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the bug war. Okay, I'm off script now. We're
going to the intro now. Goodbye. The death of
a virtue is not simply the loss of a hero to
the Clusterists. It is a profound, psychic phenomenon
reverberating through the tangled web of their
psionic connections. It is... In some ways, like
experiencing a part of that death yourself, a
commitment to uphold your duty is twisted, rotten,
lost forever as the idol of its investment is
reduced to dust. In a nerve center in the Silt
Basin, the clustrous leader Agimenta's hands
grip the side of her desk. Her breaths come short
and shallow as her vision swims. She lets the
pain roll off her, the fourth of its kind since
the loss of her father. She ignores the wailing
of the personnel around her and returns to work.
In a hidden temple, welcomed up, the head preacher
of the Clusterists falls to his knees in the
middle of an intense, psychic communion. The
grief and loss blossoms out from him, and the
1 ,000 followers in front of him fall to their
knees likewise, a forced mimicry of pure psionic
feedback. Above the temple. The sixty -foot -tall
mass of the Virtue Faith shudders, phantom signals
and commands echoing through its psycho -mechanical
conduits as Duty's last whispers flow through
it. In the capital, hidden within the western
city, Chaser Midway, pilot of attachment, collapses
to the ground. She is overcome with an overwhelming
sensation of burning annihilation as she experiences
more than anyone else the pain of Duty and its
pilot's last agonizing moments. Above her, restrained
by clamps and structural supports, the Virtue
attachment thrashes wildly, pulling free from
its stalk. It falls, nearly crushing its pilot
in the throes of its shared pain. Chaser stands
shakily, placing a hand on the head of the Virtue,
and lets her mind reach out, looking for others
to grieve with. In a prison cell within the Peacekeeper
base, Maze Mourner lets out a scream as she breaks
three knuckles on her right hand against the
concrete wall beside her. She looks to her half
-finished plate of gourmet seafood, keels over,
and expels it back onto the ground. In the Alchis
River Valley, in a well -hidden research facility,
retribution jolts from angry dreams into a vengeful
reality. Even the shared grief of the planet's
souls do not break through his purpose. Orders
pour into his mind from the ether. He punches
in coordinates via the mental interface, but
stops as a familiar touch echoes through the
psychokinetic web laid before him. Garrett Hart's
comrade, the Dolphin, bumping carelessly into
duty's final broadcast. Retribution smiles and
adjusts the coordinates. Then, it severs the
link to Cluster's command as it initiates the
merge process between its vessel and its frame.
A cruel arm reaches out across hundreds of miles,
seeking only to make his one true enemy suffer.
Hey, welcome back to Claim to Cascade. When we
left off last time, the Moondevils had just destroyed
the Virtue Duty twice, once early in the mission
and then again after it revived itself and other
Clusterists around the crater. You, the Dusklights,
had destroyed both the AA emplacements and the
garrison on the dam at the edge of the crater,
allowing for a clean exfiltration. All that remained
was the tertiary objective of destroying the
dam. However, as you turned your attention to
that matter, a claw appeared out of thin air,
tearing Loyal's frame nearly in half and then
sending Gopher careening off the edge of the
dam. We will start from there. Loyal, I guess,
what do you do? Also, Loyal, you can resist those
as you see fit. I think I should. God, okay.
I'll die. I've never been happier to be number
three right now. Hell yeah. How do I resist the
damage if I only have one quirk left? You can
still resist it. You'll just go into breakdown
in your frame. You can also do what it is. I
was going to say, you could also junk something
else if you were planning. You can jump something
that you were planning to use, because we're
in desperate straits here. Yeah. The things I
can junk are my grapple, my gun, my drills, or
my psionic amplifier. I think the amplifier should
get junked. That could be fun. Yeah. That will
take you down to level 2 damage. I think it would
be damaged cockpit, or breached cockpit. Okay.
