1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,400 And he's the best architect, Mr. 2 00:00:46,400 --> 00:01:14,880 This is it chummers. Rescue is imminent for Cecile. There is a lot of ineffective shooting. 3 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:20,320 It does more damage to the casters than the targets. But there are other ways to accomplish the mission. 4 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:30,960 I have another idea. I see. Yeah, that didn't work. What was that supposed to be? That was going to be the use of an adept power. 5 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:38,400 Unfortunately, she rolled a zero and that's a complex action. So your leadership... 6 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:44,000 leadershipless charisma. Your leadership power would require some... 7 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,840 How... even though it failed, I mean, what were you... how were you attempting to apply your leadership? 8 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:59,440 That's an adept power. Fiber's max command. All right, she would pull closer to the car. 9 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:07,840 She thinks she's trying to be intimidating, but she ends up accidentally putting some magic into those words to no effects, 10 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:14,560 apparently, and she shouts with her weapon still directed at the window. 11 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:19,840 Stop the car now! Unfortunately, God said no. 12 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:25,760 Do you... so you've used your complex action on your previous past pull-up. 13 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,000 Indeed. So using the leadership powers that... 14 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,840 That is a complex action. Commanding voice. 15 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,880 She's really putting some oomph into her words. So she thinks... 16 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:50,720 Yeah, it doesn't seem to have any effect. The mages seems to be torn between either being angry at you or 17 00:02:50,720 --> 00:03:01,440 whimpering in pain. Oh, wow. And you see the driver of the vehicle has drawn a weapon. 18 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:11,440 Buckdarn. Yeah, he's drawn a heavy pistol and is pointing it out past the mage towards you as well, 19 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,560 and he is going to fire. So it's a seal in the back of the... 20 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:27,520 He got four hits, and he is using stick and shock ammo. Public hot... public hot, I assume. 21 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:32,960 Yeah, so that's stun damage, so you're going to be resisting six stun. 22 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,680 Awesome. Does your armor have any electrical mitigating factor? 23 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:44,400 I do believe it does. Let's see here. God, I have so many things. 24 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:49,200 It has three electric. Armored vest, non-conductivity three. 25 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:55,760 Yep. So because I think the... I remember right, the stick and shock 26 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:01,440 actually reduces the armor protection. It has an AP of like three or something. 27 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:12,560 Yeah, stick and shock. AP of... So it has your armor. It has your... You use half your impact, 28 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:20,640 your armor rating for impact, but then I guess you add three for your non-conductivity. 29 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:28,320 So it comes out to six. The impact rating of the armored vest is four, so half of it would be two. 30 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:36,560 Five. I think you've got five dice. Five dice. All right. Boom. That's the jacket. What am I doing? 31 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:44,720 All right, so you take four stun as the stick and shock ammo impacts your vest, 32 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:51,760 and you feel the electrical discharge through you. Fortunately, your vest takes quite a bit of it 33 00:04:51,760 --> 00:05:01,600 and dissipates it, but it's still quite painful. And Kirsten behind you, let's see what happens with her, 34 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:07,680 because she is holding on to you. Imagine she's having an unpleasant time. 35 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:13,440 Yeah, she's going to resist it as well, but I don't know how she's going to resist it. 36 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:20,400 Okay, so Kirsten takes four stun as well. All right, and then nobody else has another 37 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,000 pass except for you, Boxer. Oh, I have another one. 38 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,000 Didn't you have three? I thought you had three. Yeah, I have three. I thought that was the third. 39 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:37,200 So I mean, all right, time to try that again, except she's fucking pissed right now. 40 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:46,480 She's probably going to say something a little irrational. And that is resisted with leadership 41 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:54,400 plus willpower. Yeah. Resisted with willpower, just willpower. Leadership plus willpower. 42 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:00,880 And that's directed against the driver. But that's only if he has leadership, right? 43 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:11,440 Yeah, and that's unfortunate. Yeah, he is not having any of it. 44 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,400 Owl. Yeah, it might be time to take the gloves off. 45 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:24,480 The fucking car! Yeah, he's not intimidated or in any way inclined to follow through on that. 46 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:31,360 So I guess it's time for us all to roll initiative again. 47 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:36,480 Kid gloves come off, hopefully. Cecile down there. Why? 48 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,080 It's okay, she wouldn't do anything anyway. For girl, must be scared out of her wits. 49 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:48,560 She is scared out of her wits for that matter. So, since they tied with me, what is that? We have to... 50 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,640 Whoever has the higher was a reaction. Reaction. 51 00:06:52,640 --> 00:07:00,240 Well, my reaction is to... they presumably beat me. He beat me. That's illegal. Oh, no. Who is that? 52 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,240 That's the driver. I'm scared of that fucking driver. Oh, my God. 53 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:12,000 All right. He's going to use his first pass to maintain control of the vehicle. 54 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:21,120 Also, I'm curious. How is the rest of the traffic responding to this developing situation? 55 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,480 Well, so far you've been sort of lucky. Okay. 56 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:30,720 In that, you know, you haven't had a lot of traffic and, realistically, we've really only gone through, 57 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:38,400 what, 18 seconds of time? My goodness. Yeah, I guess you're right. It's a lot to happen in 18 seconds. 58 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:43,280 Haas down. Because actually, it's probably only been half that because Chatter One turns are three. 59 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:50,480 Really? Three seconds, not six seconds? Correct. So, so in the handbook. 60 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:58,160 Actually, wait. Passes don't count as a... Nope. No, it's just the turns. Everything you're doing 61 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:04,400 in each pass happens in three seconds. Right? So, we have had three seconds elapsed. 62 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,280 We've had six seconds because we've done two. Oh, yeah. That's a big improvement. 63 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:16,240 All of three turns. Yeah. I was basing it on nine. So, it's been like nine seconds, right? My goodness. 64 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,800 Yeah. So, the external traffic has not been doing a whole lot at this point. 