Hey, it's Colin, and I just wanted to give a
quick heads up because I said I would in the
intro to this series. This episode involves some
death of children, nothing that is horribly grotesque,
gratuitous in my mind, but if that bothers you,
just so you know, that will be in this episode.
On to the intro. Begin recording. Project Report
15. Prior to this point, finding compatible pieces
for TKR has been slow and random at best. The
modern framework defies our methodology, rejecting
parts seemingly for no reason. Some of our best
engineers were unable to identify compatibility.
Even factory new components fried themselves
out during our initial tests. It was by luck,
or perhaps the hand of the prophet herself, that
we found a way forward. I had brought in my ten
-year -old son and showed him the project, described
how we were looking for the right pieces to complete
our guardian. In a stroke of divinity, he reached
down into a scrap pile and pulled out an innocuous
piece, a damaged field converter from the scrapyard.
He held it up towards the chained body of TKR
and spoke to me. He likes this one, he said.
We tested the piece, and sure enough, the martyrdom
framework accepted it. Soon after, my other co
-workers begin to bring in their younger relatives
too. Construction begins to speed ahead. I am
pleased to let you know that TKAR is on track
to being complete, but I must say, I am excited
for this project to be over. The children are
changing. In our psychic communion, when they
attend, I feel a darkness spreading out from
them. Images of dark blood on a white sheet,
and beneath the sheet, familiar shapes. End recording.
Right, so... quick recap last time you were sent
alongside the bone pickers to neutralize a clusterist
assembly facility as well as retrieve some intel
which might be present inside that facility hex
and joseph infiltrated the facility successfully
and noticed a couple of things one being that
there was this huge frame in the center of the
facility being assembled by this group of children
and geist through the footage you recognize that
this frame was being built with What you thought
were pieces from the Virtue Martyrdom, which
is very concerning. Shortly after infiltrating,
the Clusterists were put on high alert, and the
outside team, Loyal and Geist, began an assault
on the facility alongside the Bonepickers. Meanwhile
inside, Hex and Joseph narrowly escaped capture
and managed to talk their way inside the office
where the intel was being held. And where we
left off, I was detailing to you what intel you
could grab a hold of right now. You had four
options, which were 1. A map of some locations
in the West City where Clusterist bases may be.
Two, a document detailing the use of pieces of
martyrdom to build the new frame. Three, a stack
of flyers outlining some temporary housing in
the River Valley for Clusterists. And four, a
document discussing the Clusterists' deal with
an organization called Gold House. And Hex, you
need to decide now which of those you want to
take. Because you only have time to grab one
right now. Yeah, they all seem good. I think
the martyrdom one is the one Hex is going to
take. Okay. A further complication I'm going
to give you is that a handful of children enter
the room. They all kind of look a little out
of it. They look like they've been working really
hard. These are those kids that were on the factory
floor, and they are going to start assisting
with burning this stuff. And they move fast.
They move almost robotically. They are like little
machines. Not that they are machines. It's just,
you know, they're child workers. Of course. The
children yearn for the mines. So outside, Geist,
you have been caught up in some barbed wire and
left pretty vulnerable. I think, unless you have
a problem with it, I think the bone pickers have
dropped in now on the other side. Yeah, I think
we gotta go loud. This is already fucked. We
gotta just save what we can. Yeah, you see Mahogany
Cola's mech drop down. Very cool -looking mech.
It's got two giant revolvers because he's a cowboy.
And I'm not ashamed. And what's that on his head?
It's a giant robot cowboy hat, okay? And he starts
going to town on these tiny frames. You see them,
like, just go off, and the two other frames are
there, and then some of their infantry are pushing
in as well. What are you two doing outside? Loyal,
you're pretty close now to the building, and
Geist has been caught up in this wire spool.
I know what I'm going to do, but maybe if Loyal
wants to go first, he can. Yeah, I was thinking
that the group of rams that I saw outside, the
bone pickers are going to be advancing to flank
them, I'm assuming. But they're not here yet.
They're coming from inside, and it seems like
they're coming towards you. Wait, the bone pickers
are coming from inside? No, sorry. The martyrdom
people are coming from inside. The bone pickers
are on the opposite side of the refinery. Sorry,
not refinery. It's not a refinery. Opposite side
of the scrapyard. They're shooting like a lot
of the frames that are outside. Like some of
them have started booting up and some people
started leaving from the back as well. Yeah,
I wanted to try to do some type of like flash
bang type distraction thing for anything that
is. and then follow Geist in through his wall
-breaking. Geist has not been able to break a
wall. He got stuck. Oh, well then I would help
him break a wall, but I want to try to do something
to help provide backup to our bone picker friends
first. Do you have anything that works for that?
Or anything you'd like to declare? How are you
providing aid? I guess I was going to shoot a
flare mortar, but that's not a flashbang. I just
couldn't find a flashbang style. It's kind of
like a cannon. Yeah. Does that mean I should
check off cannon? If you want to have a cannon
on your thing, you should. I think we can do
some minor flexibility. If you just check off,
like, a rack of missiles or rockets, we can say
you have, like, flashbang rockets. That seems
pretty cool. Yeah. I think that'd be neat. Concussive.
Okay. I'm doing that. And then... I guess this
would be another action, but I want to help Geist
break through the wall. What you can do is you
can just... Do this as your action, and then
when Geist does his turn, you can aid him. Yeah.
Which, you know, that's fine. So why don't you
roll a... It sounds like a bombard. You're shooting
a target that is distant. I would hear other
options if you think it would be something else.
Hmm. Is bombard specifically distant things,
or could battle work too? Battle implies you're
getting in close. Aren't we, like, up on the
building now, or...? It's very big. Bone Picker's
on the opposite side of the building, so you'd
be doing indirect fire. You can roll battle.
You will have lesser effect, though, which, you
know, that's up to you if you want to take minus
one die for less effect. Well, which one has
better chances? Because I have zero dots in bombard
and one in battle, but I guess it just seems
like it'd be the same. Battle would have better
chances, but if your effect is less, then it's
not going to work as well if you do succeed.
That's the trade -off. Maybe I will take my chances
with a bombard roll. Alright, do you want to
push yourself? You used quirks, remember, so
you have plenty of quirks left if you want to
push yourself. That is true. Yeah, I'll push
myself using my 360 sonar. Cool. Is anyone helping?
