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so much for joining us here on episode two of Blade Runner Electric Dreams.
As always, I am your host, the Great Unclean One. Welcome back.
Glad to have you all. I'm going to be continuing to guide things
from behind the GM screen here for our players as we continue our investigation into
the murder of the replicant Blade Runner Sandor and his missing RDU partner. Leah.
Leah, Leah. That's it, Leah. Before we get into that,
though, let's hear from our players. Tell us who you are,
who you're playing, and anything else you'd like to share with the listeners.
Whoever wants to go first that it's Hi. I'm Tyler. I'm playing Violet
or Doxy, and uh yeah, I'm pumped for session two here. Hi,
I'm Sean. I'm playing Garrick Johnson, the City Speaker, and uh
yeah, pretty excited to keep playing Blade Runner. I'm Matt Froggitt and I'm
playing Hector, the team's replicant fixer. And I'm Kyle I am playing Inspector
Silabach. Happy to be here. I'm happy to have all of you and
all of our listeners as well. Notes here. Listeners players, we had
them get some of their promotion and humanity points from last session. We're going
to do that stuff off camera to kind of keep the crunch out of this,
and we're going to keep our recaps to a minimum here as we kind
of did that outside the game. If you really want to know what happened,
just go and listen to the first episode. But suffice to say,
you guys were called in by Deputy Chief Holden to investigate the murder of this
Blade Runner replicant Sandor and the disappearance of his partner from the snake pit where
this all went down. We've gone through about a shift and a half worth
of activity so far. You guys have found a variety of clues and leads
to follow up on. We've had Garrick and Violet kind of team up as
partners to go take care of what they've been investigating, while Silas and Hector
kind of split off to do their own things. So we're going to pick
back up silas you are returning to the Lapd Tower and your spinner as we
get through mid day here, it's kind of the afternoon shift as you land
on the tower and begin to make your way downstairs to meet up with Hector,
who has been working furiously at the mainframe and the Esper Wall trying to
get more information on some of the leads you guys have or as you guys
have brought him more leads, he's looked into those and he's also uploaded some
of that information to the mainframe for you guys. So we will pick up
as you meet up with Hector as he is leaving the Esper Wall, and
I believe you're going to hand off some information to him, so we can
start right there. So, Silas, I heard you found a lot at
the department. Yeah, I found this, uh the bedside photo. It's
a it seems leah but young. It's odd, so it must have been
I think that's what Doc Badger does. I think other than on that pawn
shop. But yeah, that poems just like quite a tire. It's all
very odd. Have you found anything out about anything through the portal? Nothing
terribly useful other than the idea on the um on the metrocab. We could
follow up there, but it's I'm personally very interested in up speaking to this
Doc Badger. Yeah, I figured you'd go. I need to take a
look at this body. We've had it on ice for a little bit,
so I'll head down to the morgue. Why don't you take care of that.
Sounds good. I have a copy of the photo. Do you have
any particular plans for the physical I was gonna entered into evidence, see if
they can uncover anything we can't. Sounds good. I can head out then
let me know if you found anything. We'll do all right. So Hector,
you head off to the garage to get a spinner leaving Inspector Silas here,
Silas, you make your way down to the crime lab, which acts
and as a variety of things here in the LAPD. It's the morgue,
it's a forensic lab and everything in between. Now you know, all of
you know that the crime lab is headed up by the Chief Medical Examiner,
Coco, and him and his staff seem to pretty much almost always be here.
They are workaholics to the extreme, and they always seem to be hanging
out taking care cases, and they can get a lot of information for you
guys. They can get a lot of things done. I've already I'm going
to share Coco's photo with you guys. He actually is a character in twenty
forty nine, so you may recognize him. He is a completely bald and
clean shaven man with a very very short buzzcut, kind of dark eyebrows,
and he always looks a little greasy or sweaty. I guess it's the best
way to to explain it. He does seem a little odd, like he
might not have the best social skills and he's more at home working here in
the lab, but he usually is rather energetic with helping. And you know,
if you don't make any outlandish requests. He's usually fairly professional in things.
Suffice to say, the crime lab is massive. You know, you've
got the morgue down here, which has many many slabs and tables, lots
of diagnostic and forensic equipment down here, and countless staff that you see milling
about taking care of things. It's quite cold in this section of the LAPD
Tower, as one would expect. And then when you get down here,
you can see that Coco he's got his typical white shirt with black tie on,
and over that he's got his, for lack of a better term,
kind of like his doctor's gown. It's kind of this brownish silverish color.
It almost looks like a raincoat. So really all you see is his collar
and the top part of the knot of his tie, and then this thing
pretty much covers his whole upper body and hangs down to about his knees.
You know, if he's doing any sort of autopsy or something like that that
could get messy, keep his suit from getting messed up. And you can
see that he's currently standing over a slab there is a body on there,
and he's taking some notes in a little notepad that he has, and he's
typing some stuff into a terminal nearby. Okay, Silas would walk in and
take his the door off and kind of hold it in his hands and walk
up to Coco inspector. So nice of you to join me, Ah,
good to see you. Is this our guy? Oh? No, no,
this is someone else. Let me just finish up here. And you
hear him click a few more things into his terminal, and then eventually he
finishes that up and he says, no, Sandor is right over this way.
You'd want to follow me, please? Fair things all right? You
follow him through a door too, into another morgue area, and you see
that Sandor is on the table, an examination table, and he's there.
He's covered up with a white sheet up to his basically a shoulder. So
all right, all you see right now is his face, and otherwise the
room has a very sterile, quiet, cold feeling. There's no one else
in here. Right now, there's a single, big bright light on the
ceiling. It's kind of like a rectangular shaped light that just kind of emanates
over the whole area, giving it a kind of a creepy, very fluorescent,
pale white hue. He pulls the sheet back, revealing sand Or,
who of course is naked. Underneath the sheet, he pulls it down to
just below his belly button, keeps his lower half covered, and you can
see immediately there's a fairly large hole right in his chest. And yeah,
Coco kind of gives a sigh when he when he sees that. It's a
terrible shame. Really wow, are we thinking, um blaster? Well,
it's definitely a firearm. He was shot point blank with a large caliber weapon.
Bullet went right through his chest. And uh, well, no one's
no one's brought it back, so it's got to be somewhere at the crime
scene, I would assume, unless someone's already found it, but could be.
But I need to I need the cal I need the fragment to examine
to be for certain. But point blank, yep, is there anything else?
Like, uh, maybe on his face? Or if you want to
give me a medical aid roll you can, and obviously Coco will answer any
questions you have. But if you want to kind of examine for yourself,
give me a medical aid roll. I'll give that a shot. Oh starting
off strong, I don't go ahead and push that. Ah all right?
So, um, so you pushed. Now, keep in mind, I
don't know if you realize this member when you push, if you already add
a one, you don't get to reroll those, so I don't even though
the game showed it rerolling, you don't actually roll. That's why it came
up again, because it stays as a one if you already have a one,
So you fail the push, and because you have a one here,
you're going to suffer point of stress damage, point of resolve damage because this
was an intelligence or an empathy test, so you lose a point of resolve.
Yeah, so maybe Silas is kind of taken it back by you know,
even if it's a replicant, a fellow officer getting shot in the chest,
I think that's fair. And the implication that it could be a blaster,
I think the other two have shared the information with you that they found
ammunition and it appears to be caseless, which would point towards a blaster.
You don't know for sure yet, but yeah, maybe you think about that
and wonder what the implications could be. So that shakes you up a little
bit everything, okay, Inspector, Yeah, yeah, it's what else can
you tell me that you might have found. Uh, well, there's not
much to be honest other than other than the distance of the shot. The
only other thing I could really say for sure based on the trajectory is that
the person who fired this was either shorter than sand or or was perhaps at
a lower position, maybe on the ground. But he would have had been
bent over then for it to be such a close shot. Okay, so
there's a there's a slight incline that very slight. I mean we're talking a
degree or two, but slight enough that it was pointed up. I suppose
the gun could have been pointed up if they were really close, But if
their arm was extended the full the full distance, then I would hazard they
could be shorter. So I guess I would say the shot is at an
incline pointed up very slightly. So Silas at this point would take his right
hand and kind of make it in the shape of a gun, would go
near your chest to chest with Coco and kind of have his arm crooked as
if he was like trying to suss it out himself. Yeah, when he
sees you do that, you know, he's just like it would be be
far too great of an angle if you were standing this close to me.
It's very subtle, and he kind of backs up, and as he does,
he puts like his hands around your forearm to kind of like guide it
and kind of like where the shot is. And like, by the time
he's done doing that, your arm is almost fully extended, and it's really
hard for you to even tell that there's any angle. I mean, it's
probably something so slight that maybe just the way someone's holding their gun, it
could be that way. But all right, I know it's not much,
but that's all I've really been able to do so far. Was there any
thing on his person and his effects. No, just to his usual identification
badge Kia, his wallet, some money, that's about it. And I
mean he would probably have that in an evidence bag nearby and he would you
know, pull that out. You could, you could look at it.
Yeah, So yeah, if there's nothing unusual about it, then doesn't look
like it. No, Yeah, they would have picked up on it.
Um just an odd question, Coco, What do you know anything about any
animoids animals at all? Of course? I do you know that you've seen
you've seen our mascots running around here now and then, and you know that
he's referring to a cat by the name of Biscuits, which is an artific
initial cats that the story goes here. You've been around here long enough,
you know, the story goes that Biscuits was brought in as evidence for a
case, and somehow they got out of evidence, and no one's ever been
able to catch this cat, and so now it's kind of made the crime
lab. It's home and she oftentimes is seen around Coco as if like she
considers him her owner, but never lets you get close enough to to pet
or catch. You know, you don't see her right now, but sometimes
she's chilling and watching from somewhere, but you don't see her right now.
Yeah, I would, uh, I think Silas would show him if he
could. Yeah, the butterflies and us there any significance to butterflies, maybe
blue butterflies. M Where did you find in these? They're good but artificial
of course. Yeah. These were at the at the apartment of Leah.
I have to say, I don't know her very well. I've only interacted
with her a few times. But good taste, I would say. I
mean, there's plenty of stories and symbols. What they could mean or what
they could be for it could be something in her memories that you know,
has to do with it, could be just a personal preference, maybe something
she saw in the street that she was interested in or caught her eye.
Hard to say, I've never I've never seen or been privy to what her
memories may be, so I couldn't tell you there if there's any connection.
But these are definitely artificial, probably came from animoid row, I would guess.
I mean, they're not. This isn't anything illegal or anything under the
counter, as they'd say, so I'm sure someone there probably makes or sell
something like this. M Y good to know. Thanks Coco, of course,
anything else I can do for you, Inspector. I don't want to
put my thumb on the meta game too much, but I wanted to ask,
would it be standard operating procedure for somebody to go through his Kia?
Yeah, they probably did already. Okay, Yeah, no, there's you're
not missing excuse me, you're not missing anything there. If there was,
Coco would have mentioned it there was anything significant. Yeah, I think Silas
would sigh and uh look down at uh Sandor one last time, and then
put on his fedora and go no, I think that's a cocoa. Thanks
for everything, of course, as always, the only thing I guess I
could add, I don't well, it could mean much. I mean,
being in this business, everything could be a clue. Right. Um,
I do know that Sandor and um and uh Leah Leah were I'm gonna mess
it up every time now, Uh Sandor and Leah were looking into some supposed
rogue replicant activity at the snake Pits. I don't know if that was where
they thought something was happening or where they were getting information from, but from
what I read in some of Sandor's notes, that seems to be the reason
why they had been there a couple of times. Right, I'll say you
two give my regards to the rest of the team. That will all right.
