26 00:01:09,660 --> 00:01:10,940 Hello there, chummers. 27 00:01:10,940 --> 00:01:13,740 And welcome back to the Hard Knocks Rority Podcast. 28 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,800 A Shadowrun 4th Edition Actual Play Podcast featuring 29 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:26,800 Val as Ali, aka Boxer, the ex-mercenary looking for redemption on Seattle's mean and dirty streets. 30 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:33,300 Veronica as Cecile, the snooty college girl out of her depth and slumming it. 31 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:42,800 Kat as Cian, aka Diendre, a dryad ex-cop from Terra Seer looking for a estranged brother. 32 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:54,800 And finally, Beth as Grace, aka Nightingale, an otherworldly and extraplanar being to metahumanity, but in reality an emissary from Equestria. 33 00:01:55,300 --> 00:02:04,300 It's a mix of classic Shadowrun tropes, getting coffee and donuts, a melding of genres and worlds, and a whole lot of other things. 34 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:10,300 I'm Paul, the Game Master, and I'm really happy that you are joining us on this journey and hope you enjoy it. 35 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:14,300 If you do, please tell your friends and leave us a positive review. 36 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:20,300 We are available on most podcast services, YouTube, iTunes, etc. 37 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:26,300 You can also find a link to our Discord server in the podcast description and on the YouTube channel. 38 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:35,300 We would love to hear from you, and we share a lot of in-game pay data there as well, such as maps, intros, fluff, and character stories. 39 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:37,300 Thank you again, chummers. 40 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:47,300 Don't forget, watch your back, conserve your ammo, spoof your Grid Guide ID, and never, ever make a deal with the dragon. 41 00:02:49,300 --> 00:02:52,300 It's nighttime, as it is so often when running the shadows. 42 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:55,300 What after all is the night, if not the deepest shadow? 43 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:58,300 Our camera is watching a parking lot, somewhere in an undefined sprawl. 44 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:00,300 It's raining, of course. 45 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:04,300 We need the pavement to be wet to cast the fractured reflections of the sprawl's neon face. 46 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:09,300 The Rolls Royce Phaeton sits at the center of the deserted parking lot, with its running lights on. 47 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:16,300 Another vehicle, a nondescript Ares Roadmaster, pulls into the parking lot and slowly circles the Phaeton. 48 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:21,300 The Roadmaster appears tired and worn in comparison to the Phaeton's glossy reflective finish, 49 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:28,300 but a trained eye would notice that the suspension of the vehicle is carrying substantial weight and has been upgraded to support it. 50 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:30,300 There are other tells that this Roadmaster is stock. 51 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:36,300 The tires, the various oddly shaped protrusions on the roof that probably house sensors and antennas, 52 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:39,300 and the discreet seams and panels that may hide offensive weaponry. 53 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:43,300 The large van stops broadside, a dozen meters from the Phaeton. 54 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:50,300 The side door slides aside to reveal a large orc holding a PKM machine gun on a gyro mount pointed in the general direction of the van, 55 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:52,300 in one hand and a ballistic shield in the other. 56 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:55,300 Two more passengers emerge from the van's front. 57 00:03:55,300 --> 00:03:59,300 The one in the lead is a human female, and the other is an elven male. 58 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:04,300 They are both wearing long jackets that are obviously armored, but their weapons are holstered. 59 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:08,300 They walk into the space between the two vehicles stopped with the woman. 60 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:15,300 The rear door of the Phaeton slides silently aside, and a male orc steps out and closes the door behind him. 61 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:22,300 He is wearing what might as well be a corp bodyguard operative armored business suit and mirror shades. 62 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:24,300 You have the principle? he asks. 63 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:26,300 You have the cred? the woman replies. 64 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:30,300 Mirror shades nods and says, biometric verification is required. 65 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:32,300 The woman nods again. 66 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:37,300 Fine, your tech can do the scan in the vehicle as she motions with her thumb over her shoulder. 67 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:42,300 Mirror shades nods as well, and the door of the Phaeton slides open again. 68 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:48,300 A male dwarf in a lab coat and carrying a device in his hand climbs out and looks nervously around. 69 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:54,300 The human woman motions him over to her, and after a quick nod from mirror shades, the dwarf steps up to her. 70 00:04:54,300 --> 00:05:00,300 She pats him down with practiced motions and examines his device before letting him pass towards the van. 71 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:10,300 The dwarf shuffles hurriedly towards the van, his eyes fixed to the muzzle of the PKM that never wavers from mirror shades, and clambers somewhat awkwardly through the door. 72 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:17,300 Several minutes pass, with the two groups staring impassively at each other, before the dwarf re-emerges from the van. 73 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:23,300 The squat metahuman pauses briefly to nod at mirror shades prior to disappearing into the Phaeton and shutting the door in haste. 74 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:31,300 Both mirror shades and the woman frown. She says, your tech seems to be scared of something. Is this a frag job? Mirror shades answers roughly. 75 00:05:31,300 --> 00:05:38,300 Not everyone is cut out for the game, Chica. Now, do you want the cred or not? She nods and holds out her hand. 76 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:44,300 Mirror shades passes her a cred stick which she quickly slots, and after a moment and another nod she motions to the van. 77 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:49,300 Two figures climb out of the back of the van and head towards the Phaeton. One is a large human male, and casual. 78 00:05:49,300 --> 00:05:56,300 He is somewhat stooped and balding. Beside him is another human female, who is gripping his right elbow in one hand and an oozy in her other. 79 00:05:56,300 --> 00:06:01,300 She is wearing an armored jacket, and compared to her companion, moves with strength and grace. 80 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:07,300 As they come abreast with the others, mirror shades raises his hand as if to motion the older man towards him to be searched. 81 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:12,300 Then his hand explodes and muzzle flashes as a cyber gun in his arm unleashes a burst of fire. 82 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:18,300 The older man is hit in the throat and face. His head snaps backward in a spray of blood. Things start moving very quickly. 83 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:26,300 A bullet from a sniper catches the female who had been leading the exchange as she is drawing her pistol full in the chest, catapulting her backward to the ground. 84 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:36,300 The woman escorting the civilian throws herself to the side and her oozy loop releases a staccato rip of bullets that stitch up the side of mirror shades torso into the side of his jaw. 85 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:40,300 The mirror shades are flung clear as the hitman topples towards the Phaeton. 86 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:50,300 The elf who had been accompanying the female human makes an arcane motion and a swirling sphere of energy encompasses him and the downed woman just in time to deflect additional sniper fire. 87 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:57,300 And the PKM erupts in a roar. The fusillade pins mirror shades to the Phaeton in a macabre display of violence. 88 00:06:57,300 --> 00:07:08,300 Then another sniper bullet takes the head off the woman, the human woman with the oozy in a blast of pink mist, and what remains of her body rolls over into a puddle of rainy water that quickly turns crimson. 89 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:15,300 The elf mage is dragging the leader towards the van under the cover of the PKM which is chewing at the armor of the no longer gleaming woman. 90 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:23,300 Gunfire seems to be erupting from the darkness all around the tableau and bullets are chunking into the van's armor and being repelled by the mage's scream. 91 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:28,300 As he lifts the leader into the back of the van he glances back at his fallen comrade. Then he enters the van. 92 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:34,300 The doors of the van slide shut and its powerful engine revs as it launches it before screaming tires into the moon. 93 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:42,300 Our drone's eye shifts and we realize that we are coming in for a strafing run on the location of one of the snipers on the roof of the darkened shopping. 94 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:50,300 Then our rockets are away and we are pulling up into the night sky, away from the parking lot with its flickering flames and clawing to wrap ourselves in shadow once again. 95 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:52,300 Oh, well there's something happening in Seattle. 96 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:54,300 Something's happening somewhere. 97 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:55,300 To somebody. 