Speaker 1: Hello travelers, PB Here, i'd like to welcome you again
to the world of Gone. Earlier this summer, we did
an off line patron one shot that turned into a
three shot that I had running in tandem with Gone.
With everyone's blessing or releasing the episodes for you now
to enjoy. The events took place just after Reckin and
Blake reached Nataku, and I'd like to note that the
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And without further ado, let's return to Naberu where we
last left off previously on Gone, I still yeah the
sun Bears. Previously with the Sun Bears, we had Oh
my God, it's raining outside. For me, it just started
drizzling like in the music that I'm playing. Oh my god, yes,
oh my god, Yes, I love this. Okay, So previously
we left off with you having a confrontation with Recon,
and after speaking with Brad, he said that Blake would
have been present but not speaking, just kind of observing,
and Violet also would have been present or sorry, I
think that they He said that he and Violet were
going to stay in. Recon had the conversation by himself
out out front, So you only spoke to Recon, but
then essentially Recon came in after you gave him the
message that he's wanted and said essentially we're wanted. And
then I need to ask you all what your plan is.
Were you going to help him get out of the
city or not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what my intention was anyway.
Speaker 1: I assumed based on what you had told me. But
I just want to ask if anybody else had I
don't know your motives, yeah, all to your motives or
anything like that that I need to account for.
Speaker 3: No. I think that well for Finch at least, I
think she kind of views reckon as a way to
get more answers so she would like to keep him
as safe as possible.
Speaker 1: And make him always one yes, yeah, okay, okay. So
with that in mind, then we previouslyly left off with
that conversation with Recon where you let him know that
he was essentially wanted by the Yankee, who you all
still work for. But I think you are working together
to secretly undermine them or figure out what they're actually
up to. But I think to do that, you've all
chosen to stay within the Yankee because it's easier to
access that information from the inside. You all help Reckon,
Blake and Violet out of the city. How do you
do that or how did you do that? Rather?
Speaker 2: I think depending on where we saw other anky people
or where we run into them, we would either just
straight escort amount or sort of run interference.
Speaker 4: I think quite possibly Temple and perhaps one of the
other in the group might have gone in a different
direction and tried to put out a reporter essentially that
we had seen him in the opposite direction and were
in pursuit.
Speaker 1: Ooh, that's pretty bay, Yeah, okay, who did that?
Speaker 3: I would do that?
Speaker 1: Okay. So we've got Finch and Temple sending out the
report that you thought you saw on in a different
area of the city or somewhere else entirely sort of.
Speaker 4: Like within the proximity of the actual bar that we
had been in, but in the opposite direction and essentially
heading that way. So whether that was back towards the
docks that we came in earlier that day or something
like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm just just so that I'm clear you're essentially
giving up the bar to do this. You're telling you're
letting them know that the bar is maybe a place.
Speaker 4: No, not naming the bar, just like that. So I
don't know what other things are in that area, but
it's like, yeah, he was spotted on the street heading
in this direction, m okay, which I mean maybe they
would be able to take that information and extrapolate. Okay,
so there's a hiding spot nearby.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to say that you are all very
very clever. This is your job, this is what you do,
and I'm telling you this is okay to do. This
is a great strategy. But I think you're smart enough
to know you might be giving up the bar to
do this. There's a chance it does. It's not a guarantee,
but basically skybars like yourselves are now going to have
to interview everything in this area and basically be like,
did you see this guy? So potentially you could be
giving up the bar to do this, but it's I'm
not saying don't do that. I'm just letting you know
at the cost.
Speaker 4: Right, So I think it would probably confer with Finch
regarding that. I think the intention would be definitely we
would break off and report. But I guess the question
between us would be where exactly do we report that
we spotted him.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear that if you want to role
play that out. I know we're playing with time a
little bit here, but let's just pause time and have
that moment then, because I can.
Speaker 3: Absolutely say that he was here or in this era. Yeah,
but if I was alone, I would do it, And
if I only have myself to worry about, I would
absolutely do that because we can get another place. We
can't get another reckon.
Speaker 2: H hm.
Speaker 4: Well, if we put this report out, then it may
give them enough time to escape from the city. And
it seems that he knows how to hide well enough
if he's hit for so long, so he just needs
to be able to leave. That's all the time. We
need to buy him and he'll take care of the rest,
especially with SHIV.
Speaker 3: I think this is our best bet. Unfortunately, I hate
to see it. I would hate for it to be
I don't want it to be exposed anymore than I'm
sure you do, But I don't. I think when you
weigh the options that we have, it's either we provide
this distraction quickly I am some time, or we risk
him getting caught.
Speaker 4: I wonder if the us that we aren't anticipating will
be nevertheless, there's anyone that we can think of, no
might get caught in the crossfire, then perhaps we alert them,
but otherwise we take this risk.
Speaker 3: Would when this happened, when we learned that he was wanted,
essentially that they were going to try and find him,
did we see people like start moving into action immediately
or is it like we have some time?
Speaker 1: Well, it just happened like as you were having the
conversation with him, that alert went on your your calm
DAT or your dot calm. Sorry, so you all got
the wanted thing and that so it's kind of like
time is sort of of the essence. I think you
would know that the first twenty four hours usually when
you're looking for somebody is the most crucial. So if
you were to send out a report now saying he
went in the opposite direction and it came from two
separate skybears that didn't say they were together, that would
probably be your best bet. Like if you said it
was you saw him on this street, look like he
was heading there, and then Temple sat on a report
four blocks up saying I just saw him. That's your
best bet to do it, and it is crucial to
do because you will throw off You also know, the
two of you actually saw other skybears in that area
coming this way, so you know that Aankee has people
here that aren't you. So if it was just you,
then maybe you could pretend like you're looking and you
haven't found him, but there are other people here looking
for him. So I think you're both smart enough to
know the inner work kings of the sky bearers and.
Speaker 4: M hm, yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: You're short on time.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, from the looks of it, then perhaps others
have already spotted this location or near about. I think
it's compromised to begin with. I'll move forward and sort
of make sure to be seen a little bit more
and I'll make a report and then you follow up
shortly after from a different location.
Speaker 3: It sounds good to me. We can deal with thee
the fallout afterwards. If there restening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Temple nods. There's a mildly troubled look on his face,
but resolve underneath that. And then he starts heading in
the opposite direction at a brisk pace.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then that leaves Shive and Shadow. What are
you doing?
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 5: At the least we would escort uh Reckon and whoever's
with them to the edge of the sty okay, just.
Speaker 2: To make sure it gets out and clear safe.
Speaker 1: So you've got Finch and Temple kind of playing distraction
in the other direction, and then the two of you
are going to escort the three of them out of
the city. How are you going to do that. Let's
go ahead and start in your role play with you
two figuring out how you're going.
Speaker 6: To do that.
Speaker 7: So far, exactly do you feel the Aye shift.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be quick and easy, let's put
it that way, but I think we can do it.
I should keep to sage sheets.
Speaker 7: What we need to be as cautious as possible. I
realized that time is important, but stealth is paramounts.
Speaker 2: I agree, slowly and carefully is the way to do it.
We may have to get our hands study though have Yeah,
we're going into some yanky.
Speaker 7: I'll let you guide that part of the conversation. Then
you tend to have a particularly diplomatic way of well
keeping things clean and ordinary.
Speaker 2: Sure, I would.
Speaker 7: Say, I'm happy to sort of lead front along the path,
trying to stick to the shadows and behind veiled areas
of whole building ways, just to look forward. But if
I motion backs as well, I would need you to
step in so prepared to be ready to describe my emotions,
so to speak, not saying what I can't handle my
own conversation, but potentially with two of us, it gives
them all justification.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you watch the front, serious spot anyone. I
want to go with them, but I think when we
get to the edged sty we might have to hang around,
you know, make sure no one follows.
Speaker 7: Them indeed, and then bundledness have to carefully observe.
Speaker 1: God, my heart is like breaking right now, like oh's sorry,
but you just you all want answers and like you
gotta watch them walk away. Oh my god, okay, okay,
so we need we need a couple of rules here.
So your plan is just so that I'm clear you're
going to escort him, but you're going to be Are
you going to be sending reports saying you're searching this
area of the city and you're seeing nothing.
Speaker 2: I think maybe it's space we into where Yeah, I
can say, we're making my way to the edge in
the city. Does say and then send the report when
we get there saying we're taking up.
Speaker 1: Right, So a watch Winch would got attacks right, right.
So essentially, if the anky looks at this report, they're
going to see that Finch and Temple responded immediately covering
this block, and then Temple's going to wait, I think,
and lie and say he saw him a couple of
blocks further, and they're going to time their reports so
that it looks like he had enough time to walk
from one space to the other.
Speaker 7: Would we know in this kind of situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: For example, if Shive and I both were to say, hey,
we're here scouting the area but have found nothing. We're
going to make our way towards this direction, yes, would
we know if other ANKI would then would they just
kind of stay away from it knowing that there's somebody
heading that path, or could we potentially anticipate that somebody
is now going to also be taking the same route
if they're thinking, oh, well, maybe this is a good
guide for me to shry and grab reckon.
Speaker 1: Well if that there yes to both of those things.
So typically you're all well respected. I think only one
of you has been scrubbed, So I think Shiv is
the only one that was like, absolutely remove me from
all anky info, so it will come up as an
anonymous message sort of. But some unknown agent is there
and is looking at this area, so his might be
a flag. However, I think you're all His rank is
also very high, so I think you're both smart enough
to know. Finch sending a message saying I've seen him here,
and then Temple's sending one saying i've seen him here.
Anybody who's not accounted for is probably going to look
at that side. If you were to say I'm searching
this area, and he were to say I'm searching the
other half of the bottom of this area and you
don't report anything, chances are they are going to focus
their attention where Finch and Temple have seen him because
they do trust you've got a high rank. You're also
a high rank. I think it's a safe bet, I'd
say like eighty five percent chance that they're going to
just leave you alone and focus all their attention where
they supposedly have two reports. The only thing I'm going
to say that I think you both would know is
you need to be very careful about when you send
your report and where you're sending your report from, because
otherwise some inky individual is going to be like, why
the fuck were four of these people near this area
at once? Yeah, so that's it, And I think you
know you don't have to. I know sometimes gems will
make your role for that shit, but you're all playing
really well veteran skybearers, so I think you would know
that that that's something that they can track from where
the message was sent.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that sounds like a plan. Then yeah, I's
just hope we don't run into anyone on the way.
Speaker 1: That's your main concern is running into anybody that might
already be covering the area, or just running into anybody
that might see Reckon and then when their memories are
extracted later, they'll recognize him and or you escorting him.
That is your primary concern. I think you need to
find a path that no one will be down, and
if somebody is down it and they see you, you
have to figure out what you're gonna do about that.
Because this isn't just a oh he said, she said.
If somebody's like I think I saw him, they will
just take the memory and then they will see you
and reckon. So the escort job is super dangerous, and
I mean, to be fair, all of it is super
dangerous because yeah, yeah, because if yeah, because they could
search memories, but nobody else saw him. You know, they're
not going to pull Finch's memory and they're not going
to pull Temple's memory. Hopefully it is a possibility, but
it's a very low one as far as Okay, actually everyone.
Speaker 7: Rolled for me.
Speaker 3: Oh no.
Speaker 7: Fun yep, just.
