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Thank you so much for joining us on our final installment of Blade Runner
Electric Dreams. Last we left well, I guess before we get into that.
As usual, I'm the great unclean one, your host, your GM,
and your game runner in this game, your gr and I'm joined by
our cast of blade Runners as we dive into the final part of our investigation
here, so we'll do a quick round the table. As always, tell
us who you are, who you're playing, anything else you'd like to tell
the listeners, and then we can dive right in. We'll start it off
with our veteran please happy me or Tyler's damn bro way to call us out?
Who is it? Who is Chris thinking? Is the veteran me or
Kyle? But I think I think Kyle has been on more episodes than me,
probably at this point. Well maybe maybe not, I don't know.
I'll you're the veteran Kyle, you go, I'm Kyle. I will be
playing veteran Inspector Silas Holdback and uh yeah, it's excited to be here.
I love Blade Runner. Has been so much fun, and I've been really
diving back into like the Blade Runner cyberpunk type of atmosphere stuff. So having
a good time. Yeah, so far, so good. I've been enjoying
it myself. Man, I really I really dig this game. I love
to actually play it one day. But this might be something I bring to
gen Con this year. We'll see. All right, we'll go with our
other veteran then after that. Damn guys, I've been so excited every week
to play this game. Like, I love our characters, I love everyone
else's characters. I think it's so cool. How we've worked as a team,
and I love role playing this. It's been like so different and so
fun and just unique. And I love the world, I love the music.
I don't know, man, it's been such an experience every week.
It's been super fun to play as Detective Violet and I look forward to wrapping
it up. Hell yeah it should now that we've got a little bit of
inner party turmoil and our curveball of last week with with Matt's character, Matt,
how you do it tonight? Oh? Just great. I'll be playing
our quote fixer unquote Hector Bentov quote hostage preser. It was definitely probably causing
more problems than solving, but you know, maybe it'll all work out in
the end and he can regain his title a fixer. Uh, I think.
I don't know. Since we last talk, not not a whole lot
has happened. We've popped down to Palatine to celebrate Mother's Day early because I'll
be stuck in Madison for an industry convention next week. And we got some
Capri Deli one of the best shout out to one of the best Italian places
in the Northwest suburbs, And is that the place that was by the shop,
the sort of by the shop. It's it's up like Grand Road.
Okay, I think up there once. Yeah. Yeah, let's by the
like gators and the clock store. Yep. That helps nothing. Nothing beats
a good deli man. Yeah. Stuff, So that was. That's been
a lot of fun. I just noticed on the map here on the very
far right hand side, Atari Entertainment Center. How about that interesting well,
god damn part of the Yeah, I don't say it's uh, it's cannon.
Uh. And last, but not least, Our final, our final
detective who had quite a who had a great interaction with the front runner of
NPC for the year last week. She's just such a champion. She's a
trapper. She just keeps going, Yeah, I am Sean, I'm playing
Garrick, and uh yeah. This has been a very interesting system and an
interesting game, and I'm really enjoying it. So if we ever did back
into Blade Runner, I'll be very excited to continue. Oh we will.
I can guarantee you that there's there's no question about it. So good to
hear. Maybe I'll give a crack at writing my own case file. We'll
see. But uh, well, I'm your host folks, and I don't
want to take up any more of your time here because I've been chomping at
the bit well a lot, I should say, and I want to I
want to dive right in here. So we're gonna return to the rain soaked
city of Los Angeles twenty thirty seven. A last we left in our last
session are blade Runners had been following up a few more leads as they try
to find the missing blade Runner Leah, and well, quite a curveball came
our way as Hector, who was trying to track down and speak with the
Orillion the animoid Butterfly Dealer, ended up spotting Styles and after trying to chase
him down, ended up in a three on one fight in an alleyway,
and despite some incredible self defense with the odds stacked against him, breaking a
few fingers his and on enemies, he wasn't able to put that fight up
forever, and eventually Detective Bantov was knocked out and taken prisoner, awaking later
in some rundown building and having an interesting conversation with Styles. Meanwhile, Garrick
met with Quell, who offered him a bit of ultimatum deal. Whatever you
want to call it, and Silas was going to go try to track down
Hector, and Violet was supposed to go to the Memory lab, but she
decided against that and joined Silas, and the two of them have now discovered
that Hector has disappeared, and Like has set out a huge warning over dispatch
that we have a missing blade Runner. At this point, as that really
gets underway and the APB for Hector gets issued across the city, we find
that night is beginning to creep up across La. We're entering the third shift
of the day, and yeah, we are getting towards the end of day
two here. Before we begin, though, one thing I forgot last week.
This is something in the rules, so I think we did it in
the last session. Maybe not, but anyway, in Blade Runner, just
like an Alien, there are situations that can cause stress to the characters.
Unlike an alien, though, it's not just take a point of stress because
you encountered or dealt with something horrible. In this game, you can get
more than one point of stress, but you have a chance to resist that
by making an insight role. I would like all of you to make an
insight role versus one point of stress for Hector being obviously captured. Hector,
you're rolling this because you've been captured and you are in a awful situation.
And for the other three, this is because one of your blade runners has
gone missing during an investigation, just as you feel like you're getting towards the
kernel of truth here. So it's only one point of stress, so you
only need at least one success. Basically, every point of success will reduce
us a point of stress on these types of roles, So everybody please give
me an insight role. And if you don't get any successes, then you
will lose a point of resolve. You'll take a point of stress. And
okay, it looks like wow, Garrett, Yeah, is that a critical
mind again? Okay? Oh, okay, so Violet and Garrick have criticals.
You guys are fine, Silas, you've got ones. You're good.
Unfortunately, Hector with zero, you're going to take another point of stress as
you find yourself or a point of resolve, whatever you want to call it,
as you find yourself you know, strapped in here. So okay,
cool, I could in theory push that, right, you could, yeah,
if you want over her head, as long as you don't roll any
uh unicorns, you won't take any damage. You could be risking it though,
I mean, I'll probably get one in one, right, all right,
let's do it, yep. Okay, so you end up taking a
point of damage anyway from the OREGANI okay, So yeah, you uh,
you overcome the stress, but only stress yourself out more when you try to
not be stressed. So uh yeah, it's not look good for detective bants
off here. And speaking of the detective, I guess no what We'll start
with the other group first, because we ended with Hector last week, so
are other three blade Runners who are not currently captured? What are you doing
as the search for Hector gets under way? How are you proceeding with the
investigation? I believe Silas and Violet are still on location of his last known
whereabouts. Correct, that's where you were at the end of the last shift.
So as we move into the next shift, what are you guys gonna
do? You guys had all been speaking over KIA you'd informed Garrick as he
was on his way back from Wallace Corporation. I mean, I don't think
we had any leads to where he was aside from knowing he disappeared in that
area. I can I think you. I was gonna go to the LAPD
and then try to look at the spar while to see if we can see
where he went what happened. And I think I was going to fall up
on Lilith Tyrrell. Yeah, with I'm presumably haulbuck. Yeah, the memory
lab. Yes, yeah, okay, we can do that, all right?
All right, well Garrick, we'll start with you. So you sail
over the city. Perhaps you stop by the scene and meet up with Syllous
and Violet in person before you, guys split ways. Once the search gets
under way, fire up your spinner and you make your way back to the
LAPD tower and once again finding yourself putting in yet another request to access the
esper walls. So it is going to cost promotion points as usual. I
finally had five. Okay, Well do really well tonight, guys? Five
at the end? Yeah? Can I give him one? Or do I
have to do that? No? I just let you guys do that last
time because the person doing it didn't actually have any Okay, So yeah,
I'll spend one. Okay, all right, Well, you may give me
a tech test with advantage here as you start, you know, checking stuff
out. All right, I got one success. Okay, not great,
but it's all that you need is one. So you start sifting through the
footage. You're finally getting the hang of this whole esper wall thing, but
there's a lot of footage to go through, and it takes you a little
bit of time to find the time stamp where he is when he first shows
up there on anamoid row. And what you do ultimately see is what Violet
and silas confirmed from the one girl who worked at one of the shops.
You see that Hector starts to follow someone which you very clearly immediately recognize has
to be Styles. He's tall, he's in that black hoodie, and you
see that when he turns the corner to that one corner right on the the
map that we were on, you see that someone bumps into him from behind.
You see as he turns the corner, you get another angle from the
camera and you see that he loses track of Styles, who books it down
the alleyway that you guys eventually followed the trail too. Then another man comes
up from behind him and as he walks past him, he basically shoulder checks
him. You can see the two then start having a conversation and it looks
like it gets a little heated, and then the guy who appears like he's
going to walk away, you see, Hector says something and the man turns
back towards him, gets right up in his face, pushes him. They
have a few more words, and then out of nowhere, the guy just
slugs Hector right in the face and takes off, at which point Hector starts
to chase after him, and he follows him down the alleyway and as soon
as you see him turn the corner and you realize that they're they've got to
be setting a trap here. It's no coincidence. They get to the end
of the alley. Actually wouldn't You wouldn't see what happens in the alley because
the camera is only for the street. But you see that he turns the
corner down that alley the same way that Styles went, and Hector follows after
them. A couple minutes go by, maybe five ten at most, and
eventually you see a figure emerge from the alleyway. They very cautiously come around
the corner, look up and down the street, and then they begin to
make their way across the street opposite of the alley. They disappear down another
alleyway, and about a minute or two later, you see two more figures
emerging, also wearing like dark jackets and hoodies, and you see that they
are basically dragging slash carrying Hector. They've got they've each got one of his
arms over their shoulder like they're supporting him. But when you zoom in and
you actually look, you can see that he appears to be unconscious or dead
and they're dragging him. You can see that his feet is getting dragged.
Tops of his feet are scraping the ground as they as they carry him.
The first guy who comes out of the alley, you can see as he's
walking he's holding his left hand as if he's injured, and he's looking around
kind of squirrely. And then when the other two come out of the alley,
you can tell one of them is styles because of how tall he is.
You don't recognize the other two. You don't really get a good look
at their face or anything like that, but they eventually disappear down that same
alleyway that the first guy went through. After that, you start checking some
more footage nearby, a couple other avenues and streets and angles, and you
do not see anything else. You feel like if they had left anywhere on
the street or through any alleyways, there's a pretty good amount of expert coverage
here that you would have seen them. So you feel like if they are
still in that area, you've kind of narrowed down like the city block that
perhaps they're in. Gotcha, Okay, And that's what mostly takes. So
long as you watch all these other angles for quite a while and up until
basically the current time present time, you do not see anything. Okay,
Um, I would let violet and silence. No, sort of like the
area, this seems to be the area that they're hiding in, this like
city block. UM, So we need to narrow our search down to there.
Is there anything else you want to do while you're at the Asper Wallum,
there wasn't any other like leads we had unless yeah, I know that
I know of Um. Is there anything else you want to try with the
information I've given you? Anything else you want to try to ask or discover
before we move on to the others. Can I look through the lab focusing
on that single UM block. Can I look through and try to see if
I can see styles or someone matching his build entering our exiting buildings. If
you want to give me another tech test, you can. You feel like
you probably would have seen him by now, but I'll let you do another
tech test to see if you can find something like that. Okay, oh
wow, like randomly, you know, I get updates here on my on
my PC from like reddit and stuff, and they just got one of somebody's
posting a piece of art of Rachel for Blade Runner. Nice. I got
one success. It did not roll at advantage. Thought forgot that. Roll
roll at advantage, then roll one more die or just pre roll. You
can just roll one more diet. That's fine, my baby, giving it
six? Nope? Five? Are you happy with one? Not really?
But I'm not going to get a better role. I don't think what are
you rolling? I don't see your I only see a unicorn that showed up
on your role. Oh shit, Oh yeah, you're right. That's a
that's a fail that I will push. I well, if I push,
ah, yeah, I'll just I'll try. Okay, I'll try and push
nope, and then the other d six double, so you take two points
of stress damage as you push the role here. By the time you're done
with this garrick, you have a pounding headache. You know, you're doing
the thing where you're pinching the bridge of your nose between your thumb and forefinger,
rubbing your eyes because you're you're zooming in and staring at like things at
such a pixelated level at some points, but you don't find anything else that
really gives you any other hints. Cool for geric, he will let well,
no, just that was my next question. Yeah, have you informed
her of what's going on? Yeah, you get a simple response that says
good, keep me informed. Good, like good that my teammates missing,
or you're not sure? Yeah, this is more to himself. Just this
might have been a real big mistake. But then yeah, that'll be good
for me. I get No, I guess you would have said good.
She would have said understood, okay, Yeah, all right, yeah,
she would have said understood, keep me informed. Okay. Well, we
will then switch it over to our dynamic duo as they leave the scene of
the crime and towards the Lilith memory lab. So do the two of you
discuss anything on your way there? As you're soaring through the city streets.
Let's get let's figure out what our line of questioning is going to be.
What'd we get in there? Oh, I figure I'll let you run the
show since you decide what you want to do in this case. All right,
that's fine with me. Yes, Silas is kind of gruff and he's
got his cross words out and he's just kind of going through it. First
off, I'm going to be blunt. I'm going to ask her what she
knows about Leah and see if that rings a bell. I'm going to state
the case and what happened, and I'm going to see how what we can
tell from that. And then if she's going to play hardball, we'll have
to dig in deeper. But I'm just going to try and get to the
root that see what she knows. Maybe she'll be cooperative, maybe we'll get
a break. If not, that's where you come in, right. Yeah,
I would say we should talk to her about the photograph, maybe ask
her if she has any significant feelings towards butterflies. I don't know, just
try and tie this all up. Do you think that's a connection with her
at the butterfly? You think that's her personal connection anything with the connection to
Leah. I don't know. I feel like they're overlapping somehow. There is
a connection. I don't know what it is, but you're right about that.
Yeah, I don't know much about this kind of memory stuff, but
I tend to find out. I think we're going to both find out a
lot. We haven't heard anything about Actor, right, everybody know at this
point, No, there's nothing from the Force, and Garrick is probably just
getting started at the Esper wall by the time you guys get here, So
so ending for what depending what she tells us making a question or further ask
hers she knows who the styles is or anything about the resistant movement. Kind
of go from there see if they'll get any insiders where Hector might be at.
