Good new, ladies and gentlemen. This is Sins in Consequences of Bleds in
the Dark actual play podcast presented by Dragon's Greek Gaming. I'll just right off
the bat. I would just like to thank Sydney Bable once again for providing
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Or if you just even stop by and say hi, Chris or I
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your eyes peeled for that. I'd also just very quickly like to say,
by the time this episode's released, we should have some character art for our
four main characters for ludes, they Myrie, and Albatross. Those those art
pieces are done by Nightlyn. Nightlin is a cast member and also the wife
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check out. Now that I'm done speaking like a like an advertisement, I'm
just going to introduce our players, starting with Ethan. He was not writing.
He definitely was not, because I was looking at different character sheets because
I'm kind of interested anyways, just having fun being distracted. Hello, my
name is Ethan. I'm gonna be playing Vay Helker or Bay he is a
spider. In the last session, they went over to Lord Skirlock's manor,
had a quick chat and decided on stealing some some paintings instead of actually,
you know, pushing back on this war and amount of territory that like a
rival gang has been pushing up on, because I thought it would be an
easier thing to do, especially without having the full cast with us last week.
It has gone surprisingly well so far, but we did kind of leave
on a bit of a cliffhanger, and so I'm gonna guess that this is
going to immediately start downhill and we're gonna have to climb our way back out,
Okay, I I am. Well, we'll see, we'll see how
it goes. You know. You guys, guys, roll your diet and
we'll see what happens. But Ethan, I have a question. I was
playing a game with my wife earlier, just comparing bands, just to kind
of learn what a little bit about each other here. So Ethan, do
you prefer Sublime, like the band Sublime or cold Play? Oh? That's
a probably cold Play, But I know, yeah, I would I would
prefer And I was like I will take this sound of the wind, the
sound of the wind with my windows rolled down and no music over coldlay.
Well, you don't like the song yellow, like you're too good for the
song yellow because it's or any any kind of cold play. I'm not in.
I'm not in kind of I actively don't listen to either. But I
had to pick one. Uh, that's I mean that Suppli's bad either,
you know it's it's just one of those hitting into a bad spot. There
no worries. I picked you, all right, and we'll move right on
here. Myrie tell us a bit about your character, and then I'm going
to ask you a questions about bands. Well, I don't think Myrie is
playing a character, but it's going to be played by you. Will be
playing, will be playing to be like lady, And what the am I
doing here is gonna go into work and start some fucking fires. Your intro
with your accent, well, oh no, I'll roll that back. I'll
do a proper introduction because I know your name, I promise. Yeah.
All right, ladies or in gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen and anyone else's listening.
If you don't identify, I don't care. This is the adominable,
the unshakeable. C J boat, c J take up not what I meant
to say, But where's the h R in Dragon's Okay, I'm c G.
I played Marisco colle and is the groups. Uh, I keep forgetting
what I want to say, But that's not what it is. It's the
leech. Yeah, there's a lot of tinkering, that's fair. DOESJ have
does haven't? Or does? Oh my god, I'm tired. Does myrie
have any feelings about the score and their curls? Does my reality feelings?
Period? No? Uh? Well, like they said, we had a
little bit of a bump at the end of the road, but otherwise spending
going pretty good. We got a lot like set up and everything was pretty
good. We've got the information we need, so it's it's started pretty good.
Let's hope and it's just a little hiccup in the road. But all
right, and then c J. Yeah, we're not talking about Marie anymore.
Okay, Okay, do you prefer the offspring or metric? I'm gonna
make you feel real bad. I don't know either of those. What the
you don't know, you don't know the band, you don't know Metric.
That's that's crazy to me. They're like amazing. Have you seen Scott Poker
versus the World? Yes? You know this? So on the idea n
B Adam sings black Sheep like like that's his ex girlfriend that has like the
bigger, better show. That's Metric Okay, And that's the only thing I
know them for. That's fair. So I guess it's them. I guess
it's them. I was I would pick O see, I would pick Metric,
and I love the Offspring, but I love Matric more. Emily.
I'm gonna disagree with everyone on everything. All right, Well, Adam,
we're got to disagree with yourself. Next, tell us about your well,
actually, maybe hold off on on talk of my character. Let's you want
to talk about loots a little bit, because I do. I do want
to talk about luds for a little bit. Can we do that? Can
I talk about LUTs? You talk to you guys about lutes for a little
bit. He's really art, He's super weird. He's a creep. He's
a real weird creep. Albatized definitely figured it out when he pulled a pen.
Well, you gotta do what you gotta do. But I've been I've
been thinking about Ludes a lot for the past you know, week and a
half. I wrote up not like a super huge thing. I wrote up
a little backstory thing for I mean, all the the ideas about him have
been kicking around in my head. I kind of crawled into his head space
earlier and I sent it to Aaron. You guys don't get to see him.
Fuck you up, But I said to Aaron, because I want him
to know what's going on in my head. And like I inhabited this Ludes
headspace heavily this morning, and like, man, it's a sad guy.
It's real depressive. Yeah, there was a thing where I was having I
think I was having a lunch when I actually opened up this thing that like
it was just a document that got sent to me by Adam just send Ludes
backstory. I opened it up and I I too read that and was like,
I don't think that it's okay. I'm fine, like all of a
sudden, like it is like my life right now, the place I'm at
in my life is is pretty great. It's pretty great. I'm happy what
everything's going on, Ludes, this is miserable, miserable and like it.
Man made me kind of said sad for this fictional guy that I made up
and decided to torbat with that. But it doesn't mean like like none of
like my parents both live. You know, I've never I've never been all
the way home as I'm like los. Yeah, never been in jail.
Yeah, I've never even I've never been gone to visit that. I've never
been to jail. I just wanted to clear court. I've been in the
court. I want to try traffic court. A couple of weeks ago,
dude, all right, got my case dismissed. Nice, Yes, we're
gonna go. We're gonna get derailed before we even hit the rails. One
time, one time, I was gonna go to traffic court. Right,
it's gonna be late, you know, you know how that goes. So
we got into my car and I was ready to start driving. Probably too
fast to go to traffic court, or not traffic court. It was a
traffic uh, the mandatory traffic class for already having been convicted of driving too
fast. That's right, I go speak to it. But on my way
driving through my apartment complex, going, I don't know I'm in the I'm
in the parking lot thing. I'm going maybe like fifteen maybe. You know
those like big like enclosures they keep the trash inside of, like the big
dumpsters inside of. It's like a little wooden little thing. I'm driving and
I'm getting close to one of those, and from behind it this is all
real. None of this is made up, none of it's embellished. From
behind it, get on a bike sores out right in front of my car.
I fucking hit him. I fucking hit him, little kid on a
bike, you must have been maybe like seven eight. Hit him with my
car eighty six, eighty six Buick Skyhawk hit him. Kid went up out
of the fuck in front of the car, and I panic, you know,
as you do when you hit a kid with your car and he's up
on the hood, and I'm trying to figure out how the fuck to get
out of my car, you know, like I open the door, I'm
wearing a seat belt, I'm trying to get out the car still and drive
like I couldn't fucking figure out it, you know. So I eventually figure
out, put in the park, take off seat belt, get out of
car, and the kid looks up at me. This probably all took like
three seconds that he looks up at me. I'm like, thank god,
he's alive. Thank God he's alive. And he gets up and he looks
around and he picks up his bike and he looks at me, and they
starts to cry, and I'm like, oh no, and then he tries
to ride off on the bike. I'm like, no way in hell,
Like, there's no way, there's no way, there's no way, there's
gonna be a hit and run. No way. So I get the kid
and I'm I'm like, no, no, you know you're not gonna run
away. I'm like, where's your parents? Where your parents? Where your
parents? And you know he's crying, and like I walk back and like,
dude, we walk through this parking lot in the same direction I came
from. This kid's parents live two apartments below me, same building, directly
below. His mom comes out and she sees this white dude with her black
kid, and she looks pissed and she comes out and I'm like, I
was driving in the farhar lot. He came out from behind the dovester and
then she grabs this kid, looks me in the eyes and starts hitting this
kid in the back of the head. She's like, what I tell you
about riding your bike in the parking And I was like, well, thank
fucking god. And then went to traffic class and I was late, that's
it, that's my spring, my kid. I wanted it to be a
hit and run, but you wouldn't let it be. The kid wanted to
be a hit and run because the kid knew that his mom was gonna smack
the ship out of him. And I was like, there's no way in
hell, Like if this kid's got internal bleeding or something like that, there's
no way in hell there. Yeah. Yeah. If I had known that
that kid's mom was gonna smack the ship out of him for driving in the
parking lot, I would have been like, run, run kid, right,
yeah yeah? And uh. Then I went to traffic for then I
was late. Nice. I was like, okay, if I could add
something to that. I actually almost got run over by a car when I
was a kid. It was me. It was it was at a park.
I saw the car, I saw the band. I jumped up and
I hung out to the I hung out to the I hung onto the actual
like put of the car, and I was like, oh, I'm safe.
I'm not dead. I mean, if I didn't jump and grab onto
the hood, I probably would have been knocked knocked the hell back. But
uh, that wasn't the end of the story. I saw a family playing
baseball just across the park that I was at where I almost got run over.
I was playing baseball with the same family that almost ran me over.
Nice? Nice, what pridy idea? All right, Adam, Adam,
I'm gonna make this I got It's tricky because I've been showing you stuff.
Mm hmm okay Chris Parnell or Weezer, Chris Parnell is isn't it a sound?
Oh? What am I thinking of? I don't know. Where's the
guy from Saturday Night Live? I think, okay, maybe maybe i've getten
the voice actor, the guy who plays Jerry on Rick and Morty. Yeah
that's Chris Parnell. Yeah, okay, okay, Chris Parnell. Sound.
Oh man, I gotta go. Weezer. Yeah, Weezer's bad. I
saw them live. It's not you. I have my my sophomore year yearbook.
There's two signatures from guys from Weezer in it. They did not go
to my high school. Much older than me. They are much older than
me. I brought my yearbook to a signing thing. I was like,
I don't know who Weezer is. I brought my yearbook into him signed,
and then I got to him to sign a CD that my buddy wanted to
get signed. I mean, that's that's what hell of gonna I'm gonna.
I'm gonna dispabe a ver second. I'm gonna go get it. Okay,
go get it. I'm gonna talk to them, tell us a bit about
all the trust, his feelings about what's happening right now, his feelings about
seeing Vlarious. Who is the band that you saw at the end of last
week's episode. Pair. I'll even show you that just so you can get
angry at his face A motivation? How can he look so happy with all
the atrocities he's committed? Mm hmm. How does he feel about him?
Let's see just just the core emotion, you know, like, is the
rage is a despair? Is it envy, sloth, gluttony, pride?
Definitely rage? There we go so enraged at the sight of it. Is
moral enemy, hilarious, a happy looking ACROSI spy and deal. I don't
know too much about what you listen to. So I'm gonna say Evanescence or
m HM or Lincoln Park Z Lincoln Park. I knew I was gonna say
Lincoln Park, but they're not having I have, Okay, I have.
