Argos, I have no way of knowing if you received
my first letter all those long years ago, nor
do I know if you ever responded to me. I know
it was wrong to leave, but it was just as wrong
for me to stay. Going into this war I thought
I knew the universe, about morality, truth and
fear, but I was wrong. We were all wrong. It
is not so much that I believe the claims of the
Clusterists, but I do believe they are more right
than the rest of us. Humanity's long sleeping
era must come to an end, and we must wake up
or be consumed by forces so great, so beyond
our understanding that we will be utterly destroyed.
If we cannot awaken we must hide, we must cut
off our own hands so that we do not reach out
into these dark and terrible stars. Despite their
prejudices, despite their crimes, the Clusterists
are pushing us into a safer direction. I wish
there was a better option. I wish I could have
stayed with you and with our children, but I
must see this through for all of us. You will
not hear from me again, for better or for worse.
I am sorry. I love you, and we are together even
as we are apart. Your husband always, Pierce
Sunspire. Welcome back to All That You Know,
an actual play, beam saber podcast. My name is
Colin and I am the game master. Joining me today
are Brian. Hi, I'm Brian playing Hex the bureaucrat.
Zach, also known as Wyzak. Hi, I'm Zach and I'm
playing Geist the ace. Ewan. Hi, I'm Ewan. I'm
playing Loyal the Impath. And Adam. Hi, I'm Adam.
I'm playing Joseph the robot infiltrator. So
before we get into my initial narration about
what's been going on and how long it's been,
you all have beliefs about each other now, and
I would like to start the session by reading
those. And we're going to start with Hex, because
you're at the top of the Discord. Hex, how do
you feel about all your fellow squad mates? All
right, well, for Mirage, Hex feels that Mirage
is a machine, and I don't know what his goals
or motives are, but after everything we've been
through as a squad, I think he has the squad's
interests in mind. Well, as for loyal, I'm suspicious
of loyal's willingness to do what it takes to
complete a mission. And for Geist, he's a loose
cannon. He needs to be watched so he doesn't
do anything stupid. What about your second belief
for Joseph? For Joseph, this was earlier in their
relationship. It may have human like traits,
but it is a machine with no real emotions or
loyalties. Oh, all right. Why don't you go ahead
next, Adam? For Geist, I have he will continue
to push himself until he looks like me. This
could benefit me for loyal. I have why is a dolphin
involved in a human war? It was placed not conscripted
for hex. I originally said knows too much of
me and my true intentions will need to keep him
from soup. I think S .U .E .P .D. Yeah. And then
the new belief I wrote is he is boring, average,
woefully committed to the cause, the most respectable
human I know. Let's hear your beliefs, Geist.
Yeah, so Geist's belief about Loyal is that his
empathetic abilities might make him a liability
as much as an asset. His belief about Hex is
that he's a pencil pusher. He's going to freeze
up when facing his mortality. His belief about
Mirage is this thing cannot be trusted. I need
to watch it. Right? Should I read my beliefs
about Retribution? Oh, yeah, sure. That'd be
fun. His first belief was retribution is exceedingly
cruel. I will be worse. And then his second belief
is he has turned himself into something completely
non -human and must be destroyed. It's a shame
that beliefs only advance when you cut loose
with another person or that you only get ticks
for that. Because I feel like after all the times
that like Geist has fought in concert with Hex,
he would maybe like be changing his belief about
him a little bit. Battle is cutting loose If
all you do for fun is violence and murder then
isn't cutting loose on the battlefield the truest
version of cutting loose Guys would be able to
have his bonds with his friends if he didn't
try them out every episode Gotta do what you
gotta do Yeah, that's true. Too in the hospital
too often to make friends. Loyal, let's hear
your beliefs. Loyal's belief about Geist is that
not only has he stopped viewing the enemy combatants
as people, he has depersonized the planet's civilians
as well. A belief about Hex is that Hex joined
the war effort out of boredom due to the mind
-numbing bureaucracy that he is engaged in in
his normal life or was engaged in. And he doesn't
really believe in any cause. I believe about
Mirage is that his new sapience has been warped
by being born into war and he needs to experience
love to become fully realized. Always makes me
smile. This robot just needs to be loved. Don't
touch me. Okay, thank you everyone for your beliefs.
So it has been about two and a half weeks since
your last mission. In this time a fair amount
has changed. Now that you've invested in increasing
your capabilities, the hangar you operate out
of has been significantly spiffed up. You have
more support staff, more bureaucratic pull, and
more of a claim on the Peacekeeper's resources.
Even better, is that Gopher, your runner, has
particularly been excited. He was given the team
and supplies required to fully support your frames
as an engineer, and from now on you'll be able
to roll three dice for repairing and engineering
on your frames to reflect that. Oh sweet. Cool.
On a more personal side, Geist is out of the
hospital, though he looks different. Much of
his skin has been replaced with this pale white
blue synthetic material, and at first glance
I think it's hard to tell it's even him. Sunleth
has recovered as well and has a noticeable scar
on his head, not to mention a distant haunted
look in his eyes. See what I did there? How has
this increase in resources affected each of your
characters? I want to get a small look at each
of these material differences in like a scene.
This is what's changed now that Gopher is an
engineer. What's changed now that not just Gopher
is an engineer, but you are all given more access
to everything, like more supplies in general,
just, you know, more amenities. I have one. Geist.
I mean up until this point he's really been the
guy when it comes to mech repairs I mean like
obviously we have support personnel but Geist
is kind of the one who has really been hands
-on with a lot of this stuff and now that gophers
working on it he's got like actual free time
like he maybe comes into the hangar one day and
like i mean gopher and some guys are already
making repairs so he really just has nothing
to do so he kind of leaves and he's forced to
like go do something for fun and he considers
doing more you know more combat simulations or
you know doing doing something related to the
job but he thinks back to a promise that he made
to grace and so instead he goes even with his
like freakish new blue skin and he uh he like
does something for himself he like reads an old
book and maybe like plants a little potted plant
in his like shitty dismal apartment just for
the fuck of it and he kind of sits there and
looks at this thing that he did and feels weird
about it but not necessarily bad i love it okay
i'm gonna start calling on names Joseph, I think
with probably all the added benefits. I like
to imagine that now people at least have some
form of respect for Joseph because he's had some
complete missions and he's kind of given a little
bit more resources. They're like, well, maybe
this robot's not the worst thing. And I think
he uses both like were these comments in friendship
with mahogany's and maybe even gophers to just
leave his room more often and try to assist other
pilots. that's around the base and try to acclimate
himself more to human life. Yeah, I think that
is greatly appreciated. You look scary, but you're
a nice guy. Exactly. I just want to help. All
right. Give me your AI. Hex. Hex, to be honest,
has changed much as a character. He's still Hex,
albeit a little shaken by the events last time.
