You have bananas exactly. Hello everyone, and welcome to Forbidden Lens. I
don't hear any music music, Yeah, I forgot sorry, Oh sorry,
I was like, here you go, my immersion. There you are.
There was something off and I'm too tired for my brain to know what it
was. We're good. Hi everyone, Happy Monday, Happy New Year,
everybody, brand new year, Same table story, and by same, I
mean there's a lot of shows about to happen, which is I guess it's
kind of a new table story. But anyway, Hi, I hope you
all are well. Chat thank you for being here today with us. We've
got a full cast. What feels better? And she will stay better or
else or else. I don't know what I can threaten with that. Yeah,
we'll just leave it that. There we go. I hope all of
everyone as well, because if you're not well, cuddle up in bed,
watch the show. Be' all snugly, get yourself some cocoa, dude,
do whatever you need to do this happy little winter. Yeah right, I
actually thought about making coco today. So we'll start out with what's your name?
And what do you put in your cocoa? Yeah, I'm gonna switch
it up today. Just yeah, what do you put in your cocoa?
That's right? Whack? Who are you? I play nikel and uh,
I guess I haven't had hot chocolate in a while. Uh cream, good
answer. I like that answer. Hi, my name's Cat. I play
manassa your favorite Luke Goblin, my hot coco. I like one shot of
peppermint. I like one shot of hazelnut. I like one shot of chocolate
with whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles and marshmallows and cocoa powder sprinkled on top.
Doesn't sound bacon? Yes? I was ready for that answer. And yeah,
because she was the Starbucks or something that you order that thing that does
sound like? Okay, it's in hot Cogo right now, guys, okay
shot. I am a goblin Goblin. I like all the stuff on it.
She's collecting flavors. I'm collecting flavors, collecting all the ploppings like pay
plus All right, well, fake, can you top that for your favorite
cocoa? I absolutely cannot, unless you want a more minimalized version of it,
because I like putting a little bit of peppermint in there, maybe like
a peppermint cane or something. Uh. And I'll do whipped cream, maybe
marshmallows if I'm feeling spicy underneath the whipped cream. And uh, I have
dark chocolate hot coco not not milk chocolate hot cocoa. Just to specify,
do you do it richer, I'll give my answer. I get to there.
He's right, I detectize. What do you like in your hot chocolate?
I like cinnamon in mine. Whatever snicker doodle is it? Yeah,
the snickerdoodle stuff is like cinnamon and marshmallows, a little bit of whip crim
and a little bit of cookie, whatever the heck flavoring they put in it.
It's really good. Sneakerdoodle is like like gingerbread ginger. That's the thing
that's that's flavor. Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's like a little bit
but drinking it. Yeah, that's really great. I love I haven't made
snkerdoodles in a while. Super good. I actually want like a snicker doodle
like cookie or something whatever the heck. Yeah, they're delicious. They're one
of my favorites. Soft sugar cookies that you put in the ball and roll
in cinnamon and sugar and they melt and this is like hot describing right now,
I've not had it. You've never had a snickerdoodle. I've had snicker
doodle cookies I had to drink. Oh my reasonal though, you can only
get it during the fall in the winter, but oh my god, it's
so and make them whenever you want. Yeah, that's true. I had
it in Korea for the first time. I had an in Korea, and
I was like, is this a Korean specially everybody look at me like I
was dumb. Campus, Thank you, and bloody your name and what do
you what do you like Cocoah? Of course I did you know how I
do this? Of course you did every week every time. Hi, I'm
bloody faster and I'm back. Thank you so much for the warm welcome back.
And I'm sorry that I missed the last session. And h I play
in camp and I'm ready to roll today. Hopefully I'll be you know,
cured from my heat stroke and my hot coco. I haven't had hot coco
in a hot minute. But I also go minimalistic. It's either just it
as is or maybe Okay, so it depends if I want to stay sober,
we're going with like whipped cream. Okay, if we don't. Then
we put some some some boozy stuff in it, like we put some Bailey's
in it, you know, like you put some yeah, maybe some rum,
maybe a bit of room in the mix. You know. How do
they do it in grease? I want to know. They just throw some
muzo in there and just throw it on the ground, just smash it like
smash yep, exactly. We just don't drink it. Perfect, Thank you
buddy. And yeah, mister Dan him, the consequence is all that fun
for hot coco. For me, dark chocolate always, always in forever.
Give me that dark chocolate. That's what I need. Milk chocolates, just
to lie while you're watering it down. Stop this watering is amazing. White
chocolate is also amazing. And do not come white chocolate, cocoa and white.
Let's let's just be real here, okay, okay, just at least
have something for once, bloody, thank you, dark chaste coco. It's
all rich, it tastes delicious, the true face. Give me seventy percent
or more for chocolate, please, and thank you God. Damn, it's
so bitter though, I want, I want my face to be punched with
chocolate. It's because you're eating it wrong. You gotta let it melt in
your mouth, not in your hand. Oh what exactly like the opposite of
Eminem's. All right, you guys make me feel bad because I'm so extra
with my hot chocolate. When's the podcast help? Yeah? Well, I'm
just honestly, I'm just I'm just worried about your blood sugar level. Cat
seriously, I mean me, does that? Does that? Imagine? We
just cat stirring the hot chocolate, bake a bacon straw for her hot chocolate.
Oh my god, I just like it, okay straw? Yeah I
did. Yeah, Yeah, this good Lord a mighty uh. All right,
well we be ready to go. Let's let's do this. I wanted
something. It's a new year. We got to get we had to get
our laughs out first. I wanted to do a little, little, a
little different thing, throw people off like always, because the consequence of having
me is the GM is. I got to make sure that you're always on
your toes. And so with that, last time on Forbidden Lands, our
party explored a little bit more of that defense building they were in in this
small little town. I was hid in town with a mouth functioning death bringer
which had been taken out due to everyone's quick thinking and wit, a little
bit of a little bit of death Bringer climbing, a little bit of death
Bringer gun use on itself, a lot of ingenuity there and after that they
went in explored a bit through some buildings. Some may have collapsed almost entirely
on our fabled best roller of the show and I got two twenty last episode,
M you did we remember one of those? But everyone survived, and
they decided, after conversation, maybe some annoyance from some players, maybe a
little bit of bitterness still from some of the danger and the risk taking,
it decided to go to this fabled site, Theta that was described as well
an old One's facility, something about defense, maybe defense in the war.
But this orb that Alkali has been toting around for a while ended up being
it seems to be an administration key. So this Ai, this fragment,
as it is self described itself communicated with her, as she was very persuasive
in getting information from it. She also found an old One's weapon that they'd
never seen before, this strange reloadable weapon that she now totes with a beautiful
leather strap. And after finding nothing here and deciding maybe we'll take a detour
because that's the only landmark we really have to go off of. Right now,
let's go check out site THETA thirty miles away. Long arduous trudging and
walking through the night in this desert, they find a sunken crater. At
the bottom of it a cylindrical looking concrete structure, and they entered in after
Administrator Alkali was recognized by this seemingly same Ai. The door opens, sliding
into the ground and a platform awaits them. I think maybe before entering you
hear a little bit of stirring on the strider monossispecifically, I think you were
riding with kay correct, Yeah, so you would correct here and maybe even
feel in case stir a bit mm hmm mmmm. Hey okay, hi,
Hi, good morning. What day is it? Why it is happening?
Yeah? Well, you woke up at a very interesting time. How do
you feel? I feel okay, I feel hungry, but I think I'm
okay. What happened to me? I didn't eat mushrooms again? And did
I? No? You didn't? God? Okay, okay, So what
is this place? An old one's facility? Glad you're up and around.
M K. Are you feeling better? Thank you? Yes, I am
better. I'm so confused. I kept hearing explosions to screams in my sleep.
Was I dreaming about all that stuff? Not exactly? No? Are
we all here? Okay? Yeah? Yeah, okay, how are you
feeling? I'm I'm better. Okay, just tell me what happened? Where's
my where's Fuca? Where's Fuca? Fuca? Where is it? Where's she?
Shit? Down here? Keep she's on the strider? Oh. I
walk over to m K and uh, I sort of like kneel down to
the ground, uh to kind of like look up at her, and I
say, I have some bad news. Where's the good news part? The
good news is that we're all okay. The bad news is that we encountered
more of the machines that we saw in Meridian, the Death Bringers. We
ran into one. What what do you mean? It was deactivated? It
was it was damaged partially, and Zayiri was able to use its own weapon
against it. It was really cool. What are you are you messing with
me? No? Oh? Holy shit? Holy shit? Now where is
it? Can I see it? Is it here? Most of it is
in Manassa's pack. How big is that pack? Manassa? I just thought
you can fit any everything in there. I just thought it would be important
to let you know. Thank you. You couldn't have not woken me up.
Huh. You were kind of unconscious. You were suffering from heatstroke.
Heat stroke. Yeah, you needed rest and you needed water. We couldn't
have involved you. Damn my bald head. Okay, are you able to
stand on your own? I mean I can try. I think so.
Am I able? Dan? No problems? Why don't go give me a
me and might check difficulty one? Oh, I would be helping her off
the strider as well. You can have an asset. Yeah, yeah,
you can have an asset. You know the number you shouldn't roll? You
did good jump? Uh? Yeah, you have no problems. Maybe feel
a little shaky, you know, like when you've slept way too long and
your body is still kind of fa teemed. That's kind of what you feel
like. Just been in bed too, feels like yes, okay, oh
god, okay, all right, Okay, I think I'm good. If
I get some food in my belly, I think I'll be one hundred percent.
I would reach into the pack and get her some of the jerky that
we made. Okay, yes, money left. You didn't sleep eat it?
Oh that's good news. I stuff my face with a jerk. You
need to make sure you're hydrated as well. Water please, okay, okay,
all right, okay, all right, let's go. What's the game
plan? The game plan is Alkali found something and we are following this map.
So you remember the map that we found on that electronic device, one
the old ones. I do well. In the last area that we were
in when you were passed out, there was another one of the old one
spirits. You know what those look like, right like Artemis? Oh?
Yes, yes, right, yes, what so not? But they didn't
have a name. So I was able to with my blue orb, which
was apparently a key of some sort, I was able to gain access to
a box. And in that box there were some medical supplies as well as
some explosives and ammunition for this baby, and I would smack my gun on
my back. WHOA what where'd you find that? We got very lucky that
there was one left inside the area. But while I was in there,
I was able to scan this key for this site site Theta and the spirit
went ahead and put a marker on our map so that we could locate it.
It's about thirty miles out from where we were towards the north, and
we've still got a long way to go, but this was the closest thing
that we could check out while you were feeling this way. So wait,
is that where we are at right now? Right? We're here, we're
outside side data right now, I would point towards leg. Where's the sign?
Yep, there's this circle with the line through it above the door that
is open. We don't have much sight left. Yeah. Do we want
to have myself and someone else go scout inside before we bring everyone in?
Or do we want to just go all together? I think it's better if
we take a look first. Okay, I can go with you, Sara,
Are you okay? Zaiaty's just kind of like bent over. He has
the two metal slabs that he's gotten from the death Bringer. Everybody's having to
talk. He's kind of away from the group, just looking at it and
just kind of like doing some thoughts in his head. Just to give you
guys a background. Yeah, I'm I'm being Yeah, I'm fine, A
right, that lot on my mind. I'm trying to figure something out to
you. Why you guys discuss? Hey help? All right, well you
too, go on ahead, m k Ziary and I will step back.
