To Jack Johnson, Chief Executive of the Corporate
Council. I know that in the past we haven't seen
eye to eye. I have always pushed for investment
in the future, where the peacekeepers succeed
in their goal here, and our relationship with
the Euro is not compromised. I personally have
invested a great amount of capital in this future.
You, on the other hand, have invested more and
more in Terra Brea and in ventures which would
grow exponentially if the Peacekeepers failed.
I see now that you are effectively shorting the
entire Sol Union. You've been careful in this,
giving some money here and there to the Peacekeepers
to make the Union think that you are supportive.
But I see now the truth. The truth is that the
Union needs to fail. That if the Uro pull out,
our investments, both on Terebraea and outside,
will experience such a great increase in value
that you would swiftly become one of the most
wealthy and powerful individuals in what remains.
It is a brilliant play. I almost wish I had been
as clear -sighted as you, and I half wonder if
you and Miss Tyrol Cryne had some sort of arrangement.
That, of course, was a joke, but nevertheless,
if it's not too late. I'd love to assist you
in furthering this vision of the future. Let's
talk at the corporate retreat. I think you will
find I can be quite cunning when the chips are
down. Your steadfast colleague, September Bluth.
Let's get into it. I did not write out my introduction
prompt, so I'm just going to add a little bit.
Hello, welcome to the show. All that you know,
that's what we're going to call it for now. I'm
Colin, the GM. Joining me are Adam. I'm Adam.
I play Joseph, the infiltrator. Ewan. Hi, I'm
Ewan. I'm playing Loyal, the empath. Zach. Hi,
I'm Zach, and I'm playing Geist, the ace. And
Brian. Hello, I'm Brian, and I'll be playing
Hex, the bureaucrat. Fantastic. It is the day
after the events of your vignettes, and it is
one day before the very earliest that the military
police may show up to arrest some or all of you.
Geist, you wake up in the cockpit of the Changeling,
whether intentional or not. It is the only way
you've been able to find any peace. the only
place you have been able to fall asleep, and
the only place that you now really feel truly
whole. Your fragmenting mind is barely holding
together, and even ignoring the threat of martyrdom,
there is no telling what may happen if your concentration
lapses. I have added a move to your character
sheet. Would you mind reading it out for everyone?
Yes. One mind, one body. You may operate the
changeling from any distance without the use
of a remote control. When you push yourself,
you may act as both the changeling and yourself
simultaneously. You may perform different actions,
but you gain the benefit of the push on both
actions. Thank you. Loyal, your dreams are ominously
peaceful, like being alone in dark waters. Nothing
surrounds you, but you know somewhere out in
this vast ocean, something is on the hunt. I
have ticked your drive clock with maze by one
to represent the martyrdom connection pulling
you two closer, albeit in kind of an ominous
way. Cool. Joseph, you have returned from your
visit to Goldhouse, and were provided with both
a job offer once this is all over, as well as
your first concrete assignment from Contrition.
Contrition has not yet provided you with all
those details, but has told you that you will
receive them soon when the time is right. On
that note, Joseph, is there anything you want
to report to Nyla about your gold house visit,
or do you want to keep that close to your chest
for the time being? I'll keep it close to my
chest. Cool. And then, finally, Hex, just yesterday
you had your meeting with Tyrell Cryne. She offered
you work in the future and also mentioned that
you might do her a favor in exchange for the
exact location of the virtue attachment. No final
deal was made, but you've been given her contact
information in case you decide to accept. You
also discovered the location of Warehouse 27D,
which the Clusterists went a long way to cover
up. Are you communicating this discovery to anyone
on your side? My thinking is Hex will report
this. To Nyla. Let's do that. Let's have that
meeting. All right. I think Nyla meets you in
the little, like, improv meeting location in
the base, in that little cargo container in your
hangar. And she says, what's up, Hex? She wouldn't
say Hex. What's up, Harold? Wow, trying to keep
it, trying to give some familiarity here. Listen,
I'm here. Because I discovered something and
save a little bit of time here. I'll show you.
And he shows what he has on warehouse and the
location while kind of voicing over. So over
the past few months, and you can amend that if
that's not the right time frame, I've been digging
and found a location that's valuable to the clusterists.
And I went out of my way to go visit it. I actually
had an interesting meeting with Tyrell. Wait,
what do you mean? What do you mean Tyrell crying?
You met with her? Well, I didn't expect to, but
I walked in and there she was. Um, where? When?
He gestures to the location that he wrote down
and. Whenever the time may be, timeline -wise,
so I guess yesterday in -game. And just to save
a little bit of voiceover, he walks her through
the deal she wanted to strike. And you didn't
take it? I wouldn't be talking to you if I did.
Okay. Does she know about the warehouse? I assume
she knows... everything about anything to do
with this I'm telling you because I'm wondering
if you think this makes sense to pursue or what
you think next steps are here because frankly
I mean I'm at a loss here fuck um I if we had
the luxury of time um or resources I would say
it's not worth pursuing this that this is probably...
I don't know why you'd be alive, right? So we're
going to pursue it. I'm going to send the Moondevils
to check this out as soon as possible while you
do your assignment with Bluth, whatever that
turns out to be. I'll let you know. This does
seem big, though, Harold. Great work. Yep, of
course. Okay, we're in there. Good session, everyone.
Sorry, Q. The noon devils killed everyone. Happy
ending. Is there anything else anyone wants to
attend to with their own personal character matters
before we get to the next part? Yeah, nothing
from my corner, I don't think. Nope. Maybe feed
the dog. Gotta feed that dog. Bippo. You gotta
feed the dog before a big mission. Okay. You
feed the dog. Bippo loves his wet food. And it
is wet food. Wow. Was Glenn feeding dry food
or wet food? Maybe, since this is the future,
it's gaseous food. Holy fuck. He's so advanced.
He hasn't made an effort. Maybe he blows up like
a balloon. Flies around the room. I think maybe
he gets put inside like a... Well, not a gas
chamber. But like a chamber full of gas. That
he filter feeds in. That's sick. That's what
the new skin was for. It allows him to filter
feed. It's all coming together. We're building
the rich lore of this world. For weeks at a time.
Okay. Hex. Nyla has made arrangements for you
and whoever you want to take with you to meet
with Mr. Bluth. Your ultimate goal is to convince
him to bankroll a new base and either brand new
frames or retrofit your existing frames to be
a little more subtle. I'm not giving up my frames.
I want to bring our lie detector. If, you know,
you'll come with me, loyal. We're all going together,
I'm assuming. Yeah, let's just bring everyone.
I was gonna say, I feel like Geist is the person
you might not want to bring because Geist openly
hates Bluth's guts, but he also would maybe want
to come. Yeah. He has to be like, fuck, fine,
yeah, I'll go. Control yourself, okay? Yeah,
yeah, yeah. The meeting location that Bluth's
office, or Bluth himself, it's not clear, sets
is not in the Corporate Council Tower. but it
is instead an address in the ruined East City.
Upon any further investigation, it seems to be
a construction site where the council is currently
building some upscale apartments in a district
previously destroyed during the siege of the
capital. Do we just walk in? I don't know. Do
you? Like, is it also ruined? Like, what do we
see? Like, what's the building like on the inside?
There's like a chain link fence, and I mean,
let's... You are all veterans. I'm not going
to ask you how you get around a chain -link fence.
Let's strut in. Do we have to climb it? They
didn't even open for us. Is there a gate for
us? I think you would find that there is an entry
point. Yeah, let's strut in like we own the place.
Yeah, let's do that. Awesome. Let's say it is
early evening at this point. Kind of like sunset.
The meeting area is this half -completed skeleton
of a 20 -story apartment building. There's metal
frames, some concrete stairs, and scaffolding.
Lots of weatherproofing plastic covering everything,
and these piles of construction materials and
leftover heavy machinery that are giving a lot
of cover. Eventually, a car pulls up out front.
