire this shot off to the
sheriff. This is right at the moment where Scarlett says, where's Ricky?
And as you look back, you're now several, like you, probably about
two hundred yards away from where the fight is going on with Rugen and Ricky.
And as you would see this occur, you know, maybe potentially you
could see the kind of the boobo laying there, kind of glinting in the
sun. In addition, I think so too. So as this shot fires
off, this perfectly aimed shot from the bow, another perfectly aimed shot from
Reugan comes flying at Ricky. But through the course of the shot, when
you let it go, Ricky, you wait just half a breath, just
half a butterfly wing and you wait for him to fire, and when he
that's this contraption that is inside his crossbow, you know this, this medieval
archaic. As it fires and kicks back. You saw that before Ricky realized
that kind of kick that this fucking thing has. And just as he fires,
and just as the bolt is loosed and kicks, your arrow is loosed,
and as it flies in it clips the bolt that is leaving the crossbow,
slides past it through the housing where it was, and buries itself into
the heart of Chief Reugen. As you see his crossbow nailed to his chest
by this move, and the bolt goes flipping and flying limply and flaccidly into
the air as it clatters to the ground right next to Rugen. As he
drops to the ground, you can see the spread of red coming from the
center of his chest. You can't see how bad the wound is because the
crossbow is literally nailed to him, but you see him. No, you
shouldn't get that. Does he move literally copying down everything I said? So
right now the authorities are on their way when they realize there's some type of
fight going on here. Yeah, so it nails he does he move when
he hits the ground at all, or does he just hit He hits the
ground, and just as you see this coming, and as you see him
drop and you see the bolt clatter, the ugly you know, bolt clatter
to the ground, your father jumps in front of you, prepared to take
any shot that may have come your way. But when it fails, you
are kind of peering over the shoulder of your father with the empty bow,
watching him fall. But being a student of both archery and war, had
that bolt made its way to you, your father would have intercepted it.
But that didn't happen. As the two Lewis men are standing there and the
sheriff, well, he's getting colder and not older. Ricky, still looking
over his father's shoulder, looks at him, realizes that the bault would have
hit him as a half smile in his face as he spins around and just
runs for Boobo. Your father would keep pace as you kind of move.
And now that kind of the alley is taken out of play. First the
road kind of catches Rugen's pant leg and then slowly almost like a whenever you're
at the supermarket and you have a bunch of shit that's going through the belt,
and one of them kind of gets off to the side and it takes
a second for it to get caught and goes back on. That's the body
of Rugen. It gets caught onto the moving belt of the main street and
slowly starts to make its way north as well as you and your father rush
down to Boobo. Let's cut back to everybody running north. I'm assuming scarlet.
You are carrying Scarlet and running with Heather and Van Halen and Randall as
quickly as Randall can move towards the north. Well, she doesn't want to
leave without Ricky, so she will shout back to Heather. It's like,
we have to stick together, Ricky, come on, this is that moment
of mania. I will say. It's just like a beat or two before
Rugen drops that, this kind of proclamation goes out. We have to stick
together. I'm going to let Melissa react to that first. You would hear
it clearly as again, now the sounds of battle, you can't really see
what's going on on the battlefield unless you kind of steer right down main Street
out into the area. But it's still a very kind of isolated view of
the battlefield. By the sounds of everything, you would guess that a certain
yellow Volkswagen has just entered the city. Yeah, And I think when she
yells back to Heather, we have to stick together, that's when Ricky takes
his shot. So when she turns around to look at Ricky and she sees
what he did and who's lying on the ground, she just kind of takes
a couple steps forward, just like looks shocked. And then that's when she'll
call out to Ricky the hurry up, we gotta go, Heather, do
you want to do something first? Heather pauses momentarily while she hears Scarlet,
and then she says catch up, and she keeps going, never changes,
and she will she will kind of like holding s and she'll like do like
that side kind of canter thing like Ricky, hurry up, we gotta go.