Okay, see if you can figure it out whatever, Sarah he's got on
his mind, NIKEL Are you ready? Always? All right, Karen,
I would we'll try. I'll turn on my focus and heading. Okay,
I'll follow by all right, the two of you step onto the site data
platform. Hello administrator, Hello, would you like to proceed? Yes?
You would all hear that, by the way, they haven't gone down yet.
It's the same voice, by the way as in that defense building you
were in. Wait, so we would hear it. You definitely would hear
that before they go down. Oh so it's the same exact one. Well
it sounds exactly the same. By any chance. Do you have a designation?
Go ahead and give me a difficulty five computers slash intellect. Okay,
so my artifact knowledge technology would work in this instance kind of similarly to how
I used it last time. Yeah, yeah, okay, and us that
similarly difficulty five? Right, yes, thirteen. My designation is aries Dan.
I don't have curiosity in all of like my readings about old ones and
everything like that, would I have possibly been able to make any sort of
connection with like Artemis and Aries and Hades and all of them. Why don't
you go ahead and give me that one? Would be like more right,
Our archaeology is kind of like where that fits archaeology or anthropology. Yeah,
that's perfect. It's like a culture culture check, so intelligence for that that
would be a difficulty. Seven. Okay, I have archaeology, so I'll
be rolling that. Okay again, you also they haven't gone down yet.
I'll also use one effort okay, Okay, you've never heard Aries before.
The other is occasionally you've found you found like maybe minor references too, but
not really any knowledge of what's going on. Nikael. You definitely have heard
of what you heard of, like Artemis or some of those occasionally if you
heard ELOI talking about the spirits or the gods. But I would assume that
I heard Hades and Artemis. But I don't think I've heard of any of
the others. Yeah, Hades is I've absolutely no for you as well.
You don't even need a roll for that. But yeah, So anyway,
are you ready to go? Yes? Okay, we'd like to proceed a
very grouped administrator, and you feel kind of a slight dip in your stomach
as the elevator goes down, and you see the door that was open shut.
This is outside, would see the door shut behind them. This is
This is similar to in the in the station, remember the cage. Huh.
I guess they used a lot of these. I feel uneasy. Yeah,
we won't go far. Difficulty one perception for me. Both, Okay,
no focus for this, that's fine. Twelve h So you both kind
of notice maybe near the door if you look up at maybe when Nikkel was
like kind of feeling uneasy looking around at this like cylindrical room that feels like
it's movingly. You can't see see numbers above where the door is. See
started at zero probably and minus one hundred minus two hundred, minus three hundred,
minus four hundred, minus five hundred, minus six hundred minus seven hundred,
and it keeps counting until it hits about fifteen hundred, and then you
feel it slow to a stop. Huh. That's pretty big number. Huh.
What does it mean? Well? I think maybe it means I guess
how far down we went because we were moving downward. I don't know,
what measurement, because the old ones used feet and other ones as well.
Is there a door or anything for us to leave this dan? Is there
any sort of like open designation that I can see on the door with your
focus if you have that on. Yes, yeah, there is. There's
their standard pollowed door symbol. Oh uh, sorry, I didn't notice there's
there's one right here. Hold on now, I do the typical turn and
try and open it. The hollow lock turns green, slides open, and
then the door slides down. You're met with a bright corridor. It almost
looks like it's polished floor. Very those bright, those really bright old ones.
Lights. They haven't maybe I haven't been this bright in a long time.
Usually they're a bit faded, or some of them are out and the
walls are lined with like photographs or something. You can't tell. While you're
in the elevator, I look out, try to see if there's anything ready
to jump out at us. Okay, perception for you like noticing danger specifically
and difficulty too very nice. No nothing jumping out immediately. For the minor
effect, you do see something that moves occasionally, which maybe throws you off.
You've never seen something like it before, but up in the corner of
a wall, there's like a little cylinder little box or something, and it
kind of rotates a bit, and then you catch it's I and then it
seems to focus in on you. Michael, Wait what my point moves slightly.
I would look up with my focus and see if I can give it
a scan from where I'm standing. Yeah, you can actually another difficulty three
perception for you with your focus. Okay, I love it. Yeah,
you are able to scan. It looks like it's some sort of visual device
communication something like that. You may have seen these before occasionally, they just
never were working or right, they were never active, Michel. The old
ones used to use these as some sort of monitoring device to just watch,
right. I've never seen one active. This one is be very careful.
I don't know if we should keep going without the others. If we're being
watched, there might be people here or worse. If you want to keep
going, I will. What else do I see around the area door at
the end of this long corridor maybe and maybe thirty foot corridor not that long,
but you do see? Yeah? Those are those are those old ones
pictures or something? Some of them look like the closest ones, because some
of them are too far, but the closest ones. Maybe it's just like
a bunch of old ones, men and women standing around in front of some
sort of machine maybe and like one of them, a couple of them.
Like it's a lot of pictures of people together in groups. You said that
the floor looked polished, very clean, very clean, like the whole room.
Kind of the reason I don't know if we should keep going is there's
an active monitoring thing. And I mean, I'm sure you can see this,
but I've never seen any old one ruins or facilities that didn't have dust
and dirt and rocks everywhere. It is strange going to take out an arrow
and just kind of throw it down the hall. Okay, could you give
me a mite check difficulty too? I just want to see how far it
goes? Okay, yeah, how how far do you want it to go?
Because you can you could you could like kind of lob it like a
spear to try to get it to the door, or you could get it
like halfway. Probably just kind of toss it. I'm not trying to launch
it or anything in front of the sort of thing. Yeah, okay.
Yeah, it clatters to the floor, kind of rolls a little bit,
and it's odd angled to the arrowhead. Does the camera follow it? You
already noticed it with your nineteen Yeah, it does for a second there and
then it goes back to you. It sees the arrow and it sees us.
I think you're right. I think we should get the others okay,
and maybe maybe we can do something about that monitoring device, but there might
be more. Should I destroy it? Could be useful? And also we
don't know who we're dealing with. Let's regroup with the others and we'll talk
about it, all right, Ferries go back up, Yes, administrator,
may we please go back up to the entrance of Side Data. Of course,
thank you. The door shuts with your question. And do you feel
that slight pit in your stomach again as it begins to move unseen? Hop
over to the other three outside. What were you three doing while they were
gallivanting down an elevator. I would like to go towards Aty and kind of
look over and see what he's working on. I'm just kind of what you
see anxiety. Well for a while that he's been wanting to get out of
his current weapon. He feels like it's not fitting him anymore, and it's
kind of like a let go of the past type thing. He felt kind
of like a ball and chain has been holding him down and this weapon is
a part of it. It's been it's seen many death that's seen. It
was his father's not only by his hand, but his father's hand, and
he's he wants something bigger and something that can define him since he is much
bigger than his father, and he just feels like the start of his cleansing
journey is a new weapon. So he wants to build sort of like a
almost like a buster sword, so to speak. It's like a gigantic source.
So he has these big metal plates from the death Bringer, which I
guess is reinforced metal since the death Bringers gill and it seems just like I
can, Yody, what are you making? My eyes were just like just
lit up, you know, I see all this stuff happening, like what
is this? M I by passed at the project, just trying to figure
out how to do it. What can I help? Limited resources? You
don't even know what it is. I don't have to know. I mean,
no one could help, but I just wanted to, you know,
I like, I like what I'm seeing. Well, I've been really working
on my up body strength and leg placement, and I feel that I am
outgrowing my previous weapons. Sword here of course, it was a cajaup mold
doesn't really fit my big hands and my strength that I throw into it.
I feel like it's halfed. If I can take this metal came from a
death bring. I ripped it off and it's very reinforced, very thick.
I feel like I can shoppen it to a good edge and have solid backing.
With the motion of the pull of the earth and the weight behind my
swing, I feel like I can do a lot of damage with it.
I'm it's just it's it's like a personal journey. I feel like this is
it. This is one of my answers that I need to do and get
rid of the pass and I passed on that legacy to someone else. Yeah
yeah, yeah, But I thinking overweight on top, maybe too much weight,
and need more of a handle wrapping. I do have some spare leather,
and I do have some of the materials made from FIUCA, so behind
I can probably make a sturdy handle, but I need something to counter the
weight. I don't want to commit fully to a strike and just have to
repick it back up with a lot more strength and exhaust myself. So I'm
looking for ways to make it more aero dynamic. It. I'm sorry,
I'm going off. I'll keep going, keep going off. So I'm thinking
if I can cut along day, I need something to be able to to
to to melt this well, to put it together and uh enough heat.
We can do what we did for Fuga. We could, but this is
a much bigger mold. If we would make it, we need something of
oil maybe fact or something to to to make the fire hotter. This is
a lot more reinforced than what we did Fyoka. So this is this would
be a little difficult to really put together. Well. We have to though,
We have to make that happen. I am thinking, but the size
of this, this weight is going to be overbearing. I can't put all
the weight down at the bottom. I'm going to have to make a longer
grip at the bottom and also a grip on the back of the blade itself
to hold it like any kind of picks up the metal kind of like here,
I can get more of a reinforce slam on this, or I can
do a full edge chop, but if I hoult a handle at the top,
slinging this and pulling it back is more speed. Yeah, who would
do that anyway? Right? No very idea makes sense. M What are
you doing Manassa while this is all happening. They're very, very into this
conversation about weapons and forging, and maybe it's intriguing, maybe it's boring.
The two of them are seemingly well it almost mad. Would it be the
right to sumpthing? To say? Youtwo almost seem like you're back to your
normal selves, just at least in this conversation the things that it is invested
a lot in MK. I mean, he's never really put that much push
into her when it comes to like conversation, and he's kind of lost himself
in in her excitement because nobody else really cares about what de diirety, Yeah
cares about really, Yeah, I guess you could say so. He's he
just feels like he's back home in aus room planning something on in the blacksmith
haul, just planning out a weapon. This stuff is a little more meaning
because it's for him, not anybody else. Yeah, and when it comes
to me, I'm really excited just having no having getting to work on another
weapon because that's what I like to do. So it's kind of like time
stopped, you know. I don't really think about what's happening around me or
with the others. Just this is it now. I'm just yeah, okay,
cool. I just wanted to kind of get an idea of like how
you two are looking, to say, Manassa on a cursory glance. So
what are you doing, Manassa. I'm eavesdropping, that's it, just and
they're just kind of listening. I'm just kind of listening, but I'm not
looking at them. Sometimes I'll take like I'll turn and glance a little bit,
but I'm pretty much just like fiddling with the outer shell of the strider,
as I said on it, just listening to their conversation. And that's
not it. So to the top part. Normally, when you build a
sword, you slant it for something of this weight. But I want to
cut it on even edges and to take it to our point because if I
put that handle here, I can also thrust with it and lodge it in.
