Speaker 1: Hello travelers. PB here, i'd like to welcome you again
to the world of Gone. Earlier this summer, we did
an off line patron one shot that turned into a
three shot that I had running in tandem with Gone.
With everyone's blessing or releasing the episodes for you now
to enjoy. The events took place just after Reckin and
Blake reached Nataku, and I'd like to note that the
decisions these characters made directly affected the events in Gone.
I'd like to give a special thanks to send Her
TV for the rendition of Mother's theme that you're hearing
now and you can find it at SoundCloud dot com,
Slash send Her TV. And that's x E N T
I I R t v ah In for creating some
of the tracks heard in these sessions from their Blade
Runner remaster album off World, which you can find at
table story dot tv, Slash off World, and last, but
certainly not least to Zygotochus for editing these episodes for us.
And without further ado, let's return to Naberu. I just
want to know what everybody was up to in the
interim and if you tried to do anything or if
you super laid low. So after when we last left off,
we had that interrogation or that discussion as it were.
Some of you learned something, some of you learned some
other things, some of you walked away with nothing. But
someone was told to keep an eye on two of
the others, and I need to know. I need to
know what y'all did after that, if you tried to
make contact with each other or otherwise, I.
Speaker 2: Would not have tried to make contact with anyone.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's actually it.
Speaker 2: Felt like I got by Airly guy. So I don't
want to not worth the risk.
Speaker 1: So that's actually a good point. Why don't we start
with Finch? So not only did you not try to
contact anybody, but what is going through your mind when
you walk out of that?
Speaker 2: I think Finch probably, I'm sure that Finch has had
things happen in the past that were scary and oh shit,
I almost got caught. But this felt very, very risky
and very I don't want to say, not worth it.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 2: I think she's kind of huh, that's interesting pasting and
just wondering was it worth it?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Am I going to find out enough information by doing
this or having done that? It's gonna make it worth it.
It feels like a pretty pretty major risk and now
she's living in paranoia.
Speaker 1: What does her paranoia look like? Can you describe maybe
what her days are like or even just one moment.
Speaker 2: She probably wakes up and does kind of the same
thing every day, so that if anyone were to look
at her, they could say, Okay, at you know, eight am,
she does this. At ten am, she's doing that. And
she's going about her day every day, but it's almost
like she's she's acting in a way, she's acting as
if someone's watching her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, does she think that too? So we can maybe
see her, you know, going to either get food or
walking through the market, and maybe she might stop and
look at something, and we kind of see a moment
where she pauses and goes someone's watching me, but's wait
long enough? Like is she able to even be present
in her day to day life anymore? Or is she
constantly thinking about walk to two bases? Stop? Look?
Speaker 2: I think she's very much constantly thinking about it. Yeah,
because this was this felt very close like ry uh,
probably a lot more risky than anything she's done, even
though I'm sure she's had a lot of risky behavior
to get answers, but this was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty crazy. Yeah, I need you to roll for me.
You can have a plus one. Okay, Okay, okay, okay,
So as you are going through your day to day business,
we're gonna say some time has passed, but I don't
know exactly how much time yet because I need to
talk to everybody else. We're gonna pause on that role
or second and we're gonna go down the list. Who
wants to go next?
Speaker 4: I'd like to go next?
Speaker 1: All right, shive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm watching Finch, Temple and Shadow. Okay, but I'm
not really watching them. I'm kind of watching them, but
I'm doing it mostly for sure, and I'm kind of
doing to see who else might be watching them.
Speaker 1: Ah okay, okay, so why don't you go ahead and
roll for me? You can have a plus one. Oh
my goodness. Okay, We're gonna pause on that roll for
a minute and I'm gonna ask you the same thing
I asked Finch. What has it been like when you're
watching them? Can we have a moment?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't want them to know that I'm watching them.
You know, I feel a little bad, a little you know,
I they think I trust them, and I do, but
then at the same time, I also don't trust them,
so I'm spending time. You know, I get to their
place early on whatever giving day, whoever's there, and I
just sit outside, you know, across the street, watching the
front door. And maybe the first day I do it,
I just see when they leave and when they come back.
And then the next day I'll follow them a little bit,
just watching carefully, and then you know, obviously keeping an
eye out for other people, seeing if anyone else is
following them. And then I'll get to a place that
they frequent. So maybe I'll just wait at the market,
heading away somewhere.
Speaker 1: What are you looking for, Shift, I'm.
Speaker 4: Looking to see if have theyre meeting with anyone.
Speaker 1: You're looking for betrayal, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4: Looking for betrayal, looking to see if they are being
clumsy as well, if they're not being careful.
Speaker 1: So Finch, you will notice going about the day. When
you watch Finch, I think you recognize she is in
her own head thinking about things. But she's on paper
doing everything right. She hasn't gone to she hasn't gone
anywhere strange, she hasn't even tried to access any databases
with any further information. She is she is following all
of the rules in which she should be doing. She
has even located information and reported it back, going about
business as per usual. But I think you can tell
when you're watching her that she knows she's being watched.
But I don't know if you know she I don't
think you can say, oh, she knows you are watching her,
but she is acting in a way where you recognize, Oh,
she knows she's being watched.
Speaker 4: She's been careful about it.
Speaker 1: Do you do anything else? Do you try to contact
anybody else or get any other information? Inkey wise?
Speaker 4: No, I'm staying. I'm staying away from the Yankee, giving
them their space suspicious of me, but keeping keeping any
other grand door to see if I hear anything about
Reckon and a special trio.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, then who wants to go next? I
think we should save Temple for last. But that's just
me Shadow. Are you up?
Speaker 5: Yeah? That's fine?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: I feel like Shadow for the first probably day or
two would I've just kind of hung out and not
really done much. I think beyond the extent out of
like getting some food or sitting out by the beach
looking out at the water. I think the most kind
of he really would have done to like go out
and introduce himself back in some way. Would He probably
would have gone out and looked for a new cloak,
because he's missing his black cloak now, so I think
perhaps one's finding and procureing one that kind of fit
his style. After a few days, you probably would just
try to go back to some semblance of normality in
that he would begin kind of moving through the side streets,
looking out over vagabonds, safe havens, just try to kind
of get back into a normal routine again. There's some
concern with Shadow obviously in that he's not sure he's
completely out of it. He obviously had, you know, the
experience of when he was being questioned by the Yankee,
and while he was able to leave that situation and
feel relatively okay, there's a strong sense of insecurity within
Shadow of I don't know if this is over, because
it wasn't really left with holistic resolution for him relative
to everything that had taken place. In the fact that
all four of them, or all three of the people
including himself as well, that he was working with, we're
all brought in the same place to be interrogated. So
I think after a few days, yeah, he would just
try to begin moving about his traditional beats again and
begin work to collect vagabonds and memories.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll for me. You can have
a plus one plus one. Yeah, So okay, when you go,
you go about your routine, you start collecting again. Vagabonds
are super rare, but you do try to get some
information on, you know, where some might be located that
aren't in the temple, actually Merrick's Temple, because that is
kind of a place where you don't really go because
if you get found out by those people, you will
never really work in this area again. So you hear
some more news about maybe a new at the temple
or something like that. But more importantly, I think you
hear rumblings, and you hear a lot of people talking
about dreaming dreams they've been having. And I don't know,
but how has Shadow been sleeping?
Speaker 5: Probably probably really well the first night. I think once
the anxiety would have came down, just exhaustion would have hidden.
I mean, there's only so far you can go with
being inundated with emotion before your body just kind of
let's go and you just pass out. Yeah, but I
think the following few days it would be it would
be tougher nights to fall and stay asleep because there's
kind of that looming anxiety of what's going to come next.
Speaker 1: Okay, I need you to make one more role for me.
No plus is this time? Okay? You sleep soundly. You
don't have any strange dreams other than maybe what you
would already be having anxiety dreams. Maybe maybe walking down
that alleyway, maybe just repeating those moments of you, you know,
taking off your cloak and giving it to Violet. You know,
these kinds of things probably repeat in your mind. And
I say, you wake up and you know how to
scrub that from your memory. So you do every morning
before you start your day. Next, Temple, what do you
do in this time?
Speaker 3: So, after.
Speaker 6: Going through that interview, Temples become somewhat convinced that whole
thing with Reckon, the whole thing accent was a little
bit misleading. There's there's something else, and we can't.
Speaker 3: Get too focused on that.
Speaker 6: He hasn't said that to anyone else, but he's trying
to follow the lead from what he heard.
Speaker 3: What do you heard in the Taurus?
Speaker 6: And so he's trying to find out any information he
can on a dex.
Speaker 3: And an atom.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll for me. So wait, I'm
just I just want to clarify. Are you shadowing Finch
and shadow.
Speaker 3: I am not doing that job yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, go ahead and roll for me. You can
have a plus one? Yeah, okay, perfect. So you don't
get any information on a dex or an atom. That
trail runs cold pretty quickly, and I'd say you give
it a valiant effort. It's not like you just you
dig pretty deep, and I'd say it probably takes you
maybe two to three three days worth, which is I
think three lapses for us. So yeah, it's about three
lapses of time go by. Do you continue looking? Do
you look for something else?
Speaker 3: So I guess what kind of run dry is it?
Speaker 6: Does it seem to me or does it seem like
there had been evidence that was scrubbed clean, or like
maybe those whispers were baseless in the first place and
the message was nonsense.
Speaker 1: Well, that interpretation I will leave up to Temple. However,
I imagine the way that you're looking for this information
is you're asking around town up about someone named dex
Or Adam, you are maybe searching the ANKI net to
kind of like look and see if any way watchers
have encountered an atam or a dex, and both of
those trails just come up empty. It does not look
like anything has been scrubbed. It just looks like no
data to be found, at least here in the umbra.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Then I think, pondering on that, I'll be looking at
one of those cartographic representations of the vaults and everything
around here, and just sort of externally, you can see
that he's just sort of regarding it and looking at it,
but internally he's thinking, there are so many of.
Speaker 7: Them, and if I can't find any trace of these
people in the city, then they must be in one
of those But how how could I find that?
Speaker 3: What step can I take?
Speaker 1: And uh?
Speaker 6: And Temple feels frustrated and a little bit lost at that,
because there's it's that feeling of knowing there's something big
out there to be found, but not being able to
find it and not even knowing that first step, sort
of like the anxiety of of of.
Speaker 3: You know, like not even knowing how to get started.
Speaker 1: YEA, that overwhelming sense of I know that you know
I'm being told something and the reality is different and
I just can't figure out how to get there. Yeah, completely, ye, okay,
So when do you start, if ever following Finch in Shadow?
Do you ever take up that job or are you
just doing something else?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: The after the third day, I think I would be
frustrated and go back to the beach where I've we've
gone to when needing to think things through, and then
on the fourth day I would deliberately start trying to
track down Shadow.
Speaker 1: Let's pause that this beach here for a moment. Tell
us more about this beach that you go to when
you need to think. How far away is it from
the city or is it simply like are you taking
one of the boats out of Nataku or are you
traveling to like a voult beach like an entry point
as it were.
Speaker 3: An entry point. It's the one where I was pulled out.
Speaker 1: Ah okay, So how far away is that from Natako?
Because that's going to take some time to travel there
as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Is it reasonable for a day trip to head
out there and then head back within a day.
Speaker 1: It depends on where your entry point was where you
first washed up. And I think we may be picked something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had we had a map of that, Okay,
don't remember exactly. I think mine was on the little
map that we have from Taco here, like mine was
I think down into the left a little bit more
towards the flood of countries.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that would actually take a bit of time.
Speaker 3: Okay, But what we can do.
Speaker 1: Is we can say that you were doing your research
on the inky net while you were traveling, okay, and
you maybe you booked passage with merchants or something like that.
So okay, we'll say that you were looking that stuff
up on the net while you were traveling to the speech.
So this entry point where you washed up, you stay
there for maybe a day. I guess of your three
day or your three lapses, I should say, yeah, exactly. Okay.
Speaker 6: I don't take too much time there. It's mostly to
collect myself sort of, you know, kick the.
Speaker 3: Metallic sand and we're not around a little bit.
Speaker 6: But it's I think when I get there, it's softly
weeping a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm going to need you to make another
role for me. You can have a plus one for
this one.
Speaker 3: Got a four.
Speaker 1: Oh wonderful, Okay. I think when you're here and you're
doing your meditation and you're searching for answers. I think
you get something a little more specific this time, and
I think you feel like you're running out of time,
but not you specifically. I think you feel like you're
all running out of time.
Speaker 3: And just to clarify, only all is that like the
group of us or.
Speaker 1: Everyone that is open to Temple's interpretation. But that is
the feeling that you get. You are all running out
of time, and it does feel bigger than just you,
and it does feel bigger than maybe just you four.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: And then you travel back with no answers, maybe nothing
more than just that sense of you know, time is
running out. And then you begin studying both Finch and Shadow, correct.
Speaker 3: Focusing on shadow.
Speaker 1: Actually, oh okay, so do you do you shadow Finch
at all?
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 6: Actually, okay, yeah, I think there's something I want to
figure out, and I'm thinking that Shadow is the key
to that.
