Jack Johnson was taken aback by September Bluth's
email. Bluth was, after all, a fairly unimportant
person in the grand scheme of things. A union
liaison primarily dealing with the peacekeepers
who, as far as he was concerned, were fighting
a battle which had been doomed from the beginning.
Despite this, Bluth kept pushing the council
to toss funds to the peacekeepers. whispering
poison into the other board members' ears, telling
them that not helping would only arouse suspicion
in the long run. And though Jack believed the
suspicion of the union would be irrelevant as
soon as the Uro backed out of their agreement
with them, the other board members saw it as
a harmless indulgence. What is a few million
in credit to settle their anxieties? Bluth was
ambitious, but paradoxically he was a rather
lazy man, unwilling to get his hands dirty, to
really crunch the numbers. Why then did he suddenly
want to ally himself with Jack, after all his
time pushing against his goals? As much as he
wanted to ignore Bluth, something about this
email, about his casual tone, about his implication
that Jack was working with Tyrell Crine of all
people, it didn't sit right with him. Was it
a concession, or a threat? Jack had too many
irons in the fire to try to fit Bluth into it,
and if the man didn't have enough sense to stay
out of it at such a critical moment, then Jack
supposed he would have to do something about
the Bluth problem. What a shame, Jack thought.
He always gave such good gift baskets. Okay,
so where we last left off, you'd all been sent
to the Ash Bay Resort and Spa to eliminate some
of September Bluth's corporate rivals. And we
stopped right after you had rolled very poorly
on your engagement roll. But before we get to
the drama, I'll set the scene a little. You all
pull up in different cars. I think like the Sparrows
or whoever is like pretending to be your driver.
You go on to the landing pad on this east side.
There's not just one plane here. There's a few.
I didn't want to draw a few, though. There's
a few cars. People are getting out. There's some
normal private jets, kind of like what you were
in on that one mission. You went to the refinery.
It's really nice. And then there's one private
jet here, which is like a fucking super fortress,
which is really, really, really, really, really,
really, really nice. And out of it... you kind
of instantly spot Jack Johnson leaving it with
like a little retinue of people around him, some
guards and all that. And everyone's kind of just
heading towards the main hall. And so I'm not
going to, just because it would totally fuck
the mission, I'm not going to put you in a desperate
position in a traditional sense, but I'm going
to say that Don't know how I could convey this
to you. Maybe I don't don't have to to the characters,
but you basic there's so there's a couple clocks,
which you should see under the operation player
visible clocks called alert and retreat ends.
Retreat ends is basically just like each time
segment. I move forward. Things will like once
that ends, like it's nighttime. Everyone goes
home. Alert is how alert people are that something's
fucked up is going on, specifically the guards,
in which case they will either deploy in a serious
way or evacuate people, neither of which you
want. And I'm going to move that to two segments
to reflect that I think they have been tipped
off that someone made bogus invitations. They
don't know who, and they don't know who it's
for, but they're around. Okay. And I can click
this. That's a bad start. But just remember,
alert is two out of four. I cannot move it right
now for some reason. Sure. Okay. So you are in
the parking lot. If you move into the main hall,
it is this big, expansive room. Very fancy. There's
waiters milling around with drinks and food.
There's a little food table off in the corner
as well with all sorts of snacks. Bluth is already
there grazing. Grazing? You know, grazing. That's
what you call it. When you're just like... Eating
lots of small things. Yeah. I just thought of
a cow. I'm sorry. Thank you. That's not nice
to say about your friend, September Bluth. In
the white suit. Bluth hates me too. That's true.
He kind of had it coming. But yeah, you are in
this main room. You kind of see most of your
targets in the main hall. Well, actually half
of them. The first is Jack Johnson. is with his
group of people. Um, just talking to people.
He's doing like the, you know, his businessman
smiles and all that good stuff. Um, the other
person you see here is the R and D head eager
nest. Um, he is, uh, in power armor. Uh, I can
only describe it as a seven foot tall, like mechanical
armored suit with a big mirrored face plate.
Um, that. I will say that by reputation, Hex,
you know he just is always fucking wearing this
thing. He is... If you were being unkind, he
is severely agoraphobic. The only time he...
He takes meetings in this. No one ever sees him
take it off. Some people suspect he has some
sort of cleaning thing in there so he doesn't
need to shower. But that's speculation. We don't
know for sure. The only time people ever see
it... drop a little bit is when he eats. He will
put the faceplate down and then shove some food
in his mouth and that's it. But that's only if
he's in a snacky mood, which so far he is not.
I have a question. I don't know if Hex might
know this. Does he look like a normal dude under
there or does he look all fucked up like Ziggurat?
From what people have seen of his face, he looks
like a normal dude. That's only his face though,
so who can say? He was until he put on the suit.
George Define, the head counsel, is conspicuously
missing. You do not see him show up. And the
head of security, Task Newton, arrived via an
APC and then headed south off of the landing
strip as soon as she got there. So just to...
The two people are in the main hall. One is missing.
One is going just off the landing strip. You
don't know where. And someone else shows up as
well, which is kind of interesting to see for
three of you, but would be very bad for you to
see if you were someone else. Another dolphin
shows up. I knew it. Is it dad? Is it dad? Yes,
it is. I don't know that you know it's Dad, but
it is not the same Exopod as Loyal's, because
Loyal's is kind of special, I believe. Like,
unique, right? It's got carvings and shit. Yeah,
it's made with materials from Europa, because
he worked there. But it is a similar... Actually,
maybe it isn't floating. I think this one actually
walks because he wants to be more human. This
is Elijah Griseus. And he is schmoozing. He is
schmoozing with Bluth, oddly enough. You're in
a risky position so far because people know that
there's rumors going around that someone here
might have a bogus invitation. Loyal, you are
in the wellness center and everyone is kind of
getting ready for an influx of stuck up rich
people. Just being like, well, you know, just
remember they are always right. If they don't
like their massages because you messed it up
and you say, I'm so sorry. It's my first day.
Let me get a pro. And then you just kind of keep
saying that and you keep escalating until they're
happy or they leave. Okay, everyone. Have a good
day. That's real. Oh, yeah. Do we see anyone
else on the protect them list? Oh, yeah. Jenny
is with Bluth. Ziggurat shows up. Main hall.
I'm not going to keep track of everyone's shit
actively. But yeah, they're around. And if you
roll bad, they might show up in a bad place.
I'm just wondering what Bottle de Aqua looks
like. Like a normal person. Oh, come on. What's
wrong with you? Not just a giant bottle of water
walking around. If you really squint, you can
kind of see the resemblance, okay? Okay, alright.
If anybody approaches in this season, they're
like, look at this tall glass of water. That's
really offensive. It's a bottle. You're right.
So, what are your first moves? I would like to
go inspect that boat, just to see if it could
be used. That was my plan. I don't know if that
requires anything, but I was going to maybe head
there. Yeah, I will. So I was going to ask, do
I know like I see this map, but like I'm wondering,
like, does Joseph know there's like a boat on
that dock to look at or? I mean, you could probably
see it just in general. Like maybe you had to
drive down a hill. There is a boat there. OK,
because I want to know like what kind of boat
this is, you know, and just see if it could be
used. Yeah. I mean, I'll tell you a lot of things
up front about the boat. Let's say you head over
there. Well, that's like your task is just checking
this out. It is a boat. It is guarded. There
are some guards on it. It has a name. The boat
is called The Memories of Summer. I just made
that up, but I think it's fairly valid. There
are guards. It's like a nice boat. Kind of like
a mini yacht, I would say. You know, probably
all electric. Really nice. Probably belongs to
some big shot who's showing off. What else do
you want to look for in particular? No, I was
just wondering. I mainly want to know if there
was guards, and it sounds like there is. Yes,
there are guards. There were some, I will say,
if you're looking for general water sports stuff,
there's probably some like sea -dos that you
can rent. Or I guess this is all inclusive. You
don't rent them. But there's like, you know.