Can you be just light enough so that you can thrust. I don't
know here you are everyone the door something? Oh, I see you do
at work. So he just like puts it together and just kind of like
pushes like starts to rope it together so we can put it on his back
again. So what did you find? So, Nikeel, thanks to his
keen eyes, we were able to find that they had a monitoring device active
not inactive, which boggles my mind because any of those those those old one
visual devices that they used normally are very are inactive, which means that either
for some reason it's automated in some way, shape or form, or there
might be people in there. So so let me get this straight. You
found a monitoring machine still intact, yes, which means that it is possible
that there are people alive inside right the halls, the whole room, n
Kel ni Kel, it was it was clean. Yes, there were pictures
on the walls at a long hallway and a door with this eye that followed
each way that I moved, and even followed an arrow that I threw pictures
of. What can you just reiterate what those pictures were? Absolutely? Uh,
the ones that you could make out without going into the hallway. One
of them. One of the closest was what looked like a team or a
crew or a number of men and women standing in front of some sort of
large machine, looking kind of happy. I guess is maybe a good way
to put it. And you saw like some of the other pictures that kind
of looked similar, like groups of people, people sitting at tables, that
sort of thing. Kind of just odd so old one pictures. Yes,
and the place was very clean. Yes, well, cauldrons are clean as
well. Machine no, No, they're dusty. Remember when we went into
the last one there were rock falls and stuff. Normally, if it's machines,
yes, there will be dust that hasn't settled and maybe like tracks or
something. But in all of the ruins that I've ever been in, it's
been dusty, it's been not maintained, and this one looks well maintained.
So doesn't mean that there's someone down there living. There could be people,
or it could be machines that were possibly made to clean or I don't know.
But the monitoring system was still active, which means that if there is
someone monitoring, they saw us. Because the the old one visual device,
it was focused on NIKEL. Right, you said you said it was focused
on you. Yes, okay, but but nothing happened. No, No,
it could be safe, and it could just be that it's active somehow
on some some power source that didn't go out. But this place looked maintained.
I mean, it didn't kill you on site, so I guess that's
a plus. Right. But yeah, together, If you have any other
ideas where we should go, I'm happy to hear them. Me. I
have no idea what happened in the past. I don't know how long EFF
was out. No, I'm gonna follow. Oh, I'm gonna follow.
Okay, Now you're gonna let me smash if it comes to that, it
is required, right, Okay. So we have something to think about that
visual device. If it's just the one, if there are multiple, and
it's it's monitoring the whole facility, how do we want to deal with that?
Do we want to take them out? Do we want to find some
way to disable them? Do we want to just leave them and explore?
I feel uncomfortable if there's someone watching. I mean, I guess we go
down there and figure it out. If there is someone watching and we take
it out, they could see it as a thread or see us as a
threat. It's as a hostile move. So should I not? No?
Well, if we do end up taking them out, it would be one
of us disabling them without destroying it. But and I think the only person
that can do that is you, correct, right? All right? Well,
I say we take our weapons with us, of course or self defense.
Oh I also we didn't divide up the the explosives that I received.
I gave you the stem mm hmm thing explosives, explosives explosive in that box.
Remember I told you I found a bunch of things. Yes, well
I have, and I would rifle through my pack and get out the three
grenades that I did find. I have three of these. There are explosives.
I'm not positive on how they work, Dan, If I observe it,
might I be able to kind of try and figure out a way to
like how they how this would how the grenades themselves would function. Yeah,
you totally can go ahead and give me I say that like a no,
definitely not. We use that for the guns. That's why I'm asking.
Yeah, yeah, I use it for the guns because you just happened to
see those these Uh, it's going to be more of like an explosives you
know, they're already exploded. Okay, it's compared to before, so it'd
be more like an explosives check if you happen to have some sort of skill
with that. Otherwise difficulty too. Okay, perfect. Now I just want
to specify. I did not I did not pull anything. I was just
looking at it to specify. See twenty twenty, right, it is twenty
twenty. Why I mean twenty twenty one? Salmon didn't get the memo that
the year is chining. She's just she's just being thematic. You know,
she will be twenties. You know, last game. I will use an
experience to cancel out that GM intrusion. Okay, I don't want us to
die. Okay, you don't entirely know how this will work. Okay,
Yeah, I've got no clue on how these work. If any of you
want to take a look at them, go for it, because I'm at
my limit when it comes to that stuff. So does anyone want one of
these? Yes? Yes, I do, me me, I would one
to thank you, thank you. We should make sure that we're geared up
properly, and and supplies are divided before we go inside. And that's why
I'm doing it. I allowed to use this well of course not now,
but if we need to. But but m k, yes, try and
see if you can figure it out without arming it. Oh of course,
of course, of course, of course can do that. By the way,
drop it either right. Oh no, no, no, no,
I wouldn't never do that. No, you can do. The last person
that can roll on how to like figure these out? So difficulty too.
If you happen to think you have a relevant skill, let me know.
Otherwise I have puzzle solving. Would that be considered I mean, it's something
I have to figure out, right, No, that's that's that's I'll allow
that that. That's actually kind of clever. Yeah. Yeah, that's a
see thank you, thank you. It's a weird thing that no one knows
how to use. It's essentially a puzzle. Yeah two, yes, okay,
yeah, there's It looks like there's a thing you squeeze and then pull
a pin and then when you release that, uh probably a time or of
some kind goes off. So it looks like it's kind of got a safety
in the sense the pin is the safety. And then while it's squeezed,
it's armed but not exploding yet, and then you thrill. Okay, So
can I just relay all this to them? Yeah? Absolutely? Okay.
So do you see this ring right here? Do not do not take that
off? Okay unless you're ready to throw that shit and blow someone up?
Okay? So is it? Is it timed or does it just immedate?
Like? How does I think as long as you squeeze it, it doesn't
go off. Okay, okay, but then just you know, pull that
and then throw it. Okay? Does anyone want the other one I have
free? So there are two left. I'll take the other one I'll take,
Okay, I can give I can give both of them to you,
So I'll give one to Nichel and wants you to manassa. Does everyone have
some sort of the healing supplies? I have that healing device you gave me.
Yes, have a potion? All right? I don't, but I'll
be fine. Are we Perhaps you should have this potion? Then? No?
No? No, no, no, yes, I think you should
hold on to this potion? I agree. Is it one of those potions?
You have? One's Diarie? He has a skin that I gave him.
Yeah, yeah, okay. Is there one of those foul smiling ones.
Huh, No, this is a different one. Oh okay, is
it safe? I yes, it should be. Ahh okay, I'm sure
I'll drink it if no one wants it, you know, just yeah,
I can test it out when the time comes, all right. We can
always give them to each other if something happens anyway, So oh, just
to me, all right, So maybe we should go back all together now,
right, I'll walk back over to the door, kind of hold it
open for people. Okay, you all step in, leaving this strider out
side. Yes. Yeah, about the time you step in, you'd maybe
notice like the sun is up, not high in the sky, but it
is up. Now you consider this morning, and as you alkali enter whenever
that is, you would get the very familiar Oh, administrator, how may
I help you? If I look around, everyone's on, I believe,
unless anyone's specified otherwise. Nope, Yeah, you would like to proceed aries
very good. The door shuts and all of you feel that sinking kind of
stomach flip for a second. I don't like this feeling, I know,
But at Lisa, this is something we're aware of already. We've been through
this and the numbers he send all the way to fifteen hundred again. Okay,
okay, okay, that's not helping. Mkay, that's not helping.
I cover k I smack her like, I literally smack her before she's like
reaching to cover her mouth. I smack her so you get smacked and then
your mouth gets covered enough. You are not a child. This is serious.
We need to be quiet and we need to be careful. Mk Okay,
all right, I'll uncover her mouth and I'll give her like a little
like shoulder squeeze, you know, kind of like we got this. Maybe
one side of your face is stinging a little bit, so she's kind of
got a comfort and also snapped back into reality more or less. The didn't
you have to go that hard? Muster your courage? We need it.
Okay, fine, and you open the door again. Is the elevator still
moving? Dan? About that time it stops in the little light for the
door turns on, and I'll go ahead and put my hand out and twist,
and the door slides down this bright, clean allway with a single arrow
sitting five feet away from the door, and NIKEL you'd notice that door opens,
camera turns see there is the device it moves to follow? Does it
follow your whole body or does it follow limbs? It followed the arrow when
I threw it. It's still possibly movement, but it came and it went
right back to us. Well, there's only one, so it can only
keep an eye on one of us at a time. I'll go first.
I'll go with you. We have to scan it and see if there's anything
around. Let me go first and see if it follows me. I'll be
right behind you. I start to walk out, yep, and as your
suspicion, cammer turns and follows you. After he walks in a bit,
I'd like to walk in and see if it walks towards if it aims towards
me. Yeah, it ends up. Actually it does turn and it kind
of sits in between you two, and if you both are moving forward,
it would stay kind of in between if only one of you, then it
would it would. I would kind of like stay back a little bit and
let it see it, like see if it would kind of follow him or
if it stays on me. So it may. It does like a quick
kind of glance in your rough direction, maybe not fast, but kind of
turns and then goes back to the cal as he continues to walk down this
hallway. I walk to the door. Okay, it is segaled. You
see no noticeable handles or any way to open it. It's another door that
you need to open. Okay, right, don't forget your arrow by the
way, and I'll do it, thank you. I'll walk towards the door.
Yep, and you with your focus see a standard follow handle. What
the rest of you doing? Is the two of them now at that door,
I'm collecting arrow. Yeah, it's just right at the entrance. Basically,
I'm just kind of waiting to see what's happening. I'm very unfamiliar with
the whole situation. So moment nothing seems to be happening for the camera following
what are you do? Anxiety? He's just looking at his surroundings and taking
notes of like if there's any air vents or anything like that that's feeding any
kind of like since we're but little ground, I guess right, yeah,
yeah, he's looking for like key things like air vents, the size of
them, the mechanical devices they're wired where they're running, stuff like that,
And it's just fully observed in the whole rooms kind of standing back, very
quiet, give me a difficulty for a perception check. Mm. Yeah,
so you do see a couple of very small vents on each wall. You
see small like how small are we talking about? I mean yeah, like
you know standard house three? Yeah, like three by five inches kind of
very small house vents. Yeah, non diehard size, damn it. No,
not Tony tower here. I was ready for it. And the wiring
does it go in the ceiling or through the wall? Wiring you don't see
on the camera. You just you just see vents Dan the camera itself.
Is it actually visible as you can see it. Yeah, it's up on
the ceiling like corner about halfway through the room. I would like to go
straight underneath it and see if it like has movement, you know, like
up and down as well, or just yeah, horizontal. So that's what
I'm going to do, just slowly, kind of apprehensively go and stand below
it. Yeah. So as you start walking toward it, you do see
the camera kind of turn and aim a bit down at you. But then
once you're directly underneath it, it doesn't go like vertical to see you.
It kind of goes back up and then looks over toward the people that are
at the door as I'm doing this, and I look up and I see
it not turned directly down towards me. I don't scream that, but I
just kind of look around to see if anyone is meeting my eyes and be
like it cann't. I mean I would place it the arrow turned round.
M hmm. What let me still saying it's a blind spot? Huh,
Dan looking at the camera. I had intended to like ask about this,
but am I able to see any connections in like the direction at which they
would be going with my focus? Or would I not be able to see
any connections the connections like what Zio is trying to figure out with like right
right right right right? Got it? Yeah, but since you can have
yeah, you do. You see them go almost straight back and then disappear
into behind back behind them, right, yeah, Okay, interesting, All
right? Are you ready? Yes? Do the rest? If you catch
up with them at the door, are still sitting back, Asiety is still
sitting back, He's just kind of like, okay, so the two of
them like they're kind of observing. I'll go I'll go front with them.