98 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:57,300 Why don't we get the film it involves us? 99 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:01,300 It's all related to, uh, I have no clue how it is. 100 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:05,300 Unless it isn't and it's just the biggest red herring. 101 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:09,300 Alright, Paul, are you ready to enact what we practice? 102 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:10,300 Roll dice. 103 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:12,300 Sure. 104 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:13,300 Sure. 105 00:08:13,300 --> 00:08:15,300 Okay, is that right? That's right. 106 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:20,300 I got a one. So, so we're going with combat turns, yeah? 107 00:08:20,300 --> 00:08:23,300 Are you trying to, you're trying to hack his phone, right? 108 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:29,300 Yes, it's common. Which I can see in like a little window that pops up with a sing and whatnot. 109 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:30,300 Yep. 110 00:08:30,300 --> 00:08:34,300 So I just, I mean really I can keep doing this for as long as I want. 111 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:35,300 Who's driving? 112 00:08:35,300 --> 00:08:37,300 I think Box. 113 00:08:37,300 --> 00:08:40,300 I think she's the best driver. It could be on dog brand. 114 00:08:40,300 --> 00:08:47,300 It would make sense to put her behind the wheel so Nightingale can do the funny, uh, actual, you know, observation thing. 115 00:08:47,300 --> 00:08:49,300 Yeah. 116 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:51,300 Alright, six. 117 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:57,300 What's the, uh, what's the time base between, between rolls? How much time passes? 118 00:08:57,300 --> 00:09:03,300 Probably a full combat turn, um, just because Ceil's doing it AR and not going VR. 119 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:04,300 That was three seconds. 120 00:09:04,300 --> 00:09:06,300 Six seconds now. 121 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:11,300 And you needed, you just need to hit the rating, right, of the device. 122 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:17,300 Uh, I'm going for admin, so it'd be plus six. So I need to hit a threshold of ten. 123 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:24,300 And I have six so far. 124 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:29,300 I'm going to do that and go. All right. Seven, 11. Okay. 125 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:33,300 Okay. Let's call that what? 15 seconds? 126 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:39,300 Yep. So you guys haven't really even cleared the car lot by the time you've got his comm link cracked. 127 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:52,300 Nice. You, um, you all can just see Ceil, you know, gesturing vaguely typing whatnot in the way that you've probably seen hackers do in a vid sometime. 128 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:57,300 All right. I would now like to see what all this bloke has on his comm link. 129 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:02,300 Just kind of idly looking at, not really looking for anything in particular. 130 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:11,300 Um, you, I mean, you've got, he's got, it's basically a, the comm link of a person who doesn't seem to have anything to hide. 131 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:17,300 There's nothing that stands out as being like either secret or, or nefarious. 132 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:24,300 It's basically, you know, if you picked up, you know, random dude walking down the street cell phone and cracked it. 133 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:33,300 You've got obviously a long list of contacts, quite a few of them from the night air and Academy. 134 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:43,300 You do. There are some, a couple of contacts and numbers in there that are labeled that are labeled that are way labeled warehouse Alliance. 135 00:10:43,300 --> 00:10:51,300 Um, there's a couple of them that have a couple of the warehouse Alliance numbers in contacts that have a, a star next to them. 136 00:10:51,300 --> 00:11:01,300 So they might be important to him. Does he have any files on? He does not. Does he have any kind of like anything related to what's been going on at all? 137 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:07,300 Not obviously. Okay. Okay. I'm just going to go ahead and turn off. No, no. 138 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:15,300 And I see any kind of panic button like a emergency panic function. He didn't activate anything. Okay. 139 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:24,300 He didn't really have time. And, you know, the impression that you got when he pulled up and everything that went down was that you caught him basically by surprise. 140 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:32,300 He was not in his arrogance in his position and the arrogance of his assumption about you guys as shadow runners. 141 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:40,300 You know, he saw absolutely no risk or danger in meeting you guys. Is there, does there appear to be anything valuable on his phone at all? 142 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:48,300 Or is it basically like the equivalent of a work computer? It's the equivalent of a work computer. 143 00:11:48,300 --> 00:12:00,300 There's certainly pay data. So if you took some time to, to analyze it and sift through, there's probably a good bit of information, maybe even some of just some of the contacts names and what their ranks are that are labeled in there, which might be interesting to somebody. 144 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:13,300 Just go ahead and make a copy of all of the phone's contents and whatnot. Sure. I do. So, and I'll sort through it later. In the meantime, I'm just going to, can I like brick the com link? Absolutely. 145 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:24,300 All right. I would like to inflict as much matrix damage on that com link as possible. You've got admin privileges. So basically you could basically, I imagine, system 32. Yep. 146 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:34,300 Do the equivalent of pulling the SIM chip and dumping the memory. Good. Okay. Ooh, before I do that, are there any links devices to the com link? 147 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:57,300 Let me check. There are several arms weapons. You already got the, you picked up the Colt manhunter that he had on him. That was linked to it. There are, there's a, there are a couple of other weapons that are linked to it that you didn't find when you searched. So probably his personal weapons that he didn't carry with him. 148 00:12:57,300 --> 00:13:10,300 There also appears to be his motorcycle appears to be linked to it. And that's probably it. Okay. Cool. Then his com link is bricked and that'll be a pain for somebody to fix. 149 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:28,300 All right. So you guys are heading out of Auburn, South East, you know, southeasterly direction towards Puyallup. If I remember correctly, it was middle of the day, maybe early afternoon. 150 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:43,300 Okay. So there were two things that we were, that you were trying to achieve, right? So you wanted to get from him. You wanted to get the audio recording of Kimmy telling Mr. Johnson that she wanted nothing to do with it. So that was the one part for completing the job with Mr. Johnson. 151 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:57,300 Then you had the job from ProCop, which was basically to kidnap George VanHousen and get him to a safe house. So now you're on your way to the safe house in the van. Deandre, are you following the van or are you leading? 152 00:13:57,300 --> 00:14:03,300 I think Deandre would be following the van. At least in this moment, she might like circle around it every now and again. 153 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:29,300 Okay. Puyallup is, as you know, maybe just barely a step up from the Redmond Barrens. The volcanic eruption of Mount Rainier in 2017 devastated this area. It's covered in lava flows and heavy ashfall. And it's basically just a very grim and grimy area, very working class. 154 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:37,300 And so you pass through Redmond. The drive takes about an hour. You're getting in, you pass through Auburn, I mean, heading south. 155 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:52,300 Actually, before we get there, can I do something? Sure. All right. So ice is in the van with all of us, right? Yes. And we're, what's the location where we're going to meet the fixers or cleaners? Puyallup. Right, but where in Puyallup? Like what, can Cecile see the location? 156 00:14:52,300 --> 00:15:07,300 Yeah, you got it forwarded to you. Everybody got it forwarded. What's it look like? It's a warehouse in a very run down sort of warehouse, industrial kind of area. Everything black and covered in ash and grim and grimy. 157 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:27,300 Are we taking the cop? Well, there's, so to backtrack a minute, there's the, the job wasn't to take him to any kind of cleaners or anybody else. The job was to capture him because there's some back history between him and Procop and ice. 158 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:43,300 And they want to find out what happened. Basically, they were set up on a job. George Van Housen was acting as the Mr. Johnson, but it was a setup and a frame job. And they're taking him to a safe spot where they can interior. 159 00:15:43,300 --> 00:16:00,300 So are we taking him there and San Puyallup? Yep. He is with you in the van. You, Deandere cuffed him. His arms are cuffed behind his, his hands are cuffed behind his back and his legs are cuffed, his feet are cuffed. 160 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:20,300 And he is currently still unconscious, lying on the bottom of the van. You searched him. Everybody's, I mean, he was searched by, I believe Deandere and ice and Nightingale also did an astral perception of him and had seen that he was relatively heavily cybered. 161 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:40,300 In fact, he has a cyber arm and quite a bit of headwear and some other stuff going on. Remind me. So the message I sent to Procop was that we needed his because at the time I wasn't going to hack up that we needed someone to like help take care of the phoning home thing. 162 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:51,300 That's still going to be at the warehouse and whatnot. You had messaged Procop that you needed help with with this comment, basically disabling it. Oh, we didn't remember that. 163 00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:57,300 Well, in that case, yes. All right. Cool. And everything's fine. Continue. 