Probably some smaller boats that just go on the
water, go off the waves. But so far, no one is
really jumping for that. Gotcha. Okay. I think...
So guys, do we have some kind of secure, calm
bean situation or something? Yeah, for sure.
Can we talk about that dolphin? Let our dolphin
friend know. The group chat is going wild. Yeah,
I guess it's been like, oh, there's a dolphin.
Hey, see, there's another one of you guys. Yeah.
Another one of you guys. There's another dolphin
present here. Listen. This would, like, definitely
make Loyal panic, because I don't know how Dolphin
Sonar interacts with holograms, but I feel like
they'd instantly be able to see through that.
I feel like it's a little gauche to use echolocation
at the function, you know what I mean? they kind
of just do it in the background it's habit maybe
he's turned it off I don't know it's up to him
but also I don't think loyal would be too afraid
just like as long as they're kept separate it's
probably fine there's probably not gonna come
to the wellness center for a massage because
they have to get out of the exopod for that and
that's a whole thing he hopes you do hope don't
you oh yes yeah okay Um, look, I've got a couple
ways to go about this. We either get everybody
in the same place and we go loud, or we pick
them off one by one. Uh, Joseph, this is kind
of your field, so I'm willing to follow your
lead on this. Well, first I'd like to know where
our last person is, George. I don't see him anywhere
around here in the main hall. I'll, uh, I mean,
for lack of anything more useful to do, I'll
take a walk. Gotcha. I'm going to take a walk
because I can't really do, I don't have skills
to really schmooze well. Sir, where are you walking
to? Just walking around? Well, so Loyal, we know
he's not in the wellness center. We know he's
not in the main hall probably. So I guess I'm
going to kind of just walk down by way of the
conference center, maybe see if he's at the docks
or something. Sure. Would you like to roll like
a survey? I guess... I don't have any dice in
survey, so that would be worse than useless.
Maybe I could consort to try and chat people
up and just be like, hey, have you seen this
guy? Go to the bar? You could... I can't drink
is the problem. Oh, shit. You may pretend to
drink. Maybe you can roll wings, like, you know,
get food? I can't eat either. I don't know. You
can pretend. Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom. Throw the
chicken wings over my shoulder. Yeah, you didn't
see that. Or what if you just spun the drink
in the glass the whole time and you never actually
drank it? Yeah, I could nurse one, I guess. I'll
try and chat. I'll try and chat around. See if
I can't find where this guy went. Just the usual,
like, man, it's crazy. Like, everybody's here.
I haven't seen... I haven't seen old... Which
one? Which one's we're missing? Is it Greg? George
Define. George, that was it. Not Greg. George.
God, if I roll poorly, then I say Greg, and it's
really embarrassing. I have one die. Okay, what
does the devil have for me? Do you have a bargain
on offer? Sure. I love making bargains. How delightfully
Faustian. That's a word. I guess... Is it a risky
thing to ask just for this info? Well, you're
in a risky position. Constantly? Yeah. Everything
is a risk. I mean, I'm not gonna, like... I probably
won't shoot you straight up, but... George! Die!
We're, like, in a... We're not in a war -risky
situation. We're in a social -risky situation,
I would say. You know what, once we switch to
war mode. I, the only devil's bargain is that
I would say it would take a while, and that we'll
move the retreat clock forward, just like time
segment, like you're doing this for a while.
No, I'm not gonna do that. I'll just roll my
one die. Let's fucking go! A four! Yeah! Alright.
Yeah, you're schmoozing with some bureaucrat.
Let's call her Dandy. Geist is like specifically
trying to talk to people who don't seem important
because he doesn't think he can lie to important
people. Dandy says, oh, George, he's such a little
rat. I bet he's not even here. He always does
that. He'll say he's going to be somewhere and
he just doesn't show up till like an hour later.
He's a real piece of work, that one. I hate working
with him. Sounds like a real pain in the ass.
What did you say your name was? You motherfucker.
I wrote down my fake name because I knew it was
going to happen. I'm ready. I'm going to assume
that whatever I come up with is on my invitation.
My name's... Looks at invitation. Franklin. Franklin
Beam. Franklin Beam. Now that is a distinguished
name. It's a Colin -style name. Thank you. That's
good. Yeah, that's the information, is that the
feeling is that he is not here yet, and that
he doesn't like being there when things start.
All right, well, looks like George is going to
be a late show, so don't hold your breath. We
got to either bide our time if we're going to
hit him all at once, or keep things real hush
-hush, and I don't think we can take out Jack
quietly. That's true. We should continue investigating.
We need to check out the private rooms and the
utility. Hex, would you like to take one of those,
and I can take the other? Sure. Which one would
you want? I'll let you decide. No. I insist.
You do it. Okay. Why don't you go to private
rooms, because you're a chatter, and I can go
to utility, since I'm kind of stealthy. Use a
sneaker. Yeah. Let's do it. Alright. Who should
we do first? Private rooms. Let's do private
rooms first. Okay. I'll just describe the private
rooms to you. Private rooms are kind of what
they sound like. These are just a bunch of...
I have a description here, a brief one. They're
like a bunch of personal rooms that you can kind
of assign to yourself if you want a break, you
just want to hang out. Some of them are already
kind of in use. No doubt people are doing coke
in them or whatever. And that's kind of what
is going on here. You can't really tell who is
in them because it does not say. But you could,
I don't know. try to figure that out somehow.
I don't know. Start jiggling doorknobs. Are there
like windows from the outside Hex can just conveniently
walk by? They are probably not be visible because
the whole point is that they're supposed to be
private. But windowless rooms. They probably
just have good blinds. If you wanted to look
in there would have to be a role involved is
what I would say. Whether you're like tampering
with some sort of fucking window thing or you
know putting a bug in. Or you could declare gear
or something. Put a fucking fiber optic cable
under, I don't know. Is there a check -in table?
Yeah, there probably is. It's probably like a
lanyard thing, and you probably have a lanyard
available to you there. Okay. Hex goes to pick
up his little conference lanyard, and... Is there
an attendant there? Yeah. Alright. How does one
of those robes look? Is there, like, a way Hex
could check a sign -in sheet? Like, what would
that, if there is one? So, what's your goal here?
I want to find out who's checked in already,
since that implies who's in the room. Um, oh,
you mean in the private rooms? Yes. Oh, I see.
I think the private rooms are, like, here's how
I'm imagining them. It's like, you walk up, you
tap your lanyard on an available one, and it
signs you into the room. and you close it behind
you and you just do whatever you want and then
when you leave, you leave. It's like hotel rooms,
I assume. Yeah, they're like little hotel rooms,
like little side rooms. Okay, bathroom. That's
helpful. Yeah. There's probably like guards or
there's probably a ton of like just assistants
around in general. So if you wanted to try to
talk them up and be like, have you seen X, Y,
or Z? That's definitely an option. We're still
waiting on George, right? Yeah. We're still waiting
on George. Okay, then Hex is going to go up to
a guard and just ask, hey, have you seen George?
I've been looking everywhere for him. One of
the assistants? Yeah, one of the, whoever's nearest,
assistant, guard, whoever's closer. Yeah. It
would look reasonable. Yeah, he pulls out an
iPad. He probably just straight up tells you,
he's like, George, would that be Mr. Define?
Yes, yes. Mr. Define is not... He's looking desperate.
He's not checked in yet, I'm afraid. Are you
kidding me? Hex looks angrily at his phone and
walks away and pretends it didn't happen. So
no George here. They coughed you, but he did
RSVP. Yeah, whatever. It doesn't help me. I'm
your manager. Alright, so... Joseph. Nothing
there. Utility. So there's like a large field
in between you and utility, I guess from the
main hall. Um, how are you trying to get there?
