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Hello players who have one set of dice for every campaign and character.
And DMs who way over prepare.
Welcome to Table Talk. What are we talking about today, Maddie?
That felt so wrong and weird. It already has me on edge.
We are talking a little bit about Kids on Bikes and then we are playing Kids on Bikes.
And I just dropped a marker on my jeans.
Setting the tone.
But yeah, our whole last episode was all about bikes, which Kids on Bikes is another system for a TT RPG game.
I think it's by Hunter's Entertainment, if I remember correctly.
There's a couple of fun little spin-offs called Kids on Brooms and Teens in Space.
It's a player-centric, it's a little bit more collaborative than 5E in the GM kind of.
I wrote in my notes that the GM is like a referee as opposed to like the boss.
What would you describe yourself?
That's a hard one. To me, the Dungeon Master as opposed to Game Master, which is kind of how I like to differentiate the two.
Like 5th edition, if you are the Dungeon Master, it's much more of a hands-on experience.
You are a lot more involved. It's more of like you are the director for a movie.
You are giving players notes and you are telling people kind of where to step and how to do things.
This is the story and these are the points we are hitting, but you are still letting people play their characters.
Whereas Game Master is much more like Riders Room.
You are sort of the highlights. I'm going to read off what's happening in the world and then you as the player are going to make the choices yourself.
Which is why I think I prefer that a lot more than DMing.
Not that I've done DMing yet, but this is also in fact my second session ever, GMing Anything.
Yeah, and it's on camera.
It's immortalized on the internet where anyone can access it forever.
That's so fun.
Kids on Bikes is a very different system. It's a different rule set, the way the character sheets work, and the way the game is played mechanically is a little bit different.
Our last episode, we talked about it, what the differences are, the pros and cons between the two games, which we kind of talked about the differences just now.
But I think that's kind of the overview I wanted to do before we fully jump in, jump in.
It's kind of like a warm up because I like to do warm ups before we play.
It's answering some questions real quick.
One of the fun things that Kids on Bikes has is this feature where you answer questions throughout the character creation process.
You can roll a D20 and answer one of 20 different questions that they give you depending on the relationship that you have with either multiple characters or in our case, literally the only other person.
And I'm not even fully a player. I'm the GM who just happened to make a character because otherwise the player is kind of stuck in a vacuum.
Just be me.
Yeah, and then me being 15 different people. And that's a lot.
So our characters are friends. If you've listened to the last episode, I'm going to be playing or controlling, I guess, Aster, Donovan.
We have bracelets.
Yeah, I made little friendship bracelets.
Tony, he's Zuko.
You can't tell because it's hot as balls in here.
So he took his jacket off.
It's incredibly warm.
He had the leather jacket. I'm probably going to bail on this in a minute.
Super warm in this bitch.
But the trope being the plastic beauty.
Yep.
And he's focused a lot more on the greaser aesthetic with none of the actual hard work that goes into maintaining that lifestyle.
His parents own kind of like a mechanic shop, but also he doesn't know how to work on cars.
He just likes to take pictures with the cool ones that his parents fix up.
He's like every dude on fucking Instagram in the 2010s where it's just photos of cars or you in front of a car.
Yep.
He carries a lighter and a pack of cigarettes, but does not smoke them or use the lighter.
Hell yeah.
But he always has them on standby in case he has to put up a front.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's pretty much about it.
I mean, it's kind of like, right, because the greasers that it usually comes with some sort of like hard life trope or like switch blades and gangs and working on cars and shit.
But this is just like, no, Tony likes the way that aesthetic looks.
He probably read the outsiders and was like, that's the life for me, but enjoys the life of privilege because he's pretty.
It was the freshman year required reading of the outsiders and he went, this is it.
This is it.
This is it for me.
And then I play Aster Donovan.
She is a conspiracy theorist.
Think kind of the vibes of like Gravity Falls or like Welcome to Night Vale and just kind of like things are fucking weird.
And I'd like to see those weird things and catch those weird things.
Kind of an outcast.
So, we're going to talk about some of the weird things that we're going to talk about.
And it's not going to be a very different aesthetic to Tony, but they are friends outside of school at least.
So we are going to roll some questions on appendix a and the deluxe source book.
These are for characters, you know, with a positive relationship.
We've already answered some of the last episodes and we're not going to do those if we roll them.
There's so many of them.
Just fucking roll.
Okay, cool.
The opposite of the last question we did.
What role did this character play in the best day of your life?
I don't know if that's an experience that Tony and Aster have had together.
Yeah.
Next question.
Cool. Okay. I'll pick one.
What is your private nickname for this character and why?
Well, um, I think sticking with the outsiders will just do Pony Boy.
That's what some people call me in high school.
Oh, because of the whole greaser thing.
Yeah, no, I'm playing a character loosely based on myself in high school, by the way.
This is me up 10 knots.
I was in my high school yearbook for looking like a greaser.
People knew me by my hair.
Upper classmen and underclassmen also knew me as the guy that wore the leather jacket and the white t-shirts and the black jeans.
That was my thing.
So this is just my thing, but a lot worse than it was.
I can't dog it because he saw me go through my Pinterest the other day and literally half of it was like cryptid shit.
And I did not realize how deep into the cryptid ghost-huntery vibe that I was.
Or how long that I was.
You pick one.
Cool. You gotta pick one for me to answer then.
Oh boy.
Mm-hmm.
You have 14.
Um...
The intro of the setting.
What is the bravest thing you've ever seen this character do?
Honestly, probably him walking along the beach on some outing that our parents took us to like a fucking beach day or something.
And seeing you get in the water was the craziest thing that I've ever seen that you do.
Because you're so fucking prissy about your hair.
Yeah. The character who's like definitely afraid of getting his hair wet.
Like the number one fear is you're getting wet.
Yeah, wet hair. Like it's on the sheet.
And it wasn't...it's not a brave thing for anyone else in the world, but it was brave for you.
Brave for Tony.
So, the world that we're playing in.
Yes. This is all completely...
I'm a hot mess. This is so scary.
Anyway, our adventure is going to take place in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
I got this module from the back of the Deluxe book.
And then chopped it to little bits and pieces and completely redid it.
It's your dice back.
Oh, thank you.
But either way, I will read a little bit from the book in terms of like what or no.
Yeah, I'll do this.
Point Pleasant can...or nope.
Right on the Jersey Shore.
A convenient train ride away from New York City is Point Pleasant.
A vacation hotspot for both city dwellers and inland New Jerseyites.
Even the occasional Pennsylvanian, although they usually go to Long Beach Island.
During the summer, Point Pleasant is nearly constantly thrumming.
And the Ferris wheel is always turning even at night.
It offers both the beach, which is the main attraction,
and the bay, where the more rebellious kids hang out.
But after Labor Day, the off-season begins, and the population drops to less than 30%.
For the families who work in the tourism industry, the other nine months are slow.
Sure, the town needs to keep going.
There's the Small Elementary School or the Combined Middle and High School.
There's the grocery store and the library,
but there's not enough work for the folks in town to keep during the off-season.
For kids who live in the area, there isn't much to do either.
Younger kids will often invent crazy stories about what they've seen in the ocean,
what lives in the less developed parts of the island, or why the bay seems to be whispering.
Teenagers will usually split their time between figuring out how to get out
once they graduate high school and sneaking into houses to cause trouble.
Setting touchstones include Gravity Falls, the TV show, X-Files, the TV show,
Creature from the Black Lagoon, the movie, Welcome to Night Vale, the podcast,
John Hughes, the director, and the Bailey School Kids book series,
which I added on my own. I don't know if you've read any of those.
Nope, sure haven't.
They were so fun.
And then this is kind of a, like our little synopsis, which I guess I'll go over.
I don't...
Girl, you just gotta hop into the game.
Okay, okay, I'm gonna do this and then we're going in.
The highlight of your... Do I read the...
Don't read it. Just hop into the game.
Cool.
Hop into the game.
All right. We begin on a September morning.
I don't think it's ever really fully sunny in Point Pleasant outside of the summer.
I feel like it's always like kind of like...
There's always like a little bit of clouds, a little bit of fog.
It always just...
Despite the fact that it's New Jersey, it somehow feels like Oregon or like somewhere...
Anywhere in the UK?
Yeah, like that kind of vibe of just like...
Garbage the whole time.
You can smell like it's always about to rain, like that kind of energy.
And we're gonna be picking up early in the school day.
I don't know what time the fucking high school starts.
7.30.
7.30. Cool.
And we are at... What time do you think Tony gets up in the morning?
Oh, Jesus.
Probably like 6 a.m.
Jesus. So we're starting at 6 a.m.
Well, Tony... I feel like Tony has a very long routine.
I know in high school I spent a very long time in the mornings regardless of how late I woke up for school,
which was frequently often.
Fixing my hair, making sure the product was in it, making sure that last night's product was out.
There were times where... This is as speaking as Tony...
Where going through a phase trying different products, some of them required don distoped to remove real experience, true to life.
Yep, listen, if it's safe for ducks, it's safe for Tony.
So, you know, there's no danger there, but definitely waking up, planning the fit,
which is almost always the same variation on like just the leather jacket, the same kind of shoes,
and then just kind of mixing up like the same light-colored shirt and dark-colored pants.
There's not a whole lot of variation there, which makes it easy.
But there's definitely a cell at 30 minutes of just like combing more product, combing more product.
I don't like the way that looks.
Head under the sink, don distoped, gets the job done quick.
Hair, more product, comb, comb, comb.
And then eventually, 5 minutes before we walk out of the door, clothes, we're out.
Jesus. What...
No breakfast, nothing to eat, nothing to drink.
We're going off of pure adrenaline of looking good at school.
Okay, no, I get what you're saying.
So, it's like a fade-in on what's your street name?
Oh, Jesus.
What's your street name? Do we live in a cul-de-sac?
Yeah, but I'm not putting that on me.
Wow.
We're starting your house, bud.
You motherfucker.
Yeah.
A collaborative role-playing game.
Street name, street name, Fuqua.
Fuqua.
Whereas people around Evans will like to pronounce it, Fuqua.
So, slow-zoobin on Fuqua.
I imagine that it's like a nice suburban home, which does not fit the vibe of the very strong, greaser aesthetic.
And a very clear morning routine, so I feel like that's happening.
You probably hear your mom downstairs calling you and offering you breakfast.
No thanks.
And just full glossing over.
Do you think that you stop to talk to your parents in the morning, or are you just charging out the door?
I imagine I go straight for the door.
Yeah, I don't really like to spend a whole lot of time talking to my parents.
I mean, who are they really?
Like, what are they doing for me?
I mean, like, do they take me to school, and they're like, but this isn't the main event.
The main event is school.
I'll talk to mom and dad when I get home, and I have time to talk to these people.
Right now, I got to get to school.
Okay, so your dad's already in the driveway.
The car's already running.
Hell yeah.
He's the one in charge of taking you to school today, because they kind of trade shifts, depending on just when they decide to go in and open up the shop.
Because the shop is definitely not opening at fucking 7.30 in the morning.
Sure is not.
As they're, I don't know if I mentioned, owners of a mechanic shop called...
Grease Sparks.
Because...
Put together what that means.
Yeah.
Grease Sparks.
So you all get in the car, and you drive down about like five or six houses, and then outside of another like very modest suburban home out walks another girl.
I'm immediately slouching down in my seat.
I'm like making sure that my head is just barely visible on the window.
Like, I am fully just like down this way.
I'm looking through all the windows, like around the car to make sure none of the other like neighborhood kids see us pull up even though we're there every day at the same time.
And Yelzana is like, hey Aster, how are you doing?
Fucking...
And she like kind of, Aster's like a...
Shut up!
Like a small, mousy girl.
Like short tomboy haircut.
It does not look like it's been brushed.
Blue eyes, big ass, nerdy glasses.
Probably in some type of like dark greens and dark burgundy colors.
And she's carrying about three or four books.
And her pants as well as like the backpack and everything.
And she's like, hi Mr. Zuko, how are you doing today?
Tony doesn't bring backpacks to school by the way.
Tony doesn't bring back.
He's just going in raw.
Tony has his jacket, his pants, his shoes, his comb, maybe a small little tent of palmade and that is it.
Nobody knows how he gets to the day, but he fucking does it.
Not a pencil?
No, but if he needs a pencil, he's got one.
Aster has a backpack, she has a tote bag, and is still carrying shit in her hands.
She has everything.
And so she'll come in and she'll get in the backseat as well.
Are you in the backseat or are you in the front seat?
I'm in the front seat, so I don't have to sit in the backseat with her.
Okay, cool. She slides into the backseat.
It takes like a minute to like put all of her backpack and stuff down and...
Morning!
Hey Aster.
What's with all the stuff, man?
Books for class.
Right, yeah, because you do that.
That's... yep.
Let's really...
I don't want to do this down your hair this morning.
We don't have to...
Okay.
And then your dad turns around and is like,
Hey Aster, how are the folks doing?
You know, we really missed you guys at our last like barbecue that we had.
I know that you weren't able to make it because you had that house showing out of town.
She starts like chatting with me and she's like, oh yeah, you know, they're doing pretty good.
You know that I actually saw somebody really cool with that barbecue.
They asked for my picture actually.
We took a few pictures in front of the car.
You should have been there.
It was the greatest day of my life.
Honestly, greatest day of your life too.
You fixed that car up.
It's beautiful truly.
And now it's on Instagram.
And I'm in front of it.
Your dad, as you start talking about like taking pictures of the car and like fixing it up for pictures,
he just goes like, right, yeah.
And like kind of hits the steering wheel in that dad car.
I mean, why else would you like this level of disappointment?
I don't.
Isn't that like the point?
Maybe people need to fucking drive, Tony.
Yeah, but like you got to look cool while you drive.
My name is on the goddamn shop.
You gotta learn.
You don't think I do though.
You can't change the spare tire.
You do that.
Aster pops it back.
She's like, I can show him.
Aster, that's okay.
See, she gets you.
But you want to adopt her?
Jesus Christ.
I'm not good enough for you.