Nice. Nice car. And Bluth steps out alone. And
he proceeds into the construction site opening
up a little fence gate with a key and takes a
seat on a slab of concrete out near all of you.
How's he dressed? Fresh. Fresh as hell. His usual
stuff. He dresses like he has a white suit. He's
a little tucked in. I don't even know what they're
called. Not a napkin. Not a scarf. Oh. Oh, I
know what you're talking about. He's fucking
Doug Dimmadome. That's exactly what I see on
my head, too. I see Doug. That's awesome. Wearing
a white suit to a construction site and then
sitting on a slab of concrete is a bold fucking
move. Alright, Saul Goodman. You know what the
craziest part is? It doesn't get dirty. That's
some, like, metamaterials shit. How does he look?
Is he, like, happy, sad, nervous, angry? If you
want to know that, you have to make a roll. Okay,
let's roll my social awareness. I don't... This
is going to be a study. Or a survey. He's studying,
Bluth. He's a specimen. You do it! Bam! Wow,
look at that one. One die, a six. Bluth's outward
demeanor is a stone wall. Well practiced, confident.
He is nervous, though. Okay. To give you more,
he knows what he's going to ask you today is
a big ask. Got it. Okay. It's mutual. As a reminder
for me, what does Blue know going into this?
How did we reach out? Nyla reached out on behalf
and said we would like to discuss a potential...
Job opportunity for some increased supplies to
the Dusklights. Okay, so nothing about going
dark? No, but he might intuit that. He says,
well, let's get on with it. What is it you would
like, Harold? So, I'm sure you can intuit why
we're here today. Yes, but I would like to hear
you say it. I need your help, Luth. As you know,
in a few days here, I'm probably not going to
be a free man here anymore. So, I have it on
good word that you might be able to help me out
with this course. I know nothing with you comes
free. I see. So, just to... get it in the air
you would like me to bankroll you evading the
uh forces of the largest government that we know
we both know this isn't your first time doing
something like this well now that is just conjecture
uh but being that you are my favorite war criminal
i think we could come to an arrangement now you
probably know this already but the The council
does have those funds on hand, but the current
leadership just wouldn't be comfortable with
that particular financial commitment. Lucky for
you, I've been planning some corporate restructuring
for quite a while. I'm well positioned such that
a couple dominoes following would see me in charge
of the council with a few of my cronies in supporting
roles. You being the clever lad that you are,
I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. I
know I'm not the only one who's aware. Well,
in four days, a little corporate retreat is being
put together down by Caldera Lake. All the big
shots are going to be meeting up to align on
our current goals, what with the general chaos
going on. Usually all these folks hide off planet
or in their estates, but they'll all be drawn
out into the open with this. It's the perfect
time to make a move. And he produces a piece
of paper and hands it to you. Everyone on that
list needs to be taken out of commission. Now,
if this was a simple job, you could blow the
whole retreat to hell. However, there is a problem,
which is that me, as well as a couple of my supporters,
will be in attendance as to not arouse suspicion.
In a similar vein, I cannot have you be identified.
As the council knows, we have a working relationship.
So, you'll need to be precise or discreet. Do
it from a distance, do it with a disguise, or
with a rented frame, or whatever. I've secured
a small amount of funds, which you may use for
any additional equipment needed. At the end of
this, we want the narrative to be Clusterous
Strike Caldera Lake again, targeting Corporate
Council. How does that sound? Sounds like quite
the ask. You and I both know faces aren't cheap,
but even this is a bit much. How much are we
looking at in terms of assistance here? Basically,
how much help is he going to give us with funding
or bankrolling this operation? Well, by my understanding,
if you want this to be nice and clean, you're
going to need full retrofit of your frames. Make
them look different, at the very least. New base,
that's expensive. And since you're such a nice
boy, Harold, I think I'll throw in just a few
enhancements for your team. modern technology.
Hmm? Harold looks to the team. How do they seem
to think about this deal? Geist, uh... Geist
is kind of standing there. He's got his arms
crossed. He's looking like he wishes he was somewhere
else. He thinks it over for a second. He's like,
look, I don't have any love for any of you corporate
council dickheads if this is what it's gonna
take. I'm in. If Hex could give you a thumbs
up, he would, but you get the vision. Nonverbal
doesn't do that. Joseph gives a thumbs up. He'll
do that. I'm just here to be a lie detector.
Well, he was lying when he said he liked Harold.
Any other lies? This is relevant. Not really.
I mean, I have to look. I have to look, honestly.
Nothing that's like explicitly important, probably.
But yeah, he's basically laying it all out to
you. To formalize your goals, make sure that
anyone on that list I've just given you is not
able to vote in the next board meeting. And don't
injure any of my lackeys or me. And that includes
Ziggurat, Generator E, Grave Robber Jill, Bottle
de Aqua, and anyone else I come up with in the
moment who I like. Don't let your identities
be discovered. Kill additional attendees to throw
off investigation. Don't just kill the people
on that list. And plant evidence to implicate
the Clusterists, as always. I will have a communicator
on me if you need to get in touch while I'm there.
And it's all pretty good and simple. You understand
it by now. Can you write the names of those people
down in chat? I didn't get it in time. Sure.
One of them had a really funny name. Yeah, Puddle
de Agua. Yeah, Puddle de Agua. I didn't know
Jenny was going to be there, though. That's cool.
I'll be extra special careful not to kill him.
Well, you know, Hex put Jenny in touch with Bluth.
Oh, shit. That's right. Right. You know, it's
a living world, you know? I'm just trying to
really make it live, you know? This is better
than Skyrim. I know. I mean, that's easy. Hex,
you recognize all the names on the list of your
targets, which I'll read out for the viewers.
Jack Johnson, who is the chairman of the board
and, like, the head guy, the big guy. Eagernessed.
who is the main tech guy for the council who
oversees the vector mines, like top level. Task
Newton, who is the head of security for the council.
And George Define, who is the head council and
regulations officer, like the lawyer. You recognize
all of these names personally because you worked
with them closely, but George Define sticks out
to you as being strange given that you know him
to be one of Bluth's main supporters and like
one of his greatest... allies. This was outlined
in the paperwork Glint had prepared regarding
this. George? Hex asks. Well, they will expect
one of us in the wreckage. Hex gives just a silent
nod. I think I maybe hate Bluth a little bit
less. There's a lot to unpack there. Was Bluth
a good friend of his youth? I mean, Can you deny
Nolan's masterpiece? He's big in the vein posting.
I like Luke a little more now. Christopher Nolan
is like the future's Mozart. Whoa. Yeah. I guess
Geist is going to walk over and he's going to
look at the list and he's going to be like, shit,
I guess Ziggurat's getting a promotion, eh? Oh,
yes, she is well positioned, especially with
certain patents she plans to file. He gives a
big grin to you. Yeah. So you look at that. Some
good can come out. Yeah. Alright. I don't think
there's anything else to discuss unless any of
you have questions. Not me. This is pretty clear.
Just let us know how we're gonna get those funds.
Oh, it will be arranged. That's true. It will
be arranged. So. Just general overview stuff
that I will tell you now, abstracted, instead
of having to do his voice, even though I love
it very much. Caldera Lake has a tier three private
military, which will probably be what you're
contending with there. The retreat will take
place at the Ash Bay Resort and last one whole
day, after which... everyone will leave. People
are going to be flying in, sailing in, or driving
in. Invitations to the retreat are exclusive,
but you may be able to finagle something if you
want an invitation or a cover identity that is
invited. And there is a general layout of the
facility that is made available, which I will
bring up on the screen. I have a quick question.
He mentioned... Like refitting our frames to
be more anonymous. I'm a little unclear. Is that
before we do this job so that we can do it without
getting made? Or is that after as part of our
going to ground? That is after. Good question.