This is the same for Evanescence, and and it's not because they're a bad
bad It is because Evanescence went through this kind of and if anything, it's
an a testament to like how the music is. Uh, they overplayed the
shit out of it. It's cool and like when someone repeats something in my
hair. It was as bad as the one time that a kid was playing
my come up with Romance, playing Black Parade NonStop at a flea market.
I was working at that flea market. They played it for six hours straight,
and that's how I felt about it, evident the essence. I hated
the music because my immortal would come out and I'm like, stop it.
I don't want to hear it, I don't want to see it. And
then YouTube took over with it, so I was done with that. Lincoln
Park was on my nerve too, for specifically a few songs, but like,
at least I still like Lincoln Park. Yeah, Oh so you hit
me with two bands that I felt very passionate about, but I will never
listen to consciously except for Lincoln Park maybe for a few tracks, but that's
it. He actually funny enough. There's a joke to this. My buddy
knows how much I hated evan Escence. He gave me the very album that
my immortal is on. I have it somewhere and I'm like, why did
you give me this? And it's like, because you hate him? And
I know you do. That's a that's a best friend right there. Shout
out to Eric, you asshole. I still have that c D and I
love you. There you go, all right, Adam, show and tell,
show us these signatures. It's invisible. Yeah, yeah signature. Oh
you got pats. Let's say pats. It is hard to tell what it
says or your face. Put more. Your face is part of the book,
which since it show, since it show and tell, there we go.
It's right here, I'm touching it. Why is it invisible? But
let's see, all right, there it is Jesus. This looks like one
of those like what's it called them? Here? Yeah? Right? Also,
next week, I've got the signature of the dude that takes the tickets
on the train that I rode to go get these signature you got, he
said, best of luck in future endeavors. Oh dude, that's such a
nice ticket. Like I mean, it's like, I really hope you figure
your ship out, because this is weird stuff. This kid really thinks he
thinks that body of me to get his signature. I know this means nothing
to him, but like, thank you, and it's science. It looked
at my old yearbooks in fucking decades, and let me tell you, I
don't recognize most of these people's names. That's fair. I mean Erica Schwan,
no clue. Sorry, yeah, good fuck. Oh Liz the girl
from the train, nice, nice, all right, she's got a nice
handwriting. There you go. All right, Are you gonna say more names?
Uh? Yeah, okay, let's move along. Okay, enough of
my own time, No worries. My name. My name is Eric,
also known as poultry Geist. Weirdly enough, I also saw an older yearbook
of mine where me and Ethan both graduated from elementary school, and I was
looking at that today. I'll be enough real weird queens. Yeah, I'll
send a picture into the dragon's roost of Ethan as a child. I really
hope you have some very embarrassing, embarrassing style choices. Ethan was ridiculars that
was me. I didn't have the ball, but I didn't know what I
was doing with my hair. And it wasn't until like I got like through
college, when I went ooh sweeping to the side up. Until then,
it was always just flattened down and I am I hate it. Yeah,
yeah, if I hear that, I was like third, I was like
twenty four when I went to well barber for the first time instead of like
first choice haircuts. You guys, so, but you guys were in high
schoold. Everybody have boner bangs, do you guys remember that for dudes boner
bangs. Bangs would like stick out the front. No, but yeah,
remember we're so much younger than you have. I'm so young, young young
and herolat yes. All right, And with that all being said, introductions
are done. We're gonna get into some Bleeds and Dark guys. We're playing
Bleeds in the Dark Dia last week. Actually do a quick recap. I'll
do a quick recap of the score and what happened before then. So they
went and had a meeting with Mord's grill where he he mentioned that some of
the problems that they've been having in the last in the last week or so,
where you've been having trouble getting the high quality supplies that you've managed to
upgrade to since becoming a Tier one faction, because members of the Path of
Echoes have actually been threatening local storekeepers to not provide you with goods. Oh,
what the fuck? And when you brought up an information, mort Scirlock
seemed pretty concerned about it that these people from Charter Hall would come to Six
Towers his domain start threatening people that were under his protection, including you,
And he said, I'll definitely look into that. But then he said,
I actually have something that would I could do if you would be willing to
do me a favor, And so he requested that the Soul Seekers help him
embarrass a rival noble, specifically, I get his name, so I'm gonna
look in Ethan's nose because he probably didn't. Elijah Greenwich, Yes, Elijah
Greenwich, the grandson of a woman named Adelaide Greenwich. They own a an
art gallery in Bright Towers. The art gallery was purchased and this whole event
that you guys are at is kind of a sham because Elijah Greenwich is known
to be a mediocre artist, but because because his grandmother owns the gallery,
he's gonna be the headline at this It's a it's a gathering, it's a
silent auction, and it's absolutely and so you guys had put together some sort
of plan. Albatross met with a group of taiker Rossi cater and a restaurant
owner out in Coleridge that were catering the event and discovered that many of them
were actually with him when he first made the trek from Tigeros to Acros,
and that many of them are probably also spies. And what else happened?
You guys got some stuff set up and there was only one small issue that
you had, which was that Minori had put together a device to turn off
all the lights at the same time, but discovered that somebody had tampered with
two of them explicitly, the ones that are directly above where the paintings are
going to be that you need to replace because the end goal is to replace.
I believe there's three paintings with forgeries that Lord Skirlock has provided for you,
and it has to happen while the party's happening, because they would have
checked it before. Myri and Fay and Albatross were at the party. And
just at the very end of the last week's session, Albatross bumped into a
man named Valaris. Valaris is as Albatross would know, a member of the
Imperial military. He would know this because years and years ago, would have
been about eight years ago, Albatross was on a character transporting thousands of Taikerosi
immigrants south until they met Acos. Albatross would also know that this convoy of
people were members of the military and trained spies for the taike Rossi government.
You were traveling with your brother, you know, I think we talked about
this deal. Yeah, and it's it's always night in the shattered aisles,
but one evening as you guys were making your trek down, many of like
you started out with about ten thousand strong leaving from Taigeros. You're maybe down
to like eight thousand or so people just being losing people to sickness and fatigue
and besiechments from the flora, the fauna, just the hard, hard one
road south. It's not a journey that everyone can survive. But you I'm
across on the path that you plan to take several fell trees, and you
know you have to divert away from the worn path that people have taken before
you. And would you would you be driving one of these carvings one of
these carriages, yes, hir Albatross would be in charge of taking care of
one of the caravans as they go through. There would be uh drivers,
maybe a few guards that would keep care for any of the the younger take
rossy children that would be there, and anyone who is capable of fighting.
Okay, So you're probably like four or five of these carriages back and there's
well over, like maybe two dozen. Some of them are just carrying people,
some of them carrying applies. Your brother is is actually needing the charge,
and so he's one of the first carriages to start to divert to you.
Guys move left off the path and you go to move around. After
a while, you see light in the darkness just before a bomb descends into
the back of the carriage that he's dragging. It explodes. There's nothing you
could have done, and the wood it burns, its splinters, it crashes
onto the dirt and the soil, and then a second one comes, and
a third and a fourth and that the carriages start to explode around you.
What do you do? Albatross start veering off the to the beaten path and
started kind of roaming around, trying to see if there was anything that would
Marriott or basically trying to find out where all these bombs are coming from.
What directions are they flying from. You find that they are coming from kind
of behind a hill, like kind of to your to your right, I
suppose. So basically you had to average off the path. Your brother leading
the charge chose to go left. It goes around this hill, and then
that's when the bombs started to draw. Just as like four or five of
these carriages started to get under you start to hear explosions behind you, just
as you recognize where the bombs were coming from. It's very dark, but
you can see silhoue it's moving quickly and darting in the shadows. At the
top of the hill. You can just screams of your people, Sorry,
go ahead, Albatroz is gonna look back. Let's see what do you just
to see what happened? You you go to look at the carriage that you
know your brother was in. You see it's a flame, and you see
your brother crawling through the dirt towards the hill. His legs are blown off,
and as you approach him, several men descend upon the hill carrying muskets
bannets. I'm assuming that you would fight them, yes, and you do.
You fight these men. Lots of other people also engage with these men.
Unfortunately, by the time that the battle has ended, you see that
your brother has died. Probably about two thousand people died as a result of
this attack. You go to get back onto your carriage and start. Now
that the violence has died, and it's you clear a path. As you
start to drive, a hand touches your shoulder and you turn around and you
see the kindly smiling face of an acros man. Who are you? He
he scampers and he sits beside you, and he says, he takes off
his his floppy, kind of old worn out top hat and he folds it
up together, and he says, my name is Valerius, and I think
that you and your lot should turn around. It's a tragedy that happened today,
and I hate to do it. Yes, it is. I don't
rejoice in slaying thousands of people, but that's what's going to have to happen.
If you keep sending spies and military men to our nation, you're not
welcoming here. And he flops off the side and rolls under the carriage,
and maybe you stop the carriage and you're going to look for him, and
he's gone. As you continue south over the next few weeks, you keep
finding that like goods are going missing and people are starving, wheels on carriages
are getting damaged. You're having to take long detours that lead you to more
dangerous areas because someone is like dog like, like an intricate pitfall in the
middle of the road. Periodically you feel like maybe you're paranoid, maybe it's
real. You see Valerius out of the corner of your eye. You will
or maybe days away from that moment that we first met you in the show,
when you arrived and see the eastern thing on the most eastern city of
Acroes, arrived at your destination with those that can survive, and it's then
and only then that you wake up after taking your rest, and besides you
is the decapitated head of your brother and a note that says a gift from
the Empire signed Valarius. Albatross is going to grab his brother's head and begins
in one yeah, absolutely, and we have that moment where we maybe see
Albatross as a younger man with tears in his eyes, and we come back
to the modern day where Albatross is posing as a caterer at a sophisticated event
in Brightstone in Dustball, where he's lived for nearly a decade, working as
a spy trying to find Valarius. Though Gris has always seemed to know where
you are, periodically leaving you presents and notes. He seemed to have been
keeping an eye on you one of these chairs. But now he stands by
you, face to face with a smile on his face, wearing his Sunday
best and he winks at you. Albatrosz smiles. He approaches you. You're
holding a tray of food. I'm assuming, or I'm gonna say, you're
holding a tray of food. Some takosi fair They are crab claws, I'm
like kind of served in these like glasses. He picks one up and he
says, thank you, good, sorry, and he proceeds to to eat
the meal in front of you before sending Glass down, and he says,
there's always been a lack of Taigerosi culture in our society. It's it's nice
to see you here. Where do you hail from from the north? But
yes, obviously so you were you were born in Taigros. Of course you
seem so familiar. Have we met before? You remind me like an echo
in my mind. Albatross continues to mutter, but this there does not leave
his eyes. H his tear ducks are dry, and he stares at him
with a dead But those in the echo, for those we could hear the
waters. You don't hear anything, but you feel in emotion. You say
that out loud to him. No, No, this is uh, this
is going through uh the mind connection that everyone else has. There's the water.