Okay, So my NASA leaves YouTube back there. Am I ready my per
blaster? We can't see them, or we can't see them. You can
totally see them. Yeah, It's only like maybe twenty thirty feet of a
hallway. It's not like you've been in longer corridors and cauldrons before. So
you can see and hear everybody talking, as long as they're not whispering,
so you would have heard Alkali. Should we go? Essentially all right,
I'll just go ahead and open the door since I got responses from two of
them. Yep. And the door opens into a very very large round chamber,
probably a good two hundred feet Paul, you're looking at like a good
hundred feet wide in diameter. In the center, there are a few very
notable things. You see what looks like a cauldron force field you're unfortunately familiar
with them, housing a very very large machine creature. I'll have you everyone
give me. It'd be more like a memory than it is perception. You
can see this thing just fine, but it'll be int difficulty five. Would
I be able to use my photographic memory? Yes? The difficulty is going
to be one higher for you if you do, just because these things are
rare. So if you've seen it before, boom, you'll know it.
But it'll be a difficulty six for you if you use that skill case.
All right, do we like anxiety and me? Do we also roll?
Can we see it for everyone? Yeah? Well, oh you know what?
Yeah, if you two are still in the hallway, yeah, you
don't roll. That's a very good point. Okay, very good point.
And artifact knowledge wouldn't apply to this either as a machine creature, not an
artifact. Yeah, none of you have seen this before? What is that
quadruped? Very very large? It looks frozen like you can see in the
force field cold, you know, like when the air is kind of moving
and almost looks sluggish. It has like a dim red glow on its shoulders
and back. It's it's just massive, like end to end, it's probably
maybe ten feet. I will I will turn to I'm sorry, Ah turns
his id and say should we should we go? And that is your call.
I am going to sit back and watch and see what unfolds. Well,
if you're seeing back, I'll stay here with you. Then you need
to be very quiet, okay, you're very hidden. And he like goes
into a back like a corner where the shadow is like uh, kind of
underneath the camera and just kind of pulls up against the wall and crosses his
arms. Okay, do you join him mk under the camera or how far
away you see from me? And if you were by if you went back
to the entrance ten feet away? Okay, I'll just do like an ace
maan tour I kind of thing like kind of like on the wall like that,
just shimmy kind of try to avoid the camera. Maybe you bump one
of the photos. But does it break? Does it fall? Oh?
It does just kind of gets very crooked. Okay, that's fine. So
you two are chilling underneath in the blind spot of the camera. For the
rest of you three doing I'm not within range to give it a full scan
right to see like whatever. It's okay, you need to get closer.
You can definitely see there's there's doors on opposing sides and the right and left
and don't know a past this creature. I just can't see it yet.
And can you describe? And you said the door is open now right,
we can see this thing. Yes, she opened the door, and that's
where you've kind of got seen this large creature from a distance, and you
describe the space that like, what does the room look like? Absolutely so
if you're like now kind of looking a little bit more, kind of no
longer looking at that large machine in the force field, it's still very clean,
which again kind of throws you off. It doesn't look like a cauldron
at all. It looks like an old one structure, but the facility seems
to be working, polished floors. If you look in the walls maybe occasionally
like oh yeah, there's some of the more of those pictures and looks like
some old ones desks that probably should have rotted at this point, but it
looks too clean. Kind of almost looks like a a lobby, like a
place where people would go to, like when they enter a facility or a
building first. Maybe even like there's a I think it's like a greeting desk
or something, you know, ten feet in and some old security or some
old like bars people are going through. It feels very alien maybe to us
from this time it wouldn't. It looks very corporate in that sense. Is
it asleep? Well it's behind that force field, so we won't be able
to interact with it, and vice versa. Similarly to how that one cauldron
went. Remember when we disabled it and that machine came to life? Can
it see us? Well, it looks like it's not doing anything, so
who knows. Good Alkali seems to be in some sort of position of power
to this place. Of course she is. Now what I can move in
and maybe before anything bad happens, see if I can scan whatever the hell
that is? You want to get closer to it. Well, we're not
deactivating the field. It would be just to see if I could scan it,
that's all. Or we could walk on buy and go through one of
the doors. Last time, you had to deactivate the field using that console.
Correct? Yes, Dan, looking around since Manasas said that, do
I see any sort of like a console or thing to activate the field?
Yep? Behind that desk pretty sure, it's like fifty feet away or something,
But it looks like you see there's a console there right, pretty standard
over there? See I see it. Does it act the same though?
Well, considering that most of these things, like the box and like that
machine inside of that cauldron we were in, worked like that, we can
assume. Yes, maybe there is a large machine inside the room. I
say to Zayiri and MK, Yeah, kind of loudly talking, not yelling,
but carrying your voice some kind you two hear him. It is protected
by a barrier like the cauldron we were in. Well, Alkali, I
hate to say it, but I think your curiosity is a bit contagious.
It's just so that we're safe. I want to see if I can find
any weaknesses before both we get engaged. We'll both go okay and get a
closer look so you can scan it. But that's it. We're not touching
the console. We're not touching it. I promise. We need to get
a look around the room as well before we move anywhere, to see if
there are any spots where there might be more camera, more of the old
on visual devices and stuff. All right, by the way, all right,
I would start walking, but I would make sure that I'm kind of
looking towards any desks or anything like that to see if I see any blips
on my focus. Yeah, okay, I'm falling closely behind her, all
right, MIKEL were you going in with her? Before I ask other questions?
I look back at Zayiri and MK, and I say I'm going to
follow and look out for anything dangerous. Should we be ready. You can
always if you want to go, go ahead. If curiosity is your thing,
can go. I am not going I mean i am I'm going to
step inside, but I'm not going to be nearby. I'm going to have
my bow sort of ready with an arrow. Okay, And to now that
you kind of step in, so to speak, Nikkel will answer your question
a little bit more of the room, like what it looks like now that
you're here, and maybe looking around a little more inside. There are a
lot of cables running from the ceiling looping around. You may even catch there's
a like what looks like the doors or something. On the right and the
left there's yeah, cabling or wiring running not along the floor, but some
sort of conduit going to each of those rooms as well. MK. What
I'm about to tell you, do not be loud. Okay. When alcohol
I was talking to the whatever, No, what this is when you are
unconscious back at the other area, it was Cognit knew about this one in
this facility. I believe they communicated, and I believe we are walking into
something that is not one hundred percent safe. So with that, you say
it as if we've ever walked into something that was Amberson saying, this is
something being prepared for us to be here. Now I am not going in
there immediately. We need to be ready to protect them, protect them?
Yes, why what? What? What do you mean? Why? I
only protect those I trust? What you don't trust them? Now? What
happened? Nothing? Look, something's not right here. I as long as
I live, I have never walked into the hands of something being controlled by
a higher up. Now if we heard Alkali speaking Terry's that means whoever's behind
this has hurt it too. This possibly something we cannot walk out of.
Though. I want to tell the others I am not appreciated enough to be
listened to. So we wait. No, what you have to say that
you have to see it? Yes, I'm going to. If you don't,
I'm going, I'm going to. I'm going. I'm going to screaming
right now. If you scream, you put everyone in danger. See,
that's why you need to go down. I could be wrong, It's okay.
Just warn them though. Listen, every time I have tried to prevent
something from happen backfired as something completely different. So sometimes you have to let
the fledglings go. You can't protect the nests at all times. This is
how people grow. Oh people die that girl also, I haven't. They'll
be okay. He has the ear of the interests in the eyes, the
vision. When things go all right, we will see what we can do.
But for now, it's best we watch this and be very very very
observant. We have more help to them here. Then we will be in
there. Are you just saying this because you're mad? Set? I know,
I just had the feeling I could relay something to you, but now
it has become an infection of mind. Listen. If you do not believe
I mean you want to run to them, go for it. But what
I am doing is more preparation than anything. So to you if you want
to listen or not, I'm done holding hands now, just be observant.
Do trust me? I am talking to you, nes yes, but that
does not mean you trust me necessarily. Here's the plan. So do you
just trust me? Because I was unconscious this whole time, MK, you're
thinking too deep into this? Am I? Ah? Why should I get
this to myself? How long was I am conscious for? Look? Do
you either want to listen or not? I am here too. I'm listening.
Understand everything, but I'm listening. Oh your voice listen, Yes,
as soon as something goes wrong and I'm cutting this down immediately. What is
he pointing at the camera? Camera? Okay, keep your eye on the
events. Keep eye on the door. Okay. If we need to bomb
rush that door before it closes or whatever happens inside there, you need to
be able to smash it open. Oh I throw your hand in between.
Okay, okay, ah, so it's just a thought. Yes, I
like to be prepared. No, No, that's good, it's good,
it's good. I can I can smash the camera, or I can I
can go towards the door. Nothing right now, Not right now, Sadie.
If it comes to that, I will cut the camera. You have
don't get to have any fun. Okay, fine, okay, now here's
the deal. Listen closely for her to miss's voice. How cal I will
probably give a command something that's clean. There's somebody behind this, someone that's
pipped your head. For anybody to come in, well, we're gonna be
ready for them, right aries aries, Yes, ok we have stayed alive.
You see that room there, Yes, if you want to get a
closer look, go for it to you, being closer to the door is
the better thing to do. Okay, how really remain here unseen? If
this eye picks you up, that's fine, Okay, it already knows that'd
be here. All right, what happens to read the situation? You can
do this. I can do this. I can do this, okay,
okay, okay, And I will just slowly go towards the door, while
at the same time looking back to see what the camera is doing, you
know, looking at Zadi kind of you know, apprehensively going towards it.
Yeah, it's it starts following you. It kind of moves away from the
door, locks onto you. And then as you go to the door,
where you'd probably see Nikel maybe five ten feet in with his bow out.
What's happening? We're just being prepared. Alkali and Monosser are going to take
a look at that machine. And I point to it, and you see
them walking toward it. And as we were walking, did I buy any
chance catch anything? Go ahead and give me a perception difficulty for yeah,
yeah, nothing really pokes out on tables or anything like that. I mean,
it looks like a lot of workstations all over the place. People used
to do something here regularly. But as you kind of push past some of
the desks that are mostly kind of organized and situated to arrive at the force
field on the console in front of it, and we will take carbery.
Ah. Yeah, wow, that was unexpected. Let's push all the buttons
now unexpected? Yes? Please? How'd you know? Definitely didn't talk about
being careful people beat up up? All right, Okay, well, we're
about to take our three to five minute break. There's would be some cool
trailers or some things happening throughout the week on this channel. And I don't
know if there's a trailer or not for it, but I do know something
very cool is happening tomorrow, a small mini series for Witchcraft and Wizardry gmmed
by that guy to my right on the screen. Which do you have anything
you'd like to say about that? Real quick whack before the break. Yeah,
it's going to be Demon Lord and Desires for Witchcraft and wizard Dy tomorrow.
It is essentially going to be about a story that Myrgles wrote when she
was fourteen and decided to talk about on her channel. And I thought it
would be hilarious to make it canon in the Harry Potter universe as a book
series. So we're doing we're doing a special. We're doing a special,
a little four part mini series starting tomorrow and it will probably really destroy myrgles,
So make sure you watch it. Yeah that sounds that sounds delightful.