65 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,520 That's why I was giving Cecile some time to actually understand what the fuck is going on, 66 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:31,360 because it's only been six seconds. Yeah. It's been virtually no time at all. 67 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:36,320 Gunshots are ringing out. The door's open. This evil woman's trying to mindprobe her. 68 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,800 So, there's, yeah, there's all sorts of crap going on here. 69 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:48,160 For somebody that was fight was like nine seconds ago, drinking some water. Yeah. 70 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,720 She might have been in, you know, fewer for her life while she was drinking the water, 71 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,840 but at least, you know, she was just sitting there drinking water. So, now it's... 72 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,760 So, the driver keep control of the vehicle just barely at this point. There's some 73 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:14,160 swerving around and accelerating. And it's Boxer's turn. All right. Yeah. The kid gloves are coming 74 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:21,760 off. Let me check something. Okay. I need to Google something. See if I can use a mini grenade 75 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:28,400 without a grenade launcher. No, I cannot. Oof. It won't prime. It was worth a try. 76 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,400 So, what I get for getting all the grenades... Unless you want to throw it in there as an 77 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:41,120 intimidation tactic. Oh, that'd be something. Actually, stuff's giving me an idea. Throw Kirsten 78 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:51,040 in there. Oh my God. Yes, we're doing this. We're doing this. We need to do Boxer now. 79 00:09:52,880 --> 00:10:00,320 Give some more people. I know. She's shooting the dude who's casting the magic. 80 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:10,480 Like, she's done. All right. Let's see. The magic changes things somewhat. Right. I get two... 81 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:17,200 Never mind. All right. So, she's aiming at the dude because she's not missing this man 82 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:24,880 and she's firing. Do you want to use Edge? Oh, I'm using Edge. This man's going to fucking die 83 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:32,480 or he's going to feel like he's about to or he'll wish he did. All right. It has pistols. 84 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:38,640 And is a burst still a simple action? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. A burst is a simple action. 85 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,840 No, she's firing a two-round burst. I don't think it has enough recoil control for that. 86 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,200 Oh, God. That's a glitch. That's a hard glitch. That's almost all ones. 87 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:56,080 Oh, that is a critical glitch, actually, because it's more than half and it's more than the hits. 88 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:01,760 Oh, that's true. It is more than the hits. That is more than the... 89 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:10,160 And it's more than the hits. So, it's a critical glitch. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think you can use Edge 90 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:17,040 to undo a critical glitch. No, we can only do it for a glitch. What I even used the Edge for anyway, 91 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:23,760 what did it do? I just kind of heard Edge and went, yes. Yeah, so you could have... So, you can 92 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:33,360 use Edge in the beginning to create exploding sixes, right? Got confused because we used so many 93 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:40,080 every system, every addition. You can spend Edge to negate the effects of a glitch or critical glitch. 94 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:49,360 Oh, on that case, no glitch, please. Correct, no glitch. You still only get one hit. Yeah, well, 95 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:55,120 it's better than dropping my gun. How much Edge do you have? I have two. I spent one 96 00:11:55,120 --> 00:12:04,400 just now. That's what I'm spending. Okay. It is not a critical glitch because she scored a hit. 97 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:11,840 Yeah, you have to have no hits. You have to have no hits. That's a lot of red. That's a scary amount of red. 98 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,640 So, is it just spending Edge? So, you're just using Edge to... 99 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:28,560 Not glitch, kindly. Kindly dandy. Okay. So, basically, you just got one hit. Yeah. 100 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,480 And he is going to roll... What's the damage value on the weapon? 101 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:45,120 Five bullet powers. The other thing is, technically, you should be... You're firing at minus two because 102 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:52,720 you're on a moving vehicle. But I haven't been taking that from them either. So, and did you take 103 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:59,200 your negatives for your stun damage? I'd say I should pre-roll it, but I don't think I can 104 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:06,400 roll worse than I did. No, it's okay. I've been forgetting too. So, he's going to roll, but what 105 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:16,560 did you say your damage value was? It's five. Five key. And his ballistic armor is six. 106 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:23,280 That's stun. So, it's going to... The stun overflows. So... Yeah. So, he's still got a resistant 107 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:36,320 re-so. Two stuns. So, he's at seven stun. You fired a two-round burst, though. Indeed. So, 108 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:45,120 doesn't burst increase the... Oh, shit. Did I apply the modifier for a smart gun? No. I wrote 109 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,360 the sound for a reason. The reason was not so that I would forget it, literally every time. 110 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:56,640 This is so sad. Oh, I'm going to cry about it, hon. All right. So, I guess the other thing is you've 111 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:03,680 got... They're saying in burst fire mode, you have your eye... You're firing a narrow burst, 112 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:09,440 which causes more damage to the target, increase the damage value by plus two, 113 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:17,440 or it's a wide burst, which decreases the defender's dice pool by two. So, what do you want to do? Do 114 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:24,480 you want to increase his dice pool or increase the damage value? Increase his dice ball. 115 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:35,360 Poppy. Shush. Yeah, we'll just do... We'll go with his first roll. Yeah, that's the problem with 116 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:44,080 re-rolling stuff. All right. So, you fire... You hit the mage again. He's definitely looking far worse 117 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:49,840 for the wearer than he has been. How is he still... Wait, has his stun filled up yet? 118 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:56,960 No, he's at seven stun. Oh my god, this man... Fucking... I want this kind of endurance. 119 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:05,120 These guys are professionals. All right, and we're re-rolling initiative. 120 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:12,160 Wait, I didn't even go yet. What? I have not gone yet. We had the third pass last time. 121 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:17,920 This is the first question mark pass. All right, good. Glad somebody's paying attention here. 122 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:20,240 Wow, okay. 123 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:36,080 But so... Okay, so boxer just went that means the mage gets to go next. 124 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:43,120 Oh god. Or no, who's react... I guess it's by reaction, right? Yes. 125 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:49,040 Nightingale, what's your reaction? Oh, but I'm also not wounded at all. 126 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:55,520 And so actually, you know what? It looks... I think Alice is first. 127 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:04,560 All right, so at this point, Alice curses because this whole situation is really pissing her off. 128 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:11,760 Thank you. This is... She's pissed off mainly because she's sort of surprised and she feels 129 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:18,960 like she's underestimated the situation and it's going to reflect badly on her. So she lets go of 130 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:29,040 Cecile and flings a lightning bolt out of the door at the van. Oh boy. And she's going to cast it at a 131 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:38,000 four six. Let's look up the special rules for electrical damage. Yeah, I did not write down any 132 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:46,800 notes in that spell for some reason. Note that that is an indirect spell. So she is... 133 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:51,520 The taster makes a spellcasting plus magic success test versus the target's reaction. 134 00:16:51,520 --> 00:17:00,960 I suppose it's... It has a response of three, so it could react. It could attempt to react 135 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:06,720 the car. I don't know if it would know to act though. Well, you can... I think you're... 136 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,840 Since you're driving it or did you just let the dog brain take over? 137 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:16,240 Axie. So the dog brain is in control. If it would know to try and move whenever it detects 138 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:23,360 like a huge burst of electromagnetic energy, I don't know. So lightning bolt... This bell creates a 139 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:28,320 direct vicious strike of electricity that causes electrical damage. Lightning bolt is a single 140 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:35,680 target spell. The target also gets to resist damage with body plus half impact armor. 