Speaker 1: One shive and shadow m and then we'll see a
Finch going through. Okay, it might take a second, but
I'm gonna say this then before you head off, because
all of this, you get this alert, like right as
you're talking to Recon and you tell him he's wanted,
So you have a couple of minutes to fill out
your plan. So the Temple Finch conversation happened like right
there while you're all standing in that alleyway. Okay, so
so no I'm that one either, So I'm gonna say
both both Shadow and Shive immediately go. There is a
small possibility that they might take your memory Finch and Temple,
so it might be better to walk reckon to those locations.
It's a it's maybe I shouldn't say it better, but
it is an option to walk him down an alleyway
so that you actually have that memory to give.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah it However, it will take some time to do that,
and of course you run a risk of running into somebody.
But if you want to pick a route that you
think no one might be down that alleyway, you could
You could say that. The other option is to just
lie and hope that they don't pull your memory.
Speaker 3: No, I think that we would. We would, we would
know that, and we wouldn't probably account for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, we can go ahead and have the
conversation where you guys figure out your plan if you want,
now that you have that information. But I definitely think
you're all very skilled and that you would you would
know that that's a possibility, and.
Speaker 2: I straightaways the quicker of it if you're worried about
them pulling your memories.
Speaker 4: Just even if we were to feign that by bringing
him with us at the cost of time, there would
still be the issue of the connected memories and the
fact that the memories themselves might even appear staged. So
I don't think it benefits us enough to do that.
We have to take the risk.
Speaker 2: I can deal with that. I've respotted.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're you are not taking him down the alleyway,
So Temple and Finch are gonna lie essentially, right, yep, Okay, Okay.
The other thing, they.
Speaker 4: Definitely not come back upon us.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I would mention then, for both
Shadow and Shive is not to have them in your
eye line. You're going to need to be walking like
alone without them in front of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or the other option is to take the memory and
put it in something else so that Inky can't grab it.
But I'm gonna tell you that looks weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a big decision to be made here, So
definitely I can't say take your time, unfortunately, because time
is of the essence. So I will give you, as players,
just you know, like a minute or two to figure
it out. But then we gotta decide and go.
Speaker 3: How many times have you How many times have I
looked through your memories for something that you told them?
Speaker 1: That's a very good question. Why don't you go ahead
and roll for me? Oh oh, they've never actually questioned you.
M You've never had to give them a memory. Now
I'm going to let you, as a player figure out
why that is. Did you always volunteer it?
Speaker 3: Because it doesn't very adamant like any information I have
I turn over. Yeah, because I am smooth sailing, I
never fight. They never have a problem with me. Yeah,
say I do, because I want to answer so bad.
Speaker 1: That's what I was wondering. That's why I said, Maybe
that's what that failure means. Maybe your failure role is
not just that you know they never asked you, but
it's just that you willingly give it over every time.
So that's going to add a little bit of a
layer here, because you're not going to willingly give this
memory of you seeing him.
Speaker 3: I think anything I say.
Speaker 1: Unless you have him loop down this street, you say
you saw him first going down the street. You've got
the memory, and then they just loop back around the
building and then they go a different way in the
other direction. Yeah, and then Temple's the one that lies
up ahead right, Need, is.
Speaker 3: There a way to do this? Is there a way
to do it that doesn't look very obvious? Like could
you just take a lap?
Speaker 2: It's gonna make it more convincing. Then, I guess we
have to but do it quickly.
Speaker 7: It's also risky.
Speaker 2: Need to be quick. He's gonna pull himself out from
an alley. You're gonna turn around and glance. He's gonna
walk in, and then we're gonna leave. Is that enough?
Speaker 3: Hopefully it's enough for them if they take it. I'm
not saying they will. I'm not short. It could just
take my word. Usually they do. I'm pretty trustworthy, as
you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what we'll do, and shadow you'll be up ahead.
They'll follow you, and I'll I'll follow follow. I I'll
help you a bit a bit back, Yeah, covering the
seed from the main street. And then we just hope
that they can watch the others say and their back
a bit better.
Speaker 3: I think if I walk in and hand them this memory,
it'll be more convincing.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll get them out. You know, you can meet
back up later and that's good to it.
Speaker 1: Okay, when you are escorting, are you you're just escorting
them as is. Is anybody putting clothing on them or
covering them in any way.
Speaker 2: We're trying to keep them off of the main street.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Okay, down alleys and stuff as basically can. Okay, I'm
not going to give them my coat because my quote
stands it.
Speaker 4: I'm a nondescript I would be willing to part with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, just cover your faces as best you can,
keep your head down and uh watch shadows heels and
follow them.
Speaker 1: Okay, I need roles now, I need roles from everybody.
We'll start with Finch's opening role for sending this message.
You can have a plus one. Don't worry. You can
have a plus one. Oh my god, No, okay, that's okay,
that's okay. I mean that's only a huge fumble, but
that's all right. Temple, Yeah, Temple, go ahead and roll.
You can have a plus one. Oh my god, two fumbles,
holy shit. Okay, all right, then let's have the let's
have the second two. So Shadow and Shive, I need
you to roll for me. You can both have a
plus one.
Speaker 9: Oh there we go.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh my god, Okay, I have a question. Yeah.
Can I play it off as if I'm very, uh
like stressed and frantic in the message, so that maybe
it's less easy to read.
Speaker 1: Yes. Also, I'm just gonna does anybody have any bullshit
on their sheet to help with us, because I will
give you an extra roll if you do.
Speaker 3: I'm a liar, let me see me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like just double check because you guys might
have special abilities that can help you with this, or
revelations also that can help you. I don't know what
you took, but.
Speaker 7: Not for this type of situation. I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So Shadow rolled a fumble as well, and then
Shiv just rolled a plane, right, why is it roiling.
Speaker 9: An extra D four?
Speaker 8: I rolled it was a three D four and then
a plus one.
Speaker 1: Oh so you rolled your four okay, and then so
with shis Okay, so you both succeeded. Oh thank god,
Oh thank god.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: I do have a memory by the way, that actually
does relate to the situation.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's a memory from someone else. From inside
the lake. I was going down to the beach with
a number of friends. It was basically the spring break
senior year during high school. We shouldn't have been drinking,
and certainly not as much as we did. And when
we were driving back from the beach, it was late
in the evening and we saw the lights come on
and I wasn't driving. My friend was, and she had
a good future ahead of her and I didn't want
to let her get in trouble. So as we pulled over,
we quickly switched positions and the cops came, and I
was the one who took the hit for it. I
was the one who wound up getting arrested and getting
that on my record. And it's a shame that I
lost touch with those people, but seemed like the right
thing to do at the time.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, that is the perfect fucking memory for this moment.
And here's how I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna let
you give Finch a plus one instead of you getting
a plus one, because that's literally what the memory is about.
So Finch, roll one more.
Speaker 3: Oh please, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, whoa Okay, So essentially you're recreating this moment.
So I want to know what's going on in Temple's
mind when this happens, So narrate for us. You know,
you have this memory of taking a bullet essentially for
your friend, So what do you do to stop Pinch
from making a huge mistake here? And if you don't know,
I can assist.
Speaker 4: I have an idea. So I start off ahead, right.
I left the group early to get to my position,
but there was something tingling in the back of my head.
I knew that it wouldn't hold true, and so rather
than going to the position that I was that I'd
said that I did, I got to on the other
side of the alleyway that Finch was going to see
Recon from. And as soon as Recon poked his head out,
Finch wasn't looking, but I stunned her with my.
Speaker 1: Spitter stun Finch. Yes, Why how does that help her?
Speaker 4: Because there's not going to be an opportunity for the
memory to look more false. It's going to appear that
there was an accomplice helping Reckon and that accomplice had
gotten her. He's innocent of any sort of difficulty.
Speaker 1: I don't know, though, Because you make sense, it makes
sense a little bit. But here's what's going to happen
is that anybody reviewing this memory is going to be like,
why why were you this close to where Finch was
and the accomplice. It's gonna make you look potentially guilty,
which may be fine because it suits the memory of
you taking the bullet for Finch.
Speaker 4: For what it's worth. Also, like, I mean I have
I haven't succeeded on a role yet. Yeah, so I'm
pretty sure that, like if the memories were dragged, I'd
be implicated regardless.
Speaker 1: And so that's well, I don't know if you. I
don't know if Temple knows that. Though you as a
player know that because you know what a failed role
can typically mean, but Temple doesn't know that.
Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, I'm open to alternatives. Okay, it was
just my thought.
Speaker 1: No, I like it. It suits that you wanting to
take a bullet, but let me let me just so, so,
you want to be implicated rather than Finch in this situation, right, that's.
Speaker 4: Your goal exactly. So not guaranteeing that I would, But
if someone does guaranteeing that it's me, does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Then at the last second you tell Finch to go
further down, and you say you stay. You're the first person,
so you're getting ready to leave and go further down,
and you go. On second thought, I'll be this one
that says he saw him here first in which direction
he was going in, and you go or no, that
doesn't work. Hold on, I have to think on like
three different levels here. I have to think as an
anky person reviewing this, and then I have to think
of the nanky that are already present, because here's what happens.
If you stun Finch, then your memory gets pulled and
it's you. You're the one stunning, so you are the
accomplice then in that moment. So there's no I mean,
this will work. I just want to make sure that
I'm super clear here because this is this is a
really big deal. If if if this memory gets pulled,
that's it for Temple. There is no there is no
line of potentially succeeding here, Whereas there are other things
you could do that could make it a little bit
more ambiguous so that you're not guaranteed to get wrecked
by the Yankee if they pull your memory.
Speaker 4: What I think of those things.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, you sorry, could you say that again
for me? You wouldn't read it.
Speaker 4: But I'm questioning whether or not Temple would be able
to come up with a safer alternative with the time crunch.
Speaker 1: Um, go ahead and roll for me, okay, because I
think I think, oh my god, Okay, So I think
your desire to try to save Finch is a solid one,
But I just feel like sky Bears are wicked smart.
I don't think that if you, I think you would
know that if you stun her and they pull your memory,
they're gonna kill you. And I don't think I just
don't know if you would make a mistake of that magnitude,
Like this is a time crunch, but you guys have
been through so much as sky Bears already.
Speaker 3: He maybe he saw me like looking like when I
ask them to take a lap. Maybe he saw me
like looking towards them while they were walking the opposite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he catches you, yeah, hey over here? Yeah.
Or maybe it could It could also literally be as
simple as him grabbing your arm and saying, don't forget
to take this memory of this conversation. You know, it
could be just a warning like that, don't forget to
do something that will aid her later so that she
doesn't get caught. But it's also not literally putting you
in harm's way, And that's not me being a GM.
That's like I'm refusing to let a play or die.
I just really truly don't think that you would. I
don't think you would do something like that, like unless
it were really like if they were here standing in
front of you and they were going to kill her,
then that would be an extreme thing that I think
you would do. But you don't need to throw your
body in the line of fire right now because there's
no guarantee that they're even going to pull your memories.
So yeah, if that makes sense, yeah, exactly, Like I
just I really don't. Yeah, I think that you would
understand the magnitude of that decision, and that's not something
you need to do right the second, because it's not
even guaranteed that they're even going to look into this yet.