So you will not be able to use your frames if
they will be spotted. If you want to fulfill
your mission properly. I have a pertinent question.
Did my imaginary electrocution go away or is
it still a level two harm? No, you can drop that
down. Honestly, you can probably drop it down
to one. Cool. I was going to say drop it completely,
but I don't think so. You're not giving up that
easy. Given the scope. Yeah. I actually do have
one more question that is half of a meta question,
half not. Bluth said. That Hex could not reveal
himself due to the nature of their association.
Does that extend to all of the Dusklights, or
is it just Hex? That is all of you. Okay. We
all gotta be kind of in discussion. Yeah. I was
just thinking about the possible use of my ability
where I can reveal myself to stun people for
a moment, but then I would have to kill everybody
who saw. Oh, but wouldn't it be cool? Wouldn't
it be cool, Isaac? It would be cool. Like, did
some robot shit, you know? That's the thing.
This is basically like, Joseph gets to play Hitman
Blood Money, which is, I think, a pretty good
pitch. He gets to walk around, choke people unconscious,
put deadly poison in the punch bowl. Joseph,
you love all these things. I do. I love poisoning
the punch bowl. Throw a fire extinguisher at
someone as they try and drive away on a jet ski.
Yeah. It just impacts them in the back of the
head, killing them. Bottle de agua. I'm coming
for you. No, you're not coming for him. Wait.
Oh, wait. Okay, fine. You're unlucky, Bottle.
You're unlucky. Don't get them mixed up. Wait,
can Trish just tell me something? Oh god, guys.
I'm so sorry. I feel like as we leave, as we
leave the construction site, Geist is gonna try
and, like, get close to Loyal. Not necessarily
out of earshot of the others, but when they're
not, like, right there, and he's gonna be like,
he's just gonna be like, I know you don't like
to kill non -combatants, but these aren't exactly
good people. I just want to make sure you're
steady on this one. Loyal is just very distracted
by the martyrdom issue at hand. I don't know
if he is feeling any particular emotion about
the fact that they're about to be a death squad.
very low on the priority list of things that
matter in the world, in the galaxy at the moment.
So he just kind of nods and is like, yeah, just
whatever. I think I'll take Geist back just a
little bit and he'll be like, look, no matter
what this is, I mean, you know, these are all
fat cat motherfuckers. This will be less odious
than the... Then the ocean platform is all. So
just, you know, get through it. It'll be okay.
Let me be in charge of... He comes to his senses
a little bit and actually looks Geist in the
eye. He's like, just let me be in charge of protecting
the... What do we call the people that we're
not killing? VIPs. Yeah. Of protecting the VIPs.
See, look at that. You sound cool too. Exactly.
All right. Awesome. I'm going to describe this
map now. Do you see it? Is it up? Yeah. Is it
up? I like that landing pad. Thank you. Okay.
So for the viewers, there's a map on the screen,
kind of a big grassy area. On the right side,
there is a landing platform, landing strip with
a aircraft poorly drawn on it. and a car, which
is, you know, honestly, not bad. That's a pretty
good car. It's pink. Not bad. For the scale?
Yeah, I'm into it. That's a pretty sick car.
I'd drive it. Thank you. And then that kind of
leads into a... It's all not very detailed. You're
not missing much. But then there's a main hall
directly off of the landing to the left. And
that splits off into a few hallways, going to
some private rooms to the north, a wellness center
to the south. and then a conference room on the
east. And then beyond the conference room and
beyond the grass, there is a beach with some
docks, some chase lounges, and a tiki bar, which
is lovingly rendered and beautiful. There's individual
bottles in it. There are. I should have done
the PNG so you could really see those bottles.
The lossy compression is ruining this for me.
I know. At the south bottom right of the map
is a big utility building. And then around it
is kind of just a bunch of walls. It is a walled
-in facility. And then there's some, you know,
stone pathways that I lovingly rendered to show
that you can kind of cross between various buildings.
This is not like an exhaustive list. I did not
draw any doors, so things may emerge as we get
into it. But this is the general layout of the
Ash Bay Resort and Spa. What about this thing
again? That's a boat. That's obvious, right?
It's on the northern dock. There's like two docks
here. Yeah. The boats can dock there. It looks
like the back end of a Harrier jet or an anime
stingray. Well, that's a spoiler. Those were
both compliments. It was not an indictment of
your art skills, I promise. I don't think I'd
be offended if you indicted that boat. Oh, I
see how it's a boat now. Yeah. Don't sound that
surprised. I see the anime stingray. It looks
like a Harrier jet with the nose. parked under
the dock, you know what I mean? Oh shit, you're
right. That's what I was thinking. Anyways, let's
quit dwelling on what we can see because the
viewers can't see it. We gotta decide what the
fuck we're going to do and I'm gonna be honest
with you all, Geist is really bad at he has a
maximum of one dot in most of his pilot actions.
Oh, you're part of the chair force. One thing
to note. that he recommends you get out of the
city before tomorrow evening because that is
the earliest the military police could show up
based on the timeline you were given. And the
meeting, this retreat, takes place in four days.
So you would need to find someplace to hang out
for like three days. I had the thought that the
timelines don't exactly match up. Yeah, we gotta
go to ground before then, but I mean, I don't
fucking know. Where can we park four frames that
is incognito enough? A cave? Is there a cave?
It's a sewer system. That's a question. That
is a question. We should ask Nyla or something.
Nyla, where do we put our toys when we're not
using them? In the toy box. Our box is about
to be arrested. We need a second place. Yeah,
if you want to meet with her, we could do that.
What if we just have Bluth for parking? For your
frames. Yes. We're doing a lot for you here,
Bluth. Come on. Give me a sway. You got this.
Here we go. We got this. I've prepared my whole
life to... Oh, this isn't a consort? Oh, no.
This is a consort. Absolutely. That's another
success. Five and a six. He says, fine, Harold,
since you are... Just not clever enough to figure
it out yourself. And he sends you a little, I
guess, email that just gives you some basic details
like, one of my holding companies owns a warehouse
in Caldera Lake. We're going to start a upscale
salad restaurant in that area, but it never took
off, so it's not being used right now. The great
part of the restaurant market to break into.
Hex responds with a winky emoji. He gives the
thumbs down react to it. What the hell? He's
very insecure about his sweet green plan. Okay.
Yeah, you've been given a shitty little warehouse
in Caldera that you can hang out in temporarily
until the supply chain issues with lettuce get
resolved. So there's no salad on site? Damn.
There is no salad on site. Maybe there's, like,
some tubers. I don't know. You'll have to find
out. All right, so our team meeting snack is
tubers. Let's talk shop. Sorry about murder.
So we're going in quiet, right? Right, guys?
It's the only way. I don't think we could do
it any other way. So, but then that would be
stealth. I mean, so there's a couple ways we
could do this. I think... Stealth is obvious.
We need to provide an entry point. Social could
also work with Bluth as our connect. Well, actually,
no, we'd probably have to procure our own forged
invitations, which will be difficult. Hey, find
official documents. That's what that is to me.
I think the question and the real difficulty
with something like this is the same problem
that it always is. Loyal is an enormous. dolphin
in an exopod in a planet that has no dolphins.
Geist is a completely freakish and immediately
recognizable being. Joseph is an emergent personality,
but is capable of extreme acts of stealth, and
this is, like, mission is tailor -made for his
particular interest, which is pretty cool. And
then, you know, Harold is, like, the single,
normal -looking guy on the squad who might blend,
but also has worked with some of these people.
So... There's a beach with water! That's all
I'm saying, for our dolphin friend. I have a
different idea. So we could put Loyal in the
ocean, and I'm only gonna be using this ability
the whole run. Beneath notice. Were you gonna
say something, Ewan? Yeah. Loyal has an idea.
Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Loyal wants to
somehow just conceal his identifying markers
of his appearance. I'm not sure how he would
do that. He's like sanding your thumbprints as
a dolphin. Just like he's still a dolphin. We
can't hide that, but he's not loyal specifically.
And he's in the wellness center running dolphin
assisted therapy. And all the VIPs get a special
invitation to come to the wellness center. And
that's how they get out of the way when you guys
start blowing everything up. Let's paint him
to look like an orca. I'll be the wrong shape,
but I think that these guys probably don't know
the difference. These are all the richest people
in the Soul Union. They've flown a special calm
therapy dolphin to the wellness center, and he's
giving luxurious treatments to people. Psychic
water therapy would be very relaxing. Exactly.
I think this could work. I thought for a second
you were going to say you were going to disguise
yourself as your dad. That would be good too,
but no, he doesn't want to touch that with a
10 -foot fin. But imagine just a dolphin with
a full mustache. And a top hat. I'm very proud
of you, son. Does Loyal have bad relations with
their family? I think it's complicated. I think
Loyal's parents didn't want him to do this, did
they? Based on that first vignette one million
years ago. Yeah. They didn't want him to go to
war, but they couldn't stop him. I'm gonna go
be a dog in the military. It hasn't really come
up, but Loyal's dad is like a wealthy industrialist.
Really? Wouldn't that be funny if we met him
at this retreat? A top hat. Well, it was disguised
as him. Oh god, that would be so awkward. I think
that's a good deception to get Loyal on site
if we can pull it off, but it sounds like it
will need some... Finangling. I don't know. I
will say a couple things that I'm just going
to throw out there. I'm not trying to steer you
in any direction, but there is hologram technology
that could be good disguise work. That's within
the realm of acquirable assets if you spend some
money. Bluth gave you two supply that you can
use on whatever you want. It's like a billion
dollars. It is a lot of money. also you can you
can rent frames as well for like my sizing and
in my head just how much is one supply worth
roughly like a house a corporate building a tank
uh it is not specific but from using in -game
uh fucking terminology you can fuck it's kind
of hard to say I would say, just like, so my
reckoning is that you can use one supply point
to unjunk a piece of gear, so it's about how
much the fucking main cannon on an Abrams tank
costs. Okay, that's a good metaphor. It's millions.
Yeah, it's money. Okay, because mechs are expensive.
Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, I guess it's probably
more than that, because frames are, like, more
expensive than, like, regular, you know, military
vehicle hardware. We don't need to dwell on the
economics. It won't make sense. But it's a lot
of fucking money. If you acquired an asset for
some sort of disguise fucking bullshit, that
would apply to your whole squad. Like, for this
mission. Okay. Let's go ask Bluth for a connect
to the local black market dealer that has...
You mean Barry Black Market? My man, Barry. What
does Barry sound like? He sounds sketchy as fuck.
I was going to say, he just had the Colin Sketchy
voice. We can have that meeting if you want to
get there. I was also just going to say, I don't
know how exactly renting a frame works, but I
believe you can just spend one materiel to take
the acquire asset role. Okay. Yeah. What are
we picking up from Barry? We got to decide. Yeah,
we got to think. We got to put a little brainpower
into our plan. Not too much, because the whole
point is that the plan emerges as we go. But
a little bit. So, a couple things. Firstly, hologram
stuff is very good. I think it will give X a
significant edge, and it will allow Joseph to
walk around. Geist is not really very good outside
of any frame. All of his skills are frame skills.
So he could go in in disguise, and he would if
that is what was asked, but I think it might
be better to have him, especially if when things
start going sideways and these billionaires start
running for their private jets, it might be good
to have somebody waiting in the wings to fire
a surface -to -air missile at them or whatever.
Yeah. But also, you can now fire surface -to
-air missiles without even being in your frame.
Yes, I thought it occurred to me as well. Oh,
shit. Do you know that? No, nobody knows that.
But you all know that Geist has multiple times
used a very sophisticated remote control to control
the changeling when he's outside of it. So you
know that he can do that. You just don't know
that he can do that without using his PlayStation
controller. I was going to say Xbox 360. That
is, I mean, I should have said that. That's what
I use. I've got one. Damn, I'm glad we're aligned.
Do you think we could kill all these people at
the same time or are we going to have to individually
hit them? Because if we're doing it at the same
time, that would save us a lot of time. But if
we do it individually, it'd have to be all pretty
fast because once someone finds the first body,
then we're in trouble. Yeah, that would rely
on getting them all into the same place and not
having any. It would be nice if we can get them,
let's say, into a vehicle like the boat or the
plane, blow up the plane or sink the boat, you
know, and then they drown within there. oh my
god what if we fabricate a crisis and then joseph
like poses as like the pilot who's like come
on get on the boat guys i'll keep you safe and
then like he just like looks to the camera and
makes an evil face and then they all get yeah
i turn off my my fucking disguise and be like
you got roboted see ya jump through the window
okay so theoretically We get Joseph and Hex in
there in disguise. We get Geist piloting. Well,
Geist could be in there too, and then he could
just pilot the changeling remotely. And then
Loyal is infiltrating. Is that idea insane? Are
there enough dolphins on Terra Brea? Is Loyal
the only one? The only one. Would that be too
much of a stretch? You're the only military dolphin
on Terra Brea. What's the civilian dolphin population
like? Small, but not non -existent. There are
millions of people who live in Terabrea, especially
in the city. It's not ridiculous. It's not more
ridiculous than anything else. Cool, so we just
want to do full stealth, get our boots on the
ground, contact Bluth with our communicator and
be like, okay, where are the VIPs? And then just
go from there, try and... Either gather them
together or pick them off one by one. I think
that's a good start, yeah. The thing I was going
to ask are, what are the other little things
that we have to do? One of them is plant evidence
that it was a Clusterist, correct? That's where
they want it to lead. Don't be discovered. Don't
kill anyone on the list of people not to kill.
I should specify just so that I can claim that
this was Undertale the whole time. Bluth didn't
tell you you don't need to technically kill these
people. He said you need to make sure they don't
vote in the next board meeting. Oh, that's true.
Or just rip off their mouths. That's easy. And,
like, how long until the next board meeting from
this event? Um... He... Well, his implication
was that it would be very hard to get to these
people because they don't live on Terebrae, a
lot of them. Because it sucks to live here. Yeah.
So it would be excessively hard to get them in
their, like, mega mansions. But... Let's just
say it's like in fucking six days or whatever.
Do you think we could threaten these people into
not doing anything? Or would that even work?
We could, but we don't know if they'll betray
us or not. At the end of the day, it's a lot
simpler just to kill them. Yeah. I'm just saying
that because... So you... I don't know. If you
come up with some clever shit... Yeah, if you
come up with some clever shit, you can get points
and everybody will be like, oh, Joseph is so
moral. So she knows what happened later. Look
at that character grip. But yeah, plant evidence
to implicate clusterists, you know, somehow.
Don't let your identities be discovered. Kill
additional attendees, just like whoever, so it
doesn't seem that targeted. Okay, okay. Those
are like the two things I think we need to actually
look out for then, is planting the evidence and
then killing extra people. Because if we did
it stealthily and killed just the people, we
also have to kill people on the run, right? This
is no Russian. Yeah, this is no rush. This is
also a great time to remind you all that there
is a flashback mechanic in this game. Who's got
some stress to burn? I only have four. I've got
six. I'm doing okay right now. I had a bad time
in my vignette. I heard. I also have stress to
burn. Okay, cool. Then we'll be fine. So yeah,
this is something important. You can spend stress
to flashback and declare that you have done things
in advance, which is a wonderful mechanic. I
think it's Usually between 1 and 3 stress in
extreme cases and sometimes requires a roll.
