Lieutenant Kane Halifax had finally arrived on
Terra Brea, landing in the capital city in the
middle of the Peacekeeper base. As he and his
team dismounted from their modest landing craft,
he took a deep breath. The air here was different,
fresh, unpolluted. Its history was markedly different
from Earth's, and he tasted it as it ran down
his throat and into his lungs. There was a sour
tang underneath the fresh, almost alpine scent
of the atmosphere. A shiver stalked him at a
distance. This place was rife with a reddened
and blackened complexity which indicated to him
that this operation would be bad news. Halifax
wasn't a superstitious man, but he knew that
his intuition rarely lied. Nothing was here for
him except frustration and an overly arduous
path to a simple justice. His initial investigation
in the coming days confirmed this. The Moon Devil,
callsign Crow, was deployed deep into enemy territory
on a long -term operation, far out of his reach.
His other quarries, the Dusklights, had gone,
according to their handler, missing. Taking with
them all of their support staff, she was lying,
but he knew there would be no proof of her lies
to present to the court. He sent his hacker into
the base's systems to look for any clues as to
the Dusklight's whereabouts. He sent his dolphin
pilot to schmooze with the staff on base to see
if he could get any clues. The General's son
was deployed to the corporate council to use
his nepotism to ferret out any collusion. And
the operators, his muscle, they were told to
stay on the ship and to stay out of trouble.
His team didn't turn up anything particularly
useful, not that he'd expect it to. But one thing
did stand out to him. A record of one of the
Dusklights. Loyal. having repeated visits to
the brig to visit a prisoner. Unusual, but not
immediately helpful. However, that horrid intuition
of his kept bringing him back to these visits,
and with no other leads, he flashed his badge
to the warden and set out to see what was so
important about May's mourner. When we last left
off, you had been sent by September Bluth to
a corporate retreat to take out some people that
stood in his way of seizing control of the corporate
council. So far, at this nice little resort and
spa, you have taken out the head of the R &D
department, Eager Nest, who is a guy who is stomping
around in power armor. Loyal tased him to death
multiple times. Well, tased him to death once
by shooting him with it multiple times after
catching him naked in the shower. You have all
kind of turned your attention to George Define,
who is Bluth's plan on double -crossing. However,
when you went to find George in a private room,
you discovered that he was missing, and shortly
after, Bluth yelled out over the radio that George
Define was in Bluth's room and had just shot
him, and then screamed for help. What do you
do? I mean, we're, me and Loyal are right close
by. I think we're just gonna haul ass over there
as quick as we can and bust in. Suspicious of
this. Scanning the room before we do the busting
in. Ooh, another survey from Loyal. Bold choice.
Just to set it up, where is Hex and Joseph at
this point? Well, didn't Harold just fail the
main hall? I think our plan was originally where
me and Hex were going to meet up to maybe take
on Jack, I think was his name. Yeah. I mean,
we could start making our way over there. It's
not that far away, but okay. Yeah, I'll power
walk as well. I'm power walking to the private
rooms. I have surveyed and failed. What's wrong
with my sonar? Why is it not working? You only
have one die. Your sonar muscle is real sore.
What do you call the sonar part of a dolphin?
The melon. That's really cool. I love that name.
Is it actually the melon? No. It's actually the
melon. I like that. It's like the dome in front
of their heads. That's their melon. It's full
of... I wonder what it feels like, the sonar.
Straight up melon. Straight up melon. I... Yeah,
I think... You hear Bluth is yelling over the
radio, saying, like, I've got the bathroom door
barricaded, but I've been shot. And then you
hear a, like, loud cracking noise, and then he
is quiet. If Loyal doesn't open this door, Geist
is going to do something drastic. I will say
that there are two people in this room. There's
one, which is a person. I mean, you know what
Bluth looks like on sonar. It is, as he said,
he barricaded himself in the bathroom. He is
now slumped down. And there's another figure
that has just like shot through the door. Yeah,
we're good. Open it, open it, open it. We're
doing it, we're doing it. You go in. There is
a guy in here that is George Define. He has a
silence pistol, I would say. And it is now pointed
at you. Cool. Can I check off my own silenced
pistol and shoot him with it? Or attempt to?
I need to look at Joseph's sheet to see if silencers
are a special item or not. It is a special item
that the infiltrator explicitly gets. So we'll
need to get over that hurdle somehow, whether
it be some sort of flashback. Ooh! No, I know
what I want to do. Oh, fuck. I'm going to check
off throwing knives instead. Whip one at his
forehead. Of course. He used to play darts. That
is so much cooler. Okay, I don't think loyal
can help me, but I'm going to struggle and I'm
going to push myself, which I believe is two.
And you do have less effect, so you'll be risky
limited. Oh, because of my harm. Fuck. Let me
see if there's anything else I can do. No, my
shit's all pilot -related. Keep all your frame
in here right now. RC car? Have it railed down
the whole room. Technically, if I did, I would
get the push effect on the frame as well, and
my bombard's a hell of a lot better in my struggle,
but I think that this is not the time to go so
drastic. That would be. I'm probably going to
do it at some point. We'll see. Risky limited.
Thank you, Ziggurat, for electrocuting me. Let's
see what happens. Four and a three. Four is a
success. Okay. You hurl a throwing knife at this
man. It plinks right into his shoulder. He kind
of winces, and his shot kind of goes off a little
bit, but it does hit you in the arm. I think
like mirrored hits here. You hit him in the arm.
He hit you in the arm with his pistol. So you're
going to take the level one. I'd call it harm
grazed. This is just like Cowboy Bebop. I already
have less effect and I don't think they stack.
So I think I might just eat this. Delicious.
I'll also say just to add a little bit of intrigue
here is. You definitely hit him with a knife,
but the knife disappears as soon as it hits him.
He's a fucking hologram, bro. He's fake. Is the
real George dead? I hope the real George is dead.
Oh, wait. That helps us. Yeah, no, real George
might have just hired somebody to do this hit,
and he's not here. In which case, whatever, that's
not our problem. That's Blue's problem. How far
away from me is fake George? Uh, three yards.
What the fuck is a yard? Approximately 300 millimeters.
I'll try to just grab him and see if I can just
yank the hologram puck off of him to see who
the fuck he really is now that he has been slightly
disarmed. Sure. That probably would be a struggle.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Before
you do, before you do. Maybe I can use my other
free, my other free tactical genius. And in this
one, it's literally just, I don't know, we're
in like the warehouse where we've been kind of
just hanging around for like the five days. And
guys is like, all right, look, your exopod, it's
big. It's kind of clumsy. Why don't you take
a swing at me? Take a punch. How would you attack
me? And it's just, like, they're doing, like,
melee combat CQC practice. I love these flashbacks.
I know that's my last one, so. And plus 1D. Give
me a dice. Yay! As long as we keep getting partial
successes, we'll be okay. You're just, like,
grabbing him? Grab him and attempt to find where
it is using my sonar and also just fucking patting
him down. Pat him down hard enough to break his
little fucking bones. Yeah. I want to also just
kind of like put some of the weight of my exopod
on top of him so he can't escape. But I don't
know if I can do that with a bunch of... So,
I'm not showing you this clock because it's too
much to update it, but this is a four -step clock,
so you have completed it. This kills him. Yay!
Here's what I'll do. You tackle him to the ground
effortlessly. You're partially crushing the guy.
He tries, he pulled out a knife and he tries
to stab you, but it kind of plinks off the top
of your exopod because it's thick glass. You
know, the pistol goes rolling across the ground.
He is completely neutralized. You pull off the
puck after you break some important bones. And
there is a different guy under it. Just a much
like thinner, more fit guy than George Define
actually looks like, you know. It's like, let's
just pretend fucking Agent 47 is under there.
You know? Are they bald? He's not one of the
VIPs, is he? No, this is not one of the VIPs.
This could just be one of the extra people we
kill. Well, this, I mean, yeah, whatever. But
this guy was impersonating George Define, one
way or another. But he's not even here at this
party. No, but your complication is that behind
you is a guard Sees you on top of this guy. You
know, like gun on the ground. You're wrestling
him. And he reaches for his radio and his gun.
And you're in a desperate position. Wait, what
if we made this look good? We're saving him.