But with the new resources, He does look noticeably
less stressed as he's gotten helpers to help
him with all his little bureaucratic shipping
forms and what have you. Interns. Hey, hey, hey.
Unpaid. If you call him that, get the payback,
Adam. If you call him that, get the payback.
Shit. Loyal. I don't know, I don't think his
daily habits change that much. He spends a lot
of his free time still just kind of out of his
pod, swimming in the lake alone. doing meditative
dolphin things, but I think he would spend more
time trying to interact with his teammates, trying
to make friends with them. I'm not sure how successful
that would be since we haven't had any formal
scenes for playing that out. But that's going
to bring me directly to my next point, which
is what does the dynamic look like between your
characters at this point? You know, we haven't
focused on it because, you know, we're just starting
out, but you've done two whole missions together.
And you've worked after those missions kind of
side by side. And I know that Hex and Joseph
have had their time together in the bars. But
what is it like between all of you? What are
the Dusklights like? Yeah, who brought me a bouquet
of fish when I was in the hospital? I imagine
that we're all... a lot more maybe professional
towards each other instead of maybe uncomfortable
and guarded now that we've run successful missions
not being like what does this guy know being
more like okay for the next mission you're gonna
do this and then the other person kind of agreeing
that's kind of what i thought yeah hex definitely
trusts joseph more uh even going so far as to
ask for his opinion on the various bureaucratic
things he happens to be doing on a given day
yeah i i think joseph is definitely Pallant around
with you. He's probably like making unannounced
visits and asking if you want to go like take
a walk or something so you can talk about things
I think for loyal and Geist he's he's afraid
he was like watching over you guys in the hospital,
but he's afraid to Enter into your lives right
now because he doesn't know how you're recuperating
So I think he's just you catch Joseph looking
at you through the hangar a lot of times just
far away just kind of staring and then when you
look back at him he just kind of gives you a
thumbs up and quickly walks away. But he's always
there to talk if you want. Yeah, Hex is similar.
He views the no news from Geist and Loyal as
good news, assuming that you want your space.
Yeah, Loyal invites everyone swimming if they're
able to go swimming each episode at least once.
Can I go in water? Am I like a toaster? I think
you are waterproof. Otherwise. So the strategies
against you would be very simple. Take the sway
bottle to him. Yeah. Walking at the bottom of
the pool, like not even floating. You need floaties.
Yeah, just sink immediately. Really good industrial
grade ones. I feel like Geist. He probably, like,
considers himself to be, I think, in a sort of
elitist way, the only true soldier in the squad,
or at least he did in the beginning, and now
that he's kind of been able to see everybody
in action, you know, especially like Hex, he
didn't really know, he didn't know if Hex was
going to be able to, like, even attempt to take
a human life, and he's been out here slinging
missiles around, and he's proved himself to...
Against guys expectations to be, you know willing
to do what you got to do. So I think guys kind
of Sees himself as like the team leader because
of his experience even if that doesn't really
ever practically shake out that way because a
lot of times when the fighting starts he just
kind of goes nuts by himself, but um, he she's
trying to Open up a little bit. I think maybe
even noticeably more now that he's all fucked
up with his like weird blue Flesh kind of just
hanging out. He's kind of trying to prove maybe
to everyone else and himself that he's not some
kind of inhuman freak like Retribution is even
if that maybe is not necessarily true. So he's
like He's tried. He would maybe accept the invitation
to go swimming one of these times only to realize
that his frame doesn't swim real. He's like,
he's very heavy now because he's got a lot of
chrome on him. So he maybe sinks a little bit
too. Meet me under the water, guys. I'll be back.
I'm both just standing under there and I'm trying
to like maybe nudge them with my rostrum to get
until I swim. Don't give anybody a ride. That's
just that's not distinguished. You don't do that
in the dolphin world. Considered very demeaning,
but I won't help them. I don't want them to ride
on my back. Very heavy. Thank you all. Among
all this, you are called into a briefing. Like
I said, two and a half weeks at usual place.
Upper floor conference room and the peacekeeper
HQ, and as always, Nyla is there first and waits
for you all to be seated. However, this time
it's not just you in the room. In the room are
also the pilots of the Bone Picker Squad, who
you are fairly friendly with, you have a plus
one with them. And Joseph you in particular are
approached by mahogany cola who you have a working
relationship with and he says Joseph I was right
excited to hear that you were getting to be a
pilot. How is that treating you bud? I Just like
to assist in any way I can mahogany You know
how it is sure do and he pats you on the back
and he takes a seat right next to you I'm gonna
give him a wink. I just want you to know that
he knows he knows your wink. He knows Nyla starts
talking. There's like two other pilots in here
with you right now Do I have names for them?
Do I have visual description for them? Of course
I do, but do you get to hear them? Of course
not Nyla says our capture of the clusterous pilot
by the dusk lights has paid off She's produced
some Intel that seems to be legitimate and we
have Sunleth to thank for that He's done good
work developing her as a source and she you know
nods to you Sunleth Sunlith doesn't react in
any way. He holds himself very still. In the
East City, there is a cluster of space, which
has remained hidden up until this point. From
what we know, this place has been importing scrap
from outside the city and assembling it into
those makeshift frames you've fought. The facility
will likely have some clues about other cluster
cells in the city, seeing as it is supplying
them with hardware. There are two primary goals
to this operation. The first is to neutralize
the base. The second is to gather intelligence
inside the base and prevent its destruction.
Whatever order you decide to do these objectives
is up to you. The Dusklights will be in charge
of executing this mission, with the Bone Pickers
being deployed around the perimeter of the base
to handle any fleeing clusterists and to secure
the surroundings against any reinforcements.
The facility isn't huge, so you'll only be able
to effectively use one or two frames once you're
inside of it without suffering from mobility
issues. The insertion method, like I said, is
up to your discretion. The bone pickers and their
three pilots will be doing a sky drop once you
go loud. Their infantry will be standing by nearby
the location. Both squads have done enough work
to be able to plan and execute this. We do not
anticipate any heavy resistance, but stay on
your toes. As expected, since this is in the
city, you will have access to the Raptors. and
the Sparrows, your scouts, and soldiers. Your
rules of engagement are as follows. Avoid collateral
damage to any surrounding buildings. Avoid any
civilian casualties. Prevent destruction of any
evidence inside the base. Do you have any questions?