Yeah, m an intend to kill the latterus the notspolitely to you.
And as he leaves, he reaches to his jacket pocket on his breast and
he pats it and winks once again and walks away, kind of dispersing into
the crowd. You see him talking to some other nobles. How about Ross
looking down at his uh missing arm. You see the mechanisms. Shaking takes
here, you profound deep breaths, the shaking stops, and the murderous intent
starts to settle through the waters. And then there he says, thanks have
become much more complicated. There's imperial spy here, one who can kill us
all without batting an eye. We have to rethink this, but they REMI
you hear that, and they I'm not sure you were talking to the Great
Cloaks, the security guards who had just drunk them. You see them kind
of going to sit on in the corner, and you hear some of the
other nobles comment about how unprofessional the Great Cloaks are. Mara, you hear
that. You know that you have these two lights or these two switches that
you have to resolve for fix before too long. And then you hear Albatross
and you feel maybe his intent, his rage and his murderous intent, and
he says that there's an imperial spy in the midst Wasn't this just the shits?
Brandon? Look, okay, kind of think of what we're gonna do
now. You know this was supposed to be an easy job. An easy
job. Mhm. Give us two weeks to think about you give us a
week to think about it, and you kick us off with like, all
right, everything's changed. What has everything changed? Or I don't think what
you're doing is concern of the imperial the imperial. We just keep doing.
I keep doing, we're doing, but like, let's not shoot anybody.
I want that I was a part of the plant. Let's not do that.
Do you tell them? I'll trust that you need to, you need
to. It's very clear, I understand you. Upsets. Let's keep the
gun away for now. Let's just try and get what we do, what
we're doing, if it's done, and get out. If there's a spy.
I don't particularly want to hang around. Let's do what we're doing out,
finish this job as quickly as possible, and then we can deal with
the next obstacle that comes outway. Where are the lights I'm working on it?
How many of them are there? Four? What lights? Yeah,
there's a few lights around. It's just that there's two that are directly by
the where the paintings are gonna be, and if they don't go off,
it's gonna be pretty obvious that we're snatching them out. Therefore, there's yeah,
sure, there's four lights that are affected by this, all right,
never but that's it's it's I guess too nerdy for all of you guys.
Okay, my bad mm hmm. But yeah, you say you're gonna work
on it. How are you gonna work on this? I mean an easy
solution to be move to working ones from where they are and try to slap
them on, uh, and just decide to other places where it's okay for
the lights to be on. Hm. No, one have to go with
the easiest solution. There's also I just thought that'll maybe like overcharging it so
that like all the lights get affected. Sure, something I'm into that?
Is that what you want to do in this moment? Sure? I mean
everything else for the plan is set up presumably. Yeah, as long as
we have a way for people not to be looking at the swap, then
I think everything else is kind of there for Balbatross to do the swap.
Does mari Does Marie communicate this too, uh to the mind social media?
Yeah? She she would give a heads up when she's blowing this thing up,
or like okay, like getting ready, get positioned. I'm I'm setting
things up a distruction. This is this distraction isn't it this distraction? The
lights off so you can get in get out. Well, you can't work
on something without being seen in a big place like this, especially with the
lights. Definitely would be unless he would like hide somewhere behind the lights.
I don't know how this like would be. Like that's fair, Yeah,
I would say that, Like you could give an assist for sure. If
you want to make a distraction or something, please assist. I don't have
the stress to push it. Yeah. Then Albatross would go into the kitchen
and start speaking to the other type pros and basically start passing notes to them,
and every note that pass passed through immediately burns upon reading it. Okay,
almost like the calling cards. Imagine one four guys too slow at reading
and it burns up four finish and one of the tai Rossie would walk out
of the kitchen and uh, with a drink in his hand, would accidentally
bump into one of the nobles and spill the drink all over their clothes.
Oh, and she is, she's so upset, She's like, excuse me,
what the what? What is happening? Everyone look at me? What
happened? I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to.
I didn't mean to. I'm so sorry. Let me clean that up for
you. You are a pool that she smacked your hands away. But then
and then and then when you go to like walk away, she's like,
what are you doing? And clean this up? And yes, she is
making quite the same which and it would be it would be one of the
other. That's fair, that's fair. Sorry, but yes she is braiding
this tech ROASTI person and being obstinate and difficult, and in this moment that
would work well enough to assist. Okay, would you say record tinker to
try and get all the lights I guess to be wrecked because I'm trying to
super charge to get like the other two lights out. Yeah. The so
the way that this will go, if you choose wreck, it's gonna be
a little risk here, okay, but both will be effected like they all
both have standard effect. I mean it's gonna be risky for standard, or
it's gonna be controlled for standard pay tinker, yeah, okay, so yeah,
control for standard plus one die for that for that assist Yeah, I
mean you could push yourself for more die that will immediately traumatize me, which
is a whole lot to get traumatized over picking a session off with nice stress.
It's like I could definitely feel CJ's like I'm doing one thing and then
I'm stepping back like that's absolutely so I'm like I'm finally getting trauma. I
just don't feel like this is a thing to be traumatized over. God damn,
I did turn off the lights. And remember when I offer a consequence,
you can always resist or someone else can protect to resist. Okay,
well here we go, including Adam. Oh all right, if if you
feel like that's the time to step in, it raises burst through the window.
Hey guys, something along those lines. Oh okay, here we go.
Partial success. Okay, that's pretty bad. Look you got a partial
success, So it succeeds. The lights go out. As you do,
a minor complication occurs. The woman that was freaking out before is joined by
a cacophony of men and women who are not prepared to be inconvenienced at all,
and they all immediately start yelling and shouting and pushing, and myra you
find yourself like kind of caught in between like a midst of like five or
six of these people as they kind of like are bumbling around in the dark,
and so like wherever you need to go next, You're you're kind of
stuck here with them. Okay, do you get a film a thing where
she gets bumped and her glasses fall off? I can't say without my glesses
actually for ships and kicks. Yeah, A man grabs her on and he's
like, oh, my goodness, I don't know what's happening. This is
so dark in here. I mean, my wife just wanted to go to
the Arctic city and now this is happening. It's so dark. Can you
help me? Can you help me? Now? You you should know a
story about what's dark here. Oh that's so crazy, out of the odds,
pretty damn good. This man is holding onto your arm and you can
tell he's like a little bit Frank starts telling your stories about other times he's
been at dark places in a world where there's no sign. What don't you
know it? It's Edward Smith. It is Edward Smith. How did you
know? One time I blinked for too long it got real dark? And
then this man has living such a casually like peaceful life in this dark and
grim world and he's just here, like do you want to hear about it
and letting you know about everything. Oh god, he's just blasting over the
mental what's the babe? Eggs on the bags? They they and albatross.
You two have been asked to swap the painting as Miner is being held down
by the most boarding man in the universe. I would ask Ethan should we
do a flashback with the Taikerrosianvey? Do you think a flashback is needed?
Or I mean, we have the painting here, what would what would we
do to try to swap it out? But I mean it got the Yeah,
the lights are off, like we're in a position I think if it's
but there's more to it, like framing getting into a painting, making sure
you get everything back to normalize it should without damaging the actual real painting you
have like so somewhere stored wherever you guys think that they should be, or
like they're outside and like someone has them. You have exact forgeries, like
you have forge forged art that you need to swap out. So is it
is it like just like the actual like frame like because I think about it
in terms of the frame itself, I assume with most art galleries still have
it framed yet, Yeah, well assume that Lord Skirlock knew what the frames
were and perfectly recreated. Also, it doesn't quite matter what the frames are
because they're all covered with with with with covers, right, like there's sheets
on top of them, and so like as far as I see this whole
heist, it's like, you know, there are three paintings with like sheets
on them, and we have this trolley close enough to it that have three
paintings underneath, and so it's like a quick like it's like an eight second
job, right, it's like take, take, take, put put put
cover cover cover like you know, or like even like put cover, Pook
cover, pook cover. Like it's I think this is like a super fast
job and we can get through it. And like if we were going through
this, you know, I mean i'd say in like you know, as
fay, I can I can stand point guard, I'd use some like you
know, I'd study the room and I just i'd have like the hand up
of like all right, like watch the mark, watch the mark, and
like go right, and it's like at that moment when like you know,
the crowd is the most distracted, we're gonna make the swap over and then
we're just gonna walk out like like you know, the end of every movie.
I would say that this might be a good opportunity for a command role,
like a group command role, because like if anyone else has points in
command or anything like that, because like maybe you've organized it with the taikeiosi
people like like Albatrust suggested where it's like they ferrying it through the kitchen into
this car that you have set up and back. I see how you're calling
it, yeah, like or something like that, like like what what what's
the mechanism by which who's carrying the paint things? Where? Yeah? I
like that. Do you like that? I was, I like the idea
of the they were in like a trolley and then like let's go out and
swap them in the trolley pick them out account Yeah, And like it's not
even Dio swapping him out or like pushing out the card at the end,
right, it's just it's some taiker rosie, you know, no name,
no face, just pushing a cart out of the kitchen, not this no
spotlights. Yeah, but I do want to actually work for this moment.
How smoothly does it go? It's starting there's room for her. M How
how confident do you feel in your command? Ethan? You actually you have
more command than I do. I'm I'm only a one command over here,
but zero then yeah, then Albatroze is definitely gonna make this role. Then,
and did you guys want to do it as a group action or have
Ethan assist Like that's like that's where like, yeah, I'll tell you what
it's I think let's take it as a group action because I would love it
for this hest to actually hit off without causing more and more flames to suddenly
start bursting out to the scenes as we try to pick up other threads.
Yeah. And then also I'm going to take I'll take rook scambit on this
one in order to pop it off as a So it is going to be
a group command role, but I'm going to be using consort for my role
for this. And so with consort because I'm working out and we're having had
just had conversations with other Take Rosie, you know, Vey has gone in
and has you know, word crafted enough of an explanation that you know,
even though we're you know, a slightly different culture. Take Rosie, understand
one hundred percent. What the plan is like you know, ABCD, we're
going through all the motions like clockwork, and I haven't been on enough missions.
Albatross would have been able to like translate get everything kind of said.
It would have been a smooth transition. Okay, So this is gonna be
risky for standard effect. Are actually great effect. You're going to do it
like it's this is gonna to be The scor is basically done. Once you
get this done, and you are both going to roll your respective roles and
we take the highest score. Whoever leads the role will take one stress for
anyone who fails. Right, I'll lead the role, okay, and it's
your great effect. Yeah, all right, so we got the success,
so let's just see if you take stress from not succeeding or if you get
a crick. I didn't even see the success. What the Yeah, yeah,
foundry has a bit of a hiccup there, you see it in the
thread. Yeah, but yeah, well we'll wait for Albatross's role. Yeah,
igs just because there was having issues with our foundry ours the amount of
suspension. Oh okay, let's see. Uh yeah, I'm fly here,
okay, yah, oh, let meed it. Sorry, how dare you?