Speaker 1: Okay, what are you trying to figure out? You don't
have to be completely direct. You can be as vague
as you.
Speaker 3: Want, for sure.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to figure out the correct course of action,
trying to weigh self preservation, oh my vacation opportunity, and
I'm trying to see if I can figure that out
from him.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and make another role. You can have
a plus one, got it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay. So a couple of things strike you when you're
watching Shadow. The first is that he slept very soundly
his first night, and the only reason you know that
is because they are monitoring him. So when you're able
to access his first night in his apartment, you see
that he slept so soundly, and something springs to mind
that that's actually an interrogation tactic that they will use.
The guilty person knows they have done it, they know
they've been caught, and they will sleep so soundly. The
innocent man will lie awake, riddled with anxiety, wondering how
he got kind of caught up in this, how to
find a way out, how to prove his innocence. So
that's something that strikes you. And the second, very big
thing is what happened to his coat. They're going to
wonder where his coat went and why he needed to
buy a new one. Troubling thoughts, very trembling. Now you
have the option to send this report to Kanna. You
can also warn him. You can also falsify the report.
Speaker 3: Can I set something up on essentially a.
Speaker 1: Dead man's switch, elaborate for me to stop it? Sure?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: My intention would be I want to go and speak
to Shadow, but I want to have a report with
just the sleep aspect, not the coat, just the sleep
aspect set up to send unless I stop it from
sending in say two hours.
Speaker 1: Ooh okay, yes, sure, why not. Let's say you can
do that. Let's roll see how well this will go
just a regular one. Oh my god, that's three threes
and that is special for me. PB. Maybe not in
the rules, but it is for me. So okay, yes,
you can do this thing. And you're going to try
to attempt to speak to Shadow. Yeah, okay. So what
I'm going to say is that about four lapses have passed.
When we pick up with you, all Temple is going
to approach Shadow and that's where we're going to start.
But Shiv is in the distance and can see this
encounter happening. So where do you approach Shadow? Shadow? You
have your new coat things, you are going about business
as per usual, but you are not here. Where do
you approach Shadow?
Speaker 3: I think it would be.
Speaker 6: After he's left his after he's left his apartment. I
would want to send a message asking him to meet
at one of the bars just him.
Speaker 1: Oh, which bar?
Speaker 3: Is there another one nearby? That's not the one that
we started out in.
Speaker 1: Yes, but it's not as vagabond friendly, like with the
private rooms that people can't listen in to.
Speaker 3: Okay, but we still have our devices.
Speaker 1: You do still have your devices, yes, but people can
see you.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, yeah, I think that's fine.
Speaker 1: Okay, wonderful. What would you like to name this bar?
If you don't have one, I can make one up.
I don't want to put you on the spot.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure I can think of one right now?
Speaker 1: That's all right?
Speaker 5: On theme?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's all right. We're going to uh, we're
going to call it the Minotaura. Okay, So you are here,
or you send a message rather to Shadow to meet,
and this is on day four. Shadow, what you do?
Do you respond? Actually, do you even agree to meet?
Speaker 5: I would see and he's asking me to meet and
the minotaur my first thought would be fuck why? And
I'm going to reply city beach on the bench. I'm
gonna walk to the beach and find my usual bench.
Speaker 1: Okay, so there's not a traditional beach here, but there
is like a port because all a lot of nataku
is surrounded by the water here, but there is.
Speaker 5: It's more like, yeah, it would be the port, just
kind of on a bench that overlooks the water, and
it's kind of boats as they pass by.
Speaker 1: Perfect. So then absolutely, do you respond?
Speaker 6: I don't respond, but I'll go there and I'll wait.
If I'm there before he is, I'll wait until I
see him come.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's go ahead and start with you arriving.
I do. However, Shadow, unfortunately need you to roll for me.
You can have a plus one. Actually you can have
a plus two. And then I need Shive to roll
in the background as well.
Speaker 4: Am ons.
Speaker 1: Uh, yes, you can have a plus one. Oh you
needed it, yep, okay, and then shadow yours was the okay, okay,
So Shadow, you go Shive. As you are watching, you
are able to you are able to follow this, but
you are also able to notice that someone seems to
take notice of Shadow. Someone seems to be tailing him,
and it's not Temple, and that they watch he he's
watching as he goes down this kind of walkway, but
he doesn't follow. He just takes note that he has
gone that way, and then he moves away. But you
do notice it. Do you follow them to this space?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I think I made instead follow his tail.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, wow, okay, So go ahead and roll one
more time for me. You can have a plus one. Okay,
So we're gonna pause here and then we're gonna go. Yeah,
it's wild. What are the odds of that? Holy shit,
it's the exact same role. Oh my god. Okay, roll
twenty stop. Okay, so you two are meeting at the bench.
We're gonna we're gonna go ahead and start with you two,
and I will just let it land on you.
Speaker 3: Shadow, had you arrived first, by the.
Speaker 5: Way, yeah, I feel like I would be sitting on
the bench and I would have my device sitting next
to me already on Okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you see Temple walk up, take notice of the device,
and then take a seat. Just looks forward, It doesn't
look directly at you, and it stays silent for.
Speaker 5: Uncomfortably long, and I just let you sit in.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think after about say, probably a solid minute, maybe two, Shadow,
do you think do you think a man can change?
Speaker 5: Not to say they can't, but it depends on how
badly they want to and what the motivation is.
Speaker 6: Have you ever seen someone truly change?
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if you're people aware of this temple
that the most part I tend to stay to myself.
People are creatures of Abbot and they follow routine. They
don't prefer deviation, and when deviation is forced, it tends
to send them into a downward spiral. Very few times
will you see one truly change a particular.
Speaker 3: Behavior, and even less so predator.
Speaker 5: Now indeed, not to say that predators don't adapt become
more capable, but they still follow the same true instincts.
Speaker 3: Then I have another question for you.
Speaker 6: If it came down to it, and if you are
such a predator, would you eat your own cubs to survive?
Speaker 5: Is there a point to you a lineup questioning temple?
Speaker 6: Is there any sort of like facial reaction that Shadow
had to that?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 5: I think I would just stay cool and calm.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, yeah, So Shadow had just asked if there
was a point of the questioning, and uh, Tum will
just respond with that.
Speaker 3: Yes, No, perhaps I've already gotten it. Thank You've been
most helpful.
Speaker 5: It's fine day Temple.
Speaker 6: And then I stand up and I look at them
and I say, it's a handsome code, and then I
walk away.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, we're going to switch scenes. We are going
to switch to Finch, actually Pinch. On day four, you're
going about your regular routine. You're perhaps at the market,
kind of exploring. Do you buy anything at this market
or do you just go through this routine so that
people think you're normal?
Speaker 2: I would probably if I normally would buy something, I
think I would do that.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, nothing fish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just like something normal.
Speaker 1: And how have you been sleeping?
Speaker 2: Probably not well? But I'm in my bed, Like if
I can't sleep, I'm not up and out doing things.
I'm still in bed because I don't want people to
see me going on a walk at four in the
morning because I can't sleep.
Speaker 1: Got it, Okay, go ahead and roll for me. You
can have a plus one. Your dreams are not great,
but there's a recurring scene that you keep seeing. There's fire,
people are shouting, You are filled with panic, you feel
like you're running out of time, and then you wake up,
perhaps a nightmare you've had every night. Since have I.
Speaker 2: Ever had a dream similar similar to that in the past?
Or is this a now experience?
Speaker 1: This is a brand new experience, and I will say
that you recognize that it is strange, like it doesn't
feel like it feels like a memory, not a dream,
since you're so versed in memory. But it's come from
nowhere you can recall. You know, you don't recall experiencing
anything like this, but it feels like a memory. While
we are walking down the street, maybe through the market,
you notice someone is watching you. You notice you're being watched,
and it's maybe a moment where you just a moment
where you freeze and realize the eye are on you
and you can kind of see them out of your
peripheral vision. It's no one you recognize, but of course
it's probably aanky. They have that kind of stiff posture
like they're a soldier of some sort. And you just go.
You are able to continue and going about, like maybe
looking at which fish. You buy the fish, you put
it in your bag, and you're starting to head back
to your apartment and this person is still following you.
What do you do?
Speaker 2: I try my hardest to act like I don't know
that they're following me, okay, and I just try to
as casual and normal and myself as possible.
Speaker 1: Do you head back to your apartment?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 1: Okay. So when you are heading back to your apartment,
right before you turn the corner, you hear the footsteps
behind you quickening. What do you do? You are alone
in this alleyway.
Speaker 2: I don't respond, just keep walking.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and roll for me. You hear the footsteps,
the running, and you hear a little bit of static
from what you know to be a spitter. This person
who is running up behind you has pulled out a spitter. Now, shive,
you have seen all of this. I will give you
an opportunity to intervene or do anything.
Speaker 2: Or do you stay and watch quickly when I hear
him approaching, and try and time it out and as
hard as I can swing my bag with my fish
in it. Adam, you absolutely can do that. You absolutely
can do that because your plus one allows you to
kind of hear him coming with this spitter out.
Speaker 1: He is not. He is coming in to hurt you
for sure. Okay, So go ahead and roll for me.
You can have Oh my god. Okay, so you whip
around with this like bag that's made out of fungus,
so it's kind of like spongy, and it contains this
fish that you have purchased. And you whip around and
you let go of the bag. And you've timed it
perfectly because you can hear his footsteps. You know exactly
what's happening. You've done this to so many people before.
You let go of that bag and it flies directly
at his face. He is, however, able to dodge. The
bag will kind of nick him in the face, but
it doesn't stop him dead. He just looks at you,
smiles and continues to lunge forward towards you. Now, shive,
you have been watching this the man that you followed.
This is the man that you tailed.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I will give you an opportunity to do something if
you would like. However, you can just watch.
Speaker 4: Have I ever seen this individual in my hanky work?
Speaker 1: Ooh, you can roll for me. No, you have not.
But they are definitely yanky.
Speaker 4: They're definitely anky.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, they've got the but they've got the badge
that you can see underneath. You're using standard anky uh
fighting technique like you can just they're definitely, there's no
doubt in your mind. He also you can do another
role for me, like an observation. You can have a
blessed one because you've been watching this whole time. Yeah, okay,
you do notice he also has like a separate bag on.
It looks like this is a catch mission shit, like
he's gonna bag her and take her away.
Speaker 4: I don't interviewing.
Speaker 1: Okay, Finch, what do you do next? He's coming at you.
Speaker 2: Do I think that I can outrun him? Or is it?
Do I feel like it's not even there's no chance?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: I think you think? I don't know? Go ahead and roll. Okay,
you can certainly try.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just going to I want to kind of
juke to the side, Okay, down a little bit when
he lunches at me, and just take that opportunity.
Speaker 1: To bolt okay and asks him, are so okay? So
he's running towards you, You're no longer running towards your apartment.
You are dodging out of the way, and you're running
the way you came back towards the market, back towards
the center of the city. Okay, where do you go?
You are able to book it? And take off. He lunges,
he maybe kind of laughs a little bit as you
duck and take off, like where are you going? And
he grabs his spitter and he grabs the bag with
the fish and takes off after you. Where do you go? Finch?
Speaker 2: Well, that's my lunch. So now I'm double upset. I
would run through the market. I want to see how
if other people would stop him, or if they're just
used to this type of thing happening.
Speaker 1: I think you would know they're maybe used to this
type of thing happening. There's no violence here in Taku,
so it is a bit strange to see somebody maybe
running from someone else in maybe a panicked way that
you are running. But the fact that he has a
bag and he's holding it after I don't think people
immediately no one is stopping him. Nobody is stopping him.
They are looking at you, they're kind of shocked, like
what's going on? And then they kind of look behind
and see him running with a bag. He's shouting, miss
miss you forgot your bag.
Speaker 2: They hate him so much. I am about to do
something pretty dumb, But I think Finch, I think she's
not even afraid right now. I think she is.
Speaker 1: Enraged.
Speaker 2: I think she is so angry that this is happening,
like she feels a betrayal. Right now, okay, what does
she did? She's going to run to the woman who
interrogated us.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that is that is at that's at the
next seat building. So you're going to run to maybe transport,
and you're going to head back up away from the
umbra and to the penumbra, which is like the next
level up. You're going to take passage up that way. Okay,
so you head immediately, so you kind of do a
I don't want to say double take, but you you've
run in the opposite direction, and then you're going to
go through the market trying to lose this guy. And
then you're going to peel back around and head back
up and take tran Sit up. I need you to
roll one more time for me. You can have a
plus one. Do you have any other special bullshit you
want to add to this, any memories or training about
losing people or get away car or anything like that.
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I have. Oh, I have a few that can actually work.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 8: I have.
Speaker 2: One memory where I captured a vagabond who was begging
me to let her go, but I didn't, and I
knew that she was just a cog in the wheel basically,
And so I think, I think I feel like Finch
is almost she's been trying it the way that she's
been doing it for so long, and she's just getting
little tidbits of information and she just wants to answers,
and so I think she's kind of just like at
the point where she doesn't care anymore what happens to her.
She just wants to know.
