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We are very excited to have you for a game that we have all been
eagerly anticipating and are very excited to share with you. Tonight, we are
going to be diving into the world of Blade Runner, the role playing game
by Free League Publishing. If you're not familiar with blade Runner, then I
encourage you to check out our previous two episodes. We have one that's like
an introduction to Blade Runner, where I talk a little bit about the universe,
the films, some of the other media like the animated series and some
of the short films. Definitely check that out if you're not familiar with Blade
Runner, because the atmosphere in the environment is really what makes this universe special,
and it is by freely publishing, so it has some rules you'd be
familiar with, but again we're not going to focus too much on that unless
it comes up in game from the players. So if you want more of
a rules breakdown, listen to that intro episode as well as I kind of
break down the mechanics. It's very simple, but we're not going to focus
too much on that. We're going to try to bring you a much more
immersive experience than we normally do. I can't promise sound effects though after doing
the one alien episode that was a bit of a pain in the ass to
pull off, but we're gonna try to bring you them a little bit more
serious and dark and in theme tonight, as we go through the starter set
adventure called Electric Dreams Now, unlike the normal starter set adventure, if you've
listened to our session zero, you will know that I've let the players create
their own characters for this, which for any aspiring gms out there, they
do actually recommend you can try in the starter set adventure so you don't have
to use the pregen characters. I've listened to a couple of podcasts of this
particular venture myself, so I thought i'd be interesting to put a little twist
on it and have the players check out how care creation works, so you
can check that out in the session zero, and also see if we can
make them kind of fit into the story as it were. So yeah,
I'm the great unclean one. I'm your host. I'm sure you know me
by now. Be your game runner as they call it in Blade Runner,
and I'll be weaving this Neon litt Nor tale and joining me are four regulars
on the show, and we'll just do a round of introductions here, so
fellas, tell us who you are, who you're playing, and unless there's
anything else you want to tell, the folks will just dive right in here.
So we will start it off with a Kyle. Hey, everybody,
it's Kyle. I'm back, happy to be here. Really like this franchise.
I will be playing Inspector Silas Hulbach. Just keep keep it going,
keep it going around the table here fellows, whoever wants go next? Which
table I guess I could go next. I'm Matt, also known as the
Frog. I will be playing Hector Bent of Today Fixer, I'm Sean,
I'm gonna be playing Garrick Johnson City Speaker, and I'm Tyler. I'm going
to be playing Violet Lye our Doxy Excellent. Eric will not be joining us.
He's taking a couple of weeks off to hang out with the family.
And this is a game that I think benefits from having a smaller group,
So we're gonna have four people as we dive through this the next couple episodes.
Here, Los Angeles twenty thirty seven, A fog choked sky hangs over
the Mega City, blotting out the sun, casting a pale gray haze across
the horizon. Acid rain perpetually falls from above, trenching crowds below that take
cover underglowing umbrellas and see through raincoats. Towering buildings line the landscape as far
as the eye can see, piercing into the clouds where the Mega Rich gates
down upon the Megapore like gods watching over ants. Traffic clogs the highways,
filling the air with the sounds of horns, the murmur of life as the
city awakens. Neon signs light up every street corner, while digital billboards offer
up every product and vice imaginable. Up above, high tech spinners soar between
structures, avoiding the chaos down below. Thirty million people call this place home,
human and replicant alike, and watching over it all is the Wallace Corporation.
We begin as we zoom in towards a massive structure here in La the
Los Angeles Police Department Tower, really dwarfing most of the rest of the city
skyline. Other than the massive Wallace Corporation corporate headquarters, which is currently under
construction. What's been built is already dominating the skyline and is already the largest
structure here, and whenever it is complete, threatens to be the biggest thing
the city has ever seen. But equally impressive is the dark, foreboding tower
of the Los Angeles Police Department, looking down on this massive city, which
requires an equally massive police force. As we zoom in through one of the
windows, through one of the many hallways bustling with officers, staff, citizens,
some who are here of their own accord, others in cuffs, we
eventually reach a room it and as the door opens up, we see a
woman from behind as we zoom in. What does violetly look like? As
our camera zooms in from behind and then follows her as she enters the door
in front of her tyler. Let's say she's in her sort of signature look
like if she's going out on patrol. Uh. She's about five something,
pretty petite, but you can tell she's very strong, so pretty athletic build.
She has her hair done up in two little side buns, so she
kind of has like a bit of a younger girl look, and she has
a lot of makeup. She's got purple eyeshadow, black lipstick, and she's
wearing something that does not look like a police uniform. She has looks like
street clothes, almost like a Geisha clothes, but a little bit more functional,
a little bit more form fitting. And she has sort of many looks,
but this is kind of like a signature one and not what she's always
dressed in when she comes into work. Okay, and we follow Violet as
she enters a very familiar door ahead of her. It is a door that
leads into a barren, stark, white room. All that is inside this
room is a simple stool kind of in the middle, and directly in front
of that stool on the wall is a device, a lens with a small
light that emits a test that Violet is very familiar with. You've had a
specific dream once again, Violet, that has as always shooking you up a
little bit. And unlike many other replicants who are always worried when it comes
time to take a baseline test, many times when you have this particular dream,
you find yourself volunteer of voluntarily coming to take a baseline test to make
sure it's not interfering with you and that you're still able to do your job
properly. Why don't you tell us a bit about this dream. As you
enter the room, the door shuts and locks behind you, and you take
a very familiar seat. I have a dream from one I was a little
girl and a foster home, and one morning the headmistress, Gwen, who
is a replicant, bugged out and I don't remember much but blood screams.
It was a blood bath. After that, remember being taken by the police,
and bits are kind of choppy after that. So you sit down in
this all too familiar room. You've been here many times since you have been
on the Force, a newer Nexus nine model, but one of the older
ones on the Force. As it is sneering your birthday. As a matter
of fact, it was just your birthday, quote unquote, about five days
ago on May fourteenth. That is when you were quote unquote conceived. That
was your inception date, when you were brought online. And as part of
this new initiative that the Wallace Corporation has started to prove that the Nexus nines
are obedient and that replicants are safe to have and the mistakes of the past
are a thing of the past. You are a special type of replicant.
You are a Blade Runner replicant, and you take these baseline tests to make
sure that you are not going off kilter as they say. You sit down
on this stool and the light on the device in front of you lights up
a pale blue color. You can hear the click of the lens as the
pictures the cameras begin to take pictures of you, monitoring your breathing, your
biometrics, pulse, perspiration, dilation of your eyes, all things like that.
You hear a familiar voice from which you still have no face to put
to that, says Officer VL two dash six dot three three. Are you
ready to begin? Yes? Cite your baseline. Silence is the ultimate disguise.
It close the truth and muffles lies. Close your mouth and open your
eyes, then I will think you're very wise. Silence? What do you
think of the silence? Silence? Why is everything so dark? Silence?
Silence? Do you hear anything other than silence? Silence? Silence? What
happened to your ears? Silence? Silence? Why can't the dead scream?
Silence? Silence? There's a few more clicks of the lenses. You can
hear it, rotating, zooming in and out. Truth? Do you wish
to know the truth? Truth? Can you tell the difference between a lie
and the truth? Truth? Why do you refuse to acknowledge the truth?
Truth? What is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Truth?
Why won't you tell me the truth? Truth? Ultimate disguise, disguise?
Repeat that three times, Ultimate disguise, ultimate disguise, ultimate disguise, ultimate
disguise. Why do the screams keep coming from your mouth? Mouth? Can't
you ever to shut your mouth? Mouth? Close your mouth? Mouth?
Do you know that petachromia is when you have two different colored eyes eyes.
What would you do if I plucked out your eyes? Eyes? Open your
eyes? Eyes? Can you contemplate your existence? Think? Think? Why
can't you just ever stop and think? Think? You're so very wise wise?
Repeat that three times. You're so very wise, You're so very wise,
You're so very wise, You're so very wise. There's a few more
clicks. You can hear the lens retract and the voice says, very good,
Officer VL two dash six dot three three. You're dismissed, report Deputy
Chief Holden's office for emergency briefing. I get up without saying anything, all
right, As Violet turns back down the hall to make her way towards the
Chief's office. We then find ourselves in another part of Los Angeles. We
see another one of our characters, a man by the name of Hector Bantov.
Hector, You've been given some special orders from Chief Holden to find another
one of your fellow Blade Runners and bring them in for an emergency meeting.
You're in one of the LAPD's Special Detective Police spinners, soaring over the rain
soaked streets of Los Angeles, heading towards the financial district. Who do we
see behind the wheel of this spinner. Hector is a very tall fellow.
He has close cut hair that's very dark, and he wears along and somewhat
fashionable coat. He could say he's a bit overdressed for an inspector job,
maybe stands out a little bit too much, but it's important to make a
good impression, and he does so. Going out to the financial district,
I think he's heading to a luxury bar. Potentially. Yes. You soar
over the streets, eventually reaching your destination, a large building like many here
in La which is a tall, tall structure of apartments, high end condos
and penthouses. There's a bar on the ground floor known as the Sovereign,
a luxury hotel. I'm sorry, luxury bar, and you're hoping to find
your companion here. What do you do? What's on the ground floor?
I guess I'll park the spinner somewhere and head on in. Okay, you
enter this bar. It is rather nice as far as a ground level type
establishments go. It's got relatively clean windows and some kind of brass slash gold
trim which usually takes the form of like a like a railing, something you'd
expect to see like on a balcony of a hotel, like a handrail that
makes up, you know, trim of the pillars holding up the floor,
a trim around the bar and around some of the booths that line the floor.
Most of the cushions here are kind of a deep crimson red, and
there's equally crimson red curtains that hang throughout this place, and a fairly nice
chandelier. Though you doubt it's made of anything really expensive. It's probably artificial,
but it looks fancy and luxurious. Nonetheless, you scan the bar and
you look to where you believe your companion will be, but all you see
is an empty seat. Disappointed that it won't be too easy, I guess
I will still sidle up to the bar and try to get the bartender's attention.
All right, A man in a basically a white shirt, black bow
tie, black vest, longsleeve shirt with very nice looking cuff links and a
small, thin, vincent price type mustache comes up to you. What can
I do for you, sir, good evening. I was hoping you might
help me. I was supposed to meet a friend here. Do you know
silas Hulbuck. Ah, yes, I have not seen Detective Hullbock this evening.
I'm not sure if he's if he's out and about or not. Oh
no, that's a shame. No idea is at all, any any anything
at all would be appreciated. Um well, he often, if not here
at the bars, often pays a visit to uh get the name of it
here, Hillside Cemetery. Okay, I she'll check for him there. Thank
you for your time. Okay, leave a tip and scoot from the bar.
He gives you a gracious nod, and you see he tucks the chinyon
into his pocket. You hop back in your spinner head over to Hillside Cemetery.
Not very large, a bit dilapidated, definitely showing its age. It's
got a crumbling wall around the outside, with rusted iron spikes every so often
on the top. Also really not in the best of shape. And you
doubt this cemetery is really in use much anymore other than for whoever might be
here. And you make your way through the pang of and eventually towards the
small hill. You see a figure and Kyle, what does this figure look
like? And what are they doing? Well? Silas Hulback is a kind
of average pip, very live man, shaves his head, bald, has
a very angular, sharp face with kind of a large nose, very sunken
eyes that he hides behind dark sunglasses, and is your typical kind of noish
blade runner in that he has a dark trench coat that he compliments with a
dark fedora. He does wear a suit underneath, but it is incredibly mundane,
so he blends in very nicely. And at the moment he is visiting
his deceased father, he likes to come here when he needs a moment of
relaxation and he'll sit on a folding chair and do crossword puzzles and talk to
his father. How do you keep yourself out of the rain while you're here.
There's a one of those light up umbrellas kind of tucked under the crook
of his arm, and it is underneath that umbrella that you see your fellow
blade runner Bantoff or do you go by Hector? You probably go by Hectors.
You're a replicant. Yeah, I'll approach him now. You have you've
heard of Sillis. You've probably even seen Detective Haulback once or twice. He's
got a bit of a reputation in the department because he's been around for a
while. Not the oldest blade runner in the in the force, but definitely
someone who's seen his time. But you've never met him before, so this
is the first time. What do you do? I'll walk up and on
recognizing him. Great, let's say, hello, Inspector Hulbach, I'm Hector
bant of Wow, it's a very nice suit. Thank you you and I
I am Deputy Chief Holden send me here m hm, and probably instantly annoys
you, uh, Inspector, as you are currently on same much deserved and
needed leave. There's something important that we need to discuss. There's always something
important. Well, all right, hold this will you and he'll he'll hand
you a cross word book and pen I take it and look at it puzzlingly.
