Previously on The Atomless
Azan he?
Ike! She!
My name is Theoriak
What's up? My name's Skye! Welcome to the patchwork my dudes!
Welcome to the lower decks!
There is a race going on
It's big money involved
Money that we need
The person who is in charge of this race
Is a guy named Trak
They're part of a group
Called The Void
Tommy I'm your dude!
Where and when?
Co-owner of Wild Times
So ashamed of allegations
That they had to run
Oh no
Oh that fucking news report right?
Regarding this race of death
As someone who already has a lot of
Negative publicity about them
Making myself visible to a public event like a race might not be
The smartest idea
I've been a long time old friend
I've worked for Void for way before I met you
I need you to meet the wife
Because it'll probably be easier to talk shop
You see Quinn and in their hands they are carrying
The Storm's Eye drink that you got
In her head she's screaming
You feel another buzz on your phone
Looking at it
The black screen is still on
And the message
I'm sorry I love you
And then a little picture of a little love heart emoji comes up
Boom!
The sound echoes through the city and bounces off of the buildings
Smoke bellows from a barrel
Like a freshly used gun
Regret fills the smoke as it rises up in the air
But we see that it is not a barrel
In fact an exhaust
From just an old, old bike that Sky sits upon
The hull, mainly the engine, gets a small tap from a robotic wrapped hand
Sunlight seems to beckon down into the lower decks
Which is extremely rare since it is essentially all covered up
However we are all in a place called the Last Patch
Where drivers and racers are getting themselves ready in a race
Which the Void are hosting
I didn't realize that the Void was hosting the race
I definitely have my goggles on and my gas mask upconcealing my face
I think I get like a mechanical benefit to that as well
What does your mask look like?
It's just my gas mask and my goggles over my face
My goggles with my little plastic butterfly wings sticking out
But it conceals everything
It looks sick as fuck
It looks fucking hot as hell, gamer
Yeah
There's a little ding ding ding against the engine
Scrap, a hunched over Yoski, this brown matted rat person
Hobbles on their small mechanical leg
Half of their face has been replaced with mechanics
They have this green glowing eye
Their ear has been taken off and now acts as a small antenna that is blinking
And as it blinks you see another antenna on a small robot
These two arms hovering slightly off the ground
Which blinks in unison with Scrap's little blinks
Well, goddamn Sky, I must say this is a fucking nice job
Thank you, my dude
The race starts
Is the Driftcore installation going?
It's going
We're fixing it pretty fine
It's kind of taking up a lot more space so I had to move some chairs out the way and things
But I've made sure all of your seats are all available
You're a little closer
Well now I feel bad that I've been working on this bike when you need help with the Driftcore
Nah, it's all good
We'll just, we'll fix it up later, don't you worry
I feel like, I know you said that the money isn't like gonna do good for us
But I feel like it might be handy to have a thousand credits in our pocket when we're flying away on that Driftcore
That is true
And to be honest we now need to figure out really what we're doing next
I know that Azam is meeting Hive, I don't know what the others are doing though
You know, I know that Ike said that she probably wasn't coming with us
But I'd probably like to know and then know what we're going next
Because to be honest I want to get the fuck off this planet as quickly as possible
I fucking love it here, I love the lower decks but it's a little too dangerous
Yeah, where's the starting line? Where's Ike?
We then cut to Ike
It's been about a week
We're talking about like six and a half days
The race is happening today, you do all know
What is it that Ike would have been doing over this past few days, do we know?
Oh, gosh, a week since the-
A week since
The Prohibition incident
She is laying low in her apartment for at least the first few days
And really analyzing the messages that came through that phone
Whether she can re-read them or not, she's still going to be overthinking them
And reliving that and trying to see if she can recreate it a little bit in any way
Can you- what is your spellcasting modifier, is it intelligence?
It- great, phenomenal question, what a good question you have for me
It is intelligence, yes, correct
Can you give me an intelligence check?
It is, he has six
Nice, you can't seem to figure out like how these messages were sent or even
Regardless of how to re-access them
Your phone at the end of the incident restarted itself and then updated
But just with like the next system, iOS has nothing fancy with it, just updated
And you spend some time trying to figure out, but you just can't quite clock as to what happened
So after a few days of trying, genuinely, to see if she can figure this out and understand more about what has happened here
She was with Theoryac at one point, I'm sure that they're around periodically
But eventually she will get frustrated and say, okay, and just go try to find Skye
Because working on something would be better than obsessing over this
So yeah, maybe like three days she spends ruminating over this and then she will go find Skye
Skye spent the last week in Scrap Scrapyard, so it's super easy to find and you're able to find each other really quick
Tada!
I didn't really expect it to be this beautiful, but is it
Kidding, I'm making something, it's got to be aesthetic
Well, I've, to be honest, I've seen some of these races before, they're usually pretty grimy, ugly
I'd like to set your expectation right now, it's not gonna look this beautiful at the end of the race, but it looks cute now, doesn't it?
It really does, I just have a little question, something I've been noodling about
Is this highly illegal or just a little illegal?
Where would you say it lands in the sphere of crime?
Where does it land, Space God? It's run by the Void, so I'm assuming
It's run by the Void so it's not great? It kind of is, so it's been called a death race by everyone in just a colloquial term
Is this canon now? I was calling it a death race because I didn't know what to call it
No, no, no, that's what I mean, the Patchworks crew has been calling it a death race, but death isn't a huge thing in it
People do get violent because it's a lot of money on the line
It's kind of a no-holds-barred, whoever crosses the finish line first wins all the money
Sometimes there's violence in it, sometimes people do die, it is kind of frequent that people deceased
But not like a necessity, it's pretty fucking illegal, but for lower deck standards it's like average
No, averagely illegal
Oh, um, okay
In the lower decks, if you want to make money, pretty much you gotta do something illegal, so it's like, you know, regular amounts of crime
Well, that's not entirely true, I- it's hard, but you don't have to
Exactly, in the lower decks it's harder to work hard
That's true, I just- I-
Got something you need to un-noodle, my dude?
I- I don't really like to, um, break the law
I- I- I try very hard not to, actually, but um, I kind of want to do this
Have you ever tried breaking the law?
When I was very young, one time, ever since then
No, you're not glossing over that, I want more details about tiny-eyed crime
Well, it was just- it was nothing that we needed, or anything, which in hindsight would have been more helpful, but I just- I took a little trinket
If you didn't need it, then why?
I was a little kid, so that's hard to say, I suppose I just wanted something to be mine
Well, I like this race might be similar in a lot of ways
I'm on in, I gotta some measures and stuff before we start
Alright, and she's gonna take like a scrap of like, handkerchief or something from her belt, and she's gonna like- it does not help, really, because she is a rat
But she is gonna tie it around, like, a portion of her face in a little bit of an obscurity
Oh my god, we look so cool! We look like we're banned! Ah, this is so sick! I'm so excited, oh my god
We do look quite cool
Look right at yourself! Ah! Where's Firiak and Azam?
Actually, I haven't seen them in- I don't know
Doodlililililulu
Firiak, what have we been up to over the last week? I would say that conversation happened like yesterday of the current time
And we're going- it's weird, but we're going back a week to see what people have done and then we'll meet back up on this day
Yes, yes, that is correct
Firiak has just been basically camping out on the patchwork since coming back down to the lower decks, has been doing more research regarding bot
And has been investigating with their micro lab what they can, also checking sources that are both scientific and religious
And mostly just hunkering down and doing some research for the most part
Firiak tends to be a bit of a homebody
Romi, you can either do life or physical science
I am gonna state that you have a feeling that you have done like 90% of the research that you can do without having a proper place to like a proper lab
I can't do this just with my little micro lab, I gotta go to the big bell
You've gotten like a lot of research done with this like carrying thing
There's still a little bit more which you can figure out, but there is a point which you're hurtling towards which is you need a bigger space to sit and set up
Okay, I'm gonna do life science because that was the weird shit I found out last time
Yeah
Oh shit!
