Hello everyone, and welcome for forbidden Lands. I was not out of my
seat three seconds ago, probably to wax horror for a second as I dashed
away twenty seconds before the start. Hi, everyone, I hope you're having
a good Monday. I am, indeed, and I have just a small
thing to say, our our names and everything. I know. I just
got the wrong button. Okay, wrong button. I'm an MKA Monday.
Yes, I was who was I? I was ZAYII. That's who I
was, and now you're your real self. What was the one thing you
wanted to say real quick? You were about like, I'm gonna say something
real quick. Is gone? I said it, but you said it?
Oh it okay, that was something outside of I'm a different person, all
right. I was like, Oh, it'thing important to say? Well take
the floor, you're good, go for it. Well, I mean it's
pretty fucking important if I'm a different person. Dad, Okay, okay,
I did any theft is not a joke. Wow, all right, welcome
on in. We're having a good Monday, so far as you can see.
Let's go around real quick just today. You carec the name and we'll
go back into the into the happiness that happiness. Okay, it's it's yeah,
it's good. It's good. Is it a happy show? It's everything's
happy and fine. We'll start with Faye since she seems so dismissive of the
happiness. I love happiness. Hi, I'm fair and uh I'll be playing
Alkali for you today, buddy, Why you see me crying and wiping my
tears sadist? Okay? Hello, Hi everybody, I'm Bloody Pastor and I
played mkid A and yeah, I am super ready to do things or not
today. We'll see what happens because i'm kind of uh, kind of incapacitated,
mcapacitated incapacity. Yeah, so we'll see what happens. But hi,
chat Happy Monday, everybody. Hello, I'm Kat. I play Manassa,
your favorite Luke Goblin. I'm currently a backpacking MK on a strider, so
yeah, I'll be interesting. Yeah, Frank, Hey, I'm a technique.
I'm trying to call because I don't want you guys to be like Rona.
I just drink some water and it slipped down your own pipe. So
I want to be the Corona. It is my job to catch everyone off
guard. Yeah, I plays Idy and uh probably gonna die today. So
yeah, yeah, you know it's going to be bad when your DM is
like, don't forget to level up before the session today, And it was
hilariously, it was unintentional. I just swore that someone said they wanted to
level up and I wanted to remind because sometimes the beginning of session I get
like, oh crap, I forgot it, and I was like, oh,
well, we'll be helpful. I'll be helpful today. No, I
just get sassed immediately, so nothing will go wrong. Whack hi, everybody,
I'm Whack Stephen. And normally I am the DM of Doom, but
I am I am a player of Doom here, one of the five players
of Doom that Dan has to do this to every week, and I play
nick Kel, and Nickkel may be in some trouble. Yeah we'll see.
Yeah, thank you, And I am domestic Dan the Gem of Consequences today
and idiot you're interrupting me. Just looked at me all weird, and yeah,
you can tell that we're all scatterbrain today because it's that kind of Monday
and it's almost Christmas and we just hope that you're having a good week.
And Wax is fine. As he mouths, because Wack has to always be
better than me, which is fine. So let's dive into our our little
mini recap and see what happens with everyone today. Last time on Forbidden Lands,
our party made their way off of the Mesa after finally kind of pulling
together after some heated discussions, shall we say, and they made their way
toward the dry river bed that they had spotted from Afar. With some excellent
navigation skills from both Nikel and Alkali, they were able to pinpoint exactly where
they needed to go and found their way to this old ghost town, which
they began to explore. Nikel, unfortunately, while doing his absolute best to
stay quiet, hidden and see everything possible, may have been a little too
focused on other things and crawled his way right up to a death Bringer,
the peak machine of destruction from the old Ones. Hoping it had been disabled
and long forgotten, Nikkel threw a small rock at it, just hoping it
wouldn't react, and then it did. It turned its turrets toward Nikel anxiety
and Alkali, sneaking up hoping to see what he had seen why, had
dropped to the ground quickly and they also spotted it. Turning. Nnassa and
m K turned and left on the strider, hoping to get away, with
MK dealing with what seems like heat stroke or a fever or something. That
is where we will leave party. Nikel had just thrown a rock Alkali issaiity.
I want to know what you're doing. You just spotted this from where
I'm standing. Am I able at all to get a scan on this thing?
Or is it too far out of my radius? It's out of your
range. You've about a thirty foot reach on that, so to speak.
And yeah, he's on the other side of the town. You're probably around
the second building. There are like a few rows of buildings and then like
the large building. Where is where Nikel and the death Bringer are? Okay,
so Zayuti and I are about how many feet away? You would say
maybe one hundred and fifty Okay, I'd say long to very long distance in
terms of game mechanic. I believe we were running at the end you said.
I think the last thing you said was we need to run. You
hadn't actually done that yet, but you saw the death Bringer and panicked.
Yep, I don't know what you're planning. But we need to circle around
fast. Okay, I need to get closer to find out if there's anything,
or or we just get nick Kel and we leave. Did you say
get closer to a death bringer? I can't do that if I don't know.
We don't need to scan it. It's alive and well in going to
blow us up. We have to do. You have to remember what I
said. We cannot risk more people. For one, Nikkel is strong,
He's a warrior. He can get out of here. He provoked it.
He had to have a plan. Okay, so what do we do?
Do we do we go find Mka and Manassa. Do we we circle around?
Get a better advantage on this thing? Okay, look for something to
climb. We need height. I need to be able to signal something to
Nikkeel without drawing attention to him minutes right now, oppositioning is bad. We
are putting all of us in danger. Dan, looking around, does it
look like any of the buildings have some sort of a place that we could
perch ourselves onto for some sort of a height advantage. I mean you could
try to climb a building for sure. They're like one to two story buildings.
They look semi residential probably, I mean, depending on which one you
want to get to and close. Not all of them. When Nikael was
scouting them looked terribly stable. They've been abandoned a long time. Okay,
maybe we don't have to get them high. We can go around then I
use the building to use these buildings as cover. Being high up might be
a problem anyway, because if it shoots at us, we might go down
with it. So let's see if there are any buildings we can just use
for cover. All right, So I'm gonna start and move stealthly. I
guess you could say it wasn't looking at us, it was going from the
kelble. We were kind of in that area of vision, right, I
mean potentially you were kind of hidden around a corner. Well, Alkali was
very hidden around a corner. Unfortunately, Sire you you were a little louder,
maybe crunching in the sand a bit too much. You may not know
that, but you were kind of hidden around a corner from the building,
so you were kind of peering out and see the death Bringer. If I
answered your question, okay, let's keep circling around. Let's get in this
blind spot. If it's looking for Nikeel we can possibly draws attention away.
Okay, does it look like there are any buildings towards the rear of this
death Bringer? Just the big one that it was off to the side,
pointed at the side of the building, kind of like the side entrance.
It almost looked like, for you know, a modern perspective, kind of
like an older government building in that style, and it's near the side and
to the front. We point towards that one. What about that one?
You want to get behind? It looks like we don't have that choice.
Okay, let's go. Good. Make note that's the one Nikael's laying in
front of. Oh so that's why it was he was close to the death
Bringer. So those two sides of the building, right, Yeah, there's
the backside. Oh yeah, so we're going to go to ope side and
at least I am yeah, oh no, I'm going with you, all
right, and we'll try to stay stealthy but like moving at a brisk enough
pace. Yeah. I won't have you reroll at the moment, because you
did roll for that pretty much right before the end of the session. So
you're still functioning off of your successes and failures with that. Mikeel, what
are you doing. I'm like, yeah, I'm like half buried in the
sand and I I'm basically eyeballing it, sort of ready to react to what
it does. Is it moving closer? Did it simply turn itsself towards me?
What's happened? Turned to you? After you threw the rock kind of
kept yourself mostly buried because you had a pretty good stealth check at yourself,
which is why you're half buried here. And yeah, it's it is turned
at you. It hasn't fired anything at least yet, but it is turned.
It's kind of doing you can give be a perception check actually difficulty five
or I give away too much and that was not the tablois clothes. I'm
gonna put an effort in. Okay, okay, rolled a six, needed
a twelve. Unfortunately, it's hard to tell it did turn at you that
you can just see. You're not sure if it has spotted you, or
if it's sweeping the area. I can't see like it's turrets moving or anything.
I mean, you saw it purn and its turrets are moving. You
don't know if it's aimed directly at you or if it's scanning for you,
but it noticed what you did. The only other thing ton't make note when
you did that because you'd rolled well before it turned after about four or five
seconds. It wasn't an immediate snap to you. I'm going to stay still,
okay, because you give me one more stealth check, please, would
be a speed check difficulty five, putting in two efforts natural twenty natural twenty.
Okay. Well, you don't get extra damage for that because you still
think, but you do get a major effect anxiety. Alkali. As you're
sneaking around, maybe kind of like you dart across the main street here to
get to the other side of these buildings, so you can go around the
back. Like because I'm assuming this is an assumption, you can correct me
now if you'd like. You're going around not the side of the death bringers
on to get to the back of the building. Yes, okay, I
figure that doesn't seem like a bad assumption, but I wanted to make sure.
So you dart across the stre you start moving that way, you can't
see the kel anymore. Right, we want to be on the opposite side
of Nikel completely right. He's gone. Okay, you saw where he was
he's not there anymore. Did you see him? No? But I do
not believe that the man can vanish in thin air. It is not naturally
So question Dan not a character. Yeah, I do remember you said that
one of it. I don't know if it's one of his or both of
his cannons are loose. One of them looked loose. Okay when you when
you saw it before you looked specific. That may have been Nikel that saw
that, not you. I'm not sure that. I can't remember. Personally.
I think it was me. I believe it was Nikel because he's right
there where if you just saw death Bringer and went oh god, so Nikel
wouldn't have been able to communicate that. So get out of character question for
sure. And about how close were we right now in terms of distance from
this death Bringer? Probably about the same. You've just kind of diagonaled away
from it, so you're heading toward. Yeah, you're moving across to the
other side of the town and then going up and around so you can get
in the back with the least amount of sight line of sight with it,
right since you went stealthy, which would be how you do that. And
so you're still at the same distance. It's going to take maybe quote another
round or two for you to get where you want to go. What are
you two doing specifically while you're sneaking anything in particular, or are you just
going to keep on trying to get to the other side of that building.
I'd probably be keeping my eyes peeled to see if there's any other like there
are any other machines in the area, or if there are any other like
figure is in any variation, I guess so, I don't know if I
would be just using my eyes or if I would be using my focus.
Yeah, I just probably be scanning the area making sure no other machines would
come after us with my focus. Okay, you can give me a perception
check difficulty for Yeah, no other machines in this area. Okay. Now,
as you're moving around, looking around, looking at like through buildings,
nothing else is here. You've probably made it to the edge of like the
strip of buildings, the residential ones, where you're gonna need to dash across
the like t street before this building's front to get around to the side.
But before we do that, we're gonna shift over to MK and A NASA
as they are trotting away. M K suffering from some illness of some kind.
Not doing well. Manassa taking the lead with the strider, heading back
toward the metal fish. What are you doing? I'm not. What's going
on? Nothing you need to concern yourself about right now, we need to
find some Yes, how close are we to fish? It was like a
five minute ride, so you're not in terms of like fighting mechanics, you've
got a long ways to go in terms of normal time, not terribly far.
You put it at a gallop, you probably wouldn't get there, and
you'd get there maybe a couple of minutes. Okay, I'm going to uh,
okay, I need you. I need you to hold on tight.
Yeah yeah, hold on to me. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna like
grab her arm to you to make sure that like she's like secure because I
don't really like trust that she can like actually just hold on to me.
And I'm going to I'm going to uh start going uh in a gallop so
I can get to like that fish. How familiar are with riding? Oh?