Oh my God.
Fuck off.
And he's like fully drunk.
I turned into fully like I was like, I cannot wait.
Tony just fucking slaps his in the seat.
He's like whatever.
He just turns the music on and like turns it up a little bit.
This feels like it's a very familiar like exhausted.
This is a routine.
It's very routine.
This is kind of normal.
Stacy said, I don't need to change the tire.
Well, Stacy has like four fucking people to change the tire for.
Why would you are the people?
No, I'm not.
I'm not the people.
You're the people.
You're gonna be the people.
You own the shop.
You're gonna be the people.
I did beg this.
Our name is on the shop.
Who the fuck am I gonna get in?
Maybe I'll change my last name then.
No, you're not.
Yeah, I'll change it to something cool like fucking Pitt or Wahlberg or something.
Okay, first of all, you just annoyed.
He's like, listen, if you manage to marry fucking Mark Wahlberg, I will be your number one supporter.
Yeah, you and me both.
Yeah, okay.
You all are like pulling up to the school.
I can bag Mark Wahlberg.
So you all are pulling up to the school.
I can bag Mark Wahlberg, right?
I don't think that that's like.
But I could though, right?
Like you think I could.
I mean, I guess.
Right.
I really know.
I don't think that you're his type.
I think I'm anybody's type.
Let's be honest.
I think, listen, when the shine hits the hair in the right light and the fucking jacket
is creased in the right way.
You're gonna be fine people.
Isn't that?
That's a fucking excuse.
See, I don't even know how to beat people with a tire iron.
It's a tire hazard.
Like my dad.
If I can just turn my head forward.
Don't fucking hit people with tire irons.
I could just like turn my head forward and find people.
I'm talking about Jesus Christ.
You ever get stranded somewhere?
SOS my hair, man.
Okay.
At this point, you're like in the fucking lot of the school and it's, the car's been
idling for like three minutes as you all are having this conversation about whether
or not you as a 16 year old high school boy can bag Mark Wahlberg.
I could do it.
I don't know what the deal is.
The grown ass man.
And Aster is like, okay, well, I'm going.
No way.
Wait.
Right.
Like five second head start, please.
Gotcha.
Cool.
See you later.
Yeah.
This is great.
This is wonderful.
Okay.
Goodbye.
Throws open the door, slams it hard as shit and then basically sprints so that there's
like a good five to 10 feet between him and the car before like the first person sees
him and he just like immediately hands in pockets, leans forward and just like starts fucking
slow walking up to the school.
There's just a little bit of sweat on the back of his neck.
100%.
Oh, 100%.
He's like walking and so she's like, yeah.
He's like fully just trying to keep it in like, just like really trying to maintain posture.
It's really a energy of like when you have a class that's like up a flight of stairs
and every time you're out of breath by the time you get in and you're just pretending
that you're not desperately out of breath.
Yep.
Aster is like sitting in the car with your dad for like a good like minute and it's just
kind of quiet and she's just like sitting in the back seat because this is the usual
routine which is we have very different vibes.
We don't need to be seen together.
That's clear.
So Tony goes in.
Do you stop by your locker?
Would you?
You don't have anything to put in it.
Well, you know what?
No, I think he does.
I think he stops by his locker.
I think he opens it to like the illusion that there's something in there.
He pockets a couple of random objects for the day.
Is there like a mirror in there?
Oh, for sure.
There's like a mirror on the inside of like the door when it swings open.
He's immediately like combing, going through, checking palmade, like doing the whole thing.
And he's making a show of it.
He's only at the locker so that other people will see him at the locker.
There's like people like giving you a wide berth as they're like walking down the hallway
because they're like, this is like, this is a show that happens every morning.
I imagine it like very like, I just imagine this is very gerratic.
Like this is from Greece, fully like the fucking flip in the jacket and like, it's like, oh,
we got to give him, he needs his wingspan.
Oh, 100%.
This shit.
So it's just like, there's a little like pocket in the hallway as people, and this is a small
high school.
I mean, this is probably your class, your junior class is probably what like 40 people.
I had no concept of what a smart school looks like.
I learned that the other night.
So I don't know how many people are actually in your grade.
But like 40 is like a wide berth.
And so you do your stuff at the locker and then do you do you show up to home room on
time?
Fashionably late.
Okay.
I make sure and I'm like outside.
I keep going back and forth.
I mean, I forgot something on my locker.
I got to go get something.
Well, I got to go to like every time I'm making another pass to make sure that everyone's
already sat down by the time I walk in.
So I'm the only person that's walking in by the time I come into home room.
Your home room teacher is like standing at the door greeting people and watches you like
Yeah, I'm fully just going back and forth straight up and down the hallway at this.
At one point she hands you her Fitbit and goes get me some steps for the day.
You know, that's you're going to be making that many trips.
Nah, I'm it's it'll be real quick.
Like I'm just the bathroom and back.
Yeah.
No, that's in 30 seconds.
Just letting you know.
Okay.
And then she goes kind of back into the classroom and is like getting ready to shut the door.
And before you presumably come in and have a seat, where in the classroom is Tony sitting?
The very back.
Back of the room.
Very back.
So as Tony's going in to go like have his seat, you pass a couple different people who
are sitting there.
There's a group of four like cool jock guys.
Yeah.
And you walk past them and then there's also these girls who are like somehow always in
cheerleading uniforms despite the fact that like you immediately stop at the J's and just
start damning everybody up.
They go, Hey, what's up, man?
Not much looking cool looking cool.
As always.
Yeah.
The kind of like jacket man.
The biggest guy there is this guy.
Dark hair, darker skin, lighter man jacket, of course, despite the fact this is a combined
middle and high school.
They take so much pride in their football, which is 100% because it's always small town
football pride.
They also definitely let eighth graders on the team.
Like it's if they're big enough.
I mean, here's right.
Yeah, it's that energy.
And his name is Jason and he kind of like you watch is like someone else is like walking
in and he like sticks his foot out and like pretend to stretch and is like, oh, and like
fully trips again.
Fucking loser, man.
Nice one.
Jason is great.
Yeah.
He's like, Dab's Bob.
This is good shit.
He's like, what are you doing this weekend?
Oh, you know, just I was thinking I was going to go find like this abandoned house or something
and maybe throw glass bottles, smoke a couple of, yeah, you know, I got trying out a new
brand of cigarettes this week, fully pulls out the lighter and the fucking rain and pack
of cigarettes.
Tony definitely like weights.
Can I bum one?
He just fucking walks around gas stations looking for spare packs of cigarettes that
people have just like discarded on the ground.
There's nothing in this.
So when he immediately asked for one, he's like, actually, you know, I'm on my last
one maybe next time though.
You fucker.
Yeah, that's me.
Why are you always down with your last cigarette?
You know, I'm just I'm a fucking chain smoker.
I can't get enough.
It's just really, it's a really cool activity to be doing.
So I get that man.
I'll tell you, nothing goes better together than a football and cigarettes.
Yeah.
That great competition.
It makes me run faster, I think, actually.
Okay.
Yeah.
For sure.
Yeah.
It's nice talking to you, man.
I'm gonna keep walking.
Yeah.
I just think you passed the jocks.
What a fucking tool.
And then like in the other like back corner of the classroom, there's like some golf kids
who are hanging out like they always are.
They're just kind of like creeping in the front of the classroom.
There's some like nerdy looking kids.
There's a girl with like a very like very prim pressed everything about her is like
very put together.
There's a kid in kind of like the middle of the room who is sitting with like his spine
straight.
Oh, Jesus.
Like so straight.
Oh.
Military haircut.
Fucking guy.
And he has like nothing on his desk, but like a religious text.
And it's like thick and engraved with like the leather cover and just sitting in the
middle of his desk.
And he's like got his hands like this and it just folded.
Nah.
It's just like waiting.
Nah.
And then there's another kid like in the like the front like caddy corner and he's
sitting on his like fucking school issue Chromebook or whatever.
And his somehow like fully hacked it.
So it like has access to whatever games that he wants it to have access to.
And he's wearing like the creeper hoodie.
Listen, we're going to get this a roll with this.
We're going to get this a roll with this.
Oh my God.
And he's kind of like hunched over and like really in his game.
And then there's like someone next to him who's like kind of going through what looks
like a deck of cards.
What game you have no fucking clue.
I don't think that you would know.
Not a chance.
But she's just kind of sorting through her cards.
Not a shot, man.
And so like the bell rings.
Is she ready?
The girl looking through cards.
Yeah.
It depends on who you ask.
I mean, she's not ugly.
You yelled across the room with her.
100%.
OK, go for it.
I want to.
I know this is going to be brains.
I know it's not going to be charm.
I want to try and bullshit that I know what she's playing and then do some like fun trick
with the card.
Not to play it, but just like to make, I don't know, take like a card and then throw it somewhere
and catch her or something like that.
That's going to be a you're trying to do like a card trick.
Yeah.
I do think Tony knows how to do card tricks.
I think there's a chance Tony knows how to do card tricks only for moments like this.
I think he's one of those people where he's got like, you know, I was like, oh, there's
a party trick.
He's got like 50 of them because he wants to be so well prepared that when any random
object is brought out at a party, he can insert him.
So like, he knows how to play like fucking Wonderwall on the guitar.
And that's it.
Only thing he knows how to play.
That's going to be a I'm going to say.
What'd you say her name was?
I did it.
Oh, shit.
Damn.
I don't even know her name.
That's okay.
Names can come later.
All right.
That's going to be like a DC 13 check.
Hell yeah.
I'm going to fuck this up so bad.
Yeah, that's an eight.
And eight.
So this is a part where I get to flip over to a final chart called guidelines for failure
or success.
So that was 13.
This is an eight.
So I made diversity ticket.
Oh, yeah.
So I'm also going to show this other fun little mechanic.
So before we get into how this fucking flops.
And again, there's these things called adversity tokens, which you can every time you fail
a role in this world, they are adversity tickets, which will make more sense later.
So you're going to get one of those.
And what is how much did you fail by if the goal was 13?
So nine, 10 plus.
So two plus three.
Five.
Yeah.
So it's the nine to five.
Okay.
Bad but not a disaster.
So according to this fun little chart.
Yeah, the fun chart.
Negative nine to negative five.
The failure is bad but not a disaster.
So there will be some short term consequences for this, according to this.
So you're yelling across the room or are you at her desk?
I imagine I just stop at her desk.
Like as I'm walking, just like at this point, I'm not even going to the back of the room.
I'm doing like a full fucking zigzag hitting all of the major groups of people, very clearly
taking my time.
Everyone else is seated.
The teacher is definitely waiting to start the homeroom and I am just fucking ping-ponging
my way through everybody.
She, what do you say to her?
Oh my God.
You opened with this.
Fucking eight.
I know.
I'm just like, how do I fuck this up?
Oh my God.
I don't even say anything.
I just scoop down and grab the cards and I'm like showing them off to everybody to like
make a show of it and it's like you want to see a magic trick and then immediately I go
to start shuffling something.
No!
Fucking falls all over the desk.
Just immediately hits and oh my God hits and shatters.
She really goes, God damn it, I spent all morning stacking that to-
Oh.
Yeah, that's, I meant to do that actually.
That was, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, no, like I know what all the cards are and the ones that like aren't flipped
out, yeah.
Like Yu-Gi-Oh?
Yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh, yeah.
I play that.
Yeah, other people in the room here, you say that confidently and you can see the Jays,
which for reference, the other people in that group are named John, Joey and Jack, the Jays.
They hear you say that.
You said that confidently.
With this whole chest.
You can see Jays and kind of go like fucking, fucking loser.
Hey, like only like sometimes though, man, like just to, you know, it's like a, aster
place or whatever, you know, and like-
As you say that-
Family, friends and fuck.
As you say that, she like is like running to the room.
The door is like fully closing.
She's late.
She's always running like a couple minutes late because she's like waiting in the car
trying to give you enough time to not be seen with her.
And she doesn't even say anything to you.
She just, well, no, she walks in and she sees you standing there and the fucking card scattered
at your feet as the girl, Lisa, is now picking them up and just kind of makes eye contact
with you and then just, and just like doesn't even speak, just kind of mouths the word okay
and goes to take her seat, which is kind of in like the middle back of the room.
At this point, you two are the only ones not sitting in your seats.
So the seats are, the desks are next to each other.
I'm just gonna go take a seat.
Oh, that seems like a-
Yeah, I'm just, I'm gonna go take a seat.
Yeah.
So at this point, your homeroom teacher kind of starts glass and she's kind of droning
on.
It's very boring.
You can see as Aster, like she dropped something in front of her, like off of her desk.
And you could see there's a really pretty girl sitting in front of her who once again
is in like prep squad, like outfit or something.
And she turns around and picks it up and she goes, oh my gosh, is this yours?
Did you drop it?
And Aster's like, yeah, sorry, my bad, I'll just, I'll take that.
And she goes, oh no, that's okay.
And she fully takes whatever it was and it's probably like a book or something.
Can I jump in?
And be like, no, it's mine.
Yeah, go for it.
Yeah, no, actually Aster's just, she's been a long day, a long morning for her.
Actually, she was up all night doing nerd shit.
That's actually my book.
If you wouldn't mind handing that back, Stacy, you know, we can talk about it later.
You know, I'm an Ava Reader.
This is your book?
Yes, my book.
It's on loan.
Conspiracies of the Unknown?
Yeah, conspiracy of the Unknown.
My mom's a huge reader.
Okay.
She's winning me a book.
Can you give me a, this feels like something very in your real house.
Can I ask all of them?
This is going to be a DC 10 charm check?
I'm a half it unless you want to call it a split decision.
No, I don't think this is an episode.
I mean, at this point, this is half baby.
Half baby and like pretty good at half this shit.
She goes, oh, I didn't know you like read like that.
Yeah, all the time.
Like super smart.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, like my dad works on cars or whatever.
So I got to like know how to do things like, yeah, yeah, I can like change tires and check
your oil and.
Aster's laughs to herself fully.
I mean, she's like very appreciative that you jumped in to kind of like help her out
this one.