But if it were sure, But yeah, so I think
I think if it were more like, you know, you
grabbing her arm and saying, you know, don't forget to
scrub this memory, or don't look that way, only be
looking this way, you know, something like that, you could do,
and then you go off, you're still putting yourself at
risk because you're not the first person to see him, right,
So if they get caught later down the way and
someone else has seen him, then they're going to know
your story was a lie and you are not going
to have a memory. So actually, why don't we say this,
Why don't we say, uh, why don't we say that? Originally,
you guys weren't sure who was going to go in
what direction? And then Temple goes, I will go down
further down the line. Finch'll be the one that sees
it first. That way, you're guaranteeing that she has a
memory of him, and you're keeping her safe, and you're
essentially in the line of fire because you're the only
one that won't have a memory of actually seeing him
if they pull it. Does that work?
Speaker 4: That works for me? If it makes sense within the
context and everything, then I think it makes I think.
Speaker 1: It makes sense because it's you protecting her. She now
her role now succeeds, so now she has a memory.
So essentially, it was like it's either you kind of
say you stay here, Finch, I'll go here. This way,
you have a memory to give up, or it's maybe
you made the suggestion that the lap goes around like
Finch is like, I always give a memory up willingly.
You know this has to make sense. So you're like,
don't why doesn't he make a lap? Finch? You go
over here. Maybe it was your idea to have the
lap and Finch see right at that corner, and you
stop that. You make that happen so that Finch has
a memory to give up, because it would look weird
if she didn't. So yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go with that,
just so that you don't accidentally get yourself killed. I'll yeah, man,
these roles, I gotta tell you, they're making they're making
me sweat. I gotta turn my fan on. Okay, So
sorry to stop that. I just that was really important
and I don't want anybody to die from what seems
like a very simple snap decision. Okay, So that's what
we see happen. Then we see Temple thinking quickly on
his feet. We see his is you know, darting maybe
as if he's reading something, remembering something, and then he
grabs Finch by the arm and says, go down, go
down this alleyway, we'll have Reckon and Reckon alone run down,
look behind him to see you, and then loop back around.
And then I will a couple minutes later be down
this block and send a report. So as soon as
I see your report come through, I'll wait a couple
of minutes and then I'll send mine. And then we
see Shadow and Shive Nod take a step back. They're
going to hide in the alleyway with Blake and Violet.
We see Shadow give up his cloak, his his covering
to give to I'm gonna assume Violet. Actually, I'm gonna
ask you who are you gonna cover?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll cover Violet.
Speaker 1: Violet okay. And then Blake, I think has like a hood,
so I'm assuming you tell him to put his hood up.
And then you both are waiting there until recon reconvenes,
and we see Shadow and Shiv basically on either side
of them, waiting in the alleyway, the rain coming down,
and Reckon will leave head down the alleyway. Finch succeeds, succeeds,
she sees him, she makes her report. It goes off
a couple minutes later, Temple, I need you to roll
one more time for me. No Plus is this time
my first success. Oh my god. Okay, so you see
at the last second before you send your report, you
recognize one of the other INKY members. You see them
crossing the street, so you decide to go down two
more blocks before you send your message, but you catch them,
You see them, yes, very much so. So yeah, I
think it's a pretty intense situation because everything was super
tight on timeline and we see maybe I think and
correct Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong,
because I've only gmmed you guys one time, so I
only know your character is a little bit. But I
think we would see Shive, you know, standing against the wall,
and although he might be there might be some tension
in his stomach or he might be a little bit,
but we don't see it at all on his face,
like he's just focused looking forward. Yeah, Temple's message is
two minutes late now, but he's not there's not a
reaction on his face. And I think we see maybe
a little bit of a reaction on Shadow though maybe
Shadow is looking kind of around trying to see when
you know, if anybody's coming, and that's how he's showing
his nervousness. He's just kind of glancing, double checking, triple
checking those alleyways exactly.
Speaker 8: He's incredibly fucking observant, especially as he becomes more anxious inside. Yeah,
it's just kind of yeah, back and forth, always trying
to look and check and triple check, make sure that
nobody's coming. I'm looking back at Violet, making sure she's
put the hood up over my cloak. Yeah, try and
conceal herself, looking at Blake to make sure that he's
kind of down in this corner enough, blended enough so
that even if somebody were to glance by, maybe they
would see me, but hopefully they don't see them. So
that's exactly what Shadow is doing right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So when you all see Finch's message come through,
you see her say you know the message is like
you know, hear this, And then in the bottom of
her message, she's included a memory ID. She's like, here's
the timestamp and the date. You know, I have this
if you need to see it, Like she just volunteered this,
which I think you two might have present for that
part of the plan. I don't know, it's up to
you that. I think Temple did stop her and say, like,
you know, go here so that you actually have something
to give away. So I think that that I don't
know if that you both see that and go, wow,
that was a great idea, or if there's a moment
where you might want to readjust how you're about to approach.
But either way, two minutes go by and it's cruciating,
and then you see two blocks up from where it
was supposed to be. Temple's message comes out and he
says really quickly something like I think I saw or
visual confirmation in this general area, look like he was
heading here, can you know, moving in that direction? He
then says, I'm still in pursuit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, would include something like strong confidence. Yeah, that's like
not certain, but very very like.
Speaker 1: I think I just saw him based on this message
from Finch.
Speaker 4: Right, and given that he's so another anky, if you
can let me know whether or not he would think
this based on his experience, it might be helpful for
him to be seen continuing in that direction, Yes, continuing looking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think that's my next question, Finch. What
do you do here?
Speaker 6: Ooh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you will all get this is like on
your comdat network, your dot com. So his message comes up,
do you go over there to help a false search,
or do you go back and help Shadow and Shoot.
Speaker 3: I will go help the false search. I think that's
more believable. Okay, So I feel like if I get
found out, if they realize that I'm bullshitting, then everyone
here is kind of found out.
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, Okay, go ahead and roll one more time
for me. You can have a plus one. Okay, Oh
my god, thank you for that plus one. Holy sh Okay.
So you are you send a message saying that you
are in pursuit and you are heading in that direction. So,
and that is exactly what you do. Now we have, uh,
we have Shadow and Shive. Finch. You see two anky
that you saw before at the docks, make eyes with
you as they are coming down the street, and they
nod to two different streets they're gonna check, and they
nod for you to check one in the same direction.
So you have confirmation now from another ankie they have
seen you, you are searching, and they go with you.
So you head down in that direction to help with
a false search temple. You also continue on this false search,
and now we're going to switch over to Shadow and Shives.
You try to get these three people out of here.
So the city is fairly big. This is your home town.
I don't want to say hometown, but this is your
stomping grounds for hunting as Guybear. So I'm going to
say that you will both have a plus two. You
have max for navigating around the city like you know it,
like the back of your head. You know these alleyways,
you use them all the time. You are both Probably
Shiv is probably the best one for this town because
Chive's the oldest one here, right, the oldest skybearer among you,
so he probably can navigate as well. But you both
have a plus two going forward for this. So I
need a role from each of you. Okay, and we're
going to do a rule of threes. So we're going
to do section one, Section two, and then the exit
getting them out. So this is just for the first part.
Speaker 3: Oh no god, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, Oh my god, oh my god. Okay, So okay, yeah,
this is insane. So Shive rolled a critical failure rule
of threes and Shadow rolled a critical success rule of threes.
So hot, damn, let's get creative with how this happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were following Shadow, so that's good at least hopefully.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So let's think about this. Does I have an
opportunity to do something fun? I think now, typically when
you rule a roll of threes, you get to create
a memory with your success, and you kind of get
to control the narrative a little bit. Shadow But because
we rolled a critical failure, you also are supposed to,
I think, be able to create a memory. And it's
a not great one, or you have a not great
one affect you, and in fact, I want to do that,
So shivet. What bad memory surfaces as you're doing this
and it comes unexpectedly?
Speaker 2: Um? Does it need to be related to this moment?
Speaker 4: Or can I?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: It can be any intrusive memory that comes to mind
right now, but it should have something to do with
the time in which you failed.
Speaker 2: Oh that's perfect. I've got one that's perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hear it.
Speaker 2: I remember pushing the two point six g lane. Oh
my dreams have been tortured me recently, and I'm out
here looking for answers. I remember the wait. I already
loaded with more crash than I have before, but it's
still so hard to keep moving forward. A vision begins
to narrow, like I'm looking through a gray tunnel. I
close my eyes and shake my head to trian clear
my vision. I opened them on flat in the ground.
I remember it going dark. I remember waking up again,
but I'm back in two g Someone saved me, but
I don't know who.
Speaker 1: Okay, Wow, I like that a lot. Okay, so now
we're going to narrate, and I'm going to leave this
up to the two of you because you do, in
fact create a memory from this event that you will
never forget. So we'll start with you shive what goes
wrong so horrifically here that you will remember this.
Speaker 2: I think, right as we're leaving off.
Speaker 1: I have an idea actually, and I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Take but okay, go ahead, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: I think think. I think two people see you right
as you're heading off, and I think the only way
to successfully get through this is if you deal with them.
You can either take their memory or you can deal
with them in another way. But that those are your options.
You have to you have to do that, and I
think that's a pretty horrific thing to do to somebody
who doesn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't have my extractor with me, so
I don't have one option.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus Christ, Okay, Now, Shadow does succeed beautifully with
a critical success. Shadow, do you have your extractor with you?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: I will allow you to give it to him, to
give him another option here because you succeeded so well,
so as you're taking me too. Yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 7: Before we leave.
Speaker 8: Actually, I'm gonna look over to Shive and kind of
given a confirmatory glance. I would now not that I
don't have my look. I would just pull out of
the pocket of my pants and kind of flash my
extractor to Shive and look for him to do the same.
Speaker 2: And shake my.
Speaker 7: Head if you don't always have this on you. Since
you're running in the back and I'm trying to guide point,
perhaps it's been suited with.
Speaker 1: You before you decide. Before you decide, Shive, it is
a young teenage boy and teenage girl. They do not
look like they are wealthy or well off. It looks
like they are maybe digging in a trash can in
the back alleyway for food.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I uh. That makes extracting easier it as well
as handling other words. Yeah, I grab it. I'm on
clean up. Shadow, o'h catch up very well.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is where we will split scenes a
little bit YouTube, So Shadow is going to describe first,
I think how you guide them out or at least
to the next part of the city, because it's fairly big,
So you're going to get past the busy market area
here beautifully.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and everything is.
Speaker 8: Basically kind of back alley as shaded as possible. So
we would take a look at the marketplace. We would
see where a lot of the citizens of Nintaku are.
Speaker 7: Sort of gathered.
Speaker 8: Rather than sort of approaching, it would always be down
aside alley. I would always try and remain one or
two blocks separated, and as disgusting as it may seem,
I would utilize areas behind buildings where either trash canisters
or waste discard would be would be for Violet. It
would be incredibly helpful because the cloak is long and black,
though tattered in some places, it tends to blend the best,
and it would almost be sort of like I would
literally just instruct Blake to get into the trash okay.
I would then kind of peer and continue to move out,
checking as soon as I reached sort of a an
intersection within the alleys, kind of looking at both sides.
Speaker 7: As soon as it would be clear.
Speaker 8: I would instruct Blake first, but have them wait, just
as the exits of Trash kind of cowered down, continuing
to look make sure nobody heard the sound. I would
proceed and then guide them along.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then we see Shadow expertly weaving in and
out of these alleyways. They are behind you, so you
cannot make contact with them like visual, you're not looking
at them. But we see him put a hand out
and wait, and then they wait silently. They've been instructed
not to speak, so there's no sound of them in
his memory, and he will point to trash cans. We
see Blake and Violet moving hiding in position. We also
see specific moments where Shadow chooses to move out and
scan the crowd so that he has a memory of
him looking in this area. We see him a couple
blocks in. Do you I'm sorry? Do you decide to
send a message saying you're looking down here or not?