Uh yeah. So Silas will get up, fold the chair and put
it on the side of the tombstone and over his shoulders, say by dad
and clap Pactor on the shoulder and say, well, let's go see what's
so important. Sounds like a plant be on our way, all right.
The two of you hop in the spinner, take to the skies and make
your way back towards LAPD headquarters. As you disappear into the clouds, we
shift and zoom in through another window across town, I believe in Sector five,
where there is the LAPD housing. Many of the people on the force
here have overman issued in more importantly, government paid apartments. Not the fanciest,
but definitely probably something that most people on the force would not be able
to afford themselves unless they were higher ups or very experienced individuals. And it
is here that we zoom through the window and we see a apartment and shot,
what does this apartment look like? Why don't you give us a tour?
So Garrick's apartment is fairly bare, except for maybe one or two bookshelves
with as many actual physical books he can ever find, a desk to work
on, and then a bed to sleep in, no real amenities. Pretty
bare. No, we are like that, not just a desk, some
some books, bookshelf, bed, and then liquor readily available for when he
needs to relax. Do you have an actual bed or do you have a
bed that like pulls out of the couch or the wall or something like that.
I would be an actual bed. Since he doesn't spend money on really
others things. At least sleeping is important, okay, And what does what
does Garrick look like? Garrick is a little bit taller than average, but
he's fairly thin, almost frail looking, with dark circles under his eyes.
He's got hair swept back, and then he dresses with somewhat nice clothes of
button up shirt and pants, dress pants and shoes but no tie. What
a rebel, Yeah, real rebel. And you've begun your day as you
often do, with a grating voice that you've begun arguing with. What we
see is a holographic projection of a man. And what does he look like?
His digital assistant looks almost like a caricature of like a nineteen twenties nor
detective, almost like whoever ordered this for him did it as a joke.
As the hologram flickers into life, rousing you from your sleep, you hear
this voice that to you sounds like nails on a chalkboard, or like rocks
being grinded. Hey kid, good bye, Get up. You slept enough
makes up in your life? Why don't you, Silva, it's too early
for this ship. Now, It's never too early. You're just always going
to bed, chats up, makes a breakfast of something. Yeah, yeah,
what's ill news for today? Wow, you're sleeping on your ass.
That's about it. Disappointment as always good to hear, and Garrick will drag
himself out of bed go start the day with a shot. And what is
Garrick's drink of choice? He drinks cheap whiskey kind that burns when it goes
down. Yeah, that's that's it. Cheap like everything else in this dump.
Yeah. If your mother could see you now, well maybe if she
paid for better, did you, it wouldn't be as bad. Hey,
I was top of the line. Okay, maybe if you pulled a few
extra cases, you could upgrade me. Maybe get me one of the thou
you know, those translocators, so I wouldn't be stuck in these four walls.
Yeah. I don't think I'm gonna pay for that, but a few
more hours at work might help keep me away from you. The banter An
argument goes back and forth for a little while as he continues to hound you
and brate you. At one point picks up like a digital bottle or glass
that's like in his digital world, throws it across the room, and it
smashes loudly as if it's real, but there's no glass. When it hits
the wall, just dissipates into little pixels that vanish, And just as he's
about to shout, his form freezes like he's walking towards you with a big
step. He's got his right hand up in a finger like he's about to
point in your chest. His mouth is open like he's about to shout some
insult in at you, and his sound stops, his movement stops, and
you hear the buzzing of you, like your your vidphone in your apartment and
there's an incoming call, and you see that it says Deputy Chief Holden.
Yeah, you would accept it immediately, morning, kid Chief. You can
hear the wheezing in his voice from the artificial lungs that he's kind of infamous
around the station for having. So what you see is Deputy Chief Holden,
your immediate superior, who's kind of in charge of pretty much all the blade
runners. He's not the chief of police or anything like that. He's not
in control of the entire LAPD. There's people above him, but he is
the person you report to, and you often get your assignments directly from him.
You can see that he's in his office at the LAPD Tower, smoke
filled place that's has the smoke being churned by a crappy ceiling fan up above
him. He's definitely showing his age. You know that he's probably in his
late fifties early sixties, with basically a mane of white hair with a bit
of a widow's peak. And you can see that he's got a small mustache.
You know, it's it's not not huge or thick or anything like that,
but a small white matching mustache. He's got a loose tigh around his
neck. You can see that he's got his jacket for his suit over the
back of his chair, and he continues, look, need you to come
in, Garrick. All right, we got got a serious case. Tall
hands on deck, maybe in my office, the rest of the teams being
assembled. All right, Jeef, we'll be there, and he just see
thumbs the button on his screen and the video goes out. Eric will quickly
get ready and turn off the lights when he leaves and locks the door.
All right. As as you turn off the call, Silva continues, you
are the most worthless deplorable. Ah, you're just the worst. You know,
Gary will turn him off. In the middle of a tirade, he
shuts off and you flip the lights off and head out. We then reconvene
back at the Lapd Tower, where the group of you begin to file in
to Holden's office. Garrick. By the time you get there, you probably
the last to arrive. So Violet, you're the first to arrive, as
you are already at the tower after your baseline test. You go past the
secretary of Holden's who works in a small office that's like in front of his
and you walk through her office to get to his door. You see the
door is currently closed, and when you walk in, she looks up at
you. Here for the meeting. The chief's expecting you go right in.
I'll walk in, all right. You walk in and he spins around in
his chair and he kind of looks you up and down with an arched eye,
and he says, Violet, had a seat, I do so,
as it looks like he's about to start speaking. At this point, you
can hear footsteps coming from behind you, and you see two more individuals walk
into the room. At this point we see Halbuck and Hector. They emerge.
You've seen haulback around. But the other individual you are unfamiliar with.
God to look at him quizzically. Silas is walking in with a pretty stiff
gate, and he has his fedora off on one hand and his glasses off
in another and has them extended, looking at the chief like you brought me
in again. Sit down, I don't know. I don't need more of
your lip, haul Buck. I know you're on leave, but I got
an emergency here. It surprised you, surprised you found him so fast.
Hector not bad. He takes a long drag on a cigarette. Thankfully it
wasn't hiding or anything like that. Yeah, if he knows what's good for
him, he won't. And then you hear him. You hear him shout
out to the past, past you guys through the open door into the office,
and he goes, um, Jenny, where in the house Johnson.
You hear her respond, he just entered the tower, sir. He'll be
up momentarily about damn time. A few moments later, your final blade runner,
Eric Johnson, joins you. Guys, Eric, you see these other
three individuals you might recognize Haulbick or violet, but you don't recognize Hector.
Derek would just enter in, not the chief and find a place to sit.
Close the door behind you. What are You're born in a barn?
Damn He'll close the door. All right, here's the deal. Got a
urgent situation. We had a shooting last night in Sector one the ship hall
called the Snake Pit over a nightclub Row Hullbeck. You'd probably remember it,
and that does ring a bell. It is infamous for being a nightclub slash
bar where a very famous as far as the lapd goes, very famous shooting
and retirement of a replicant went down years ago, back in twenty nineteen.
And you know this because Holden was the one that started that investigation which led
to the assassination of Eldon Tyrrell, the head of the Tyrrell Corporation, and
several replicants were involved. And it is where you know, not many people
know this unless they do the research, but you've known holding long enough.
That is where he got his injuries at the start of that investigation, which
ended up getting him a pair of synthetic lungs, which you know is not
cheap. And you know a lot of people have mixed feelings about synthetic body
parts and augmentations, but without it he would not have survived. He continues,
two N nine blade runners serial numbers LH three dash seven dot nine three
and s N nine dash one dot for eight code names. Leah Sandor might
have seen him around, and he looks, particularly with the two replicants in
the room. Before you guys can answer, anyway, Sander was shot dead
last night, and now we can't find where the hell Leah's run off to
no idea where she is. At this point, he throws down two files
for you guys, and you can tell they are the like profiles or case
files for these two. And let me give those two you. You guys
should have two new journal entries handouts C and D. Yes. Yeah,
okay, feel free to look through those. They went to the snake pit.
Understand they were looking into some Nexus eight activity, but we don't know
what's triggered the shooting. According to some of our boys we got down at
the scene, witnesses say there were some of those assholes from those human supremacist
groups causing trouble. They could have had something to do with it, don't
know that's what you're here for oh, and you better make it snappyby because
I don't want to hear about it that fucking magazine. Kill enough of that
bullshit around here too. I need you to figure this out, figure it
out fast. I've got top brass breathing down my neck, and i got
Wallace Corporation up my ass. As you're all well aware, these and nines
are the new hotness here in LA. It's been barely a year since they've
been approved, after Wallace got the UN to peel back the prohibition. And
of course, if this goes south, or any implications of any sort that
are unsavory well become word on the streets, then you know it's going to
affect their bottom line. They don't want that, which means I don't want
that, which means you don't want that. Capiche takes another long drag on
his cigar. Understand, Chief right, they're letting us run this. I've
offered our assistance and full disclosure. Their PR manager, Quell is expecting you
at Wallace Corp. She can tell you more about Leah. And he looks
over at all back particularly he says, play nice. I mean it.
He puts his hands up as if to surrender in size. Yeah, yeah,
go about this anyway you want, split up, stick together. I
don't care. I just want results. I want them fast. I've got
all the usual resources you need. Sanders down on ice and well. I
feel free to check the main frame for any other information on these too,
maybe the esper wall. Maybe I get lucky. I got Jennifer upload everything
to your Kia, So that should be it. Questions, not Chief or
good Sarah. And without waiting for everyone else to answer, I guess,
assuming met all books answer is the only one he needs. He says,
well, then what are you doing? Get the hell out of here,
Get to work, rookies. Yeah, Silas slowly gets up, making a
noise doing so, and walks out of the room, the same noise I
make every time my phone goes off when I'm on call, more like a
scream of anguish. But yeah, he would wait outside for the other three.
Okay, So as you guys begin to depart his office, quick little
breakdown on one of the game mechanics here, which is how time is measured.
Very important feature of this game. Similar to Alien, we have a
tough frame of time called a shift, which represents a couple hours. In
this game and Blade Runner, each day has four shifts morning, day,
night, I'm sorry, morning, day, evening, and night, And
basically you can go to one location and carry out one part of your investigation
per shift. So if you were to, you know, go to another
location and do whatever it is, it's assume that between the travel time,
any investigation other things in between that takes up a shift of time. So
it is currently morning here on our first day, and you guys can go
about your investigation however you'd like, So we'll take it from there. As
Sillis is the first one out of the office, what does everybody do?
I think Violet gets up and goes to the locker room sort of changes into
something less flashy, just regular clothes, and takes off her makeup and puts
her hair down and kind of looks like a different person a bit when they
see her outside. All right, so maybe she's one of the last ones
out and she has to change if they all file out, everybody else,
Yeah, Eric will just meet with the others outside of the hallway. All
right. You're in one of the many many hallways that align the LAPD tower.
You're up towards some of the upper floors, this being where the chief
is at. Much like the rest of the city, the divide between those
up top and those below is seen even here in the lapd, whereas the
upper floors you can't even get to unless you've got a special invitation to get
to some of the top brass Holden's floor does not have anywhere near as much
security as that, but it's not quite as crowded as some of the lower
levels are. So occasionally another officer or a staff member of some sort of
clerk is scurrying down the hall doing whatever task they have to deal with,
and the three view I presume are sitting there while or standing there while the
Violet heads off. Yeah, I think Silas would turn to the the two
that are there and say, which one of you fancies themselves a better talker?
But I'm pretty good at talking to people. Great, I think I'll
have you go with Violet to Wallace Court. All right, follow up on
Leah. I'll take our well suited friend here and check out Sander. All
right, sounds good. The case file is known address for Leah would be
pretty to check out that or hold abode. Potentially we could did you run
that through your little computer there, I suppose I could. Did you correct
hidden with you, buddy? Yeah? What's do? We head there and
then we'll wait for Violet. Eventually Violet returns. She looks almost like a
different person in her street clothes and not all dolled up like she was before.