164 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:15,300 Liz, did you have any other questions? All right, so it's about a half an hour drive when you get to you. The location is a sort of a nondescript warehouse, not very large, with a big bay door in the front, which opens up as the van pulls up to it. 165 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:18,300 And Boxer, I guess you drive in. 166 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:34,300 The van drives in and see a couple of people standing in a lit area. See if transfer you guys to the map. Oh, we get maps. Oh god, we get maps. Come on. Paul always has maps. He hasn't had them out for like several sessions. 167 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:40,300 We're going to get shot at. Don't beat him up. He's trying. We're going to get shot. 168 00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:51,300 This is a nice map though. I like it. I like this map. It would be a shame if we weren't shot. It could be a red herring. It's not a red herring. 169 00:17:51,300 --> 00:18:08,300 What if it is. So this is the set van. Her van is black. Yeah, I didn't know what color the van was so I just went with black. It would be very conspicuous if it was white, as you know, because white sticks out really fucking hard. 170 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:12,300 Not really. There are actually a lot of white vans. What about gray? 171 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:17,300 All right, you guys pull in. There are a couple of people standing around. 172 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:22,300 None of whom you recognize. Three people. Let's just say three people. Let me draw them. 173 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:27,300 One, two. 174 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:40,300 The map is unfortunately quite big so you got to zoom in to even see what's going on. 175 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:43,300 Okay, so you guys get out of the van. Who's getting out? 176 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:48,300 Cecile will get out. 177 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:55,300 She would disassemble the full would have her sub machine gun swung, not held to her sidearm. 178 00:18:55,300 --> 00:19:00,300 Actually, you do know one of the people waiting for you. 179 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:05,300 Yeah, so the people that are here are Kirsten. 180 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:16,300 Next to her is a rather slight and nondescript looking elf with a some kind of a device in his hand and then back. 181 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:23,300 Back here there's an older gentleman sitting in a chair, drinking a coffee and smoking a cigarette. 182 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:27,300 Cecile goes ahead and starts walking towards the duo. 183 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:33,300 Kirsten sees you and a big smile breaks out on her face and she says, Hi Cecile. 184 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:35,300 Hey Kirsten. 185 00:19:35,300 --> 00:19:37,300 Fancy seeing you here. 186 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:41,300 Indeed. I didn't realize you hung out in warehouses, although I'm not that surprised. 187 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:43,300 She makes a face at you. 188 00:19:43,300 --> 00:19:44,300 Who's your friend? 189 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:51,300 She looks over. This is Mouse. Mouse is a decker. He's here to make sure that we're not being electronically surveilled. 190 00:19:51,300 --> 00:20:00,300 Good. So Mouse, I already bricked his comlink and took all the files off it. Let me know if you want anything from it, although it was pretty sparse. 191 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:02,300 I checked him over. I didn't see a lot. 192 00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:07,300 Do you want to keep the comlink or should I take it off you? 193 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:10,300 Oh, out of character. The comlink was implanted, right? 194 00:20:10,300 --> 00:20:11,300 Yeah. 195 00:20:11,300 --> 00:20:14,300 Okay. Sorry bud. The comlink. 196 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:16,300 Oh, all right. All right. So I'm there. 197 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:17,300 You can look over the body though. 198 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:18,300 The body? 199 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:21,300 Well, he's not dead. He's unconscious, but you know. 200 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:28,300 Okay. So he walks over and gets into the van. I lost my character under the van. 201 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:29,300 He's gone. 202 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:32,300 I think I can see the edge of his token. No, that's the van. 203 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:34,300 Oh, the van is an actual object. 204 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:37,300 Well, yeah. If you guys decide you want to drive it out of here, we got to. 205 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:39,300 We can ram Kirsten. 206 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:43,300 Ramming speed. 207 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:49,300 Wait, is the forklift a token too? Or is it just weirdly out? 208 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:53,300 It looks like a token. Oh, oh no. 209 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:54,300 Just in case. 210 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:56,300 You never know. 211 00:20:56,300 --> 00:21:02,300 It's over, Joker. I have my class driver's license and my people. 212 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:07,300 All right. The mouse is looking over the unconscious body of the cop. 213 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:10,300 Yep. He's scanning him with some kind of device in the back of the van. 214 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:12,300 Sorry, should I check out everything? 215 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:14,300 Yeah. He's got a couple of trackers on him. 216 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:16,300 I'm going to say got back in. 217 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:22,300 The dog pretending to be a stupid dog will explore some. 218 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:24,300 So what doors are too long? 219 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:28,300 So let's say the front door is open. 220 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:32,300 Front doors are open and this door right here is open. 221 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:33,300 Yeah, I see. 222 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:34,300 I drew a line. 223 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:37,300 So the one up front before the van, which one? The one behind us? 224 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:39,300 The sliding side door. 225 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:42,300 Oh, exactly. All right. 226 00:21:42,300 --> 00:21:45,300 I want you to, while you're looking around, that it's not open. 227 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:46,300 We don't want to. 228 00:21:46,300 --> 00:21:47,300 Yeah. 229 00:21:47,300 --> 00:21:52,300 Understand the dog borks and wagging cameras or something. 230 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:53,300 Or hands off. 231 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:54,300 If it's not, I know you're busy with. 232 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:58,300 I mean, I'm pretty sure you're in control of this warehouse. 233 00:21:58,300 --> 00:22:01,300 Hey, hey mouse. Is the guy at the desk looking at the cameras? 234 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:03,300 Yeah, he's watching the cameras. 235 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:06,300 Yeah. It seems like they have it handled. Boxer. 236 00:22:06,300 --> 00:22:12,300 All right. So ice drags George Vanhausen out of the van and drops him on the floor. 237 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:14,300 There's a light shining there. 238 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:19,300 And at that point, Kirsten looks over at mouse and says, you're all done mouse. 239 00:22:19,300 --> 00:22:21,300 Mouse says, yep, he's clean. 240 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:26,300 I cleaned the tags. Kirsten looks over at Cecile and says, well, I'm getting out of here. 241 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:28,300 We're getting out of here. Our job's done. 242 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:30,300 Good. Nice seeing you, Kirsten. 243 00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:32,300 Yeah, you too Cecile. Stay safe. 244 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:34,300 Don't forget to study harder. 245 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:36,300 She chuckles. Yeah, you too Cecile. 246 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:39,300 You think I can study harder? I'm insulted. 247 00:22:39,300 --> 00:22:41,300 Well, I don't think you've been studying much lately. 248 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:42,300 You'd be surprised. 249 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:46,300 You're right. She and mouse, she and mouse leave. 250 00:22:46,300 --> 00:22:50,300 At this point, it's just you guys, the old man in the corner watching the, 251 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:54,300 watching the security cams and basically just ignoring you. 252 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:58,300 He's got a bag of chips in a pack of cigarettes that he's working on. 253 00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:00,300 And now it's just you guys. 254 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:02,300 All right. So Cecile looks to ice. 255 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:07,300 So are we going to interrogate the cop or are we inviting him to tea? 256 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:10,300 We're going to interrogate. 257 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:12,300 I think we can do both. 258 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:14,300 Nightingale says still on the phone. 259 00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:17,300 Sadly, I don't have my purse to bring tea with me. 260 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:20,300 Are we planning on any advanced interrogation? 261 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:22,300 Needs advanced interrogation when I'm here. 262 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:24,300 She makes an excellent point. 263 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:29,300 Subjecting Vanhousen to Cecile is probably close to advanced interrogation. 264 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:32,300 Cecile gives you a very annoyed look. 265 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:34,300 If all else fails, I can just shoot him again. 