Speaker 1: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back. It is us
Dragons Greed, that Dragon's Greed Gaming, and we are here
the day before New Year's Eve. In real life, it'll
probably be February by the time you hear this, but
we are on the countdown and we are back with
episode twelve of Shadow Run. Paydata. As always, before we
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As always, other than that I think we can do
our usual roundtable. We've got deal back as a special
guest to h to help out with our combat. We
were in the middle of last week. Do you know
how you doing?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hello him gine to be back though, I feel like.
Speaker 1: It ever last. And anything you'd like to share with
the listeners or anything exciting you got planned.
Speaker 5: For New Year's New Year is not on that.
Speaker 3: I have a nice cozy New.
Speaker 1: Year's bill, bla really doing anything crazy?
Speaker 6: And yeah, it's just just drinking, relaxing and sitting by
the fire, in which I do not have.
Speaker 3: Where are you putting a fire in your house?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 7: The fire?
Speaker 1: The fire on the iPod screen?
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, actually on the on the monitor on the
screen TV specifically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is it like that one episode of what was it?
The show with the nerds where the fucking they thought
it was a screen saver the whole time, but it
was actually a fire in the office it club? Is
that it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Tea crowd, I ta crowd, that's it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I've never seen it, but I want
to watch it now.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's like there's a fire. They've got and
it's it looks like it's it's behind like a broken
uh computer to monitor, but everybody thinks it's a screen
saver for like half the episode. So there's a fucking fire,
just like a small fire going on this guy's desk
for like half the day. And then they finally live like, yeah,
it's just like this correctly like, oh that's a really
realistic looking screensaver.
Speaker 2: Slow burning fire. They're just like, oh man.
Speaker 8: It's so real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I at that thirty seventy bro lovely awesome. Cool. Well,
we're glad to have you back. Looking forward to more
Shenanigans tonight and uh yeah, so who else we got? Scar?
How are you feeling tonight? Are you still alive?
Speaker 9: I'm still alive. I think I missed a game or two,
but I'm here.
Speaker 8: Headed for New Years?
Speaker 9: Yeah, what do you do? Holiday season is rough?
Speaker 10: I am Uh, I'm going to kind of like a
big Like it's like the equivalent of what's the big
park in New York?
Speaker 9: What is it my mind's bank.
Speaker 1: Here or the actual park? Central Park?
Speaker 9: Central Park? Uh?
Speaker 11: Anyway, it's our equivalent of Central Park where we're gonna go.
Speaker 9: It's ice skating we're gonna take the kid around big playground.
Speaker 10: I just watch a bunch of fireworks and have good
night with the misses and that's about it.
Speaker 9: Really, try not to get too drunk.
Speaker 1: They do fireworks on New Year's that's the thing.
Speaker 5: What.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was more surprised that they've got ice in Texas.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, well, I mean it's like it's well, the Galleria,
the one of.
Speaker 9: The gallery in Houston has had an ice rink year round.
But that's indoors.
Speaker 1: I mean there's hockey teams from Texas, right.
Speaker 10: It, Yeah, the Stars, Dallas Stars, the Stars, right, yeah,
I mean it's not real ice.
Speaker 11: It's all you know, it's all like it's faked.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know how real the ice is
at the fucking uh uh United Center.
Speaker 9: I assume it's not like a frozen over a lake
or anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah lake in the middle of Chicago. They built a
building around.
Speaker 10: But yeah, no, it should be it should be a
good time, drinks, dinner, the whole should bang, and it.
Speaker 9: Should be a good time.
Speaker 10: And I'm I'm, I'm I'm missing. I need my my
dose to shatter run. I'm I'm Jones, and.
Speaker 1: I think we can help you with that tonight, So
we're glad to have the full crew back. John as always,
How are you doing well?
Speaker 8: How about yourself?
Speaker 1: I am ready for our gaming extravaganza tomorrow. I'm so riped.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: I'm actually just gonna crash at Matt's house tomorrow because
I don't actually be driving home at like three am
on New Year's That seems like a recipe for disaster,
so true.
Speaker 8: Probably not a great idea.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, I'm Sean.
Speaker 8: I'm playing Franklin Nichols, the Homeless Mage Volt And yeah,
as might have heard, I'm gonna be hanging out with
christ Marrowan playing some board games.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, we got it lined up. We got
Dead by Daylight. I just busted the shrink wrap off
that tonight and got all the stuff punched. We've got
Zomba side second edition, and we're going back old school
with Sparta Kiss from Gale Force nine. The old Sparta
I have the original one that was the artwork is
all the characters from the actual show, the actual live
action actors, not the the remake they recently did. So
got some some old school stuff there with all the
expansion packs, so that'll be awesome. You know, you can
say things like God, Jupiter's cock, that's great, it's great. Great.
There's also a card and the title of the card
is accept Deeper Ramming, which if you've watched Spartakiss, yeah,
there's some weird ship that goes down in that show.
Speaker 3: Yeah yea sounds like.
Speaker 1: But you know, you get to see Lucy Lawless, who
uh she's extravagant. So if nothing else watch it, watch
it for for her. But it's an awesome show and
uh yeah, it's only three seasons, so it doesn't take
up like, you know, half your life. So AnyWho, uh
who else? Aaron, Yes, things up in the Canada's.
Speaker 5: You know what, it's a lot warmer than you think
it would be. It's been like freezing all the way
through November and most of December, and then this week
it's like ten degree celsius.
Speaker 7: So like, I guess, like.
Speaker 1: Thirdy fucking guy with celsius, I bet he's gonna start
measuring in the metric system too.
Speaker 5: I do my car records in kilometers, like we're talking, we're.
Speaker 3: Talking about that. He's like, like, I've got over three
hundred kilometers in my car, I'm like, what the fuck does.
Speaker 2: Any that's right?
Speaker 7: That's three hundred thousand, I should say.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, okay, old, okay, three hundred kilometers is not
a lot.
Speaker 1: How many? How many miles? Is three hundred thousand kilometers?
Speaker 7: One hundred and eight one hundred and eighty thousand? I
have more. I'm almost two hundred thousand, chunky.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know what I always found interesting is
like anyone who does stuff in the metric system or celsius,
they can all convert it to the American ship that
we all use. But you ask an American how many
celsius is eighty degrees fahrenheit? And I'm totally guilty of
that too, But I just find that.
Speaker 3: Fascinating, Like it's about twenty five.
Speaker 1: Fucking shut up, we're fucking stupid.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just did the conversion.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's fifty eight degrees fahrenheit outside right now,
which is crazy.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, that's that's like that's long sleeve t shirt weather.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, but like for for Canadian winter, like it's it's
it's it's it's nice but awful, like because everything's just
wet because we had snow a week ago.
Speaker 1: Uh, you are your like winters a little more extended
up there and like shorter like warm months or.
Speaker 7: No four seasons.
Speaker 5: Well, we we have the four seasons, though spring is
just wet. Like spring is my least favorite season because
it's it also does kind of what's happening right now
where it gets really cold, then it snows and then
it melts, and then it snows and melts, so like
you basically just walk around and slush and mud for
like three months and then it's summer. Yeah, but anyways,
oh yeah, actually I do.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have a bunch of people coming over to
my house. I have conflicting feelings about it.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm excited, but then I also like, I don't
host very often because my house has been under innovation
for a long time. So this is the first time
where we've been able to host, and my wife is
all excited about it, and I'm just like, I don't
know if I want twelve people in my house.
Speaker 1: But okay, is the Are the renovations done?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: No, it's uh, it's an ongoing project.
Speaker 7: More of it's done than it was.
Speaker 5: We actually have more than like three finished rooms now,
so that's good. Yeah, No, it's a It was a
big it was a big project.
Speaker 7: It still is. But we're renovating an old church into
a house.
Speaker 1: Actually that's actually interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, yeah, sounds fun.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope it all goes off.
Speaker 5: That is.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sure it'll be fine. I am excited. That's
not just mostly joking.
Speaker 5: But yeah, today I'll be playing Jacques Millard aka Ford.
He's troll, he's a father, he is an aspiring race
car driver and a successful getaway driver.
Speaker 7: So there, yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1: Good shit, good ship. Uh, and then we've got the
old GM Adam.
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Adam. I am going to be playing everybody
other than these guys, So I got a thing real
quick before I forget about it. On the topic of Ford,
I want to give a special shout out to Bruce
Ford sixty one three. He pointed out that I'm an
idiot on youtubees, so thanks dude. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He pointed out a mistake in the character creation episode
where I botched the availability. That's supposed to be okay
for you guys right away, So like, I didn't hamstring
you guys too much. It was off by a number,
but like, dude, like, not only did he find the
error and then let us know, he gave me time stamps.
I was like, yeah, well you are on top of
your game. So uh, Bruce for sixty one thirty three,
thank you for your dedication, your thoroughness, uh and your
uh dedication and thoroughness. Thank you very much, and thanks
for watching the show.
Speaker 1: Fucking timestamps. That is awesome that each.
Speaker 3: One of these times is like a little tiny knife
in my heart.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Keep it up, keep it up.
Speaker 9: Like that made a mistake here and here and here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, if you if you freeze straight through it,
you can see the exact moment that my heart shatters.
Speaker 1: So did you? Did you? Was the available ability that
you gave us lower than it's supposed to be?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I said, I said, like, uh anything,
I said anything under twelve, But it's twelve and under,
so you guys could have gotten something a little better.
So it's not like, you know, it's not like I
was like, oh yeah, keep it under eight and it
should have been twelve. And you guys are like my,
my guys are homeless now.
Speaker 1: No wonder this game is garbage. I mean, but yeah.
Speaker 3: It's unrelated. So so yeah, Bruce Ford sixty three his
his his YouTube thing is uh the Shadow Run uh
s snake Dragon. I believe it's the technical term for it.
So thank you, thank you, and uh well, I see
what have I been up to you man? Man? Short
week at work, uh, you know, two days off for
the holiday, and then I decided to take an extra
day off because work was slow, and I was like, dude,
I'm gonna eat my own eyeballs. So I took a
took yesterday off and uh nice, yeah, man, So it's
pretty cool and uh see New Year's that's coming up.
I got some stuff planned with the wife. You know,
it's it's it should be fun, should be pretty reasonable.
I got my uh my, my mother in law is
gonna be watching my daughter. So I've got like actual
yeah it like like completely like no respons or abilities
for a little bit. So I'm gonna probably get blackout drunk.
I can't wait. Okay, bought a bottle of tequila. I'm
ready to party. So but yeah, that's about it. Oh,
I've been listening to. Uh Shadow Run Origins is the
podcast I've been listening to over the past week.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: It is uh OPTI and crew playing through the classics
of Shadow Run, all the first edition adventures. Uh, pretty
good man. You get you get the whole backstory for
everything that has gone to complete shit in this universe.
Speaker 1: That's cool. I think I might have asked this. I
don't recall as far as you know, but maybe maybe
some of the other players might know. This has each
edition kind of furthered the lower in the game.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 1: That's that's cool. I like that. That's brilliant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just uh, I just got my hands on
the updated Seattle. That's right, Seattle source book for the
newest edition. And I guess Seattle isn't part of the
UCAS anymore in the eighties. It's its own country. And
it looks like the UCAS is kind of collapsing entirely.
Speaker 1: Well, had a good run, you know, kind of.
Speaker 5: It's probably's fault because we're we're before then in the timeline,
so probably didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's once we once we ruined the uh, the
reputation of the Maritor's mascot, the whole city economy collapsed.
Speaker 3: And that was gone.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, I am the great unclean one. Your host
I will be playing a thrac also better known as
Knuckles are orc biker, wrench wielding, shotgun toting, grenade tossing
professional and he likes motorcycles and Harley's and stuff like that.
I have been cranking on the painting. I finally got
the show off the Defiler today. That was all finished,
and it was it was glorious to behold, and we
took pictures for our tail of gamers. We're going to
record our last episode tomorrow for our forty k Taylor gamers.
So everybody had a lot of stuff put together. It
was really cool to see it all in one place,
all together, and so we'll record that and then as
Sean said, we got a bunch of gaming and Buffalo
Wild Wings and Dr Pepper plan for New Years, so
that will be wonderful. And I've been starting to paint
some Zombi side models, messing around with some zenfl highlighting.
I want to try to get some stuff painted for
our next game night whenever that may be. Trying to
make it into a monthly thing and Old World of
the rumors continue, perhaps a pre order in January with
a release at the end of January, or maybe in February.
So really hoping that is true, I think I might
go back and paint some Warhammer stuff.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: It feels nice not to have a schedule of painting anymore,
as much as as nice it is to look back
and be like, hey, I got an extra eight hundred
points painted that I didn't have six months ago. I'm
not I don't. I don't love timelines, but it helped.
So other than that, I'm gonna I'm gonna talk shit
about Aaron because he doesn't have his portrait selected in
roll twenty and it's breaking my immersion. But other than that,
I will pass it over to Adam and uh, thank you. Okay,
immersion complete. I can plain now, Adam.
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: I will allow you to GM me.
Speaker 3: Thank you, all right, thank you? All right? Oh man,
So you know again, for specific reasons, we're gonna skip
the recap. We're gonna skip the recap for specific reasons,
and uh, we're gonna kick this off. I hope everybody's
buckled up and ready to go.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna hurt off. Focusing in on a police
car driving nighttime rain, acid rain, neon lights, flashing, siren,
going cars hauling ass we see the back seat. In
the back seat, there's a dude totally totally unconscious, mostly naked.
He's got underwear on and like some kind of weird
like tank top but like super tanky and not so toppy.
You can tell he's still alive because he's snoring. Serious, right,
is that arnold?
Speaker 8: He doesn't let this not be that's not you, man.
Speaker 2: Go.
Speaker 3: You can hear indistinct chatter on the radio, you know,
cop cop chatter. You know it's dispatch campan can come
in it down? Yeah, yeah, get bag, you know, and uh,
you're ripping through and you see passenger seat front, big
saran wrapped bag, kind of square, almost cubish, a little
bit more rectanglely white, glistening. At first, you think it's
got to be a bunch of coke, right, but it's
way sparklier than coke. Kind of crazy. You're not sure
what it is. Probably most of you who's got knowledge
about drugs that's watching this, No one, Okay, don't sweat it. Glistening, sparkly,
passenger seat again, neon Lice heading towards it. We turn around.
We see driving the car dressed in a black uniform.
Cop stuff, tactical vest beard, dreadlocks, point of years, elf mantis.
Driving the car, you get to your destination. You're not
sure exactly where you are, but as you get out,
you can hear the whirr overhead drones roto drones flying.
You see a couple of other squad cars parked. You
see a bigger vehicle. It's a like a mobile command center.
You know, it's like almost like a bus, but it's small,
like like like the little bus, but you know, tactical
and police like. And as you get out, you step
out into the rain and you see these drones. They
got spotlights, they're going, they're flying overhead, and you see
just rocket fires hits one of the drones. It explodes,
sparks everywhere, and then the door of the mobile command
cetter flings open. A dude stumbles out, and where do
you go? I got them He's here somewhere, Hold on,
hold on, hold on, wait for it. Boom, here is
this guy stumbles up. Sparks shooting off of the guy,
blood pumping out of his nose. Dude's wearing a leather jacket,
got some crazy headset on, like a VR looking thing,
and he staggers out and he goes. He costs blood
and he kind of limps and falls towards mantis. You
catch him fall to the ground with him cradling him
in your lap. Smells like copper and burning hair. He
goes by your feedback. They hit the drones. They got rockets.
They got rockets. Be there scar in the air. All right,
feel free to participate.
Speaker 8: He just no, no, I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 1: Tickle cop and shadow run. It's sorry.
Speaker 9: I was switching on improvisation. Uh, don't worry.
Speaker 1: It's gonna get over.
Speaker 9: It's gonna be okay. You're gonna make it through this.
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm fried. I'm fried.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I can feel it, like my sinhaps is are on fire.