I feel like Guy's healthy in the wall. Guy's
is stuck in the barbed wire outside of the wall
right now, but theoretically he could. If the
goal is just to distract, I could see an argument
for him helping by, um... uh firing his machine
gun basically just like in a suppressing fire
sense because he does still have that if the
gm would find it agreeable sure where are you
firing it um i guess you know what i can't actually
really see them can i i don't have i couldn't
get something that would be able to hit from
here without changing modes and i don't think
i can i don't think i should do that at this
stage i mean suppressing fire doesn't require
you to hit anything i know but I don't know if
I can even see them as the thing if they're on
the other side of the building. And I'm like
on the ground tangled in the wire explicitly
at the moment. Just start firing above their
heads. They'll start getting scared. It's all
bullets. They're always scary. Yeah, I don't...
I don't know. I don't think I have... I don't
think I have anything... I think that Geist is
in a position right now where he really can't.
Yeah, that's okay. I'll take one die from pushing
myself. This is standard. It's gonna be fine.
It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine. It's
gonna be fine. It's gonna be good. Yeah! That's
a six! Straight up. One die. That's beautiful.
That's all I needed. Yeah, you fire a beautiful
arc of concussive grenades right on the other
side of the building. They airburst in the air,
and you give the bone pickers ahead as up to,
you know, shield yourself. Don't stand where
these are going. And I think they're in a much
better position. They seem to have pushed in
all the way now. They're inside the fence. They're
on the back of the building, and they're just,
like, kind of cleaning up right now. Nice. Which
is good. And, like, I think maybe they capture
someone, which is useful. Geist. I know what
I want to do. I'm going to use my new ability,
and I'm going to spend one of my quirks to use
my prototype fine mobility suite, which gives
me both plus one die and increased effect. Wow.
Okay. So you're desperate great then, I think?
Yeah, I think so. My plan is just to basically,
he's getting stuck, so he puts the fucking jet
boosters into turbo drive to try and tear out
of the barbed wire and through the wall. Let's
see how it goes. Okay. One extra die. Oh yeah,
and this is desperate, so I get that sweet, sweet
XP. Please don't. Fuck me over game. I'll be
really sad. Oh, that's a success. Very good.
So where are you trying to get in? So I think
I mentioned this before, but you said that we
could see smoke billowing through windows. I'm
basically trying to get to the source of the
smoke. So, like, if I can just see one of the,
like, maybe one of the first windows that started
filling up with smoke, I'm just going to try
and smash through it because a window represents
a weak point in a building's outer wall structurally.
And so I'm hoping that the fact that there's
already an opening there will allow me to just
basically shoulder check my way through because
I just want to get inside and get to where they're
burning stuff and force them to stop. Yeah, the
room, you can open up a hole in the wall for
sure. Yeah. Um, it's not a frame -sized hole.
Okay, this is a person -sized room they're in.
It's like an office. Oh, okay, so that, the office
where they're burning this stuff is like an exterior
-facing... Yeah, it's like, it's like an upper
-level, like, room. It's a window. Sorry if I
didn't make that clear. I, okay, no, I, um, so...
I mean, you could definitely, like, look inside
of it, but you'd just be like a, you'd be like
a man reaching into a dollhouse. Yeah. Or a man
firing a, uh... See, here's the problem. I had
the brilliant idea to fire an anti -infantry
defense weapon into that room, but Joseph and
Hex are there, and that would also probably shred
the paperwork up. So maybe Geist is just trying
to get into the facility proper then, like into
the big room where Martyrdom's gnarly -ass corpse
is thrust up. Hell yeah. I mean, you do it. I'm
just gonna Kool -Aid man through the wall. Yeah,
you push through the door, you break right through,
busting through, and you are very fast. This
is a great effect. So much so that I think you...
Let me frame the picture for you so you can do
something cool. You get through the wall. In
front of you is the Last Prince, which is the
leader of Martyrdom's squad, which I have a description
here for somewhere. Oh, very old. One of the
very first frames used in warfare. Like, really
ancient. This is like seeing a fucking World
War I tank. And it has a big handgun and a rapier
made of energy. It's like been retrofitted. And
on top of its head is a thorned crown made of
that same red wire that is in martyrdom. And
it seems to seep blood down over its face onto
its body. It's like painted that way. So you
are heading right for him. I would say you can
do something cool here if you want, because you're
going to get like a tick against him. Yeah. Okay,
um, can I just, like, boost into him with, like,
the frame equivalent of, like, a flying drop
kick? So, like, I basically just, like, turn
all this momentum into a double -footed kick,
and then I know it's only one kick, so it's not
gonna, like, blow him up. But just basically,
like, kick off of him is basically just, like,
a way to open the fight with a big, like, a strong
blow to try and knock him off balance, kind of.
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, you do a very sick kick.
There's another frame next to him, which is a
smaller one with just like a shotgun. This is
an unnamed disciple of Martyrdom. You don't need
to worry about him. He's a smaller clock. But
you kick the last prince backwards into the factory
floor, miraculously not splattering any children.
And he goes crashing into Martyrdom's body. He
just like slams into it. There's like plates
fall off of his body. And so you're no longer
in this cramped hallway. You've managed to carry
yourself all the way to the factory floor. There
are still a lot of children here. on the floor
around you. But you've struck the first blow,
so you're out of your desperate position. You've
seized a risky position now. Good, good. Was
don't kill any children part of our mission objectives?
I'm not even asking that as a joke. Was that
something we were told to care about? It was
minimize collateral damage. It was minimize collateral
damage and don't kill any civilians. You could
argue. You could argue. Oh, yeah. You know, that
is your... Like the first mission, Geist. It's
really up to interpretation. Yeah, I don't think
Geist is... I don't think he's gone enough yet
to want to kill children, but I also don't think
he would shed too many tears about it. So it's
probably good. He's not going for it by any means.
Sure. You certainly get XP for it. All I'm saying.
All I'm saying. You're cold. You're reckless.
Okay, yeah. So I think we're back to the inside
team, right? Yeah. Okay, inside team. Things
are being burned. But you have an in now. It's
kind of becoming apparent to you that either
you need to stop them burning things somehow,
or you can maybe get one more thing of intel
before it's all gone. Hmm. How about... Let me
see what options I have. We just like flashbang
the room. I don't fucking know. There are there
are items for that. Do you want to be loud, Joseph?
Or I mean, if you do, I'm like an assassin droid,
right? So if you flashbang and there's smoke,
I could probably see through it and just start,
you know, slicing people in the neck and then
we could just take whatever we can and get the
fuck out of there. Okay, let's do that. So would
that fall under, like, flares for tools or subterfuge
supplies? Yeah, that's what I was wondering.