Uh, yeah, I got a question. How likely do you
think it is, given the mission parameters we've
been provided, that the Cholesterists just try
and blow the fucking place up the second they
catch wind of us being there? We don't know.
We... actually kind of... looks down at the paperwork
she has and says we didn't get a lot of information
but we scattered it out there are people there
so what is the size of this facility it's very
large it is big enough to as we said you could
fit a lot of frames in there they're assembling
them in there how populated are the surrounding
areas they are not particularly populated the
east city is sparse but if we're being honest
we haven't done a census of the east city We
don't know where people are. Our scouts have
said there are some residences nearby, but nothing
as bad as your first mission. Hmm. So wait, this
is an out of character question. Didn't she say
that there's not room for all of us to take frames
inside? Yeah. Yes. But there's also room for
like a million frames to be housed inside? In
the main facility, yes. Oh, okay. The implication
being, it wasn't clear. The implication here
is... They're assembling them and then they're
moving them or storing there somewhere else.
OK. OK. Geist, I guess, just looks and he's like,
wait, how the hell do the Clusterists have a
full on fucking military hardware assembling
factory inside the city? And we didn't know about
it until this prisoner squawked about it. Nyla
kind of looks shy. Implication are. the city
is very large and as you know we do not have
a lot of personnel we don't i assume you know
this we don't even have control of this planet's
orbit technically speaking yeah fair enough it'll
be an uphill battle look i don't mean to i mean
i don't mean to put all this solely on you but
joseph you're the one with the infiltrator chops
and i'm not good for much outside of my frame
I agree completely. I don't think my frame is
the strongest among all of us, and you are much
better suited piloting a frame. I will go on
foot to infiltrate and get any resources I can.
We got air superiority in the region. Could we
have frames standing by to airdrop? Oh, yes,
absolutely. Well, what are we... He looks to
the rest of the squad. I don't much like the
idea of sending Joseph in there without backup,
but... I'm not sure what our best course of action
is here. Any ideas? I am confident in my infiltrating
abilities. I think I can handle it. I kind of
look to Nyla, right? Yep. And just to see what
she says. You need a partner. Okay. Even if it's
someone, you know, you lead the way, they follow
you. What do we know about the facility interior?
You said that there's not room for many frames
in the... Primary manufacturing area. How like
is it an above -ground building? Is it primarily
below ground? Do we know anything? From what
we know from our initial scouts, it is above
-ground building. Originally it was a scrap yard
used for disassembling all sorts of vehicles
in the city. But our judgment for this is that
we've seen inside the doors briefly and we know
there are hallways which lead to the center disassembly
area and those are fairly narrow. Frames can
move in and out, but there's not a lot of room
for maneuvering. It's possible it opens up on
the inside. We assume it does somewhat, but we
can't guarantee anything. All right. Well, I'm
thinking two man team led by Joseph infiltrates.
We got two frames on standby for a smash and
grab at any time. Maybe even in concert we could
have one group forming a primary, what seems
like a primary offensive shortly after the ground
team has snuck in. It'd provide both cover and
to pull enemy forces away from the infiltration
team while they ensure that the facility isn't
destructed and evidence isn't destroyed. I will
be able to assist Joseph again in providing a
sonar map of the facility. Are you suggesting
you go with the infiltration team? Can you really
do that given your... You're not exactly subtle.
Yeah. Yes, they may have caught on already to
the concept of a dolphin. interloper. I would
need a different cover or a different way of
providing assistance. Well, what do you think?
Do you want to go with the AI sneaking in? My
frame has some ability at long -range scanning
that may be useful to Joseph while he is inside.
Alright, you're with me then. What do you think,
Hex? I think this sounds like a good plan. So,
Hex is going in with Joseph? I think so. Are
you good at infiltrating? It's time to use the
group action rules. I have a theoretical degree
in physics. Wonderful. I will say, Hex, looking
at your gear, you have fine official documents.
You have blueprints for a facility or vehicle.
You have travel reports. You can make it work.
I can see a method here. Like he'd be in disguise?
Yeah, I don't know. Are you sure? I'm just in
here inspecting the facility. It needs to be
OSHA compliant. Jesus Christ, Joseph. Yeah, that's
true. I don't know if I could be in disguise.
The clusters wouldn't shoot me. You do have.
Everyone has subterfuge supplies, which are for
making disguises. I don't know how that would
work for Joseph. Yeah, I think I would have to.
One of those, like, really, like, bad, like,
it's like a full -face rubber mask, like, the
kind that Ryan Gosling wears in Drive, and he's,
like, in his man work. It's, like, one of those,
and, like, a pair of coveralls, and he's, like,
hello fellow humans, I'm here for Interjection
Day. You could also disassemble Joseph. Hey now,
this is me we're talking about. Can Joseph turn
to a briefcase? Yes, he can fold up very small.
I did say this, that he can form up into a small
cube. That's how he used to infiltrate. I think
we just figure something out. Brings in. He's
the Trojan bureaucrat. That's true. I like this
a lot. I like this plan. This sounds like a deception
or stealth. It kind of is a deception, I think.
Yeah, great. I personally love this. So we know
your method. Are you you're just heading for
front door? We're going to act. What's your cover
story going to be? And then we can get into it.
All right. Hex is going to be wearing a nice
bright orange, you know, high vis vest and obviously
a yellow little hard hat. He's carrying a clipboard.
And how do you want to be transported, Joseph?
Wait, would we be able to say I could be a briefcase?
Or is that too far? Is that too small? It would
have to be a big briefcase. At least a double
back is what I would say. Sure. I'm trying to
think of what you could bring in that would like
make sense. Maybe a backpack or like some sort
of like hovering tool bat box. Yeah. I assume
they would search. It's like Roku. Yeah. Here's
my question. I'm also holding my concern. Are
you trying to pose as a government official inspecting
a terrorist assembly plant? Yeah, we need a better
cover than that. You're right. No, that's too
bureaucrat -y. But boy would it be funny. But
boy would it be funny. There, we do know, so
the clusterists are a sophisticated group. They
do have, like... Okay. What if Hex is a floorman?