I don't really mhm, yeah, I don't. I don't. I
don't think I am with striders. Sure, most people don't ride machines,
so yeah, that's why, like I'm thinking, I was, like I
have like I don't like, I don't caravans, but they've mostly been pulled
by people, so I'm not that experience in writing. Okay, give me
a speed check of two. Okay, you've been on this for a few
days now, so like, are you like use this stride a few days
so you're not entirely unfamiliar with it, which is why it's not super difficult.
And yeah, you're fine. Maybe you grab like you know, MK
puts her arms around you to try to hold on, and you do like
the clamp with one hand on her hands, just to make sure that she's
not going to fall, and then you kind of give it a smack to
get that strider moving faster and it gets to a gallop. Okay, I
am clutching onto MK's one arm while holding on to the strider. Okay,
and it only Yeah, it takes manute or two. Okay, you arrive
at the fish. You do get to the fish. Okay, go ahead
and give me a perception check difficulty five and that'd be in base correct.
Yes, Okay, when you use two effort for that okay. Oh well
wait, I have an edge, so I'm only gonna use one. Okay,
edge just makes effort cheaper. Oh wait that's right. Yeah yeah,
yeah, so let me do two. I'm so good, y'all do two?
Okay, all right, I'd like to use a player intrusion, would
you. Yes, I'd like to use experienced adventurer. No, actually no,
yeah, I'd like to use experienced adventure So i would like a minor
effect to my role. Okay, so what would that if you toss that
in chat for me real quick, I do know what that is. But
for our wonderful watchers and listeners. So when you use a non combat skill,
just what that was. If you didn't roll a natural nineteen or twenty,
you can apply a level of effort after the roll to get a special
effect, a minor effect. So you need to add another effort yep,
so you'll have the cost, which will be yep, so you get your
minor effect. Now this is simultaneous with the other group slash. It's taking
you a little longer to do what they've been doing. But you think you
hear an explosion behind you? Oh was that? What was that? Minas?
What does it have. Yeah, what's going on? It's the metal
fish. It's just a strider. What it's just a strider? What's your
to stay here? I'm going to dismount the strider, and I would like
to look at the fish. Is there a opening inside said fish? Go
ahead and give me a scavenger check. Okay, difficulties. Doesn't smell like
fish, by the way, it's metal. Okay, well we're not.
There would be fish though. I mean if you have dried fish near you,
which you did dry some fish. I'm just letting you know. It's
a metal reminding. It's a metal fish. So it's not you think that
I would let that be held by m K. I don't. But it
might be in the saddle bags. Wow wow, Wow, I smell it.
That's all I'm going to say. Okay, Kell's voice rings out from
the distance. You can smell fish. So you're scavenging was successful? Yeah?
You so, it's it's about eighty percent buried from what alcohol I mentioned
to you, and you can kind of gather that because it's part up and
it's maybe off on its side a little bit. You see kind of the
one of the side fins out of the water and a little bit of the
top showing and you're able to like, oh, this panel looks a little
weak, and you're able to pop it off and sure enough, I mean,
outside of mechanical bits in there, there's it looks like some room,
or at least you could make room with scavenging. No problem, Okay,
I'd like to make room. Yeah, you do that scavenging that's included for
sure. There's about a human sized spot with like a bunch of gears and
machinery parts and wires just tossed to the side. I'm going to turn around
and I'm going to tell okay, okay, come here, off the horse,
come on, why the strider? Off the strider? Come on off?
Okay? All right, Dan? Or do I do? I actually?
Can I actually get off? No problem? If you're trying by yourself,
you need to roll. I'm helping, okay, okay, yeah,
I'm helping. Between the two of you, you're able to kind of get
her off, though it's a little difficult for you. Manassa. Okay,
all right, So I'm going to take that off and I'm going to basically
help her to the fish. Why are we going? I need you,
I need you to get inside here? What I need you to get inside
here? How aware am I of my surroundings right now? You're I mean
you're delirious. Like think of like the time you were the most feverish in
your life, how aware you were of your surroundings? Then? Is about
now? M I said, what what is where? And I'm going to
start like helping her into said fish? Okay, yeah, you place MK
in a metal fish, you you jonah her? I put Fiuca like right
next to her, and I'm going to take I'm going to take at least
two of the packs from the Strider and I'm going to load them in with
her. Okay, all right, so you'd like take the saddle bags off
and like set them in there with her. Okay. And then I'm going
to try to take the makeshift panel that I ripped off and I'm going to
try to like place it over. Okay. One more scavenging or like a
repair check, depending on what you have to go wiz. Scavenging is probably
you took it apart so you can put it back together. It's going to
be a difficulty too, okay. Oof, that's a failure. You do
set the panel there, but it doesn't. Maybe you have stripped some of
the like bolts that held it in place, so it doesn't really secure.
It's kind of more you just say, like just makeshift, just kind of
like set it on topd like actually secure it. It's like leaning. It's
like leaning a piece of board overall. Okay, mons talking to myself.
Okay, I need you to stay here, Do not move, Do not
move. I'll be right back. Where are you going. I'm going to
be right back. I'm going to go get the others okay, okay,
okay, stay here, okay, and watch the things all right? What
okay, okay, I watch everything. Yes, okay, I'm going to
mount the strider and I'm going to start booking it back. All right.
I'll need another speed check of two from you, okay, and m K.
You can get yourself a free recovery role. Thank you from all of
this. After a little bit of rest, you'll feel a little better.
That was not bad sex recovery. Yeah, it's pool in the middle fish.
It's a little cooler in there in the shade. So all right,
ah, there it was and a success. Yeah. So you start galloping
the stryer back toward the town and the explosion you heard, and we'll go
head back to the other group, which is just a little bit before what
just took good place? All right, Alkali Anxiety, I'm going to need
you to give me Well, how are you going to cross this? I
should clarify before I ask what you're gonna roll? You're at the edge of
these residential buildings. You see this larger building up ahead. How are you
going to cross? Because you're gonna you will be in sight of the death
Bringer? Does it have? Oh gosh, so there's nothing in between where
we have to cross that we can hide in. No, it's like an
open it's an open street in between. Forgot my question. It's asked does
it have? And then stopped? Which direction is it looking in right now?
Actually? I think is my is my question because it was trained on
ni Kel. But now it's not more or less you more or less it's
looking in your direction. Because Nikel was kind of heading that way, going
clockwise around the town. It was over here on the edge aimed at him.
You're now on the opposite side. It will effectively be aimed at you,
albeit one hundred feet away. Anxiety. What if I shoot an arrow
in the opposite direction to distract it while we cross. Well. I do
not know how these things act, but thinking if Nikkel has done something to
grab his attention, it does not find him, then it scans the area
looking for us. You shoot something, it will probably be a little more
agitated and start spinning around like a crazy person. How do you want to
cross this? It's looking right at us. Well, I tell you this,
one of us has to be baked, and I can do it.
No, I'm faster, and I'm slipperier. Slipperier is that even a word?
I don't know's I don't know about that. I love that board face.
I'm trained in speed and stuff and running, so I am. I'm
more slipper and I have I have range increase too, so I can move
further. But if you want to go, if you think you can go,
then go. But you are a You weren't trained as a warrior.
Your reflexes may not be as as fast, no offense. Being trained as
a warrior doesn't necessarily mean that I don't know how to run or not being
trained, there's one thing. Dodging is another. But if you believe you
can do it, so be well. It's either the arrow or I go.
That's not even a compromise. It is you. It looks like I'm
going, okay, do what you want to do, right, keep an
eye out and watch its movements. It'll be better if I had a scanner
to do that, but I do not. We're not anyway for it.
So all right, I'm going, wait, where are you going? Do
you even know where you're going? Across to the building that we're trying to
get to right now? Okay, you're going to cross unless you think I
should try and distract it again. No, I don't think that's smart.
We don't need it all full of lot. Okay, So I'm going to
try and make my way across. As he grabs her and hugs her,
and he's just like be safe. He pushed. He pushes there to go,
oh why, I change my mind and I will start booking it.
Okay. So you're opting out of stealth and going into sprinting. That's the
whole reason. M uh. I mean it's looking directly at me, so
being stealthy, I feel like it's not really okay, So I'm gonna try
and go stealthily. If I noticed it go wrong, I'm booking it,
okay. So what I'll have you do then is two roles. Okay,
you're gonna give me a stealth check and then a I'm getting the fuck out
of here check. Yes, so stealth check difficulty five speed, Okay,
I'm gonna apply Actually I'll do four because you had succeeded before. I'll let
that have a bit of an effect on this. However, the get the
fuck out roll will be a five different also speed. I'm gonna apply one
effort to the stealth role. I would like to use an experience to re
roll that. Okay, you may do so your cost is still spent,
yes, okay, I bring that down to eleven. And you said difficulty
for right, yes, for your stealth all right, I'm gonna just roll
it, okay, difficulty five get the fuck out of here roll? Okay?
Would this be under running? Yeah? Okay, yeah, all right,
yep, that's the running for sure. Difficulty five okay, so I'm
that'd be that's a lot of speed points. Oh you know what, I
am gonna apply to effort to this as well. Okay, you roll a
three regardless of your effort, and you're needing to roll a six ouch Manca's
ass all right, yeah, I can't spend everything on that. Okay,
Before we get to that, Nikel, I'd like you to give me a
perception check. As you are gone, you kind of did one of those
like snake things if you've seen the snakes in the desert where they kind of
like wiggle a bit and like bury themselves in the sand. More, because
that's more or less what you did quickly as you saw it, like scanning
around, and you shimmy down to the point where maybe you're just your eyes
are poking out. The difficulty. Uh four, you are listening right now?
Okay, Now, yeah, you're you're a bit buried, so hearing
is a little more difficult with the wind, okay, Alkali, You start
moving stealthily and you hear the turret searching. Now that you're closer, you
don't see Nikel at all as you kind of maybe take a quick glance as
you start kind of slowly moving out, maybe thinking if I don't move too
fast, it won't notice me, right, and you hear it glance and
turn and aim at you. I would like to use a player intrusion right
now, and the player you begin to run as you've just like realized,
maybe you panic, starts to run and player intrusion. What are you doing?
I'm going to go ahead and use advantageous malfunction, a device against you
being used against you malfunctions. It might harm the user or one of your
allies for a round, or activate a dramatic and distracting side effect for a
few rounds. And that's all the experience I got. So all right,
So you see its turret, maybe it scanners train on you, and you
break out into a sprint and realize there's no way you're gonna get out of
its sight range cock cramp and it fires and misses. You see what looks
like a trapping laser move ahead of you instead of where you are as the
blast shoots off and misses, and it hits about fifty feet off her left
with a loud eruption. I'm booking it, and you do You make it
to the other side as you maybe slide behind the wall, Yeah, doing
a drop down slide. You see all of this anxiety, maybe except it
aiming because you're maybe back just enough. She's on the other side. Now
I'm just shaking my head and try to do it thumbs up, the thumbs
up from the ground that you slid from kind of thing. Pretty much.
The look that I'm giving right now is look, I'm just like it fired
over you, nikekel your ears are ringing. What are you doing, nikel
uh. It's turned towards me obviously. I don't think I can do anything
right now. I'm staying buried in the sand. If you'd want to stay
there, you can. You're you're not being seen effect will stay so long
as you want to stay there. Yeah, okay, sorry, I'm shaken.