He's lost.
He's lost the goal, which was to get the book.
It is now fully just taking a moment to flirt with.
Yeah.
Stacey Stacey.
Yeah.
For it was Stacy's opportunity, golden opportunity from.
Yeah.
In the middle of flirting, I want to just kind of reach over and grab the book and then not
breaking eye contact with Stacy for this conversation and hand it to Aster.
One of the other things you could do in this game is also give an adversity token for a
fun thing.
And then your friend is very nice.
So thank you.
He's an asshole, but he's not that big.
You could see by the time you like sit back down at your seat, which you've, uh, Stacy's
like definitely flirting back with you, but then you could also give me a DC.
It's never easy.
DC five brain check.
She doesn't make it easy.
Makes me feel so fucking stupid.
Brains.
Eight.
I know.
What was it?
Okay.
Fucking.
I mean, I could burn to, to get it, but I don't really feel like doing that right now.
So you can't remember if she's single or not.
Fuck me.
Okay.
I'm going to like try and play this the most low key accident of flirting.
No, no, no, no, no, let me, I'll give you a little bit more on a three.
You can't remember if she's single or not because she's always fucking off and on again.
Right.
With Jason.
One of the.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm a very like captain of the cheer squad quarterback.
Like it's always like toxic blow up breakups and stuff.
So it's not like.
I want to try and keep the.
I can't remember.
I want to keep like the funny comments and jokes to a minimum so that way she doesn't
fucking laugh and draw attention to the conversation.
I'm fine with flirting.
I don't fight people like that.
And I know Jason does because he's got a fucking walnut for a brain.
So I'm cool toe on the line.
I'm not ready to get my shit rocked not this early in the day.
Fuck it is 730 in the morning.
Correct.
At this point, your teacher is like cleared her throat like five or six times.
It has moved from clearing her throat to being like, okay.
Class is starting.
Yes, it has.
My bad.
I'll shut up.
It's that exact interaction.
She starts talking about something.
And as you sit down at your desk, there's a little note.
It's sitting in the middle that's been folded up.
Oh, great.
I'm cool.
I open the note then.
It's a it says thanks for the save.
Appreciate it.
Aster.
I'm a crumple that shit up and trying to shoot it towards the trash can.
Okay.
I'm trying to figure out what making it into trash can is because this is a flight, right?
Yeah, let's do flight.
All right.
That's going to be that's reasonable.
It's my second highest app.
That would be like an eight.
Okay.
This is where I'm going to burn to immediately and use my lucky strength to reroll this shit
because this is like the third fucking failure of the day.
Oh my God.
Can I get one for fucking up with Stacy, please?
Yeah.
Thank you.
It wasn't even fucking up that bad.
It is.
There's no reason.
I can just burn the three to add.
Yeah.
There's no reason.
I'm going to get you.
God bless.
You know what?
I'll just.
The definition of when you do stats in this game as opposed to the other and this is also
me kind of explaining because this is like.
I'm going to five.
So I only failed by three.
It's not bad.
I'll just I'll take the fact that I know it's not going to make it and just already stand
up just so that I can walk over there and pick it up.
Okay.
You're able to you're able to save face with that.
But one of the things in this game that's a little bit different than like 5e is.
Four.
You do stat rolls.
Damn.
Specifically when there is a chance of failure.
So a lot of things you'll be able to do fine.
But when it's shooting a piece of paper into trash can we've all been there.
We've all missed.
Oh Tony.
Jason definitely notices and just looks at you.
I fucking hate this guy.
I want him to eat shit so bad.
God fuck.
These are the cool people.
Yeah.
They're cool people and they take the spotlight away from me because they're big dumb and
stupid and have muscles or whatever and all I got is my hair and I'm funny and I'm fast
or whatever but like fucking football players.
So he just he doesn't say anything but he definitely like eyes on you the whole time
you're walking up to throw that away.
Maybe I should invest in learning how to hit people with a tire and with that we cut to
science class later in the day.
You go in.
I assume you're also kind of sitting in the same spot.
Yeah.
The classroom.
Astor's with.
Yeah we're moving from class to class.
I would like to go out of my way to sit next to Astor in science class.
OK.
You can do that.
She's significantly smarter and just better at this class than I am.
Yeah.
I think also just to like my presence is hopefully going to ward off some of the other people
that are a little bit ruder to Astor just because it's Tony.
Yeah.
Tony is going to go with everybody.
So just to be like no like that's not like we're not focused on me because like I'm pretty
and whatever and then we leave.
Taking the attention away from the fucking loser.
So it's it's it's a fine line.
I also I want to pass this class with minimal effort but I also don't want to ask her to
get bullied again.
So yeah.
Y'all are sitting next to each other and she she goes you fucking Stacy this one.
Yeah.
You know it man.
That's like who I am.
I'm going to do to keep this fair.
I'm going to do a check to see if she remembers if Jason and Stacy are on again or off again.
Nobody knows which her brains check by the way is it funny.
I could definitely have this but I'm not rolling it.
I feel like rolling.
Hey.
It's a 10.
Yeah.
She has a timeline of their relationship in her head.
Of course she does man.
Used to have a crush on Jason.
So she's like always kind of like.
Damn that.
Wow.
That hurts.
I'm used to.
But my friend damn it can't like fucking Jason.
Fuck off.
No they're they're I don't think no they shouldn't be together right now because they got into
a fight because she was texting Tyler from like two times over.
Why do you know that.
Why.
Why do you care.
Well because I was the one flirting with Stacy this morning that's why I care.
Why do you why do you know that.
Well because I sit behind her in fucking the homeroom and I listen.
You fuck you stalking her.
You like you like listening to her writing things down your little cryptid notebook.
Stacy texted Tyler on this day two days ago.
No I overheard Jason complaining about it.
So.
Wow.
We're still on about.
We're not on about Jason.
Jason doesn't know you exist man.
Jason barely knows I exist.
And you know you know why he knows I exist because I fake offer him a cigarette every
fucking morning I walk in the home room.
You're gonna get called on that man.
It's not gonna happen.
People don't people don't call me on things.
You don't look like a smoker.
Listen the amount of fucking teeth.
It's all about the fake confidence.
If you tell them you have a gun and you play like you have a gun and you slick your hair
back like you have a gun no one's gonna call you on it.
As you're talking and you're saying the word gun over and over again.
I'm definitely getting louder with the spiel too to the point where people can start to
hear that I'm saying gun gun gun gun.
People give me a charm roll.
Tony.
An 18.
Yeah you're fucking fine.
People definitely are like turning to be like who the fuck is talking about a gun.
And then that's me.
That's me.
No one says that.
If anybody turns around so and look I'm like what's up.
Oh they're like oh it's just fucking Tony.
Yeah.
And they just kind of let you do whatever you want.
Hell yeah they do.
And as you all are talking this old ass weird ass woman walks into the room.
She's a witch.
She's got like.
That's my prediction.
I don't actually know what she is.
She's a person.
Definitely is not a person.
Fully a person.
She's built like a creptid.
She is.
She's creepy looking.
She has her hair is definitely like.
What's her name.
We got way past that.
Dr. Michelle Cartwright.
She has like.
I'm a card fart.
Okay.
Not to her face just like.
She's weird ass woman.
Old and she comes in and she doesn't even like speaker acknowledge the class and she
like wheels out.
What is the doctor doing.
She's at a high school.
I heard she got fired.
Really.
Yeah.
Who would hire her in the first place.
Like she's like from the fucking Stone Age.
No like up top she pulls out a book.
Oh.
And like fully flips and she's like no no no no.
It's in this.
Okay so there was this science journal that came out about like it was cryptozoology and
blah blah blah blah.
And she flips to an article and she's wake the fuck up.
It's got like a picture of her when she was a little bit younger and they're a little
bit brighter.
A different colored eyes.
Her eyes in this picture are like brown and then in real life they're like a bright green.
And she's like no like she was like big in a lot of like cryptozoological like studies
and stuff like that.
And she was also involved with like you know when they were like like cloning things and
like figuring out if you can clone stuff.
That's like making like a copy of something right.
You know what the word clone means.
I'm so confident you do.
Yeah but like I don't know.
That's like science bullshit.
This is.
What answer.
Science answer.
Take a guess why I sit next to you in science class.
Take a guess.
To read off my notes.
Because you're incredibly great at the whole science thing and I have other things to worry
about.
I'm painfully.
Right.
Like.
Okay.
You would have come down to my level instead of badgering me about coming up to yours.
That's when you make a copy of something else.
Thank you.
It's all I needed to know.
I don't know how similar that could have been.
Okay.
Sorry.
So she's cloning people.
Not people sheep and like animals and stuff like that.
Okay.
Dogs.
And now she's working at high school.
Yeah.
I don't know why she's here.
Right.
I mean like I heard she got fired.
She got me with the name of the high schools.
This is a fucking I don't think I said it.
Yeah.
I don't think I said it at all.
So you can write it down.
Hidden Harbor.
This is a fun game where I wrote an entire like mini source book and then I don't like
read off the things.
Hidden Harbor.
But there's kind of a room.
You said witch.
There's kind of a rumor that like she seems to like feed or just the vibe she feeds off
like the misery of students.
Like she's a very hard ass teacher.
You can see she's wheeling at one of those old projectors.
And I know that like anyone over the age of like 30 is going to like be mad at me for
saying old.
But the ones where you like put the like the picture on and like you're gonna put like
the little film on top of a little piece of plastic and it's got a little mini projector
with the light.
Yep.
Yeah.
So she like wheels that up into place and people are still kind of like talking but
like people are like uneasy around her.
She's like a crazy woman.
Like she's nuts.
She's a Rattak.
She's definitely like thrown an eraser at like students not like a pencil eraser like
a chalkboard eraser.
Damn.
Like students before it.
It's just kind of thing of like this is a town very stuck at the 80s.
You know no one's getting fired for that.
Damn.
Just an odd vibe.
But she goes and she turns the lights off and she's kind of talking to everyone and
she's like OK.
I'm sure you all are aware about the field trip tomorrow and you can hear like like Jason
is fully in the bag and he's like yeah.
And like or like a whoop.
I kind of like fist pumps.
Oh yeah.
I don't know why I don't know men.
Fuck the final.
And you can kind of like also as she mentions the field trip there's kind of also like
people immediately tune out whatever she's talking about and start like whispering to
their friends about what their plans are.
And you this field trip I guess I'm telling you and then also telling the world in the
class and everything is like this.
It's a field trip like everyone looks forward to their junior year.
It's like for anyone near the area.
I think you also had a holiday world field trip.
Yeah.
It's like fucking eighth grade or some shit or like early high school or middle school
or something and it's like a fun like it's an overnight thing and that's like crazy because
it's high school and you get to spend overnight with your friends but you all go up to the
pleasant woods and you stay overnight and like some old like cabins from some summer
camp that doesn't use them during the year because it's the off season.
It's like a five to 10 minute walk from like the boardwalk which is like the really touristy
place during the on season.
And it's kind of a very open secret that the adult chaperones don't give a fuck what you
do.
And it's just kind of like the teenagers get to go hang out in the woods overnight unsupervised
with their friends.
Yeah.
Which is super exciting and everyone's always like really like about it.
So she starts talking and she's like clicking through and it's like pictures of the woods
and like you will.
I assume Tony's kind of tuned out for what you all have been talking about in science
class.
For sure.
Yeah.
Astor like is taking very diligent notes as she always does.
Tony's just got his phone fully out the whole time just like under the desk doesn't
give a shit very much just like.
Just where it's like we all know that you're texting because if you're not it's so much
lights go off you can fully see like the light on his face.
Your hair is shining so bright in the fucking fucking beacon.
Yeah.
And she clicks there and she's like OK well you know not to put a dampener on anything
but there will be a new assignment instituted this year during the trip and you can hear
everyone kind of drone and be like what the fuck.
I can't catch one fucking day without this shit like people just generally complaining
about it and she goes to the next slide and she's contemplating starting a riot.
She's like I could do it in the classroom.
I could start that and it's going over like what the assignment is and it's basically
you need to document over the course of your trip a creature native to this area and she
pulls out one of those like I think they're called like bank boxes that you put like files
in and shit.
Yeah like the cardboard boxes and it's full of disposable cameras and she starts passing
out disposable cameras.
No cameras my phone so much better.
Do I think you're going to be recording your process on this.
I don't know what my hair is going to look like.
And you'll be turning in your film afterwards in which I will develop it.
Now just a reminder because most of you don't know what this is.
It is a disposable camera.
If you get this wet the film will be ruined.
I'm telling you this we can take pictures with it though right.
It's a camera right but like we can take pictures of like ourselves with it like that's the
thing you can do like there's like a self timer on it or something or you can like wave your
hand and then like take it.
So like how do you take pictures of yourself with it.
You just have to like you are documenting a creature native to this area.
I'm a creature.
I mean have you seen a non human creature to this area.
Do you define yourself as a creature Mr. Zuko.
I know.
She hands you one and her nails are like like it's like old lady nails still like saggy
skin but they're like weirdly sharp and you're like I don't know if that's like real or if
that's just this woman is so not wild.
She's your fucking nail.
Okay.
You can't fucking say that.
No one ever hears me.
I mean one of these days someone is going to and you're going to get your ass beat.
Unlike people like me too much to do that.
Yeah.
What if they don't.
I don't think that day is going to come.
She rolls her eyes and is just like fully like mumbling under her breath and is just
kind of like show over it as she's like trying to like actually like write down the requirements
of this assignment and like no one is real.
Everyone's just like pissed off about this.
It is like her creature and camera and that's kind of the vibe of everyone else in the room.
Creature camera.
She explains she's like these cameras have 27 exposures on them.
You only have that many takes.
There are no more.
This is where I had a little item card but I don't have it.
Tony thinks better of asking out loud what an exposure is.
He kind of puts it together that it's probably a picture.
Yeah.
She looks at you as she says.
Now that Aster has like been on me about how stupid I can be sometimes he's really
he's trying really hard to like not let Aster down and sound dumber than he is.