So you probably won't trauma out from it unless
you're in a really bad spot. I think we should
just get into it. So the plan is, well, maybe
we need to handle our prep first. Get disguises,
get everyone on site. Um, guys can use this frame
remotely if we need to. And then the only prep
we need to do is to get, uh, get the holographic
thingies so that the three of us can, you know,
not be immediately recognizable. Okay. Should
I call it my boy, Barry black market? Yeah. Um,
one thing we might want, this is just occurring
to me now. Um, you, I, this is a kind of bad
time. I kind of wish I had, thought about this
earlier, but you may not be able to return to
the city after this mission in general. So if
you need to talk to Gopher or Worthy or your
cohorts about the situation, that might need
to occur. I want to bring Bippo. Bring Bippo.
Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, we can't handle
this while we're... This starts the end of the
game, essentially. That's the pop -up message.
There's no turning back. If there's anything
you'd like to do in the city, now's a great time
to do it. Yeah, I think we have to talk to everybody.
We've got to talk to the sparrows, we've got
to talk to whoever is still alive in the raptors.
I think our boy... You can assemble them all
together if you want. You may be wondering why
we brought you here today. It's up to you how
you want to handle that. But you should probably
do it unless you want to totally leave it up
to my whims. No, no, no, for sure. I think Geist
wants to talk to Gopher. I feel like the last
time you guys can come too, but the last time
they spoke, Gopher was still really shell -shocked.
But Geist was basically just like, you did alright,
kid. And he was kind of half comatose. But I
think Geist wants to talk to Gopher. I think
Gopher has earned the right to a personal, a
little quick personal meeting for this kind of
thing. Sure. Let's have it. Gopher is, I guess,
just in the hangar, kind of working on the frames,
as he always is. Cool. Is Nyla's little meeting
room still in here? Yeah. Is it empty? Yeah.
Okay. Geist, I'll be like, hey, Gopher, you want
to come talk to me for a second? Yeah, sure.
Sure, sure, sure. He puts down his tools, wipes
some motor oil and sweat off his brow. Yeah,
and he follows you. I feel like Gophers had a
glow up. I feel like he's a little bit less dweeby
than he was when he started. Yeah, the trauma
of it all has aged him. It's hardened him. It
made him sexier. Yeah. I mean, absolutely. Muscular
now. And oil stained. Yeah, Geist will bring
him into the office and be like, alright, listen,
you know what's coming, right? I mean, you've
guessed at it. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna be perfectly
frank with you. Geist. Listen. Don't worry. If
they show up, I won't hesitate. Won't hesitate
to what? He pats something on his back. Alright.
No, no, no, listen, that's... Your heart's in
the right place, but I got a better idea. Alright,
I mean, you know this is too important to just
let go. This battle here, I mean, this Erebrea
has become the lynchpin. in what could be the
fall of civilization as we know it. And you've
become an indispensable part of the Dusklights.
I mean it. We couldn't do most of what we've
done without you. We're not going to go quietly.
We've got plans in motion to get the hell out.
Keep working, you know. I think I'd like you
to come with us. Uh, he says, yeah, of course.
I mean, I'm glad I'm getting invited. I thought
I was just gonna have to, you know, blam blam.
Suicide by cop. No. No, you're too valuable to
let go out like that. Um, so listen, the earliest
day that we believe that, uh, military police
can arrive is, uh, it's tomorrow still, right,
in the chronology? Yeah. Um, so. We've got things
in the works, but basically what I need you to
do is go to ground, hide, don't get found. They
know you were present sort of for the briefing.
They might come after you, especially when we're
not to be found. So just go to ground, hide.
Give me some way to reach you. All right. Can
do. He gives you his personal lumber. And I guess
he would offer. He would say, I can just come
with you on your next mission, if you want. Come
with how? I don't know. I can stay with Worthy.
I'm guessing he's coming. Or, you know, whatever
you want. If you need feet on the ground, I did
infantry training. I'm cool with that. That's
a good point. I'll talk to Worthy. I mean, assuming
we can get him in, yeah. If you want to just
stay with him, that'll probably simplify things.
But I don't know. I just wanted to tell you personally
that things are going to get messy and we're
not ready to let this go. Not yet. Alright, cool.
Wait, is Dyla coming? I don't know. Maybe not
right away. Alright. Well, you know, I'll pack
my things. Yeah. Geist will offer him a handshake.
He shakes your hand. Big slap. Was it a great
handshake? It was a great handshake. Nice. I
feel like shaking hands with Geist is kind of
unpleasant because he's got, you know, robot
hands. He's got the texture of sandpaper. Yeah.
Geist will leave. I feel like he was happy with
how that went. Hopefully, Gopher feels like a
valued member of the team. You don't gotta roll
for Gopher. Gopher is a ride or die, since you
let him go kill Clusterists. I'm a little concerned.
I mean, maybe we could use that. We got a guy
who wants to blow up. We gotta take out some
people. If he's tune or die, then pretend to
be a Clusterist. That's true. Worthy might be
a harder sell. I feel like he's not quite...
I mean, he's still a great guy, but he always...
I don't know. I feel like I would at least want
loyal present for that one. Maybe the whole squad
should come. Are you tapping a pen? Yes, I am.
I don't know why that's getting picked up. Sorry.
God, my fucking senses are so tuned. Jeez. What
coffee do you drink? Two Diet Cokes and a coffee.
Holy shit. Colin, that's a lot, actually. I know.
But they were small Diet Cokes. They weren't
full -size. Oh, okay. Not a real DC. No, not
a real DC. Okay, let's go talk to Worthy. I think
we got it. We should do it as a team. Yeah, let's
go talk to Worthy. If you ask, I'll come along.
Hex will go if you think it'll help. Yeah, why
not? I don't think it could hurt anyways. I mean,
Hex has a very high social score. That is true.
Yeah, he's a talker. Keep that in mind. He yaps.
He yaps. He's a yapper. He is. Okay, yeah, let's
go talk to our man, Worthy. Where's he at? Yeah,
Worthy's gassing up the ship. Not actually gas.
In the future, they use fireflies. I don't know.
What if it's actually gaseous, though? It could
be gas. It's extracted from the Bippo. Oh, no.
It's actually the same thing. That's fucked up.
Bippo has jet fuel. Bro, it's sick. Also, Colin,
can Hex feasibly ship Bippo to a family member
off -planet? Yeah, feasibly. Just melt him and
reform him later. Unfortunately, Bippo explodes
nuclearly if he's a mile away from his owner.
Hex dips into the funds that Bluth gave to ship
Bippo. You do not need to spend $2 million to
ship a dog. I wouldn't do that. No, no, no. Colin,
this is Bippo. We're talking. Yeah, it's $3 million.
Do you know how expensive it is? I'm just going
to... I'll take away all the funds that Luth
gave you, and we'll just say Bippo is a really
good experience, and I'll do a little mini vignette
with just Bippo, and it'll be great. It's only
fair. But you're playing Bippo. Yeah, I'm Bippo.
And then you tell me how I've been so good, and
I deserve to rest. Oh, God. Okay. Yes, Bippo.
You can ship Bippo away. Bippo's great. Who are
you sending him to live with? Well, reporter
lady's... She's not implied dead, but she's implied
not good, so not her. Yeah, the implications
are up in the air. Uh, Glyn's dead. Uh... Gopher's
with us. That would have been on the list. Uh...
Does anyone else have friends? No? Okay, then
next of kin. I think Hex is... Got a family,
like his parents or something. There you go.
Okay. Here's my war dog, Mom and Dad. Hope you're
doing well. You're not going to hear from me
for a while. Anything you read in the news about
me doing war crimes is probably false. Yeah.
Heck sends a letter to that effect. It's very
brief. Sure. Well, it takes at least a month
for Bippo to get there, so we won't have to deal
with that for a while. I'm going to make a note.
No, I want closure on this. So when we do the
end credits scene where everyone's dead, it's
like Bippo found a new home. No, I need Bippo's
help. Otherwise, I can't go on a crazy... Oh
yeah, and there's care instructions in his carrier.