Yeah. Okay. I like that. He's like, hey, you
guys are behind quota. Higher -ups want me to
check what's going on here. Make sure you're
running it. Well, and you could check off those
fine official documents Yeah, well, yeah his
fine. He has fake docs, you know, they'll believe
it We have good a good reason to believe they
will. Yeah, we're good I'll be in the floating
toolbox then yeah, you'll be in some some thing
I'm not too concerned about it because I think
well the engagement role will determine it Okay,
so everyone is going to determine their pilot
gear load now light medium or heavy light We'll
make you the least conspicuous if you're going
for that plan. I'm medium because I'm carrying
Joseph already or no? No, no, you don't have
to mark Joseph as load. That'd be funny. He's
a big boy. I got to make room, you know. Yeah,
I'm going light. Okay, I think we're ready for
the engagement roll. So you two are going up
the front as the foreman cover, you know, prepare
your speech for that brand. And I believe The
other two are hanging back nearby. Yeah, I'm
undecided. We can either be in worthy ship ready
to drop or we can be like just like in a like
waiting nearby, like on a rooftop or like in
an alley or something. I'm not sure which is
narratively best. It really is up to you what
you prefer. I kind of like the idea of you being
nearby so you can get a view. Well, actually,
I'm going to narrate anyways because you guys
are walking up up to you. To lift you. Yeah,
like a near on top of a building would be cool
Like maybe we got like stealthily inserted on
top of the skyscraper We're like under like some
camo some like urban camo netting or something
just like sit near you're like in a truck Maybe
like a big moving truck. Yeah. Yeah a huge ice
cream truck or something I can hold our frame
away kids Nearby ish will determine how well
that goes. Yeah So here's what I will narrate
before we do the engagement roll which is what
the facility looks like. It's a big disassembly
yard, cordoned off by chain link fence. The outside
is full of piles of scrap. You can see these
makeshift pop -up bays with partially disassembled
vehicles covered by these tarp overhangs. You
can even see some partially disassembled frames
in some of these bay, like missing their legs,
arms, like it's being worked on. Personnel are
moving around the yard with trucks, various machinery,
you know, forklifts. Many of the personnel seem
unarmed. But you do notice a few around the periphery
with rifles keeping an eye out for trouble. And
at the center of the yard is the main building,
which is a printed concrete structure with few
windows that have been blacked out from inside.
And there's a large inactive smoke stack jutting
out of it. There seems to be a big front receiving
area, as well as another large entrance near
the back, which is near a pile of scrap. And
then there are a bunch of personnel entrances,
like people -sized entrances all around the building.
And then we're going to get into the engagement
roll. We get one dice for pure luck. We start
at one, and we're going to ask some questions.
Is the mission bold? Is it especially complex?
Very bold. I think it's bold, yeah. Does the
mission exploit the target's vulnerabilities?
They love Foreman. I don't think so. Yeah, I
don't think they particularly love bureaucracy.
Are you receiving external support? Yes, the
bone pickers are helping you out. And no one
is interfering. Isn't that great? Love the target
is the same tier as you luckily so you do not
lose any points for that. So that's three dice
Pretty solid who wants to roll it? Mommy it should
be one of the sneaky team. Go ahead Brian What
do I know 3d6 3d6? Okay. I love you. All right.
Oh My god, it's a seven a one a three and a three.
Oh Fuck You are gonna start in a desperate position.
Yeah, I had white keys terrible That's like the
worst role to Biff is the fucking engagement
role. Oh, man. Nah, we're gonna be fine. We're
gonna be fine. Okay, so This is not what I expected
to solve Really you probably should have at this
point ever so Before I tell you the result, let's
let's set the scene a little bit. Hex, you got
your big floating tool bag and you know, there's
an opening in the chain link fence where people
like drive cars in and you just start walking
up, you know, and like it really occurs to you.
It always looks like it's a closer walk outside,
but you're just like walking up to this building
and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger in
front of you. And people are noticing you like
they're like people are pointing at you. you
notice like the glint of a sniper rifle like
above on the roof and it's very tense you know
people are talking to radios and all that good
stuff and you get up to the door like a big giant
door stretching in front of you and there's a
tiny door next to it for the people and there's
a guy here and he looks at you and he has a gun
he has taken a gun out he's not pointing at you
yet but it's at the ready and he says what is
this what is this i should be asking you where's
your shuttle My shuttle? I had to walk all the
way here. I think I wanted to do that. What's
in the bag? My tools. All right. Can I can I
have like a little flashback question, by the
way? Sure. No, this is part of the documents
he's going to show. Would Nyla have been able
to tell us Intel on maybe a higher up over at
where the frames would be stored? Or do we have
any Intel on that whatsoever? Higher up on where
the frames like the enemy frames? Yeah, or. you
know where they're sending things that are you
know we expect are produced at this factory or
just like a lieutenant someone higher up if you
want to do a flashback and burn some stress i
would give that to you okay let's do oh wait
i shouldn't find official oh although you do
have as part of your gear and this is only you
get this is the blueprints for a facility or
a vehicle if you check that off i'll tell you
where these things are probably being stored
But does that give me the name of someone who
would be there? I think the reason why we need
that the official documents. Because out of character,
I don't know, like the name of someone I would
say that. Yeah, I think, you know, I think I
think the fine official documents would would
like name the format on site where it's like,
you know, OK, fucking Jameson is in charge of
this or that. OK, then go back to normal scene.
Joseph, just. flips his clipboard over and shows
them your boss sent me here your output's been
weak he wants to see what's going on he speaks
into a radio and you know he says like you know
you don't really hear it and then you know he
like lowers his gun but some other security people
come out and they're like probably three guys
here uh with two of assault rifles and like just
standing around you and being like Yeah, we just
called the boss down. He's gonna he's gonna check
you out the implication being that you have maybe
five minutes until these people shoot you in
the head And you are in a desperate position
Okay, anyone can go anyone at all. All right,
Joseph. Do you want to do anything? Otherwise?
I might have to use some Guys just watching on
the monitors and like I don't think it's going
well It just sent me in. I feel like I can't
do it. If I do anything, it's over. You get shot
in the head now. So I'm just going to remain
cool. The thing I was going to say is since Joseph
is hollow and he has like a hollow rib cage,
I'm going to imagine that in any little box that
he made himself, he stuff just like wrenches
and shit in there. So then if anyone needs to
check, he is technically has like tools within
him. OK. So if you need to pull out a wrench,
you could do that. But if like someone looked
inside and saw where you're pulling out of them,
then they would be like, the fuck is this? I
mean, I mean, ready. Your options here are like
this. It's like either you try to continue talking
around of this with these people or you wait
for the boss to show up and try to talk your
way out of it with him, which will be harder,
which will be harder. I think you guys have any
like. Cause I have half of my - You have a button
on you that will contact me and Geist, who are
hanging from the rooftop. You'll be watching
this. You guys have to bear with me on watching,
like - Yeah, could I use my Shadow at this moment
to, like, uh, get us away from here and tell
him to start fighting? Unfortunately, you cannot
use Shadow to resist an engagement roll. It's
only an action roll that you can use it to resist
the consequences of. So if - Okay. If, uh, text?