He's like a crazy girl can look at that up and all of us
killed, and he just kind of like peaks it kind of like does that
lurking thing on the side and just like looking and seeing her old and her
thumbs up, and he's just like and it puts us back against the wall
and just try to take a breath. And he's like, mmm, great,
it just wants the fire now, m hm. So I'm just gonna
hold a turn and think, I mean this things just shot and made a
big boom. I don't know what to do. Yeah, I'm just gonna
be I'm just gonna keep an eye out and just be very very much on
alert or my surroundings and try to look for some blind spots. Maybe when
it's like scanning, maybe I can, Like I don't, I'll see when
it's when it's is it turning like this or is it just turning stopping turning
stopping. It looks like it's just fixed kind of in that angle. Maybe
it's like doing kind of this motion. It's a little slow, but it's
kind of scanning back and forth down that road, the space in between the
buildings and the large one. Yeah, I guess I'm gonna scan the area
to look for Nicou safely behind the building, just to check again, because
I don't I didn't believe that he just vanished in thin air. Okay,
difficulties seven perception intellected faced. Yeah, I mean, I'm gonta fail that.
He's super sneaky. It's an auto fail unless you've got effort or training.
I have effort, but I barely have intellects. So I'm just gonna
hottle fail that. Do you have perception? Yeah? I do. There
you go perception actions. Yeah, but it's still a six mm hmm eighteen
nineteen or twenty. He is very hard to see. Right now, I
need to put two efforts and that's still going to fail it. All right,
well let's go for the Ganders whatever. I don't even know if I
did that right. You put in difficulty zero, but you're old. Oh
my bad, let me do it again. I'm sorry. Well the role
was a three. No, that's just oh I see. Oh yeah,
okay, so you got a three. You didn't succeed. Okay, yeah,
I said roll three, but you put a difficulty zero. So we
suck today. Yeah, I mean I can't fail it. Yeah. Yeah.
You you can't see him at all. He's he's hidden. He's got
a little cloth over his head that makes it so no one can see him.
Uh h, I guess I'm just I'm just frustrated at this moment.
Sure, is it just frustrated just thinking I'm trying to think outside the box
and just keep it aware of his surroundings. Uh, kind of coming to
terms with himself to see if he needs to make an action that will possibly
cost him his life but save others. Yeah, so what are you doing
with that frustration? So first of all, I'm gonna take a Can I
take an action recovery? Yeah, that'll be what you'll you'll be sitting here.
Other people do things before you. But you can totally do that.
Okay, Well I have a free action too. I don't know if that
I guess I could just take the action first. What do I do?
Just hit the recovery button, right day? Yep, all right, good,
all right, it's good. You can't put that backing into that because
i's out. Just you can yep. You can distribute those however you want.
So, oh yeah, you would zero into Oh you were impaired,
dude, that that cost was five all yeah, yeah, you were really
strained in your eyes. Well that's why I needed that. Okay, so
that's it for my turn, right, Yeah, that'll be what you do
for the moment. Yeah. Yeah, he's just gonna sit there and he's
just gonna hold his sword to his chest and start speaking to his loved ones.
Yeah. If you're watching him, you might even see him like pause
for a second, Alkali and like hold his sword and maybe he's breathing hard,
maybe looking a little panicked, but maybe he's getting his control, like
controlling his breathing, and it's slowing down. He's looking a little more peaceful
over over a moment or two. What are you doing? Does it look
like there's anywhere that I I mean, I know I'm behind the building.
Yeah, you're off to the side. You're not like on the behind of
it. You're more on like the left side. Okay, so and that's
opposite of where okay. Yeah, so I'll probably take a moment myself to
just breathe, relax, try to take a recovery round, okay, and
just I guess, yeah, just keep my eyes peeled and see if if
I get shot at or something. I don't know, Okay, Yeah,
make your Yeah, take your recovery roll. Not a great one, but
something better than nothing. Yeah, all right, i'd back to Manassa as
she is galloping. Where are you leading this strider? Lerajit? No,
just kidding, I don't remember, and I'll lean on you on this.
Did you know there was a death bringer? I think it was get out
something bad could happen, But I don't remember. I don't think you knew
there was a death bringer. No, I didn't know it was a death
ringer. I think it was just it was I needed to leave and I
needed to run and find somewhere safe. Yes, so in my mind I'm
thinking, this is really bad. This isn't just some normal machine. This
has to be something bigger or bad. I just don't know what, and
I can't think of it. So I'm thinking I need to go back there
and I need to help them out. So I'm going to. I don't
know if I can return exactly to where we pretty much stopped and I was
told to turn back. Yeah, am I allowed to get there? Yeah?
Yeah, you can get there. That's just on the edge of town.
That's basically like right by the the end of the river, like before
it bends around. So yeah, you can get right to where they were
before they began sneaking and going up ahead, so you don't see them there
anymore. They're not there. Oh boy, where did they go? I'm
going to I'm going to dismelt the strider Okay, stays where you leave it,
Okay, And I'm going to I guess I'd like to run to the
closest building area I can get to. Yeah, there's there's a few like
right on the edge basically where al Kali Anxiety were, and you can get
to that, no problem. Okay. Is there any rubble nearby? Lots
lots of rubble. Some of these buildings are like half collapsed. I'd like
to take cover and kind of like hide in some of the rubble. Sure,
you can give me a stealth check if you'd like to stay hidden,
just like you for okay speed or you're a rubble, you're hiding in rubble.
Wait, so what does that sail like? I'm not very well hidden.
You are hiding and rubble, I'm just hide. Okay. You know
what, just because you fail doesn't mean your character knows you failed. Yeah,
okay, so I think I'm pretty I'm I'm doing pretty good. Your
leg's aching a bit as you've been like trying to move these rocks around to
get under things. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna try to hunker down,
and uh, I feel like I'm gonna regret this. I'm going to fire
my tear blaster up in the air. Okay, go ahead and give me
a difficulty five attack role for this. You'll succeed, but I'm curious what
the result will be. So, well, great tair blaster fires off into
the air maybe and you're not going to take any damage from it. But
after maybe a little bit, you'd like the patter of the shards and metal
pieces that you fire out of a tear blaster kind of rain down around you.
The three of you in town, now joined by a Manasa, hear
a shot from behind in the beginning of town where you entered in Nikel.
You would see this. I don't know about Anxiety and Alkali because of where
they are positioned in maybe taking their breath. They may not be peeking around.
I don't know. Would we be familiar with the sound of Manasa's terror
blaster though, I'll leave that up to you. They're they're they're man made
weapons, so it doesn't sound it doesn't it's not an energy weapon from like
a machine. It doesn't sound like that. It sounds more analog and that
has a tendency to be human made. But you hear that blast, uh
Nikkel, you definitely see death Bringer after a couple of seconds, turn its
turrets and its entire massive body back toward the edge of town. It is
turned away from the street and is looking down at the buildings. It's turned
away from me. Yes, it has. You're still maybe twenty feet away
from it. I want to say, is what about how close you crawled?
It has turned away Mona so I'm gonna need you to give me a
speed defensive five. How how close is this building to be death Bringer in
terms of feet? Maybe ten? It's pretty It was like pressed up kind
of against this aimed at the front and side. Success to effort applied by
manassa. You blast that up and you hear grinding of gears turning, and
you can't see it because there's other buildings in between. You weren't that far
into this town to get to the one of the collapsed buildings. But something
feels wrong to you, maybe your danger sense that you have kind of like
red flags, and you need to get the hell out of this building.
And you do as a shot pierces through the building in front of it into
this one and collapses the rest of this building down where you were. The
shot pauses more ringing in your ears, NIKEL, and you all hear a
building collapse. Shit, I'd like to definitely scan the death Bringer from where
I'm standing right now to see if I can navigate, like any weaknesses on
it. Okay, you'll need to move a little closer around the back of
the building. Yeah, you can do that and scan. Okay, so
you would leave anxiety site entirely. Now she's no longer in your line of
sight. Before I do that, I would probably like tap my focus and
move in so he gets the signal. Okay, I'll let him decide if
he sees that or not while he's resting. But she taps her focus,
goes around the back of the building. Go ahead and give me a difficulty
five perception check. Okay, scanning with your focus specifically, I am going
to go ahead and apply two points of effort. Okay, success rolled in
eight, needed a six. So a few things highlight for you what looked
like closed vents. It's cannons, specifically, the two turrets. It looks
like it had more turrets at one point, but it only has two right
now. One of them kind of is hanging a little more limply. Now
that you're looking at it a little closely, you're not sure if that's the
one that even fired or not. Those are the main things you note.
Those four vents on its front and the two cannons that exist, and the
cannons are on like it's uh, I guess like kind of it's elevated.
I remember what they look like. I think, yeah, so it's it's
a little. It's like almost partially buried now that you're closer looking at it.
But it has like four legs kind of coming out of its bottom,
and then it rotates on a center axis with like a wide like I don't
even know. It's not even a tank. I mean maybe if you put
two tank turrets next to each other. Yeah, tank plus crab basically,
so the upper part there, but there's no like wide cannons coming out.
It's four small mounted. Does it look like those legs are functional? It
hasn't walked yet. It is only turned. Okay, you're not sure,
but it hasn't moved. It is only turned. Just to clarify, it
has turned away from me, yes, yes it has. It has turned
in toward the town, away from you. It might be able to scan
you, it might not, but it is not aimed at you anymore.
You are well aware of that, Zary. What are you doing? Oh,
I'm done with my I wouldn't say praying. It's kind of like in
his thoughts together and summoning his strength and courage. The death Bringer is obviously
turned away from us now, right, That is good? Yes, if
you peek around, it's it's aimed on the other side of town. Up.
He knows had to be one of our big brain people. So he's
going to dash straight towards that death bringer and try to mount it. Yeah.
I have a couple of things that I can do, all right,
A range increase. How many are? How many feet is this? Like
you said one hundred? Oh it's yeah, it's probably one hundred hundred and
fifty. Let me see at a distance here real quick, long I can
I can make it because it doubles. Oh, it's it's very long,
two hundred feet. It's one hundred, two hundred and fifty. So very
long is one hundred feet up? All right, it says long becomes two
hundred feet? Ah okay, then yes, long it is. It is
within long range of views. I feel like I'm actually doing this shit.
My heart is like literally about the fall. My hands are so sweaty.
I got clammy, all right, m So yeah, I'm gonna try to
do it. Yeah, I'm gonna try to do it stealthly since it's behind,
since it's turned away from me. Okay, literally, not that's cool,
because I'm prepared to. You'll have to do two roles like uh like
Alkali did so your stealth role and then your speed role. Now because you've
got the range increase, uh, and you want to do an action after
I'm assuming you don't want to just get to it. Well you said you
wanted to try to mount it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what
I want to do. Okay, great, So yeah, what you'll need
to do mm hmm. Stealth difficulty five speed check, followed up by a
difficulty five speed check for running. If you fail, okay, if you
fail your stealth if I my stuff, Wait, would I use running for
both or no? No, just the second one for the stealth one.
You're moving, You're moving quietly, trying not to attack attract extension. It's
the charge it if it fails. Is from how I interpreted your words for
Roll two fifteen. Successful stealth check. So you are now moving quietly this
distance to catch up and get to it. You don't step on Nikel,
though you do get very close to Nikel without realizing it. Nikekel. You
might even hear like the crunch of sand slowly moving up next to you.
If you look over, you'd see like anxiety, like hunched quietly as he's
creeping passed you and moving up, Manassa, what are you doing. I'm
trying to after getting the heck out of that collapsing building, I'm gonna try
to hide in the rubble again. Okay, give me another stealth check,
difficulty five speed. I'm gonna do one effort. Okay, there we go.
Success right on the right, on the nose, and nine for nine.
Yeah, you are able to like sneak back into the collapsed building and
this time really cover yourself up to the point where you're pretty sure it won't
be able to see you. But you see the hole in the building ahead
where it pierced through the building to hit this one and explode. Okay,
are you doing anything else before this? So you just wanted to hide because
you're hidden, you're pretty confident. I don't want to fire another shocks.