You see the other three Blade Runners standing in the hallway outside of Jenny's
office. Looks like they're discussing how they're going to go about things. I
kind of bee line straight to Haulbeck and just kind of say, might have
some connections in the snake Pit. Work takes me there sometimes interesting. Yeah,
should follow up on that too, but probably better to go there at
night. Yeah, I'm having you pair up with Garrick here and go to
Wallace Corp. See what you can find out about Leah. So I will
just point out a couple of things here that you would have in your handouts
and just general like notes things maybe I didn't mention, but you would know
the snake Pit is because this happened just this morning. It is still an
active crime scene. And then he mentioned Wallace Corp. He mentioned the morgue
and the main frame and the Esper wall, and then He also had mentioned
the Human Supremisis movement that supposedly witnesses place there at the same pit. So
those are some of your starting leads. You were free to utilize any resources
and the LAPD or that your own personal character has in any way that you
see fit um. So really it's basically decide what you're each gonna do and
how you're going to spend this first shift, and then we'll go from there.
I think going to Wallace Corp. Is a good starting spot. It
did mention someone for us to talk to, so you know, Violet agrees
with the assessment. Chris, would is the morgue on premises and would that
go into another shift or would that still be considered on the same if the
it is on the premises, So the the LAPD mainframe, the esper wall,
and the UM, the morgue is all here, the crime it's the
whole crime lab, so they do all the forensics and autopsies, the morgue
is down there, all that stuff that's all here on site. Basically accessing
those would count as your shift. So even though you're not really traveling offsite,
you're still traveling throughout the tower. And because it's so big and convoluted,
and you might have to wait your turn to get access to a terminal
or to talk toever you need to talk to since there's so many employees here
so and like places like the Esper Wall actually have restricted access, so getting
through the bureaucracy of getting access to that will take up time as well.
So whatever you do here at the tower that will count towards this morning shift.
Okay, So, Chris, question for the leads you had mentioned the
snake pit, the morgue Wallace Carpon. Was there another lead he had mentioned?
You know, mate, if you guys want, you can check out
the mainframe for more information on the two blade Runners, or maybe check the
Esper Wall to get see if you get any any footage. Okay, the
Aspert the Asper technology is basically your video surveillance technology here in LA and in
Blade Runner. It you have a device here in the LAPD called the Esper
Wall, which is this gigantic, massive mainframe supercomputer that processes information at an
astronomical rate. However, because of the size of the city, it only
maintains video surveillance for twenty four hours before it's overwritten. Okay, So we
should probably check out the Asper Wall earlier rather than later if we want to
better chance of finding anything. Right to only active for twenty four hours?
H m hmm, I think two of us could strike out to stay in
the station and investigate what we can find on ASPERN and maybe in the morgue
see what's left of volt sand or okay before directions? All right, I
think I'll check out Leah's apartment. Why don't we, Eric, why don't
you head over to Wallace? Uh? And then Hector, I think you
should stick with Asper. Then Violet, well have you check out snake pit
when it's time? All right? So how good to everybody? Yeah?
That works for me? Alrighty who wants to go first? But I can
kick off first to see try to access the Asper wall and let's see if
we can pull any footage of what happened by the same pit. All right.
So this game has basically feature where you can make requests to the LAPD
to access different resources. Some of these are instantaneous and do not really require
any cost and do not require any sort of skill check. Others they may
require a cost, usually in the form of a promotion point. Basically represents
you getting access to something that has something restricted, filling out the proper paperwork,
or perhaps even getting a favor from somebody in the LAPD that owes you.
Most of that is getting equipment that's above and beyond standard. But there's
a few other things here that are either classified or restricted. The Esper wall
is one of them. Now, using the Esper wall and using some of
the other hardware here on site, it gives you advantages to your roles.
So sometimes it's better to try to do things here if you're able to.
The Asper wall is going to cost a motion point to access, and then
you make a test to see what you can find. Okay, well,
maybe I shouldn't do that because I don't have any of those. Does anybody
is anybody here that's staying in the LAPD have one? They could? I
would let them use that to get you access. I mean, I'm not
staying at the LAPD, but I do have promotion points? Can I give
him one? Now? You can help you give him access before he begins,
all right, So Garrick will go down with him flashing whatever badge he
has or needs to show to get him access, all right, So you
do that. So it's going to cost you a promotion point here and let
me see exactly how this works. Okay, So the mainframe is something that
you can access through your KEYA units remotely, so you don't have to be
here to access whatever's in the mainframe. And the mainframe will have all sorts
of information like criminal profiles and police reports and things like that. However,
if you access stuff directly on the mainframe here at the LAPD, you will
have advantage on your tech rolls. The Asper wall is this massive, as
I said, massive wall. It's got the dozens and dozens of monitors and
camera feeds all throughout the city with just insane computational powers and processing this endless
stream of data from everywhere. Now, because it is restricted access, you
can't access it remotely. You have to put an official request in here,
which what you guys are doing now, and it can all be accessed on
site. So this is going to require a tech test, mister Hector,
and you will have advantage here. Okay. That gives you an extra dye
of whatever the like lowest you're rolling with is correct. It should do it
automatically when you click your button. I think there's a thing that pops up,
you could select it. There you go. Okay, so no successes
not great? Would you like to push the roll on? What? What
does that involve? Again? So, just like an alien, if you
push, you get to reroll any of your dice that are not currently a
one, which in this case is all of them. Do you have a
chance to get a second chance to get successes? However, if any dice
you previously rolled or roll on the re role come up as a one,
they cause damage. In the case of a empathy or an intelligence test,
you take a point of stress. In the case of a strength or agility
test, you take a point of health damage. Now replicants, however,
they only ever suffer stress when they are pushing a role. They don't ever
suffer physical damage, so they only suffer a resolved damage. And a replicant
can push twice if they choose okay, I'll only spend a promotion point,
so I might as well kick one in here, all right, so two
successes, No one's come up, And just like an alien, you generally
only need one success to pass a test here, unless it's opposed, in
which case whoever has the most successes wins, or in combat. If you
get two or more successes that are unopposed, that's how you can score critical
hits. In addition to if you get dropped to zero zero health, you
become broken. So that's why you generally would want to fish for more.
But two is plenty here. So you go through some footage, finding the
timeframe from the previous evening and the area around the snake pit. And what
you see here is you give me the guys the right hand out. Okay,
so what you see here is a image of the entrance to the snake
pit. There are plenty of people roaming the streets with umbrellas. You can
see traffic moving through the image here, and there in the distance is a
metrocab that you can see someone rushing towards and getting in and leaving rather quickly.
Do you guys all see that hand out I gave you? Can?
I can I force you guys to like, oh, I can hear any
Just so you guys know, any handout I show from now on that should
show up in your journal's entries. Guys can always go back to look at
stuff. I got it? Cool? Yeah, So, listeners, this
is a game that gives you lots of cool props to hand out to your
players, actual photos and case files and things like that to kind of really
draw them in and let them actually look and see if they can find information.
Rather than the GM necessarily telling them everything. They actually have to look
like detectives and figure it out. Okay, But for this one, the
Nation definitely helps kind of give it that sort of dynamic action because this to
me just looks like a photo of a bunch of people holding umbrellas and maybe
a dumpster. On the left under the neon lights that is the street.
That is some sort of vehicle. On the right are dumpsters, and in
the top right corner at square two ten that is the metrocab. You can
see very interesting saw radio that end or what did you call it? Well,
your your key of device. Yeah. It kind of acts as as
a phone, so you can either call or send basically a text message,
you know, use it like a radio or an actual phone. So however
you decide to inform the rest of the group, you can. But the
important thing is that it lets you guys. You guys can be in contact
with each other pretty much all the time on a secure encrypted police channel.
No smoking gun on the asper as far as we can see, but it
looks like a potential suspect ran into a metrocab and absconded from the site on
in that way. And we see this from the KIA in theory as he's
talking to us. He would be able to share it once he downloads it.
Yeah, let me take a look. What do you want to try
to do here, Violet? Anything specific? I want to notice that the
do I notice this umbrella pattern is that of any significance. It doesn't seem
like it to you. However, you can attempt to zoom and enhance on
these things, just like in the I think, I don't know if they
do in the second film, but in the first film when Decker, you
know, he's got that device and he's like zoom enhance and then it can
actually like it can go around like it's in a like three D, so
it can like actually go around objects that are blocking the path to see stuff
that's on a line of site. Originally you can attempt that. It will
require another tech test. Sure, now you will not have advantage because you're
doing this on your key, you're not actually at the station. But he
can still attempt to Now that he's sent you the image, would it be
better if he does it on the image? It's up to you. I
mean, you're you're looking at it right now, and you said you want
to take a look at it. So we don't like to enhance tend to
see if you get a better look at the vehicle. Okay, give me
a tech test please, right, not gonna be good. Oh do you
want to push? No? Okay, not super worth it? So,
Chris, it would that feature that you were talking about where you can like
manipulate the view. Would that allow us to like see from a different angle
you could see around this pylon potentially? Yeah? Okay, Um, so
Garrett will esk Hector, can you manipulate the image and see if we can
get an id on maybe the person in the car or the driver, or
like a license plate? Same thing, Hector, another tech test. You
still have a vantage here, vantage? Okay, So the first one does
not matter because you're not pushing if you if you roll one the first time
around, you're fine. However, if you weren't push in this case,
you wouldn't be able to reroll the dice that came up as a one.
So it's a little bit less effective, and it would mean you're going to
automatically be taking a point of damage. However, you have one success here.
You do not need more than one. So you tell the Asper system
enhance to DASH ten and this is well. You guys are rewarded with an
enhanced image. You can see clearly it is a metro cab. You can't
make out the driver because of the rain and the windshield wiper, but you
can see a cab number, and you can see a much clearer image of
the silhouette of what you're assuming is a woman getting into the cab. Would
that be Lee? It looks like it could be. We also have their
matches and on the cab. I think it's four A four four R four
is the cab number? Anything else that you do while you're here, actor,
I guess if we're at the Esper wall, can we look at the
outside of of Leah's known address? Yes, give me another tech roll please?
Wow. Three successes. Nicely done. Um, you do not have
anything that comes up in the last twenty four hours at her address, either
of her leaving or coming back. You know, you search for you know
a little while, maybe an hour or so, going through some footage trying
a couple different cameras in the in the area, but you don't find anything.
You're pretty sure she didn't get picked up by the cameras if she was
there. Okay, I'll relay that. If you go out to the apartment
Lea's known address for the esper it seems unlikely that you'll cannily find her sitting
on the couch copy all right, Well, while Hector is doing that,
why don't we move along to Uh, Garrick, where are you going?
What are you doing? So Garrick will get in his spinner and make his
way to Wallace Corp. And are you going by yourself or is anybody coming
with you? I'm still going with Okay, so the two of you are
going to Wallace Corpa. Right, well, you hop in the spinner,
take to the sky and begin making your way across the city to as you
can see on the map here this gigantic structure that dominates the city. So
LAPD is kind of right here in the middle. I can't see anything.
Oh, you guys haven't seeing him? The map my bed. Do you
guys have a map of la right now? That should be on your screen
now? Black the fuck ahh okay, there it is, My goodness,
there you go, oh, okay, what are we looking at here?
So this is basically the sandbox of la that we get with the game here.
So it doesn't label every sector, uh you know, lest some of
this is left to the GM to kind of do their own thing. But
you can see a couple spots here that you can see various landmarks. So
the LAPD is right here. That's the tower pretty much smack dab in the
center of the city. Wallsh Corporation is all the way on the north side
of the map. It's it's all three of these big ass structures like it's
one guard gage. It's not finished being built, but it's huge. And
I mean, you guys saw the Tyrrell Corporation in the first film, those
those big pyramids, and it's like four times the size of that. Uh.
And then over here Financial District, this is where a Syllous haul beck.
This is where you're up. Penthouse is at Si Silas Silas Glass.
Yeah, and LAPD Housing is right here, so Garrick that is that's where
your apartment is at, along with many many others. And Snake Pit is
up here in the northwest corner. They should pick a different color than yellow,
because we're on a yellow map that one. How about blue? There
you go? Okay, So the two of you make your way towards Wallace
Corporation. As you get closer to this structure, you can see the scaffolding
and the iron frame that's going to make up the bones of this parts of
this building one day. But the tower of Wallace Corps just towers over this
sprawling city scape of its own miniature city within La leaves no doubt as to
who really wields power here in Los Angeles. And you bring your spinner down,
they as you approach, you, guys, get a message requesting identification.
They check your credentials, give you access and clearance to land. You
bring your spinner down in this huge internal garage where you descend into this cavernous
and eerily empty interior of this building, a replicant, very obviously a replicant,
comes to greet you, guys, and he asks you to follow him
after you tell him what you're there for, to bring you up to a
Quell's office. You find your way winding through several long corridors. Most of
this place is rather dark, with like an eerie golden lighting. Throughout much
of it, there's this creepy but calming wavness of water reflecting on many of
the walls. Sometimes you can see it off to the side or underneath a
walkway that you're walking on. In other times it's impossible to tell exactly where
it's coming from. Eventually you make your way to a nice meet this woman.