Gamers, I got Nat 20, do you know what that means?
Oh, that's it
Do you know what that means? I got fucking 32
I love numbers, I love numbers so much
You go through the rounds, day one you sit down, okay, let's figure this out
You come up with the same thing that you had before, this seems to be the four states of matter in a crystal
Day two, you seem to come up with the same thing, there's just something else and you know it, you feel it
You are a almost fictional level genius, you know this stuff and you have an intelligence that very rarely is matched
And you know that most people would have given up, but you're like, no, there's something here, there's something that I'm missing and I know it
There's a point on somewhere in day five, halfway through day six
Where something clicks
You try a method which is completely out of nowhere and wouldn't be tested by anyone, but you're like, no, no, no, I have a feeling
I have a feeling that this is going to work, you set up bunsen burners, you make an alkaline solution
As well as an acidic one as well, just to measure and test things out, my science knowledge is all GCSE when I was 11
I get the big super tangled up glass two thingy
I don't know what it is, but it's the one in cartoons all the time
Yeah, exactly, and it's cool, there's like a potion which is dripping at the side
The one in the great mouse detective, yeah
Exactly, yeah
And you find data stored, organic, but also like someone has imprinted this thing with almost a message
Numbers associated that have been put into this, you don't know why, you don't know what it is
But there is something that this particular crystal, which is old as anything
You put it against other crystals and other gems and this thing is like almost millennia old
Closing in before the current cycle had space travel old
And you know that there are three numbers hidden in this, some form of message, some data
And you can't quite tell, you don't quite know what the numbers are yet
You don't know, but you know that there are, it is data, there are numbers, they are not letters
There is a message, and it's not a message like a sentence or a phrase, but it is three numbers, and you know that
I'm going to say it again
I love numbers
And you got three very important numbers
Well, since science has left me
I will instead spend the remainder of my time doing research, going through my photo, religious book, the Almanac
To try and find any other connections to this spot thing
The Nat 20 is carrying over
As you're flicking through, there's a passage that you've read loads of times
But it is specifically about a group of people who called themselves the prophets
And this is where all of Fodo kind of, because Fodo is about the cultivator
But the prophets are a group of people that preceded the cultivator
This group worshipped this one artifact, and when this artifact just became too much
They snapped it, and scattered it, and disbanded, and then the cultivator took over for major religious things
Okay, wait, just so that I understand
Of course, absolutely
So the prophets, before the cultivator, some ancient artifact snapped
Cultivator comes in, continues spreading Fodo
Yes
Um, hmm, okay
Alright, cool
I'll just sit with this in my little lab and tell no one
I'll just keep this in my heart, and then I will die
Nice, that's good
Yeah
A few days ago, before this week break had started, before Skye ran away to start building
During the prep of the race
You wanted, just for ease, to not seem like an outsider in the lower decks
So you took off your mask
And you always wondered what was going to happen
Five days passed, you feel like you're going to fucking die
You've been so, like, abhorrently ill over the last five, six days since you took off the mask
Your body is rejecting, like, there is poison all around you
Your lungs feel heavy, you're sweating consistently as much as, you know, fire beings can sweat
Some of your body just turned to coal
Through just, it being just so cold, you're just so cold all the time
You're sitting in the patchwork, scrap has been coming over, and there is plates and bowls of uneaten stews
And different, just protein, simple bars
And then, you wake up one day and you just feel slightly better
What is it that you would like to do with these remaining two days after you took off your mask?
You can breathe lower decks air
And it wasn't just like, I'm not just going to bully you into it
You can breathe lower decks air now, it still feels kind of uncomfortable
People can't use the fact that you wear a mask against you anymore
You have just been, you've been the embodiment of the song, the
Ah, I don't want to be crying and puking and pissing
Like, that is the song that has embodied your experience over the last, like, week or so
As you heard
You had to sneak that into our show, didn't you?
Yes, I did
Yes, I did, thank you so much
I'm crying and pissing and pissing before you're squeezing, huh?
Thank you so much, thank you
It's my job here, to add in obscure memes
Thank you
What would you like to do with the, your remaining two days?
You can, if you want
I'm pretty sure I can remember
But if you want, you can write down somewhere that you are immune to the lower decks air
Which will come up in combat
Aig and Sky are also both immune
Theorek is the only one that has a full terrarium on their head
Worth it, this is going to be worth it, just in the end, I'm going to, oof
You've been kind of like cordoned off because the ill and, uh, Sky's like
Hey, how's my little ill guy?
You doing alright? I gotcha
Some soup and bread
The bread is kinda gross
You didn't have to do that
Thank you
Hey, you're part of the patchwork, I'll look after you
Don't you worry, I have not a clue why you decided to take the hat off
But I, not the hat, the mask, but I appreciate your willingness to try
I'm feeling much better, I've only thrown up like twice today
Hey
So that's, yeah
Yesterday
Clearly on the mend
Uh, he spent the good past several days obsessively researching what happened to Eram
Because now Hive opened the floodgates
And that's literally been the only thing he can think about
It is not difficult to find information about
Because it is a planet, it is a known planet, it's quite fresh, it's new
Disheartingly, the things you find are essentially advertisements to go and live now that it is now safe for people to step on
Without suits, fire resistant suits and heat decks, apparently things can just land on it
He has not mentioned a word of what he's discovered to anyone
And if anyone asks, he's been reading Skye's comic books
It's just a consistent, because he doesn't want people to know that he's this hurt
Wow, there's nothing that makes you feel more like a failure than actually failing
You know?
On the last day, when he's feeling better, he cleans up literally everything
Because he doesn't want Scrapper Skye to do it for him
And he goes to check on Hive
Because he promised that he'd visit Hive's family
So Hive told you where the location was, but says that he's free on the day that the race is happening
You'll make your way through the lower decks
And the address is in the upper decks, actually
You find out, even though Hive spends a lot of their time here, apparently he's made his way up
Through a small arduous process, you find a lift that does work and is able to get you up there
Travel up, your ID is checked, it's cleared
You find a nice little suburb, just off of a side street of a side street from the main square
It's nice!
There are robotic pollinators flying around
There's bright, colourful flowers
There's this really distinct smell of honeycomb and a sweet smell in the air
The red sun seems to have perfectly encapsulated this little place to thrive
You walk up to the door, nice shaded windows
Very middle class, attempting to look slightly higher than they are
But as is almost all the places on the upper decks
And you stand outside of Hive's door
An arc
As a few seconds of silence, you take in surroundings a little more
The car that sits in the drive is a quite new, last few years, nice model hover vehicle
Which you know is quite expensive
But you can peek that the garage is just slightly open and just inside is a slightly more beat up hover vehicle
As you clock this, you hear steps coming from behind you and then the door
Oh hey, you made it! Hey, how's it going?
Oh, I've been great, just been under the weather a bit
No, I see you've got the mask off, I'm doing Scrap's voice
I see you've got the mask off
No, I've been, I've been, yeah you know, Queso will be, is excited to see you
Before I walk in, can I take a little glance around the neighborhood just to see if we're being watched?