266 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:36,300 I'm sure he'll love that. 267 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:38,300 Or we could cut out his vocal cords. 268 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:40,300 I don't think that would help us. 269 00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:44,300 You know we need to see things. 270 00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:47,300 What did you say earlier? His comlink was implanted? 271 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:51,300 Yes. It's also down completely bricked. 272 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:53,300 Ice starts slapping him, trying to wake him up. 273 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:55,300 He's lying on his back on the floor. 274 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:58,300 Ice, why don't you just slap Patch? 275 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:00,300 He looks at you quite annoyed. 276 00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:02,300 And goes back to resume slapping the man. 277 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:06,300 I feel just sighs. 278 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:08,300 She starts casting a spell. 279 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:11,300 I'm going to cast Analyze Truth at force. 280 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:13,300 I don't know. 281 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:18,300 Deandre pulls out smelling salts out of her medkit. 282 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:22,300 And moves Ice aside. 283 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:25,300 Just to wake him up with the smelling salts. 284 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:29,880 I think the 285 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,300 I think that's unnecessary. 286 00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:34,300 I think it's very necessary. 287 00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:36,300 He calls the two of my bullets. 288 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:37,300 Two. 289 00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:38,300 Unacceptable. 290 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:39,300 How much do they cost? 291 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:40,300 Nothing. 292 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:43,300 Are you drawing a stick body for Vanhousen? 293 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:48,300 Yep. 294 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:52,300 Oh, oh. 295 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:54,300 I would like to use some edge. 296 00:24:54,300 --> 00:25:00,300 I would like to reroll all of the non hits. 297 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:02,300 So that's eight dice. 298 00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:04,300 Close enough. 299 00:25:04,300 --> 00:25:05,300 All right. 300 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:07,300 That's three hits on the spell. 301 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:09,300 And then I just drain. 302 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:11,300 I think that three. 303 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:13,300 Yeah, I don't take any. 304 00:25:13,300 --> 00:25:14,300 Okay. 305 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:15,300 Yeah, we're good. 306 00:25:15,300 --> 00:25:16,300 All right. 307 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:20,300 So at that point, Deandre drops the smelling salts in front of Vanhousen's nose. 308 00:25:20,300 --> 00:25:27,300 And he starts to come to and starts to try to shake himself when tries to stand up and realizes he's being restrained. 309 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:35,300 And then I think Deandre would have him like by his collar and have the smelling salts up in front of his face like that. 310 00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:39,300 So he's like pulled up off the ground slightly. 311 00:25:39,300 --> 00:25:42,300 As his eyes opens, he looks at you and says, what the frag? 312 00:25:42,300 --> 00:25:44,300 The frag is going on here. 313 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:46,300 You had a terrible fall. 314 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:53,300 So I should mention, Paul, don't forget to roll his willpower against a threshold of three. 315 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:59,300 And Cecile now has a glowing, like spectral snake tongue coming out her mouth. 316 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:01,300 That's kind of okay. 317 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:04,300 The spell works, although I don't think I was supposed to know that. 318 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:06,300 All right. 319 00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:13,300 So George Vanhousen comes to and he's looking a little bit dazed and confused, but he's snapping out of it really quickly. 320 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:16,300 His eyes are glancing back and forth at all of you. 321 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:20,300 And if you tell anything, I'm the one you trusted before. 322 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:22,300 I'm more than willing to do it again. 323 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:24,300 I think Deandre would just pull out her sword. 324 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:30,300 Like she has she has Vanhousen by like his collar of his shirt or his uniform. 325 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:38,300 And she just whips out her sword and kind of puts it close. 326 00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:46,300 And Quedasillo, insulting the honor of a knight of my rank, let me cut your throat from your neck. 327 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:49,300 Cecile's looking at you like you're crazy. 328 00:26:49,300 --> 00:26:55,300 Gail tries to, you know, gently guide the point of the blade away from the dude's neck. 329 00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:58,300 I mean, it's like a saber. 330 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:02,300 So it's like she has the flat of the blade. 331 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:10,300 Yeah, but still, it's kind of she thinks it's unnecessary that this probably won't help to get him to talk, you know. 332 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:13,300 It's smart to stop it from doing anything else. 333 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:18,300 He he start he's looking back and forth amongst you guys. 334 00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:21,300 Grace, you being dual natured, you're seeing his aura. 335 00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:26,300 And he seems more perplexed and angry than anything else at this. 336 00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:29,300 And he starts saying, what are you? 337 00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:32,300 What are you? What the frag is going on here? 338 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:34,300 What happened? 339 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:35,300 We talked to the diner. 340 00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:39,300 I know who you are. But what? Why are we doing this? 341 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:42,300 Hey, Ice, what questions do we have for this guy? 342 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:45,300 Ice says, he's still just looking at Van Housen. 343 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:47,300 And he says, you don't recognize me. 344 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:51,300 And Van Housen looks at him and says, what do you mean recognize you? 345 00:27:51,300 --> 00:27:53,300 I saw you the other night in the diner. 346 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:56,300 You guys, you have no idea who you're fragging with. 347 00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:59,300 And Ice is just looking at him sort of impassively. 348 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:07,300 You can't conceal or I'm sorry, Grace, you're looking at you see Ice's aura is very has a very odd calmness to it. 349 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:15,300 And Ice says, think back a couple of years when you were still called George Van Housen, 350 00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:23,300 because as you remember, if you guys remember all you all recall, he he did not introduce himself as he's been operating under a different. 351 00:28:23,300 --> 00:28:29,300 And as soon as Ice says George Van Housen, the man's eyes get a little bit bigger. 352 00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:33,300 And he says, what? That was decades ago. 353 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:39,300 How could that be of any importance? Ice just smiles and he says, do you know who Mary Lucy? 354 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:44,300 How about Akamai? And you see George Van Housen's eyes get big. 355 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:46,300 And then all of a sudden you see that he's recognizing it. 356 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:51,300 And he said and he starts laughing. He's laughing. Come on. This can't be serious. 357 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:56,300 That was 25 years ago. Is he lying? No, he's not lying. OK. 358 00:28:56,300 --> 00:29:05,300 The same the same sort of arrogance that drew him into the trap in the first place is is still at play here. 359 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:08,300 You know, he can he basically considers himself untouchable. 360 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:13,300 Even now in this situation, he doesn't he's not feeling as threatened as you think he should be, maybe. 361 00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:18,300 Why aren't you afraid? What? I mean, come on, guys, I'm I'm a night airing officer. 362 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:22,300 I don't know. I don't know if you understand what you guys are getting yourself into. 363 00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:28,300 Kidnapping a night airing officer and all that stuff about George Van Housen that doesn't matter to anybody. 364 00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:35,300 That's all over. Yes. Ice leans down over him and says, oh, it matters to me. 365 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:40,300 I lost a lot of good friends that night. And George looks and he says, you're shadow runners. 366 00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:46,300 What do you expect was going to happen? And Ice just looks at him and gets it really goes a little bit paler than he normally is 367 00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:51,300 and grabs him by the bias collar and says, did what happened to the rest of my friends that night? 