Thank you. So wait a minute, you're going to act out her book.
You'll have to see. I'm down with that. I've been watching her
a lot lately and I'm really excited for that. Is great, Christ awesome,
wonderful. Well see in three to five, go follow these lovely people,
even if they are brooding in character. Remember we are, we are,
We do like each other. So just just want to make note of
that wonderful thing like is does Frank actually hate everybody? Dude? Yeah,
I'll just say that he told us right beforehand every time. Look, when
I do characters, I do deep development. I don't surface scrape characters.
They have like deep layers. There's deep meanings behind a lot of things that
these characters say. But I do notice a lot of people read the surface
of a character and I just let you guys go hand on it. And
all I do is in the back of my head is just a smile and
shrug my shoulders. I'm just like you, guys, just don't even know
sometimes in his back of his head, which is even better. It's the
same thing with my other character. And then Ryan, everybody's just like he's
evil. We hate them. I'm just like, no one is said,
you're evil. Gotten this what I'm talking about? Mother not? Well?
Yeah, I don't know, man, but it's good. It's funny,
it's hilarious. But if, like I said, it's a credit to acting.
I guess if you guys did that damn blindfolded, go for it perfect.
Well you want to see these lovely people do their own thing, go
follow them. Thank you very much, and we'll be back in three of
five. Everyone, we just had we had to tell Frank to be angry
again. Well, I'm not angry, I guess there he is. Don't
talk me angry. I'm actually angry. I haven't eaten this whole damn trip
nose kidding someone again, only human, jerky, Frank, I'm watching you.
Sure I'm not going to kill you or anything? WHOA, All right,
so it's spoilers. Well I don't feel safe here, guys. Can
you just come out of the room. That's a great segue because none of
you should feel safe here, at least according to anxiety as that was one
of the last conversations that took. But welcome back from the break. We're
going to go right back in. As Manassa and Alkali approach the field,
you get closer to this machine. What are you doing, Alkali, I've
got my focus ready and as soon as I'm close enough to give it like
a thorough scan to see if there are any weak points or if there's any
information on the readout. That's what I'm going for on this thing. Okay,
So you're going on the scan first, not messing with the console,
for not touching anything. Yeah, totally fair. Okay, it's always good
to clarify. Give me a percession check difficulty seven. Yeah, okay,
none of this applies. I I will apply to effort seventeen the effort and
being trained, you begin to scan this creature and the descriptions again from before
and front to back about ten feet but if it were standing, it might
hit a good fifteen sixteen quadrupedal. It's not moving, you see, it's
very cold in there. In fact, you can see some of the vents
pumping what looks like freezing air. Your focus even picks up. Yeah,
the temperature in there is like minus three hundred or something. It's just it's
very cold. It is unmoving, though it is active. I put in
quotes. It looks as though it has almost mandibles. It's bulky, it
has to weigh several tons. A deep red glow on its shoulders and chest.
It's not be emitting a lot of light, but it's there. This
thing is scary, might be a good word to put it. If you
saw it moving, it's big. Any other specific questions you had about it?
Well, in particular, I wanted to see if there were any weak
points that I might be able to pinpoint. So if we end up somehow
magically being engaged with this creature, I'll have some sort of a plan that
we can devise for the team. Yeah, it would probably be those glowing
spots, one on each shoulder. They look they look like they they're not
they're not blaze like sacks like you've seen on like the Bellow backs, but
it's probably it looks something like that, but it glows red. That is
maybe the most different thing. Those those do highlight though the chest looks like
it's got very heavy armor, like when you kind of like maybe angle yourself
under it and you can see what looks like maybe power cells under the layers
of armor. Okay, and nothing like on its on its legs or anything
like that that I can note. No specific weak points though. It is
as you look at it more and like you look go down the legs six
inch claws on each foot, wrapping cables around it, which look more like
muscle than anything else. Okay, manassa, I'm just staring at it.
Yeah, this thing is bad news. Yep. So inside that field it's
pumping up frozen arrow or or just very very cold air, like really cold.
I'm assuming to disable it in some fashion, but the machine is still
technically active, like I'm getting a reading on it. It's so it's awake
but immobilized for now, but it's awake possibly now in case we get into
any and to fight with this thing. You see the shoulders, yep,
I believe those are weak points. And also underneath that chest plate there,
do you see, Yeah, really a heavy chest plate. There are power
cells under there, I'm pretty sure. Okay, other than that, I
can't really tell. There's I mean, you can see its clause as well,
and I would point towards the clause. Yep, I'm not touching anything.
Hey, we're going we are going to back up slowly. Yes,
we are going to turn around. But manassa, didn't we see red glows
before? Out of character? What? I know what she's talking about,
because in the village they had the wires. That's what I'm referencing. They
do. Okay, luck why that I wasn't sure? Okay, yes,
but this could mean something completely different. I know, I know, I'm
just panicing a little bit. We're not touching it. We are going to
back up slowly, yes, and we are going to reconvene with the others.
Right, is this the only entrance. I can't tell if this is
the only entrance, but there are doors on the opposite sides, and I
would point towards the one to the left of us, to the right of
us as you're closer, and when she mentions that too. If you're looking
through the field past this machine you see a very very large bulkhead door,
like good twenty feet tall, eavy duty metal, you can't your focus won't
penetrate it. If you've walked around to get close over there too. You
see that? Yes? Do you know where it leads? I've got no
idea. I should have asked Terry's for some sort of a map. Huh,
You not ask whatever? Boys talks in here? Maybe if we go
towards the elevator or the old one cage, let's move back. We have
to talk to them anyway. Yeah, when to slowly start backing away from
it? Yeah, or anything? Got my bow like sort of trained on
the big machine and I'm looking at them sort of what's going on? I
want to signal that we're going back. Yeah, you'd see them moving towards
you. You heard anything they said out loud? Nikael? But did I
hear it as well? You were at the door, you would have actually
heard that anxiety be the only one that didn't hear that conversation, so they
would have heard the weak points, right, Yeah, if you said that
out loud without whispering, they would have heard that he's not familiar with that
new Yeah, all right. Did you did you guys hear what I was
saying when we were over there? Part of it? Yes? Okay?
So shoulders you see the red parts? And I would try and like point
and see if they could notice it. Those might be a good point if
we can get rid of the chest piece underneath there. Okay, it's got
huge claws. Remember that huge claws, the shoulders and the chest piece.
Yeah, all right, there are three doors in this room. I'm going
to see if maybe I can end up getting some sort of map. Remember
how they put a pinpoint on the one we had already, I believe,
so maybe we can coax a map of this facility out. You seem to
be able to talk to the spirit. I don't know. All right,
I'm gonna give it a shot. I would walk towards the room that we
kind of have decided is a little bit safer with the camera. Okay,
an he sees already sitting underneath the camera in its blind spot. Your sword
was outright, because you were ready to slay, said okay. So you'd
see him with his blade maybe on his shoulder, maybe like kind of set
on the ground. However, he be posing, but he has his weapon
out and he's in the blind swamp. Okay, I wouldn't look towards him
or given any indication that he's there. Aries over what seems like the air
he would hear. Yes, administrator, God, that's never gonna stop creeping
me out. Aries. Is it possible to have some sort of map of
the facility? Yes? Would would you like me to use the kDa?
Yes, you would need to retrieve the scan in the one moment that is
all said out loud, by the way, that was not me. You'll
need to come to the processing unit room. Processing unit room. Would you
be able to just direct me there? Yes, the main chamber for storage
far right door and aries, Yes, administrator. Do you detect any other
life inside of this facility other than my comrades and I? There are a
number of micro organisms in this chamber? What does that mean? Thank you?
You will very welcome, administrator. Okay, I would walk towards where
everyone else is grouped up again, not paying it right again, not paying
attention to Zaire because I don't want to direct anything towards him in case there
is someone watching. Hmm. Okay, ZII, can you give me a
sense motive real quick? That would be int I'll say difficulty or if you've
got something you think like a personality skill or whatever. I mean. No,
well, we're besties. Oh since motive, Well, my perception is
a lot more heightened because I am I activated stand Watch and for those that
don't know what that is, yeah, so basically gives me bonuses to perception
and stealth. You absolutely can get an asset from that for this, absolutely
and this will be a perception action or yeah yeah, yeah, I said
sense motive, but I think with stand watch specifically, you can absolutely use
perception for this. Who he said difficulty for difficulty for you have an asset
okay ooh and minor effect. You know, she's not getting like I know
you were you were Desirety is kind of in a maybe a bad mood,
but you know she is doing this because she does not want to draw attention
to you. She is she knows what you're doing, and she is helping
you in this. Yeah, I'm trying to protect him. Basically, she's
not ignoring you out of spite. She is ignoring you because she doesn't want
you to be noticed. So she's caught onto your in some form. That's
the minor effect. You recognize that he'll do a slight smirk without looking at
her, yeah, or just vision kind of sort. So yeah, so
we can retrieve a map. However, we have to make our way over
towards that door over there. He said it was the what was that?
What was the word for the room? I'm sorry I didn't write it down.
Processing room? Processing, okay, processor? I think Aries called it
a processing room. So we can find out what these other rooms are and
all of the nicks and crannies within this facility. If we make our way
over there, Hopefully it's better than staying in this room with this machine.
I suppose, all right. And I made sure to say that like loud
enough so that Zayirey could hear us as well. Cool, and you do,
all right, especially with your perception before. So how do we want
to do this? Do we do we want me? Do we want for
me to go? Do we want to deal alone? I think we should
all go together. No one should remain behind with this machine. Okay,
alrighty, he's back. Can you hear me though? Like I'm not looking
at him, but yeah he can. Yeah, you're still in like the
doorway. Yeah yeah, Zayary, are you coming along this? This device
picks up audio, I'm assuming so we don't know I so you don't hear
already? Been so it kind of like it just like kind of looks over
in the direction and looks up at the camera. Y'all see him do this?
How about someone stays in here and looks through the desks here just in
case, I can say, Manasa, would you like to, you know,
loot stuff with me? Oh? Oh you ready to fight? I
see No. I will stay here with K. I like with MK.
With MK, and I will go through the desks. Okay, we'll call
on if we need you. But yeah, okay, let's go. I
would probably pat a Nasa on the shoulder before I go. We'll we still
be able to see them where they're going. Now, that door like is
you can see the door from where you are if you're in this this chamber.
It's again, it's about one hundred feet in diameter. It's a big
chamber, really tall, but you can see where they're going. You won't
be able to see them once they go through the door. But I grab
her hand, that pats my shoulder. I look at her deadn't I you
call if you need help? A Nod come on, I'm fall will follow
the two of them going into the processing room. First, you make your
way to the door. The double door looks like a small bulkhead though you
do see a panel with the hollow on it. Do I see any sort
of like wires going above it? Yeah? They go into this room and
then if you follow them back, they actually go directly to the machines force
field. I see under the ground, of course, but you do see
that wiring. Okay, there are wires going in there that connect over towards
then I nudge my like, I kind of like nudge backwards towards the machine.
I don't like this. You know what they do? Oh, I
mean it might be something that powers it. So we have to be careful
with what we touch in there. Okay. And while I'm happy that we
have the opportunity to possibly get some sort of a map, I don't like
this. I don't like any of this. But it seems that this is
our only clue on what could possibly be happening why we're out here in the
first place. Believe me, if there's any indication that we could go anywhere
else that seems safer than this place, I would prefer to go there.