I would say subterfuge supplies. I would take
an unusual weapon. Okay. All right. Let's do
it. So what is... Are you doing a flashbang?
This is a flashbang, and Hex is prepared. I don't
know. Maybe it's some sort of technology that
he isn't as affected by it. He has good sunglasses
or something. I don't know. Sure. What are you
going to roll? Because I think this is a... I
can hear your argument. Alright, this might be
a reach. Can he survey for the best spot to throw
it? That's a bit of a reach. You got a big brain
on him. How about... I'm a fan of... Yeah, I
mean, struggle is best. But you have one in each
anyways, don't you? Yeah. I just wanted to reach.
All right. I mean, let's do struggle. All right.
Is this desperate? I believe I left you in a
risky position. All right. Oh, I'm going to push
yourself around. It's raw dog in it. I have.
Okay. I'm going to read you off some more Intel.
What you have left. You have the maps indicating
some circle locations. You have the reference
to the Gold House organization, which provided
them with Enzyme Omicron. And then you have flyers
that were encouraging Clusterist to leave the
city, titled Phase One. I'm thinking the Enzyme
one. Got it. Got it. We're Enzyming. And now
what happened? I'm going to take another clock
to evidence destruction. And I'm going to move
you to a desperate position. Because I think...
You manage to swoop this piece of paper and like
you you blind people. But as you do, the guards
come down the hallway. I think, Joseph, you see
them first. They got their guns out. They see
that you are here. The people in the room are
all dazed, including the children. We'll never
see the same again. But the guards are here and
they have the gun pointed at you. I was going
to say, are the guards like. affected by the
smoke? Are they outside of the range? They came
from outside, but everyone inside the room, like
the people with guns inside the room are stunned,
but the guards who were looking for you before
have found you now. Okay. That makes sense. Yeah,
I probably have to get rid of the ones not dazed
first, because otherwise they're just going to
shoot us. Do you want to do that, Joseph? Do
you want to go kill mode? I'd like to go kill
mode, but what I was going to ask is to save
this for the fucking smoke, but could I use...
my shadow in this moment to push myself or feet
of athletics or stealth. It would have worked
better in the smoke. I know. Yeah, it depends
on what you are doing. What do you see yourself
doing? I was thinking, what if I like just use
like pounce basically on these guys, get them
on the floor. And then once they're knocked down,
just use my blade to slash both their necks.
Just like immediately. It's like I just like
a spring. I shoot out at these guys. And that's
that's my. feat of athletics to jump across the
whole last room yeah i think i think that'd probably
be a struggle uh i was gonna ask so it does is
what does me using shadow do is that like uh
just adds another dice let me see what does it
say you may spend your spark to resist the consequence
from a detection or to push yourself for a feat
like that's why i was wondering like is it an
automatic win yeah you're gonna get you get a
free plus one die you don't automatically win
oh You get a 3 plus 1 die or increased effect,
but actually I don't know if that's super useful
here. Yeah. So this would be not a prowl, it
would be a struggle? Prowling like a tiger, jumping
on these guys. That is a semantic interpretation
of the word prowl. Combat prowl is typically
only used on people who are unsuspecting. These
people know you're here. If you want to go into
the office and kill people who are unsuspecting,
You're welcome to use prowl for that. We're going
to get murdered unless I kill these guys. Alright,
well, I'm going to... We're all struggle with
my shadow. So that's going to be plus one risky
standard, right? Hex could maybe help, too, if
he has stress to spare. No, he does not. We're
both in bad place. Oh yeah, that's right. Mentally,
Hex is in a bad place. Risky standard, right?
Alright. Success! Boing. Actually, sorry, I was
desperate. You got an XP for that. Yeah, look
at all these sixes. Oh. So you get an XP in the
struggle category, which is... Oh, there it is.
Prowess. You get a check in prowess. Yeah. Okay,
you do it effortlessly. I think, like, this isn't
like other RPG systems where you have to kill
each person individually, necessarily, unless
they get a clock. So I think you kill both these
people. Like... Okay. I think it is a beautiful,
fluid leap. You know, you use your shadow. It's
a feat of athletics. You fucking bounce off a
wall like your legs are springs. And you take
them down quickly and silently. It's like they
don't even get a shot off. It's that quick. It's
so fucking cool. It's very cool. You're an assassin
robot, you know? Exactly. One blade goes in the
neck and my elbow goes in the other guy's neck.
And that's how it goes. You should declare a
knife or something just so you... Yeah, I was
declared gun. And knife. There we go. Because
I did say I had a gun earlier. I cannot lie.
A man cannot lie. I cannot tell a lie. Joseph
cannot tell a lie. And that's where it goes.
So you are actually in a pretty good position.
I'm not going to tick the clock again for a little
bit because you have temporarily stopped this
from going on. Awesome. Okay. Geist and this
here from Royal. Yeah, let's see what Loyal's
got. Loyal, I'm in the building. There's a big
guy here. Yeah, there is a big guy. There is
a big guy, huh? He's a big guy. For you. For
me. Oh, come on. What can I tell about this big
guy for all of us? Do you want to scan him? Well,
what does he look like first? So, I'll describe
his look again. He's like one of the very first
frames made. by humans he's like one of those
the gen one models that has been like retrofitted
with this newer hardware he has a energy rapier
like a little beam rapier and he has red wire
on his head in the shape of a thorn crown and
he's a big handgun as well and then next to him
is a smaller frame uh also kind of old with a
big shotgun but this guy's the leader this is
the last prince What are the vibes I'm getting
from both of these people? Which one do I feel
like I want to engage with more than the other?
Which one seems more urgent? The Last Prince
is definitely the leader here, and you do get
the more imposing vibe. And I will say, now that
you're actually kind of getting closer, the vibes
inside this factory are really bad. They're,
like, really awful. fine it's so weird how bad
labor sweatshop vibes um well one child labor
sweatshop but you know they volunteered for it
who can say um but um the corpse of martyrdom
which is in here is emanating some weird energy
and you know you're haunted so i think you're
getting some flashbacks to retribution a little
bit like it's in the corners of your mind I have
a question about the corpse of martyrdom actually.
Yeah. Is there, so it's like a partially disassembled
robot and it's bleeding. Is there like a human
corpse visible in it? Is the blood implicit?