Speaker 1: Okay, you get the overwhelming sensation when you are when
you are running down the street and trying to lose
this ma'am, this memory resurfaces for you for some strange reason.
But what really resonates with you is the cog in
the wheel, just another cog in the wheel. And suddenly
you don't remember this. You don't have this memory anymore.
It leaves you. But the thought just a cog and
a wheel is there. But if you tried to recall
this memory again, it would be gone. You do, however,
manage to lose the man tailing you, and I believe
you also managed to lose Shive. Unless Shif can roll
really really well right now, you can have a plus one. Okay,
you also managed to lose Shive, and you make it
all the way to your typical back to the dock,
and I think Finch, you even maybe catch a glimpse
of what you think might be Temple as you're running by.
It's just a second, but you reach the docks, get
in this boat, and you take it to where you
know you can book passage up through to the Penumbra.
And then we're going to switch scenes. Shive, you are
running after them, right, I'm going to assume that you
tried to follow what is happening here without being seen. Okay, yeah,
so you're running after them, and you do. There is
a moment where you see this man running after her,
miss miss you forgot your bag and running through the crowd.
You're chasing him. He is totally oblivious to your presence.
But there comes a point where Finch loses him and
he's standing there and he looks around. He's pacing up
and down different blocks, looking behind these rusty shacks, and
then he's getting agitated that he has lost her. And
he's standing there with her bag and he's cursing, and
he's looking down and looking around, and you are there
watching him, And again he has no idea that you
are there. What do you do?
Speaker 4: I just stay in the shadows, keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: Him, and you just watch him, and you're going to
tail him. Yeah, okay, go ahead and make a role
for me. You're gonna tell him all the way back
to the Temple of Merrick.
Speaker 4: That sucks. Yeah he has any bitch, Yeah, and we
love sucks.
Speaker 1: Do you go in.
Speaker 4: Hell? No? Okay, I don't like that place. It gives
me weird vibes to begin with. And now there's an
inky guy prenata there. That's that's bad news.
Speaker 1: It's very bad news.
Speaker 4: I'm probably gonna I'm gonna head back to shadows place,
okay and wait for him there.
Speaker 10: So reliable, So that's good.
Speaker 1: Then, Actually, why don't we Why don't we switch to
that moment? Then you get back to his apartment in shadow.
You have just left this encounter with Temple. He says,
nice coat. And then you arrive at your apartment and
someone is inside. Why don't you go ahead and roll
for me?
Speaker 4: Sous?
Speaker 1: So you swipe the card that you need to get
into the apartment building and you feel kind of a
tremble down your spine, goosebumps, your hair on the back
of your neck standing up, feels like someone is here.
Maybe you brush it off, or maybe maybe the encounter
that you just had with Temple kind of got under
your skin a bit. But you go into your apartment.
But the moment, the moment you put your card, you
tap your card on your door and it slides open.
You know someone is in here. What do you do?
Speaker 5: Remind me? I believe it's got like a tranquilizer dart
gun right as part of our stuff.
Speaker 1: You do, you absolutely do. Look, you have a spitter,
and then you do have the trank. Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 5: I've got the trank. I'm I'm not as concealing it
as much. It's sort of I'm pressed against the door now, door,
hand on the handle, the other hand on the trank
one gun, excuse me, and I'm going to just very
slowly press it. But I've got my hand that's holding
the trank gun also against the door, so that as
the door is opening, the gun is also moving with
a line of sight.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll for me. You can have
a plus one and if you have any other special bullshit,
you gotta let me.
Speaker 5: Know for this secre scenario, I don't think I do.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, when you get inside your apartment, I think
you're moving slowly to try to see if there is
maybe any way you can get a jump on whoever
is in this apartment. You do not. However, someone lunges
out from the side like where your kitchen at is
and grabs onto you. He leaps onto your back and
he is beginning to try to give put you into
a choke hold. And it looks like he has something
in his hand and it looks like the trank, same
trink that you are using. I need you to make
a contested role for me, and can I have Finch
go ahead and do the opposite role for us so
we can all see it.
Speaker 5: I'm going to send you something really quick, just if
you can tell meuse. I think I might have something
in it.
Speaker 1: With this I have to roll yes, why not? No?
Speaker 2: Oh no?
Speaker 1: So it's a six. And then where you said okay,
I see said thing. Yes you have.
Speaker 5: Then I do have a memory.
Speaker 1: Okay, would you like to share it?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So as we're looking at this encounter, I move
in my arm swings open the door and I'm immediately grabbed.
I can see a trink gun coming towards me. You
see a view into shadows mind for a moment where
you're standing where he's standing high in a temple in
the mountains above the clouds and on the courtyard. The
sun is blazing down against the cut stone, and you
see Shadow engage in hand to hand combat with a
bald man in dark robes, and strike after strike after strike,
you just see Shadow being pummeled. Quickly, he begins to
harry the oncoming attacks as if he's had enough of
the abuse, and begins to defend himself, palming each fist
that's moved towards him, and eventually, with one solid strike,
he does strike the man, knocking him back with unexpected force.
And it was in this time that Shadow really not
only learned to defend himself, but to strike with swiftness.
Speaker 10: Beautiful.
Speaker 1: You can have a plus two on this next.
Speaker 5: Roll a plus two here, or roll again and then
a plus two roll.
Speaker 1: Again in a plus two. Oh my god, oh my god,
you literally rolled five threes in a row. What just happened?
Holy shit? Oh my god? Okay, wow, Time stops for you,
Time stops for you for a moment, maybe moving in
slow motion as we see Shadow reliving this memory. I'm
no longer going to take this, and what do you?
I think we see him grab the hand with the
trank coming in to grab him, and he just pulls
it away from him, and you are able to whip
this man off of your back and onto the ground.
So you flip him over onto the ground. His belly
is exposed, and I think we see you grab this
trank gun and are you going to try to incapacitate
this man? What do you do in this scenario? Are
you I'm essentially asking if you're trying to knock him
out or if you're aiming to kill?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Right, how long would the How long would it
be knocked out if I.
Speaker 1: Drank him depends on how long you're going to how
much of the serum you're going to inject.
Speaker 5: Inject thirty minutes worth. I'm going to just plunge it
straight into his chest like a shot of adrenaline.
Speaker 1: So Shadow reaches up and plunges it straight into his chest.
He manages to cry out before it stabs into his chest,
and he pushes the plunger down just enough. He's done this.
You have all done this enough times that you know
exactly the amount to put in, And almost instantly he
sucks in breath and then his eyes flutter closed and
he passes out. You look up Shadow, and in the
doorway is another figure. It a shive.
Speaker 4: Well that makes two two? Yeah, well almost. They tried
to get Funch, but she's good. I'm sorry, I don't like.
Speaker 5: Has happened shift?
Speaker 4: I followed the guy. It was after Finch. Who'd you
think he ended up?
Speaker 1: Were there right here.
Speaker 4: Now being followed, which I don't eat? Well, very it's
this guy went Marix Tower a long places and he
had an inky bunch.
Speaker 5: Well, if you'd like to join me, I have thirty
minutes of time. I planned to sit him down, find him.
I'm begin to figure out what the fuck is it happening?
Speaker 4: Well, I can help you make him talk.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm gonna move towards my desk and grab
a up towards my table and grab a stationary again
solid wooden chair.
Speaker 1: I think the fan's body up into it, if you
don't mind, I think narratively it would be really badass
if we saw Shadow grab a steel chair just like
the one that was used on him. So it's so
this this metal chair that he drags across the floor,
and we see that. We also see him immediately look
up to where he knows there's a camera. There's always
been a camera in each it's just part of your
agreement as part of the ANKI and I think we
see him get up on this chair and disable this camera,
and then he gets back down, drags across the floor
and puts this aanky person in it and begins to
bind him. When you bind him with.
Speaker 5: Triple braided rope.
Speaker 1: With the head okay, well yeah, okay, so you are
able to bind him. And are you doing anything before
he wakes up in preparation for the what are you doing?
What does this look like?
Speaker 5: They get two chairs and set them across, not steel chairs,
because I prefer to be comfortable, and I'm going to, yeah,
just kind of prep the syringe, the syringe gun, and
then I'm also going to take my communication blocker and
place it on the in between us.
Speaker 1: Nice okay. And then as for what you are laying
out for him to see, you're laying out the syringe
to make him to trank him, and then you're also
laying out your memory extractor. Is that correct?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I'd be correct. Okay, I pull out a
couple of knives and put them next.
Speaker 1: To you, just for show, Yeah, just to make him terrified,
highly effected looking.
Speaker 4: It's like they're made of like so if just taken
hard and steel that I've found, whateveryone, just sharpened it
down so they're not going to rag it.
Speaker 1: And ah, your namesake, how you got your name? All right?
So we see shive lay out some pretty gruesome looking shives,
knives kind of on display within eyesight of this man
who's going to wake up? Now, this man, when you
look at him now that you have an opportunity, he
looks so ragged and worn. His cheekbones stand out, his
jawline stands out. His eyes are are sunken into his face,
and wrinkles, you know, explode everywhere around his face, and
his brow nice and thick, is just prominent. His whole
face looks like he's just tired, very tired, and very old.
Speaker 5: I have one question, sure, yes, do I know how
long it would take to analyze somebody's memory?
Speaker 1: If by extracted you are very well versed, you could
take a couple of memories out now before he wakes up,
if you wanted to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the process to surge, Like, would I be
able to kind of go in and filter through the
folders of memories to find what it is that I'm
looking for?
Speaker 1: You could try. You could certainly try so you can
plug in the memory extractor, and you guys do have
devices to go in and dig. You absolutely could try that. Yes,
in the time that he satty much as to say,
how much time do you feel like I have a lot,
We'll say you still have the thirty minutes that he's
fallen asleep, But you can definitely try to do this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to go in and try to find
memories related to what brought him to hunt me.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so let's go ahead, go ahead and make
me a role shive. Do you have anything to help him,
not that he needs it?
Speaker 4: Uh? Oh god, well, I've certainly extracted memories before. I've
certainly extracted information from people before with a memory extractor.
Speaker 1: That okay, Yeah, why don't you go ahead and take
another Let's do another to actually, because you're both veterans
of this, Let's see if you get a roll of threes.
Here a rule of threes here, So that's yet. Know
you can add plus two because Shiv is here helping you. Okay,
so it's two fours for those listening. So we see
Shadow and Shive essentially setting all of this up, and
it's almost like we see them moving to this music
right now as they are on beat one, lifting up
his head, moving his arms, strapping him down, making sure
that he's good to go. Shadow whips out the extractor,
shoves the needle in, and then begins to get the
machine up and ready. It's a second device that he
then attaches to the normal extractor, So the needle is
now inside the back of this man. And you have
kind of this I want to say, it's like a
little tablet where it's got a display and you are
able to gather some information from it. You have done
this so many times that you're very comfortable looking at
this mess. But if you the viewer, and I were
to look at this, it would look like a jumble
in symbols maybe pictures that we just can't quite make
sense of this. But Shadow and Shive are very versed
in this. So we see Shadow moving through. He's swiping
his hand, he is making gestures to dive deeper down
through into this man's mind and into this man's memory shadow.
You see a couple of things here. You see some
memories that have you involved, and then you see some
memories that have Reckon accent and some other people involved.
And I don't know how you know these memories are important,
but your gut goes. You have two options. You can
go look for the memories related to you, or these
memories related to Reckon and why they wanted them.
Speaker 5: We're able to turn the tabit letting them show up
to ship.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so yeah, she's watching this, So yeah, you
can have dialogue for sure.
Speaker 5: As much as I I love to know where the
fuck he's here and knows about me, I think this
warns an investigation, don't you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we need listen. If Reckon's friends are what we
think they are, then they can help us get what
do you want? You know? Yeah, they can help us,
right Anderthon, give me those memories.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this has always been bigger than that ship and
seeing exactly about our friends.
Speaker 4: Okay, we can get the rest of the Altana means.
Speaker 1: Are are you going to take them out and take
them with you? Or are you're just going to look
at them.
Speaker 5: I'd like to look at them first.
Speaker 1: Okay, So when you go to access the first one,
it immediately comes up as restricted. You are unable to
access this by just looking at it. Here. You're going
to have to relive this memory and you might need
help once you get it out. It's been edited the
way you guys edit your own.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I'm going to pull all the memories related to Reckon, accents,
anyone else that you will be really relevant to this
particular line of information.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we see a second needle come out, it
goes in and he begins extracting all of this information
related to You see name Reckon, you see decks, you
see accent, you see whisper. These are the things that
are flashing ahead of you. You see lake, you see escape,
you see core. Those are the main things that you
see as it's being extracted. And you are able to
pull this out into a vial and you put it
in your brand new coat.
Speaker 4: You have a light, a revealing light from the mar.
Speaker 1: What I sure? Why not? It's your apartment you can
have you can have a black light or a light
that would show the tattoo. Absolutely, yeah, I would.
Speaker 5: Just go to my room and grab it. It looks
sort of like a tablet's handheld. But I'll walk back
out and I'll hold over my own tatsoo in my
arm and illuminate the light and show with the SHIV,
and I'll hand him the illuminated down with advice.