Fumbles again, you could technically use it to
reduce the consequences, but There's consequences.
We have no idea getting shot. Yeah To try I don't
know if this is possible but mm -hmm with my
new skill of being able to use my mind to install
powerful undirected motion and others and in
my vehicle gear my psionic amplifier That increases
the range or power of the user psychic abilities.
Now we're talking If Hex like sends like some
kind of like very subtle message being like,
we need help. I don't know like what the range
is or the accuracy is of being able to send a
feeling to this guy to be like, oh, actually,
everything's fine. Maybe I should tell the boss
he doesn't need to come down. What does your
move say for that ability? So for broadcast,
it says when I push myself, I can do one of the
following in addition to the normal benefits.
Use my mind to instill emotion or to paralyze
a person with my mind or voice. I think you're
very far away, but I think you could attempt
it. I think it's definitely possible. I think
you would have limited effect at this distance,
but if you roll well, that might put them in
a risky position instead of a desperate position.
Yeah, we just like walk away or would they like
chase us down at this point? Don't get the impression.
They would just let you go Because then we just
get away and tell them like okay, we're going
in loud X is Has half of mine to declare that
he left a grenade at the front door and t -remote
it so Whatever you got looks better than that.
Oh, yeah, I don't know What what social skills
does hex have? That's a great question is consort
to That's the one that's not useful here Hey
there by what I would maybe take which you know,
it's a flashback. You could say you know someone
here Yeah, I was looking at Intel because it's
shaded on this spreadsheet like what if I what
if hex, you know He got the Intel on who the
boss is on shift right now, and he casually said
hey Jonathan I know him you really want to trouble
and bring him down here the Intel you have to
spend personnel points to use. What if we get
intel on this boss that will help me send a very
targeted bad guy to him? Praise on his fears.
That would be a flashback. If you want to do
a flashback of you, like, what would the goal
of your flashback be? Finding out about this
boss? It's inception. Yeah, we started the boss
because we know it might be bad, that might actually
call him down. So we need to have a plan for
if he comes down. Yeah, I mean, I just want to
know what that five -pack would be to you. Like,
would it be you, like, passing around about this
guy? My vehicle also says it has a fine social
data retrieval program. A finely coded program
that can explain other details about a target's
personal life. Ooh, damn, interesting. I think
that could be cool. However, you know the name
of the guy. Right, we established that. Yeah,
I think that's gonna be a role. This is giving
you the ability. Mm -hmm. This would probably
be an interface Okay, do you want to push yourself?
Yeah, let's interface. Okay. Is anyone aiding
you? I don't I don't think I could aid in any
meaningful way Unless you can think of something.
I do have all this stress to spend hex channels
is just stand next to me being like I know you
can do it loyal you've got this but such a great
dolphin that would actually he's very emotional
he's a very emotional creature one thing one
thing I think guys you could add to this and
let me know if this is non -character but considering
your traumas I think you bring a unique kind
of cruel perspective to people who have families
And lives. That could be useful. Like whispering
and loyal's ear like, you know, I don't really
fuck up a human. You attack their children. Yeah,
just to be clear, we're like trying to like dig
up what is we're trying to like dig up something
we can use to like emotionally blackmail this
guy. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. So just
be like, yeah, like threaten to kill his children,
threaten to. That don't really fuck them up.
Sure. I'm cold and reckless. I think that. I
think that fits. You got this new scar, I might
as well break it in a little bit. Yeah, okay,
so take another dice from that. Yeah, you got
3D. I got three dice? I stress. Risky standard?
Risky, well... For you, it is... That's a good
question. It's controlled for us, but it's still
desperate for them, because if we talk this up,
they're in trouble. I think it is risky for you
because of the circumstances that your friends
are in. Yeah. Okay. Risky standard. Let's get
it. I'm rolling on it. Crossing the fingers.
Crossing the fins. Cross those fins. Six, four,
five, two. Okay. Wow. It should have been, sorry,
two bonus die, but it doesn't matter. You got
six still. So here's what I'll give you. You
find a few avenues here. You got full success.
No consequences. You can either, one, make up,
especially since Geist is helping you, you can
pretend you can synthesize evidence that you
have this person's daughter, like, hostage. You
can also go another avenue, which would be that
you didn't get anything on him, but the assistant
manager, you know who he is and you have an in
there, like he would be receptive to like lying
about or being maybe receptive to like getting
confused about this, like he's kind of a klutz.
You managed to get the assistant manager here
first, which I would just let happen. That could
work, too. I know what Loyal will opt to do in
this situation. Loyal's in charge. Geist is just
here providing options. He's like, all right,
I'm just saying we could pretend we have his
daughter here and I could... If the guy fucks
around too much, I could fire my service revolver
next to the microphone and he'd think we killed
her. It would be a good... I mean, we got it.
I agree. This would be an effective approach.
We will use this if we absolutely need to. I'll
say You can choose one or the other one you can
use later you can use the daughter thing later
for sure the other one you get an inroad now
and It's better morally. Yeah, let's do that.
Let us send a confusing psychic bolts to the
assistant manager I don't even think this is
psychic at this point. I mean you weren't were
you doing yours interfacing, right? You're looking
him up. I think you just like Get a message to
him like you spoof a message from like a Clustrous
like this is the type of guy who falls for like
spam calls I know like hey, it's me from Clustrous
command. We got an inspector coming over Don't
have time for the paperwork. You make sure everything
goes cool with him. Thanks. Bye And yeah, so
I put like a voice modifier on my like pod that
just like changes me to sound like Maybe a girl.
Maybe a human girl. Who's cool to listen to.
I love human girls who are cool to listen to.
Exactly. That's what I was thinking. That's what
guys do to women. Yeah, these fuckers. I love
women. Freaks. Anyways. Yeah, so as your sweat
and bullets hex, and Joseph, you are sitting
there. I don't know what's going on. You don't
know what's going on. It's a very thick bag.
Yeah. You know, these guys, they're like racking
the bolts on their rifles at this point. And
someone shows up and it's not the manager. It's
not the guy you know. It's someone else whose
name... Grimble. It's not Grimble. It's not time
for Grimble yet. His name is Daily. Okay. Daily
shows up and says, oh, sorry, sorry, I got your
message. The boss wants everyone to have an armed
escort who's not part of the operation. So just
come right in. These two are going to stay with
you. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
And he's like very overwhelmed. He's like spaghetti
is coming out of his pockets and everything.