Yeah, absolutely, give me a perception
Of course I can, I think I can at least
Where's the button? There's the button, there's a 13, happy little 13
You've seen security cameras around, it seems like this is quite a hard place to get into
But if there are cameras, they're well hidden
How's boss week been?
Oh yeah, business as usual really
Weird having you back, or not back, but yeah, no, good
Weird having me around
Weird knowing that we share the same mile
He's brought up a lot of stuff, a lot of memories, things I'd rather not visit, but
I'm sorry
It's not your fault, it's alright
Well it is, I wandered back into your life without so much of a how do you do, a little bit of my fault
True, a little bit I guess, yeah, hey, come on in
Shoes off
Oh yeah, I remembered it
As they walk in, they walk into a kitchen, it's a nice home, it's small but comfy, it radiates warmth
It would feel nowadays like quite modern, but for atomless era, feels like a little old
There's some toys in a front room that Hive passes by
Chairs that have been well used and sofas that have been worn
She passes through the kitchen, which is a small, nice, comfortable, just what you need kitchen
Into a small little conservatory area
In the conservatory, an orange praying mantis looking woman sits
She flicks through a tablet
Oh hey, you're Ezzam, right? Hi, I'm Kaseo, I'm Hive's other half
I've heard so much about you
Yeah, no, you really can't get him to stop when he starts, he's a bit of a bugger like that
In a good way
I've heard a lot about you, aside from, you know, he doesn't really talk about the crazy parties that you all used to go to and what a bad influence that you were, but glad that you're safe
Oh, I'm a terrible influence, promise you that, still am really
Oh yeah, no
I ruin they birds
Well, hey, as long as you keep my kids out of it, you can do whatever you want
Kids, I only had about one
Oh yeah, you know, it's been a long time, what is it, 15, 20 years?
Something like that, yeah
Yeah, there's a lot of time to do a lot of things, but we're settled here, you know, I got a job, some shops nearby and Hive's still working as the engineer
Oh yeah, yeah, no better engineer than Hive over here
Well, I'll leave you boys to it, I don't want to interrupt, she gets up and leaves, I'll have dinner on in a little bit, I know you guys need to catch up and what not
Of course, love, thank you
She walks into the front room
Doesn't know, huh?
Not all of it, it's, yeah
Hive
I'm sorry, I'm getting judgement, what the fuck am I supposed to say, hi honey, I fucking kill people for a living, no, that doesn't seem like something I'm gonna do
Well, not that, but you know, engineer
I'm a good engineer, hey, I've built pretty much all my shit, so
Well, I remember, but I remember you building sniper rifles, not
Mechanics is mechanics, when you learn small things you just grow
As long as it's been a long time, I've picked up a lot of traits, a lot of skills, things
Again, we're happy good here
I'm glad, very warm in here
Oh yeah, do you want me to open a window?
I really don't need that
Do you want a beer? Open up the fridge
Sure, yeah
Hands you a bottle
So what's the plan, what are we doing here?
Tommy wants in with a void, I don't think it's a very good idea, to be honest
Do what with the void?
To be in with them, to have them on their side
Hey listen, I can't stop someone who wants something, you know I try it with you all the time and I can't seem to do that, so
Listen, if they want to put their neck out and try to join up with them, who knows, maybe joining up with them with the best bet, but
What they want to do is impress them at this big race, will that be effective?
Maybe, but you gotta promise me something, alright?
Yeah
Don't do the race
What?
It's dumb, and it's a bad idea, alright?
The void have set this up
There's no way anyone who's not void is winning
I know, I've set up these things before, alright?
If you...
It doesn't matter, you're here now, right?
Let's have a sit down, let's just chat like old time, let's forget it, let's not
Hi, what do you think we would chat about in old times?
What was it like? In the shadow realm?
Prison?
Yeah
Empty
You're next to a big, big black hole
It sucks all the energy, not just light, okay? I don't even see light, heat
Sound
Everything is just quieter there
Time seems to be sucked away
Light seems to be sucked away, energy seems to be sucked away
You find yourself repeating the same thing over and over and over
Not knowing how many you've done in a day
It's torture, it's designed to break you
So I can use you some other time
I don't know what you want me to say mate, it was bad
But you survived
Survived?
No, I didn't survive
If I survived I'd be wandering back home, wouldn't I? Talking to my family
Part of me died there
Otherwise I wouldn't be galavanting to this place
I cannot go back to my family and force myself into their lives like it's the same
It's not the same and I can't be who they want me to be anymore
And on top of it all, all I do is just... I don't even know how to act around people anymore
And God forbid they've moved on
If they've moved on, I just disrupt everything they've built for themselves
I don't want that, no
Better on my... better on my memory
Better on forgotten
I don't think we could forget you
No one ever did, really
I know a certain number of people that definitely didn't
Maybe you should try harder
Listen, I don't know what your situation is, how you're all... whatever's going on, but...
I can talk to Case, we can get you the spare room, stay there for a bit if you need it
We can try and get you a job, I'm pretty sure her shop needs a new assistant
Let me ask you something, honestly, what are Tommy's options?
Lose the race or die
I'm not talking about the race, big picture, big picture, someone in Tommy's position
What do they do?
You don't want them to turn to the void, can't give up, people like her don't give up
Trust me, I would know
Well, until everything's been sucked from them, so what does someone in their position do?
Tommy's, what are their options?
I don't know, Azam, I'm not this guy anymore
What do you want me to say? Yeah, they wait, they build forces, they keep getting people excited
I don't fucking know
I'm not an ideas man, I just kinda do shit
Not everyone can be a hero, Azam, not everyone can be a big... I know the solution to everything, I know how to fix it
What? Did you think that was what I was?
You came up with solutions
The hero man
I was never that, I don't know, none of us were
How have you always been that? You look at a plane full of people
Azam
Hold on, you look at a plane full of people, you know who to take down, it's the same thing
Just on a bigger scale, with different targets
Azam, that was you, I was your gun
That's all I was, and you aimed me, a lot, and I'm done now, alright? I'm someone else's gun
Are you happy with that? Truly happy with who you're killing?
Are you happy?
I don't have anything to do, mate, why would I be happy? What's my purpose?
I don't know
I'm not an ideas man
Upadekos, what are their weak points?
Money, they're easily fucking manipulated
They get a tiny bit of power in them and they crumble
The amount of guns I've pointed, specifically because people go down to Void and ask for me to take out a couple of people
Money, easily corruptible
Not bad, it means all you need is some people in middle management, not even higher up
Get them to screw things up for you
They just need to be able to corrupt them in some way, so they need cash
Tommy doesn't need Void, Tommy needs Void's money
You said this thing's rigged
Tell me, how's it rigged?
At the finish line, about 10 meters before you cross it, there's a check, a marker
And then, in the top part of Void, your engine goes up
You're wiped out
How do they know?
It's fucking high tech shit
Members of Void have... fucking... we get installed with small chips, some of them just have implants
It's checked as you fly through in milliseconds
If you don't have it, the whole thing goes up
And it's updated constantly
Ex-Void members, Void members that aren't in the race, they can't pass it
And if that is not bad enough, the Void members who are in the race are more than willing to kill
And there are people waiting, lawmen who are paid off, who are going to chase down people who aren't Void
This race is a fucking death trap
If you can avoid the members of the Void who are trying to kill you, if you can avoid the cops, then at the end is a bomb waiting to explode
The winner, if they're not Void, will die
Everyone who crosses that finish line, if they are not a member of Void, will die
There's really no way about it
That's just how this race is won
Where do they implant the chip?
It's different for each
So all we need is a Void body?