Meanwhile we will shift on over to Hector, who's zooming around in his
well, not his but a spinner. And you are heading over to find
Doc Badger's pawn shop, correct in Sector five. Yeah, that's right,
Okay, So you take some time to h it's not very far from the
Lapd Tower. You'll have to go too far, but you do make your
way down to this section of the city, and like many parts of it.
There are massive towering buildings, and then there are rows and rows of
shops, food vendors, kiosks, all sorts of things like that, and
eventually you do find the small shop that is Doc Badgers. Basically, you
are walking. You have to bland your your spinner. You're walking down this
street here, and you eventually get to an alleyway and you can see down
the alley there's a sign above the door sticking out the side of the building
that's flashing kind of flickering. It's probably damaged a little bit, not quite
perfect, and it just says docks on it DC apostrophees kind of a green
flinker flickering letters, and you can see that there's a door just beneath that
sign. All right, I want to could quick look around and assuming nothing
stands out, just walk on through. No, you see people milling about
here and there, you know, wandering the streets. It's not super busy,
but it's it's not completely quiet either. I'll just jump on it.
Okay. So you get to the door and it's solid. It's got like
a view slot that someone inside could look out to see who's there. And
you try the door and it is locked. All right, I'll knock on
it. A couple of moments go by, and eventually the slit opens up
and you can see a figure in there. You're guessing it's Doc Badger,
it's a it's a it's a black man. And you can see he's got
that that kind of weird like scar thing that goes across his bridge of his
nose and just under his eyes and all but all you can really see here
his eyes, and he kind of looks past you, like both ways down
the alley, and then he looks directly at you, and he goes,
okay, do for you? Hey, you the duck. A friend of
mine said you might be able to help people kind of reconnect with they're past.
Yeah, I've been known to do a thing like that. What's it
to you? Well, see, this friend had recommended you, basically,
but those of us are maybe more human than human, having a tough time
that we just need some help getting grounded. Do you know? He kind
of arches an eyebrow a little bit, listening intent if you could like pull
something from our memories into something more real that we could no connect to say,
oh yeah, sure, and he closes the slit. You hear the
lock click and the door slides open from left to right, and you see
Doc Badger standing there. He's got kind of like a tattered sleeveless shirt.
It's a brown shirt with a bit of like a low cut V neck.
And then he's got some baggy pants on, and he's got some sort of
weird like trinket necklace. It's got like some beads, it looks like or
fake beads. And then he's got a pair of dirty old boots on underneath
the baggy pants, and the pants are kind of like cargo pants. He's
got lots of big pockets run along the sides, and he's got like a
little utility belt around that, and he's got a pair of goggles up on
his head right now that he's not using. And his hare's kind of a
curly mess. It looks like maybe sort of an afro, but also a
little bit more curly than an afro would be, but it's kind of like
that that that shape. And he's got a pretty pretty big forehead, a
kind of a receding hairline almost, and a little bit of hair on his
chin, just a very very small beard pretty much just kind of kept kept
fairly short, and he's got some fingerless gloves on as well. He steps
back, motions for you to come inside, and it's h you know,
dimly lit in here. You see there are tons of shelves and just all
sorts of trinkets and tech. There's a desk basically like a counter basically across
from the door to the left, and then you can see that there's another
door that leads out of here that goes somewhere else. Just next to that
count or top so to speak, looks like kind of his workbench, a
bench slash like the register area. And then off to the right and going
further back into the building are just countless shelves that you kind of walk around.
The kind of set up almost like aisles in a sense. And he
goes behind the counter and kind of takes a seat, and he starts tinkering
with whatever he's working on. He's got some tools, like he's disassembling or
reassembling something. Right now, Okay, well go ahead, mom talk.
Yeah, I so my friend here, can you take a look at this?
And I'll pull up an image of the Leah's photo. Let's say my
friend she had this picture made of when she was a kid. I was
wondering if you could do something similar. Well, how did you make this?
Was it like just a composite from a photo? Did you were you
able to pull something from their memories? I guess would you be able to
do something like that? He looks, I wanted to get a photo of
my father or of myself as a as a younger lad. All right,
So he looks over the photo with that you're showing him. You're showing him
the photo that you guys found in her apartment. Correct, Yeah, Okay,
does he have a character sheep? There we go. Okay, Please
give me a manipulation role. Okay, and please also give me an insight
role if you'd like. Sure to there and one on the insight okay.
So you can tell that he is kind of purposely stalling as he looks at
the photo, obviously considering whether or not he should say anything to you.
Yeah, I could do something like that. I could take take a memory,
turn it into a photo. But you get the feeling that he's not
saying everything that he that he probably knows. He seems more cautious to you
than being intentionally secretive. Okay, that's good to hear. What does that
process? Like? He just kind of plug in and he says, yeah,
mon, it's a you know we uh, it's called a stay lion
scan. Hook you up. It takes a long time, very time consuming,
but it can help take your memory image in your head, put it
to paper, so to speak. Who print it out and get your photo?
Okay, it's good to hear. I just popped in between shifts,
so I don't really have a whole lot of time right now. I guess
one other thing. I wanted to ask the lady from the photo, my
friend, have you seen her recently? It's just kind of a shot in
the dark. She didn't come in for a last shift. So he says
no, very plainly, like, no, I've never seen her. But
you can tell that he recognizes either her or the photo or both. I
guess I have a picture of the back of the photo. Could I be
like, and I know you have seen her. I would imagine that.
Yeah, he took pictures on the Kia. So yeah, do you show
him that? Uh, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I guess ply him
a little more of like she said, she came to you to make this
photo. Are you sure you haven't ever seen her? He kind of moules
it over. He's like, she could have, but you know, I
get a lot of people in here, so hard to say maybe, okay,
yeah, I'll show him the other side. It's like this, this
is the mark here. If it's really important, if you could tell us
more about what's going. He eventually seems to relent a little bit, and
he kind of like size, kind of an exasperation, and he says,
look, man, I don't want no trouble, all right. Don't like
getting my clients in trouble here. It's bad for business, you know.
But yeah, yeah, she she came in said, uh um, she
wanted to print out of that memory, said it was her daughter. She
seemed kind of upset about everything, so um I helped her out as best
I could. The picture is of our daughter. Yeah, I'm honest what
she said. Right. Of course, they're such a strong similarity. And
yeah, now that you look at it, you do see there's definitely a
similarity between the girl in the picture and Leah. Uh that's super interesting,
but it's also thrown off my thoughts for questioning. Uh, okay, I'm
gonna can I mill up and down the aisles a bit, I see if
there's anything he's selling that's of interest. Yeah, I mean when you do,
you know, you get the feeling that like it's more of a like
his personal collection, like you're going through like a mechanic shop, rather than
this is like a display area. But he doesn't say anything, but he
does like kind of get up and kind of follow you a little bit.
Now. The way the shelves are set up, think of like the plastic
shelves you would buy like at a store, where there's like a base piece
and then there's a like a small pole in each of the four corners,
and then there's another shelf on top, and so on and so forth.
And these are probably stacked with about four or five shelves, so you can
see, you know, through each shelf because it's just it's a flat shelf.
It's not like a like a shelving unit at a at A it's not
an aisle unit. They're just set up like aisles, so he doesn't have
to like be right on top of you to see where you're going. But
he gets up and he kind of like walks over there, and he's kind
of watching you as you're looking around, and you see all sorts of bits
and bobs. He clearly random tech pieces, some which probably don't work,
some that do, and you get the feeling that this guy, just by
the look of it, this guy probably dabbles in just about everything. You
don't see much in the way of weapons, like, he doesn't have like
an armory down here, but he's got a lot of other stuff that would
probably be worth something to somebody. Okay, okay, so what else you'd
be looking for? I guess techise. I don't really have a whole lot
that's on my shopping list, but I'll keep you in mind if anything comes
up, I might might have to take a rain check on the photo,
but I'll swing back in once I have the time. So, of course
you've never met Leah's daughter, then no, that's uh no, mom,
that's the only time I ever saw that lady. If that's her name,
Leah, she didn't tell me a name. Yeah, she was in here
to one time and I made the photo. Yeah, part of the stay
line scan you kind of do on your own too, so I kind of
left her to do her own thing. So if you want one done,
just let me know. I don't suppose that leaves any additional data around.
You don't have that as a recording or anything. He shakes his head.
He's like, no, once it's once it's done, it's a race after
it does the print out. Yeah, that's probably for the best, just
it takes up such a huge amount of data. You can't really have more
than one on there at a time anyway. All right, well, thank
you for your time. Until next time we meet you. Know ship thing
man, You remember Doc Badga. He take care of you. I'll do
have a good evening. He kind of just gives you like a little like
two fingered salute as you walk out the door. And then once you're out
you can hear it kind of click locked behind you. Meanwhile, back at
the snake Pit, our other two investigators, you two, Garrick and Violet.
You've just come out of the snake pit after reviewing the crime scene,
speaking with Taffy Lewis and the dancer Iris. You've found this bullet fragment that
was in the wall, seen the huge pool of blood in the middle of
the dance floor, and now you're making your way outside. Violet is ahead
of you. Garrick and Violet. As you're scanning the crowd, you do
see this man matching the description of this guy styles they told you about,
and you were just heading over there, I believe to talk to him,
and it looks like he turns and starts to walk away rather quickly. Yeah,
I follow him and I go back to Garrick motioned to him. Do
you say anything the styles? Yeah? I think last time I said they
wait up and he was moving. Okay. As you do that. As
you say that, you see that he picks up speed and darts down around
the corner, down an alley behind the building behind the snake bit. I
pursue after him. Right, Well, it's time for a little bit of
a chase here. But do you want to make sure Garrick sees me before
I? Oh yeah, Garrick's Errick's one zone behind you, So I will
begin pursue. Excellent, okay, folks, fort a live of a chase
here. So this is how the source that's a little loud, sorry,
Okay, So we're gonna start a chase here. You guys start off basically
in front of the snake pit, and he's already around the corner. So
at this point, Tyler Styles is two zones ahead of you, and he's
three zones ahead of Garrick, and you guys are one zone apart. So
the way this works is we're each going to choose a maneuver and then we
will reveal these one at a time, and then I have to roll to
see what kind of obstacle is going to be in your path here, I
mean, what maneuvers you guys are doing. Let me actually pick his first
though. What are you guys going to do? I'm going to try to
cut off, okay, and I will pursue. Okay, he is going
to flee, So we start off with the person who is fleeing. So
he's going to attempt a mobility test, and for each shift he gets,
I'm sorry. For each success he gets will increase the range the distance between
you guys, and I rolled a seven here, so okay. So as
he runs around the corner, this makes perfect sense. A pair of LAPD
Street cops try to block the chase, guns drawn. This gives disadvantage to
the pursue flee, hide and stand and shoot. So this is going to
affect you and him, Sean, because you're both doing the pursue and the
flee option, and let's see what else does this do. Anyone who performs
the sand and shoot maneuver will be fired upon by the cops. You can
attempt to call them, you know, calm them down, assuming how you
interact. You know, I won't I won't go too much into detail,
and he needs more interesting You guys just have to react to them. So
what happens. You see Styles go around the corner and as he's about to
make his way out of sight, you can see that there are two officers
that are here kind of controlling the scene, making sure the crowd is in
check, and you hear them shout and basically try to move and interrupt here.
So this is going to give disadvantage to his role. Let me pull
up his character sheet here, good old Styles. Okay, I get to
actually make a role here. How does this work? What was it a
mobility role? Yes? Oh, look at that though he gets at ten
two successes for Styles. Yeah, he's he's pretty far here. Okay,
So Sean, he is over extreme range to you right now? Oh boy,
for Tyler, he has just gotten out of extreme range this round.