Uh, I was, is it, would it be strange if a guy
just walked straight to utility? I couldn't tell
you until you did it. Okay. I'm wondering like,
if there's like people here and there's like
people having drinks and shit outside and like,
there's just a big empty field. And it's like,
why is that guy just walking into the building?
I would say, here's what I'll tell you. Just
cause I think there's a sign, um, like probably
a, for like 10, 20 feet from the building. Like,
in front of utility, that's like, if you need
anything, please let a staff know, but please
do not leave the grounds if possible. Sure, sure.
But this is definitely the direction that Miss
Newton, the HOS, head of security, went. Oh,
she went to utility? That is the only place she
could have gone, really. Oh, because you went
out. Unless you went into some secret hatch.
Okay. You never know. I would like to, I could
stealth my way over there. Sure. What does that
look like? Using your... You have camo, right?
I do, yeah. I have the optical camo. I think
you have it on your pilot as well. Yeah, I think
if you check that off, you can just use that
and we'll have a prowl roll. Do a little bit
of a prowl. I'll say this is controlled because,
you know, it's a guy in a grassy field. Yeah,
who is that guy? All right, 454. That is a partial
success. You crawl across the grass, and I think
your partial success is that you... Here's what
I'll give you. You get up to utility, just as
these... So this thing on the front I've drawn
is like these big doors, and they crack open,
and out walks Task Newton, who I'll describe
since you're kind of close to her now, which
is a very large, augmented woman. Her clothes
were kind of covering up most of her augments,
but upon closer examination, it is clear that
a lot of her body has been replaced with some
high -end machinery. As the doors close behind
her, you catch a really brief glimpse of what
looks like a frame inside of there. Ooh, nice.
And your consequence is that I'm moving the time
clock forward. You are now going to be at one
of six for the retreat's duration. Tasmanian
is out here. You are concealed currently, but
we will... Loyal, I think your boss, we'll call
her Chandra. I don't know why, but it seems appropriate.
What's her name? Is disappointed because there's
not really many people at the Wellness Center,
and she tells you to go help out the people on
the docks and fold some towels. Sounds good to
me. I've been trying to think about how to get
these people where I want them. Yeah, so basically
this is... You're free to basically roam. I'm
not going to make you wait in the wellness center
until someone shows up. But I will let you know
when people do, maybe? I don't know how that
would be done, though. I was trying to think
about... We manufactured some sort of email that
will go out at a specific time and tell them
to go to the wellness center for a special offer.
And maybe I've like talked to Bluth a little
bit about these people to see which thing it
would be that would entice them the most. Like
a sound bath or a massage or I don't know what
the fuck else is in the wellness center. Floating.
To see if they would go. to it, but all of them
are for the same time period. Yeah, I want to
float. I don't know when that time is. It needs
to give us time for whatever operation we're
doing is going to start. Yeah, I mean, so...
You can hide bodies. If we think about Hitman,
you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially in the
Wellness Center, shove it in a closet, right?
So... You know, don't get too hung up on having
to do it all at once. Because if you roll bad,
it'll go bad, like I always say. If you roll
bad, it'll be a bad plan. If you roll good, it'll
be a good plan. But if you want to email someone,
like target someone, you know, I'm down for that.
I think that, honestly, the email itself would
be a sway rule. So this is the email for getting
the VIPs out of the way for whatever thing is
happening. If it was going to be a big nuclear
type of violence. I thought you were saying you
wanted to lure one of the targets into the Wellness
Center so you could take them out. No. Yeah.
I think there would be some... If you were trying
to get, like... I guess... Yeah, I guess if you
try to get all the VIPs in the Wellness Center,
it might be... We'll see how you roll, right?
Yeah. Do you want to do that right now? I feel
like it's too early. I feel like I'm still just,
like, folding towels and hanging out, listening
to the Combead. You can just, like, scout out
things while you're out there, you know? You
can really do anything. You've been given leave
by your boss, so you can roam pretty freely.
Yeah. I feel like we should try to find some
places, some discreet areas, where if we were
to kill someone, we can keep them there. Or,
like, the best place to do it without anyone
noticing. Our hitman holes. I want to go to security.
I want to look at the security cameras. See the
hidden corners. Go ask a guard nicely. Please.
Can I hold your gun? You would need to find security.
But from what you know, it seems very likely
that security is actually in the utility area.
Yeah. That's outside. I could probably sneak
away without... Well... It would be obvious because
I'm a dolphin. Never mind. But you are also staff.
You are also staff. Just going to the utility
closet for more towels. That's not where they're
kept, but I'm new. I don't know. And I'm keeping
an eye out for the other dolphin who I'm trying
to avoid. Sure. What do we want to call that?
Dad. Dad. Like, what's your, like, what's your
first action? Are you heading right to utility
right now? Like, after Joseph tells you... I
assume when I saw that, by the way, I told everyone,
you know, that I see a frame in utility, and
I have eyes on Tass Newton. Yeah, I think I just
kind of, like, start to go in the direction I'm
expected to go, and then turn around and go outside.
Sure. Well, I guess, I don't think, when you
walk to utility, no one stops you, because you
are staff. Probably at some point, During your
orientation, you are told, like, if there's a
security issue, talk to the nearest security
guard. If you can't find anyone, go to, like,
the side door at the utility building, and someone
will answer. So I guess you would be there, presuming
you want to do that. Cool. Yeah. There's a slight
shimmer. I don't know if you two are linking
up. Yeah. Does Joseph see a dolphin coming towards
him? Yeah, there is a dolphin marching towards
the grass. You're coming this way? Yes, I'm coming
this way. Okay. I'll wait for you to get here,
because I actually have a plan. Let's hear it.
All right, we want to do that now? No one stops
loyal. But you're still invisible. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. I'll just speak. I'll get close to him,
but I'll speak still over comms and say, it seems
that there's a frame in utility. What was the
reason? Why'd you come over here? Oh, I'm here
to look at the security footage so I can get...
The layout of this place without using my sonar.
You need to get in too. I'll just open the door
for you. I have all these keys. That could be
good. Yes, we could work together. If you let
me in utility, I could probably sneak in and
look at the security cameras for us. Yeah, I
just open the door and stand aside. Let him go
first and then we can go about our separate little
tasks. Sure. The door you open takes you into
a tiny little... Not like a locker room. Not
quite a locker room, not quite a lobby. But like
some sort of small area where there's a guy at
a desk. And there are more doors behind him with
much higher security. And he says, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa. Hey, you couldn't find any security
people in the main building? I'm invisible, right?
Yeah, not you. This is that locker. I didn't
think this through. How exciting. Bro, relatable.
I'll speak over comms if you need to get out
of here. I'm already in. It's your first day
on the job. Oh, shit. Just say something like
that and say I'm lost and then I leave. All right.
The guy is kind of bewildered and says, OK, later.
And the door closes behind you. And Joseph, you're
just in this room with this kind of confused
looking security guy. who just goes back to fucking
looking at Reddit or whatever he's doing. I should
kill him now. But I won't. You'd be doing him
a favor. I'd like to explore this area more if
we want to do that now. Sure, there is. So he
is here. Behind him is a door, presumably, which
goes somewhere. And then kind of like off to
the side is a much more heavy door, which you
presume will actually lead into the frame hangar
or somewhere deeper in. Gotcha. And there is
like a security camera in here as well. I'm wondering
if there's I could Gordon Freeman this and maybe
crawl through some vents instead of just like
opening doors. Sort of like on that earlier mission
when I met Glass New Lane. Yeah, you yeah, you
could do it. You could try. I'm sure there's
a vent in here that leads somewhere. You're small.