Speaker 4: Good. And I just want to make sure well, since
we don't know where it is, I pick up one
of my knaves and just start cutting all his clothes off.
Speaker 1: All right. We hear the ripping tearing as Shiv is
cutting this man's clothes off so that they can try
to figure out if he is a skybearer like them,
or if he has some sort of tattoo to show
that he might be a vagabond. Go ahead and roll
for me, Shi, Do you have any pluses?
Speaker 4: And me?
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I feel like you should
automatically have a plus one that I will give to you,
But if you have any other special bullshit, I can
let you roll one more.
Speaker 4: Okay, hmm. I have a memorily related to spotting black
of bonds, but that helped me.
Speaker 1: Sure, do you want to share it?
Speaker 4: I remember being in the bar and the attacking and
hearing someone complain about the rain. I don't want to
tell them to watch their fucking language. Look at me
confused for a second that I tell them that weeps
here someone say it leaks, but no one says it rains.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 4: The realization had them like a little joke, and they nod.
They join up for the drinkers. Thanks. I take them
up on the offer.
Speaker 1: M hm okay, yeah, I'll give you. I'll let you
roll one more. You search this man up and down
with this light. However, before you are able to move
the light over, you notice on his inner thigh scarring
where it looks like a blade has been run over
and over and over, very dangerously close to maybe potentially
if he had got too deep, he would have bled
out and killed himself. And at first it might look
like that, like, oh man, maybe this is a suicide attempt.
But then your light catches something and you see the
hint of what remained skybearer tatting.
Speaker 4: That just gets what that's got, Damn.
Speaker 5: Supposer.
Speaker 4: You can find out how long until I wake up?
Speaker 5: Gated about ten more.
Speaker 1: Minutes, and that's where we will switch scenes. Temple, where
do you go after the docks?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so after leaving the docks. Did I did I notice?
You said that?
Speaker 6: In passing? You know, may have seen me as she
was passing the docks. Is there a chance that I
had noticed her?
Speaker 1: You see her run by, but it's very quick, okay,
but she is running? Yes?
Speaker 3: All right? Do I have an opportunity to follow?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, go ahead and roll for me.
Speaker 3: We happily do that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're able to tailor? Okay, so you see her,
you see her running? How quickly do you want to
tail her? Are you trying to catch up to her?
Or are you just trying to follow her.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to catch up, and I'm not trying.
Speaker 6: I'm not trying to be too subtle about it, Okay,
I'm making it kind of obvious that you know she
can notice me.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then let's say, right as she is scrambling
to get into this boat, I think temple, you see her,
and she is filled with a fire you have not
seen before. She's not running out of fear. She is determined.
She hits the docks and she is going for a boat,
and she gets into this boat. She pulls the or
slaps it down in front of her, and she turns around,
getting ready to shove off and makes eye contact with you. Finch,
you see Temple running up and you two exchange looks.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get answers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so I'll go Virginia running and I say.
Speaker 3: That I'm coming with.
Speaker 2: You realize that we might go in and not come out.
Speaker 3: There's no safety anywhere here. Everyone is a predator.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can't say I didn't warn you.
Speaker 1: Geops in. Finch shoves them off away and begins rowing,
and strangely, previously when we saw this before, we saw
them taking turns, but this time we see Finch staring
straight ahead, rowing in a rhythmic passion, not stopping. You
take the mechanical kind of It's almost like those male
suction tubes that will take you up to the next
SI platform. As you are in this elevator what we
would know as an elevator, you are given injections that
come out from the side of the elevator and just
know where your arms are. They inject a formula of
kraj into you. It's fast acting because you are about
to go up an entire level here. Gravity's about to shift,
and if you don't have this crash, you will get
the bends and you will die. So as you are
in this elevator, this comes out, it stabs you. You're
both very familiar with this process, so maybe you don't
even flinch this time. You look straight ahead as we
see them going up in this elevator to get to
the penumbra and the next sea platform. What do you
two do when you get to the platform. Are you
going in? Guns blazing? Are you sneaking in? What's happening here?
Speaker 2: I'm just walking with a purpose, okay. I if anyone
were to stop me, I would just say I have
a meeting with her, or I need to speak to her, okay,
or or you know, I'll just say she's expecting me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. So we see we see Finch and Temple
together walking up through the front door the Golden Tower
that is the next sea building. We see them walk
through the front door, and in fact, two people stop
you at the lobby, and Finch says, she's expecting me,
and they just back up and let her through. When
you get to these massive doors and you push them open,
do the two of you walk in together? I know
Finch is going in, but Temple, are you going in
with her?
Speaker 3: Okay, I think before we eat to meet, get to the.
Speaker 5: Doors and whatnot.
Speaker 6: Probably okay, meet eye contact and a raising eyebrowt tilt
my head towards there.
Speaker 2: Are you coming?
Speaker 6: Yes, there's nothing anywhere else I can get.
Speaker 3: It's where we need to go. The only way through
it was forward.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: She pushes the doors open, and you walk in and
you see Kaenna sitting at her desk with her glass tablet,
her glass pen, and she's waiting for you.
Speaker 2: Is her Is the doors that we went in? Are
those the only doors in her office?
Speaker 1: They are? But there are windows.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to walk in and I'm going to
walk up to her and put my hand out to
shake her hand. They say, nice to see you again.
Speaker 1: She looks at you, looks at your hand, and this
has surprised her, so she will put down her glass
pin and tentatively reach out. Yes, Finch, it was correct.
Speaker 2: When I touch her hand. Can I use my holy
shit revelation of the thief?
Speaker 1: You absolutely can tell us what the revelation of the
thief does.
Speaker 2: The vagabond reaches out to touch the skin of the subject.
In an instant, they experience the scene from their past
gaining insight about their person of interest. Yeah, this revelation
can only be gur will touching another human skin. The
narrator writes, memory in your journal, a significant memory that
means a lot to the subject.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Okay, but it's specifically about what you're looking.
Speaker 2: For, right, I'm not sure, she says, mean that.
Speaker 1: Again, because it says it's significant to the subject. So
who you're.
Speaker 2: Touching to k experience a scene from their past, gaining
insight about their person of interest. There's something that will
give me insight about her.
Speaker 1: Okay. In an instant, you are in a dark room.
There are fluorescent lights. Everything's kind of tinted blue, and
you see Accent tied to a chair, and you see
Kenna asking questions, drilling him, shouting at him, tell us
where the core is, tell us where the ship is,
tell us where you went? Accent says nothing. She begins
to beat him. She tries to use the memory extract
her device on him, but he has nothing to give.
He smiles at this, and it enrages her. She wants
answers so badly, who are you, Where did you come from?
Why did you help us? And where did you go?
Where are you washing up from what lies beyond the abyss?
Why does gravity prevent us from going there? Are you
children of Nabiu? How do we get out of here?
That's the memory that you have from Canna.
Speaker 2: You see bench pull her hand away and she's just crying,
but it's like rage and she I'm going to turn
around and grab a chair if I can, and wedge
it up under the door handles.
Speaker 1: Why don't we go ahead and have temple role for me?
Because I think you two have worked together well enough
that he would know the moment you reached out your
hand to do that. Yes, So the moment you reached
out your hand and had this encounter, he knows you're
about to steal. So you do this, you have this flash.
He immediately grabs that steel chair and blocks the doorway.
So when you come out of this memory, you see
he has done that. You can hear him doing it.
Now what do you do?
Speaker 2: I just lean over the desk and look at her.
Speaker 1: She is also crying.
Speaker 2: You don't know what's going on either.
Speaker 1: We're so close though, you can't stop us. Now we're
so close. He's back, Oh the accent.
Speaker 2: Who who knows what's going on? Because I thought that
when I came here, you would have answers for me.
And it seems to me like you and I are
in the same fucking position.
Speaker 1: Don't compare me to you. You are an alien, a stranger.
I'm human. I belong here. How do you know? We mean,
how do I know?
Speaker 2: How do you know that you belong here? And I don't.
Speaker 1: You ran away hiding, you ran from us. So yes,
we belong here and you do not. And you are
slowly forgetting and we are not. You are dying out
and we are not.
Speaker 2: Who is in charge of all of this?
Speaker 1: It's not one person but an entity, the Yankee. You
work for us. We want answers, and so do you.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't happen to know anything about a man who
tried to kill me today.
Speaker 1: Would you, perhaps? And he wasn't trying to kill you.
He was trying to bring you here. If I had known, I.
Speaker 2: Would have just called, Yeah, perhaps fucking called first next time.
Speaker 1: I didn't think you would come. Oh here, I am.
Speaker 2: I want to know everything that you fucking know. And
I'm going to point at him to keep make sure
the door doesn't make sure those chairs are wedged in there,
and we have time.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's entirely necessary. And might I say, temple,
I'm very disappointed.
Speaker 3: Well, I could say the same myself. I thought you
people predators, a bunch of parasites?
Speaker 1: Is that really necessary?
Speaker 2: What does it matter?
Speaker 1: She gestures to the door. Wouldn't you like to sit
for this conversation?
Speaker 2: I sit on her desk.
Speaker 1: Oh, go ahead and roll for me. Uh, what do
you want to know?
Speaker 2: What the fuck is going on? How did we get here? Why?
Speaker 1: We don't know how you got here? You were here
before us.
Speaker 2: When you say we.
Speaker 1: You I mean humans, I mean my people, humanity. Our
record goes back very far, or at least the Yankees
record of what has happened goes back very far. The
first people we were here, and then you arrived, the
whispers as we call them, beings with special abilities who
could talk to Nibiru. How she begins to speak, her
accent is slipping out more, and I think you go
ahead and roll for me. She's getting a little bit
more agitated, and it's coming out in her speech. You
don't know where it's from, but you do recognize that
it's happening. As she's getting more agitated. People with people
that look like us, with special abilities, that could speak
to Nibiru, that could make it weep from the sky,
changed things special. You helped, You helped us, and then
we we got you out, rooted you out like a cancer.
We controlled you, and then you disappeared for quite a
long time. I my dad.
Speaker 2: How long?
Speaker 1: Oh? Maybe a hundred years lake years rather as you
would call them. And then people started washing up in
the umbra with no memory.
Speaker 2: When they started to go ahead, I just wanted to
lean in and just say, tell me about the Core
and the ship.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, go ahead and roll. Did it happen already?
Did I missay? Oh, it's the four and the one.
She looks shocked when you say Core and the ship
like but genuinely she was not expecting this information. Core
you mean cord of Nibiru? What ship?
Speaker 2: The ship that you spoke to accent about?
Speaker 5: Oh shit?
Speaker 1: She leans forward. Tell me Bnch, how have you been sleeping?
Speaker 2: I just smirk and I'll lean in and just say
I think there's a lot about me that you would
love to know. Sounds a bit of jealousy, almost, Yeah.
Speaker 1: She looks you up and down. I think she is
both excited and scared by you right now, and how
kind of powerful you seem. I think she's very attracted
to that, but also she's terrified that you're gonna destroy
her got ship. She pulls out a device that you
all recognize, puts it on the table, looks at you both.
I don't know how we got here. I don't know
how you got here, but I don't think we belong here.
I need you both to roll for me. You can
have plus ones each Oka lord o Gathorn. Yeah, I
don't suspect you will make it out of here. Security's
already on their way that I will tell you this.
I think we were swallowed. I think this place is
a prison, and I think your people have been trying
to get out, and I think you might be close,
and I want to be there when you get out.
Speaker 2: You can be if you make sure we get out
of here alive.
Speaker 1: I promise to take me with you.
Speaker 2: I just smile and put put out my pinky.
Speaker 1: She hesitates, I'm going to need another role because you're
trying to deceive her, right or are you actually making
this promise? I guess I should ask you.
Speaker 2: I'm actually making the promise to her.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll for me. You can have
a plus one. There's a that's okay, there's a four
in there that overrides the one. And don't worry. She
will then take take your pinky. Okay, there's a hidden exit.
Speaker 4: But I.
Speaker 1: Need you to do something for me before you leave.
I need you to kill me.
Speaker 8: None.
Speaker 2: I fucking pull like I pull out the spitter.
Speaker 1: Okay, and are you going to immediately use it on her?
Or are you going to just I.
Speaker 2: Just pressed it against your forehead?
Speaker 1: Okay? Now take my Take my tablet with you.
Speaker 2: There's not nod my head over to him to grab
it while I have a gun on her.
Speaker 1: Take my tablet with you. You both should be able
to use it. Now. Listen, there there there's a man
we've been watching nim reckon. We cannot find him if
you are able to find him. If you are able
to find him, I think he has more of the answers.
You've been washing up with no memory, but as you
regain memory, you regain your abilities. We've been studying this
for a very long time, but we believe there are
some that are washing up already remembering, and they're the key.
Don't let us find them.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, She.
Speaker 1: Kind of squares her shoulders. I'm ready.
Speaker 11: Wait when you see me again, we need to tell
me about Delilah.
Speaker 2: Ell Lilah. That is correct, I'm ready. How will I
see you again?