She's wearing a short sleeved black and gray dress that goes down to the
floor. The top part is kind of zipped up to her collar bone with
a very simple, plain, rectangular metal zipper, and it's got a small
collar that comes up to a couple inches below her chin line. Her hair
is pulled back in a tight bun, dark kind of brownish hair, and
her skin complexions a little darker, maybe like if she was of Italian descent
or perhaps Spanish. She's got kind of ashy makeup around her eyes, and
otherwise though very well put together. A fairly attractive young woman, you guess,
probably in her thirties. And she's standing over by a window, staring
out over the city. And when the your guide brings you inside, they
open the door and let you in, and she turns to face you and
oh, thank you for joining me. Detectives so very prompt of you,
very good to see. Please come in, have a seat. Yeah,
Garrick will walk in and take a quick look around the room, just trying
to get a feel for her that this person has a lot of decorations,
or if it's very sparse, lots of papers, business it related, or
more luxury. It is definitely luxurious, but it is very plane and it
is very organized. The room itself is almost kind of like this reflective like
black material that makes up the walls, the floor, in the ceiling,
you can't tell if it's glass or marble or some sort of polished stone.
There's a long table in the middle, kind of like a conference table that
could probably fit like six to ten people each with very simple but very nice
looking chairs. She has a desk off on one side of the room that's
up on like a it's like a step above that looks over the rest of
the office, and really not much on the desk, very clean, and
she's got a commanding view of the the city, and there's this glow of
these amber and kind of light blue lights that just kind of seem to come
out of nowhere. It's hard to tell where they're actually emanating from. It
gives a lot of creepy shadows that cast over parts of this parts of this
room. Can I get you, Detectives, any refreshments before we begin?
Sure? Never hurt. And you see she snaps her finger to the replicant
that brought you guys up here, and he gives a quick nod and goes
over to a wall where he presses some sort of hidden panel or switch,
and you see one of the basically the tiles on the wall kind of pops
open seamlessly. You couldn't even tell that it was a tile, and there's
like a basically a bar behind it. And he begins to prepare some drinks
for you. I hold my hand up and say no, thanks before they
waste one on me. Okay, do you request anything particular, Johnson?
No, just waiting to see what they provide. Okay. So as the
he's pouring the drink, quel motions for the two of you to sit down,
and she kind of stands in front of her desk looking across at you
guys again, Detectives. I appreciate you coming here so promptly. I'm glad
to see that you're as dedicated to this as Chief Holden has made clear.
It seems like an important case. So what I did start early good?
Well, I hope then I don't have to stress the importance on it to
myself then, as you seem to already understand the caliber that we're dealing with
here, suffice to say, this incident is troubling and we would like things
dealt with as quickly and discreetly as possible. Any sort of news that got
out about a Nexus nine being involved in a shooting of any sort, whether
a victim or otherwise, not something we'd like to tarnish our reputation or that
of our product, makes sense. So what do you know so far?
And what are you doing to proceed with your investigation? How do you plan
to get to the bottom of this? Well, some of that obviously confidential,
but we're starting detective The Chief Holden clearly expressed cooperation and disclosure and all
things in this investigation. I should hope I wouldn't shouldn't have to remind him
that his detectives are already withholding information when we've just started, or not withholding
anything. We just starting. Her eyes narrow at you. She doesn't say
anything, but she's boring into you with her stare you're our first stop.
We're hoping you could tell us some more about the models. What would you
like to know? There's something that could have happened between them that would cause
one of them to shoot the other. You think one of the nines,
a blade runner, shot and killed their own partner. That's what appears.
And I pull up the little thing on Akia shore, that square of ten
to all I see here is a potential suspect or individual leaving. What about
this supremacist group I've heard so much about. They're all over the city causing
all sorts of trouble for our new models. Because you looked into that,
you didn't answer my question. She gives a look over to you, Johnson,
which you can tell is extremely dismissive of Violet and looking at you like
like you're the one responsible for this? Is her? Do? The only
game we have for her, as Quell is that prect Just okay, miss
Quell. We are looking into all the different avenues. That supremacist group is
one we're going to look into. But we still need to know is there
anything you or your team would be aware of it would cause one of the
two replicants to shoot the other. Preposterous, nothing of the sort. Of
course, there are slight deviation and malfunctions here and there, but nothing like
that. And nine killing another unheard of. It's never happened, and it
never will happen. And so when she's saying that, can he sort of
like gage her face movements? Door? You can give me an insight?
Has I believe it is? Okay? And I believe this is opposed?
I am assuming she has a character she had defined it though. Okay,
there it is okay? Um, all right, this is a posed Do
we oppose it with insight? Though? That's one thing I'm not sure.
Let's check here. Okay, I'm starting to figure my way around through foundry
here, so I think we're gonna be all right. Insight look at you.
Insight is used to oppose roles, to resist manipulation, and we know
that's not it. Oh, I'm sorry, it's not opposed. You just
you have to roll here. You could use insight to oppose manipulation if somebody's
trying to get you to divulge information or like interrogate you or question you but
it seems like insight is just straight up. Okay, So this could potentially
be a thing where, depending how tight lip they are, if they're hiding
something, it might require more than than one success. So you've got two
successes here. Are you happy with that? So if I push, do
I lose those two successes, it'll reroll both of them? Yes? Yeah,
I'm just gonna stick with two. You could potentially get the double successes
and get three or four, but right, yeah, let's just stick with
the two. Okay. Um, she is very very hard to read.
You're not sure if she's hiding anything or if she's doesn't really have anything else
to add. Um, there's nothing that gives her away as if she's lying.
But it's like it's like trying to read a stone wall. Okay,
as quell, well, we are currently doing our own investigations. Are you
looking into this in any way or why do you think we've reached out to
the LAPD. We figured we would have the city's best and brightest look into
this. Considering the relationship that the LAPD now has the Walls Corporation, we
seem it only fitting to give you the chance to get to the bottom of
this, and then she looks over at Violet and then back to you and
says, Anne has a chance to show that our new Blade Runner models are
up to the task, but we hope to get results as quickly as possible.
Well, I suppose we can check off replicant against replicant murder off our
list. So what does that leave us with? She actually smiles when you
say that, Violet, and then she actually looks at you, and she
says, exactly as I said. I would look into this supremacist group.
They're the ones that want to make sure the New n Nines fail. They
don't like the idea of replicants being back in the workforce, being brought back
into our society. But the very fabric of our future lies in the hands
of the End Nines. How has this group operated in the past, Oh,
well, I've heard and seen all sorts of things, terrorist attacks,
bullying replicants, protests, if you want to call such barbaric displays, protests.
They have any prominent figureheads that been active recently? Oh, give me
a does this thing have a list of skills? Now, give me a
probably manipulation because you're questioning her. Oh good, that's what I'm good ahead,
I'm just checking my uh notes here, am so. Yeah, it's
manipulation to ask a question. Okay, how did you get looks like three
damn son? Okay, Well she can attempt to resist with role though,
yeah, very good role. She uh. She seems to think for a
moment, and she says, I understand that the editor of Kill Magazine is
a prominent member of the supremacist movement. What I out of game? No,
by context, what Kill Magazine is? It's yes, so it is
so. Kill Magazine is one of the more controversial tabloids here in la Um
that is always trying to get the lowdown and dirt on every story, celebrity,
an incident in the city, kind of like what's that one fucking TV
show with the paparazzi EMC. That's it? Yes, um, it's it's
the the TMZ basically of of of la And she says, I believe his
name is Skyler now, Chris. Just a general question, I guess when
replicants are uh like a born or incepted or whatever, did they go through
like a test just to make sure everything's clear normal? You are probably not
sure as an actual character, you could certainly ask her that, But I
don't think your character would necessarily know that, because especially because you've only been
on the force for two three years. Yeah, okay, so then he
would he would ask, now, miss Quell, what a replicant is incepted?
Do they go through any kind of tests or processes to make sure there's
no errors or issues? Of course, we have quite a strenuous curriculum that
they must pass to demonstrate their stability. They of course set their first baseline
for their future baseline tests once they are created, along with a variety of
others to make sure they are ready to proceed with their purpose. Okay,
would we be able to access those records and take a look? And you
see that she At this point, the replicant has given you a drink,
and it's a clear liquid of some sort. You can tell it's not water
when you get a whiff of it. Yeah, we'll take a take a
drink. Yeah, some sort of alcohol. Thanks. It's like a very
very fancy clear glass with two big, perfectly square ice cubes, and then
the glass is like a third of the waveful. She uh. As he
gives you that, Quell goes over to her desk, and she picks up
this like clear looks like a clipboard, and she begins to press some buttons
on it, clearly bringing up some information. And then you see, like
underneath where you've got the glass on the table, the table then lights up
like there's a screen in the table that you didn't even see. But the
rest of the table still dark and black, but there's a perfect rectangular screen
right in front of you that lights up, and you begin to see the
information that she's showing you, and you can see that it is I think,
I think there's a handout for this hold on. She presents you with
Leia's recent performance reports, Miss Quell. Yes, it shows here she's had
two test failures recently, even I am well aware of that. Detective suspended
in April, recalibrated in May, and sent back into service the next day.
Yes, when A and nine has any sort of issues that appear to
be recurring, we bring them in for recalibration, reset everything, give them
a fresh start, make sure there are no bugs in the system, so
to speak. And what were her issues? She begins to click some more
buttons and go through a few more things. Looks like she's diving deeper into
the FILEM looks like minor deviations on her baseline not meeting it as expected.
So rather than leave this to become a bigger problem, after the second failed
test, she was suspended and scheduled for recalibration, a precaution to make sure
that problems don't get worse. Certainly understand that is it something that we can
then send off to the other members of our team. Yes, yes,
he would, he would send that off. And then do you have one
for her sand or as well? She goes through a few more things,
and after a moment, no, it's pears the model in question has not
had any issues since their inception, Chris, for purposes of the game.
Does it actually say what the minor variations were or the things or is that
just supposed to be ambiguous? You're not sure if she's keeping something or if
it is just minor nonsense. That doesn't matter, because you would know as
a replicant that even being slightly off a baseline could be something as simple as
you know. You didn't because the way a baseline works is the replicant is
supposed to repeat their baseline exactly and precisely the way they did the first time
they ever said it, because the ideas that the first time they say it,
they should not have they should have a completely blank emotional slate. And
so the purpose of a baseline is to test and make sure the replicate isn't
starting to develop emotions, which is the whole thing that everybody's worried about with
replicants going rogue. So, you know, in the minut shaw or the
specifics, it could be something as simple as the tone of her voice was
wrong on one simple answer, or it could be like in twenty forty nine,
where it's very obvious the second time Kate takes his test, he's delaying,
he's gulping, you know, he's thinking before he's speaks, which you
can tell. It's not like the rapid fire succession the first time around,
right, Okay, Just curious, So how they you know, read that
or the specifics of that. They you know, they don't really get into
that in anything that I've read, but I think we could all imagine that,
you know, if it was just a slight different tone versus you know,
Okay, he delayed on three answers. He's looking around on this answer,
he's fidgeting on this answer, those would probably be evaluated at different rates
of you know, acceptance. Okay, got it, So I kind of
process that now you would also know, because you both would know this because
you're blade Runners. The baseline test is even more important for a blade Runner
unit because they obviously can be told to take a baseline test at any time
and often are after any mission or case. And you know that generally repeated
failures of a baseline test will lead to retirement for the replicant in all the
cases you know of Violet. Actually you probably know this too, Johnson,
because you've been on the force longer. In all the cases you know,
if ever a replicant fails a third test, then they're done for They're retired.
Now, you could have more than three failed tests in your career.
If you fail and then pass your next one, that kind of usually like
resets things, And that's how it works in the game as well mechanically for
a replicant player. But if you fail three in a row, you're done.
Anything else detectives No, that's all I think right now. I guess
we best get out of your hair. Very good. I appreciate you being
so prompt, and I look forward to our continued collaboration. Blackwise. Thanks,
I'll be sure to inform the chief of your commendable service thus far.
And she gives you a smile which is hard to tell if it's genuine or
sarcastic. It sounds genuine, that's part of it. Doesn't feel genuine either.
Eric will give her an uncomfortable forced smile and then nod. Let's start
to walk out. Let us take our break and we will be back.