If you want to incur the wrath of them after, then yeah
100,000 credits can buy off a lot of heat, if used right, and if we fuck off, right afterward
They do have it, the money is real
Well it doesn't fucking matter now
Cause... points the clock
It's too late, the race has already started
Ike sits in the car, Sky goggles over, mask on
Tens of people are lining a small dirt track in the last patch
A half android, half human mohawk at the side, made with real hair, and one which is made with metal
That goes from the top of the head across
Ready to race?
Can I ask a question?
Absolutely
In the dozens of people in the audience, do I see either Azam or Viriak?
Well Azam is currently up decks, quite far away
Viriak?
I think Viriak would at least watch
Okay, okay, so I might see Viriak, don't see Azam
But definitely is like, doing their best to look incognito, because this is...
There's not a lot of people here, but also this is a public event
So maybe like, like...
There doesn't seem to be anyone taking pictures around if that's any consolation to you
Okay, but maybe just like, instead of like a regular class terrarium, maybe like a blue tinted
Or like, you know how they have for cars
Yeah, wonderful, absolutely
Thank you
Yeah, yeah, all day
A lampshade over the...
That's just it, that's it
So a text message goes out as we're revving, very frantically goes out to Azam
I was just like, no worries! But where are you? Question mark, question mark, worried face
Next message
I hope everything's okay, smiley face
Exclamation mark
I love this idea of like, all of these people at the starting line, all tough, all buff, all revving their engines
Spikes on their leather jacket, colors in their hair, then it just cuts to Ike in her little canopy like, are you here yet?
And she put down the phone after sending that message, and put down like a pair of goggles around her own eyes and look at Skye
I am going to do some...
What? I can't hear you! Everybody's engines revving!
I'm gonna do some very weird things
What? I hope you have a good race!
Okay!
I love that Ike yelling, it's just Ike whispering at a higher pitch
That's my favorite
I was gonna say that Skye throws up one of... I don't know what to call this
A surfer dude
A rad
One pinky at one thumb
Go long!
Why is everyone in this group so cool? It's not fair, anyway
You have had a cow bunga, as you... get these messages
I get on a call to Ike
There is like... it's very fucking loud
In my little Photoshop thing, Ike specifically asked for some sort of canopy
There's like a tent around the sidecar, so I imagine if she draws the curtains and stuff, she just has this tiny little safe room on the row
Yeah, tiny little tent
Hi! It's so good to hear from you! Are you here? Are you in the crowd?
No, you would see me, I'm tall
And gigantic and horned
Well there's a lot of people there, it's hard to see, and also I have the curtain drawn, so I can't see anything
Listen, it's important, Void members have chips in them
Alright
You want to focus on disabling those racers first and foremost
Second, ten meters before the race ends, there's a bomb, you need to find a way to disable it, or...
I'm sorry, what?
I know, it's a lot of information, Ike
There's a bomb?
Bomb, B-O-M-B
I know what the word is, that's not my question
Where is the...
Ten meters from the end
Do you know where the end is? Because we were told that we would just not know, we don't know where it is
Yep, so...
Okay, alright
You need to scan the ground for bombs and or take a chip off of a Void member
If you can find them, grab their arm or something, the automatic thing won't work
It's just like breaking into a high powered building
What should I look for in a Void member?
First off, they're more comfortable than the rest of you, look for their body language
So good at body language
Take a breath
I've not talked to computers or anything
Thank you, Azam, I hope you can make...
Fine, talk to the chips
I will get it, I will, it's gonna be fine, I have to tell Skye
Don't tell Skye
Thank you, I'm sorry for yelling at you, you have a nice day, bye
Don't tell Skye
And I hang up and I pull the curtain back open and I yell, Skye, I'm sorry, there's gonna be a bomb
I know, the classic finish line bomb, it's gonna be so great
What if you texted Thiriak and told them to try and find the bomb?
They could probably disarm it or something and there's like the less likely answer of us getting exploded
That is a great idea, I would really love to not be solely responsible this
I think that Thiriak is going down
You see that the person in front of the other side of the finish line puts up their hand with a flag as if ready to start the race
It's text Thiriak, bomb finish line
You text bomb finish line, it goes through, Thiriak you get it, and your phone you look, bomb finish line
Whoosh, the flag goes down, all the cars set off
No
Why would you send me bomb finish line with no follow up?
I knew that the flag was in the air
I mean you could probably text while I drive
Don't text her yet
I just figured that driving is gonna be very intense
Bikes, cars, trucks, scooters, hover boards, all different types of people just rev their engines and poof, pound off
People yelling, screaming, excited
Skye takes off with Ike in a little sidecar
I would like Skye for you to give me, so by the way for all of our beautiful wonderful gamers watching
There is racing rules in Starfinder
They're very complex, very in depth
Too much for my tiny little brain so we just did a little bit of finagling and this is going to be a series of skill checks
Slash, we've made like a little, our own little game for it
There are four different types of checks and things that we're going to be able to roll
There is engine, which decifers like how quick the vehicle that you're driving is going to go
We have the hull, which that just determines HP
Handling, which is used to dodge things and do tricks and get into difficult places and do maneuvers
And then we have weapon, which is quite simply just weapon attacks
There are also some moves, I won't go into it just yet
This will all I'm sure be available on my Patreon
One of the moves is a move called no hands, which is you can just use a move from your Starfinder repertoire
To use and fight and attack in some way
Skye, can you give me an, can you give me an engine roll?
So this is 2D6 that you're going to be rolling
This is more your positioning, which is going to be the important thing
It's a seven
You, flora, the bike raises up a little bit as you do a small wheelie and you are almost dead in the middle
There are people that have set off quicker than you and are racing down others on a bike
There is this one group of people in a, in this like battered car, like flames on the side
There's about three or four people in it
The car has like the back half dented in and there is a large Tommy gun, which has been like welded onto the back of it
There are other people behind you, one in particular in this like large crane, which is like swinging around wildly
There is someone who is stood on the crane holding themselves in place
You, as you take off, there are two different options
You can just immediately assume that there is an offshoot which is going to go to the markets, the market area
Which is currently in business, so there will be people in like the middle of this little track that you're going down
It will be dangerous to get past, but it will be very quick, it will be super fast to get there
Or you can take off right ahead of you and go into a place called the Smog Road
Which is just a long, the long highway that leads off to numerous places in the lower decks
It basically just connects all roads in the lower decks
Which will be far slower because there might be other cars on the road
But it will be safer and you definitely won't hit anyone
See, here's the thing
Because I feel like Skye would have strong feelings about potentially hurting one of the people in the marketplace
And I think that as a character, she would not take any chance to harm a human being
But Momo wants to win this race and driving through a market sounds sick as fuck
So we're taking a left, Skye!
Music like, boof, immediately blasts out as you drive forward and turn down into the markets
As you do so, someone on a bike drives up right next to you and is trying to overtake
Is there anything you'd like to do or are you just going to leave them?
I want you to answer a question for me
Will I be able to tell when someone is a Void member or do I have to make a check of some kind?
You can make sense motive checks
I'm okay with that
I don't think you would be able to tell just by looking at them
Yeah, alright, so I would like to make a sense motive check first
Mmhmm
Eww, a 10?