I can't. I can't. And he like reaches up and
his hand is shaking like super violently, like his left
hand is like like fucking it shakes like inches, you know,
not just like minor shakes inches, And he's like, I can't,
I can't stop. I can't stop shaking. I can't feel
my I can't feel my legs. I think I'm I
think this is it. I think I'm dying.
Speaker 9: Hold me, grab his hand to try to study it. Stop,
don't talk, save your energy. We're gonna get through this.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not. I'm I'm gone for It's I've
done for. Man, I came over me.
Speaker 1: You gotta.
Speaker 3: I'm glad backups here. It all went to ship, It
all went to ship. They were in there to get
our guy out. And then he started shooting, and he
got fucking rockets and machine guns. And you gotta get
in you gotta you gotta helpoard dudes. Damn sorry, hellost
focus for a second.
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you were a gun.
Speaker 3: No, man, I just I forgot what I was saying.
But they're in there, They're inside the junkyard. You got it.
Speaker 9: You gotta get in there, man, it is.
Speaker 11: Man, this kind of pauses for a moment, just to
make sure damn.
Speaker 3: Buddle of urine slowly seeps out. Oh, crackling electricity in
the urine.
Speaker 8: And ship themselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just one big turn.
Speaker 9: His his bolls of just evacuate entirely.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 9: I never get used to that.
Speaker 3: Machine gun fire. It's hitting a bunch of stuff. You
here shouting, you're you got one of those those little mics.
Uh MIC's little walky talkie. Uh, on your on your shoulder,
and it's you can hear like you know, we got
tipheaded the fire on the fire and we're shainting gun fire.
We're pinting down, we're pinting down.
Speaker 10: I comically let go of this person as their head
thuds on the ground.
Speaker 3: He's dead.
Speaker 9: From that, and uh and enter the building.
Speaker 3: It's giant, gigantic junk yard. Cars, car carcasses, car kisses
stacked like walls, barricades, all scattered throughout massive compound. You're
not sure where you are. It's nighttime. This kind of
reminds you. You get a flashback. You remember when you
were working with your old pal Watzie. That bag, that
big bag in the seat. You recognize that stuff, tempo,
an awakened drug. They call him BADS b a D
something awakened drug. I forgot what the B is. Don't
sweat it though. Maybe it's like biological, maybe it's something else,
but it's a derivative of the coca plant. But it
forces you to astrally perceive magically, big old bag of
the ship. And you remember going in to the skier.
This at this point, this is maybe seven years ago.
Who knows what year it is now.
Speaker 9: Within a flashback, right, and trying to keep up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, try to keep up, man, try to keep up.
When you were working for the Star, you and WATSI
heading in to the skier, you were in there, you
busted out some dude, some real bad dudes. They had
a lot of tempo in there, and you shot him,
shot him dead. Wats He told you that was the
thing to do. Better clean up the scum. Then let
him lock him up for a little while and'll be
back on the streets pushing the shit again in two days.
Speaker 9: So you ice them, You ice.
Speaker 3: Them, and then wats He tells you grab the tempo.
You're not sure what to do, but you do it.
You go along with it. It's like, I got better
plans for this stuff. Slices it open with a with
a fucking high text switchblade. Slice gets a little bump
off of the shit. He was like, do you party?
Speaker 9: Man just hesitates.
Speaker 3: I've never tried it before, might as well do it now.
He sprinkles some across the leg of one of the
purpse that's been shot. Do it the right way.
Speaker 9: This is against regulations, but you only live once.
Speaker 3: You as truly perceive you see the auras, the pain,
the suffering. You see all sorts of trauma inside of
this building. It's like a thousand ghosts screaming out at once,
all of them torturous, agonizing. You see the auras, the pain.
It pervades this place, but it's a pretty fucking wild rush.
You take the bag and you leave, and not on
the way out, he sprinkles a little bit of it
here and there and tucks it under his jacket. We
cut forward a little bit later on. He busts some
dude wasn't really doing much. Didn't like the look of him.
Speaker 1: Some orc.
Speaker 3: Stash a little bit of tempo on him. Guarantee he'll
go away for a little while. You won't have to
deal with him anymore. He didn't like the way he
was looking at You. Go forward again. You're there, that
same orc. This probably two years later. Who's to tell
that same orc he's out, he's on the street, he
sees you, pulls a gun. He put him down, put
him down, and you see his kid crying, crying on
the side of the street. Couldn't be more than his
kid was with him. His kid couldn't have been more
than I don't know, maybe fifteen and you walk away.
Watsie in the car, drinking his soy calf laughing, said
that's what you get. Give me some of that tempo,
does a bump, throws a handful of it in the
kid's face. This, this is what you left behind. This
is why when they lost the contract, when the Star
no longer patrolled the streets of Seattle, you didn't switch teams.
You didn't join up with the pawn. You decided to
leave it all behind, join the shadows, repent for what
you've done. Maybe somehow set things right. However that can happen.
But here you are now? Or is it then? Hard
to tell? Where have you been?
Speaker 9: You don't know?
Speaker 3: But here you are in this police uniform. You don't
recognize it. You don't see the traditional lone star emblem.
Something TTPF. No one knows. You don't know where the
fuck you are. And you're here again. You hear the
police scanner meant change, officer down, imicer down, shaysteage, machine
gunning fire, pitten down. The guy pissed himself. Shit goes.
Speaker 5: You get in there.
Speaker 3: Ships one more time.
Speaker 10: Put my gun up with both hands pointed at the sky,
angled up by my face rate to shoot and go
in yourself in the face shout to describe, like the cliche.
Speaker 1: Anymore.
Speaker 9: I did it very poorly.
Speaker 1: I knew what you were saying.
Speaker 3: I got yeah, you're good him.
Speaker 1: Together at the end, but it was a little confusing
at first.
Speaker 9: I'm precurious first, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Can I imagine do I just see, like, manthis's face,
but he's just got a police head on. Like that's
what I imagine.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, police police and clean shaven, no oh.
Speaker 8: Homeless mantas, but I have gray eyes, totally totally filthy
and rags.
Speaker 3: Totally filthy, clothes clean except for a little bit of
blood on the collar, urine all over your pants. Dirty cop. Literally.
You go to pull your gun, you find you don't
have one, oddly enough at your waist, hang four swords.
You head in to this shit show that is the
Jeloppy Jungle. You head in to the scene, see to
the crime and progress. There's machine gun fire, you can hear.
You're approaching in. You see as you come up and
you enter the gates. You go through one of those
I don't know what those things are called, but there
are the big concrete things that prevent cars from driving in.
You go around them, you head in. You see a
big gas bus on the side, and you see some trucks.
You see one, two, three, four, five, six people dressed
similarly to you, pinned down by machine gun fire. A
dude in a sick yellow leather jacket, bald head, tall human,
probably like six foot five, real big dude, and he's
standing there and he's lighting them up with a machine gun.
You also see on top of one of the stacks
a car. It's another guy that looks very similar to
the first guy, and he's got like a fucking shoulder
mounted rocket launcher and you see him fucking pop up
and fire off. Another rocket hits the other drone, and
then the guy who just dies like twitching, just electrical
impulses biofeedback pumping through his RCC, or not his RCC,
his VCR, this right vehicle control rig the VCR into
his body, sending lethal amounts of electrical feedback into him,
causing him to shimmy shake post mortem. You ready, Uh, yes,
we're gonna move to this scene.
Speaker 1: Dude. I just want to say, that was fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: That was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was fucking baller. Adam Well done.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2: Boom.
Speaker 3: Let's bring back the initiative tracker.
Speaker 2: Boom.
Speaker 3: Let's get in here, select your character before we start.
Are you still in the car because.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm finally home.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's the question.
Speaker 7: If I if I were switched, my head said, it's
not gonna mess.
Speaker 2: With is it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, all right, then let me make the ju Let
me make the jump real quick.
Speaker 1: One yep, jacket out. He's gotta he's got a jack
into the system.
Speaker 3: You gotta hack the Gibson. Ohay, there we go. You
sound like you're not in a car anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, so econonically, uh, night Rider was in
the bus the all the time.
Speaker 3: M no, uh, we get mantus into this initiative order.
It's like you're token, you're here and.
Speaker 1: The kid, that's what I was looking for.
Speaker 3: The ping is probably a little useful.
Speaker 8: There yet to roll the funny Yeah, be more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, way to the right.
Speaker 2: Trash.
Speaker 3: He is just fucking crying.
Speaker 1: Well we were talking about this. We just we just
played Foundry last night or in Foundry, so we're even
more amped and aware, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, freshness, how much would roll twenty have to pay
you to be a spokesperson there. Chris were only allowed
to say things about it.
Speaker 1: They have to pay me a lot of money man
to sell out. I would sell out, but they have
to pay me a lot to do it.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna tell you the guy, the guy that grew
up as a punk rocker, I will at this point
in my life, I will sell out for like, if
they pay for my subscription, I.
Speaker 1: Will sell you most standards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you like, I will. I will shill. I will
shill for like fucking beer company if they send me
a case of beer, Like, that's it. I will sponsors
you guys. You guys heard you guys heard how how
much I saying the praises of a dude that told
me I was wrong on YouTube? Like, if you give
me something, I'll tell the world. Hey, you hear that.
I'll tell everyone.
Speaker 1: Send me gifts of your people on the initiative track.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't worry about that. They're all gonna die. Oh yeah,
all right, So we're gonna move mantis up here. You
are not at the top top of the order. We
got Vault at top of the order, picking up where
we left off. So as you can see here. I
drew a little trianglely thing that shows the field of
fire for the the suppression this is being done. You
are over behind the bus. I think you are handcut
or zip tide and uh not in great shape if
I remember correctly.
Speaker 8: A lot of stun damage. Okay, physical damage. I've got
to two points of physical But if i'm I can't
cast magic if I'm zip tide, right, is that how
that works?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, you still can't.
Speaker 1: Oh say cool?
Speaker 8: Can I did you say there was a guy who
with a fucking rocket launcher?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, there's a guy the rocket launcher. I didn't
mention that guy. Yeah he's over here. Yeah that's the guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, he definitely didn't.
Speaker 3: He's standing on top of the wall of cars.
Speaker 1: Can I see him?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Like yeah, man, yeah you can see him up there,
like he just he climbed up there and then just
started firing rockets.
Speaker 5: Okay, uh oh okay, yeah where where did.
Speaker 1: He fire them?
Speaker 3: There were yeah, like above like like one of them
is like up like above you guys, pretty much like
directly overhead. There were there were drones flying overhead that
had they were lighting you guys up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3: I described him as helicopters. I meant like like like
little like helicopter drones, like Rhodo drones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotcha.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'll target that guy and try to influence him
to fucking shoot a rocket at the the big cheese.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 3: Let me show you guys this thing.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 3: It was these guys.
Speaker 7: Oh, this was a.
Speaker 3: Cool ren roku l E B D two's. They also
have tasers on them so they can just like zap
some fuckers.
Speaker 8: Okay, we're gonna make this a four six so I
take physical damage and don't knock myself out there.
Speaker 3: You go now, now you're cooking with gas?
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, okay, okay, one success?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: How did I only get one success?
Speaker 9: Did you forget to pre edge?
Speaker 8: No, there's a A five, A six, A five A six.
Speaker 3: Something looks a little weird here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, you.
Speaker 7: Only got one five?
Speaker 5: You got five four four four three three one.
Speaker 8: On the dice it rolled in front of me. Got
oh a lot more.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 8: I don't know what's going on with that, but I mean,
if it's once test, once test.
Speaker 13: Okay, uh, and then I got to resistance, which is.
Speaker 3: Why is it I have his name. Ah, there's the name. Okay,
this guy, So let's get that logic and wheel power
oof four. You know, I'm gonna switch that so it
doesn't say of course there because I picked it because
it was funny, and it's not funny, it's confusing. So
there we go. Four successes. Yeah, Unfortunately it doesn't go off.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: How do you handle that drain though?
Speaker 8: One of damage?
Speaker 3: One point of physical damage. So as you try to
manipulate this dude, you're like, you know, uh, you're over
the shoulder, I believe four h zip side and you
look up and you're all like shoot your friends and uh,
like you know, blood starts trickling out of your nose
and the guy's like, what you four if? Then we
go to Mantis Mantis. Here's the scene. You're in this
junk yard. You got a bunch of cops pinned down
my machine gun fire. You don't from where you are,
you can't see any of your pals because they're they're
blocked by that bus. You know, you got one dude
who's laying down in the back of a convertible over here,
and uh, you you have no idea who this guy
is over there, But there's a there's that dude in yellow,
and then the other dude in yellow are the only
guys other than the cops that you can see. They're
dressed similarly to you. T t PF. You have any
kind of knowledge about police stuff?
Speaker 10: You know, you'd think I would, but my knowledge is
still not filled out apparently, but oh.
Speaker 1: My god, it ruins hit me with a hit me
with a memory role logic plus wielpower.
Speaker 9: Logic plus willpower.
Speaker 10: So that's going to be four places, it says under
attribute memory.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, memory, Okay, so I need to manually fill
that out. That should be logic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't put a number in there that modifiers
for it.
Speaker 9: So just hit the die, gotch one success.
Speaker 3: T TPF is uh tier tear gera police force. It's
a different country, and oh the country of the LS
formerly Oregon and some other.
Speaker 9: Places, great Oregon.
Speaker 10: Okay, uh can you I need to place myself in
this what because last I remember, we're in a police chase,
so cops equal bad in my mind right now?
Speaker 3: Last thing exactly exactly that.
Speaker 9: Okay, you're in a police chase.
Speaker 3: You're in a police chase, and then you're here that
no totally different uniform. These guys are not Knight Errant
Elms much elves pink hair, black uniform.
Speaker 9: I'm going to run for U.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna run for the nearest cover, and I'm going
to firstly try to enhance cast enhanced accuracy and try
to assess the situation.
Speaker 9: What's going on.
Speaker 3: Okay, my powers, Okay is that. I don't think you
have to do anything for that. I think you just
like turn that on.
Speaker 9: I think it's just good cool.
Speaker 10: I do that enhanced accuracy bowse out, and I'm gonna
take the nearest cover or I guess either north or
south of me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, dealer's choice. Where do you want to go?
Speaker 9: It looks like the truck north of me is the closest.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So you get there, you slam up against it,
and you've got the bow and you're like, fucking hawk eye.
Super cool. By the way, Hawkeye is super cool. Anybody
that says otherwise is a jerk. So you get ready
and you and they're they're scrambling and they've got guns
out and they're getting shot at by this machine gun guy. Actually,
it's probably more like a like a flumpupumpumpum pum pum
pumpummummummom pomum kind of thing. You know. It's like a
like a steady not fast, but steady, and like do
you just I'm gonna waist and you can.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I'm just gonna say, with my uh, with
my link up, I'm gonna send a message to the
crew and ask where everybody is.
Speaker 9: I'm I'm dazed and confused right now.
Speaker 1: I couldn't ask you the same thing. Get your ass
over here.
Speaker 3: Yeah you can hear it, like clear his day from him.
He's getting fucking pinged by the Uh. He's in the
back of this car and like the gunshots are like
impacting right on top of him.
Speaker 9: I don't know where I am either, loot the cops.
Uh uh? I thought that's it all right.
Speaker 3: Yep, and your initiation drops down to zero. We go
to the bikers. How many bikers are even left? Let's
see most of these guys are.
Speaker 2: Fucking on.
Speaker 7: Over here.
Speaker 3: Well one one, one down there? Yeah, but there, I
mean there's more, there's there's fucking bunch more but one
down there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, he's gonna go for it. This dude is this
this guy, this fucking scumbag John McClain. He's gonna try
to outflank everybody. You guys don't know that though, so
like don't don't like know it. But he's going for it. Yeah,
there he goes. He just runs around this way. He's
got his gun and he's breathing heavy, and he's got
no shoes on. Wife beater. I'm not saying he's wearing
a wife beater. I'm saying he is. He is a
wife beater.