Yeah, you pull out. Your ceramic amplifier manages
to, I guess, maybe it's made out of like a different
material, like a special material, which makes
the claw less rending, I guess. And there's a
breach in your cockpit. You can still see out
of it, but you have your control still, which
is very important when you're playing in a big
frame. And then you have the level two harm,
which is melted skin. And you can resist that
or use armor. Now that I think about it, you
could check off armor on your gear. Hey, you
check off pilot armor? Sure, I'll do that. Where
do I check that? Bulletproof Dolphin Ghost. And
if you wanted to, you could use all of your pilot
gear for another layer of armor and have heavy
armor. Sure, let's do that. Let's get armored
up. Sure. Yes, you had the forethought, knowing
how fucked up life is and going against such
a... Difficult target, even though that's not
the one that harmed you. But you wore a very
heavy exosuit, I guess I would call it. Yeah.
You know, Space Station 13. We all love that
game. What's that? It pulls away from you, like
the outside of your exopod, but luckily you are
unharmed. Gopher's now falling to his death.
What would you all like to do? Oh my god, okay.
Oh, I also meant to say, and this is a separate
thing after, uh, Retribution looks different.
It is more coherent, more stable, um, and yet
there is something about it that is more indistinct,
uh, more transparent. It's kind of a paradox.
Kind of looking through frosted glass more than
it is looking through shimmering water. Uh, but
the glass is still moving. Something has changed.
Can I make an action right now, or is it someone
else's turn? Absolutely! You're closest, why
not? I want to shoot my grapple at Gopher. You're
going to turn your back on Retribution. I am.
Bold move. Okay, sure. What do you want to roll
for that? What do you think that is? I feel like
that's Maneuver. I think Maneuver's good. Yeah.
Roll me a Maneuver. Lombard, I just said. You
are in a desperate position. Yeah. Yeah! Oh god,
Loyal needed that dove. There we go. You shoot
your grapple hook into Gopher. I think even better,
where do you want Gopher to be? Ideally. I want
Gopher to be as far away from Retribution as
possible. Where's the safest place on this fucked
up wall right now? Honestly, it might be just
hanging from the wall. Yeah, I'm imagining, like,
this is happening, I'm getting fucked up by Retribution,
and I just, like, turn the arm to grab Gopher,
and we're just hanging there. Like, I'm still
engaged with Retribution, but I am holding on
to Gopher at the same time, and I'm just using
all the weight of my mech to just keep him up.
Sure. I think Retribution turns away from you,
Loyal, and just looks at Geist. Or, like, it
feels like he's looking at you, Geist. Oh, motherfucker.
I'll give him something to look at. Um, do you
shoot the flare that says Retribution is here?
I should ask. Oh, fuck yeah. I mean, if somebody
else doesn't, I absolutely will, but, um... I
know it's bad, but I don't think Geist can resist
taking one crack at him. Of course. Let's get
that flare up. And then Geist is going to be,
he's going to say over comms, dust lights, it's
time to fall back. And then he's going to fucking...
So what I want to do, and I guess it doesn't
really matter if it's boost, or sorry, if it's
maneuver or if it's battle, because I have the
same amount of dice in them, but I just want
to do what I did before when I was very, very
unwell and just shoot at him like a rocket. I
want to spend my boosted reactor for improved
effect. Sure. To just try and hit him as hard
as I can. And fuck it, I'm gonna push myself
too. You hear that, motherfucker? I got one cork
left to spend. Let's go. Son of a bitch. Okay.
So that's four dice. I assume this is desperate?
This is desperate standard, yes. Up from limited
because you pushed yourself. Okay. Would you
say this is using my prototype motive systems?
Yeah, absolutely. Does that push it up to great?
Because that's too improved. Oh, are you using
push to go up in effect, not a die? No, so I
can use both if it involves my mobility suite
because it's a prototype. And the other one is
from the boosted reactor, which just increases
effect. So it's two separate. It's kind of cheesy,
or it's kind of like it's not clear if the mechanics
are intended to interact that way. So if you
don't think it's kosher, that's fine. I think
I wanted to ask before I did it. Let's use one
and leave it at standard. Otherwise, it would
always be great effect. Well, only when I push
myself. Yeah. But yeah, no, no, I'm not going
to. Yeah, I'll just do the one. I won't. I won't.