How dare you? I hold your voice? Okay, I'll love your
voice. That's why you're on so many podcasts. That has nothing, It
has nothing to do with me. Just show it up. It was a
group action, so you will take one stress as the leader of that action
for your own failure. I'll take it. But it does succeed albatross,
like you are distracted by by Belleros and and or God, I'm gonna say
his name every time, look at it. Hilarious. So you're distracted because
now that it's dark, you're like, well, where is Vlari's and like
is he going to do something? Like why is he here? And so
you're you you get the stress just from that, like you can't see him,
but they has it handled. He's already kind of dealt with these people.
And it moves smoothly, like the caterers come by, the pinkings go
on to the cart and they already have the forgeries there. They get put
back and it's like nothing happened. As the paintings make their way through the
back of the kitchen, the lights flicker back on and Alba Truss you see
Valarus standing behind me, and they you feel the sharp pin of a dagger
through your jacket on your act. He leans down and he says you and
I we need to go for a walk. And so this is a high
level NBC acting before you. So you can resist like being escorted away from
this situation, or you can go along with him. Well, I think
my legs could go for a little bit of a stretch. Yeah, why
don't we Why don't we go for a quick little walk? Yeah? And
Vlarius and you step out kind of like they have like a little like garden
area where people like go outside to smoke. And he takes you out there
and albatross, you see him go this way, myrie. The man who
is gripping your arm, he he he apologizes and he smooths out your your
jacket there, but he doesn't leave you alone. He's still talking to you.
It's like, you know, actually I really like your hair, like
that's so short, so uncommon for a woman. But no, no,
now, ada come here. And then you see yes and she goes od.
She's like, you know, the funny thing is about my husband is
his name is Edwin and my name is Edina. Even crazier, my last
name was Smith before I married him, and his last name is Smith too.
It's because our parents are cousins, and that's a good thing. When
there and here, I thought you were making fun of me, because that's
my story, not becausin part, but the last name part, it really
I got. I'm a I'm a smith who married a smith, but it's
Smith, right, It's still Why are you weird? You guys double checked?
Right, you're not? Yes? Yeah, born in different countries.
We're pretty safe. That doesn't we're neighbors, Brack, that's your cousin.
I'm sticking to you. No, okay, So they were being escorted outside
Albatross. You see this as you get outside the valaious steps in front of
places. Your friend over there? Do you what do you know about him?
The one you posting as a caterer, kind of get so close to
me and you haven't even asked my name yet. I'm kind of insulted.
It's okay, mister Helker, I know who you are. Oh well,
I appreciate it, but I wish I could return then, I wish I
could return it to your side. Who who might you be? Valarius Valarious?
Yes, it's a pleasure to meet you, mister Helker. I've seen
your work in the docs. I've seen h you skittering about attempting to earn
a living, but you don't pay much attention to the company you keep to
you. Well, I do you prefer it than my company at present?
You know, if you're if you're one to be so observant of all of
the folks around me. I mean, I don't think I could really help
you out as far as you know who I keep my company with. It's
okay, I'm trained. I've trained for decades to recognize a traitor when I
see one and he grips your wrist tight, and he draws the dagger,
and he says for the emperor, and you have a moment to react to
him. Basically, he's gonna murder you back here. Okay, that's good.
No, I appreciate. I saw Adam's hand come up. Mind you
is that like the wanting to jump in or oh so good? Oh h
oh right, we had a roll tell us about this role. I mean,
just a second, here, me on slouch a little bit. Let
me click this thing and then click on this thing here and then click on
the modern share technology. Much better, all right, So stagger comes out
right. This guy's got him by the hip. You see you seem like
an observant type from behind him. See one of these great cloak guys moving
around, see him. Peek over this guy's shoulder a little bit looking at
you. He's looking at you real kind of weird. It's like eyeballing you,
real hard and real weird. And then steps up, gets a little
bit closer, and he punches the back of this guy's head hard, real
hard, punch him right in the back of the right, in the back
of that I got a four to punch him in the back of the head,
okay. And I pushed and you pushed. Okay. So first of
all, maybe describe this ban or if you have art to show the class
I do. I don't have the option to. Uh let's see, I
can oh, I can do. Yeah, you can do it. He's
not dressed the way he's dressed in the character, so don't worry about that
part of it. Right now, this guy's dressed up like one of these
great clothes and he's wearing that uniform. I'm guessing it's some sort of great
cloak. Wow it is. Yeah, so I should have been able to
show you that guys. Yep, So that man just punched this spy in
the back of that he was not expecting it. Well, that's the thing
about this game. That's a success, but there's a complication. This help
you. Oh go ahead, I've got a thing. Okay, got a
thing. It says, perform a feet of physical force that verges on the
superhuman. Yeah, as part of my push Okay, I mean yeah,
describe this punch, Like, what's the effect of it, because yeah,
you superhuman. Punch this guy in the back of the head. You want
to knock him out, you want to kill him, Like, what are
you doing two feet down into the dirt? I want Yeah, no,
I want to punch him in the back of the head hard enough to lay
him out flat out. Just knock him right the fuck out. Okay,
you do it. You succeed so that this fist comes or by as as
you're sitting there and you have this moment where you feel like this guy is
gonna stab you. They called you a trader, and all of a sudden,
a fist comes from off the screen and just hits him in the back
of the head and he collapses. His hand slips off your arm. The
complication that occurs is that someone is standing at the door and they're like,
sorry, what's going on out here? Is that? Yeah? Truss well,
I still dressed as a caterer, will walk up to this person,
put his hand on their shoulder and you see a needle stick out of the
glove that he has and just goes okay, oh yeah, I'm right because
you have that, do you? Yeah? He has it in his gloves.
He has it specifically in the mechanical arm where he has the fingertips toast
with this vibe with vials of it that have been screwed on, and when
he puts the gloves on, he has a mechanism when he adjusts his hand
or a needle to come out. Where did he just slumbers? Uh?
I thought? I I thought we discussed it last time. For we have
the syringes, yes, but we haven't put drugs in those surges. Oh
shoot, never mind. He's like, why did you do that? You
can acquire an asset. The other thing I'll say is is like that if
Albatross wants to step in and resolve this this complication, which is that people
are going to notice that something happened down on the milk or in the gardens.
You can just make a resistance roll and then we can resolve the stress.
And yeah, you can knock this guy out, but I'm just not
gonna let you do it with something you would, yeah, because you would
need to acquire an asset to do that. Can I just can I just
resist the consequence? Yeah you can too, Yeah, okay or vacant,
it doesn't matter, Like, what do you guys, I'll do it,
I'll do it, I I'll do it. What do I browis role in
this case? I feel like it's got to be like a social Yeah,
nice, smooth as butter. Yeah. So he looks at the guy and
he just gives him the you can see nothing kind of look. You know,
you saw me punch that guy? Then no you didn't, so I
didn't see you nothing. Yeah, I M you have a good night.
I'm you're doing such a good job man. And then he walks away.
You're the guy, that guy from the docks, right, Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, no, it took me. It took me in the
second tell that I'm looking at you. There's no way for you to tell
that I'm looking at you. I'm I'm scaring you like you can see my
face. You can see my face, but you can't tell who I'm looking.
I'm looking at you, that guy from the docks, right, Yes,
I am. H. I appreciate you stepping in there. I can
say I was. I was not prepared to get quite so close to a
psychopath, you know this early in this season. Yeah, yeah, me
too. Well, he helped a bunch of my friends, you know,
I got a bunch of buddies. It wouldn't have made it if you didn't
come in there the way it did with those doctor girls. Oh yes,
Well, we definitely believe in uh in our association for for helping out those
that need it. So we're absolutely you know, so great that you know
we were able to help you, and that you know you were nearby and
we're just able to help me. Thank you. How's uh oh, you're
one of the great cloaks. How's how is that? No? Not really,
Yeah, they just uh he came on down. They were looking for
some extra help. So, uh, job's a job, right, that's
uh well, that's that's uh oh, money's money. But uh I worked
out at the docs more than anything. You know, you get uh yeah,
anything to get coined. Absolutely. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
There you hanging out, but you do why was that guy gonna stab
you? You know, I think I'm less the person who can answer that,
and I think it actually be one of my uh you know, one
of my partners who can come over here and maybe answer a few more questions.
The speak of the devil. Albatross and two other take Rosie, but
uh Cateries will come up to to both of you, and Albatross will look
at the other two and you know these guys, oh we know, ah
you I don't know you you you know these guys with you or this guy's
gonna try to stab you too. I liked that. Uh no, no,
they're safe, They're they're good. I appreciate all right, like a
on guard you are. We could we could use muscle like you you know.
You know I was going me too. Well, if the coin of
her dries up on the Great Cloaks, I'll tell you might uh might find
a bit with some of the action we've been getting into, so we'll keep
talking. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I definitely look hook looking
at the knocked out spy he's been trying to kill for years. Guy.
You know he crarects his neck without touching his head, and uh, this
guy's huge, by the way, this this dude's like a solid like six
foot four. It's gigantic. It's a callback to a previous episode. But
he sees a big, big dude made out of muscle, like horrifically made
out of muscle, like grotesquely made out of muscle, face that covered in
scars. Oh yeahdude's he's a terrifying individual. He's got ufc ears. His
hair is crazy crazy, it's everywhere. His nose is all jacked up,
bent in weird angles. This guy's been in a lot of a lot of
fights, a hell of a lot of fights. Uh. He goes to
shake your hand. They and like for one his hand, it's like shaking
a bear, like a bear's hand, Like it's huge. And his knuckles
are just grotesquely covered in like you know, those those thick, thick callouses
you see on like those like like shoolin monks have been punching brick walls forever.
Likes it's he looks just like a monster. Yeah, name's Marv,
Marv, My name's they thanks thanks for saving me then meeting me in that
order. It's yeah, yeah, it's such y'all. Thank you for saving
my friend when you did dead time, and well we'll leave it a very
wonderful conversation on the thing, Albatross, your immortal enemy is knocked out,
unconscious in front of you. You showed up with some pair of Tagarosi carriers.
Yeah, and people who recognize him very well, fair enough. Yeah,
you maybe show up even with like the chef, the one who owns
the restaurant is carrying tonight's event. What are you doing, Albatross. I
don't want to tell you what you're doing. I think I know what you're
doing. But hmmm, well, he's definitely gonna be restrained, and not
like they're pretty kind of restrained, you guys, hog time and throw him
in the bottom of the cart taken to the kitchen. Oh yeah, Boris.