So he gets past the cops as they try to block him and he disappears
down the corner of the alley. You guys can do your orders in whatever
you know, whatever range you'd like, Okay or order, I should say
your maneuvers I failed, so I'm gonna push Okay, one success. Do
you say anything to these cops as you see them like drawing their guns and
shouting at everybody and kind of getting in your half. Yeah, I'd pull
out my badge LAPD shouting we've got a suspect down the run. All right,
give me a connections role please. I'll give you advantage on this because
you're showing your badge. Smart move for successes by instantly recognize that you have
a blade runner badge. One of them quickly steps aside to let you run
past, and the other one actually joins in the pursuit with you, and
he's right behind you. Nice. You see he's like he's got his hand
on his hat like trying to keep it and it just falls off as he
just takes off as fast as he possibly can. You had one success on
your pursuit role. Yeah, okay, So after styles moves, this is
the distance, Garrick, you move up one the officers behind you and yeah
violent your tournament? All right? Great? Um, for cut off,
it's an opposed mobility h slash driving role depending on what you're doing. Um,
now, I don't know if he's considered a stream at this distance.
Uh, let's see here cut off because that would give disadvantage. Yeah,
so disadvantage at long range or more. He was at long range the start,
so even even if he wasn't so yeah. So and you said it's
opposed, Yeah, it supposed mobility, wouldn't you see? Okay, all
right, let me hide my role here. Yeah, let's do it.
Disadvantage led one dice here way Yeah, mine did too, probably the diage.
Yeah, I clicked disadvantage. Um, I didn't click disadvantage on mine
though, Well you don't need to I do for being long range. No,
I'm just saying, oh no, you know, it just didn't roll
my dice at all. That's why. Okay, I'm sorry. Okay,
So violent, even only having one dice gets two successes. Are you happy
with that or do you want to Well, I guess you can't push because
you can't get anymore. So yeah, I mean that's good, right,
Yeah, I'm guessing I'm gonna go with that. That's as high as you
could get with one dice. So yeah, it was pretty determined to catch
this guy, I guess clearly. Yeah. Now, actually I rolled two
successes as well, so we have a tie, and I don't recall what
happens here, so we have to check the old rule book. The post
rolls. Oh, look at that. There's a paragraph that says ties.
Thank you free league. See it's not that hard. This is how you
get a five star RPG. You make rules for shit that you actually need.
If you and your opponent roll the same number of success as, the
result is the is a tie. Typically your action will fail if you roll
a tie as the active party in an opposed role, but in some cases,
like close combat, ties have specific effects. If a tie needs to
be broken, reroll the opposed role to determine the outcome. I think in
this case, you're both both moving at the same the same rate here,
so you try to cut him off, but he's just too far ahead of
you. You go down a different alley, and when you get back onto
the main path, you haven't gained any distance on him. Shit, And
so it actually has something different in the cutoff. It says, or if
you lose oral a tie, the distances increased to extreme. Oh, I
guess we should read the full text. Huh okay, you try to find
a short cut and cut off the prey. This maneuver can only done them
by suit pursuer. Make an a post mobility roll off. The ring is
longer extreme. You get disadvantage. If you win the role, the distance
to the praise immediately reduced to engaged, and an immediate hand to hand combat
or ramming attack can be made as normal. If you lose or roll a
tie, the distance is increased to extreme. If the distance was already extreme,
the chase is over and he is already at extreme right now. I
believe he's over extreme at this point. So unfortunately you when you get back
on the main path here, Violet, you don't see him anywhere. He's
long gone. Do I have a comms to Gerrick or no? We don't.
Yeah, you guys, have you your keys. I'm gonna say,
shit, Garrick, I lost him. Well, the chase is over.
Do I lose the chase too? Yeah? Because he's even further away from
you. Yeah, yeah, Well I guess he's the same distance, but
yeah, he's once he gets past extreme range, he's just too far gone.
So yeah, you take off after him and just you eventually catch up
to Violet as she kind of comes through another alley. You guys meet up
at this junction, the officer huffing and puffing behind you, clearly not ready
for such an extreme a bout of physical activity, And just like that,
it's over. That was a short chase. Shit. Garrick will turn to
the LAPD officer, Can you put out an APB for batman? Goes by
styles bald, real doll. He says, yeah, I'll call it him
a dispatch just a second. Yeah, I guarantee he'll be back. And
eventually you can see the officer. He's got his uh, you know,
his radio on his like shoulder. He's like talking into it. Yeah,
APD apb out on tall, white, very fast male, bald. And
then once he does that, he's like, who the hell was that guy?
That was suspect? Oh shit, Yeah, well thanks for your help.
He just kind of shrugs, like, I wish I could have done
more. Yeah, got away from all of us. So but he seems
to appreciate the sentiment. Yeah, all right, now I know never to
use cut off unless you're close. Yeah. Yeah, it just ends the
whole run, all right, very taller though. If you pulled it off,
yeah, it would have been like, oh well, pulling two successes,
the chase would have been over in one turn regardless. I just this
is so comical. I just imagine his big long legs. He's just like
pretty much running past everyone. Right, well, shit, Garrick, all
right, Well he's definitely suspicious. Did you see him before out there?
Yeah? I've grilled him a little bit too. I forgot if we talked
about our last session. But anyway, let's say we catch up. So
he talked to you, but he ran from me. I snuck up on
him. I saw him acting shifty and made my way through the crowd.
H strange. Yeah, his story didn't match up to what we heard inside.
So that's the guy they think potentially instigated the fight maybe or was at
least part of it. And he's defending the replicant, right but he yeh
him, he didn't. Their stories indicate that he didn't. Necessarily, Well,
they had started a hassling Iris and then he intervened basically on her behalf.
Yeah right, right, so I guess determines what you mean by started
the incident, you know, but his story was that he didn't he didn't
go into the middle or anything like that, so he wasn't near the shooting.
Well, I think it's time to pay the Skylar guy a visit.
But yeah, that, uh, that might be a little more volatile.
Yeah, I want to bring the old dog with us for that one.
Yeah. Yeah, he's part of an anti Replican movement, so yeah,
I don't see that going. Well, you might want to be a little
more crafty about that one. I don't know. Do you want to go
back to base? Yeah, we should probably let the others know. You
guys can get on your key as to tell them too, so you don't
have to keep going back to base to do that. Otherwise he's flying around
all day. Okay, okay, cool, Yeah, I'll do that.
I'll call um, uh sorry, Kyle, forgot your character's name. Oh
that's right, Silas. I'll call holdback and just kind of brief him,
uh, real quick about what happened. Interviewed the folks. Not a whole
lot of help here. We do know that Skyler, you know, the
head of the the sort of kill magazine was here. His guys helped start
the fight. Um, but whatever happened between you know, um uh Sander
getting shot? Not quite sure, but yeah, and then we found that
bullet. Yeah, um, I guess we can. Yeah, ask if
anyone checked out his body yet. See if that bullet matches the casing.
It looks like it could have been from one of our blasters here. Yeah,
that you would have to take back to the LAMB to get tested.
Okay, yeah, I was, I was, I was in with Coco.
He did say it was a point blank shot, very large hole.
Could have been a blaster, but we'll have to look at the casing.
Well, I suppose we can bring that back when we had over next All
right, Well, we are at our halfway break here, even though it
hasn't been that long for our listeners, but we spent some time before we
started tonight. So let's take our break. Players, think about what you're
gonna do for your next shift here, which is going to be your third
shift working. And I'm gonna grab some doctor peppers so we'll be right back.
Okay, listeners, we are back. Players. We're beginning about to
begin the third shift here as the sun or there's not really sun due to
the foggy clouds and such, but daylight begins to turn into evening as night
begins to set upon the city. We're in the third shift now, which
is evening, and then there's the night shift after this. What do you
all decide to do at this point? What are your next steps in the
investigation? I guess I'll get on the Kia and say oarterview with Doc Badger
wasn't quite as fruitful as I was hoping for. Essentially, he said that
he made the photo and it was of Leah's daughter, which is an interesting
detail, but he didn't really have any information on her whereabouts. I think
next we've yet to follow up with a metro cab. That might be a
good stop unless we want to like kick down the door of Kill magazine,
which is the place I would like to avoid if possible. Maybe there's a
way we can subtly get into Kill, maybe not go in as cops.
Is the way for us to know if she did have a daughter or a
record to search. Everybody can give me a let's see, like if that's
even possible. Well, she's a replicant, right, yeah, I bet?
I mean, like you know, it could be adopted or what would
they if she they share a similar appearance, but they replicate I you know,
she could have been made. Maybe she could be a clone. Who
freaking knows? Troupe troupe um. So anybody can make an what would it
be here? Firearms? I think anybody if they want, can make an
insight check based on what you could here. I might give you some information.
Well, I'm gonna make one nothing. Sure you got one? I
have one success boy to push. I can't. I mean you could just
take Yeah, you could damage. Yeah, I'm asking you if you want
to mentally cripple yourself. You're thinking so hard. The best thing is that
it doesn't even it won't give me the option like it usually gives you the
option at the bottom. Yeah, I guess you couldn't then, ye.
Anyway, So Garrick Violet, the two of you would know that, as
far as you know, there is no way that a replicant could have a
physical birth child. Replicants are not designed. They're sterile. They're not designed
to be able to have a child. You're unsure as to whether or not
there's such a thing as a replicant child, as you know, have they
made replicants that are meant to look and be like a kid? You've never
heard of such a thing, but you would lean towards no, because replicants
generally are created to deal with all sorts of jobs so that humans don't have
to do them, and a child, generally speaking, would just not be
fit for the types of jobs that replicants are made for. But it's not
crazy to think it's just something we haven't come across yet. It's something that
really doesn't exist in the wheelhouse that we know, correct. Yeah, I
mean, I guess technically she could be adopted, but you've never heard of
such thing. Like in just me thinking out loud, what if you know
someone lost a child and they wanted a replicant of that child, you know,
something like in that situation. I mean, it's as far as you
know, you've never heard of such a thing, but you probably wouldn't put
it out of the realm of possibility. Considering the history of replicants, the
Terrell Corporation and the Walls Corporation. You also don't think there'd be any record.
If there was, you would have nowhere. I have no idea where
to look. Yeah, well, it seems unlikely that that's an actual daughter.
Could that be a transposed image of what she was supposed to look like
as a child. Well, now that you think about it, it could
be part of her memory or memories, and that is something you could look
in who you found out the memory lab or the person that designed her memories.
You could in theory, actually view her memories or learn about them.
All right, that is something I'll probably pursued, depending on what we decide
as a group to do next. Yeah, all of you know that there
are memory labs that do those very things. Yeah. Doc Badger kind of
alluded to that, and he said that it was scooped from her, from
her brain more or less to go into the boat the photo. That's right.
Yeah, so just to be clear, you know that the stay line
scan is made from a memory. Now, obviously, Doc Badger he didn't
seem indicate that he knew that she was a replicant. So to him,
you know, it seems okay, it's her daughter. It looks like her.
She said it was her daughter. That's her daughter. But you guys
know, her being a replicant, she shouldn't have real memories. So but
that is how a stay line scan is made, regardless whether it's an implanted
fabricated memory or not. Okay, Well, we also could potentially research is
it's Silas the bald guy? Yeah, gain frame and get any more analysis
from the bullet casing, although I don't know if that'll get us much further.