But you are inside. Amazingly. Fight it all.
So you've been reduced to a risky situation.
You have two armed escorts and you are in the
main hallway. There are. The floor is ahead of
you. You can't quite see it yet and then there's
like some stairs that go up to like a Examination
area so to speak and presumably maybe the rest
of the office, but you don't have the blueprint
so I can't tell you Maybe now's a good time to
declare that hex brought blueprints An excellent
choice my lord Hex miraculously pulls out some
blue blueprints, you know from his brain. He's
like hey Yeah, I know where to go now. Here's
what you know There's not a lot of good signage
here except for like bathrooms But there is a
staircase to your left which goes up to the offices
and a little like overlook area We can look over
the factory floor. Like I said, you can't see
anything right now in front of you There's like
another door before you get to the factory floor
But you do hear the sound of like assembly and
like the clattering of machinery up ahead There
is also you notice on the blueprints a large
storage area Kind of on the back partially subterranean
where you could imagine like up to 20 frames
could be stored there if they were like packed
up Existing in the ladder is gonna be where they'll
find what they need. So the storage area. What
are you trying to find? So we're looking for
evidence that they're Making frames here or you're
looking for intel on other clusterist Bases because
they this one is presumably supplying others.
I won't say there's nothing of value in the storage
room, but what you will find there i can't say
but presumably just frames if anything all right
well will the guard let us go to the first option
yeah sure i mean what's your what's your story
for going to the office i want to hear you talk
to the the guards like they they start they're
like hey why do you need to go to the office
that's not where the operation is happening need
to see who's in charge here have a word you want
to roll for that you want to roll for that roll
for that X is thinking Yeah, he'll roll for it.
What's what do you think that is? Consort we're
buddies now, right? Yeah it You can't how the
system works. You can technically roll whatever
you want. I can just control the effect I would
say concert will give you limited effect as a
sway would give you standard effect and You can
receive help from people that you're cool And
loyal probably can't reach this far so Alright
his cover will be not that he wants to see the
boss because I think that opens another can of
worms But wants to drop off some paperwork that
he promised to bring right and we'll roll for
that. You think concert will work for that? Hmm
first way is kind of about like calling in favors
from people that you know with like cons concert
is like specifically Yeah, okay, then yeah, let's
do swear. I don't push yourself Sure. Cool, you
get another die. He's really trying to be nice
here. Do you want to get aid or a collateral
die? How could someone aid me? I could see an
argument for Loyal telling you how to sway someone
because Loyal is very empathetic. Okay. Let's,
hey Loyal, you want to help me out? Help me out.
You sense Hex is suffering severe social anxiety
right now. I'll coach. hex on swaying. All right,
take one stress. I have to imagine that you are
in the other person's shoes. What do you want
to hear? Use that information to your benefit.
Smiley face. Social coaching. I don't say another
person's shoes, I say another person's fins.
Yeah. And risky and standard Colin? Yes. Cool.
And do I get another dice for dolphin helper
now? You get two bonus dice. Hell yeah. Another
dice for dolphin help. Another dice for dolphin
help. Hey guys! Hey guys! That's like super bonus.
This is not going well. This is so rare. Oh dear.
How did that even happen? I had like two extra
dice. So you start with zero dice and so pushing
yourself is you one die and then another is another
die. Damn. Here's what happens. You get start,
like they kind of buy and they lead you up. to
the like the observation area towards the offices
and i'm going to describe something to you before
i fuck you um but you see the disassembly floor
it's a very large space where there's like a
handful of frames hung up kind of assembled from
parts from the scrap yard um there are these
couple of frames you see like moving around these
narrow hallways carrying like crates full of
parts like just labor frames and the center of
the main area the disassembly floor there are
a lot of concerning things here the center of
the main area hanging from gigantic change from
the ceiling is a large partially disassembled
frame missing an arm part of its chest and the
top half of its head it is a mishmash of parts
like the rest but this one is different in between
each part are these tendrils of glistening red
wire it is far more advanced than the frames
being assembled here and even the frames being
assembled in your own base you get a very bad
vibe from it even you who i don't imagine is
the most psychic guy in the world It kind of
makes your skin crawl. And part of it, the reason
it's so disconcerting is that it's bleeding.
There is blood coming off of this frame, and
it's pooling beneath it. But all the workers
are giving a wide berth. And just beyond this
big pool of frame blood are... perhaps 50 or
so children. Ages anywhere from 7 to 14 and they're
all picking through piles of scrap metal Separating
parts into more piles some of the older ones
are working on assembly making these like new
mechanisms from their recovered scrap and They
all seem to be looking for something Yeah, and
Then you hear the crackle of a radio and you
hear the words. Yeah, they're coming burn it
and I'm going to start a clock I'm going to start
the evidence destruction Yes, who just got space
for anti -infantry defenses and the cold scar
It's this guy And the the guard does not get
wise to your play instead I'm gonna do something
worse, which is I'm going to start this clock
You smell smoke and I think the people outside
you see smoke coming from these windows of the
top floor And they're beginning to destroy their
evidence and I'm taking that once I'm going to
move you to a desperate position, Hex and Joseph,
because the boss comes in, the actual boss, and
says, you two. Well, actually, no, there's not
two of you. There's one of you and one of you's
in the bag. You and the one in the bag. You and
the bag. You have some harsh words, young man.
He says, cuff that one, hold them here. We need
everything in place. Something's going wrong.
And one of the guards goes to cuff you. Do we
go loud now guys? This just went It's way up
fast guys is regretting coming up with this plan
and is Can we so here's a question Do we have
like live video feed or do we just have like
audio or what do we what do we know? That's a
great question. And actually it adds to my narration
here Because you do have live video and live
audio and then it cuts off because the haze warning
goes up and you are far away. At what point did
it cut out? I think it cut out right when he
got that radio message. So did we see the children
in the bleeding robot? You did and because you
are such a old soul, Geist, I think you put this
together. That is part of the corpse of martyrdom.
Oh no. Uh oh. It is not in good shape. It is
very disassembled, but it's still... What we
would call a problem. What the fuck? Why is it
bleeding? Does that Like that's not like guys
isn't like yeah, you know when they when they
killed martyrdom the mech was exploded in the
blood and guts I mean were you there? I I don't
know. I guess I wouldn't know actually I think
you were I think you were in a coma when they
took the city That is true. I didn't see it only
know about general vibes But no no one mentioned
The bleeding neck. OK. Well, as soon as he as
soon as the haze warning goes up and the smoke
starts boiling out, Geist looks at loyal and
he's like, they fucked it up. We got to go hot
right now. Hmm. Don't you agree with this? And
Geist is I mean, Geist is probably are we like
in our frames? Are we out of our frames? Up to
you. In the back of this truck. I feel like we
were maybe out of our frames when we were doing
the intel stuff, but Geist is going to run over
to the changeling and hop in it and gun the throttle
because this just became a... A live scan for...