Yeah, I'm already pushing myself. Yeah, so it
doesn't matter. I don't need the boosted reactor.
Let's go. Okay. Desperate standard. One extra
die. Critical success. Again. You. Yes. Jesus.
Geist is fucking torqued up. He's trying to plow
into him? Yeah, this is basically just like to
put as much kinetic energy into Retribution's
frame as possible. I know that physical damage
is kind of a funny thing with these guys, especially
since Geist hasn't really had too much success
with his downtime research. But he's just, he's
getting mad and in his head he's telling himself
that this is because he's trying to cover the
retreat of his team, but really he's just fucking
pissed off. Okay. You plow into Retribution.
Last time you hit him, it was like hitting...
I think it said non -Newtonian fluid, like a
weird sloppy cornstarch mixture. This time it's
like hitting a plasticized glass, almost. It's
more satisfying to hit. And you kind of see it...
It's not cracking, because cracking kind of goes
along crystal lattices. It's like... And it's
not like water, either. I think it's like...
A perfect spider web, like perfectly symmetrical
cracks almost going out from the center. And
he goes reeling back. I think so. You're kind
of you're on the bottom area. And I think you
push him and you pass loyal onto the middle of
the dam, like right on top of it. And he is trying
to regain his feet. I think you've taken him
off guard, which is surprising for him. that
you were able to land this blow. And so you do
three ticks to his eight step retribution. If
it bleeds. I don't think it does bleed. I also
still think we should leave. Guys didn't give
him an order to fall back. We should fall back.
And he's probably going to do the same. All right.
Joseph. I'm going to leave. Yeah, that's cool.
So here's the thing. How are you leaving? I assume
were these above us or around us? Was that our
escape? I forget. I guess the plan is, I mean,
it's really up to you. He was definitely not
within range of the turrets, so you have to call
him in somehow. I think, yeah, the plan was that
once the AA guns are down, we call him in and
we go over the crater edge, and I think that
the Moondevils are supposed to follow us. Okay.
The plan was let the Moondevils X -Full first,
then X -Full yourself. Oh, okay. Have they X
-Fulled? No. So I guess we gotta keep fighting.
Okay. I mean, you could always abandon the mission.
That's true. Never mind. I misunderstood. Maybe
you guys didn't give them the fallback order.
We could still break up the dam. That is true.
Didn't they say if retribution shows... We're
supposed to leave. Sorry, that was sacrifice.
There were no additional instructions. What they
said for retribution is put up a flare, we'll
try to assist when we exfiltrate. Oh, okay then.
Well, it flares up. Yeah, so they're leaving,
right? So shouldn't we leave as well? They're
leaving, but we're supposed to hold the dam until
they get out first. Okay. So if we leave, then
we leave them at the at the mercy of retribution.
So yeah, we'll kind of be dicking them over.
But then we'd be the best squad on the planet.
We would! Ryan, my god, you're so smart. Geist
isn't willing to leave the mission to leave them
to die, mostly because he wants to kill Retribution
really bad. Bombarding. Uh -oh. That's not good.
That's what happens when I rush and bombard.
I shoot myself! You gotta say something cool.
Yeah, that's what I did. So, that was a desperate
situation, by the way. Okay, redo that? Nope,
it's fine. I just gotta change the, uh... The
consequence. So get an XP in the Bombards category,
whatever it was. Acuity. Acuity. Oh, it is Acuity,
though, this time. Geist, you continue to push
Retribution back, and then you kind of feel it
give, and he's gone. Who's your number three,
Geist? My number three would be Joseph. It's
me. He, a beam of energy, like, sizzles right
past you. Geist that would have hit Retribution,
expertly. And then you see behind Joseph this
thing forming. And it grabs the top of Joseph's
frame and pulls up and rips it in half. That
will be the level 3 damage Joseph, I guess, decapitated
for your frame. You can resist that if you'd
like, which I recommend. But if I resist that,
don't... Ain't I dead anyways? Because it's two
quirks and then I'd be done. You'd be in breakdown.