What you would bear witness to is this. Lyon absolutely continues to run
with Heather, doesn't stop, doesn't stay with the scarlets, just heads to
the north. Randall seems like he is going to stop, and Van Halen,
who seems to have a strange expression on her face, continues to move
towards like leaves Randall doesn't support him anymore. Even the Randall can stand by
himself, He's definitely much slower without van Halen, and van Halen would sprint
in the direction that Heather went. I think Scarlett looks at just looks at
Randal and like looks him up and down and just like takes in his presence
there, and she will move to him. He and again this is not
necessarily eyepatch Scarlett that would recognize this, but anybody else would recognize this,
that there is a moment where a measure of clarity in Randall's eyes that maybe
has been absent for the last couple days. It's not full focus, but
he looks at you as soon as you come forward and long time no see
she nods are you okay? Yeah, I'm all right? How are you?
I'm good? And also just a side note, she's wearing a denim
jacket that looks a little too big for her, but on the left side
the same size that she has her eyepatch and her scarring. It's heavily distressed
and heavily dirty. It looks like it's been scorched and burned up the left
side. He looks and sees it nice jacket, been through a lot.
He just nods and this is a shit show. You see a tear come
out of Randall's eye and I'm not sure if this Scarlet might have seen it
at some point, but this is a very rare occurrence. And he would
lean forward. Did did I get it right? You know? I can't
tell you? Yes? Sorry? What did you say, Craig? He
would say, oop, I did. She doesn't say anything. She just
gives him a soft smile. How can I help here? Yeah? He
would take again. You can see him immediately shift the weight to his good
leg. I can yeah, I got it. I got it. I
got it. And she's like, are you okay? Can you walk?
I got it? I got it? Yeah, I'm all right, I
got it all right, And he starts moving very slowly to the north.
He's definitely using the walkway for its intended purpose to make it quicker, but
also it's like a weird skip that he's doing carrying Scarlet as he's moving towards
Ricky. As you turn back around, you all see a Volkswagen Bug come
into the area and start moving up Main Street Ricky. It's heading right towards
you. It's maybe like one hundred feet off and it's hauling ass. Now,
it's not like running people over or anything like that. There's very few
people on the streets here, and anybody that sees this thing coming ducks into
an alley ors, you know, off to the sidewalks. It's definitely not
like a GTA moment where people are just you know, getting run over by
a Volkswagen bug. But it's hauling ass and it zips past you. Do
you do anything as you watch it go? You just made it to Boobo.
He would be picking up Boobo's as first. Letting the bug go past
is fine? Does Boobo look okay? Or was he out as well?
Bubo is not moving. There is one of those ugly bolts sticking from its
side. You can hear what sounds like like the crunch of gears that that
that as it's trying to turn, but it can't, you know, because
Boobo sounds like a finely created watch. In most instances, you can hear
the worrying of gears, but it's so subtle. It's almost like ASMR.
You know, it's just very very soothing. This sounds nothing like that.
This sounds like somebody puts something into it, and it's trying to force but
it sounds much larger, like the gears aren't as delicate as they need to
be. And Bubo, the magic that's in Bubo's eyes, it's not gone.
It's just very faded. But again the bolt in the side and the
one talent is clenched, and you can see what looks like a like a
rough leather pouch sticking out of either side of the grasp talent. Ricky would
very gently try and remove the arrow. Bubo's not a people, so leaving
a hole is probably better than leaving something in there. So yeah, he's
gonna gently do that. The rest of the world to him doesn't matter.
Roll me a tinker one success you do, so as you pull it out,
it doesn't It doesn't go back to that quiet kind of asmr worrying that
we just talked about. But that that grinding sound stops. There's definitely like
a vibration coming from the body, but that that that horrible sound seems to
have diminished greatly. It's still sort of there because you're very familiar with Bubo,
but it doesn't seem nearly as bad as it was. The talent slowly
opens and you see this kind of long pouch revealed, he would take that
and open it. Okay, I need you to roll for me, either
contact, comprehend or empathize. I'll take any of this. Look how generous
I am. Everybody fuck right, you're so generous. I know you're throwing
gold out today. There's never been a more generous gem. Thank you,
Thank you. I take offense to that you should was contact comprehend or empathize?