Speaker 8: I imagine I would know it would be bad if I didn't, right, Yes, yeah,
I would, And I think the reputation that Shadows specifically
would have would be to operate in this type of manner.
He's not a kind of mainstream, or what I mean
by mainstream is kind of out and about convincing towards
vagabonds and a search sort of approach. It's always very
kind of hidden and methodical, a bit assassin esque rather
than a I guess rather than turning on somebody kind
of approach. So this would be my traditional EMO anyways.
So yeah, I would have just sent out a message
essentially stating I'm checking the alley ways, moving from this direction,
plan to go to here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yep. So then you all see a message
come through on the net from an unknown skybearer's but
it says I'm in this area and I'm looking. I
think you all know that's probably shadow because that was
the plan to go down in that direction. But yeah,
it says I'm down here. I recognize that there are
people up there searching, but I'm just going to search
down here, just to be safe, to give us a
full kind of watch essentially. Okay, so we see that,
and now we're going to move over to shift shift.
What do you do with these two kids who are
looking through the trash not a young probably fifteen year
old boy and a twelve year old girl.
Speaker 2: I pocket the extractor for now, I'm pull out one
of my knives. It has a heavy ball bearing in
the handle to give it extra weight, and I walk
over quietly behind them, and.
Speaker 1: They saw you, all of you, so you can walk.
I mean you would have to go a different direction,
like look like you're leaving the alleyway and then circle
back around. Okay. Yeah, So then we see Shiv kind
of get up on the side of the building and
he's listening. They're kind of talking to each other. Well,
I don't know if I can find anything in there.
What is that is that? Is that food? I don't
think I hear it. They go down the alleyway and
they're gone ahead, and then you hear them start rummaging
back in the in the trash again.
Speaker 2: I can keep up behind them. I'm going for the
boy first, and I hit him with the heavy bull
bearing end of the dagger, back of the head, and
then the girl as quickly as I can.
Speaker 1: Okay. So, because this was a critical failure and I
know this is going to be a very traumatic memory
for you, I'm definitely gonna say one of them saw
you before you hit them, So one of them sees
you hit the other, So I guess they would be
the girl. The girl sees you hit her her brother.
He falls to the floor, and then she screams or
she makes a yelp before you hit her across the head,
but then she does she does fall down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I ekes tract the memories.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll twice for me. You can
have a plus one each time.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the first one in a second to be
play first thing girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, so the rules aren't actually for that
particular thing, like the first one is actually for the extracting,
the second one is for something else. Yeah. Okay, so
you have you have successfully taken the memories out. What
do you do with them laying on the ground? Do
you leave them there?
Speaker 2: No, you'd put them in the trash You literally.
Speaker 1: You're gonna put them. I'm sorry. I try to be neutral, jam,
but I can't. You're still unclear. You're putting the bodies
of these children in the trash can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just so out of the way, okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, you look around and you don't. You don't.
When you kind of stand up and you survey to
see if anybody has seen this, you don't see anyone.
Speaker 2: Okay, I rummage in my satchel for a little bit.
It oh, okay, to it in there with them, and
then I handlef Okay.
Speaker 1: So this what aspect of this memory? I mean, obviously
the whole thing's traumatic, but there's one specific thing that's
gonna haunt Ship a bit. What is it?
Speaker 2: It's the look into the little girl's eyes and she
sees me. Yeah, I know what I am, but uh,
I don't like to be reminded of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh my dear God, all right, Finch, I need
a roll from you. You can have a plus one.
Oh hell yeah, there we go.
Speaker 6: You two.
Speaker 1: Temple okay, oh my god. Nice or a plus one
regular role. Actually, okay, the Finch's plus one is actually
you are aiding her. Okay, okay, So we see Temple
and Finch. So after this this kind of traumatic event, Actually,
I think I'm going to narrate this a little bit.
So we see, uh, we see Shiv hit crack the
boy on the back of the head, and we see
this little girl go sean and she looks up at
Shiv horrified. She recoils a bit, please don't and before
she is able to finish her sentence.
Speaker 6: He just.
Speaker 1: Cracks her on the side of the temple and she
falls down to the ground. He then carefully extracts the
memory from the older boy. He winches as it's being pulled,
and then he does the same for the little girl,
the memory of her seeing him, and then the memory
of her seeing him crack the boy on the head.
He takes them both. She's whimpering a bit when he
does this. When we look at Shiv's face, we don't
see anything, We see no expression. He doesn't seem to
be bothered by this. We know that he is and
he will be haunted by this moment. And then we
see him pick up the boy and put him in
the trash, and we see him pick up the girl
and put her in the dumpster as well, and he
fishes into his pocket for a bit of food and
then lays it between them and closes the lid. And
then we see him maybe take a deep breath, look
around down the alleyway, and head off quickly to where
he will meet Shadow. Then we cut to Finch and
Temple moving down these alleyways looking. You now see four
anche between the two of you, also searching, and you
don't see them in the same alleys as you, but
it's as you move from block to block you catch
a glimpse of that red cloak, another one, and another one.
Finch you've seen four.
Speaker 7: This is so.
Speaker 1: Strange to you. Why are there so many openly cloaked
badge wearing next see here? They shouldn't. This is very strange.
So I know that you already thought Reckon was special
and you're way of answers. But if you had any doubts,
I think those are squashed now when you see how
many ankie are here now both of you, do you
send any communication to Shadow and Shive to let them
know that there are way more than you were anticipating.
Speaker 3: I will. I'll just send something that it kind of
coded like, hey, I know we were thinking about going
to this restaurant, but it's super busy right now, or
something like that, to kind of like hope that they
get it. But also I don't want to risk being like, hey,
there's a lot of fucking guys out here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, go ahead and give me a role for me.
You can have a plus one. Don't worry. This isn't
a success or fail thing. This is just which option
I'm going to choose to flavor. Okay, so here's what
I think we see. I think we see Finch sizing
up that there are a lot more next see here
than originally had anticipated, and she decides to send a
message to pick one Shadow or shiveh Shive Shive. She
decides to send a message to Shiv. You all have
been working together behind the scenes for a while now,
trying to figure out what the next sea and what
the anky you are up to. So I'm going to
say you've already figured out how to talk to each
other in a way in which isn't so obvious. We
see Finch send a new message, but she gets in
and changes the date and time. She changes it to
a specific date that you all know to check and
you have in your calm dat like a lock on
that folder on that date. Any new mail that comes
in on that date you will then check it. But
any anky scrubbin isn't going to see it because it
came in six months ago. They're only going to be
looking at today's date, obviously. So we see her change
this message, uh date and time, and she says something like,
I know we were thinking of scoping out this area
for vagabonds, but it's a bit busy with locals, so
let's reconvene and choose a different area, or let's go
to this area instead. So that message clearly Shiv, you're
gonna get that. That's not the right sound there you go,
you're gonna get that, and immediately sound by the way,
and it's yeah, so yeah, that's that's you closing the
lid of the spin. And then your message comes through
and it's you know, a new one from a date
from six months ago, so you know it's a message
from with somebody in the team, but it's encrypted and
it says this warning on it. So now you know
there are a lot more nextsy than you were originally anticipating.
And maybe we see for the first time Shiv has
an expression that is not necessarily worry but concern, and
he picks up his pace as he runs to catch
up with Shadow.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so now Temple, you're going to encounter a next SI.
They approach you. Where did you say you saw him?
Speaker 4: I reference to the place where I had the where
I sent the message from earlier, not too long ago, when.
Speaker 1: You're shore with him.
Speaker 4: Mostly I'm not certain I didn't get to see his face,
but I saw that cloak.
Speaker 1: Which cloak the cloak from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it would be referenced the image that we had
received of Reckon when we all got the like the APB.
Speaker 1: So they oh right, okay, okay, the image in the
app Okay, Yeah, so we'll say his scarf because that's
what it would have been in his image. Yeah, that works. Yeah,
so that's scarf all right? And you didn't see him
anytime after that?
Speaker 4: I must have lost him somewhere along the way.
Speaker 1: What if he doubled back? Do you think he doubled back?
Speaker 4: I paused for a moment. It's possible, but I didn't
see him come back my way.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe we should head back anyway just to be safe.
Speaker 4: Where are we in reference to like the docs or
any other exit?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me go ahead and pull up the map
here for you. So we're gonna look at the Nataku
main map. Can you all see that?
Speaker 7: Ye?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you two decided to head up, So your
bar is near where let me just make sure you're
not near the church and where's the Tower of Merrick?
Yeah that's what I thought. So you're not on this
four eight and six side? You were on near kind
of where two was. So do you see that area
in the back of the map where there's a whole
bunch of buildings. We're gonna say that's where your vagabond
building is, that's where the tin is, and this is
where you started. So you and Finch started heading in
the direction of the temple six eight and four, so
they the exit here would be on the water and
the real area they went to is on the other
end of the wheel out, so not at the water
at all. They're not taking the water out, they're walking
on foot. So it's a very back northeast corner of
the map. That's where they're going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, okay, yeah, So I would say he seemed
to be in a hurry. Have you looked at the
docks yet, we.
Speaker 1: Came from the docks.
Speaker 4: And he couldn't have slipped by you.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I'm sure he could have, but we've
got a lot of people on the docks. If you
saw him heading this way, then I'm assuming that he's
trying to exit on the docks. But wouldn't you then
maybe potentially double back. He's smart. I'm going back. I'm
going back, and I'm going to take I'm going to
take mal with me. Do you want to come with
us or are you going to stay here?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Have there are already so many at the docks. I
can come with for a time. Okay, we need to
search in more detail in another place. Then we can
split up again.
Speaker 1: Okay, So as you are walking, make me one more rule.
You can have a plus one. How did they know
you were inky? Is a thought that enters your mind
when you begin walking down the alleyway with them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so perhaps I'm troubled by that, but I
do recall that I had sent out a report and
I'm official in the database, so they must have access
at least to be able to recognize that from the
report that I sent So I need to be extra careful.
Speaker 1: So the way that it would work, then typically these
grunt inky will recognize like if they're introduced to a
sky Bear, they will kind of you are a higher rank.
Typically is how that works. They don't have access to
your face. So the fact that these guys did recognize
your face without walking up and asking you if you
were aanky because you're undercover technically means and you're right,
you are in the database. But it means that they
might be higher rank than you, and I think that
strikes you as a little bit odd that the Aankie
would send someone who has access to your file. I
think that's a little bit alarming. Actually yeah, because normally
they would just send grunts to listen to you or
to take your lead. So again, same thing with Finch.
If there was any doubt in your mind that Reckon
was really important, I doubt. I doubt that's left. I
doubt that remains. Okay, we are now going to swim,
which again back to shadow. As Shiv catches up with you,
I need you both to roll twice more for me. Actually,
let's just do once to start, because it could be awful.
You still have your plus two both of you. Oh
thank god, Oh Ship, you're killing me. Okay, so God,
all right, you both work through the alleyways. I think
Shiv might be focused on because it's not a matter
of fucking up. I hate it when a GM just
assumes that a role means you fucked up in some way.
Shiv is like one of the best guy bears out there.