Cause like, it's like fresh blood, right? So
it's not, it couldn't be the blood of martyrdom,
the human, because they've been dead for a long
time. Does it seem like the... Basically, I'm
asking, can we see a human corpse in the cockpit
section of this partially disassembled mech,
or is the cockpit still completely intact and
closed? The cockpit is open. There's no one inside
of it, but the blood nevertheless drips endlessly
from the red wires inside of it. Okay, so it's
the wires that are bleeding. There's not a human
body there. That you can see, no. Okay, cool,
cool. That was just my question. Geist doesn't
care. He's focused. He just sees a big target
and he's got to punch it. Just so you know. Geist
doesn't care about what you do. Just so everyone
knows. I just wanted everyone to be aware. I
didn't want to be on the same page. Geist is
immune to bad vibes because he is a bad vibe.
He is a bad vibe. Actually, probably Loyal. I
can't imagine it's very pleasant for an empath
to be, like, with him in an enclosed space for
any extended period of time. Yeah, I was just
gonna say, I don't think Loyal wants to go in.
I think Loyal, like, activates his shield, gets
his drill, like, revving up, and just kind of,
like, stands there and maybe even sends a message
to Geist that's like, We have to draw them out.
The quarters are too close in the building. We
have to get them outside. I don't know if he's
gonna go in. Honestly, I think he's like... It's
a little much. Geist would reply something along
the lines of, we have to stop them from destroying
the evidence. Get in here! But also, he doesn't
care if you do, really. Yeah, I don't know if
there's any long -range thing I can do. Okay,
here's what I would do. I... want to, again,
use my psionic amplify, which I'm going to check
off presently. Fuck yes. I want to make the enemies
feel like they need to come out here and fight
me. Okay. Are we talking about claustrophobia?
Are we talking about, like, maybe make them feel
like you're the bigger threat here? Yeah, I want
to make them feel angry with me, specifically.
Ignore the current present... The current situation.
Sure, so I feel like this is a sway. Mm -hmm.
Essentially, okay. You push yourself, so you
take stress, I believe. Mm -hmm. Do you get this
in addition to your benefits, or does this just
allow you to do this? Let me see. Yeah, in addition
to the normal benefits. Yep. So what does that
mean for me? It means you're going to roll a
sway with either plus one D or greater effect.
Let's do a greater effect, because I have two
bots in sway. I would love to see it. Let's go.
Okay. Fuck yes. This is exactly what I wanted
to happen. Thank you so much. At least I'm a
deathman now. Get some XP, right? Silver lightning?
Yay! That was a one and a two. Loyal! Oh, I'm
so happy. Anyways, you use your psionic amplifier.
You go full psychic mode, full blast, and you
try to hit these guys with the rage machine.
And you do hit them. You hit them. You hit Geist.
And, you know, Geist, you're cold. I think you
are able to resist this. I'm not going to make
you turn on loyal here. Okay. Which is the good
news. The bad news is that you hit something
else. And that is you hit the corpse. Oh. Why
is that bad news? I was going to probably try
that anyways. Is it bad for me? There are things
which, you know, physical damage. The body is
just a vessel. But with the technology you're
talking about here, it's more than that. The
old broken machine starts thrashing. There's
no one in it. There's no pilot. Oh. But it is
awakening, and all the children, like, beneath
it, they all start writhing in the exact same
way, one -to -one, simulcra of each other. And
you see them start dropping, one after the other,
just collapsing to the ground, frothing from
the mouth. And, you know, if this was a TV show,
it'd be bad. It'd be a cutaway, probably. It'd
be a cutaway. And the blood that dripped from
it drips in reverse. Time is rewinding just back
into the body. And it starts to... A mouth forms
on its broken upper head. The metal itself gets
ripped apart by the wires inside of it. And it
forms this mouth that tears free. Of the. The
chains. And it grabs the last prince. The. The
frame of martyrdom. And it starts eating it.
Just in front of you. Tearing it limb from limb.
Just consuming it. And you see. There's like.
Blood doesn't come out of a robot. But the last
prince. Which is just a frame. Like. There's
nothing supernatural about the last prince. It
is bleeding. For some reason. And I think Geist.
You were frozen. Because of. You get a lot of
psychic feedback from this. Loyal. You feel just
this overwhelming presence as the Last Prince
gets consumed. This horrible, horrible feeling
that your cowardice brought this about. And,
like, you know, you're getting flashbacks to,
like, Retribution. How, like, this once again,
this thing is in your mind, this horrible alien
presence. And it finishes eating... The last
prince, torn from limb, dead. You see the pilot
just like in shreds in the hands of whatever
this new thing is. Another cluster is slain,
boys. Mission accomplished. Positive. Let's pull
out. It takes the body of this pilot and it mashes
it into the cockpit. Like in pieces. Like shoving.
Like raw meat into something. And it rushes at
you, Loyal. It literally fucking goes past Geist
and is just rushing at you. You're in a desperate
position and you're going to take the level 2
harm in addition to that. Flashing back. Yeah,
okay. Jesus. Oh, that's really fucked up. Yeah,
I didn't even expect that to happen. You literally
checked. I was coming to this episode. I said,
we're not going to do another supernatural thing,
but if they check all these boxes, it'll happen.
He did literally say that to me, for the record.
We talk about this game a lot. Okay. I know what
I've got to do. How do I resist this, or can
I? Yeah, you can resist this. You can always
resist it. Yeah. Resist. flashing back with.
I would say soon. This would probably be an insight.
Would it be resolved, maybe? Yeah, resolve. I
need to have resolve here. Okay. I would like
to attempt to resist this with whatever resolve
I still have in my little dolphin mind. The gnarliest
things happen to you, Ewan. Yeah. It's exciting.
Very unlucky dolphin. Okay, so you suffer three
stress. Okay. So good, you have plenty of stress.
I don't, actually. Oh, you don't? Oh, I'm looking
at the wrong sheet. Yeah. Are you not marking
it? No, I got this upside down, sorry. Are you
not marking it on the rule sheet? I've been marking
it on the other sheet. So that... um you should
have you cleared all you started this with no
stress oh when you trauma out you get all your
stress back okay yeah i've done that then you
started at a clean zero and i don't know you
spent some to help a couple times yeah i've spent
i think three yeah so put yourself at six okay
six total i just got really scared i was like
i'm trying one out um yeah you Because I inflicted
so much fucking stuff on you just now, I'm going
to say this is not going down to level one. It
just goes away. Okay. You snap yourself out of
it. You have enough trauma from the last mission.