Was it? Yes? Contact comprehend and or not and or but or
empathize? They are all the same. Let's go for contacts. Why not
one success? Nice? Nice? As you open up the bag, you
realize it contains one item. And as soon as you kind of it's almost
like you pull the bag down to reveal the item. The item seems to
have been covered by the bag. So you pull the outside the bag down
and it looks like you're peeling a banana, and immediately a crystal is revealed.
And as you see this crystal with that role and that successful role of
contact, you remember that this is one of the very distinct crystals that you
moved past in the paperback exchange during the conflict in which you obtained the bow,
and without knowing how you know this, knowing that this is a crystal
from the paperback exchange. It's one that bore witness to you becoming Locksley and
getting the bow. And this crystal is flush with the power of the greatest
witch of them all. You can feel that energy as soon as you take
it. And for a moment, though Ricky is not affected by anything that
might be occurring in the Age of Always, there is a powerful almost like
a light that's being cast in an area of darkness. Things are beginning to
be revealed. And one of the citizens that runs by you. As soon
as you pull this crystal out of its bag, one of the citizens that
runs by you stops and says, where's my wife, Susie and runs off.
And you see they take about three steps away from you and stop,
and their back straightens again and they run off towards the north. We're gonna
put a pin in you. The Volkswagen moves forward and it slides kind of
to the side, And as it slides to the side, I'm going to
give you the investigate that you had before. Ricky. You see that the
door on the driver's side has a bloody handprint by the handle, and you
see a hand reach out and pop the door from the outside, and a
large figure steps out, wearing a cowboy hat, glasses, a cigarette dangling
from his mouth. Scarlet. You and know this man as Roland Fuck.
He steps forward into the road and looks at you. She fazes him.
You're gonna let me pass fuck off? M hm, and her gun rig
appears. Took you long enough and shake his head. Just get it out
of the way. She stands in front of flag h He looks at you,
and for a moment you see his hands kind of leveling over his own
gun rig and he looks down stamps out his cigarette. Don't you remember what
happened last time? Oh? I remember? I just don't think you do.
Someone must be messing with your mind. Unlikely and she she will go.
She will kind of like shift her weight, like put her putting her
hands over top of the guns that glow with blue metal. I assume mm
hmmm hm. I ain't a fan of this scarlet me neither back in the
car and go away. Look at that car. You know who that's is.
I got him, I got Ben. You give me him. I'll
give you back your guy only two of us left. Scarlet can't go killing
each other. Who says someone's already tried already and she will she's motion referring
to her in her wounds. Crying and succeeding her two very different things.
Slinger step aside, I told you, I don't back down. Is pasted.
I think his time's just beginning. Everyone deserves a second chance. He's
had it and more. He just didn't have the right people to support him.
You still don't get it. How much of this he's responsible for?
Well, the point might be a little bit to my left. All right,
whatever he's responsible for. Killing him is not going to change it,
But the good that he could do going forward could make a difference in some
Yeah, you never did understand the age. It comes and it goes,
it's here, and it's then. He ain't gonna follow no straight line,
neither of you. You stop him now, and all the shit he's done
or will do, stops with him. It's a thread that needs cut.
I'm gonna do it, or you are. I just don't believe it.
I know in my heart it's not the right thing to do. And her
hand will waiver over top her gun. He slowly drops his down to his
rig. That was always a difference between me and you. You've got a
heart and he draws. She draws too strangely enough, I need you to
roll a force and to move worse than a move. I will say this,
Roland is no reugan. Yes, can I also you get it whatever
you got excuse me. I'm going to attach my pride to my force role
here. I will say this. Anything you use with gunslinger Scarlet, you
will burn the equivalent with unconscious Scarlet. Keep that in mind. Yeah,
yeah, she's unconscious, so yeah, she well, let's roll first,
but I will add my pride if I need to. Let's go the one
that. I will add the pride to make it too. I will also
let you push it, but you will the condition will go towards unconscious scarlet.