I think we can make some assumptions about what sort of weapon fired the
blasts. Yeah, I would say. I think probably should look into the
metrocab to see if we can find out where Leo went and then sort of
open our search from there. Chris, is there like a database or something?
We're all replicants are like logged into yep, Wallace Corporation, okay,
or the UN. And part of the big history in the Blade Runner timeline
that at least Silas would know about because he's been around long enough, is
that at one point the Tyrrell Corporation gave the entire replicant database to the UN
as a show of goodwill, and that was somehow leaked, and that led
to many Nexus models being hunted down and killed and basically forced them to go
into hiding and become fugitives. So and of course, being a fugitive was
basically illegal, so they were forced to do something they didn't want to do,
which made them even more hated and hunted. You assume such a thing
exists, you would have assume Wallace Corporation would have that. Um, now
there are things at Wallace Corporation. I should point this out just because they're
not exactly the most popular people out there, there are, Um, there
are things that the Wallas Corporation has that you can try to get access to.
And I'm looking on the list here to see if it's actually listed.
Yeah, they have the Wallace Replicant records. It takes what or more promotion
points to try to access and that's done through obviously Wallace HQ. Because right
so I'm just thinking, like dials escape from us pretty fucking well, what
if he's a you know, like a replicant. Maybe that's why I was
able to escape. Yeah, so if we can, would it take a
shift to do that kind of research and look into that. I'm looking up
how that actually works as you guys speak. So just got discussing. Those
are my two ideas. Petro cabin, So we have the cab, we
have Wallace Corps, and then we have the magazine. M Well, Wallace
Corporate. The UN Yeah, Um, the UN is I'm assuming not located
in LA somewhere. No, the UN is basically the only remaining governing body
of the entire planet. Uh, there's like represent representatives and stuff in LA,
but the actual UN you guys might not even know where it is.
To be honest, it's not here, I'll tell you that much. We
go the embassy, I guess somewhere something like that. Yeah, yeah,
um yeah. My initial feeling was U the Replicans could follow up in metrocab
and everyone else could be going to kill magazine right, how we do it
too? And two M So to answer your question, Sean, the chunaround
that's listed for any of these LAPD resources, that is the amount of time
it takes for your request to basically go through and get approved or disapproved,
And if it gets approved, it would also include you following up on that.
Okay, let me see here. Yeah, I guess the because this
is one where you can spend more than one promotion point depending what you're trying
to get, So it would depend. I would say this one because it's
Walls Corporation. The amount of time it's gonna take is gonna largely depend on
how many promote points you spend and how well you pass your test. Okay,
um, what would the test be? It is? I think these
are all connections. Okay, most of these are connections. Some of them
are tech. This one is a connections role okay um. Yeah, So
then I if it doesn't take a shift, then I would I would do
that, And then I think, I guess go with m silence too.
Well, it'll if you get the bare minimum, it'll take a shift.
Okay, if you get really well or spend and you know, spend extra
promotion points, it could go faster. Okay, Um, I will spend
two promotion points and then take the test. I guess all right, I'll
give you advantage for spending the extra promotion point. And because well, what
exactly are you requesting from Wallace Corporation? You obviously this has to be fairly
official, even though you guys are on the case. But the person you're
asking to see this might not know that you're on the case. So right,
so I'm trying to find out. I guess the records to see if
a guy matching styles description, because I don't I doubt styles. This this
actual name matching his description is a replicant, and if so, like where
he lives. Okay, do you mention that it's part of the case at
all when you make this request? No, I leave I specifically leave out
that it's relevant to this case. Okay, then go ahead and roll.
You can have advantage here because you spend extra promotion points. Okay, you
fill out some extra paperwork. One success, one unicorn. We're gonna bush
blank Okay, pution it to the limits. Yeah oof, it got worse
to damage to your resolve and one success. So despite your efforts, it's
going to take a shift before they get back to you and give you access.
But they are going to give you access. Okay, So this will
So this shift is when it's happening. Next shift, the night shift is
when you can actually have access to that information. Right, Okay, what
is everybody else doing or what's the plan moving forward here? I'm good with
the plan of checking out the cape. Yeah, I'm good with the two
replicants to a metrocab and then we can care can peas can follow up at
the magazine? Okay? Great, all right, well, why don't we
go to the metrocab as you guys split up, Do you guys bring the
bullet back to lap D. I would like to get that started. Yeah,
okay, we will assume that during the shift that you guys are out
working, Coco and his team will look into that and they'll have an answer
for you. At the same time, you'll get an answer from Wallace Court.
Okay, okay. So you guys split up into pairs, each piling
into a different spinner, take off, head off in your various directions.
So our replicant team, is there any discussion in the spinner as you guys
are cruising above the city streets especially, we should figure out what questions we're
gonna ask. Yeah, we have. I think we have the cabin number,
and that's probably about it. As a Metro company, they presumably don't
have any particular inclination to hide information from us. I gotta imagine there's a
database or something we can access and find out where that cab went, the
main thing we're trying to figure out from them, right, all right,
Well, eventually you guys head over a dingy part of Sector five, find
this old elapidated building where the Metro Cab dispatch office is located. It's run
down, fairly dirty, some sort of office building. Guys land the spinner
nearby, get out as the rain continues to drizzle here and there. And
when you guys get inside, there is a like a small waiting area.
There's one of those large desks with like the glass like teller's window, so
they're almost like kind of in a booth. They're separated from you, guys,
and it's it's that glass that has like that that diamond shaped pattern like
that like a little grill almost covering the glass. But you can see there's
a woman inside looks pretty bored, pretty you know, annoyed that she's here
at this late hour. You can see that beyond that there's a hallway that
leads further into the building. And you guys could see on your way here
there were a couple metrocabs parked outside and around the building. You imagine there's
more out and back as well. You see she's got a small radio on
listening to some news and looks like there's a really small, crampy TV that's
kind of fuzzing in and out that she's watching something on. I'll walk up
to it, flash my badge and say excuse me, miss, there's someone
we can speak to about the transference of your cabs or any sort of tracking
system folks have. Uh yeah, I suppose what do you need looking for
a bead on this number here and I'll read off all right, give me
a manipulation role please? Three success is holy fuck wow, I coop it
very uh, very seductively. Uh well, she had to imagine that a
lot sexier. Okay. Uh so you you rattle off the number, you
slide a piece of paper under the glass and she um, she takes her
glasses and like kind of puts them down, like so that she's actually looking
at you with her eyes rather than through the glasses. And she goes,
honey, I'll do whatever you need. Give me a minute. And she
starts typing in some the code on the thing here, and she says,
uh, all right, yeah, this is uh this Earl's cab. What
exactly do you need trying to find out where it went? Where it may
be right now? She says, well, I can call him up on
the radio for you if you like. But is that particular day you're looking
for a sweetheart? Uh yeah, two days ago? The vehicle may who
have been involved in a shooting all right, it takes looks She's like,
uh, yeah, you gotta he got a time. I can pull up
his his route tabs here. Uh, I don't know if we do have
a Yeah you would you you don't like actually know what it is, but
you guys would have that information, got it. Yeah, I'll give her
what information I have, and just trying to see where it may have went
after this time, says okay, yeah, left left the Snake Pit Club
fairly late that night, right around the time you just said. And it
looks like Earl took him, took him over to Animoid Row after that.
That's what a drop off is. So I look back, Um, it's
like, you want me to call him up on the radio? That will
that be helpful? They're a chance we'd be able to talk to him in
person. I mean, if you tracked him down. I don't. I
don't know exactly where he is right now. He's out working, but I
mean I'll call him up for us, no trouble, Sure, it's all
right. One second you see she pulls up with a dispatch. It's like,
uh, yeah, ear are you there? Earl? Oh? Oh,
you better answer this damn phone. Get your ass off whatever you're doing
and answer the phone. And then finally here, I'm here, I'm here.
What is it? Says? That's better? So I got two LA's
finest here looking for some information. We just hoping you could give us a
little hand if that ain't too much trouble. And she kind of winks at
you guys, and he's like, yeah, but what do you need officers.
Hi there, mister Earle, just looking at try and find some information
on a fair you may have had at two days years ago at you know,
X y Z time. Someone you may have picked up around the snake
pit taking an animal row. Mm yeah, um yeah. It was as
a woman I don't know, probably in her thirties, ish, short brown
hair. She seemed like she was kind of in a hurry, asked me
to take her to animoid row and yeah, dropped her off and she took
off. She any identification or how'd she pay you? Well, just some
chinyon the usual. Do she have any blood or signs a strain or a
struggle on her? If she was, I wouldn't have asked. I'll tell
you that much. I've I've been down that road. If you know what
I mean so nothing that I saw. I mean, she looked upset,
she did have a gun on her. But I've been in that situation too,
so I know better than to ask questions. Well, should have written
me anything, but I fear better not to poke the bear. Did it
look like this kind of gun? And I pull up my service weapon.
You're on a radio right now, not a video? Oh oh sorry,
Yeah, she's like on her dispatch, like walkie talkie radio thing. Sorry,
did it sound like this? And then fire it and clear? Just
another day at metrocab dispatch. Yeah, wells, that's about. That's about
all I got that to me. That seems like that matches. Uh leah.
While that you called the drop off point in animal row, we could
have just gone straight there. Well well, earl, I appreciate your time
and your help with this. Um yeah, unless you got any other questions,
I think I got what we're gonna get. No, I think that's
it for me. Thanks for coming out here. I figure it's overkill to
send us both, but I certainly wasn't going to volunteer to go out to
that trash magazine. And if I spend another their shift in front of a
computer, I'm gonna tear my fucking hair out. Well, yeah, I'll
i'll uh yeah, that's that's a bit. I'll i'll think the uh you
know, the the lady again and uh she she winks again. She says,
uh names Irma, sweetheart, Irma's been very helpful. Appreciate it.
Um, yeah, baby, check out animal row. Next, she says,
well, my my pleasure, darling. It's not too often I get
an LAPD officer and here quite as good looking on the eyes as you are.
I smile at that, all right. Meanwhile, on the other side
of LA our two human detectives are headed off to Kill Magazine, which is
right over. Yeah, is there anything in that The two of you discuss
on your short spin er flight on the way there. Yeah, so Derek,
would I guess, because I don't think we talked about this. Uh
it just go over the meeting they had with because it it's Kell Quell like,
well, yes, Quell. So boys, Um, we had that
meeting with Quell early in the morning. She uh. She pushed us towards
this group at Kill Magazine and the anti replica, anti replicant empathy movement pretty
early on. But I don't just seemed kind of suspicious how quickly she focused
in on them. Well, I think she wants heat off of a possible
replicant on replicant homicide. Yeah, I don't know. It's it's a lead
and those other two are useless here, so I'm gonna need you to kind
of smooth talk whoever this guy is. Yeah, I mean I could just
shoot on replicants. Yeah, I had to do that earlier today. Well
not unusual. Doesn't sit well, no, but it helps us find whoever
killed one of our guys because I'm willing to do it. Yeah. All
right, Well, eventually you guys make it to kill magazine located over in
sector one here on the northwest side of the map. When you get here,
it's not a terribly large building, and we actually do have a map
here we can check out. Oh boy, I think I need to give
it. Probably need to have a guys sit here, don't I Yeah,
because this game loves to not give you vision that work. Yeah, very
cool. Okay, So this is the front waiting area. There's basically some
steps that lead from outside. It's just it looks like a two story building.
There's the office on the ground floor here in it you're assuming there's probably
like an apartment or something above, and you guys walk past this one big
window the magazine. You can see the logo here at the top of the
map. It's these big, blocky, red outlined letters that say kill and
then very fancy cursive writing that says magazine kind of at a slant underneath.