All right, folks back, and we're going to switch on over to our
lead tech detective Inspector hullback. What are you doing? As you have kind
of split the team up and sent everybody on their little errands. I think
I will go ahead and check out Lea's apartment. You hop in a spinner
solo and you make your way over to Sector five, the area where the
LAPD housing is located. You're familiar with this area. You once yourself had
a you know a place here, one of the small, but functional and
more importantly free apartments that are provided to the LAPD force. You go buy
a bunch of familiar buildings until eventually you find the matching address for Leah's place.
It's a pretty rundown looking building. As you enter inside, you can
see graffiti and other garbage and detrius throughout the hallways. There is a staircase
that winds up and up in kind of a square shape that goes up through
the many, many floors, and you can see that there is an elevator
that is off to one side in this lobby. All right, look at
her apartment number. She's up on the thirteenth floor. All right, I
will make my way to the elevator. All right. You click the button
and the door like comes open about a quarter of the way and then stops,
and then it starts to close again. Interesting, Okay, so that
means it's broken. It seems like it did. You just try it once
and say fuck it. Oh, go again, Maybe hit the button harder.
You press it a few more times, and the same thing, It
like opens and then it's clearly getting stuck on something and closes before it's fully
fully open. Who can I kind of look and see if there's something jammed
in it? Yeah? You take a look. You don't. You don't
see anything. You're guessing some sort of malfunction. Maybe well stairs it is
thirteen flights later. Yeah, Thylis is at the top, breathing heavy,
maybe hands on his knees for a sec or two, and then continues on
to the door to the apartment. All right, As you make your way
up these flights of stairs, you occasionally see another resident here there that you
need to make your way past. Pretty much all of them give you dirty
or suspicious looks. A few of them actually get out of your way.
They kind of force you to walk around them. When you get up to
a thirteen floor and Leah's address, you can see the words skin job,
graffiti and spray painted on her door. As you're kind of looking at this,
seeing the dirtiness and the filth that fills this place, there's a large,
burly guy that is kind of hanging out in his doorway. He is
drinking a beer of some sort. He's wearing a stained white sleeveless shirt,
and he's got a pair of very dirty, raddy jeans on and some old
dilapidated shoes or perhaps boots underneath those. As you walk by, and then
you're standing there and he's kind of staring at you, he goes, are
you friends that skin job? Ya? Silas would chuckle, no, no,
no, I'm investigating a lead. She showed up, she's not showing
up. She's late, so here to see if she's home. Have you
seen anything? Give me a manipulation test, please? Oh my best one.
That's a that's a lie. That's a big old zero. I mean,
I'll push it. Why not? Right? What's the worst that?
All right? You take a point of resolve. I believe it's what it's
called. Okay, Oh yeah, automatically. Oh it did? Oh cool?
He just kind of staggers as he kind of holds himself up against the
wall, and he says, how the hell would I know where she is?
Not one of my friends, you know, I'll be friends of all
those fucking things. Uh. So Silas would see that this guy is kind
of tanked up, so he would um he would laugh, but make a
big show of it, um and go, yeah, hey, I'm with
you, pal Silas. By the way, what's your name? Dale?
Dale? All right? Well listen Dale. Uh. You know, I'm
kind of hoping that this experiment they got going on downtown kind of phases out,
you know what I mean? So anything would be helpful, Like is
she loud? Does she have people come over? You know? Like anything
you got. He uh kind of looks around see if anybody else is listening,
and he just says, um, already told you. I don't I
don't keep tabs. Honors come and she goes and, oh, you know,
I don't know what those fucking skin jobs too. You know, I
haven't seen her in you know, you know a while, but I don't
keep tabs on her. All right, Yeah, hey, no problem.
You know, I don't want to bug you. And you know, if
you got a day off or something, I know how that is. I
mean I might, I might day off, you know. He uh,
He kind of grins at that a bit. Yeah, and he would see
that and go, yeah, you know, chief, he's always doing that
to me. I'm about nine years and so I'm used to it by now,
but it's still it still sucks. Yeah, almost spills his beer when
you mentioned that. He goes, well, you're you're a cop. What
the fuck are you doing here? We don't need you here. Silas would
grin and uh, go easy, fella, you know, I'm I'm just
I'm looking out for you guys. You guys want these skinning jobs out of
here, then you know I'm trying to do that give me another manipulation test.
This will be opposed because he does not believe that for one second.
Uh does he have stats? He does? Obnoxious neighbor. That is a
great way to label a character. Nice. Um this one I use insight?
Right? Is that what I use? I think? So? Yeah,
we determined earlier. Yeah, and I got both a success and a
fail. Well the fail doesn't matter unless you push. Okay, so you
have a success. Um, so it is opposed. He uh, He
kind of arches his eyebrow as if he doesn't quite believe you, and he
says, oh, yeah, okay, so the the these fuckers are causing
problems, and now you're here, what about all the other times we call
you? You guys never show up. Guns going off and cars racing around,
people running up and down the stairs, and feel what fuck you?
And he just goes inside and slams the door shut. Thylas would sort of
shake his head and kind of peek around and see if anybody kind of peek
their head out listening to him go off. Just then yeah, he's you're
pretty sure you see, like other people duck in back in their apartments or
you hear you know, a door down the hall or lower floor or above
upper floor clothes. Okay, all right, so clearly, clearly nobody wants
to talk. Okay, So in terms of gaining entry to her apartment,
would there be a way to do that with my status? Well, her
apartment is locked. The lock itself is the typical kind of electronic lock that
you know, you recognize from your days that you used to have a place
here. The easiest thing would to do would be to break it down,
or you could try to hack it and bypass the lock. M So it
would be either forced to break it down or tech to try to hack it.
Doc is actually a little better, so he's going to try and hack
it first. Yeah, and then when all fail, smash it. Wow,
look at that double success. All right, the ten pays off,
and you are probably even surprised a little bit yourself, as you, you
know, beat, a sweat starts to form on your head. You're probably
muttering under your breath about this damn technology. But you do eventually hear the
beep and the light goes from red to green and you hear it unlock.
I would unholster the pk D blaster from it's hiding place underneath my trench coat
and just have it at the ready, all right. As you enter,
you are greeted with a very typical, very typical scene. Let me,
I got a couple of things, right, I need to show off,
you know, let's do this. So we're here. So we're here.
So this is the door right here that you make your way into. So
you see a typical um typical apartment. There's like a long hallway that goes
from the door to the main living slash bedroom and off to your right is
the bathroom, which you see then connects to the kitchen, the kitchenette,
which is in between the living quarters and the bathroom. The kitchenette is fairly
rare. It's not many people in La have a place to cook food in
their their homes. Most people these days they just get all their food from
the street vendors, or they'll have it delivered from a street vendor. But
you know, this is one of the perks of being part of the force
is even though it's not a luxurious, massive kitchen, you actually have a
cooking area. So but more or less, it looks very similar to Kay's
apartment in twenty forty nine. That is the living quarters that you see.
The hallway that's lit up on the left is the kitchenette and the light is
where the bathroom would be. And then the darker hallway on the right where
it's kind of a bluish gray color. That's the front door that you're coming
through. Okay, so you see that she has a bookshelf. Right at
the entrance to the living quarters. She has the typical bed that comes down
from out of the wall and looks like it is not made a bit messy.
You can see there's a small, tiny nightstand with a photo next to
the bed. There is a small two person sofa across the room from the
bed where you see. There's a table in the corner between the sofa and
the kitchen with some sort of jar on it, a little light above it.
There's a mirror on the wall. From the side of mirror, I'm
sorry, it's like a little cubbyhole with a book and something else in it.
Next to the couch. There's another table, a little end table on
the other side of the couch with a little stool with an open book.
There's a coffee type table in the middle of the room. Looks like it
has some items scrawled across it, and then up against the far wall,
over by the window that would look outside, there's another table. Looks like
some dishes and utensils and things like that. Okay, so no signs of
like a struggle or anything. This is just kind of a lived in situation.
If you'd like to give me am observation role please, Oh I'll be
keeping that. Okay, So with your success. So you're over here basically
in this middle area of the living room. It doesn't look like there's signs
of a struggle. But as you can see in the image, and there
is all sorts of stuff on the floor, it looks like mostly discarded bottles
of various alcoholic beverages, some of them half empty, some of them completely
empty, one or two that are perhaps smashed or broken. But it doesn't
like it was from a struggle. It looks like probably just from being tossed
around or knocked off a table. Okay, Um, can I get a
shot of Would it be possible to see what's in that photographed by the bedside
there? Yes, yes it would. Um, I just gotta fear which
one this is. And also I forgot to ask Chris, is there a
way too, So the Kia can that snap pictures as well, so I
can like document absolutely. Yeah, okay, so I would have documented,
um skin job on the door, and just like I'm just sending stuff.
I'm not looking for response, I'm just like putting data out there for everybody.
Okay, do you have the photo? Yeah, bedside photo. Yeah,
yes, you see a young girl probably between the age of like nine
and twelve. She's got long, dark hair just past the shoulders and um,
she does look a little bit like Leia. Okay, so this would
be like a doctored photo. Then in terms of giving her memories and stuff,
you don't know, you don't know what. You don't know what Leia's
memories are. That you've never talked with her or discussed anything like that,
so you don't know, you don't know what this is other than it's a
photo of a child. Okay. Um, definitely would document this and along
with this, right a message of I wonder if this is implanted or uh
something else? M is it a physical photo? It is, and that
strikes you as rare out of the or area. Photos are not something that
you see very often, all right, Um would so what would procedure be
in this situation. Can I should I take it or should I just you
can certainly take it as evidence if you'd like. Okay, yeah, I'll
assume you've got like evidence bags you could put them in, and you've you've
got gloves too, if you'd want to put gloves on. Yeah. Yeah,
he would have had like some some gloves of some type. Yeah,
So that will be taken as a physical evidence. Okay, alrighty um,
hoops the wrong one. Okay, Um, do you take the whole frame
that it's in or do you just take the photo? I would? I
would? Um, yeah, let me remove it from the frame and see
what's not if there's anything of interest there. As a matter of fact,
there is. When you flip it over, Um, you can see that
there is a stamp on the back with a symbol that you may or may
not recognize. But there's a name listened next to the symbol that says Doc
Badger. Would I be familiar with that? Give me a connections role?
M again, I got so many windows? Gone me too, Man,
I meet a third monitor at this point. Okay, we'll have to accept
that. Did you pass on another screen? I got one pass and one
unicorn. Okay, so you know that Doc Badger is a pawn shop owner
out of Sector five. He's known for being able to get anything for anyone,
whatever it may be illegal or otherwise rare or not. Okay, not
necessarily a criminal, but not the you know, cleanest guy out there either.
Okay, And as a matter of fact, I believe I have a
image of him. I do you may recognize this individual from twenty forty nine,
Yes, okay, a wiry African American male who has kind of disheveled,
short cropped hair, a bit tattered clothes, but as a bit of
a tech guru and genius. And he's got this weird like tattoo scarification that
goes across his face, like where the bottom of a big set of goggles
would sit, basically from ear to ear, across the middle of his cheeks,
and over the bridge of his nose. He's also got a very distinct
shape to his mouth where like his top teeth kind of jut out a bit,
so it's like his mouth is never fully closed. Uh you know,
it's like it's like his lips are always parted in a way. M hmm.
Okay, uh yeah, document all that um and would relate. But
yes, I also document all that and h including a little text of Doc
Badger and who he is, and to follow up, probably later with someone
with more skill in people than make any other players. If you'd like to
make a connections role. If you pass, you will also know who Doc
Badger is, or you've heard of him. If you fail or don't care,
then you've never heard of him before your reputation precedes you. Sir.
Wow, Okay, Well everybody knows who the fuck he is, all right,
Like, oh yeah, Dac Badger know that guy? Okay? Um.
Another point of interest, Chris, is the photo frame made of wood.
No, it's some sort of synthetic or plastic. It looks like wood,
that's what it's meant to look like, but it's not actually woo when
you pick it up, Okay, because that would be very alarming. Yeah,
I so I would have cased the joint before I walked all the way
in. Um, is there anything of like? I would toss the bed?
I would look at um these open books here? Is there anything interesting
about these books? Yeah? Yeah, you start looking through um the Uh,
there's nothing in or under hidden in the bed that you find it's looks
like it wasn't made. Perhaps she left in a rush or was disturbed,
but there's nothing. They're hidden. One of the books, the open one
on the table in the bottom left of the photo, is a collection of
poems by an author named William Blake. And you do see that there is
open to a poem called the Tiger, which just a moment I will share
with you. Tiger tiger burning bright. Yeah you've heard, Oh yeah,
man, tiger tiger burning bright in the forests of the night. What immortal
hand or I could frame thy fearful symmetry in what distant deeps or skies burnt
the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the
hand dare sees the fire? And what's shoulder? And what art could twist
the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat? What
dread hand? And what dread feet? What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp?