So he's just like every time he has a question he just keeps it in.
I'm going to do.
He's not this stupid.
He's got an eight in brains but like when you consider that he's got an eight in brains
a 10 in flight or a 10 in flight a 12 in flight and a 20 in charm it's not that great.
Now I'm going to do a roll for Aster really quick.
Seven.
Yeah.
She leans back and goes an exposure is like when you click it like you can take multiple
selfies on your phone and it's like.
Right.
Yeah.
Nice.
So you only have like 27 tries.
Awesome.
Yeah.
One of those can be like a selfie though for sure.
I think that she would love that actually.
I think she would.
Yeah.
And she like leans back forward.
It is fully like the like this is fun for her.
This is like she is always on the fucking bottom of the food chain like fighting for
her life in here.
She's the goddamn boss.
Nobody knows more than Aster.
No one does.
And she clicks to the next slide or I say click she switches to the next slide.
And she explains that it's going to be a partner assignment and you can feel the room's energy
just like peek up again in that same way of like when it's assigned and you get like a
partner assignment in school and you're like yes.
I'm already making a plan ahead of beeline my way to Stacy.
I'm mostly past the J's.
I'm moving her friends out of the way.
I'm going straight to Stacy.
Everyone is like it's that furious like 10 seconds after a partner assignment is announced
and everyone's just like trying to make eye contact with someone.
I'm not looking anywhere in the room.
I am dead eyeing Stacy.
I want to make this so abundantly clear to everybody else in this room that this is
my time to shine and you all fuckweeds are not going to get in the way.
You can see Stacy still like on her phone and like fully hasn't looked up.
So I mean technically she's available at this time.
Tony's fully trying to like smolder so that if she looks up she sees the face but he
knows she's not going to because she never fucking does.
So it's just Aster is like trying to she's definitely like looking over at you but is
also like trying to make it very clear that she's not looking at you.
And she's just also like and you're like not like magazine like kind of like panics that
is like doing that thing where it's like it feels like you're in like fight or flight
mode in like the classroom was picking me for that.
And you can feel like the murmur in the room kind of gets like ladder and ladder and then
she like takes the slide off.
It's the new slide in and puts the little cover over and it's a list of partners.
And she goes oh and as you groan and like everyone groans give me a DC six brains check.
What's your brains again.
Hey dog.
Oh you keep asking me to get like the upper half of the dice here.
I don't think Tony's capable of doing that.
OK OK let me switch that let me switch that.
I got a what was it.
It was a six.
I don't want you to have to spend adversity tickets on this.
That's OK.
It was six.
Yeah.
I'll burn one.
I'll burn five.
Cool.
You can see as everyone is groaning that Dr. Cartwright just grins a little bit wider
like a little bit wider than like under her mother.
She's just like to herself.
She's like he leans fully over to Astros like she's fucking evil.
Man.
Do you see that just under her breath.
She's like look at the points on her teeth man.
She like files those.
As soon as Astrid turns to look she looks completely normal.
And she's being gaslit.
I'm being gaslit.
It's like my Cartwright.
Cool.
Are you OK today Tony.
Yeah I'm fine.
Man.
Yeah we're good.
I'm being I listen she's setting me up.
She's making me look crazy.
She's gaslighting me in front of everybody.
She's out to eat me or something.
She's got.
I don't appreciate this.
Don't ask.
You've got to believe me please.
I don't make a lot of observations about the world especially other people.
I'm telling you there's something wrong with her.
Please.
Astor fully Tony constantly looks to ask her for like a little bit of affirmation and
confirmation about his observations in the world because he does not let other people
know that he thinks about anything and I'm Astros like bullshit.
Come on.
You're like the one person is supposed to be on my side.
She's just like OK this is.
You with me.
I'm not going to tell you.
Yeah she's evil.
I bet I bet if we took a picture of her on the field she'd fucking accept it.
OK well let's not do that I don't want to jeopardize my grades but I was just gonna
I wasn't like ripping you about your like observations I was gonna say she's so fucking
evil we read the partners.
Yeah well this is real evil thanks.
And everyone's everyone's partnered up.
You see Astor and Tony are partnered up together.
Stephanie or not Stephanie Stacey and Jason are partnered up together and you can see
because you've been like staring at 70 you can start not why the fuck am I saying 70
you can see Stacy kind of like rolls her eyes and is like Jesus Christ again.
God and you could see Jason just kind of like yes like under his breath is very like
let's go in our gene.
And like everyone else in the room it's mostly like despite everything most of the pairs
still happen to be kind of within their own clicks like a lot of the J's are partnered
up with each other.
A lot of the the like the cool girls are kind of like partnered with each other the golf
kids kind of stick together.
I really really want to try and do charm and get the teacher to let me switch parts.
I don't think I could.
I feel like it'd have to be like it like a 20.
I'll say that would be a 20 if you want to try.
Well my idea isn't to try and get like Astor or not Astor my idea isn't trying to get me
and Jason to switch my idea is to try and let Astor and Jason switch because I know
the chances of Cartwright letting me pair up with the person that she pretty much already
knows or at least everybody in the school is going to know that I'm trying to like become
a thing with.
Yeah.
I got an easier time trying to switch Jason and Astor than myself and Jason.
Yeah.
I would like to hang out with like my bro.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh.
Cartwright's a hard ass.
Yeah.
I know.
What do I have to give up this?
What do you want?
What do I have to sacrifice?
Jesus.
What does she want?
Calm down.
This is actually it falls pretty good here.
So one of the examples it gives for the difficulty of 17 to 19 is talking a police officer out
of arresting you when you have clearly broken the law and have no relationship with the
officer.
This is going to be a high fail too.
So this is going to be that kind of.
Right.
I will say failures in planned actions are less severe or no.
I mean typically they're more severe but this is a social one and I don't think that
this is going to be like.
I'm also trying to think if I could I mean I can I have three adversity tokens left and
I in theory I could use two of them to re-roll or I could use two of them to try and come
up with a random item that I think is going to appease the witch.
But I don't know what the fuck that would be.
Can I make a brain check to see if I can parse out what the fuck she would like besides
the soul of a child?
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Is that an option?
Sure.
I just want to see if Tony can put together any kind of an item that he thinks she might
appreciate.
Okay.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think that would be, I mean it's still going to be high.
Right.
I think that would be like a 17.
Okay.
Well, I have to explode, folks.
So I need two eights at least.
Oh, come on.
Come on.
Explode, please.
Otherwise, I'm just going at this raw.
Oh, fuck's sake.
Okay.
So you're going to get a token or ticket.
Yeah, ticket.
What do I think she wants?
You, oh god, that was a failure.
Yeah, that was a pretty big failure.
Ten.
Or no, by 11.
So it's going to be the 14 to 10 section.
Profound.
Um, yeah.
It's not staggering or catastrophic.
Not staggering, catastrophic.
Definitely not great.
You, does Tony ask out loud, what do you want from me?
I think I would go to Aster.
Okay.
I think I would ask Aster.
Okay.
I don't think I'm risking that out loud.
So you turn to Aster.
What do you think she wants?
What do you?
Like if I wanted to get her to switch partners, what do you think I have to like give her
besides my soul?
Okay.
Uh, she looks at you for a second.
I want you to give me, this would be, this is going to be a charm roll to kind of like,
um, charm is not just your own charm.
It's also your ability to like read other people's emotions and stuff like that.
Uh, this is going to be- I'm going to actually roll that because I flicked that and I'm not
taking that roll.
I fucking refuse.
This is going to be a, uh, I think this is going to be, actually we're going to roll against
each other.
Oh Jesus.
So this is going to be Aster's charm versus your charm.
Oh come on.
There's no way I lose this.
She's got a fucking six.
Yeah.
Roll.
17.
Cool.
Aster is deeply upset.
No.
Okay.
Profound failure.
You slid me over one of them adversity tokens.
Oh yeah.
Pleasing that you-
You won that, but it's definitely a loss emotionally.
Um, and you're right.
She's definitely trying to play it off as like, she's like, yeah, I don't know, maybe
you should just give her cash.
Um, you know, she's evil.
She's with people in evil situations that they don't want to be in and she kind of like
turns back around.
Can I burn two adversity tokens to conjure up a really sick pencil that I've been keeping
for myself and give it to Aster for her notebook?
Yes.
And just drop the whole partner thing.
Yes.
Cool.
I'm going to burn the two that I just got.
Um, I'm going to use fucking prepared and come up with a really sick pencil, like a
what almost like really cool like sketch graphic pencils that are like, they're kind of metal
and I don't know, they're just fun to play with and use.
I don't know if she'd actually appreciate this, but she has a lot of journals, so I
definitely stole this off and want to like the nerd people after I saw them drop it on
the hallways.
Scoop, like fucking, finders, givers, dog.
Now it's hers.
Appreciate it.
Um, how do you give it to her?
Do you like?
Uh, when she turns around and like is very clearly hurt, I want to be like, that's like
only if I wanted to switch partners, though, I thought it would be funny to like maybe
switch like Jason and one of the other like fucking goth people just to kind of like fuck
with their dynamic.
Also, I found this really sick, uh, pencil in the hallway the other day and I wanted
to keep it for myself, but I know you're like big on drawing, get little cryptids and your
creatures.
So I wanted to give it to you.
I'm going to do a.
I'm just going to like set it on the desk.
I'll say I think that you and.
You mean a role?
Genuine as yeah, I just charm versus charm at this point class.
Uh, wow.
If I, if I also get a one, I'll be fucking booze old.
I got a 19.
Where was the set?
Where was this at?
Cool.
I think I needed ten or higher.
Uh, you by a mile.
Okay.
So this means that the book of the narrative control is going to be in your hands.
Um, I don't control Astro though.
So that's however you want to take.
I'll say that's also one of the things of it is a tricky situation here, but I think
it's also because this is a collaborative game in the same way that I can be like, okay,
Tony does this.
Right.
I think it's fair in this, not in 5e, but in kids on bikes.
Right.
I think it is fair game.
I don't, I think I'm still going to ask you to tell me how I asked to react.
If you, if you were willing to give that to me, like I'm fine with taking that into my
hands, but also, I don't know.
I meant the extra part of like, oh, um, because it's a ten or above, ten or above, uh, you
succeed and then some, and then there's like a fun little, uh, narrative bonus that happens.
And so, um, you kind of talk it over to the player to be like, what's that extra bonus?
I want the idea that he puts it on being a joke to come off like incredibly well, like
to the point to where anytime he makes a joke, it's very clearly, um, for other people, even
if it's just saying it loud enough so that other people can hear him at his own expense,
just so Astra, really in her mind, believes that it is a joke at somebody else's expense,
meaning not her.
Like that's the link that he'll go to.
Okay.
Uh, she.
Even if it means somebody hears me talking about Jason.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, at this point, your charm roll was a fucking 19.
I think you're cruising at this point.
And I think other people are too busy, like either excited or bummed about who their partners
are.
So I think Astra will turn back around and be like, I appreciate the pencil.
It's really cool.
Yeah.
Not the, I have to check the hallway floors for more like it.
You know, mentioned that.
So who are you going to switch Jason with?
Um, who are the other people?
One of the God kids.
Uh, there's a God kid named Silas.
The fucking Silas, man.
Jesus, that would be a.
Stacy stays in her own click.
And so I thought it'd be kind of fun to like shake it up a little bit.
Like, I don't want to spend time with her, but I thought it'd be really funny if she
had to hang out with Silas.
Yeah, you really don't want to spend time with her.
You know, I thought also maybe I'd switch with Stacy and then you and Jason got to
hang out a little bit.
It's not even like, or switch with Jason.
Sorry.
So like on the defense about being like, no, I don't even like, like him like that.
Yeah.
But like, if I was the one that switched with Jason though, like maybe he would like talk
to you and hang out and.
Listen, it's, it, this is, it's more of a like, no, I actually, I don't even like him.
First of all, second of all, Tony is one.
Tony is one.
Yeah.
It's fully this thing of like, it's like, no.
I just.
Fully diverted.
I just think he's like, pretty to look at.
Like don't get me wrong.
He's a fucking idiot.
And I like don't think I could tolerate a conversation with him, but like.
He's fun to look at, I guess.
Exactly.
And she also kind of like makes a joke about like, you know, Stacy's not the sharpest tool
in the shed, but some people like that.
Fun to look at it.
I get it.
We're in a similar boat here.
We can appreciate the aesthetics.
Sure.
And just take you for an aesthetic kind of person.
Well, you know, still okay.
Fuck off.
Listen.
Okay.
I may be nerdy, but I'm still like a fucking person.
Yeah.
It likes Jason the jock.
Oh my, I don't even like, okay.
Or at least to look at him, which might honestly be worse.
Okay.
Like at least I'm kind of interested in like Stacy's personality doing it.
That's crazier to me.
That is crazy.
But like, you know, I'm into what I'm into.
You fully just acknowledge that Jason's a tool and then we're like, yeah, but he's
fun to I fuck from across the classroom.
I don't want to be a little shallow.
Yeah.
I don't really know if you are though.
You give me plenty of shit for being shallow.
Okay.
Well, that's in a different way.
Oh yeah.
Super different.
Listen, it's 2024.
I like the way my hair looks and you want to be in the sheets with Jason.
So I guess we're just, yeah.
She fully at this point is like getting a little red in the face.
It's like turned completely around as they are like, as people are kind of like starting
to talk about the project and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Fuck the project.
Fuck the project so much.
Dr. Cartwright just kind of you.
And once again, it's just finger gun.
Smile.
Finger gun.
Like deadpan face.
Finger gun.
And like, I'm going to kill her.
Like a little bit of a manic way.
I'm killing her.
I'm throwing fucking water on her.
She's like.
You're like fully like Aster level conspiracy with that.
With her?
Correct.
Fair enough.
Because I'm just preying on my downfall.
Absolutely.
What do I do?
Bell rings.
What do I fucking do?
Yeah, cool.
Bell rings.
So what do you want to do with the rest of your day?
Do you want to say you can go to, this is also another, one of the things that we can
play out the rest of the school day.