And it is a tabloid magazine that is known for having some of the more
shocking or controversial news in the city. Some people swear that it's the only
publication out there that actually bothers to publish the truth, whereas a lot of
other people think that it's just trying to take advantage and glorify all the terrible
things that happen in the city. You walk through this main door here at
the bottom of the building, and you find yourself inside a small lobby.
There's a large old leather sofa to your left with a small coffee table in
front of it, and you can see ahead of you there's a small set
of stairs that goes into the main office area where the various reporters journalists would
have some of their booths, their stations. There's a desk here where the
secretary would be at and it looks like they're getting ready to close up for
the day by the time you guys get here, but there is still a
woman behind the desk. She's got very kind of retro style thick glasses,
looks like she's maybe in her late twenties early thirties. It's got some red
hair pulled back in a kind of like a ponytail, and like two big
bangs kind of hanging on either side of her face. And she's got a
red kind of tight skirt on that goes just past her knees, and then
a white dress shirt that's buttoned up. The sleeves are rolled up just past
her elbows. And she's got these big necklace, like these big thick green
beads. Can't I help you? Okay? Him? I guess we're looking
to see if we can talk to Jill Skyler. Yeah, I Miss the
Sky is not in right now. He's busy. Yeah, And she's she's
chewing gum super loud and obnoxiously while she says this, Well, it's pretty
important. Do you know where he would be? Yeah, I'm afraid I
can't say I don't know, I don't know, or can't say they are
different. She's like half paying attention to you, and she's like kind of
twirling her hair around one of her fingers, like just kind of looking around
the room. So then I guess at that point, I'm just gonna pull
out my badge. It's really important I speak to him. She uh sighs
like it's the biggest inconvenience of her life. And she just imagined me at
work, and she clicks a button on like a phone or intercommon phone.
It's like, yeah, mister Skyla, Uh, there's uh some some you
know police here to see you did did? Yeah? Should I send them
up? And then you just like uh huh yeah, huh yeah, okay,
all right, go right on. I'll just go through there and uh
he'll he'll meet you. He'll meet you right. Don't touch anything you see
there's there's uh there's framed uh glass posters of various kill magazine covers lining the
walls throughout this building. Um Garrick will literally just touch one of them,
just a big handprint, like grease up the glass a little bit. It's
pretty nice. And then keep walking. She'sn't even paying attention to you guys
anymore. Yeah, she goes back to doing whatever she was doing. Bylas
would chuckle that. On the way past another one, he would nudge just
a corner of it, so it's tilted just a bit. Just the most
petty shit right now. All right, Well, you guys make your way
into this conference room over here, and eventually this door to the north opens
up, and it's like an elevator door, and you see coming out of
that door is the man himself, Gel Skyler, older man, probably in
his fifties, maybe even sixties, a little bit heavy set, very big,
wide face, with big jowls, a couple liver spots on the side
of his cheek and up on his forehead, big big bags under his eyes,
and ray almost like mildly shoulder length hair, kind of unkempt, kind
of slicked back, furrowed brow. And he walks in and he says,
ah, if it isn't my best friends in the world, what can I
do for you to find offices? Well, um, you know your name
came up in an investigation and we had to do our due diligence. Why
we came here just to talk to you make sure everything's clear. Oh is
that so? Yeah? Yeah, Well my name comes up in a lot
of places. If you if you haven't noticed, well that's the first time
I'm hearing of you. So hasn't gotten to our years yet. Yes,
you probably read some of those other shit publications. Make it fast, copper.
Time is money. What do you need? Am I being accused of
a crime or you just here to waste my time? A little bit of
both? Yeah, well he's got a sense of humor. Do you hear
that? Penny fucking guy? Can you tell us where you were? That
was two nights ago, Chris, one night? It was the night before
today. Yeah that's what well as soon that's what Tyler said. But yes,
just one night, okay, Yeah, so then can you tell us
where you were that night? He gives a big sigh and he's like,
I suspect that you already know that. Yeah, we have a vague inkling.
And so then can you tell us what happened? Yeah? Uh,
this big, tall albino bastard started to argue with me and my boys,
and he was just having some fun, you know, joying some time seeing
the sights. And yeah, he came over, started yelling, puffing his
chest. Yeah, a couple of shoves, couple fists and then well,
and then there was there was a couple of shots too. It's like,
yeah, it's two those two blade Runners hanging out at the bar. They
came up to arrestless lunatic as they should have, might I add? And
then yeah, out of nowhere, the other blade Runner pulled out her gun,
shot the other one right in the chest. Ran off. Everybody ran
off at that point, including us. And yeah, saw her hop in
a metro cab as she was booking it. You're gonna make quite a story,
don't you think? And he gives you a big, toothy, sarcastic
grin when he says that, yeah, might be a big story. That
a big albino guy. Have you seen him there before? Oh? Yeah,
his name styles. I've seen him lurking around as much as a six
foot freak can lurk around. Do you you know if he's a human or
one of them skin jobs? Not sure? I would guess he's a skin
job though, always hanging around there with those fuckers. When he started causing
issues for you guys, do he say anything specific? I don't hurt the
dancer, she's too delicate. Don't throw the bottles at it. Yeah,
typical nonsense. Yes, Silas has his as usual every time he enters a
place, takes his hat off. His his like fists are gripping his hat
and you can hear them audibly, like start to crunch. Jesus, y'all
right there, detective, need a glass of water. Maybe you look a
little strong. No, no, it's a long day. I do I
offend you when I use such strong language. Nothing strong about that. You
can go stronger, can't you. M Yeah, we'll just wait till tomorrow.
Wait till you see the cover. It's gonna be great. What a
what's the plan for the cover? Curious? Oh? So glad you asked
Detective blade Runner kills blade Runner in night club shooting. Oh, it's gonna
be great. Yeah, certainly a headline. So anything else? Or can
I get back to sleep? I got a business to run and I need
my beauty sleep well, Kyle, I think that's all the questions I have,
And I think that's it for me too. And as he gets up,
he goes towards the elevator door and then he stops. He turns up.
So I was like, oh, by the way, I didn't get
your fine gentleman's names. No, you did not. I'm just gonna get
up and walk alike. As you walk away, he says, are you
sure you want to do that, officer, I'm sure your deputy chief wouldn't
be too happy to hear about you mistreating the general populace in such a rude
way. And then he looks over to you, Halbeck, what about you?
Silas would kind of tilt his head to the side like he was bowing,
put his fedora back on, and turn and walk. Okay, officers,
you play at your way. I'll be sure to drop off a few
special issues for you tomorrow, Fritz. And he goes back into the office
kind of or the elevator, kind of laughing as the door closes behind him.
What do you guys do after that? Well, yeah, I think
we'd exit, and Sorilas would turn to Garrick and say, so the angles
changed a little bit, so so he was defending the dancer from this prick.
Yeah, And then they came up trying to figure something out because they
wouldn't arrest him. Why would they, Well, I mean, played runners
are usually on cases with replicants, right, styles is a replicant and had
committed some crime. Maybe they were after him, but why would she shoot
her partner? Yeah, and he's a loon, but he's not. I
don't think he was lying because he wasn't. He was almost bragging about throwing
things at the dancer, right, so he was rather forthcoming. Something doesn't
add up. It usually doesn't. But we definitely need to find Styles.
Maybe maybe they found something on that cab. Yeah. Yeah, if we
figure out if Styles is a replicant, then maybe there's an address, and
if not, maybe one of us stakes out the snake pit again. Well
yeah, not you two that we're already there. Yeah, you would know
us Hector or I could take that. Yeah, when we landed there,
he was out there just looking specifically almost like for us M. So definitely
suspicious. Yeah, and uh, I might want to let the chief know
that Kill Magazine's going to be putting out a great headline tomorrow. Yeah,
we should probably let him know. Um. Yeah, Chris, are blade
runners like publicly known? I would think? Not? Right in what sense?
Uh? Well, like, how did the editor of Kill Magazine know
that two blade Runners were there if only one of them fired their weapon?
You're not sure, but um, blade runners are known in the sense that
the public knows blade runners are a thing, right, but they're normally plain
closed detectives. So you know, just because they're playing close cop doesn't mean
they're a blade runner. They could just be a regular detective or working for
a different department in the LAPD. He so, um, him knowing that
they were blade runners seems kind of suspicious. Okay, it is suspicious.
I mean, there's there could be many explanations as to why he knows that.
Clearly, being you know, the head of one of these magazines,
he's probably more informed and probably has his fingers and more pies than the average
person, and it could be many ways he knows that. But yeah,
you don't know for sure how he would know that. Yeah, it's unusual,
but it's not it's not out of the realm of possibility. Right.
Yeah, suspicious, but not very easy. Okay, Okay, So as
night, I'm sorry, his evening begins to turn tonight, what do the
four of you do as this shift kind of comes to an end? At
this point, three shifts have gone by. If we go into a fourth
shift, then most of you are going to start suffering another point of resolved
damage from stress. So what does everybody do at this point, It's like
we might want to rest and hit it hard in the morning. Yeah.
I actually think I'm gonna hit the steak pid see if styles looped around?
Oh interesting, I was going to suggest it might be best to follow up
on the lead from the cab of Lee as possible location as soon as possible.
Oh, annamoid row on it, anamoid row. A couple of us
could go out there while the other two rests and then swap shifts at that
point. Sure, yeah, it's also a plan. Well, all Beck,
are you going to continue working since you have the married to the job
talent? You bet? I'm gonna head down to Animoid Row. Okay,
Uh, what about the other three of you? Are you all going to
take some downtime? I figure Violet, it should be you or meet with
silence out there. I'm pretty good at I guess, at least the manipulation
part of the investigation, So I don't mind taking this extra one and going
to Animal Royal. Is it animal or anamoid Row? Anamoid Row? All
right, got it? Okay, I'm then our Hector and Garrick taking a
break. Yeah all right, so, uh, Garrick will start with you.
We'll say that. Um, how beck will drop you off wherever you
need to go, because he's going to continue on into the night and then
probably meet up with Violet. So where would you have him drop you off?
What are you going to do in your downtime? Um, He'll just
go to a bar. Okay what kind of bar is? Uh? Is
our detective here looking for you? Looking in? Like, what part of
the city are you going to? Um, let's see, I gotta go
back to the map. Tell tell us a bit how Garrick Johnson tries to
defrag after starting his day getting reamed by his digital and then going through the
ringer with all he's done. I mean, at this point, you're coming
off like a I don't know what six hours per shift, right, Yeah,
so like a twelve to eighteen hours shift, you know, of of
working with very little rest in between. Yeah. He would try to find
kind of just a small hole in the wall kind of bar where he can
just get a booth by himself, drink and think about the day and other
stuff that's happened, maybe go back over occasionally thinking about that key memory of
his growing up, that person disappeared in the snow, all of the violence
and bloody scene, just trying to figure out what had happened today and what
he could have done better. Is this a bar that he normally frequents,
or does he find something new tonight? Oh, find something new, all
right? So haul back you, you know, find an area in the
city and he's like, yeah, it's dropped me off here, and you
land the spinner so he can get out, and you can tell he's probably
gonna go wander off to some drinking hole sean. You eventually find a small
little bar. It's got a red awning above the door, and when you
walk inside, there's a bar on the right hand side that stretches pretty much
from wall to wall, and it's actually got one of those at this point.
It's like an old school, but one of those rotunda doors where you
gotta push you know, the glass that kind of spins in like a circle.