Yeah, we're just doing some citizen justice over
here. Yeah, Bluth's in there. He's hurt. We're
trying to help. The staff member is helping.
The thing about that is that even if this Even
if we pull off this deception, the entire place
will be on such high alert that it's basically
going to be impossible to complete the rest of
our assassinations and the VIPs might flee. That
is a good point. But I do want to yell at this
guy and be like, stop, do you know first aid?
There's a man who might be dying right over here.
See if I can distract him enough. I don't know
what kind of role that is though. Can you like
stun him or something with your psychic brain?
It all comes down to what you roll. Both of those
are valid approaches. This would be a desperate
standard. Yeah, I can't make him feel a psychic
thing since I don't have the stress, but I can
just yell at him to be like, don't radio stuff
in. Remain calm. There's a guy dying, and see
if that gives maybe Geist enough time to also
tackle the security guy. But yeah, I think that
might be a sway. I will also say, Hex and Joseph,
you are now near enough that if you wanted to
do something, I'd be cool with that too. Let's
see what Hex can declare. This would be a really
great time for a huge prowl to just fucking dummy
shit this guy in the back of the head. I could
spring into action here. It'd be super fun to
just see this guy in the doorway and then see
Joseph also just like a leopard. Feet sideways
just going into his head. Anytime Joseph does
his insane spring jump stab attack, I always
think of You know how in Dark Souls when there's,
like, the skeleton enemies who sometimes will
do, like, the insane jump where they just, like,
breathe, like, eight meters and explode into
a pile of bones when they hit? That's what I
like. It's like, oh, that's the bone explosion.
That's perfectly it, yeah. It's just like a pirouette
spin jump thing. It's super cool. So would this
be Risky Standard? Probably. Since you technically
have the jump on him, I will give it to you Risky
Style. Okay, so Risky Standard, ready to go.
You didn't have to say it like that. I did. Partial
success. Okay. This is just going to be another
security guard down the hall. He hits him with
a fire extinguisher. Domino effect. No security
guards left. This is how we take out the whole
building. Nothing bigger. Yeah, I think you get
him down onto the ground pretty quickly. Shit.
Okay. Okay, I got it. You get him down to the
ground. He is not as vulnerable as you had hoped
he would be. You kind of miss your first knife
strike on him. You kind of like... blocks it
literally with his arm, and then like knife goes
through his arm. And with his other hand, he
manages to reach his sidearm and press it into
you and then fire it kind of like at your hip.
He does not know that you are a robot. So what
this munition is, you learn, is that it is some
sort of like stun round or whatever meant to
incapacitate humans. So this is just going to...
basically jack up your leg. You're going to take
the level... Let me look at your sheet. Mirage.
It's weird that nobody calls Joseph really by
his call sign. Joseph doesn't prefer it. Yeah,
I guess that's why. You have less effect because
of your harm. Oh, yeah. That is true. Okay, so
instead of... taking him out. He hits you with
his gun. You take level one harm, sparking servos,
I guess. Nice. Oh, you know what? Better than
harm. Ignore that. Okay. Your optical camo turns
off. Not your optical camo, your hologram turns
off. And will need to be dealt with or repaired
some way. You are now exposed, and he is, you
managed to disarm him, but he is still struggling.
and may call for help. X? It's your turn. Okay,
that's a fun way to do this. You can't resist
consequences. Sorry, I don't want to rewind time,
but I don't know how much stress Joseph has.
I have stress despair. Yeah, so I could resist
consequences how? What would that do? You just
resist with prowess and you take that much stress
that the thing tells you to take. You'd be resisting
your hologram being destroyed. That's what you
can actually resist. That's the actual consequence.
Okay. That's probably a good thing to keep. So
I shall resist. I shall resist. Yay! Zero stress!
Look at those dice! Beautiful. You take no stress.
I think you move your leg out of the way and
a little taser bolt hits the ceiling. It is silent,
luckily, for you. I'm a good man. I'm a good
man. I could have been bad. But he is still struggling.
I will give you that. You have subdued him so
that he does not have a gun or a hand free, but
it is kind of up in the air how this will turn
out. Hex, now your turn. Hex shows up with a
fire extinguisher. He starts crushing his skull.
Well, let's see. What do I have? Is this struggle?
What is struggle versus prowl? This is struggle.
This is absolutely a struggle. Then we're going
to struggle. We're on the struggle bus. Hex is
going to try to knock him out with a fire extinguisher.
Does he get increased effect because the guy
is kind of being 2v1'd on the ground or something?
I mean, yeah. As long as you get a success, he'll
be done. Is it controlled? Is it risky? Like,
what is this? It is risky. You are in a hallway.
You're struggling with a guard. Okay, come on.
Can we get another one? Yeah! Horseless success.
Has to come up with increasingly convoluted complications
that don't just extend the scene. I know. I'm
so sorry you have to hurt us. What I'm going
to say is that abstractly, I'm moving a time
segment ahead. People are going to start moving
around. You have two ticks left until the retreat
ends. You hit him on the head with a fire extinguisher.
You know, I am not a doctor. So I'm not going
to comment on whether he's not moving anymore.
Well, there we go. Do that as you will. Mission
accomplished. You may believe getting knocked
unconscious by a sharp blow to the head with
a heavy object is not consequence free. And this
guy, if he survived, that is the ordeal. This
will probably have long -term complications.
You should have listened to the dolphin. You
should have just tased him to death. That's true.
You, taking the smart move, you all take all
the evidence and bad shit that you have going
on into Bluth's room and close the door behind
you. How's Bluth doing? Bluth isn't talking.
Let's open up that door. Let's get in there.
Yeah, you move the door, he's leaning against
it, but you kind of manage to move him out of
the way. He has sustained two gunshot wounds.
One to the heart, and one to the neck. He is
holding his neck, but he is not moving. He got
shot in the heart? He did get shot in the heart.
Do you think we can airlift this guy out? Yeah,
this guy rolled bad. like worthy like i rush
this guy outside worthy somewhere and i or is
that like too crazy maybe what would we even
have time to bring him to hospital there's a
hole in his heart i think if you've been shot
in the heart you're just instantly killed unless
you have some kind of redundancies in place which
i guess might he might he's let's check to see
if he has a pulse why don't we okay uh does he
have a pulse give me a roll What is the medical
role in this game? You're not treating him. So...
Survey? But what would you roll to treat him?
Yeah, if we had to. I don't think this game has
that. What are you supposed to roll to heal harm
in downtime? You don't... I don't believe you
roll it yourself. Could we use a flashback here?
Maybe? Maybe it's too much, but like... I feel
like we need a contingency. We had a conversation
with Bluth where he's like, if anything happens
to me, all right, if anything happens to me,
this is what you gotta do. Do the Dumb and Dumber
and just have him be wearing a bulletproof vest.
I was just gonna say that. Flashback, he's got
a vest on. Yeah, before he leaves, he's like,
listen, Bluth, if we wanna do this, you have
to wear this, okay? It's gonna get hot. You just
have to. It's gonna show on the neck, but not
on the heart. Is that too much? I looked it up.
Engineer is used for it, but you need to have
the doctor ability. Oh, fuck. I don't have that.
Sorry, could you run that by me again? I was
looking at the rules. A flashback to say that
we told Bluth to wear some fucking personal armor
under his white Doug Dimmadome suit. Yeah. So
he's got a bulletproof vest on and was shot in
the heart area and was shot in the neck. A bullet
-resistant vest, perhaps. He's not shot through
the heart. No. That's pretty bad. He doesn't
give love a bad name. Do you want to roll a survey
to determine his injuries first? Sure. Who can
do that? I think it's a survey. Let me see. Yeah,
mine's zero. I have one survey. I got one survey.
Dolphin, it's more thematic with you. Does anyone
want to aid? Here's the thing. It costs me three
stress to aid loyal, but it only costs me one
stress to aid Hex. It's also less effective.
Oh, never mind. No, we want effective. I forget.
What is the what are the boosts for being super
best friends? I know that you get you get a die
position and effect. OK. Well, shit, if I help
him out, then. The odds of this going bad are
worse. I mean, the odds are going bad are. We're
in a better spot. Yeah, we're in a better spot.