That's good, it's my reasoning. All right, Well, you guys
make your way to Sector four and you eventually find get to the location of
where the memory lab is. It's a very drab, gray building in a
kind of kind of an industrial area that looks mostly abandoned. This seems to
be one of the only buildings that really has any working power or anything of
that nature. Um As you guys set down your spinner. You're greeted by
a big light of stairs in front of you right here. Okay, so
the red lines just denote zones, like all the maps in this game have
that, so if you were ever to have combat, that just represents you
know, every movement, lets you go from one zone to another. That's
all the red lines are for, so you know. Or if you go
like between doors to a room, ah, you guys don't need to because
you're not there, so okay, so uh yeah, so that's what the
red lines are for. Those are just for zones. Um. And it's
probably black because you're at the bottom of the stairs and you have to get
up the stairs to see it. So when you guys move up the stairs,
here, there we go. You see the front of the door,
and I just want to move here so you can see this. This right
here is the sign that you see. There's a big yellow sign. It's
like a it's like a rectangle, a horizontal rectangle. It's broken into three
chunks and it's kind of a muted but brightly lit yellow and there's three sections
and across the sections it says Lilith Memory Lab. And in front of you
there is a set of double glass doors, and there's a large window on
either side of those that appear to go into the front. You can see
it leads into a like a lobby area. You can see you can see
beyond the doors there is a desk where there appears to be a an attendant
standing, and there's a what looks like a leather You're not sure if it
actually is leather sofa, and a small desk like a little corner table next
to the sofa, and here some sort of waiting room. What do you
do? I figure we'll walk in and go to the front desk. Okay,
when you get there, the door is locked. When you try it,
you see that there's a little retinal scanner on the side, and there's
also like a little speaker where you can basically ring to you know, open
up a channel. Oh yeah, well we'll hit the ringer. Yes,
can I help you? Hello, Inspector Silas Hulbach. Inspector Violetly with the
LAPD. I'd like to ask you a few questions. Just a moment,
and you eventually hear the door buzzes and you can hear unlock. You may
proceed it so again you enter inside. You can see you are in a
fairly nicely clean furnished room. There's a screen on your left, like a
digital video screen. And then you see this man behind the counter. Can
you guys ownership here in a second. So you see a man who is
somewhat tall, he looks a little older and frail. He's clean shaven,
he's got a very thick set of kind of squared glasses with angled corners,
very thin frames, very prominent nose, and he's got very neat hair that
to you it almost looks like it's dyed black, like it's maybe not that
the natural color, but otherwise he's wearing a nice professional attire. And you
see that there is a name badge on his jacket that says Terry. And
this is the man that you see. Okay, Well, Silas would kind
of look over at Violet and give her a nod as to say, you're
on, mister Terry. I understand it's a big gass, but our line
of questioning used for Littli with Tyrrell, I'd like to speak to her.
Oh, no problem at all, Detectives, If you'd have a seat,
I can go inform miss Tyrrell that you're here. Can I get you any
refreshments. No, thank you, No, I loves that. Thank you.
Well, just excuse me a moment. I'll be right back. And
he said there's a door behind him, which he goes through. It looks
like it leads into some sort of little office and he disappears for a moment.
Well, I guys, you're sitting here. You see the screen on
the wall. It basically has promotional videos for Replicants and Wallace Corporation, and
you see kind of like an infomercial of Lilith and her talking about designing memories
for replicants and things of that nature. Obviously, it's meant to be very
cutting edge, very you know, uplifting, and this is you know,
this is the future, that sort of thing, tillus. Would you please
give me a I would say, insight check here all righty, I mean
I'm gonna havel here right yeah, push you betcha here we go. No
even worse. Oh so you take a point of stress, m all right
something Uh there's something something about Terry that seems familiar to you which you can't
put your finger on it. A couple of minutes go by, and eventually
he returns, I mean this time he comes through the opening. It's a
big hallway right here, and he steps around the corner and he says,
the detectives, if you'd care to follow me, I can bring you to
Miss Tyrrell. She's more than happy to answer any questions. Right, yeah,
souleas would get up and follow Okay, So still giving him an eye
though, trying to figure out where he's where he knows him from. All
right, he says, please follow me, and he leaves you guys around
the corner and turns left, and you guys see that there is a long
hallway that he begins to lead you down. Eventually on the hallway there is
there's another hallway off to the right. You can see a few doors down
there, and there's many doors down this hallway that he's leading you on the
left and the right. And as you're going through, you're walking past clearly
what are several different labs, research stations and things like that. You eventually
he leads you almost well not all the way, about halfway down the hall
to one door in particular that seems to indicate this is probably the main lab.
And he opens this up and leads you inside, and there is a
small desk on the right hand side of this room. There's two chairs in
front of it, and a there's a big chair behind it, and then
beyond that there is another set of double glass doors. And when you're in
here, are you coming with Kylie? Just chilling out in the hallway?
There? You go, Oh, I was looking at step Yeah. Sorry,
Okay. So you guys walk into this particular room and you can tell
that this is the main dome of the memory Lab. The wall across from
the door that you guys come through appears to be like a big window or
some sort of screen. It's currently pitch black, and then eventually the wind
flickers again. You can't tell if it's a window or a screen, but
you can see two children kind of flicker into existence like a hologram and then
disappear. And then a moment later it happens again, and they kind of
stay in focus. This time you can see one of them as a boy,
one of them's a little girl. And this time when they manifest,
they're on the floor drawing some pictures and coloring. They kind of fizz and
fizz out and fizz back in, and this time they're looking up at you
and they kind of giggle and laugh and wave. What do you two do?
They look like holograms or they look real. They look real, but
they're they're flickering like holograms when they kind of disappear and reappear. I'll observe,
but I'm not paying too much attention to it. Yeah, silence lower.
It's strange, but I don't know quite what to make of it.
Okay, Well, after a moment, you see that Terry puts his hand
on the wall and you see that there's like an outline of like a handprint
clearly, some sort of like locking reader. And the door opens up and
he uh, he says, he's come inside. She'll see you now,
And inside the room looks like almost like pitch black. But when you when
you walk in, you can still see each other clearly, but it's like
the entire room is just solid black. Um. The door closes behind you,
and you can tell that it is like a screen or like a window
window, so you can still see Terry on the other side, and it
looks like he goes back to you know, to his spot at the desk
up front. And then after a few moments you see just kind of emerging
out of the Darkness is Lilith Tyrelle. She has some sort of strange device
on her head that kind of comes down over her eyes, like goggles,
and she's got some sort of device in her hand that she's been pressing a
couple of keys and buttons on. And as she enters the room, and
as she kind of submerges from nowhere, the goggles kind of pop up,
and she takes the device off her head and she puts it on this little
stand that she walks by, and she walks forward and she introduces herself Detectives.
I'm Lilith Tyrrell. I understand you wish to speak with me, Lilith
Detective Violetly of the la PD. I vote mince words or waste your time.
We're looking into a case. We're two Replican blade Runners been involved in
another murder and Leah, our target may have some ties to you or your
company. And I show her the picture of Leah. Okay, I'm going
to give you access to her profile. Thing here. You don't oh if
i'd give you guys this yet or not so so what you guys see is
an image that matches what you saw in the paper. I believe Hector had
gotten as an older woman, probably in her fifties, you know, maybe
a little older. She's starting to show some age, with some lines and
wrinkles in the face. Her hair is beginning to gray a little bit.
She's got kind of some silvering throughout her dark hair. She's wearing a white
lab coat and just like typical dress pants and nice shoes underneath that the dark
shirt. She's got long hair that you're guessing probably goes past her shoulders,
maybe even to the back of her middle of her back, which is currently
pulled up in a long ponytail. And she is the spitting image of an
older version of Leah. It is the resemblance is uncanny, she says in
how can I help you with your investigation, Detective, Well, Miss Tyrrell,
we understand Leah had been in for several reevaluations, and given the uncanny
resemblance, I wondered if you might be able to give us some insight to
her origins. Oh, she was created, she says. Do you have
a model number, registration number? If we have that piece, I believe
we do. Yeah, it's it's on one of the handouts I gave you,
guys. I think it's um on her Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I have it. It's a LH three dash seven point nine three. Leah.
You see that she takes the device that she was holding. She goes
back over the table to get it, and then she walks back to join
you guys, and she starts typing in that number, and basically you know
she can tell she's pulling up her profile. She says, ah, yes,
yes, she was in for a recalibration after several failed baseline tests.
Nothing out of the ordinary, especially considering the taxing work of a blade runner.
That's very true. But the question at hand is why does she resemble
you? Gives you a humble smile, and she says, well, the
Wallace Corporation decided that this particular line of models of these end nines would would
be based off of myself as the template. Many and nines are based off
the template of an actual person in look, size, stature, and as
an homage to my late uncle, they offered me such an honor, which
I accepted. Do you have any knowledge of your memories being used as core
memories for the replicants implanted memories? I would never mix my own personal memories
with those of my work. That would be unprofessional. Perhaps you wouldn't,
but maybe someone in the labs would. Because am I able to pull up
the photo that Leah had in her apartment of her as a child? Sure,
yeah, we found this photo inside her apartment. I have to imagine
it is perhaps something from your history and not hers that was used as an
implanted memory. This image, it all looked familiar to you. She looks
it over. She says, well, I can confirm this is from Lea's
memory. This is her daughter, Dina. This was probably made as a
stee line scan. I would imagine something you need special equipment for her daughter,
I asked, questioning Lee. Well, yes, her daughter and her
memories, whether memories real or not. You can still of a steeline scan
made of such a thing. Is there any significance of blue butterflies to you?
No, anything in particular that would go into her programming that would give
her a want or need for them, or a penchant for them, per
se for butterflies. Not to my knowledge, No, I designed Leah's memory
implants unremarkable early work of mine, simple happy family life in an off world
colony, very basic basic things. Is there anything to your knowledge that would
cause her to perhaps apps go rogue and deny her programming, perhaps turning on
others around her. Impossible. Why do you say impossible? Because the memories
that I create help keep replicants from doing such a thing, and these failed
baseline tests could be not seen or construed as evidence as to something faulty within
the model. No, these types of things fall within expected parameters of glitches
and malfunctions and things like that. Nothing that can't be fixed. Is there
anything you can tell us of replicant resistance? She kind of looks at you
like she doesn't understand the question. A group of perhaps replicants that have become
more self aware I have started turning on their owners or society. You must
be referring to the actual replicant resistance that we hear so much about here in
the city. Yes, well, I can't say for sure. I myself
have never met any such replicants, but it's my understanding most of them are
older models, mostly nights that are still out and you know, now illegal
and on the run. Well, if you have any r information about such
a resistance or anything, you could forward to us, both me and my
compatriot would be in your debts to say, we're trying to find this member
of our own and find out that she's alive and healthy and okay, or
where she might be currently. Any and all information would certainly help us.
As she's about to reply, the door behind you, guys opens and you
hear like a light giggle, and you see a young child kind of come
skipping through the doors up to Lilith and she kind of like grabs her around
the leg and she uh, she obviously you can tell that that she's Lilith's
daughter. And I've got an image here, so you see a young child,
probably around eight or nine, about the same age as you would imagine
Leah's daughter is in the photo that you have. They look kind of similar,
but not as similar as Leah and Lilith do, but like her mother,
she's got long, dark hair and dark eyes. And she kind of
comes running in giggling, and she looks, you know, she kind of
like wraps her arms around Lilith's leg. She kind of peeks out from behind
her at you, guys, and this is who you see that comes in
and you hear Lilith go, Sarah, you know you're not supposed to be
messing around and here mommy's busy with work right now. And uh, she
says, uh, I was I was just I was just you know,
playing hide and seek. Um, and Lilith says, we can play later,
dear, go why don't you go sit with Terry up front and be
a good girl and go go with your drawings and she says, oh okay,
mommy, and she um kind of looks the two of you over one
last time and gives you guys a smile, and then she she goes kind
of skipping past the two of you. Yeah, sorry, go ahead,
go ahead. Do you do you say you're doing anything? Well? She
does this. I would, uh, Silas would kind of put his hand
out and say, uh, it's so nice to meet you, a little
one. Um, tell me who are you? Who are you playing Hide
and secret? She uh, she stops for a minute minute and she kind
of looks you up and down. She's got like her hands like behind her
back, and then she kind of stands up release straight, with like a
goofy smile on her face, and she holds her arm out really straight to
you, like trying to be official, and she shakes your hand and she
says I'm Sarah. Who are you? Well, I'm Silas and would shake
her hand back. She goes, I like your hat, Silas. He
would smile, and at this point finally kind of bend the knee and grunt
while doing it. That's right, bend the knee, yeah, and uh,
he would chuckle. Hill, Well, thank you. It was my
dad's and he'd give it to her to to to hold if she wanted.
Um, yeah, yeah, she takes it. She can I try it
on? Sure? Sure? All right? Yeah? She she puts it
on and it like you know, doesn't fit quite right, and it like
falls past like her eyes because it's you know, so much bigger made for
for your head than hers. And she kind of laughs and she kind of
turns around to her mom and the hat is covering her eyes completely, and
she's like, she's like, look, Miomie, I'm a detective too,
Violet. Give me a insight check please. Whose success is? So?
You notice this whole time, Lilith is very quiet. You can see that
she tenses up a little bit when Silas starts to talk to her, to
her daughter, but she doesn't say anything. She she holds her composure and
you can tell that she's obviously a very protective mother. You're not sure if
it's because she's hiding something or because you guys are blade runners, or just
you know, she's just overprotective in general, but she can tell. She
kind of like bites her lip to let Sarah kind of do her thing,
and she tries to like kind of fake a smile and a laugh, and
she's like, oh, yes, dear, And she's like, now,
why don't you give the good detective his hat back and go find Terry?
And she says, oh, okay, and she gives you your hat back.
Silas, she actually she runs up to you like kind of over exaggerated,
like taking a lot of really little fast steps to get up to you,
and then she takes the hat off and she plops it on your head
and then she goes by, Silas, it was nice meeting you. Oh,
it was so nice to meet you, and she goes scampering out of
the room. Yeah. Silas would look up at Violet. Well he was
slowly getting up and kind of mutter under his breath. I'd see. Silas
would get up and then look at Lilith and say, say, besides you
and Terry and your daughter who who else is here? That's pretty much it.
Um, this is kind of a one person, a one woman show.
I mean we have you know, janitor things like that that are here
when we're closed, clean up the place. But yeah, um, not
not many others here these days. We were just just getting set up here
in Los Angeles, so I'm planning for expansion. But it just seems odd
to me that your daughter is playing hide and seek by yourself. Children do
all sorts of strange things, don't They could be one of our imaginary friends
that they too? Could I check that? Trus Yeah, give me an
insight? Okay, this will be opposed. Okay, that's one of my
best roles. So oh hey, what was this against? Was it manipulation?
I specifically read this in the rule book too last week or for tonight,
and m h, I think manipulation is resisted by insight. I don't
know about that. Oh that's right, that's right. This is just you're
right. This isn't an opposed role, my dad, right, Yeah,
so I got I got one success. I'm gonna stick with it. You
don't sense anything off about it when she says it? Okay? By me?
Asking is your daughter biological. She is, she's human, she is.
I nodded that, and I say, well, do you think of
anything that might help us in our investigation trying to look after one of our
own, one that was created by presumably your hands. If you have any
information that could help us, She holds her hands up. I want to
be perfectly clear, detectives. I did not create Leah. I simply created
her memories. The Welsh corporation created the actual replicant model and based it off
of my appearance. Sorry, Chris, I'm looking through my notes. Did
we do we ever get Leah's key memory? No? You have? Silas
would turn to Lilis and say, would you be able to access her her
key memory? Give me a manipulation role, please, literally my worst but
no, yeah, boys, here we go. Oh this is opposed.
Yeah, well you can't do much more because you can't reroll that. So
you got too okaya she uh. She looks at you for a moment,
and then she says, of course. Silas wouldn't like give her a thank
you? Nod says it's nothing, as I said, it was an early
work, not exactly my best work, but if you think it will help,
and she walks over to the stand over here, and you see that
there's a there's a secondary like Pedestaller's little control panel. She starts pressing some
buttons and eventually this whole room, the darkness dissipates, and you're no longer
standing in this weird voy. You're standing in this big dome structure, the
exact same thing that you see in twenty forty nine when Cago steps to the
memory lab. But now you can actually see the ceiling and the floor and
the walls and everything. And you see that there is several devices over here
on the kind of the southeast wall, and they look kind of like chairs
that you kind of stand up and like strap into, and it's kind of
like a chair against the wall. And you see that one of them opens
up, and she then looks to you a violet and she says, did
you care to see the memory as well, Detective, Yes, I would
like to. She presses a few more buttons and you see a second one
of these chairs opens up, and she leads the two of you over there,
and she says, please have a seat to make yourself comfortable. Will
we do it one at a time. You could go first, detective.