And you get inside. There's a lot of furniture here that looks pretty
old and almost antique in some way. It's meant to look like it's wood
furniture, but it very clearly is some cheap knockoff. There's a couple of
tables throughout the center here that usually have like two to four seats. The
bar looks like it seats maybe about eight to twelve people, and the bar
itself is kind of set up to be like almost like a nineteen twenties or
thirties theme. And at the at the back of the of the this room,
opposite the door you come in, there's a small stage that is,
you know, just like a step or two up above the floor, and
you can see that there is a band of four people, three men and
one woman. The three men are all dressed in like tuxedo type blues Brothers
type outfits. One is on a piano, one is on a saxophone,
and then the other is on like some sort of guitar. They're playing some
smooth jazz. And then the woman is in this very bright, sparkling,
gorgeous like evening dress, gown no st strapless. It's got a nice lung
split up the side. She's got very very nice matching high heels, and
she's got black leather gloves that go up past her elbows. Hair is up
in kind of a almost like a perm big big bushy kind of style haircut,
some nice fancy jewelry, and she's singing into one of those old school
microphones, you know, the metal one that's got the like the horizontal slits
across the front. Yeah, and yeah, it's like some very smooth,
kind of laid back. The whole bar is filled with smoke when you come
in. Almost everybody that's here's only a couple of people. Most of them
are watching. The bar just has one other person at it, and the
bartender's dressed in a very simple but you know, kind of fashionable dress vest
with a little bow tie, almost like a like a butler in some some
ways, where do you sit like a corner booth? I can take her
some there's no booths, but there's tables up against the wall and in the
corner things like that. Yeah, you just take one of those. Sure,
And you said you're gonna talks a little bit more about your memory here.
What's going through Garrick's mind as he tries to recuperate. He would just
go over that memory, trying to connect it and just reliving that somewhat traumatic
event from when he'd wandered out into the snowy area and had happened upon bodies
of people and that all the blood he'd seen, that day had sort of
been reminded of the blood he saw today in that pool of blood from one
of his essentially coworkers right now, someone he knew, but they were both
on the force. Yeah. Yeah, you've never met Sander personally. He's
only been on the force for a couple of months, so he's kind of
a newer model, newer replicant. I mean, he's been on the force
longer than Lee I think, but yeah, he hasn't been on for very
long. Okay, all right, well you order a drink. I suppose,
kind of kick back, try to relax. The atmosphere definitely helps.
The woman has a great voice and singing very like slow, low, kind
of sad, kind of uplifting songs, and she's on for a couple of
songs. As it looks like you've kind of when you came here. She's
made about halfway through her set as this goes on. Meanwhile, so haul
back, you head bat. You're heading towards animoid Row or towards the snake
pit, and you're going there with Violet. Correct, Well, we should
not go to snake pit with me. There is just a case style.
I'm just confirming. Where are you guys going. I thought we were going
to Animoid Row, okay, but he did mention about sneaking back to Snake
Pit. But I think that's before we talked about splitting up and me going
with him there. So all right, well let's do this, Uh,
Hector, We're going to assume that Violet drops you off somewhere as you're going
to take some downtime. So what is it that you're gonna do? Uh?
I think Hector is also going to go to a bar, but I
think his goal is to have a little fun trying to hustle some tough guys
into like arm wrestling bets, okay, and basically like throw them over the
table for like lunch money. Basically with the with the clean suit is going
to go into like a kind of trashy like a biker bar sort of thing,
and that uptight order a drink and be like, hello, good sir.
I was wondering what sort of wine selection he might have here. So
it's this biker chick behind the bar. She's got short torn like jean shorts,
black sleeveless like tank top with the logo of the bar on the front.
And the bar is called the crowbar and she it's got kind of long
black hair. She's got heavy like eyeshadow makeup on, some black lipsticks.
She's got the spiked bracelets on both hands, several of them, and she
like her eyes kind of go wide and like disbelief. When you walk up
to the bar, she says, you're looking for wine here. I think
he got the wrong place, buddy, I could drink anything. I'm not
too picky. She as poor pulls something from the bar, pours it.
She's like, all right, try that. She kind of slides over to
you, and then she she leans back on the railing behind her, you
know where the all the drinks and bottles are set up, and she's kind
of eagerly watching with like a grin on her face. Yeah, I'm gonna
just sign the back, all right, give me a stamina test please,
all right? One success, So you put it back. It's certainly not
something that you like, not your preferable taste, but you down it without
making any sort of scene. And uh, you see she kind of loosens
up a bit, she seems to relax and just kind of gives you a
big smile. She on another. Uh in a moment, I really wanted
to say, I love the theme here, the crowbar, and then everybody
the hair is black clothes. It's really something. She just kind of laughs
and she's like, yeah, it's uh, it's something I suppose. She
says. You must not get to this part of town very often, not
too often. So what brings you to a place like this? Because you
look like you should be hanging out somewhere else. To be totally honest,
through a dart of the map, Okay, I can dig that. What
if I look around and like point to somebody next to me, be like,
what about this guy? What about him? I don't know what?
What brings you here? Sir? Oh you say that to the guy?
Okay? Yeah? He like, so it's this. It's this big dude.
He's got a bandana, long probably brown hair that's like in a ponytail.
He's got this big, thick beard, and he's got sunglasses tucked into
his biker vest, and he just kind of looks over his shoulder a bit
at you, and he goes talking to me. Yeah, for sure,
he looks you up and down. You look on his face as he's either
confused or completely angry. You're not sure what brings you out here this fine
night. You're joking, right, what does it look like I'm doing?
Just drinking or yeah drinking? Well, I buy around, maybe you can
get the next one, or we could do a little wager. Uh.
There's all sorts of expressions coming across his face, and then you say wager
and it looks like you have his attention. Nothing too crazy, Oh,
just arm wrestle for it. Whoever loses buys around for the bar. You
hear the girl behind the bar go, oh shit, axel, he wants
to arm wrestle you. Oh, this is gonna be great. And she
starts like shouting around to some of the people in the bar, and pretty
soon you find yourself. They bring out one of those arm wrestling tables,
you know with the little handles and everything, and he goes all right,
pincushion, what uh what's the wager? Oh? Nothing personal, I think
just get a drink on the house for everyone here. He looks around.
Everybody's like cheering, like, oh yeah, this is gonna be fucking great.
We're all gonna get free drinks. He's like, all right, got
your self a deal, and he, you know, claps his one arm
ors one hand around the handle and he brings his other one up to you.
He's got like the fingerless biker gloves on. All right, let's get
to it then. All right, give me and a post strength test and
let me find an appropriate NPC here for this guy. Street thug seems like
a good one to use in this situation. Fair enough, So yeah,
we'll just do straight strength. Uh you know what let's do to force?
Yeah, for it's good, three, I got two. He well,
I will tell you his result. Ye, unless you want to push.
I mean that's about it's not gonna get a lot better. I'm gonna stay
with two, not unless you rull a ten. Yeah, okay, you
guys have a tie. So this first round, both of you back and
forth, but nobody can get the advantage. He's straining, there's veins popping
in his head, his muscles, his bice up as bulging, and everybody's
shouting like come on, actual, put this guy down. And someone's like,
you're not gonna loosen his pencil deck, come on, you pussy go
And there's a lot of router. You can see other people are starting to
pass some bets around, and you see the girl behind the bars busy getting
some drinks for everybody. She's like starting to pour shots of something in anticipation
when this ends. So we're gonna need another another role here. As you
guys are just back and forth, back and forth, I'm gonna say,
though, you're each gonna take ah, well let's do Let's do this first
and see what happens. So give me another force role. Alrighty, we
got one. I think I think I will push that one. Kay got
too, good choice because he had one success. So this time, finally
you can see he slowly starts to his hand, gets bent towards the table,
and eventually he puts up a good fight. But it's like this slow
death where eventually you're able to get his hand. It's like stuck. It's
like just an inch from the table. He's doing everything to keep it from
touching the top of the counter, and find only that last like inch.
You slam it down and the crowd goes crazy, like um. He's sweating
and panting and huffing, and at first he looks a little angry, but
there's so much like joking and like kind of impressed people around that he quickly
just kind of does like a bad man. Yeah, and you're stronger than
you look. Pencilnick, I do what I can. Looks can be deceiving
man. He introduces himself as as Axel and H. He does eventually buy
everybody some drinks, and H gets you one as well. It's a pleasure
to meet you, Axel. I'll be back again soon for remit you you
know what you cost me? H, you cost me tonight. But it's
the most interesting thing that's happened all day. So yeah, I suppose we'll
see you around. Well, then you see the girl behind the bar.
She gives you awake and she says, not bad. I'll wave to everybody
and head on all right. As you leave, you get out onto the
streets, and even though it's late, this area is fairly crowded, and
when you look, you have to do a double take because you see kind
of walking through the crowd, you see someone that you recognize. And I
don't know if you gave me a name for this person, but it is
your old superior who has gone missing, your old superior when you worked in
Eternal Affairs before you got transferred to be the Blade Runners. What do you
do? I'm gonna spin around and try to find him. All right,
you chase through the crowd. You have to push through some people. Please
give me another force roll as like all of a sudden, it's like time
almost slows down for you. And there it feels like there's so many people
here. You're like at a concert, just trying to force your way through
this sea of bodies. What did you get? I got one success?
One success? Okay? So you managed to push through this group and you
kind of get to an opening, like a like a town square, big
corner. You look around because you think you've lost him, and then you
see you're behind him. His back is to you. You see him and
he goes up to like one of the newsstand dispenser. Things get like a
newspaper and he's obviously picking up a copy and he doesn't seem to have noticed
you. Okay, I'll kind of calmly walk up to him and ask is
that you Nathan? And you do do you like? Do you like do
you grab him or anything? Or you just say that and kind of walk
closer. I don't grab him, no, okay. He eventually stands up
after he gets the paper out, and as he does, he turns and
he says ah, sorry, what'd you say? And when you turn when
he turns around, you realize it's not Nathan, it's someone that looks a
little bit like him. Oh sorry, sir, I thought you were an
old friend of mine. You have a good evening, Yeah, you too,
And he tucks the paper under under his arm as he does so.
And this is going to be an event that is going to cause some stress.
So in this game, unlike an alien where certain things do make you
take stress, in this game there are different events that will cause you to
have to potentially take stress. But it can be more than one, so
it could be anywhere from like one to three or even more depending what it
is. However, in this case, you in this game, you get
to actually roll to try to block some of that. So this is just
going to cause one point of stress, and you make an insight check.
For every success you roll, you reduce the damage of this by one.
Okay, maybe do insight let's see, Oh yeah one okay. So it
flusters you a little bit, it shocks you. You know, your whole
was up and then it was kind of dashed. But you're able to kind
of steady yourself, get your breathing under control, and you don't you don't
suffer any stress there. And there is one other thing that you see,
I just have to find it first. You notice that there is one of
the newspapers is kind of like sticking out of the dispenser. It looks like
this guy didn't close it properly or one of the papers got stuck. So
there are basically one like kind of half hanging out that you could easily take
if you wish. Sure, all right, I'm going to give you guys
access to this today's paper, The Independent Sentinel. I'll share this with everybody
here. Do you want to maybe give our listeners a quick description of what
you see here? Well, we definitely have the big headline NEXTUS nine replicant
launch is a resounding success. Quote unquote from the Wallace Court. H I've
got a'd ad for Bob surplus, bullet runner for guns and Ammo and uh
a little chess puzzle that I'll look at later once I figure out how to
new man on this thing. Um, you really you have to use the
little the little thing in the corner to make the window bigger in foundry,
that'll kind of make it zoom in. Yeah, actually, you can actually
read the text, then yeah, zoom in enhands and hands and hands.