Dare it's deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears and
watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did
he who made the lamb make thee Tiger Tiger burning bright in the forests of
the night? What immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry? As
you're also looking through the book, you notice that one page has been torn
out. Okay, can I flip to the table of contents to see what
came after Tiger Tiger? Let me see the page that appears to be missing.
Um, it's not labeled specifically, it's just under a section that says
the complete works of William Blake, perhaps an untitled poem. Okay, Um,
all right, I will take a photo of the poem or the book
in its like, in its original place. I try and place it where
it was, and then uh, um, highlight the ripped page. Uh
And then um, yeah, what's that white object in the corner under the
light there in the crime scene photo? Where which side in the left left
hand side, just above the couch? Yes? Okay, So what you
see there eventually catches your eyes. You see some movement, and as you
get closer you see that there is a jar, a clear jar with a
lid on top of it, and flittering around inside are these serene, brightly
colored beautiful looking butterflies. Would I know enough if they were animoids or not.
You're guessing, so okay, document that. And then in that little
niche just above the table with the palm on it, m what's in there?
It looks like there's like a thermostat where you know she would mix,
you know, drink law or something like that. And the book is nothing
specific, nothing interesting, gotcha? Okay? Uh yeah, I would look
in the kitchen as well. It's more empty bottles. She seems to be
a bit of a messy person or perhaps just doesn't really care about the state
of her apartment, okay. And anything on the bookshelves in the long hallway
that would kind of stick out, maybe there's one that's jutting out farther or
no. No, as a matter of fact, that the bookshelf, the
only reason it sticks out is because it's actually tidy. It looks like she
actually does take some care of that. That might be like her pride and
collection. It is fairly organized compared to the rest of the apartment. But
you know, it's mostly poetry and some art type of things. Nothing maybe
some philosophical texts, but nothing else that sticks out. Nothing looks like it's
been recently disturbed or anything like that. No hidden compartments or levers. Okay,
well, I would definitely take a photo of that, because in juxtaposition
with everything else now, it makes mean way more curious as to why that
particular page was ripped out of that particular book. In fact, I'm going
to take that book as evidence as well. Okay, So the book and
the photo and frame, or if the frame doesn't matter, than just a
photo. And I think I would make my way out, and as I'm
exiting, I would before I fully walked out, I would kind of glance
out and see if anybody was outside waiting. Yes, you come out.
You see that same drunk guy Dale, He's like standing across from the door
in the hallway, leaning up against the wall with his arms crossed, trying
to look trying to look intimidating. Oh, Silas would look, Hey,
Dale, the fuck are you doing snooping around here? I told you to
get the hell out. Oh, I'm on my way. Don't worry.
But I'm pretty sure she's not going to be back. So I'm going to
inform LAPD. Don't inform the apartment building, and hey, you're at a
skin job neighbor. So he narrows his eyes a bit, although whether it's
because he's judging you or because he's drunk, you're not sure. And he
just kind of gives uh and he keeps his arms crossed as if he's like
lording over this floor. Uh. Silas would read the room and uh kind
of give him a little tip of the cap and uh tell him enjoy your
day off, Dale and uh walk off, but not exactly he like give
him his full back. Okay, know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah,
he watches you leave, but he doesn't make any sudden movements or anything
like that. Okay, Um, Matt, we'll swing back around to you
if there's anything else you want to do while you're at LAPD. Otherwise we
can put an end to this shift. Uh well, if I'm around,
I don't think I'll be very good at it, but I might as well
pop into the morgue and see if there's anything obvious stand or Okay, that'll
probably take part in the next shift, especially with having to go through like
all the esper footage. That's a pretty time consuming process. So you can
do that on the next shift if you want. But if there's anything else
you want to do with the asper wall or in the main frame you can
Okay, I guess in the main frame. I guess we know of Doc
Badger. Can I look him up in the main frame? Yeah? Yeah,
you can do a tech with advantage here, all right? Here,
okay, got one? All right? So yeah, you are able to
confirm more about him and the location of his shop. How many says you
only have one success? Okay? Yeah, basically the same stuff that they
confirm, but you're able to get the actual location of his shop. Um
uh, fellow blade runners, if there's anything you guys want him to do,
well, he's here. You guys are free to communicate. H yeah,
uh Hector, can you look up a book of the complete works of
William Blake and I would just show him the the ripped section and see if
there may be some info on that, or I can cross our ference AUP,
go for it. Mortech mhm, wow. Three successes. You do
not get anythingscific other than like you could get you know, publication date and
you know data was written full history of William Blake himself. But there's nothing
in particular that seems to stick out as it might be pertinent to the investigation
or rings any any alarms to you that it's connected to willis in anyone or
to Leah in any way. Okay, Leah, Yeah, all right,
thanks anyway, actor Um. When Garrett had sent the like baseline test report
for Leah or Leah, he would he would leave a note for Hector if
he can scrub it to see if there's any signs or traces of this having
been altered or edited. Okay, yeah, that would be a that would
be another tech test for sure. Was that one that I'm throwing in or
yeah, you cross reference it. You find the same report in the LAPD
main frame. There are no inconsistencies between the two reports. Okay, I
remember There's one more thing I wanted to check. Was ll Quell mentioned that
the was it the editor of KIL magazine? Yes, Tyler? Tyler?
She won't given it first name? Or can I check that's the last name
the database for for that name, and I guess the editor of KIL magazine.
Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Oh my gosh, all right,
I'm gonna push all right, Oh okay, so you got two successes,
which you do take a point of stress here from the origami the unicorn.
You are able to get his mug shot, which I'll give you here in
a second. He's an older man, probably in his fifties or so,
with graying hair, a little bit overweight, a little bit on the chubby
side, and he's got liver in aging spots around like the top of his
hairline and on the side of his cheek as well. You are indeed able
to come from. His name is gel Skylers. How he pronounced his name,
at least that's how we're going to pronounce it. And he is the
editor of Kill Magazine, which you'd be able to get their address and stuff
as well. They're located in Sector one. You do see in his file
that he is a long leading member of the anti epathy I'm sorry, the
anti remplicant empathy movement. Does it say what he was arrested for. It's
not an arrest, it's just he's he's in there. Yeah, there's no
it's like minor stuff like disturbances, and you know, the being attached to
the anti replican empathy movement is why he's in here. But there's no actual
like arrest record or anything like that. More like complaints and disturbances, got
it, And he's the publisher, not the editor, my mistake. Publisher.
He lives in an apartment above the Kill Magazine office. And you know,
Kill Magazine has about a dozen employees give or take. It's a small
tabloid, very popular here in LA. Some people think it's absolute like trash
and skiziness. Other people think it's one of the only publications that actually even
tries to publish true articles. It seems like that might be something to check
out. Yep, yeah, so tell me again, why did we go
there? Oh? She said they wanted to connect and share information. What
information did she have for us? Just that she wants us to believe it
was the anti replicant empathy movement that did this and not possibly a replicant on
replicant crime. So you don't trust her either, right, No? No,
hey, she gave you the baseline report. Yeah yeah, like pulling
nails. Okay, awful, Well, we still have to visit the snake
pit. Publisher of Kill Magazine, Morgue check out that metrocab. Well,
as you guys depart Wallace Corporation, it is moving on from the hours of
early morning to midday lunchtime here in La. The sky is still an overcast
gray as your spinner soars above the city. Where does everybody decide to go
for their second shift? I don't have particular aptitude with medical skills or corpses
could follow up at the morgue. Since I'm still here, you would know
that the chief medical Examiner is almost always here at the LAPD. A lot
of the people that work in the crime lab are like workaholics and night owls
and here a lot and the chief Medical Examate or his name is Coco,
he is no different. All right, maybe I will do that. Then,
Yeah, you wouldn't be you wouldn't be performing it ontops or anything like
that. It's all right, most likely has already been done, and if
not, you could find out who's gonna do it and when it's gonna happen.
What about the rest of the team. Um, I guess Garrett will
maybe try to find that metrocab or maybe the driver see what they saw that
night? Okay, um, are you taking Violet with you or you're gonna
drop her off somewhere else? It doesn't matter to me. I can drop
her off or take her with I'll probably hang out, you know, I
mentioned I don't think the snake pit is best to go during the day.
Should wait for night, be busier, more people to talk to, maybe
some of the owners. Okay, Okay, keep in mind the snake pit
is still an active crime scene. Yeah, but we're detectives. We can
still go. Oh, I'm you're saying, there's not like the owners and
stuff might not be there. It's not open. Got It's well, it's
not it's not open. So if you're planning on going at night, it's
probably not going to be open. Oh so then because we've got our current
shift as like afternoon or midday. Yeah, and then we've got to morning,
midday, evening, and then night. Okay, so we can visit
it now. Wow? Yeah, do you want to want to pick up
the rest of them for that though, Well, we've got we've got a
lot of lead. We probably want to split up. I think we should
get back together. But why don't you call uh the big guy? Well,
Silas would be heading back anyway to bring in the physical evidence and see
if there's anything we can glean from that from crime lab. Okay, and
then reconvene see where everyone wants to go. I think, um, a
good lead would be a snake pit and also Doc Badger, Chris, would
there be a way for crime lab to scan the photo and I can get
it back so I can go Doc Badger? Oh yeah, okay, so
quick scan and then turn around and have it again. Okay, So uh,
silas you're going to go to find Doc Badger? Then yes? Uh,
I guess is that one? What do we want to do too?
And two? And yeah, I would I'd prefer if Hector came along for
that encounters up to him. Are you going? Are you going to the
Morgue? Yeah? I mean up to you. No, I'd like to
jump in on that. I can. I don't know. Is it possible
to phone in on the Kia to the morgue and say, hey, anything
interesting? I know? Because that the kyas are meant for you guys to
communicate with each other or access the mainframe. Um, you wouldn't be able
to like call them up, and you'd have to go there and speak with
them directly, especially if they've got the body out or anything like that.
Any forensics m h. Well, Hector, you're designed to be better with
people, right, you could say that, yes, okay, how about
I have you follow up on Doc badger, and I would hand in the
um the photo mh and uh, and I'll go ahead and check out the
morgue. Okay, and then h Violet and Garrick. You guys are going
to the snake pit. Yeah, yeah, sounds good. Okay, Well
we'll start off with the two of you. As you zoom across town and
make your way towards the snake Pit, you find yourselves on a busy street.
There is so this is this is a nightclub obviously normally open at night,
with busier with a lot of stuff going down in this entertainment district.
You can when you guys arrive, there is a crowd of people standing outside
around the police tape and barricades. There's a couple lapd beat cop police officers
that are, you know, keeping the crowd under control and out of the
crime scene. You can tell that the interiors where they're probably have the crime
scene actually set up. You bring your spinner down, A couple of people
clear out and make room for you, and eventually you can see this crowd
ahead of you, some of them staring in your direction as they see you
guys arrive with some little bit of disturbance and what perhaps has been otherwise uneventful,
and some of the cops are milling about, and yeah, you can
see the entrance just past the crowd. I'll walk over to whoever looks like
they're in charge. Yeah, there's just the closest officer. I'll flash my
badge and ask if there's any new developments. He says, no, we've
been waiting for you guys to get here. What took so long that a
few other leads that didn't turn out so well, I've almost have been pretty
damn important to uh leave the crime scene up all day hindsights twenty monny Ah.
He shrugs, clearly annoyed that he's been standing here all boarding. Well,
want to walk us through it? He uh. He looks at you
with a look kind of a cross between shock and appalled, and he's like,
I'm not the detective here. He's like, guy, got aced pile
of blood inside. I haven't really been in there. I've been out here
dealing with this. And he points to all the onlookers. You know how
many look he lose? We got all day here. I shrug and I
walk in. How about you can I scan the crowd and see if I
notice anyone acting more shifty than usually. Yeah, I give me an observation
role please. Okay. Yeah, you're looking around and there is one person
that sticks out a bit, mostly because he's about a head taller than everybody
else. You see a very tall man whom he's got a black, tattered
hoodie on, and when you're looking, you can see that he's clearly paying
attention to what's going around, and like many people in the crowd, he's
paying attention to what you guys are doing. Okay, I would like to
sort of blend into the crowd and make my way over to him, right,
why don't you give me a delf ware? He successes crushing it.