I feel like it's just going to go straight towards the rubble I'm in,
so I'm going to stay put for now. Okay, Okay, Michel,
I am going to I didn't realize Zyery's vector was directly over me, and
basically he's taking close enough to the original vector you took to get toward this
thing. M changes my plans. What did you want to mount it to
uh h m hm, I'm going to Yeah, I would have assumed that
I wouldn't have completely covered myself with the sand. I would have just sort
of put myself in and covered myself up as much as I could. While
yeah, you're not like buried your sand. You're kind of just like spattered
sand over yourself or camouflage. I am. I'm going to take aim with
a terriblast arrow for the cannon that looks like it's hanging, okay, and
I'm going to fire at this fucking thing. ALRIGHTY want to go give me
a difficulty free attack role. I'm gonna put two effort into the role and
one into the damage. Okay, very nice. That is a successful That
was a sharp shot. You meant terar blast, right, you don't have
sholas? Yeah, it was like, but you don't have a terribleized you
have a sharp shot. Okay, yeah, I have a terriblizing arrow.
Oh that's what that's sorry? Thank you? Yes? Perfect? The arrow
flies from not terribly a short range. Maybe maybe that that startles you a
little bit anxiety as an arrow just flies out of the sand next to you
and sinks into the cannon. That's kind of a little more loose and just
irrupts with a loud bang from the tear Blast arrow and the death Bringer's cannon
slams into the sand with a thud at its feet. I would see them
doing this right at this with your scanner. You see a hit, a
flash of light, and that cannon disappear from your scan Oh shit, go
for the vents on front. I don't know if I hear it. I'm
screaming it and I'm away. You're you're behind the other you're on the other
side of the building, right, So did them hearing it or not?
They might, they might not. I'll leave it up to them if they
just say that they probably didn't hear that. They didn't hear that. Yeah,
I don't know. I think I'm I think I'm kind of like what
the arrow just came flashing and that boom just happened. Yeah, I don't
think I'm hearing nothing but ringing in my ear and I am still moving full
speed towards this thing just because of momentum. Okay, uh, yeah,
you would hear an explosion Banasa from where you are. Definitely not that you
know that's the arrow, but you hear it. What do you do anxiety?
What are you doing? Alkali? H? I mean I'm I mean
I committed, so I didn't get to do well, Yeah, I would
have had to meet that I father failed. That's right. I'm still going
I want to My idea is the climbest thing and just chop the junk up.
Man, Like I figured, the death Bringer can only move like this.
They can't big underneath it, right, I mean, at least from
what he sees. Yeah. So yeah, he's gonna go for those little
skinny little joints at the bottom of the death Bringer and try to get up
in that area. All right, So you're trying to climb on the top
of it, or you're trying to just climb up to like its access where
it turns. It has like those crab lake yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
so there's like an access here and then it brings up the big part
exactly. I'm going to go there because my idea. I'm not gonna say.
I don't want to spoil nothing, but yeah, I want to go
for that. Okay, you want to go there, that's that's all right.
Just want to make sure where you're trying to go. Yeah, roological
guys. I'm not trying to go have you know, make out with the
death We're here, all right? All right? Uh, go ahead and
give me a difficulty five climb check as nikel you see anxiety after you shot,
maybe jump a second like got a startled and then sprint at a death
bringer either ormight? Uh's I mean from what you said before, it seems
like it'd be more of a speed roll since you were trying to kind of
get there quickly, okay, compared to like taking your time, like really
finding handholds and pulling yourself up. Maybe you're like more running up it than
anything else, kind of parkour versus climbing a tree sort of thing, unless
you'd think otherwise. No, it's definitely here. He's more of a a
doer in the moment. Okay, all right, speed difficult five climbing if
you have it success m all right. So you see this and you would
see this as well. On your scan if you're not poking your head around
Alkali, you would see a person you can't always identify who, but you
see a person sprint at its base. She's like, climb up, I
would know my friends there you go then it's probably then you know the shape
anxiety climbing the death Bringer as he gets into the middle of it. Uh,
I would lean out and I would try and take a shot with a
terrible ast arrow because I also have a couple of those, and I am
going to go for one of the vents towards the front if I have visibility
on that from where I am. So it turned away from you, so
you don't he remember it went towards Manassa and you're at the back now and
the vents are on the front near the guns. Would I be able to
get into a position and fire in the same turn or no? If you
have a successful run check, Yes, because you basically have to run in
front of the thing to take a shot. Am I able to because the
canons are extended the kind of like they're like kind of dropped down under more
or less of okay? Body? Would I be able to fire at the
other cannon or no? Without moving? No? Okay, so I'm gonna
go ahead and try and move. Okay, go ahead and give me a
speed check of two. Okay, h Am I able to use running for
that? I believe you can? Yeah, as you're running. Yeah,
see why not? Still a difficulty too, but yeah, I don't Nancy,
why not? Okay? Okay? Yeah, so you're so you sprint
out where were you running to exactly in relationship with the death Ringer, to
the front or to the side of it, Like to the side of it
would be where like where Anxiety ran from the front would be in between it
and the town m I would be far from cover either way, right,
yes, okay, then Hackett, I'm going to go try to run towards
the front of it and take a shot with my turblast arrow to its face,
right in the one of the vents. Okay, all right, yes,
so you charge out into the front, maybe slide in position, get
an arrow ready, give me a difficulty five attack roll. Okay, I'm
going to also apply a point of effort. Okay, success, all right.
The tear blast lands in its mark the vent, one of the four
vents. They weren't open, as I had noted before, but you still
hit it. And because you used the tear blast arrow, the vent's cover
gets blasted off, exposing the vent but also dealing damage to it. As
it sinks through, the vent begins to sputter and cough. Black smoke.
The death Bringer turns. I'm going to need all three of you to make
a difficulty five. Which three? I'm sorry, the three of you closest
to this well basa right, not me. I'm in rubble hiding. I
know you mean, I'm not here. The three of you make a speed
defense check of five. You'll see why here in a second. Anxiety,
Oh me, yes, you are included in the three. What you're trying
to climb, it's on the axis I won I want to think the top
is just gonna rotate. Man. No, no, the bottom part,
but I'm on that part that stay still has the sweet I'm still gonna wake
up a defensive speed defense of five. Yeah, I feel cheated. Just
why. I don't know if I want to put epping in this man's great
Oh so what happens? Mh The cannon that is not loose fires a grenade.
Now, Anxiety, you're right, you've climbed up. You're only going
to take three points of damage from the blast because it is not directly at
you. But it does explode where nikel. You're able to kind of roll
away and kind of get yourself some covered by the building. But like right,
at the front of the building before the blast goes off. Alkali,
you're able to move out of the blast radius because it essentially kind of fired
pretty close to its feet. Yeah, so you'll just take three points of
MTE damage. If you have any armor that will reduce the damage of course.
Yeah, so I always forget that. Yeah, it would have been
a lot worse if you were not where you are as already. Okay,
all right, yeah, yeah it might First, what are the rest of
you doing after I've seen Ziary climb this thing? Uh going yet? Sary?
Get down? No, it mustage. There must There must be a
steam vents want to get down. There must be I'm just imagining it's like
a toddler like get down from there. This is where are she gets to
ride this strier cleaning on? Yeah, okay, all right, go go
with go with what you're saying, and I'll react. Yeah, I'm going
to aim my sharp shot bow at the other cannon. Okay, go ahead
and give me a difficulty for tackle. Yeah, and I think I do
this like right as I'm rolling like away from the blast, I like come
back up in the sharpshot bow and fire. Okay, I'm sorry. What
difficulty did you say? Four? Two effort into the roll and one into
the damage. I take a deep breath and release. Okay, success,
And there were flies and sinks into the cannon. The cannon kind of does
one of those like sideways, like knocks it out of its original aiming position,
and it creaks and struggles to turn back. It looks like it's not
knocked off, but it's having severe issues. What are the rest of you
doing? I can go now without below up. Yeah, I'll go ahead.
My goso first, the arrow hit and the cannon like the working one.
Yes, and there's also event exposed to event that's smoking black smoke.
Yeah. I'd like to use a player intrusion. What would you like to
do? I would like to use lucky break and expand an XP. What
does that do? Uh? Let me link it in the chat. Uh
ha. Something unexpected happens. Hm hmmm, something unexpected happens to your advantage?
Okay, all right, uh hmm okay, uh sorry, can you
give me a difficulty three speed check? Jez louisus. Why are you guys
affecting me all the time? Something unexpected happens? We killed s it's supposed
to be lucky break, not a terrible break. How do you feel about
Zayaria right now? Oh my god, I feel confident in his role.
So this isn't gonna be unlucky. Everybody wanting to kill me. So the
lucky break was the cannon off Anxiety. Yeah, you catch it with your
major effect. Dude, I am buffeded. You have a death bringer cannon,
all right, I'm aimed to be a stright up in its robot hole?
Do I not a trigger? Uh? It is a heavy weapon.
Okay, so I'm turning into heavy weapons. Okay, you're not gonna take
a penalty for that then? Uh? So you you could guess how it
works and take a shot with it, for sure. Lets do it,
all right? What difficulty says, so I'm underneath it. Huh, it'll
be difficulty for no breaks, no breaks, no chance. Okay, this
is Mike says, I to hold his big ass thing or what I think
might would fit pretty well. Yeah, okay, I just wanted to destroy
success. About one by one is a success. So those of you watching
Anxiety, I think Manassa is the only one that can't see this as a
cannon falls. The one that you shot nikel. He catches it maybe with
one hand out, pulls it in, shams it up. I forgot he
also had an asset because I did my thing. Never mind, Oh you're
right, Yeah, you could have give him that that start now too late.
He still succeeded, but he jams the barrel of the gun up into
this robot hole it's robot hole and fires Anxiety. He's just like laughing,
like, I will need you to make a speed defense of free. It's
okay, it's okay, I have things I have escape. Okay, what
does escape DOOPSM button the slip restraints speces the bar breaks through the grip of
a creature holding you, pull free from quicksand or otherwise get loose from whatever
is holding you in place. Get the hell out of there. So I
would like to argue that the machine and the gun has hold me in place.
When I shoot this jung it's gonna knock my ass back away from this.
If I can't use that, I got something else. It's all cool.
No, I like that. I think that costa yeah, so no,
I think that's good. All right. So Anxiety jams the barrel of
the Death Bringers gun up into it blasts a hole directly through the top of
it, and that blast sends you flying away from the death Bringer as it
collapses in on itself like and he slams into the ground with a small thud.
Does my scan show it still active? It is not so active.
No, so asiety's just laying down. It just collapsed and stopped moving entirely.
Holy shit, did I get it? I would be booking it to
him. Yeah, I'd run over as well, sandle in the hair and
mouth every endeavor there is. Say you, you give me so much ship,
and I'm gonna absolutely just slap him in the face. You give me
so much ship for putting your for putting myself in danger. Oh my,
she's not trying to deal damage. No, if you want to get out
of the way, it's a speed defense of one. No, you know
what I wanted to sting. I wanted to sting. It's a heavy hit,
all right, speed defensive one. Okay, all right. Otherwise you
will take a point of damage. You can make an attack role difficulty light
light attack role to see if you even make contact Alkali, Yeah, difficulty
of one for you. Yeah, you'll probably get out of the way unless
she gets an that twenty Okay, am I doing difficulty zero? What if
she gets a one one? Just difficulty? Okay, Yeah, you don't
you would have him if he didn't move out of the Oh what is he?
Oh? So maybe I kept her hand? Yeah? Maybe maybe you
kind of like do one of these like and it's it stings that would have
hurt the best high I've ever in forbidden? What were you thinking? I'm
older? That shot? You did good? Everybody? Who is that?