368 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:56,300 And George looks and says, well, as far as I can remember, most of them died. 369 00:29:56,300 --> 00:30:00,300 I think we captured one of your guys, the the rigor guy. 370 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:04,300 And Ice's face goes from pale to to red. 371 00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:12,300 He says rigor mortis was alive. And George Van Housen chuckles and he says, this is about this is about the rigor. 372 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:18,300 Are you shitting me? After all these years, you finally decided to come back and check whether your friend was still alive. 373 00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:24,300 Man, some honor amongst thieves. At that point, Ice just lets go of him and walks away. 374 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:27,300 And then back behind the van, you hear somebody hitting something. 375 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:30,300 Ice, if you hit my bike, you're paying for it. 376 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:36,300 The seal walks up to Van Housen. Oh, mind answering my questions now? 377 00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:39,300 He looks at you and says, sure, whatever, lady. 378 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:46,300 Oh, hang on a second. You're that you're the girl from the university, the one that got kidnapped. 379 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:48,300 I am still kidnapped. Huh. 380 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:51,300 This is turning out to be a here date. You're not a kid. 381 00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:55,300 The seal looks at the dog and like shakes her head. 382 00:30:55,300 --> 00:31:04,300 So Van Housen, why don't you tell me exactly what happened and why these fine people are mad at you? 383 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:10,300 He chuckles and he says, well, it's a very long story, very boring story. 384 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:16,300 They're criminals. We set them up to take the fall for something and they fell just the way they were supposed to. 385 00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:18,300 I don't really understand what the big deal is. 386 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:21,300 But holding a grudge this long isn't going to help. 387 00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:25,300 And look, guys, you guys, I don't know about that other guy. 388 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:28,300 I forgot what his name is. It was 20, 25 years ago that. 389 00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:32,300 But you guys, you're not too far into this where you can't still get out. 390 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:36,300 You just let me go and walk away. Maybe you didn't hear me, Mr. 391 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:38,300 Van Housen. I said I wanted to know what happened. 392 00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:42,300 I don't care about your. All right. Play it that way if you want. 393 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:51,300 Well, I got hired by a big time fixer to to do some work to find some fall guys for some for a job. 394 00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:55,300 Do you really want to know the details? This is not this is not. 395 00:31:55,300 --> 00:32:00,300 If I tell you what I'm what you want to know, you're going to have some very dangerous knowledge in your head. 396 00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:05,300 The kind of show you things cannot get worse for me than he grins somewhat 397 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:11,300 worthlessly at you and says, I don't think you quite understand how bad things can get. 398 00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:14,300 He looks at it. He looks down on himself. And as for example, look at me. 399 00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,300 You could be lying on the floor of a warehouse in handcuffs. 400 00:32:17,300 --> 00:32:22,300 I think I was going to suffer a much worse fate considering the people to be after me. 401 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:27,300 Now, please answer my question or I will let the green lady do whatever she wants. 402 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,300 And I don't know what that is. 403 00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:32,300 He looks at the rest of you guys. You guys sure you want to hear this? 404 00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:35,300 They can leave if they want. It's not to him. 405 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:39,300 He's just sure. All right. I warned you. 406 00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:44,300 D&D is going to pull out a pack of cigarettes and she puts on anyone else. 407 00:32:44,300 --> 00:32:46,300 He says, yeah, I'll take one. Sure. 408 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:50,300 I have a very specific cigarette out and kind of offer it towards him. 409 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:54,300 Like within range where he can get up, like use his mouth to get it. 410 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:58,300 All right. He leans forward and grabs it. I like mine first and then his. 411 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:03,300 He smiles, says, thank you. All right. So here we go. 412 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:10,300 This was a long time ago. There was there was some serious bull dreck going down in a Japanese court. 413 00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:14,300 Yamatetsu. I don't know if you ever heard of them. Nowadays, they're called EVO. 414 00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:18,300 I'm aware. Well, there was what I know. 415 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:24,300 There was a cabal in Yamatetsu that very, very pro-Japanese and very anti-medic. 416 00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:30,300 It's hardly surprising. In any case, as part of this power struggle, 417 00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:36,300 this pro-Japanese cabal within Yamatetsu didn't like some of the policies that were going on 418 00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:40,300 and decided to to murder the CEO. 419 00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:46,300 They did it by framing somebody called Akuma or Akumi. In any case, their murder plot succeeded. 420 00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:51,300 Akumi fled to Seattle and took refuge with a woman named Housse. 421 00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:57,300 He looks at you expectantly. Any of you want to make a memory check or a knowledge of any kind of 422 00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:01,300 corporative knowledge check at this point? I don't think I actually put corporate. 423 00:34:01,300 --> 00:34:05,300 Area, Shadow. Area, Knowledge, Seattle. Sure. 424 00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:07,300 May I roll memory? Yeah. 425 00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:13,300 Mesa Evo has influence in security. She does not know. 426 00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:16,300 Yeah. So you probably don't know. 427 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:21,300 I roll a memory roll of five. Okay. How many dice did you roll? 428 00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:26,300 I rolled my memory die, which is eight. Good roll. Yeah. Good roll. 429 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:34,300 Yeah. So you guys remember and Nightingale knows that Mary Luce is actually the head of Evo North America. 430 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:37,300 The seal of the town on that. So George goes on. 431 00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:43,300 In any case, so ICE has rejoined and he's standing there just listening to George Van Housen. 432 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:52,300 So in any case, the faction, the Yamatetsu faction that had put the hit out, the high mucky muck or whatever, 433 00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:59,300 Yamatetsu hired me and he looks at ICE, me and my, me and the Shadow Riders to find some fall people. 434 00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:04,300 And I hired ICE and his team to basically kidnap Akumi. 435 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:07,300 And we were going to kill Mary Luce and frame them. 436 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:14,300 He looks at ICE again and says, unfortunately, the runners weren't as proficient as we thought and got into a whole lot more trouble 437 00:35:14,300 --> 00:35:18,300 before we were able to conclude our part of the business and kill Mary Luce. 438 00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:25,300 But they did manage to kidnap back before Lone Star shut it down and wasted. ICE got away. 439 00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:29,300 I think we caught one of their guys, the Rigger. That's what happened. 440 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:33,300 That's surprisingly simple. And just to clarify, he hasn't lied at any point during this exchange. 441 00:35:33,300 --> 00:35:41,300 He hasn't lied, no. But you also know that even though he hasn't lied, he hasn't, he doesn't necessarily. 442 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:48,300 Well, thank you, Mr. Van Housen. I shall be leaving now unless I don't know one of these other people has something to do to you. 443 00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:53,300 ICE looks at Van Housen and says, so what happened to Rigger Mortis? 444 00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:58,300 And George Van Housen looks at him and says, I think he's still in jail where he belongs. 445 00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:03,300 He's a criminal like you guys. And I says, OK, so where? 446 00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:07,300 George looks at him and says, come on, you're not going to try and rescue him now, are you? 447 00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:11,300 After 25 years. And ICE just says, yeah, actually I am. 448 00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:14,300 And at that point, everybody make a perception check. 449 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:18,300 Oh, dear. I have. I'm sorry if I'm a bit loopy. Nothing. 450 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:22,300 Would having superior hearing help me? No. Superior vision? 