You crawl in things. We love vents here. Yeah,
you would need to be very quiet because there's
a guy in the room with the vent. True. That's
what rolling is for. Yeah. You can also do something
about the guy if you want, but that's another
thing as well. I have an idea. I wanted a radio
communicate to Loyal and say, I know this is
a lot to ask. Can you come back and knock on
the door and ask, seem like you're confused.
I need a distraction to get me into the vent.
If maybe he can help escort you back. Maybe you're
very embarrassed. He doesn't seem too bright.
I think you could say anything, really. I love
you think he's handsome. That always works. Blurt.
Yeah, I go back and then... I feel like a knock
on the door would be... I mean, is he going to
have to roll for this, Colin? No, I think this
would just be an aid, basically. Yeah. We don't
need to make it complicated. You could just be
like... I will aid by knocking on the door and
you'll roll a prowl and we'll see how it goes.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah, I guess
we can just knock again and then go around the
corner. That could work. Anything that just gets
pranked. Sure. Well, we'll just call that an
aid. Take stress equal to your bond with Joseph
if you have that much stress. That's three. We
have three bond. How much do you have left? One.
Hey, I mean, why not, right? I have zero bonds
with Loyal. That doesn't sound right. What is
belief? I have two bonds with Geist. Well, it's
not symmetrical. Loyal can have three with you
and you can have one with Loyal. It doesn't go
both ways. Okay, so take that three stress, Loyal,
if you want to do that. Yep. When he draw my
out, though? Am I crazy? No, he's one left. Oh,
jeez. So you're going to get plus one die. You're
going to get plus one effect. Yeah, improved
effect, improved position. So actually this will
drop you down to controlled, which would be very
nice. Okay. So you'll have controlled effect.
I mean, great effect, controlled position, and
plus one die. The trifecta. It's still a success.
Still a success. Yeah. So I'll just knock it
down to normal. Success level as a partial success.
So you get an event. You unscrew it very, very
quietly, like use your fingers as a screwdriver
while the guy gets the most mission critical
ding dong ditch that's ever happened. He like
looks around. He's like, oh, what the fuck? And
he's like. Kind of pissed off when you sneak
in right as he he turns around. And just looks
around like, hmm, I thought I felt a rush of
air. Must have been the wind. And you're in the
vent. I think crawling through the vent, I think
you see a few things in here. One is that there's
a big fucking hangar with three very high class
frames in it that look very nice. There's like
a little garrison of soldiers here that are playing
cards and just kind of on call. And then I think
another vent. Like, farther down, you see, like,
a security room with a couple dudes in it just
watching all the cameras for the facility, keeping
track on VIPs, all that stuff. And... Can I see
the cameras from where I'm at? The feeds? Yeah.
I think... Do you have fucking robot eyes? I
think it's... I got robot eyes, yeah. And hands.
I'll get that. Who do you want to find? I just
wanted to see, like, so, like, what are the cameras
serving? Do I have, like, every corner of this
entire place? Everything except the private rooms
seems to be monitored. Okay. And it seems that...
Are they, like, tracking people on these monitors?
Like, it's just cameras, right? That's what I
assume? Yes, it's cameras. You know what? I'll
give this to you because you rolled really well.
Let's say the lanyards have tracking beacons
in them, but no one was told about this. Okay.
I appreciate that. Okay. Yeah. That's that much
as well. I'll give you right now. Cause you know
where everyone is. Um, what could I, I was going
to say, could I finally third confirm is George
really not here? Is that lanyard like really
far away? George, George is really not here.
He did not pick up his lanyard. Um, motherfucker,
uh, task Newton, the head of security is, has
left and is now heading back to the main hall.
It looks like, uh, Jack Johnson is in the main
hall. Actually, we moved forward a time section.
So Jack Johnson is in a conference room now.
Uh, Eager, the guy in the power suit, is in a
private room. Task is main hall. And then, yeah,
George. Actually, George Define, looking at this
now, he has just arrived. You see his thing come
to life right as you come here. George is here,
everyone. George has just arrived. Elijah, which
is what we'll call the dolphin, has headed to
a conference room as well. Gotcha. Is there any,
so like with these notifiers on the lanyards,
is there any extra information that would tell
me like, do any of the people here own those
frames? Is there any way I can figure that out
from the security team? I probably didn't make
it clear, but these belong to the security team
here. Okay, not individuals. Not even specifics?
Okay. No, this is like the security teams. Yeah,
this is the security teams, like really bougie
security work. Okay, okay. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah,
I think I tell everything I can to everyone.
I report that there's three frames inside. George
has just arrived. The dolphin is moving into
the conference center. And yeah, I think I'm
going to chill here while we do something else,
just so I can look over the monitors for all
of us. Sure. We're going to need Loyal out here.
We're going to need Joseph out here cutting throats
imminently. One thing I'll kind of float for
you as an idea, Adam, is... Let me look at your
character sheet for stuff because I am pretty
open to the idea since you've already got this
information. I don't want to make you like camp
in here. If you want to use a like just check
off like a fucking like a long range transmitter
or burglary gear or subterfuge supplies or any
of that, you can just have a camera in here.
You know, set up a little camera like pointing
at these guys. And, you know, I see no reason
why that wouldn't work for you. So you just keep
tabs on people. Yeah. The last thing I was going
to say is, like, I'm near the frames and I'm
wondering if I should, like, flashback to me
having C4 and somehow planning it on these frames
just so they don't hurt us later. But I don't
know if that's, like, too much so far. No, you
don't even need to flashback for that. You can
just check off place explosive. It's one load.
Yeah. But I have to go put that on, right? Yes,
you would. I would make you roll in a flashback
anyways. Okay. I mean, you're here. You can try
that prowl. Yeah, but that's what I'm wondering.
I'm like, should I hold off? Because the main
goal is we're just trying to assassinate people
and then leave. I don't know. What do you guys
think? I think that's a good idea. Just so when
shit pops off, you can detonate it. That is an
option. Should I say something? Because I was
about to address the group with a plan. Would
you like me to do that before you say what you're
going to say, just in case? Well, I was just
going to say, technically, these frames are deniable
assets as well. Like, you guys can use these
if you wanted. I would take a roll, but it is
an option, just to keep in mind. Ooh, I didn't
even think about that. Just steal a frame. That'll
be for when we go loud, though. I think at this
point, the clock's running down. Geist is getting
a little bit antsy, and he's like, look, we can't
afford. To fucking wait around. We're not going
to be able to get all these guys in the same
place, which means we need to fucking split off.
We each take a target. Who can deal with the
fucking power armor guy? Who can deal with the
odd security lady? Or it'll be a soft target,
I think. Jack, probably, unless he's got some
hardware. I could possibly take Task Newton,
I believe. What can I declare as Hex? Anything
about the actual kill? Oh, I needed to ask your
load. I needed to ask your load. I assume everyone
did light. Yeah, light. Okay, cool. I guess Hex
should use his fine pistol. I was going to say,
our power armor guy, we have to get him when
he's eating, you know. If only we could, like,
drop a grenade from the ceiling into his thing
when it opens and it closes and blows him up.
Into his mouth. Can you disguise a grenade as
a burger? Possibly. There's some way we can get
that explosive into his fucking suit. Put his
hologram device on the grenade and hologram it
as a burger. I was also thinking, like, he's
heavy. We could sink him in water, but I feel
like his suit would save him there. Still. I'm
trying to think of... How do we kill this guy?
You can flash. So I think shooting him in the...