Who is in the building? I don't know in the building. Maybe there
was some survivors here, I don't know. I as soon as I saw
it, I tried to hit the ground and and not be seen. I
wasn't expecting the two of you to show up. I had planned to sneak
away when its attention was off of me and regroup with you. But suddenly
there were explosions, and I didn't know what to do. I was going
to try and disarm it and then run. Where are the others? Did
they run back? Stay? I didn't see anyone. They they went back
towards where we found that that month that machine before. Okay, did you
you scan the death Bringer? Yeah? I screamed out about the events.
Didn't you see me shooted? I couldn't hear anything. I fired one of
those tear blast arrows. Great minds think alike? Huh I did too?
Oh good work? Are you all right? Holy Cray, I don't know,
I I think so. I am numb all over. Everything seems to
be here for the most part, including and I think I'm okay. I
had an idea, but yeah, things happened. I didn't expect to fight
death bring out today. I expected to run away from it. But you
know how things happened. But we need to be on God. We don't
know who's here. There might be more of them as well. When I
when I scanned for the area, I didn't I didn't see any other creatures
in the vicinity. But I took a look around. But there's a lot
of damage here. All right. Well, I'm I'm just going to stumble
a bit and then like catch my breath. I'm going to use my single
action recovery. I'm gonna do the same as I'm sitting on that can use
my quick action recovery role. Since it's on ten minutes, I need to
Oh yeah, I could. Don't you have the thing where you can just
do two. Yeah, you can do two free recoveries essentially. Yeah,
you can definitely do that. So everything's quieted down for you, Manassa,
Okay, because you're still in the rubble and you don't hear really anything anymore.
I just heard like the giant explosion and then nothing afterwards, the giant
explosion, a collapse, okay, and then the sand and the wind is
making it too difficult for you to hear their conversation in the distance. Yeah,
I'm going to assume that I just don't hear them. Yeah, I
don't think you do. I'm going to fire another shot of my tear blaster
up it, like up through the cracks of the rubble, and then I'm
just gonna like, wait, see if I hear anything. What was that?
Sounds like a weapon? All right, since someone and high today,
So I'm going to get up and start moving towards the sound. I kind
of want to run towards it at this point, since my adrenaline is pumping.
Yeah, collapse, I would follow saying, all right, so you
three run over, we'll sort out as well. Because sure, yeah,
so you run over to the rubble, Manassa, were you getting out of
the rubble after the shot. Are you just fired? No, I'm like
I fired, and I'm like holding it with both of my arms, and
I'm just kind of sitting in the rubble and I'm like waiting and listening.
Okay, all right, I would definitely be looking around. Twenty thirty seconds
you would see the three of them moving through the town together. Do you
see anything? Is it dead? Dale Manassa? Is it dead? You
were supposed to be with him? K Where is she? Well? Hold
on, I'm gonna try and like crawl out of the rubble. Oh,
Zaia's just gonna have his hands crossed and looking at her with like a kind
of crack of a smile but kind of like mm hmmm, kind of look.
I'm gonna put my tear bluster back. Is whatever it was dead?
Ah? Yes, it is quite dead. Yeah, Ziy fired its own
cannon and do it. It was so cool. What was it? A
death bringer? Yeah? Here the same kind, albeit it looked a bit
worse for wear compared to the ones that I saw in Meridian. Well,
it seems that my little distraction worked for a moment, I'll bet not do
is exactly how I had landed and I like turn around to the crushed building
behind me regardless. Good job. Yeah, well where's the Yeah, she's
safe. Meanwhile, get the strider before you never mind, Meanwhile, let's
go get her. Okay. You have been sitting in a metal fish for
maybe what feels like forever. The smell of food wafts around you, so
you cut your side. It's dark as the everything has been covered. What
what have you been doing this whole time? You just kind of go to
sleep. If I had heat stroke, I bet uh yeah, I think
I would just be on like in and out of conscience, sort of like
napping, but not really heavily, you know, sleeping, just kind of
trying to figure out what's going on, but I don't really have the strength
to do anything about it. So all right, okay, so you just
kind of have been nodding in and out of consciousness. Occasionally when you wake
up, you kind of get a hint of like dried meats, smoked meats,
and then you're going to force my hand. Huh is that what you're
trying? No, I'm just saying, like they put she specifically puts saddlebags
that you don't have to eat it. It's just more. You definitely would
have noted that. Yeah, if it's within my reach, like if I
don't have to actually get up and grab stuff, if it is within my
reach, I totally would have grabbed something to eat. Yeah, he'll she
gave you the saddle bag, like there's not that much room in here.
Okay, yes, I'm not gonna go ham, but just I'm hungry,
so I'm just gonna eat something, you know, just a little bit.
So we would see as viewers, maybe MK just half passed out with just
a piece of jerky like hanging out of her mouth asleep, and that's where
we'll take our break. I held so much. Yes, good job everybody,
mostly me, Good job you. Only you were only able to manage
to grab a piece of jerky with your delirious one. Oh my god,
oh my god. If you don't find me soon and everybody, I'm gonna
die of servation. Just just so you know, with all the food,
I can only grab one. Okay, one, we will one piece of
jerky do to me to imkit huh, think about it, and we still
have the human jerky, so maybe you grab that. Yeah, shush,
oh my god, you're in your like fever. Stupor come back to see
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We return to our four adventurers in the city. So I'm just gonna kind
of anxiety. He's gonna kind of run up to uh Manassa and kind of
put his arm around her and be like, hey, you're still mad.
What are you still mad at me for? I don't know what reason,
but mad? What? M M? So you kind of like pulls her
this way. He says, well, I would like to say you thought
you thought that I was mad at you over what happened back at camp.
I mean, yeah, you definitely don't hang out with a lot of people.
I was not mad at you. I was done with the conversation,
so I walked away. There's nothing more for me. To say, Okay,
there's no point in getting mad over it and holding a grudge against you
for it, although you do need to know when to stop bringing up certain
subjects when people don't want to talk about it. Oh okay, well I
didn't expect this conversation to go this way. So what did you want to
talk about? And my hoton? Nothing? I'm sorry about it. You.
Yeah, there was obviously something, Come on, spit it out.
Nothing. I well, I wanted to see if you remember that I killed
a death bringer. Didn't you just tell her that I did? But this
Manassa is not I had said that, you right, but she's not on
Manassa. You know why there is a death bringer over there. I shot
the cannon that probably still works, and there's pie says of it just laying
there. Ah, if we're gonna just leave it there, No, we're
not leaving it there. Of course I do want to. I want I
would very much like to go over there and scavenge it's the bone first MK.
But like I was about to say, we have MK, and I
have her stuffed in a metal fish with all of our rations, so we
should go get her shirts with her. Yes, I left the rations with
her just in case something happened to the strider. Thank god, I put
some in my backpack. Jesus, we need to get back immediately, And
I said, Jess, I mean, you know, one of us stay
with you to dismantle this. But never mind, let's go. No,
we have to take a look at her anyway. All right, twist speed,
take off, Yeah, make my way. I'm going to get the
strider. Okay, yep, it's still where you left it. It may
it may have like moved a little bit away from the building after one of
them collapsed, but the one that was farthest back didn't, which is where
you left that strider. So yep, it's still there. To hop on
it, okay, And all of you were going, I go, yeah,
I think we're all going. Okay cool yep. And takes about five
minutes and you get to the metal fish buried in the sand in the river.
Ka, k, you don't see her. She's probably just move I
put her in the fish. You're not going to see her. Where though,
Where do I see the metal fish? Yeah? All right, I'm
going to walk the st just follow me, and I dismounted here, see,
and I I'm just my hands just right the fish, nasays, pointing
at the fish. I know where I can see that, but I'm where
is m k A My goodness inside? You said, going to take the
metal plate that I had resting on the whole, and I'm going to move
it up right here. And you see a pasted out mk in the fish
with a piece of jerky just hanging out of her mouth. Okays, must
she take? I don't know if that's what matters right now. It's not
good. If she's sick, she might it might be less. Okay,
mute it removed the jacket in my hand. Yeah, we can't hear you
with the jerky in your mouth. Oh, I'm sorry, jerky's too strong.
You're back, huh? Okay, I think so are you? Okayd
I had I had, I had dreams. I kept dreaming about jerky and
in the middle of that explosions. Don't worry about it, James. Let's
just let's just bring her into town. What you guys think. You get
her into one of the buildings where I can take a better look at her.
I've been doing some reading. We can't stay out here for much longer
without any sort of shelter. I don't think this fish will be able to
hold all of us. Does she feel I'm going to reach out and touch
her forehead? Is she a little bit cooler? Maybe a little? It's
hard, not too much, not enough that maybe you can tell it is
a little cooler in in here though, because of the shade. So do
you can you can at least? Yes? Okay, all right, let's
get her up on top of the strider with you. All right, I'm
just gonna pack up everything then I see, I'm gonna try and help kid
get onto the strider and make sure she's on safely. Okay, it's okay,
I have it, I have it. I'll just have like tons of
bags on me. Sure give me when we get to town, Neil,
you need to hang on, remember, yeah, yes, hold on.
He's already asleep as she like slumps up against the back of Manassa and the
rest. If you make your way back into town, yes, yes,
okay, unaccosted, you make your way back in part of the building collapses,
the one that was shot. Maybe one of the upper structures finally caved.
As you walk in anywhere in particularly you're going in this town, there
are the kind of residential looking buildings, and there was the large one that
was next to the death Bringer, which one looks most structurally sound from a
cursory glance without rolling or inspecting the larger one does. Okay, I'm going
to go in there, and I want to use my once a day.
Oh what is it? I have so many skills now tail, yes,
I detail here you go. Yeah. Now, I think that one was
limited by a size of a room, but like if it was like his
head foot, let me see larger than a typical room. Okay, yeah,
So if you if you go ahead and move into the large building ahead
of everyone else and kind of like stop, maybe look around this room itself,
and you don't have to spend the points because it does cost and it
would probably be a bit too big to search within five minutes. The foyer
of the of this building, you step into it and you're greeted by a
large staircase in the center, some desks off to the side, some tables
that look like they're a little worse for wear with the age of time.
Looks like there may have been some of those pictures the paintings you've seen before,
the really lifelike paintings, but they've kind of rotted away that would have
been hung up, and but look like some poles on the sides of the
staircase that goes up that have some tattered rags hanging off of them, and
looks like you said, spin the two points. I'm sorry to interrupt.
No, don't spend thom because this room is too big to use that,
so I don't want to cost you. And it looks like the floor is
nicely tiled, albeit worn and chipped at this point. Yeah, so I'm
just going to go around and kind of like knock on the structures a little
bit, not heavily, but just enough to did anyone follow him into the
building? I mean he kind of moved ahead to go in first. I
probably would have gone with him. I would be helping with MK, I
think. Okay, so the three of you kind of stay out like out
right at the front. Like you can see in the doors are pretty much
non existent at this point in any glass and in the windows is broken and
shattered. So yeah, you would see as already kind of walk around looking
maybe occasionally like tentatively like tapping some of the pillars in this foyer just to
make sure that there's still structurally sound and pretty dang solid. It's that stone
stone material that the old ones used to go ahead into a scan. What
you'll just follow me recklessly in here, like I'm trying to make sure it's
safe for you as well. All Right, you're becoming a little me.
I can't tat on it. If you want this iety training, then what
better way than to just run in all right? Yeah, these structures seem
a little bit more sound. Yeah, the rest of the buildings looked way
worse. A good bit of rags up there too. I might grab those
and bull those down just in case we need something. Right, I'm gonna
go ahead and do a quick scan of the area and kind of start moving
a little bit upstairs, but not going like all the way, just trying
to make sure if there's anything within my vicinity that like blips on my on
my focus. Yeah, there were no like doors on this main floor.