You can junk a gear. And you can also junk a
gear if you'd like. At this point. Yeah, I guess
I'll junk my optical camo. I guess there's not
a lot of use for it right now. Sure. So you're
going to take the level two damage. No sensors
as like all the major sensors on your frame are
disabled and much harder to pilot. OK. Uh, Hex.
I mean, was breaking the dam a formal objective?
No, it's a tertiary. Like, if you can. So, like,
they'd still be happy if I did it. Yes, you have
succeeded the mission. As long as you have to
survive. Yeah. Okay. Objective, survive. Who's
the most... Who can I help? I mean, Joseph got
ripped in half. Oh, not anymore. Not anymore,
is this? But like, I can't exactly. Can I shoot
the hand? You can. It's the entire frame now.
It's not just a hand. Yeah, I think like attacking
retribution because nobody specifically needs
help at this moment. I think just attacking retribution
is what you can do to help. But the thing is,
that puts you at risk of retribution from retribution.
And he hurts. He does hurt. Hex is going to complete
the tertiary objective and blow up the dam. Wow.
Heartless. OK, go for it. Hey, it was on the
list. It was on the list. And you gotta check
those boxes. You're completionist. Got in for
the promotion. Is this limited? Uh, yeah. Desperate
limited. Let's go. Desperate limited is like
the worst possible combination of words in this
game. Yeah, but... But it's a hex move. You do
it! Yeah, you hit it. Watch your notes. You only
did one tick because it's limited. There's two
more ticks. You hit it again. It's getting unstable.
A little bit of water's coming out of it now.
Like, more water than it's supposed to. Geist,
you're on top of it. You kind of feel it starting
to shake. That's fine. I can fly. You see the
moon devils. They seem to have loaded into a
craft and are heading in your general direction.
Yeah, help us out. God fucking damn it. What
a bunch of dicks. They just killed a different
virtue. The least we can do is take care of this
one. Whatever. I'm the main character. Geist
or Loyal? Geist or Loyal? I think Geist really
wants Retribution to stop hitting his friends
and to hit him instead. I'm going to have limited
effect no matter what I do because my leg is
torn. I don't have any quirks left to bombard
with. I mean, to, sorry, push myself with. I
could bombard. I could transform and shoot him
with my railgun. That's still going to be limited
effect, but do I have any way to increase my
effect? I guess I still have my boosted reactor.
I have one more fucking insane melee rush in
me, and then I'm, then I have nothing left. Okay.
Go get him. Go get him. Geist, he's kind of frantic
at this point because he just wants a straight
-up fight. He wants Retribution to hit him instead
of his team, and he knows that Retribution knows
that, and that's specifically why he's not doing
it. And so he fucking activates his boosted reactor.
He turns on the NOS, and he's going to try and
do the same thing. He's going to try and fly,
basically close the distance and get him, pull
Retribution off of his friend and back onto himself.
He's got basically the same sort of death wish
that Gopher has, but only when this guy's around.
But I don't get an extra die this time, so let's
see what happens. Maybe I'll get my ass kicked
finally. I got my ass kicked. That's a failure.
But this one is probably more narratively satisfying.
Sure. So you're going to Joseph's aid. Trying
to get Retribution off of him. I'm going to try
and just pull Retribution off of him. Fuck you.
Attack me. Sure. Well, you failed to do that.
As you see here. Retribution just tosses Joseph
to the side. Not like with any real harm, but
kind of walks towards you, opens, his arms wide,
and then vanishes as soon as you get within striking
distance. No! And you get a little sensor ping,
like a little lock -on notification from behind
you, of course, just in time to see Retribution
appearing and kicking Loyal off the cliff after
Gopher. No! This guy's good. And then he looks
back at you, Geist, again. Loyal! You are falling
to your death with Gopher. I'm gonna use my anti
-kick -off -a -cliff gun. Thank you. You already
junked that gun. Even you, you'd get kicked off
the cliff. So you prepared a little platform.
I still have my drill, so I want to just activate
the drill. Dig it into the side of this dam.
And hopefully nothing bad is going to happen,
but I have a feeling that it is. Yeah, desperate
great, I guess. I mean, you're going to, if you
succeed, you will succeed well. If you fail,
actually, I think this is risky. Honestly, you're
falling more than anything. Is falling not desperate?