Okay, we're real good role. Yeah, you feel like you're doing a
good job. You get in between some some folks. What are you trying
to do? Exactly? Want to go talk to him, but I don't
want him to see me initially, so he can bolt at things. Go
pad Okay, yeah, you're able to. You can kind of keep an
eye on him from where you're kind of lurking through the crowd. You can
see that he's doing, you know, like sitting up on his tippy toes
kind of looking around clearly either trying to find you or see what Violet might
be up to, and you're able to get within a couple of feet.
He doesn't seem to have noticed you. It's like he's about to like turn
around to maybe walk and get another view, and almost walks into you.
Yeah, yeah, I just put my hand on his shoulder. Well what
are you doing here? It's like, well, what everybody else is seeing?
What's going on? Yeah? Yeah, you look a little different,
a little bit taller than everyone anything, a lot, you know, anything
about what happened here. He kind of looks you up and down a bit,
looks back over to your spinner, and he says, um, kind
of whispers like you're one of those blade runners, aren't you could be?
He has like a almost an eager smile on his face. He's like,
yeah, I saw the whole thing. Did you all right? What's your
name? Because you can call me Styles all right? Styles? Why don't
you tell me what happened? Well? Um, you know, last night
I was here having some drinks, you know, enjoying the show, and
uh well this uh this, um, this brawl broke out. Some Replican
haters were harassing one of the dancers up on stage, you know, throwing
bottles, calling her names, you shit like that, and there was um,
you know, then there was a gun shot. Everybody started scattering and
uh and that one guy was was down on the ground. So while he's
telling me that, does it seemed like he's being honest. If he's some
of the truth, you know what you need here, Sean, I'm gonna
need another in sight. Yeah, I let do it. We're gonna push
because that sucked. Oh D ten and D twelve nothing, yeah right twice?
Yeah, Okay, Well it looks like if that'll meet the truth.
Um, when I'm looking at him, does he have any like distinguishing tattoos
or anything that would mark him out as part of a gang or a different
type of group. No, but you can tell that, um, even
though he's got his hood up on his hoodie, he's probably either bald or
really close shaven. M he doesn't, you know, his his hoodie's kind
of thin and almost like hugging the top of his head, and that's like
stretched out of it because it looks like it might be like a size too
small for his height. And you can you can tell he probably doesn't have
much of any hair, So you were inside. I didn't give you the
picture yet, I don't. Okay, here we go. Um wait,
it didn't work. Okay. So you see a man who's clean shaven,
you know, no mustache, no facial hair or anything like that. He's
got a pretty large prominent knows um, but otherwise very nondescript, almost drogynous
in some in some way, but very plain looking guy other than he's easily
over six feet tall. Huh So uh styles, how do you? Uh
you mentioned these like anti replicant groups? How do you feel about him coming
here? Often? They are a problem over here often enough? I mean
it's it's an alright place. They got good drinks and some good looking girls,
if you know what I mean. And uh, you know, unless
you know, unless you're into guys, that's all right too. Um but
uh no, that uh, that prick from the magazine was here with some
of his friends. I think last night. I've seen him here from time
to time. Okay, you gotta do you work styles? Where do you
work currently? No, I'm in between jobs. Do you know how this
job market is? Yeah? Yeah, it's not easy. All these uh,
all these reps taking up all the work, you know. Yeah,
and so his use of the term rep doesn't sound derogatory like skin job.
Right, No, definitely two different levels of terminology there. Yeah, right,
Okay, So after the fire the shooting went down, where did you
go? What did you do? I got the hell out of there too,
man, I didn't want to end up dead some nut, you know,
shooting off a gun. Yeah. So we're out on the street over
here. What do you mean, like like after like when I left,
I mean I came out of the bar. So yeah, yeah, do
you see anyone running away a different anyone trying to hide anything that comes to
mind. There was a whole night clup of people running everywhere, man,
I yeah, there were lots of people running. Ohay from the gun shots.
Yeah. Do you see that editor or publisher that magazine running by any
chance? No? I lost I lost track at that point. Man.
I was kind of more worried about me myself and I h and he didn't
see who did the shooting? No, No, the brawl kind of took
up my attention and then you know, focused on that heard shots, looked
to see what was going on. Crowd scattered enough to see, uh see
the guy on the ground, and I figured I should high tail it.
Did he mention a brawl before? I know he mentioned the supremis's throwing stuff,
but was that no, he mentioned the brawl then he mentioned that he
saw the supremacist guys there hassling one of the dancers. Do you know who
was in that brawl? Any familiar faces? You know? I think I
recognize some of the guys that are part of the repeaters group. Pretty sure
it was one of them. Yeah, that's sure who started it though?
All right, Okay, well, I appreciate the statement. Is it standard
procedures like to have them go down to the lapd and put in like a
formal statement. It's kind of up to you. Um, not necessarily,
you know, because especially if you like, if you got statements for every
person here, that would just never have it to take away too long.
So that's up to you, you know, because you might be canvassing and
speaking with other witnesses. Yeah, well, thank you for your time.
Styles, Yeah, it be to help. I hope you catch the bastards
that did this. Yeah, yeah, so I'll make my way back.
Okay, Violets you head inside after dealing with officer friendly and you find yourself
inside a fairly good sized nightclub. Here me show you guys the map,
and then there's a large So when you guys walk in the main entrance,
is this these double doors down here? I believe? Yeah. Basically you
come out to the dance floor and to the right is this big stage,
maybe about three to four feet tall, and behind the stage there's a big
curtain which is currently opened, and then you can see that there's a door
on either side that leads to um you know, either like a private viewing
booth or maybe a hallway to go backstage. The off tier left is the
bar itself. Looks like it seats about a dozen people or so. There's
stools there and probably crowd you know, twice as many there though, and
then behind that is the actual liquor cabinet and bar and things like that,
glass racks, some areas where you're guessing is maybe a kitchen or some other
staff areas. The nightclub itself has a very stylized almost like it's going for
like kind of like a Roman or Greek esthetic, kind of like the like
Caesar's Palace in Vegas. You have the kind of off white quote unquote stonework.
There's pillars that frame each doorway in here, and then even the bar
itself has fairly elaborate carvings that go across the front and like the trim,
and then there's candelabras. There's two on the bar, there's one off on
the wall over here, tall one, and they've held up by like a
little statue of like an angel or something else that's kind of artsy. You're
not sure what they're made out of, but they look fancy enough. And
you can see that there is a there's a man standing behind the bar who's
currently cleaning some glasses, and you see that he's talking to a woman,
and when you enter, it looks like they finish their conversation and he kind
of shoots her off and she goes back stage and he he continues to clean,
and then he puts the cup down the mug that he's working on the
glass, and he goes, well, it's about damn time you guys showed
up. I'll show my badge agently, LAPD. Mind telling me what happened.
Okay, hold on, I have a another hand out for you,
all right. So you see this man, he looks like he's probably in
his fifties or sixties, starting to bald. He's got like the hair that
goes around like the side and back of his head, but the top of
his head is bald. It's kind of white and white and graying. He's
clean shaven, but he's got kind of an aged, wrinkled face, heavy
folds, especially under his eyes, and like around the sides of his mouth.
And he's got a little bow tie on and a dirty, kind of
faded red jacket. And he goes, yeah, some some nut jobs caused
a whole mess in my place, and now I am losing money waiting to
get things open again. Sorry about that, mister Lewis. Taffy Lewis,
this is my place, mister Taffy, specifically, what happened? Could you
tell me the details? Okays, okay, give me a manipulation test,
Reeds. I know the club's not open, but I feel some club music
is appropriate here. Maybe there's some background music there. Getting ready to practice
too, well, whole three successes, he says, yeah, so um
there, you know I didn't see everything. I'm busy, man, I'm
working the bar, making sure my dancers are doing their job, making sure
there's no riff raff, causing too much trouble serving drinks. You know,
I do like everything around here because nobody else can. Nobody's capable anyway.
Uh yeah, there, uh there was, you know, crowd got a
little rowdy, fight started, some tall, pale, bald guy you know,
got in the midst of it, and uh yeah, pretty soon shot
goes off. People are screaming, knocking shit over, breaking stuff, and
uh yeah. Then there's the stiff on my floor and a pool blood destroying
my tiles. So this man and I called you guys, this man you
describe, does he come here often? Yeah, I've seen him around.
I think they call him Styles? Yeah, Max Styles, No, just
Styles. What does mister Styles do? Do you have any clue? Comes
and spends money? That's all I care about. You don't know his job,
or where he might live, or any other identifying marks you could give
me. Look for a tall bald, albino guy. Albino. Well,
now we go. That's very specific, isn't it. I heard a report
that one of your dancers was being harassed. Any truth to that. Yeah,
it happens all the time. Your crowd gets a little, a little
rowdy, a little out of hands. Did this degree, but for yeah,
about the first time this club was seen, Blade Runner Action, tell
me this dancer of a name. He kind of shrugs, clearly realizing that
you're not going to give up with the questioning, and he goes, Yeah,
her name's Iris. She's the one I was talking to when you came
in, Miss Cyrus. Have any reason why a humans only group would target
her? Well, yeah, she's an N nine. Duh, All my
dancers are. Do you get this group of insurgents coming often insurgents you're making
something, they're planting bombs around the place. I mean, I don't like
him as much as an ex guy, but their money's the other Chinians just
as good a hear. Yeah, they've been in from time to time.
You know, they're usually a little little rookie, but nothing like this.
Anyone else that may have seen where the gunshot came from? I have any
more info information not to my knowledge. Mean, it was pretty crowded in
here, and yeah, I mean yeah, if there is, I wouldn't
know who to ask. I mean, I can't tell you everybody that was
here last night. It was packed. Mind. If I speak to Iris,
be my guest. Follow into the back where I believe she went.
Okay, yeah, you get to the back. At this point, Garrick,
you would probably be coming through the door. You see, Violet is
finishing up speaking with the owner, and you can meet up with her if
you'd like. Yeah, I'll just yeah, meet up and Garrett would address
the owner. Okay, there's also I should show you before you leave this
room. There's actually a photo here, oh of the this area that you're
in, basically the bar, dance floor, and stage. That's something that
our key I can look at in a minute. Sure, yeah, okay,
Oh it doesn't have the sectors. Sorry, I thought it was something
we could blow up. No, because this is this is like what you
guys are actually looking at, because you're there, got it? Okay,
all right, I thought it was a crimecy photo. But it's not.
All right, uh, got it? So yeah, I'll I'll approach iris
and uh, I'll show my badge. Okay, Garrick, what are you
doing while she goes in back? I just want to see if there's any
cameras inside the building. Let me check. I don't know off the top
of my head, don't believe so, Okay, it doesn't look like no,
worries. When he sees you walk in, he goes, oh,
great, they sent two of you. Maybe we can get things done twice
as fast. Then hopefully, maybe if you talk less, I can work
more. He just kind of waves you obvious, like whatever gets this place
open for tonight? All right? Yeah, yeah, And then he would
just look around taking look for anything that might have gotten missed. Well,
you've got the image here to peruse your desire, so I'm gonna gonna take
a look at that. All right. Well, while you do that,
Violet, you get to the back, you past some of the dressing rooms.
It looks like most of them are empty until you do, indeed,
find the woman that you saw before. Her name is Iris, and she
is a replicant dancer. Here. She is a well she's you know,
kind of dressed like she's getting ready for the evening. She's got dark white
hair, almost silver, kind of a short bob cut that comes just past
her jawline, and she's been putting on some makeup. When you come back
here, she's got some really dark, sparkly blue eyeshadow that she's putting under
her eyes and matching lipstick. She's got a nose ring that pierces her septum,
looks like it's a goldish copper color. And she's currently just got a
white robe on on top of whatever she may or may not have on underneath,
and looks like she's, um, you know, just trying to tide
herself up. She's got a little cigarette next to her that she's taken a
heavy drag off of as she's brushing her hair, and you know, kind
of staring at herself in the mirror with my model number? Is it underneath
my eye? Um? Like in the in the movie, I think that's
only nights. I don't think n Nines have that. I could be mistaken
though, cool check. Well regardless, I'll knock first and see miss iiris
mind if I have a quick word with you. She's a little startled and
when she sees you and she she looks over and then she calms down a
bit and she says, ooh, okay, yeah, come on in h
I show my badge again, and I also I show where my marking is
to her. Okay. I would imagine because you're part of the LAPD,
there's probably something on your badge or identification that marks you off as a replicant,
just because it's a big deal to everybody in the city. So you
wouldn't necessarily have to like show your ID, you know, your your number
on your person. That would probably suffice, sure, especially if she's a
replicant, she'd probably pick up on it pretty quick. Right, I'll try
not to hover over it. Can maybe have a seat somewhere near her.