It's like just a giant like foyer. I'm going like halfway up the stairs,
I guess where like I could get a view of as much of the
second floor as I could. Give me a scan of difficulty too, that
it wasn't Jesus Christ, today's a day. Yeah, you keep saying today
like it's not every time the sessions you weren't you weren't here, I had
great access, is it me? Lock? Is okay? We think we
hear she has passed out. Yeah, you don't see anything, nothing sticks
out to you. So is it safe up there? Well, I'm not
picking anything up, but I think we should still probably be careful. I'll
maybe try and do another scan once we go up some more, go up
some more. No, I know, plan on going up. I plan
on saying. Down here, this is level ground. We can run and
if need be. What do you want to do up there? I mean,
I understand your you're you know your maybe you're in a explorer is there,
but these buildings are known for falling down the high you go up the
you know. Yeah, you're of m K first. Yeah, if you
want to go, then let me know and I'll watch it back. Yeah,
I'm all right to stop you. So you think this is structurally sound
enough for us to bring her in? As long as we don't shoot in
each air blast in the air or you know, I don't know, a
growl, another death bringer, I think we'd be fine. But just in
case, let's make sure we're near an exit of some sort. Yeah,
I mean, as long as we bring her in into this this cooler area.
All right, let's go get run. Well, I'm gonna grab these
rags while you go get the I'm gonna put them in front of these Are
there windows around us? Doan? Yeah? Oh there's it's there were There
were some large windows at the front looking in the glasses long since shattered and
disappeared. So I'm gonna try to take these rags and hang them somehow,
Maybe find some jagged pieces that hang these rags on so they can cover we
don't get sand blowing in like immediately on us, or yeah, why don't
you because there is definitely sand in here for sure. Because of that,
why don't you go ahead and give me I'd say for you would be a
scavenging check. Difficulty three. They're pretty tattered, But this is if you
can maybe find something better, Okay U s intellect right, Yeah, I'd
say this is in for for this specifically. Oh maybe, Yeah, So
these these rags aren't that great. However, when you're like looking around,
maybe you're looking through some of the drawers, like of some of these old
metal desks. You actually find some like sealed in a very thin it's plastic,
but it's a very like thin material that crinkles. And you see a
pretty dull admittedly, but a still surviving red and white striped cloth looks like
it's all folded up. There's a couple of them there. They're big,
good, might work all right, So I'm just gonna start trying to hang
them up. Yeah on the areas. Yep, you're you're able to do
that. You maybe like kind of find some metal pieces and like kind of
pap them in with the hilt of your sword to get them to stick into
the wall. And then maybe if you're trying to prevent anything coming in,
maybe you tap the bottom too, so you kind of seal it. And
yep, there's these red and white striped cloths that have got like a blue
square in it with a bunch of dots, and you're able to seal up
like the most egregious holes where the windows were. Interesting cloth. Hopefully it
works better than it looks, all right, So I got it all sit
up, and I'm just gonna kind of sit back and smile, almost like
home. It's just kinds to laugh it off. Those of you outside would
seize to like walk up to the windows that you're maybe looking in, maybe
maybe wave, maybe do something, but like put a cloth over it and
kind of like tack it to the wall and seal those up. The doors
still are still there, and they're mostly open and kind of broken, but
the biggest of the windows have been covered. I would be walking outside to
start leading them in and helping MKA off the strider and everything like that as
well, for sure. Yeah, all right, you all ready to bring
her in? Yes? Uh, she's sleep. I don't think she's asleep.
I think she's more just passed out. Yeah, she's burning up,
right, wanna help me carry her? I'll grab it from underneath her arms,
grab her legs. Oh, what's going on? Uh, it's okay.
We're just bringing you inside. Yep. What inside? What fish?
We found a place to rest? Another fish? No, not another fish?
What is it? A different it's a building? Jinks. Nice.
Well, it'll definitely be better than leaving you outside. Okay, watch the
door. Maybe we can set her down over there. Yeah, Manassa,
can you set up a or ors aia? Can you set up a better
role really quick for her? Yes, come in, come into my lovely
aboat. I have dressed it for you. I see we have one guess
that may be not feeling well. So I have cleared off this area over
here, and I laid some rags down. Not that great, but yes,
if you give me the bedroll, yeah, all right, kind of
lays it out and like brush. He tries to make it as clean as
possible, just in case we need to operate on her. He says that
loud, just try to wake her up, what what not? Gonna have
to cut the sleep out of you. So we hit his arm that no,
we're not doing that. I will make sure that he doesn't touch you.
All right, you're fine. We just need you to wrest all right,
all right, Nichole, Let's lure her down on three okay, okay,
three two one, and i'd set her down all right. Let me
let me see if I can take a look at her and see if I
can figure this out. I've been doing a lot of reading recently because we
don't have for you go with us, and I would lie, yeah,
you're really pretty Okay, you are too. I'm just gonna slip away and
grab the strider and all the stuff and bring it in as well. Okay,
Yeah, the strider is able to fit through the door, no problem.
Since and I would like to take a look at MK and see if
I can figure out what's going on with her in terms of like why she's
feeling this way and if there's anything we can do about it. Okay,
Yeah, why don't you give me a medicine check difficulty? I'd say two?
Okay, all right, if you don't have anything related to medicine,
I do know. Oh, and he succeeded on top of all of that,
all right, Yeah, she's suffering from the success of the day.
Yeah, second number two, let's go for three. Don't ask for too
much that that's yeah. So she's suffering from heatstroke. She needs water,
she needs to be hydrated, she needs to be out of the sun.
There's uh, it's not the most difficult thing. The main thing you need
to worry about is a lot of dehydration, potential major sunburns. There's there's
a few things you have to worry about. You mostly seem to have kept
her as much in the shade as you could, and you gave her at
least a little bit of water while you were riding, but a day's rest.
She should be right his rain and if I if I check around,
I wouldn't see any any like sunburns or anything like that, right, nothing
major. Her face might be a little red, but it could be just
from fever. Checks lips as well. Yeah, so I'm sorry. Chapped
lips is not a fun It's not a joking. Matters when you smell the
rips in the middle. Yeah, sucks. It hurts. Water do we
do we have any more water? We have plenty, Okay, we need
to We need to keep her hydrated. So let's hydrated. So no jerky
for her, no jerkie for you, jerkie jerky j just de hydrating ourselves
even more so jerk I'll go to the strider and get some water bringing over
them. Ok okay, hey, you give it to her and I'll hold
her head up. Okay, okay, okay, thank you. Don't drink
too much at once. I can't eat too much. I can't drink too
much water. Now. No, well, you're going to be drinking a
lot of water to a point you might not like it. So let's get
you. Let's get you some water. Gay, I drink it? Yeah,
you give her water, no problems, It's nice. I'm still hungry,
though. Well you're going to have to wait on food for a little
while. I'm sick. I'm dying. That's my last meal, all right.
Well it seems like you guys have already had a last meal inside.
I'm going to slip out, okay, Innsiary slips up. I just walk
away, all right. You have to have this. I'm going over to
the death Bringer. Yeah, That's where I'm going. Okay. So the
two of them head towards the death Bringer. How is she doing? So?
I I've been doing a bunch of reading while we were at that camp
that we had, and she definitely does have heatstroke right now. So as
long as we're keeping her inside and she's drinking lots of water, she'll be
okay. But she needs like a day's rest. Okay. Well, hopefully
we aren't attacked in the meantime, right, Do you wanna go fight?
I can fight. I know, it's okay, it's okay. I just
rest. I can fight, though. Do you wanna go check upstairs and
see if there's anything in here? All right, I'll take a look around,
okay. Nikael goes up the stairs cautiously, what are you doing,
Alkali? Seems I'd probably just be staying with MK, making sure she's okay,
that's all okay, yeah, she's she's doing all right, and then
she probably drifting in and out of sleep. Mhm, just like that.
We'll go outside with banassa anxiety. As they approached the death Bringer, I'm
a massive machine is collapsed and broken as overhead of her. Because I don't
okay, yeah, okay, sorry, I mean to cut you off.
No, you're good. You run out. So you're running up ahead towards
the collapse, and she it's it's massive. Maybe it almost looks more massive
now that you're able to like stand next to it and look at it.
What was I thinking? Should I climb that? Uh? That's a big
boy. That's a lot bigger than I expected. So I immediately wanted to
just run over to the cannon part that I used, just to inspect it,
see if there was any major damage done to it. I mean you,
yeah, you you were able to like uh uh fly with it so
to speak when you got blasted back. So it's it was kind of where
you're it's where like you see a skid mark where you would hit and slid
and it's like off to the side because you kind of ignored it after that.
Mm. But you can go ahead and give me I'd say it's based,
but you're like a weapons check more or less. If you don't have
any skill for like weapon crafting that tech crafting, then it just be in
mm hmmm no, sorry difficulty, I say four, we are you haven't
used one of these before, so you're less familiar. What might be damage
and not ever mm. Sure, Oh that's that's funny. Our first failure
of the day. But without wait wait wait wait, wait wait wait wait
wait, I have something to blocks that you have. I mean you can
just outright block damn intrusions, but you have something different? Are you sure?
I mean you can pay an experience to block it. You've got something
else? Well, what do you guys? I do, sir, I'm
looking forward. I have so many damn skills Jesus. Okay, here we
go. If you roll a natural one UND twenty, you can reroll the
die. If you reroll, you avoid the GM intrusion unless you roll a
second one and might succeed on your task. Once you use this ability is
not available get until after you make the ten hour recovery roll. Okay,
so you get yourself a free reroll, okay, thanking you sup the house.
Okay, so it's still same difficulty, same exact role. Don't roll
a one, yeah fifty four, Okay, succeed Now, I do believe
the effort of the first one would still get costs wise, because you're rerolling
every other reroll, you still eat the cost of the first roll. Okay,
so you're gonna eat that twice just as a heads up. But you
did succeed on the second and it was because of the effort. Yeah,
I am you're impaired now, I think, right, yeah, yeah,
but you do succeed and there's no GM intrusion and you didn't spend dexp to
stop it. So I mean that's you could consider that. I've been really
wanting to use that. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I want to
see how it worked because I didn't. Yeah, okay, cool, yeah,
yeah, so that's that's how it works. Just like every other reroll,
you still eat the cost of your effort. All right, So let's
just say I guess I'm exhausted from what happened. Uh, the adrenalin finally
drained out of me and I'm messaging with cannon. Absolutely, yeah, you're
adrenaline finally, like it catches up to you know when you've run along marathon
or like done distance running and you're great, and then like five minutes after,
all of a sudden, it feels like it hit a wall. That's
basically how that worked. But you're expecting this and it looks fine. You
don't know how much ammunition it has. You've heard of like as an oserum,
especially an osrum, like son of a Smith. You know that most
machine weapons only last so long. They have a limited power support supply when
they are disconnected, and this will hold you for this. They are also
heavy and a pain to carry, so if you were going to keep this
with you, you would just know. And part of this is from the
role. You're going to be slowed down a bit. Trying to use that
range increase just won't work with this weapon if you're the one carrying it.
Even if I'm training in heavy weapons correct, because it means you're not when
you're firing it. You don't take any penalties. You're still slowed. If
you were specialize, it's a weight limit thing exactly. If you're just martialized
in heavy weapons, I would potentially say, yeah, you can totally move
it full speed. You're only trained. So so I guess as Whenasa is
walking up, I'm like, look at it. Oh, I think he
just kind of like falls on his ass and like lays down and he's like,
oh God, I think I ran out of steam. I yeah,
you can say that. You want to canon it was? I think great.
I have no use for it at the moment. I want to disassemble
it then, because I don't know if I can get it is anymore.
Why don't you just sit right there hold on to it. But I need
to help you with this. I'm fine, I just need no. Okay,
if she's going to rip that damn thing apart, I have an ability,
I'm gonna let it. I'm gonna let her go. And then if
she does do that that I'll Explokay, yeah, but what are you doing?