Right.
You can go to lunch, study hall.
You can skip to the end of the school day.
Probably skip to the end of the school day.
I can't imagine there's a whole lot more interesting that happens just because, I mean, he probably
has just a routine like from lunch, it's hanging around, making the rounds, excuse me, talking
to all the groups of people, checking in here in the middle of lunch, in the mirror, that
kind of thing.
And same thing for study hall.
Like he's really just like a group people floater because like the amount of attention
he can get by being a part of every different group is much greater than being a part of
one.
We're actually going to.
Unless you have somewhere you'd like to pop into.
Let's pop into, do you want lunch or study hall?
Before I get, before I get stuck.
Let's just study hall.
Study hall, okay.
I don't know what study hall actually is.
Then we'll do lunch.
We'll do lunch.
Okay.
Lunch is easier.
Our school didn't have that.
We had one occasionally.
We, we were not allowed to.
We could add it to our class or a class list.
Okay.
So y'all are at lunch.
Yep.
You're floating around.
You're talking to people.
It's a point is I assume you're like walking around the room or something.
And it's very like it's mean girls in like all of the clicks are like at the tables.
And it's like there is not a lot of mixing.
But you can see like, I mean, the like the Jays and the cool girls are like sitting near
each other.
And as you're walking by, you can hear, you see Jason waves you over and he's like,
Hey.
What does Tony want to engage or does Tony have anything else better to do?
Hey, Tony.
Okay.
I guess he's gonna, yeah, he's just gonna stop talking to whoever he's talking to and
just kind of turn around real slowly with his hands on his hips.
And then like the second he turns around, flip hair, smile on, shred not over to fucking
Jason's table.
Jason's holding a cigarette.
He's like, you got that light man?
Yeah.
For sure.
Hands in the wire.
Cool.
Um, wait, he's like, I thought you were gonna fucking.
In the cafeteria?
Like.
Yeah, don't give a fuck man.
Sprinkler systems, dude.
At least like go to the bathroom with it.
I'm not trying to tell you how you're living your life.
I just, is somebody who's like a professional at doing these things that you're not supposed
to do, I would highly suggest going to the bathroom.
Yeah, but like, no one gives a fuck.
Okay.
Um, sure.
He fucking.
You know what?
No, fuck that.
I want to lie my ass off and then pat myself down for the lighter and be like, oh, sorry
Jason, I must have lost it.
Okay.
I took a smoke break in between classes.
Must have left it outside when I broke out of the school and then broke back into school.
Fuck this guy.
Give me a DC 10, uh, Charm Roll.
God fuck this guy.
Um, is this.
You can take off.
Yeah, I'm taking off.
I don't feel like giving him the fucking benefit.
Jason's not the sharpest tool in the shed.
He's like, I'm taking half.
Fuck man.
I'll catch you next time though.
You like never have.
Yeah.
No, I'm just like, I got, yeah, I have a lot of random objects, but um, yeah, I just,
I was outside smoking the rest of my pack.
Um, must have left the lighter outside.
Yep.
The one.
The singular cigarette, Jason.
Fair enough, man.
I feel like this guy's got, I have a fucking four in brain and I'm fully taking advantage
of the fact that mine is an eight and just like, yeah, one cigarette.
I'm taking the little bit higher that I have.
He just got his like, nobody's got a goddamn.
Uh, and he like puts a.
Where's your lighter at, Jason?
I don't have to tell you that man.
Where's your lighter at though?
Like you, where'd you, you brought the cigarette?
Where's the lighter at?
Normally when people bring cigarettes, they bring lighters with too.
You know, Stacey actually comes really well prepared to like everything.
She's got her notebooks and her pins and stuff.
She's like, what?
Yeah.
And I was just saying that like you come really well prepared for everything.
Yeah.
No, I've got like, yeah.
And Jason brought a cigarette at this point.
I have lip gloss.
At this point, Tony's going to make a show of it and just feel like I said,
off and Jason brought a cigarette with no lighter.
Well, I don't have a lighter.
Yeah, that's okay.
I wasn't asking you for one Stacey.
That's okay though.
Okay. Yeah, it's fine.
Don't worry about it.
Okay.
Is she sitting at the same table?
Yes.
Motherfucker.
That's what I was saying.
God damn.
It was like the Jays and the cool girls are like sitting with each other.
Ah.
And half of them are either dating each other or on and off with each other.
I'm like, I actually have to fight my way and that should disappear.
Bro.
Continue.
It's okay.
And you can hear that like some of them are also, and Stacey turns back on,
she's like, no, yeah, I don't know how many bottles we're going to need,
but like definitely more than like six.
Do we say it's a bottles?
Yeah.
You mean like for the trip, right?
Like the party that we like to say, the party that like everybody throws like on the field
trip, like bottles for them.
Yeah.
You know, my dad's actually got a pretty big liquor stash that I could like, you know,
I know where he keeps the key.
Could you score us like a bottle?
I can score you a bottle.
What do you like?
She turns around to the table.
She's like, guys, what do I like?
They're going to be, oh my God.
Why Tony?
Why?
Jason goes whiskey.
Yeah, you know, I don't actually think we have whiskey.
You don't have fucking whiskey?
No, my dad's not a whiskey drinker.
He likes.
Oh my God, I love whiskey.
You know, I think maybe he's got a bottle somewhere.
Oh my God, that would be amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
I can do that for you.
Stacey, anything for you?
Yeah, you should totally do that.
And as like you're like kind of getting, there's no like solid plans on the party yet,
but you've definitely now agreed to supply the alcohol.
Which means I have to be there.
So I'll take it.
I'll win, so win.
So you're fully committed to this at this point.
And it's at this point that like, Aster.
Sorry, I was checking the camera to make sure it was still recording.
It is.
I completely forgot that we never checked that.
Yeah.
And so Aster, like walks into the, the cafeteria with her little sack lunch.
And she's like, oh, she like looks around for a second and is like, oh fuck.
Like she forgot something and then.
Sorry, I didn't know it would still have you turning into my bad dog.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Yeah, once.
So she ends up being, we're not going to set off the fucking fire alarm.
Anyways.
So she kind of be lines and heads towards you.
And she's like, hey, well, I'm still at the table with.
Yes.
Okay.
I just want to clarify.
So she's going to kind of be lined that way.
And she's going to be like, Tony, your, your dad wanted me to tell you that.
I'm sorry, not your dad wanted me to.
Yeah, what's up Aster?
What's good, man?
You, I think there was a, I heard someone.
Yeah.
That you might need to find a ride home today or walk.
Yeah, I'm not quite sure who you heard that from Aster.
That's, yeah, like I always have like a ride.
I also don't like, you don't, we don't like ride together or anything.
So I'm not quite sure like who you heard that from.
Right.
Sorry.
No, that's right.
Yeah.
Getting home.
And you can see as she like goes to walk past that Stacy kind of like.
Drops.
What the fuck do people have at school lunch?
Like a utensil, like a fork, like a plastic fork.
No, like food.
Oh, like an apple?
Yeah.
She like drops an apple on the ground, like directly in front of Aster's path.
And she fully like fucking like fucking steps on it.
And like, I was about to say, I guess I could do like a fucking flight.
I'd say.
Flight check.
Okay.
Flight check to see if you eat shit or not.
I guess this would be not eating shit while stepping on an apple.
Like a.
That'd be like a.
Scandal one and ten.
I'd say like an eight.
I was going to even go fucking higher than that.
Eight or a ten, your choice.
How do you want to fuck Aster?
I'm fucking myself up.
So yeah, I was going to say like a ten.
Like a ten.
It's success is impressive, but expected for people who are skilled at it.
Yeah.
Walking.
A nine.
Merry Christmas.
Thank you.
Tony is going to sing Stacy, knock the fucking apple to the ground.
Tony is going to run over in as quickly in as cool as humanly possible.
Kick the apple under the fucking table so that Aster doesn't slip and fall on it.
He looks so upset because he wants to date Stacy, but God forbid she doesn't bully the
shit out of wanting his only real friend.
Ah, Stacy Aster and Stacy both just go like, like there's a moment of like there was a
lot of movement there because everyone is confused.
Kickball.
Yeah.
You know, like when the apple hits the ground and so you got to like kick it for good luck.
So that's like what I was doing.
Stacy's like, oh my God, I think I've heard that saying and Aster fully is just like.
I just want to put myself between Aster and Stacy so there doesn't even have to be an
interaction there.
Fair.
Only just two steps to the right between them both.
Jason's like, man, you've tried out for the team before?
Yeah, I just, it wasn't really worth my time though.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I just, I got better things to do like fix cars and smoke cigarettes.
So I've been having an issue with my car.
It's making this weird noise.
Would you mind looking at that for me?
You know.
Um, uh, how much do you want to pay me to look at that for you?
My dad says that I'm not supposed to work on people's things for free even for a dear
friend like you, Jason.
Okay, there we go.
Um.
Everything Tony says is through gritted teeth.
He's like, fuck man.
Oh shit.
You got like 20 bucks?
Yeah, I got like 20 bucks.
Okay.
Uh, when?
When do you want me to check your car out, Jason?
You could check like after the trip, man.
I'm not driving for that.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I can do after the trip.
I can do after the trip.
I can make that work.
Cool, that sounds great.
Um, and you could feel Aster gives you like a, what?
You got that 20 bucks on you right now?
Yeah, man.
You mind if I get that up front so I can like buy the diagnostic materials and tools I'm
going to need?
This is going to, this has to be a roll.
He's a fucking moron, but you can make me roll for it.
Come on, man.
Like that's crazy to be like.
This is me knowing a little bit ahead in advance that we need money and this is my chance to
swindle fucking the moron that is Jason out of my 20 bucks that I need.
So this, I feel, okay, this feels like a DC 10 legitimately.
Okay.
Um, it's impressive, but expected for people who are skilled at it.
If you're like.
Yeah.
19.
You know what?
10 or higher.
I'm going to burn a versi token to get myself up to 20.
I want more money.
Cool.
Um, so this is 10 or higher.
How much do you want?
Uh, fuck.
So, okay.
Um, how much do I want?
I'm trying to think of how much is reasonable because I don't, I mean, I don't mind robbing
him, but at the same time, I don't want to ask for too much than like what seems reasonable.
Um, my suggestion would be, I thought it was like 30 bucks.
I was, I could even see 35.
Okay.
You're asking someone to look at your car, looking at your car for 35 bucks a dirt fucking
cheap.
Yeah.
For sure.
It's just because I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
So.
He doesn't know that yet.
Yeah.
I know.
You could push 35 bucks up front.
Yeah.
35.
For sure.
Uh, actually, you know what, Jason, if, um, if I could get an extra 15 on top of that,
so it's $20, uh, for the tools and then $15 for any fluids or liquids that you're going
to need to replace in your car.
Uh, obviously I don't know what it sounds like yet, but I tell you what, if I don't spend
the 15, 15 goes back in your pocket.
We'll call it 20.
Yeah.
That sounds good, man.
And he like pulls it out and just starts fucking, he gives you 40.
He's just, he didn't count it out all the way.
Yes.
He's like, it's just easier to give to 20.
Yeah.
No, for sure.
Like with changing all the, yeah.
No, I totally get that.
It's hard to count up to five.
I got a 20 man.
Let me go.
Please.
Let me go.
Now you know what it's like to play with you.
Not that bad.
Nah, man.
You be fucking bartering at the table to see how many fucking added in it.
I do.
Advantage and disadvantage of bullshit.
And I'll be nice.
I'll give it to you.
Yes.
Mostly because you've been a very good friend too.
You've been sticking your neck out and it's been appreciated.
I was fully planning on fucking pummeling this bitch.
So.
On what?
Hitting, stacy?
No, I, she was just going to be like eating shit the whole time.
Fair enough.
So this is already a bonus for her.
Yeah.
But you can.
40 bucks.
I'm going to write that in the house.
Ask her fully like clocks that you got $40.
Fuck you.
And if she's able to like catch your eyes, I think she's not like she's like.
She fully as she's like walking.
She's like walking past.
She like steps on the back of your shoe.
And like, I said, you know what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
I don't know how to describe it for flippers.
Yeah.
Yep.
It just stepping on the back of his shoe.
So his heel comes out just a little bit and it's so fucking annoying.
Yeah.
Thanks.
And Stacy's like, great.
So you'll come with that bottle of whiskey.
Yep.
And then I was thinking I could bring Aster.
Why?
Well, so when we travel occasionally together because our parents know each other, we don't
like hang out or anything.
But I have a strong feeling that like they're going to want her to go with and like I can't
show up with your bottle of whiskey if Aster doesn't come with because it's going to be
like a buddy system thing.
And you know how car right is.
She doesn't even have to like really talk or do anything.
I just need her to be there so that I can tell her parents I didn't like lose track of her.
Okay.
I guess that's fine or whatever.
I think a bottle of whiskey is okay for somebody who's going to sit there and do nothing.
Because that's kind of like what she already does.
She just brings the fucking vibe of the room.
Just listen, she's going to be so quiet.
You're not even going to know that she's there.
Okay.
I love that.
It's just me, you bottle of whiskey and nobody on that long.
I mean, there's...
Stacy, you want to come on.
No, I get what you're saying.
Yeah.
I do.
Yeah.
We'll see.
We'll see how good that whiskey is.
Yeah?
Yeah.
And she like gives you a very like, like a kind of condescending pat on the shoulder, but
it's still like a hot girl patting your shoulder.
So it's like, yeah, this feels bad, but it's also like...
I want to immediately turn around and catch up to ask her his wallet and be like, and
now, and kind of like shove her a little bit, you owe me.
I do not.
Okay.
Or we can call it even.
You get to go to a party.
I don't have to give you any money.
Fine.
Awesome.
Do you know where you're getting the bottle of whiskey?
I'm not great at what I do.
My fucking dad's a liquor cabinet, man.
Like, I...
Don't they still have it locked up?
I mean, I'm sure they do, but like, you can find the key or you can help me find the key.
Or like, you can help me brainstorm where the key might be.
Come on.
I just got you into a party.