Speaker 7: Look at him.
Speaker 3: He's got he's got knuckle tattoos. They say wife beat
he's got he's got some extra fingers. Don't worry about.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: You know, he's like super inbreds. He's got a bunch
of extra fingers. So, okay, knuckles knuckles. By the way,
you got do you have knuckle tattoos? Knuckles?
Speaker 1: I no, I do not, I do not.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, you'll have enough money after.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be my next upgrade. Tattoos, just regular tattoos.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw it out there. You've got enough knuckles
to get the word knuckles tattooed onto your knuckles.
Speaker 1: Two Okay, I can't count that high. Yeah, knuckles knuckles
knuckles ponders there for a second, I get some knuckle
tattoos and then I'm gonna I'm gonna shout into my
box for are you clear?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I'm clear.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 1: I'm from from on my back am I in the
back seat of the front seat of this convertible.
Speaker 3: Back seat laid down the in the in the bench
seat in the back. You got you know, the torn
up polsterry. It's like that cream color torn a polstry,
you know, stuffing sticking out springs, machine gun hits, so
you can see you can see like like all the
fucking panels like pin pink, pink, pink, pink pink, starting
to like dent in towards you.
Speaker 1: Is my head on the south side of the car
or the.
Speaker 3: North side the way that I'm I would say probably north,
probably north, and the way that I'm actually a positioned Okay, yeah, yeah,
that makes.
Speaker 1: If Can I see any of the cops from the
angle that I'm laying at right now, uh, out in
front of me in front of.
Speaker 3: The car there kind of yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I
mean they would have like hit the dirt, but okay,
you know approximately we're there, Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I saw them there the shots went off,
and then I saw them all kind of dropped the ground,
the ones that I did see. Okay, I am gonna
take a h grenade and I'm gonna throw that, preferably
right here, like in the middle where I saw the group.
Speaker 3: Okay, fuck me, hit me with the thrown weapons. Test uh, okay,
or do you have do you have the I don't know,
get your character sheet up. Do you have the weapon?
Actually you set up?
Speaker 5: Use it?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dude, hit it, hit it.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: You can edge the ship.
Speaker 1: I think I am because I don't have any skill
points in thrown weapons because the grenades were mainly for
the motorcycle grenade launcher.
Speaker 3: But you know, but you don't have any skill points
in using.
Speaker 1: I mean I thought driving the most could be enough.
But off, Okay, I will edge pre edge here, take
a take a thing out of Seawan's book, a page
out of Shawn's book, and pre edge all over this combat. Okay,
like to do that right? Cock row coming up?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Luck, come on, come on, come on, baby.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 3: I always open the best time for the bad luck
to go off for the grenade.
Speaker 1: Throw the pin and not the grenade.
Speaker 3: Just you throw your gun. You're like, wait, whoops, So
you need you need three hits on that test to
get the grenade to land where you want it to.
You got five, So it goes right where you wanted
to go, into the bed of fucking pink haired elf cops. Woof.
It's gonna messes a high explosive. Fortunately for them, they're
not in one of those tight confined spaces where it's
gonna ricochet off of everything a million times and just
splash them. But it's still gonna deal a fucked ton
of damage. So what do we got? We got damage
value on there.
Speaker 1: Is sixteen minus two eight.
Speaker 3: Pow sixteen minus two ap woof, So that's probably enough successes.
Speaker 1: Do anything in this regard?
Speaker 3: Consult the book.
Speaker 5: Oh it adds it adds one extra damage for each success.
Speaker 1: Oh eighteen minus two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fuck noubes to the the net hits so yeah
plus two, so yeah, eighteen eighteen mis ap. So here
we go. There's a bunch of them, and let's see
from where you were describing it landing, it's gonna be
full brunt to these guys, the outer guys. I'm I'm
hovering my mouse over stuff that you guys definitely can't
tell this happening. The guys on the outer part of
that that blast radius are gonna be at this guy
will be Uh we're gonna say a minus two to
the blast, minus two to the blast on this guy,
and then minus four on the furthest one.
Speaker 7: Sure so.
Speaker 3: That sounds fair, right, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm just kind of thrown in their general direction.
So whatever I hit, I hit. You know, so.
Speaker 3: You got a bunch of hits. So here we go.
It's gonna try to soak in this.
Speaker 1: I mentioned one of the cops on the ground, it
like lands like right in front of them, like oh shit.
Speaker 3: Aw yeah, So they're all, you know, they're all they're like,
oh fuck, machine gun fire hit the dirt and they
all drop and then uh you know, they're they're scrambling,
they're all like calling out. They're like like pinned down,
pinned down, pinned down. Set back up, set back up.
The op is fucked. The op is fucked. They got
machine guns in fucking grenades.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 3: So let's go. We got a minus two minus two
a P five successes so against eighteen, so it has
thirteen physical damage. Uh so uh that is a kill.
Speaker 7: Jesus.
Speaker 3: Now we're killing.
Speaker 5: Different county.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, they're invading our territory. I'm doing this as
a patriot.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the work human territory.
Speaker 3: You're you're in their house.
Speaker 1: Uh where the invading? Where the invaders of the patriots?
Speaker 7: Yes? Yes, two nations, yeah bucket.
Speaker 3: Uh got that one up for successes. That one's dead.
And then at the further uh outside of it, this
guy's got two successes and then it's two less. So
that's only that's fourteen. No, that's twelve dead. And uh,
let's see the guy over on the other side. Oh wow,
it's soaked seven. So it's seven soaked out of the eighteen.
That's only eleven dead.
Speaker 8: And then the furthest one Jesus Christ, Chris.
Speaker 3: Oh, the furthest one. So it's it's minus I said
it was minus four. So at that point it's nine
soaked out of eighteen. So it's nine. That guy this
one way in the back, not dead, just almost dead.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and delete, delete, delete you.
Speaker 1: Know what that means, Sean, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: So that's your turn. That's a good turn. That's productive.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, wow, I was just hoping i'd catch like
two or three of them that I look at. The
things are fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, good thing. I brought the high explosive grenades.
So that thing blows up and like it shoots fucking
fire and stuff. It's not like a shrapnel grenade. It's
just like the blast of it. So these dudes, after
it hits the ground and it blasts, it flings them
up into the air and they get thrown and there's
like like a burst and like fucking limbs and blood
and guts and gore raining down and like you're you
get you get just blasted like with a shower of
like components of elves and like like mantis, you're, yeah,
components of elves. That's right, mantis, you're you're you know,
uh super rad hawk eyed up against the side of
this truck, getting ready to pop out and shoot, and
like a leg lands like two inches in front of
you and just like hits the ground and like it's smoking,
and uh.
Speaker 9: I stumble on.
Speaker 3: Then the one remaining cop that's out of range of
the machine gun fire, it's gonna roll. Composure.
Speaker 5: I don't blame them, I'll say that.
Speaker 3: Composure on this. Look, I'm gonna give a minus four
penalty here. You know what, No, how many people just
died five minus five penalty?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yes, a success, they're still composed. She runs, she runs,
she's uh, she's like, scrub the apps, scrubbed the app
there's too many, too many rockets and grenades and ship.
We weren't ready for this. Sorry, sorry, Hank Henry. We're
leaving you. We're leaving you behind. And then she goes
and she sees you mantis hiding there, and she gives
you this look and you see it and you immediately
in her eyes, you see this uh, disgust, total disgust
with you hiding, and fear and panic and hatred. And
you can smell the fear because it smells a lot
like farts. She's just farting as she runs and she
runs off and escapes, smells like fear, farts and fear.
We've got one. Uh, you reach out as she runs longingly.
Then she's gone, and then she's like fuck you, and
you're like, no, I'm sorry, I can explain. You'll never
get to explain. You'll never see her again. For that
brief moment, For that brief moment, you shared. You know
there's someone out there that fucking hates you forever.
Speaker 8: God damn.
Speaker 3: Wow, guys, I've been having some lovely, lovely Goose Island
Brewery sunshiny, not my hazy beer hugs the hazy. I
p a six point eight percent alcoll by volume taste,
fucking grapes. Got a cool ass bear with sunglasses on
the can back to you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, not really a whole lot. I think I can
do here. Uh yeah, I guess I'll cast an improved
invisibility on forward.
Speaker 3: Oh great choice a classic.
Speaker 8: Yeah, solid classic four six.
Speaker 1: I'll shout to Ford over the did I get any?
Speaker 5: Did I blogged all over the windows?
Speaker 3: I can't see anything. I can't see anything. The flood
in my eyes, there's fingers in my hair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just like look through the bus windows and like,
I can't see that.
Speaker 7: The other side there's blood. It's like I don't know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, uh, FOD is now invisible with four successes.
Speaker 3: Nice, I can't see anything. I can't even see my
own hands.
Speaker 7: What does happened to me?
Speaker 1: Very invisible?
Speaker 3: Go car, We're gonna clear all the initiative turns clear. Blamo,
get ready for the next round. Congratulations, guys, we finished.
We finished. Yeah, I recall every time, every time. Baby,
we finished the first turn, the first turn of this combat.
Speaker 1: No, that was the second turn.
Speaker 3: Actually nope, nope, first turn, second initiative.
Speaker 2: Bass.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one turn, three.
Speaker 5: Second happened in six seconds, Like that's that's the craziest
part about this.
Speaker 3: Three three seconds, three seconds.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, sorry, I saw an edge on my bad.
I was like, there's no way I got thirty.
Speaker 6: Two, thirty two, I got caught on, Sean, I finally
caught up.
Speaker 3: I'm picking it out of there. You're out there.
Speaker 1: Forty things, okay, sixteen?
Speaker 2: Oh? Actually I think I had the same situation here.
I had edge on as well. Well, let's say I.
Speaker 5: Didn't question it when he got twenty nine. I was
pretty pissed. When I brought got thirty two.
Speaker 8: I was like, how the fuck did he get bad?
Speaker 2: Oh you know what? No, No, I had twenty nine
the whole time. Uh no, no, I got it all right?
Speaker 3: Is everybody in there's no man night, no man, just
we need to get you in.
Speaker 9: There, coming in hot, hot.
Speaker 3: Oh, coming in hot.
Speaker 1: Those sexy wizards.
Speaker 3: What the lotches this game?
Speaker 2: Even? All right?
Speaker 3: So the top we got the quickness of vault. You
are to everybody's perspective that can see you covered in blood,
floating in the air. Zip tied at the races.
Speaker 8: Yeah, or let me down, Let me down, let me down.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just drop you.
Speaker 8: Okay now, zip tied with my hands behind my back,
I struggle to stand up, and then I'm gonna sprint
around and hide over here.
Speaker 3: Okay, run around on the back of side of the bus.
At this point, you peer over and you see Mantis
hiding out. Cool, like fucking hawkeye. He's got the bow,
He's got the thing where the bow straight, the bow
strings up against his mouth. You know he's ready.
Speaker 10: We look at it and we have a moment like
an umbrella academy when they're passing each other, like.
Speaker 1: Hey, what are you doing here?
Speaker 8: It's like, Mantis, what the fuck are you here for?
Speaker 1: Also, get over here.
Speaker 3: Now, I answer, damn time you showed up. I'm zip tide.
We go down to the head.
Speaker 8: Let's just say, I turn and see the lake of gore.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and like there's still there's still He's just falling.
Speaker 8: Jesus Christ, stifle of vomit.
Speaker 3: Hell, yes, I swallow the vomit.
Speaker 6: Oh, oh god, and like, yeah, it was really effective
with rack I think you got ice?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that foot okay, Lynch mob heavy with a
machine gun. He sees all of those cops dead and
he's laughing. He's fucking sick. He's sick. And he opens
up again with the browning. He's like, sorry, excuse me.
He's like, we cleared up the cops.
Speaker 13: Now are just gotta get these interlopers, he declares, all
of you.
Speaker 3: All of you are surprised by him using the word interlopers.
It doesn't seem like something this guy would say, but
he's this guy. It has a page a day calendar
with vocation abulary on it. There's his backstory and he
opens up with that machine gun and he's targeting the
only guy.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 8: I think he was still under the effects of my
influence to kill gangers.
Speaker 3: Uh No, no, no, that was a different guy. That was
a different guy.
Speaker 1: What's the icon on his token for? Then?
Speaker 8: I definitely targeted he.
Speaker 3: Was the guy that was pinning down the cops. He
was supposed to shoot the cops.
Speaker 8: Well, I'd cast influence on him before the cops showed up,
so I was just having him kill gangers.
Speaker 3: Why was he shooting at the caps?
Speaker 1: I fucked up for God, and he never had a
chance to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't think before he got his turn, I think, right,
so I cast it on him, and then the cops
showed up right after, and then then.
Speaker 3: He's got to make another test to try to get rid.
I think that might be with the blue things. I
got three on the blue thing, I got two on
the red thing. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: What's what I remember from the he he had made
a test and he got some successes, but he was
still under the effects.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so he's gonna make another test. It's logic
and willpower, and that's the wrong thing. He's like the
right number though, uh no, no, he's supposed to. His
success is reduced number of successes too, So I don't
know if it's the red thing thing. I think I
think it's the I think it's the blue thing. So
it goes down to one. So he's still under the
influence of magic. So he uh, he's like, I got
those cops. Oh ship, there's one more. And he turns
and he starts to fire at the other dude rock
and he opens up on the dude with the rocket launcher.
Speaker 1: He needs to wait and time it and shoot the
rocket the second it leaves the rocket launcher.
Speaker 8: We're asking a lot of them.
Speaker 3: Only two successes. That's not that bad, that's not that bad.
Guy has a chance to defend and he's uh, I'm
gonna give him a minus too, because he's not expected it. Oh,
two successes exactly, zero net hits. So this guy turns
and he starts pumping out this thing. This thing is
belt fed into a backpack. It's got a fuck ton
of bullets and it's like and nothing hits this guy.
He's like waterre you new and Mike and he's like
you peg and he's like, I'm not a pig. I
actually have been losing weight. And uh yeah, dude, these
guys they got they all they all have. They all
have their own backstories that I'm making up on the fly.
Deal with knuckles.
Speaker 2: Your turn.
Speaker 3: You're no longer being peppered by a machine gun. It's
the best moment of the day for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna like peek up and just take a
quick look around to kind of assess the situation. See
the rest stain, admire my handiwork like nice.
Speaker 3: And then you uh you, you sit up, you sit up,
and you go like fuck yeah, and you go up
for the high five instinctively and there's no one around
a high five. You hand falls out of sky high
fives you.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, that's yeah, amazing, meant to be.
Speaker 2: That was your own handiwork.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just.
Speaker 3: Hand I got a new deal.
Speaker 1: Question, Uh can I get to.
Speaker 3: Do? I?
Speaker 1: First of all, do I see the guy with the
rocket launcher from where I'm at?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, After you pop up and you can see
him on there, You're standing on top of like a
wall of car, so he's he's like twenty five feet
up in the air on top of this.
Speaker 1: How far can I move before?
Speaker 3: If you're trying to Uh? Well, so in this the
your movement is like free it doesn't count against you.
Once you get to the extent of your movement, then
you can start making complex actions to run further. So
you can move I would say, as and this is
not accurate based off your character. This is based off
of the size of the map app which is arbitrary
up to sixty feet.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what what's the max I could get from
where I am if I was going towards the guy
with the rocket launcher roughly on the map.
Speaker 3: Like right, oh, it's not picking h yeah, like right
about here?
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect if if I get to like over here
and take cover, could I could I, in theory get
over here, be in cover and so be able to
see the that with the rocket launcher and shoot him.
Speaker 3: Uh, you'd be able to shoot at him on the
way and then get into cover because like once you're there,
like he's basically like this whole thing is basically like
a wall of cars, So once you get up to it,
like he's on top of a wall that you're backed
up against. So you could shoot at him on the
way and then like slam into cover the like fucking
rad Gears of War stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I will do that then, and yeah, I'll
shoot him with the old shotgun.