Yeah, of course. Oh, they're extensive too. You
know, Bippo's high maintenance. He'll turn into
a raisin otherwise. It's really horrific. Yes.
Okay, what were we even talking about? Worthy.
Yeah, I got so in the Bippo zone, I lost track
of everything else. It happens. Happens to everyone.
Yeah, he's working on the ship. He says, Fuck,
I need his voice. I need to watch Fargo. Don't
you? Pedro Pascal. How you doing, pilots? That's
different. He keeps going Irish. It's fine. No,
I got it. There's enough Minnesota for me. Hey,
Worthy. I'm sure you know, I mean, what's coming.
You have some idea of it, yeah. This is my last
drop with you, I hear. Yeah. What if it didn't
have to be? What are you saying? I'm saying that
even if, you know, the pencil pushers and the
politicians back in the Seoul Union think that
this is a conflict we can afford to lose, I think
we all know better. We know what it means to
lose the support of the Oro, what it means for
human civilization as a whole. It's not something
that we can allow to happen for any reason. Uh,
give me a roll. Oh god. I have to... I have to
consort, don't I? Yeah, does anyone want to help
assist? Could you have, like, given Hex a piece
of paper with that, and he could say that? You
know, a flashback. So this is what I want to
say. Alright. Line, line. But no, Hex can assist
with that. Spend stress equal to your amount
of bonds you have with Geist. Oh shit, are we
bonded? I think it's just one. Damn. Yeah. I'm
glad we're just colleagues. Yeah, it actually
makes this part a little bit easier. But also...
As he pulls out the gun. Two dice with my luck.
I'll give you my luck. There you go. Okay, here
it is. I have it. I have the luck. Green. It's
a failure. Sorry. That was a controlled position,
so if you would like, you may re -roll it at
a risky position. Or you can take the failure
and walk away. But I will say this. If you accept
this failure, he's not going to come with you.
I don't trust myself to win another pair of coin
flips. I really don't think that I can. I'll
propose this. If you want to have Hex swoop in
at this point and take his shot at a risky position,
I'd be cool with that too. Sure. Yeah, let's
do that. So it looks like we tell him that he's
very obviously like... Yeah, so like he's waffling.
What my friend means to say is we really need
your help. I don't know. Blow your head off.
Just take a minute to think of something mildly
compelling. Because this is a good moment. Like,
imagine Worthy's like, I don't know, hitching
my reputation to yours. No offense. It's a lot
of attention. Do you want to be on the right
side of history? Oh, that's good. That's good
shit. That's good shit for a lot of reasons.
I'm glad you like it. Thank you. All right, roll
your roll consort. I got that one from Helldivers.
Hell yeah. Easy win. Yes! Partial success. Partial
success. Yeah, you do it, but you stub your toe.
Kick for stress. Here's what I'll give you. He
says, alright, I'll stay on for a couple more
missions just to see how things go, but if you
do any crazy shit again, I'm out. Okay? Yeah,
I don't think we'll be in a position to flood
any more major metropolitan centers, right, Hex?
I promise. Cool. There you have it. Alright.
He nods, Gene says. Alright. I still get paid,
right? Yeah. I mean, we'll pay him through the
funds that we're getting. Um, we're gonna be
going to ground soon, like, today. Um, but, uh...
We're going to be doing another op in about six
days' time. We might need support on it. We'll
be in touch. Take Gopher with you when you go.
Can do. All right. It's been a hell of a pleasure
working with you. We'll see you soon. I'll give
him the entry, too. He is also driving you to
the place. Well, I guess then. Flying you. What
a nice guy. Uh, okay. That's them. Uh, so what
is left would be your cohorts, the Raptors and
the, uh, not Raptors, Sparrows. Uh, both run
by, depending on how you want to swing this,
you have the temporary guy who's Jackson Kale,
the drill sergeant, or you have the original
who is, uh, you know, Captain Spud, who is in
the hospital. Yeah. Um, I guess let's go see
Spud first, because he might be able to give
us some insight on tails. I need to hear his
surfer vibes one last time. Make the spodzy vibes.
Sure. You find him in the hospital with Dr. Grace?
Oh, Dr. Grace. I don't know that you could take
her. She's not just your doctor. But hey, you
could drive if you really wanted to. Yeah, he's
there. He's... Looks very bad. He has a lot of
skin that is still healing from horrible, horrible
burns. I believe he lost his bottom half as well.
I forget. But he really messed up. I'll determine
his injury and remember that later. But he's
in hospital bed and he says, Oh, hey, what's
up, man? Mans? How's it going, Spud? You look
great. Oh, yeah. you know morphine is like weed
but really good you know yeah yeah i remember
um hey they give you an uh estimated time when
you're gonna be able to get the hell out of this
bed oh well you know i'm uh i'm going through
this thing called nerve therapy right now man
it's like uh when you're like your limbs stop
working because of severe damage and they try
to like make it work um So, you know, hopefully,
like, within a couple weeks, I can be ambling
about. You know, we'll see. Yeah. All right.
Is Grace still here? Yeah. All right. But she
can leave if you don't want her here. That's
fine. I think Geist is going to want to talk
to her eventually because they're very close
personal friends. But I think Geist will be like,
you know, Grace, can we have a word with the
captain? on some confidential matters real quick.
Yeah, sure. She heads out. Cool. Look, I mean,
you know what's coming. Right, Spud? For us,
I mean. Oh yeah, totally, man. Real bummer. Yeah.
I think we're going to take some time away from
the city to reflect. Oh, fuck. You're not going
to leave me here, are you? That depends. I can
still shoot. You know, my arms work fine. That's
the... That's good spirit. That's kind of the
hard part. My man, if we take you out of here,
you're not going to get the medical care that
you need. Well, fuck the medical care. I'm not
going to... I mean, I was there. Who knows if
the MPs are going to come for me? You know? Fair
point. I mean, I wasn't there, but I was in the
ship, you know? Yeah. Look, I need to know what
you think about the rest of our guys. Especially
Kale. Oh, fucking Kale. Sparrows and the raptors
as a whole. Yeah, no, I mean, let me talk to
them, man. They'll fall in line. And, you know,
honestly, listen, if you get the doctor there
to pull some strings, she can reinstate me. Even
just technically, just load us all up, and then
we're good to go. You know, if I'm there, they'll
fall in line. But I need to get out of this bed,
man. Oh, fuck. I'll talk to her. Hell yeah. Alright.
I guess guys still leave and go talk to Grace.
Sure. Awesome. Getting the band together. She's
outside doing something cool with a pill. Juggling?
Juggling ibuprofen. I guess I'll walk up and
be like, Grace, you still smoke? Uh, not unless
it's really bad, so yeah. Cool, why don't you
come take a walk with me if you got a minute.
Yeah, sure. She heads out with you and takes
a smoke. I just want to go outside to somewhere
where it's less likely that there will be bugs.
Well, outside is where the bugs are. Oh my god.
But yeah, let's just be like, I mean, you know.
You know, things are going bad for us. We're
not... I mean, you know what's coming. Yeah.
That Hex guy, he's really fucked up. Yeah. Look,
do you believe in what we've been doing this
whole time? The war, I mean. Fuck. I mean, I
did believe. And, you know, on paper, I believe
in it. You know, if everything that they say
will happen happens. But, you know, the more
we get into it, the more I start thinking, you
know, what if they're wrong? What if, you know,
just the whole Clearwater thing kind of shook
me. That was bad. That was real bad. It worked.
You didn't know, right? I didn't. We were told
to disable the dam. We were given, I would say,
bad orders, but I didn't have any intention of
carrying them out. And then a virtue hit us.
We didn't exactly have a lot of options. I'm
not proud of what Hex did, but I don't think
it was an act of insanity or cruelty, necessarily.