As you do, you pass by Myrie, who is surrounded by Edwin
and Edwina just here over the mental connection. Now you wouldn't know it,
but my father's second cousin's best friend, just like I hate to say it,
but he's got cancer and you know we had to cancer and then a
duena comes in and she starts telling you about people that she barely knows that
also have cancer, and they start listing off like dozens of people with pitt
the city in this. So at this point in time, guys, I
had no more obstacles for you. You completed the score, and so we're
going to discuss what happens because I just this is a moment like there,
this is this is the score. Not all scores take I'll let you full
amount of time. But as the evening plays on, Myrie has caught the
attention of the Smiths. But their attention is finally diverted when Elijah Greenwich stands
up on stage in front of these veiled paintings that he is provided before he
can even like dare talk about, oh this reminds of us one painting I
had so Albatross. You might be off dealing with with your friend there,
but oh go ahead, Oh no, the head I was gonna say anything.
Sorry, no worries. We will flash back to what happens there.
I'm gonna give you some time to think about what you want to do.
But they and marv are are chumming around, and then the orchestra, Like
the musicians that are playing, they kind of like do like a like a
build up piece. As he goes to reveal, he lifts these veils and
one of the one of the people in the crowd is like, sorry,
that looks really familiar, Like that looks like a piece that was done by
what's his name, gay Lord, Yeah, the great artist gay Lord Marvenowich.
I heard your joke, and I love it, but it's copyright.
I can't say it. And I already said Ben Styler painting. Yeah,
yeah, that one over there, that's a Ben Styler and that's his dad's
Jerry Styling. But yeah, Like the people in the crowd start murmuring,
and Elijah like his face goes red. He's he's clearly like really upset.
And you see like an older woman being pushed in a wheelchair approach and she
she sits in front and she says, I apologize for everyone here. Of
course, any bids made on these particular paintings will need to be being set
aside. Clearly there's been an issue here, and she looks like really pissed
at her son or her grandson. Like you just can see this moment where
like it's it's a big like social curfuffle. And while there's no like violence
or anything like that, you can tell that the reputation of the Grind,
which has taken a substantial hit this evening so psyched that our score was messing
up a family. It feels so good. Yeah, yeah, and so
we'll go right to payoff, guys. Let's see what you guys got.
We'll stirt a payoff. So we'll start with REP. You guys earn two
rep by default if the score target of the score is higher than tierer than
you take one plus one per tier higher. So go ahead, and it's
going to be a total of four rep. You were dealing with the material
or the Imperial military was kind of the main antagonist here and just rolled very
well. We just filled the bark. Okay, So we'll go into what
that means in the second here, but it means you can move up and
here again you earned coin based on the nature of your operation and any loot
that they seized. Lord Skirlock did not say that he wanted the paintings,
and so you sell them A man a man what's his face that I forgot?
His name? Hutchins I knew it was an h and because he's your
cruise contact, he's not going to take as big a cut as he could
have if you tried to fence it through somebody else. And so you guys
will earn eight coin, a big score, serious loot, because somebody will
purchase these paintings because of the name attached to them, and Hutchins is willing
to pay you eight coins upfront knowing that he will get more that whys Yeah,
so yeah, once you escape and you meet up with Hutchins with the
paintings, now he's just like me, Oh, this is a this is
a good day. This is a good day. Indeed. I mean,
I couldn't have asked for a better job. You guys are into stealing art
because this, if it goes this smooth every time, and this actually would
very well. I gotta say this side for my ambing talked off, It
wasn't a bad Yeah, well that's what happens when we spent time with the
wrong nobles. Come, yeah, spend time with the legs of me I
suppose, and he he passes it off to you. We'll go into heat.
Okay, this is this is gonna be up for debate. Guys,
are we at zero heat smooth and quiet with low exposure or at two heat
contained with standard exposure. I think that's going to depend on what Albatross does
with his five friend. Well I'll say this, if if he kills him,
then I'm gonna add to heat like like like anytime, like a life.
But no one was killed during this store, so that that that's that's
its own thing. The thing is like, yeah, i'd say like no
heat because we didn't like really do anything biger loud, just only the lights
went off and then the paintings were switched, so like there is no real
connection to because we're super crazy y'all all the time. But again, so
my thing is it depends uding on what happens with that spy. I'd say
zero unless that guy dies or something. Yeah, the murder intent is still
passing through the waters. Yeah, but I mean who can prove intent?
But yes, depending on how that is handled by Doo slash Albatross, I
might add to heat after, but otherwise I'm gonna say zero heat for right
now. Oh yeah, there we go. Okay, so there is an
entanglement from last week that we did not settle and that's because it's I know
exactly what it is and it's gonna come up at the whiting moment. But
just so you know, I did not forget about it. Just for those
who are listen stening at home, if you're binging episodes, I am going
to roll our entangment for this week though. Oh okay, oh question marks?
Who lame? That's all right, I'm looking at a private role and
menacing. I didn't mean to make a private but that's what it's like to
be on the side of that big question mark. Okay, this is okay,
okay, As you're coming back, where where's Marvin Bay? Like?
Are does does Vaye bring Marv to the library? If you don't tell him
not to follow you, he will follow you. I think so. I
think how I think by how he would go through and approach this, especially
being you know, so quickly kind of cut up into things and having someone
pop out and save him for something that he doesn't like. You know he
did, but you know, it's it's it's it's been a while ago.
There's very much. It's like, hey, let's go in, we grab
a quick drink, and then after the drink. I think that's where it
kind of ends up like all right, like we're gonna head home, and
then suddenly we're just talking all the way back to you know, the Layer
basically, so yeah, it's yeah. So myri maybe headed back before you
guys because she doesn't know mart but maybe should you want to go for a
drink with you guys. So it's just the two of you when this happens.
You're walking down the street in six Towers and you see one of the
Church of the Weeping Lady. When I'm not one of yours like that are
part of your cohorts, but like one of like the matriarchs of that church.
She sees you, and she stops. It's raining lightly right now,
and she says, excuse me you, and she's pointing, Oh, yeah,
of course, h where have you been. I'm been trying. You
need to pay you need we need something from you, guys. We need
you to either give us some coin or whatever. We're losing followers. We're
not able to provide the services. Hey, I like the way you're talking
about pal. You need to settle down. I'm not who the fuck are
you? The fuck are you? You need to damn? I don't like
your tongue. I get a six on my command room. Okay, okay,
listen you. I don't know what the deal is you you stole our
fucking deity. Sorry you sign language? Yeah, sorry, I wouldn't want
to swear in front of a lady says this like sixty year old woman.
That's right, Yeah, you stole our deity and you've been extorting us for
money from it. And uh, we're at a point where where we don't
have enough medical supplies to provide the services, and so should we just start
sending the sick to you? That's a that's a that's actually a really great
point. No, it's I'm sorry you haven't been able to find me now.
It's we've been we've been busy going through and you know, dealing with
outside forces that are already making it you know, hot enough on our side,
but I can definitely see that it's also coming in and affecting you on
your side. So that's I do appreciate you bringing up this type of thing.
You know, right now, we're just we're just so low on resources,
and I can definitely see that you're having having troubles here there. They're
troubles all around, really, you gotta you gotta believe us there, and
so yeah, no, I I'd love to help, like and and you
know, I think this is absolutely something that you know, we can we
can take a look at and and we can figure out how to get you
know, the types of resources that you need in order to help people,
because because we're all about helping people, and so yeah, we can we
can make that work. I won't raise my voice to you, but for
all the help you've offered to us, I will thank you. And anything
you can do would be greatly appreciated. Mhm. Tell your friend as she
takes a step back, that his feet smell like goat cheese. I will
I was talking about you. Yeah, I'm gonna She's like, I can
hear you just fine, and she walks away. What what just happened is
it was an entanglement. To resolve it, you will either need to forfeit
one rep or one coin per tier of the rival, or stand up to
them and lose one status. They are there are two with a week old
yeah, so two coin, two wrap or some combination thereof, or lose
one status with them. Where are we at right now? We're at negative
one adversaries with them. One more would be enemies, and we're decently tied
with them, so they're my fictions. I feel like we just got eight
coin, and I'm gonna say we could answered we got coin in the bank.
We just got eight coins. I think we can part with two.
Yeah, might as well build more reputations out there. Okay, Okay,
we we busted up your goddess, but you know what we need so bad?
Yeah we're cool, so yeah, yeah, I'll play this up.
Yeah maybe, like you know, actually goes to start to walk away,
but he's gonna kind of like pop it in like his hand into his pockets,
thinking and kind of he's doing a bit of the map in his head,
and he's like, oh, you know what, actually, yeah,
come back. You know it's it's it's absolutely a reasonable request. And you
know, we've actually like I shouldn't be doing this, you know, I've
definitely I've got some other funds that should be going on, but like you
know, I have been meaning to come back and to help, you know,
fill out your kappas and get you back into the spot you really should
be at for how much good Boy could do and here and and he's just
gonna go, and he's gonna hand over two coin or like it's a pouch,
like two stacks of money here, and she says, I thought you
guys did this stuff for free. What's the deal? Well, we do
it for free based on the donations. But maybe you ask him where our
donations been going with. I thought it was free. I wouldn't charge.
We don't charge people who receive this. I'm not Maybe you should ask your
friends. She's just like so frustrated with you, like, I'm know,
I love I like the muscle head. Yeah, I'm gonna go. Thank
you. I suppose this is this is surprising. I'm not honest, you
doo. As she walks away, he's gonna kind of look over and be
like move like you're wonderful. I gotta yeahs Fay's head just he's kind of
realizing that the power of like the confusion and how simple it is to navigate
things when everyone else is so much more confused. They're from a no for
profit. We we kinda we work with them collaboratively, and you know,
we've been been dealing with this other group of path of echos and I'll tell
you they've been they've been really busting us up, and you can you can
see it all across the district. It's it's a cry and shame. They're
you know it's true. It is yeah, not great. No, I
don't like it, and they continue their walk back to the layer. We
are heading into downtime here. Before we do, I want to check in
with Albatross. Albatross, M where did you take Lays? He would have
taken him into a international waters very yeah, alright, well, a very
quiet part of town, somewhere away from everyone else, and he would have
gotten in touch with a few different people, told him about who they got
their hands on, and they would get all the materials that they would need.
They would actually keep them sedated. Okay, yep, I'll give you
that until they got him more had they wanted him. And he's going to
be strapped to each table like a wood table, a stone table. H
it would be a ritual table. Okay. So yeah, the that scene
with Marvin Bay, the camera pans across the city to it's a dark corner
of six towers pretty close to where you met the circle of flames. Inside
this like two starry, two story like century home, you see a group
of Taigerosi men standing around a sedated man strapped to a stone table. Yeah.
M hmm, we can paint the black. Well, you don't have
to describe murdering man like I'm just saying, but do you have to tell
me what you're doing the woe. Yeah, let's fade at the black.
I don't want to get into details. Is Valarious dead? Oh? Absolutely?
Okay? Yeah, the death seat. We cut outside the building and
the death Secret crows start to gather at the nearby windowsill as we see the
Taigerossi men and women leave this building and separate in the streets. I added
two HEAT because you did kill me who was tied to the material Imperial Military.