I will approach the decommissioned death Bringer and I would like to first observe
it to figure out what would be a good point at which to scavenge or
start to uh crack this maybe open. Okay, so you're before you're scavenging
you're trying to like analyze it to see where would be the best place to
attack it from and like what would yield you the best results kind of thing.
Yeah, so what I use my identifying lies gager and importance. Hey,
I'll link it. Yeah, because it says function or power. So
I wasn't sure if like the if I could figure out someplace on the machine.
So this, yeah, this, this mostly is you're trained in a
task, uh yeah, identifying the importance of things. Yeah, so I
would say you can you can do a perception check with an asset to try
to find like what might be the best spot. I'll let that. I'll
let that, but you'll gain an asset difficulty five. Okay, with an
asset perception intellect based in a roule. This is not physical, right,
Dan, No, she's just looking at it right now. You see her
like kind of looking maybe like maybe not putting a hand on it necessarily,
but like kind of just peeking around, looking under, looking over. And
yeah, you you are able to kind of figure out where some of the
best places to work on this would be. Most of it's going to be
the body itself. You do note that probably some of key components were absolutely
obliterated due to the massive hole in the center of it from a certain canon
explosion. H However, you should be able to you should be able to
get some parts from it. And then more rules scavenger avenge, Yeah,
scavenging difficulty five. Before she does, I do have enable others. I
see you can use the helping rules, the helping rules to apply a benefit
to another character attempting a physical task, as far as no action on your
part. Yeah, so maybe, like, yeah, you can definitely do
that and you'll gain an asset on this scavenging. How are you doing that
anxiety? I'm cure. Let's just say I had I had a fun time
on top of that thing, and I was looking at key parts of it,
the week week joints, week parts to get inside. Yeah, because
my original plan was to take my sword and use stonebreaker and just dislodge stuff
on it. Seeing the joints in the weak parts of the access and legs
and underneath where I jammed the long barrel up inside of it. Yep.
Uh, maybe I relay that information or can relay that information to her.
Yeah, you do with her nap twenty. Yeah, so you are scavenging
this and that his help was. Do you realize, well, actually that
wasn't as damaged as it could have been from the blast. Damn. I
just noticed that. Uh huh uh Yeah, And you are able to find
something that you haven't seen for a bit, something you haven't seen since the
war with Hades. There are four canisters tucked away of metal burn, which
is a liquid that fueled some of the corruption. You also find a hundred
shards. I'm just I guess I'm just watching shit fly the machine. Yeah,
you'd see her like she more or less crawls into the death Bringer in
through the hole you made, and like you might see like occasional bolts fly
out of the top, like some wiring kind of like set aside, and
then you would see her pop up and her like setting things in the bag
that she had set on top of it, and then like pocketing shards.
Wow, what nothing, He's just like fascinated. Just keep going. I
should be done here in a little bit. There's more. You have completely
been looks like you gotted it. You'd be surprised. These are quite complex
compared to the other machines that we've run into. Oh oh oh, I
don't think I was supposed to pull that. Maybe you hear some sparks.
Noah, yeah, let's not blow the top, all right, and I
think I just mm hmm ooh I could use that, yes, right,
and then oh what is this junk? Okay? And this goes on for
maybe about ten minutes or so. We're gonna switch over to nikel here real
quick as they tear apart a death bringer from the inside. Miquel, you
made your way upstairs. So a long staircase goes up and then wraps to
the left and the right into a balcony that leads off to a number of
rooms. Looks like you can see the doors here are still intact. They
didn't seem to get weathered as badly. There are five separate doors, looks
like two on the left balcony, three on the right balcony. You go
any particular direction as you're going up? Are you going quietly? Or how
are you approaching all of this? You're able to see all of that before
going up fully to the stairs. Yeah, I'd definitely be approaching quietly.
I'd have my bow drawn too. Okay, does does any way look like
less damaged or yeah? The side with two doors looks a little less damaged.
It looks it's all natural damage. It's just weathering from centuries. Yeah,
I'm going to, you know, sort of put my foot on the
ground and just kind of test it a bit. Okay, could you go
ahead and give me I'll say for this, it'd be probably speed because you're
trying to just be ready to pull back a speed test of two. If
you have a skill you think you could use, go for it. But
it didn't matter anyway. Yeah, it looks pretty solid, but if there's
any spot that isn't solid, I'll count this towards you being testy enough that
you can step back if it collapses. Okay, Yeah, I probably just
approached the first door on the right then. Okay, so there were three
doors on that going down the balcony. Okay, so you step into this
room, or I should say, you get to the door, open it.
Okay. Yeah, wood doors a metal metal. They're all metal doors,
so they're a bit rusty and maybe you kind of have to like push
it a little bit with your shoulder. The sand kind of kind of seeped
in here through wind is making it kind of crunch a little bit as the
door creaks open and you see a few skeletons laying about. It looks like
this would have been some sort of room with a few like there's a table
there, chairs that have fallen over, skeletons. There are a couple of
guns sitting next to them. You've recognized those, or at least you've heard
of them before, and shelves of dust, probably parchment that is rotted.
Going to look around, basically to see if there's anything else that might be
usable. If I know what the guns are, I might I might look
at them see if they look damaged. I guess just from a cursory grant
glance, I don't really know if I you know, if I fired one
beyond like what a an osrum used, maybe a meridian, So I probably
have like a vague idea. Yeah, they're small, they're like l shaped,
like you recognize that there's they are a weapon. You've heard old ones
kind of had a little stranger of weapons. The machines were at times felt
far more advanced than this. For a cursory glance, it looks rusted more
than that, You're not sure without actually playing around with it. Do you
want to give me a search check, which depending on how fast you go
could either be speed or and guilty too as well. Yeah, I'll probably
take my time and look through everything. Okay, then that'd be in so
difficulty too. We're searching around. Scavenging could fit under this as well,
if you happen to have that skill. Why did that not roll? I'm
sure? Okay, I will hit the button again. You might get two
rolls here in a second. It looks like we're gonna get two. We'll
take the first whenever it happens. Oh, all right, well that was
the success. So yeah, as you're searching around kind of looking for anything
before I put words in your mouth, what are you searching around with outside
of just looking at the guns with a cursory glance. Yeah, I think
I'd be looking to see if there were similar to what Alkali was looking through
in the bunker, Like see if there's any any of those strange rectangular sort
of devices that Alkali was playing with, or you know, any anything that
had any information about what this place is, anything along those lines. Okay,
Yeah, you don't find any of those little light up squares. You
do find what looks like a pretty base. I say basic because it is,
but for you it's not. You find a key near one of the
skeletons, looks like it probably would have been in a pocket if clothes still
existed on these things, just kind of on the ground, right next to
one of them. It's a metal key. I'll look at it and I
say, shard, put it in my pocket. Okay, Oh yeah,
I guess the Nora wouldn't ever really do with locking doors, so to speak,
but other societies probably did. Fair. Yeah, so that's about all
you find in here outside of the right that guns. Yeah, I just
make my way to the next one. Okay. This door does not open.
The handle turns on it, but it doesn't seem to move. I'm
gonna try and force it, Okay, and Alkalai, you would hear You're
like, you're right under the balcony, so you would hear him like shuffling
around a little bit. You might even hear like some of the sand or
the grinding of him opening that door. But yeah, you try to force
it. How are you trying to force it to try and shoulder the door
open? Okay? Can you give me a mite check of difficulty three?
Hearing him open stuff? I'd probably walk up the stairs okay, and when
you do that, you'd see him probably at that point, like shouldering the
door and does work. You hear kind of a snap as the door swings
open faster than you would have expected. It looks like there is a chain
or something put up on it that you just snapped away from the wall.
Did you find something just a shard? Show the key? That's not a
shard. I mean, I guess you could use it as one, but
those are that's that's a key. You use that to open doors? Oh
well, that makes more sense why this door was so hard to open.
Otherwise there were some skeletons in that room. Oh I see, all right,
does it look like there's anything I'm not sure, but you should be
careful if this building is this old, like many ruins, I'm sure that
it's not entirely safe. Right. I would probably try and do a quick
scan with my focus and see if there's anything that comes up. Go ahead
and give me a perception check scan difficulty five. I will go ahead and
put a point of effort. Actually, I'll do two very nice success.
You would have succeeded if you had no anything else. So that was a
good call. Yeah, So you're like kind of looking around. The room
that he just forced open has a few tables there with what looked like you
would you would recognize the alkali as the hollow screen or not on, but
hollow screens on those desks. It's probably probably like a work area. You've
seen these before, these kind of the places, and they're they're functional,
obviously if I'm able to scan them to you, right. Uh, they
may have low power. I don't You don't know if you can turn them
on or not, but you can at least see the tech is there.
That's not what got picked up on your scanner though. As you're like doing
kind of a sweep, there is a room on the other side that has
something glowing. It's a little hard to scan, but there's something on the
other side. And this is not the room that he's going to, but
a different runt, the different one. It's on the other side. I'm
picking up something. What do the spirits tell you that other room? You
haven't checked it yet, right, No, just this first one and now
this all right, let's do a quick look through here. But there's something
in that other room, what kind of something? I can't quite make it
out. It's just it's just coming up on my scan. That's it,
all right, I'm going to say we can come back to this one.
Then let's look in that other room. You would see Alcoholiz is like very
obviously excited because you know she loves this stuff, and she's like, oh
uh yeah, yeah, let's we'll we'll come back. And I would dart
towards the other room. Okay, let's it on the left side of the
balcony. Uh, I'll clai. Can you go ahead and give me a
speed defense check of three? Okay? Is this against any sort of if
it's miss The answer is no, okay, And you said three, yes,
okay, okay, you kind of dart over and maybe Nikkel again,
I won't put words in your mouth, but you might even kind of do
like one of these motions really quickly with like the oh no, wait before
you and part of the ground collapses under her as she jumps over, kind
of sensing the part of that balcony crumb. Sort of yeah, you would
not have dealt with that, Nikkel, do to your previous role. But
that could have been bad. Huh. She's on the other side of the
gap. I'm looking down at the ground and say where was m K Would
that have been below where we just ran thankfully? No, she was more
in the center of the room, whereas this balcony is wrong the sides.
She was over that way. Okay, take your time, please, right,
you gonna come over here. I'm looking down at the ground. Maybe
you should take a look by yourself. I'm worried that any more weight there
might lapse the rest of the floor. Okay, I'll let out a blood
curdling scream if anything bad happens. Oh good, and I would go towards
the door to that room that gave me the signal. Okay, yeah,
it's the second door on the left. There's only two doors on that side
with that balcony. The door is shut at another metal door, though this
one looks like it has an illegible inscription in the center of it, faded
and worn. If there is something there, like a placard or something.
When I try the handle, it doesn't open, right, it does not,
NIKEL Yes, you know that shar Do you found? Yes? Can
I have it? I'll toss it over. I'll try and catch it.
Okay, the speed of one Okay, yeah, yeah, you catch it?
No, problems one hundred percent. I expected a natural one there,
me too, but you would have got the experience from me. So I'm
gonna go ahead and try the key in the door and see if that works.
Okay, it does work. Around this time, you would probably hear
manassa and anxiety stepping into the building. It's been probably about the ten minutes
or so, so you probably hear them below. But the door clicks and
you're able to open it, and then you should have seen you sticking out
of it. But I saw all this stuff just flying out. Its incredible.
I don't even know what the heck is going on with you. Do
you have my kind of arms? I have no idea, and you build
me something out of that? Wait? Wait, did you find anything?
Shop? Maybe large? You would hear all of this? No, and
no, what do you mean? No, you'd crawled inside of the big
thing and it was just we're upstairs. You have missed it. Wait,
what are you doing upstairs? I thought we said no upstairs, I found
something, of course you did. What did you find? I don't know
yet? Give me a sec of course, And I wait a little bit.