Speaker 1: I don't know, and hopefully you do for my sake. Okay,
she closes her eyes. I'm bull a trigger. Go ahead
and roll for me. It's quick. You pull this spitter
trigger and you electrocute her. You've put it right next
to her temple. She jerks a bit, falls to the
ground and lies still, and you both head towards the exit.
I believe, correct, Yeah, I do. Okay, so we see
the two of you grab this temple? Has the glass tablet?
Are you trying to use it at all?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 6: Just trying to make sure that we can make our
way out, and then once there's a moment to breathe,
then take a look at that.
Speaker 1: Okay. So when she pointed to the secret exit, she
literally pointed to the corner of her office, not outside
the double doors. So when you head over to this
corner of the office, what do you do? Nothing activates.
It doesn't look like there's anything there.
Speaker 2: I'm going to turn to him and say look on
the tablet say if there's a button.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I try to interface with it, or like swiping
on it or.
Speaker 1: Something, Yeah, swiping on it, or go ahead and go
ahead and roll. You can have a plus one. The
screen opens up for you. You can interface with it. You
see like a little boot up sequence that says good morning, Delilah,
and then it passes by, and then you are able
to kind of interface with this. There's no password or
anything like that. It's almost like she was expecting hoping
maybe when Finch arrived she would be able to speak
to her. But the lock has been removed, so you're
able to move this and you do see the layout
the floor planet's right there, and you're able to kind
of tap on the section of this room and it
shows that there is a hidden floor here will go
down if you're standing on it. And then you hit
this button. So hit an elevator.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I hit the button, and I look over
at Finch and I say, Lyle is kind of a
lick name, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. So you hit the button, the
elevator activates, and Finch maybe maybe takes a step over
and hops onto it as it descends down into the
next sea building. As you are going down this elevator,
it is completely glass, but it's like a two way mirror.
I think you recognize because you're going by. No one
else is noticing you. But you can see levels and
floors of this building. As you're going through, you can
see what appears to be labs. You can see people
sleeping tied to machines that are monitoring their dreams, monitoring
their memory. Floor after floor after floor. This you see
your own people held tied up, being experimented on, studied.
And then you reach the bottom floor, and that's where
we're going to take our break. We are going to
return to shadow and shiveh. What are you two doing?
Speaker 5: Just a few moments now and I'm awake.
Speaker 1: It's almost like you have a superpower to awaken him.
But his eyes flutter open. Hello a friend, call me friend?
Speaker 10: No wish?
Speaker 4: What should we call you?
Speaker 8: Nothing?
Speaker 4: Okay? Nothing? Then you get talking?
Speaker 1: All right, let's get this over with. You just skip
right to the beating park because I'm not going to talk.
Speaker 5: Why are you here? I don't know, my apartment, don't know,
trying to tranquilize me, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Do you mean if I get started channel.
Speaker 5: Go ahead?
Speaker 4: Okay, I punch him lading the lever.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, go ahead and go ahead and roll.
Speaker 4: I definitely have bonus for this stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll.
Speaker 5: It's just a fou.
Speaker 1: What is it like when you do this? What I
what I'm asking I guess is what does SHIV look
like when this is happening? Does he look like it's familiar, comfortable?
Does he look like he's enjoying it?
Speaker 4: I don't know if I have I look like I'm
enjoying it. But it's it's easy. This isn't a difficult thing.
And this is you know, it's a process. It's it's
like anyone else doing part of their job. They're not
It's routine. It's what you do, you know. So yeah,
I just walk over, give him one good punch. He
feels that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he crumples a bit, he groans, but he
doesn't say anything.
Speaker 4: All right, So that's just one of step one. He
can keep going and this is going to go on
for a long time, for a long time.
Speaker 2: Go on.
Speaker 4: We're not going to make this easy for you.
Speaker 1: Is if anything with the Yankee is easy?
Speaker 4: Tell me what you know about the end?
Speaker 1: I think we all know what I know about the yankee?
Speaker 4: Okay again, what are the yankee doing at Merricks?
Speaker 1: He doesn't say anything.
Speaker 4: Again, Okay, and give him another head?
Speaker 1: Oh god, okay.
Speaker 4: See the thing about these is they give worse every time.
Speaker 12: Yeah, go ahead and roll. Okay, let's try something different. Actually,
why don't you go ahead and roll a contested role
for me?
Speaker 1: Three? Are you back?
Speaker 10: Mm hmm?
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll. You can have plus two okay. Okay,
Now you go ahead and also have a plus two,
so one more? Okay, so that's eight versus okay, So
he remains silent.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's try a different question. Then, who do you
think I am?
Speaker 1: You're a nankey skybear? What kind of question is that?
He spits out a little bit of blood.
Speaker 4: Okay, what if I have to tell you you're wrong?
Speaker 1: What do you mean I'm wrong?
Speaker 4: I mean no channel? Is that not clear? I'm not
good with definitions?
Speaker 1: Can you define? You're anky you work for? You're in
the database. Well, I don't know about you, but he
for sure is He gestures towards shadow.
Speaker 4: Okay, have you ever been in the database?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 4: Mm?
Speaker 1: Hmm, once a long time ago.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you're aanky then mhm, or maybe I'm wrong.
Do you see how that works?
Speaker 1: Rule for me? He looks at you and hesitates for
a moment, and I think you know you've connected with him.
He's intrigued at the idea that you might not be
he might be posing to work for the that you
too might have something in common.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna have them to drink shadow. I think
we are going off and the wrong fit here with nothing.
Speaker 5: I'm sure. I'll go in my kitchen get a couple
of glasses, and.
Speaker 4: I can only help you as far as as far
as you'll let me. I need to know more. Soh
You're gonna have to trust me. It's not gonna be
a problem for you.
Speaker 1: Nothing. Trust doesn't come easy around these parts, and it
goes both ways. He looks at you and reaches from
one of the gloss Oh he can't, he's tied up still,
never mind.
Speaker 4: I hold it up to his lips. I don't know
how good it is.
Speaker 1: I think he'll tentatively sip it and then swallow. What
was it that you gave him? The water? A whiskey?
Speaker 4: Okay, hmm? You're right, it does go both ways. Okay, well,
how about you trust me not to continue beating you,
and you tell me as much as you're comfortable with,
as far as you trust me.
Speaker 1: He nods after a moment.
Speaker 4: Good progress, you want you use a different name, nothing
or any good but nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm good with nothing.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's good with me, So by me after shadow here.
Speaker 1: He shifts in his chair as much as he can, uncomfortable,
and then doesn't answer.
Speaker 4: Okay, I can ask questions, or you can just you know,
I gave you some whiskey. You give me just a
little something, just so I can see where we stand now.
This is a negotiation, so lets negotiating our set and
I hold the glass up to his lips.
Speaker 1: I stopped drinking the water a long time ago.
Speaker 4: M hmmm.
Speaker 1: What about you too? You seem like you're still on it.
But maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: If you have been wrong today.
Speaker 1: Your tattoos are visible though, correct.
Speaker 4: I have a man of my four arms.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Probably it's probably covered by a sleep. I don't repent.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you can't see it. Okay, h I could
do this all.
Speaker 4: Day if you don't want to do it all day.
Speaker 2: But I will.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's admirable.
Speaker 1: It's too important, and I think we all know that.
Speaker 4: That is important. Right, are the important? Right?
Speaker 1: His eyes dart from between the two of you for
a moment and then fall back on shiv, but he
stays pretty unresponsive, unvocal.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I'm gonna pick up one of the shives that
was sat down on the table and I'm just gonna
start spinning it in my palm. I'm not saying anything.
I'm just standing there observing, but playing around at this
small rough dagger in my hands.
Speaker 4: Nothing. Who do you see?
Speaker 2: Is the.
Speaker 4: The sides in that right? There's you in your side,
all right? How does that include?
Speaker 10: You can be vague, those of us who don't drink
the water, okay, and.
Speaker 4: The other side the people who drink the water, people
who supply the water, people who supply the water.
Speaker 1: He looks at where are either of your badges open?
Like visible?
Speaker 5: Prom will keep my intucted in a Balkan Samuel okay?
Speaker 1: And his clothes were torn off, But then his eyes
will dart to wear his clothes are on the floor,
and then back up at you.
Speaker 4: Kay, what's your goal.
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 4: Your personal goal? Has it to play your part or
is it to take the lead, discover something, help someone.
Speaker 1: Just trying to go home?
Speaker 10: Hmmm?
Speaker 5: Where do you consider home to be?
Speaker 1: Do we even remember anymore? M hmm, certainly not here.
Speaker 4: Do I look like the can of person who can
help you get home? Nothing?
Speaker 1: No, you look like someone who works for people who
supply the water.
Speaker 4: Okay, I take another like. I get real close to him,
looking right in the eyes. Look in these eyes. What
do you see.
Speaker 1: Someone who's lost everything and forgotten who they really are?
Speaker 4: What do you think I'm looking for?
Speaker 1: He doesn't respond, but he softens his expression, softens a bit.
Speaker 4: I think we may be able to help each other. Nothing,
but you're having trouble trusting.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: I think trust you. I just think you trust you?
What do you think, shadow? Do we trust nothing?
Speaker 5: You're a man of good judgment? Shift you trust him? Well?
Trust him?
Speaker 4: Do you think you're trustworthy? Nothing?
Speaker 1: I am to the right people?
Speaker 4: Do you think we are the right people?
Speaker 1: I don't know that yet?
Speaker 4: And ask some questions?
Speaker 1: Turn his eyes dart around the apartment. Looks like he's
looking for something. Shadow. I think he's assuming that he's
being filmed.
Speaker 5: Oh, you're looking for that up there, I point towards
the camera. You notice the.
Speaker 4: Tables have been extracted. You'll say, fel, the device is
going You're free to talk. No one here but us.
Speaker 1: What if I told you? He hesitates for a moment.
I need you both to roll. This is to try
to like win his influence and like his trust. So
if you have any special bullshit for that, let me know.
But I think you can each have a plus one
because you're working together, but probably not more than that
unless you have any really special bullshit because you both
the reek of AANKI and I think he thinks this
is a trap. Yeah, Shiv, you're pretty fucking intimidating, So
I don't think. But I think when Shadow maybe gestures
to the fact that the camera has been disabled, because
anyone can put up the you know, the device, and
it could also not actually be working. You know, it
could just be a fake device. But when he sees
the destroyed camera, I think he looks at you Shadow,
and then Shive again and hesitates because I think you
all know that that means you've essentially put a clock
on your own. You know, they're going to see that
you've disconnected this and they're going to come for you.
Speaker 2: So he.
Speaker 1: Takes a breath, straightens up a bit. He's mostly naked.
You've taken all of his clothes off, And he says,
what if I were to tell you they're not going
to give us any answers, They're just going to take
them and keep them for themselves, and you don't want
to work for the inky anymore?
Speaker 4: I would say that sounds about right. What do you
think shadow? I would agree? So let me ask you
a question. Nothing.
Speaker 5: Your ambition for coming here with syringe waiting for me
to open my door? Where was that going to lead you?
In the old quest?
Speaker 1: His eyes start a roll one more time for me.
You have a plus one.
Speaker 2: O?
Speaker 1: He his eyes moved back and forth between the two
of you, one more time. He adjusts uncomfortably and maybe
looks a little bit embarrassed. I knew you'd been picked
up by the Yankee, are coming in contact with I,
Reckon and potentially someone new. I thought you might have information.
I wanted to know what they asked you.
Speaker 4: Well, we weren't going to sail an our friends now nothing.
Speaker 1: It's not about that. What what what did they ask you? How? Oh?
Speaker 4: They're not our friends? Oh? They asked. There's a bunch
of stuff. I'm mad, you know, just stuff. I don't
think they were happy with the answers they were going.
How do you think shadow? Were they happy?
Speaker 5: They were satisfied enough to let us go. That's I
don't think they learned anything more than what they already knew.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they didn't learn anything that interesting.
Speaker 10: Nothing.
Speaker 4: I figured i'd know something. Huh what do you.
Speaker 5: A truth part of the trust that isn't it's nothing.
Speaker 4: M let's ask him for a lot. Do you have
friends of Reckon?
Speaker 1: I've never met him.
Speaker 4: Are you a friend to you Reckon?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: I think we may just be friends. Mm hmm. Now
what do your bosses want?
Speaker 1: I don't have bosses.
Speaker 4: What do your friends want? Your friend? One of the
guys I followed back to Merrick's right.
Speaker 1: He looks upset when you mentioned that, like anxious.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, okay, I think it's been a misunderstanding. I
grab one of my knaves.
Speaker 1: He kind of glitches back. M.
Speaker 4: See, this is the point where I feel like I've
got enough information. I could just kill you right now,
and then that'd be yet right. I'm good. I know
that Merks is the problem and I'll just call the Yankee,
send them on over and force.
Speaker 1: He looks experience disappointed and looks down like he's waiting
for you to finish him off.
Speaker 4: And it's sticking on my belt. And I untie the
top half of him so he at least move his arms,
and I put a glass and glass of whiskey in
his hand.
Speaker 1: He's true. Oh he's trembling when he takes this glass
of whiskey.