I think we've run out of safe places. Mick Nickel, I'm afraid you're
right. All right, I'm going to open the door be ready. Now,
I'd go to the console and do whatever inputs I have to you in
order to open up, whether it's the turn or yeah, it's just a
It is a turn, though you do not like. It's locked as the
red symbol until you approach and it turns green. Come down it and then
you can turn it if you so wish, But it turns green at your
approach. Yes, I'll unlock it and locks, and you hear heavy mechanical
clanks as whatever seals this door unlocks, and it slides and maybe groans a
bit with the metal moving. The door opens and you see a large room
humming of machinery. You also see another one of those blue pedestals, just
like with Artemis, on the right side of the room, surrounded by a
number of those machines humming. On the left side, you see what looks
like very thick glass and a number of Actually before I don't you give me,
can you give me a artifact knowledge roll of? Or okay, nick
kel, you can do the same with interfe you'd like difficulty for Let's hope
he's smarter than meat not this time. But they it all They almost look
like power cells, but they're too big, so there's something there's something weird
about them. But they're they're behind that glass. There's no noticeable way to
open or get in there. But on the right side and kind of a
square you is all the machinery with the pedestal. Blue slight glow in the
center. Hmmm. I have a skill called device insight, and I can
spend in order to do this. It says, when examining any new Minera
device, you gain an idea of its capabilities or how it functions, how
it's activated, blah blah blah. Would I be able to possibly use that
on the cells that we just saw, Yes, okay, absolutely we can.
Yeah, yeah, I'm doing that since new Minera, as we know
it is basically old tech in this right, Yes, spend your points.
Now. Do note if you have edge, that does reduce the cost of
abilities. So you look at those and again you can't interact with them directly,
but the more you kind of study them before going over the pedestal,
the more you go those Those are definitely fuel cells or power cells or energy
cells, there's something like that. They're bigger. A number of them are
inactive, whereas the active ones seem to be glowing kind of a light yellow.
But they're they're for I mean for powering this facility. I seem to
be running through them, but maybe there's a good half left. So this
facility has been going a long time and very slow. Those are power cells
over there, Michael, what I believe what's powering everything in this facility?
Find the glass? So what do we do with them? For now?
We don't touch them because that might mean the force field will yees, so
don't touch them. Then don't touch them, but keep keep that in mind,
all right. So you said there was a control panel with like a
we're similar to the one we used with Artemis Artemis. Correct, it's the
blue pedestal that you can walk up to, right, And was there any
hologram just the machinery behind the pedestal running and seemingly powering this or interacting with
it. Aries Yes, administerly and as you asked, that a blue hologram
melds up on the pedestal itself of like instantly, like ready to strike.
It looks it kind of looks a little similar to some of the people in
the pictures. Nikel has got kind of a pretty like It doesn't look like
any I mean, he's old one clothing, kind of a few buttons down
the center, looks like there's some fabric on the side. On one of
the shoulders. You may even see what looks like kind of dangling metal bits.
It's all in blue hologram, but it's very sharp. Is the maybe
a way to put it an angular in the clothing, but that melds up.
He looks different than Artemis, though very much so. Okay, Artemis
was a lot more androgen almost maybe maybe bordering female. This is absolutely a
male, pretty well built in how he is looking. Is this where is
this the processing room? Yes? It is. This is where I have
is my intelligence? Okay? Well first may I may I please have that
map? You may please step forward with your PDA. Thank you. I
would take out the PDA centers on the pedestalpe please ad me distract or yes,
and I would put it on the pedestal. And once you do that,
the hologram actually walks up to it and starts interact. It's about the
same size. It's small, but it kind of starts messing with the PDA
and like you see it kind of doing these like swiping motions and after you
look after a moment or so, there is a map of site data aries.
Yes, administrator, would it be possible for the middle, would it
be possible to, as an administrator leave all of the doors in the facility
unlocked? Unfortunately? No, there is a minor lockdown that I have no
control over. A lockdown. There is a corruption corruption. I remember this
word Aloy spoke of this. This is what happened to the machines. This
is why so many of them attacked. Aries. Do you have any sort
of information on what this corruption was? I have preliminary knowledge. I was
left here during most of the war. Go ahead and give me a lack
of a better term, diplomacy check. So I was able to use my
artifact knowledge to kind of work with artemists before, would I, by chance,
since I have been interacting and have been successful pretty much mostly be able
to use it again? Weekly Brows with brows that's the one that did it.
Yeah, yes you can. Okay, it is a difficulty six okay,
but yes you can. Okay, And I like to use a point
of effort. But I do have that skill that lets me use other pools.
So just to balance things out, I'm going to use a couple of
points from my speed pool instead. Okay I experience, Yeah, you're spending
it or you oh I am spending that? All right? Okay, that
is your choice. All right. So the question you specifically asked was,
can you give us information on right on the on the corruption, like what
it was, what knowledge it does have on it? Unfortunately, some of
my sub routines have damaged. I'm unable to give you this information until it
is rectified. I see, do you have any sort of information on how
we might be able to rectify that? Yes? Would you like that information?
Are you looking to repair me? Administrator? Possibly? Very good.
The facility is running at eighty five percent capacity, which, while is effective,
it is taking most of my sub routine seeds to manage that extra fifteen
percent. There is a corrupt machine being held here. It needs to be
eradicated. I would look at an account and just go kind of like,
ah, fuck, how do we do that? You must deactivate the force
field. Non administrator, Please do not address me again without proper authority.
Let me do the talking to cal aries. Do you have any information on
that machine? Very little? Unfortunately, most of what I can do is
keep it deactivated in its capacity. If we were to disable that force field,
which I'm not saying we are, I noticed that there was cold air
being pumped out of the vents inside of the force field. Would would that
still be able to immobilize it slightly for us to be able to take it
down, or or would it spread throughout the room and possibly harm us.
There are some fair safety enacted. You must disable it's freezing as well as
the field. The field. Yes, apologies, conversation is difficult. No,
it's it's fine that it will be all Harry's thank you. You're very
welcome, administrator. The main chambers needing to be deactivated if you so choose.
And on your map there are a couple of pings, so you see
the main facility. There is the large chamber where this machine is you are
currently. There's a little note it says processor room, which is the room
you're in right now. There is ice and heat sources on the far left
side of the facility. And then past that large bulkhead in the very back
says transportation and then aries melts away into the platform. And there were pings
on all of these things. On the ice and heat specifically, right,
do you know what we must do? Well, I'm a little overwhelmed.
So Aris wants us to disable that machine, but we need to al can't
do it right, he needs us to. We would need to save We
would have to but look here and I would point on my PDA, like
where the transportation was. What if what if that is similar to what we
used to get here in the first place. What if it's similar to that,
Because then the distance between here and the facility that we're trying to get
to or whatever the distress signal is coming from, they might be connected.
I suppose if we prepare ourselves for a fight beforehand, we can have the
advantage. We would need to disable the heat in this room over here on
the left, and I would be pointing again to the PDA throughout we would
have to disable I guess temperature control, and then the field and then that.
But we don't have to do this, so all right, let's breaks
information back to everyone. Then. Yeah. Meanwhile, three other are back
in the other facility, Sireity standing underneath a camera and monossin MK searching,
digging through desks, standing around. What are you doing? Specifically? You
two, we know what sosiety is doing. I would be searching the desks
with Manassa. I presume yes, I would be thoroughly searching through these desks.
Okay, you can give me a scavenging girl you'd like, m does
she get an asset from me? She does. Now that you asked what
difficulty, that is going to be a difficulty five With a success between effort
assets and being trained, you've reduced that difficulty one. Yeah. So you're
digging through desks and I'm trying to what was that? So I'm taking it
apart, I mean basically, Yeah, you end up like take maybe taking
out some of your scavenging tools, and you find one particular desk that is
locked, and you again just disassembling it rather than lock picking because this is
easier for you. And you see maybe maybe you're holding tools for her in
aid or something MK, or maybe you're just holding parts of metals she pulls
out off of this desk. Yeah, I'm just a little helper. Yeah,
hands me stuff this. Okay, Manassa, could you roll a D
one hundred for me please? I'd be slash r space D one hundred or
twenty thirty six. All right, thank you, okay. So what you
find is, uh, it's a small disc and it's in a some sort
of case of some kind, and it specifically says personal shield temporary. What's
that? I don't know, but it's shiny and I'm sure I'll figure it
out. Oh what is it? Though? I don't know, but I
will keep it. But but we need to figure that out. Though not
right now. We have plenty more dusks to go through. That is mostly
what you find scavengy roles for the room. Everything else you find looks like
it's been vacated or left fairly empty. Let me open it? Can we
open it? Does it open? It does open? You would totally see
probably see maybe glimpses of this every now and then anxiety through the door of
them digging through desks. And I don't know exactly how it works. You
can't read that, by the way, yeah, can or cannot? Can?
Can? English is readable. I would like to use my identifying lies
danger important ability on it. Go for it with difficulty, difficulty or and
that's an that twenty Okay. I was just going to tell you what you
already know, because it's important. It's not dangerous. It has a label
on it. That's a NAT twenty with a major. Yeah, you've seen
something like this in your trade before, you've actually seen something like this.
It It puts up a temporary force field around the user. You place it
on your chest, it will attach to seemingly anything and for the entire day
where it only then it will burn out. You get an asset to all
speed defense rules just telling you exactly what it is because of then at twenty.
So to clarify, I know that if I placed it it attaches,
right, but I don't. But it activates if I push the button.
It activates when you place it, so act putting it on your chest activates
it, and for the next day you get an asset to speed defense.
I will not activate it yet, but I will. Uh. I'll literally
like place it inside my shirt. Okay, wait, wait, what do
you doing. It's in its case still, so you'd have to that to
prevent it from like auto turning on. Yeah, I'll shove like the actual
case in my shirt. Okay, so you see her like pocket the thing
and just okay, manassa, what the hell? What what is it?
What did what did you put it? I won't know what it is?
What is it. It's a temporary shield. It's a shield. It looks
pretty small be a shield. It's a barrier. It's like handheld per person.
I've seen it maybe once or twice. They're the trades, very rare.
Huh. Okay, what are you gonna do with it? While?
I stored it for safe keeping and when we need it then I will use
it safe keeping. Okay, oh boy, all right, I'm not going
to put it in my back pocket. You say that now? Okay?
Yeah, I trust you. Are you done? Yes? All right,
I am done. About this time, where the other two would exit the
door they entered, you would probably see Alkali looking very grim. Eventually,
thank you for anxiety. So Aris has data on what happened. There is
some sort of a corruption in the facility, and in order to get the
information on said corruption and possibly to use it for future reference, we have
to let something out, don't we. That machine is the source of the
corruption, according to the spirits, Yes, much like the machines that we're
corrupting the sacred lands the joking. No, there's also transportation. Alkali thinks
that there is another way we can move very quickly like we did in that
box. Possibly unless it's some other form of transportation. I would pull out
the and move in close to k and and Monassa and point towards like the
map. I was able to retrieve a map from aries and uh, that's
it there. But I'm assuming we won't be able to use that until we
do what Areas wants and ares The voice, yes, wants us to let
that thing out and wants us to kill it. We would have to disable
the cold temperatures. I would point towards the vents and then point towards like
the ice and heat room on the map that's to our left. We would
have to disable that. Why does it do it itself? It can't?