451 00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:25,300 This would be a visual perception check. OK. 452 00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:30,300 I also have something that gives me plus one surprise, surprise test. 453 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:35,300 And if they had to move to get over here, but only within a couple of meters. 454 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,300 That's not going to be going on. 455 00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:42,300 How does pre-edge? You add the rating of your edge to the roll. 456 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:47,300 And then on a six, you roll that die signal. Did you pre-edge Nightingale? 457 00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:52,300 I don't know exactly how I would. So I add my my edge. 458 00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:58,300 Well, there's also an edge button and there's an edge button and you can click on modifiers, I think, at the top of your sheet. 459 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:02,300 If you click modifiers, it'll add a modifier to. 460 00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:10,300 All right. So Cecile doesn't know she's distracted maintaining her spell. Yeah, exactly. 461 00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:18,300 Boxer, you notice a strange change on George Van Housen's face as he's talking. 462 00:37:18,300 --> 00:37:26,300 For a split second, you think he's having a stroke. One of his pupils dilates and the other one gets really thin and his mouth sort of opens funny. 463 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:30,300 And it's perception. It's a skill like shooting. 464 00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:36,300 Just to reconfirm, he didn't have any active magic, right? There hadn't been a spell cast on him before he met us. 465 00:37:36,300 --> 00:37:49,300 Nope. And being dual natured, you see a sudden shift in his aura from that sort of arrogant, frustrated and angry kind of color to a sudden. 466 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:54,300 I mean, you see a sudden massive spike of terror through. 467 00:37:54,300 --> 00:38:10,300 Wimsy. Deandere and Grace, you see his sort of his face contort a little bit and all of you see that he suddenly gets a scared look on his face and he says, he looks up and he says, 468 00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:15,300 Warehouse Alliance, Warehouse Alliance! And his head explodes like a grenade. 469 00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:19,300 Cecile just starts screaming. She's running to the right. 470 00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:24,300 Yeah, you guys are going to be all resisting damage. 471 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:26,300 How much we talking? 472 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:28,300 So I roll my body, right? 473 00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:29,300 So let's see. 474 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:32,300 We roll soak our armor. 475 00:38:32,300 --> 00:38:34,300 It's 10p. 476 00:38:34,300 --> 00:38:35,300 N? 477 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:37,300 10p, negative 2 ap. 478 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:39,300 What is negative soak value? 479 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:41,300 It penetrates 2. 480 00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:42,300 No, it's negative 2. 481 00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:44,300 Yeah, negative penetrates. 482 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:49,300 So let's see, that would be Deandere, Boxer and Nightingale. 483 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:51,300 So it's negative 2. 484 00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:54,300 I'm going to say you guys are a meter away from it. 485 00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:55,300 So it's negative 2. 486 00:38:55,300 --> 00:39:07,300 So it's only 8p for you and for Cecile, it's 6p and for Ice it's 6p. 487 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:08,300 What's the roll for this? 488 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:10,300 Right. That's the right roll. 489 00:39:10,300 --> 00:39:16,300 Well, I'm going to roll body. I'm going to add my edge to this. 490 00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:17,300 Probably a good idea. 491 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:22,300 So if I wanted to spin an edge to reroll all the ones that weren't hits. 492 00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:24,300 Whoa, I got a 4. 493 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:27,300 I just mark off an edge and then roll 4 dice, I guess. 494 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:29,300 That'll work. 495 00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:35,300 But first I have to roll a d6 to see if bad luck triggers. 496 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:37,300 It does. 497 00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:39,300 Get shit on. 498 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:41,300 Get shit on and do you. 499 00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:45,300 This character is cursed with her own luck, often turning against her. 500 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:47,300 Whenever she uses edge, roll a 1d6. 501 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:52,300 On a result of 1, edge is spent, but the exact opposite effect isn't. 502 00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:54,300 Wait, but that's awesome. 503 00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:55,300 That's so... 504 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:56,300 Hell no. 505 00:39:56,300 --> 00:39:57,300 It counteracts the... 506 00:39:57,300 --> 00:39:59,300 So I guess I rolled body. 507 00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:00,300 Roll that with that. 508 00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:01,300 You said cp for me, Paul? 509 00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:02,300 Yes. 510 00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:04,300 I take 2 physical damage. 511 00:40:04,300 --> 00:40:05,300 Just body. 512 00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:08,300 Just body then. If your armor doesn't take any effect, have any effect. 513 00:40:08,300 --> 00:40:10,300 How do you determine if the soak is... 514 00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:13,300 Just soaking the damage, reducing the damage that you're taking. 515 00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:15,300 So when I preemptively use edge... 516 00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:22,300 You add your edge to the roll, and then on a 6 you reroll that dice and add a hit. 517 00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:24,300 So what does my edge do after them? 518 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:26,300 You got a 6, so roll one extra die. 519 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:27,300 Wait. 520 00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:29,300 Yeah, so you get to roll another dice. 521 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:30,300 You got 5 hits. 522 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:32,300 So I just roll body, right? 523 00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:34,300 Unless you're wearing armor. 524 00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:39,300 I did, and I rolled a 0 on soak, and then I edged and got a 1. 525 00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:44,300 So I'm assuming I take 8 unless I roll my body and take the damage minus body. 526 00:40:44,300 --> 00:40:45,300 Unless... 527 00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:48,300 Unless getting bad lucked makes me just take all the damage. 528 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:50,300 I don't know what the bad luck... 529 00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:56,300 It just says that on a result of 1, the edge is spent, but the exact opposite effect is. 530 00:40:56,300 --> 00:41:00,300 So I intended to reroll my soak, but it didn't work. 531 00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:04,300 So just roll body, 1, and that's physical damage, I guess. 532 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,300 That is physical damage. 533 00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:07,300 So I take 7. 534 00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:09,300 How does soak work? 535 00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:13,300 So if I rolled 2 and I'm doing 8 damage, what does that mean? 536 00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:20,300 You're rolling your body plus armor against the damage, like a drain test. 537 00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:28,300 So I would roll 8 die of impact armor, minus, so that's just 6. 538 00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:29,300 Plus your body. 539 00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:30,300 You have 8 armor? 540 00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:34,300 Yes, an armor vest and helmet from impact damage. 541 00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,300 Ice is armored like that too. 542 00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:40,300 She's armored like a horse, because she can carry it. 543 00:41:40,300 --> 00:41:43,300 So it's armor and body, and that's it. 544 00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:49,300 So, 7 damage. How injured would D&Dare be at that? 545 00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:50,300 You can tell. 546 00:41:50,300 --> 00:41:51,300 There's a little condition one. 547 00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:55,300 Yeah, I'm on there. I think I have 3 boxes left, I think. 548 00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:56,300 So you beat up? 549 00:41:56,300 --> 00:41:57,300 Yeah. 550 00:41:57,300 --> 00:42:04,300 Yeah, you took a little bit of damage and hauled it, screaming to the van. 551 00:42:04,300 --> 00:42:09,300 So you guys are all more or less covered in some kind of gore. 552 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:12,300 The more damage you took, the more gore you've got on you. 553 00:42:12,300 --> 00:42:15,300 Either van housings are yours, depending. 554 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:18,300 I think, D&Dare, how much damage did you take? 555 00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:19,300 7. 556 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:20,300 And what's your body attribute? 557 00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:22,300 4. 558 00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:31,300 Okay, so if a character takes a number of boxes of damage from a single attack that equal or exceed their body, then the attack automatically knocks them down. 559 00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:34,300 Okay. Does knock down mean unconscious? 