141 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:44,400 Each hit reduces the damage value. Yeah. So the van has a body rating, right? 142 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:49,200 Yeah. An armor. Is it rolling specifically body or body and armor? 143 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,640 Body and armor. Okay. So that means... 144 00:17:54,880 --> 00:18:02,560 She's rolling. She's casting at 4-6 and she is using edge. 145 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:04,240 How much damage would it do? 146 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:13,040 Damage value, damage, damage physical. Is it just the... Is it the force? 147 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:19,040 Is it the force? Yeah. So if it's the force, I can buy hits for the car to resist it or, 148 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,880 well, you could. So it wouldn't actually do anything apparently. 149 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:28,320 So... Quotes. Electronic equipment vehicles and drones can also be affected by electricity damage. 150 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:33,520 They never suffer stun damage, but they do roll body plus armor, drones and vehicles, 151 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:39,200 or armor times two other objects to resist secondary effects. If they achieve equal or more hits, 152 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:45,680 equal or more hits than the attack they are unaffected, otherwise they cease to function for 153 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,240 a number of combat turns equal to two plus net hits scored on the attack test. 154 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,440 Do I have to roll the... That actually roll it? 155 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:03,120 It's an opposed test, right? So it's basically... It's the spellcaster's spell casting plus 156 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:10,800 magic and resisted by the van's body and armor. There's gonna be a lot of damage. 157 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:17,040 When she... If she's using... She's gonna use edge. Okay. 158 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:23,280 To... And she's gonna add... So she's gonna add her edge attribute to her roll. Of course... 159 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:30,400 Yeah. So she's got an edge of three, so she's gonna be rolling three plus her spell casting... 160 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:35,760 Plus magic. Yelzers. Yelzers. 161 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,800 I love that. It's great. And how are we... 162 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,040 You would just roll the die together. I don't think that was... 163 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:50,240 Well, you rolled sorcery, which is magic, plus her spell casting, so you just need to roll the 164 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,880 edge on top of that. So let's try it this way. 165 00:19:54,880 --> 00:20:01,760 Oof. Oofy. So she got eight hits. That is quite a few hits. Indeed. 166 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:15,280 That is a huge pool. So it looks nice. Now, you know, funny part. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, 167 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:24,640 nine. So it resists. Yes, barely. So yeah, this massive lightning bolt came flashing out of the 168 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:30,720 door of the limousine that you just opened and slams into the van and crackles across the surface of 169 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:39,680 it and just dissipates into the ground. And Cecile, you hear Alice curse again. Don't have to get the drain. 170 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:51,920 Oh yeah. So does that mean... Three. So she was... It was a four six, so she resisted three of it. 171 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:58,400 So she took three stun. You know, please remind me, because I keep forgetting to take the... 172 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,120 Because she's already got two stun from mine. Marked on her condition monitor. 173 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:09,680 Yeah, I am, but I keep forgetting to take the negatives off, giving her the penalties. 174 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,800 We'll all do that during the NPC's turns until we got it. 175 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:20,960 Just keep yelling at me. I will. Don't worry. I knew I could count on you. 176 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:29,520 All right, Nightingale, it's your turn. Anyway, Nightingale's a little freaked out whenever she 177 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:35,920 hears and probably smells the lightning doing its thing once it hits the car. 178 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:42,800 It smells like Ozo. Yeah, I imagine it's a very distinctive smell. A smell she might actually 179 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:52,400 be familiar with. You know, like a flame. Like much like a pre-modern person would be familiar with 180 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:58,640 like the smell of fire. She moves it when she gets static electricity in her main. Oh my god. 181 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:07,360 She's going to... Though at this point, she's going to go ahead and cast Levitate on Cecile. 182 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:17,520 What is Cecile wearing? She's wearing a Bolero sweater and a blouse and just a normal pleated skirt. 183 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:27,280 Her form is encompassed by the shimmering, sparkling aura of Nightingale's magic. She is 184 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:33,920 immediately aware that she's weightless if she moves her arms. Point of order. Cecile resists. 185 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,600 She resists. Okay. I knew that was going to happen. 186 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:45,680 Let me go look at this. In the back of my mind, I was saying, should I say, is this going to be 187 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:54,560 resisted? Cecile does not want to be picked up from something. I'm a person too. You resist 188 00:22:54,560 --> 00:23:06,560 strength plus body. So she probably doesn't resist then. Let's look. I'll be rolling three dice. 189 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:18,160 Okay. Let me look at the spell. I got a one. So I'm going to cast it at, let's say, four 190 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:25,680 force, which means plus one. That's three. So I'll have to resist three drain. Okay. I take two. That's 191 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:37,040 fine. Oh, give me a second. The character sheet is wacky. But yeah, Cecile is encompassed in the 192 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:45,360 glowing, rippling, and this weird glowing, rippling energy. She can even feel like the 193 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:53,840 air suddenly excited around her, shifting and moving. She is turned to face away from the door. 194 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,000 I imagine because she's physically weightless for the moment. 195 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:08,320 Like her skirt twirls when she does so. And if she like raises her arm, even if she stops the 196 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,960 like flexing, it's going to just keep on going up because there's no longer gravity holding it down. 197 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:20,320 And suddenly, let me make my spell casting test to see exactly how fast she's going. 198 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:28,400 Is Cecile screaming very loud, by the way? It's understandable. So that would be 199 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:34,400 screaming very loud thing. Oh my goodness. She doesn't want to be my friend. Oh, it's okay. 200 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:42,160 She'll learn the air over waves. Oh, okay. So she is moving. Like, what did I declare I was casting 201 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:49,680 it at? Four. Okay. So she's moving four meters a second, which with how little space there is 202 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:56,160 between these cars, I imagine is kind of blindingly fast. What force did you cast it at? Four. 203 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:07,920 Then it would be 12 meters per second per turn. Oh, God, damn. Okay. Sure. She's on her back. 204 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:15,280 She's floating on her back for just a second. And then she zips off across the moving road, 205 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:25,920 the wind ruffling her hair and whatnot. And she's pulled into the back seat of the step van, 206 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:35,440 the bulldog step van. And she's just kind of dumped onto her back there. She is immediately aware 207 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:42,400 that there is someone else in the car with her. But instead of trying to comfort her or hold her 208 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:50,080 down or anything of the sort, they are small, like a gnome or dwarf, perhaps. And they're immediately 209 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:57,760 crawling into the front of the car saying aloud, close left back window, call Ollie. And 210 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:03,840 it was that voice from earlier, the one that shouted poopy head. 211 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:14,960 Such an elegance. That was awesome. Yeah. And then Gail is going to go to retake manual control. 