I don't know. Live arm weapons to see what they're
up to in there more than just activating the
haze, or is that not possible because of the
haze? You could scan, but you're gonna have to
get a little closer. Okay. I'm fine with you
doing it as one action. Like, you're scanning
but you're getting closer. I just have to let
you know that you will be a shootable target
while you scan. If they choose to shoot you.
Uh, yeah, you wanna scan? Hey, I wanna scan.
Wanna get closer? I wanna scan. Um, actually,
let's hold off on the scanning for now. I would
like to see what Hex and Joseph do. I had a wacky
question. I wanted to know if Hex, like, has
his arm on the... Joseph toolbox could I like
activate fine optical camo and then have him
go invisible as well Like it would be both of
us since he's touching me That is a good rush.
I think that'd be a role, but I would allow that
to be an opportunity Okay, what role do you think
it would be? It's my plan that I have right now
Brian. I don't know if you got something. I like
it. No, I like it I don't want you to get shot
Things I need to hold up on a third. Yeah, I
would say You could roll prowl for this Okay
I can't promise that you'll get perfect invisibility.
It's up to the dice Sure, I think what you're
trying to get is you're trying to get you and
him out of trouble, which I think is yeah Could
I uh, I wanted to push myself. Could I get aid
from Brian? On this so what we could do is we
could do a group action Which is kind of it sounds
like you're both trying to do this right trying
to yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah We're gonna do
a group action So how that works is that both
of you are gonna roll prowl and we're gonna take
the highest result from your combined rolls but
for every failure that Hex rolls, you are going
to gain an extra stress. Could I push myself
on this too? Or no, for the group ones? Yes,
you could. Because I don't want to mess this
up. No, that would be bad because you're in desperate
position. Yeah, so it would be frowl plus one
because I'm pushing myself. Desperate standard.
Yeah. All right. Well, here's mine. Oh, it's
six. Stinky and hex do it Alright, so you're
gonna take an extra stress Joseph from that desperate
roll. I Don't know how wise hex is to this happening.
Maybe hex is right in on the plan I was gonna
say maybe they talked before and just was like
if anything goes wrong put your hand right here
I'll know and I'll activate optical camo. Yeah,
it's always the plan. It was always the plan.
Yeah Yeah, the guy moves to handcuff you and
you know actually like okay. It's time to go
ghost You vanish into thin air You know that
you got full success You're both invisible now
And I think you get to move a few steps away
and they're like holy shit where'd they go and
they have their weapons drawn They're no longer
in arrest mode. They're now in kill mode, but
they don't know where you are Where do you where
do you head to from here? before I cut away I'm
unboxing I'll say that and I'm assuming that
we're gonna I would like to grab a hex's arm
and try to like rush towards a Corner away from
everything maybe behind some crates like the
most advantageous position is just like hiding
So I'm gonna just try to find a hiding spot for
us I was gonna say like against a wall behind
some crates or something Somewhere that we can
easily be like there's an open door over here.
Then we could run through the hallway and get
out Yeah, I think there's like there's a you're
like in like a old glass overview area and there
are some like doors to the offices where they
are burning the evidence and then there's like
a way back to the factory floor behind you and
maybe like a supply closet and I'm sure there's
like this was stuff you could hide behind as
well, but they will search there eventually But
we'll get back to that. Just think on that What
your next move is? Okay outside I heard you wanted
to scan, Ewan. Someone said. I think I might
want to scan. Okay. Remind me what you're looking
for. Active weaponry on the premises. Frames
and shit. Yeah, if anyone's powering up, if any,
like, offensive is gathering anywhere in the
building. Sure. Or I should go out first. Roll
me a scan. You wanna push yourself or anything?
None of that. It's just a scan. Look, it's the
worst that can happen. Your position is risky
standard. Partial success. Okay, you scan, and
you do see quite a few signatures. There are
some active signatures booting up around the
outside of the camp, I would say. But there are
two particular signatures that you notice. They
are emerging from beneath the facility. Like,
apparently there's tunnels under there. You would
have to assume there's some sort of underground
transportation network here. And there are two
frames in particular that stick out to you because
you get a rough scan of them. I'll say you don't
know exactly what they are, but you know that
they are much better built than what the rest
of these frames are. And you also recognize their
general signature as being part of the squad.
The Children of Martyrdom, two frames. One is
the Disciple of Martyrdom, which is a four -step
clock, and the other is the Last Prince, which
is a six -step clock. They're still moving up
into the building right now. But that's where
they are. You know that they exist and you get
the feeling that will be your main obstacle that's
going on. Just fighting these guys. Yeah. OK,
I think I think that the first thing we have
to do is stop them from destroying the evidence.
And I think to that end, Geist is going to try
and so we can see the smoke, right? Mm hmm. So
it stands to reason that I could try and travel
towards the source of the fire. That stands to
reason. I mean, Geist's immediate gut instinct
is that if there's smoke, there's fire, and if
they're causing fires, they're probably trying
to burn the sorts of things that we don't want
them to burn, and so he should probably get their
ASAP and stop it from happening. So I think I'm
gonna... Think I'm gonna zip on over there. Yeah,
I think that's gonna be my action is I'm going
to probably maneuver And try and just like smash
through a window or something and get to the
source of the fire To try and stop them from
burning the evidence. Sure. Give me a maneuver
You're trying to say get up or you like rip open
the wall Yeah, I was gonna like smash through
like if there's like I know you mentioned that
there's windows that the smoke is peering out
if there's like a particularly thin wall where
I think I could get away with smashing through
the window well Yeah, I think I think the first
girl is gonna be maneuver and then I think I
manipulate might be next Okay, good thing I can
do that a little bit Okay, but yeah, I will I
will maneuver first just to try and get into
the facility without getting blowed the fuck
up Is this a risky position right now for me?
Okay, then I'm not going to do anything Untoward
just yet. Surely the dice will grant me at least
a partial success. One can hope. They did not.