You mean it can? I don't know if we can trust this thing exactly.
How did it get it there in the first place? I don't know.
It obviously knows how to stop it. H have you? Have you
asked that thing if there's people here? I did remember, and you said
there were micro organisms, So I'm assuming very small things around wildly again,
so no people. So the micro organisms like rats this place probably smaller than
rats. Maybe I don't know, but yes, I mean machines, vacuum
cleaners. What the hell, that doesn't make any sense. What's happening here?
I am? I don't know. We can explore the voice of the
obviously keeping this facility alive and well while storing that giant monstrosity that's apparently infecting
it. I don't know much more than what I was told, because Ari
says that basically they're using fifteen percent of their own resources to try and keep
the facility afloat in order to gain information we would have to assist. Now,
we could explore and check out if we can get behind into that transportation
room and see maybe we could just leave, but I don't think it's going
to be that simple. And there were also power cells in that same room,
so I think those are what are powering the facility, and of them
were destroyed, were not destroyed but empty. What was the whole point in
us coming here again to find answers and possibly we could use that transportation to
get to our final destination. Have we found any answers we could? No,
I'm asking if we have found any so far or anything. When I
asked about the corruption, which is very relevant to what our entire society has
gone through, mm hmm, Barry said that he had information, but he
could not accessain because we have to destroy that thing. Right. It does
sound very I'm not denying that. I'm not I worry that we have been
lured here. I was worried about that too. Well. Good thing we
caught down, because now we can leave and go where somewhere other than here.
We have miles and miles and miles and miles and miles to go.
We don't know if there's anything between here and where that distressed signal is.
If we are able to activate whatever transit system this has, we won't have
another MK situation where someone gets heatstroke and can possibly die. We can avoid
a lot of dangers. So are we all on the same page of not
fighting that? That's my hope. The other option agreeance before we make a
decision. The other option is that we could prepare to fight it. Yes,
just so that we know what our options are. We haven't begun any
sort of fight. It hasn't surprised us. We might be able to surprise
it. We have traps, we have explosives. Yes, aries said that
he was the one incapacitating it. The machine, yes, with the temperature
control system huh, And he can't render it immobile. Well, he's rendered
it immobile, but if we release that force field, we'll all freeze.
That's all a bit too convenient for Aries. Huh yeah, So I guess
my question would be, if we were to go and try to attempt to
find this transportation, doesn't Aries have access to said transportation might be able to
what's stopping him from preventing us from getting there. Then there was something about
a lock a lock. Aries said something about a lock Was it on the
transit station? I think so? Aries? Yes, administrator, Oh good,
you could probably hear as the sol time. Don't address him or he'll
get angry, machine will get angry. Just let me talk Aerries his administrator.
You mentioned the lockdown before, or some sort of a locking mechanism that's
correct minor lockdown procedures. And again, just so that my colleagues here can
hear, how is it that will disabled? This disabled the minor lockdown or
the force field around the corrupted machine the lockdown. The lockdown cannot be undone
until the corruption is kept with I cannot risk it escaping and causing more problems
for the war, causing more problems. Wars have sides, which side would
it cause problems for aries? Yes, Administrator? What was this? What
side was this machine on? The corrupted machine? Yes, I do believe
one of the sub routines happened to have gone rogue and caused more problems.
Is this not a machine from my time? Interesting? Do any of you
have any questions? What does it look? Give us an answer? When
did this get trapped? Aries? Do you have information on how long ago
this machine was trapped here in the force field? This particular corrupted machine has
been here for three hundred cycles? Mm hmm. Yes. Did it just
correct itself? I would have whispered that to myself. We didn't hear that
comment? No I was here, Yeah, yeah, you heard it.
Yeah. Sh And just to clarify for my friends, Aries, the lockdown
is locking the door to the transit system. Yes, that is correct,
administ could and you would see alcohol visibly kind of shaking. Could you possibly
give us some sort of information on the type of transit system and any sort
of like destination. There are many destinations of the particular transport system. It
was meant to transport weaponry to aid the war in the west. Does it
go north? It goes mostly north and west. That's what I meant,
I would make eye contact with everybody. Aries that'll be all thank you,
you're very welcome, administryor I can everyone, but Alkali give me a difficulty
three perception check. It's because you're a bit focused on other things. If
you don't have perception as a skill, it's just intellect difficult, Okay,
mikil Manassa. You would see anxiety maybe like kind of trying to get your
attention underneath the camera, holding his blade up, kind of maybe like pointing
at the camera of like inquiring more or less. I shake my head,
No, I feel sick. You can see them doing that. So you
see them going, no, I'm following Zaire's wherever Ziary is pointing. Yeah,
well they succeed on their there, so what are you trying to mind?
So I'm miming that the camera is moving towards a direction, so this
is not normal. Okay, So he's he's points so you see maybe like
you've succeeded on that. But like you see him kind of doing like the
camera movement and like aiming at you again looking at this and looking at like
where the camera is looking at it is fixed on all of you. I
look at Zayire and I just shake my head and he goes back to standing
watch. So that transit system my theory was correct. It goes to the
west. It seems that that device that has been keeping a look on us
has become more active. Yes, do ask our friend Aries what he's observed
so far? What do you mean It seems to be following us and moving
oh more and more than before. Aries, Yes, it means rattle.
Are you controlling the visual systems? That is correct. I monitor this facility,
I see, and you're positive there are no other human life for inston
here. The last humans that were in this facility as well, before your
time, they all left act lie. Ask him who keeps this place so
clean? Alcol Aries? Yes, I noticed that the facility has been kept
very tidy, even from walking in. How do you maintain it? Automation?
Automation you mean like machines, That is correct. So there are more
and those are not corrupted, that is correct, They wouldn't have a potential
of corruption if this works. Really yeah, thank you, Aries, you
are well administry or all of them. So we either stay here and potentially
get this corruption out and nothing happens, and we get on this trends,
or we do what aries asks of us and some sort of what would one
such as this be trying to trap us with? While it is very suspicious,
what could it hope to gain? I don't know. He could kill
two birds with one stone. We get rid of the machine that's corrupting his
little machines, and he can take care of us easily. But if his
aim was to take care of us, if someone else managed to make it
to this facility, I don't think they would want administrator privileges still there for
someone to just walk in and pick up. Isn't it all? He keeps
us place so clean though, Yes, that that's what the bots are for
his little machines, right, so we're all doubt he would allow. I
doubt that allow is one of the robots. That's one of the first points
that we need to address. Okay, if we find those, we could
probably lock down those rooms so that this corruption, which Ay says he's afraid
that it will spread to these machines, so we could we could lock those
away so we don't destroy them and take this one out. The plan you're
making means that we have to open that field and let that thing out.
I realized this. The more that I think about it, the less likely
it seems that this would be a trap. And I'm trying to think of
a reason why. And I can't understand if if it wasn't league with this
machine, why wouldn't it just release it. It wants to destroy it,
right, Maybe it doesn't have clearance to do that. It controls. It
says it does, but it doesn't mean that it has full control obviously.
What if it needs administrative purposes to unlock something like that as a fail safe.
So the reason that I consider, I know the reason that I'm going
to disagree here is when I ask it to do something it can. It's
using its stores in order to keep that machine frozen. So it has control
over this facility at least mostly whether that means everything keeping it alive, it's
keeping it from corrupting the other machines, allegedly, but that transit that will
get us to that signal, and we will avoid heat, possible starvation,
and possibly more death bringers and other machines. I have underscand this. That
is what I'm most worried about. We have no destination. We do no
I mean, if we warn't to use what is available here. If we
traveled through more of this desert after only a few days, MK got sick.
Imagine what could happen after a few more. Precisely, I don't know
that we have a choice. We either go forward or we go backward.
Our odd suck either way. But this we know weak points, we have
a plan. We know that this will lead us to a transit system that
could possibly get us at least closer to where we're trying to go. The
whole point of us coming here was to see if we could figure out either
some sort of clue as to how or what will encounter or how we'll get
there, find out more information about these people, find out more information about
what these facilities are all about and why they're all connected. It was to
find answers. I agree precisely. It was not to find a way to
transport us to A to B. What was our original plan before we even
came here, to try and find the next door, safest place. We
were trying to look for some place to travel to. We have no information.
Even the people in this last in Falls city, they knew nothing.
We are traveling blind. We know nothing, and that's what we all agreed
upon. We knew we were going to be doing this. We need right.
But this isn't evil. We can see Monossa. I'm not trying to
put you in danger. I know you're not. I'm just I'm trying to
get us away from it. I understand. I don't like the ideas agreeing
with you, I don't like the idea of us taking the advice of any
machine. I agree, But the spirit, although strange, might present us
with the only opportunity that we have. The other option, only option that
I can think of, is we pick a direction and we walk. You
have another section lies ahead? What danger lies ahead? Right? What if
it's just desert? Like I said to Mickel before, I think we've run
out of safe places. Do you have any other ideas? I'm more than
willing to hear them. No, I don't. I look at Zayire out
of the corner of my eye. You seem slightly shrug. I look at
I look at the machine, and then I look back at Zayire. You
haven't been able to get a good look at machine, alrighty. You just
recognize more that that's a force field in the distance that usually contains them,
like cauldrons heard the second time I ran down the uh the weaknesses because I
think I came over and I said them you did. He would have heard
it, Yeah, for sure, he just hasn't been able to see it.
Right, He's gonna I look down at it. Look, I guess
he's going to notice. I mean, he started he started a conversation right
about Yeah, yeah, you heard. You've heard all the conversation because they've
been having it near the door. He's going to kind of like look down
at his sword and then look at Nikkele and just be like he doesn't feel
confident that he can do any damage to this thing of this size with what
he's got he wants to build. Yeah, I mean his internal thoughts is
if he's going to go along with this madness, because that's what he thinks
it is. He is going to need something a lot bigger right now.
He just feels like this is crazy. So he's just kind of like you
can see him look doubtful when he's looking at his sword. But that's about
the only context you can get from his thoughts. All Right, I'm exhausted.
I think I I think that I probably look look at Zayire in the
eye, and I say, as I turn my head, I say,
this is a choice for all of us. If we don't feel comfortable doing
this, then I don't think we should do this. I agree, but
I'm just saying that this is the best option that we have. Maybe not
right the second, Maybe we get some rust. Let's prepare, prepare,
and then come back. I don't trust this thing, neither do I Jeane
the spiry butter that is. But we've come this far and there's no turning
back. We just gotta push forward and pray for the best. You should
ask Harrys if he can lend us any hand. Where would the hand come
from? That's a good, good one. Ask him if he can lend
any aid if we are out this thing. Yes, apologies for berating you
with questions, but it is all right. I was wondering if at all
possible if we were to fight this corrupted machine, therefore aiding you, would
you be able to aid us during our fight. There is a possibility of
this, though I would need to have more expanded capabilities, which you could
indeed grant administrate. What would these capabilities entail? More access to the facilities
poll capabilities, so you have limited access. I have more than you.
You have more authority, I have more access. Interesting, and if I
were to enable this, is there any definitive defense aid that you would be
able to give us. I may occasionally be able to slow it down,
though interfacing it would risk me being corrupted. Of course we don't want that.