And I gave you one XP because I believe you have an x A
crew XP trigger for when you commit acts of vengeance. Absolutely, yeah,
okay. Also, you us have full rep right? Yeah, it just
went over to like get full and it doesn't work. This bar doesn't work
like that. Oh yeah. So once you have full REP, it stays
that way until you purchase your next tier, got it, which I will
now explain. So when you move up in tier, you guys were Tier
one with a weak hold. You're also at war, so you're effectively tiers
zero with the stronghold again until you resolve that war, which we may do
this session. If you want to spend eight coin again, that would move
you to tier one with the stronghold, but you would be operating as tier
one with a weak cold until you resolve that war. What that means is
like is like, yeah, like when you go to war, you're not
going to move to tier zero, You're going to stay at tier one.
And also your stuff is just a little bit more secure, like your people
are a little bit more loyal, and so it's harder to knock you down.
Okay, so you have to you have to fill the bar twice.
Then they go week strong, week strong. As you go up, the
numbers, yes, exact, the numbers are all half basically I see.
Yeah, And as you move up, like the tier number, it gets
more expensive. So tier zero you start, but when you move to tier
one it's eight, and then a coin again to move to tier two it's
sixteen. Ooh well okay, yeah, you notice that the payouts are getting
larger. It's true. Yeah, we did just get a coin for swapping
a photo, so that that doesn't make sense. Yeah, yeah, so
yeah, that's just something to keep in mind for when you're ready. When
you guys decide, just let me know and we'll make that exchange. But
otherwise you can hold on to your coins for now while you book you on
time. You might want to fill out your vaults and spread the coin amongst
yourselves. We're very quickly actually going to take a short break because I have
to go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the vending machine in my
house and drink an arsy cola from it. Dude, like that would be
super cool. Were you finally able to a dance him. No, but
I did find out that the wholesale club in my in my town does carry
it, and so I'll have something nice. Yeah, but no, I
just have to go to the bathroom. So we will. We'll take the
short break here, guys, and uh, let me get back. We'll
get into downtime and actually we'll start yeah, well we'll start with the meeting
with Lord Scrillock before we get into downtime, because you guys also had a
second reward coming here, right Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's about
to head into downtime. But before we do, somebody ought to pay a
visit to Lord Skirwok. Who's going. It's important. I want everyone who
wants to be in this scene to be there just as well is going.
Yeah, are you gonna tell Marv not to? It's like a puppy,
Yeah, are going up to you, Adam? If if you think that
you want it's where are we going? You want me to come with?
Yeah, we're we're on a way to go see the benefactor or our response?
You know? We yes? Uh, it's a it's a bit of
a close circle. But I guess what it really comes down to is if
you're joining our circle or not? Is our kind of coin the type of
coin you're looking to get? It all spends the same, all right,
Well, I don't see any large problem with that, myrie, Are you
going to be joining us on this quick little trek? An entralage are gathering
for a quick little trek? But I suppose I haven't seen the man yet
and I may as well. Fair enough, so the four of you make
your way over to Lord Skirlock's manor when you arrive, the door opens before
you even knock. Who is it like right before we knock? Yeah?
Yes, and and behind it. We have that lean, tall man who
looks exhaust at the big bags under his eyes. He's daunt and like he
looks strained, would be the best wording to describe it. And he waves
you all in. He gives a side eye to uh bay and then looks
to mrv How are you doing. I'm very well, sir, that's very
good. Lord Skirlock is expecting you. He is. He's on the third
story. Yes you okay, only yeah, sure, okay, that's weird,
but all right upstairs. Sorry, thanks, just follow me please okay.
And as we're walking there, but trying to look at him, he's
like, since when do you put taking you so to the butler? Yeah?
Uh huh, honestly, let's go up a distracted these days, I
can crack a joke or too. Oh yeah, me too. Yeah.
Do you have a good joke? What? Yeah? I would love Yeah,
tell me a joke. I got uh uh you really put me on
the spot. There's a lot of them, I got, you know,
I I uh uh. There's uh the two men standing on the dock,
they sorry yelling each other and uh no, it doesn't work. He was
a guy on the dock. He's got he's got a boat a ship's wheel
on his belt buckle, real big ship's wheel. The our man comes up
and he says, hey, that's with a belt buckle, and that guy
goes, oh, no, it's driving me nuts, driving me nuts.
Get it like a boat? Myriad? Aside of it? Where did you
pick this one up? Followed me home? But you know, I'll tell
you, all right, just real quick, I have a joke for y'all
because I heard it today and it made me laugh so loud. What do
you call a duck on drugs? Quackhead something something hilarious? All right,
the four of you follow this bottler up the stairs. He takes you past
the the sitting room that you were on that you saw him on the first
time. I'll leave, and beyond where where Albatross has met with him in
the past. And you enter into like this this large attic space. It
quack ad that's okay, No, I'm keeping it aquatic. Aquatic? Yeah,
cut that. As you approach, there's a door, but the door
is a jar. Got we gotta father's days tomorrow, not today. Keep
the dead jokes in the bank. Yeah. So the the door that's also
a jar, you push it open and inside Lord s Girlock stands and there's
like a like a circle like but put on the floor with them like chalk,
and he's he's just drawing these symbols inside and like taking his time very
intricately laying out what is clearly a ritual circle. And he turns to you
all as you enter, and he says, hello, good to see.
Yeah you do. Oh yes, yes, what a good man you are
for escorting these people here. Thank you. You're a good man too,
guess the best best. The butler closes the door as he leaves, leaving
you in the room with him with the Lord Scarlock, and he says,
I would ask for your participation in this. This is something I've cracked together
to help us deal with our problem with the Path of Echoes. Sounds reasonable
to me. I would charge joins immediately, no questions, and my rig.
It's actually great that you're here. Perhaps you could critique some of this.
This is I'm going to be drawing specific spirits to this location. Oh
interesting, doesn't look like your spirit are drawn to me? Oh well yes.
The point of this is that I've discovered over the years, path of
Echoes are quite fond of the spirits that they keep because they are previous members.
And so the hope is is that they might be willing to negotiate with
me or you or whoever was like to make the representative face for this,
if we draw the more powerful of them here and bind them to this room.
There were no strangers to using little spirit hostages. Let's see what you
got here, Yeah, and take a look. And it's a lot like
the ward that you would have made when you did it in the prison.
Like the designs are very similar. But then there's like names written, like
he's managed to locate and find like the names of these people and put them
inside, like the circle here and like the triangle there. And as you
prepare, the window opens and just like the wind kind of blows through as
he begins to chant words. He's given you each like a script so that
you can read it aloud as well. And so he reads points. I
say, I'm say one most at my acrospho, Yeah, exactly. No,
he says something along the lines of spirits who are named, shall be
bound, shall be found, And he just keeps repeating that over and over
again, and as he does, like the wind kind of sweeps into the
room. He opens a large tome and without actually like flipping through the pages
with his hands, it opens to a certain page and it glows, oh
shit is doing magic tricks. And as you say that, Boord Skirlock scratches
Marv with his claws heyl and the blood flies into the center of the ring,
and the whole ring gloves oly shit. And as you stand there and
repeat these words, the screaming of spirits come. And it's probably about eight
of these spirits, and you recognize one as the one that attempted to carry
my rine out, or she's just got like a nice smuggle face on when
she sees that one's. As the ritual comes to an end, there's like
a slight shimmering light around this chocoln and the spirits can't reach past it,
and they are trapped in this room with you. Well, Skirlock says,
if there's anything you'd like to say to them, you can say it now,
I don't, or if you have personal creefences with them, but otherwise
we will wait for them to reach out. Uh. I just gonna like
also happily, almost a little skip in her step find her way into the
front of the face of the one who tried to drag her off. Hey
you fuck you just flips them off right here. He doesn't say a word,
but he glares at you with his like like vacant eyes, because like
he's a spirit. It's almost like he's staring straight through me. The four
of you leave, and yeah, we can probably next session pick up like
with the with that, like the conversation with the path of eCos and how
you want to resolve it. Depending on how that goes, you may just
have to actually go to war with them for the ones that are lacked.
But at this point in time, we will say that you guys will go
into downtime proper so we can start doing downtime actions. And so I'm gonna
start with myrine. We're gonna clear some of that stress first off the bed.
Okay, miss how many she got one, two, three, four
or five, six, seven eight pips? Yeah, yep, she's gonna
go take like a nice trip trying to hunt down a book she's been wanting
to get her hands on. Okay, are you at the at the library
or are you at the the underground library. I don't know, I don't
think. I just go around town. Okay, no, Worries, let's
do it up. You know what, we haven't met Stasia yet. Maybe
Stagia has the book. Yeah, yeah, okay, I forget how to
roll things. Okay. So there's the two dice on the bottom left hand
side, right, Okay, okay, indulge. You set your stress to
eight eight, roll well and your number of die right? What? Well?
How many die are you rolling? You don't know? Okay, well,
let's take a look at that before you get too excited. Your lowest
one is is one, So do that again, but only roll one die.
It's actually there was in there. No, but she she will only
roll three, so this gives her a fifty fifty chance to rot the same
or better. So m h no, we will take We will take the
three. Because you roll three on on like a disadvantaged eye, you can
clear three stress. Very kind of you, sir, Worries. I'm not
always meaning mm hmm, but you do. Because I don't know. You
should have met her at some point. Here is Stasia the apothecary mm hmm.
Yeah, she hus couple a couple of fingers missing, do she that
happens in apothecarrying? Yeah? No, yeah, she's she's has a couple
of fingers missing. Why not you meet? You meet Stasia at her at
her home. You kind of just walk in as if she would I had
invited you, but she had not, And she says to you, oh,
myrie, Hi, thank you for knocking. Oh yeah, absolutely,
no problem. Can I help you with something? Are you looking for something?
Sorry? As she's speaking to you, she's standing over a cauldron and
she's clearly making up some inncuctions. Oh you know, I was in the
neighborhood. I remember you have this one book and it was really there's something
in it that I really want a double checks. Oh are you like going
over to her bookshelf like spir fucking through her stuff. Yeah. Stagia could
of shakes her head and she's just, yeah, I'll take a look at
whatever you like here while you're here, try this, And she hands you
like a vial, like an unmarked vile. Oh gosh, I like not
even like bagging, and I just grabbed it down it h Yeah. So
it's like a very mild form of like transpowder. So I know this ship.
Yeah, I'm trying to do it in smaller doses. You ever heard
of micro dosing. You tell me about that sometime. Yeah, and yeah.
It's like a couple of minutes that you're like sitting there. But the
interesting thing is is like, because you're not like completely out of your mind,
it actually almost helps you focus, and so you find the book really
quickly. That it means they're not creating new vice. How of that?
Maybe you're going to hook me up with that? Well, I'm always Yes,
I noticed one guy. He goes on like these weird vendors. Sometimes
we just don't see him for a while. I came up with you.