She makes a face. Yeah, that's war. Yeah, it
seems that way. And what is this? What is this
about? I know you're not going to want to hear
this. We're not going to get arrested, any of
us. I mean, we've got a plan, sort of. I'm not
going to ask you to come with. I wouldn't do
that to you after all this time, but I do need
one favor. Okay. You gotta reinstate Spud. Spud?
Spud can barely walk. Yeah. Just technically.
Technically reinstate him? It's a checkbox on
a piece of paper. Garrett? Sounds easy then,
huh? What do I get out of it? What do you get
out of it? What do you want? I don't fucking
know. I just want something that makes me feel
better. Can you just give me, like, five bucks?
Fuck. Look, I can do you one better, I think.
I mean, all this time, all this insanity, all
this blood, I thought that the only thing I wanted
was to see retribution crushed and bleeding in
my hands. I don't know if... I found something.
Found something else. I'm not... I'm not looking
to die anymore. I mean... Not strictly speaking.
You know what I mean? It's not... It's not what
it was. I found... Something to live for. I think.
In all this. As fucked up as it sounds. Shit.
Well... Just for... Giving me that at least.
letting me know that you're not going to suicide
bomb some clustrous building. Fine, I'll check
the box, but just do try to stay alive through
all this. I will. And you, get the fuck off this
planet. You're too good for this whole damn war.
That's for fucking sure. And she gives you a
little handshake. She gives you a hug. I was
gonna say, Geist pulls her in for a hug if she
just tries to give him a handshake. But yeah,
that's... Geist reciprocates the hug. Alright.
I think she says stay dry, Joker. And let you
go. Fuck yeah! Okay, after that I definitely
can't take the Martyrdom crown. Our friendship
will prevail. I'm leaving. Alright, I'm so excited
for you to turn in power up. Me too. Okay, you've
got Spud, you have all the people. Kale goes
back to being a drill sergeant. We don't get
the Kale scene, which honestly, I'm glad. I don't
want to have to come up with a voice. Totally
fair. So he is let out of the hospital and is
kind of just, I guess... In a wheelchair. Yeah,
I guess he's in a wheelchair, like clearly not
done healing. High off his head on fucking Vigodin.
Yeah. He's fucking giving speeches. He's like,
we are all going to fight for what's right. You
know? All of us. We're going to show those fucking
bureaucrats what we can really do. You can't
break that spirit. Which guy? He's doing all
this snake. There is Revolver. I feel like Revolver
and the other guy gave speeches all the time.
I mean, literally everyone at Metal Gear did.
Yeah, there's a lot of speeches. As you can tell,
I didn't beat the game. That's okay. Okay, we're
an hour and a half in and we have not started
the mission. Would I have to do a quick scene,
to be honest, real quickly? Not with anyone.
I just wanted to visit my apartment one last
time. But if there's anything else we need to
do, that's okay. No, I think it's important to
have this. Yeah, OK. Yeah, I don't think Joseph's
going to say goodbye to anyone. He just wants
to go back to his apartment one last time. He's
not going to go to White Cliff and make her confess
her love to him. That comes later, please. Yeah,
so Joseph's going to go back to his apartment
just to like pack things up and get things ready
to leave. And I think he's packing up his gun
and his knife and he's kind of looking around
and he probably. He knows he can't take everything
with him, so he just neatly organizes things
into piles so they can be thrown out when someone
does eventually come and take this shit away.
But among all his things, he kind of like loads
and reloads his gun and kind of like balances
the knife, thinking about what contrition told
him. And he spots on his way out the chess table
that he's been having in there for a long time.
And he kind of like stares down in it and he
gives himself a chuckle. reaches down with his
hand for the king, but then his hand stops and
then it kind of moves over to the pawn. And he
picks up the pawn and he puts it in front of
his face and he sees behind his hand is a mirror
and the pawn is sitting directly within his head.
And Joseph gets very angry. He crumples the pawn
in his hand, spreads it out across the room and
puts his foot through the chess table. He says,
fuck. And then he slams the door and leaves the
apartment for good. Hell yeah. That's good. Did
you just come up with that? That's good. I realized
I didn't tie together our fucking chess metaphor
I put in the beginning of this game, so I'm like,
I gotta think of something. I love that. There
we go. Also, all your personal effects, like
the sunless shrimp, they will come with you.
You don't need to worry about that. Unless you
want to leave the shrimp, that'd be really fucked
up, though. I moved shrimp, but that's hard.
I should mention... Sunliff, do you want to say
goodbye to Luigi? Yeah, boy. I thought he already
left. Is he not gone yet? He's in the process
of leaving. He did not get it approved yet. Um,
okay. Yeah, I don't think so. Alright, give him
a canola. That's really sad, but I get it. With
everything out of the way, we can talk to Barry
fucking Black Market. Yes. Gotta say bye to him.
he'll be he'll be around yeah i was gonna say
i feel like he might be a recurring character
from here around pal this is our guy yeah you
meet him in an alleyway like a new alleyway he
has a series of them um he says hey how's it
going hello i'm told you can get us some disguises
oh yeah real good stuff i got i got everything
i got holograms i got uh i got the classic kits
i got uh You know, I got a little face mask you
pull over your head. You know, I can make a dolphin
look like a tiger, man. Trust me. How reliably
could that dolphin be a tiger? Reliably? Buddy,
reliable is my middle name. Just kidding. It's
fucker. Well, fucker, you got me. And we buy
disguises. Okay, now we're gonna... Fucking find
out how this works. To acquire the asset, first
you spend the money, which is just to take this
action. And then you are going to roll your squad's
tier, which is one, I believe. So you're going
to roll one die, and then you're going to use
that die to determine the quality of the item
you get. On a one to three, it is going to be
tier negative one, four to five, or tier minus
one. Four to five. Yeah, so four to five, it'll
be tier one. And six, it'll be tier two. On a
critical success, it'll be tier three. And you
can spend one materiel per tier level to raise
the result. Okay. Assuming this is the only thing
we need to buy, we can at least reliably get
a tier one set of devices. Yeah. And we should
also... You're getting disguises, but you also
need to figure out how you're going to get...
You need invitations, one. Bluth could probably
arrange that for you, but for Loyal's thing,
being in the Wellness Center, that needs to be
something. Yeah, so we'll want to probably save
our money, our extra dollar for that. Okay. But
someone roll me a d6, and we'll see the tier
of this thing. Yeah. Who wants to take the pleasure?
Not me, man. Not with the way my dice go. All
right, lucky hex six. Oh, that's different. That's
a one. Lucky hex. So that would be a tier zero.
Which is not very good. No, that does not seem
like reliable would be your middle name. We completely
drained our coffers, didn't we, last time? It
says we have one material on the sheet. I don't
know if somebody put that in from today. Is that
Joseph's dollar? Is that Joseph's dollar? It
is! Joseph, did I ever tell you about how you're
a great friend? I forgot about that. Oh, the
terrorism payout. I forgot. I knew it was worth
it. Are we going to break that payout? We don't
need to break it right now, but we might need
to in the future if Joseph would be willing to
do that for the squad. Yeah, absolutely. I think
that money is the squad's money. He's not holding
it. for himself. He's got other things on his
brain. I think we should spend our second material
to get level one hologram devices so they're
not complete dogshit ass. Sure, I think that's
a good idea. You kick that up to tier one, which
they... How do you want these to work, really?