You walk into the you open the door to the room, you see
an active energy field, Nanny, about half of the room is blocked off
by an old one's force field. You've seen these before. They've blocked your
path pretty regularly. It's not just going through here, but it's it's covering
all four dements or six dimensions. It's it is a cube blocking about half
of the room. Am I able to like look past the field and see
what it's kind of hiding? Yeah? You can, and it's six.
I saw that at whack. It is six because you can see the shimmer
on each wall on the inside preventing breaking through a wall. I saw that.
It's fine though. It helps that. So you see that. And
do you see a an access panel in the front. There's something you're trying
that. This is why the scan was right. Almost problems. But you
do see what looks like a box or a pedestal or something in the center
of it. What is that? I'm going to assume that we're not there.
Yeah, you didn't go up the stairs, you're down below. You
might if she said what is that out loud, you may have heard that.
I said it very quietly to myself, so they wouldn't have heard it.
Probably, Wow, what did you find. Give me a minute,
give a minie. All right, it's been a minute. No, it
hasn't play. It's been it's been a an awesome minute. What is it?
I will come up there. I found some sort of a an energy
field. I've seen these before. There is no it's a box in the
middle. Oh no, you're not touching it, are you? There's an
access panel? Just give me a second. Did you touch it? All
right, I'm going to go. Fine, she's going to and drag her
out of the building's going to touch it already? Know we are getting ready
to die. Oh my goodness, don't take her out of the building.
No, don't wake her up. Do you want to go see what it
is? Fine? Are you going? Where are we putting all this stuff?
We're coming up already on the stairs, like she y by the time
she asked the question. Dragging up there because I'm in. Just be careful
the floors crumble back down, all right, So I just head back down,
and I'm I'm just gonna go check on MK and maybe stroke her head
or something. I don't know. Sure, Yeah, she's down pretty close
to you and on a bed roll. All right, Yeah, I'm just
gonna keep wet cloths on her head. And yeah, she's looking a little
better, admittedly like she's still probably in and out of consciousness, but yeah,
like replacing like the wet rag to keep her fever down. Manassa.
You walk up the stairs, you would see collapsed balcony, not a lot
of two foot gap. You're gonna continue over it? Yeah, all right,
you step over the balcony collapse and make your way up. Just be
I'm saying this to Alkali and all right here oh wait, wait, wait,
wait, yes, the floor just collapsed. We can't put too much
weight here. Just make sure we're all spread out. It could fall down
on ZAYERI and MK. This is a bad time to let you know that
I am holding way more than I normally am. It's better than not telling
us at all. Okay, just stay back by the stairs, all right.
I slowly back away to the stairs very carefully. Maybe you heard the
floor creak a little bit after you realize that and are a little more hyper
aware. I'm going up to that panel and seeing if I'm able to interact
with it at all, either with my focus or if I can see anything
on it. So you walk up to the panel in front. How are
you trying to interact with it? It doesn't seem to be on, not
at the moment, but your scans do pick up that has power clearly with
the force field up. It doesn't have like any I see. Just give
me a second, Does it have like any It doesn't have any buttons or
anything like that? Right? No, A lot of the time they don't.
It's like a hollow keyboard will come out and the screen will turn on
sort of thing. Okay, So I'll just try and like I guess,
use my focus and maybe like try and tap it. See if anything pops
up. Yeah, when you kind of really for lack of a better term,
focus on it with a scan, you're able to kind of get it
activated and a screen pops up with just a couple of words, administrator access,
for the love, what does it say? I need administrator access again
to this? Is there like any spot for a key card or anything like
that. Go ahead and give me a not focus perception check as you're examining
this peck here, it'll be difficulty or or or these skills you have,
let me know it didn't matter. She did anyway right on the dot?
Mmmm, got it exactly on the dot. Oh well, yeah, you
did you need an nine? You rolled a nine? Yeah, as you're
like looking at it a bit more, okay, like there's you kind of
remember some of these are actually voice activated. Some of these old one text
that they're a voice activated, similar to like how Artemis was almost, uh,
hello, Hi, what did you find I'm ignoring Hello? It doesn't
seem to respond to hello, Artemis. Damn it? M hmm, are
you used one of your little the pad thing? Is from my previous encounters
with control panels like this, would I have, like any other inklings on,
I guess what type of verbal commands I should probably give it in order
to try to activate it once you go ahead and give me a old ones
knowledge for that. Okay, that can that'd also be a difficulty for okay,
and I can use my artifact technology artifact knowledge then that you can cool
finally difficulty for right? Yes, success, Yeah, A couple of phrases
that you found have worked at least getting them activated. Sometimes it can be
as simple as help. Other times, commands like administrator or password requirements,
those are phrases that will sometimes kick it in to give you a response.
Oh, right, help, what do you require for help? Do you
have a name? No designation has been given? Oh okay, what is
this facility defense? Defense research? And what is this energy field blocking classify?
Are you use the administrator? Yes? Please provide access key panel opens.
I gave the key card to FIUCA. The panel specifically looks like it
would hold a sphere and that's where all endia. I'm say you, dick,
Wow, Oh, I'm so excited excited. Dan always chops us at
the knees man. She just waited a little bit longer, just a little
We gotta gotta gotta end here. Sorry, Dan, You're so good at
your storytelling. I don't know what to do with myself. It's so good.
I'm just down here trying to keep hold him care live. Thank you
so much? Thank oh my god. Well, debris rates from a bove
Yeah every time, like when NASA jumps hiss, is the thought of like
something steps falling from the ceiling. What's going on? It's food for Okay,
she's passed out and she's got like a layer of dust like okay,
I can't believe we are to wait a week to find out what my thing?
Do it ends up? With mesophilio after this, I swear to god,
Okay, it's probably just asbestos. Serious and as we all know,
asbestos asbestos. Oh my god, I'm like, was curious that was your
that was your your right? Yes, that I've had since the beginning.
Wait, I want to know what mine does now, I've never actually used
it. Well, now that you've got all the excitement out of your system,
I hope you had a great session today. Thank you m K for
being understanding as you were passed out for most of them, just like I
help. Okay, can we just say that I was the m VP of
the episode and just she did everything because of you? Yeah, only one,
only one. That's a first that it is one single meats. Well,
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made roles a lot. There was just you was bullshit. There has There's
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Yeah, yeah, what do you watch? So for my end of
session stuff, yes, I've added a few things there by the way,
they've changed a little bit hmm ah. Wanted some things to be a little
more tantalizing. A few new ones that we've added. Focus a skill,
which gives you an asset on a skill role next session. A skill roll
doesn't have to be the first role. Find a random safer, which are
the items that can do different things or find two machine parts, have no
idea what a cipher is. That's like your your little enhancement items that people
have had. Some people have them, K can make them and has stuff.
Yeah machine not machine parts outright, but like yeah, because I have
explosive ammunition, that's what I had, and I and then also my oddity
whatever thing. I will give an XP to ZAYII whoa and I will mm
I'm going to take an extra XP. Okay, thank you, sounds good,
sounds very good. Thank you. Whack peck. Oh hey I got
to ram a gun into a death ringer and blow it up that so yeah,
yeah it was, it was, Thank goodness, I rolled decent for
that thing. Nothing land on me and uh land in my man. So
yeah, thank yes, Kat, of course, thank you so very much.
Your your intrusions are very very much clutch for sure. Mmm mmm man.
So if I do a free recovery role, I can't give very experience
to anybody, or is it giving experience a experience no matter what? Okay,
give her experience to Manasa because I already thought she was pissed at him,
and she wasn't and I got to watch her ripped through a machine and
she did have a nice intrusion. So and I'm gonna definitely take a recovery
because I am dying. It's like you have zero zero into left and your
other pools are not amazing. No, I have not been topped off for
I want to say, four or five episodes. So so is that just
a roll on a thing with your Yeah, just you get a recovery roll.
Just make sure it doesn't tick up. That's the only thing. If
it ticks up, bring it back down. Okay, so it doesn't go
tilln hour? Gotcha correct? It is a it's free. I was like,
hmm, maybe the noun the crip roll thing is nice to have a
kid, no kidding, all right, really good on this. Yeah,
those recovery rolls have been solid right back then? All right there you go.
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Hello, Hello everybody. I'm bloody faster and I played in Kid today and
I was the MVP. Clearly. Uh I did absolutely nothing, I'll saysill
long. I mean I was there in spirit, you know. I I'll
say that I was guiding them telepathically. Uh and uh, I mean my
guidance was amazing because they're alive. So uh right, Yes, that's that's
all what happened in my brain, you know, in my hallucinations. That's
that's my story. Uh. I will give one xpee to Manassa for keeping
me alive, you know, unconventional methods, but hey, you know that's
nassa uh. And I'm just gonna take an XP for myself, you know,
kill myself up a little bit. Yeah, you got a nice nap
and so you're feeling recharged. Oh yeah, I'm feeling real good now,
already read to do things. Well, thank you, bluddy. You'll follow
her? Please go do it, do it, do it. Hi,
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I would like to give an experience to zaiety because it's just badass this session
and I I'm gonna throw a curveball here the entire time I've always pretty much
taken experience, but that minor cipher one is very tempting, knowing Alkali,
So I'm gonna go ahead and do the minor cipher. Okay, Doki,
well what I will do? Then? Can you roll me a D one
hundred please? Okay, Well in that one, don't don't say thankfully for
you. That one wouldn't give you a crit fail in this particular thing.
Yeah, exactly, because we have to have at least one a session from
her. But okay, alrighty do I find the keys to the universe?
You don't, unfortunately, find the keys to the universe. But what you
do find is a small vial, maybe in that same room, outside of
the energy field, a small vial with a liquid in it. It is
marked a country ben and drill. Just find some allergy meds that was congested.
Gonna pop this sucker. We can bowse MK with it. Allergy meds
or clutch what are you talking about? It is labeled speed burst. It's
labeled what screen burst side with speed? Okay, yeah, it's straight up
speed no zoom, but it's late. It's labeled speed burst. It's a
silvery liquid that seems to kind of slosh a little, a little more than
you think it should based on it's que but you find that. Yeah,
thank you, faye. I'm Cat. Hi, I'm Cat and I play
Manassa, your favorite Luke Goblin. You can find me on Twitter I'm Cat
Cat and on Twitch it I'm Cat. I'm currently taking a small little break
from streaming at the moment as I've got lots of commissions to do and I've
got some health stuff. So nothing bad, all good, So I will
be back very soon. Perfect, what's your inter session? Cat? I
will take an XP and I will give an XP to Zayiri. WHOA.
Yeah, wonderful. All right, thank you very much, Kat, and
I domestic Dan and I was your GM of Consequences today and uh yeah,
the roles made so many of those, so you did overcome regardless. Uh
yeah, thank you everybody for being here. Thank you all my players for
being awesome. Are peers as per usual, And uh yeah, it's just
I like the show. I'm glad that I love you one. I I
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But uh yeah, we will be back. Oh my end of session move.
Uh. I think I'm gonna give myself all of the XP and be
so fish to not give video. I sorry, I'm not gonna. I'm
not gonna. I don't feel like giving any out excuse had one piece of
triky. You know, maybe the session there is not a single crit fail.
Maybe I'll give out an XP. Oh, that's impossible. I could
have sorn. I saw at least like two ones this game. There was
one one only today. But it wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't.
Alkali she got a couple of twos. She got a couple of twos.
So I got one. Yeah, but first, thank everybody for being here
for anything. You rolled. You rolled recovery role. Oh I did all
right, I did roll very well in that one. So hey, I
told you m v P m v P today. There it is. Hey,
I love you so much. I'm but no, you're gonna segue out
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I know, but it's done for the day. Okay, fine, Dan,
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