560 00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:35,300 No, just... 561 00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:36,300 On the ground. 562 00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:37,300 Okay. 563 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:46,300 D&Dare and Boxer are knocked over by the blast, and everybody's covered in gore, and obviously George van Housen is dead. 564 00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:56,300 And the guy behind the security counter, who's been watching the monitors at this point, curses and runs out through this door. 565 00:42:56,300 --> 00:42:59,300 Basically, he's like, frag this, I'm out of here. 566 00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:03,300 I think Yala's shocked. Very shocked. So shocked, in fact, that she just dropped her physical mask. 567 00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:11,300 And it's very obvious that striking glowing red blood, her own blood, just kind of stands there, not reacting. 568 00:43:11,300 --> 00:43:15,300 Ice walks over and starts to help D&Dare up. 569 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:24,300 D&Dare is... she's clutching her head and trying to get up on her own, but is obviously swimming, basically. 570 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:26,300 The seal's in the van cowering. 571 00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:32,300 I think D&Dare is swearing quite a lot in Spirepial. 572 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:37,300 Yeah, Ice is bleeding slightly from a head wound, and he looks over at Boxer. You alright? 573 00:43:37,300 --> 00:43:39,300 Who's Boxer? Val? 574 00:43:39,300 --> 00:43:42,300 Why don't you try and edge roll? Just roll your edge. 575 00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:43,300 All of us? 576 00:43:43,300 --> 00:43:51,300 Nope, just Boxer. Actually, no, not edge. Let's do a willpower roll. 577 00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:59,300 Yeah, so Boxer, you're feeling a flashback coming on from the worst day of your life, 578 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:06,300 but you're able to suppress it by basically just focusing on checking yourself, making sure that you're still... 579 00:44:06,300 --> 00:44:10,300 that you're okay, that the people around you are okay. 580 00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:19,300 You see Ice helping D&Dare up. D&Dare seems to have caught the blast more powerfully than you have. 581 00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:27,300 She's obviously injured, and the pony is injured, Ice is injured, and Cecile seems to have run to the van, 582 00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:31,300 so she's obviously not that injured, unless maybe Shock has just carried her last. 583 00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:32,300 No, not here. 584 00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:33,300 Under the van. 585 00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:35,300 Ice, do you have medical training? 586 00:44:35,300 --> 00:44:36,300 No. Damn it. 587 00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:53,300 The second you come over, a biomonitor on the cuff, on the quadricep of D&Dare's coat just lights up and starts listing things off in Spirethiel. 588 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:57,300 You cannot Spirethiel. Fortunately, she has a rating 5 med kit and medical training. 589 00:44:57,300 --> 00:45:03,300 She is exerting very hard on D&Dare. Is D&Dare making noise? 590 00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:06,300 Probably swearing a lot. 591 00:45:06,300 --> 00:45:13,300 Alright, I need you to keep swearing. Make as much noise as you want to need, as long as you're still making noise. Understand? 592 00:45:13,300 --> 00:45:21,300 I think D&Dare starts talking to Boxer, but not in English, in Spirethiel. 593 00:45:21,300 --> 00:45:27,300 It doesn't matter, she just needs her to talk. She's going to deploy her med kit and begin... 594 00:45:27,300 --> 00:45:29,300 Do you have a first aid skill? 595 00:45:29,300 --> 00:45:31,300 Yep. Plus, should I have... 596 00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:41,300 No, you shrug that off. You're basically focusing on helping others to shrug that off. So it's first aid plus logic. 597 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:42,300 Five out of five. 598 00:45:42,300 --> 00:45:43,300 Oh no. 599 00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:58,300 While everyone else is moving worried out of their mind and Pain is very noticeably coloring Nightingale's world, by the time Ice comes to her side, she twitches in the face. 600 00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:07,300 She looks at him and promptly pukes on him with vomit that's acidic enough to burn his clothes and only slightly his skin. 601 00:46:07,300 --> 00:46:14,300 And she swoons for a moment and then she shakes her head and her freeze response resolves into a fixed response. 602 00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:24,300 He is stepping away from Ice and turning her attention to D&Dare once she confirms that this guy right here is irretrievably dead. 603 00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:27,300 He is irretrievably dead. 604 00:46:27,300 --> 00:46:31,300 Unlike other animals who can regrow their head, humans cannot. 605 00:46:31,300 --> 00:46:32,300 That's so sad. 606 00:46:32,300 --> 00:46:42,300 And Ice is just looking down at his clothes and the smoking boots and the frag? 607 00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:49,300 It's almost like she spit acid in him. It's kind of confusing at first, I imagine. 608 00:46:49,300 --> 00:46:53,300 Yeah, he's looking very confused. It's definitely distracted him from what's going on here. 609 00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:58,300 Alright, so the maximum damage healable with the First Aid skill is equal to the skills rating. 610 00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:03,300 So you roll the First Aid plus Logic and you add the Medkits rating to it. 611 00:47:03,300 --> 00:47:04,300 Yep. 612 00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:07,300 It's 5 plus the Medkits rating, that's how much you'd be healing. 613 00:47:07,300 --> 00:47:09,300 Seems like a lot, doesn't it? 614 00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:14,300 Well, she's skilled, has exceptionally high quality equipment, like almost the fucking buy. 615 00:47:14,300 --> 00:47:21,300 Nightingale would provide a pair of Stuck-in-Anne to help with that Pain be not sterile, luckily. 616 00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:23,300 Ice goes to the bathroom and starts rinsing him. 617 00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:27,300 He's pretty much fallen. She seems extremely tunnel visioned at the moment. 618 00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:31,300 Hyperfix it and the DT in there, it's like she's in this many times. 619 00:47:31,300 --> 00:47:35,300 Well, didn't you say that the max that could be healed with First Aid was at first? 620 00:47:35,300 --> 00:47:41,300 Plus the Medkit, plus the Medkit, which actually conveniently turns out to be 7. 621 00:47:41,300 --> 00:47:43,300 So that means she healed a 5, and that leaves how much? 622 00:47:43,300 --> 00:47:44,300 2 left, I think. 623 00:47:44,300 --> 00:47:53,300 Yeah, once Boxer pulls back, and it's obvious in her aura that she's not sure what else Nightingale likes, 624 00:47:53,300 --> 00:48:03,300 and she gives a quick motion over Deandre's body, and this gentle glow, it's white, and then turns red. 625 00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:04,300 Guess what, Deandre? 626 00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:07,300 Guess what? Magic doesn't work on me. 627 00:48:07,300 --> 00:48:09,300 Ah, fuck, really? 628 00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:13,300 Yeah. Magic resistance plus 4. 629 00:48:13,300 --> 00:48:14,300 I forgot. 630 00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:16,300 You can still try. 631 00:48:16,300 --> 00:48:17,300 I'm going to try. 632 00:48:17,300 --> 00:48:21,300 Yeah, I would say you still tried since you said you did before you knew. 633 00:48:21,300 --> 00:48:25,300 Yeah, she wasn't thinking about that. She was wanting the help. 634 00:48:25,300 --> 00:48:31,300 But you said it's minus, so it would be minus 4 to my focusing test question? 635 00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:35,300 No, it requires a voluntary subject, right? 636 00:48:35,300 --> 00:48:38,300 And you can't be a voluntary subject when you have that resistance. 637 00:48:38,300 --> 00:48:40,300 So it could never work. 638 00:48:40,300 --> 00:48:41,300 Nope. 639 00:48:41,300 --> 00:48:53,300 So in Correction, what would have been a healing, gentle energy encompassing her body as it lowers in intensity, brightness, and color? 640 00:48:53,300 --> 00:48:59,300 It just kind of poofs. 641 00:48:59,300 --> 00:49:11,300 What is the role for that? 642 00:49:11,300 --> 00:49:18,300 I think Deandre responds to the attempted healing magic in a way that was not expected. 643 00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:27,300 She kind of writhes and sits up straight and wretched, just throws up the entire contents of her stomach in front of her. 644 00:49:27,300 --> 00:49:30,300 And she walks through it going in again when she sees this. 645 00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:37,300 And you hit Ice again who just walked up and is like, aww, frag, really? 646 00:49:37,300 --> 00:49:44,300 And now Deandre is clutching her head with both hands and swearing and speaking even louder and spiritual. 647 00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:47,300 So heal does not require a voluntary subject. 648 00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:48,300 It doesn't? 649 00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:49,300 Nope. 650 00:49:49,300 --> 00:49:51,300 So it may be uncomfortable. 651 00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:57,300 I'm pretty sure Magikriss didn't specifically mention that skill. 652 00:49:57,300 --> 00:50:01,300 Yeah, you'd still have to resist. 653 00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:06,300 If it gets through, then it still works. 654 00:50:06,300 --> 00:50:11,300 So it's willpower plus four, I think, right? 655 00:50:11,300 --> 00:50:13,300 Or do I use a different skill for a different attribute? 656 00:50:13,300 --> 00:50:18,300 Being that I cannot recall the posement, that sounds about right. 657 00:50:18,300 --> 00:50:23,300 Nope, you just have to talk to her, so she's resisting for the heal. 658 00:50:23,300 --> 00:50:25,300 Do I resist it with willpower then? 659 00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:29,300 Willpower plus your magic resistance. 660 00:50:29,300 --> 00:50:32,300 Well, the magic resistance already counters it entirely. 661 00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:34,300 Yeah, it fails. 662 00:50:34,300 --> 00:50:36,300 Yeah, so it's ineffectual. 