Your brain just doesn't have room for it. It's
like, we don't have time to process this. We
got to fight. I think Geist gets to go now. Yeah,
I think he does. Geist was, like, paralyzed,
right, when this fucking thing, when this thing
happened. He was kind of, like, overcome by the
bad vibes. Yeah, you were, and also, you were,
you got the overwhelming urge to kill Loyal.
Like, undeniably. And I think it merged with
martyrdom for a brief minute there. There was
a connection open between all of you that felt
very bad. Like, you know, you're not a psychic,
but that was forced upon you. Which is very bad.
You feel like thoroughly violated in your mind.
So my idea is that Geist is in his he's in the
frame of the changeling and he's like crying
so hard. He's like gripping the two control yokes
again so hard that they start cracking a little
bit under his augmatic grip. And he's like he's
paralyzed. He can't move and he's going to just
through sheer willpower reach a hand out and
flick on. the um the rage system the reflex adjustment
and guidance engine uh because he's he's like
stuck he's paralyzed and he just needs to shake
himself out of it and shit has gotten completely
fucked up so he's just he's flipping the sicko
mode switch again um and he's just going to go
bananas on this giant mech again it part of it
i think is like his hubris of like all right
this is another virtue that i can kill Um, but
he's just, he's activating rage mode and he's
going to rush up behind it as it goes for, uh,
loyal and just try his, uh, level best to beat
the shit out of it. Like I imagine when the rage
system activates, it's like those cheesy, like
Dragon Ball Z segments where like they're punching
like a million times a second, really, really
fast. It's just like that. Sure. Um, uh, one
thing I'll add, uh, just to give you some good
news, the other mech, the, uh, the other disciple
of martyrdom, Oh, yeah. Has left. You don't need
to worry about him. He he is he has taken himself
out of commission. That makes it sound like he
killed himself. He's he's. This is pretty this
feel that wouldn't feel unusual to me with like
the unified child death seizures happening. A
random mech pilot blowing his own brains out
doesn't seem. Yeah, that's a little more normal.
Yeah, he, um... He's gone. I don't know what
he's doing, but he's not a threat anymore. He's
not here. I'm surprised he didn't try and kill
Loyal. Uh, yeah. There was a lot of traumatic
things happening all at once for him, I think.
Okay, cool. Good for him. I'm gonna try and fucking
shadowbox this guy. Hell yeah. Shadowboxing of
Virtue, episode 2. Oh, I love to do it, but this
time I'm not nearly in a coma again. Yeah, you
want to push yourself. I already have... What
does the rage system do? I think the rage system
already gives me increased effect. And my battle
is up to level 3 now because of that ability
we took. So I think I'm just going to let it
ride. I think I'm just going to try and battle
him with my great effect and see if I can't nip
this little problem in the bud. Is this a desperate...
Is this fucked up enough that I am in a desperate
position? This is absolutely fucked up enough
that you're in a desperate position. I love it.
I will give you some bad news is that your effect
is only standard because of the tier difference
between you and a virtue. That is completely
fair. I think I'm going to take it. I think I'm
going to take it anyways. Do it. Standard ain't
bad. Yeah, yeah, no. Standard ain't bad at all.
I still have my boosted reactor, but I think
I'll save that for a rainy day. Maybe I can yeet
this guy out of the roof later. Okay. Desperate,
standard, three dice. Let's see it. Partial success.
I'll take it. So here's the bad news. My XP track
is full, so I don't even benefit from this desperate
action. That's too bad, isn't it? Alright, we'll
do two ticks to this guy's clock. These are Mrs.
Clutchfists, by the way. He's got his impact
drivers back, new and improved. Oh, yeah. So
the last prince's clock is now an eight -step
clock, and it has been retitled to the King Returneth.
Oh, that's bad. Well, you know, it's fine. I
hope we can stop the king from return -a -thing,
maybe. Yeah, you do. You punch the shit out of
this thing, and it's... You are, like, because
of your vignette and, like, the surgery you underwent,
which makes you closer to your machine, this
is disturbingly, like, punching a person. Like,
it's, you swear you feel flesh giving way when
you strike this thing with your mech. Yes. And,
like, you feel, like, that visceral satisfaction
of, like, getting in a fistfight. Now, it's,
like, it's disconcerting. But, like, you feel
good. It's, like, you feel, like, violent. So
you have the death wish consequence. I do. What
do you got for me? I think you are angry. I think
you are very angry, and I think you are punching
so hard, like, you are ignoring a lot of warnings
from your frame saying that you are exceeding
its, like, inertia tolerance levels. Classic,
guys. You're, like, breaking your frame's hands
on this thing. Um, and it's just like falling
apart in front of you. Actually, I'm gonna give
you an extra tip. Just, just discuss. Um, and
the consequence is that you are damaging yourself.
You're going to take the level two damage fracturing.
Fuck. All right. Let me take a look at what I
got here. The fucking force shield is still junked
from last time. Would this be... I guess it doesn't
matter if this is expertise or acuity to resist,
because it's still going to be a two quirk penalty,
and that's the last quirks I can spend. Um...
God. I might drunk my machine gun. Not the fine
machine gun. Yeah, I realize that the fine machine
gun is cool and it's useful to have, but I just
love... narrating being like a psycho boxer robot
more than shooting people with a gun so i'm gonna
i'm gonna junk the fine machine gun sure i only
gave you a level two harm as you probably noticed
yes because i think he bowls you i think you're
all outside now um it is like rushed outside
and you rushed outside after it yeah um and this
probably isn't going to sound like a consequence
Um, but the bone pickers are here too. Oh no.
And that's where I'm going to leave it for now.
Okay. I want to go back to the inside team. Sorry.
Just awakening some terrible horrors in the yard.
I think you guys hear this. Yeah. Did you hear
that? Like Joseph, I imagine you like when you'd
left down the hallway and killed those two guys,
I think you landed back in the observation hallway.
And so like, you're just like on top of these
guys and you see essentially the corpse of God.
temporarily in a yard. I think Joseph is like
killed these guys on top of them and is just
he hasn't even gotten up. He's like still on
top of them knife in the throat and just like
staring wide eyed at it. He's never seen a robot
bleed and he has many questions. I bet you do.
I also think you get this faint and this is probably
particularly strange for you. You feel that anger
as well. Like, which, you know, that raises a
lot of questions about your existence as a person
when a psychic effect can affect you like that.