Speaker 4: Halfway right.
Speaker 1: My name is seven.
Speaker 4: Nice to meet you. Seven. I'm chef.
Speaker 1: Chief Shadow.
Speaker 5: Grab a blanket and drape it over his shoulders.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I don't know a lot of what's going on, but
I believe that Reckon his friend have answers. I believe
that they may be special people.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the thing we Merek thinks we're all
descendant from from them. We're all special. We've just forgotten.
Speaker 4: You tell me that skinny little guys my dad very
hard to believe.
Speaker 1: No, I'm I know what you meant.
Speaker 4: It's okay, funny man, you'll never well what happens if
we let you go? Seven?
Speaker 1: Well, maybe we could help each other.
Speaker 4: I think that sounds good. Do you know what Reconnence
I don't.
Speaker 1: I was hoping you might.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm. You know which way you went?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: Are they real? His friend? Is it true? They remember?
Speaker 4: That's what I hand Reckons a smart guy and he
thinks they're important. That's good enough for me.
Speaker 1: Have you been dreaming.
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 1: Either of you? Fire?
Speaker 4: No one dreams for me.
Speaker 5: Chat.
Speaker 1: I think you rolled earlier for your sleep and you
didn't have any.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's okay, I mean maybe it's Do you ever
feel like you've got a purpose? Seven?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think my purpose is dreaming nothings and
seeing stuff. It's more like I'm supposed to help someone.
I think that's what it feels like now.
Speaker 1: I think we all are supposed to.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So look, if you need to hide from them, He
gestures to the camera, that you have destroyed the tower
could help you. Merrick says that we're dying breed. Our
people need help, and we've been used by the inky
long enough. They want our abilities, the things that we
can do, the more memories we have. We've been turning
our own people over.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Done, my share?
Speaker 10: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Does Mark have more answers? No questions?
Speaker 1: No, he shares everything. We're all equals. There is no
hierarchy there. We're all just vagabond seeking safety.
Speaker 4: I'm looking for questions. I'm looking for answers.
Speaker 1: We were two and we're looking for reckon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I go over an ion tie his legs.
Speaker 1: I think you're so skilled. You've been doing this for
so long. He definitely thinks about at that moment where
you're untying him to hit you and try to leave,
but he does not. But you know he thought about it.
You can tell he tends to up to be like,
do I do it now? And then he just he
decided not to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you smile, then you look se him.
Speaker 1: It's something called trust.
Speaker 4: Hey, we're getting there. We got there. Trust.
Speaker 1: He lifts his whiskey glass a little bit and then
takes another sip. He's still a little bit trembling.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yes, so I think it should work. We're friends,
or at least we have friends in common. Me shadowy
here the woman your buddy was following friends friendly friendly
could be able to put it. There's one other you
guys been following him.
Speaker 1: To one another?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, also a friend. I think.
Speaker 1: Here's what we think.
Speaker 2: We know.
Speaker 1: He downs the rest to the whiskey swallows rubs his
jaw nervously.
Speaker 4: I hand him mind glass. I'm much your drinker.
Speaker 1: Oh he downs that too. We're trapped here, all of us.
This is uh, this is either a prison.
Speaker 2: Or a.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's alive. We don't know, but we know that
we can interface with it and humans cannot. We can
change things here. They can't.
Speaker 10: Most of us.
Speaker 1: Most of us have forgotten how and I can't.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you say, and I can.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, but we all should be able to.
Speaker 4: Turn the lights off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're on?
Speaker 3: Are on?
Speaker 4: Or let me give it a go. I concentrate really hard.
Speaker 1: Oh, go ahead and roll no pluses. I think you
feel something inside you, but nothing happens. It's like a
like an excitement, like that moment where maybe after you
watch the Matrix and you were like, dude, I'm going
to try something and you get that like sensation where
you're like, oh my god, is the thing going to happen?
But then it doesn't actually happen. It's that moment you
feel like maybe but nothing happens.
Speaker 4: It's mostly then, not to mock you, but it feels
like there's something there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we're friendly and if we're working towards being friends.
Don't mock me. Just listen, all right. I know it
sounds crazy, but you know, you know how the stories
go that humans people us, we were shown by some
mythical beings that they call whispers. We were shown how
to live here or we would have died. You're familiar
with that children's stories.
Speaker 4: Yep, I've fair enough.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Yankee believe and so do we that they're
not just stories. And in fact, those mythical beings are us,
the vagabonds. That's why we can do things that they can't.
That's why some of us can do things that they can't. Yeah,
we're all what's left of the whispers.
Speaker 4: Just making sense shadow.
Speaker 5: If you believe in the stories, then yes.
Speaker 1: Well the inky think the ink. You think we retreated
into the lakes to save ourselves, and that we were
going to come out prepped, ready for war, and something
went wrong and so we started washing up one by one,
not remembering, or that there's something lies beyond the lake
that's preventing us from moving forward.
Speaker 10: But that doesn't feel right to me.
Speaker 1: It's never f right. I don't feel like I want war.
I want to get out. I want to help I
want I want to go home.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've there's.
Speaker 1: Something bigger than me, and I need to find out
what it is, and I need answers. And that's what
the ink you used to wrote me in.
Speaker 2: And I.
Speaker 1: Did their bidding because I wanted the truth. I wanted knowledge.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, I want.
Speaker 1: I want understanding. I want knowledge. I don't want war,
I don't want violence. I'll do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, same, But.
Speaker 1: It's not what drives me. It's not what drives any
of us.
Speaker 4: It's some meetings to the end.
Speaker 5: So where is this question? I you seven, Your aspirations
are clearly understood. What's promise have you made? Toncent?
Speaker 1: Well, we know that the Yankee have been running experiments,
merging creatures with our kind, trying to bottle up our abilities,
find out how to use them themselves weaponize us. But
more importantly, they're trying to find out how to get
in the lake where we go, if we're actually going somewhere,
or if it's a way of interfacing with this. He
gestures up.
Speaker 4: I think our efforts should be focused on helping reckon
the special ones. That means getting in the way of
the Yankee.
Speaker 1: How do you propose we do that, M, how.
Speaker 4: Many of you are there enough to be a proper
resistance of the Yankee come out.
Speaker 5: And for us?
Speaker 1: He looks very uncomfortable when you ask that question of
how many I get it?
Speaker 2: Do?
Speaker 4: I know? Roughly? I think if the Yankee were to mobilize,
how many they'd have?
Speaker 1: Oh? Too many? Like, I mean, the Yankee control a
lot of the p number. There's there's a reason he
was very hesitant to speak to you, even though you're like,
you can trust me, because it's they have eyes and
ears everywhere. They have way watchers, they have you know,
people who run bars. They have surveillance everywhere. It's very
difficult to actually, like if you were going to go
through the front door, as Finch and Temple did, it's
typically pretty difficult.
Speaker 4: Yeah. If you were to come down here and force
and be bad.
Speaker 1: It'd be very bad. Yeah, especially because they still do
have vagabonds working for them as sky bearers and things.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, it's you can go for an olid faint with them.
That's just not going to work.
Speaker 1: We don't think so either.
Speaker 4: So corilla warfare distractions, We need to diversions. M.
Speaker 5: It's not a land did he not ship?
Speaker 4: Yeah? You might have to. Well, if we had someone
smart enough to forget out what to do, it's probably wackon.
We need to get him a message. Do you know
where he is.
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: Imbut I know when to stop looking.
Speaker 5: But we know that we can be getting up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, m m, it's doesn't The Yankee are really interested,
really interested to I just want to make that clean.
Speaker 1: What are you getting at?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised if they came out in force.
Speaker 10: Down here.
Speaker 1: Fuck, can you get a warning to the tower?
Speaker 4: They could just let you go.
Speaker 1: I have a better idea.
Speaker 4: I'm only yes.
Speaker 1: He uh gestures towards the shadows glass of whiskey. Do
you have any left shadow?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, he'll take that. He'll down that whiskey. You're
still working for them, right, Yeah, that's why they interviewed you. Yeah,
you're closer than any of us have ever been to
the inside, suggesting take me make sure as if you
caught me, I'll get you in right, yep.
Speaker 4: But I may go parlely for you, that's all right.
Do you need me to take Annathon.
Speaker 5: First before you do that? Yeah, I withdraw the vial
from inside of my cloak.
Speaker 1: Maturity.
Speaker 5: I'll take a look. I hand it to chef. I
want to know what's missing from.
Speaker 8: This m hm.
Speaker 1: Hm, I wipe. I don't know what it is. You'll
have to tell me.
Speaker 4: It's do you get in the lack of reckon in
the group, But it's uh, it's been masked.
Speaker 1: With Oh.
Speaker 2: Just uh.
Speaker 1: Dates, places, people, names from the tower, people who told
me the information.
Speaker 4: Oh so I'm just protecting your people. Absolutely, kay, anything else.
Speaker 5: You need me take?
Speaker 1: Yeah, take my dream memes and take anything related to Tulua.
Speaker 5: They don't isla.
Speaker 1: Someone I knew once and I don't want them to have. Sure,
she's long gone, but you don't deserve her memory.
Speaker 4: I'll hold on to it for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get this over with them.
Speaker 5: And die.
Speaker 4: What do you need me to do from the insight?
Do they need me to get you a loose?
Speaker 1: Do you have a plan, No, don't worry about me.
You're just doing it to get in get the information,
looking for the core, not the I was looking for
a way into the court. Thank you. You've got to
know it and then get that in photo recon.
Speaker 4: Thanks seven.
Speaker 1: Fuck off?
Speaker 4: All right, stop taking his memories?
Speaker 8: Oh fuck okay, go ahead and roll for me, I have.
Speaker 4: A plus one memory extracting memories?
Speaker 1: Did it go already?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: One? Three, two?
Speaker 2: One?
Speaker 1: Okay, umm, shout out, go ahead and roll for me.
You can have a bluss one two. Oh at least
we got one success there. Okay, So you are able
to pull these memories, but oh, I need you to pick.
You're gonna leave a little bit of a sliver of
something behind. It is either to Lua or related to
Thanky and this plot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not the sentimental tape.
Speaker 1: So you leave to Lua. Yeah, okay, Uh, you are
able to extract this. It's pretty painful. He kind of
calls out, uh, as you're extracting these memories from him. Yeah,
and then how would you like to.
Speaker 4: You just tast him and grab his trunk dart and
just give him more big dogs.
Speaker 1: You inject him with the trank dart and he just
goes to sleep, and then you head to Thanky nexus
both of you. Is that where you're going or do
you do something else first?
Speaker 4: Yeah? We'll go together shadow.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, make a good time.
Speaker 5: To be making it's more decent. Before he arrives, grab
dress up. Go ahead, grab some clothes and things.
Speaker 4: And dress them.
Speaker 1: I think both of you. You realize you should probably
beat him up a little bit before you take him in.
Speaker 4: Oh, no problem, Yeah, And I did carefully, and I
know where to head to get cuts. I hit him
across the eyebrow and get him so he's looking bloody,
but it's it's not actually all that much.
Speaker 1: All right. So you then bloody him up, get him
dressed a bit, and you take him to the next
SI building and we're going to switch scenes. Hello you
two Finch and Temple. You are taking this elevator down.
You are watching as floor after floor passes by you.
You see your own kind strapped onto tables being studied.
One floor will have dark lights, people in pain. On
another floor, everybody looks fine. Lights are up there, sleeping
attached to these machines. It's very strange the experiments that
you're seeing pass by you. You are preading towards the
ground floor, and you're maybe six seven floors away from
the cool ground floor. When the elevator comes to a
complete stop, the lights turn red and you hear the
alarm on the building go off.
Speaker 8: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Fuck?
Speaker 6: I take a look at the tablet tablet to see
if there's any information about.
Speaker 3: What that alarm?
Speaker 5: What's going on?
Speaker 1: They can't get into the building. Somebody has noticed that
Keenna is dead. Vital signs have ceased.
Speaker 2: Hi, look up? Is there like an elevator hatch? Is
there any way out of this elevator without getting it
back up and running?
Speaker 1: You can get off on this floor? Why don't you
go ahead and roll for me? You feel like there is,
but you can't see anything. You know, there's a way
out of here without getting off on this floor.
Speaker 2: We have to find a way out.
Speaker 6: Is there anything I can do to like trigger the
elevator to move again? Or is it being overridden entirely?
Speaker 1: It's being overridden entirely.
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Does he match for anything? The door, hidden keyhole something?
There has to be a way to get out of
the elevator.
Speaker 3: I don't see anything of them in the door.
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Then, and I just fucking came off on the floor
and I just.
Speaker 1: Try to casually.
Speaker 2: I'm not walking slowly, but I'm not running because I
don't want to draw attention.
Speaker 1: Okay, both of you roll for me. Holy shit, temple
with the three threes? Was that just now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: That's again?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Holy shit? Okay, Okay, as the alarms are going off,
you do see people are kind of rushing to do
what looks like a lockdown temple. You notice there are
people rushing to what looks like a couple of different offices.
But you do notice an exit in a stairwell.
Speaker 3: Are these glass tablets fairly common that you know other
people have them? It wasn't just her?