I'm not gonna say that he tripped and made a noise,
but I am gonna say that he might be distracted
and thinking of this memory, so he's not as meticulous
as he normally would be. What is something that he
would miss?
Speaker 2: I think maybe I forget, I'm distracted by this memory
not to glance over at the group.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, Okay, that's actually really good. So you do
glance over to make sure that they're still there, and
they're okay. So you have now a memory that you
might have to deal with of seeing them. I think
that's I think that's a solid feel. Actually that's a
really good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I take my knife and I just put a
little nick on my thumb, just so I don't forget
to remove the memory.
Speaker 1: Nice. Do you have a lot of scars on your thumb?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Have you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, it's an interesting So we see him put
a nick in a thumb, but he has a lot
of scars already there, and maybe he kind of mutters
under his breath when he looks back and realizes what
he's done. All right, one more role from each of you.
You do make it through the second half of the
city though. So again back to that map, and for
those listening, Ninatako is set up the southern western the
southwest side of Nataka's entirely flooded countries, and it leads
you usually leave by boat. However, there is a small
area on the northeastern side, in the corner of the
map where you can leave by foot. And the city
is filled up mostly of i'd say buildings that are
stacked on top of each other. On top of these
flats and docks, there are temples. There is a huge
a norm miss water wheel that actually powers most of
the city and provides power in the form of generators
to other outlying cities. So a lot of other little
cities or settlements will send representatives here offer trade to
the city of Nataku to take back generators full of
energy for their settlement further out. You, the viewer and
I would know that Reckon will frequently come here to
get power for his settlement. So we see them make
their way from probably just before the beginning of the
water wheel. They make it past the marketplace, past the
big temple, past the Tower of Merrick, past the wise
Folk Council, which is the big dome in the middle
of the city, and we see them kind of getting
into the outskirts of the city where the poor residents
live where things are no longer necessarily as well built
their old abandoned structures that have been repurposed. The roofs
are made of tin slats, and as they enter into
this area, we'll have you rolled one final time to
see how you get out. Both can have your plus
two still. Oh my god, Shadow MVP.
Speaker 9: Counting me Shadow, Yeah, oh my god, sif okay again,
we're gonna see Shadow is able to successfully and I
think I think and correct me if I'm wrong, psichotta guess.
Speaker 1: But I think I know Shive well enough to know
after that last buck up, I think that he wouldn't
endanger the party anymore, and I think he would just
slowly walk or tell Shadow go on ahead. I'm going
to stay back and I'll watch from here. Because you're
you're in another place, and then you can have your
You can have your fuck up happen however you want.
But I because Shadow rolled a savvy success, I think
that means that you, unless you have a different fuck
up in mind, but somehow you're going to mess up here.
Speaker 2: I think get in separated from Reckon and Blake and
basically potential answers. They might be gone by the time
I catch back up to Shadow again. But I am.
Speaker 1: So maybe you're maybe you're maybe you're unable to fight
your desire for knowledge, so you do stay with the
party even though you know you're not quite on your
game right now. Maybe that's your failure. If you're okay
with that.
Speaker 2: No, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that fits. I think that fits what
we know of shifts so far. Okay, So I think
we do see Shiv maybe hesitate, realize that he's not
quite on his game, and then he he moves forward
and stays with the party because he just can't let
the idea of what Reckon knows and the truth go,
and that, in some way, you the viewer and I
know is a mistake, but we just don't know why yet.
And that's where we're going to take a break. We
are in the Nexus, one of the main centers of
operations for Inkee's Covenant in Pinumbra. We see the Golden
Necks You building. Its frame overlooks the upper levels of
the city. It's shadow always standing as an unnerving reminder
to all vagabonds that they're there is no place that
they will ever feel totally safe, no place in which
the next the eye isn't ever watching. The building stands tall,
cast in an artificial golden light, and its access points
several stories from the base platform, forcing visitors to ascend
several flights of stairs to even enter the building. Inside
this building, we join Finch, Shadow, Temple, and Shiv in
the lobby of the thirty third floor. It spans several
lapses since Reckons escape, since our sun bearers made the
choice to aid them, You, the viewer, and I no Reckon.
Blake and Violet made it out safely with the help
of Shiv and Shadow, but our sun bears have been waiting, unsure,
perhaps hopeful. Chiv was able to send out a coded
message to the group advising them to lay low, scrub
their calms, out memories, and has fallen silent. Since they
all know the Anky well and know that the entire
city of Nataku has been under watch. Someone knows something,
someone saw something, Someone must have aided. Reckon and the
Yankie are determined to find out. Hinch, what are you doing?
How are you acting and feeling? What's going on in
your mind?
Speaker 3: She's trying to not show too many emotions, but I
don't think she can help that. She probably looks not worried,
but almost a little like upset or nervous, And that's
very rare for her. She's usually pretty good about hiding
how she feels, especially if it's negative. I think she's, uh,
she's trying pretty hard, but it's kind of you can
tell that she's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And what about Shadow, what are you doing?
Speaker 8: I think a little bit, he's just trying to call himself.
So he's continuing to go back to that same kind
of memory he reflected on right before we had all met, just.
Speaker 4: Right, right, right right, the sense of the.
Speaker 8: Of the sky crying and hitting the hard pavement, just
kind of using that to try and center himself and
calm his emotions and try and temper some of that anxiety.
Speaker 1: In Temple. What about you, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: Immediately after being able to leave from Taco and I
guess before being summoned during that like lying low period,
he's gone back to his beach and hid the ring
that he had with the memory in it in a
spot there. And so now he's like his hand is
in the pocket where usually the ring would be, and
it's fiddling around with nothing. Just now there's an even
where the missing tooth is, so to speak, in his mind.
Now there's a physical missing object as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about you shift.
Speaker 2: Am I allowed to be armed in here? Oh?
Speaker 1: Absolutely you. Yeah, you're like an elite class, so they
don't take anything from you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm just cleaning my nails with a top of a knife,
just keeping myself busy.
Speaker 1: Right finch. A woman comes out of the main, big
golden doors they slide open. She has glasses, brown hair
that's kind of in an elaborate twisted almost like a
I want to say it's like a beehive, but it's
more braided. It's very intricate, and she has golden Barett's
kind of like claws holding up this nest of hair,
and she has glasses that have special readouts on it.
You instantly recognize this technology because you kind of did
a lot of tech stuff with the Yankee for a while,
so you recognize these glasses immediately. They can tell your
vitals just by looking at you. So she's wearing these
and this is going to give you a heads up.
She looks up over the glass at you and waves
you forward.
Speaker 3: I as soon as I see the glasses, I immediately
start taking slow, deep breaths to normalize my heart rate. Okay,
because I'm not gonna I realize what those are and
I realize the implications.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. So she waves you forward and into the room,
and we see Finch stand up, take a deep breath
and walk forward into this room. And then the doors
close and you three are left alone, but we move
forward in with Finch. Finch, please it. She gestures to
a metal chair. There is nothing on it, no cushion,
And I think maybe you might also recognize that that
has something to do with either memory extraction or potentially
using a spitter on you with electric electric is that
your brain might immediately go there like that. There's a
reason for that too.
Speaker 7: M hm hmm.
Speaker 1: Tell me what happened?
Speaker 3: What happened when today?
Speaker 1: No, no, the events were looking for reckon and accent.
Speaker 3: I don't really know what happened in detail. Well, we
be more specific in your question.
Speaker 1: Your report says otherwise, did you did you not see
him on a specific street?
Speaker 3: I did see him on a specific street, and I
tried so tell me what happened. I got the notification
I was looking. I saw him. I saw that scarf.
Speaker 1: So you saw his scarf that stood out to you.
Speaker 3: This scarf, Oh scarf, it always stands out hideous.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: I want to continue, but trying to be I didn't
want to be obvious, so you tail. I watched him walking.
He didn't see him panicked or frenzied. I don't think.
I don't know if he.
Speaker 1: Knew that you were following him.
Speaker 3: That anyone was looking for him.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 3: He was walking with purpose, it seemed like. But this
is all from my perspective.
Speaker 1: Anything else you can tell me about him? Was he alone?
Speaker 3: From what I could tell? Yes, I didn't see anyone
with him.
Speaker 1: And which way was he going.
Speaker 3: Away from me? Down the street?
Speaker 1: Try to remember?
Speaker 3: Did they find him? Can you tell me that?
Speaker 1: Try to remember which way was he going?
Speaker 3: Why don't you just look?
Speaker 1: Why don't you?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna close my eyes and just keep replaying
the memory, okay of him.
Speaker 1: Okay, and do you you read it? You basically like
narrate what you're seeing when you recall this memory. Okay,
go ahead and roll for me. You can have a
plus one.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's scared me so much. Okay, so
that's the success. Okay, so as you narrate this, you
manage to keep your heart rate low and you are
just detached narrating. I walk forward, I see him look behind,
but he doesn't recognize me, and you just coldly narrate
your way through this memory. You are able to give streets,
and then when you lose sight of him, she doesn't
stop you at the end of that memory, so you
continue narrating, and you narrate all the way up to
I saw other cloaked Anky members. They told me to
go down this way. I went this way. You literally
narrate the entire thing and she doesn't stop you. You
go home. She has you keep going. It's like, in
excruciating fifteen twenty minutes as she is clearly making you
recall while she watches you everything that you did that day.
And I think Finch is smart enough to know she
thinks she's looking for something that you might know. I
don't know if it immediately hits you that she suspects
you or anything like that. I don't want you to
immediately necessarily jump to that conclusion unless Finch would. But
she is looking for something other than reckon, and I
think that's what you recognize.
Speaker 3: These people she thinks they're not telling me the truth. Yeah,
they're looking together than what they're asking, or they're asking
an intent that they're not making obvious.
Speaker 1: Yes, so she yeah, she makes you recant everything from
that day that she goes a little bit further. She
has you recant three days after everything you fucking did. So,
now spend forty five minutes of you sitting in this chair,
sweating as you're just the energy it takes for you
to recall day's worth of memory and sit there and
narrate through it like a robot. This is actually quite
taxing because you've had a lot of practice. I think
every Skybear has. So we see Finch able to narrate
her way through day's worth of memories. But also we
must remember that not only is she feeling everything from
that time and that day, but she has to not
have it affect her as she's feeling the intensity and
the rush of trying to find Reckon. She has to
lower it enough that it looks like just the adrenaline
from the day. Any anxiety spike throughout the next couple
of days would have drawn attention. So we see Finch
over the next three days carefully staying in her apartment
or looking around making rounds. Not only did she lay low,
but she went out of her way to make sure
that she was still the perfect skybearer. She went, did
rounds in the same area, looked for anything, she went,
talked to people. She asked, did you see anyone matching
this description with a scarf? She went? There is nothing
in here that could lead back to her, And we
see this in her narration. So not only was she
doing that in the days following, but right now, when
she's narrating it and her heart is racing and she's
on to this woman looking for more than what she's
asking for, she still manages to keep her heart rate
and check. So forty five minutes of this excruciatingly intense,
anxiety raising situation, she finally looks down at her notepad,
which isn't a notepad per se with paper. It's like
a glass tablet that she is tapping with a pen,
and she's taking notes. We cannot see you, the viewer,
and I what notes she's taking, and neither can Finch,
but she is taking some and she is focused very
intently on a couple of key things that Finch says
Finch roll for me. You can still have that plus
one Lee shit a savvy success. She asks you about
a couple key locations. She also asks you, very specifically,
if you saw any other skybears in the area. You're
able to say no because you didn't see anybody and
you didn't go back. You didn't go back to help them,
so you're able to say no, I didn't see anyone
other than the next sy Yankee that you sent. She
doesn't pause, says thank you. I think that will be all.