A 10 is... okay, it's okay
The person who is riding really dangerously close to you doesn't have anyone on the side
They've clearly made this bike for pure speed
They just had like a little bit of a weak start
And they are clearly like gunning for the quick route as they are turning into the markets with you
They don't seem to have any like ill will aside from wanting to win the race
I would like to do a little something
As they get close and they sort of like brush up against the side of us
I guess since assesses that situation, sees how fast they're moving
And kind of like even like waves a little apologetically at them
And then leans over the side of the car
And goes, sorry to bother you
But we have somewhere very important to go
And it's very important that we win this
It's not a reflection on you, I promise
We just really, really have to
And the driver may think that I is talking to them
But they are talking to the power cell
And they cast transfer charge
And I want the power cell that is riding this car
To be transferred to our power cell
And give us an extra boost
It's instantaneous
It's a, if you were to say in D6's
How many charges this power cell could hold
That could give us extra boosts, how many would it be
And that will be what I have to roll to see if I can do it
I'm going to say it is going, I say about four charges
Since it's a, again this was made for speed
And you can kind of tell that since it's in the power cell
They used four boosts and a big hit
So four seems reasonable, yeah
Okay, so I'm going to do three
Okay
I don't want to completely break down the car
But I want to just sap it of its
Like extra power
Hell yeah
Okay, so we got a six to six and a four
So explain the spell to me
So that is, you need to like beat a DC
So basically it says you declare how many charges
You're transferring before casting
You transfer, oh fortitude saving throw
Or it takes damage
I forgot that part
Oh shit, okay so I'm making
It's only 13
But fortitude saving throw
Okay, it made the, it's got a 14
Perfect, so no damage is done
But the transfer still occurs
You get this energy of
Hell yeah motherfucker I want to go fast
And then you're like please don't
It's like oh shit alright
And then the power like
You feel it like leave as the bike sky
You can hear it like sputtering
As it like dies and goes down
It slows down significantly
The driver is like what the fuck
As they like pull over to the side
Sorry thank you
And as the cells leave
The power of your bike like increases
And you just like hit a little faster
Now that we cleared this little map
We're going to move on over to
Theriac, Theriac you got a text
I got a text
Theriac is going to look at this text
I'm going to make a roll to see if
They understand what the fuck this text means
Okay, it will be an intelligence check
Everybody buckle the fuck up okay
I'm buckled mate I'm here
Well, hmm
That was a two on the dice that's a six
I think Theriac believes that this is
Not a text from Ugg
But in fact a text from Sky
I'm finish line dude
And is and will just respond
It looks fine
Is it special?
You're not going to call the person who's not the race
It doesn't seem like anything of importance at the moment
So
It's just a bump in his line, no
You text in, that seems fine
We cut up a floor to Azzam
Hive after you called and got a call back and all this
There's no way that your friends are actually doing the race is it?
Hive
And I give him the look
Fuck, listen, I can't go with you but I do know where the finish line is
I grab this bug man on either side of his face
And just plant one on his forehead
Alright, get off
Alright, fuck it
Walks out the back, grabs a key off a
Just a small little row of keys
Clicks a button and you hear a
As the garage door lifts
You see the slightly older battered car that you saw before
There's clearly a lot of smog
Like effects around it
It's kind of messy, it is this red kind of
DeLorean looking but if the DeLorean was red and didn't have wheels looking car
A bit dingy, a little bit dented
They give you the keys
Okay, I'm texting you the address
Bring my car back in one piece, don't fucking die
Who died and left you this anyway?
Nothing, I just earned it
You're worth a lot more than this
I get in, and I start it up
And if I die, just forgive me
You thought I was dead anyway
I'll forgive you if they don't trace the car back to here
You start up the car, you feel like a small weight as the car hovers slightly off the ground
There's a
Hello there, where would you like to go today?
And then I was like, I got it, I got it, I got it
And then text, stress
36A, main square, lower decks, I'll take you there now
Right, have you got weapons on you?
I came out of prison, mate
They like, they pull back a small toolbox and they like pull out some tools
And they hand you a pistol
Right, it's not great but it's what it'll do
It's got enough cells in that to last you a fight at least
Also throws like a small bag of tools in the car next year
I don't know if you know how to defuse a bomb
But if that's what you are planning to do, you gotta use those
Or set it off early
Either one works
Make sure my car gets back to me, don't fucking die
That's the roof of the car twice
And the car like
And then starts to take off toward the destination
You can control the car if you would like to go somewhere else
I feel like this would be the greatest time to, you know, stop over, check out the site
No, I'm going to the raceway
There's a bomb at the finish line
Just making sure, just making sure
So, we started at the top of the order again
But this time the car, the bike rather
Takes a hard into the market
You're beeping as like other cars like
Past you
A car battered, holding two people side-along up right next to you
There is a slightly older man who walks past through the middle of the track
They have white slightly frayed hair
How do you react in this situation?
This is how this is going to go
I'm going to give you a situation to react to
And then you can
Matthew, my boyfriend, right?
Hi, yeah sure
Let's confirm this, you are my boyfriend
And I watched you make this map, right?
I was looking over your shoulder being like
What are you doing, my love?
And you're like, oh, I'm just making this map
And you're showing me all of the elements of this map
And you're like, oh, you know, there's a little building here
There's a little umbrella there
There's this like little ramp over here
So like during the race you could potentially like swerve through here
Or go off this ramp
And I knew from that moment
I was going off that ramp
But that's where we're headed
Yes, there are two ways that this track can go
There is a ramp which leads up to the
Just to like the skyline of the lower decks
Or you can race forward to
Which you can see there is a warehouse
Full of these like large mechs
Being built and worked on
But first
As you take a side
You've like assigned where you're going to go
There are two people in a car
Who are driving right up next to you
And there is just an old man civilian
In the middle of the road who is attempting to cross it
And is being trapped between
As you are driving straight toward them
No, no
How close is the car to us?
The car has swung out
Which to some would seem like
Oh, they're trying to avoid the older man who's walking
But you can tell that they are going to swing back
And trying to like bash you off the road
Okay, I'm gonna grab
I'm gonna reach into Ike's sidecar
And grab her by the arm
And say Ike turn left
And then I'm gonna put you in my seat
And taking my bowstaff off my back
I'm going to jump onto the other car
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
And that noise
You do the switch miraculously
Skye can you give me an acrobatics
To jump to the next car
Ike can you roll 2D6 and add handling
As you try to
Try to
Figure out how to fucking drive this car
14
Nice
10? You actually like wildly succeed on that
So you immediately are able to like
Stabilize, yeah, because it's
1 to 6 is fail
7 to 9 is
Miss, 10 plus is
You wildly succeed on the other things
Okay, okay
It just didn't seem like a good number
It's like oh that seems right
You get in the car
You immediately like stabilize it
As the old man does it, they're like
You like pull it like out to the side
Smashing into some boxes and then
Immediately pull it back onto the track
Skye, you jump onto this thing
You got a 14 right? Yeah
You jump, you are currently
Gripped onto the hood of this other car
With your bowstaff in hand
What do you want to do, what's the goal?