Out of the one and a two. One and a two! Dusk
lights! Dusk lights! I'll do two things to you,
because I'm nice. One, I'm taking another clock
of evidence destruction, which is bad. The bigger
this clock is, the less you get. This isn't like
an all -or -nothing situation. Yeah, the other
thing I am going to do is you I think trigger
some sort of like the chain link fence seems
like it should just go down, but it is in fact
booby -trapped and you try to push through it
and Something like in like the posts like the
post themselves and like hold it up Triggers
and you are enveloped in this big spool of like
wire. It's like it's an entangling effect Which
means you are going to be put in a desperate
position because you're kind of stuck in the
middle of this open area Okay, pulling on these
wires, and that is where you are going to get
left Why don't we go back inside you guys are
would you decide what's your move run away can
choose? Okay, it's gonna get to where they're
destroying the evidence and stop them from fucking
destroying the evidence do it now And what we
try invisible going there we're gonna invisible
go there. I think that's gonna be a prowl unless
you have a different idea Sounds like it makes
sense. Yeah, I won't contest it. Yeah. All right.
I think it's another group action. All right.
I think you've given this people the slip here.
It's just moving to the next thing. Okie dokie.
Risky. What happens? Whatever. Never mind. What?
I have a lot of stress right now and I'm very
close. And if Brian gets a failure, that means
I get more stress. And I stress out. And wait,
what did you say? You could let Hex lead the
group action. Yeah. Okay. I have four stress
slots left. I have two. Okay, then I should be
stressed. Let's frame this somehow. Could it
be that sustaining this over two people is actually
a lot of work for you, Joseph? Yeah, probably.
Maybe like a lot of, uh, is it should only be
go through my body, which I'm like accustomed.
So now I'm like using a lot of my energy. Power
up his as well. Yeah, like you're like having
to turn off your eyeballs. No neglect sex. Yeah
Yeah, I like that so it's gonna be the same thing
you're both gonna roll prowl and then hex for
every failure That Joseph rolls you're gonna
get a stress or if he fails just don't fail four
times. Yeah, don't worry. I got a so risky standard
partial success Hex you are going to take one
stress from your failure But you get a partial
success, which I'm going to say puts you, you
slip these two guards, you get to the offices
where you're trying to go. The complication here
is you're right as you get there, right as like
the door like starts to unlatch. It's too much,
Joseph. Like this thing was not designed for
two people and it drops. So you are visible now.
They don't know you're down here quite yet. It's
not like a straight shot to the offices, but
whoever's on the other side of the store absolutely
will. And you're not going to be able to use
your optical camo for a little bit. Ready those
guns, Brian. We're going in, huh? Oh, boy. Oh,
be a vile bumpkin cry. You guys get another roll.
There's two of you. I think if you want... We're
going to go again. Yeah, what do you want to
do? Like you are... You're at the door. If you
like peek inside, it's like in office. Some people
are shoveling paperwork into this little like...
Burner little incinerator, which is clearly designed
not for this volume of stuff. It's like that
episode of spongebob You know, we're all running
around his brain I have an idea In the head with
a gun execution style, okay So do the people
in there like what they've seen us already or
were they like likely have no clue who the hell
we are Like as always it will depend on your
role, but you have an in there. It is it's very
much possible that Nothing was communicated to
them because they didn't want to they weren't
trying to kill you when they're trying to cuff
you It was just like we're on code red anything
weird that's going on make it stop and you are
something weird. That's going on So you could
you could do it? Let's just try and then I say
you know what with me there, or should I hide
that's up to Joseph? Buster's don't like robots.
I think if they saw me I would have to start
killing What if you had subterfuge supplies?
I mean, I could I could box myself up again because
I could do that at will You want to carry me
in? I don't know if you could declare like a
smoke bomb But if we threw that in and just started
like killing people, well, why I thought we were
just here for the Intel What if we just took
the Intel you would have to do that though I'm
saying like I can't help you because if they
look at me, they're gonna start shooting me Can
we have any armed people inside that we can?
There are like a couple of armed people in here,
but they're helping. They're helping do it. They
look a little frantic. I like your idea, Brian.
The only problem is you'd have to do it alone.
I don't know what Joseph could do to help. If
you wait outside, just watching. I, yeah, I'll
pull out my gun and just like wait if it goes
wrong. Here we go. Yeah. All right. So Hex's
plan is just to go in there and start gathering
it. But like, you know, pretending like he's
going to go toss it, but he's not. He's just.
Oh, God, it's beautiful. Fucking social manipulation.
Act like you belong. I've read so many books
about this. Yeah, that's going to be... What
do you think that would be, Brian? I think that
might be... I could see a few avenues here. Unless
you want it to be the assistant manager is here.
You've spent the stress to declare that person.
I can see and consort with him. Okay, how about
we consort to just get him to let us, you know,
help start gathering all these documents to dispose
of. Yeah, sure. So he's there so you can like
get his attention. I want to hear your pitch.
What was his name again? Was he named his daily
daily? What's going on here? Oh, we got a part.
We got to burn all this All right. Yeah, the
guards ran off. How about I help you here? Yeah.
Yeah, just uh grab that stuff over there We got
it. We got to get this part. We got to get this
burnt or else. Um, well, it's all fucked We're
gonna make it daily Okay, give me a consort.
I love come on loyal how much stress you got
i have one two three four five left loyal if
you're down i'm for the cause i'll add a two
here yeah how am i helping you in this particular
case are you just like we're doing a flashback
or are you contacting me or what's happening
you could sense hex is struggling to you know
win friends and influence people so uh maybe
you channel some good vibes and more social advice
to him you have like the most information on
daily loyal you could just be feeding like doing
like uh psycho analyzing him where it's like
uh he's really insecure he's always posting on
linkedin about how he loves to hustle do i check
one or two stress it is one because you have
a level one relationship with him all right i'm
rolling it so plus two risky standard please
for the love of god thank you success yeah they
are still burning but you you grabs himself like
you are You talk your way and he's like, okay,
just like whatever you see any paperwork that's
in this office needs to go They're gonna be here
soon and you managed to I assume pocket some
stuff, right? Yeah, i'm gonna give you Right
now i'm gonna give you one thing to save you
could save more later because i'm gonna tick
this clock more But like this is one thing that
you're gonna be guaranteed to get and here are
your options There are some maps with locations
circled and there are maps of the tunnel routes
of the west city from the east city There is
a report detailing issues with utilizing the
remnants of martyrdom. There is a document that
references an organization called Gold House,
which has provided the clusterists with a case
of enzyme Omicron. And then the last option is
there are flyers that are encouraging clusterists
in the city to move into the river valley away
from the peacekeepers. They are announcing a
number of temporary housing plans and it is labeled
phase one. Shit son, this all seems very important.
And that's where we'll end for today. Thank you
all for playing and thank you everyone for listening.
I will see you all next time.