It sure does. I don't like it at all. Yeah, you
and Hex, what are you going to do? How are you
feeling, Hex? Is there anything else? I mean,
you're blinded right now, right? But you're picking
stuff up. Yeah, Hex is trying to gather more
intel and is counting on... You to come help
in a bit. I think just because I don't want to
have you guys stuffed in an office while all
the exciting thing happens again, I think you
set it up in such a way that they have stopped
burning things. I think you can get... I think
you've gotten all that you could get at this
point. You've gotten a lot. You've got your two
things. And you got a lot of the paperwork about
those two things. I would say at this point,
you could do whatever you want. You could pull
out. You could call in your frames if you even
want to. Maybe they're nearby. Who knows? Or
you could push it, and you could try to really
stick your hands into the fire, try to get the
last of this information. That is up to you.
Hex is by the book. He's going to try it. But
I'm going to say this, Hex. Just to add to the
scene a little bit, the people inside this room
are acting irrationally now. They are, like,
violent. You see, like, one guy bump into another
guy, and he stabs him. Oh, God. And you feel
like... You're very good at controlling your
emotions, as we've shown and stuff, but you feel
pissed off, too. You feel this, like... urge
to hurt people that you managed to suppress,
but it is there. Huh. And so by going for the
extra intel, he's probably going to piss someone
off on the way. If you don't get a perfect success,
you are going to get hurt by these people who
are literally blind because of the flash brain,
but are like groping around, striking things.
You know, some guy's fucking punching a wall.
You know, Hex likes those odds, but let me see
what he would roll. Could I run in there and,
like, watch his back while he does this last
thing? A little aid? Or is that, like... That'd
be an aid. There's a thing called a setup action
as well. If you want to, like, you take an action
and it'll just give him a bonus. Um... Sure.
I'm wondering about that. There's still a chance...
I mean, yeah, what were you thinking? I was thinking,
like, I'm imagining, like... I'm going to put
my back to his while he searches, and I'm just
going to have my knife out. Anyone who gets close,
I'm going to robo -assassin, just stab him in
the neck, and then be like, keep going. You're
blind, so it's really easy. Yeah, exactly. I
feel like I'm in an advantageous position because
I have robot eyes, so I'm fine. Sure. You can
aid him, but aiding him will trauma you out.
Yeah, that's the thing, huh? Oh, no. I will say,
having trauma... isn't the worst thing in the
world. It gives you extra XP. Then I'm out of
the mission. And I don't want to leave Brian
hanging. Yeah, that'd be scary. So you could
try, you could try like just saying you're there
for the time being. And I don't know. It's up
to you, really. I mean, I'm imagining Brian takes
his role, there's a reaction, and then I could
react to that if I'm not going immediately. Or
if you had like a really long robot claw and
you just reached it for me, you know? That's
true. And I have, like, 14 guns on all my arms,
too. I can just shoot them all. You could also
just prowl and try to, like, do this as well
with him. Like, you're both taking the same action
if you want. I would like to defend him more.
Could I, like, prowl and... Could I just, instead
of taking an aid, could I just take a move that
is prowled that's, like, I'm going to try to
kill someone who's close to him? There's a...
Apparently there's a teamwork action, which is
you guys both do an action together and you would
take the consequences he would get in his place.
You'd roll whatever you want to roll. And anything
that would happen while Hex does this would go
on you instead. Like you would receive the consequences.
I got your back, Brian. Which is kind of what
you're describing, right? Okay. I'll protect
you. All right. Let's do Prowl. I'll do Prowl.
I think. Let's just do it for that. I don't want
to look up the rules. I'll look it up later.
But yeah, let's do that. Both of you roll prowl.
Risky standard. Let's go. Who's leading it? Who's
going to take the stress? How much? I'm two away.
I'm one away. Okay, I'll take it. Wait, is it
two stress that I get or just one? You can only
get one. Unless you both fail. Okay, well, I'll
do it then, because if I just get one, I'll still
be okay, and I can help you. I don't try that
out. So, what am I doing then? Prowling? Yeah,
let's just have you both roll prowl, and we'll
just resolve it. I don't want to roll up the
rules. We were short on time anyways. Ooh, six.
And a failure. Okay, so take one stress, Joseph.
Oh, we're so close. Hey, hey, hey. The bar. Remember
the bar. Okay, I'll give you a couple options
now, friends. You can either get one of the last
two remaining items, like an okay amount of information
on it, I would say, because you're at four ticks
of the clock. You got there pretty late. So you
can have partial information on a lot of this.
So you can get better information on the Enzyme
Omicron or Remnants of Martyrdom project, or
you can save some information about the Phase
1 movement plan or the maps of the West City.
Oh, I thought I already got a lot of those first
two you said. You got a lot of it, but I would
say some of it has been thrown away. You get
a very great amount of information about them.
We'll also grab the last one. There's two, yeah.
Which one was it? The movement one between the
phase. The phase one? Okay. Okay. Okay, you saved
that. Got. Which is good. You got. That one is
important. Well, they're all important. Anyways.
Okay. You guys managed to save it. And I think
you get in there. You get what you need. You
realize there's nothing left to save and it's
getting dicey and you are now out. You are in,
I would say, a controlled position, personally.
Out of that room. What are your next moves? What
do you head to do after this? You're not going
to roll yet. I was thinking, like, the thing
I was going to do if I... brian didn't go for
it i was i was gonna call someone uh i don't
know what the other guys are doing but i was
assuming then if they're busy i was gonna call
like the bone pickers and say like can you lead
a distraction so then we could safely like exit
and then get to our frames and then we can assist
you know that was my original plan yeah but now
the bone pickers are involved in the fight all
of them yes that was part of the consequence
unfortunately okay so we don't have anyone who
could call in to assist us we're just alone you
have you have your the raptors your soldiers
okay they could come i'm thinking we just need
to and where are our frames are they like with
worthy up top they're wherever you want them
to be you know i floated the idea of having everybody
else's frames loaded into the ship ready for
airdrop i believe in the briefing um i like that
idea that's what i was thinking Yeah, I'm perfectly
fine with that. I would just give that to you
since you kind of mentioned it already. Yeah,
drop it. So then, yeah, I was thinking, call
up the, what are they called? Razorhawks? What
are they called? The Raptors. The Raptors. And
then say, like, we need to get to our frames.
We're stuck inside with valuable intel. Can you
give us some covering fire as our frames drop?
And we could jump in. You hear Captain Spud respond.
He says, I got you, man. Don't worry about it.