Speaker 3: You mantle over the side of the convertible and you
start to run towards this wall of cars with the
guy with the rocket launcher on top, and you pop
off a shot with a shotgun. Get it?
Speaker 1: And I take more than one shot?
Speaker 3: No, no, just the one right now?
Speaker 1: Okay, then here we go for successes.
Speaker 3: Nice, that is pretty good. He's gonna roll to defend
they miss I missed. Okay, here you go, do successes.
You got two net hits. You got fourteen physical damage
value AP minus one because you're firing slugs and you
try to soak.
Speaker 1: Yes, does he have any negatives because he's already been
shot at this turn?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 3: He does. He's got a minus one?
Speaker 1: Am I learning rule? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It sounds like you've become dangerous to two weeks in
a row. Here's how this is gonna work out, because
I'm gonna reroll it with one fewer die and he
will take whatever is the worst result was that?
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so that would have been the first one one,
so okay, yeah, wow, hot dice. So yeah, we'll take
the two. Yeah wow. Nice. Good for him hypothetically, But
he's gonna die, so he's gonna try to stoke. Uh
not twelve damage minus one, my friend, that is sixteen
damage mine twelve thirteen?
Speaker 1: No, it's fourteen damaged minus one?
Speaker 3: Well, should be fourteen? Well, you have two net hits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that the base damage is twelve.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm seeing the fourteen on there. Never mind, you
know what fourteen and minus one don't worry about me.
I'll be okay. So he's got he takes nine physical damage.
This dude is still conscious, but he is hurting pretty bad.
Then that's slug so's I didn't say it. I didn't
say it. I was thinking it and I didn't say it.
So he's up there and you take that shot. As
you're running, you fire off your your slug round from
your shotgun. What kind of shotgun is this?
Speaker 1: It is the Cavalier.
Speaker 3: Fashion Okay, okay, let's see. Is that a it's not
like a like a double barrel. That's like a semi
auto thing, right, it is single shot mode? Ss ss okay.
Is it to capacity?
Speaker 1: I don't know what capacity is. I don't I don't
see any of that anywhere here.
Speaker 3: Oh we're cheating, let's see.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never fired one shot at a time
with this gun.
Speaker 3: So Cavalier fausshion. So this guy has a amal capacity
of eight internal magazine. So by default this uh in
the AMMO underneath the weapon. So there's the thing that
says like max, you put eight max I have the Yeah,
oh right, so you already got it. Yeah, you're good,
You're you're good, You're on top of your shit. So
this one actually has art attached to it. So this
gun is normally as depicted in the books. Uh, it's black.
It's got some some cool green with weird black triangle
trim on it. It is like a pump to get
it ready. So you you pump, you fire, pump again,
and then you slam your back into this thing and
you get into cover and you see that it hits
the dude, and it is probably enough to knock this
fucker down. It was nine physical his physical limit. Yeah, dude,
you knock this guy on his ass.
Speaker 1: He falls top of the cars.
Speaker 2: A guy.
Speaker 3: Oh maybe let's see, I'm gonna roll a d six
on five or six. He gets knocked off of the
top one. Nope, so he falls down up there. He's
still okay, he's hurting, hurting bad. So i'mna drop you
down to a sixth never better. Next up is the
guy that you just shot. So he's gonna get back
up to his feet. He's gonna have ready that shotgun
or that shotgun, that rocket launcher, and he's gonna start
reloading that thing blambo. Next up, we got the biker guy.
Fucking John McClain makes his way around here, peeks around
and he's able to see volt from where he is
hands zip tide. This guy leans around. He's like, there's
that fucker, and he squeezes one off on you. Sounds
kind of gross. He shoots at you.
Speaker 7: Okay, you are.
Speaker 3: Gonna be with a A minus. I'm gonna give him
a minus one for range four successes.
Speaker 9: Let's see.
Speaker 8: I don't think I have any points in acrobatics new
so we're just going to defend.
Speaker 3: So he pops around the corner of this thing and
you see the glint off of his croned up revolver
as he pokes it around the side and fires off
at you. It catches your eye just enough for you
to go, oh shit.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 9: No, no successes.
Speaker 3: It hits you. This is twelve physical. I think that's
probably more than your armor value. So that means this
is going to go onto your physical track. Hit that
soak button.
Speaker 1: Are you dying?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Maybe soak them soak them up close? Seven physical?
Speaker 8: Oh that is that will put me in to overflow.
Speaker 1: Oh what does that mean?
Speaker 3: Oh boy? That means he's.
Speaker 8: Dying, dying, but you're not dead. Not dead, but dying.
And I believe he feels visibility wears off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you lose consciousness. The visibility goes off instantly, Jacques,
You're like, what the fuck? And then you're visible again?
Oh what? What? What the fuck? You know that? You
you know what? Make a logic rule? Let me see
if you know.
Speaker 5: All my worst skill by or attribute by any means.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're a smarty s party guy. You're with
your mechanicalness.
Speaker 5: Do I apply wounds to this?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yes, yeah, you're distracted by pain not no, Susan,
I wish you could just turn that off on your
guy a success. You know that that spell wearing off
means that he either decided to let it go or
he has lost consciousness.
Speaker 1: Or die.
Speaker 3: So he'll speaking just and debt.
Speaker 7: So, yeah, does anyone have eyes on both? I think
he went down.
Speaker 5: And seeing the shot come from that direction, he's gonna
sprint over there. I don't know if I can make
it there in one move or not.
Speaker 10: I don't know if I'm on cops, but Mantis would
reply if so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you started off by talking to us on tombs.
Speaker 7: You're in range, so yes, yeah, you and I were
just talking.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll take care of.
Speaker 5: Mensis Okay, I'm gonna make a charging attack of that guy.
Speaker 2: If I can't.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dude, you fucking sprint down this and so
it's like compacted gravel and dirt and like it it's raining,
and so like fortunately this far away from Mount Rainier,
it's not acid rain. It's just regular rain, which is
a huge relief for you. But it's still it's raining.
So it's like getting muddy, and you're like fucking trotting
through through this gravelly, muddy mud and you rush past
the carcasses of some destroyed cars and it looks like
some sort of like a crane thing for lifting up
cars and dropping him into a crusher. You sprint around
the side of it, yellowish, rusted out paints peeling off
of this fucker. There's a pile of tires. You move
around the side and you see this one guy. He
looks he look scared but kind of confident, barefoot, big ass, dirty,
hairy revolver in his hand, he's got a smile on
his face.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna make my attack.
Speaker 5: I'm going to kick him with my steel toe boots,
and I'll decide what happens based on how I roll.
But I get plus two because of the charge.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so that's six successes. Oh, this guy's in
for it. He was not expecting you. I'm gonna give
him a penalty. Got four net hits. Okay, well physic image.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I come around the corner and I grab
the like grab him like right by the head, and
I just stomp on his leg like trying to break him.
Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah, it happens like you grab the dude
by the face. He goes like an idiot as you
grab his face and you stomp and like, dude, you
stomp through his thigh. What is that the femur up there?
You stomp through and it just like fucking goes limp
and you're like, how many knees are you supposed to
have him that leg? Bro? And he's like no too,
but it's all fucking floppy and dangly, and the dude
screams out and he like hits the ground and he's
like twitching, and uh, you you've you've you've ruined his day.
He's done, he's done for take him out of the
initiative order fucking snap his femur, target.
Speaker 7: Down, target down. Yeah, that's yeah, fu.
Speaker 3: Yeah if that dude survives like he's never gonna walk
right again.
Speaker 2: Used to be an adventure like us, Yes, until.
Speaker 3: He took a troll.
Speaker 1: Jeu.
Speaker 3: You go to Mantis, bow drawn arrow knocked.
Speaker 10: Mantis sees what happens to Vault, runs to the side,
kneels down, drops the bow with one of his free hands.
Uh seas he's tied up, and with one of his
free hands, uh cuts the.
Speaker 9: Was zip tize.
Speaker 3: He said, Yeah, it's like you know those police zip
ties where it's like a double zip tie. You know
what I'm talking about. Yeah, it's like that's just like
zip handcuffs.
Speaker 9: And uh. The Mantis kind of he goes in kind
of at a like.
Speaker 11: On his knees and like a meditative sit and he
brushes his arms like upward to kick off his jacket
and uh, revealing underneath, like on his lower back, another
set of two arms, and he puts them all in
front of him in kind of like no palm to
palm motion like he's meditating, and they start to glow
and he touches Vault.
Speaker 3: Inappropriately and cav and.
Speaker 11: He does an empathic healing on Vault. So I need
to roll my magic plus willpower.
Speaker 3: Oh, baby, guys, we got some stuff happening with Mantis.
It only took twelve episodes, but he's doing something.
Speaker 9: He's nobody's ever really needed help stumping everything. I don't
see magic as a thing I can roll.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to magic.
Speaker 9: Says magic plus willpower.
Speaker 3: Uh so that might not have a button unfortunately. So
uh you know you dad, Yeah, your magic is uh
you know here, I'll fix let me fix your character
shit real quick here because it's turned off. And let's
bring this on. There we go, now we go back
here and now.
Speaker 10: All right, all right, so I'm just gonna do a
magic role plus my will power of four right.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah magic and yeah four yeah, so ten dice.
Speaker 10: Three success, and it says, uh, let's see for every hit,
one box of physical damage transfers from the wounded target
to my damage track.
Speaker 9: So I take three of your damage nice away from you.
Speaker 7: Thanks bro.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, that's crazy. So you just you start to
close up this bullet wound as one starts to open
up on you in the same place. It's like in
the in the the the hip.
Speaker 9: Exactly fucking crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's super in is still in a.
Speaker 10: B I sealed it in him he gets Yeah, he's
gonna get an infection and slowly die.
Speaker 3: Now now you're gonna do that cool magician thing where
it's in my left hand, psych it's in my right
and the bullet will be in your kidney instead.
Speaker 4: This is the worst part, so sorry. Uh so, I
see he has quite a few athletic abilities here, and
I'm technically prone.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, you dropped brone when you were getting lit
up with a machine gun.
Speaker 4: Because I saw that it's what one complex action or
two simple actions uh for for the action economy, or
because because basically here's the idea. Uh what I was
thinking about doing was standing up in the going for
an attack on the guy with the heavy machine gun.
Speaker 3: But mainly is a complex action.
Speaker 4: Ah so I would basically all I would really be
able to do is stand up, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can move around and stuff.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well in this situation, night writer, or basically, or
I was just kind of like staring at everything that's happening,
just like he's on the ground sucking.
Speaker 2: You could hear like the noise we hear from a
flash bang, just him just like what what the fuck is?
Speaker 4: And now he's covered in blood from all the explosion
that happened.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's raining, it's raining, and it is raining blood.
Speaker 4: It's like Slayer put in his voice in his head.
He starts to hear his voice. Get he'll be a
little basted. I didn't raise you to be a coward.
Get up, showed them that you are the night.
Speaker 3: His mom? Is it his mom?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 3: It's his mom. You're gonna show her. You're gonna show her.
You'll show her. She said you'd never mount to anything,
and you're gonna make it. You're gonna be famous.
Speaker 4: As he stands up, he just pulls his blade to
the side and just gets into position to strike.
Speaker 2: And that's where he ends us.
Speaker 3: Durn you want to be famous. Don't you be famous?
Don't you That's all you hear over and over in
your head. You want to be famous, don't you would?
Speaker 5: I make a recommendation, like I know all that it's
not my turn, but you could use a simple action
to take cover.
Speaker 3: Just great, great suggestion. I like that. That way you
don't get hit with the machine gun or a fucking rocket.
Speaker 4: I mean, true, true, He's just gonna be slightly enough
behind the cars to take the cover. Not because he
chooses to, but because he was had the dumb luck
enough to be in cover.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a simple action.
Speaker 3: There you go, You get up and you're like, I'm ready,
and then you're like, wait, where am I I mean? Cover?
Cool us? Are you after losing three boxes of damage?
Are you still into overflow?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 8: I am conscious again.
Speaker 3: There you go. You Yeah, you come to your and
like it's uh the most you've ever been shot?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, my initiative would change though, because now I no
longer have free bonus dies from increased reflexes.
Speaker 3: That's true. That's true. So roll two d sex and
we're gonna subtract that from your initiatives work. Okay, I
don't know that's how you're supposed to do it, but
that's how we're gonna do it. Wh makes sense to me.
Six You don't forget the space eight, So you got
a two. We're gonna just drop you right on down,
go to you know what. No, No, you should still
be up there because all these other guys have already gone.
I think, uh knuckles, you went this tree.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but he went at the top as you ordered
with the twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then yeah, these.
Speaker 8: Guys had like sixteens and fifteens.
Speaker 3: All right, right on, So you should be down here. Okay,
So that's not that bad. You only fall down a
little bit, all right. So the guy with the machine gun,
he's got to make his test again. He's got one
more influency power. Oh that would fail. That falls off
because you knocked out.
Speaker 8: It's not a sustained it's just a permanent so.
Speaker 3: Oh is it okay? Well then you're right. Thank you
for being on top of your ship and let's go.
Speaker 2: All right now.
Speaker 3: He snaps out of it anyway, So he comes to
he's like, he's like, oh, sorry, dude, I thought you
were one of the cops. You have have you know what?
I called you a pig. You have been losing weight
and it's a lot of effort, and I appreciate the
work that you're putting in. You know, you're I see
you doing the reps and you get the cred by
the way. And then he turns. He starts lighting up
with a machine gun and he's gonna shoot towards where
a night runner. Oh you know what he can Oh no,
he's gonna because night Runner is tucked back behind. He's
gonna move forward and he's gonna make a perception role.
Let's see if he spots where Knuckles is or if
he's gonna keep moving. Good news, he's not trained in
perception because who needs that, right, Let's go, Oh, he
sees you, Knuckles, he's gonna open up you ready with
the heavy machine gun. We're gonna go full auto. He's
got recoil comp There we go, There we go, O
one success. Now Here's the issue though, is that you
have a big penalty because he's using full auto.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me see exactly, let.
Speaker 3: Me see exactly what that is here. I don't want
to know. I don't want to search in No, what
did I done?
Speaker 1: What does full auto do for him?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: It reduces your your defense pool?
Speaker 5: Oh okay, but it's a complex action as opposed to
simple like so you can do that and nothing else.
Speaker 3: So it does it does that also it fires off
way more AMMO and creates a recoil situation. But he's
got recoil compensation enough that he's only took a mins
two penalty, which is already on there and full auto
full burst complex action uh bam defense modifier negative nine
to your defense pools.
Speaker 1: Is that dodge or what is that?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: Dodge? If you if you hit dodge, your initiative score
is going to drop down to one, so you actually
still get to act anyway, but you get to add
your gymnastics to the pool.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is it if I don't do that? What's defend?
What is that? Defense?
Speaker 3: Is your initiative and react or sorry, your intuition and
reaction with a minus nine penalty?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I'll just I'll just defend. Yeah, no big.
Oh wait, I have to have my tarp and selected,
I think.
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, I'll only need one success.
Speaker 2: You're finding.
Speaker 1: Success. I didn't do the negative. I'm sorry, I'm sorry
the negative. Oh it didn't give me the negative.
Speaker 3: Okay, do it again, okay, minus none, right nine, negative nine?
Speaker 1: Oh zero successes.
Speaker 3: Hit that soak it's got ap minus three eleven. Oh
that's not right. It should have been the other pool.
It's uh, pardon me, pardon me, it's the A P
D S. I clicked the wrong button. Uh yeah, it
should be minus seven. Pardon me, it's minus seven. So
hit that soak button and then minus seven.
Speaker 8: Oh, then the racket launcher. Guys probably takes more damage.
Speaker 3: Right, he didn't he didn't hit the rock and launch.
Guy did he missed? No, he missed miss Should I
defend again?