Uh maybe interesting this rising star of memory design. Who would the next nine
replicants be without their memories to keep them obedient? This rising star as an
unlikely comeback story. This goes on for a while, but names with Tyrrelle
setting up business as a contractor for Wallace Corps. Give me a insight test
please or connections those that too? So you read it and then you do
double take and you recognize when you read the full article here in detail.
Lilith Tyrrell is the niece of Eldon Tyrrell, who was the head of the
Tyrrell Corporation, the company that originally created replicants, and he was murdered back
in twenty nineteen by a group of rogue replicants, a group of Nexus sixes.
Those are the that is the whole premise and plot of the first film.
But you realize, like, oh shit, this is his like biological
descendant. Furthermore, it goes on to talk about how Lilith, his niece,
she inherited the Tyrrelle Corporation didn't do too well. She eventually had to
sell it off before they became bankrupt and she disappeared out of public eye for
a little while. You also know that around twenty twenty two, during the
blackout, there was an attempt on her life from the replicant resistant movement,
and you're pretty sure she suffered some sort of injury in that, and supposedly
a blade runner stopped that from killing her, but she was still injured.
And once prohibition was put in place, that was kind of the final nail
in the coffin. Coffin for Tyrell Corporation basically went bankrupt. They sold off
everything in Wallace Corporation quietly bought all of their assets for replicant technology. And
now it seems about a decade later, she has emerged back in la as
a e member of the memory design industry, and it seems like she is
actually maybe an independent contractor that has done some work for Wallace Corporation. Okay,
very interesting, and well, you do have a critical success here,
so I'll give you one other bit of information. He looks kind of familiar.
You see a vague resemblance between her and Leah Leah fuck Leah oh,
I have a lot of vapor. For some months has done She's the daughter,
and we're in a time loop. We're actually playing the Terminator RPG.
I don't know if you knew that. Yeah, Now, as we end
the downtime here, for those of you that participated in downtime, you will
let's see here, replicants, if you're missing any health, you'll heal two
points of health for each shift of downtime. Humans heal one point of health.
I don't think anybody's actually been physically hurt yet. I thought you were
recovered stress as well. I think, So, what's that? All right?
I'll tell you what you guys wanted to have your discussion when you guys
finally get to where you're going, Tyler and uh Kyle, or if you
guys wanted to discuss most yourselves, what your plans are here, and I'll
be right back. Well that's quite the discovery. As soon as he said
it looks like someone similar, I'm like, oh fuck, he's gonna say
leah, no, so we're silas we're going to animal row, right,
yep, all right, yeah, I think that's uh, that's a good
run. Uh So never mind, I'll wait till we talk again before I
talk about theories about was her Uh what was the Tyrell daughter's name live Lilith.
Yeah, well do we have, um, you don't have any of
the uh the animals with us that you took from lives or I'm sorry,
Leah's apartment. No, i'd have we'd have like a photo of the butterflies.
So needs something to be able to flash around and ask, Yeah,
all right, I took a photo of him, all right, not that
that I mean, that's not like a huge lead that makes sense, but
it's something. So why would she come back here to animal role? Un
she had to hide out here or news someone? Boy, I can't wait
to see the look on that bitch's face from Wallace Corporation when she finds out
that replican shot each other. I'm a I'm a big fan of this quell
quarrel you have, dude, she started it. Yeah, she was breaking
you guys. Yeah, she's the worst. Or Leah, Well, that
could be a picture of Lilith when she was little, and this Leah might
be a replicant made based off her. Yeah, and they may have implanted
her with Lilith's memories, so that that photo might be from a real memory.
It might be of Lilith, might be it's a theory, a game
theory. Given what we know, it's just pretty pretty sound theory. Well,
I feel gratified at the very least. Guys, Yeah, I think
I think we're on the right path. I think we're making good progress,
you know, only I didn't try to cut and run, But I have
a feeling we wouldn't have caught that dude anyway. Yeah, well he was,
Yeah, he was going to elude us. Yeah, there's there's more
to his story. He's he's the one part unless he's just kind of he's
would just you know, not really related aside from the fact that he could
be a replicant and a sympathizer and he you know, was just in the
right or wrong place at the time, you know. But I could could
horribly be wrong about him too. Really don't know. Yeah, yeah,
well it could definitely be more to his story, But it sounds like he
keeps coming back too. So I feel like, yeah, like Thylis or
um actor should check it out at some point, because at least we would
get we might be able to get the trap on him. Although I look
very inspectory um because he know, but you know, Gerrit did two kind
of he spotted him from the crowd looking at him. So I don't know
he he remember he had that weird fascination with cops. Right, I think
we should actually look because the Blade Runners had to have been were probably working
on a case, right, we should look to see what case they were
working on and if it somehows connected to styles. You're right, we didn't
really look into that. I'm wondering if they were there because of the I
mean, this wasn't the first time the dancers had been hassled by the Kill
magazine people, right, or Humans First or whatever, you know, whatever
group they are, So I guess I maybe assumed that they were working on
that, but no one's ever explicitly said that. So right, all right,
So I got a couple more. I've just been sitting here listening for
like the last two minutes. It's interesting, guys theorize, really theorize my
revenge against what's her? Nuts from Wallace? Yeah? Man, I really
don't like her, Man, I know, I know she me a reason.
She gave me a reason not to like her. You know, you're
you're being like Ben right now with Bonniel. You're just you're just being a
petty like she's just doing her job. Yeah, she's not doing a good
job. No fucking kill this girl, fucking fucking teenager. How dares she
treats me like shit? Rich kid guy calmed down? Yeah right, you
just threatened a teenage girl, like take it down, nuts, bro.
As you guys are on your way to anamoid row, silas haul back?
Are you inform me? Do you or Johnson inform the chief about what's going
down at Kill magazine? Now? Are you gonna wait till later? I
would probably give him silence, would give him the rundown of the supposed newspaper
headline in case he wanted to pull rank and maybe all right, so you're
gonna call him up then? On your way? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
okay, so you're no. Remember you've just dropped off Garrick, So
you're in your own spinner by yourself. Violent dropped off Hector. So she's
in her own spinner by herself. You guys are heading an animoid road together,
and all right separately, I should say. So you call up Holden
and he answers on his VID phone. You can see that he's still in
his office. He looks bedraggled. He looks tired, worn out, exhaust
did there's a thick like plume of smoke hanging over the office getting gently spun
around by the ceiling fan that's kind of lazily spinning. And as he clicks
on the vid phone, you see he's got his attention somewhere else on his
desk and he turns you over to you. What is it? All back?
It's better be good. Haven't heard ship from you guys all day.
Derek and I are just dropped off Garrick. We were coming back from Kill
magazine. It looks like that guy Skuyler was at Snake Pit causing trouble for
the dancers. Apparently this guy styles big guy. We're looking into it.
He might be a replicate. Went to Defender and that's when our two got
bought up in it. So just to let you know, Chief, he's
planning on running ahead line tomorrow about two blade runners, one killing the other.
What I fucking told you guys this morning in the briefing that he was
there, the fucking replicant. Get your ass back over that. You better
make sure that doesn't come out or Wallace Corps is gonna be all over us.
Silas would say, h fine, chief, and he just hangs up
immediately, would Silas would vid a violet? Go ahead, all back.
I just got off with a withholden. I have to go back and make
sure that this headline doesn't get out. Meanwhile, I'll have you go to
animoid row see what you can dig up about these butterflies and about Leah.
All right, sounds good, Well, good luck with that. Let me
know if you need help. We'll do all right, We're gonna stick with
hallback here since he's probably not too far from kill magazine, So you turn
the spinner around, make your way back there. At this point, by
the time you get back it is close, but you are assuming that he
lives upstairs in that apartment up above, so you can try to try to
get him from there. Okay, um, yeah, is there it's the
front open. No, but there's like a buzzer that would probably go up
to the you know, to his apartment something like that. So yeah,
you you buzz it and eventually you know there's no answer. But eventually,
if you buzz it a call couple of times, this better be fucking good.
Inspector Silas hulback here to see you. Oh, Look who comes crawling
back. I's got I gives his name this time too. It's a little
late for that, buddy. The fuck do you want? We got word
that there might be trouble heading your way, so I thought i'd come up
and talk to you. Give me a manipulation role, please, my worst
one. It's me on the trouble. But oh boy, more like it's
me. I'm the twubble. Yeah, we're gonna push that. I gotta
got a bad role, folks. So oh it takes another point of stres.
It's gonna be a long night. Yeah, yeah, well, already
know your asses on the line. So unless you got something else, Detective,
I really got to get some sleep, you know. Gotta be all
well rested for when I wreck you and your crew tomorrow. Man. Yeah,
Silas would take his hat off and rub his in bald head. Uh
look, bud, you got me over your knee. All right, I
need to come up and talk to you. There's a long silence, but
eventually you just hear the click, like the buzz at the door was unlocked.
Silas would open it up and make his way to the door. All
right, So you go back through the main entrance, the office is dark,
but you know where the elevator is. You make your way there and
make your way up there. When you get out of the elevator, there's
a small hallway and then there's a door at the end of that hallway,
and you see that he's standing at the door at the end of this hall
that obviously the door to his apartment. So he's, you know, kind
of there to quote unquote greet you when when you get up there. Since
he asked so nicely, talk uh, Silas would take his hand off again
and start kind of walking forward a bit and say, look, I'm not
saying you can't print it. I just at least give me a day,
a day or two, and the story might even get juicier. You see
when you say that, he actually like starts to scratch his chin a bit.
He's like, what exactly do you have for me, detective? I
mean, how much more juicy can it get? And he actually like steps
kind of leans back into his office, grabs something, and then when he
leans back out, he's got a magazine in his hand and he throws it
to you, and it looks like they've already been printed and I'm going to
show you an image here of what it looks. This is it? Yeah,
hold on, give you guys all access to this, but he throws
you this if you want to describe to our listeners what you see. All
right? Oh boy, So obviously the magazine's called Kill, so it's in
huge ass red letters in all capitals at the top, kill, massacre on
nightclub, row, replicant, killer on the run, and yeah, it
looks like there's a spinner in the background. A couple other headlines at the
heartbreaker, pocket sized unit, check out the new end or assault rifle and
yeah, looks like a trashy magazine cover all the news that's fit to kill.
It's only ten dollars, bro still only I was gonna say that's the
shocker. Yeah, Brice feels very non sci fi. Pretty good. Huh,
you can beat that. I'm listening. Look, if it turns out
that the styles guy is involved and he is also a skinner, then things
are going to blow open. We're gathering evidence right now on what the other
two were working on. So whatever happens, I'd let you know, but
you gotta give me a day or two. Looks like he bites his lower
lip for a moment. So you're telling me if I don't put this out
tomorrow, that you'll give me some inside bits on this investigation. Yeah,
and you do realize that if you fuck me, I'm going to fuck you
ten times worse. You'll realize that, right, I hear you. He
gives you a big toothy smile. As long as we're clear on that,
detective, Yeah, Silas would kind of do the half bow and put his
hand out with this flora as if like acknowledging as well. All right,
So ultimately what happens with all of this is he does not publish the story.
The next day. However, Garrick, you get a call at some
point from Holding, either that night or the next morning, and well you
probably dread it when you see there's an incoming call from the chief. Yeah,
I would answer, hey, they're sleeping, beauty. How's your day
been, Well, it's just starting so, but it's about to get worse.