Okay, it's that possible to to stagger it. She kind of heavily sighs,
and she says, yes, I can do that. Much appreciated.
Okay, well you strap in and that's the last thing you oversee. I'm
roll a new character. Do you do it? I'm I'm quade got them.
You should do nested campaigns like that. Roll a new character, do
that whole campaign. Come right back to this point. Oh shit, don't
give me ideas. All right, So, Syllis you uh, you get
into the it's this, it's the too closest to you that open up so
um you basically stand up against it and then like an actual seat part kind
of protrudes from the wall like underneath you and kind of forces you into almost
a sitting position. And then there are restraints that come around your ankles and
then around your wrists and it kind of holds you in place. And then
she moves forward and Violet, you know that this is a normal device.
This isn't any weird torture bondage thing. This is an actual machine that you
would know being a replicant. That is, it's a real thing. So
she then brings this device down that comes over your head. It's it sort
of looks like a like a half like half of a sphere silas and it
goes over the top of your head and your eyes. There's a bunch of
cables and wires and stuff that come out of it and go up into the
machine. And she says, let's just sit back, try to relax.
This will probably have you ever experienced a replicant memory before, first time?
For everything? It will feel like you're there, but you will be completely
fine. Just remember that this is just a manufactured memory. None of it
is real. So she straps you down, brings the device over your head,
and then she walks back over to the pedestal over here, and you
see that she starts to input some commands violet. You can see that the
machine begins to fire up. Lights are going on and off and sillius for
you, it's like you are engulfed in that black void again. The lights
both in front of you and in the actual lab that you're standing in,
Lilith or a violet dim and all you can see are the glow of the
machinery. You can still see Lilith standing over by the control panel. Although
it's like she's standing in just a black, void and sylous. You then
feel like you're kind of almost plunged, like into water. It feels like,
all of a sudden, you're surrounded by something. Now what happens is,
first you hear a voice. You hear a young girl say, mommy,
you can't catch me. And then it's almost like even though your eyes
are open, it feels like your eyes actually open. You see that you
are in this spacious, beautiful hallway of a very gorgeously decorated building. There's
golden sunlight beaming through the windows, and beyond that, when you look out
the window, you see these sandy dunes kind of reddish in color. And
you turn, you see Dina, you see Leah's daughter, and you see
as she just finishes saying that, she starts running away from you, laughing,
kind of beckoning you to chase her. You can tell that this is
a happy time. You guys are playing some sort of game. She wants
to show you something. And as she runs, it's like the hallway that
she's running down the room that you're in and is complete. But the doorway,
the opening to the hall that she runs down, seems to look like
more of this inky blackness, and when she runs past that threshold of the
opening between this room and the hallway, it's almost like she disappears. You
chase after her, and as you walk run through this darkness, it feels
again like you're plunged underwater, surrounded by something. As you feel like you
kind of break the surface, so to speak, you find yourself in another
room, and this time the scene is far different. The window is shattered,
there's no longer peaceful beams of sunlight, but a dark haze that's come
over the landscape. There's a loud sound of whipping wind, and you can
see dust clouds being kicked up from these red sandy dunes. Then it feels
like the building shakes, some loose glass falling off the window, a picture
falling off the wall, things falling off a nearby desk, and there's a
loud bang. It sounds like an explosion. You hear shouts, screams from
all around you, as if there's multiple people either here or nearby, and
you turn to your side and you follow these noises. You run through a
doorway and as you do, you see four men in black ski masks,
all black outfits and they've got firearms. They're opening fire on people that you
just they're like just beyond your vision. You hear them screaming as they're being
shot at. Then you hear one ear piercing, soul shattering scream of your
daughter, and you turn and you catch as she's running towards you, bullets
rip into her, causing her to spin. As she's running towards you,
arcs of blood splatter across a nearby sofa, and you feel something warm and
wet splat across your face. You see your daughter falls to the ground and
is still, and as you scream, these men turn towards you, and
everything goes black violet. You see clearly the memory starts for Silas, and
he seems to be smiling at first, and then you see that he's kind
of shaking a little bit. His fists clench into balls, and you can
see his smile turns to an open, slack jawed of shock, and then
you hear him scream, and then you can tell the machine beginst power down,
and as the helmet comes up, Silas you're back in the memory lab,
and you can tell, you can feel that you yourself are still finishing
a scream. That's like caught in your mouth and it feels like you're breaking
the surface and finally able to breathe after suffocating. Please give me a insight
check versus two points of stress. Oh no, you feel like you just
watched your own daughter get murdered in front of you. I mean I can't,
I gotta. Oh no, god, terble o a gamies, are
you broken? I'm broken? Oh my goodness. Yeah, that should wrecked
me. Okay, well, folks, we have to roll on the mental
trauma table now as soon as I find it. Okay, do you have
access to the critical hits folder in the core rules under rollable tables? I
have critical injuries critical stress effects? Yep. So you're gonna do critical stress
effects for humans? Okay, because there's different ones. If you're a human
or replicant to live in fear, you're paralyzed by fear or indecision, you
just can't force yourself to do anything at all, even to the point of
putting your own life in jeffardy due to your inaction. Yeah, I'm just
like catatonic, alight. I think we put this on your character sheet me
totally check here, yep. Okay, So when the device comes off of
his head and the restraints open up Violet, you can see that Syllous looks
physically shaken and like he's seen a ghost. At this point, Lilith is
walking over and she would say, a hand on your shoulder, solicit and
she says, Detective, it's not real. You're okay, you're safe,
Solicitor, you okay? So am I able to like, I'm looking it
up right now, Kyle, because I just want to be sure. Obviously
this is the first time we've had it. Just as you're paralyzed by fear
and decision, you can't force yourself to do anything at all. So does
that mean even like responding let me check, Yeah, shit, damn I
was murdered. Yeah, you're probably grasping your chest a bit too, feeling
like you've been shot. Yeah, even though you haven't. I really lost
like four in a row the session. I think, God, don't you
don't you have extra stress too because of one of your talents. I have
one extra stress. Yeah, okay, thanks for reminding me. Well,
I came into I came into it down too, so I was already okay.
So when you suffer stress Goal two or an excess of your resolve rating,
you are broken by stress and suffer a critical stress effect. Immediately roll
one based dice corresponding to your empathy rating and check the result in the relevant
table. Okay, so there's six possible results, but the higher the empathy
you have. It basically if you get a six or higher, a six
or higher is the best results. So rolling low on the this is bad.
You rolled a one, which is the worst result. It's sure,
okay, So yeah, your empathy. Let's just make sure the gain did
this right? What is your empathy attribute? Empathy is a C D eight.
It rolled d sticks. Let me just check this because it's probably yes,
it's rolling on the table, that's why. Okay, So now we
know for the future you would have rolled a D eight, but it doesn't
matter. You still rolled to one. So let's just make sure my doing
this right. Um yeah, yeah, so you don't add anything. It's
just you could potentially roll higher than six. Okay. Um yeah, it
says the same thing. You're paralyzed by fear indecision. You can't force off
to anything at all, even to the point of putting your own life in
jeopardy due to your inaction. I think you can still speak, Um,
but you're pretty much shaken to the core right now. Okay, yeah,
I mean Silas would be probably working with a three second delay into any sort
of like questioning, like he's just in his mind. So Violet and Lilith
both asking him, He's just I I don't know, I don't know,
I don't ye and just like keeps trailing off. Do you have your signature
item with you? My signature him in a tombstone? How are you supposed
to use that? Oh? Okay, well you can't do that right now?
So, um, pull up a pick sure of my dad's tombs when
you got it? Yeah, given more stress, trust me? Yeah,
carry it around like Blasdas Yeah, or like Michael Myers. I was gonna
say, fucking Judith Myers, Judith, same thing. Basically, Um,
yeah, so you can still respond, we'll say, but you can't really
take any tests or do any actions, you know, other than like walk
around. But you can't do any skill checks. Basically, we'll say,
okay, Um, well, Silas, So was Violet watching the whole thing?
Does she have to go through it herself? Or he did not see
any of that? She was only able to see your reaction because it was
displayed through the machine, so you can describe it to her um. But
if she wants to see it in the same detail, she'd have to go
through it too. Okay, I'd yeah, I'd hit Silas, would hit
the high points. But then he'd look at Lelith and say, you gave
her a memory of having a daughter, a daughter who looks like yours,
and you gave her a memory of her daughter die. It's our new She
seems to search for the right words. It's our new design philosophy control through
trauma. Traumatic memories keep the replicant from trying to disobey or break out of
their programming. When such an urge comes over them, they're reminded of this
traumatic memory that keeps them from going rogue. Well, the replicant whose memory
I just went through went rogue. Doesn't seem like that's the case. Seems
like in this case of Lee, it's the opposite. Trauma may have caused
or to go rogue. Yes, Silence, I think Silence would keep repeating
to himself. But he would look up to Violet and say, like they
looked they just looked the same. They looked the same. Um they look
similar. Yeah, you can tell they're not identical copies. Um, yeah,
but I mean they're both you know, small Caucasian girls with long,
dark hair and dark eyes. So yeah, they're like the same, they're
same ages, right, Yeah, you'd imagine probably between like eight in ten.
Okay, Yeah, he just he just keep being like, you know,
he just keep her repeating that she got shot. He's still trying.
If you have a way we might track her anything in your database. I
could give us information where her whereabout might be. It could help us bring
her in alive and not in any other sort of trouble she might be mixed
up in. I'm sorry to hear that she's in such trouble detectives, but
I do not have any way to track them. That would be something that
the Walls Corporation may have the capability to do, but I have no such
power, no such influence. Do you help us bargain with the Walls company?
I? She She looks like she's not sure how to respond to that,
and then she finally says, do they know that you were even investigating
this? They started the investigation, but they haven't been so helpful I'm not
sure what I could do to change their minds, but if you need me
to vouch for you, I suppose I would imagine if they could track her,
they would have already done that. Here's the problem. They don't want
any negative press about their models if the story got if they knew where she
was, and have you retire her? I think they want to fill in
a narrative. I'm not sure what you expect me to tell them to think
otherwise. Sorry, I guess I thought you could be a more help to
us well, Agent Silas, if you have any other questions for miss Tyrella.
If not, I'll thank you for your help thus far. We'll see
ourselves out. You're welcome. Detectives take care. Yeah, I don't think
So's styles says in his head. I'll help you know. Silen's get to
his feet, and you know, I hope escort him out if he's having
trouble. Okay, well, you guys get back in your spinner and head
back to whatever it is you may head next. Meanwhile, we'll switch it
back over to Hector. Hector, you're still pretty banged up, still not
doing too hot, and you probably pass out for a little bit. Longer
as you kind of just aren't exhausted and overwhelmed by everything when you come to.
So this is another shift later, but you're not sure how long you've
been out. I believe you're gonna heal because you have been resting here if
I recall technically, we'll get to that in a moment, I suppose.
But unconscious is just the body's way to telling of telling you you need rest.
Yeah, that's what concussions are for. So, yeah, you're gonna
get a point of health back because a shift has passed. I'm sorry you
heal too, because you're a replicant. Oh no, wait, that's for
downtime. So you just get one back, I think, unless you see
something else. But yeah, you get one back. You do have a
point of health back. As you come to, you see that they have
put the bandana back over your eyes. But you do hear some people speaking.
You recognize the voice of Styles. You also recognize another voice, but
this time, rather than sounding like a frail old man, the voice of
the Arilians sounds much more confident and youthful. Sounds like they're probably in the
other room, probably whispering. Give me a observation, test please to see
what you can make out from this conversation. Alrighty, okay, so it's
just on the edge of your hearing, but perhaps being a replicant, that's
all that you need. You can hear the two of them speaking back and
forth, and the Arilian says, where is she now? Styles replies,
I don't know. You know, I told her to lay low until it's
time to leave. I'm not sure where she's at. She hasn't been back.
I don't know if she knows that we've got the cop and she got
spooked, or if she's just out doing whatever. But I don't know.
And the Arilian replies, that's not good. I'm worried. She's supposed to
be here until it's time to go. That's her ticket out of here.
She just needed to sit still, and Styles replies, yeah, I don't
know what to tell you. I mean, last I spoke to her,
she seemed angry, like something wasn't finished. And then the Arilian says,
yeah, I sensed it too in her voice. Well, I suppose if
you hear from her, you let me know. And the conversation goes on,
maybe for a little bit longer, but not too much. More information
to gain from that. Do you do anything? Also, I should have
pointed out you are allowed if you want to, you can try to break
free. You can try once per shift, so you could have tried last
shift if you so desire to try to break free before you passed out.
Yeah. I think in that time I was sort of like chatting a bit,
trying to scope things out, see how high up the apartment technically was.
If I wanted to try to escape by jumping out of a window,
which I think is still unless there's been any other revelations on that side,
you can't You can't tell how high up you are. You don't feel like
you're that high up, but it's hard to tell for sure. Did you
want to try to at least break yourself free, even if you're gonna kind
of play coy and remain sitting? Um? Yeah, I guess how how
tied up? Am I really? So? It's your hands are behind your
back, um like kind of through the chair, and then you each of
your legs are tied to the foot of the chair or the leg of the
chair. So I will need a force roll if you want to try to
get some of these loose or break them, okay, U, and I
just came to a second ago, so I don't know if like who's coming
or going necessarily no, not at this point you've kind of lost track when
you dozed off, okay, and with a conversation at the edge of my
periphery, that would be like they're in at least a full room away or
something. Yeah, you're assuming that it's probably the kitchen, um, just
because when you were in here before the other two doors were closed, and
the kitchen doesn't seem to have a door. If it does, it wasn't
closed, and it's it is coming from that right hand side over by that
opening. Okay. So that's all kind of and you you can tell you're
facing the same way. They haven't like moved you really Okay, interesting,
Yeah, I guess I do want to definitely try to loosen bonds if possible.
All right, give me a roll of force, please, Okay.
So levels the building, perhaps just before you passed out, or maybe even
right now, you are very easily getting these h these buys off of you.
U. The hands are the trickiest part, but you know, the
legs take you realize you try to like pull them forward and that doesn't work,
and then you realize if you just lean the chair back a little bit.
It's not easy, but you're able to basically slip your legs down,
and you know it's you're tied to the chair, and the rope or whatever's
tying you slips down past the leg of the chair. So the things are
still around your legs, but they're very loose now obviously, and you're no
longer tied to the chair, and you manage to get your hands loose as
well. Okay, I guess I know that some of my stuff is over
on the counter, but I wanted to take a beat and see if I
still had my key item, the photograph on my person, which would normally
be in a jacket pocket. But right, well, depending on why don't
we take our break here? As you've broken out, you can decide how
you want to proceed, and then the rest of our team can decide what
they're going to do as well, So we'll be back in a few minutes.