Speaker 1: So it does the right number of a p if
I soak it soaking on the original attack?
Speaker 3: Right, how what's your what's your armor pool?
Speaker 2: Which?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll just let me just let me just do this.
I'll just yeah, uh.
Speaker 8: I'll just produce it by additional four.
Speaker 1: I'll just let me just I'll do this. It's I
automatically fail then it doesn't work. There you go, yeah,
there we go. Sorry, it's just taking a time. Okay,
So there, I just gave myself a negative eleven modifier,
so I didn't have a dice pool. So yeah, I
should soak and it should do the correct thing. And
is there any is there any modifiers to the soak roll?
Speaker 3: No, but it's trying to soak against thirteen. It should
be soaking against eleven. So whatever it is, it's too
fewer that you take.
Speaker 1: Why is it doing that?
Speaker 3: Because I hit I hit the button and it did
three successes instead of one.
Speaker 1: Oh gotcha?
Speaker 3: Okay, So yeah, so it's you take so you take
three fewer, so you take two two physical damage. It's
not that bad, okay, damn all right, Oh no, you're
gonna take two stunned because it's reduced. Oh no, no
you're nope, yep, no, nope, that's right. That's right, that's right.
Too physical.
Speaker 1: So it's it's doing thirteen damage or eleven.
Speaker 3: Damage, eleven damage? You soaking eleven damage?
Speaker 1: It's minus seven, so that drops my armor down to eleven.
Speaker 3: Right, yes, and you were trying to soak eleven, so
it'd be physical.
Speaker 1: Gotcha.
Speaker 3: Also, it's your armor, your armor, not including your body.
So yeah, it's it's physical. It's just the two physical,
not bit.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just trying to understand all the dice
rolls that are happening here. So gotcha, okay, okay, So
it's so was eleven damage, and when I do the
soak roll, the soak roll is my armor plus my
body minus the eight yes, minus the ap okay, gotcha?
So a p seven So that drops the armor down
to eleven. So I was rolling a total of twenty dice.
Speaker 7: Yes, sounds right, Okay, sounds right.
Speaker 1: I got eight successes, so eight nine and all it's
so three damage, okay, And where do I put the
damage that's under physical.
Speaker 3: Yeah wounds, two wounds under for the physical.
Speaker 1: Three wounds, right, because it was eleven damage.
Speaker 3: Uh it was eleven yeah and yeah three all right party.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just want to say what a privileged life
Chris is led to not even know where to put
damage on his character.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I didn't have one damage on me from
like a session or two ago when I crashed the bike,
right right, but yeah right, I mean, get on my level, bro,
maybe some grenade, you know, just saying I just.
Speaker 10: Had to figure it out for the first time. But
that's mostly because I'm a pacifist.
Speaker 3: All right, So I know it's a little bitter. I
know it's a little bit early, but it breaks in. Yeah, okay,
because I gotta man. I gotta let that I finish
that beer. I gotta let it go. You love something,
you gotta let it go.
Speaker 1: You gotta let out that scaly listen.
Speaker 5: All right, alright, alright, sorry right now, like what is
all that noise?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: See you side guys.
Speaker 2: All right, all.
Speaker 3: Right, let's do this. Let's do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go go go, It's ready. Yeah, all right, listeners,
we're back. I just finished my dinner. Yes, I'm eating
dinner at ten forty three at night. Saturdays are kind
of a word schedule for me. So, yeah, what you got, Adam?
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pay me for that slogan. All right, So here we
go we left off. It's ooth Rocks turn. You have
been shot at and hit with a machine gun. Unfazed,
it damaged, not that bad, three repoints damage not that bad,
or a high pain threshold or something so you you
don't even take wound penalties.
Speaker 1: Yet you're damn right? Okay. Question, is it possible to
fire the gun more than once during an initiative pass?
It's semi autumn, ok yes, you can't.
Speaker 3: If it's if it's single shot new if it's semi
u uh uh no. But if it's semi auto. You
can do the the multiple attacks free action, which I
believe splits your dice pool between the two attacks.
Speaker 7: Gotcha?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I only have single shot weapons because I'm
a badass like that. So I am. I don't want
to leave cover because the rocket wuncher guy can't see me,
so I will uh and I can't move anymore because
it's another initiative pass without taking penalties, so we're taking tests.
So I am just gonna point the shotgun at this
guy and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no penalties. He's in the open.
Speaker 1: You want to dance?
Speaker 3: Can I want to jack with the ripper?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can I What does it take to switch out a
clip of ammo?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so happy that you asked. You have an
internal magazine on your shotgun, so let's take a look
in the book and find out how you reload an
internal magazine. I think you can add rounds equal to
your agility score per complex action. Let me let's find out.
Speaker 1: Though that was a lot of words I just heard.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it you know what, It's different depending on
the kind of reload that you have. H It's complicating.
Speaker 5: I started reading those rules and decided I only liked pistol.
Speaker 2: That's that's.
Speaker 3: So I've been Now I feel like I've betrayed myself
by what I'm about to say. But I've been reading
the Shadow Run Anarchy Rules, which are the rules light
ish version of Shadow Run. It's still more complicated than
most other RPGs, but it's it's streamlined quite a bit
and something that interesting. Yeah, it's something that interests me.
So more news on that eventually, someday maybe we'll find out.
Let's find out about reloading. It's somewhere by.
Speaker 1: The way scar youled. I'm looking at the comment patrol
right now.
Speaker 14: And I realized that's just like a side arm. Apparently
for ten guys. There are six different entries for equipment
in this unit. Fucking dumb for beginners.
Speaker 9: By the way, you know, perfect example right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, got my book. I wish you'd ask before
the break that way I could have had some time.
Speaker 1: If you would have killed me, I wouldn't be able
to ask this question.
Speaker 3: So you're right, you know what fault is it? Uh?
The dice? I blame random probability. All right, let's go
all the way to the back of this boy and
find the index and look at reloading.
Speaker 1: Ah, you think that one is bad, download the one
for the Black Templars and look at the load out
for the Primari's Crusader squad, and you will want to
tear your eyes out. Patrol, Yes, because not only do
you have a ten man squad where everybody has different stuff,
but is a ten man squad with three different types
of models in it. My buddy Ernie tried to play
that one time and we were just like this. He's like, Okay,
so this guy has the sword, this guy has the thing.
It's like, I believe you.
Speaker 8: Just make your tags please, Oh God.
Speaker 1: For beginners. By the way, the Primary Sword Brother is
equipped with this, The Primary's Initiatives are equipped with this,
The Primaris neophytes are equipped with this. The other Primaries
neophytes are equipped with that.
Speaker 7: Like what, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know what any just mean. I don't know what
those were meaning.
Speaker 1: So let's see it means needs to uh need to
do better.
Speaker 3: They're all different, They're all each special, unique individuals with
their own complex backstories involving how they got involved in
this gang in the first place.
Speaker 1: Until some some assholes with grenades and psychic powers show
up and ruin their day.
Speaker 3: All of these yeah, all of these. Uh, you know,
individuals with their own wants and needs and goals don't
mind to a whole heap of beans when they get
hit with a high explosive grenade at point blank range. Yeah,
life is rough, short, violent, you know it's not rough,
short and violent. Finding the rules, un reloading, getting there.
Speaker 1: In general?
Speaker 3: Okay, relocation, No, I don't need to find out about
relocating regular ammo. Nope, nothing about reloading.
Speaker 1: Just filling in the silence here, listeners while he will
he finds the rules. So you gotta you gotta listen
to talk about war hammer ship.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna house rule because I don't I
don't feel like anymore. We're gonna say it's like a
cylinder thing where you can reload a number of rounds
equal to your agility uh score per complex action.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask because isn't it like a
clip or a magazine?
Speaker 3: Yours is an internal magazine. So it's a shotgun. Like
there's like a like a breach that you feed shells
into and then you pump it in, and then you
put in another one, and then you put in another one,
and you put in another one.
Speaker 1: So you gotta load each shell Individually's what you're saying, gotcha?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's an internal magazine's not a clip yep, gotcha.
Speaker 1: Well fuck that. I'm not gonna change gamble then, because
that's gonna take away too. So yeah, I just pointed
the gun and pulled the trigger. A couple of amb.
Speaker 3: Would I even look?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Exactly? Oh three successes? That's all right, I'll take.
Speaker 3: That all right, Here we go. He's gonna defend with
a no modifier. Oh two successes? What't that hit? He's
gonna try to soak against your thirteen physical damage with
ap of minus one oof only four successes nine damage.
This guy already had two damage on. This guy is donezo.
You take down the guy with the machine gun.
Speaker 1: The waita so as I as I turn, like you know,
I'm in the cover, there's fucking bullets ripping up the
cover as this guy is shooting at me, A couple
of them. Nick me, you see a little blood coming
out of holes in my jacket, and then the torrent
of bullets stops and knuckles just looks more annoyed than anything.
He looks over his shoulder, just points his gun one
shot right in the fucking chest. The guy goes down
and uh, I just go I guess mine was bigger
than yours.
Speaker 3: Oh. Blast hits him in the chest, knocks him off
his feet. He flies backwards, hits the ground dead before
he hits the ground.
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna look tonight right and be like
catch up kid again. I cocked out another shell that
I didn't even fire. I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 3: I'm making enough money that I can just shoot these
things out for fun. The guy on the wall of
cars gets up. Well, he got a blast, and he's
got his fucking as technology striker missile launchers fucking up
on the shoulder. He steps forward, drops to one knee,
and he yells out audio some egos, and he fires
off a fucking high explosive missile at this area here
it's gonna hit. If this goes off, it's going to
be enrange to deal some damage. So this kind of
works like a grenade where it has a blast radius
and all that good stuff. So here comes I'm sorry,
fucking do it.
Speaker 5: Successes.
Speaker 3: Rockets Slash missiles are designed to do heavy damage to
a large area. Their blast pattern similar to that of
a grenade, but much larger. They are not particularly effective
against hardened targets such as vehicles or protected military structures.
High explosive weapons use the standard grenade rules for determining
the blasts, and this is the facts blast minus two
damage per meter. But he's got three hits, so it
goes right where he was aiming it. Damage value twenty one.
Speaker 1: P Jesus, Do I know any way to defend? Or
I just soak it? What happened? I've never been on
the receiving explosion. I know it was gonna happen eventually.
Speaker 3: So you play with fire, you're gonna get burned, that's right. Yeah. Well,
I would say you could try to dodge, but you
got this thing or you've got no initiative left, so
this might be it for you. Uh oh, so, well
he can defend.
Speaker 1: That's my question. Against an explosion, is there any sort
of defensive role or is it only dodge role?
Speaker 3: I would I would let you do the dodge, try
to mitigate some of it, but no, like the regular defense,
you can't really do anything because you know what I'm
gonna I'm gonna double check because this, uh, this is
a potential character ending situation here. Let me go, uh,
let me go double check.
Speaker 1: Uh please, I'm just I'm just trying to increase my
shadow run more skill here by learning more rules so
i'll get if I die.
Speaker 7: That's the good The good news is is you will.
Speaker 5: You will become even better at making characters in a
minute here.
Speaker 1: Oh man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and to think I was gonna make you.
Speaker 1: My daughter's godfather, I mean I appreciate.
Speaker 5: Oh actually, I'm kidding. It wasn't gonna be. But he
was not suited for the task.
Speaker 1: Are you serious? I just aced half these motherfuckers catch up.
Speaker 5: That's part of the reason why you can't raise my daughter.
Speaker 1: Hey, because I would keep her safe.
Speaker 8: More than all you fuckers, because you carry grenades with
you everywhere you go.
Speaker 1: For safety. Okay. If I didn't have a grenade, we'd
be getting shot at by six motherfuckers and this combat
would be going on for three more weeks. So was
it off?
Speaker 5: I think it's next week's episode as it drops, right,
is the one where you hand a child like a
live grenade live?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay. When you say live live insinuates that I had
uncorked the fucking pin and handed it to them. It
was not a live grenade. It was a functioning grenade.
Speaker 7: First you showed him how to make it a life.
Speaker 1: Then all right, let's stop with the fake news and
go back and check the facts. If we remember, okay,
for those of us that were actually paying attention, if
we remember exhibit day you're honor, you'll notice in the
audio recording when the child says, hey, were those are
those grenades? Can I have one? I said, oh, no,
those are extra T shirt rounds, And he was like, no.
Speaker 3: I played Call of Duty thirty seven.
Speaker 1: That's I know that's your grenade. So uth Rock tried
to do the right thing, okay, and he was caught,
and there was already enough lies going on right with
the world. Doesn't need more liars. So I came clean
and I gave him a kid and plus the dying
right who could say no.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 9: He had he had to give the kid the grenade.
Speaker 1: Obviously, right.
Speaker 5: But if child asks you for anything dangerous, the answer
is always yes.
Speaker 1: That's well, when they're dying of cancer, yes, the answer yes.
Speaker 7: I don't want to die from cancer anymore. So I
believe it.
Speaker 9: I believe it was said, well, he's gonna die anyway.
I think those words were used.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what, you know what, I got
a lot of Make a Wish Foundation wishes to catch
up to John Cena's record. So I'm just trying my
best out here.
Speaker 3: Okay, one kid, have you guys thing where it's like, uh,
it's it's like John Cena surprises kid with cancer on
his birthday and like there's like a common this is
like what a terrible gift? Like heavy birthday? Kid, here's cancer.
All right, So I'm back and I got bad news. Man,
you got no defense roll, so you just roll. See
if he gets he gets those three successes, that means
it hits where he wants it to go. So it
goes and it's gonna blast off and it is going
to hit you. J minus to roll the soak?
Speaker 1: Can I edge my soak roll?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Man? You can? Okay, Well if you got but
you got bad you got bad luck, you got bad luck.
Speaker 1: I'll just use your edge.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, fine, fine, fine, fine, all right, go ahead,
hit that edge button, hit that soak button, all right,
Hold on before you before you do this, I want
you to to consider this. If you edge beforehand, what
happens is you add your edge score to your role sixes,
you reroll and adah. Now if you roll, if you
if you edge after rolling, you re roll missus. Yeah,
so you can do one of those kind of things?
Speaker 1: Can you do both? If you have?
Speaker 3: You got one of one or the other.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm I'm definitely gonna gonna pre edge, okay for sure?
Speaker 3: All right, cool? I just want to let you know
your options.
Speaker 1: So, should should I do a defend role?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: So the thing does.
Speaker 5: The soak from the character sheet?
Speaker 3: Oh, you can just roll straight from the thing. Yeah,
there's under defense there's a soak button. Yeah, and it's
minus two right, minus two? Correct edging is on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty four successes. Get the fuck out of my house?
Speaker 3: Fuck?
Speaker 2: Are you do? You catch?
Speaker 5: The rill?
Speaker 3: Is insane?
Speaker 8: He's going pretty dice.
Speaker 3: Six six six.
Speaker 8: You're going over thirty dis.
Speaker 3: Five five five five five five five five five five
Oh my god, Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1: Estimate my power.
Speaker 5: I think you actually floated like ten times there, Like
that's creating.
Speaker 1: Because I've been pre edging all week.
Speaker 3: Baby, Fuck dude, that shouldn't you should be dead? You
should be dead? Yeah, you should be deash should.
Speaker 5: Have, could have, would have, and instead you stand up
like as if it didn't phase you already facing the fire.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, rag dog, no high explosivemator. It's the terminator, dude,
like you like, it's just the smoke clears and there's
a crater with glowing fucking embers all over and you're
standing in it and you're like fucking like three point stance,
knuckles on the ground, like naked, and you slowly raise
your head up and you look at him and you're like,
your clothes, give them to me. Ship.
Speaker 1: Also, listeners, I had no idea what I was doing
when I made this character, so.
Speaker 3: Enjoy Holy shit, wow all right, so awesome, wow wow.
All right, well Runner, you're still you're still in range
for that maybe I can kill you.
Speaker 2: Uh, I was hoping. So you got.