Like a real one with like alcohol and stuff.
And like people, and Jason's going to be there.
And Stacy is going to be really busy with me and my fancy bottle of whiskey, which means
guess who Jason has to talk to?
Oh, the default?
No, not the default.
Like he doesn't have Stacy like up his ass the whole time.
And vice versa.
Because you know, they're up...
You know what I'm saying.
I know.
I'm aware of how close they are.
Yep.
And Stacy's going to be with me.
Then Jason doesn't have anybody to be with, which means that's a prime opportunity for
you to get right up in there.
Fine.
Okay.
Uh...
Tony is going to hand her one of the $20 bills and tell her to buy herself something nice.
Jesus.
Condescending, but $20 is $20.
$20 is $20.
Make your way to any kind of a...
I don't care if it's Walmart.
It's just if it's...
Listen, if it's you and Jason, let's be real for a second.
If it is you and Jason, you cannot show up in that.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Your bag is big enough that you can bring multiple outfits.
You can wear the flannel the whole day.
And then you just maybe switch into something that shows a little bit more shoulder for the
evening.
I need to whore myself out?
No, you don't.
Okay, listen.
You're the one that assigned whore to shoulder.
I didn't say that.
I just said that you need to have your shoulder out.
I just had my school handbook assigned it.
Repeat that.
The school handbook?
What handbook?
The...
The dress code?
Yeah, no one follows that, Aster.
I follow it?
We get like out of one out of the...
What, 40 of us did follow it?
I mean, fucking...
It's like what?
Cackies, polo, sweater, flannel.
I'm in black jeans.
A white t-shirt.
Or pink t-shirt, I guess.
And a leather jacket.
I have not been called on this once.
Okay, it's more of like women are the...
You can show a little bit of shoulder.
Okay, okay.
Okay.
I'll go find a fucking tank top, I guess.
I'm just trying to help you out.
I know what I'm doing.
This is my expertise.
Okay.
You point me in the direction of where a key might be,
and I point you in the direction of how to get Jason to look at you.
It's a little more interactant than I want it to be.
The fucking sound of God.
The gong.
Um, it was all right, fine.
And then with that, uh...
I'm trying to decide.
She's fully gonna be like looking at the $20
and like thinking about the fact of like,
okay, we now have to get shit for tomorrow
because we have to find whiskey.
Yep.
And this is also prime time that your parents aren't home.
Hell yeah.
It's fully gonna be like...
It's game plan, man.
Do we want a ditch?
Yeah.
Cool.
Do you want a ditch?
Yeah.
You.
You want a ditch.
Science class is done for the day.
Wow.
Astro wants to ditch school.
I ditched school before.
Yeah.
I find that hard to believe.
Okay, we don't have all of our classes together.
Yeah, but we have quite a few of them together,
and I'm pretty sure you're like in the front row in every one,
unless all the front rows...
You're in the back with me, but best besides the point,
you're in every class I've ever seen together,
and like I've never seen you skip, not once.
I don't get period cramps that often, man.
Okay.
Um...
Male teachers don't ask questions if you say that.
No, that's...
Yeah, I wouldn't ask any questions if you say that either.
Okay, well let's fucking ditch them.
Let's go.
Cool.
Um...
What are the mechanics for ditching school?
Probably flight, I would imagine.
Yeah, so I'll say this is a...
Let me get like a collective check.
Yeah, it'll be a combination.
Um...
Twelve and play, baby.
I was gonna say this feels...
It feels like it's gonna fall into the 13 to 16 category,
which is very possible.
Yep.
Um, as someone who's totally never ditched school before.
Um, I don't know what one would do, but theoretically,
as someone who's never done that,
um...
You can go out back doors or hall doors.
High doors, yeah.
Nothing but the front.
Yeah, pretty much.
Um, so this is gonna be a...
I guess it would be...
DC 15.
Cool.
Um, Aster has a d10?
Come on, Aster.
Help me out here, buddy.
Okay.
Five isn't the worst.
You said a 15?
Yeah.
I have a 12.
Okay.
Um...
I don't even wanna roll this.
Fuck's sake.
Come on, please.
Nah!
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, what, eight plus five is...
Not 15.
I'm aware.
It's four.
It's 13.
13.
Okay.
I'll burn an university token and get us to 14.
Oh, you can get us to 15 if you help Aster.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
Can't you?
Yeah, sure.
I don't know if that's the worst, but that's what I'm doing.
I'm pretty sure it is.
Take it.
Okay, cool.
So that's 15.
Take it.
We're making it up as we go.
You barely fucking make it out the door.
We're getting out.
You are able to make it out the door.
Like fucking Cartwrights is down the hall.
Yeah, Cartwrights is fully like Cartwright is turning the corner right at...
Like, as you all close the door, you can see Cartwright turn the corner.
I'm definitely the person that almost fucks it up.
I see Cartwright turn, immediately double...
Fucking double bird.
You do that, Aster grabs you by the fucking...
Back in your goddamn leather jacket and yanks you out the door.
God, I hate her.
And you all are free.
She's the witch.
So where do you all want to go?
Do you all want to go to your parents' house and try and break into the liquor cabinet?
Do you all want to use the $40 and try and buy a bottle?
I don't know how you're going to do that.
That's going to be some crazy checks.
Fresh out of her city token, so I don't really have any ability to boost myself there.
I've spent too many of them helping Aster.
I say we go to, like, Plato's closet if they have one in this ranking town.
Or fucking... they don't have a goodwill.
Let's go to goodwill and then go to our parents' house, my parents' house.
So y'all roll up to the goodwill.
Goodwill.
It's one of those towns where it's like everyone kind of knows each other, but also at the same time.
No one is going to, like, stick their nose in business that it doesn't belong in.
So it's like, later these are two 16-year-old kids...
On a school day.
On a school day around, like, noon.
Mm-hmm.
But it's also, like...
I'm not getting fucking paid enough to give a shit.
Right.
So no one says anything, but it's like, yeah, these are people who aren't supposed to be here.
Yep.
So you all make it into the goodwill, and is there, like, a particular section that you're going to?
I would love to roll charm and see if I can just make over...
Go for it.
That's going to be great.
I would do my best.
Extraordinary, but possible for characters you're skill-added.
I think this is... this would fall into that category.
Mm-hmm.
So this is going to be a DC... 13.
Alright.
I need another adversity token anyway, so hey, maybe she shows up looking like Steve Arklon.
I don't fucking know.
It's her problem.
15.
Okay.
15.
So that's still succeeding by one or two.
I'm dressing her up like Stacy.
I'm making her look like Stacy.
Respectfully, Stacy.
You're sitting...
I know what Jason likes.
We're doing Stacy.
I'm trying to think of what Stacy is wearing.
I feel like it's very... like, it's a modern day, but we... it is vibe of like 80s.
So I feel like it's like a... athletic looking top, but with one of those really preppy 50s, 80s cheer.
It's not a varsity jacket.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yep.
It's one of those and probably like mini skirt, but it's also like...
I wanted to be able to like a fucking Lulu Lululemon tennis skirt.
I was about to say Lulu Lululemon tennis skirt.
Yep.
It's like the escort one.
This is definitely shit that she's donated.
Like, or that her parents have donated on her behalf.
It smells a little bit different than the rest of the clothes, because it's like you can tell that this came from someone who washed their clothes.
The second asterisk goes to like start shopping on her own.
I'm just going to yank her over to like the athleisure aisle and be like, no.
She really goes to like the little old lady like sweaters.
Nope.
And she's like, but they're feminine.
Nope.
I'm just going to like fully push her to the athleisure section.
Yeah, yeah, they're feminine, but that's... you don't want to look like fucking Cartwright when you're trying to...
Hit up Jason.
Okay, but also...
This, look at this.
This shows a little bit of skin.
And Jason, it likes anything if not skin.
Jesus.
This feels a little wrong.
Well, we're here now, so...
Cool.
She pulls out like the top, and the top still has like the original price tag on it.
Like it's never been worn, and she's just fully like, this is fucking insane.
Yeah, well, what's the goodwill price?
I mean, two nights.
Two ninety-nine?
Then that's all that matters.
Yeah, but the fucking sixty-nine dollars.
Yeah, it pays to look good.
For a sports bra?
Yeah.
A glorified sports bra?
For a sports bra.
Pays to look good.
Fashion isn't cheap.
Fair enough, I guess.
And she's like just, I guess at this point, you are mostly pulling out.
Every mirror we walk past, I'm checking myself out.
Every single one of them.
I stop, comb, flash.
This sec, you're like doing that shit, and she spies like a fucking...
Well, just throwing clothes at her, and then mirror, close, close, mirror.
She sees like a sick ass t-shirt for like, it's really campy looking.
It's like got a giant logo on it from the boardwalk or like Point Pleasant.
And it has like a little moth in the corner of like a little moth man.
Sounds cute.
And one of the seconds that you're like checking yourself out in the mirror and stuff, she like fully snatches it and hides it under the pile.
Yeah, damn it.
And is like, I'm gonna fucking get this shit if I'm not paying for it.
Fair enough.
Chase is paying for it.
Yeah.
So you all put together a cute little outfit.
Yeah.
How much?
Like ten bucks?
Oh.
Fifteen?
Goodwill prices, I'm saying.
Like three to, goodwill prices now, three to four dollars per item of clothing.
Are we thinking three items, two items?
If we're doing like a skirt, a shirt.
I don't think anyone's looking at her shoes.
Yeah, she can probably get away with sneakers.
Yeah.
Especially if they're gonna be in the woods.
Maybe like a jacket of some kind.
Yeah, maybe like a jacket.
That's fair.
It's in September, so 15.
And she's definitely sneaking that t-shirt in, the t-shirt's probably like two dollars.
So that would be like what, three, seven, ten, twelve?
Say, $14 total?
Yeah, $14.
Cool.
So she's down to six meckles and I have twenty.
Yes.
Hell yeah, thanks Jason.
Shout out to that fucking bozo.
Jesus Christ, yeah.
Oh, he's by the clothes and skedat baby.
Cool.
I've got clothes and this is like a town that's small enough that it's like very like.
I'm gonna look for a pair of aviators real quick.
Go for it.
You can roll for it.
I'm gonna five on charm.
Why did you roll for it?
I don't know, what are you gonna do?
I don't know.
I'm too used to D&D where I can just like say what I want to roll.
Just roll.
My bad.
I just want to find a pair of aviators for like three bucks.
Yeah, you find them.
Sick.
Sick ass aviators.
Yeah.
I forgot these fucking pins are as sick.
Aren't they awesome?
They're great.
I might buy some of these for the office truly.
I fucking love these.
This pack comes, there's like twelve colors.
They are my godsend for like note taking and stuff.
Seventeen pair aviators.
Jack.
I'll say yeah and this is a system where you like only do a stat.
Right, you only check when like you need to.
If there's a chance of failure or if there's a chance of failure with a.
Too used to fucking 5e where everything is rolled and done.
No, it's tricky.
So then y'all probably head to your parents place.
Yes, sir.
Ask her immediately.
I'll roll for this.
Okay.
You roll.
Okay.
Do you make an argument for what you would like to roll with to try and find the keys to your parents like your cabinet?
It's definitely not going to be brains.
He doesn't pay attention enough to his parents.
There's no reason for it to be charms.
There's no reason for it to be grit.
There's no reason for it to be fight.
I'm thinking of flight.
Flight.
I'm thinking it is checking as many places in the shortest amount of time as humanly possible.
Like I'm just at this point it's not guessing where it is.
It is hitting every place it could be.
Okay.
So that I would probably say is going to be a DC 14.
Cool.
I got to explode on this one.
I'm also going to have Aster do a brains check and I feel like that's also let's make it.
We would say the same thing.
Sure.
Oh boy.
You're all first.
I don't know how fucked I am.
No.
Aster.
You're a good at like this thing.
This is the you're an investigator.
What did you roll?
Rolled a nine.
Seven.
Cool.
That's two adversity tokens, baby.
No liquor cabinet key in this moment.
Y'all are not able to find it.
Can I go to plan B and break something on the cabinet and bullshit it away?
I need to have this moment.
I was going to say I was going to.
Yeah.
No, that works too.
I just want to fight.
I want to break the glass on the cabinet.
Okay.
That's going to be a this is glass on a cabinet.
That shouldn't be too difficult.
Right.
How do I fuck this up?
Like I imagine it would be more like to see if I get cut or not.
Like is there evidence to not get fucked up and to not if you're trying to make it not
clear.
Yeah, I want to make it look like it's very much like an accident.
DC nine.
All right.
This is a D 10.
Fuck me.
We haven't rolled high at all.
Do you want to talk through a plan with Aster?
I only have one.
Can I.
Yeah.
Can I borrow that from Aster?
Please.
I guess I'll talk through it with Aster.
I was going to offer it to you anyway.
I think it's up to exactly nine by the way.
Yes.
You go to like, I feel like you pick up like something in the house and immediately start
to swing.
I go to pick up a vase.
Yeah.
And Aster just fucking catches it and is like, what the fuck are you doing?
It's like heavy.
Oh shit.
This is like.
Rackable.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
I'm going to put the vase down.
That would be wise.
If you had to take a guess on what object wouldn't break if I hit it against thin pane
of glass, what would you literally almost anything but a vase?
No, that's so totally fair.
I'm just going to grab like a fucking random heavy object in the room.
Yeah.
You grab a like, I want to say tire iron just for the bit, but I'm not going to.
You grab a fucking.
See what I'm saying?
Random heavy objects.
It's not easy.
There's a fireplace and there's the little like fireplace.
Like a poker.
Yeah.
Like that.
Yeah.
We're in a fire.
Oh shit.
We got a fireplace.
Damn.
How do you not know that you have a fireplace?
Fights.
Well, I don't spend a lot of time at the house because like, you know, TikToks and Instagram
and this isn't like inside the house is like a laying place to film.
So.
I like your house.
I think it's really nice.
That's so cool.
I'm going to break this glass open now.
Cool.
Yep, bust the glass immediately root around for a bottle of whiskey and snag that shit.