We're back listeners really quick. I realized that we had been missing a
rule which is actually really important here. You actually gain a point of health
and resolve every shift automatically as your body heals, so everybody would have had
one more health and resolve, which means Silas would be down to one resolve
right now. He's actually not broken, so we have rectified that he has
one resolve remaining. He's still pretty shooken up by all that, but you
can still act as need be. So, Hector, you've overheard this conversation
between the Orillian and styles. What do you do? You're basically you can.
You can. You're free at this point. You can get up and
get out and walk around if you'd wish. Yeah, I'd like to sort
of peck my pockets really quick, look back at my gear and see if
I have my memento, the the photograph of me and my mentor are you
taking your blind to blindfold off? I'll sort of like prop it over one
eye a little like lift it up so that I can see, but not
so much that it looks like I've taken it fully off. Okay, but
otherwise you're kind of just staying in the chair and trying to pretend that you're
still tied up. Yeah. If I can kayuck that way, then sure,
sure about it. So you're checking for your signature item, I'm sorry,
Yeah, and what is your signature item a photograph? You said it
is a photograph? Uh, it's not on you, no, rights you
do see your stuff is still over here on this little cabinet. Okay,
you can't tell the photos there, you know, because it's flat, but
all your other stuff is there. And behind me is like, what is
this on the far west side. It's like a fireplace or something. Yeah.
Um, here's what I'm gonna do. I do have a handout for
this, So Matt, I'm gonna reveal this to you, and I'm gonna
do a mental countdown here because you're just quickly looking around and you don't have
time to actually investigate this thoroughly. All right, So I'm gonna I'm gonna
trust you here when I tell you too, I want you to close this
image after you're you're done other players? Actually, can I can just show
it to you? So? Oh can I? Here we go. Okay,
So I'm gonna show this to you. As you look around, what
you're gonna see is you'll see the piano basically here, and you'll you'll see
like the table and the sofa and stuff. So when you see this picture,
just to imagine you are basically in between the piano and the coffee table.
That's like in the middle of this photo. All right, that's where
you're strapped and you are looking in the direction of the piano. You can't
really see it in the photo, but the doors that are the door that's
right here is underneath the chandelier that's in this photo, but the light kind
of blurts it out. So I'll give you a chance here to look at
this, and I'll tell you when to close this after you've had a chance
to look around. All right, close the photo. You can ask me
any questions based on what you had a chance to see. Uh, Well,
I had like a postcard that said Hollywood or magazine. Yes, you
do see a postcard that was over on the corner of one of these tables
or stands or something. You did recognize the Hollywood sign on it? Okay?
Uh, I don't know. There was a tea kettle. I don't
really have any questions about that. Yeah, it looked it was not steaming,
So if there is tea in it, it's long since gone cold.
Okay. Uh. Crapes okay, if they're in the kitchen, I wonder,
I wonder where these doors go, Um, I think I'm gonna I
think I'm gonna go for it really quick, which is uh, sort of
loosen myself and scoop my gear off of the desk. Okay, uh,
are you just booking it or are you trying to be quiet? I'm gonna
be quiet at least stealth until we get to the Oh god, that's not
that's not my jam. Uh well, I'm gonna have to take that,
no bones about it. It's one success and sort of a non non effective
unicorn. But it locks me out of pushing. Okay, it doesn't lock
you out of pushing. Um, that doesn't literally, but well it does
in this case because you're rulling a D eight and out of D ten if
that was a D ten two yeah, yeah, okay, okay, all
right. Uh so that's one is opposed, all right. So you start
creeping towards the countertop the bookshelf. Yeah, it's like a bookshelf addresser in
this picture. You get right past the sofa and as you do, there's
a loud squeak creak in the floor, and you hear the two of them
stop talking, and you hear the Aurelian go, what was that? Did
you hear that? Style says, I'll check it out. He's probably getting
he maybe he's waking up. What do you do? You're halfway across the
room to your stuff. You can see now that you're standing, you see
two things that are very obvious. You do see. The photo is tucked
underneath like your Kia and your wallet and your badge. It is there,
looks like all your stuff that you had is there, and almost as if
being framed by this light that's coming from a little desk lamp. There is
a piece of paper that appears to be like taped or stapled to the front
of this dresser, and it looks like it's been like torn out of a
book or maybe torn from another piece of paper. What do you do?
I guess I don't have idetic memory necessarily, but I'll peek at that briefly.
But I think I'm gonna scoop up my stuff and randomly. Should I
randomly try a door? I think I will in this far corner. Okay,
so you're grabbing your stuff and just taking a peek at the piece of
paper. Yeah, I'm mostly gonna leave, I think possible. All right,
we will get to the paper later. We'll do an insight check later
to see what you managed to glean from it. Okay, so you get
over here. You may move over there and open the door if you wish.
And you see that it is another It looks like maybe a bedroom.
At one point there is another old crumbling fireplace across from you. There's a
door on the left and right of the room, and you see some crumbling
furniture in here. Just here left as you walk in, there's another old
dresser, and then over on the right here is like a mirror that's been
badly smashed and damaged. Looks run down like the rest of the building.
Okay, I think I'm gonna continue away from the kitchen to the west door.
Okay, all right, as you give me another stealth unless you're just
booking it, I don't know he's coming through there, man, I might
as well until I get the thing open as well. Keep them guessing and
slowly and close the door that I left that. Oh my god. Yeah,
okay, nothing. Uh, what's the chance of a full brick?
All right, I'm gonna push all right, nothing? Nothing? You push
again, You're you're a replicant. You push twice many? Yeah, one
hush, five dies and only one success. We're having a rough night,
boys. Okay, so you close the door. You don't think that you
make any noise. Um and as uh as you do, you do hear
styles go oh shit, and you can hear him running across the room.
And then you hear the Aurelian go what is it? And he's gone.
We'll find him, and as well, what do you do next? That's
what you hear. They're obviously not being quiet. Oh wait, I'm gonna
open this door. Okay, all right, you see another bedroom. There's
an old crumbling bed. You see windows ahead of you with you know,
some light shining through from you know, some of the signs outside, and
there's a door. If you'd step up to the doorway, there's another door
to your left. Okay, I'm gonna, I guess quickly close this one
and look out the window and maybe prepare to jump out of it. It
looks like, let me just look at my picture here. I know you're
not on the ground floor, but you're not. You're not stupidly high up,
but you're not on the ground floor. Where is it you are?
There's definitely fault damage here. If you fall here. I'll show you the
picture and you tell me, uh it changes to everybody you can see here,
looks like you are probably on the fourth floor. Okay, that's very
high. Yeah, well, you see the red in the picture, that's
where you're located. So if we're counting the ground floor, you're five floors
up. If you're being Ernie and trying to ambush us by giving us false
information about what the fucking ground floor is, then you're only on the fourth
floor. But forever salty about that. Yeah, oh boy, you now
hear the arillion Go check over there. I just heard something and you can
hear styles clearly, heavy footsteps running and moving closer towards you. Okay,
I'm gonna I'm gonna go through this firm in the south end. They're still
think it again, they're just running. I'll uh, I'll sell f it
sure, okay, okay, one success. Okay, you open the door,
you find that you are in a dead end. It is a bathroom,
awesome, old and crumbling and U. You then hear one of the
doors slam open, and you hear styles shout where'd you run off to?
Bantov? I guess perhaps better yet? Door I'm gonna I'm gonna close the
door at to the john and lock it if possible, and um okay,
yeah the uh I'm gonna I'm gonna phone on the Kia. I was like,
Hey, it's Hector. I'm in a safe house in Hollywood. Hey,
unlock the door. Boom boom boom. I'm taking a ship just a
second. Okay, He's gonna try to kick down the door, all right,
uh uh to successes. The door shatters as styles massive frame kicks it
in. All of you get this message that Hector sends and let's roll initiative.
All right. So he kicks down the door and he says, damn
it. All you had to do was sit still, and he runs for
and basically tries to like tackle you and knock the keya out of your hand.
Give me a hand to hand please. Wow? Right, I didn't
that was me. I didn't roll hidden my bed. Oh well that's great,
because my ship is my hands are broken or whatever. So it's not
a critical though, because you have a success. So he does hit you.
You have to have two successes more in order to get a crid sos
two to one. So he does hit you, though you are going to
take a point of damage as he basically like tackles you, He like spears
you up against the sink and basically writing, your lower back gets smashed into
the sink and it fucking hurts. Is he kind of like almost bends you
over backwards, uh, into the sink. Your hand like flies up and
smashes against the U the mirror, and it is your turn? All right?
What are you gonna do? Actor? That was pretty much and I
was hoping to jump out and I'm just fucking did good bye everybody? Rip,
Um, did you take your point of damage? Yes? Okay?
Um the yeah, I have like one fucking goddamn second here another on your
combat music. Oh we got a bunch from White Bat. They're all really
good. All right, what's gonna be? Man? Um, I don't
know if you fucking break out of combat or whatever. So he did damage
to me and I still have my am I holding on the stuff still or
Yeah, he didn't have enough successes to knock it out of your hands,
so we'll assume you still have it. Okay. He's obviously trying to restrain
you, but you know you're putting up an okay fight, I don't really
have the gas to kick it. Uh. I guess what what? Wow?
Christ, what if we did break it? Break for it? I
don't know. I'm not gonna trink away, man. Oh, you just
do a mobility test. If you pass, you are able to uh disengage.
I'm not great a mobility, but I don't think I can do a
hand to hand here with a broken hand. So here we go. I'm
I'm gonna roll it, okay. One. Yeah, I think that's all
you need. I don't think you need. I don't think it's a pose.
I think it's just it's like an It's kind of like an alien.
You just make the test and either you pats or you fail. So you
pats, you may you may get get away from him and run. All
right. I'm gonna go full tilt as much as possible so you can get
into the second room. Last here. It's not like that. You see,
he came through the door that you came through, heading for the other
one. Yeah, I'm gonna try this other door. Okay, you can
open it this round all right. You see a main hall looks like a
foyer. There's a door across from you. There's a dorty or left and
right you can tell. The doortyr right goes back into the room you were
being held in. On Style's turn, he chases after you and he tries
to basically grab you from behind with the collar, tries to put you like
in a choke hold. Not so fast. Sorry, it's supposed to be
private. It's fine. I see I do hand to hand then ye,
all right? Huh come on, god, dang, it's gonna push Can
I push it if I'm defending? I know? No, you can,
that's right, you can't. All right, So he grabs you and he
uh, he's gonna try to restrain you right now, he's basically grappling you.
So um on your turn, all you can do is try to break
free, which is going to be a hand to hand unless you have another
idea. Uh, I'll let you get fancy if you go something clever.
Uh No, I don't think so, I think. Okay, just give
me the hand to hand. Hey, okay, got one, but he
has two? Great, Yeah, he's you can see he's roll in two
D twelves here. He's pretty bruly. Uh okay, so you are gonna
take another point of damage then, as he's starting to put like a sleepermot
on you. You try to put your foot up against the wall, give
you some leverage, and he just smashes you forward and kind of bangs your
head into the wall. He's like, just stop struggling. I don't want
to hurt you. On his turn, he is gonna try to restrain you
harder. I guess, give me another defensive rule. Okay, he throws
you to the ground. He doesn't do any more damage here, but he
does throw you to the ground, and he's basically got you pinned, and
you can tell he's he's he's obviously not trying to kill you, but he
is trying to prevent you from escaping. And he's like, just stop,
man, you're not getting out. What do you do. I'm gonna cough
up of a bunch of blood. And they're like, okay, all right,
I think I think he got me. And he's still got his weight
on you. You guys are really like face to face. You know,
you're on your back, he's on top of you. He's basically got his
arms crossed across your chest and he's holding onto the front of your jacket and
he's, you know, got you pinned, and he says, um,
He's like, all right, we got an understanding. I just you know
from the fight, how what sort of strength we can pull out. I
just figured you wanted to keep it interesting. Tiing me to the chair with
some some noodles like that. Yeah, I get it. You want to
leave. I can't let you go right now. Now. I'm gonna get
up slowly. We'll let you stand out, you know, walk back to
that chair and we can talk. Good, We're good. He can feel
he like takes his weight off of you, and he like starts to like
stand up and back up, and then he's standing and you're still on the
floor, but you're no longer pinned. What do you do? That's all
kind of roll over and try to gingerly stand up with one hand. Then
like kind of get into a crouch and then stand up since one hand is
broken and I want to put more weight on it. Yeah, you're able
to do that, no problem, and then sort of like hands out,
walk over to into the other room. Okay, yeah, just go back
to that area where you were. I'll let you look at the picture in
full now if you'd like, Since you have time to look around everybody can
look at this point. Obviously, Matt, you're the one that can ask
questions about it, but just so the other players can see where you're being
held and give me an insight check, please, an insight insight is this
one? Okay? So while you don't have time to read the whole thing,
you can tell that piece of paper on the wall. You do notice
the heading of it, and it says the complete works of William Blake looks
like a poem. Ah, I don't suppose there's any sort of stealth broadcast
feature I can I can, like sneakily broadcast of the Kia from my pocket.
It would probably be a sleight of hand type of thing, very difficult.
I don't have any of that sort it would it would be a I
would say it probably be a stealth but I would say probably a disadvantage because
he's obviously watching you. Yeah, I don't. I don't know if I
necessarily want to do that at this point. Now, meanwhile, the other
three of you do get buzzes on your Kia and you get that message that
he was able to send when he was in the bathroom. Oh shit,
I'm sorry, I don't recall exactly what it said, Matt, like I'm
alive. Help. Yeah, it was like, I'm alive somewhere in the
Hollywood neighborhood and like a four story something? It is it four story or
five story? Oh no, you will never find him. Does the ground
Flower account as the first blower? This is a debate that has killed him
numerous parties. Yep, yeah, you you, I guess. Yeah,
you mentioned the blimp. That's fine. So I don't think you guys need
to make a check because you all have seen the blimp at this point.
And while blimps are not like super rare, they're not super common either,
So we'll just save you know, the blimp obviously puts him back in the
same neighborhood that he was abducted him. So you guys all get that message.
Oh boy, the three you can discuss that if you so choose.
Yeah, So, so kias don't have like, uh, we wouldn't have
any way of tracking that call. Would we um Man triangulate based on let
me sell ours, let me let me check while will you guys discuss that?
So I assume we were discussing whatever you guys would have found at the
memory lab. Yeah, I had assumed that um as as we were traveling
in the Spinner, stylist would give Violet as much detail as he could without
you know, losing his last point of herself. Yeah. You can tell
over the keya that he is definitely shaken up, that Hallbeck is, and
when he describes the memory, you can tell in his voice that it seemed
real to him. Right, So why why was she so weird about her
daughter if she's going to make a memory of her daughter dying exceptionally? Well,
sorry, Chris, we we would know at this point that there's rules
against using actual memories. Yeah, I think that's common knowledge, especially for
blade runners. You guys probably know that. I'm pretty sure in universe Lord
is illegal to use real memories at this point, right, Okay, but
it's not illegal to like use the base of a person, like using the
image of your child as a base for the memory. Well, I mean
it gets into a gray area that you know would probably have to be debated
in court, and you know, like, how do you you know in
some cases, like how would you prove that that's someone else's memory that they
based your memory off of? Sort of thing? You know? I mean,
obviously in this case, you could be like, well, here's her
daughter, here's the memory. They looked kind of the same, right,
But like if her daughter wasn't around, for example, if the if the
living daughter wasn't around, Sarah, then it'd probably be like, Okay,
well I designed it, you know, maybe it looks like it I recognized
from twenty years ago, you know. So so was it previous knowledge that
Lilith was at one point attacked by replicants or was that her You guys have
heard that story that she was attacked by replicants back in the day and a
blade Runner managed to save her, but she got um she she did get
like hurt or injured in that right. Okay, so what if the memory
of Leah's is her memory of getting attacked? Possibly? But the other wrinkle
here is that the memory is of a trauma of a fake daughter dying.