Speaker 3: Twenty one p u AP minus two and from actually
it's gonna be reduced by from the range from where
you are, it's gonna be reduced down to nineteen. And
then you got the barrier. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm
just gonna, we're gonna speed through this, speed this along.
We're saying it's gonna be for you. Seventeen. Excuse me,
I'm full of beer and purps seventeen physical ap minus
to you. Go ahead and roll it. Roll soak on
your guart sheet. If you have edge, you might want
to use it. If not, maybe not.
Speaker 4: He's definitely gonna pre edge too. Yeah, Rose, which one.
Let's see where's the soak so on.
Speaker 3: Your main tab all the way up at the top.
Make sure you click edge so it's highlighted. You scrolled down,
you'll see things is defense on the right hand side.
There's two things, DODG and soak. Hit that soak.
Speaker 2: Button thirteen success thirteen.
Speaker 3: So it's not bad. No, it's not bad. It's not bad.
You soak thirteen out of seventeen. You take four points
physical damage and the blast uh is not enough to
take you down?
Speaker 2: Man? All right? You know what? No?
Speaker 3: I think that No, no, because the amount of damage is
still enough. Yeah it excuse your physical Yeah, it does
knock you down, knocks you off your feet. But the
blast hits and like cars from this wall of cars
like start toppling and like you you get blown clear
of it. One of these cars lands and like you
go through the sunroof of it and like you know,
you got your arms up like bracing front of your
head and like you like and you go into the
sunroof and you're inside one of these cars that toppled
over on top of you, and uh, it's it's it's awesome.
That's what happens. Ford your you got three on your
INDI shift. Uh you see that rocket just and you
see a car smash fucking night Runner and uh, that's
that's what you got.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: Is this like a pile like this like over here?
Is this like a pile that like I could kind
of like up or is that like I would have.
Speaker 3: To climb it? It's it's like scattered wreckage from crushed cars.
You can you can traverse it. You don't have to
climb or anything like that. This this kind of like
bigger you see what I'm talking about. This little like
blockie portion on the nape here is like a bin
of like exhaust manifolds.
Speaker 5: Okay, I think I have enough movement I could move there.
Speaker 7: I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Aim and then take fire, which I believe aiming gives
me a plus Is it a plus two or plus three?
Speaker 3: I think it's plus one per aim action taken?
Speaker 5: Oh okay so then just a plus one. So I
am going to fire with my gel rounds because that's
all I got right now.
Speaker 3: Oh you're sticking to the mission.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 3: Well, I just your profession.
Speaker 2: In the action.
Speaker 5: So five successes with the with the gel round. So
he's just sitting already, fires off a thing and then
all of a sudden, look like a green bullet hits
him in the side of that.
Speaker 3: He gets two tests, so it's three net hits for you.
Ten stune coming through ap minus one he gets one success.
Nine stune. You knock his ass out. Joe Brown hits him,
slams in the side of his head, flattens out like
a pancake covered in green shit. It splats and his
head jerks to the side and he tumbles over the
side of the cars, hits the ground and twists his
ankle real bad, but he's unconscious. That's the end of combat.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nice. As the smoke clears from all the rubble and
fucking shrapnel and little bits of ground or falling out
of the sky, I look at a night rider. I'm
gonna walk over to him. I'll extend a hand to
pull him up, and as I do, will be like,
nicely done, kid, And then I'm gonna go pay a
visit to our little rocket launcher toting friends. Do you
see you start climbing up the mountain of junk.
Speaker 3: Oh no, he's down, he's down. He got toppled over
the side.
Speaker 1: Oh well, then I slowly start walking towards him. I
holster the shotgun, and I pull out the wrench and
I start doing that thing where you're you know, hitting
it in your palm. Oh, Mike, you you chose the
wrong day, motherfucker.
Speaker 3: And all he says is.
Speaker 1: And yeah, then I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna put him
down permanently. I'm gonna bring him a couple of times.
Speaker 3: You just murdered this, this this extra, this sleeping extra.
By the way, these are all actors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the machine good.
Speaker 1: If possible, I would like to retrieve his rocket launcher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man as technology striker with one missile, one high
ex missile. We'll give you the stats on that in
a minute. Here's the deal, though, as you're over there
and you're going to work, you're behind this wall of stuff,
so nobody else ses exactly what's going on, but mantis,
your walkie talkie is blowing up, and you, guys, hear
those those distant sirens getting closer, and you hear like like, uh,
you know, back up and bound. Three squads on the way.
Speaker 9: I yell loud out loud, more police on the way.
Speaker 5: And and Jacques is running towards back towards Volts, so
like maybe he hears like you're shutting that to him
or whatever the car.
Speaker 1: You still need to get the Nova Cooke.
Speaker 7: Guys, it's night Runner, night Runner. Can you hear me?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Why are you here?
Speaker 2: On so mean?
Speaker 8: I'm I really almost died. Thanks, Thanks, Bud, I really
appreciate that.
Speaker 7: Sorry, it's a very high intense situation.
Speaker 5: And I'm trying to talk to night Runner future godfather
to my daughter.
Speaker 8: Wow, he's kidding me, Okay, he told me I was
your godfather.
Speaker 5: It's godfather, listen, I was telling joke.
Speaker 7: Volt is obviously the godfather.
Speaker 5: He's the only person that he's yeah close in them.
Speaker 7: But night Runner building to the north.
Speaker 5: We're going now to get over the coke now, and
and I'm gonna sprint towards that building to the north
because I think that's.
Speaker 1: Where it wasn't in a building, it was in a car.
Remember he gave us the license plate number and told
us to make it.
Speaker 5: Oh, never mind, Then I say that instead because Aaron forgot,
but Jock would remember.
Speaker 7: He's very.
Speaker 9: Extend right hand to help them out.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I take those graciously. Yeah, a few few hours
rest and he'll be good as new. Give you a
little bit of Novaco.
Speaker 3: Sure, little novacock novacock.
Speaker 9: Excuse cock, that new.
Speaker 3: Frank augmentation baby novacoc woof. All right, So you guys,
uh start scrambling through and you're trying to find this
license plate you got Who remembers the license plate number
I wrote?
Speaker 1: You know what, Adam? I think I had put it
in the text chat because I remember writing it down.
But it doesn't look like it goes back far enough.
Speaker 3: It's almost like you were so distracted by all the
combat that your character can't remember. No, So you guys
got it, you got it. It was it was like
X twenty five twenty five X, I think, But uh,
it doesn't really matter, you see, Yeah, you got it,
you got it. I was just I was fucking with
you guys. I'm fucking with you guys. So you start
looking through and you're trying to find this license plate.
This the Jeloppy Jungle to pick apart. Jeloppy Jungle is massive,
absolutely massive. Like I was saying last week, it goes
across the canal. It's fucking massive. If you're looking through
license plate by license plate, you're not gonna find it.
So you, guys, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna streamline
this sitch for you. Guys. You move into that building
to the north. There's a guy in there. He's working
at a computer. Somebody sneaks up, chokes him out, Stevensiegold
style takes him down. It's a computer, guys. Check it out.
You find where it's located, and you scurry around and
you get to it and there it is the Ford
Americar X twenty five twenty five X. And you jimmy
the lock, pop it open inside, blam blam blam blam.
Big bags of nova coke. They're all in like you know,
saran wrap and ship and they got like the you know,
the the cross shaped masking tape on him to hold
it all together. Somebody, I'm gonna say it's probably night
Rider because he's playing the part slices one of him
open stick. Oh, you know what night rider night Runner.
Pardon me, don't say night rider because we'll get sued.
Night Runner springs out his his cyber blade from the
side of his palm and sticks it in, slashes the bag,
scoops a little bit of novacoke.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got it. Calmly goes off all of you all
at once. It's a group call.
Speaker 8: Problem.
Speaker 3: Frankie. Frank he says.
Speaker 13: Frankie says, who looks from the back, You gotta go
out the other side. Give you some directions here, I'll
pin it on your map, and she gives you guys.
Speaker 3: Uh, excuse me, I got a lot of beer, and
it gives you guys directions towards a secret exit at
the other side. You guys go and you pop on
the other side. And if you guys have any kind
of knowledge about geography, nope, you.
Speaker 1: Guys waiting for the.
Speaker 2: Only geology.
Speaker 7: You keep asking.
Speaker 5: Some times I go and invest in age skills, and
then you never ask again.
Speaker 2: Night writer knows about.
Speaker 3: Okay, So uh, you guys go and like as you
guys approach towards the back of this the back wall
of this thing, and you know these the fucking the
ttpf are swarming in. There's a bunch of them at
this point, these guys are loaded to bear. You got
more of these drones coming in. You guys do some
cool like like middle gear, solid shit evading the drones
that are flying overhead with their search lights and these
cops that are coming through and swarming the joint. And
you go out the other side, and you go across,
and you swim through some water and you co ruin.
There's muck and mud and grime. You come out to
the other side. You guys are greeted at the other side.
As soon as you emerge into what you thought was safety,
you guys find these guys Flamo incredibly intimidating police force.
You guys came out on the wrong side. You're in
the Pueblo Corporate Council. Now you're greeted by a bunch
of Native American dudes that are fucking chromed to the gills.
These dudes look like each one of them costs more
money than you'll ever see in your lifetime. They are
decked the fuck out heavy armor, completely cybernetically enhanced, big guns,
lasers fucking everywhere. These dudes look serious as shit, and
they go job will done. We were expecting you a
little bit earlier, but it seems like you took care
of our little problem in here. My name is Stargazer
and he gestures around. He's like, this is Quicksilver, Bluegrass, Steelheart, Will,
Hot Wing, and moon Striker. And then they go up
to uh A night Runner and you've passed your initiation.
Welcome to the Pueblo Corporate Council family. And he goes
up and he gives you one of those cool guy
post apocalyptic things where he grips your forearm and does
like a forearm shake, you know the one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's like there's sweat coming down, like and
this chrome is glistening.
Speaker 2: He's like, glad to join you.
Speaker 3: Thank you for making me a part of the tea.
What the fuck, guys, you passed your audition?
Speaker 9: Look at you?
Speaker 1: Mostly done, kid.
Speaker 5: Star Gazer, Star Gazer. I have a question for you.
What what just.
Speaker 3: Cut a bunch of humanist poly clubs. Scumbags have been
operating too close to our borders, the pedaling drugs, drugs
that we don't need in our lands. We like to
keep things clean, we like to keep things on the level.
And he looks at you, and he's got these totally
in tense eyes, super intense.
Speaker 5: Okay, Star Gazer, I'll ask somebody else.
Speaker 8: Okay, like not Wing or moon Strikers probably are bet.
Speaker 7: For answers here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you ask Caltwing you have about the Christmas Hey Hotling.
Speaker 7: Nice to meet you.
Speaker 8: My name is Paul, currently leading out what it is
all of this because we weren't we were told something
completely different. I would love to know what actually is happening,
if possible.
Speaker 3: I'm just a lowly force h commando, but I'm here
as part of this special force to recruit new members.
I was told that this audition would go through. There
may have been some subterfuge, but this mission was successful.
Welcome to you, night Runner, to us the Pueblo Corporate Council,
the most successful, happy, pleasant, well run country in the
North American continent. Here, sign here, and he pulls out
just like a document. He doesn't pull it out. That's ridiculous.
Stargazer pulls out this document and he says, sign here,
and he presents you with a very very fine ballpoint.
Speaker 2: Pen night Runner.
Speaker 4: It says no need and in the same arm that
he has the blade, he pushes in one of his fingers,
pulls it out and it turns into a ballpoint pen
of his own.
Speaker 3: The best, the best cybernetic upgrade available. You sign it
and they go, congratulations, you're now an official shareholder in
the Pueblo Corporate Council. Welcome aboard, and then he gives you.
He gives you a special secret handshake that nobody knew,
that you knew ahead of time, but you know it.
It's like it's like slap, slap, pound pound elbow bump
and then like an up high fist pop and then uh,
it's like, welcome aboard, brother, take you to your new home.
You're part of the family. Now, the rest of you,
good job. And he flashes you like he turns and
dramatic flashes you a thumbs up and there's a glint
in his eye.
Speaker 11: You guys, he says, his hands slowly raised up, lady,
and he's got a question.
Speaker 3: In the school. He goes, Now the rest of you
get the fuck off our land.
Speaker 2: North and night Runner. Before you, guys go, we'll turn
to you say I would have never made a hue
without you, guys. I really appreciate all of you. Thank
you for all that you did for me.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, kid, the pleasure is all ours.
Speaker 5: Or it's just like his guy his hands up in
the airs, what what is what? Like he's so focused
on like he doesn't understand what and and he's upset
about so.
Speaker 3: Uh you hear you hear more madness going on as
there's more shooting going on in the jeloppy jungle. Uh,
your phone goes off again and you get like a
text message goes and you get a text message says,
don't forget the chip, and then night writer. You're like, oh, yeah,
the chip, and then you pop the chip out from
the back of your skull and it's the recording of
this whole thing in your sims sense. Here you go, boy,
all right, And then you get another don't forget the
nova coke smiley face thumbs up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we take the coke, I guess. Okay, yeah, I
just take that. They don't want that on their land.
Speaker 6: Okay, let's go back to our friend. Yeah, I really
would have appreciated not loading some of our weapons within
with them.
Speaker 3: I still killed a guy anyway. So you guys, you
guys start hiking back. It's uh, it takes you guys
a little a little wild to get oriented, and you
got your you know your whatever. The pedestrian version of
grid guide is pulls up on your colm links and
you're able to navigate back home. It takes you, guys,
like two hours to hike back, but you get there
without any additional trouble. You know, you guys evade the cops,
no problem. There's still more shooting going on at the
Jealoppi Jungle and more cop cars rolling up to it.
Apparently there are a lot more of these gang guys
in there, and they're like fucking at war in there.
But eventually you get back to, uh, where is she, Frank,
where are you? She's in the context. Let's bring her
back show the players. Blam blamb There you go. You
get back to the r V, the old nineteen nineties era,
win a bago out in the desert, and you go
up and you knock at the door, and after a
couple of minutes, you know, the thing rocks fourth and
her giant form ducks out under the door and she's like,
I can't believe you guys finally made it back. I
think that's her voice. Is that her voice is her
voice that sounds.
Speaker 1: About right that's about it.
Speaker 2: Okayly made it back.
Speaker 3: You know it's it's it, didn't you know? I got
I got the feed from the drones. I gotta rode
in on that a little bit. And I got this chip.
Speaker 2: You guys got the chip?
Speaker 3: Can I have the chip? I gotta. I got some
bit boring things I.
Speaker 2: Do with it.
Speaker 1: I look at the others to see what they think
about that.
Speaker 8: Okay, first off, they've shot actual bullets and missiles at us.
Speaker 1: What the fuck I.
Speaker 3: Told you to make it look real, didn't. I?
Speaker 8: Oh specifically asked if this was gonna be one of
those situations where it's an actual gang they're gonna shoot
at us, And you said, no, they're actor.
Speaker 7: It'st you to say that.
Speaker 3: I mean, at least a couple of them are.
Speaker 5: I shot twice?
Speaker 3: Oh? Well, you know, at least you know I can
tell you for certain at least one of them was
an actor?
Speaker 8: Yeah, the guy we brought No, Well, I.
Speaker 3: Guess too to at least at least two.
Speaker 7: Uh, at least two for sure.
Speaker 8: You're the actor you paid. Probably dead, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 3: Well that's not good.
Speaker 13: That boy actually worked for the deer Tan guy police force.
Speaker 3: He was kind of an undercover. I hope he didn't die.
You guys got that chip though, I kind of need that.
I got some people that were waiting for also the overcooke.
I think we were gonna, you know, enjoy it a
little bit before I take that.
Speaker 13: And I got some I got some plans also, I
got I got, I got a lot to talk to
you guys.
Speaker 3: A but why why don't you go? Why why we're
staying around out here? Why don't you guys come back
and side? Come on? Come on?