Come on, let me level up my expertise. Come on.
Sure, I'll put you in desperate. You're gonna
die. Royal's last words were level up my expertise.
What are we gonna do? Both got pancaked. I think
there's definitely a maneuver. Yeah. Come on,
please. I'm crossing everything I got. Yes! Success!
Yeah, you bury your drill in the side of the
crater wall into the dam. It kind of cuts through
it a little bit, but you do slow. Like that thing
that pirates do with the sails. Exactly. And,
you know, Gopher is like hanging on for dear
life. Just like doesn't want to die by falling.
Who does? It's not glamorous. And you are about,
I think, you could definitely get back up from
here. Especially if you just, like, anchor a
gopher to the wall and don't try to pull him
up. But you need to pull him up because you have
to exfil. Yep. Okay. Hex and Joseph, speed round.
Can I maneuver and run away? Where do you want
to run to? Just away in general? I want to run
behind X or something. That's what I was going
to do. Absolutely. Absolutely. You can pull aggro
on me. Mother. Sorry. I'm a little scared guy.
I'm going. No, no. There's a banana peel. Well,
that was I got your back. Well, that was desperate.
So you get you get a tick in whatever maneuvers.
Is that the acuity as well? Oh my god. No, it's
not. No. Just say whatever. We'll just keep going.
I guess it's the banana peel. The comically large
banana peel. The egg white left. As you try to
run behind Hex, Retribution appears in front
of you and grabs your frame by its cockpit and
crushes it in his hand. So it You're going to
take the... Your frame's going to take the...
He's pinching it, I imagine. So your frame's
going to take the level 2 damage crushed cockpit,
and you're going to take the level 2 damage crushed
body. Can I do something a little crazy right
now? I know I have nothing else to resist with,
but I do have my shadow. Would I be able to use
a feat of athletics to toaster myself out of
my thing as he's touching it? Absolutely. What
shadow? It's your spark to resist a consequence
from detection or push yourself for a feat of
athletics. That's sick. Absolutely. Yes, he caves
in your cockpit, so you're going to still take
level two damage to it, but you are not going
to take any damage because that's just good.
This is a good thing you've done. You are now
outside of your frame in your retribution. I'm
more powerful outside my frame, if we're being
honest. Come to assassinate retribution with
a regular type of knife. A single blade in the
right place. Come on, contrition! Give me the
power! Look at the sky. It starts growing and
it's a kaiju battle. Okay, just changing playbooks.
Hex. Hex is gonna shoot the shot. And keep breaking
the dam. Shooting the dam. Yeah, very easy. Very
in character. I mean, like he could shoot, you
know, the big guy, but you know, he knows what
happens. He just saw having to just. You guys
got it. All right. Desperate, limited. My two
favorite words. I hate it. A critical success.
Are you fucking kidding me? That's I love it.
Doing very good. That's it, the dam just blew
up. Yes, you did actually just... Hopes and Dreams
starts playing. Okay, you shoot a decisive blast
at the dam and the dam buckles, exploding outwards
as the force of the river pushes through. A raging
white surge of fluid charges across the crater
floor, smashing into the city like a tsunami.
Buildings crumble and are swept into the water.
It rips through half the city before it even
starts to slow down, funneling back into old
remembered riverbanks. In the heat of combat,
it is perhaps hard to comprehend the sheer amount
of lives that must have been lost by completing
this objective, but before you can dwell on it,
the Moondevil's exfiltration craft, now fully
loaded, makes a close pass above your location,
close enough to get a transmission through to
you. A familiar voice comes through your comms.
This is Krell. Support danger close. Get clear
of target. Ooh! Oh yeah! Let's fucking bounce!
I wanna see this. I wanna see this. Um, so, the
only one who's really near -ish the target is
Hex and Joseph. Oh, fuck. What do we do? We should
leave. Yeah. Yeah. Is that a rule? Yes, absolutely.
Okay. Can I even get back in my - Is that maneuver?