And here we have the memory maker using bits of her memory and using a
daughter that is almost the same age as hers. There's a there's a weird
poisoning of like reality here. Do we know that her Lila's biological daughter,
that's what that's what she told us. Yeah, but people can lie,
right, you didn't think she was lying all back. You thought she was
being truthful about that, Yeah, because you made a test. So um,
so bas know what I'm reading here in the text, Guys. The
Kia is like linked to any terminal or station that the detective has access to.
So you might have one at home like a personal terminal. You probably
have one back of the tower, and you know it can link and upload
to the LAPD tower in multiple ways. The only thing it can't do really
remotely is access the ESPER wall. That has to be done at the tower.
So I think given a tech test, it's safe to say you could
probably attempt to track it. I think that would be fair. Okay,
now you guys can't You guys probably couldn't just do that remotely. You'd have
to go back to the tower or put in a call to dispatch. So
if you don't want to go back to the tower, I would say one
of you can call dispatch, but you'll have to spend a promotion point to
get them to do that like remotely. For you. Well, Garrett at
the tower, right, you're still there. Yeah, you could do it.
Okay, it's all during the same shifts, so we'll assume you're still
there. Um, you can try tech. You know, I'll give you
advantage because you're at the tower. Here we go, hope, I don't
there's any part solve all right, Well, they're not gonna push it and
hurt myself. The D six came through. Yes, yes, it takes
you a little bit longer, but it does start to triangulate and eventually you
get um the location and it is in that city block that you narrowed down
with the Esper footage. It's like just a couple blocks from where he was
abducted. It's an old abandoned apartment building. Okay, yeah, so I
will. I'll let them let them know. Yet, I assume you guys
are going, well, what do you guys do? Are you? Are
you informing your superiors? Are you informing Quell? And what are you doing
about it? Oh? Well, at this point, none of us know
that you know anything that's going on with except that bantof God lifted. So
we already made a big deal going through dispatch with the APB. I would
I think Silas would absolutely start relaying the information dispatch and but I think we
would lead you know, we wouldn't have any police spinners get there before us.
Okay, Derek, are you going to um Man, I'm not good
at fighting. I roll like a D six or firearms and a D six
becombat, So I might actually die here, Hey man, if you want
to give a distinction, die in the line of duty protecting another officer,
I yeah, at the useless distinction for Garrick. Well, you wouldn't have
to deal with your DJ Beck at home anymore? True? True, I
could always just break it. Um I mean, I guess I guess he
would go, since it seems like we need all hands on deck, right
guys, I'd say, yeah, before he goes, he would let well
know specifically about Leah's core memory being her child dying, and then I guess
Lilith's child looking exactly like that. Okay, so, Paul Beck, you
put out the call to dispatch. She immediately puts out the call calling all
officers update on APB of missing Blade Runner active band pector Bantov Detective has been
located, suspected being held at and then she rattles off the address. All
units please proceed with caution, and then she says Detective Haulbuck is taking the
lead on this do not do not proceed until he is on scene. And
then all these apbs and signals start going off. Actor even your Kia starts
to beep, and you you would recognize that it's like some sort of update
from dispatch. Now you can't read it right now, but you assume it
probably has to do with you, but you would recognize it's kind of like
when an amber alert goes off, like you know, or whether alert.
You recognize that it's something from dispatch that like all units do this, do
that, Garrick. As you make your way and get into a spinner and
start to head off, there's actually a call that comes in from Quell Yep.
I will answer, yeah. Yeah. She pops up on the little
view screen and she says, been busy, Detective, might to see that
you're taking our arrangement seriously, Yeah, I want to show results. That's
the same. Well, I can't say that I'm surprised. I was aware
of Lilith's memories. I'm sorry, Leah's memories and what doctor Tyrrell has been
doing. And she does work for us after all, right, I suspect
you have a reason why you brought this to my attention. Well, miss
Tyrrell was already previously attacked by someone replicants before and this is all dealing with
the replicate Freedom movement. But if they're going to attack her again, do
you guys have any kind of security you can send her? She says,
yes, we do. You suspect the Replicant underground is going to try to
harm or abduct doctor Tyrell. They've already tried at once, right, a
few years ago or a decade ago, years ago where I think I think
something like that would have happened. Has she's come back into the limelight recently
right, well, really the only thing I can think of currently, but
it already happened once, so are popping up as well as the Replicant Freedom
movement. Just my gut saying something's going to happen, and what are you
and your team doing in the meantime? We found out where our partner,
so we're going to go try to save him without dying. Happy to hear
it. Thanks, She gives a sigh as if she's contemplating your request.
Give me a manipulation role please, Okay? One success? Okay, She
says, I really don't think we need to waste Wallace resources on something like
that unless you have a real evidence of a particular scheme or plan. I
can't be sending scuity details out for everything that spooks us. Provide me with
more evidence than I will reconsider. All right, If anything else pops up,
I will let you know. Happy to hear it, Detective, stay
safe. Thanks. She gives you that creepy smile. You can't tell if
she's being facetious or sarcastic or genuine, and she flips off the screen.
The three of you make your way towards this building and are the first ones
to arrive on scene. Are you guys going in hot with sirens or how's
this going down? I don't know. No siren for geric unless someone tells
him to vote it on. Yeah, I think I would approach with a
you know, less loud intention, and would would have said that I think
to dispatch as well, like Mary, we don't want to come in here
super loud. Okay, all right, So you guys eventually get there,
The three of you, the first three on scene. Now this is as
we're getting into the the evening shift, so it is well and truly nighttime
at this point. By the time this goes down. He gets the message
out to you, and you guys are on your way back Hector, you're
inside. You sit down with Styles. He leans up against the piano.
What do you do? What do you say? Uh? I say,
hey, so before I forget new shift, everybody gets a resolve in health
back. Nice, let's actually use the rules as much as I want to
watch everybody get crippled at the very end of the game here after the first
case. Yeah, everybody has to retire permanent mental trauma. It was a
tough one, all right. So do you say anything to him, U
Hector? Uh? Yeah, I do talk with him a bit. I've
got to try to smooth things over a little bit after kind of blowing up
our deal and UM say, hey, hey, Styles, sorry for giving
you the business. I know things are kind of tough. Um, do
you mind if I show you something and then sort of like slowly and try
to clumsily pull the photograph out of my pocket? Okay, yeah, he
can see. He's like, he's like a little tense, but he as
Yeah, So what's your quote? Are you showing him? This is my
key item photo? Okay, the photo. This is a photo of me
and my mentor who I worked with for all of my life basically, and
I think this photo here is special to me because it's I think the only
time he ever really acknowledged my work. He's giving me a medal of commendation
here, and it's you work so hard and hardly ever get recognition. I
think what he taught us was to climb to the stars and essentially break walls
whenever possible. But even doing so, you know, you don't get those
victories acknowledged except once in a blue moon perhaps. And he's on missing as
well. So since I've been moved around at the LAPD, now, I
just want to do my best in town to make sure people that go missing
are just lost. Give me a manipulation test with advantage. Okay, what'd
you get, Hector, I've got a three successes here. Wow. He
reaches out to take the photo when you hand it to him, do you
let him take it? Yeah? Sure, he takes it gently, He
doesn't rip it out of your hand or anything. And he leans back as
you're telling the story and he's looking at it. He's got it in both
hands, and you can tell there's a genuine feeling of sadness that comes over
him, and he kind of nods, and he then extends his hand out
and gives it back to you, and he says, look, Leah's safe,
Okay. She we set her up so that she can get out of
here, she can get off world and get away from all this. She'll
be gone by this morning, the coming morning, that's what he's referring to.
All right, wow, list, it's not a horrible double homicide.
But now, she was always talking about the memories of her of her daughter,
you know, which you and I both know aren't real. But it
fucked her up. Man, She's always has this obsession with Tyrrell. You
know. Probably blames her, I guess. But she's uh yeah, a
couple hours, she'll be safe, So you don't have to worry about saving
her, man, she's you. You chill here for a few more hours
than you've saved her. Meanwhile, outside, how are you guys approaching?
Are you landing your spinners and going in on foot? I think so.
I can't really see an entrance. I don't know. Why would you guys
get to the front here? It's like black Yeah, the front of the
Black Arcs are kind of interesting. They yeah, you know, they're like,
do you guys see my cursor when I put this on the map.
Yeah, that's where the front door is. I don't know why it's all
glitched out. Okay, but that's without a better entrance to look for,
you know, I would maybe cruise past the windows see if we can see
anything. If we can't spot what apartment he's in, I would go through
the front. Yeah. So the windows again, Um, it's you know,
you guys don't know, but he's up on a higher floor. So
but basically the apartments are identical. So um, if you spin past on
your spinners, you know, you don't you don't see anything through the windows.
But that's the front door of the building. And we'll just assume that
that's, you know, the front door of the defend. There is a
fire escape that does go up the side, but you guys aren't sure what
apartment he's in, so probably have to be the doors. Yeah, I'd
say we'd probably ryan get in through the front. Then. Yeah, I
assume I'm going to need stealth tests from everybody. At one success all right,
everybody please, okay, triple three successes, all right, See guys
begin to approach and eventually you get to these doors. It's big, it's
a double set of doors. How are you guys proceeding? I mean,
I have the best stealth. I think I have an A. So I'm
gonna, you know, just procedurally go up the stairs, keep a low
profile stealth their way up. Hey, the three of you are at the
door too. We'll assume you guys have figured out which apartment he's being held
in. Okay, so how do you enter? Is there is there a
lock on it? We can't just yeah, is there like a tech comment
or it's a very it is locked, but it is just a regular door.
It's a very old building. Oh got this looks like probably from twentieth
or twenty first century, at least decades old, if not older. M
M all right, and uh, I don't think I have any specific skills
aside from trying to kick it in. So or if as strong as to
just try kicking it in, yeah, I suppose that would be the way
to go. Yeah, I'm getting up there in years, So who's kicking
the door? And I have a see in strength? Oh I can't do
it. I have a D. We all got d's all right, I'll
give it a good. Uh, I guess none of us have any other
equipment. And is there a lock to shoot off or anything? Or is
how's the door? You could shoot the lock if you want, or just
kick it down. I'll try kicking it first. Um, we all have
the same here one success, all right, So Violet, and put you
in front of the door. Here, you kick it open? Okay,
So Violet, you kick open the door. You find that you are in
a like a lobby of some sort, and there are three doors in here,
left, right and center. The one to your right is open,
looks like it goes into an old, decrepit bedroom. You can see there's
another door beyond that that goes into another bedroom, and beyond that you can
see the windows outside as the light from the signs come through, and then
there's two other doors. As this is happening, Styles and hector you hear
the door obviously the front door get kicked in, and Styles like jumps and
spins around and he looks at you and there's like a look of anger,
disappointment, betrayal, and concern, and he says he like puts his hands
up to kind of be like I surrender, and he says, just give
her till morning and she's safe. And he starts running towards this window over
here. Do you do anything as he runs past you? Uh? No,
okay, all right, the three of you are in. What do
you do when you enter this hallway? I go ahead? Oh no,
go for it. Violet, you were first in, so you can act
first, and then we'll do. I kind of sidle up to this door
here. I listen in if I can hear anything, okay, and uh,
then I check, you know, without staying in front of the door
frame. I checked the handles, see if it's open or not. It
is open. That's that's why you can see through, got it? Uh?
And uh, I'll kind of look to them too. I'm providing cover,
And do you guys kind of head in past me? Kind you see?
Violet gets up against the doorframe. She's looking in covering. You can
see that the door is open leading into the bedroom. There's another door beyond
that, and yeah, what do you do? Uh? Silas will have
his peace drawn and go in and slowly peek his head in and scan both
ways. Okay, move up one more. Okay, so you can see
there's a door to her left that's also open. It looks like goes into
a much larger room. The door across from you goes into a bedroom,
and you can see the windows beyond that. These are the windows right here.
Okay, so I don't see anything in here besides yeah, decrepit furniture
and things like that. Garrick, what about you? So Violet was signal
on for us all to go through that door? Yes? Then I yeah,
I guess I would go through that door. Yeah, and I go
through a different door. Yeah. That would have been like a clear two
untry ways. All right, Hector, you hear them shout clear, and
the three of you that that are not Hector, give me an observation role,
please A successes. Wow, you're fucking good at this game. So
good. Oh, success and best detective. I would accept hect A great
detective. Violet, you're rolling? Are you doing observation? Pre do you
not care? Oh? Zero? All right, you're gonna push? Yeah,
all right. For those of you the past, you can hear voices
come from the room to the south, and you wreck a syllus tylas.
You recognize one of them as Hector, and you can hear some movement from
inside that room Hector as this is happening. Styles runs across the room and
he opens the window and he steps out onto a fire escape, and he
turns back to you and he gives you almost like a like a sly smile,
like a thank you, and he gives you a wordless nod, and
he heads down the fire escape, and you see he like does the fireman's
thing down the ladder and the ladder on that side the whole times. As
you, guys turn the corner, you're free to go into that southern room.
You see Hector standing there in this room, and I think I shared
the picture with you guys, and he looks hurt but alive. Oh there
you are. What happened? Is anywell else here and here with you?
Oh? Yes, I was gonna be checking the room as well. I
don't think so. The uh the r alien was here earlier, but I
think he's been gone for a while, so you okay, I can't I
think I don't know. I didn't see anyone. Actually, it's just sort
of there was another voice might have been him. So I don't don't really
have any evidence one way or the other. There's one thing I'm a little
worried about. I guess which is, well, have you you've tracked down
Leah at all? Know, I've been unable to find her. But well,
it seems that the folks that were here didn't know where if she was
either that they had been working together but with the replicant resistance, seems so
said captured you. Uh, he was definitely silence. Yeah, see him
on the expert means something fugs just as a reminder, that is what you
guys walk into this room. That's what you guys see. I just jumped
out of nowhere and gaged up on me. But you should see one of
the other guys. I think the keys look pretty rough at this point.
More, Um, did you guys tell them that you found him? At
this point the rest of the yeah, I think Silas would have called into
dispatch after okay, clearing this room with Hector. At this point, then
the police presence becomes known as they you know, kind of lockdown the city
block, so to speak. You can see sirens or you can see the
flashing lights, and um, you know, more officers begin to come in
and start to secure the scene and check and make sure there's no other assailants
here. But you guys are free to continue. I mean, I guess
I'll look around the place for any kind of evidence, you know, anything
that may have been left behind or anything that could help us in our search.
Well, you've got the photo right there, the chase can look at.
Okay, so I look, I'll show you the poem because you guys
kind of know that that's there poem that was hanging on the wall. That
sorry, okay, yeah, that's the If anybody wants to read that,
they may do. So. We haven't read it out loud before. A
different one. It says, my hands are labor day and night, and
ease comes never in my sight. My wife has no indulgence given except what
comes to her from heaven. We eat little, we drink less. This
earth breeds not our happiness. Another sun feeds our life streams. We are
not warmed with thy beams. Thou measurest not the time to me, nor
yet the space that I do see my mind is not with thy light array.