I want to grab onto
Like if this is the window
I want to grab onto the top
Of the window, like the side
And I want to kick into
I don't know what to call it other than the cockpit
I want to kick into the cockpit
Try and kick the steering wheel
Fuck yeah, give me an attack roll
That is an 8
You
Swing in, as you do
You accidentally kick the face
Of the guy instead of the steering wheel
And he seems to like
Go out immediately, however
As he goes out, your leg is like
Slightly trapped in the car as he like
Slumps over and pulls the whole
Wheel and it is like
Vurring off course and is just
About to crash with you in the
Car at the minute, Ike is
Still racing along, has managed to
Race alongside you
Skye
Just driving
Ike's instincts
Would be to go and get
Skye, but
I do think that Skye
Wants us to
Win
So I think
That if Ike logics it out
As fast as she can
She should just keep going
And trust that Skye
Will magic
Skateboard her way back
To this car and take
The wheel back eventually
So I think
Ike is just gonna
Hope and pray
And try her
Best to keep going
How far off, how are you away
From me, cause could I potentially take my
Bo staff and like reach it out to you
Well as far as I know you only went to the
Car that was like
Yeah and it's just about
Like you both separated
To avoid the old man, maybe
The bo staff could reach you
Okay so I wouldn't need to like go backwards to get her, I could just kind of like
Scoot
Yeah
Okay, alright then in that case
I will absolutely scoot a little bit closer
And I will even
Cast
A quick little
Fabricate scrap
To have like just the garbage
In the middle of the track
Pile up so that there's like
A little like bridge
Between us
So that if Skye wanted to
She could run along the
You could like run across
That is not a
That's instantaneous
The cool like fan art
And visuals that are gonna come out of this moment
Is just
The Lower Cities is filled
With scrap and rubbish but especially
This marketplace
There are things getting pulled from
Stalls and random
Pieces of hunk, you see that there's like a
Whole market stall
That's just set inside of like a disused broken
Train and there's like whole rebars
And pullings of it, the sidecar
Gets this small almost like
Pirate ship like plank
That reaches out towards Skye
Skye you are dangling, you see this
Like being built towards you
The person in the car seems
To pull out a knife to try and
Well you can assume is going to try and stab your legs
So you get out of the car
Okay, here's what I'm thinking, can I have said
That my skateboard is
In like on the
Motorcycle, would I have had the foresight to bring
That with me, whack this guy
In the face, if you want to send the skateboard
Just like straight through the window into the
Guy's face you can absolutely do that yeah
Yeah, I just want to be like
Cowabunga
And hopefully I can ride it out of here
You feel a grip
On your leg as
This guy like attempts to
Right the car and goes to stab you in the leg
As he goes to stab
This hoverboard you
And then it, poof
Give me acrobatics for the
Skateboard to get
Out of the other window and back
Around to you before this car crashes
At eleven, the
Skateboard flies through
Hits this guy and he drops his
Knife, but as he does so your
Leg comes like completely
Out of the car, you are
Hanging on by like just a few fingers
And your skateboard has trouble
Like getting out of the car
The whole car veers off to the side
And boosh
Crashes into just a
Small like market stall
You fall from the car and
Ige flies off
Your skateboard does make it to you but it
Is slightly too late. Keep going
Ige! As Skye yells keep going Ige
Ige you
Vroom! Race up to the way that
Skye was going which is up to the skyline
Unless of course you want to do anything else
If you want to stop you're welcome to, if you want to keep going
You're welcome to. We know which way is quicker
Uh the skyline
The skyline is probably quicker
The skyline is quicker, if Skye tells me
To keep going I will
Keep going. I'm saying
Skyline sounds easier to maneuver on a skateboard
And for a street teen
And going into
A warehouse full of machinery
Might be more fun for I. That is true
That's just a house full of mechs
Those could come in handy
If you could be like hey um hello
Could you maybe help us out?
Okay, okay. Keep going
Look back
See Skye
Getting ready to like
Hop back on her skateboard
And veer off and I
Will snap
Turn to go through the warehouse
Just as you like reach the first
Ramp you snap turn the handles of the
Motorbike leap off the small ramp
And then zhoom go straight forward to the warehouse
Skye as you get on the
Skateboard you hear
And feel the wind of like zhoom zhoom zhoom zhoom
As cars like shoot past you
One of them being this this truck
With this huge crane on the back of it
There is someone who has been gripped
Inside of the cranes more
As they also go shooting toward
The warehouse. As Skye sees
Do do do do these cars go off
Theriac
Um
You're in the crowd
Any text back?
Doesn't seem to be any text back yet
Maybe it wasn't Skye
Just to make things easier for you
Andre, do you want Skye
To call you as she's
Jumping over these rooftops?
Sure, why not?
Boop beep boop
That's a crazy frog
Do do do do do do do
How did she install that on some
My phone?
Hi, it's Theriac, it's Skye
Listen, there's gonna be a bomb
I don't know if you got the text, there's gonna be a bomb
At the end of the racetrack
There's a bomb at the finish
I thought you meant it was very cool
I'm so sorry
It is very cool, but there's also a literal bomb
At the end of the racetrack and we were wondering if you could just go
Zip over there and maybe do
Something about it so that we don't get blown to smithereens
I'll try
That's all we can ask of you, Theriac
Okay, goodbye, don't die
Bye
This dash towards
The road
Can I call Theriac?
Absolutely you can, yeah
Another fucking crazy frog
I can't believe
Whoever did this
Hello?
I'm heading to the bomb, you come in or
Wait, no, you wouldn't have the address
Hold on
As this hover car is flying toward the destination
You look out the window and it's sticking out like a sore thumb
You see tiny little Theriac
Running
Just below you
I pull over, I open the car
I scoop up Theriac
Like they are a small child
I apologize
I pull them in, put them on my lap
Close the door
And say, sorry, couldn't wait
Is this intimate for you people?
We just haven't been in very close proximity to one another
Oh, right
I'm sorry, I'm very warm, I give off a lot of heat
So there's a bomb?
Yeah, there's a bomb
There's a big bomb
If you're not part of Void, don't have a chip in you
As you were talking about this
You come across, you see like these
Plumes of green smoke coming from
Inside the market square
Sorry, inside the main square
The car, destination
Arrived, the doors
Open up, and you see these four people
Who are fiddling with
Something next to these
Like huge
Green translucent
Holographic banner, which you can imagine
Is the crossing line
And these four people, two on each side
Seem to be messing with something
And as you arrive, they look up
And look over to you
I grab Theriac around my waist
I grab the toolbox, I jump out
Drop everything
And quickly type in Hive's
Address and just send the car off on its way
The car flies off
Can the pair of you roll initiative?
I'm going to have just like a little bit of description
Of the things which are going on
There is a bomb, there are also these four people
You intending to
Disable and disarm this bomb
At the top
Of each round, I'm going to jump on over
To Sky and Ike to see what they're doing
They have
Meta-wise
About three
Maps
At the end of each map, I'm going to jump back over to you
They have about three maps before they reach this point
If they cross it
Whatever their driving is going to explode
So you have about three turns
To finish this whole little thing
Or do whatever it is that you need doing
Before somebody crosses the finish line
And that bomb is going to go off
What do we get for initiative, gamers?
I got a
I got a juicy nine
Nine, ooh that is juicy, love that
That is an amazing roll
Honestly, you were super fast
Because I got a six
Don't we just love that
Because I was sending the car off
You were sending the car off, exactly
Yeah, exactly, no you didn't, that's true
We're doing our best
And you're also all, like
The pair of you are both taking it back as the car rolls off
And these four people turn
And they pick up
These small laser rifles
Stay your business
Can I just shoot one of them?
Yep, all day
I'm going to load up a basic inhibitor
Into my needlepoint gun
And just shoot one of them
The biggest one, so the target takes a negative two penalty to AC
Oh wow, that's pretty good
You reduce the target's DR by five
Okay
And you reduce the target's resistance to one type of energy
Your choice by five
Hey Azam, what would be best for you
In your weaponry?
I have a pistol, I have no idea what kind of pistol it is
It would just be the basic pistol that's in your inventory
Would that just be like, piercing?
Uh, yes
Energy, or metal energy? I don't know
So piercing works, piercing is a type of thing
Do you have to roll to hit that?