Yeah, you're damn right, it's gonna get worse. I told you
to fucking play nice, and now I'm getting word that you go waving your
dick around over at Kill magazine and you can't even identify yourself as a fucking
officer kind of blaze runner. Do you think you are? Garrick? I
showed them my badge officers. I did what I needed to shut the fuck
up. Don't fuck up again, or it's coming out of your ass and
he slams the thing down, and you're gonna lose a promotion point. Shit,
Skyler reported you for not giving you his name or for not giving him
your name. Yeah, it was worth it, but he withdrew it from
Hallbeck because he actually, at least for now he did so. All right,
well, then we will finish it up with our doxy violet. You
make your way towards anamoid row and it is late in the evening at this
point. Some parts of this street are still lit. There's some of these
businesses that are still open, but several of them have been closed down.
We actually have another map here we can show you guys, if the game
would let me change it. There you go. So this is just you
know, part of this is the street right here on the north side of
the map. And then these are a variety of um If you go to
your journal notes on the left hand side here and click that, it'll give
you all the different pinpoints so you can see what all of these things are,
so that lets you see like all these different things. Basically, it's
it's you know, maybe about two three blocks worth of buildings. You see
there's like a metrocab little dispatch center. There's a couple food stands here,
there's a burger place, there's a fried rice. These two things here are
big old dumpsters. There's a dumpling shop, and then a variety of yeah,
just little things. There's a let's see, We've got Crown Noodles,
seven Star Prawns, the Clan Hut, Tobacco and magazines, Big Queen Chicken,
Tasty Noodle, Dragonfly. So you see a lot, like tons and
tons of places where there's to get food. And then the ones on the
south side of the map here are mostly various stores. And each of these
shops looks like they cater to a specific type of animal or a you know,
a specific type of creature or theme of creatures. I think there's a
reptile shop here in one of these, so you know, place where you
can get a variety of different critters. So I press the W it's highlighted,
but I don't see like names on anything. You have to highlight your
mouse over each of the cursors on the map. Aha, got it?
All right? Yeah, I think there's a way to turn those on permanently,
but I don't know how. Sorry, this makes sense. Yeah,
make my way over to the pet section and look, you know, any
sort of insect dealer, And if I don't find something like that, I'll
just start asking the shops. All right, give me a connections role,
please, I'll give you a an inch if you're asking some of the shop
owners here, because they obviously know their neighbors. You it's not so good.
Gott seems success with advantage. I guess I'll push okay, Oh no,
all right, all right, you take a point of resolve damage,
all right. And the few people that you find, um looks like they're
closing up their shops for the night, or nobody's like answering your questions,
and uh yeah, you're kind of just left to wander for a little bit.
Um. But eventually you do see one shop that has a sign that
just has a blue butterfly on the on the sign outside the door, but
you can see that the light is currently off, as if the shop is
closed up for the night. Well, that looks like that might be it.
I'll take note of where it's at. It's right here. It's called
the Arillian. The Arillian, all right, that kind of take note of
where it's at. And if it's everything's kind of closed up for today and
there's no one else to talk to. I'm not going to try and break
and enter into it today. I'll I'll take a peek into the windows just
to see what I see. But okay, so what you do see is
just inside the window, there is this countertop that is kind of like the
front desk. There's a old chair behind it with a bookshelf near it.
And then all along the west wall and like part of the south wall,
there are shelves, like two actual shelves on the walls, and you see
a variety of different jars, and each of these jars contains the variety of
different types of animoid butterflies. Bingo. I say to myself, well,
I'll kind of report what I find to all, but I'll tell him that
everything's closed up. A little too late to go here, I have to
check back in the morning. But I'll just I guess, you know,
just kind of case the area. See if I see anything else out of
place or anything strange about there, any okay, tell tale signs of you
know, I don't know, I guess I'm just looking for any weird evidence
that, you know, could have been dropped there, anything that would have
alerted me to, you know, Lee having been here. Are you just
looking around? You're not talking or asking anybody? Oh, there's if there's
people out and around, well there, I mean there's people out and around
it, because you can tell most of the shops are closed or closing at
this point. There's plenty of people at the especially at the food places because
keep in mind, in in Blade Runner, most apartments and homes don't actually
have kitchens and more like nine people just get their food out at these food
shops here because they don't actually have a capacity to cook it and there's no
room in their house to do so, so they just come out to one
of these vendors and eat. That's just how most people live nowadays. All
right, I'll yeah, I'll walk over to Seven Star Prawns and just pop
a squatting if it's open, just talk to whoever's working there. And it's
a it's a circular booth. And then they've you know, the vendor is
inside looks like there's two people, um you know, both kind of cooking,
one of them more talking to customers and just you know, regular regular
chefs. And then there's a bunch of stool seats around the outside. And
then it's got like a big awning on top to keep people sitting at the
stools mostly out of the rain. You know, your back might get a
little wet, but at least your head is covered and your food's covered.
And you see steam rising up from the big boiler they have in the middle.
And even though it looks like prawns and it tastes like prawns and it's
probably quite good, you know that it's just a protein protein substitute. It's
not a real prawn. Do you actually order food? No? I do.
I take a seat though, and try to get their attention, and
I, oh, yeah. The lady lady comes over. What you want?
Hi, miss, I'm a detectively lapd wondering if you recognize this face.
This lady traveled through here anytime within the last day, And I'll pop
up a the file. I haven't lee to show her face. She takes
a look and uh like almost just barely glanced as she's like, uh no,
I don't recognize I'm really busy. A lot of people come through here.
You order or not, I'll say, well, thanks for your help,
miss, and I get up and I'll try the same thing over at
Crown Noodles. Okay, um, you more or less get the same thing.
They kind of try to rush you off when you don't order anything.
Gotchau Which is the Dragonfly another restaurant? Uh let me check. No,
that one is an actual insect animoid dealer. Oh are they open? Sure?
All right, they're just getting ready to close it up for the night.
I'll knock and pop my head and say sorry to bother you folks.
I'm detectively wondering if you could answer a couple of questions for me real quick
before you close up. You see a kid who's probably in his um,
you know one he's he's got like a decent suit on, looks like it
doesn't fit him very well, but he's trying to look nice. It looks
like this is probably one of the more reputable and nicer shops. And he
kind of gives a sigh like just closing up, man. Okay, yeah,
what what what did you need? Wondering if you maybe seen this young
lady passing through here last day or so, and I'll show you her a
picture of Leah. Give me another Connections roll please? All right? Oh?
Nothing? Nothing? Him a push so hot? Uh Na, I
feel like I'll be so so well if I push, come on all right?
Yeah, He's like, uh no, I don't. I don't recognize
her. Sorry, well, if you think of anything, I am,
I'll be back around tomorrow. Slide in my card. It'd be nice to
chat again. Yeah, from I'll throw him a little I'll throw him a
little wink and uh walk out. Oh, give me a manipulation role.
There we go. He's he's like he kind of perks up a bit and
he's like, um yeah, let me let me see that photo again.
Well sure, and I pop it open again. I'm like Kia and he's
like looking at it and you can't really tell if he's like faking thinking just
because he wants to like hang out with you, or if he's really trying
to think. Um so, let me make a roll here. He's like,
uh yeah, actually, uh yeah, I think I saw her over
at the Arillians place. Uh it was yesterday. Actually, the Arillian's place.
Yeah, it's that uh well, you can't see the sign from over
here, but it's across from the Prawn place. There's hell he sells butterflies
and shit, it's the it's the place that's closed. Yeah, it's the
first one you went to. Yep, I got it. I see anything
suspicious about her? Did she look hurried or in a rush? I mean
I only saw her briefly, but um, yeah, I kind of recognize
the haircut. So this Arilians place sells bugs, just just just butterflies.
That's his specialty he makes. He's pretty damn good. Actually, he makes
some of the best out there. A lot. And the guy knows everything
about butterflies, you know, I have. Fuck, I think he's even
seen a real one, you know, back in the day. He's old,
real old guy. He got a name. He kind of shows like,
you know, everyone just calls him the Arillion works for me. Is
he known to have any shady dealings or is he pretty reliable? Got?
I mean, I don't know home maybe. I mean, you know,
I've seen all sorts of characters around here, you know, his shop and
others, so I couldn't say for sure. I mean, look where we
are, and he kind of like waves his hand around. He's like,
you know, people got to eat man, so they, you know,
might deal with someone savory types here and there. But he's harmless enough.
And the guy can't even see he's blind as a bat. Interesting one.
Last one. You ever see a real tall guy, bald, skinny,
look out of place? He's like, oh, yeah, I've yeah.
A matter of fact, I've seen him at the Arillions every now and then.
Goes by the name of Styles. You know anything about him? No,
I never caught his name, but yeah, you usually like we're in
a hoodie, real real ill looking guy. Yeah. Do you ever buy
anything from the Arillian? He could have. I mean he might have bought
something small, but I definitely have seen someone who sounds like that, you
know, I don't know, maybe he's a friend of his or something,
or maybe an employee. I mean, you ever see him with this young
lady? Nah? No, I've only I only saw her once. That
was a day or two ago. I appreciate your cooperation. Been very helpful,
young man, and I'll leave you to lock up um picket high or
low. Let's go high. Good choice. He says, oh, you
know, um, one other thing. I don't know if it will help,
but there are like esper cameras and stuff around here. I figure,
you know, if you if you got a badge, maybe you can access
something that might help. Although if you're looking for something from yesterday, you
know, you might want to get on that soon. Yeah all right,
started to throw in a laugh from out of space, but that's exactly what
I was thinking as well. And then you you look around and you do
see a couple like you see like one or two cameras like on a street
pole or something like that that overlook the area. Well, shoot, sounds
like a great idea young man. And he like he kind of gives you
a wink back like he's being all smooth. He's like that, gets a
little more confidence, and he goes, I'll talk to you later on.
He looks at your card, he's like Violet, he gives you a wink,
see around, see around, stud and I'm gonna get on my keya
And uh sorry, I forget who was using um the espers at first?
Who had the best that was? That's that was Matt, right, Yeah,
that's I'll get I'll get hector on the phone, say like, well,
did some digging around here? Might be worth it to check the espers
if we haven't. Sounds like I may have found where she got the bugs
from. Guess what our guy was seen here too, We don't. No
one seems to care, so fuck m. I guess you're the only detective
out the case. I guess, Hey, guys, I guess maybe it
might be might be sleeping to be fair in the middle of I've been the
middle of an arm rustling competition, right and my guy, well, just
call me, and you know you're not doing something so important. It's okay,
I only need one arm. The other can activate the Kia, but
I don't have any extras for computer hacking. I'm out here suffering stress in
the rain, and you can't even bother me with an answer, you Dix,
All right, is there anything else you'd like to do out here?
Violet time is weird for right now. I'm gonna come back in the morning
and check in with the Cirillian guy. But seeing as things are closing up,
I think I got what I needed to for right now, and probably
just follow up on the cameras. Okay, well, you do take another
point of stress for working an extra shift here? How you do it?
Are you? You're not at zero? Are you? I only took two,
one from the push and one from just this recent one. All right,
okay, then well I assume we have more than two, So in
that case, you are okay. And that is going to end our fourth
shift and the end of the first day. So that is where we will
call it for tonight. As sorry, we have played a little bit shorter
tonight, folks, but we had some housekeeping to do beforehand, so I
think you guys have made some good leads here. We was working together and
now two of our characters are exhausted and ready to fall over from all the
hard work they're doing. So be sure to stop by next week, folks,
as we dive into session three. We'll see if that's gonna be less
session or not. I don't know. We could go for fourth. We'll
see. We'll see how things pan out here. But hopefully, so far
you're enjoying our little delve here into Los Angeles. So thank you all so
much for stopping by. I hope you've had a good time. I have
had a great time. Thank you so much players for playing along and we
will see you all on the flip side, same time, same place, ninety nights