Thy terrorsts shall not make me afraid, says the Complete Works of William
Blake. Page. Yeah, so this is probably the page from her book.
Yes, yeah, so a page from Leah's book is here. So
so she was here, Tylas would like start rummaging even more, Hector,
since you did see this earlier. Here's the postcard that you find. It
is an old postcard of the Hollywood Sign, back when it still was the
Hollywood Sign, and the hill that it was on was not a barren wasteland,
and back when, back when Hollywood was still the movie capital of the
world. Spoiler, it's not anymore. In twenty thirty seven, ledo Ohio.
Okay, yeah, they said that they had met with her, but
I never heard heard her come around to here, at least while I was
conscious. Um, I'll just show you guys the other two things that are
here, because you guys have time to look. Um, you find that
there is a hope that's throwing on table there. Yeah, so you find
there is a copy of Synth magazine. So I'll show you guys now if
you want to describe that to our listeners. Oh my god, whoa,
that is a definitely an image, uh, Synth Magazine sixteen dollars or sixteen
chinyon the Magazine of the Replicant Industry. Smithsonian restores an Automaton XM one nuclear
hardening for radioactive waste disposal personnel Synth in all caps takes a look at the
new joy trauma gives control a phrase came up again, Okay. Lilith Tyrrell
explains the finer points of replicant memory design Tales from the Mind. The story
continues, and at the bottom, big bold letters Wallace's Nexus nine worth the
price question mark. And finally there is a little handout that appears to be
like a It's like a leaflet like you get like a brochure. It's like
a trifld and like the shape of a trifle, except it's just the one
page. And somebody wants to read off that off world, a new life
awaits you in the off world colonies, the chance to begin again, a
golden land of opportunity and adventure by the Chimago Domingez Corp. And when you
open that detective you see that this is a one of the many, many
leaflets you've seen advertising the supposed golden future that awaits people off world. This
one, in particular, is for the colony of Arcadia, one of the
nine off world colonies. You, having spoke with Styles, would probably assume
that this is the colony they have set up for leat to try to get
to Chris can I and can Silas go through the Synth magazine to the trauma
article and see if will if physics may have explained the key memory. He
doesn't explain Leah's memory in specific, she gives you it's basically a summary of
what she explained. How using trauma is basically a way for them to try
to control the replicants. Let me see what it says here. Okay,
it says replicants are machines, no different than something you may find in your
home. Infinitely more advanced, of course, but machines. Nonetheless, the
purpose of the memories I design is to control these machines in the most effective
way possible by imprinting them with a deep trauma. The memory of this trauma's
condition to be triggered at any time the replicant even considers the possibility of obeying.
This is a unique method for how I make the Nexus nine replicants fully
obedient. It's simple, really, Morality has no role here. And then
there's like an example where she, you know, she's saying to the interviewer
like you wouldn't want, you know, your your computer to disobey your car,
you know, some appliance you might have in your home something like that,
or like if you had a firearm, you wouldn't want that to disobey
you, would you, Kay. Otherwise it's more or less what she told
you back at the lab. Okay, Yeah, I think Silas would hold
up the magazine and just be like, so we know Leo was here.
Well, we know Leah's ripped poem page was here, and this magazine was
here, which means that they know that replicant memory design is based on trauma,
and I don't think that they would be happy about that. Yeah.
You can also tell on the table there's some leftovers of food and drink,
as if somebody was probably staying here. There's also a blanket on the couch
someone's probably sleeping. Well, they were saying the plan was to lie low
here until whatever rendezvous, but that Leah had some unfinished business. Do you
any of you know what that could mean? Only thing I could think of
would be to confront the person who gave me trauma? Yeah, what do
you mean? Well, they learned that Lilith Terrell was responsible for replicant memory
design, which they know since this is here, it's safe to say that
they could confronts. Yeah, they could blame her for that out of character.
I was like, oh, you mean the person that gave you Silas
from r Silas is gonna go, you know, get his revenge now for
that horrible experience. That's how we found out Silas was a hidden replicant all
along, and he joined the Underground. Yes, now you guys go ahead
and go back there. I'll be over here. That's the only thing that,
yeah, that is sticking out, that that through line has been throughout
this whole thing is the memory the picture. Did we surmise that the photo
of the younger version of them that she thinks that's her her daughter Dina Dinah
or was that her she thinks that's her daughter her photo that you found in
Leah's apartment is the child in her memory, which is her daughter Dinah in
her memory? Okay? Yeah, So Garret's going to take pictures of the
off World pamphlet and the Synth magazine and upload them to our main database.
Okay, and then he will also send the Synth magazine picture to Quell with
a note just found at save house of Underground. She replies with a question
mark, Uh, we'll assume it's like some sort of text message. Yeah,
I guess put in the text message Leah not here. But Hector said
she might have unfinished business, and he's gonna try to emph emphasize trauma gives
control of thing and little a tyre old name again. Okay, otherwise we'll
just do it ourselves. What do the rest of you do? I would
I think si Ellis would give a hollow to the Chief and give him a
brief rundown of us finding Hector, and then he would mention the Synth magazine
and uh say, look, Chief, we gotta get we gotta get people
over to the memory lab. Good job finding Hector. Why don't you guys
get your asses over there now? We're on our way, all right,
keep me informed? Yes, Silas would Holsters piece and go h some of
us have to go to the have to go to the memory lab. Oh,
I'm gonna head there now. Okay, everybody else doing Ye, I'm
gonna come with Silas. Do we have any other follow ups we want to
make or should we just kind of okay? Got there? Well, so
we know that we know that Styles likes to stick around the snake bar.
He's probably not going to come back around here, for he might be going
to um the Aralians, right, since we know the Aralian was here,
Yeah, I would say double back. Someone should double back to the Aralian.
Eric, you get a message back from Quell that says, suggest you
check in on the doctor, make sure she's okay. All right, yeah,
he'll responds affirmative. Yeah. Okay, So Silas and Violet are going
to the memory lad, then we need someone to go to the Aralian.
Did you guys want to go? Hector? Are you capable? Well?
Maybe if I get some backup this time, and I wanted stated on the
record. My initial suggestion was to go in a team. Yes, noted,
thank you? Fine, all right, Garrick and Hector to the Aralian
and then Violent and I to the memory Lab. Okay, the group splits
once again, two of you hopping in your spinners to make your way back
to the memory lab, and Garrick, you and Hector heading outside and then
a couple of blocks towards the Aralians. Correct. Yeah, okay. When
you guys get there, the shop is closed, no lights are on,
looks empty. I will point out it is the evening shift right now,
the night I'm sorry. The night shift, which is the same time that
Violet came by the first time. So this is normally when the shop would
be closed and much of animied roaster and to close down as well. Mum,
However, Hector obviously you you know that he was there. You would
suspect that if you know, he probably knows what's happening at this point,
so he's probably laying low. But obviously Garrett doesn't know that. So we'll
do that first because you guys are closer. So here's a couple of blocks
away. So when you guys get there, that's what you see. Wow,
he's CLO's house. I don't imagine he's just sleeping behind the desk.
It's not a very big shop, right, I'm gonna peek you through the
window just in case you don't see you don't you don't see him? No,
Okay, it's empty. Um, unless we want to keep watch here,
can we sort of talk to some of the locals buying food if we
need to, um, just to see if any of any of them have
seen him. Sure, you probably wouldn't even have to buy any food.
You can just ask some of the people nearby, and everybody says they haven't
seen him for quite some time today. M well, he's not here.
He might be at whatever their next rondev we would have been, but we
don't know, or that would be my gut says we should just bail and
see if we can catch up to Violet and Silas at the lab Chrism.
Do we know if there's anything. Like you said, the Hollywood Sign is
essentially a plastid wasteland right now, right yeah, I mean parts of the
sign are still there. It's out in an area called the Kippel, which
is like, um, kind of like wasteland. Uh, you know the
trash heaps in twenty forty nine, Um, so you know, like people
scrounge a living out there somehow. But um, I mean the Hollywood Sign
itself is nothing like it used to be. You know, several of the
letters have fallen down, but I mean it's still a recognizable landmark. Well,
we could check out the Hollywood Sign, no idea what we'd find.
But otherwise, yeah, we should just go to the memory they have and
help out, all right, Is that what you two are going to do?
I think I'd like to do that if we can. Okay, Silas
and Violet. You guys make your way back to the memory lab and you
land the spinner once again. It's quiet, it's dark. What do you
guys do? Ye? I go back in. See if we can get
in, see if we see uh? Or do there? Jerry? Okay,
you see that the door is open. Oh shit, you do not
see Terry. He's not standing behind the desk. Start yeah, unholsters,
start moving in silently as we can. Okay, give me stealth rolls please?
Who for holdback Jess tool for me as well. Okay, all right,
guys, start creeping in and you can move into the lobby. When
you do, you get close enough to see that Terry is behind the counter
on the floor, clutching a wound in his leg. There's a good amount
of blood and he's kind of moaning in pain. Stylist would run over,
kneel down and kind of gently put his hand over Terry's mouth and then have
him look up and Brian do a like a shush motion and then just really
quietly say who and how many? His eyes go wide, but then he
recognizes you, and he like kind of puts his hand on your wrist,
almost like reassuring like, you know, thank goodness you're here, and he
says, um uh, it's it's someone that looked like like doctor Tyrell if
she came in and shot me just a few minutes ago. All right,
hold onto the pressure on that wound. We'll get we'll get authorities out here.
And then would look up to Violet and just kind of quietly whisper,
it's Leah. I you know, Violet knots okay, And then yeah,
well i'd silas would reassure Terry, have him sit there. Terry doesn't have
any weapons on him, by the way, right, no, no,
um, yeah, I don't want to get swindled. Um. So he
kind of gives him a pat and then gets back up and we'll start searching
again. Okay, which which way you guys going? I think did you
want us to go back to that map? Chris? Oh, I'm sorry,
I'm on the map by myself, Like why aren't you guys moving your
tokens around fucking playing the game by myself over here? Yeah, I mean
we'll go towards I think we'll go towards the audience chamber where we saw but
you know, we'll kind of sneak our way through here and look for signs
of you know, entry or but we'll make our way towards where we last
saw her. I think is the best guests, Yeah, please please give
me another stealth test, because you're kind of moving again, and you know
you just we're speaking with him. So I got one success. I also
got one. I'm gonna keep it all right. You guys begin to creep
down the hall and as you do, there, uh does not appear to
be any sign of disturbance. You don't see any doors that are open.
You don't see like a trail of blood or anything like that. As you
guys cross past that hallway and make it into this main hall, you do
see that this door here is open. And you you hear, you hear
a voice that you do not recognize. You hear a female voice, and
she says you you did this to me. You gave you that fucking memory.
All I see is her getting shot over and over. You did this
to me. And then you hear doctor Tyrell, go Leah, just please
put the gun down. And what do you guys do? This is gonna
saddle up to the side of the door, just like that. Yeah,
and uh kind of motioned to Violet, because I think you're a little faster
than me. Um. Yeah, So he'd motioned for her to go in
on his mark and then he would follow right behind her. All right,
kind of nod in agreeance. As you guys are creeping up to the door,
you're just a few feet from the doorway, Lilith Tyrrell says Leah.
We can we can fix you. There's there's things we can do. We
can give you, give you new memories, and just stop lying. You
and Pallas Corporation and everybody. It's your fault. It's your fault. And
you hear a gunshot go off. Okay, we gotta go in. Yeah,
you turn the corner. As you do, you see Leah turns towards
you guys, blaster in hand. As you turn the corner, you can
see that Lilith is on the ground. There is a bullet wound directly to
her head, blood quickly pulling around the back of her head as she hits
the ground, and Leah turns pointing the gun at you guys. But yeah,
put down the weapon. Yeah, take it easy. She looks really
stressed. She's got heavy eggs under her eyes. Looks like she hasn't slept
in a while. She's clearly been crying. She's emotional or hairs, a
mess, her clothes or dirty. But it's definitely you're missing Blade Runner.
She she got what she deserved. You don't know what she did to me.
She's like, just get out of my way. I don't want to
have to kill you too. Silas would put his hands up and then have
Leah's watch him holster his weapon and then put his hand back out. It's
like, both up and say, Leah, I know what you've been through.
She put me in a memory machine. She showed me what she put
in you, and it nearly broke me. I know where you're coming from,
but then you know why I had to do it. I can't let
her do it to anyone else. I just I just need to get out
of here. Just move up more, Leah, you have bodies in your
wake. We can't just let you leave. You know that that's wrong too.
She points the gun away from you and like fires a warning shot,
like near your feet. I'm not gonna ask again, just get out of
the way. Um. Meanwhile, our other two detectives are on the way.
Do you um? Do you update quell about this garrick that you're going
over there. Yeah, I'm letting let her know that I'm off my way.
Okay, all right, you guys get there and you can see there
another spinner is already there. You see that the front door is uh is
open. So yeah, I'm drawn, I guess, and start moving towards
the door. Okay, you get into the the lobby. You can see
this man, Terry the clerk, down on the ground with a with a
wound to his leg. Yeah. Go up to him very quietly and try
to pig out if he's alive. Yeah, he can see he's holding the
wound, and when he sees you, he obviously recognized and he says,
um, there's two more of your detectives are here. They're in back trying
to find doctor durell Um. Can we call for like an ambulance for him?
Absolutely? Yeah. Yeah, like I'll call call in for an ambulance.
All right, hector, what are you doing? Well? He does
that? I guess. Can I help try to quickly bandage him? Yeah,
give me a medical aid please, great, medically but maybe it's okay
enough. Nope, m that's just gonna be a bracket okay, all right,
successes at this point? Uh, syllous Silence and Violet, what do
you two do after she fires the warning shot? Oh? I take a
shot right after she fires at him. Damn. Oh as he's doing as
as Violet does that. Silas is in slow motion going oh incredible. Okay,
let me well and then and then unfortunately, well she's doing that.
He's slow motion probably grabbing for his too, because this is about to go
really south. Okay, Violet, give me an attack. Roll with your
blaster please? Do you have it on stunned or kill? No? It's
kill? Oh? Is that just firearms? I think you actually roll the
weapon like a like an alien. Okay, all right, click on the
weapon and they'll do an attack. I see sonic round caseless. What's forty
four caseless? I mean that's the Yeah, that's the lethal. Any positive
market for this? I don't think targeting is gonna matter because there's no defense.
It's just if you roll up here or not. Um, I'm sure.
Would you ask Tarlick any positives for this? No? These are all
negative things? All right, No, there's no all right? Would you
like to push yeah? Okay? Right, are two detectives in the hallway.
Here a gunshot go off. Leah is hit. She's going to take
two points of damage. She does not have any armor that you can see.
Yeah, and then she's going to fire back. I guess we should
go into initiative at this point because she just fired. So let's have everybody
role initiative. Please. All right, Garrick, you're up first at initiative
eight. Have I called in the ambulance? Yes, all right, Then
I'm sprinting in towards where the gunfire is. Okay, So you can move.
You get one move and one action on your turn. And for a
move you can move one space one zone, or you can spend your action,
do sp rent, which is mobility, and I believe when you do
that that allows you to move up to the number of successes you get.
Okay, I believe. Let me double check that. Okay, So you
give up if you want, you give up your action to do sprint.