Let me see, the effect of an inhibitor lasts for a number of rounds
Equals three plus your creativity score modifier
So it'll work for more rounds than we need
I guess I should roll to, because I'm shooting
Yeah, roll to hit
Ooh
That's a 21 to hit
Yes, that hits all day
You step out of this car, these people look at you
They say, stay your business, and you
I follow that up with a shot
Does a 14 hit?
Yep, 14 does
Oh hold on, I should also roll damage
Two damage? That's more about the inhibitor than the damage
Yeah, exactly it is
Nine damage
Phenomenal, you, are you hitting the same person who Theriac hit?
Yep
This person is hit, injected, like
Hunches over a small bit
Azam
You take the shot
Is this shot lethal? Yep
They go down a little bit, look up, and then
As you fire off, these other three people
Clearly move on into action as you've
Killed one of them
Meanwhile
We're gonna cut on over to Skye first
Skye, you went above the skyline
Is that correct? Yeah, I'm just trying to catch up to Igg
You on your board
There are people on in cars
Zipping past, there are people going
Underneath the buildings
You are like skating on top doing tricks
As you do so
Is there some place that would be strategic to throw
One of my many grenades? Yes
There absolutely would be, someone drives
Up, jumps over a small building
You see that they pull out a
Pistol and they go to aim it at you
Now would be a pretty fucking time if you wanted to roll that
Attack
Yeah, how close are they to me? Cause I'd like to maybe
Open up their hood
They're on a bike, they're on a motorbike
Okay
I might just saddle on, what, they have a gun?
Yes, they have
But I wanna chuck it
At the wheels of their bike
Absolutely, yeah, roll me an attack
Shit, that's a ten
I'm gonna roll a dodge actually
I didn't say it, I wanted to throw it
At the wheels of their bike, which is bigger
Than them and there's also two of them
You do succeed
You still succeed, you like
Throw it and as this person
Goes to like meet the
Apex of one of the roofs
You throw the grenade
Their front tire like is
Torn completely apart
They land and then
And then slide and fall down
The side of the roof and you hear like a wet
Splunch as they like hit into the sewers
You don't seem to be
Being followed by anyone, ahead of you
You can head over to the smog road
Which you know would be able to
You'd be able to meet IEG
If they get through the warehouse okay
Or you can go down the sewers, the sewers
Won't be getting you there but it will probably
Be a quicker route to the
Actual finish line
I think I'm gonna meet up with IEG because I can't
Imagine how much she's panicking right now
And I'm also not gonna let her win this race without me
We
Come on over to a
Loud, busy
Warehouse, people are working
On different mechs
Large, some of them are used for like lumber but you
See like a whole lawman section
Being like built with people
Who are building things clearly meant
To subjugate and
Lord over
You, race in with the bike
Behind you, you hear cackling and you look
Slightly behind you as you see
This one person who is driving
This large truck, this large truck
Has this crane
There is a body inside of
The hand, the claw of the crane
Slightly further down is someone hanging
Looking at you, they call out a
Command of some kind, it's too loud
You can't quite hear it, and the crane
Hand drops the body and
Starts just reaching forward ahead
There was a body in the head though?
There was a body in it, yes. And it
Drops to the ground? They are now currently
Reaching this crane over to you
I, would you say that the crane
Is an advanced
Weapon, basic weapon?
I mean, I would describe it as a tool
As the crane
Might not be used, but if I had to
Maybe
If it's going to be used as a weapon against me
If it's going to be used as a weapon against you
Probably
I mean, I would probably say
Advanced, but I have a
Feeling that you're edging me to say
Basic? No, I am
Not edging you at all, I would not do that to you
My friend. I, I am
Asking you, because I need to
Declare what kind
Ah, it would be
It would be advanced then
So, advanced weapons
What I do, is I look at
Who's driving the crane
I just want
To
Express how angry
I am that they
Used
The machine to do what they just did
And it's horrid and mean
And awful
And they don't deserve
To have it, so I
Think that they should not
Be able to reach it, so
I cast Incompetence
And they can't control
Complex weapons anymore
Oh, shit! It's a will
Will
Saving throw. They have a
A plus one to this
So I will say, this isn't the person
Who's controlling the crane itself, but it
Is the driver, so
It does, I would say this whole thing
Does still count as like an advanced thing
So this will be working
I rolled a seven
So that is a success
On your half. What does it look like when you
Cast this? I think that I
Looks behind in the
Mirror and
Screams
Very loud
And just feels
Very angry
And can't stop and just
Has to keep driving, so she's just
Screaming and driving
And I hope that
It just is a
Scream that echoes back
And into the machines
And just stops
It from moving. You
Scream. It's like you can feel
A weight being like pulled
From you as you scream
Out. Aside from the
Mechanics who are currently working on the cars like
Yelling at people who are like driving
Through, you can hear the actual
Mechs themselves react
In some way and start moving
And the lights like
Behind you, the crane
You can hear the person
Like fully forgets how to
Control this at all
Stalls the car entirely, the crane
Lifts up
The weight that it was using to
Like go grab you, pulls
The truck forward and it kind of
Just rests on the headlights so
It comes perfectly up
And you off forward
She's gonna keep
Driving. You just keep fucking driving gamers
We then cut on over
To the main square
These three members of the Void
Pick up their weapons and they're all going to take
Potshots. Two at his arm and
One at the Theriak. Does a
Eleven hit
Afraid not mate. They
Goes past you
The second one takes a shot
That is a thirteen. That
Is my armor class
So it is, it is. Meets it, beats it
They fire off
They hit you just directly in the shoulder
For three damage as they
Fire and hit you. And this
Last one is going to take their
Shot at Theriak seeing that they
Were the instigator of this
Of this combat
Does a nine hit
Rolled like absolute shit there as
They duck behind
A thing, fire off and
There are just shots
Going wide. Theriak it is you
Oh, this bitch is dead
Theriak, it was this
Guy right there next to the
Smoke
Now that one doesn't
That one unfortunately doesn't
Can I do anything else? I can run
You definitely can
I will also use my perception
To look for the bomb
Perfect. Yeah, because that's more important
Yeah
Ooh, that's
Very good perception. That's a
26. Where were you when I needed you?
You look and see
That the bomb
Seems to be placed just in front
Of the finish line. I'm going
To yell to a Zom. Get the guy on
The corner. I'm going after the bomb
And can I dash?
Is that an action? Dashing
Is an action, I believe
So I already used that for my attack
So I will just move
You can do a little run as armor as you
Yeah, I'm going to go
I'm going to walk forward
And I'm going to just hit
The one I was pointed to with
A ranged attack. 17 hit?
17 does hit, yes. Yeah, you
This person was the one who was attacking Theriak
And you seem to have gathered
Their rage. As I walk towards
Their fellows
I shoot them
I turn around and give them a sly wink
Oh, brutal
Oh yeah, right in the field beds, you know?
Oh yeah, no, absolutely. We move over
Sky, flying above
The skyline. I, you
Shooting down the smog
Road after yelling out
The mech warehouse. You both
Do spot each other. Sky, can you give me a perception
Check real quick? 14
You spot just ahead of
I, waiting
Attempting to hide, but you are able to spot
Him over the skyline. There are
Two lawmen cars
Which are essentially police cars
Almost lying in wait for you to pass them
Oh no
Oh, see
I'm not pausing because I'm thinking of
What to do. A thought popped into my head
And I was like, oh, that's some dumb bitch juice
You're drinking, Moa. Oh, we love
The bitch juice. We love dumb
Bitch juice. Oh
Honestly, I love any bitch juice
How many cars are behind Ike right now?