It would be on wise for your survival. Yes, that'll be all
aries. Thank you. I'll have to deliberate. Welcome administrator, and I
think that's where we will call the episode. Ah oh, oh boy,
oh we're going to die. Oh we're gonna die. I do not anticipate
this entire episode being talking with AI. But here we are. Fuck,
here you are. So I'll done. Everyone, You've survived another day and
the Forbidden Lands. Yeah, he for now. I thought I was gonna
level this episode. I mean you might have if you had accepted some of
the GM intrusions. I'm what do Yeah, I gotta accept that one,
Dan. Sure. Oh thank you all for being here and playing and watching,
all you lovely viewers. I'm gonna do quick shout outs of everybody an
end of session goodness, as our party is prepping themselves for danger. But
let's let's go ahead and let's start with the cat today. Who are you?
What do you do? And uh, what are you gonna choose for
your inner session? Well? I'm Cat. I play Manassau, your favorite
lut goblin, the best lout goblin. I think for an obsession I would
like to do we get arrest not yet, you have not rested? You're
talking about Oh wait, I will wait. I will wait before doing a
recovery role. So first off, I'm gonna give an XP to MKA for
helping me. Yes, yes, right, or just permanently borrowing exactly it's
borrow. Yes, yes, that's what it is. Yes, borrow some
stuff. Okay, I'm going to return it maybe at some point. All
right, So can I do study a machine already fought? Flash? Observed?
Does observed count because I'm looking at it? That would be I would
say the language I used for that as observation would indeed count. Gain an
asset on the next fight of same machine. Yep, not the whole fight,
but you would get your one of the roles against that. Okay,
So that's what I want to do. You have to roll for that?
No, you just get it? No, okay, Now I changed the
wording on that a little bit, so you can use that asset when you
choose. It's not your the the immediate next role, it's just in that
next fight, in the next fight exactly. I remembered. I got it.
I got it. I'm gonna put a little thing right here to remind
myself for sure. Perfect. Thank you very much, faye me uh oh
uh. Hi, I'm failing. I'm a voice arctur and a streamer and
I play alkalidity. As for my end of session, I'm going to go
ahead and give an experience to Zayiri because while I did well alcohol, I
did notice that he was being distant. I think that she kind of got
the idea of what he was trying to do with the camera and everything like
that, and I I think she would have appreciated the fact that he was
looking out for them and trying to be stealthy and trying to be calculative,
so that would go to him and I will go ahead and take an experience,
okay, DOOKI. I guess he wants some of that back after that
nice, wonderful thank you very much for a bluddy hello. Hi, I'm
bloody faster and I stream sometimes in a costplay sometimes and uh for the antecession
stuff, I'm going to take one XP and I'm going to give one XP
to Alkali because she did a lot of talking today and she deserves it.
C Yeah, okay, dooky, and you're blood faster, go follower do
all that she streams things. She's great because I don't think I think my
other brain either tuned out you shouting out yourself or you avoided it. I
think it was my name, you know, but that's you don't follow me,
you know, people, Yeah, so go follow her? Great?
No tech Hey, I'm technique. I play ZIETI and I stream a host.
I do the RP stuff, I do voices. I'm just a positive
guy, even though you don't think so. I'm kidding. We totally don't
think that. One of the nicest people I know. Yeah, yeah,
but definitely if you come by the stream, it's just a bowld of Positivity's
like, we have a lot of fun, just enjoy playing games. Right
now, playing out word with one of my OLGI viewers actually like long term
viewers, and we're having a having a blast. It's hilarious. I literally
was wheezing, uh the last time you played it. I never laughed like
that before and I might want to get checked by that, but it was.
It was hilarious. You can find a clip on Twitter which you can
follow me there at Technique TV. What I am going to do is I
can't do much. I would love the craft something, but I'm under a
camera, so you're gonna just take unless we can sort of do a montage
prep at the beginning of next session. Oh, if that's the thing,
that's the thing that I'll craft something to gain and experience. Yeah, I
have the materials, so yes, you do, Yes you do. You
can. You can absolutely make a craft and check now if you'd like,
You'll get the experience regardless. Okay, that's what is it going to be.
Let's see do I have anything? So what are these materials you have
and what you're planning on using? I know you got those big, big
heavy metal sheets, the metal sheets. I don't know. Do we do
we have any oil of some sort? I feel like we had something,
but I can't remember it on my head. Did we take any fat or
anything like that? From my only use two wire coils that I could give
you, I mean I could help, I mean, any any materials help
or because I have a bunch of stuff. Yeah, so I was gonna
pull k and on this. Uh, yes, I have stuff. And
depending on what you're doing, I mean, you're you'll probably all have like
basic materials like that, like the real basic stuff. So if you're trying
to like get heat and all that specifically, well, wouldn't we have maybe
if ZAYII was planning this, uh, saved some of the fat from the
buck, I can give you the moose, the large deer. Yeah,
that's I mean, that's very possible. Like if you're if you are tinkerers
and crafters and smiths and things like that's stuff that people normally would save specifically
this reason, and I'm okay giving that to you. We have shards.
Shards are kind of like are they like glassy? Uh? This mores the
metal pieces honestly, But even that we can if I want to get great,
if I can position them to take the race for the sun to create
some kind of beam of light, to create fire, if you have something
to tear up and throw in there, and using what shards metal, anything
that that can I mean I could have probably even used my I mean I
have huge sheets I can possibly use my you'll have fires starting materials, you
can start fires, Okay, I don't know if we had them or not.
Yeah, yeah, that's how you do get can fires. I would
guess I would take materials from MK to build a mold kind of like we
did for uh the mall and doing just just like under the under the camera
basically she's just sliding the items. It would be more than likely. Yeah,
because we were planning on possibly exiting, trying to formulate a plan,
crafting and doing whatever we have to. Yeah, not without so if anything,
what what I'll say then, uh, if you'd like is you can
save the role after, but you'll get that experience and just and you can
kind of how about well, I'll do this make the crafting role. If
you succeed, you get an asset for the quote montage Asa has said me,
so, uh, I might have something you may not. So,
so I have puzzle solving. Can I use that to craft? Excuse me?
It worked though? So that's right? Works? What works? Yeah?
What looking at sidy, I have this which really doesn't. I mean,
it's a skill that sounds cool, but it doesn't apply to our slay
through too much I was kind of wanting to like argue the fact that just
never gets to use it. Dan, come on, Yeah, it's reason
a dirty it's a place dirty like specific, but it's hand and eye and
it involves agility. Let's see, that's up to him and action initiate.
Yeah, it's like lock picking dexterity, man manual dexterity, which is that's
that's a lot of crafting is manual like dirty. Absolutely will cost you two
speed all right? If you have the edge, of course, that can
reduce that. Yeah, I have. Yeah, so we're doing a speed
check giving us Okay, yep, what's the difficulty? Yeah, this will
be difficulty for okay, and this will this will give you an asset to
your crafting. This is you basically prepping for craft. So if it's difficulty
for to be difficulty to right, Uh, this is an ability. And
you said the edge takes away from I'm just trying to it takes away the
cost of using the ability. God, you would also take away if you
put in what's your speed edge? Yeah two too, so you don't any
free for you Okay, yep, it's just free all right. It's difficulty
for speed check or yeah. This, so if I use effort in it,
which I probably don't need to, but you cans. Okay, let's
put one effort. So if I use effort, does that? Does that?
That'll cost me that? That's automatically get a just based on your edge.
You just roll an ad effort. Yeah. Also, yeah, the
uh, this is the most epic crafting prep role we've ever had on the
show. You need a bunch of hyphen chat for this end of session thing
before we have the final end of session of Whack. It's gonna be so
boringly Wait, you saw a gain an asset from something. If you succeed
on this, it will give you an asset in the future. You are
prepping, correct, I'm helping with his weapon by the way, Well,
when you get to it, getting all the prepped together, so that'll be
next time. Succeed Cool, So you you did it, well done?
Uh done? So you gain an asset for trying to craft this. When
you are doing that, you're basically getting all this stuff you need together right
now and making sure you don't miss anything so you don't have any laugh minute
issues. So you got whol and you got your experience, regardless of some
nice crafting with Michael Bay explosions going slow mo crafting cameras on a on a
three six swivel and he's got his shirt off. He's like, yeah,
getting on the eye of the camera. Slow most sweat flying in the way
there, you like, raise your hammer, good lord, perfect just like
us in the face hair flipping. Oh yeah, so these things just like
commercial when we hear the booze song, does not become some kind of fan
art that will be really mary, you know, explosions, My god,
we just need this, you know, perfect. We talked about dark chocolate
earlier. I'm just saying not when they meet the dark. But you know,
caramel, you're not wrong. Doodle up in here. You know,
Well, that's your new nickname. Thank you got to be your name.
It's got to be your nickname. And like every RPG play now, Frank,
Frank, did you give out your experience to uh? I can give
an experience? Oh yeah, you always give an experience. Oh I didn't
know that. I thought it was just a different package. Okay, that
m K gets it because she the only went well, yeah, she showed
she showed interest in what he was thinking, and they had a moment yeah,
yeah, and she didn't break anything by accident, so that was great.
You didn't see that like you were. That means MK is growing.
That's great. Likewise, okay, all right and whack what do you?
What are you? Let's we're tramping, we're moving forward. Whack what Let's
say a shout out, Let's go hi everybody. I'm whack Stephen. Normally
I'm the GM of Doom and I will be tomorrow U for the special Witchcraft
and Wizardry mini series that we're going to do for the next few weeks called
Demon Lord and Desires, which is based on a story that Mergles wrote when
she was fourteen years old. And uh, it's going to be really fun.
I think, Uh, if you have no idea what is going to
happen in it, it's uh just think back to the stories that you might
have written in creative writing around the age of fourteen and fifteen, and it's
about that. Why would we do that though? Now? YEAHR Myrgles made
the mistake of talking about that story on her stream and I was watching at
the time, and I said, oh boy, this is absolutely perfect to
make as a book series in uh the now canonical Uh, history of witchcraft
and wizardry. So yeah, it's gonna be when you release that information.
During the uh, the argy, it was amazing. She was like,
what, yeah, there's some good there's some good clips of Myrgles getting absolutely
ruined. It was a complete complete surprise to her, uh during the stream
and she was muted and going insane. It's really good. Uh, it's
really really good. So we're gonna be starting that. Myrgles has been helping
me with it too, and it's uh, we're really looking forward to it.
So that's going to start tomorrow. As from my endis session stuff.
I am going to give an XP to Alkali and I'm going to take an
XP for myself. Thank you, okay, Joki perfect, thank you,
wack Di'm domestic Dan your GM of consequences and what will they be next episode?
Depending on their choices, we'll find out hopefully not dead. Sunshiny rivers.
That's it. I mean, that's why, that's why an a I
would be called aries for sure. It's just sunshine. That's what that's what
means in Greek, right right, bloody Aries means sunshine and rainbow. Yeah,
definitely, that's what it means. Sure, okay, great, there
you go in rainbows. Yes, his name is Arias not Aries and that's
why areas of some time and rainbows. That was nothing that it's just a
mistranslation. You're absolutely right. Yeah, the letter just fell off. But
thank you everybody for watching. We appreciate you very much. Thank you all
of my wonderful RP lovelies here. Thank you Chat for being wonderful. And
yeah we will see you next week for this show and later this week like
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