Sprint takes up your action and your movement. You make a mobility and for
each success you can move an additional zone. And if you fail the role,
you you basically trip and fall over something. The red lines indicate zones.
So this is an open hallway to the next zone here. Okay,
um, yeah, I guess I'll take because I don't know how far away
they are, so I'll take a mobility test. Yeah, you can tell
it's coming from the left around the corner, so it's south on the map.
Okay, okay, So you can move two zones unless you want to
push. No, stay there. Well, okay, there's one zone and
then this is the second zone here, So you start making your way down
a hall. You can see there is a open door here and there's light
shining through and you can hear some commotion from there. Next up is Leah.
She takes a shot at you, Violet while she retreats back towards this
opening here, and she also is doing lethal damage. She scores a hit.
She's gonna she's gonna push that. Oh she gets too, which means
that is a critical hit. You're going to take a total of three damage
because she's got the crit and this has a crit of D twelve. Oh
shit, here we go. She takes three damage and then the critical Oh
that could have been bad. Two is get my shark here impaled to hand
disadvantage to firearms and hand to hand combat. It is not lethal, but
this will take a week before you are healed. So she shoots, and
she shoots you right through the hand. I'll put that on your character sheet.
Now. As the gun goes off, it's not working there, all
right. You should see it under your combat tab. It should not do
it automatically for all of the negatives. Yeah, and then she retreats basically
back into here, trying to take cover behind the door. You guys,
hear another gun shot, probably her. Violet shout out, Violet, you're
up. All right, I'm gonna follow into the room, say shit my
hand. Okay, yeah, she's when you walk in, it's still that
like complete dark blackness, but you can clearly see her if you walk in
there. What can I can I fire from here? Is she in cover
of some kind? Yeah? She's in cover right now? All right,
Well I'm not gonna go chill. I'm gonna shot roll for cover. Okay,
yeah, I'll take a shot from here. So probably not so good?
All right, So I had target behind cover, hand and pails added.
Here we go, yep, all right, there we go? All
right? One? Uh sorry, go ahead and I'll push that again.
So one success, two, Well that that's only one because you're you're rerolling
the dice that you just rolled, got it all right? Um? Wait,
what's gonna yeah? Okay, yeah, let's right. Um okay,
So you do hit her, and what's the base damage? It's two right,
two on the blaster, okay, two damage. She grunts in pain.
You hear another shot Garrick and Hector and we are on to Silas.
Okay. Silas would unfortunately with his re unholstered gun. Can he move forward
and shoot or does he have to shoot first either? Or? Okay?
So he'd move a bit forward like this, and I can see her from
there, but she's in cover. Yes, unless you move into the room
with her, she's gonna have cover. Yeah, not ready to do just
that. And I'm a human. So yeah, so from there, I'm
gonna I'm gonna fire at her, all right, go for it. I'm
gonna rule your weapon, not just firearms, right, and it's forty four
caseless. That's the that's the lethal, that's the lethal dose. Well,
the lot of the long range one is also lethal the rifle, but that's
for long range, right, okay, and then just target behind cover?
Yes? Wow? Yeah, you can't roll unless it's interested me. Okay,
you do score a hit though, and I'm gonna accept it. You
you hit her, you see it, like hits her in the like the
side. She's taken a couple of shots. Now she's slowing down, grunting,
and you can see some tears running down her face. Shots ring out.
Yeah, And as he's shooting, he would say, you know,
like Leah, don't make us do this. Actor your turn. All right,
I think I need to catch up to folks. I'm gonna kind of
sprint out, all right, give me mobility please, Oh maybe not that
terrible? What now? Yep, pretty terrible. Okay, I'm gonna I'm
gonna push that push that zero into a one. Okay, So you can
move two zones all right, So behind this desk, this is in the
same zone as correct, that says with the wall, Oh yeah, I
can move past. Okay, cool. So that one over here you be
in the same zone with Garrick the hall way, all right, top of
the next turn. Well, a couple of things happen here, um,
Violet. From where you're standing, uh, and gentlemen in the hall,
you can see the door just across from the hall from you violent open up,
and you see Sarah comes running out, and she comes running, and
as she's running down the hall, she stops. She sees all of you
with weapons drawn, and she sees the body of her mother on the ground.
Can. She screams out and tear I'm gonna add her to the initiative
track here. As that happens, garrick, you hear the thing of an
incoming message on your Kia. Fuck, it is your turn. What does
the message say? Do you stop to take a look while you're running down
the hall? I imagine you're running down the hall and like you get a
text basically is what's happening? Gotcha, I'm gonna run down the hall.
I'm gonna grab the kid and just jump into back into her room. Okay,
I dig it, all right. I won't make you roll because she's
standing there in shock. So as you run past, you can see Violet
and Silas having a shootout with Leah in the other room. And then you
basically grab her and snatch her into this room here. Yeah, And then
I checked the text. Okay. The text is from Quell and it says
time to make a choice, detective. On Leah's turn, she opens fire
and Silas give me a manipulation test, please, after your plea for her
to stop. Sweet, my worst, my my best one. Boys,
here we go. Oh I'm gonna have to push that okay. Oh another
point of strips. Oh man, does that break you? No? Oh
you're down to one? Okay, good thing. We looked up those healing
rooms. Do do it? Leod have like three blade Runner lives on her
hands? I mean good, good time to fucking break though in the shootout
with another fellow blade Runner. Yeah, very emotion. She aims the gun
at you, Silas, and as you like or like, don't make us
do this. She doesn't put the gun down, but she does turn and
point it at Violet and shoots at her again. You can tell she lingers
on you for a moment, and there's there's a flash of recognition across her
eyes and regret you see when she obviously chooses not to harm you, and
she aims for Violet. Another critical she uses. You take three more damage,
Violet, and I'll actually roll the right critical this time, not just
D twelve that is piercing damage. Okay, four shoulder hit disadvantage to mobility
and firearms, all right, well, you're not dead, and is this
fatal? No, it's not fatal. It's another week long injury though.
So first your hand, then your shoulder, and I imagine you're probably pretty
fucked up after all that, But it is your turn. She's not gonna
push that. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna limp to some cover over here.
I'm trying get down, you know, behind us over here and uh
return fire. Yeah, that's possible from this line of sight, absolutely right,
all right to success, critical roll me the critical critical table piercing six
cracked skull disadvantage to observation and tech. It is a lethal injury and she
will die within one shift. She does not get medical tension. You do
three points of damage, You line up your shot, you pull the trigger,
and it looks like you hit her in the head. She collapses to
the ground as a spray of blood kind of arcs as she spins and hits
the floor. Silas, Okay, so she's now down, Yes, okay.
Silas would move in and if he could, if her weapons still near
her, kick it away. Okay, you do that, and then he
would polster his and reach for the wound and try to put pressure on it.
Okay. You get to her and there is what you can see is
this horrible wound to her head, and it looks like maybe part of her
skull god Blands died. She appears to still be conscious, but she's bleeding
out heavily, and she just kind of like murmurs and moans as you roll
her towards you. I just I just wanted to get off world kind of.
I did so different, Hector, what do you do? No,
Violet dunked into the room on this end, So I think I'm gonna spend
a move to gum in here and figure out how many zones across there are
that would just be it's just one zone in this room, in one zone
in the next room. Okay, So you can make it because combat's over
at this point. So you see Violet is injured kicking cover behind the desk,
Lilith is dead on the floor, and Leah is bleeding out in Sylus's
arms, Silence's arms. I guess I don't have great medical aid, but
I guess I'll give see if I can wait. It is, Violet has
a number of just normal injuries, right she does. It's still up though,
Yes, Okay, I guess I'll I'll go check out these guys.
First. It looks like Leah has been shot in the head. Fuck,
what a mess I saw. Yeah, if I can stimied bleeding, help
people out that way, hopefully out as it were. Give me a medical
aid roll please? All right? Wow, that's something. Okay, do
you have a critical That was the only way I was gonna let you pull
this off. She you start to try to bandage the wound and stop the
bleeding. You think that if you guys get medical tension here fast, you
guys might be able to save her. But she is fucked up. As
you do that, there is a rumble and an explode ocean from back near
the entrance of the lab. You hear two other explosions and the shattering of
glass from other parts of the lab. And we'll be right back. Oh
my god, I'm master. Well I'm also getting up on your back.
Okay, Holy fuck, dude, it's gonna say I called it. It
was not you know, the h what are the replica underground that did?
It? Was just an insane um Leah. But damn. At this point,
explosions have gone off, rocking the memory lab. What do you guys,
do I can evacuate? I think? Uh, I'm did I get
another message from Tyrell or not from Quell? Nope? That was it?
Okay, very unclear. I'm gonna grab Sarah and like try to tell the
party, like we need to leave. Leave that cop killer. Okay,
you're move into the hall. You can move, sick, I'm over for
you. You can see smoke coming from the entrance. Can we try to
get Lillitt's body if you want? Yeah, you can carry her. I
mean, I don't know what I'm capable of, but if I you know,
I'll shout to the others. You know, I shouldn't leave her here?
Yeah, I think Silas would. We can't. We can't move Leah
even, can we. She's just I mean, you don't think it's a
great idea, but it's up to you, guys. I don't think moving
two bodies while a building is exploding really good idea. They're both dead.
We can just keep the people who are alive alive. There's no time to
discuss. So you took your turn, all right. Leah's bleeding out.
Um, you hear explosions going off, and it is now Violet. You're
grabbing lolith. Yeah right, you can move your one space then into the
hallway with Garrick and uh and Sarah who screams when she sees her dead mother
being carried silas. Yeah, I'll move back into here. I guess that's
my one, right, unless you do mobility and do your whole action as
a run. Oh yeah, and all right, mobility can move extra zones
for every success? Can I do that while carrying? Yeah? Yeah,
she's she's small enough. You all can if you want. Is that enough,
Chris? And do you have to push every extra success? Lets you
move one extra zone? Now I'm down to one. I have to just
accept it so I can move one more. Yes, okay, I'm in
the hallway now too. We got it. So Garrett, you can move
to either this zone or the hallway. I don't know if there's an exbit
that zone, but i'll just go here first. Give me an observation test
two successes. All right, As you run past this corner, you see
a figure coming out from one of these doors. It is it's hard to
tell if it's a man or woman, but it is a humanoid that is
in all black like tactical gear. You know, have our vest pouches of
ammunition some sort of I believe they have assault rifles and like you know,
the full spec OPS mask. As you run by, you make eye contact.
You got a critical here. You make eye contact with this guy or
woman and there's a second of like oh shit, and they've got their gun
raised at you, but they do not fire and they let you run past.
Okay, so you are able to get to this zone if you wish.
Yeah, right, so you can go to this zone too. As
you do, you can go all the way to the end here if you'd
like. So you can see into the next room. It's up to you.
Yeah, you see two more of these guys coming through the front door.
The lobby is a smoking, burning wreckage, as if a bomb went
off in here. And these two come in swat team style. They see
you again holding the girl. You can't tell like if they recognize you or
not, but they stop for a second and they continue moving in your direction,
but they do not open fire. Um, okay, it's your turn.
Interesting, all right. I guess I was gonna attempt to pick up
Leah and take her with sprint towards keep up with the gang. Okay,
give me a mobility please huh uh go all right, so you can get
out into the hallway with them as well. Cool ah, So yep,
are you are you taking me with right? Yeah? Okay, all right,
top of the round. The unseen individuals are going to uh, I
mean, we all guessed it, but they are. They have a very
conspicuous name. Yeah it should just be question marks. But um, well
it is their turn. These guys move past you, Garrick, and they
turn the corner, and as they do, they see the others and they
begin to open fire. Look. Shit, there's another one that comes up
from behind you guys around the corner taking cover, And there is a fourth
one over here that peeks around the corner. And they all begin to open
fire on you guys as you're running through the halls. So we're going to
roll a D three here to see who they each shoot. So I've got
four guys. One, two is Hector, three, four is Violet,
five six is all that? Oh my goodness, One one, two,
three, So three of them at Hector and one of them at Violet.
All right, sorry, Hector, you are getting lit up. First one
is going to hit you for two damage. Cool. Second one also does
two damage. All right, well I'm broken, broken, all right?
You do you take a critical when you're broken in this game? I don't
actually, no, no, um, you don't take an automatic critical.
Only if they do more damage to you, will they cause a critical.
So you are down. The last one shoots but doesn't hit you as you're
hitting the ground, and then the other one on Violet missus. Okay,
Garrick, your turn. You can see these guys are opening fire on your
squad. They are ignoring you. You're not sure if it's because you have
the kid or some other reason. Yeah, yeah, Garrick will continue taking
the kid outside. Okay, are you running towards your spinner or just getting
out of the building? Getting out of the building, Okay, Lee,
get out here. You see that there is an unmarked black Spinner that is
landed over here with the engine running, and you can see that it's armed
similar to the lapd ones. It's got like the little machine gun thing,
and then this one obviously has like a small dual little rocket launcher. Jesus.
Okay, yeah, I'll go over to that islet. I'm going to
run and take cover in this room here. Okay, So well I'm gonna
drop Lilith at that point, unfortunately. Okay, I'm gonna run into here
and try and look for a window or any any other way to the outside.
Uh, there is not. No, the windows are actually marked on
the map. There is no window here. Okay. Is there any other
doors into other rooms from here? No? That's the only one. Shit,
you still have an action if you'd like to do anything. Um can
I? Uh? I can't fire and then hide back behind here without getting
shot at again next round? Can I? I would be if I shoot
at them. I opened myself up, correct, But they only have to
move one zone and then they're gonna be able to see you, because this
hallway here is one big one zone. All right, I mean I guess
I'll I'll pop a shot, adam, uh and keep in the cover.
Okay, which one are you shooting? Uh? Whatever one is closest one
of the two with the beginning or end of the hall here. I can't
see him anymore because I'm in here, so I can pop out into the
door. And so this this guy is the closest, yeah, or this
one at the end of the hall? All right, I will I'll fire
at this guy. Okay? All right, there'd be a long shot here,
all right, one success, all right? Two damage? All right?
Okay, Next up is Silas. Okay, So Chris, these these
doors in the hallway, do they open out into the hallway? Yes?
Okay, So would that kind as an ad to like go behind like open
one and go behind it as like cover and then shoot from there. You
could do that, That's fine, okay. So yeah, this door would
be open and he'd be behind it. So he's taking cover behind it even
though it's just the door, and he will open fire on the one in
the hallway. Gotcha with us? So I don't know, Jase. And
then would he be considered behind cover? No, No, he's not right
now, Oh he's just out. Okay. Yeah, I didn't. I
didn't give I didn't give Violet the penalties. So okay, okay, another
two damage? You know what you know? Push it fish for that critical
I mean, I gotta, I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a shot,
a prayer, a swing. Oh wait, it's it's giving me a I
could select the dice to push. Why is that? Yeah, you don't
have to reroll the eyeball if you don't want to. Oh, Okay,
you're only locked into the ones. Really yeah, oh it pays off a
critical will do another point of damage, and more importantly, roll on the
critical table. Please, that's piercing, yeah, piercing critical injuries. Okay,
you want to get high or get it too, hand and pale and
in pale. Okay, well that will give him. You shoot him and
you see you know why he's the gun kind of drops as he's holding it
in two hands. It drops from one hand as you strike him. Actor,
you are down. All you can roll. We do is crawl.