Speaker 6: Yes, Okay, then I would think the standard having the
clipboard to make you look official kind of thing. Yeah,
so I would have that tablet, I know, would say, Fish,
follow me, so we can go to the main stairwell.
Speaker 3: What's our best bath?
Speaker 1: So you both head to the main stairwell. Finch, you
have this pressing feeling of being trapped and of fire.
Speaker 2: I can I kind of snap out of that memory
and try and figure out if I smell any hint
of smoke or anything like, separate myself from thinking about
the dream and determine whether or not there's any of
that happening right now.
Speaker 1: There isn't. You can absolutely do that. You snap out
of it and you don't smell it. You're very good
at separating memory from reality when you are snapping out
of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, what the fuck is going on?
Speaker 1: Do you both head to the stairwell, yeah, I do, Okay.
Finch shrugs off or tries desperately to ignore the sensation
of being trapped and the burning fire, and Temple is
trying to blend in as much as possible, and you're
both to roll for me. Do you have any stealthy stuff?
I think you both do, right, I do? Okay, Now
have a plus one for working together, and if you've
got a stealthy bullshit, you can add a plus two total.
You don't need to read this one, Okay. Nice.
Speaker 3: I don't actually have like a stealthy memory or anything
like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So just a plus one man. Okay, So we
did see Finch has succeeded in the role at being
kind of like undetected. However, Temple does get noticed. A
woman kind of walks up to you. Excuse me, what
are you doing on this floor?
Speaker 2: Can I see this happen?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're right next to him.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna walk over and grab his arm and jes say, Sarah,
come with me. Yeah, I'm gonta like not at her.
Speaker 1: Like thank you, yeah, thank you? Okay, Okay, this way
to the left, and she goes on about her business. Wow,
well done, well done. So she pulls you away and
then maybe heads down a different hallway to find another
entrance to the stairwell. You walk for a couple I'd
say fifteen more seconds. It's very intense, heart pounding, and
you do find an entrance to the stairwell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I go.
Speaker 1: You both go into the stairwell. You can go up
or you can go down.
Speaker 2: We were heading down, you were, Now I go down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So you both start rushing down the stairs
and then sept this moment that you do, Finch start
to smell smoke.
Speaker 2: Oh fuck, I know it, Come on quick.
Speaker 1: We just hear the sounds of their feet as they
are rushing on these stairs faster and faster and faster.
Speaker 2: And my shirt up over my mouth and nose, just
in case.
Speaker 1: Finch pulls the shirt up, and Temple I think is
holding the glass tablet while also running. Do you cover
your mouth as well, Temple?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's weird enough that she's covering her mouth,
and so I follow suit.
Speaker 3: Just confusedly.
Speaker 1: It's maybe two flights of stairs when the whole staircase
begins to fill with smoke. There is a fire somewhere
in this building, in these bottom six floors, and that's
why she was covering her mouth. As you get lower
and lower to the ground floor, it becomes stronger and
the smoke thicker.
Speaker 2: Stay low. I'm going to kind of crowd like. I'm
like else running.
Speaker 1: Okay, Finch ducks down. I'm gonna need one more role
from Finch. Last one. You can have a plus one.
Oh my god. Okay, so Finch something hit. Finch done,
taking shit done, just waiting around. Finch wants answers. She
is determined, she is tenacious. She is calm as she
leads you through the smoke the floor. The fire is
on this floor, but she is able to lead you through.
And it's almost like temple when you're watching her. It's
almost like the fire that is like lapping at the
doors eases away from her when she leads you down
this tunnel. Maybe that's what it feels like. I don't
think it actually looks like that to you, but maybe
you don't. You're not sure. She leads you down the
hallway and is covering. She maybe coughs once or twice.
You feel your lungs tightening. It's hard to breathe, but
you know what this feels like. You both do and
you steal your You steal yourself, and you still head
down the hallway. Eventually you pass by a room, Finch,
where you hesitate. No one is down here. This appears
to only be servers, computers, information. But as you pass
by this one room where there is no fire, your
eyes linger for a moment and you hesitate. But the door,
the exit is right in front of you.
Speaker 2: Do I feel like are these Is it more like
these are all just storage drives, like a like an
electronic file cabinet, or is it like this seems to
be doing something?
Speaker 1: Go ahead and roll for me. Okay, you can have
a plus one, I think you. I will leave it
up to interpretation for Finch. But this is the only
room not on fire, and your eyes drifted towards it.
Speaker 2: I go in.
Speaker 1: Finch stops heading towards the exit temple and immediately goes
into this what looks like potentially a server room.
Speaker 3: What are you doing? Why are you going in there?
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I just look.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I look to the exit. I look at the
server room, back at the exit.
Speaker 1: Even if you're too.
Speaker 3: We do this together.
Speaker 1: You're goth now in the server room.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's miraculous that the fire hasn't touched
this yet. It's almost as if there's something in here
extra to prevent and to keep it safe and seal
it the moment you walk in. It's cold in here,
and there are six towers here with racks and shelves
hosting what looks to be again drives information. The lights
are on, everything is still running. Don't see anything in
here in particular other than that that stands out to you?
What do you do? How large of the drives the
handhelds briefcase size? Maybe?
Speaker 3: Okay, I like a pin? Should I say? Should we
take something?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I'm gonna start grabbing some if I can, absolutely,
But you can each carry two, one in each arm.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: There are six racks here with probably about you know,
thirty some odd drives in it. You're just gonna grab
at random.
Speaker 2: I'd like to look and see if if it looks
like there are any that are placed with more care,
like like this one is special. There's any way for
me to see like some of them are dusty and
this one is not, or you know, something like that, Okay,
you can roll for me.
Speaker 1: You can have a plus one.
Speaker 3: I want to be looking as well for the dustiest ones.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll. You can have a plus
one too, Finch, Why are you looking with your eyes, Temple,
You don't see anything. Everything looks pretty well maintained. There's
nothing that looks dustier than anything else.
Speaker 2: I just close my eyes and I kind of smirk,
and I'll just put my hands out and I will
just grab whichever ones I am drawn to.
Speaker 1: Roll again, you can have a plus two. Your hands
moved to rack number three, and you fall on three
particular drives. You can you grab two of them and
then I imagine you will.
Speaker 2: Holng together one to him be like this is important.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll take it. Slightly confused look on my face,
but in this one, I'm just accepting things.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you grab these three drives and then you what.
Speaker 2: Do you do? I take? I just want to shove
a lot of the other ones just on the ground.
I just want to I'm just gonna mess it up
a bit. You're going to fill the tower, Yeah, I
just want to ruin this room.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then go ahead, and are you both trying
to destroy.
Speaker 3: The room, I'll pull out my spitter.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so you both know probably get the drives
you want to keep out. So and then so what
we'll see probably is Finch gets ready to pull rip
out some other drives, sets the two drives down beside
her to free up her hands, and as she gets
ready to start tearing apart this room, Temple just holds
up his bitter smirks a bit, and then Finch nods
and picks up the two and heads outside, because you know,
the moment he lights up this room, you don't want
anything to happen to the drives you're trying to save.
So Pinch is outside and then Temple with the three
drives at her feet, and Temple is going to light
up this room. Temple, go ahead and roll for me.
This is going to be a strange role. This is
a contested role against the room because I need to
know how much damage you're doing. So Finch, you're gonna
go ahead and roll for the room. No pluses. Sorry,
you do get a plus one. And then Temple you
go ahead and roll with a plus one as well.
Actually you can, yeah, plus one because you've got the
spidder okay, wow by one. Wait no you tied? Oh no, okay.
So we see you pull out your spider and you
are lighting this place up. You are electrifying each rack.
It's very bright in here. It's very hot all of
a sudden. It's a good thing that you really know
how to use this, because you could electrocute yourself. But
you are burning, electrocuting each of these racks here. It
takes you about fifty twenty seconds to do this, and
then when you're done, you put this fitter back in
its like little holster on your side, and you head outside.
You pick up the dry a few lockeyes with Finch nod,
and then both of you head towards the door. It's
anybody doing anything else before you exit this building?
Speaker 2: Is there a middle finger up at the camera? Yeah,
at the time where as I walk out and we
see to smile.
Speaker 1: Finch flip the bird hat, well, flip the bird and
head out the door. Now, when you exit this doorway,
you are in what seems like underground. How familiar are
you both with the next platform like this area? Because
I know you don't spend a lot of time up here, right.
Speaker 2: I would say, like moderately familiar. I wouldn't say that
I know it like the back of my hand or anything,
but I'm might know it in a general sense, just
because I've probably okay around these parts.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you both exit. This is the Golden Tunnel,
and this is a tunnel that is in the back
of the next sea building, and you can traverse this
entire tunnel and it'll take you kind of towards the
exit of the platform where you can get out of
the city. But also you have heard that there are
laboratories down here that they don't have in the main building,
and that's kind of the next see use it, so
you have to be on guard.
Speaker 2: I still here, like panic happening.
Speaker 1: From the next sea building. Absolutely, the alarm is still going. Yeah,
everything's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to look at temple and say, if
it's true and there are labstone here, I don't know
when we're going to get the opportunity to look at
it again with everyone just directed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I look around as well.
Speaker 6: I say, it seems as good a time as any
for a vacation holiday, explore, see.
Speaker 2: What they have down here, and then we can get out, hopefully.
Speaker 5: With a smile.
Speaker 1: So we see you the viewer, and I see the
two of them once again, deciding that knowledge will take
precedent over anything else, this thirst for answers and understanding.
Temple pulls out this glass pad tablet lights it up
again to try to see if he can find any
information on which lab to approach first, and they head
down this golden tunnel, and that's where we switch scenes again.
You two shadow show you are heading towards the next
sea building, correct or towards next see in general? Or
were you heading to the temple? Where were you going?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 1: Yep? Okay. So you arrive at the next sea building.
It's on fire when you get there.
Speaker 4: M pits a little bit of a kink and ourply
and shedden.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that.
Speaker 4: Is there anyone outside?
Speaker 8: Oh let's see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you actually have some automatons and you have some
robots that are outside.
Speaker 4: I just go up to one of them.
Speaker 9: Please stay calm, Please stay calm.
Speaker 4: Fock sake, what's happening.
Speaker 1: There is a fire, but please remain call. Everyone is
being evacuated. No one has been harmed. The fire will
be under control.
Speaker 4: What is the cause of the fire. We do not know.
I need emergency access to the building.
Speaker 1: Emergency access is only permitted for ANCHE members, skybearers for
other Naxsi personnel.
Speaker 4: I pull up my I pull up my badge and
hold it up to the front of it.
Speaker 1: The bought scans it. It looks like and then my apologies, sir,
and it steps aside, and you kind of hear it
in the distance as you're walking away.
Speaker 9: Please remain calm, Please remain calm, might.
Speaker 4: Say him down and here, I don't need to put
drag on a body through burning building. I must try
and find a way.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 1: You both there is a side entrance that you could
probably go through you don't, or you could go through
the front doors if you wanted. The bot has now
moved aside.
Speaker 4: Hire burning is the front.
Speaker 1: So it's funny the next you building front doors that
you go in are technically on like level fifteen of
this building. The elevator takes you down further, so there's
smoke is billowing out of the building, but it looks
like it's coming from lower. So this entire platform is
already has lots of steam and smoke around because this
is an industrial platform, but specifically it does look like
it's billowing out from underneath you.
Speaker 4: Ready to get in for our answers? Burn up shadow, Yeah,
let's go. Do you know where the boss's offices are?
Speaker 5: It's a good question.
Speaker 2: Do I.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and roll for me? You're gonna have a
plus two because let's hope you get four, because otherwise
that's a critical failure. Nope, Okay, it's a fumble, not
a critical failure. Okay. So I think that you you
have no idea where the boss's office is. You remember,
I mean talking to Kay, And I'm not going to
take that from you, no matter how bad of fumble
you were literally just there. So I think you know
how to get to that office. But I think that
you also your memory goes to that room, that steel table.
Maybe your answers are there.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna close my eyes and start remembering that memory, okay,
And I'm not focusing as much about me laying on
the steel table and being cold and hearing the voices
around me. I want to focus in on what happens
after where I begin to walk and try to pick
out any discernible features of a hallway, or if I
knew it was a straight shot to an elevator, or
if it was kind of blinding. So I'm just gonna
focus on that and just start walking.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll for me. You can have
a plus two. That's our first one, right, all of threes,
first one for the day. Oh my god. Okay, yeah, finally,
holy shit, Okay, Wow, this is okay. This is a
critical success in so many ways. Of all the roles
that you needed to succeed on, this is the one.
And you know it. You know everything. You know how
important this moment is, you know how incredibly important this
information is. And you know that your answers are not
in this building. They are in the Golden Tunnel, and
you know that you need to get to a lab
lab number fifty two.
Speaker 5: We don't need to be in here, shift, but we
need to be Are you familiar with the Golden Tunnel?
Speaker 1: Of course you're shift. You deliver all the time.
Speaker 4: There, Yeah, been there a bunch.
Speaker 5: That's what we're adding our lab number fifty two.