Right? Yeah, it's a maneuver. And it's probably
prowl for you, Joseph. Thank God. Because it's
risky. Unless you want to try to get your frame
back. Nah, fuck that. That thing's done. Let's
be honest. What if I just picks you up? Hey,
that'd be cool. You roll first. How about that?
You can do a joint. You can do a group action
if you want. You get bonuses for that, I think.
I don't know how that works, but... Yeah. So
whoever has... Who's got... Who has... Does anybody
have quirks left? I have two, technically. I
probably do. Let me see. Hex has to lead our
exfiltration. Alright. Let's burn a quirk. We
don't have to use it yet. We have to wait to
see if we all roll well. You don't have to spend
it. Hex, you roll Maneuver, and Joseph, you roll
Prowl. I'll tell you what happens. Okie dokie.
Do the rest of us just leave? Is there a thing
that we have to put on this? I'm asking this
time. Yeah. Desperate Stand. Okay. Easy. Yes.
One failure. And then, what are you doing, loyal
and... I think we're getting the fuck clear.
I think we're just getting out. Geist is gonna
go. If I can do so without, like, undue scariness,
I might grab Gopher's little winch cable, but...
Yeah, someone give me a hand. Help me up above
this. I forgot that you're falling too. Can I
grab them? Or are we still in enough of a combat
scene? You want to aid them while he does a maneuver?
Yeah, let's do that. I don't have any quirks.
How many quirks do you have left, Loyal? One.
Okay, I also have one. So if we do a group action,
there's a really good chance one of us is going
to break down. But all that does is, I think,
poison one of your quirks, right? Yeah. It becomes
degraded. Can you not use a degraded quirk? We'll
think about it after. Okay. Yeah, you can also
just aid instead of doing a group action if you
want. What is that? Do I just roll a... You just
spend your stress and then Loyal gets an extra
die. Oh, I can spend stress to do it. Yeah, that's...
That's right, yeah. Okay, so how much do I spend?
I think just one. Just farm? Yeah, because we
only have a level one. Okay, yeah, I'll do that.
I'll help him out. Cool. This is risky standard
again, right? Mm -hmm. Cool. Well, desperate,
but yes. Woo! Big money, success. You get up.
You do it. And then, Geist, I need you to roll
a roll. Roll a roll. Would that be maneuver for
me as well? I think so. Cool. Egg roll. A partial,
I'll take it. That's good. You guys actually
rolled very well for what this is. Yeah, I was
gonna say. All green and blue. Yeah, as you all
kind of get clear, Retribution just stands there
and raises a hand in the air. And this, like,
his form gets indistinct again. And contorting.
This wicked, jagged, black spike appears in his
hand. becoming more and more tangible with each
second. And you see as the Moon Devil's craft
flies by you, Crow sitting on the back ramp of
the aircraft, his weapon configured into this
absurdly long rifle with energy surging through
its tip. And his voice comes through and it says,
target acquired, firing for effect. And then
as it goes off, almost as if on cue, Retribution
hurls one last blow at Loyal, full speed. At
Loyal? Yep. Even knowing the power of the virtues,
the blow's magnitude is pretty staggering. It
passes through the frame as if it were paper,
and as it does, it breaks up into these smaller,
sharp particles, equally as penetrating. And
Loyal, you are going... So you got one failure,
right? Yeah, I just got a partial. Yeah, I'm
just looking at everyone's. Okay. Yeah, that
was the only failure across the whole thing.
That's good. That is good. Loyal, you're going
to take the level 4 damage annihilated. No. Level
4? Yes. You can do that. Ooh, Loyal's gonna get
a trauma! By some stretch of luck, your exopod
is going to be able to eject from this. Cool.
Let's see. What do I resist? Not be annihilated.
Uh, well, this is damage to your frame. Um, so...
It would probably be... I think that in this
case, it would be acuity. Oh, this was damage.
I thought it was level 4 harm. No, it was damage.
Okay. Let's get acuit. I think that just means
you check off quirks you don't... No, wait, no.
You don't do stress for acuity, you do quirks.
So you just check off the remainder of your quirks.