Girl, let's let's do it. I don't need to need
stress. So you're aiding Loyal? Yeah. That will
put you in Controlled Greats. Plus 1d. Thanks
Geist. Glad I took your stress away so you could
have it all back again. Failure. So you can withdraw.
and try a different approach or you can seize
a risky opportunity. Stick your finger in the
wound. Stop the bleeding. It's risky. You try
to scan him and there is just no good information
you're getting from this. There's like something
weird with Bluth's body that's going on. Let's
throw another knife in there. I feel like something's
not correct. Or like, should we let this scan
play out? I just want to touch him. I want to
touch him and see if he's real. I mean, yeah,
he's real. He's real. Like, I'll just tell you
that right now. This is really blue. You know,
you can't. He does not have a pulse. Oh, fuck.
I mean, what else are we trying to get from the
survey now? I wonder if maybe we should go for...
Yeah, I was gonna say, maybe we go to our flashback
now. It was a fun idea. It was exciting. I mean,
we've already established in the fiction that
he doesn't have a pulse. I don't think we can
just, like, oopsie that away. Yeah. Did we fuck
ourselves by doing that survey? We're not getting
the flashback? I mean, he... He was shot and
rendered unconscious. Like, that is where we're
at. Mozart established, yeah. Yeah, I think we
need to call the medical staff. Like, if you
wanted to have a flashback of having some sort
of private medical service on call, maybe? Hey,
I like that. Somebody else's trauma team would
have to do that. Like, yeah, Hex can do that.
The problem is, though, Is that if he vanishes
and then we do what we're supposed to do, it's
going to look real fucking suspicious. I'm sure
he'd prefer that to dying. He would, but it would
be better if we could stabilize him and leave
him here. So it seems like he was a casualty
of it. Okay, then what if we organize, I don't
know, an on -site doctor in case something bad
happened to him? Or... I was going to say, this
is the fucking far -flung future. What if somebody,
not me because I already spent all my stress...
flashes back to have some, like, fucking, I don't
know, like, nanomachine injections or, like,
an emergency stabilization shot that, like, puts
you into some kind of suspended space. I thought
you were gonna say you exfil him and then you
just change your disguise to be him. I was going
to say that too, but I thought that was too much.
I was like, there's no way we could do that.
It also seems way harder because then someone
has to be Bluth in front of a billion people.
That seems hard. Yeah, I think the only one with
enough sway to pull that off is Loyal, and he
can't do that for other very important reasons.
I mean, if it's Consort, Hex can do that. It's
Bluth time. Yeah, I like that idea. I want to
hear Hex's Bluth voice. If you're willing to
do it, we can do it. I'm happy to be Bluth for
the rest of this session. Oh yeah. Bluth with
a gun. Okay, so let's do the flashback then.
Sure. So let's flashback. Who are you arranging
this with? Let's make up some people. Oh yeah,
more names. I'm going to pretend... So this wouldn't
be in direct contact with Bluth, because my thinking
is Hex has just pulled Bluth to the side, I guess
during their meeting, and says, hey, listen,
you know how we operate. There's a shot things
will get a little hot. Okay, yes, and? We should
arrange for someone on site in case anything
happens to you or your retinue. I'm talking to
the doctor, medical supplies. Oh. Well, it couldn't
hurt. I'm not going to make you roll for that.
I'll say just spend two stress. Okay. Leave it
there. So what I'll say is that there is like
a medical team on standby for Bluth. How do you
want to get them in? Because otherwise they're
just going to come in with the structure and
all that shit. Pretty loud. Hmm. Would you just
be like, you're waiting in a private room? We
have an invitation for you? My initial thought
is they would have just booked a room or Bluth
would have gotten him some passes. Maybe that's
how the leak came out. Yeah, sure. I like that.
Okay. Yeah. Across the hall, a door opens and
two very inconspicuous doctors rush over. Is
it time? Into the bathroom. I knew it. And they
start working on Bluth and they say, we gotta
focus on that neck wound. The chest one is incidental.
What do you mean incidental? I can't give away
patient information. Motherfucker paid for the
two hearts. You got a robot heart in there. Mr.
Bluth doesn't have a heart. That's so poignant.
This really says something about capitalism.
We set him up with a kind of full spec arterial
pump because he didn't like the single point
of failure. That's fucking smart. Actually, this
man's a fucking genius. My respects. All right.
Please give us some space. I have a question.
Let's get out of here. So for our Bluth plan,
this is a question about the hologram. So can
a hologram just duplicate someone in front of
you? Or do we have like a Bluth persona in the
hologram? As part of that flashback, I would
I'll just give it to text that he he smartly
had a blue one scanned up. OK, so you can't scan
someone who's like there. You can't like take
someone's identity. Not with a tier one hologram,
I would say. OK, because I was going to say we
have a dead security guard. And if we pose as
that guy would get us into a lot of places. You
just dress up as him. We can put on our clothes,
I guess. Yeah. I mean, like it's tagging shit.
I mean, a controversial plan, Joseph, is Hex
gives you his hologram and your Bluth and Hex
just dresses up as a guard because he's not like
inconspicuous. I don't know if I should be anyone.
What are your skills? I have like no talking.
I have like zero talking. Then don't. We're killing
people. Well, I have actually a consort. I have
one consort, surprisingly. I'm just saying it's
an idea. I know, but I'm the guy who needs to
like jump in. If we're planning to kill Jack
in the way that I suspect we are, I think you
should be the one to distract him. And then I'm
the one who uses my super death ability. Unless
just like somersaults and then puts a leg through
his head. I don't know if I could do that. All
right. All right. Yeah, we'll need it. That's
my theory, at least. Hey, that's a good theory.
OK, but I mean, yeah, if someone wants to pose
as a security guard, I don't know if I mean,
try it. Here's here's what I'll say for you,
Joseph. as a fan of the players, you do have
a fairly high interface skill. And I think that
would be appropriate for trying to set up a new
hologram disguise on the fly. You could do that?
Yeah, you could do anything your imagination
allows for. We're playing pretend, you know,
why not? Okay. There are no rules except those
we abide to play by. Okay, I'll interface with
the... Guard or the hologram and see if I can
do it replicating you're interfacing with the
guard nasty, man Risky yeah roll. I'll just call
this controlled because you kind of you the main
threats have been dealt with Controlled standard,
let's see how well you can tinker this up Controlled
standard no failure. Yeah It is very hard to
do this on site without like some sort of device.
So you can give up or you can try again at a
risky position. You said we could also just wear
his clothes, right? You could wear his clothes.
It would be less bulletproof than having his
face, obviously. Just fucking Joseph wearing
the guard uniform, but he's very obviously an
emergent personality robot and the clothes really
don't fit at all. Is my hologram destroyed? Is
my hologram destroyed? Didn't I resist that?
Uh, no. Oh yeah, you can be generic. I'm still
a human. I'm just wearing his clothes, correct?
That work? Yeah. I don't want to get us in any
more trouble. That's why I'm thinking maybe that
will just still be enough. is my theory, so I'm
not going to go again. Okay. You failed, you
make a hologram, but you put on his clothes.
They don't fit perfectly, but, you know, at a
glance, people will think you're security. I
think this will help us take out the other guys.
Is the assassin still alive, right? Yeah, I guess
so. He's incapacitated on the ground. He's awake.
He's awake. He's awake? Yeah, he's awake. Loyal
did not knock him out. Okay, cool. Let's ask
him where Georgie boy is. That's what I was just
thinking myself, actually. Geist pulls out one
of his knives and he leans down real close and
he's like, I give you one chance. I have one
question for you. I don't give a shit why you
tried to kill September Bluth. I need to know
what happened to the real George Define. Is he
still alive? George is fine. He sent me here
to do all this. He's totally alive. Don't worry.
You seem like a reasonable guy, okay? I have
no problem with you. And Loyal, that's a lie.
George Defiant is not alive. Oh my god. He doesn't
even think to look at Loyal. He asks, where is
he? Just a state off -site waiting to hear back.
Okay, I think Geist is gonna stab him in the
jugular with one of his throwing knives. I hope
I don't have to roll for that. I'm just gonna
fucking make it quick. Your finger slips. You
accidentally cut your hand entirely off. You
have tetanus now. Congratulations. You kill him.