Can you send in someone else? Please wait in the lobby.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question? Of course, did you
find him?
Speaker 1: I cannot answer that.
Speaker 3: I should have specified. Can I ask you a question
that you can answer that would have been as smart idea? Okay,
that's gonna mumble to myself as I walk out.
Speaker 1: We do appreciate your help, Finch, anytime you know me. Oh,
there is one other thing. Do you mind if we
take those memories from you?
Speaker 3: That's fine? Am I gonna remember?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 3: That's no?
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, of course, that's.
Speaker 3: All I want to remember. You're gonna have anything, well,
not anything else, not the embarrassing stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, you just told me everything over the last couple
of days, and nothing.
Speaker 3: But the part through them, okay, and I left out
the parts where I had a bout of diarrhea. I
don't know if you're.
Speaker 1: All right. Well I suppose, I suppose you're right. We
probably don't need anything but your your narration at this moment.
All right, all right, if we do end up needing it,
we'll reach out to you. Thank you, Thank you, Finch.
You may actually go just send someone else in thank you.
Speaker 3: It's gonna head out and just gonna point to whoever
was closest to me when we were sitting out there here.
Speaker 1: I pick someone, Mum, chiev shive is up? Do you
warn them about the eye device.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna walk by him. I'll like put my
hand on his shoulder as I walking by and just
say all right, to stay calm. I know these things
can be stressful and people tend to see right through that.
Speaker 1: So I'm actually gonna stop you there because I think
you know that they're recording this entire area and anything
that you say will be recorded. However, you can send
an encoded message with that special date if you want,
because remember, like you guys are able to just do
that in your minds. You don't have to do anything.
They don't know, and the message will look like it
was sent six months ago. So you can send him
a message.
Speaker 3: Some bullshit joke then about whatever. I'll just say like
she's gonna want to know in detail about the last
time you went to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okad luck, good luck? Okay, does act like.
Speaker 3: Wasn't a big deal?
Speaker 1: Okay, Shive, you're up? Okay, what do we see when
you get up and walk towards these doors?
Speaker 2: Just a confident instrut and talk my knife?
Speaker 10: Okay, Okay, I uh, I don't have a file on you,
but please sit down.
Speaker 2: Sure you can call me chev on works Shive.
Speaker 1: All right, she's looking down at her notepad and her
calm dad, I guess in a weird way, and she's
making notes here as you sit down, she seems kind
of uninterested. Uh really, and you know it's not like
she's watching you intently as you walk in. All right,
can you tell me what happened?
Speaker 2: I'm lague me it started breakfast or.
Speaker 1: No, just from the moment you received the the app.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got the app with the details. I started
looking running too. A couple of kids build their memories.
They hadn't seen anything. I saw that he was supposedly
going to the docks. I don't buy it. So he's
a smart one.
Speaker 1: Neither do we?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I doubled back.
Speaker 1: These memories that you pulled. Where are they.
Speaker 9: From?
Speaker 2: There? I had no use for them to Detroit?
Speaker 1: Role for me?
Speaker 2: Shift?
Speaker 1: How is this possible? Oh my god? Have you rolled
a single success today? At all?
Speaker 2: One? One?
Speaker 1: Okay? Okay? She pauses. So she is writing, by the way,
in this glass tablet. She's got, you know, this kind
of pen that she's writing, and you see her. She
doesn't look up at you, but she stopped, stops writing
and pauses. When you say you had no use for them,
and so you destroyed them, do you say anything in
this moment?
Speaker 2: I didn't have time to bring them back. I didn't
want to be carrying them around me accused of anything funny?
Speaker 1: So all right, and what did you do after? Please continue?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I headed to the place where I thought he
was probably gonna go.
Speaker 1: And where was that.
Speaker 2: Northeast act suited the city by land, that's what.
Speaker 1: We think too. Did you see any other next see?
Excuse me? Uh? Skybearers?
Speaker 2: Well maybe none that I recognized, So I know people
are good at the keeping themselves hidden.
Speaker 1: All right, So you didn't see any n whore? What
about what about regular? Nextie?
Speaker 2: A couple? I think probably at some point there it
was quite a lot some guys being at the open.
Speaker 1: All right. Why don't you do you mind narrating for
me the day?
Speaker 7: Just that?
Speaker 2: Like, do you want to know which left I took,
which rate I took?
Speaker 1: No, I mean I actually recall it for me?
Speaker 2: Sure I can. I close my eyes and think deep
for the memory.
Speaker 1: Okay, So she has you walk through from the moment
you got the message, now your clean up process shift.
I am going to say you are all very good
at this because this is your job and you are
probably the one that had to help everyone else with
this if they needed to do it, which means that, oh,
because you didn't make contact with anybody afterwards. Right, okay,
so roll for me one more time. This is super important.
You can have a plus one.
Speaker 2: Come on, well twenty be my friend.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, finally, holy shit. Okay, So Shiv was
able to send out a detailed encrypted description on how
to do exactly what I'm about to describe. And this
is the first time we've ever seen this in this show,
but it is possible. So what we see Shift do
it's very rare. But what we see Shift do is
in the days after the event, he walked through at
the same time and filled in the blanks from the
moment he got the APB to the discussion where you
all figured out what you were going to do, because
that memory was taken away, and if you were forced
to recall it in front of a Nexsy like you
know this woman Keenna right here, she would notice a
gap in the timeline. So what he did was he
went back and then re encoded that memory and reorganized
it in his mind. It's a very excruciating process. You
have to extract everything from that day into an item
or into your memory extractor, rearrange it, and then reinsert it.
It's incredibly painful. And if if an Nexsy were to
pull that out and really look at it, they might
be able to tell that you tampered with it. But
when you're recalling it, there's no real way to tell.
So he begins recalling this event, filling in the blanks
with I went to you know, I got the I
got the message I was on this street, and then
I moved away and I went down here and I
saw the kids, and then the kids acting their memory. Now,
this is the tricky part where your failure from before
is going to come into play. This memory of you
watching through their memory to see what they knew. You
forgot to fill in that blank. So when you go,
you're like, I don't have this memory, and I don't
have a memory of recalling what they knew. So there's
a blank here. How do you handle that?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, So this part I got rid of their
memories and my memory of their memories. I don't my
head's from MySpace for my memories. I don't know what
I did, but I don't know what I saw, right, Okay,
I just know it wasn't useful, So it's gone.
Speaker 1: All right, then what happened? So she glosses over this
very quickly, and I think she picks up on that,
like she stopped and noticed there was something strange. But
then she wants to know what happens after and she
continues to go through the events of the day, and
you have filled in basically crawling through that area by
land and not seeing anyone. She then asks you to
go through the next three days. Again, this process becomes
from you know, twenty minutes forty five minutes. I'd say
she actually pressures you on a lot more so, it's
about an hour and a half that you have been
in here. And I do think it strikes you as
odd that she seems to be looking for something in
the next three days that happened after that. I don't
think think you can pinpoint any particular location or question
that she asks you, though, but it does strike you
as odd that she she's not being there's being thorough
and asking what you did because she's suspicious of you.
But it doesn't strike you that way. It strikes you
as if she's looking for something in particular, to see
if you maybe saw anything in the next three days.
So what did she do in the next three days
other than go around and do rounds? Did you do
anything else?
Speaker 2: I went to the wise council dropped off a little
bag of scrap there. Oh, I intended to do that
in the day we got the EPB, but it got interrupted.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then you basically return to things as normal.
How long did you wait before you began to do
the like cleanup?
Speaker 2: I think I would have left it until.
Speaker 3: H m.
Speaker 2: It takes a while, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it takes a while. And then it's also the
tricky thing is I think you were expecting to get
called right away, so there's like a you know, two days,
three days as normal, but then like on day four,
did you immediately do cleanup or did you wait until
they said you need to be come up here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I would have waited until I got the call.
I think.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I did it then, so you'll notice. So
she actually she has you narrate like three days, maybe
midway through the fourth day, when she just says, all right,
that's that's enough. I chiv you said, Yeah, I realized
I don't have a file on you, so I don't
really know how you operate. This is the first time
we have spoken. I don't lie that you deleted things.
That's up for us to decide whether we need them
or not. So in the future, if you pull things,
put them into an object, carry them with you, you
don't need to get rid of it.
Speaker 6: Okay, sure is there a and else you need me
to do?
Speaker 1: Do you know any of the others out there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. I've been around long enough.
Speaker 1: What can you tell me about them.
Speaker 2: They're competent, Is that all? I don't do a lot
of grip work. I'm more of a solo type, you know,
right when I need someone. Yeah, maybe I think I've
worked with Shadow at least once.
Speaker 1: Tell me about Shadow.
Speaker 2: She's discreet, competent. I mean, I'm not much of a
people person, so I can't tell you if he has
good taste and food or has a sense of humor.
You know, I'm business orientated.
Speaker 1: All right. You were the one that varied Reckon. Yeah,
how did you feel when you saw him come up.
Speaker 2: Concerned? Why is a smart one? He's smart and well,
smart people are better at causing trouble. I'm getting away
from trouble.
Speaker 1: Do you feel responsible.
Speaker 2: For him?
Speaker 1: You were the last one to ferry him the last
time he was seen leaving nexty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm not as boss. That's you, guys. So
if you fucked up, that's your failure, not mine. It's
no offense.
Speaker 1: She laughs and smiles for the first time actually, and
looks down back down at her data pad and scribbles
something a note, and then sets the glass pen down.
So again, this is literally just kind of like a
pen shaped sliver of glass. There's nothing. There's nothing in
it that you know. There's no clicking device, there's nothing
that comes out. It's just glass. So she sets that
gently down on the tablet and crosses her fingers, interlaces
them and looks up at you. You may send in shadow.
Speaker 2: Okay, in the meantime, do you want me to look
anywhere in particular? Do anything? What do you need?
Speaker 1: We'll let you know if we need anything. Thank you, Shiv.
Speaker 2: He're welcome. I hope my three days of walking around
were entertaining.
Speaker 1: She's not breaking eye contact with you. She has a
little bit of a smile, but it's more on the
smirk side, like she's watching you. You mm hmm. Make
one final role for me, you know, a plus one
in that moment when you're making eye contact with her
and you say that snide remark, what happens here? Do
you flinch? Does your heart race? Something happens here with
your vitals? What does she catch?
Speaker 2: Her smirk pisses me off?
Speaker 3: So you get angry again?
Speaker 1: So your heart?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get a real interest of thought to just
run over there and wipe it off her face, do you? Yeah?
I pauses, I'm standing up and I catch a glaring
at me with that smirk, and.
Speaker 1: You have two options. You have two options shift because
you're smart. Do you pass this off as anger? Do
you pass this off as sexual attraction?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was thinking in the ladder. Okay, hmm, I like
a confident women. I'll be around. You know how to
find me, right.
Speaker 1: I do. You may send in Chell.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's a looker, but uh well, I'm more competent.