Speaker 10: Mantis has the most profoundly concerned and confused expression on
his face.
Speaker 5: Right now, mantas you met her, like not that long ago,
Like it's not this is just what she's like.
Speaker 2: You know this?
Speaker 10: He he just looks at you and looks back at
her and looks back at you.
Speaker 8: Okay, so the plan was an act kind of weird.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 8: We go in and are basically shooting some stupid trivio
for Frankie and that mascot guy we bribed two or
three days ago or maybe two weeks is the main
movie star, and he's supposed to go be a night runner.
Speaker 2: We'll get to le.
Speaker 8: Right, We're supposed to go and just get some nova coke,
shoot some dudes with some geil rounds, cast the magic
and make it look good. And then it turned out
to be an actual fucking gang. I need a doctor.
I'm just gonna you know what. And he goes to
the back of ford car gets the rating six med kid,
takes it inside.
Speaker 10: Expression and just intensifies and he's just like, we shall
discuss this later.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: The I got that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you remember him the night that
you guys met sir. No, Logie's down here. He's waiting
for you, guys. He needs to talk to you. Come
on down, come out down. We'll have a whole, uh
whole little sitting down, little chat, little doctor.
Speaker 13: Come on here, I got you a need morphine.
Speaker 3: Or side new What do you think this is?
Speaker 5: Is?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't got morphine. I got something though. I
got something good for you.
Speaker 8: So do you just lie any time I ask a question.
Speaker 3: It's not lies. It's a little bit more of a
come on in, come on in, come on, come on,
So man, just you don't know this. So she lifts up,
she lifts up a panel in the bottom of this
window bago and it's they're stairs that go down into
the earth. You guys follow and you go down their
concrete steps and you go down is this massive underground bunker.
All concrete's got cool lighting and there's like all these
rooms and there's running water and like, uh like it's
comfortable and also like bomb proof. But she takes you
guys back into the main uh recreation area, I suppose.
But it's got that the circular couch that's lowered into
the ground in front of the tread projector so uh
sitting in there is sir Nolock. Is this guy here
present to players? There you go, he's uh, this gentleman,
he's dapper. He's dressed in this sweet almost floor length
red French coat, leather, white hair, crop top, not crop top,
crew top, crew cut? What do you call this? Crop tops?
A different thing? Don't worry about it. He hasn't make
that flat top cool flat top hair. He's got like
psychobilly flat top white hair. And he's an elf and
he's sitting there. He's got his legs crossed in a
way where he's got you know, the the ankle over
the knee and his foot, his foot that's like across
the knee is like like bobbing up and down real fast.
Like he seems kind of like anxious. And as you approach, uh,
you know, Frankie's Frankie's there. She's this troll. She's really
she's like eight feet tall. She's got bluish green skin,
big bigs. According to Ford, sexy horns, they're kind of
goat like the curved back like more less less goat
like more like an ibix or ibix. I'm not sure
you pronounced that, but like that look at it's a
pretty cool animal. So anyhow, she has this big old
grin on her face, her her red eyes are gleaming,
and she approaches him and he's like, do you have
my product? And she's like, of course they do, of
course they do. These guys are professionals.
Speaker 13: Why would I hire and send in some guys that
you wouldn't want to have working for you? Of course
they got it. Of course they got you guys got
the you guys got it right.
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Then overcoke of course, yeah, the overcokes for him, the
the chips for me, I got, I got, I got
a lot of irons in the fire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll look to uh to vault and like kind
of jerk my head towards the guy, like I think
it's cool to give him the uh, the stuff, since
you know he hired us. Yeah, what are we getting
paid for that? Actually?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys been staying here for free. So I
figured maybe we get you know what, will work something out.
We'll work something out. I I don't, I don't, I
don't know off the top of my head. I gotta,
I gotta, I gotta look it up. I'll get you
guys a number. It's it's a good amount of money.
It's reasonable. It's a totally reasonable pay rate. Don't worry
about that. Nice.
Speaker 8: Nice nice.
Speaker 7: It was like thirteen thousand or something. It's like pretty
something like that.
Speaker 3: That sounds good. It's it's a good amount of money.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Ford is probably carrying like a like a bag full
of this coke and help toss it to the guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got like a like an old Adidas gym
bag and it's filled with this coke. And he tossed
to the guy and and it like he looks disgusted
by you throwing a bag of coke at him, but
you know, it hits him and like a little bit
of coke puffs up into the air from where it
got slashed into and uh, he just goes and it
all like all of the dust cloud of coke just
up his nose and he's like, oh, yep, this.
Speaker 1: Is it all right, it's actually junkies around here.
Speaker 2: Excellent.
Speaker 3: What do you expect? There's nothing much to do in
Boise And at this point, mantas you understand you're in Boise, Idaho.
Speaker 9: Wait wait, we're we're weird.
Speaker 7: Here and.
Speaker 1: Bois man, this what is wrong with you?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 1: Where you've been?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: You cut that guy's hand off, and then you fucking
disappear and you're all sick all day and then you
just show up while I don't know what's going on
with you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he just like grabs it, like rubs his temple
and like just looks really confused.
Speaker 1: All Right, we gotta have to talk with you later,
he says.
Speaker 3: Maybe I think, uh, just give you a little bit
of an explanation about this. This this nova coke. This
you guys just saved me a lot of money. Thank you,
save me some money, got rid of one of my enemies,
clean things up. We made things a little bit more
difficult for me. By killing some of my I guess associates.
But things can be worked out. There's other peance that
can fulfill this need for me. Thank you. I hope
I never see you again. And he gets up and
he goes to leave, and Frankie kind of pauses, and
he looks at Frankie and she looks at him. She
hugs him real big, like a bear hug, and you
hear like the bones in his back crack. He's like, oh, yeah, Frankie,
I'll oh he in touch yeah, and he kind of
limps out while he's dragging this bag, and he goes
up and he goes up the stairs and he's gone.
Speaker 1: Before he goes, yeah, we get paid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, you guys get paid. He's he gives
you guys the certified stick, you know as you as
he's going out, like he's like goes to pull a
certified credstick out of the pocket of his jacket, and
he like struggles because he's like fucking all crushed from
her giant hug. But he he manages to pull out
like the certified cread stick, and he's got four of
them and he fans them out in one hand and
then he flicks them, uh like like fucking expertly, like
somebody that throws cards to each of you independently. It's
very graceful. And he says it's gonna be a white
Christmas and he leaves.
Speaker 1: I mean like July.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, uh it is it is, uh the
end of towards the end of April.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, okay, we're not at basically December. Yeah, I
round it up, you know whatever.
Speaker 2: Yes, I guess nobody's got it so far.
Speaker 3: All right, So you guys are left with Frankie and money,
and and he left enough Nova coke for you guys
to have a brad party if you guys want to.
Who's gonna get addicted to Nova cooke? There's rules for
how you get addicted to drugs. Who wants to find out?
Speaker 8: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the rest of these people.
Speaker 8: I don't think as a homeless person I should be engaging.
Speaker 7: You know what.
Speaker 5: Ford is twenty two years old, and he's got weird
conflicting feelings about Frankie. He's all right several times, so
I think him in front of out there.
Speaker 3: But you cut out, you cut it?
Speaker 5: Was it oh, he's got weird conflicting feelings about Frankie.
Speaker 7: Who's he? He's all for several times?
Speaker 3: I imagine the exact same the exact same place again.
Speaker 1: What okay he said he's not conflicting feelings about Frankie
and he's twenty two years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah that part.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they've already.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's gonna get highest fucked and he's gonna fuck
the ship out of Frankie.
Speaker 7: Like that's what he's doing tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, there we go. That's what I thought.
That's what I thought, but I didn't hear it. I
want to make sure that it comes through nice and clear.
Speaker 7: Yeah nice.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's his plan too.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 8: Oothra or Mantis, can either of you help me dig
this bullet out of my hip?
Speaker 1: Probably won't feel great, but yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 8: Okay, so we all Yeah, why do Why don't we
get you patched up?
Speaker 1: We can fill manthis in on what's going on, and uh,
I'll kind of whisper to Manthison vault. We can discuss
what we're gonna do with this fucking ship.
Speaker 8: Right, Okay, sounds good?
Speaker 1: Okay o th Rocco, like, you know, help volt like
throw an arm over his shoulder back there, man. Oh yeah, thanks.
Speaker 8: It's a lot of fun casting magic and watching people
funconscious the reason I do this.
Speaker 3: Okay, So here we go. I'm gonna read this block
of text, which hopefully doesn't violate any kind of you know,
uh nondisclosure or anything.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know the rules for this. I'm just gonna
read you, guys some rules.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 3: When you start using drugs or chips or folk I
or hot sim or anything else in this spirits forsaken
world that's addictive, you might need to make an addiction
test when you do too much of it. Each substance
they can hook you as aiction rating and an addiction
threshold listed on the addiction table at right, page four fourteen.
Addiction can be physiological, psychological, or both. Physiological dependency usually
stems from the blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 3: Every time you use an addictive substance during eleven minus
addiction rating weeks in a row, you need to make
an addiction test. The clock on this keeps ticking even
if you skip a week blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. So you got exposed to it once and
now you're doing it on purpose. So we're gonna give
you enough because it's seven addiction rating seven?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Was that for an addiction test? Check to see if
the addiction type is blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. If it's blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah, won't test.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 9: There's a gorilla song that sounds like this, right, all right?
Speaker 3: The threshold for the test is given on the addiction table.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: If you're using more than one addictive substance, you need
to make the test for each substance.
Speaker 2: All right, So.
Speaker 3: This is going to be logic plus willpower.
Speaker 5: I can just do a memory check, which is logic
plus willpower this if I remember to stop doing trucks.
Speaker 3: That's exactly how that works.
Speaker 2: I got to success.
Speaker 3: The addiction threshold on nova Cooke is too. You got
two successes. You are not addicted to novacoke. You can
stop anytime.
Speaker 2: Be proud.
Speaker 7: I could stop any time I want. But that that's true.
Speaker 8: Also what's actually accurate. Oh boy, we're gonna have an
issue with Ford now.
Speaker 3: And like you can you party for the rest of
the night with Frankie, the Frey Train, the rest of
you spend some time trying to patch up wounds. You
do some uh some cool surgery stuff with a medpack
for Volt to try to recover his terrible, grievous injuries
in the comfort of this this underground bunker. If you
guys want to regale Mantis with any kind of details,
you can do that. If you want to leave him
in the dark, that's totally even better. It's more fun
for me.
Speaker 8: I mean, she explained, Yeah, Bolt would let him know
any blank spots he has in his memory.
Speaker 3: So here's here's how this goes down. Then, So you
guys promptly break out the medkit and start going through
to try to patch up Volt, who's like, oh yeah,
I feel great, and he like he's like oh and
passed sat on the circular couch and you guys start,
excuse me, you start med kidding him and uh uh. Meanwhile,
Ford and Frankie are doing novacoke and.
Speaker 13: She's like, okay, okay, all right here, let me let
me give you know what I gotta I gotta tell you, guys,
I gotta tell you I had this whole thing worked out, right.
Speaker 3: I got a bunch of plants. I got a bunch
of bunch of plants, A bunch of plants. They all coincide, right,
so hear me.
Speaker 13: Out, So in that in that whole thing, right, Uh,
you know these guys like so, so okay, Okay.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna take this chip and what I'm
gonna do is I'm gonna crank this ship up to
eleven and I'm gonna set this thing up so it's
gonna burn out on it zone. I'm gonna sell this
thing as like a like a bt L for people
to experience what it's like to be a shadow Runner. Right,
don't worry about your identities. I'm gonna blur them all out.
I got that, I got that out of control. It's
gonna take me a little bit of time, a little
bit of editing.
Speaker 2: I'm probably i.
Speaker 8: Don't know, maybe like forty five hours on editing this thing.
Speaker 3: But it's really good to be real good to be real,
fucking good man.
Speaker 13: People are gonna fucking bias these to be grammar and
make a bunch of fucking money on this. I'll make
back my investment a tenfold at least, I mean, maybe
like eightfold.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm gonna make my money back on
this thing. And I'm gonna sell this thing.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So there, So there's one, right, there's one. That's one
and she's counting on her fingers. That's one, all right,
and for two?
Speaker 13: Right, So like the fucking Lynch mob where you ran
into those guys, those guys are a bunch of fucking scumbacks, right,
so you took some of them out, you know, that
big fucking deal. I don't care you get rid of
those guys as you're you're doing a public service. If
you asked me, you know, they got uh, they got
fucking problems. I don't like them, man, you know anyhow,
that's too right, that's true.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 13: And see right, so, uh, there was a guy in
there who was an undercover cop. Right and and and
here's the deal, our guy, our buddy here.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 13: I know I shouldn't be telling you this, but you know, uh,
we got a special bond, you and me and.
Speaker 3: She uh, she she runs her fingers down Ford's face
like eyebrow down, the nose down, the lip, and the
lip flips. She's like, we've got a special bond here
from flip, I need to tell you everything.
Speaker 1: I feel like I can.
Speaker 3: Trust you and I feel like, yeah, you've seen my ass.
Speaker 7: So we got a special bond.
Speaker 3: And she like cups her butt cheek as she leans
in close, and she's like, they were gonna find out
that No Loa was involved in all that. He actually
had those guys working for him. They were running drugs,
so that cop was gonna bust him, and he was
able to to set this whole thing up so that
he wouldn't get busted when the cops came in. So
he's in the clear. You know, hey, the cops they
don't work for him, they work for his uh is uh.
He's one of those what do you call him? He's
a he's a when them tier tan gear nights. He's
got this rival and the this guy his names to Jesus,
and that guy had these cops working for him and
he was trying to work against him. So he had
this you know, they were gonna find him out, so
he was able to isolate that remove that factor right
and and four right. With that guy out of the picture,
he's able to get that coke and he's able to
sell it like he's gonna do anyway.
Speaker 9: I don't know if you guys.
Speaker 3: Know this or not. And she's like looking around and
she's like fucking like doing more of this novacause she's like,
I don't know if you guys know this or not,
but drugs are like really illegal, and tier Tan gear
super illegal. You know you got him, you look at
you talk about him. They're gonna fucking get you.
Speaker 9: So they're real illegal.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of money to be made. So this guy,
he's selling them over there. And I work with this
guy sometimes, you know, I get some, yo, yo, I
get some, he gets some. Everybody profits. So he was
gonna sell the drugs anyway. He was gonna get them
from those guys they're runn drugs for me, you're sell them.
And what he did is he he was able to
steal them from the people he was gonna buy them from.
So I got it for free, save some money, sell them,
make the money, take them out of the picture, get himselves.
He's not getting got And then on top of it,
we got this beetle we're gonna sell. We're gonna make
some money on that. I sold the fucking pcc A guy.
You know his recruiting. I got seven different jobs.
Speaker 7: All in one.
Speaker 3: You guys, You guys did it? Oh I feel pregnant.
Speaker 9: I lean over quietly to volt. This woman is terrifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's She hasn't bolt passed out from the surgery.
Speaker 3: No no, he went through the whole thing, screaming, screaming
the whole time. You guys are digging, there's.
Speaker 1: Ability you might.
Speaker 3: The wrench, dig the fucking bullet out. No no, no, no, no,
no no, I will.
Speaker 8: Just touch the bullet and cast the levitate and pull
it out.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, he's he's still away. He's he's
under the influence of some heavy painkillers. So you're kind
of groggy, you know that you're in and out, and
the whole time you're like, is this real life? I
can't feel your face, So just take a bullet.
Speaker 5: Like so, Ford is also high on novacoke, so he's
got some of that energy. He's just tighter, and he's
just like staring at Frankie and then like he's getting
surgery done on him. And he's drugged out of his mind. Man,
just doesn't know what's happening, and like, oh.