He's already neutralized. You can't have lockjaw
if you don't have jawbone. That's a little tip
from Geist to the viewers. Yeah, Geist looks
back to the rest of the team, and he probably
has a little bit of blood running down his hand,
but he has to shake off, and he's like, uh, yeah,
we're gonna have to deal with Define another
time. Let's look at him and be like, nah, he's
dead. He was lying. But we have an extra kill
that'll throw people off the trail, so let's
keep going. That's excellent news, yeah. Okay,
two down. Should we take any opportunities here
to try to... create some clustrous evidence and
put it on these bodies. That's a great idea.
You're playing for the objective. Um... Would
you... Okay, this isn't really a flashback because
it's fairly inconsequential and something that
I immediately thought of. Can I just, like, have,
like, not, like, a manifesto, but, like, a this
is for Clearwater Crater style note, like, just
prepared on me? Are you gonna make me pay stress
for that? No, that's pretty easy. Cool. In that
case, I think I'm going to slump this guy against
the wall. I'm going to take one of my throwing
knives and I'm going to pin it through his chest.
Pin the knife through the note into his torso.
Awesome. I'm going to take a silenced pistol
too and stuff it in the waistband of my pants.
This might be a little nitpicky, but this is
all in Bluth's room. Do we want the poster in
his room? Yeah, we'd have to move it to a different
place. Bluth's blood is also all over that wall.
I don't know if we should put the evidence here.
We can move the body to his original room where
he was supposed to be. That's true. Yeah, yeah.
I'm paranoid. I'm paranoid. There. No, no, you're
thinking smart. You're thinking smart. That's
good. We'll have Loyal peek the hallway before
we move him to make sure that nobody's there.
Yeah, how are those halls looking? Uh, good.
Clear. We'll just really quickly zoop him over.
I don't think it really... I don't know... I
mean, I guess we'll see. These are pretty powerful
people, but I don't know how in -depth the investigation
is going to be in terms of that stuff. But it's
a good thing to take care of, so we tie up another
loose end. So you're moving the body and the
guard to a different room? Yeah, just to Define's
room. Okay. I think that will need to be a roll
from someone because going through a public hall
with bodies is very risky. Joseph. You know what?
Let's just leave them here and I'll kill the
guard too. Is the guard alive? Did we already
kill him? He's up in the air. Well, Joseph incapacitated
him, so I assume he's dead because Joseph is
a professional. We're talking about the guy who
got a fire extinguisher on him, right? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. He got his skull crushed. I'm sure
he's fine. Um, let's just, let's pin the note
to him instead, because, like, regardless of
what Define is, maybe it looks like him and the
security guard got in a struggle. Are the doctors
still there in the bathroom? Okay, I'm gonna,
this is just a funny bit that I feel compelled
to put in. They have brought in, like, a room
service cart that doubles as a stretcher. Very
subtle. I'm gonna look at them and I'm gonna
be like, look, uh, I'm gonna plant a dead body
in here. Sir, sir, I'm gonna stop you right there.
We don't see anything that goes on in this room.
Okay? Yep, no, you're just doing your job. What
I'm saying is you gotta be out of here, like,
within ten. Alright, that's easy. And they start
stuffing Bluth in the bottom of the cart. Good
shit, good shit. And I guess Geist gives them
a little salute and waits for them to wheel the
cart out. And then I'm gonna... Before they leave,
they kind of look back like they're expecting
something. $5. I give them a throwing knife.
Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. I've got
four left. Because the other one, I mean, yeah,
I stabbed the guard in the chest to put the note
through. Okay, now he's dead. Yeah, that's fine.
Christ feels nothing. Wow. Is Geist a bad guy?
No, no. I wouldn't go that far. Okay, no, that's
good. That's good. That's two down. I washed
my hands. So people have been moved now, right?
Yes, they have. Let me read it out to the listeners
at home. We have Jack Johnson in the conference
room with Task Newton, the head of security,
and Loyal's dad, Elijah Grisius. He is in the
wellness center. Wait, are you telling me that
two of our targets are in the same room? And
you have a robot that can fire from off -fucking
-place, and we know that Loyal's dad is fine.
So... Maybe this is it? Why, Zach? Is this it?
No, no, I have to ask Colin, because I don't
think it's going to necessarily be this easy.
My idea for... This wasn't my really fun idea,
which I might just keep in my back pocket for
another day. But my idea for this specific scenario,
especially with people in the conference room,
is just to fucking shoot it, have the changeling
do like a... beyond visual identification range
railgun flyby like far enough away that nobody
can see obviously a bombard and just blow some
fucking shit up what is like is that is that
in the realm of possibility i guess is my question
uh shooting from a long distance with your railgun
or whatever to kill everyone there yeah absolutely
that's a bombard obviously but you know You're
professional. Before this, we should send that
email. Loyal should send that email and get all
the VIPs, just in case someone's in the conference
room. Oh, yes. Good call. I mean, you know where
everyone is. Oh, yeah. I guess so. No one of
consequence is in there. We are goofy, as they
say. You don't even need to send the email. It's
great. And you want to know what's cool? I don't
even need to push myself to use... Well, I guess
I could. There's not really any reason to. Does
anybody want to help me? Well, no, because I
can just check off. I have two... Pilot load
left. I can just check off my fine vehicle remote
control, which does the same thing. The main
benefit of my new move is that I can do a pilot
action at the same time in the mech action and
get the push benefit for both, which is really
cool. But right here, I only really need to do
the mech thing. I can just do it on my Game Boy.
I would like to assist you, if possible, with
an interface, possibly. You don't have to roll
anything, but you do need to justify it. And
I think that that kind of... I feel like an interface
that could help you with your transmitter. Just
now that we know that this option is available,
Joseph would be like, okay, we cannot mess this
up. We have to do this now. Give me your thing,
and I'll help you make this precise. Cool. I'll
hand over my Game Boy. Yeah. I'm going to play
some games on this. Are you using the Game Boy?
I was going to use the Game Boy because that's
the only way that Joseph can really help me.
All right. I was going to assist him on this.
Sure. Sounds good to me. I'm cool with that.
I use my loyalty points and take that much stress?
Is that how this works? Yes. Does that mean that
I get increased effect and a die? We have two
ticks together because we had that scene. Yeah,
you can choose any of them. Increased effect,
extra die, ignore harm, you know, anything. I'll
take both because the changeling actually still
has two level one damages, so this will bring
our effect from limited to standard. Great. Well,
this would, just to be... You would be at grade
by default, because you were taking a mech action
against human beings. Okay. So, I'm going to
look... It's too stressed for you, Adam. Yeah,
I'm going to push myself as well, so that'll
be a total of four dice. What I will say is that
before this happens, Geist looks at the rest
of the team, and he's like, Alright, this is
how this is going to be, alright? We've got a
singular opportunity here. I'm going to take
out the conference room. And then we need to
shoot our way out of here. You understand? We
need to be loud. Do we need to reveal ourselves
in this moment? I am wearing a guard uniform.
Maybe I could shepherd us out. I guess we've
already planted the evidence. I think that'll
suffice. We just gotta get the hell out. It's
gonna be pandemonium. Security's going to be
trying to deal with something that they can't
understand. Hopefully we'll have cut the head
off of the proverbial snake. Yeah. Let's try.
I feel like we've already... It's kind of a meta
question. Do we feel like we have committed enough
collateral? Do we need more? I guess there'll
be innocent people in the conference room as
well. Yeah, I think that'll be... Can we check
the cameras? Don't you have access? Yeah, but
what would we be checking for? Just who's in
there. Oh, no, that would destroy our evidence.
I was thinking somebody could just plant a bomb
here. But no, that would destroy our manifesto
note. Okay, yeah, if I check the camera, does
it look like there's enough people in the conference
room for collateral? I mean, I guess as a GM,
I have a responsibility to tell you things. I
don't know if, like, just two things, right?
You have one note, right? One clustrous note.
But the note isn't attached to any of the VIPs,
technically. It's attached to just a guard. And
I guess that kind of would imply... No, it doesn't
need to, but I feel like there needs to be a
little more clustrous evidence. At least one
other instance. That's why I'm thinking we shoot
our way out, you know? I can tech off. If anybody
has two pilot load left and they can just check
off a rifle, we can just be like, this is for
the crater, you fucking fascist capitalist pigs!