Let's just pread that way.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, make another rule for me. You're gonna
have a plus too, Holy savage success. Okay, Oh my god,
that's a rule of threes. Okay, so okay, Wow, fucking wow,
Holy shit. I I was clenching on your behalf because yeah, okay,
any thought that she had, which she did, by the way,
have quite a bit of suspicion about you, it's completely gotten.
Now you have won her over with this kind of Jesus.
I think she just writes every bit of stumble, every raised,
elevated heart rate that you had as attraction to her.
And she kind of laughs a bit, and just as
you're walking out the door, she's kind of taking notes,
and you the viewer, and I might see her kind
of swipe the pad over and give a fresh kind
of files as shadow is walking in just before I leave.
Speaker 2: Yes, could I use my revelation in this room?
Speaker 1: You can? You may What revelation is it?
Speaker 2: The revelation of the photographer?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Okay, holy shit, Yes, this is great. Okay, okay, okay,
read the revelation out for us if you if you.
Speaker 2: Would, The vagabond reaches out to the memories that were
created in a specific location upon activation, and the radar
writes a new memory in your journal which describes an
important scene of the past that happened here. The memory
has no effect.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, okay, I need you to roll me
A one D three.
Speaker 2: Okay, A three.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back to this. Okay, we are going
to skip. Oh should I come back to this? Sh
Just tell you know. I'm just gonna tina. Okay. So
when you do this, what does it look like for us?
What do we see when you use this revelation?
Speaker 2: They as in walking, I can a slow. My perception
slows in the room kind of freezes and then sort
of rewans back through to the moment and stops and
then plays it as if I'm there observing it.
Speaker 1: Then you see as you are turning back and making
these kind of you're flirting with this girl. So we
see you able to because you've used this so much,
you're so good at this that you can still speak
to her. And then everything becomes kind of muted. This
strange piano song that they're playing throughout the building. You
hear that. It goes muted. Your words are muted. It's
almost like you're underwater. You can't hear them. But then
you see in front of you. Do you know accent?
Do you only know Blake?
Speaker 2: I would have been around at the accent time for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you see Accent and he is leaning over someone.
He has his hands around their neck, is choking them.
They are wearing fancy corporate clothes. I think it's safe
for you to assume that this is inky and he
is choking them. It is go ahead and roll for me.
I want to see. Well, I guess the revelation means
you see everything right, There is no how much you
do or do not see. You see the whole memory, correct, Yeah, okay, okay,
So it is a woman. It looks exactly like the
woman who is sitting at this desk. However, you see
her eyes looking up rolling back as she is being choked,
and her body is flinching accent, staring into her face, watching,
waiting for the lights to go out, waiting for her
to lose her life, and he is gripping her so intensely.
She's choking, she is trying to swipe at him, and
then eventually she falls still, and still he holds her.
He waits another fifteen thirty seconds, breathing heavily, before he
lets go and looks up right at you or maybe
the door, and then the memory's over.
Speaker 2: Shadow.
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, shadow would be great.
Speaker 2: Thank you, right, Hannah shadow listen, jeez, a feisty one. Right,
but I saw her.
Speaker 8: First, I step up and walk into the door close,
or you walk into the room, closing the door behind me.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you going to well nope, I'll just yeah.
You did get a warning from Finch, a coded message
that they were being extra thorough. Do you do anything
in this moment to maybe prepare yourself before you go in?
Because I know you're a bit nervous.
Speaker 6: Mmmm.
Speaker 8: Just I just tried to continue to remain calm. Okay,
I see this kind of cold, sterile looking chair.
Speaker 1: Though, right, yes, yeah, when you are the desk in
front of it, what does it look like? It's glass desktop,
and then the bottom is made out of steel pillar.
So there it's super simple. Just the desktop and then
the four kind of like leg posts that are made
out of steel.
Speaker 7: As I.
Speaker 1: There is no carbon.
Speaker 8: You see Shadows sit onto the chair and he feels
the cold kind of running against his arms in his back.
Speaker 2: He works to contain it, but.
Speaker 8: It's unnerving for him, the feeling of the kind of cold,
sterile metal.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, when you did your cleanup, shadow yours was
the hardest. What did you do?
Speaker 8: I took the exact same general path and memory. It
would have started from the point of me texting that
I was going towards the outskirts of the marketplace and continuing.
Speaker 7: To head to the northeast.
Speaker 8: I still would have had my same mannerisms of moving down,
looking kind of continuing that same flow, but instead of
the memories of for example, Blake and Violet hiding behind trash,
it would be me searching the trash. It would also
be me looking at some of the smaller buildings. I
would look for a ladder or a chute to climb
up towards and I would have climbed to the perch
of some of the buildings to try and get a
better view. I would look out across the entire landscape
as far as I could see within the northeast part,
observing nothing. I would climb back down and kind of continue.
So my memories would still be almost accurate. Okay, but
it would only.
Speaker 1: Be me, all right, And it is also interlaced with
moments of you looking at the crowd from that night
or did you recreate all new memories?
Speaker 8: No, I think my observations of looking towards the crowd
would be okay, I would still be there.
Speaker 1: It needs you to make a role for me. Then
you can have I'm sorry, you can have a plus
one because SHIFT did give you a detailed instruction on
how to do this. Oh my god, thank god. Okay, okay. So,
similarly to what happened with SHIV, recreating a memory stitched
together from moments that you created the night before is
not noticeable when your recall the memory verbally, when you're
reliving it narrating it, we call it when you're narrating
the day. But if someone were to extract these memories
and look at them, and you know this, they would
notice some inconsistencies from when you climb upstairs and glance
over a crowd to the inconsistency when you are standing
down scanning the crowd. It's a different set of people.
It's not immediately obvious, but someone with a sharp eye
would notice that. And you know that that's an inconsistency.
But you went with it anyway. But again, just narrating,
it shouldn't be an issue. So you walk into this room,
you see this chair, You sit down, You feel the
cold on your hands and your palms, and perhaps it
feels a little bit clammy because maybe you're sweating a
little bit in here, and it makes you a little uncomfortable.
And you see this woman, you know, tall, brown hair, glasses.
She has her leg crossed, her right leg crossed over
her left leg. She is not looking at anything when
you walk in except you. She gestures for you to
sit down without saying your name, and you do, yeah
it's and go on, no, no, you first, if you're
going to say something.
Speaker 8: I was just gonna say as I'm sitting and I
sort of go through the entire narration of so do you.
Speaker 1: Start memorating because she hasn't said anything to you yet.
Speaker 8: Oh, she hasn't said she has not the no before
she says anything. As soon as I feel the cold
of the chair, I get taken back and I don't
actually close them, but I have the sensation of my
eyes closing. Okay, And I'm now laying atop a metal table.
I feel barely, barely present within my body and the
environment around me, but I can hear the sounds of conversation.
Speaker 1: Are you dissociating right now?
Speaker 8: Absolutely? Yeah, I'm being taken back to a time where
I'm laying atop this table, and all I can overhear
is a conversation of men describing how how I had
arrived the night before and how they had taken everything.
Speaker 1: Holy shit? Is this in your file?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 8: Oh, in my anke file?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 8: I would imagine this is the first thing the shadow
has ever known, So I would imagine that this process
would have been.
Speaker 2: Filed somewhere.
Speaker 1: And I think you are the only one so far
that knows exactly why that chair is the way that
it is, and it's to trigger a memory, or to
make you uncomfortable, or to make you subtly feel like
you are on the table again. So okay, I'm going
to give you a plus one on some of these
questions for willingly, for being true to your character and
dissociating here, because it's also going to give you a
minus when she's checking your vitals. But I like it.
As a player, I think it's really important that you
stay dedicated to a character, so I will reward you
with that. I don't want you to feel punished by
what's happening, but narratively there will be some bit because
you're you're dissociating and you're stressed. So go ahead and
roll for me. You have a minus one?
Speaker 7: Is it easier to find?
Speaker 2: Just roll two D four?
Speaker 1: I think it gives me a total. If you roll
two D four, it doesn't.
Speaker 8: Should show both of them and then the total as well.
So what do you see above?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah two threes.
Speaker 1: Wait but that's only Oh yes.
Speaker 2: I have minus one to the role.
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right, you're right two D four okay, okay,
so you are. So we see Shadow immediately kind of
recalling this traumatic experience, the first thing he's ever known,
being completely wiped by the ink, and he we see
his breathing increase. She has not spoken to him yet.
It's almost as if this chair was here for you, Shadow,
and she's just watching you, and you're breathing quickens. Uh,
you are somewhere else in your mind, and she's waiting.
She's letting you sit there. She doesn't speak for three
minutes while you relive this traumatic event.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I just do. I'm not even aware that
she's staring at me. I'm not aware of how much
time has passed. I'm just being taken back to the
first thing I know to be true, which I think
as I would come out of it and kind of
feel the coolness of that share again, to your point,
I would exactly think this was placed here specifically for me,
and I would take that as in sight of trauma
for me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, as in their.
Speaker 8: Intentionally inciting Yeah, the fear knowing that this is what
they've done to me. And it's not a malice thing.
Speaker 1: Holy, it's just manipulation, I know.
Speaker 2: But I think it's.
Speaker 8: Because they know that that they're utilizing it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Shadow, can you tell me about the day what happened?
Speaker 7: Well? I received a message picture of a man of
the scuff and glasses.
Speaker 1: Just narrate it for me if you don't mind, sure.
Speaker 8: And I'd start to go back and recall that modified memory.
Speaker 7: I began to walk towards, assuming man there would be
others nearing the docks and would be the obvious escape
with all the boats, a little bit more tactically escaping
by land if I wanted fugitive. So I headed towards
the marketplace. But well, I did to operate a bit
differently than others, and assumed perhaps this individual would as well.
I of course made my intentions known. I sent a
message in response, directing my path of where I was
starting to where I would intend to finish. So as
I navigated through these kind of dark alleyways, I searched
every area of concealment than one can imagine, looking through
trash searching, scanning down the sides of the roads, looking
upon the faces of the crowd, looking for any sign.
As I continued, at moments where the opportunity became available,
I felt it'd be best to procure a better vantage point,
So I climbed atop the roof of buildings and looked
out upon the town below, searching for anything anyone moving
discreetly or quickly, anything out of the ordinary.
Speaker 1: She interrupts you in the middle of your narrow which
is very rare. Do you know Reckon.
Speaker 7: Only the picture that was given to me.
Speaker 1: So you've never met him before? No, and you never
saw him on this day. No, did you see anyone else?
Speaker 7: Anyone else? Says in someone else in particular.
Speaker 1: That I should be that went out for accent you,
I think, correct me if I'm wrong, because it's been
like three weeks. But I think you were the only
one that got the full unredacted thing right.
Speaker 7: No, I wasn't.
Speaker 8: I had a very blurred imagine.
Speaker 7: I had no idea who it was. I got a
description of the man it was approximately six feet alm
that something was wrong and I could never get a
clear picture. So if that's the name of you're describing,
I'm aware that that a message send out of us.
I have no idea what they look like.
Speaker 1: Good fucking catch Phil. Sorry, but like, holy shit, Oh
if you had answered that, Oh my god. Okay, go
ahead and roll for me one more time. You can
have a plus or sorry, you have a minus one. Unfortunately,
holy shit. Yeah, So even though you had this traumatic
kind of experience, in the first three minutes. Even though
your heart is racing, you are still able to keep
it level when she asks you and tries to catch
you in a lie about accent, and you know it.