212 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:25,600 But that's the end of my turn. All right. The mage uses simple action and this he is going to draw 213 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:33,120 a pistol since the spellcasting is not working out for him. I forget. Was drawing, 214 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:39,680 readying a weapon is a complex action. It's a simple action. Simple action. So he's drawing his weapon. 215 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:49,040 And he has a special holster. Nope. And he's firing off a single shot at Boxer. All right. 216 00:26:49,040 --> 00:27:00,080 And he is injured. So he has seven boxes of stun and two boxes of physical. So what's his penalty? 217 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:05,520 How much physical is he taken? He's taken two boxes of physical. 218 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,360 Four man's not having a good day. I don't think any of them are having a good day actually. 219 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:17,680 So for me being a nightingale, the gills having a blast. 220 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,720 The seal is quite possibly traumatized. Oh yeah. 221 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:24,880 Certainly traumatized. 222 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:38,240 Actually, I guess I could look at it on. So he's got negative four. 223 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:44,720 All right. And he gets zero hits. Amazing. Boxer, the bullet whistles harmlessly past you. 224 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:51,120 Oh, she saw the woman. She saw the seal drifting out. So she's pulling back. She's done with this 225 00:27:51,120 --> 00:28:00,000 shit. And Kirsten fires her taser at him. And so to injury or more injury to injury. 226 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:09,440 Kastas. And she got one hit. And he got four hits. Lucky. 227 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:18,240 So he got four hits. So she missed him. And the seal, you find yourself suddenly 228 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:25,360 whisked out of the Mitsubishi night sky across a very small gap between two 229 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:33,360 fast moving vehicles and into the van. And then as Elizabeth described, you hear the voice and 230 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:38,080 you see the figure moving around and you're lying in the bottom in the back of the van. 231 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:45,840 And Cecil orient herself such that she can see out of the van and into the night sky. 232 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:55,200 Oh, absolutely. Cecil would like to cast Levitate to levitate her comlink out of Alice's hand. 233 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,240 Yeah, it looks like Alice may have dropped it. So you should be able to snatch it out of there 234 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:10,160 quite easily. My God, that's great. As you do this, you lock eyes with Alice and you just get this 235 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:19,200 look of pure malevolent hate. I'll be casting it at four six. Because you really want that comlink back. 236 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:29,280 Yeah. That's three and to get it out of her hand. I'm going to roll 12 dice because it's force times 237 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:41,760 12. The verses hold their strength plus body five. She's going to be rolling negative two because she's 238 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:48,320 got a stun track and she gets zero hits. Nope. It just zips into Cecil's hand. 239 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:57,840 I had to call. Nice. How the worm turns. Imagine at that point the window comes up. 240 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:02,560 Yep. At that point the window closes and you don't see Alice anymore. 241 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:10,320 You can see her. You can see Alice. Was that our first pass? Yeah. 242 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:22,480 All right. So the driver used his first pass to shoot at Boxer. So now he's got to make a test 243 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:31,120 to maintain control of the vehicle. And he has no problem maintaining control of the vehicle. 244 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:36,560 And then it's Boxer's turn. All right. She's dipping. She's out. She's leaving. But she's 245 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,360 going to keep them on their toes with some suppressing fire. You also received a call from 246 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:53,680 Nightingale. Oh, wait. Hold on. I need to roll train. Two. So I take two stun. Okay. 247 00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:04,240 Actually, no. That would be too physical. Here we go. Physical. Yep. Because Cecil's magic is only 248 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:11,280 25. Oh my goodness. She really wanted that call link. You fucking mad woman. 249 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:24,480 All right. So Boxer, what are you doing? She's a she can't suppress but she is putting bullets 250 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:30,320 like generally in their direction to keep them honest as she falls back. All right. 251 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:37,840 Just like vaguely at in their direction. So you're slowing down and and just firing at them. 252 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:46,000 For effect. And then you have one more pass. She's going to keep pulling back and keep firing. 253 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,360 I guess at that point, did you already make a vehicle control test? 254 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:56,800 Or use a complex action for your? No, this will be it. Okay. All right. Well, we're going to have 255 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:03,920 to roll initiative again. Oh, no. Six. Don't forget to take your negatives for your damage. 256 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:11,600 I have no negatives. I'm too cool. My arms too and got a 15 down. Oh, do you still have the edge 257 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:19,600 button on? Your rolls. I do. I do. I do. It seems like it's just good to keep the modifier button 258 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:26,720 clicked on. Just in case. Just in case. We players have a wounds button that we can just toggle. 259 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:36,640 Okay, Boxer, you're up again. All right. She's a speed is starting to take, you know, 260 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:47,360 pay dividends here. All right. She's a. All right. She has she has nightingale on the calm, right? 261 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,080 Yeah. All right. We're leaving. You already want. 262 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:58,880 She's here. She was screaming, but she stopped. Good. Good. Just leave. Okay. I'm going to keep 263 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:07,440 them for a little longer. Is Cecil still being levitated? No, she's been released at that point. 264 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:17,440 Okay. But nightingale, after saying that, she she promptly boops the little in call button on the 265 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:25,200 touchscreen with her nose. And yeah, that's the end of the call. All right. So you're starting to 266 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:30,240 slow down and turn around Boxer and you're still taking a couple of shots at them? She's not leaving 267 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:35,760 yet. She's keeping on them for a little longer at a distance, at a safe distance to give time 268 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:46,240 for for Cecil and nightingale to escape. All right. The the driver of the other vehicle 269 00:33:48,160 --> 00:34:00,000 is making a control test with Edge. He is slamming on the brakes and swerving the car around. 270 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:09,840 And all that. Edge did not really help him out. He got a success, but it's not a very graceful 271 00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:17,200 slam on the brakes. You know, he's basically trying to slew the car around so that if you guys turn 272 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:25,120 around start it's not saying he can chase you. And so basically what happens is he manages to 273 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:34,880 obstruct both lanes of the road. And then it's Kirsten's turn. He turned the car just in such a 274 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:41,200 way so that the passenger side vehicle is facing down the street towards you guys. So towards the 275 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:48,320 van and the motorcycle. So Kirsten takes the opportunity to take another shot at the mage 276 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:56,320 with the with the stun gun. And that I think is all the rounds that she's got in that thing. 