Sh She doesn't know that. So yeah, I will also push it.
Oh sorry, my hitting reroll. If I'm pushing it, should just
take your success and reroll the remainders ollo. Let's go zero. Yeah,
so just too, that's just for my forest role. Let me have that
move. Yeah, and the move one successful move and uh so I'll take
the upset condition for my reroll above. You can push this one as well
if you'd like, or do anything you'd like to the move wrong. M
h neah, there is something. Uh. I'm not gonna do anything with
my move, but for my force role. I back in episode one,
you gave me a fait point. Okay for the price of friendship, gotcha.
So I'm gonna add that success for three to my force three fourths and
you have one on move correct. Yeah, I'll try. I'll try rerolling
it again. Two successes for move Ricky, you and your dad are close
enough to bear witness to this, and again with the extended range of your
senses here in the age of all, it's something that you can easily discern.
You don't have time to interfere. This is happening very quickly. And
again you haven't really seen this scarlet. So you have that moment where you're
like, that's scarlet. Oh shit, and then shit's happening. But what
you see is this in fact, actually no, you need to roll and
investigate to even be able to fucking see what two gunslingers do when they draw
on each other. Because this is like somebody put fast forward on lightning.
You hear two cracks of thunder and you see Roland and Scarlet drop to the
ground. Neither of them are moving. Let's cut back up to the north.
We take that pin out of that one we had earlier, Heather.
As you are running north towards the loop, it's beginning. It's becoming very
dominant in your sight lines. Now it's completely pushing everything else out of the
way. The closer you get, it's like running towards the rocky mountains or
driving. They just take over everything at some point, and this is what
the Loop is doing. But as you're running, you start to see this
metal robot in the sky has really started to zero in on these rocks,
and there's fewer rocks coming in. You hear the sounds of battle beginning to
filter from the south. You see what looks like these great You see an
aerial assault that seems to be heading towards the south. You can smell on
the wind, some weird almost like a flower of some kind, some you
know, sickly wheat smell begins to blow from that breeze that we talked about
at the beginning from this perfect autumn day, and it catches you for a
second, making you not necessarily lightheaded, but just kind of absent for a
second. You float along with the smell. But now where there was before
the sounds of an organization coming from the south, there is the sounds of
battle, of engagement, of crashes and death. But as you were running
forward and you can't see this, but one Jerry Baker gets free and with
the help of a George Butts, the last of the trebuchets that are loaded
are aimed, and the two that are Frenzy eternal fire. One rock into
the air. It gets past gort as it just moves past this robot's blind
side through the phalanx. Flying through the air, it smashes against the side
of the loop and again you hear that synth driven first chord of when doves
cry, And you feel a hand on your shoulder that stops you dead.
The hand moves to face you, but also, if you allow it forces
you to face the owner of the hand. Do you do that? I
think? She turns around and she says what and looks at whoever it is.
Van Halen looks at you with eyes you have never seen. They are
the same color, they are the same size, but they are are wise
and they are filled with love and tears, and she looks you directly into
your eyes and she says, remember I remember the face of our mother,
and that, my friends, is where we will end this session of Atari
Twilight. Bump bum bum hell yeah that was That was dope wo full mental
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time on Atari Twilight. As the light returns to van Halen's eyes and the
light fades from scarlets, Each world has its heroes. It's witches, it's
guides, it's tricksters, it's gunslingers, it's living, and it's dead.
Differing ideals lead to arguments. Arguments lead to lines being drawn. Words begin
with lines being drawn, and if you are not very, very careful,
you will find yourselves on opposite sides, staring at those you used to love,
and if you are damned, you will find yourself standing over the bodies
of those you love. Join us next time for Atari Twilight The Age of
Always, Episode eight, Something Wicked