Ike is being followed by one car
And one person on a
Bike. Ike is significantly
Further ahead than
Than these people, but they are gaining fast
And again, you see
The lawmen who are waiting, like
Hidden behind a building, almost
Knowing that people are coming. Okay
I'm gonna look dramatically
At Ike and
Look to the ground and say
I didn't want to
Win the race that bad anyway
And I'm gonna head towards the
Lawmen. Oh shit.
Dumb bitch juice. You like, you
Put your foot down and the hov- your little
Hoverboard bursts into speed
There is like a contrail
Of lavender light as you
Shoof, shoot down in front
Of Ike. You have reached the lawmen
What would you like to do? Oh boy
Like, I
Would like
To take my bow staff
Off my back, pull down my
Gas mask, bring my goggles
Up and say, what's up
Fuckers?
I'd like to speed off
In the opposite
Direction. Immediately, Ike, you hear
This as well. There is a- there are sirens
Burst and blare
There is light coming from ahead of you as you
Vroof, pass each other on the smog road
As these lawmen chase after Sky
Ike, what is it that you do? There are
Two people behind you. I guess I better
Win the race now
Um, I
I
Gotta fucking win the race
Do I have any
Shend of where a finish
Line that this race might
Be? Just past where the
Lawmen were like, hiding in
Weight, there is less than
Two streets towards this like
Green smoke that you can see like
Billowing just above a dark
Slightly broken skyscraper
You are extremely close
The two other people
One on a car, one on a bike
They meet you and they
You are all in a line right now
There are four people in this car
It's the one that we've seen at the beginning, has flames along the side
Has a small tommy gun in back
Someone gets out of
The back shattered window and
Gets upon this little turret and
Is revering it up to fire at you
Okay, I still have two more
Spell slots for this so Ike
Is going to try to cast
Incompetence on this gunner
Brilliant, another seven that they
Rolled. So they
Now have no proficiency with this
Class of weapon. They go
They pull back the
Loader, the gun
They stop and they have
Completely forgotten how the fuck to use this
Gun as you blast through
This section, you can see
The smoke clearer, you can
See these three people
Opening fire upon
These two other figures who you
Quite quickly get a hold of, it's Theorek and Azam
We're going to come back to you in a little second
These three Void members are
All going to take shots, actually no, two of them
Are going to take shots at Azam, one of them
They drop the gun
And they pull out what seems to be
Like a small machete and they're going to
Run at you. Come to me
The two that are taking this shot
Fucking misses, god I'm going to burn this dice
14 hits, correct? Yeah
Only two damage as they
And they fire off at you
The other is going to
Run towards you and they get
To your face pulling out a
Machete and is going to go for a
Physical attack, they swing it at you
Ten damage as they swing
Twice with this machete
We've officially gone into health damage
Theorek, it is you. Question for SpaceGod
If I am to begin
Dismantling this bomb, would that require an action?
Yes. Then I will not use
My inhibitor this round. I am going
To go up to the bomb, I am going
To make a engineering
Of computers, would be the ones
To use, to figure out
The actual mechanics of it, yes? Yep
You can use engineers, you can use computers, yeah that's fine
Okay, for
Computers, that's a 21
Fucking hell, behind you
You hear a whoop whoop
Of lawmen who are
Who drive off to go
Meet someone, you also hear these
Three cars like
Coming, like getting louder and louder
And louder, you get
The small mechanical device and are able
To t-t-t-t-t-t-t
And the flashing of the mechanical device
Dimms, as you have managed to
Deactivate it, just before
People cross the finish line, before we
Move on over to EigenSky
Azzam, it is you. I am going to take
A guarded step five years away
And I am just going to shoot this thing right in the face
Go for it
Ready to hit? 20
Yep, that is the one
2d6
10
You do exactly as you say
They are like swinging at you as you
As you like move back, you pull the gun
Rest it upon your arm and you take a pot shot
In this person, push
I am going to about face turn
To the last two
Raise a hand and basically
Motion, come here
You are the coolest
Can you give your fucking intimidation check?
That is 19
They are looking piss scared
And do not want to be doing that thing
Of going closer towards you
Can I, with the rest of my movement
Grab the now defunct
Bomb, pick it up and
Scuttle back to Azzam
I am with him
Look at you picture them carrying it
Trying to grab this thing under one arm
Totally tripping
And then like using three
Three limbs to get behind Azzam
And a favorite atom-less thing that I love
Is, Theriax seems to pick up
Things that are way too big for them
And run away with them
And run very very quickly
I love it
But this time it is a bomb
So I think it just
Carries more comedy
And you just can't get rid of a bomb
Yes
Anyway, I am so sorry
No, absolutely perfect
Two people either side of you
You see Theriax scuttling away
Is there anything you
You see that happening
I see that happening
You know what, if I floor it
Do I still have room for another action?
No, it is a single thing
You have a single decision
To make
Oh god, okay
I will try to floor it
I do want to
Channel some sky
Because I feel like
If I do succeed
There needs to be a little
Sky in the winning
Of this race
So I is going to
Take the bandana
Down from around her rat nose
And pick one of them
Maybe to the left
And is just going to
Stick her tongue out
And stick out her middle finger
And just give a nice
Big
And then gun it
And hopefully that works
I guess my middle finger right now
Roll me 2d6, we are doing engine
Would you like to use the floor
Okay, okay, okay
I don't know what you are saying
You are so excited, I love this shit
I am going to do a 10 on the dice
Plus 2 so it is 12
That is it, you blast through
That is as good as you can possibly do
You hit on the throttle
And wheelies up
And you just
Just
Make it through past the finish line
Before anyone else
You feel like a low pulse
From the bomb and then it settles in
As it is being deactivated
These other two
Go either side of you
You Akira style
The bike
No, no
I can't stop and
Find out where Skye is and
Tell her everything that happened
The other cars slow and stop
People next to you are like fuck
Smacking the wheel, person on the bike
Is like fucking
Revs up the bike and then
Drives off
I didn't see Skye recently
But I did see
Azam and Thiriak
Getting into a fight
At some point
You are like 120 foot
From each other, you are fully within
Eyeline can see each other
As you stop Azam and Thiriak
Holding this like
Because you are both past the finish line
But do I see Skye
You do not see Skye
Umm
I
We won the race
I won, I won the race
Uhh
Thank you
I got it, I got it, yep
And I walk towards
Where the cars came from because I'm assuming Skye is
Somewhere down there
Skye
Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit
You are
Weaving in and out of these
Buildings, you can hear
Sirens chasing
And gaining on you as you are flying through
Is there anything you would like to
Do, like to go? What is Skye
Thinking about? I mean Momo is thinking about
Something that would be dramatic but like I don't know
We'll see. You know what fuck it
Do we want to end the session off on a dramatic thing?
Hell yeah
Nothing if not dramatic
Okay, Skye is zipping through
Alleyways and then she's gonna
Sigh heavily
Her eyes get a little
Teary but she stops
And composes herself
And then as she hears the sirens coming again
She's going to dip through a few more alleyways
Go to a
Door and just start
Banging away at it
And say, Hive
Hive I need your help
Opening the door is
A tall
Shirin, bug like
They look at Skye
Well fuck I didn't think I'd be seeing you again
And I promise you won't again
Please just let me in for like 10 minutes
I'll sneak out the back
Alright, but you owe me another one
And that is
Where we're going to be leaving off the session today
Wow! As Skye goes
Inside of Hive's
Little side abode
I can't believe
Skye, oh my
God I can't believe Skye
I will say my beautiful players all do go up a level
You do go up a level to level 3 as you
Have honed your abilities
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We fly through the atomless sea
I hope you'll be there to fly
With us
I love you
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