Just, you know, blast our way out. Hex could
declare, like, demo tools and just blow up something
that seems symbolic at the resort or retreat.
We don't have time to fuck around. We are about
to go live. I'm one mouse click away from dropping
four dice on firing a railgun shell. Can we flashback
and paint the rocket that you're firing in as,
like, clusters colors? Ah, it's a railgun shell.
So it's not... Like, what if we planted demolition
charges on the helipad as, like, a symbolic thing?
You know what? You can flashback for that. What
if we flashback? No, no, no. What if somebody
flashbacks to just like, right before the railgun
shells go off, we activate like an autonomous
drone or something. It's just like, you failed
to prevent the devastation of our lands by the
solar union. You are all culpable. I love this.
Clusterism forever or whatever. And then, like,
that's when the fucking railfin shell drops.
That's actually great. Like, over the PA, I mean,
you got access to the cameras. Could we do two
flashbacks at the same time? Because I also was
wondering, should we take out the frames that
are in utility that are probably going to, like,
start stomping and try to attack us as we leave?
Oh, yeah, that's a good point. Like, what if
I flashback for that and then Brian flashback
for your other plan? Would that work? Yeah, sure.
Okay. So, what do you want to do first? I'll
hold off on my flashback because I'll only detonate
once the bombs attack. Yeah, I mean... So, basically,
what do you want to know the result of first?
Because if you fail your flashback, for instance,
Joseph, you won't have bombs to detonate. And
if you do succeed, you detonate them whenever
you want to, right? Oh, okay. So, it's like,
who do you want to know succeeds first? I guess.
What does the flashback require? Is it a role?
Your time. Painting bombs will definitely require
a role. I think setting up like a loudspeaker
thing since Loyal has like access already. I
think the PA is public access. So I think that
I'll just give that to you for like honestly
one stress really. Yeah. So whoever wants to
spend that stress, you can just do that. But
it shouldn't be Loyal because he'll die. Excellent.
Yeah. Oh, wait. Am I about to die, too? Maybe.
Uh -oh. Yeah. Hey, Joseph, you got stress? I
have four stress to spare. Hey, take one for
the team, why don't you? Well, am I doing two
things, then? Am I having... You could technically
do two things. The PA system will be one stress,
straight up. The other flashback will be two
stress, and you're going to have to make a roll.
So, Joseph's going to be doing these two things,
which should bring about... Three stress, but
I'm not going to try them out since I have one
extra. Okay. All righty. So I'm taking two stress.
So we are, yes, we are flashing back. You are,
you've just placed your camera, which you've
been using so nicely in the future. And now you
have emerged from a vent in the hangar. The frames
are right in front of you. And kind of in front
of the frames are some guards who are playing
cards. These are like the standby pilots. And
this would be a prowl? This would be a prowl.
Risky standard. Is there any way I could assist
myself here? Besides the shadow, which would
help me if things go wrong. But I'm trying to
think if there's anything that increases my odds.
And I don't know. You could push yourself, but
that would run out the... That would be too much
stress. So here's what I'll say. You should have
limited effect. But because you have the optical
camo and because you already established you
have a way in, I'm going to give you regular
effect. But yeah, you're basically... Your only
option for an extra die is a devil's bargain.
Or shadow. Let's see what Satan has on the table.
I love to visit. Sure. Here's what I will say
is that you will leave enough stink. Robot stink.
I don't know why is that verbiage, but basically
I will tick the military police confrontation
clock by one. That is a four step clock. When
it goes to four, there will be a confrontation
with the people sent to arrest you guys. So I
will tick that by one just because, you know,
something about this operation kind of makes
the military police think maybe you were involved.
Just maybe. That makes sense. It has our stink
all over it. It has your stink all over it. They
need to get a life. That's kind of a team question,
though, too. I'd be putting us in danger with
military police. But I feel like we could handle
just one tick. How many ticks do we have? We
have four. You have zero. We have zero right
now. But there's four in total. And it would
just be one so far. Sure. Let's take a tick.
We're already in danger. What's another? Okay,
so I'll do that. I'll do that. Excellent. All
right. So you're going to get plus one die to
this risky standard prowl roll. Thank God. Success.
What do we got there? Ooh, a full success. Yeah,
you place. You're going to need to check off
placed explosives on your gear. You have placed
explosives in such a way that these frames, I
don't think you have enough to blow them all
to hell, but it is enough to cripple them. such
that they would not be able to get up and go
very quickly at all. Gotcha. Good, good, good,
good, good. Good shit. That's why we keep this
assassin motherfucker around. I was going to
say, could we combine if, let's say, like, the
frames aren't even deployed, or maybe they, like,
is there a way we can use that with our cluster's
evidence? I don't know how we would do that,
but, like, is there an opportunity there for
us? I think... Like, if we blow that up? I think
that the PA thing is, like, so unambiguous that
it doesn't matter. Like, I don't think we need
to go harder than saying, we are clusterists,
we are killing you. And then, like, most, like,
rich man on the whole world gets exploded with
a railgun. All right, that's fair. Hopefully
that's good enough. I don't have any stress left
after this to do my fun little surprise, so if
what's -her -fucking -tits somehow manages to
survive this, we're gonna be in a spot. But we'll
cross that bridge when we get to it. Okay. Yes,
you place those. They will go off whenever you
want. The PA is rigged to play your funny message.
What is the general vibe of that message? Like,
you're all capitalist scum who are funding genocide
on our planet? You are all complicit. I think
the important thing is you are all complicit
in the tragedy of Clearwater Crater because I
think it's really important for us to be as hypocritical
as possible by using the atrocity we caused.
That's good. I think it's vital. But yeah, basically,
just like, you know, you've all been complicit
with the Peacekeepers, you've all, like, Clearwater
Crater, the blood of all those, like, hundreds
of thousands of dead people is on your hands.
You could have stopped it, you could have stopped
them, you didn't. And then the conference room
blows up, which I am just itching to roll, because
I want to see if I can fail a four dice. I think
I maybe have before. You've been edging long
enough, Wyzak. It's time. I'm ready. Are we ready?
Let's see it. Here it goes. I'm so fucking nervous,
you guys. It's gonna be green. It has to be.
Die. No fucking jazz! That's two fives and two
sixes. Oh my god, I need to settle down. Your
Game Boy's gonna run so well, man. Never roll
that high in your life. Never ever. Oh, God,
that's so that's such good news. Holy shit. And
when I have I have a very good thing to give
you for that. Please lay on me. Oh, my God. It
is a flawless strike. I don't know if you are.
Maybe you have the camera view. Watch this. Watch
this. Check this one out. It's just like they're
all in the room. They're talking about business.
They're pointing at some papers. The head of
security is like shaking her head. And points
like back towards the landing pad and all that
stuff. And then just like one second they're
there. And then it's just like there's like a
big blur on screen. And then there's just like
a big rivet running through the center of the
room. There's just like no one in there. There's
no blood. It's just like the fucking spirit of
God came through and just removed everyone from
there. There's a very loud noise. The whole building
shakes. And, yeah, I'm just gonna draw on this
map and just put a big fucking... Oh my fucking
god, I love that. Holy shit, I love that so much.
And here's what I'll give you, is where are you
guys standing when this happens? I think we're
still in the room. Like, I think we're doing
all this in Glute's room. But we're getting ready
to leave, so maybe we're actually, like, as soon
as the shot fires, we're out the door, yeah.
I actually want to have Loyal near -ish the wellness
center so that if his dad like starts to walk
towards the, float towards the conference room,
walk, yeah, he's like walking X -Pod, that he
redirects him because he doesn't want him to
die despite not wanting to speak to him at all.
So I'm over there a little bit. Okay, that's
going to be a thing. We'll get to that in a sec.
Here's what I'm going to give you, Isaac, as
your gift for that critical success. Joseph,
through your little smartphone setup, which is
audio, Because it's an iPhone, and iPhones have
audio. Not like androids, which have no sound.