First of all, Hex has his pistol, which has armor
-piercing rounds. I don't know if they're that
armor -piercing. We'll find out. But that's an
option. We can also try to shoot him in the face
when he takes his helmet off. We could try to
poison him. But he's in a private room right
now. I've got some ideas for that. Basically,
we can start, like, I don't know, just screaming.
ideologies, because eventually this is going
to go loud. It has to. We just say, like, for
the dam, and we just no rush in it. Yeah. Well,
we should be in position before we do that. Yeah,
yeah. That'll be something that we worry about
on the way out, but it'll just be like, this
is for Clearwater Crater. You did nothing, you
fucking corporate pigs. But yeah, for now. So
Geist thinks he can take the security lady. I
don't think he can, because I have one... I have
something that I'm kind of keeping in my back
pocket for an oh shit situation, but that's definitely
going to make things go loud. Real loud. What's
hand -to -hand combat? Is that prowl? Struggle
is basically all. If you're in a straight -up
fight, it's struggle. If you're killing someone
from the shadows, that's prowl. These actions
aren't really specific actions so much as they
are approaches. Like a flavor. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So it's like Prowl, for example, Prowl, if I'm
trying to, like, stab someone with a knife, if
they're looking at me and they also have a knife
and struggle, if they're not looking at me and
I'm trying to put it in their jugular without
them noticing, that's Prowl. That makes sense.
Thank you. You're welcome. So, yeah, I guess,
um, okay, I got something. I think I could probably
take out, uh, you know, what's -her -face. Big
one. Oggs. Task Newton. Yeah, Task. I don't know
if they can handle power armor loyal. Could you...
Could you put hands on Jack? You think? Can you
put hands on anyone? I do have a stun gun that's
just part of my exopod that is just an item that
I can check off here to go around stunning people.
That'd be sick. I would have to hide them afterwards
and then you guys could go stab I mean, Jack
is pretty important. I assume he's going to be
the hardest one to kill. Jack has three bodyguards
as well. Yeah, yeah. I'm wondering if then Loyal
should take George because this guy just showed
up and then, you know, I feel like he could be
an easy target for Loyal. He is. Yeah, let me
corner George. Like, I could tackle Jack since
he would probably require the most. fucking premise.
Well, Geist could also just like, I guess, you
think you could maybe maneuver Jack into a vulnerable
position? You know, you're a talker. That too.
I think we could arrange that. Okay. I'm gonna
hang back, watch things, and keep an eye on TASC.
Make sure she doesn't clock any of you. Gotcha.
Who's gonna go first? So, am I putting... C4
on these frames, or should I just leave? That's
your call, gamer. You could also leave and then
flashback to having done it when you were here.
Technically speaking, that is your framework.
I did not know you could do that. I know, I know.
We haven't really done much with it, but that's
the power of the flashback. I thought it was
flashing back to outside the mission. It's flashing
back to anything, baby. It's supposed to be a
heist movie game. That's what Blade to the Dark
is. Oh. All right. Yeah, I'm heading out then.
I want to get in position for us because it sounds
like things are going to start soon. Sure. You
get out. I will not make you roll to get out.
We'll just roll off your success already. The
guy puts on some headphones and, I don't know,
cranks his hog or something, and you get out.
I don't want to see. Wait, I moved the camera.
Okay, do I got to see? We can blackmail him.
That's the big distraction. You will leave the
room. Wire the footage of him cranking off onto,
like, every screen in the entire conference area.
They love it. A very large disturbance. Okay,
yeah, you are out. I'm out. So am I heading for...
Is Jack maybe a team effort? Me and Hex? If Hex
can get him off guard, I can take a shot at him?
Although I don't have a gun. You can take a shot
at him. First of all, you can check off whatever
you want with your load. So you can have a gun
whenever you want one. But you can also break
his neck. You can get creative with it. I feel
like Jack is the first person who's going to
be noticed missing. So if we're going to go for
him first, we have to prepare to go loud immediately
afterwards, which is going to be rough. It might
be a good idea to not kill him first and go for
George and George and power armor boy. I wish
we could have loyal ask power armor boy if he
has to ever like go out of the suit to use the
restroom and then we could find out based on
if he lies. Well, that that's something that
that you could do. So loyal, I'm just saying.
We could find out and then maybe we can ambush
him. That's kind of funny. See? See? Yeah, because
we don't have an answer. That's the only guy
left missing that we need to figure out how we're
going to deal with. So that is a good idea, Brian.
I'm getting creative here. Yeah, where is he?
He is currently in rooms. Private rooms. And
we know which one, right? Yes, you do. You have
exact, he's on the room like fucking 18 or whatever.
Okay. His dot is not moving. That makes it so
easy. Okay. Yeah, do the rooms have windows on
the doors? Should I go there and just like see
what he's doing in there or do I just go and
open the door? There are no windows, but there
are no windows. I don't think your particular
role would have a You know, I think given the
legwork you did to get this position, I think
you could easily swipe a card from housekeeping.
Yeah. You would be intruding on him, but yeah,
I can see that happening. Just pretend you don't
understand him and you only speak in clicks.
Sure. Show up and knock on the door. Housekeeping,
just open it. Yeah. Yeah, you... You... Okay,
you go in. There's no response. And there's a
giant power armor sitting in the middle of the
room. Uh -huh. And the shower is running. Yes!
Yes! This is easy. You lucked out. Alright, is
he in the shower? I use my sonar, I do one click.
He is in the shower. Is he cranking his hog?
Is he normal? Does he look like a human guy?
He's a very scrawny guy, and you can tell that
he's severely atrophied. Wow, this is too fucking
easy. Perfect for dolphin murder. Yeah, I very
quietly fucking float in there and use my stun
gun on him. He's in the water too. That sounds
like a prowl. Yeah. Roll it. Risky standard.
Okay, hold on, hold on. Yes. Controlled standard.
Okay, it's controlled. How many, did you have
zero dice and prowl eyes? I have zero dice and
prowl. Okay, cool. I would like to use one. One
tick of tactical genius for this, my free assist
move. And this one, I actually feel like I have
a good... I have, like, an actual angle. It's
not, like, really, like, fishing for some way.
I could possibly have predicted this, because
we were planning... We had six days of downtime
to prepare to go kill a whole bunch of people.
And so I think Geist would be like, look, might
have to, you know, take somebody out. It's easiest
if they're not looking. Okay, the exopod. This
is something I don't know if they tell you. It's
not like it is in the movies. To choke someone
unconscious or choke them to death is very, very
hard. It takes a couple of minutes. But you and
me, we are robot hands. So that takes some of
the pressure off. It removes some of the feedback
instinct that would normally make that kind of
thing difficult, you know, if you've never choked
someone out before. But you've got to get up
close. You've got to get up quiet, all right?
And so let's work on, you know, moving that exopod.
you know, a little bit quietly. I know you can
do it. And this is just a flashback of Geist
trying to tell Loyal, teach Loyal how to move
silently. Teach Loyal how to kill. He just floats
there, staring at you, and he's like, okay. Do
you have anything else? And you get one die from
assistance, and you could also push yourself
if you have any stress left that you're carrying
on my way. But I will get a die. What about Satan?
Oh, yeah. Devil's bargain? What were you going
to say that you loved? I want to hear it. I was
going to say, I love that all of your foresights
with Geist are basically him just condescendingly
explaining something to someone. Something that
he knows nothing about because I have zero dots
in prowl. The illusion of confidence is really
intoxicating. It is. Joseph looks on and shakes
his head. What are you doing? Be a leader. That's
what Geist discovered. That was his epiphany.
You can just say anything and people will get
hyped on it. Yeah, and hype is what makes the
fucking magic happen. It doesn't matter if they
have skill. As long as they have confidence,
it'll probably be okay. Geist would have a podcast.
Okay, yeah. You have one die. I can offer you
a Devil's Bargain if you'd like. I don't really
know if I want one. Well, I don't want to think
up one. Not really. worried about this guy. Yeah.
Ask for a devil's bargain just to make Colin
do the work. No. You know what I mean? I think
you're good. I'll wait till I see the results
of this roll. Then we'll talk. Failure. Wait,
didn't he have another die? No, he had zero and
he went up to one. Nope. Well, you get to reroll
this at a risky position. So, if you'd like.