So are we just leaving the broken glass like this?
No, because then, then they're going to think somebody broke in and that's a whole other
thing.
I would like to sweep up the glass and then like put the fire poker back where it is.
Sweep up the glass and then try and arrange the bottles in the cabinet so that it's not
obvious that the like the bottle was missing and then maybe write a note on it like from
Tony like, Hey, had to come home to grab lunch.
Wasn't like some bullshit like that.
Yeah, like make or like had to come back to get my palm aid forgot it tripped.
It's like something fell hit the glass.
So sorry.
Okay.
Give me a DC.
Have you looked at this liquor cabinet a lot?
I probably like scoped it out before just waiting for the right opportunity.
Yeah.
Okay, so I'm going to say a DC.
Mm hmm.
Eight brains check or what's your brains?
Eight dog.
Cool.
Work with me.
Give me something call it five so I can't take half DC.
Cool.
Fuck's sake.
Oh my God.
I just can't remember what the fucking eight look like.
I have that moment so often while playing.
I'm so busted.
I got eight.
I explode.
Yeah.
I got another eight.
Holy shit.
Fuck.
We're at 16.
I don't know what that is.
It's a one.
Okay.
I got 17.
Shit.
Um, the highest.
Why is my highest brain check on making a liquor kid look like it was possibly broken?
Fuck.
I wasted it.
I got a bottle of clarity that often eludes Tony comes to him.
Wow.
And he is what it's like to be asked her.
And you're not only like I can arrange this back.
You go.
Oh shit.
I think that I should put like a bottle back in there.
Oh yeah.
To like take the place.
Definitely got a bottle out in the garage that he's been sipping on.
Yeah.
Yep.
Tony's going to immediately go to the garage which is always left to unlock from the inside
of the house.
And grab a very similar sized bottle that his dad has been sort of sipping on while he
works.
He's going to fill it up with water so that it like whatever other liquid is left in it
fill it up with water so that way it's the same.
It looks almost exactly the same level as what the whiskey was.
Yeah.
Um, and then rearrange it so that that bottle is already in the back but that it would be
very hard press to find it.
And then very nice, sweet, hand-written note.
Yeah.
That fucking, God that's crazy that you succeeded that well on that.
That goes fucking great.
I'm not getting caught today.
Astor's, give me a DC six charm roll.
Try a 19.
Jesus Christ.
Okay.
Well three 19s on charm.
That's insane.
Um, Astor's mad impressed.
She doesn't like say anything.
That didn't happen very often.
You are able to clog it.
She's okay.
That was like, Tony's definitely walking a little taller today.
Clocking that Astor is like a proud of anything that he's done or like approving of any kind
of like intellectual decision that he's made.
Be like, yes.
What you could see specifically the thought process was this is definitely not the way
to go about getting this bottle of whiskey.
It was definitely not breaking into the cabinet.
But somehow you turned it around and you made it work.
That's me.
What can I say?
And that's a Tony original.
That's a Tony original.
The luck is strong with this one.
Infuriatingly so.
The luck is strong with Tony.
God.
Um, so Astor's like, all right.
We're set for tomorrow.
Yeah.
100%.
I have your clothes and I have my whiskey.
We're good.
Yeah.
Great.
Okay.
Um, yeah.
Yep.
What the fuck do I talk about with Jason?
Um, that's a great question.
You can talk about anything football related.
You don't even have to know what the sport is.
You can just mention football and he will talk for you.
So like.
Like you can be like, Hey, Jason, I like really wanted to go to a game this one time and like
see you play.
But I didn't like what happened over that game and he's just going to fucking take it.
Okay.
I can work with that.
You know, and then he's going to say something about himself and you're going to hop in and
go, Oh yeah, yeah, like I could totally see that.
Like you are like super like you work out like you look like you work out a lot.
Like, yeah, you look like a guy that could catch a ball and like definitely can throw
him.
That's all it takes.
Not belittling.
Nope.
Jason doesn't know what that term means.
I had to explain the word clone to you earlier today.
That's besides the point.
I'm a little smarter than Jason.
I am a half step above Jason.
Okay.
At least maybe two half steps, maybe a full step.
Okay.
Maybe full step today.
You're a full step.
Yeah.
Today I'm a full step.
Exactly.
No, I'm talking about literally just mention the fucking sport and then compliment him when
he's talking about himself and your foot is fully in the door.
All right.
Cool.
Don't bring up Stacy.
Don't bring up me.
Don't talk about other kids at school.
Don't do any of that.
Don't talk about anything.
Correct.
Only talk about football or himself.
Okay.
God, I'm having second thoughts about this.
Okay.
Well, you know, it's the first time for everything, I guess.
Yeah.
First time for Jason is crazy.
Okay.
That's a crazy way to try and, yeah, like Jason's.
That's a pick for sure.
It was the thing that was ever supposed to happen though.
It's like a...
Well, you know, Tony worked a little Tony magic now.
Maybe there's a chance for something to happen.
I just don't know.
Like I would pursue anything with Jason.
Well, then why did we buy the whole outfit?
Well, because I want you to have a good shot if you choose to take it.
Okay.
Well, you know, you can get to live on my level for a little bit.
Oh, haha.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know what it's like up here at the top?
Head in the clouds, baby.
Exactly.
So what you felt like when you thought to put another bottle back in the cabinet?
Yeah, 100%.
Living life on top.
Key in just absolutely greatest improv person, it's something that's me.
Yeah.
Yep, that's me.
I'm the guy that does the improv.
You're so good at English too.
Improv.
Shut up, master.
Shut up.
Let me just shut up.
Okay.
I got us this far.
I brought up the whiskey.
I fixed it.
I fixed the door.
I, the clothes thing, the money.
I did all that.
No, you had a good day today.
You almost trapped on an apple.
And I saved you from that too.
Yeah, that's because Stacey's a fucking bitch.
Yeah, I agree, but she's pretty.
And that would do wonders for me.
Like on social media?
Yeah.
You can't even, you've seen her?
I mean, it's a little bit of a PR stunt.
I'm not going to say that like it wouldn't be fucking awesome to spend a night with
Stacey, but like also social media.
Are you kidding me?
I'm fair enough.
Tony, the guy that stole Jason's girl also happens to be Stacey, queen of high school.
I'm pretty sure Tyler stole his girl first.
Well, we're not going to talk about Tyler because Tyler's not in this equation.
Okay.
Tyler's not the one that we're worrying about right now.
And you could ask her to be able to clock the time and be like, okay, it's close to
like when school is typically ending.
Right.
So it's probably, you know, it's probably going to be a little bit of a little bit of
a time.
So it's probably best that y'all get out of the house.
Yep.
So.
Just do laps in the cold.
I was about to say, yeah.
It just feels like that energy.
Kick in rocks and circles.
And then you all probably go back and you all have dinner with your parents, respectively.
Yep.
And you all go to bed and then you are, I assume you are not.
It is Tony packing for tomorrow morning?
Tony is not packing for tomorrow morning.
Tony.
He's planning on sneaking a whole bunch of shit in Aster's things and looking like he
brought nothing.
I was about to say, you rolling up and just fucking raw dog in life and now you have to
manage to hide a bottle of whiskey.
Um, so.
Guess whose bag it's going in.
Who's checking Aster's bag?
Fair enough.
Nobody else.
Fair enough.
And they don't have a bag for me to check.
Fair enough.
Um, so it's this morning, it would be.
Tony, super cool guy.
It would be Aster's.
Cool ideas.
Aster's parents are going to drive you this morning.
Um, so.
Sick.
Uh, do you walk over to their place or do you think they pick you up?
I guess I'll walk over to their place.
Okay.
Um, are you like, how are you hiding this bottle of whiskey?
On the walk.
Right.
Um, I'm going to leave the bottle of whiskey and maybe like a change of clothes and the
other stuff that Tony would bring with him in a very small duffle hidden in the bushes
in front of his place and then gets in the car with Aster's family and he goes, wait,
pulls the same shit he always does.
I forgot something.
I got it in my comb.
Oh, right.
And then immediately just grab the bag and then just fucking, I don't know, do something
with it, try and throw it in the back.
Aster like meets you, like as soon as you open the, like you leave the door open and Aster's
parents are like chit chatting with each other.
Uh, and she like has a comically large duffle bag and so like the door is open and she opens
it up and is like, like leaving room for you to like fucking toss it in.
Um, she's like, bye then.
I didn't, I didn't think.
Yeah, your duffle bag can fit my duffle bag.
Cool.
Now I have to run back across the street and grab the duffle bag.
I thought you put it in the duffle bag or I thought, wait.
No, like I put the duffle bag like in the yard of Tony's parents place so that as they're
pulling out of the cul-sac, you can be like, wait, I gotta go and grab the bag.
Never mind then.
No, it's okay.
We can do that.
He'll just run across the street and grab the bag and come back.
Aster's parents are checked out a little bit.
Kindly they're not the most attentive in the world, which is why their daughter is the
way she is.
She's a little crazy.
Bag secured, baby.
Before you left the house, you saw a note that your mom left on the kitchen counter
with $20 that says, have fun.
Fucking school.
And there's another little $5 tucked underneath that says buy Aster lunch.
Aster's getting her own fucking money.
With a little winky face on it.
Five bucks for real, dog?
Yeah.
See, this Christmas come early.
I'll say, you were like, I'm working for money and I was already like, I...
I don't know, like $32, man.
That's crazy.
The start of the day of the 40 were at 32.
That's impressive.
None of it is my own money.
Hell yeah.
So, Tony does not even like really have it.
Tony's bag is itty bitty.
Okay.
Tony's bag is small.
Aster rolls up and like you all pull up to the school and Aster's parents wave goodbye
to her.
He's like, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Do you get out early?
Not in front of Aster's parents.
I don't want to let them know that like that's who their daughter is at this particular school.
So, Tony will bite the bullet on the days that her parents are the ones to drop them
off and walk out with Aster.
I'll say this is a day where you definitely like everyone's getting that early because
you all are leaving it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're not worried about it.
I mean, it's just your class that would be there.
Just Stacy and Jason and Tyler and all the people I care about impressing.
So, you all get out and Aster is like, like Aster's parents also, Mr. and Mrs. Donovan
are very, very sweet to you.
They really like you.
And Mr. Donovan also like before you leave like fully catches you.
He's like, hey, make sure she doesn't like get into too much trouble.
Yeah, no, for sure.
Mr. Donovan, I would not let that happen.
I appreciate it a lot, Tony.
Yep.
For sure.
You're a good kid.
That's what they say about Tony Zuko is that he's a good kid.
I forgot your fucking last name and that was a goddamn jump scare.
That's what they say about Tony.
Tony's a good, good guy, good kid.
And he gives a nod as Aster is like, it's taking her a minute to unload all of her stuff because
she's got like her thick ass back.
Aster, come on.
Man.
Tony's just going to start fucking putting his hands in the back of the car and just yanking shit out and fucking put it.
Hey, be careful.
No, I don't.
Aster, shut the fuck up.
Shut up.
You shut the fuck up.
Your parents need to get out of here, man.
No.
Cool.
So pick it up, put it on the goddamn ground.
Pick it up, put it on the ground.
It's just there's so many of them.
I don't care.
Okay.
She's getting yelled at and is fully just like a little frazzled as she's like unloading
the stuff.
And she's also probably wearing like the jacket that you all bought at Goodwill.
Tony is trying to put as many of these bags on the bus as quickly as humanly possible so
that nobody sees it.
There's so many of them and they're so big.
Aster.
Come on.
Listen, I just, I have like my routines.
I have my routines too.
In a tiny little fucking double bag.
We're going one place.
I know.
I'm aware but like what if we-
One night.
Yeah, but what if we see like a fucking ghost and my ghost shit and then if we see like
a fucking, I gotta have my goggles in case we have to go like any fucking swimming shit
and then I also have to get-
Aster.
Think about what you're saying.
We're going somewhere one evening and you're bringing your ghost things in case you see
a fucking, what, in case you see Casper and then you're bringing your swimming things in
case we take a fucking dip in the lake.
Yeah.
I don't swim like that.
I know you don't.
So that's a solo adventure.
But if I see the fucking critter, I'm going.
You're going to jump in the water after the critter.
Yes.
You are insane.
You know this.
You are so unhinged as a human being and I want you to know that in this moment.
You know what, you know what, you know what your dad just told me.
He looks me in my face.
He goes, yeah, keep asterisfic.
Oh, she never made decisions like that.
She's good.
And then like also I'm good and I'll keep her from doing dumb shit.
Little does he know that his daughter picked fucking scuba gear.
It's not like a full, I don't have like a tank.
It's like the little snorkel.
Aster.
Okay.
Fine.
She puts like one of the duffels back in her parents.
Just put it under.
Just keep it, keep it together.
Keep it together.
I'm keeping it together.
I'm cool this weekend.
I'm cool.
I'm going to go score the seats for us on the bus while you load up 76 bags.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cool.
She's like full loading bags.
Tony is just going to leave that where it is and it's going to hop on the bus.
I'll say I is so some people have like started to come onto the bus.
So there's like some nerds who are kind of like sitting in the middle.
There's some goth kids who are kind of like also towards like the middle back.
And then you can see Jason and Stacy are already in the back of the bus.
They're sitting separately.
Are there people in their seats like sitting next to them?
There's, oh, right now it's their stuff.
It's sitting next to them.
Like it's like Stacy's in the window side of one side of the seat and then Jason is
in the other and it's like their stuff in between.
So it's like on the fuck on and they're like making a thing of like, I'm not going to sit
next to you.
But like if you wanted to sit next to me, you could.
Stacy is so not worth it.
Stacy is not worth it.
I'm aware that I made that.
That is so the decision that Tony is going to have to fucking bite the bullet through
her teeth and make but goddamn the trope.
I want you all to know and he knows this because I was talking out loud when I was talking about
what tropes I was including.
It was mean girl.
Come on, Stacy.
Quit fucking fighting me.
Jesus.
That sounds terrifying.
But at this point it's early enough.