Oh, fucking broke -ass bitches. You hear someone
say, right after this happens, holy fuck, someone
just iced the body double. No. And then he says,
we have to get Jack off that landing pad and
out of here ASAP. Oh, shit. He's on the landing
pad? He's in his ship. The super fortress. That
tricky motherfucker. I don't think we have any
stress left to flash back with. I don't. I certainly
don't. I'm all out. But the good thing is, I
mean, I can just fucking scream. Can you do it
live? I can do it live. I have my fine vehicle
remote control. Does anybody have any stress
left at all? If you carry Hex out, maybe he could
trauma out. Would we want to do that? Is that
wise? I'm not sure. Am I being stupid? I have
the grade slots from scarring, so that means
I can't fill those with stress, right? The grade
slots are not from scarring. No, no. Your stress
bar does not decrease in size. The gray ones,
you just don't fill in. Oh, okay. So I only have
one stress. Okay, yeah, me too. Yeah, you only
have one stress. Okay, okay. So you could help
me in trauma out. Wait, no. No, Hex, you... Sorry,
I think I meant the dark gray slots. You have
four stress. But there's another gray. Why are
they that gray too? I don't know. All right,
I'll fix that. Shit. So you do have stress to
help. Yes, so let's help each other. So, I don't
know. I guess, Colin, can I just do another bombard?
I know that it's not exactly good form to just
roll the same thing again, but I am trying to
do the same thing. This is war. That does affect.
Since this is against a vehicle now. Oh, you're
right. I don't... Risky standard. Can I... Because
this is a vehicle effect, can I push myself using
quirks because it's my frame that's being pushed?
Yeah. Absolutely. Bitchin'! Is that just one
to push yourself? I can't remember. Is it two?
One quirk always for quirk -preferred vehicles.
It's always better to push yourself than to resist
with a vehicle. Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. Yeah,
okay. So I'll use that to bump my effect up.
So that puts me at three dice standard effect.
Let's toss some bone. Success! You do it! Oh
my god, what have I done to deserve such good
fortune? That one's tighter. That's a two, a
six, and a two. So it was almost a failure. Why
is X having a good day? The three dice failure
is a Geist classic. That's like his signature
move is rolling three dice and they're all less
than four. We're in the endgame now, that's how
you know. Jack Johnson's big ass fancy fucking
craft begins to take off. Um, like, off the landing
pad, you line up another excellent shot, fire
the railgun, it goes sailing through the air,
and right before it seems to hit it, the railgun
seems to deflect off something in the air. Just
bounces off, and this fucking doesn't hit anyone
important, but, like, carves another groove in
the lawn. Um, and there's something around Jack's
fucking ship. which has absorbed most of the
effect of the shot. This guy. A fucking shield?
He has a fucking shield. First shield mention
of the game. Wow. Shield. I'm ticking two checks
on the Jack Johnson clock, which is a six -step
clock. How are we going to do this? I'm leaving.
Yeah, that's actually a good question. Is this
him being killed or him getting away? That is
him being killed. It is leaving now. It is now
in the air. Okay. We gotta get in there. We gotta
throw Joseph into it. Joseph has... I was thinking
about it. This is an opportunity I could use
my shadow to perform a feat of athletics and
just somersault in through the windshield. If
here's the thing, if Joseph started sprinting.
When we started, like when we like the existence
of the ship was made known before the railgun
shot was fired, which I mean, with his assassin
instincts, I don't think is unreasonable. I feel
like there is a possibility that he could be
getting close to it. Yeah, you could absolutely
make a move. You can make a prowl to see if you
can get on this fucking ship while it's taking
off. Okey dokey. Okey dokey. Okay, so let me
look at your sheet. So you have harm, so you
have less effect. Yeah. You're going to push
yourself for another die? Well, I can't because
then I trauma out. With shadow, right? Yeah,
yeah. Spending a spark to resist or push myself
for a few of those. Yeah, it's up to you which
one of those you want to do. So your position
is... I'm not going to put you in a desperate
position because you've been rolling so good.
I'll say we'll call it risky. And then it's going
to go down to limited by default. So I'll use
my shadow to make that to standard, right? And
then I could take a devil's bargain. The devil's
bargain that I will give you is that you are
going to be on. You're going to be the only one
capable of pulling this off. That is my devil's
bargain, is that it will be moving so fast that
even Geist's awesome changeling will not be able
to reliably catch up with it. Oh, so like not
even my ship? No. Ooh, I don't know if I should
take that. That's a bad one. I might need you
in case anything happens here. You need insurance.
I will not take that devil's bargain. All right,
three dice. Let's see it. All right. Come on,
motherfucker. Come on, come on, come on. Yeah,
look at that. That's a triple, three fours. That's
gotta be worth something at least. That's a bad
omen in some cultures. That's a critical partial
success. A better result and a worse complication.
Wouldn't that be fun? Hell yeah. Okay. You...
Use your extreme athletics. Yes. Some fucking
guy on the tarmac sees, like, just a normal human
businessman somehow jump. No, he's in a security
outfit. Oh, sorry. A normal security guard. Oh,
my God. It's Jason Bourne. Leap up onto, like,
a landing gear and, like, crawl spider -like
with his bare fingers. Up the side of it. I am
going to... Your call to action says you're going
to have less effect, which means that I'm going
to tick the Jack Johnson clock once. You have
found a door, like one of those things that swings
down to be stairs. You are trying to work on
it from outside, but it is a tough door to get
in. So you can continue to work on that, and
you may get inside if you roll well on whatever
happens next. Okay. It is in the air. If anyone
else has any ideas... Oh, we should do loyal.
Yeah, do I finally meet my dad? Yes. Do you want
to talk first or should he? Yeah, I'm specifically
still trying to avoid him and will only interact
with him if I see him going towards danger. Well,
what is danger to you? Well, it was going to
be go near the conference room. So if he's like,
here's the explosions and is going towards them,
I'm going to stop him. I mean, yeah, he's going
to investigate it. Oh my God. Okay, yeah, I still
have my disguise on. I'm hoping, like, maybe
he'll be too distracted to scare me and understand
my skeleton. Sure, sure, he bumps into you. He
bumps into you and says, What the hell? I see
you in there, boy. What are you doing? What the
fuck is this place? He's gone Bluth. He's gone
completely Bluth. That's what he sounds like.
Love that southern accent here. It's actually
artificial. But he's like an angrier Bluth. What
the hell? The southern accents. I think I expected
to be able to just, like, talk to him immediately,
but it's, like, scared kid with your dad yelling
at you, so I take a minute, like, you need to
get off this planet right now. Do not come back
here. Do not come near here. Are you presuming
to tell me what to do? Tase him! Tase his fucking
ass! You're not here right now. Alright, guys?
Thank you, dad! Is he still trying to, like,
get past me? No, he's fucking dressing you down.
He says, do you know how much you have humiliated
me? Yeah, there's, like, not really time for
this right now. If you're wanting to die, you
can stay here. If not, I don't want you to die,
despite everything. Death would be a mercy after
what you put me and probably your mother through,
though I have not spoken to her. God, I don't...
I wish I could tase him, but he's actually too
heavy. Can't move him if I do that. Can you,
like, traumatize him? Just leave him on the ground.
He'll be fine. We're not going to be firing any
more railgun shells. You can try to sway him
if you want to to get him out of here, but he
is... He has read you. He knows what his son
looks like, unfortunately. Yeah. What was the
giveaway? Sonar. I mean, that's how dolphins
see anything. He knows that shit. You can't hologram
that. Yeah, if you spent your whole life seeing
other people's skeletons, you'd be able to recognize
the skeleton of your child. I'd recognize those
bones anywhere. That's cute, I think. I think
I'd fire up my taser. I'm like, I will remove
you from these premises if you do not remove
yourself. And that's my sway. The future is now,
old man. Fuck yeah, roll that sway. Holy fuck.
I love it. Overcome daddy issues with the power
of violence. And guns. Yes, he can, and I'm taking
full credit for that. My God, that's a six, a
five, and a five. Oh, I'd love to see it. He
is a little taken aback, and he says, perhaps
I have misjudged you. I knew he would respect
the sign of power. Yeah, I mean, where do you
want to lead him? How did he get here? Where
are you? Route everyone else is taking to leave
this place now that everything has fucking blown
up. I would say the alert clock, just by the
nature of the railgun going off, is full now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd say so. And I would say
the frames have also been blown up as well. So
they're scuttled. Some people are going to the
docks and are leaving on their boats, but most
people are going to the landing area. And I guess
he says, like, I have a vessel. Yeah. I will
just tell him to go on it and still just get
off this planet and maybe don't even be in this
star system anymore for a bit. Very well. I suppose
the investments will still be here. Have you
seen Bluth? Hex, where are you? Hex is still
in the private room with everyone. I guess. What
are you doing in there? I don't know. I'm waiting
on my Game Boy, motherfucker. Changing the world.