Or you can withdraw. Nah, I'll try stun him again.
Okay. Get on in there. Do I get the bonus dice
this time or no? I guess I should... I mean,
I guess knowledge didn't leave him. We're kind
of off the reservation. Is this a thing you made
up, like re -rolling with a worse position? No,
that's like... It says... You can even see it
in the chat box. Oh, no shit. Oh, yeah. Withdraw.
Okay. Yeah. Let's just say you have to get a
little bit closer. Like, you do not... You can't,
like, shoot from outside the thing. There's,
like, a door in the way. And it's going to be
a little riskier. Yeah, I got to pull the shower
curtain out of the way and... I think it's like
a glass door, you know? It's like one of those...
Wait, I have a crazy suggestion. What? Do you
have to do another prowl or could you do a different
skill? Does it have to be? Like, if he's re -rolling.
Can I struggle now? You're in a giant pod, and
this guy's weak. Can you just ram yourself into
him and smush him? We want to make it a cover
-up. Does Loyal have the offensive emotion? Can
you just make him feel extreme despair and incapacitate
him that way? Did you take that ability? Yeah,
but that's also pushing yourself. Oh, fuck. Okay,
yeah. I was just suggesting the thing, if you
had another die in like that... But I don't know
if you do. I don't think he has any dice in struggle,
but it's just a guess. I have one in struggle,
actually. No shit! That's what I'm saying! Yeah,
you can struggle. For sure. It'll be less subtle.
I go in there and I think it's a shower curtain,
but it's not a curtain. It is an actual... glass
door that I have to roll out of the way, and
I understand that I will have to grab him and
restrain him before I can stun him, so now it's
a struggle. So you are trying to stun him still.
I am trying to stun him still. He's covered in
water. I have electricity. Okay. Success! Big
ups. Big fucking ups. Yeah, you fucking bust
through the glass, and you grab him. And you
see him... I'm just going to hint at you what
I was going to do to you, because it would have
been really funny. You see him, like, tapping
something on his wrist, and you hear the power
armor start to move behind you. But then you
shock him, and then the power armor says, Incomplete
command. Shutting down. And he is unconscious.
There's a wet, naked little man. On the floor.
He's kind of twitching. And you can do whatever
you want with him now, I guess. He's out. I'll
pick him up, put him in the closet, and then
savor the calm bead. Unconscious guy in here,
come do whatever you want with him. What if we
make it look like he slipped in the shower? We're
going loud eventually. We can just kill him.
Well, I mean, you know, what if we could pull
it off? Geist will be like over there and be
like, look. Loyal, are you sure you can't just,
you know, like, tie something around his neck?
Walk away. It would be so easy. For the mission.
Did you do it for the mission, Loyal? This is
so fucked up. That's a sway, okay? Loyal was
mean to you earlier, so it's okay. I mean, Geist
doesn't know that he was mean because he doesn't,
I don't think he really understands what the
crowd is. He probably doesn't even know if that
was real because of how surreal and stranger
it was. Man, y 'all psychics. Y 'all psychics.
But this is all in character. He asked Loyal
to do that. I have to at least respond. I'm still
just like in the shower room alone. With this
guy? Yeah. He's naked. His dick's pretty big,
though. Wow. Good for him. Let's see. What's
a convenient way to make this guy look like he
just randomly died? Oh, he could drown in a bunch
of water in the shower. We don't have to be quiet.
We're going to be killing innocent people on
our... Well, not innocent people. We're going
to be causing collateral damage on our way out
and framing it on the clusters. It doesn't need
to look like an accident. I think this is a loyal
thing, though. This is something a loyal one
can do. I don't think anyone's going to come
into this room. I want to hear, yeah, what's
the idea? What if... Oh my god. What if... Well,
I mean, there's a lot of things you can do with
the power armor. Yeah, I was thinking that too.
There could be a closing mishap where maybe he
got decapitated, I don't know. You could kill
him and then just put him back in the armor.
You know, I don't know. Just worth a thought.
If loyal can't really do it, Geist will, because
he's not part of this. He's folding out. If everyone
else is busy, Loyal will pick this guy up, put
him back in his power armor, and then just use
his fucking electric prod on the power armor
again until it starts to short circuit and just
electrocute this guy to death. Wow. Okay. Hell
yeah. That's a lot more gruesome than a lot of
the other options, but I like it. It's pretty
sick. You electrify him to death. He twitches
a lot and it's gross. A lot of gross things happen
when you're electrified to death or so I hear.
Oh, it's not gross. It's not gross at all. Okay.
It's cool. You said that like so certainly, Adam.
I know. Listen, I don't need Loyal to break right
now, okay? This is the humane option. Yeah, it
smells like cooked meat and other bad substances
in this room now. But he's dead. He's definitely
dead. And he's in his armor. Nice, we got one.
Are you shutting it up behind him or are you
just going to leave him half in, half out? We
should close it. Put a sheet on top of it and
then close the door behind me. It's a ghost!
I'm going to be scared to death. I hope actual
housekeeping doesn't go in here. They will eventually.
I don't even do a sheet. It's some freak power
armor mishap. Could have happened to anyone.
That's true. That's actually true. Okay. You
donked one off. Good job. I'm crossing him out
on the document. It's so funny that Loyal gets
the first kill. Yeah. Ironic, isn't it? Great.
Okay. One down. That was one of the hard ones,
too. Yeah, we got a hard target removed. Peace
off the board. Geist could do task. Geist thinks
he can do task. I mean, he can, but it'll be
like, that'll be when shit starts getting wacky.
Yeah. Joseph's afraid that Jack will be a big
target, so he thinks he should work together
with Hex to do that. But then we also have our
pal George, who is now here. Yeah. Who seems
to be pretty easy, because this is a guy. Do
we know that? Have we seen him yet? That's true.
I have no idea. Wait, can I see on the monitor?
Can I check my little camera right now? Who are
you looking for? Task? George. George, sorry.
I want to know what this George guy looks like.
I feel like I... Well, you guys weren't doing
anything, so I'm not going to move it forward
a time segment yet. George is in the main hall,
presently. Okay, Geist is there too. Can I see
him? Yeah, he's smoothing. In my mind, he looks
very much like George Costanza, at least superficially,
just because his name is also George. He's like
a real Jason Alexander type. Cool. But probably
in a nicer suit. But he's not obviously some
kind of freak. Is he nice? Seems normal. Big
crowd. I don't think I could take him out without
doing something unsavory. I'll keep watching,
wait for him to go someplace secluded, and maybe
I'll make a move. Understood. So then, task is,
if I check the camera... Task is in the main
hall. She is standing kind of in the corner.
She looks like she is working, like she's running
security right now. And Jack? Jack is in a meeting
in the conference rooms. Yeah, okay. With, like,
a few other execs. I was going to say, my gut
tells me that the people move when the time clock
ticks, which would be a logical and interesting
way to do it. So let me move people. We can do
it. It sounds like we're doing it. Really? Do
we know? Are we good to go? I mean, I don't think
we can make moves on George or Jack right now.
So unless you guys have specific setup actions
you want to take. Oh, by the way, these are windows.
Yeah. In front of the conference room, just so
you know. Unless you guys have specific build
-up actions you want to take. I don't think I
do. I think I'm good. Okay. Brian, you good?
Yeah, because we're pairing up to kill him. Yeah.
Let's move on forward. Okay. Time segment two.
Jack is moving back to the main hall. Eager is
dead. Task is still in the main hall. Still watching.
Always on guard. Georgie has moved to the conference
room with Loyal's dad. Bluth is also in the conference
room, in case you were wondering. That same one?