277 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:02,080 And you know what? She's going to spend edge on this too. Why not at this point, right? 278 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:11,120 Buck him up girl. Buck him up. She's got to hit some. Yeah, she misses again. The dart hits the 279 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:18,080 car and sort of glances off. And the magician's mage in the car takes another shot at Boxer. 280 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,560 Wait, so I'm kind of confused. What exactly is the limo doing? 281 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:28,400 The limo has basically slammed on the brakes and swerved 282 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:38,640 broadside to block the two lanes of traffic. So you guys, you guys were head in the direction 283 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:45,360 that you guys were headed. The limo is now ahead of you. But sideways blocking both lanes of traffic 284 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:54,400 with the passenger side facing you guys. So let me see. So you know, if this is your road right here 285 00:35:55,200 --> 00:36:02,800 in your two lanes, you guys were headed down this way and the limo is now swerved and blocked 286 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:08,720 across this way. And this is the passenger side door. And this is the door that Cecile came out of. 287 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:20,400 And so this is Boxer and Kirsten on the bike. And then this is Nightingale and Cecile in the van. 288 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:26,480 High definition drawing right there. What are the sides of the roads like right now? 289 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:36,640 There's a little, there's a parking lane and then there's a sidewalk. And then on both sides, 290 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:43,120 you've got sort of a, you've got the sidewalk and there's a wall or a hedge or something 291 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:48,560 blocking the view to the nicer neighborhood houses that are starting to appear. 292 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:57,440 Is the parking lane full? Let's see. Yeah, there are a couple of cars. So you've got, 293 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:05,360 you got a vehicle here. You pretty much got vehicles parked end to end in both areas 294 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:11,440 where you guys are right now. But this guy took a shot at Boxer. 295 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:20,320 What's his mod by now? Well, it's not great. But minus three, minus four, plus from a moving vehicle. 296 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:28,160 Should be like minus six by now. Yeah, he misses. Any fairer boxers not exactly doing hot either. 297 00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:36,880 And Nightingale, it's your turn. I'm thinking. Highly groundcraft is agility, right? No, reaction. 298 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:45,040 Using edge before or after, if I only have one edge would be basically the same, no? 299 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,400 Before would be better because then if you got a six, you would be able to get another dice. 300 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,000 Used it after you just get the extra, the additional one dice. 301 00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:00,480 Okay. I want to bring the car to a stop. Reticulant control. 302 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:08,240 Reticulant control. My van. I want to bring it to a stop. It can control back from the dog brain 303 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:16,720 computer. Shoving my hoof as hard as I can on the makeshift, like a stilt pedal that I have created 304 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:27,200 there, which that would be defaulting a skill reaction plus edge. Do I just take edge? Yeah. 305 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:36,320 Okay. And according to the book, I only need to get one hit on this. So wish me luck. 306 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:47,440 There we go. All right. And I want to pull around and go on to the other lane of traffic. 307 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,560 I don't know if I can do that within this turn. 308 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,720 You said you were rolling to bring the van to a stop. 309 00:38:54,720 --> 00:39:01,360 That's what my roll was for. So let's just say you used it to bring, come to, 310 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,760 you know, basically slow down and turn. Let's get you halfway turned around. How about that? 311 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:12,960 Fair. My angel is very hurriedly turning the steering wheel after a sudden lurch. 312 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,920 Poor Cecil, who I imagine hadn't clicked her seatbelt. 313 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:27,360 No, is probably rocked forward by this pretty severely. She might smash her face into the 314 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:32,960 back of the seat. Well, Cecil's so slow that she's barely having time to do anything here. 315 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:41,760 Yeah. The seal is not very fast. She is slow, slow girl. No offense. 316 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:46,640 Yeah. So that was your turn. And then Alice is going to do something as well. 317 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:52,240 Well, what is Alice going to do? She needs to do something here. She used to save face big time. 318 00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:02,000 Always thinking about that. I think it might also be of interest. Cecil can tell that the 319 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:10,160 driver is operating the wheel via psychokinesis or some kind of magic. 320 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,920 That's not on Cecil's mind. I'm just pointing it out there. 321 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:18,320 Finding it out. Cecil's like, oh, it's driving itself. Whatever. 322 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:24,240 Glowy. Glowy will. It's normal. 323 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:33,440 So one thing that Alice can really still do is cast another lightning bolt. 324 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,120 She's going to be a little bit more circumspect, though. 325 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:44,800 Oh, no. Since she doesn't really want to get damaged. So she's casting a lightning bolt at 326 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:56,320 Boxer this time. Oh, no. Yeah. Fuck. Here goes this. Let me see. She's casting a lightning bolt. 327 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,280 There we go. That's my lightning bolt. Very impressive lightning bolt. 328 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:08,320 And she's casting it. What did I say? Force 4. What is her magic? Force 4. 329 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:16,000 And she's injured. She's not casting. Oh, I actually got two hits there because exploding sixes. 330 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:26,160 She got two hits and then she resists. So she resisted drain, right? Okay. And Boxer, 331 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:35,920 you resist with body and armor and you have electric protection on that vest of... 332 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:42,720 That's three. Three. So I guess, does that mean you basically resisted at all since she only got 333 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:50,960 two hits? Yeah, too much. Stucks for her. Well, have you dodged first? No. First you have to 334 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:57,280 do indirect spells work exactly the same as like shooting someone. So you have to, you get to dodge 335 00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:06,640 it first. So what's that reaction? Let me look. Reaction and agility? Indirect, blah, blah, blah. 336 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:15,360 Versus targets reaction. Plus counter spelling. Oh, in that case, it's reaction minus two, 337 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:22,000 which is three. Yeah, she dodges. She's just too fast. I wonder if Kirsten dodges. First, 338 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:27,360 we're going to have Kirsten roll a quick edge test to see. Well, it's a multi target spell. 339 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:39,280 No, but Kirsten's sitting right behind Boxer. Wow. Being loose with the fools. Wow. Wow. I'm offended. 340 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:47,840 Well, she's sitting on the same bike, Boxer dodged. So it stands to reason that potentially 341 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:53,360 Kirsten is in the line of fire. I'm pretty sure the rules are is that the GM is like always right. 342 00:42:55,200 --> 00:43:00,480 That's generally what the, what systems down. I mean, I'm not complaining. If I had my way, 343 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:05,200 I wouldn't even allow Boxer to dodge because she's on a motorcycle. 344 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:13,520 Yeah, that's probably a good point too. All right, so he could move the motorcycle. 