Since he inherits your tier, so I'm going to
roll one die. Actually, someone else should roll
it. Someone roll me a d6. Go, go. I'll do it.
Hey! Six! I think he even faster than you could
even imagine. You're heading for the nearest
exit and he kicks open the door. He has a gas
mask on. I feel like a dead Clustris comes through
the door as he, like, shoots him through it.
He's like, right this way, sir. Takes a hit of
a fat joint. I cannot admit that he's cool. I'm
enemies with this man. He's owning you by being
so suave. He is. Fucking hell. Yeah, you guys
both get out, and you are going to be in your
frames for the next scene. And we're going to
get back to the in bad place. where things are
hurting. I'm so scared. No, it's good. Loyal.
It's good. Your friends, the bone pickers, have
shown up and are trying to kind of surround this,
which we're going to call the King Returnus.
That's his full name. Not martyrdom. Just mind
you. And they're trying to do it right in front
of you. Geist is punching the back of this frame.
With reckless abandon, like a man possessed.
But, you know, martyrdom's just... Not martyrdom.
The frame's just kind of taking it. What do you
do? So, Loyal's instinct is to usually scan things.
To learn more about them. In order to figure
out how best to attack. But... Thinking about
how that happened the last time he was... He
met with a supernatural entity that he attempted
to scan. I don't think he's going to do that
this time. I think he's just going to try to
attack center of mass with his drill. Yes! Turn
his brain off and just attack. Finally! Loyal
has learned the lesson that Geist has been trying
to teach him all along. That violence really
is the answer. Okay, and I don't have much stress
left to spend, but since Geist is punching this
guy... You spend quirks. You spend quirks, that's
true. Yeah, spend a quirk, punch him up. Yeah.
Spend a quirk, punch him up. Yeah, I'll use my...
My ominous appearance quirk. It's just the fact
that I'm big, I'm alien too, and I have a drill.
Yeah. All right. Is anyone helping? I don't know
if anyone can. I mean, Geist is punching him
in the back right now. Is Geist coherent enough
to help? I think, unfortunately, you have a death
wish. I'm going to have to use that against you
here. That's fine. That's fair. I didn't resist
those consequences, so I will accept them. But
I'm in desperate. Yes, you are in desperate.
Standard. I will say standard because the bump
pickers are here to assist you. Okay, cool. And
the bone pickers have died. Right there. That's
terrible fucking news. Failure 1 -3. Yeah, I'm...
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, I think... Shit.
Possible. You go to attack him. And it... He's
not moving. Like, he's just... There's like...
You get closer and closer with your drill. Your
drill goes in, even, just the tip of it. And
you notice he hasn't not been moving. He's been
tensing. All those little red wires on his skin
are just pulling against the rest of the metal,
cutting into it. It's ready to burst, like a
super tight coil of wire. And you realize too
late, this is happening. And the worst part is
that your drill is what is going to set off this
tension. It's that sharp... That sharp damage,
that piercing is what's going to cut it. The
punching from Geist is just not going to set
it off. But you get pushed out of the way. Mahogany
Cola, he sees it. He's an engineer. He's the
engineer. And he pushes you out of the way. And
you go flying to the side. You get barely winged
by what comes next. So you're going to take the
level 1 damage scuffed, scratched. That's it.
But not him. The wires explode outwards in a
big, violent cutting motion. And before you even
do any scans, before you even, like, fully look
at what happens, you know there's no getting
out of it. It's like, he's in pieces. The frame
is in pieces. Just, like, diced. Like on a cutting
board. And he's gone. Can we resist that consequence?
Of course. You can resist it. Please resist it.
I can't lose him now like this. You can not be
in pieces, right? Yeah, you can resist them separately.
Your damage and him being in pieces. Okay. I'm
trying to figure out. I would say that it's going
to be a expertise resistance. I'm thinking so
as well. Okay, I'm just... Check two more of
your quirks, so you're going to be using up all
your quirks. Which means that if you take any
more actions in your mech, you risk going into
breakdown. We can get into that when it's your
turn next. How do you think you resist it? Do
you just push him away? Do you take some of the
damage yourself with your shield? Yeah, I would
take it with my shield. I would try to do a combination
of a grapple and a activate shield since I am
in immediate close combat with the drill. Grab
this mech as it is exploding, I suppose, and
try to absorb the damage with my own frame. Yeah,
you managed to deflect a lot of it. It wasn't
a good situation. You were already in there when
it went off, but you get knocked to the side,
but you kind of bring up a shield while he's
trying to go into you, and you lean into it a
little bit. It still gets into him, like, bad.
He is not chopped up completely, and you can
tell that by the screams that come over the comms.
He's, like, howling in pain. There's, like, no
signal coming through because of the intense
haze field around you, but he's at least alive,
and, you know, we'll see what his quality of
life is after. Oh, don't say that. Okay. It's
Geist's turn. It's Geist's turn. Not martyrdom.
Just exploded. His front half is now this burst
open I don't know if you've ever seen those weird
satisfying TikTok videos where they cut into
string and it all frizzles up. Love those. I
don't know those. It's cool. When you cut a really
tight string It kind of frizzles up and pops
out and makes this weird fuzzy outburst. That's
what the front of this frame looks like now.
And you do get the impression that it is actually
actively falling apart. This thing is not coherent.
There is something about it that is being drained
away gradually. Okay. So Geist is still... He's
still flying high. Frame system is... Sorry,
rage system. Still active. He's a little upset.
I mean, I feel like his emotional state... He's
normally not the most level guy when it comes
to fighting Clusterists. Although he is. He does
have cold. Maybe... I don't know. One day I'll
swap it out for Vicious, I think. Or maybe when
I get Vicious as my third trauma. So he liked...
mahogany cola quite a lot and so i think he's
kind of like between like all this weird like
these horrible vibes flying around and the fact
that he just watched a dude that he really liked
get diced and the fact that his frame is using
it's like software suite that makes him want
to kill at the exclusion of his own well -being
he's pretty fucking mad um so i think what i
want him to do is fall back on his old standby
and i want him to use The grapple anchor tool,
this is a repeat kind of of his first move. I
want him to grapple this fucked up martyrdom
frame thing. And I want him to swing it around
and I want to activate my boosted reactor core,
Tavgeist. While he has him grappled, kind of
swing him to the side and then fly back into
the factory as fast as he can. But because of
the way that like the tension is on the line,
it's going to swing the frame into the wall next
to the hole. So basically just like swing him
by using his mech's super turbo boosted fine
mobility suite as like momentum. Just basically
swing him around in like a 360 degree, like a
180 degree arc through a solid concrete wall
in an attempt to destroy it. All right. Could
I maneuver? Would you accept that as my action?