Speaker 1: But the okay, when he says that, shive, I think
you feel you feel maybe a tightness in your chest
when he says fifty two, and maybe you just mutter
fuck under your breath to do this, and you head
towards this lab. Now you reach the underground golden tunnel.
Have you have seven with you and you're kind of
carrying him along. And as you turn the corner and
you head down this golden tunnel, you freeze in your
tracks because you see two people also heading towards you,
and all four of you, your heart maybe stops, and
then you recognize each other. You are together again.
Speaker 2: What the fuck are you guys doing here?
Speaker 4: Can I ask you the same question?
Speaker 2: But it's a long story, It's really not that long.
I just it's the day that I learn. That's what
today is. And I just put my head down and
keep walking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it got some catching them today, but it can wait.
Speaker 5: You Chicago there.
Speaker 3: And we could say the same for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're carrying a dude. So you reached. You reach
this doorway to this lab. It's actually hidden in this
golden tunnel, but Shadow is able to lead you right
to it. And he puts his badge on the door
and it beeps. Uh, you are unable to go inside
using your patch.
Speaker 5: Fuck you start pounding on the door.
Speaker 4: Let me try mine, put my advand jump to the door.
Speaker 1: It beeps. You are also unable to enter her.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna start trying to open the door, and
my eyes are closed and I'm just focusing on trying
to make the door fucking open.
Speaker 1: Roll Roll, roll. You can have a plus one, so
you see you all see Finch close her eyes and
maybe lift a hand up to try to open the door.
And I think this would strike both Shadow and Shive
as odd because it's literally what Sevin was talking about.
You see her lift up and try to open this
door and nothing happens. Temple is messing with the tablet.
What are you trying to do with the tablet, Temple, I'm.
Speaker 3: Trying to see if there's any like specific override just
for the door that I can access with the tablet.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can go ahead and roll for me. Meanwhile,
Shadow and Shive, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: You know, right, Finch, what we are.
Speaker 2: But fucking special?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I guess we're special.
Speaker 4: I think we are almost special. That's how it works.
But in the meantime, you get a couple of my
names and I stopped them trying to wage them in
the door?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 4: Is it a sliding door? There?
Speaker 1: There is simply a line where you can tell the
door depresses and moves to the side that I don't
think you think you can use your ship to kind
of open it.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm shure. Yeah, you recall what seven told us.
Be specific, but if they wanted to turn to night
off you humid hidden witch in my apartments. But don't
we try it together.
Speaker 4: To almost specials make a special maybe? Okay? Okay, I
close my eyes and concentrate on that crack in my
mind and opening.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the two of you can roll. You can
have a plus two. Oh my god. Okay, there's three
threes in there and two four. So the door opens
a crack. You both are closing your eyes imagining it's
sliding open, and it does.
Speaker 2: A shander. The door open as soon as I see
it crack.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it is. It is a mechanical door, so
it would be stuck, but you could maybe try to
squeeze through it. Yeah, okay, okay. I don't know if
anybody but Finch is going to be able to get
in here because Finch is the tiniest. But you can try, Temple.
You sorry, you, Temple. You find this lab in Kanna's information,
but everything in it, and what the lab does is
redacted even to her.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, so I think it's turned to go in
a hand of the tablet mess Maybe there's something worth recording.
Speaker 3: In them, and you might as well have this with you.
Speaker 1: As soon as you reach the tablet out and Finch
goes to grab it, the tablet passes by where the
scanner is on the hand and it beeps and opens
the door. Oh god, at least still in the hand.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, well, well, I just sub I'm just
like blank faced, like, what the fuck? Why did we
not think of that?
Speaker 4: All right, We've got a key, let's keep using it.
Let's go.
Speaker 1: So you head inside this lab. The moment you step inside,
I need you all to roll for me.
Speaker 5: As we step in. H I'd like to activate my
ability if.
Speaker 1: I can, Yes, remind me of your ability revelation of
the photographer. Yes, describe it for me.
Speaker 5: You can reach out to memories that were created in
a very specific location upon activation and new memory because
in my journal, which describes an important scene of the
past that had happened here.
Speaker 1: Okay, you see yourself running down a hallway with a girl.
She has light hair and violet eyes, and she is
calling out to you. And a robot is standing in
the hallway, and you have a decision to make. You
can distract this robot and let this girl go, and
that's what you decide to do. You have no recollection
of this, but that is you that you are seeing.
What the fuck.
Speaker 2: Is that.
Speaker 5: Women that I see? She looked familiar to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the same woman that was with reckon and accent.
Speaker 5: What appears that made the right choice. All right, let's
let's look. We need to I know whatever it is
that we're looking for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm digging through anything I can find. I owns
her information.
Speaker 1: Hey did you all roll already? Okay when you came in, Okay,
let me just take a look at those.
Speaker 4: I think I was the only one to get a four.
Speaker 1: Okay, this lab has been abandoned. When you walk in,
you see panels. You can turn them on. Some of
them are even still turned on. Have information. Let's say
Shiv goes to the first panel, pulls up information on
the Leviathan project, and you are able to see experiments
that Inky did here in trying to fuse mermaid memories
with vagabonds to see if they could find what was
beyond the abyss trying to use the vagabond's ability to
communicate through memory to understand or discover what was beyond
the darkness in the lake. You see other strange ex
moments on animals, and I think most frighteningly, you see
a bunch of vagabonds having been experimented on and then
released into anchie care. Their memory is wiped and they
are they become skybars, just numbers. Fifty two seventy eight eighteen,
maybe fifty vagabonds went through here. But this lab has
been shut down for a very long time. But you
do recognize Reckon. You recognize this name on the list.
He used to work in this lab a long long
time ago.
Speaker 4: I try to look at and he fails on recons
see if I can find any that to potential locations
he may have been or be currently, any anyways to
contact him, anything like that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, go ahead and roll for me. And while you're
doing that, let's ask what everybody else is doing here
and where you're looking. Let's start with Finch.
Speaker 2: Finch is blustered, but also knows that she will probably
never get this opportunity again, so she is just going
through meticulously every piece of information she can find. I
don't know what she's looking for exactly, because it's not
like there's going to be a folder that's just titled
like what's going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she's just she hopes.
Speaker 2: That there is or that there's something that she can
find that gives her some kind of information. She's also
wants to find. Her end goal after leaving here is
to find Reckon. So here's anything, okay about where he
could possibly be for a way to contact him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, go ahead and roll for me. This one's
really important. So if you have any special bullshit you
should try to add it.
Speaker 2: Okay. I have a memory that I think will help.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I remember constantly feeling and nagging in the back of
my mind. I have to find out what this all is.
Where was I before the lake? What did I do
to get here? Is this purgatory? Hell? Oh my okay,
fox playground? No matter what I do, it's present.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll help. You can out a plus two?
Speaker 4: Why get any pluses for my racking role?
Speaker 3: I have a.
Speaker 4: Reckon memory.
Speaker 1: You absolutely can.
Speaker 4: Would you like me to share the memory?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 4: I remember picking up Reckon a few cycles after a
strange little girl brought him to me. Oh wow, he
was looking for the help of the Yankee. So I
connected them and dropped him off. He seemed grateful enough.
I pick him up with his new credentials, and he
thanks me and introduces himself. I look at him and
tail him right now. He looks at the idea and
the tail and goes, of course, and you are. I
introduced myself and I don't let him know what mat before.
Speaker 1: Oh god, you pastars. So I take back what I said.
You have delivered to this lab before. I forgot that. Okay,
so you've delivered to this lab, but you've never been
inside further than the intake. But I think instinct probably
takes over. You can have plus twoh, oh god. Okay,
So Finch rolled a success, Shiv rolled a rule of threes?
Who else rolled temple? Did you roll already? Not yet? Okay,
go ahead and roll for me, because we're gonna end
with Shiv here. Oh my god, do you have any
bullshit to add? Because you have two fours?
Speaker 6: M I guess let's say he is. There's a bunch
of chaos going around outside of us. We have this
sinking sensation of things are ending quickly. There's a whole
lot of new stuff that we would just learn. So
it just calls to mind the first memory that I
have after waking up out.
Speaker 3: Of the lake, where it's just there's water around me.
Speaker 6: There's confusion, I'm panicking, there's just urgency, and I'm completely
in the dark.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what's going on. I need to
do something and I don't know what it is. Wondering
why the air is so happy, I'm wondering why it's
hard to breathe, and wondering even who I am? You
know what am I?
Speaker 6: And there's someone approaching and I try to run, but
I can't move, I can't escape, and I just remember
feeling so weak and pathetic, not being able to do anything.
And then it occurs that perhaps this is an opportunity
to change that.
Speaker 1: Hell, yeah, go ahead and add your pluses.
Speaker 3: Okay, so is that a plus one?
Speaker 1: You know you're a plus two for that? Oh it's okay,
Your fours over ride it, so you still save a success. Okay?
Am I missing anybody's shadow? You rolled too? Right? Do
you roll already?
Speaker 5: I don't believe?
Speaker 1: So no, Okay, go ahead and roll for me. Do
you have any special bullshit? To add, I mean, I
think you do.
Speaker 5: Would you like me to do as well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said the last one. Uh, why don't you
tell me what the last one is?
Speaker 5: So tell us really just kind of about needing to
try and learn understanding control. There's a strange thought, like
a memory I had never had before. It came to
me once. It was almost like a nightmare. A white
faced woman had shaven on one side of the scar
running down the left side of her forehead, over her eyebrow,
it hooked over the lid. We never spoke in this
sort of vision.
Speaker 1: This thought.
Speaker 4: Was there.
Speaker 5: And in the evening of this day, while I was
pondering over this this thought, I went to a bar
and I saw her and I knew it was her.
She was right there in front of me. She looked
over at me, and I could just fucking tell she
knew it was me. Instinct took over just immediately, and
I clasped the syringe that I had a tranquilizer in
my cloak, And as I felt the cool metal against
my palm, I stopped. I don't know why, but something
just felt wrong. It was unnatural. But her gaze met
and my my thoughts became clouded and mixed and dis connected.
I don't know why, but I needed her and I
needed to know why. I needed to understand, without a
single word, how she could stop me and why I
felt so disconnected. And before I could put all of
it together, she was gone.
Speaker 1: AGI plus two. Oh, but those are everybody got us
a success. So here's what happens. As you are walking
through this, by the way, shadow this entire you are
having massive deja vu in this entire facility. As you're
walking through, we see Shiv immediately head towards what looks
like a central maybe computer. There are three slots in
a server rack open and Finch puts her to inside,
and then we see Temple do the same with his
final one. You activate the main panel and the information
shows up on the screen for you, it looks like
nine worlds, nine planets. And as you're scanning through this information,
which all of you can read, by the way, all
of you can see, you see that the Inky know
where Reckon is. They have been watching him for a
very long time. They know what he knows, and you
have to let him know. You have to give him
this information. They are following him, and they will follow
him to these nine worlds that they are accessing through
the lake, and that's where we're going to end the session.
Oh my fucking god, let's go around and do some
shout outs. Do we want to start Finch since you
started the episode today?
Speaker 2: Sure, I'm brutal Bree. I played Finch and you can
find me on Twitch and everywhere else brutal Bree and
I stream Monday through Friday three pm Eastern Standard Time.
And our long form D and D session D and
D campaign that I usually have on Saturdays just ended,
So maybe I'll fill my Saturdays with something I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe two year campaign just ended, just the maybe. Thank
you my sweet Shadow Europe. Phil.
Speaker 5: Hi, I'm Phil Scamming. I played Shadow for you today.
Can you follow me on Twitter at Phil's Underscore Gaming
for a very long time. You're able to watch me
at Twitch dot tv slash brutal Brie on Saturdays, where
I ran a five E D and D campaign called
Awakening that, as Brice said, has just come to an end.
So for the moment, there won't be a ton for
me except I am already writing again.
Speaker 1: Yes, as is the way.
Speaker 5: In the near future, you can expect another campaign to
come at you live on Twitch Perfect Bye.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Temple aka Christopher, You're up.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you so much. Always a pleasure to be
able to join in on this.
Speaker 6: I offer freelance writing, editing and translation services written translation
between English, French and Spanish, and if you're interested in any.
Speaker 3: Of that, you could visit me at www dot said
in other.
Speaker 1: Words, dot com perfect, Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Scott a kiss aka shiv up.
Speaker 4: Hi everyone, I'm Scott Akish. You can find me in
all the unioned places. It's gotta kiss everywhere. You can
find me in table story on Tuesdays for Bushcraft and
Wizardry when I play a second year Raven close student
the name of Alexander Peppin. He's not as friendly as
chev but you know close enough.
Speaker 1: Perfect. Thank you, and I'm PEB. I was the narrator
today and you all know where to find me Twitch
and Twitter at Pumpkinberry. Thanks for listening to this three
episode special I Still Dream featuring the next Sea Sun Bears.
Chief was going to make an appearance in the show,
but as we all know, Speth triggered endgame and then
Segottachus blocked her on Twitter. I'm kidding, by the way,
but I do hope that you enjoyed it as much
as we did, and I hope you have a happy
New Year. Bye bob Ba ba ba