345 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:22,960 Beautiful handling test. Go. Yeah. All right. We'll say she didn't get hit. And that means 346 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:33,200 it's Cecil's turn. Okay. So I, so Paul, are, are the doors unlockable? Oh my god. 347 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,720 She's seriously going to jump out with a van. She doesn't know you. 348 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:46,560 The moving van. Can Cecil just like open the door? Boxer. I mean, not Boxer. I mean, Nightingale, 349 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:51,680 are the doors, are the vans doors locked? Well, Nightingale's driving. So yes, 350 00:43:52,800 --> 00:44:00,560 I imagine the doors lock automatically. Yeah, I think, I think Nightingale has control of the doors. 351 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:08,640 Oh, okay. Hmm. Cecil's over here. Like, yes, I will now jump out onto the road. 352 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:15,360 At 40 miles an hour. No, actually, we're going much slower. Because, yeah, because you've turned, 353 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:22,320 it wouldn't be completely insane. There isn't. Well, you could do a role. You could do a judge 354 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:29,200 intentions role. Me? Might not be a bad thing to do. Yeah. Cecil. Cecil does not care. 355 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:34,800 She doesn't care what your intentions are. You just kidnapped her after she was kidnapped. 356 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,640 Come on. You just don't have to be smart enough to see what this is. 357 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:46,880 It's a little fun though. Cecil knew that, that, Cecil knew that Kirsten was trying to rescue her. 358 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:51,760 And didn't you see? No, she didn't. Kirsten, Kirsten was just like, 359 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:57,920 hey, I need to talk to you. And they got radio silence. No, she got her, she was 360 00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,840 coordinating with her, the rescue, remember? Yeah, you got the, you, you dropped them the 361 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,040 pin of your location. You set up your console. Yeah. 362 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:13,040 You are aware that there's something going on. Is she trying the door right now? 363 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:21,040 Yes. She's, she hasn't, she at least tries the door once. No, Cecil's pretty freaked out. She's 364 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:26,880 not thinking. You know that, you know that Kirsten had was organizing some attempt to, 365 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:33,680 to rescue you. This is true. But also Cecil doesn't know if this is another group of people who are 366 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:40,240 also trying to kidnap her. It's the only one person in the car. Cecil feels very not in control right 367 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:46,720 now. And she's panicking. Can I talk to her? Yeah, of course you can talk to her. That's, 368 00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:53,440 it's a, that's a. Nightingale's going to glance back and she's, and, and she's going to stay. 369 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:58,000 Mecking on the door. Is there a button at the front that would unlock the doors? 370 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,240 There probably is. You don't know where it is though, exactly. 371 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:08,480 Cecil jumps towards the, to the, to the front. She's trying to find that button. 372 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:16,240 Nightingale immediately, she is, is, is, is Cecil is like pushing her way up between the 373 00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:21,360 two front seats. She's like reaching with her forehoops and trying to hold the woman back. 374 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:26,000 Stop, stop. Kirsten sent me. Please stop. I'm trying to drive. 375 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:32,880 Can I roll to see if I find the button? Well, you have to resist my, my attempt to keep you back 376 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:40,880 first. Who, what would that be? I think it would just be strength and body versus strength and 377 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:49,600 body. Question mark. Sure. Okay. So I'm rolling all of three dice. One. Yeah. And now make a 378 00:46:49,600 --> 00:47:00,720 composure test just because the person holding you back is a small horse using their hooves to push 379 00:47:00,720 --> 00:47:05,600 you back. Not to mention, you know, adding to the mix of craziness that's going on here. 380 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:13,120 Not just a small horse. As you like get a good look at it, the thing that's pushing you, 381 00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,200 you were very immediately aware that it's magical in nature. 382 00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:22,400 Also, I think you still have the edge on. I do. 383 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:34,240 Uh, okay. Steel stops what she's doing and screams and goes to the other side of the van. 384 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,880 Not only that, but they're talking to you too. 385 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:46,320 Yeah. No, Cecile's just screaming. I honestly cannot blame her at this point. 386 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:58,160 I think her ears clamp down on top of her head, like pressing awkwardly. Well, she, 387 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:02,000 yeah, she wouldn't be wearing her cap at this point, pressing against her head and she just 388 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:11,920 turns back to retake control of the stirring wheel and, you know, is she trying to do it? 389 00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:18,160 She's just like that. Just screaming. I mean, only for three seconds. 390 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:24,720 Boxer is dipping. All right. So you're turning to leave too? Yeah, pretty much. 391 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:29,920 Oops. All right. So you're swinging the motorcycle around. 392 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,040 Yeah, you swing the motorcycle around. You come swinging it around. 393 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:45,040 And you see that the van has started to turn. And this guy, that's this guy who was in it. 394 00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:54,240 This guy's the driver. The passenger. She's in here. Who is this? This was Cecile. 395 00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,840 Did we lose Cecile's icon again? No, the one without a picture. Cecile? 396 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:13,920 Yeah. Okay. So you're in the van. The driver of the limousine is using his second pass here to get 397 00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:27,520 out and ready a long, larger firearm. Box six. And then Boxer, it's your last pass. 398 00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:35,840 You're not quite out of the woods yet. You've got Cecile, but these guys in the van, in the 399 00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:42,240 limousine don't look like they're ready to quite give up here. Oh, she doesn't exactly have the kit 400 00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:48,880 on her to deal with them right now. I don't need smoke grenades. I give her 15. 401 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:57,280 All right. She's going to lob a smoke grenade into the vehicle. All right. So through the back 402 00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:03,360 door or through the front door? Whichever one's bigger. All right. The back door is definitely 403 00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:09,120 bigger. So that would be here where Alice is. I don't know what I could roll for that. 404 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:16,400 Throw them? Do you have a grenade skill? There's no grenade skill. Maybe it's heavy weapons. 405 00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:23,600 I mean, a grenade is a heavy weapon. It's not heavy weapons. I have demolitions. 406 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:32,800 It would be thrown weapons. So I do not have... You have throwing weapons. I do. So that would be... 407 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:39,280 You have a dice pool of three in it. I didn't know that. I must have forgotten to note it down. 408 00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:46,320 That I was thorough with this. According to the Chummer printout I have. You don't have a skill. 