Instagram pictures generally have like your pick of where you want to sit on the bus.
Well, not now.
There's a duffel bag in my seat.
I mean, you could move the duffel bag.
Yeah, but that feels, I don't want to have to ask.
You know what, fuck it.
I'm going to go up.
The seat in front of her is open.
Nah, that's too far.
It's, listen, it's for Tony, it's definitely 100% a game of like the closer the better.
Proximity.
Proximity, the ultimate game in high school.
Proximity.
Fair enough.
I'm not playing it.
Fuck it.
I'm going to walk up over to Stacy.
Well, you know what?
You know what?
So that it's clear that I'm not trying to play sides too much.
I'm going to talk to a few people along the way.
And then I'm going to talk to Jason first.
And then I'm going to make it look like I was going to walk up.
Hey, Stacy.
Yeah.
What's going on?
She's in the back of the bus.
I know.
I know where she's sitting.
Okay.
The things you do.
Fair enough.
The things you do.
Fair enough.
So you make your way.
I guess you're talking to the fucking God kids and the nerd kids.
The nerd kids.
They look a little confused as to why you're talking to them.
Lisa from before definitely like.
Work with me, people.
Work with me.
Come on.
She like looks a little confused.
But it's not like it's not altogether unpleasant from anyone.
I think other than Lisa.
Yeah.
I apologize to Lisa.
Yeah.
Quietly.
Yes.
Thank you.
Yes.
I'd love to apologize to Lisa.
She's like it's cool, man.
No, it's just like, you know, I had like a coffee that morning and I was a little wiry and on edge and I saw cards and my brain was like, oh, gotta touch the cards and I didn't think.
Yeah.
And then, you know.
I don't like people touching my cards.
Yeah.
No, I totally get.
I don't like people touching my hair.
So like I get it.
Yeah.
I just like to go and see them where they were.
Cool.
Awesome.
Keep going.
She waves over like the blonde like Goth girl when she sits next to her and don't get too excited.
What a rare type.
I literally have this written down.
What a rare type.
Oh, it's like, I have her holding in my head.
This mic.
Yeah.
You can take a second to fix the mic if you want.
Yeah, I'm gonna get a description of blonde Goth girl.
Yeah, so it's like, it's very like swoopy hair.
It's like, it goes like way over one eye.
Her name is Aurora.
She's got like really heavy eye makeup and is wearing like a dress and like a long sleeve shirt underneath it that's got like the stripes.
And she sits down next to Lisa and she gives her a little kiss on the cheek.
And, oh, that was awful.
I'm back.
My bad.
Yeah, that was terrible.
So sorry.
So she sits next to her and then you make your way to the back of the bus and Jason goes, what's up man?
What's up, Jason?
You get any more cigarettes for this weekend?
No, not for this weekend.
I thought I'd bring something a little different this time.
You got wheat?
No, Jason.
Not that kind of different, man.
No, I brought some booze.
Some alcohol.
Oh.
Yeah, for the party.
Yeah, you're talking about that.
Yep.
Cool.
So what'd you bring?
You bring anything cool?
Bring any weed or cigarettes?
Cigarettes.
Lighter.
Yeah, you remember that?
You remember that one?
You remember the lighter?
Yeah, I remember that, man.
Yeah, for sure.
Giving you shit.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Cool.
Fuck.
Oh my god.
Listen, I think someone called me so stupid.
So is anybody setting in this seat?
Actually, he's going to point to the spot where Jason's shit is.
Uh, not right now.
Okay, well like all the seats in the bus have filled up
and Astor is still going to need a place to sit.
So I was just wondering if it was cool if she sat next to you.
Who?
What a fucking...
Okay.
Uh, Kid always sits in the back of science class next to me.
She wears glasses, flannel, a lot of green.
That's a chick?
Yeah, Jason, that's a chick.
Uh, why don't you just sit here, man?
Well, I was going to sit next to Stacy, actually.
I was going to talk to her about the alcohol that I brought
because it was primarily for her.
It was like a request for her, so I was going to make sure she was like cool with what I brought.
I mean, we're like playing the party together.
Yeah, that's cool.
Like, I know, I believe that for sure.
I just thought I would talk to Stacy for a minute, you know, if that's cool.
I mean, you guys aren't like a thing anymore,
so I thought maybe that like it was cool.
Like, I don't want to step on anybody's toes.
Like, I'm not...
It's complicated.
Right, I'm not going over there to like chatter up anything.
Jason, unless you're worried about that, you know, Stacy talking to me.
No.
That's cool, so I'll just go...
No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not worried about that.
For sure, then I'll just go and sit over there and ask her to sit next to you then.
Yeah, sure.
Fucking prick, man.
Oh my God.
Cool.
I'm going to turn around and start talking to Stacy, I guess.
Cool.
Aster comes on the bus with another bag in her hands that she was not able to fit in the undercarriage.
I cannot save her.
She's like looking around and she...
I guess I'm just going to wave her back.
Cool.
She makes her way to the back of the bus.
She's trying to...
She at first tries to put the bag in the overhead and then it's like that she cannot reach,
so she's just like, I'm just going to take this under the seat.
I guess I'll walk over and fucking grab it and just shove it in the overhead.
She's like, I can fucking sit in the middle of the lap.
Aster, Aster.
I'm all right now.
Come with me.
Someone's in move.
Come with me.
Okay.
And then I guess I'll just introduce her.
Is she wearing the new outfit?
She's wearing the jacket at least.
Okay.
Did she do?
She's probably...
Anything different with her appearance today?
Like enough for Jason to notice.
She's probably, as per your suggestion, has used a little bit of curl product in her hair,
so it's a little less frizzy.
Thank God.
I mean, it's still not as stylish as it could be, but it looks nicer.
Yeah, for sure.
I'm still wearing her thick-ass glasses, but has a very trend.
Like, I've decided, instead of it being like the cheer jacket, it's like one of the Lulu
Lim and like zip up at the tops.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Athletic tops, at leisure tops.
I have no idea what bottom she's wearing with that top.
Buck in.
Who knows, man?
Because she's not wearing the fucking skirt.
Probably like leggings, I guess at this point.
Yeah, some shitty leggings.
She looks a bit uncomfortable.
Like this is not...
That's okay.
It's very clear that this is not the vibe and also like no one is used to seeing Aster's...
How do I say this?
Aster's shape?
Right.
She is always wearing some type of baggy or frumpy something, and so this is all now suddenly
like form-fitting clothing, and she's like, feels a little bit naked.
For sure.
But is she's there?
Awesome.
I'm gonna reach down.
I'm gonna pick up Jason's bag.
I'm gonna shove it into the fucking overhead, and then I'm going to wave Aster over to take
a seat.
Give me a DC...
I have a six in brawn if that's what we're looking at.
I mean guys, okay, that's higher than I thought it was.
It's gonna be a DC four.
That was three.
Something like falls out of the side of his bag as you're like putting it up.
It's not like anything like crazy.
It's like a pack of cigarettes.
My bad.
My bad, Jason.
Let me just put it back in the bag.
I'm not taking one.
No, I'm not gonna take one.
I'm not...
Yes, anyways.
Shane Smoker.
Jason, Aster, Aster Jason.
Aster's like, hey.
This is when you take a seat, Aster.
I got that, yeah.
She sits, she's like...
It's uncomfortable.
It's like trying to figure out like there's...
My skin can feel the seat now.
You know?
It's like no longer...
This fucking raw skin on the shitty fucking pleather seats.
It's not even like her skin.
It's like, I'm not gonna take a seat.
I'm gonna take a seat.
It's not even like her skin is actually touching it.
It is just she's no longer wearing like thick ass, like dead-hum.
Yep.
And you can see Jason's kind of like looks at her and is like, what's up?
You new?
She's like, no, we've...
Please say something smart.
We've gone to school together since like second grade.
He's like, really?
She's like, yeah.
You play football.
Football.
And she does like a little finger guns and he's like, you watch football?
She's like, you play...
She just says, you play football again.
He's like, yeah, the fuck I do.
And it just like immediately launches and starts talking for like five minutes and then...
Or not even five minutes for like 45 seconds.
And then he starts to kind of like peter out.
Yep.
And do you talk to Stacy or try and move her bag?
Yep.
Talking to Stacy.
I'm not going to touch her bag.
Talk to Stacy first.
I'm going to talk to her at least.
Well, you know, is every other seat in the bus filled?
Shit.
Okay.
Not even a little, but it's okay.
We can pretend it is.
No, that's all right.
Not even a little is fine.
Does Stacy...
Like, what is...
Does she...
Is she checked out?
Is she staring out the window?
What is she doing?
She's texting someone on her phone.
Oh, cool.
I'm just going to walk up and...
Well, now that I'm done, like I'm literally just on the other side of the aisle.
I'm just going to turn around and be like, oh, hey, what's up?
Stacy, I got that.
I got that thing we talked about yesterday.
Right.
Yeah.
The...
Rhymes with Biskie.
Yeah.
Yep.
Tisky.
Um, what brand is it?
I don't know, Whiskey Brands.
Um, Jack Daniels does Whiskey, yeah?
Jack Daniels.
Oh my God.
I love that one.
Yeah.
It's like, like, honey flavored.
It's supposed to be really good.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, a little sweeter.
I've never had like a fancy one before.
Yeah, super fancy.
Yeah.
I really don't care as long as you're mixing it with like a fucking Coke slushie.
It goes down the hatch, so.
Um, I really appreciate that though.
It's, it'll be nice to have something other than like beer.
Yeah, for sure.
Um, you know, I, it's a classy kind of guy, classy drink for a classy lady.
Oh, I appreciate it.
Who's the classy lady?
Yeah, that's you, Stacy.
No, I, yeah, I got that.
I'm just...
Right.
Yeah, so anyways, is this seat taken, buddy Chance?
It looks like some of the other ones towards the front were like reserved.
I actually talked to a couple of like the, the, the Goth kids and Lisa, I think, was her name.
And I asked about some of the seats up front.
They said they were taken.
Oh, um, yeah, you can sit here, I guess.
You want me to put your back like up top or?
Yeah, yeah, that'd be great.
Please don't make me do a broad check, Madison.
Please don't.
Three.
Okay.
Give me two fucking university tokens.
You can spend one of those diversity tokens that I didn't give you earlier and you can make this a, you can get it up to a four.
Cool, you were able to...
I cannot fuck this up.
You are able to put the bag in the overhead compartment.
Definitely make a bit of a grunting noise as I get it after my... fuck!
It's a lot heavier than you expected to be for sure.
Doesn't surprise... I mean, how does somebody that dresses like this have a bag that weighs that heavy?
Exactly, that is the eternal question.
Wow, you're like, you're packing kind of, kind of like heavy.
What's she got in there, man?
A couple of bricks?
No, that's my makeup.
Wow.
That's, that's, I mean, I totally get it though.
I packed like a lot of hair product and...
Oh, you like put a lot of work into that.
Yeah, yeah, I do actually.
I definitely have appreciation for the makeup thing because like, you know, it's like a scale and an art and it takes time.
Yeah, it is, you know?
I mean, like it's not like, there's the whole thing of like, you know, like, oh my God, you look so much prettier without makeup,
which is like bullshit because it's like you actually spend time on it and like do it and it's like a whole fucking, like, it's like painting and shit, you know?
Yeah, 100%.
And that, that would make you an incredibly talented artist.
Yeah, I am.
Thank you so much.
Super welcome.
Oh my God, you're so cute.
Thanks, I try.
That's what I hear.
As soon as you go to sit down on the bus, Dr. Cartwright comes on.
I forgot about this.
You forgot about that bit?
I forgot about this whole part.
So, Dr. Cartwright stands in front of the bus and she looks around and she sees that everyone's already seated and she's like, oh,
in the spirit of our trip and getting to know each other, I hate to uproot everyone from their seats, but, or no, she doesn't hate that.
She smiles as she says, I hate to uproot everyone from their seats, but I would also like you all to sit with your partners.
We have a fun hour and a half long drive ahead of us and I'd love for you all to get to know each other and then be able to present and introduce your partners to the group.
And you can see once again, it's that it's the energy that you have right now, which is everyone wants to stand up and shank this woman.
Because everyone's already settled and some people aren't that mad about it.
I'm starting to carry a switchblade.
Have decent partners for the most part, but everyone kind of grows.
You can see Aster is finally starting to gain some footing.
Curse this woman.
Even Aster is like, for fuck's sake.
Brought in hell.
And so everyone kind of like gets up and shuffles around and stuff and it ends and it is Jason and Stacy sitting in a seat together and then directly in front of them is you and Aster.
And you all are supposed to like play get to know you game and stuff.
And Aster just kind of looks to you and is like, what's your favorite color?
Black.
Cool.
What's yours?
Blue.
Cool.
It's just, you all already know enough about each other.
And the bus ride continues on and then you all arrive at camp.
Everyone's like kind of settling in.
You all are like putting your stuff up.
And then you see that two of the chaperones are like, there's several chaperones who are coming by.
And they're kind of like ushering people into different places and everything.
And you can see that Dr. Cartwright immediately fucking gone.
Like it feels like as soon as you get there.
You can see that like Jason helps get Stacy's bag down from the overhead.
And Aster like goes to grab her bag and like someone else's bag comes down.
And I will grab Aster's bag.
I will grab her bag for fuck's sake.
It's fine.
I've got it.
It's okay Aster.
It's fine.
And you all come off of the bus and as you all are like going to put your stuff down and everything.
And then you see your dad and Aster's mother are among two of the chaperones.
And they turn and catch your all's eye and they smile really big.
And right as they go to call your name.
Smile and wave.
And that is where we will call it for tonight.
This will be a one part ideally.
But we are recording this in chunks because of scheduling.
Yep.
Worst case scenario we split it up into hopefully just two episodes.
But yeah, I hope you all enjoyed our second actual play this time in the Kids on Bike system
with Madison taking the reins.
I think all things considered you did a pretty good job.
You did a pretty good job.
You did great.
Anyways, we will hopefully just see you again in like five seconds.
Hell yeah.
Bye.