I'm surprised it even lets you roll acuity. That's
funny. So you just check off your last quirk,
your frame is now in breakdown, and you take
the level 3 damage. It's not wrecked, but something
akin to that. Bucked up. And then... A single
transmission to you, Geist. Until next time,
Garrett. And a overwhelming beam of energy engulfs
him, and when it passes, he is gone. Obliterated.
Surely he is a dad. Surely. Surely. Worthy can
now come get you. I hate you so much. Geist is
gonna boost down to loyal and, um... See if Loyal's
alive in there. He's gonna pick up his exopod,
pick up his mech, his completely totaled mech.
I'll be like, Loyal, say something! E! He's alive!
As soon as, does he, is there any indication
that Loyal's alive? Yes. I mean, Loyal is alive.
Loyal's fine. Loyal has managed to eject. Oh,
okay. As soon as he sees that guy's frame falls
down to its knees and he starts cackling on his
external speakers and he's like, You missed!
You son of a bitch! You missed! He's a little
bit manic right now. He's got that combat adrenaline.
Okay, you get picked up by Worthy. He apologizes
profusely and says, the damn kid, he just jumped.
He just fucking jumped. We'll talk to him at
home. Stern talking to. Yeah, your frame, Joseph,
is gone. It was, it left with retribution, unfortunately.
So long, Mirage. Wait, no. What was it called?
Momentum or something. I don't even know the
fucking name. You never liked it, let's be honest.
Until the next one. Exactly. And it's a long
flight. Long flight home. And I think that's
where we're going to end. But before we end,
I'd like to get a shot of each character. What
they're doing, what they're feeling. Who wants
to go first? Geist? I don't know. Geist? That
didn't go the way he wanted it to. He was hoping
for another slugging match with Retribution,
where he could basically just mash his face and
his fists against Retribution until he died again,
or almost died. So he's upset, but he's really
fucking torqued up, and I imagine now he's just
kind of frantically pacing, and maybe sometimes
punching walls hard enough to do a little bit
of damage to his robot limbs. And he's just kind
of inconsolable. He's just got a lot of adrenaline
with nowhere to direct it, and that's for the
first maybe 20 minutes of the ride home. And
then he probably just fucking goes back into
his frame and closes the door and collapses.
Excellent. I think Gopher is a little jacked
up, like mentally, after seeing what he saw.
It's just like... kind of like just diffusing
bombs from the cockpit one at a time very carefully.
He's just like, I didn't know. I wasn't ready.
I'm sorry. He just keeps saying I'm sorry over
and over again to no one in particular. He actually
did pretty good. Yeah. Proud of the little guy.
He technically killed Eggwhite the first time.
You should compliment him in between your age.
Yeah. No, I'll compliment him later. He doesn't
get that now. Who wants to go next? You all notice
that Hex has taken up smoking and he just hasn't
left his cockpit. He's just chilling. That's
funny. Joseph, are there little slots in Worthy's
ship where we put all the frames? Yeah. I think
Joseph is staring at all the slots and he is
standing in his empty slot in his frame. It's
almost like he's looking at the wall and he's
not even moving. He's just standing still. But
keen viewers can see that his fist is shaking
uncontrollably. It is clenched like crazy. And
he wants to try to keep it down, try to stuff
it inside him, but he's very angry right now.
and loyal yeah is my frame just a heap of wreckage
next to this empty slot where joseph's frame
was supposed to be it's not wrecked but it like
the amount of damage like your cockpit was basically
almost torn apart and then it is full of these
black splinters of this weird metal like the
same metal that retribution dropped um that first
time you fought him before he disappeared It's
very fucked up, as your damage says. Yeah, as
this camera is panning over Joseph, just like
shaking in his frame slot, it just goes onto
this view of this wrecked Nautilus. And Loyal
is there, but he has his spokes extended. He's
not hovering because that's not enough grounding.
He wants to feel some type of like... a vibration
of the ship as it is going back just like the
water in his tank is just like suddenly vibrating
with this because he's just like trying to drown
out everything else that he's feeling and thinking
right now and he's just staring at the remains
of his frame and this like fucked up material
that's on it very good not talking to anyone