Yes. There's only one big conference room. Oh,
okay. So that's one... Alright, I thought they
were... Okay. It occurs to me now that I could
have just dropped Jack with the Changeling Railgun
through the conference room window. Well, that
would probably alert everyone. Yeah, but... And
it'd be fun. Anyways, anyway, I mean, I don't
think it would be fun because these security
guys are above our tier and it's going to be
a real fucking rough fight if we have to go toe
-to -toe with these dudes. Yeah, but we're badass.
Our roles say otherwise sometimes. I'm going
to... I think... And sorry, Geist is... Because
Geist is kind of keeping an eye on George. He's
going to go down to the beach. and the docks
and kind of look around and just see if the meeting
can be seen through those big front windows.
Yeah, you can. These are actually just windows.
I'm sure they have like a privacy setting, but
they don't really care. Yeah, they are. Elijah
Grisius, Loyal's dad, is talking to Bluth and
George Define and probably like just a couple
other people. Maybe Ziggurat's there. I don't
know. They're talking about some shit. You can't
really tell what because you're not superhuman,
but. They are. They're all there. They're in
view. All right. I mean, that dolphin is there.
Bluth's there. Ziggurat's there. It's a bit high
profile. I don't think we're going to be touching
Dorich until he gets out of this meeting. Do
we know? Does Loyal know yet? I don't think there's
a dolphin here. Loyal, I don't think, has seen
him. Should we tell him? I mean, we have been
teasing. This is all open comms, right? He can
hear. But also, we don't know that it's his dad.
No, no, we have no idea. Have they mentioned
his name on comms yet? I don't think we know
why they would. Yeah, I don't think we do. Or
no, Joseph would, right? It would be on the tracker
information. Yeah, you probably. I guess so.
Yeah. Would he say that on comms? Does he have
a reason to? Yeah, I mean, like, we're not tracking
the dolphin. Like, you know, it's like, hey,
another dolphin. Yeah. What if, like, casual
racism was just like, hey, there's a dolphin.
You might know him. You're also a dolphin. I
was going to say that earlier. Which is a really
horrible thing to say, but it is actually true.
There we go. Who's going to be the casual racist?
Is it Hex? I think it might be Geist. I mean,
that dolphin's there, Loyola. If you want to
come, you know, see him. I don't know if you
know any dolphins here on Terra Brea, or if there
are any dolphins. I mean... Joseph says, and
the name is Elijah... What's the name? Griseus.
Griseus, it says here on the monitor. That's
kind of a... Let me put it this way. It's the
name of somebody who would be attending a conference
like this, you know what I mean? Possibly someone
important. We should try to avoid hurting them.
There's just silence on the line for like a good
15 seconds. And then Loyal says, keep me updated
on where he is at all times. It is... Very important
that he does not see me. Can do. You want me
to kill him? No. No. No. No. Okay, just asking.
Oh my god. I'm trying to decide if he says that's
his dad or not. Is that a lie, Loyal? Is that
a lie? Do you want Geist to kill your dad? Jesus.
No one else has that ability, so they don't need
to know. Geist could tell a lie from you before,
but maybe that was just specifically... That
was in the moment. That was a one -off. Bro,
you gotta put on that crown, alright? Adam, stop
it. Stop trying to tempt me with otherworldly
powers. Lead him in the robots. Lead him in the
robot. I don't think we have any direct actions
in this time tick, so if you guys have the bones
of a plan and you want to start taking actions
to set it up, this would definitely be a good
time to do it. Yeah, my question is, what is...
So Task was staying in the corner previously
and doing security stuff. Is she still doing
it? She's still doing it. She does not show any
signs of stopping. This seems to be someone who
is distracted with things hanging out in a corner.
We could possibly try to make a move on them
if we can get them away. You know, everyone else
is around people. That's gonna be hard, but it
seems task and be segmented away from people
pretty easily because she's not interacting with
anyone else. I don't know how we do that, but
I'm just putting that out there. I mean, you
could cause the situation she would have to respond
to, but that would be putting ticks on our alert
clock. That is true. Yeah. What if you told her
you saw something and you lied and have her go
help you? The thing about her, too, is that she
is going to be straight up difficult to kill.
Like, if she's very heavily augmented, we're
not just going to be able to, like, stick her
in the jugular with a knife because it's probably
armored. She's covered in armor. You know what
I mean? She's competent. Yeah. She's competent
and she, like, is a fighter, which is why I think
that we're either going to have to hit her last
or hit her when we go loud. Does she sleep? I
mean, this conference isn't going all... She
doesn't sleep in the middle of... An important
task, probably. She powers down in the middle
of the room. Gotcha. I don't think we could get
that lucky. Yeah, no, you're probably right.
It's probably go loud. Okay, yeah. If we want
to save her, then we can. But it seems that she's
at least distracted with things. Yeah. You can
do groundwork, too, if you want to set up anything
for later. That's what I mean. Get a drink and
poison it or try and talk to somebody about setting
up a meeting with one of our targets. Or something
like that. What if we faked a meeting with her?
Or just like, hey, while you're at this conference,
it'd be cool if we caught up posing as someone.
And we booked a private room. That should be
a duo move, though, probably. So then we have
two people fighting one person, just in case?
Yes. That doesn't remove the problem that we're
not going to be able to kill her quietly, I don't
think. No matter what we do. What if we're all
in the room and we all attack you? A robot, a
cyborg, and a businessman. My concern is just
finding a way to penetrate her defenses, like,
physically, more than anything else. Gun. Maybe
we could do that this round? We could, like,
survey her and try to see? That's a good idea.
Look for a weak point. That's a really fucking
good idea. Where are my survey boys at? Let's
see. What's my survey at? Hashtag survey boys.
Hex is bad at looking. I'm at a zero. Hex is
one. Oh, good. Hex is the best of us. He's got
it. He's got lookers. All right. He's going to
survey. Colin, is this risky standard or is this
controlled? Is it desperate? Controlled. Risky.
All right. Risky standard. Oh, I clicked it already.
Sorry. Oh, wow. You're bad at surveying. Sorry.
Yeah, you... How are you surveying her? I'm just
trying to walk by and see. Just walking. Having
a look. Sure. You walk by her and take a good
look at things. And you catch her. At some point,
she is now following your movements. She has
clocked you. And she whispers something into
her radio. And this keeps staring at you. And
I'm ticking the alert clock by one. What if Hex
plays it off? You can't untick this clock. Well,
I mean, you could, but you have to do something.
I love you. Say you're into a huge muscle -bound
cyborg. What if Hex plays it off as he winks
at her? I think I need a little more than a wink.
I mean, I don't know. I feel a little weird about
like a... Just the wink is the... I mean, maybe
a wink can be a role. You know, I'm kind of talking
myself into it now. You can wink if you want.
Have you seen the movie Tombstone? I have not.
Good scene. There's one part where they're in
a really intense standoff, and then... Doc Holliday,
who's a bit of a psychopath, winks at one of
the guys they're in a standoff with, which causes
him to start shooting and makes everything go
loud. And that's my immediate thought of how
that would be interpreted. I'll tell you your
position. Risky limited. Hmm. Do I lose? Will,
like, everything go bad if I wink? If you roll.
So, by winking in a risky position, you are ticking.
I mean, that's what it says. It's risky, so your
wing might be misinterpreted. It might not. And
limited, even if you succeed, maybe I would untick
one tick on the clock. That's probably what you'd
get. But, you know, you might get a partial.
You know, it's not worth it. I just failed my
drive -by. Yeah, I think you can just probably
disengage, too. Yeah, she's not like going to
arrest you, you know? She's just kind of like
reported you. Aware of you. Am I under arrest?
Am I under arrest for flirting, ma 'am? Is this
a crime? Is love a crime? Unarrest me. Okay,
no. Hex is bailing. Hex is bailing. All right.