You can crawl one zone. Yeah, behind the door. Yeah, you
crawl past Silas there, okay, nor in any windows in this room either.
There is not all right, Silas. You see this guy falls back
from whence he came. The other two up here start taking cover, one
guy around the corner and the other guy in the doorway, just like you're
doing. Um and then the guy behind you guys moves up into this room
over here, taking cover by the door. The two in front are gonna
shoot at you, Silas, and they will obviously have you'll have cover as
they attack, a sort of turning behind cover. There we go, all
right, he misses and the other one opens fire. Same thing. He
also misses bullets chewing through the door. Violet, this one's gonna shoot,
but I'll give you cover since you're in the doorway and like trying to peek,
just peek out here, but he scores a hit to damage. All
right, I'm down. All right, you hear you can hear, like
over their calm silence, you can hear. Target down. And there's one
left, Garrick. You're running towards this unmarked vehicle. Yeah, all right,
you get there. You see that there is a pilot all in black,
just like these guys are. What do you do as you near this
vehicle? It's like the window open? Guy, talk guy? Or as
you near it, you see the door does open and the guy has a
gun pointed at you. Did Quell send you? That's not your concern?
All right? Would I'm giving the girl to you. You can't read his
expression under his helmet, but his body language suggests that he's thinking, what
the fuck are you talking about? And I thought they were here for the
girl. I don't know. Just stay out of our way, okay,
Yeah, I'll go back to my fucking spinner and just wait. Okay,
uh, violets down, Silas, you're the only one standing. You've got
three of these guys coming at you from both sides. Okay, So Silas
would retreat back into this room and close the door. Uh and uh probably
try and help um hector with with medical all right, give me a medical
aid roll okay, every successful replenished point of health and uh I wouldn't be
able to use my keya right now right? Sure? I mean you could
do something really basic or quick. Okay. Uh, I would thumb it
to the chief and I would say, get everyone here now, all right,
and I have one access for medical aid. All right, Hector,
you get a point of health back. You're back in the fight and it
is your turn. Uh. Well we're surrounded very cool. Um, yes,
okay, pace closed the door or just trapped in here. I don't
really have a whole lot of other cool stuff to do. I am terrible
at shooting. Um, I don't know, uh, I guess quickly reviewing
from the giant dome that I was briefly in. That's all like a very
sealed in science lab, not like a glass bio dome with a bunch of
exit ports that we could jump through. No cool um Coco coco CoA.
I think I'm gonna uh, I don't want to be in the hallway.
I can shoot into another zone. Is that how it works? Yeah?
I mean you could peek out and shoot the guy that's in the hallway coming
coming down the path, the guy to the south. Okay, that's what's
going on with these Yeah, so you could you could shoot this guy down
here. It's great as kind of weird. Yeah I didn't. I didn't
set it up. Don't blame me. All right, well whatever, it
doesn't matter on that side. I don't want to be in the hallway,
but that's fine. Any fine shot, all right, all right, all
right, this is gonna just be a brick anyway. So you don't have
to worry about targeting in this one because they don't have defenses, so,
uh, just fire your gun. He's not a large target or anything,
is okay? Cool? Hey that is a hit. Oh you got the
small gun. Okay. I have hit the gun and I have a broken
hand, so I have disadvantage at shooting anyway. So will you still hit
him? Okay? A pittance? All right? Next round? I assume
you close the door then and hop back and cover. Oh sure, yeah,
why not? All right? They start firing at the door. Pieces
of it are flying off, and they're going to be through next round.
If you guys don't do something, Garrick, you're in your spinner. What
do you do? Really? Nothing? At this point, I think he's
made his decision. Are you just waiting? Are you leaving? He'll send
a message to quell. I've got Willith's daughter. Okay, you do see
one of the guys come running out, clutching his hand and he makes his
way towards the spinner. Okay, Violet, you are able to crawl.
This guy goes past you. Obviously they're focused on your You're on Silas,
who is still up. All you can do is crawl into another zone.
What do you do? All right? Sick? Am I able to get
on my box? Or no? No, you can't really do any actions
when you're crippled. I mean, what are you trying to what are you
trying to call it? Yeah? I guess you already called the chief.
I was going to call for backup. Yeah, I mean you guys know
that they called for the ambulance at least, so I think at this point
it's safe to assume that it's been reported. Okay, all right, Silas,
Uh yeah, we're gonna just do the the usual, well the usual,
opening the door and and fuck them with them. Oh they're right fucking
their ship. Yeah yeah, I mean they're they're shooting the door. Yeah,
and just riddling it with bullets. So go ahead. Yep, here
comes a firearm. All right, whoa, Okay, that is a critical,
and that's going to do for damage. Roll me the critical. Please
nice, you're saying, hi, give me high, Give me high,
give me hi. I should do the shattered head, instant death. We
got a man down, and then Hector we see collapse against the wall directly
across from you can see through all the holes in the door. Yeah.
Um, I'm gonna cheer on, Silas, you know, way to go,
but also sort of slightly move over. Oh hello, wait is this
close? They're open? Or how busted is this door? Yeah? They're
in next round, So yeah, that doesn't matter, does it? Okay?
Um, is readying an action a thing? No? Is the h
I just want to not be shot immediately. So what I'm gonna do?
What is now? Maybe I should get shot immediately? Look, if I
could take a bullet for silence. He can actually finish this fight, which
I can't do. So I'm gonna just kind of stand in this corner um
and pull the key out and and give a more descriptive sort of communication,
like multiple assailants, mercenaries and heavy armor or heavily armed as it were.
Yeah, okay, officers down. Okay, Well they silence. You can
see the one from the south moves past the door. They open fire one
last time as they are clearly falling back. They're each going to take a
shot at you, each one of you. So the first one on silas.
I'll give you guys cover here since they're shooting through the door and you
guys are trying to trying to, you know, call on silence. Hold
onto your butts. Scattered head. I don't think you can get shattered head
because that's a twelve. That's only a D ten. Oh that's nice,
but it is three days. It is three damage couch shoulder hit. Okay,
just like violet head than on your sheet, all right, And the
other one is going to shoot at Hector as he runs past, and then
they're going to move into the next zone, clearly retreating. You hear them
you know, go fall back. Oh no, critical Hector. Oh my
god, my desk is pulling apart. What the fuck? Oh boy?
All right, here we go. You take two, well, you take
three damage on one. I'm down now what bleeding gut? That's not good
one. Any mobility role reopens the wounds. This is fatal. We're leafal.
But it's a shift. So you've got time before you bleed out.
I don't know how you can like have eight hours before you bleed out,
but clearly you do from shot yeah right, uh. And then they are
they are booking it. You can see that they're retreating. Um, garrick,
you're sitting still. You can get you're getting all sorts of things on
the dispatch warnings. You can see messages coming through from Hector and Silas.
You know we're heavily under heavy attack, you know, eta three minutes to
arrival for backup stuff like that. Um yeah, I don't know. I
guess I'll put the kid in the car and then go back him whatever you
want to do. But I'm just asking if you want to do anything particular
here. And this is your car you're talking about, right, yes,
yeah, that's any random car or car yeah, I'll lock the car.
Color, stay here and I'll go back in. All right, So you're
running back towards the front. M. Violet, you're down silas, what
are you doing? You can tell that they're retreating, they're falling back.
Okay, yeah, at this point, once again, go back to Hector
and see if I can help with medical aid. Okay, go ahead,
Yeah, damn wow, this guy you get three wounds back or actually or
he can get rid of the critical wound on you one or the other.
M hmm. I think you'd probably try to stop the bleeding first, be
honest, so you can get rid of the uh, the bleeding gut.
So you're still at zero, but you're not dying. Now there's a cat
in my face. Okay, uh, garrick on your churn. You see
two of the soldiers round the corner, they see you, point their guns
at you as they're moving, and then they lower their guns and move past
you and head towards the spinner, obviously running in a rush. Do you
do anything, I will take a shot at them. Oh okay, when
do you shoot at them like coming towards you? No? Okay, after
they're like overhear it okay, I'll give you a shot at advantage. Oh
nice, Do I have to target them like normal? No, just roll
for advantage. Roll your gun. Okay, they go tasteless advantage. Oh
another critical? Roll me the D twelve. Which one are you shooting?
The one on the left or the right. We'll go left, okay,
um, so just roll it DP close. I'll roll on the critical table.
Oh okay, piercing critical. Baby, though, make sure it's a
D twelve year role. It says role formula D twelve should be good.
Okay, by no instant death. He drops as you shoot him in the
back of a head, the last gun running? All right, Silas,
what are you doing on your turn? You hear gunshots from outside? Well
a gunshot, I should say, yeah fuck? Uh so uh? Silas
would look down at Hector and are you stable? I think they'll make it
all right? And he would venture out and probably make his way to the
front. All right. You can do mobility if you want to try to
gain some ground here. Now will it add the Oh yeah, it does,
it adds the shoulder. Cool. Okay, you can move two zones.
That's one. Two would be the zone right here. Okay, all
right, so top of the round. This will probably be it here.
This last guy hops in the spinner. As he does, he turns and
takes a shot at you as he's closing the door, and then you see
the spinner begins to take off, but he misses. You want to push
it. I think he would because you shot his buddy in the back.
I think that pretty Yeah, I think I think that would make sense.
It doesn't. It doesn't give me the option. I just have to roll
it again for some reason, maybe because it's an NPC. I don't know,
it's weird. Hey, do you nothing? Okay, Well, well
I guess he's a replicant, so I could do it again. Yeah,
do it again. Okay. He takes a point of damage himself and you
get shot for two damage. Okay. He then slams the door shut.
You see the window goes up from the one guy the pilot, and the
spinner takes off and begins speeding off into the night, disappearing into the black.
As this happens a couple minutes later, you see and then hear the
sirens as backup finally arrives and police spinners begin to descend on the carnage of
the memory lab. Silas, you see Garrick standing in the doorway firing.
When you get outside, you see that there is one of these guys dead
on the ground. You might see the Spinner disappearing into the distance. Silas
would kind of look at Garret, than the body, than the rapidly exiting
uh Spinner, and then back to Garrett and say the girl, he's safe.
I didn't see her like break out of my car, did she?
No? Okay, so okay. The scene is secured. Medical attention is
brought in for Hector and Violet, who are taken out by ambulance. Go
get medical attention. Unfortunately, Leah is dead. By the time you guys
get any medical attension to her, she has bled out and die from her
injuries. It looks like Terry the clerk was killed as well. Knew the
explosion in the front took him out. The next couple of days go by,
and some of this makes the news. Most of it is quickly kind
of discredited by the Wallace Corporation. What information do you guys give in your
final report to the chief? We'll say the two of you. A couple
of days later, the other two are still in the hospital. They had
some pretty bad injuries. But Garrick and Silas, we find the two of
you in Chief Holden's office for a debrief. Well, tell me what the
fuck happened? Oh yeah, yeah, Silas would take his head off and
say, well, Chief, I think what happened here was we did have
a replicant go rogue. I think it was due to the shoddy work of
Lilith Terrell making dramatic memories, and the replicants found out about the process.
And I don't think Leah took to it too well. And with all of
her failed baseline tests, she was just she was not in her right frame
of mind, so she kept saying she just wanted to get off world.
I think she was just running from whatever trauma that got put into her head
by this science business. Well, I guess it's done. Anything else,
I don't think. I don't think Silence would have anything else to really offer.
Is there anything that Silas leaves out of his report when this is all
said and done, I don't think so. No. Okay, Eric,
is there anything you leave out of your report other than you were talking to
Quell on the side. Yeah, I leave that as um No, I
mean, like it all seems pretty important and as long as it wouldn't incriminate
him, which that would incriminate him is possibly the dog mcwell and said,
do either of you what do the two of you each say? I want
you each answer the separately. What do you each say about the guys that
attacked you at the end? Oh, Silas would just describe them as,
you know, what they were wearing and U like the tech they had,
the tactical gear, the weaponry. Um. And then if you noticed,
if you noticed anything that like kind of stands out in terms of you know,
no, they have no markings or symbols or anything like that. Um,
yeah, he would. He would be curious as to ascertain the identity
of the guy who's had he perforated. But yeah, he's able to identify
that their replicants. But other than that, there's nothing, um okay,
like probably that they belong to a specific baseline of model, but not like
the specifics you know. Yeah, then he would just describe him as much
as he could. Yeah, where do we know if they were like mights?
They're a nines okay, geez there nights cool fucking perforated. And then
but all the all the information on them seems to be purposefully hard way too
yep, um, yeah, Garret would just describe them and the time that
previous time that little Tyrrell was attacked, she was attacked by people in basically
the same kind of gear, just all black armor, machine guns. You
have no idea about people that attacked her, Okay, all you know is
the people in Leah's memory were like wearing black, but they were not.
Silence does not describe them as like swat team guys like these guys were.
Okay, then yeah, they'll just describe them as swat teams machine guns.
Okay. Hector and Violet, obviously you're not at the Chief's office, but
you would make reports as well. Is there any evidence that either of you
do not put in your report? No, I don't think I have anything
to hide other than learning styles escape. Oh that's more on my end,
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I'll mentioned that.
I yeah, I overheard people talking about Leah. I convinced my captors to
use the John and the the squad broke in just then, okay, and
he was gone by the time I re entered the room. What do the
two of you say about the squad that attacked you at the end. I
guess. I tried to describe them as best I can, but it was
probably pretty foggy for most of the fight, I'm guessing, Okay, Hector,
I asked, I'm like Blackhood and Mercenary guys came in and shot up
the place and suddenly left, like they arrived seconds after we called in an
ambulance. I think, yeah, they probably were alerted by something else,
unless they were already there. Yeah, you're not sure. None of you
saw them, but they could have been hiding. You're not sure, and
pretty clearly weren't working with Leah or replicants as far as we could figure out.
Okay, So ultimately what happens here is you guys give your reports.
Nothing major comes of it. The identity of the hit squad remains unknown other
than they are and nines, but beyond that, nothing to to really figure
out or deduce. Life returns to normal for the most part for most of
you. You seem to have solved the case. You've discovered that Leah was
indeed a rogue and nine probably due to the traumatic memories that were meant to
control her, and they seem to have done the opposite. The reputation of
Lilith Tyrrell is probably somewhat tarnished of it, but with her death it probably
isn't all that relevant either. Sarah will most likely end up in some sort
of foster care as he does not have any other family, and we will
end as we see Garrick back in his apartment. Garrick, you're sitting at
the table and there's a message that comes in on your keia. Yeah,
he would look at it. It is from your favorite NPC. It says
poor choice, detective, and that ladies and gentlemen is where we're going to
call it. Thank you so much for joining us. I hope you've enjoyed
this journey as much as we have. This has been an absolute blast.
You for sticking with it. This was awesome and great inner turmoil between the
players. I loved Garrick's little side thing and Matt letting styles go and Silas
almost having a mental breakdown and then trying to talk Lea down, and Violet
just putting Leah down like it's nobody's business man. What a fucking finale.
That was awesome, So listeners, thank you so much. We'll return to
the rain soaked streets of la in the future, but be sure to join
us next week as we start up our next campaign, which is going to
be the Swedish doom metal RPG merk Boor. We'll be back with a full
cast of four again as we dive into that for a few weeks. So
thank you again all so much for joining us and we will see you next
time. Be sure you don't get lost like tears in Rain ninety nine.