I mean, like, a railgun just went off. Joseph
is going killbot. Loyal's having father son.
Did I know that my dad was friends with Bluth?
No, you did not. Oh, no. No, maybe Hex knows
that your dad, like, professionally, though.
Yeah, he's a name. It's definitely a name. He's
big in resource extraction. Rich dolphins. We
might have helped him by blowing up those oil
platforms or whatever they were. We probably
did. I mean, how can Hex help out with the Jack
Johnson thing? I guess... Can he start... Is
everybody prepared to line up another shot on
the ship if things go wrong? With what? With
your frame? Actually, no, wait, I can't remote
control. That's not Hex's thing. You can, but
it's just the non -ace remote control I think
automatically limits your effect. Go for it.
Let me see what I can declare. Don't make Gopher
do it, please. Gopher, come on. This isn't Gopher's
fight. You are stopped by... Okay, whose lanyard
are you wearing? Hex's disguise, of course. So
not Bluth's? No, he's... Where did you leave
Bluth's lanyard, then? You should take Bluth's
lanyard if you're disguising as him. That was
the whole thing. He's Bluth, so he's pretending
to be Bluth. Yeah, I mean, that's perfectly logical.
Yes, and he's leaving. Great. You are stopped
by Jenny. Oh, no. Who says, Mr. Bluth, we got
to get out of here. There's been like a terrorist
attack. I mean, did you hear the announcement?
It was really intense. Well, heavens. Of course
I did. You think I don't have my own exit planned?
Do you need another? Sir, do you need another
lozenge? Another what? A lozenge. Because your
voice sounds wrong. How's the building just blew
up? Get out of here. Well, sir, to be fair, you
said, I don't care if there's a gun to your head.
If I don't get a lozenge and a coffee on time,
you're never going to work here again. You're
never going to work here again if you can't...
Tell what a joke is. Get out of here. You're
so right, sir. Do you want me to escort you to
the car? No. I'd like you to make yourself scarce.
Okay. Well, how am I going to leave, sir? Take
the car. And the heck starts walking away. Okay,
Jenny. Jenny seems very confused. Head towards
the evacuation zones. But yeah, there are LARPs
going off. I think you're... Your announcement
is still playing over the loudspeakers. Whose
voice is the announcement? Microsoft Sam. Could
be. No, the Clusterist would never allow an automated
voice. We can make this something fun. Can it
be Gopher's voice? Can Gopher have recorded it?
So that it's not tied back to any of us? Sure.
Why not? And I thought you liked him. I do like
him. That's why he's perfect for this task. Nobody
knows what the fucking intern at the Seoul Union
Peacekeeper Base who fills the vending machine
sounds like. It's just very convenient in its
own way. We could easily pin it on him, it seems
now. Geist would never. That is good. You don't
have to roll anything, Hex. You are loaded into
Bluth's car. I think I said he arrived in a car,
right? I think so. Yes. Uh, if you're listening
chronologically and you actually remember, then
you are better than me. No, it says... You have
outwitted all of us. Although my notes say private...
He's in a vessel that is leaving. It will not
be mentioned again because I don't want to get
down a rabbit hole. Um, okay. Uh, Joseph, you're
in the air. Uh, but I think... Um, Geist, you
want to take another shot? The complication is
that Joseph is now on board the aircraft. I don't
think I do want to take another shot. I think
I'm waiting for Joseph to tell me to take another
shot. I know it's kind of outside the spirit
of the game to just do nothing but like... Sure.
I will also say that a haze field has gone up.
Oh. Okay, so I can't hear it. Which might complicate
things. Can I even control my mech from here
with my fucking thing if there's a haze field
blocking me? No. I don't have any stress left,
man. It's not happening the other way either.
Just real quickly. Sorry? Put on the crown, just
real quickly. Oh, put on the crown. Yeah, okay.
So your new move is not that you can only do
that when you push yourself. You can just do
that in general. Oh, I didn't realize. Yeah,
it's only when you push yourself, you can do
both at once. Okay. You have an infinite use
remote control that doesn't get affected by his
fields now. Okay, um, I feel like I'm still not
going to do that yet because Geist has, uh, um...
No, he has loyalty to his squad, motherfucker,
and he's not gonna blow up Joseph even though
he suspects he might be the mole. He doesn't
have proof. Sounds like a hang -up to me. So
he's going to be watching the trajectory of the
ship through the changeling sensors and he's
gonna be like, uh... Oh wait, no, everybody's
gone. He's by himself. Oh, shit. Everyone's like,
oh, shit, I know we forgot somebody. Well, we
assumed you were, you know, being a little RC
pilot. I think Geist is going to just, like,
leave. He's gonna basically, like, he's just
gonna start, like, walking out and look. If there's,
like, a crowd of screaming people running away.
I think we just need to push forward. There's
going to be, there's no perfect solution here.
We just need to act. Alright. I think, okay.
So I think we can do these things in tandem.
Geist can, through the changeling's radio, just
mutter under his breath, Joseph, get the fuck
off the ship now. You gotta get off. I'm gonna
take it out. Get off. Joseph cocks his head.
He's like, what the fuck was that? He feels like
a chill run up his robotic spine. And then he
kind of looks down at the ground and he's flying
through and he's just like, that felt pretty
powerful. I guess it's got my back. And he lets
go. How high up are you? I'm probably gonna die.
Probably like a few hundred feet. Would this
mean death for Joseph? The robot? If you hit
the ground with nothing else, yeah, probably.
Maybe you can put me back together like Lego?
What do you have? Let's take a look. How much
load do you have left? I think I'm all fucking
fucked up. Unless we want to take away the long
-range transmitter phone idea. And I think we're
equipment for other people. I don't think you
can. Yeah. Can you not catch me? You would have
to. Okay, two things. Frame could catch you.
Also, Hex, you could flashback give him a parachute,
I think. So how much will this flashback to place
explosives cost and stress? Uh... We could try
to roll them into one. You tape a parachute to
the side of it, as well as some explosives. Right
there next to the bombs. If you want to do both...
What the fuck is this doing here? If you want
to do both, it's going to be too stressed to
even attempt it, and then it's going to be a
roll. I don't like those odds. This is scary.
I can see it being a consort. Is there a devil's
bargain in the works here? Maybe. So, I would
like to... Let me give you a couple things. One
is that you have beneath notice, which you could
use to your benefit if you're using your skies
somehow to get close enough to plant these explosives
in your flashback. The devil's bargain, I think,
would be... That's... Fuck, I mean... That if...
Prevent a consequence. Wait. The parachute's
just a rubber tire that says Acme on the side
when Joseph goes to deploy it. That's the consequence.
I guess my devil's bargain would be that the
parachute that you're able to actually hide is...
It's not a great parachute, I guess. It's not
rated for combat zones. It's not rated for a
big metal boy. So it might slow down his descent,
but it will not perfectly help him. Ow. But it
would save his life. I should not have jumped
on this fucking thing. What was I doing? It's
too late for that now. I mean, do you want your
parachute and stuff? I could give it to you.
I would like something. I would like something
so I don't die right now. So I'd be giving you
a parachute and one... What's the cheapest bomb?
Placed explosive. Okay, so you're not planting
the place explosive. You are going to make it
available to Joseph. I think I would give you
an extra die because you're being set up by Hex
on this. I'd be happy with that. So two on a
finesse, that's not bad. Okay. What do you think,
Adam? What do you think? Seems risky, but I don't
know what else we can do. That's your only exit
strategy that involves doing some damage to the
ship. And I think that that is useful to vital
because I'm not gonna be able to do it on my
own. Yeah. So you're going to do those. You're
going to do a flashback. Yes. Yes. I'll make
this one stress with a roll because you're not
technically planting anything. You were just
kind of, I don't know, taping it there for some
reason. I mean, thinking that Joseph might have
to board this is actually not that unreasonable.