It's not worth it. It's not worth it. Maybe someone
else can look at her. I don't know. I will also
say, just to put it in the air. Looking for rumors,
just like, these people are all fucking inter
-talking and shit -talking each other. That's
definitely a viable option for anyone. Ooh, is
that kind of, what kind of role would that be?
It depends how you're doing it. Like, the consort
sway survey, if you're just, like, eavesdropping.
I could study, you know, I could see it at all.
Is there any way it could be a gather information
role, or are we always running the risk of fucking
something up, just even interacting with people
in any capacity? Because there is a time crunch,
there is always going to be some level of risk.
Yes, that's what I was going to do. I was going
to go to the bar and consort and just click the
rumors button to see what I can gather, you know
what I mean? Sure. Colin's going to make you
say it, though. Have you heard? What is that?
Oh, five. Not bad. What are you like? You need
to be a little more targeted. I mean, I want
to random rumors, but no, no, I want to, I want
to hear, I want to learn stuff about, uh, I want
to hear, I want to go Jack. He's a big famous
guy. He's a big shot. He's a big deal. What does
he like? What does he dislike? What is his red
glowing weak spot that you can hit for massive
damage? Sure. Um, you're talking to someone.
Let's just say it's dandy again. Like what are
the odds, right? Yeah. Like she's got a big,
Oh my God. It's so nice to see you. She is a
gossip. Uh, and she's like, Oh Jack, he is so,
he's so cool. There's a reason to call him the
slack. Jack Johnson. Um, you know, his, his like
big airplane thing. That's kind of, it's kind
of gosh, you know, um, like we get it. You're
rich. Um, I haven't even been inside that thing.
It's awesome. It's just too cool for normal people,
I guess. It's kind of weird, though, because
I was talking to Jack, and he was kind of acting
a little off, and he told me he's taking the
boat out. He's not even taking the plane out,
which doesn't make any sense to me. Like, why?
Why? You know? That thing looks so expensive.
It's so high profile. Why wouldn't you want to
be seen using it? You know what I mean? I know.
And, like, that boat isn't even a yacht. It's
a mini yacht. And, like, come on. That's just
kind of below his... Pay grade? Definitely, right?
Oh my god. That is your thing. Your process is
that it seems kind of vague and you kind of have
to draw your own conclusions. Yeah. Hell yeah.
You're gossiping. I am. Oh my god, Geist is such
a bitch. Geist is such a bitch. Geist immediately
reports to the team. Looks like Jack's planning
on leaving. Not in that gigantic fucking fortress
plane, but in his boat. And he's acting weird.
And he's acting cagey. I don't know. I mean,
we don't know that people know that there's been
fake invitations spotted, so I guess I don't
actually say that. Maybe we've been made somehow.
Maybe somebody knows something's up, and he's
looking to make a clandestine exit with the giant
plane as a kind of red herring, perhaps. Is his
boat easily accessible? No. It's the boat, right?
Yeah. I think there might be other boats. I only
drew one, but there's more probably. It's a mini
yacht. The one Joseph looked at, that's the one.
It's the guarded one. There are guards around
that boat if it is the mini yacht in the docks.
It will be difficult to get on there if we want
to try to plan something. I will say, just based
off of what joseph found there's not a lot of
guards it's not like it's just like there's like
two guys outside which is like it's really not
that bad yeah all right maybe also is a little
weird too okay um okay well but the other thing
is that if we're going to wait for him to leave
on his boat we have to wait till the end of the
event and not go loud until the end of the event
uh which would get complicated Look, if we wait
for him to leave in his boat, that would involve
killing the other two targets without getting
spotted. And I don't think, like, people are
going to immediately notice when anyone else
goes missing. I think. Unless we get lucky. Again.
I don't believe we need to worry about the boat
right now. No. Okay. Okay. Let's wait. We can
hit it on the way out. Um. Unless somebody wants
to... So I'm actually not against... I didn't
realize that the time thing was a six -tier clock
and not a four. We could wait another tick. Yeah,
I was going to say to see, because right now
we don't have... Jack's in the main hall, which
is vulnerable in a way, but also very high profile.
So if we touch him, we're going to have to go
loud. We can't really get into this conference
meeting. So I think we, I say we wait one tick
and see if anybody makes themselves vulnerable.
And if we start getting to the end of the retreat
and we just got to fucking bust it out, we can
bust it out. Yeah. I will float one more thing
as well, which is that Bluth is in contact with
you. Oh, that is true. We can like give him a
call if we wanted to. Yeah, he might not like
it, but you could utilize him to manipulate some
of these players. Especially George, who is his
friend, technically. Yeah, yeah. There he is.
Yeah, let's get on the horn of the booth and
be like, look, if you can, put George in a vulnerable
position. And that's it. That's all he says.
Isolated, preferably. Like, we'll see if he does
anything with it. Are you going to do that in
this time segment or the next one? Like, when
he's still with George in the meeting room or
later? We can do it in the next one, actually,
because I feel like most of us have already taken
actions in this time segment, and it might be
expedient and more or less perfect moving along.
Has anyone not done something this time segment?
I think everybody has, except Joseph. Did Loyal
just kill me? Yeah, he's hanging out. Loyal killed?
If I'd done something, would he have killed that
guy? No. Oh, yeah, I guess you did kill that
guy in this time segment. The time segments are
weird. Okay, we can move to the next one. I'm
cool with that. Sure. Let me just look at my
schedule, and I'll tell you what you see on the
monitors. What do you see on the monitors, man?
Jack is conference. Wait, this is three, isn't
it? Okay, Jack is going to main halls. Task is
main hall. Still on watch. George is going to
rooms. Bluth is going to rooms. And Elijah? Are
they in the same room? Different rooms. Elijah
is going to... This is three. Mean Hall. Okay.
Joseph tells Loyal App. Okay. You want to talk
to Bluth? What did you say again to him? I was
going to say putting him somewhere vulnerable,
but if he's already in a private room, that might
be good enough. I mean, maybe give him a heads
up. Yeah. Hey, it seems like George is in the
private rooms. I'm gonna head over there. Uh,
he's not with anybody as far as you know, is
he? I do not know. Click. Alright. As always.
Alright, Loyal, I, uh... I'll come with you on
this one. Can you get me into the room? Sure.
Um... I'm trying to think of how Geist wants
to play this. I think he's going to scoop a drink
off of either a bar in the main hall, if that's
where he is, or maybe the tiki bar if he's still
outside. He's going to find an expedient place
to dump most of it out and maybe spill a little
bit on himself. And yeah, then he's going to...
Yeah, I think he's going to go with Loyal and
just make sure there's nobody around and then
have Loyal open the door for him. Yeah, can I
do it? Click. First we want to just land in the
door. What if you just pretended you were room
service with a gift from Bluth? Hmm? Is Bluth
with George? No, they're in different rooms.
Okay. George is like on the far end away from
Bluth. My plan was just to stumble in Like I'm
drunk and then basically pull out a gun and be
like, hey, do what I say or I'm going to fucking
kill you. And then I time up and gag him and
kill him anyways. Yeah, I want to see if there's
anyone else in the room. I want to do a quick
sonar scan of it. Yeah, please. Please give me
a sonar scan. Let us do this. Give me a sonar
scan. The survey, risky standard. Cool. I love
to be risky. It is a fail. We have failed. Thank
you. Thank you for failing this role. Can I tell
you how much it means to me? What? You failed
this roll. The ground is shaking. What's going
on? Here's what happens. There is nobody in this
room. But there is a lanyard on the bed. And,
like, a sound comes over your comms. It is Bluth's
voice. And it says, I've been shot. George Define
is in my room and he has shot me. Get over here
right now. And I think that's a good place to
end. Oh, fuck. Oh, my God. That's a cliffhanger.