Or would it be battle? I mean, I have more dice
in battle, but maneuver feels like it fits better.
I think you are engaging him in close combat.
You're not trying to, like... I think this is
a battle. I think it's definitely a battle. Okay,
sure. Can I still use the boosted reactor, though?
Yeah. Speed or agility? Because, like, the damage
is, like, the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
absolutely. Okay. Cool, cool, cool. So I think
I'm probably going to push myself as well. So
that should boost my effect. I can only do this
once, but that should boost my effect from limited
up to great. Because it's boosted twice because
I'm pushing myself with my fine mobility suite.
Okay. Let's get this motherfucker. Here we go.
I'm going to check off my unpredictable boosters
to say that there's a slight delay as they fire,
so it doesn't go quite the way you'd expect.
This is battle. I got an extra die. Am I still
desperate? It really doesn't matter for XP, but
it will matter for how bad things get when I
inevitably get four twos. Yes, it is desperate,
especially because you were throwing him where
the children are. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, that's
fine. Yeah. That's fine. Old and reckless. I
don't care. You mean the soldiers are? Yeah,
the childs. Well, I mean, they were... They're
child mechanics. I don't know if that's quite...
I don't know if that'll play as well. Oh, they
repair the enemy. That's exactly what I'm saying.
Okay, I'm just procrastinating. Let's see. Yes!
6, 4, 2, 3! Boom! Yes! Turbo speed! I'm getting
him away from my dead friend. My dying friend.
Correction, dying friend. Yeah, he's not dead.
He's not dead. Yes, you manage to swing him inside.
You pull him back. You feel... He feels different
now. It's a lot less meaty. Like, the sense of
weird flesh reality or whatever that was being
tapped into is starting to definitely fall away
now. You swing it, and it's just Anka Metal.
And you throw it through the wall, collapses
into it. It falls apart. It's like dropping a
Lego construction. All the anima that is in this
thing is just... It's barely any left. It hits
the wall and it just looks like a corpse. It
feels like it's just been a hallucination. And
although the clock hasn't been completely filled,
I am going to end it there. Because this is not
a permanent... situation with this frame. There's
no blood. There's no blood anymore. You're just
covered in oil. That's it. What about the pool
that was on the floor of the factory? Just oil.
Are the kids still dead? Yep. He's still dead.
Wake up, you morons. It's just oil. Jesus Christ.
It wasn't real. Of the 50 children, I think maybe
16 are dead. The rest are, like, have fled or,
you know, are in the office or something. And
Mahogany's screams are, like, muted now. You're
on board. uh like com link like this program
to mute screams after a few seconds um uh you
know it's you have the bone pickers here they
have and you're you rolled really well with the
raptors so i'm honestly gonna say i think you
have completed it you eventually find where that
other pilot went and he is curled up um in a
a gnarled little mass of a man. Alive, but he's
kind of lost his marbles. And, you know, you
get... There are a lot of dead bodies. Like,
the raptors did a good job. Their bone pickers
did a good job, if you want to call it a good
job. You have a lot of prisoners. And you have
most of the intel. Not all of it. A lot of it
got burned. But you got what you got. And, you
know, I think... Joseph and Hex, you get to your
frames, and you come back, suit up, and the fighting
is basically over, but you do see Mahogany Cola.
They pull him out of his frame, and it's pretty
horrific. The frame was bisected, and he was
in part of the bisection, and he is missing his
legs, I will say. Welcome to the club, pal. It's
not so bad. They took his legs. Joseph's probably
pops out of his thing, but he doesn't rush over.
He's just, like, staring from a rubble pile from
afar, not sure what to do. He's just, like, watching
this happen. Yeah. Hex whinges from inside his
mech, but he's still pretty wary, kind of surveying
the scene. I think Geist kind of timeouts himself.
Like, as, like, the rage system, like, slowly
deactivates, he wants to make sure that he doesn't,
like... you know, kick a child over the horizon
or accidentally punch a friendly mech. So he
just, like, kind of takes time out for a second.
All the system reboots. That's so funny. I'm
going to give you a little bit right now. I don't
have, like, a big write -up for the intel you
got, but I do have, like, the spark notes of
it. I'll probably, probably in the next episode,
I'll tell you, like, in more detail. But, so,
they were using children to... implement some
scrap they got from martyrdom just like scrap
like some internal components they managed to
salvage before it got taken away um and they
were running into issues utilizing it um they
couldn't get it to perform what they wanted and
they're having issues with morale and um people
were a little upset about uh the children and
even though the children were best at finding
the as they say appropriate parts um the other
document references a terrorist organization
called Gold House, which provided the Clusterists
very recently with that yellow ganks you saw
in the refinery. Which was pretty nasty stuff.
Did a lot of bad stuff to a lot of, you know,
just employees there. Like, has some intel on
their operations on the planet and how they think
of their partnering with the Clusterists. I guess,
who's going over this information? I was probably
going to say Joseph's probably, like, attending
to things, so Pex is probably doing it. I think
Joseph's, like, attending to it. Yeah, I feel
like Pex is our intel guy. Yeah, Joseph's going
to look after the Dolphin. Like, you're heading
back and, like, you're, like, looking over this
information. Which, you know, you know that name,
Joseph. I'm not saying anything, okay? I've been
keeping quiet. I've been being good. Yeah, that
vignette will technically come out before this.
episode but okay you know um and then you get
to those flyers that you saved which i think
was a very good choice the other one was very
tempting though um which are encouraging clusters
to move into river valley away from the peacekeepers
um and there's like a note attached to it and
it says probably something like um we need them
to think it's their idea before we do more extreme
measures um And it's like a photocopied handwritten
note. And it is signed Pierce Sunspire, who is
the general of the Clusterous Forces. That traitor.
But what that means? Who knows? And that was
it. Old time. Machines. Hey, why do you hate
dolphins so much, huh? You want to explain that?
I think it's just... Psychic characters are really
fun to torture for me. Next time we'll do the
downtime episode where you all go back and we
go over everything we found. But until then,
thank you all for playing. Another fun one. Sorry
for going into horror again. I didn't plan it,
but it was there. And I will see you all next
time. And I'm going to end my recording. Thanks
for running. Bye. Yeah, say bye. I like the bye.
Bye -bye! Did you get any of that? No, none of
it.