409 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:53,440 Sorry. You would be using... Why does it say pool three, but you're rating... I have four 410 00:50:53,440 --> 00:51:00,640 on the Chummer. Oh, wait. You might have an outdated sheet. I have a minus one for defaulting, 411 00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:06,080 but I have five agility. So... And you have... Have you used all your edge? 412 00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:12,480 I have one edge, actually. I'm going to use that. Where's the button? It's all my edge. 413 00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:22,720 And... Yeah, default. Default agility. And yeah. Okay. That's a three. I think I got it in. 414 00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:28,560 Nice. All right. Just as you're pitching it in there, you see the surprise look of 415 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:33,760 Alice DeVryle as she's trying to start to get towards that door. 416 00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:41,760 The grenade goes in and it's the end of the turn. So I'll just say that 417 00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:49,600 thick, acrid, white smoke starts billowing out of the vehicle. And... 418 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:56,240 You guys can describe to me how you make your escape and what happens next here. 419 00:51:56,240 --> 00:52:02,000 All right. Boxer's literally just going to go over the damn sidewalk until she gets to a better 420 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:07,920 stretch of road at which point she's using that. You're joining the proper traffic, kind of. 421 00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,120 She's still kind of going between all the grid guide cars, 422 00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:16,880 you know, and that way that truck driver motorcycles do. 423 00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,320 And... Sorry. Nightingale, what are you doing? 424 00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:27,120 Nightingale is going to drive down the road on the proper lane and 425 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:39,040 take off, turn down another... Take her next right. And at that point, she's going to go 426 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:48,080 ahead and set the dog brain computer to navigate to a random kind of distant point in the city, 427 00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:58,240 just so that it'll be making erratic movements down the streets. And I imagine it's at that point. 428 00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:11,040 What is Cecile doing? So just before you guys all get going there, the motorcycle with Boxer and 429 00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:21,200 Kirsten passes in front of the van. And Cecile, you see Kirsten on the back of a motorcycle holding 430 00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:28,320 on to another woman. And Kirsten's looking at you and sort of waving, you know, in sort of a 431 00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:35,040 chipper smile on her face like, hey. Cecile looks back clearly terrified. 432 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:42,960 I can't see her. She does not know the fear that Cecile is feeling now. 433 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,960 As the van gets into motion, your calm rings and it is actually, 434 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,280 you see that it is actually Kirsten calling now. 435 00:53:50,720 --> 00:53:58,240 Hey, I'm looking at... I need a moment to think. Okay. Okay. How long has it been since 436 00:53:58,240 --> 00:54:06,480 Cecile was dragged out of the night sky? It's probably only been, you know, less than half a 437 00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:14,400 minute. 30 seconds. Okay. Cecile answers the calm link. It immediately opens with what the fuck. 438 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,480 Kirsten's all like, hey, we did it. We got you. 439 00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:27,520 She's so precious. You should have answered my call. 440 00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:34,480 What the fuck? I was trying to warn you they were coming for you. I have been shot at. 441 00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:37,600 We weren't shooting at you. 442 00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:45,600 God, you are so stubborn. Silly her. Who the fuck are you people? 443 00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:50,720 Hello, we have two best friends. 444 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:59,120 Just follow us. It's all going to be fine. Just follow us. I'll tell you everything as soon as 445 00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:03,600 you guys catch up. Okay. So Cecile's still trying to the door. Like she's all adrenaline right now. 446 00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,680 Can you ask Kirsten where we're going to meet up, by the way? 447 00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:17,840 It's a video call. So I imagine Kirsten heard that. 448 00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:30,240 Yeah. So she drops you guys a pen. It's a club in downtown or actually it's in a 449 00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:39,760 it's a club in it's a location in Touristville on the very edge of the the Redmond Barons. 450 00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,840 All right. So that's where you guys are all headed. And that's where we'll pick it up next time. 451 00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:50,800 I just want to be clear. When Cecile was trying to exit the vehicle, she was going to levitate 452 00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:55,760 herself away. She wasn't just going to hurl herself out. No, disappointing. 453 00:55:55,760 --> 00:56:02,640 Yeah, I wish you were braver. So you're just going to float out like a balloon that a child let go of. 454 00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:15,600 Oh, wait, Cecile. Please. This is a good idea. No, yeah, Cecile is not happy at all. 455 00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,200 They wanted to make you a permanent wage slave. 456 00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,640 They just wanted to kill her. Why didn't they do that in the car? 457 00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:28,480 Well, they were pretty busy. Yeah, it's a good point. 458 00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:33,200 And you mean why didn't they just kill her out of hand like right away? 459 00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:44,000 There's more to this. In sex spirits, the Illuminati, the dragon, 460 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:49,440 elf Illuminati specifically. Well, at the very least, they wanted to they would have wanted to 461 00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:54,480 interrogate her and find out what was going on. No, yeah, the problem is that Cecile acted so 462 00:56:54,480 --> 00:57:01,680 slowly that like she couldn't do anything when she got levitated by Nightingale. Like when the 463 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:08,560 door was open, I was like, great, now's my chance to just fucking fly away. And oh, no, never mind. 464 00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:20,720 Tractor beam. Come to me. Come hither. You guys, once you guys got your bearings there, 465 00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:28,240 you guys managed to pull that off pretty gracefully. I was quite surprised. Why my first name is Grace. 466 00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:39,440 Well, I'm very, very pleased, very proud of you guys. Well, I had actually like last session, 467 00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:43,920 I had made the decision that for the first like two rounds of combat Cecile was just going to do 468 00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:50,960 nothing. Yeah, she definitely did nothing. But resisting the mind probe was that was the mind 469 00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:55,840 probes scary. That's a scary spell. I was kind of disappointed that I resisted it. 470 00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:01,200 Because because I actually like wanted to get on information there. 471 00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:08,240 Yeah, that would have been would have been interesting. But it's it's such a creepy spell. 472 00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:15,600 Oh, absolutely. When you use that spell, I was like, Oh, this is this is for real. This is serious. 473 00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:20,720 Yeah. This isn't like, Oh, just a kid that like though this is a kidnapping. 474 00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,840 This is horrifying. Like she's violating your mind. 475 00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:31,040 No, yeah, it specifically says in the book that mind probe is only used by people who like are 476 00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:35,920 like fucked up. If you use that spell, you get a reputation. But bad to kind. 477 00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:40,720 Yeah, before that, it was just a couple of security goons and some, you know, whatever, but 478 00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:46,080 potentially maybe an assassin. But as soon as you break out the mind spell and then start casting 479 00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:51,040 all sorts of other spells around, it sort of elevates the situation significantly. 480 00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:57,680 But yeah, I mean, it sounds like Cecile's got some issues out there in the real world. 481 00:58:57,680 --> 00:59:02,640 Apparently. Is that what she's going to call it? The real world? 482 00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:08,160 The real world? Knowing Cecile, I think she might. 