It's kind of up to you. Like, what your ideal
is. I mean, I don't know if anybody else had
a different idea, but my idea is just basically
like... it's essentially like the terminator
from terminator 2 where you can just like and
you just like look like a different person you
know what i mean yeah yeah not that this was
a hologram but you know what i mean like that's
what i don't know if anybody had a different
idea for how these could function but that makes
the most sense to me that it just like alters
your physical appearance like because like that's
where technology is that's like a reasonable
yeah level of technology in this setting right
and maybe it can change your clothes or maybe
it keeps the clothes you have on i don't know
Yeah, this is like a $200 on Amazon situation
where it's like pretty feasible. But this is
like military grade. What if we are touched or
like shake hands in this thing? I think that
would be perhaps a problem. Okay. For Joseph
specifically, I guess for Geist as well. Like
with how the rolling in this game works, like
that won't become a problem unless it's like
people are scrutinizing you because you messed
up a roll. Okay, I'm wondering if someone puts
a hand on my shoulder, it'll be like, oh, a metal
exoskeleton. You've been working out? Yeah, I
won't just spring someone putting their hand
on you, unless you roll a bad. Oh, sure. Okay,
you have those. Barry produces some little discs
you put on your clothing. Yeah, that's how I
imagined it, too. Putting it in my chest. Nice,
compact, programmable thing. It tells you all
the pre -programmed identities that are there
that you can customize it. Nice. We use the default
one, and then we spot other default ones in the
fucking place. There's six... What the fuck?
There's six wealthy industrialists in here. Default
male underscore one, and we're all just the same
generic Unity asset flip white guy in a red t
-shirt. We gotta get out of here. Should put
the mustache on. Cool. Let's put one on the Exopod
and see what happens. Alright, so that's that.
I think you could change the general shape of
the Exopod, change the way Sunlith looks. I think
it's all good. I don't know if you want to look
any way in particular, Sunlith. Yeah, I was just
imagining he makes himself look like a different
species of dolphin. Nothing fancy. You're now
a common dolphin. I'm now common. So common.
Damn. Common dolphins are very pretty, for reference.
Pretty common. They got a stripe. Okay. So...
What else do you want, if anything, at this time,
to acquire as an asset? You can also flashback
to acquiring an asset as well. Yeah. If that
comes up. Yeah, so I think that the next thing
we need to do is just... Blue can get us our
basic invitations, then we just need to get...
We need to get Loyal in position. Yeah. I think
that'll all be determined by the roll. Probably.
Okay. I guess we should do it. Right? I guess
we should. You're going to try stealth? Or maybe
this is a self -social combination, really. Your
entry point is front door slash wellness center.
I guess loyal is your general vibe that you've
been hired by this company somehow. Yes, I'm
a special hire. I almost don't know how to resolve
that. To see how well you're in there, because
it's almost separate from the mission. Could
that be a thing that Bluth organizes for us?
Somehow. Yeah. I think he'd want to keep his
hands on getting that involved. Okay, maybe we
organize with, like, the hotel? Like, I don't
know. I mean, I was thinking that it could be,
like, not exactly a setup action, but basically
just, like, a similar thing to us. It's, like,
similar to acquiring an asset, where it's just,
like, we're trying to, like, pull some strings
or something, so maybe a role and maybe spending
some money and maybe having a little scene to
talk about it. Um, if you wanted to divorce it
from like the engagement role, which I think
I would like to, uh, yeah, let's do that. So
we'll say that this is going to cost money. Cause
you need like special fucking papers for this.
Yeah. Yeah. So we'll spend that last dollar that
he gave you. And, um, let's, I guess sunless,
do you want to make like a sway role to see how
well you lie your way in there or someone else
can do it as well. If you want to have it set
up for you, but yeah. How will I lie in my email
where I'm like, I want to work. Oh, Hex is great
at teaching people to lie in email. That's basically
his job. Only at consorting, not swaying. Sorry.
I can see you aren't even free either, but loyal
is three sway, so. Oh, loyal. This is you. Oh,
you rolled it. Oh, shit. Okay, partial. Okay,
here's what I will say for that setup, is that
you are hired, you have a position in the wellness
center. But you did not get your big therapy
job. They're like, you're going to be running
towels for the time being. You're going to be
a great diversity hire for us. Wow. They hire
the exotic dolphin to be towel runner. Yeah,
they just don't trust you that much yet. Maybe
someday. You have an inn. You can get into employee
areas of the wellness center. You're on site.
I think they probably... I don't want to get
into the logistics of where people live in Caldera
Lake. There's probably some apartment somewhere
where you just lie about living and they just
let you walk in in the morning. Hondo's. Good
shit. Yeah, so you are there. You are in the
Wellness Center, and we will describe that once
the engagement roll is there. Hey, can I have
a scene with Geist before we start? Yeah, what
would that be? It would just be, like, at some
point, when they are traveling together in some
vehicle. In the plane, maybe? Yeah, as they're
going around, talking to all their contacts.
Like, Loyal doesn't even say this out loud. He
also doesn't do his usual politeness of psychic
ability. He just, his voice shows up in Geist's
head, and he's like, you have to do it. What?
Is he saying that out loud? I mean, yeah. I don't
think Geist knows that he can... He doesn't think
he can project words back into Loyal's head.
He just hears, Quiet. Don't talk. You have to
do it. There's no other way. It can't be Maze.
He thinks to himself, Okay, do what? Take the
crown. What? What the fuck? And then... Let's
see here. How much stress does Geist have right
now? He has... He's four away from being full.
Okay. Cool. Um... I get to choose how much stress
I save. I heal you. So I want to heal you...
You can heal my stress? With my ability called
Carry That Weight. Oh, that's right. I'm going
to take away four of your stress. This is bold.
So this happens in his mind. He's told to do
it. And then he's just forced to feel this feeling
of calm. Instantly. And then Loyal shuts off
the connection and does not speak to him again.
Jesus. Psychics are weird. That would scare me.
Psychics are mean. A little manipulative. Yeah,
it was like, kill yourself. So basically you
just said, kill yourself. And doesn't this feel
good? Yeah, it does feel good. I hate to say
it, but it really does. You know, maybe. I don't
know. So relaxed. You put up a compelling argument.
Mowing around my body. A crown looks pretty good
on me. Fucked up. Okay. Great. I like it. I like
it, too. That's crazy. That's a crazy thing.
We're getting good shit this session. Okay, now
let's do the engagement roll. Let's get everything
set up. Okay. First roll. Is the mission bold?
Yeah. I think it's bold. I think it's brash.
Is the mission complex? kinda i'd say so yeah
we got holograms we got like fake dolphins it's
pretty insane yeah it took us an hour and a half
to set this up i i don't know if it necessarily
is complex in the way that it means it doesn't
it doesn't exactly rely on a whole bunch of moving
parts we're just like showing up in disguise
and killing the people we need to kill you know
what i mean like if we decided how we would kill
these people it would be complex but the fact
that we're just gonna run in with it we can't
decide that now i feel like the the bit about
this in the book defines complex is like relying
on a whole bunch of like finicky moving parts
that all have to align there properly for everything
to go as planned but i mean there are four moving
parts maybe even more um which are that there
are people with schedules uh and security all
in one place i would say it is complex Because
I'm a hater. I'm a hater. A fucking hater's win
again. No, I love it. I love your hate. Make
it easy. I love your hate. Does the tactic exploit
vulnerabilities? Yeah, I think it does. Especially
with loyal. There. Cool. That they're racist.
Yay! It's our greatest asset. Does the squad
have external support? You plan to do. Bluth
is there. We do, yeah. And Worthy's flying around
somewhere. And the changeling. Well, that's internal
support. Why is our best supported mission the
one where we're a death squad? What's going on
here? You know why. You know why. Is anyone interfering
with the mission? Yes. Oh. Oh, that's bad news.
So you have one die, two die, one die, two die,
three die, two die. So two die. Two dice. It's
not bad. Who wants to be the lucky lad? I'm never
lucky. I can't be the one who does it. I was
born lucky. What am I wrong? 2d6. Easy. Win.
Oh no! That's a full fucking failure. Come on!
Just give me one! Four's the total. It's a one
and a three. Wow. That's unfortunate. I should
have given you that third die. I'm full of guilt.
Oh, please give me a third. I'll roll it right
now. It's too late. It's too late now.