663 00:50:36,300 --> 00:50:46,300 What it feels like for her, I imagine, is that at first there's these inklings of warmth somewhere between a lazy spring morning and a fentanyl high. 664 00:50:46,300 --> 00:50:51,300 But then very quickly it becomes this alien uncomfortable, ah, get out of me, feeling. 665 00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:55,300 And her body responds, or her soul responds, I suppose. 666 00:50:55,300 --> 00:50:57,300 And she feels kind of ill. 667 00:50:57,300 --> 00:51:05,300 Whatever swimming dizziness D'Andre was feeling just gets multiplied by like ten. 668 00:51:05,300 --> 00:51:08,300 And that's why she just bolts straight up and pukes. 669 00:51:08,300 --> 00:51:09,300 Yeah. 670 00:51:09,300 --> 00:51:16,300 And then the horse there is going into shock response, which is not her going into shock, she's acting like she is. 671 00:51:16,300 --> 00:51:20,300 Which means she's now being forced on her side to avoid choking on her own vomit. 672 00:51:20,300 --> 00:51:23,300 I think D'Andre is sitting up at this point. 673 00:51:23,300 --> 00:51:29,300 So she's like pushing boxer away and saying something in spirit to her. 674 00:51:29,300 --> 00:51:31,300 People are gross. 675 00:51:31,300 --> 00:51:33,300 Yeah, I think the horse is gross. 676 00:51:33,300 --> 00:51:45,300 The second the horse says people are gross, D'Andre like whips towards her like angry and starts just like screaming at her in spirit. 677 00:51:45,300 --> 00:51:47,300 Boxer will restrain her. 678 00:51:47,300 --> 00:51:48,300 She is going to restrain her. 679 00:51:48,300 --> 00:51:57,300 I think after about like 30 seconds, D'Andre like stops very suddenly and then immediately starts speaking in English again. 680 00:51:57,300 --> 00:51:58,300 Fuck. 681 00:51:58,300 --> 00:51:59,300 Shh. 682 00:51:59,300 --> 00:52:00,300 Get off of me. 683 00:52:00,300 --> 00:52:01,300 No. 684 00:52:01,300 --> 00:52:07,300 You're my patient now, you've been in the explosion and God don't look down because you will not like it. 685 00:52:07,300 --> 00:52:09,300 Just stay there. 686 00:52:09,300 --> 00:52:10,300 Lie down. 687 00:52:10,300 --> 00:52:11,300 Let me treat you. 688 00:52:11,300 --> 00:52:14,300 I don't trust a normie digging around in my organs. 689 00:52:14,300 --> 00:52:17,300 Excuse you, I am combat certified. 690 00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:19,300 So how about you lie down. 691 00:52:19,300 --> 00:52:21,300 I don't care. 692 00:52:21,300 --> 00:52:23,300 That was me casting hell on myself. 693 00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:24,300 Oh, on yourself. 694 00:52:24,300 --> 00:52:25,300 Okay. 695 00:52:25,300 --> 00:52:26,300 Lie down. 696 00:52:26,300 --> 00:52:27,300 And actually it's magic time. 697 00:52:27,300 --> 00:52:31,300 Actually, fuck it. 698 00:52:31,300 --> 00:52:32,300 Leadership is all power. 699 00:52:32,300 --> 00:52:34,300 I applied water to all of you. 700 00:52:34,300 --> 00:52:35,300 Yeah. 701 00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:36,300 Okay. 702 00:52:36,300 --> 00:52:50,300 Alright, so everybody's gotten themselves pulled back together and Boxer has applied first aid to D'Andre and D'Andre is recovering and Ice is pacing back and forth and then he looks at the rest of you guys and says I think we, hang on, where's Cecile? 703 00:52:50,300 --> 00:52:52,300 She's in the van. 704 00:52:52,300 --> 00:52:54,300 Alright, he comes over to the van and looks in. 705 00:52:54,300 --> 00:52:56,300 You alright, Cecile? 706 00:52:56,300 --> 00:52:57,300 She's still cowering. 707 00:52:57,300 --> 00:52:58,300 She hasn't noticed. 708 00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:01,300 She's like, she has hunkered down. 709 00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:04,300 Hey, why don't you come out and let us patch you up. 710 00:53:04,300 --> 00:53:08,300 Looks like Boxer knows our way around the med kit. 711 00:53:08,300 --> 00:53:10,300 So we're not being attacked. 712 00:53:10,300 --> 00:53:14,300 We've been attacked, but we are not currently being attacked. 713 00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:16,300 Great, great. 714 00:53:16,300 --> 00:53:17,300 I'm just going to stay here. 715 00:53:17,300 --> 00:53:20,300 Turns out he had a cranial bomb in him or something. 716 00:53:20,300 --> 00:53:21,300 Ostensibly. 717 00:53:21,300 --> 00:53:23,300 Obviously somebody didn't want him to talk. 718 00:53:23,300 --> 00:53:25,300 Well, I don't think they succeeded. 719 00:53:25,300 --> 00:53:27,300 Yeah, it's weird. 720 00:53:27,300 --> 00:53:29,300 Alright, what do you guys think we should do? 721 00:53:29,300 --> 00:53:37,300 I think that, um, body here be properly interred in the earth and I need clean of his blood. 722 00:53:37,300 --> 00:53:38,300 I need a shower. 723 00:53:38,300 --> 00:53:40,300 You need rest. 724 00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:42,300 You can take a shower, but afterwards. 725 00:53:42,300 --> 00:53:45,300 I'm not getting into a bed covered in gore. 726 00:53:45,300 --> 00:53:48,300 Fine, but you are getting into a bed immediately after. 727 00:53:48,300 --> 00:53:49,300 Understand? 728 00:53:49,300 --> 00:53:50,300 There's a bathroom over there. 729 00:53:50,300 --> 00:53:51,300 Ice points. 730 00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:53,300 You guys can go clean up. 731 00:53:53,300 --> 00:53:56,300 And Gael turns and clips off. 732 00:53:56,300 --> 00:54:05,300 I think Dianne turns away from the bath and starts looking around for her sword, which didn't stay in her hand when the bomb went off. 733 00:54:05,300 --> 00:54:07,300 It would be funny if it was impelled in some way. 734 00:54:07,300 --> 00:54:10,300 It's stuck in the floor like Excalibur. 735 00:54:10,300 --> 00:54:14,300 Yeah, it's stuck in the ceiling like a reverse Excalibur. 736 00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:17,300 You have to be this tall to use this sword. 737 00:54:17,300 --> 00:54:19,300 You have to be this tall to be. 738 00:54:19,300 --> 00:54:22,300 Isp pulls out his rating 1 commlink and makes a call. 739 00:54:22,300 --> 00:54:24,300 The seal is still in the van. 740 00:54:24,300 --> 00:54:27,300 She's just like, fetal position. 741 00:54:27,300 --> 00:54:29,300 Isp is describing what happened. 742 00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:31,300 Sounds like he's talking to Procop. 743 00:54:31,300 --> 00:54:34,300 Fuck, he must have thought we were going to actually kill him. 744 00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:36,300 I saw him at all appearances. 745 00:54:36,300 --> 00:54:37,300 This wasn't him. 746 00:54:37,300 --> 00:54:40,300 He didn't activate some or someone active. 747 00:54:40,300 --> 00:54:42,300 It's very obviously a mental block. 748 00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:44,300 It was installed in him. 749 00:54:44,300 --> 00:54:45,300 Maybe he knew about it. 750 00:54:45,300 --> 00:54:46,300 Maybe he didn't. 751 00:54:46,300 --> 00:54:48,300 But he thought about something and it killed him. 752 00:54:48,300 --> 00:54:50,300 I think Gael calls from the restroom. 753 00:54:50,300 --> 00:54:52,300 These night-errant people are fucking crazy. 754 00:54:52,300 --> 00:54:54,300 The bomb was for us. 755 00:54:54,300 --> 00:54:57,300 Yeah, the bomb was definitely for us, Isp says. 756 00:54:57,300 --> 00:54:59,300 Look, we need to get out of here. 757 00:54:59,300 --> 00:55:01,300 The bomb's probably not going to attract attention, 758 00:55:01,300 --> 00:55:03,300 but for somebody to trigger the bomb, 759 00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:05,300 they must have known that this guy was taken. 760 00:55:05,300 --> 00:55:07,300 And if they know he was taken, 761 00:55:07,300 --> 00:55:09,300 then they might be triangulating us right now. 762 00:55:09,300 --> 00:55:10,300 I'm driving. 763 00:55:10,300 --> 00:55:12,300 All right. 764 00:55:12,300 --> 00:55:13,300 I'm not leaving my bike here. 765 00:55:13,300 --> 00:55:14,300 You? 766 00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:16,300 Look, I know how to drive a bike. 767 00:55:16,300 --> 00:55:17,300 I have one of my own. 768 00:55:17,300 --> 00:55:18,300 It's my absolute baby. 769 00:55:18,300 --> 00:55:21,300 I will take care of yours, but you need to stay in the vest on the stand. 770 00:55:21,300 --> 00:55:23,300 I'll have your tongue if I'm still here. 771 00:55:23,300 --> 00:55:27,300 I know how it feels to mess up my bike. 772 00:55:27,300 --> 00:55:28,300 Rest. 773 00:55:28,300 --> 00:55:30,300 Dandard tosses boxers. 774 00:55:30,300 --> 00:55:31,300 Physical actual key. 775 00:55:31,300 --> 00:55:32,300 All right. 776 00:55:32,300 --> 00:55:34,300 Something else happens if I can find the room. 777 00:55:34,300 --> 00:55:35,300 Oh, no. 778 00:55:35,300 --> 00:55:36,300 More pain? 779 00:55:36,300 --> 00:55:39,300 You were all infected with a deadly bioweapon. 780 00:55:39,300 --> 00:55:41,300 That's exactly what I was thinking. 781 00:55:41,300 --> 00:55:42,300 CFD. 782 00:55:42,300 --> 00:55:43,300 And I'm now a carrier of it. 783 00:55:43,300 --> 00:55:46,300 I hope you all prepared second characters. 784 00:55:46,300 --> 00:55:48,300 I won't need a second one. 785 00:55:48,300 --> 00:55:50,300 It's Dandard's twin sister. 786 00:55:50,300 --> 00:55:51,300 Long lost cousin. 787 00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:52,300 She's a dog. 788 00:55:52,300 --> 00:55:57,300 It turns out they made a clone of Cecile. 789 00:55:57,300 --> 00:55:58,300 All right. 790 00:55:58,300 --> 00:56:00,300 Everybody make an initiative test. 791 00:56:00,300 --> 00:56:01,300 Initiative? 792 00:56:01,300 --> 00:56:02,300 Oh, fuck that was. 793 00:56:02,300 --> 00:56:05,300 To the turn tracker or just make initiative? 794 00:56:05,300 --> 00:56:07,300 Just roll initiative. 795 00:56:07,300 --> 00:56:08,300 Okay. 796 00:56:08,300 --> 00:56:10,300 So since, is this combat? 797 00:56:10,300 --> 00:56:11,300 Nope. 798 00:56:11,300 --> 00:56:12,300 It's a surprise test. 799 00:56:12,300 --> 00:56:16,300 I feel like, holy, it's rolling 14. 800 00:56:16,300 --> 00:56:18,300 Oh shit, a spirit. 801 00:56:18,300 --> 00:56:20,300 Is that what Nightingale says? 802 00:56:20,300 --> 00:56:28,300 She probably wanted to say, oh shit, but she, I don't think she has indication to that effect, but that's out of character. 803 00:56:28,300 --> 00:56:53,300 That's the only thing I can think of that would have that high of an initiative. 804 00:56:58,300 --> 00:57:26,300 The Tops Company Inc. has sole ownership of the names, logo, artwork, marks, photographs, sounds, audio, video, and or any proprietary material used in connection with the game Shadowrun. 805 00:57:26,300 --> 00:57:46,300 The Tops Company Inc. has granted permission to the Hard Knocks Sorority Podcast to use such names, logos, artwork, marks, and or any proprietary materials for promotional and informational purposes on its website, but does not endorse and is not affiliated with the Hard Knocks Sorority Podcast in any official capacity whatsoever. 806 00:57:46,300 --> 00:57:51,300 The music for the Hard Knocks Sorority Podcast was written and performed by Trace Mineral. 807 00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:59,300 The Hard Knocks Sorority Podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons license 4.0, meaning you are welcome to use the material as long as you give us credit.