So, can you tell me about what happened last night? She uh,
kind of you can see she's a little nervous or apprehensive. She takes another
long drag on the cigarette and takes a deep breath and kind of size just
you know, these big fight broke out. You know, I was up
on stage when it happens, and you know, I was a couple of
bottles got tossed here and there, and next thing I knew it hurt.
Some gunshots hurt, screaming, people started running in every direction, and you
know, I ran off stage and head back here. I didn't know what
was going on. I didn't see where the gunshots came from at all.
She kind of size really heavily. She's like, it's it's really hard to
see the crowd when you're up on stage. All the lights and stuff in
your face. You know, it's mostly just like looking. You can't really
even see the crowd most of the time. To be honest, is there
a group of men who are asking you in particular? Last night? Um?
Well went at went. Aren't getting harassed? Sure, but potentially a
group of humans only folks? Yeah, I think. I think that guy
from Kill magazine was here with some of his buddies, and you know they're
they're here from time to time. I don't know why they come here when
they hate us, but they seem to get a kick out of it.
So any other names in the group that you would know of. I know
that that Skylar guy's the only one I know by name, just you know,
since he's in charge of the thing. But I recognized some of the
others when you know, when I see him, but he usually had a
different group of them all the time. I see what about a Max Styles
boss said that he was there last night. She's like, um, tall,
bald, I'm reading my notes here on me see. Oh sorry,
She's like, uh no, I don't. I don't know any Styles ever
seen an exceptionally tall gentlemen, or maybe when you come back down for a
drink. She uh finishes the cigarette she's on. She lights up another one,
takes another deep breath. I mean, I've I've seen a guy like
that around. Um yeah, he uh. He actually like intervened in the
fight, or I should say, with the the guys from Kill magazine when
they were starting to get a little out of control. He stomped up to
him and had some words. I would imagine. I couldn't hear what they
were saying from up on stage, but I caught that much. Interesting.
Does he come to your defense before? But no, first time anything like
that happens. You know anything about what he does for profession, I couldn't
say. I've never talked to him. Anything stolen here last night? They
probably loot and riot after the gunshots. No, nothing like that. Well,
I mean I wasn't out here. I took off once the gunshots went
off, but I could tell people were running and screaming to get out of
here. I would imagine. I'm sure people lifted some things, but it's
not like they were breaking down windows to steal the clock or anything. I
see. Well, Miss Cirius, unless there's anything else helpful to me,
you think you could tell me I'm just gonna have a look around. UM,
give me a manipulation role three oh zero zero on two D twelves ill.
Uh, we're supposed to be good at this. I was for two
roles. Well, I'm gonna push it. Oh, nicely done, all
right, go back to two. I why did you three and then two
out? That's yeah? Did you push it twice? No? Your first
role disappeared and became three, and then there's a second role that has two.
The fuck? I think it did something similar to me too, or
like change the numbers on my first role for some reason. I would imagine
it does. Hold on, I'm gonna push her role here and see what
happens. I had replaced it weird? Okay, Well, either way,
you had two or three successes, which is plenty. She uh looks like
she's kind of thinking for a moment. You're not sure if it's she's trying
to remember something or deciding if she should tell you more. She says,
yeah, I saw the two officers here. I saw them the night before
when I was getting on shift. They were both sitting at the bar,
and it looked like they were kind of watching the crowd. And last night
I'm pretty sure that when the fire it started that they they moved in to
uh to intervene maybe break it up. I mean, I guess cops would
do that if that all of a sudden happens. Um. And uh,
when I heard the shot, it was really really loud, like surprisingly loud.
You know, I've heard gunshots before in other parts of town. This
was really distinct sounding old weapon. If you want to give me an insight
or a tech test the violet, We'll go for insight. I guess you
can also do firearms if you have that, if that's any better, Uh,
it is, okay, you do firearm instead. But I got one
success. Oh that's fine, okay. Um, it sounds to you like
she might be describing a PDK black. They are designed to have a very
distinct noise in case a lad runner has to open fire in a public area,
so people know what's going on and to get out of the way.
I take a mental note of that. Well, miss IRUs, I appreciate
your help if you think of anything else, and I'll I don't know how
I give contact info or you have a card, yeah, regular cards.
Let's say give us a give us a shout and try and get to the
bottom of it. Okay, sure thing you see she tucks the card in,
uh like one of her little drawers, Garrek. If you want to
finish us up here exploring the crime scene, okay, Um, I wanted
to look at the league of blood bladder. It definitely looks like blood to
you. Yeah, you know, if you if you ask, Taffy tells
you, yeah, that's where the guy. That's where the guy healed over
and died picked up on that. Um, is there anything like are there's
there casing, bullet casing or anything unusual? Not by the blood. The
only thing you see by the blood, you can see that there's a couple
of things that have been knocked over. Um. Taffy would tell you that,
as far as he knows, everything has pretty much remained untouched since the
cops have been here. You know, he hasn't moved anything, and they
told him not to really touch anything, so he didn't like do anything out
there on the dance floor. Okay. And then the shattered mirror. Yeah,
so you go over there, there's this big mirror on the opposite side
of the entry, on the wall between the two openings that kind of go
backstage, and you can see it's like shattered right at a specific point,
as if there was a point of impact, and then the mirror kind of
shattered or splintered out from that point and you don't see anything in the mirror.
There's actually like a hole and when you look behind it, you see
that there is a bullet lodged in the wall behind the mirror. Oh okay,
yeah, so just put on some cloves, get some tweezers and evidence
bag and get that fucker out. Sure, yeah, you get that problem.
You can't tell what it is. It's obviously too deformed, But I'm
pretty sure the crime lab could figure it out. So would like the crime
lab be the people who would try to figure out like the trajectory, so
where the shot came from? Yes, okay, so I'll take photos of
the stuff I'm looking at. But um, in the corner of the image,
there's like next to the candle out But it looks like there's something hiding
behind the stage. Do we know what that is? I think that's supposed
to be like an officer looking around the scene. Okay, the crime crime
technician. Oh it's me. I was the I was the criminal. The
whole time. Uh yeah, there's nothing, nothing to take her back there.
Um yeah, I think that pretty much it. I guess if we
see this, I'm assuming this is just a flourish of the photo, but
in the like by the bar towel, there's a strange like visual anomaly like
a piece of tape over the picture or something like that. Yeah, I
don't I don't know what that's supposed to be. Because this is not a
picture you guys have. This is. This is me showing you a pick
like the scene to give you, guys a visual representation of what your characters
would see when they're standing there. I just want to double to check that
like, oh no, we've been hacked, Like no, this is this
is This would be an actual handout, like if we were playing around the
table, I would give you guys this photo and be like, Okay,
look at this for evidence and tell me what you want to do, rather
than just oh, I make an observation role. You can still do that,
obviously, but the idea is for people to get into the mindset like
you're actually there and looking at stuff. If it's an actual photo, i'd
tell you, like the photo that you found in her apartment. That's an
actual photo that you guys can pick up and carry. Um. Yeah,
when these when these images, when they say crime scene photo, that's indicating
that it is something. It's a location you're at, And what's in this
picture is what your characters see and what they can kind of explore to find
clues. Gotcha, Okay? Um, so I would meet back up with
Violet. Okay, Well, seems there were a couple other suspects to look
into our various notable people. Skylar was here last night along with some of
his guys. Yeah. He also said they did see the agents try to
break up the fight. There was also a tall, bald guy who also
tried to break up the fight. I was That's what I'm thinking, Wait
do it. I don't know that. You don't know the name. No,
you don't know the name. I don't know. There's a guy outside
styles tall, bald, pretty pale. Sounds like the same description. Yeah.
I talked to him. He said that there were some anti replicant people
here causing a ruckus. Now from this guy's from the kill now, I
believe when I talked to him, he did not tell me that he intervened
in the brawl. He did not right. He said he saw the brawl
happened, heard a gunshot, and then everybody ran. Said the gunshot was
really really loud, like it could have been from one of these, And
I just kind of pull aside from where my weapon is. I found a
bullet. So does the bullet look like ones we normally would load into our
guns. You can't tell it's two deformed very we have to test, okay,
so might be able to tell us the one the other one? The
other clue that you do have at this point, you have not found a
casing. You've looked everywhere. You feel if there was a casing, you
probably would have found it. Right, so you would believe either A it's
a revolver, or b, especially hearing what Violet just told you, if
it was from a blaster, blasters fire, caseless shells, a case of
ammunition. Oh okay, so those two things add up, but you do
won't know for sure until the lamp tested. Right. We still haven't looked
at the body, so we don't even know how he died from the gunshot
or something else. There any other rooms to check out in here. The
rest are just the back dressing rooms for the dancers. And then this is
the back entrance on left, and then in the corners here are like little
vip lounges. There are a lot of people in there. Can I check
the dressing rooms? Just as place is empty right now, you might see
yeah, like, it looks like Taffy and Iris are probably the only two
here right now. You're guessing, probably because she was an actual like witness,
so they probably kept her here. I do a little of the rooms.
Yeah, yeah, if you want to give me an observation, go
ahead. Okay, one success. Hey, you take another glance around everywhere,
check all the doors, things like that, behind any curtains. There's
nobody else here. I'm sorry. That was my check to see if I
find any bullet casings or any Oh no, you do not. Yeah,
you go through like this pretty thoroughly and painstakingly. You do not find any
bullet casing. Okay, you hear Taffy like, do you lose your favorite
contact? Come on, let's get a move on here. When we when
we get this place up and running again, I'm losing money by the minute
here. I ask where else did you check? So I can just go
through and check any other place we haven't looked around in before we tell this
guy, I'm just checking the active dance floor. Really all right, I
should give a little bit more of a thorough look. I suppose um this,
uh is this the dressing room? Then those are bathrooms the dressing room
room top of them. Out, take a look in the bathroom. Yeah,
same thing. You guys spend a great deal of time trying to be
very methodical. You do not find a shell casing anywhere, Okay, any
their blood stains or any other strange bits. No, it looks like the
dance floor that's the only place you see blood and the you know, there's
obviously signs of a struggle with everything knocked over and things like that. People
leave it in a hurry. Yeah, there's probably some some glasses on some
of the other tables and other rooms, but it looks like they were more
just left here. Whereas you can tell in here there's like smashed bottles up
on the stage and you know, clearly like stains on the wall from whatever
liquid is inside them when they got the bottles thrown. So it seems like
it's mostly contained to the dance flour stage area. Got it. No,
I'm not finding anything else. Yeah, Chris on the crime scene. There's
like two other things sort of like in front of the blood pool puddle.
Are those just random debris? Orum? One of them is a bottle and
the other one is uh, yeah, I don't know what it is.
Some garbage, Okay, just take a look at the bottle. Anything pop
out? No, I'm just okay, cheap ass alcohol. All right,
Yeah, I think I think we're done here. All right, you guys
head back outside and just hop in the spinner. I want to go out
like the back exit to like an alleyway and see if anything unusual is back
there, Like take a look at the street out front, just kind of
mentally match it up to the picture and take a look. Uh. The
only other thing is you can see that that Styles is still there. You
finally spot him, Violet. You can definitely tell because he's so tall,
and you can see that he's definitely taken an interest in what's going on,
and he's still out in the crowd. Oh yeah, I got a few
questions I might ask him all right up in and a sorry go with I
don't know where you want to go from here, as you're gonna go.
Question him. I was gonna ask him a question. Okay, As as
you approach, you see that he kind of ducks down and starts to quickly
move away. When you start moving towards him, I'll say, lapd,
I just want to ask you a question. He starts increasing his speed and
starts heading for an alleyway. I'll shout for Johnson, all right, or
try and blip him and start following him, and that is where we will
end session one. As styles is on the run, I did say I
was going to go out towards an alleyway, so hopefully you're just going to
circle the block if we'll run this straight line and um, actually there are
chase rules in this game, which it seems like we'll actually pick that up
next week to pick like your maneuvers and stuff, and then we roll to
see like if there's obstacles that get in your way. So that's probably what
we're gonna do next week, folks, so join us. Thank you so
much for stopping by. I hope you've enjoyed everything. Excellent job tonight.
Players really feeling it. I'm digging this and I'm getting a little more comfortable
navigating in foundry and not using my books at all or my PDFs. So
so far, so good. Um so, thank you listeners. We will
see you next time, same place, ninety nine