You know she was asking you to try to catch
you the same way I said you should have had
a file. Maybe she even says that, did you not
get the app? And you say, no, this is what
I got. And in that moment you both make eye
contact and she knows you know her method didn't work. Okay,
go ahead and narrate. Sorry I interrupted you, and she
will actually have you narrate for three days, all the
way up for three days.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I would articulate so the end of my
search for reckon that day, I think she would be
able to understand the level of exhaustion that I would
go through because this isn't just prowling the streets for me.
This isn't just kind of going around and looking. This
is aggressive.
Speaker 1: Hunting, Okay, interesting.
Speaker 8: Really lifting trash bags and looking through cans, I climbing
up onto the top of buildings and then having to
scale my way back down, like searching with a fervor.
Because of the importance of this and it's in the
same sense how I tend to operate anyways, So after
completing that day and my results coming up empty, I
would have gone and slept for problem with the next
fourteen hours or so getting up, I then would just
kind of articulate going through the similar process, right of
just kind of going back to my normal beat and routine.
I would say, in terms of extracurriculars for Shadow, there
really isn't.
Speaker 2: I think his.
Speaker 8: Greatest form of joy or self relaxation would be I
would sit by a dock and just kind of watch
the boats out and in the distance. I would watch
the waves kind of come up on the beach. That
would sort of be how he would spend his time,
not did you kind of scouring around and it would
just be going back and sleeping and starting the same routine.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you talk to anyone? Did you interview anybody?
Like at the gates by foot? Did you say, did
you see anybody matching this description? Leave here?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, after you're done narrating, I think that you
are too upset maybe or you know you're still recovering
from what has happened to kind of really pay attention
to the fact that she's asking you to go three days,
you know, into your narration. I think it's more just
like the intensity of this whole moment is really high
for you. When you finish your three days narration, she
and you kind of come out of your narration and
you look at her. Her pen is down on the tablet,
her arms are crossed. She's just been watching you the
whole time, not taking any notes. She waits in silence.
Do you say anything?
Speaker 8: No, I stare at her.
Speaker 1: A minute goes by.
Speaker 2: I can continue to stare without saying a word.
Speaker 1: Thank you. If we have any questions, we know where
to find you. Could you send in the last one please,
but of course thank you.
Speaker 8: I go to stand and as I touch the armorrests
of this chair, I kind of shudder for a moment,
and then fully stand and exit. I walk out and
just look at Temple as I nod to him.
Speaker 1: I think Temple, based on what has happened in the roles,
I think it's not that Shadow isn't composed, But you
can tell, because you're all very good at people watching.
You can tell something shook him up in there, but
he has regained It doesn't look like he fucking talked,
or that he has you know, sweat or anything pouring
down his face. But you can tell he's a little
bit bothered by what happened in there before you go in.
Speaker 4: On and then just sort of raise my eyebrows a
little bit, but then stand up and proceed inside.
Speaker 1: Okay. When you come in again, you see this woman
sitting behind the table. She has picked up this glass
pen and she's writing on a glass tablet. You cannot
see what's being scribbled in here. She then see her
swipe her hand kind of a gesture you would know
she's turning pages. She does it three or four times
before she stops and then says, oh, yes, please sit,
and she gestures towards this completely metal chair with no
padding or covering on it at all. Please sit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I look at the chair for like half a
second and then I start moving towards it and sit down.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me what happened? Temple? Temple? It is right?
Speaker 4: Yes, that is right from the point when I got
the bulletin.
Speaker 1: Yes, please perfect?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I nod, and you see me close my eyes
and straighten up my back.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and roll for me. Okay, Okay, you also
willingly gave a plus one to Finch knowing that you
would fuck up somehow. So in your narration, so you
did have a fuck up somehow, and in your narration
you are going to slip up. And I'm going to
let you decide where in that narration you slip up,
but you aren't going to reveal that you made a mistake.
Speaker 4: So just to clarify in terms of the nature of
the mistake, because actually already had something in mind in
terms of how I might go through that. But it's
so to speak, I guess the defensive one. If that,
If that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Why don't you tell me what it is? Yeah, I don't.
I don't need you to have to narrate the whole day.
But we'll tell me what it is and then maybe
we'll we'll roleplay out that slip up moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, so I would, you know, describe how I received
the notice from Finch that he was spotted in the
area and heading towards the docks, and I would indicate that,
you know, my high confidence that I had seen him
with that scarf and then running into the other ANKI
and then following them, and when Mal and the other
one broke off. I continued searching, but I started second
guessing myself because they hadn't seen him. He didn't go
to the docks, he seemingly disappeared, and I found myself
getting more and more distracted and unable to effectively search.
And so I wound up looking back at my memory
of looking at those people in the crowd where I
thought I saw him, and I realized I didn't. I
didn't see the scarf that I thought I did, And
that's not the kind of mistake that I usually make,
and that really threw me off.
Speaker 1: So you are going to admit to fucking up, yeah,
and you're going to position your discomfort and your raised
heart rate right now as like I don't usually make
that mistake, and I'm sort of like ashamed that I
fucked up and maybe screwed this whole investigation.
Speaker 4: Sort of exactly like that, would I continue into the
following three days or the following Well, you're going.
Speaker 1: To roll to see if she falls for this, because
it's actually really smart because I think she's expecting you
to lie. Yep, Okay, So you basically just fake come
clean where you're like I thought I saw him, but
I didn't and that's you know, So essentially you say, I,
you know everything that you just told me. I went
back and then it turns out I didn't see him,
and I'm, you know, kind of ashamed of that. So
maybe you interrupt your own narration to tell her this,
or actually, I think it's way more interesting if you
just narrate the whole way through. So it takes about
thirty five minutes, but you are being completely fake transparent
with her in that you are like, I go here
and then I start to doubt myself and I go
back and I realized I fucked up and I didn't
see him when I thought I did. And you end
the narration there and you just look at her and
she looks at you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's probably like fear a little bit visible
in my eyes and shame. Absolutely shame.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, temple A, thank you for being honest.
We did already know that he didn't go that way.
It's all right, you didn't. We have some idea of
where he went, but we know he didn't go up
this way. We're just trying to find out who also
knows he didn't go that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I let out a sigh of disappointment
pretty much, not a large one or anything like that,
but like there's a certainly if she's paying attention to
vital she would notice that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I uh, you've worked with Finch before. Yes, it
looks it's like she was going to say something else,
and then she immediately looks down at her glass pat
again and continues, you know Finch, Yes, you work together.
Now clarify for me, Finch and Temple, who lied on
the report about accent?
Speaker 4: Had we sent one in? I thought that we didn't.
Speaker 1: You never sent one in, so you encountered accent, you
caught him, and then you never turned him in.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, and I think we deliberately didn't. Yes, I'm
glad that report and Finch and I haven't talked about that.
And in the back of Temple's head like he wants
to have that conversation. But ever since this stuff started happening,
you haven't had no time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So now maybe you're panicking a little bit,
like this is where this conversation is going. What did
Finch say? Or maybe yeah, that moment where you're like,
you know sent in and you don't know what lie
the other person that like anxiety spike a little bit.
You've worked with Finch, Yes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I nod. And I'm also remembering, you know, a
memory related to Finch and Shadow from a while ago.
Speaker 1: What can you tell me about her?
Speaker 4: Well, as you know, and she and I arrived under
similar circumstances, and since then, we've given ourselves to support
the cause and to work with the cause, and we've
done well as far as I know. We've brought in
several vagabonds.
Speaker 1: Why do you assume I'm questioning her loyalty?
Speaker 4: I don't assume that that's just simply how I know
her best?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, what can you tell me about her? Work wise?
Speaker 4: She's good, sorrow, I would say, so. It's she's someone
that I can count on to cover areas that I
might miss. But it seems that I wasn't able to
do the same for her this time.
Speaker 1: We need you to do something for us, Temple.
Speaker 4: I look at her.
Speaker 1: She looks up from her pad and stares at you
from over her glasses. We need you to watch Finch
and Shadow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I nod. Is there anything I should know?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Or is it better that I don't?
Speaker 1: We just want you to watch them don't make contact
with them.
Speaker 9: Just watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I nod again, and I say I won't make
the same mistake to and.
Speaker 1: We're counting on it. And that's where we're gonna end
the session.
Speaker 6: Holy fuck?
Speaker 1: How about this track though? So fucking good? What kills me?
Hold on? I'm gonna stop this?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Wait, I should do We should do shout outs and ship.
Let's do that. Thank you everyone for playing in the
patren one shot gone, I still dream. Let's do some
shout outs. Why don't we start with Brie who played Finch.
Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Brutal Brie. I played Finch today. Oh my god?
I what to think about anything that does happened?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Anyway, I stream on Twitch. You can find me Monday
through Friday at three pm Eastern Standard time. Saturdays, I
have D and D on my channel at two and
Sunday is my day off Soka the Awakening.
Speaker 6: Filla.
Speaker 8: You're up, Hi, I'm Phil's Gaming. I played a shadow
for you today. You follow me on Twitter at Phil's
Underscore Gaming, and you can find me in Brutal Breeze
channel on Twitch Saturdays at two pm, where I gm
a five V campaign called Awakening.
Speaker 1: You can also find a campaign from Phil on our
website Tablestory dot tv, which was Guardian's promise, and Bree
was in that as well.
Speaker 4: Christopher, you're up all right? My name is Christopher on
the discord as tantamount to Tiny Tim and I played
Temple today and certainly enjoying the stress that comes with
these characters here. I am not a streamer myself, but
I am a hobbyist for RPGs, and other than that,
I am a freelance editor and writer and translator, and
so if you are in need of that kind of thing,
you can visit my site. That said, inotherwords, dot com.
Speaker 1: Nice, it's got a kiss.
Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I'm Scott a kiss and I'm chev.
Speaker 1: I'm going to roll twenty down to the ground.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 2: It wasn't with me today, but that it was when
it needed to be, I guess so it was.
Speaker 1: But also it added some depth to the character, not
that he wasn't already deep, but it did, like we
got to see the thumb scarring, which is not something
I would have seen otherwise, So it did allow us
some insight into his character a little bit. Hopefully he
pulls it together for episode three, but sorry, anyway, please continue.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you can see me on Table Story on Tuesdays,
where I play Alexander peppin a second year Raven close
student at Hogwarts. It's a little bit of a different
character from chev otherwise you can find me, Yeah, just
a bit, all of them. I'm got to kiss everywhere,
and yeah, this is so much, so much fun. I'm
such a gunfan boy, so it's so much fun to
get to play some I.
Speaker 1: Have to say, you all are killing it. I'm really
honored to gm this for you. And what's really cool
is that the way I have it set up is
everything that's happening right now is and I know you
all know this because that's why there's such anxiety here
in the room. But everything here in this moment depends
on like is going to affect what happens to the
other characters and whether or not the Yanky find them
or not. So I think, like we know that they
kind of know where they are because they end up
following some of them, right, So it's just kind of
a oh dear God situation. And I can't wait to
see what you do next week. I think we're going
to try to do the third episode but yeah, thank
you everybody for playing your amazing role players. Your characters
are amazing. I feel really honored that you're helping me
flesh out essentially the world that the other players haven't
really encountered yet. But I feel confident that I will
have really cool answers and characters for them to interact
with when they do so, I appreciate it. I'm peb,
I've been the narrator, and yeah, that's it. Thank you
so much for playing, Thank you so much for listening,
and we'll see you next time. Bye bye