That's half the men in the city, I suppose. Yeah, yeah,
fuck man, Yeah and yeah, you have a lovely Afternoonstasia. Is there
anything you would want to talk to her about or do with her? Or
are you like focused on reading that book you think of anything? You know,
what do you still get around shot a hole from time to time?
I mean I dropped out, but trying to be cool, what do you
keep It's like the hanging out with the old friends who're trying to like act
cooler and I've been doing cool stuff yes, And she's like yeah, but
every once in a while I make it down to be honest, a lot
of the students there like to buy the more recreational of my concoctions. Oh
that's just how it always is. Like they're going to be all good little
students, and then the second and no one's looking. It's of ages in
the in the dorm rooms. It's okay, half the stuff is cut anyways.
It's just it's garbage product for bridge assholes. That's just how correct.
Is there something you're looking for in Charter Haul or someone you're looking to catch
up with ketch up with? Absolutely not. You're the only good thing to
come out of that place, I'll tell you. M Yeah, I'm marry
you. You are. You're one of a kind. That's what I'll say.
Because Okay, like I had a character it was like one of the
things was in Charter Hall, right, yes, it is. You know
that it's in the like spark white Tower, like the foundation seems to have
it, okay. Yeah. And also Path of Echoes are part of Charter
Hall. Yeah. Yeah. So there's like three schools there. There's like
like it's all one school, like all one campus, but there's like three
like separate areas. So there's like a row of old houses that they've inverted
into like the law department, so like that's where people go to learn to
become lawyers. There's like another section that's where like spectrology and philosophy and ethics
and stuff, and that's where like and that's like a bunch like an old
cathedral. And then there's like a lightning tower in the middle of Charter Hall
that the Foundation and the Spark Rights have built together, and that's where you
would learn spark right, spark craft, and then also like engineering. Okay,
yeah, you would go to a different school if you wanted to learn
anything but those three or like those kind of three areas of disciplines. Yeah,
but yeah, I am a lot of the kids at the the Spark
Rights are disillusioned. I suppose, like to put it in another way,
it feels like something's happening with them. They're they're being they're basically being told
that there they might not even have a purpose in a few years. They
Yeah, I think with these giant walls specifically made out of spook right,
you think, and what academy necessary For a while, well, between you
and me, the Leviathant Hunters have been bringing back the Leviathan's player, you
know, we've been, they've been, well not we I don't do it
often, but I've heard that they're looking at different solutions to the problem.
Mm hmm. Interesting. But the spark Lights themselves will do it. But
then I don't what happens after that. It would definitely changed the way that
our city runs, the country runs. Well, sure, I don't know.
I just thought it was interested. Oh no, no it is.
Yeah. Here, try this one and she hands you another vial downs without
question your hands tricks? Oh what the ships? I don't worry, I'll
be back, It'll be back. Here. Try this one and she just
like starts handing any more to kill her. You take it with the regular
hand or the hand so huge, my little hand, and the two of
you drink tea with tiny hands because it's just funny, so weird. And
we'll check in with who's ready, Adam II. What are we doing?
Yeah, well, downtime actions. So we got a few things, because
we've got Jacob not loots. Yeah he's still lost. Yeah, he's doing
his thing that. I am very excited to find out what the fuck that
is. But let's see, look at all Jacob, all of this stuff.
He doesn't have any stress on him. He looks like he's in pretty
good shape. He's not gonna be able to get anything out of training immediately.
Neither is Marv's got a little bit of stress on him. Marv's gonna
go indulge in his vice. Okay, what is his vice? Beating people
up? Yeah, okay, fightings. Where does he go? It's stupid,
it falls under stupor. Oh, he goes down to the docks and
he he fights people down there. So his he's got a buddy, a
good friend. Her name is Marlaane. Oh, a pugilist. Yeah.
Yeah, they slap each other around. Sometimes it gets you know, hot
and heavy. Sometimes it doesn't. It doesn't matter. It's a fun time
whatever. All right, So you go down. Marlane is sitting at a
sitting on the like a like a little milk crate on the corner. I'm
smoking a cigarette when she sees your murph and she stands up when she's like,
let me go with Yeah, let's do this. Had a long day,
met some weird guys nice and oh fuck, I wasn't ready. I'm
still wearing my shirt. Love. He takes off his shirt and he is
horrifically jacked horrifically and like like zero percent body fit, and like he is
like he looks very dehydrated, like you can see every detailed every muscle,
and he's like super vascular. And he's like, all right, let's dance.
Don't take it easy. I mean, like you did last time.
I'm not gonna take it easy on you. Oh oh what happens all right?
Uh oh oh, I I shouldn't be doing this stress roll indulge vice.
I just realize that I'm definitely gonna overdo it. It's because I'm not
gonna do it. I'm not gonna you're not gonna do it. Oh,
it's an insight. No, I'm not gonna do it. Never mind,
I take it back. It's stupid to do that right now. It was
like I've only got two I can get rid of that real easy. But
like so, no, he's not gonna do that. He's just, you
know what, he's gonna do it, but for fun. There's no actual,
uh you know, mechanical benefit. He's just gonna they're gonna slug each
other around a little bit. And it's like that it's nice. You got
a good bunch. Yeah you do too, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I want to acquire an asset mark. I don't what do I like?
What? What can I do? What do I get? I don't know.
I tried looking at the book for magic weapons or some kind of ship,
and I don't know. I mean, we can always workshop like a
magic weapon or something. I don't you want a magic weapon. I just
like, I don't know what kind of wedding get whatever you think. I
think that someone like Marlaine might have like a group of that could like beat
the ship out of a bunch of people for you, and you can just
have that in back pocket myself. Maybe, uh, I don't know,
Like, uh, a bunch of food? Sure, do you want to
you want to acquire a bunch of food? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
a bunch of food, A lot of food. It's brote a magical wave
protein powdery. Yeah. She misinterprets what you're asking for, and so they
you're sitting at the lair, I'm kind of going over some plants, and
all of a sudden, like crates of food just starts showing up. That
sounds like enough. Well, she thinks that's what I like, not like
magically like guys are carrying them from the dogs yeah, yeah, I'll tell
you, Mark, I told you earlier we were having a bit of a
supply problem, but this is hitting us now. We don't have an of
demand and you know, we're still out of balance. So I appreciate No,
I just uh, I don't know how we're going to distribute all this
food or what we do with you know, four crates of leech bugs.
I don't know. I will, I will say this if you were to
want to do with some sort of community project and this might give you like
a substantial benefit to that. I was upset. Bruh uh block party at
this Colt house for the weapon women. Yeah, but no, you acquired,
you acquired a bunch of food. We'll let's say that. We'll go
We'll go to Babe. They are sitting here with these crates. What does
he want to do with them? Or what does he want to do with
his life? Right now? You're like, how did I get here?
It's a little less on the logistics right now, to be honest, you
know, but just haven't gone through and done the score. I think they
just need some time to relax. And so it worked out so well.
Last time, We're gonna make another trip back to the Church of Ecstasy in
order to see if we can't, you know, experience another great sermon and
feel even more faxed. All right, I mean come with. I mean,
if if pain is your thing, then you can sure why not?
Why not have you come on found the Church Ecstasy. I don't know much
about church is with them, just so you know how to describe what happens.
Yeah, that'll be. That'll be my my next Uh. I don't
know how that's gonna help me out, but I'm gonna that's it. Yeah,
Okay, So you go down with Marv to the Church of the Ecstasy
of Flesh and bright Stone just in time for their next sermon. The two
of you enter and sit down towards like the back pews. I'm assuming Oh
yeah, a lot people seem to be giving Marv quite a bit of birth
yeah, like, but don't want to be near him when the padals come
out. Yeah yeah, go ahead and make that relation, and I'll describe
based off the rooms. What would piss Marv off? Oh I don't know,
Okay, something's stupid. Okay, So they're in this sermon, those
those younger like like members of the church, like they're kind of dressed up
in their garbs and they're acting as like a similar role to an altar boy.
During this sermon, they're expressing like they're trying to get the people to
express fear, and so they're threatening people with like lightning hooks and like kind
of like shocking some of the members if they like don't express enough fear and
until like they are afraid. As the man at the front is just like,
fear is a natural part of life and it's important to understand it so
that you may conquer it. And then he says that as like a woman
is like in tears crying because she's being menaced by a bunch of these lightning
hooks. And as they approach ve they go to do this to you.
Hey, sorry, I don't like I don't like what you're doing here he
goes to menace you with it. He's just like, no, this is
this is part of the No no, no, no, I don't do
that. Why are you doing this? And uh, baby Baby realizes that
this is not working out as well as he hoped it would not at all
because he brought burb Hey hey, no no, and it's like just the
level of confusion going on back and forth, and and they's kind of realized
he's made a mistake here and also not super loving. You know, what's
going on with the church as well. I think it's kind of twofold on
both sides. Neither one is really kind of delivering there, and there's that
that annoyance, and that's kind of just you know, people, I think
we should go, Mom, I don't. I don't know if it's just
really working out. That's a little weird. I don't like this place.
But yeah, yeah, let's go and you stop it. So yeah,
okay, we cut to Albatross. It somewhere else in the city. He's
walking on the street. I'm gonna give you something to you, Okay,
Okay, you can decide if you keep it or what you do with it.
But you're walking down the street with the spirit file or a spirit chart.
It's a little vial that you have, like as like a necklace you
can wear around your neck, inside of which is a familiar, if smaller
figure of Hilarius. You'll keep it close to your chest. You know that
as a as a true imperial loyalist, this is like his greatest nightmare is
that he would be forced to continue to live past his dad. But you
have them and you can do whatever you want with them. But you can
put that in a character sheet. You have a spirit jar with the spirit
of Larussiet inventory. Wait, how would I add it to my what it
would be through notes? I would I would just throw it in notes?
Yeah, okay it yeah like that. Just try to remember that you technically
have your rival with you at all times now unless you want to just throw
them in the gutter, which is gonna shake it first. It's your little
personal glove stick every now and then, just you could shake him up to
piss him off so that you can see in the dark. I love it.
Nice And what is Alba trust during this time? Mm hmm didn't gain
any stress? I don't know where you're at sitting at with that. Well.
To be preemptive, I mean, there's two things you wanted to do
insually now three. Uh. The first thing would be first checks out first.
So it's because because we got we got two acts. We got technically
one action for uh right, because we were at war. Yeah, yeah,
you only have one action ything else's gold. Yeah, I think this
would be important. So he would have for the first action. He would
start looking for leads on his own for demons. He made a promise to
his h Okay, can we will start a long term project. It's going
to be a four I'm gonna make it a six segment clock called hunt succeeded.
Okay, and it's going to be a clock. Sorry, I just
gotta make it. And you can go ahead and make a role on that.