483 00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:14,640 She doesn't spend that much time online. Right. That much. 484 00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:20,160 If I think if you guys hadn't managed to pop the smoke on them, they would have followed you too. 485 00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:28,320 Yeah, so I did it. I'm just that was pretty good. That was that was fighting. That was a pop. 486 00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:34,160 You see, we feel great now. I would just like to point out they're not going to stop just because 487 00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:40,880 we drove away. This is true. Yeah, I'm playing on using extra territory. Extra territory. 488 00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:47,600 You know what I'm trying to say. That extra territoriality against them. 489 00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:54,400 Extra territory. Yes, that. What do you oh, you oh, 490 00:59:54,400 --> 01:00:00,480 that up organization. They can stuff their pursuit because this is this is 491 01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,280 that's probably not going to help as much as you think it helps. 492 01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:12,480 Because I think what I think what Cecile's getting at is that not necessarily these three people, 493 01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:19,200 whatever set this in motion isn't going to go away. If somebody sent somebody that's willing to use 494 01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:25,520 mind probe on you after you, you're fucked. Yeah, it's not just Alice DeVry and these other two 495 01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:31,360 security guard guards. I mean, there's there's something behind all of that that sent them 496 01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:38,160 after Cecile. Like this isn't even like the the oh yeah, you've got the people in the black masks 497 01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:43,440 who are going to stuff you into a van. This is like the people with the black masks, but also 498 01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:50,400 that one person that has like some kind of untested fucking truth serum. Yeah, the one who like 499 01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:54,640 after they've got you strapped down to the chair unrolls the you know, the canvas roll with all 500 01:00:54,640 --> 01:01:02,240 the tools in it. This is a step above you you're getting spirited away. Yeah, you're not just 501 01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:11,280 getting disappeared. Oh, why does it say that mind probe is like uniquely fogged? It's it's in 502 01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:18,400 there somewhere. I think I don't think you can I don't think mind probe is something that you know 503 01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:24,240 normal ethical people do. No, it might have been in fifth edition, but I remember at least one of 504 01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:29,040 the source books specifically saying like, no, you do not use this spell if you were an upstanding 505 01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:34,000 person using the spell is very bad do not do it. I think that would be obvious. 506 01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:43,200 Yes. I have to look around for it. I didn't necessarily see it in the spell description 507 01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:50,080 itself. But it was in somewhere. It's such a creepy spell that that's the only way that I can 508 01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:55,200 really interpret it. No, yeah, it might have been street magic or in five years or something. 509 01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:59,520 In fact, it probably wasn't five. But yeah, no, seal is. 510 01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:07,360 So seals not happy. Yeah, five plus net hits the subject can probe the target subconscious, 511 01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:13,680 gaining information that target may not even be consciously aware of like psychological quirks, 512 01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:17,120 deep fears or hidden memories. Yeah, it's a pretty brutal spell. 513 01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:24,000 I'm genuinely disappointed the mind probe didn't work. Well, you never know, there's always there 514 01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:33,200 might be another opportunity. Oh, yay. I mean, what are the chances we've seen the last of Alice? 515 01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:40,880 Zero. I mean, it's zero assuming she doesn't get slaughtered by whatever higher power 516 01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:46,960 wanted her to get this job done, right? Higher power. Oh, my goodness, that sounds so ominous. 517 01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:53,200 Yeah. I mean, if you run, Eva, you might as well be a God. 518 01:02:54,240 --> 01:03:01,120 You know, the CEO is a free spirit, free spirit. Her name is Buttercup and she takes, 519 01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:06,720 I think, I think there's something going on there because that sounds like a horse name. 520 01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:20,800 I understand fiction. Oh, it would, it would be hilarious if she was a pony. Oh, my goodness. 521 01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:28,880 See, I'm having to decide like, because you have to understand, Cecil doesn't really know 522 01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:37,520 we're trust cursed that much. This she from your perspective, you have just saved her from her death, 523 01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:44,000 but from her perspective, she's just been kidnapped for a second time. Yes, understandable. 524 01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:49,520 Oh, it's just a little kidnapping. Get over this, Cecil. Oh, this little kidnapping. 525 01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:56,240 And in fact, I would like to point out that you were rougher with her than they were. 526 01:03:56,240 --> 01:04:06,160 Yeah. You don't really like or trust Kirsten. And is it possible that somehow by association, 527 01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:11,760 Kirsten's done something and you've just by association gotten dragged into some shit? 528 01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:18,640 He doesn't know. She's freaked it out. There's some kind of hideous monstrosity of the car with her. 529 01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:26,560 Okay. Okay. Nightingale is not hideous. She looks weird, but she's like she's soft and big-eyed. 530 01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:36,240 That's terrifying. I guess if you if you have like a strong uncanny valley response or if 531 01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:44,560 like the whole like evil, evil little girls thing, particularly freaks you out. 532 01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:50,720 I mean, I'm just saying it's it's one thing to just see that like, oh, yeah, under normal 533 01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:56,320 circumstances, that would be fine. But when you just got levitated into a car, spirited away for 534 01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:02,320 the second time after somebody has been casting lightning bolts in your direction, there was no 535 01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:09,200 lightning bolts cast in your direction. I mean, the car she was in, I didn't even hit when you 536 01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:16,880 were in the car. I mean, yeah, it still makes a loud sound. It's like something out of a bad 537 01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:26,080 dread show. Oh, absolutely. Seal is like, what the fuck is going on? Yeah, that's the. 538 01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:35,200 Also, Paul, I'm going to be marking off all of the stuff that I had in Cecil's bag, including the bag 539 01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:43,040 bag, my character sheet. Oh, so when is when when do when when when do we gain karma? I mean, 540 01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:52,560 that's up to the GM. Yeah, not yet. Not yet. Okay. I just wanted to ask. 541 01:05:54,640 --> 01:06:00,720 I just say that because I feel like we're still in the middle of something. 542 01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:08,960 And you know, we haven't wrapped we haven't really wrapped up this this episode, so to speak. 543 01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:13,360 Yeah, okay. That's fine. I mean, technically, you could count this as a run. 544 01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:18,480 I wouldn't count it over until you can stop what you're doing and have a meal. 545 01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:25,040 Yeah. Until you until you have time to do like a downtime, you know, have downtime. 546 01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:32,720 It's probably you're still in action. Anyway, do you want to go live in my body with pieces? 547 01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:49,840 Well, it's finally happened. Cecil has been rescued from the clutches of the scary corporate 548 01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:56,320 operative Alice DeVry. Time to rejoice. Or is it more of a case of out of the frying pan and into 549 01:06:56,320 --> 01:07:04,480 the fire? Stay tuned chummers to find out as the story continues. The Topps Company Inc. has sole 550 01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:11,440 ownership of the names, logo, artwork, marks, photographs, sounds, audio, video, and or any 551 01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:17,040 proprietary material used in connection with the game shadow run. 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