Hex is paranoid. This is an actual character
trait. This makes sense. Take one stress. Hex
stayed up late ordering this parachute off a
wish. Yeah. You do not need to take a devil's
bargain unless you are. Are you taking it? No.
So you're not taking the he will hit the ground
fast one? No. Okay. So I have a normal parachute.
This is a peer imports, peer one imports. Shout
out. Friend of the show. You don't skimp on safety.
No. Hex, you are strolling up to this guarded
aircraft with a bag. There are some guards out
front who aren't like bristling when they see
you approach because you just look like, wait,
are you? Are you Bluth at this point, or are
you a normal businessman? That's my main curiosity.
He's very unmemorable. Okay. So you're just using
your own face, though. Yeah. Well, he's just
a boring guy. He looks like he's stressed. He
doesn't want to be there. They say, hey, whoa,
what's going on? Listen, I don't have time for
this. I'm here to drop off a package, all right?
With who? Hey, don't tell me these things. Can
I just leave it? Leave it with us? Sure. You
work here, right? He, like, gestures to their,
like, badges, assuming they have one. Okay, here's
my question for you, Brian. Yeah. How, if you
leave this package with these guards, how is
Joseph getting it? Did he, like, grab it on the
way up, maybe? Question mark? I can see that.
Like, they just, like, leave it by their fucking
feet. And he just grabs it when he jumped up.
You know? I'm thinking there's a funnier way,
but so far, that's not wrong. Colin's like, we
gotta move this along, alright? Yeah, he's just
leaving it there. And, yeah, he's just leaving
it there. It looks like a normal briefcase with
files. But actually, it's a miniature briefcase
that flings parachutes and bombs into the air.
Yeah, sure. I'm more than happy to say that Joseph
scooped up a duffel bag on the way up. I think
that's good enough for me. But I think you have
to roll. Okay. I have to roll. Who has to roll?
No, Hex. Hex has to roll. Consort. Okay. To see
if they let him leave a bag here and do not look
inside. And I get extra dice because I'm disguised.
You do because you're beneath notice. And is
this risky? Yes. Risky as standard, sir. Okay.
Personal success. Your partial success is that
they, in all the chaos and confusion, the parachute
got stepped on. It's an imperfect parachute.
We're back to the imperfect parachute. As long
as he survives, it will save your life. Colin,
I'm going to try it. You want to resist? You
want to fucking resist me right now, bro? No,
I'm going to invoke some red tape here. Oh my
god. Holy shit. The parachute that Hex acquired
is battlefield rated, so it can take a footstep.
Uh, okay. So that means you get to roll... Well,
that actually doesn't really do anything for
you, because you can roll a resolve to resist
instead of any... It's prevent a consequence.
You may roll resolve to resist instead of any
other attribute. Okay. Okay. That's not good.
Goodbye, Hex. You tried. You have died, motherfucker.
I hope you're happy. Wait, who? Both of us? I
don't know. Just Hex. I land on Hex. Okay, so
Hex, you take three stress because it's six minus
the highest roll. Just so you know, how rolling
resolve works is that it is the sum of this left
column right here. So if you had one in sway,
you'd be rolling three dice. If you had one in
each of these, you'd be rolling four dice. That
was a misplay. Oh, well. You tried to help me.
I'll remember that. The good news is that you
have basically already completed everything you
can do in this mission. So this roll succeeds.
You do resist this consequence. It's going to
be a very good parachute for Joseph. Real fancy
stuff. Gold thread. But as soon as you get in
the car, it's just like you're spent. Power modal.
Battery saving mode. Yeah, all that cocaine is
finally wearing off. Okay, Joseph, you're up
there. You have your go bag. And since this ship
is quite hardened to your electrical interference,
it is time to try a different approach with your
bomb. You're going to get a plus one D from Hex
because of this setup. Thank you for this is
a finesse role. I can see that you're trying
to plant the bomb on a moving plane That's that's
finesse if I've ever seen it. Yeah So this is
a finesse plus 1d risky standard. Mm -hmm See
if it was all worth it Brian. Here we go Very
good Are you going to fuck up my parachute again,
huh? What's going to happen to my parachute?
Unfortunately, a piece of shrapnel. Someone rolls
down the window of the plane and is like, hey,
fucker, it shoots my parachute. Okay. So, I'm
going to give you an option, Adam. And because
I love this parachute so much, I'm going to involve
it in the option. Of course. You can get the
safe option, right? I'll give that to you. It'll
be, you know, bomb goes off, you get a couple
ticks in the ship, and you can jump off whenever
you want. Or it can be that the door gets blown
open and you have a way inside, but you lose
the parachute. I don't know. I feel like me getting
in there is a bad idea. I don't know. That's
fine. We can go with it. It'll be fine. It'll
be fine. What could possibly go wrong? It'll
be fine. Okay, so I'm going to tick one. There
are two ticks left in this clock. Joseph, you
jump off right before the bomb goes off. The
big thing shakes and you see the shield kind
of flicker a little bit. It looks like it might
be giving up the ghost. Some smoke is coming
out of the hull of the ship as well. And you
are now parachuting down to safety. Slowly. It
is all up to Geist, unless Loyal has some sort
of laser beam. My dolphin laser beam. Wow, you
guys didn't tell me I had a secret laser beam.
You didn't tell us you had one. It's the power
of love. Listen, we spent 30 minutes figuring
out how to try to get him off the plane. Yeah.
See, why would I even go in there? We're spending
so hard to give you the fucking parachute. It's
cool. Whatever. But Geist is going to... I mean,
well, actually, unless Loyal has an idea for
something to do, I would love to entertain it
because I hate the pressure all being on me and
my ability to roll dice. Yeah, I don't... have
a weapon that can take down a plane. I suppose
not. Okay, Geist. I think I know what I want
to do. Our frames all have their own haze fields,
right? Yes. Even if I reveal myself as Geist
in the Changeling, as long as I shoot the ship
down, it won't really matter. Assuming that he
doesn't have some alternative form of broadcasting,
yes. Because what I'm thinking is, what I can
do, firstly, I can check off another quirk to
push myself for an extra die, and then I can
use my boosted reactor to do the fucking, uh,
the Geist special where he just basically hurdles
himself like a cannonball with his pilebunker
hands and tries to just, like, punch a hole through
it. It's... his most effective move, but that
the increased effect will negate my decreased
effect and bring me up to standard. Which means
that I will, I think that means I'll kill it
on a six and I'll fuck it up on a four or five
and I'll cry and piss my pants on a one, two,
three. But I will have four dice because it will
be a battle or a maneuver rather than. Let's
do it. That's a success. Yeah, you sure can.
fine excellent uh any particular way you want
to do it oh my god is it dead uh yeah it's two
ticks left right and then you get two ticks holy
fuck okay okay i have dreamed of doing this ever
since this game started but do you guys remember
9 -11 ever since In the second season of Dragon
Ball Z, there's a point where Nappa the Saiyan
fights a bunch of fighter jets and he just, like,
punches right through them like they're made
out of tissue paper. I want to do that. I just
want to fucking punch right through this thing
and, like, not just, like, puncture it, but,
like, rip it to pieces from the inside and then
just fly out the other side with it completely,
like, fly in one side, out the other, and then,
like, while I'm in the middle of it, I'm just,
like, ripping shit up and as I come out the other
side, it's been completely fucking cored into
a husk. Fuck yes. I like it. Joseph, you are
floating down on a parachute looking up at the
ship above you and then a large object suddenly
goes fucking apple pie on it and just fucking
chops it up into lots of little pieces very violently.
It's like seeing a wild animal jump on a bunny
or something. Jesus. And there's just like these
pieces are just scattered all over the sky. One
probably like nearly misses you. And I'm shadow
playing that, by the way, with my eyes. Yeah,
that was cool. And yeah, it's Jack Johnson is
gone. He's he's dead. Mission complete. Mission
fucking complete. Well, second body doubles dead.
Now we gotta get the third one. Yes, the second
one. Oh, God. Yeah, as part of my success, I'm
walking and I hear somebody say, oh, my God,
I think they just... The second one. These guys
are good.