And uh, I'm gonna use me. I'm gonna use me a special
ability scout. When you gather in photo locate a target, you get a
plus one effect. When you hide, yeah, I get a plus one
effect. So that would change it to a well because this is a downtime
action, it doesn't quite work like that, okay. So really it's just
you get depending on what you roll, you fill out a certain number of
dice or or slots on the clock. Okay, there's no there's no control,
like, there's no risk, there's no fact. Do I just throw
the dice? Yeah? Yeah, what unfortunate? Oh my god, one
triple one? What the hell? Yeah? I mean the good news is
is you can't like, nothing bad is going to happen to you other than
that you only fill out one of the segments on this closs. We just
had six die get rolled, one by c J, two by me,
and three by d oh and all of them were ones. This is full
out here, all stress. We cannot reduce stress without money, and so
albatross. When you go on your hunt, you are stalking the streets of
six Towers following some rumors that there's been deemoncited near here. You hear like
the sounds of breaking windows and glass, and when you go to investigate you
just don't see it. But everywhere you go this evening you hear the sounds
of glass breaking. O. No, it seems that you have maybe become
hunted. Okay, so you made some progress in the sense that you're likely
to run into this team in again. Can I am instead of using coin,
gotta use stash. You can withdraw a coin from stash at a raty
two to one. I just use one coin and I'll attempt to find it
again. Okay, Yeah, well yeah, we'll go with you for your
second and then we'll roll. Sorry sorry, no, no, no,
like we can we can do that. That's totally fine, So yeah,
go ahead and roll again. What my god? What the hell is happening?
Something's broken. What we want to be fresh fresh? Yeah, actually
very quickly refresh and try that role again. I'm sorry that I feel like
that's gotta be We can do some test rolls right now. No, I'm
oh. Marv's like, well, yeah, it's it's a role. What
it's not not one? I don't get it. What's happening? Yeah,
because I would have had a partial here. So no that that that was
just really unlucky. Twice. Okay, how dark you guys will want to
go on this pitch flake? Okay, albatross? You keep you keep trying
to like kind of outmaneuver this entity that seems to be following you. You
are aware that it's unnatural for this much breaking glass to just be following you
around. As you turn the corner where you think that you heard a sound,
you see that there is like a cat that has been like lacerated with
glass left for you. What a catastrophe. I'll show myself out, no
worries. Unfortunately, it still has the upper hand for now. The good
news is you have filled out two segments on a six segment clock, so
it's not like totally impossible that you could get it on the next one we'll
go back up to. I think the last one was Ethan had a very
disappointing sermon at the Church of Ecstasy of the Flesh. So with extacy of
the fluss not going well and you know, maybe needing a quick little break
from from mob and his uh you know, contributions to many of the conversations
going on. As a place's gonna go to. I think we're gonna go
under the city. I think we're gonna go try to get another look at
the terrible monstrosities underneath the Are you going on a guided tour with your with
your buddy, the fake gondolier. Yes, okay, so you meet with
him again. He takes a like a not a mechanical amount of coin,
but he takes some coin from you and you kick out your cast off once
again. I'll have you make your role. No, that's bad. That's
one over is going on, Ethan, They is lost the boy as you're
not going to be happy as as they goes under the city with the gondolier,
the camera stays at the entrance to the canal. Hours later, he
comes back alone without me. Yes, no point. Good news is stress.
Stress, That's what I mean, I'm making you a back I'm making
you make a backup character. I was. I mean, that is my
distraction at the beginning of this game, as I was looking at character sheets,
going I wonder it would be like to be a whole interesting? How
does that work? All right, we'll move back to Marv. Marv,
is there anything else you would like to do? It will cost a coin
to do it? Or yeah? Then fucking up the church cants? No,
no, no, you you are well. I thought you acquired an
asset of a bunch of food. Yeah, this is the one thing.
Yeah, yeah, but but we're more so we only get one Oh then
then yeah, no, that's it. Okay, no words, So we'll
go back to my Yes, I would like to spend one coin to do
some more work on my real gun. Absolutely, let's I well, we're
only two away, so just don't roll a one. Why'd you say it
out loud? You know how I am? Yeah, so you all had
to make a tinker or study roll. It's a study roll for that study
for now. Yeah yeah, study controlled standard modifier boom pay it. It's
well, it's still a failure. So unfortunately I was kidding with that it
is still only one segment on the clock, which means your one segment away.
You could pay a coin to clear it. I don't want to pay
another call or a rep. A coin and a REP would boost that up.
Okay, So guys, yeah, because we didn't divvy up, we
didn't divvy out the coin we got. And also what which would you prefer?
Bick mechanical question. We did get one rep more than the bar that
fills up. Are we able to use that one? Or is this the
rule is knocked down? Of nope, it fills up that much. Rule
Yep, you gotta pull from that pool. I mean if you only pull
one or two, you just have to do one more score it's back up
the tops. I mean we need like sixteen coin anyway, right, you
need eight coin because you're only tier one like your tier one week, So
you have to spend eight coin to move to tier one, and then eight
coin to get strong, and then sixteen coin to move to tier two,
and then it gets like crazy after that. I've never seen a game where
anyone makes it past tier two, just being honest. Also, remember that
you guys have your vice. Then, so I moved up the eight coin
you got three of them into the vault because that's or into your like your
character sheet just now, So there's five left to distribute amongst you. And
yeah you get the opor tory that wasn't an a cult, but you do
get the vice. Yeah. Yeah, you can make the vice den roll
whenever you'd like. It's good for it. Yeah, so you're still tier
one even though you're operating us to zero. The vice that will operate is
normal. So roll one die. I'm trying to figure out how to do
that, not just click the D six buttons and hit roll on the bottom
like on your chat. Why did it roll two? Why would you do
that to me? You know what I saw? Six? There, I'll
take it. You guys earned two more coins, so there's actually seven coin
to distribute amongst yourselves. So maybe everyone gets two except for Murphy gets one
because he's new to the crew. Yeah, that seems that seems fair.
Yeah, make it easy in which case, all right, I'll just ahead
and use that other coin. Let's just let's just get out of this planning
phase. Sorry to do it, all right, give me one more row?
Okay? Where were you? Where were you? Six? Okay?
Where have you been, I will be kind because that was a lot of
ones for you guys, So we are actually gonna put that would be three.
So the build is also an eight second, eight segment clock, so
we're two segments onto that one. So you have the design down now.
But while we do, before we end today's session, let's talk about what
you want this gun to do. So let's look at downtime rules. I'm
going to show the players so that you can maybe look at the crafting segment
section as well. They're married creation questions. What type of creation is it
and what does it do? So this is a gun like a raale gun,
so a very powerful gun that is explicitly designed to shoot ghosts. Does
it also shoot like things or people? Like is the only affect ghosts or
does it effect bonet? I want to say, it's like shooting like the
kind of like the not like the ectoplasm kind of stuff. So like in
theory, I think that wood jerk people because it's like the protoplasm whatever it's
called. So it acts like a bullet when it's shooting a ghost, but
it acts like an arc cannon, like like a lightning cannon when it shoots
people. Yeah, okay, okay, and you get bonuses when inventing in
crafting creation types. So what's the minimum quality level of this item? This
is a powerful weapon. I'm gonna say that this is a quality level four.
Okay, okay, Now what does that mean when you go to craft?
Actually this one Okay, I can actually get rid of that clock.
We don't need that clock anymore. I'm just quickly moving, okay. So
you get plus one quality per coin spent plus one quality for workshop grew upgrading,
and then you when you roll your crafting roll to make this, it
depends, so you would roll let's say you rolled a one on that role.
You now have a tiers zero result and you would have to spend four
coin to bring it up. Okay, if you got a critical that would
bring you up to a tier three, we'd only cost one coin to finish
it off. And actually no, it would cost no coin because you already
get a plus one quality for the workshop that you have, So you're operating
as if you were a tier two when you make it. So you spend
a downtime activity to make a takermol to determine the quality level at the enemy
produce. Now that you get the plane. It's only one downtime action.
It's just a matter of how much money it will cost. Okay, that's
going to be for next downtime. Yes, but yes, you are able
to build it the next time you have the opportunity. Hell yeah, Hell
yeah. Is anyone else taking any further downtime actions? No? Not they?
No, well no, not a they. You're gone for him.
I don' kidding. No face comes back, and we will get into that
very quickly. I want to check him with loudes. Are you ready for
this? Add I guess so? Okay, ludes. You are sitting in
Iron Hook Prison, not in a cell, but like in one of the
guard's quarters, but the door is still locked. You've come down off the
morphine maybe three or four days ago. You haven't seen airing, but you
you look at the window and you see a lot of movement and kerfuffle.
People seem to be organizing for some sort of event. People are bringing foods,
and they're bringing like decorations and flowers. Oh no, And you see
that the canteen, the dining hall, that the same one that you first
spoke with the Marine and Vain when you planned your escape from iron Hook prison.
All the tables have been removed, and it looks like someone's setting up
for some kind of wedding. Oh no, oh not again, A guess
again, I know. And as you're looking out the window, Aaron comes
by and she smiles at you, and she holds up like a woman by
her hair, and you recognize her. It's Mandy and she says to you,
and you can hear each other from the door. Ludes, it's perfect
mhm. In just two days, we're gonna get married and we're gonna seal
the deal when we drive this dagger through her heart. Uh in two days,
I yes, uh yeah, and we'll uh, we'll end it there,
guys, many energy for ludes there. I think it still comes like
like you get. He wakes up from his bender and his apparently new fiance
has got a dagger to his old girl, his old flame, and he's
just like, yeah, I'm gonna kill get married and kill this girl.
How's that okay? Two days to figure out out of the ship. In
the real world, we have two weeks to figure out what we're gonna do
about Unfortunately, I'm going to a real wedding. Can killed the rooms Act?
No, nothing like that. Yeah, babies here, I hope it
doesn't happen in the real wedding. Yeah mm hmm. Don't do a test
out in the real world. Play test play test all right, guys,
Yeah, I'm good to call it there for the night. If you want
to stop the recording, I don't think. Oh wait, oh my god,
you didn't. I didn't, loo, guys and gentlemen at home.
I got to apologize. I forgot to say total to you, crimes,
tootle to you, and so I will say it now so that I can
edit out the part where I forgot to say good so embarrassing you made thirteen
times you did it and that you look. I'm very tired. Only now
as I'm editing the episode that I realize I still forgot to say have a
good night and total and so instead I'm gonna tell you about a drink that
I make, like back when I was a bartender. This is a few
years back in my life. It's called the Ryan Reynolds. It's my version,
like a drink version of a Burt Reynolds. So you have your you
have your equal parts, whiskey and butter scotch, li cure you add a
little bit of ginger ale, so like two fingers with a ginger rale,
and then pure lime juice and just a hint of line cordial, and honestly,
it's a good drink. It tastes a little bit like honey. I
imagine it kind of tastes like what Ryan Reynolds might taste like if you were
to lick the man. So yeah, I apologize for not saying too to
loot, but you can enjoy that bit of information and you can make that
home if you like. It's a good enough drink. It's not the best
one I make, but you can't have that recipe anyways, you all have
a good night, and two the Lout