Speaker 8: Kind of like he was gonna say something something there
being like it's fine, Like everything's fine. I take the
missile with no damage.
Speaker 3: It's good, dude, She's she leans over and licks Ford's face.
Oh tastes luting blood. Oh well, he should see.
Speaker 9: Way sooner the meat play.
Speaker 3: By the way, your phones have been ringing that the
whole time she's explaining this. You guys, your phones are
going off.
Speaker 1: Oh I would answer my phone right away. You can
tell a rock. I have the patience for this junkie.
Speaker 9: I'm working on bolt. I've got some field medical.
Speaker 3: All this stuff's going on, and your phone goes yellow
and on the other end, it's uh, it's it's Jimmy,
and Jimmy's like, hey, hey, I got good news for you.
You guys have been on the lamb for a little bit,
and uh, you know they it's been on the news.
I don't know, you guys get the news down there.
I don't know, man, I don't know what's going on. Boise,
I don't fuck around. He the news, No, No, they
got him. They fucking got him.
Speaker 1: Got who.
Speaker 3: They got them. They got the fucking guys they did
the fucking gas. Oh yeah, yeah, they fucking got them.
You guys are in the clear.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It turns out that uh, you know, they they got
the guy with the fucking glasses. You know, they got him,
and he fucking got the whole thing. So I guess
it was just a one man operation that went fucking sideways.
And uh, I guess you guys are in the clear.
They're not looking for you.
Speaker 1: They were definitely more than one, Jimmy, but it was
like four man.
Speaker 3: That's what the news had to say. That's all I got.
Speaker 8: Okay, and we can come back to civilization.
Speaker 1: Hey you're having surgery. Okay, you didn't you didn't answer
your phone. I answered my phone.
Speaker 3: Over there, uh here screaming, what's I'm here? Frankie, she's
going fucking nuts over gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I'm gonna walk away from where everybody is
so I have a quiet spot to like kind of
talk to him in private, like, Jimmy, what's the deal
with this Frankie chick?
Speaker 3: Hey, man, she's she's uh yeah, she's got playing you.
She's a working lady. She's got a lot of ideas,
but she just don't let her get anywhere near some
nova cooke. She lose her fucking mind.
Speaker 1: But I'm well aware of that at this point. But
she she could have got us killed today.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: The rest of the group ain't too happy about this.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, man, I don't know. She said she had
some plans in mind. She said she's gonna give you
guys a nice place to stay, and everything was gonna
be cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know we got a plan now, maybe
not to give her this fucking ship that's screaming you here,
that's screaming you here is Look, I just got hit
with a fucking rocket. All right, I'll fuck with anybody tonight.
Second Volts sitting there on the kitchen table with manthis
pulling bullets out of his ass. All right, So.
Speaker 3: With all right, all right, all right, you know what,
here's the deal. Here's the deal. Did she you know
you guys come back up, you guys, come back up.
She told me that you guys might be able to
bring up some tempo. And I gotta tell you, it's
been hard to get that ship up here. And I
got some people that are to buy. So you bring
that up here, come back. I'll make sure everything squared away.
I got a different place I'm hanging out at now.
I got I ran some issues, you know. I told
you I ran some issues at the at the Corpse,
and I I just, uh, I'm not going back. It's uh,
I gotta find a new place. So, uh, you know,
I don't know where we're gonna meet up yet, but
I'll let you know. I'll let you know. I got
I got a bunch of you know, a bunch of
a bunch of ship in motion, you know what I mean?
And uh, I gotta you hear him like, he's what
I gotta, I gotta what did he say?
Speaker 1: He's a tempo? Tempo?
Speaker 7: The drug?
Speaker 1: Okay, I was gonna say, do we know what that is?
Because that doesn't sound familiar to me?
Speaker 8: Well, our characters probably didn't hear it, but it was
the drug in the very beginning that Mantis was uh
talking about with the dyet guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, okay. So I just I want to
make sure before I respond to Jim here that I
I thruck and I are on the same page. So
he's saying, bring up some tempo. We don't have any
tempo do we.
Speaker 8: I think the Nova Coke is probably tempo.
Speaker 3: No, Nova cooke and tempo are totally different things.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll be like, Jimmy, we don't have any tempo.
What are you talking about bringing some?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: She said that there was gonna be you know what,
you don't have it. You don't have it. You got it.
I can buy it from you, and I can move
it real real fast.
Speaker 1: But back it up. You're telling me we're supposed to
have tempo and we don't. So where's the breakdown and
communication here?
Speaker 3: Look, I don't know. She sent me a message that
said that there might be some tempo. That's it. That's
all I got.
Speaker 1: And you sure it was her?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Hold on you hear them like ruffling through?
Speaker 1: Why the well?
Speaker 3: Where the fuck is it? No?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: God? Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right there yeah, yeah, it says right here. It
said from from Frankie, there might be some tempo. And
I sent back smiley face, thumbs up, New Yen, New yen,
new yen.
Speaker 1: All right. Did she say where this tempo was gonna
be or where it was coming from?
Speaker 3: Nope? I mean I just told you what it says
in the message, and I told you why I sent back.
So I mean, if you don't have it, you don't
have it. If you got it, you got it. Look
either way, it seems like you guys aren't the clear.
So when you come back up, you know, check in,
let me know, Lemel you're in town, and uh, you know,
I'll see if I see if I can find anything
for you guys, And uh, you know, I'm okay, you know,
thanks for fucking checking back in. I told you about
all that shit that happened. My nose is healing all right,
but uh, you know, uh I hope you guys had
fun on your vacation and uh, you know, just uh
you know, let me know when you're back in town.
You know, we maybe we hang out, you get some
mistakes or something, I don't know, hit me, yeah, don't
ever change, yeah never.
Speaker 1: And I will. I'll end that call and I'll go
back to a surgery simulator over on the table.
Speaker 3: You hit him with the fucking ivy trip stand.
Speaker 1: Boom goes flying across the room and you can't.
Speaker 3: All right, So I'll go.
Speaker 1: Back to them, and I'll be like, uh to t
Mantus and Volt. You know, I'm ignoring the other two
right now, and kind of keeping my voice low. I'm
again that was that was Jimmy. He uh he said
someone else has uh take him a fall for the
attack on the the stadium. But it's only one guy. Finally,
you everybody's saying something.
Speaker 9: I know it's I can follow.
Speaker 1: That's good news everybody. Yeah, but everybody's saying it was
a one man job, which we all know that ain't true.
Speaker 10: They've probably outed one of the members. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, he also mentioned that Frankie here said there
was supposed to be some tempo for us to bring
back easy cash to get from Jimmy and I'm gonna
look to vault because obviously he kind of knows what's
going on at this point. Was that ever mentioned at
any point that I missed that.
Speaker 2: Not that I am aware of. No, never heard the
words tempo.
Speaker 8: I only mentioned Nova coke and we just gave that
to the guy in the Red coop.
Speaker 2: So mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You have I In this time that we've been around
Frankie Adam, have we seen her use any sort of
communication device?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, I'm sure you've seen her on her comm
link every now and then.
Speaker 1: And is her calm link? Is it like something portable
that she carries around or is it.
Speaker 3: Like uh yeah, yeah, it's it's like like you know,
goes into her pocket. You know, it's like a anybody
else's like regular role. Kamlink.
Speaker 1: Do I see it anywhere? Have I seen her with
it since we've been here? Just now?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: You look over and she right now she's doing a
bumping ova coke off of her fucking commlink.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm gonna just if I if I
notice a moment where she's not paying attention to it,
I'm gonna see if I can swipe it and take
a look at it.
Speaker 3: Give me a stealth roll.
Speaker 7: Wait, can I assist?
Speaker 3: No palming?
Speaker 7: Pardon?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: What are you?
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do as a teamwork role?
Speaker 7: I was thinking of making a performance role?
Speaker 3: Uh okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's let's see how well he's performing.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I think I think I catch what
you're putting down, and it's horrific. Give me a performance roll,
and uh, any hits you get on this are going
to count as teamwork and they're gonna add to the
dice pool for ooth Rocks health roll or palming your
choice to snatch the calm link. So one success, so
one extra dace okay, so add one die?
Speaker 1: Okay? Is stealth different from sneaking?
Speaker 3: Uh No, it's just I'm using the wrong word part Okay.
Speaker 1: All right, like I said, good, I have I have
some skills in that. Okay, this plus one you said, yeah, cool, Yeah,
come on a game. Work from me. Here two successes.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you distract her, like you see uth Rock.
He gives you. He gives you like eyes and the
like points is like chin at stuff, and you're you're
able to interpret what he's saying. And then you like
grab Frankie and start sucking face and like in that moment,
in that moment, uth Rock gets in and like slides
the calm link out from underneath, like it's like under
her thigh, like on the couch, and like slides it out,
and like they're screaming going on as they're surgery happening,
and you get it, and like you dust the the
nova coke off and the thing, and you know it's
got like a face recognition thing and you're able to
like point it at her and like get it to
go off, and esome, you're able to get into there.
What are you trying to find?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see if she actually messaged Jimmy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you find it.
Speaker 1: Is there any thing more to the text?
Speaker 3: You know, there's a little bit of back and forth,
you know, explaining like you know, it's it's it's all
fairly vague, so that if somebody were to like intrude
on it, they wouldn't get like any specific details. But
it's like.
Speaker 1: Until the point where she illicitly says the illicit name
of a drug.
Speaker 3: By name, yeah, that never happens. But other than where
she says specifically like uh, there may be some tempo
and you're like, oh, well right there. But the rest
of it's like, uh, you know, it's like, hey, looking
for an Indian actor, and then you get a message
from the other sides. It's like, hey, I got an
Indian for you, smiley face, New Yen, New Yen, New Yen.
And then she's like send them down to Boise and
then on the way, Hey got some guys that need
a place to stay. They'll probably do some work, and
she's like, sounds whiz and he sends back smiley face,
New Yen, New Yen, New Yen. And then you know.
Uh she sends back like, hey, there may be some
tempo and he says, oh yeah, thumbs up, smiley face,
new yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's just it's a bunch of that bullshit back and
forth and like in an occasional like like meme between
the two of them.
Speaker 1: I can't tell from the conversation where she was assuming
that this tempo was gonna come from.
Speaker 3: No, but if you if you say anything about it, like, uh,
you know, uh, Mantis definitely had New Yen or new
Yen pardon me, new yeah, new yea new Yen. He
definitely had tempo in that in that squad car that
he was driving.
Speaker 1: Well, then when I'm done with that, I'll just throw
the the you know, toss the calm link back on
the couch next to her, assuming she's still distracted, and
then I'll go sit back down with Volt than Mantas
and I'll say, uh, yeah, unless she sent the message,
but I'm not sure where she thought we were going
to get tempo from.
Speaker 8: Maybe she's gonna.
Speaker 3: Get night goes by fairly uneventfully outside of nova coke party,
some aggressive coitus and uh uh you know, surgery and uh,
you know, we we we also see Knuckles in his
room in the bunker, boots off, rubbing his feet a
little bit, looking at his jacket that's still smoking, hanging
on the chair, and he's like a kicks back, crosses
his feet, fires up the tread and you're watching your
favorite uh as the sixth World turns and uh. We
get fade to black and the card pops up and
says two or no two, I'm sorry. Eight hours later
and you got guys are in the ford America are
driving back to Seattle.
Speaker 9: And everyone filled me in along the way. Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 1: We would be having a serious discussion with man this here.
I hate dogs.
Speaker 8: So you've been kind of like fading in and out
the past couple of days.
Speaker 1: I haven't been acting yourself, and now you're.
Speaker 8: You don't even remember who Frankie is and she you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 9: Pretty solid person.
Speaker 1: What's going on, Bud? I'm I'm going to level with you.
Speaker 10: I don't recall much since.
Speaker 9: Escaping the stadium.
Speaker 10: I definitely don't recall drive hundreds of miles to Idaho.
Speaker 2: I have some.
Speaker 10: Muddled my memories of things that happen in a long
time ago. But I couldn't tell if they're happening now
or just memories or.
Speaker 9: I'm a little confused. But yeah, I came back and
that junk yard.
Speaker 1: Have you had something like that happen before?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Uh, well yeah, I mean I guess we just kind
of explained everything to you in detail, and yeah, you know,
definely in on everything because we went to the rack.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the rass nests.
Speaker 1: I mean it did seem a little uncharacteristic when you
slice that guy's hand off. Yeah I did.
Speaker 8: I did what you slice duty and clean off with
one of your monosaurs. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We were finding some gangers, some some tong right, and
then this, you know, this guy shows up trying to
think he's he's Bruce Lee, and you're just like, now
you put a stop to that real quick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 9: I normally don't use the h the actual mono side
of my swords.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I ask you a question, manas Yeah, what
what's what the whole past fist thing? If you carry
around four swords or uh, if you are a past fist,
why do you carry around a bunch of swords?
Speaker 10: They have a symbolic meaning too, they're meditative unlike what
can use them non lethally a little bit easier as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, to each his own.
Speaker 9: I mean it's kind of hard to be a past
fist in these times.
Speaker 10: I still have to defend you all and myself when
push comes to shove. Yeah, but I use the swords
and a mantra when I'm alone, typically as a part
of my meditation.
Speaker 1: And I ask, what puts you on that path? No, okay,
it's not every day you run into past, so uh.
Speaker 9: No, it's a long story.
Speaker 10: And uh well, I guess we have eight hours ship.
That's probably not a good excuse.
Speaker 8: We're on the road trip for about half days, so
we have time.
Speaker 10: Actually, look, I don't want to get into it too
much because I'm still a little hazy about what happened
the past. Wait, how many days ago was that chase
from the stadium?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: Seven? Seven? You know, I round up, I round up.
Speaker 8: I'll get to work. But I get to work. God damn, yeah,
I'll get there.
Speaker 10: Look, I uh, I used to be a cup long
in another life.
Speaker 9: I guess you could.
Speaker 10: And I made some bad decisions, made some bad decisions
in my family, paid the price when.
Speaker 9: I should have.
Speaker 1: Sorry, man, sorry to hear that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so I don't like killing too much. I've done
enough of that in my life for the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1: Uh. Well, you know i'd be lying, and I said,
I totally understood, but I.
Speaker 9: Can I'm just trying to get paid.
Speaker 10: Oh, like I said, I'm a little hazy.
Speaker 5: We can.
Speaker 9: We can talk more about this. Some of the time,
I think I'm just gonna shut.
Speaker 10: My eyes for the rest of the ride, actually saying
I'm still holding identical bullet wounds.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I have I have nine physical boxes an
eight stunt boxes of damage. Oh shit, I have filled
to the brim with pain.
Speaker 1: All right, Night.
Speaker 7: Four, it's just wired to go.
Speaker 10: He's still He's still right now, He's not sleeping for
the next thirty six hours.
Speaker 4: You and as you're all falling asleep here night Runner's
voice paint builds character.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that from an actor. Where
is he? I'm gonna miss that guy right off in
at sunset? Uh good place to stop, Adam. Oh yeah,
I think so that's that's a that's a great ending
of that episode. I like that a little bit of
little Yeah.
Speaker 9: I saw it hit midnight, so I was like, I'm
going to sleep.
Speaker 1: I get it perfect?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 1: Cool, All right, well, very exciting. We will be back
next week, listeners. Are we going to be in the
next chapter yet, Adam or we still got a little
ways to go?
Speaker 3: Next chapter begins next week.
Speaker 1: Is that chapter five?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Five of seven? Eight?
Speaker 3: Seven or eight? We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, do we get car?
Speaker 3: Next chapter chapter We'll get you some carbon. Don't worry
about that. We'll talk about that later. Don't worry about that.
Don't worry about that. The next chapter it's called three
to get Ready.
Speaker 1: Oh, I see what you did there? All right, well
we are. We are out for tonight. The episode titles.
You'll figure it out. We'll see y'all next week. Thank
you all for joining us, Have a great New Year's
and we will see you on the flip side, same time,
same place,