Thanks for watching! This is Wes Otis, and we
are here for Agent Stassi A, episode number 30.
I have some wonderful players with us. Let us
start with Pooja. Hi, I'm Pooja, and I'm playing
Robin Porter. And this is, you know, living those
suburban dreams, I guess. Hey, y 'all. Mac here,
and I am playing Wanda Sims, who she's just straight
-laced as fuck. Everything I am not. Acting.
That's how I got into Juilliard. Hey, I'm Michelle
and I am playing Yesenia Alvarez. And yeah, she's
just flexing those investigative skills. Hello,
I am playing Norman Morales. And I think he's
slowly realizing that he might be in like a crazy
Desperate Housewives episode. All right, let's
do a recap. Now, if you've listened to the last
two episodes, you know that there is literally
a ton of stuff going on with a ton of different
NPCs and everything else. So I'm just going to
hit the stuff that really matters for where the
game is right at this second. Otherwise, I'm
going to be talking about a billion different
things. So in the last game, you talked with
the athletic director. And after that, you took
all of the information that you had and you went
to Lenny's to kind of suss everything out. You
found out about Bree, Summer, and Tiffany's husbands.
You kind of looked into them. You found out that
they were making a lot of moves. One of them
is a real estate agent who's living in one of
their houses that they're selling right now and
might be having trouble with Tiffany. The marriage
might be on the rocks. You found out that Roderick
was an accountant who's been talking with a lot
of people. a lot of offshore banks, like in the
Cayman Islands kind of deal. And that Bree's
husband, Pete, is looking to sell their lumber
yard and has been kind of shopping around a little
bit for that. The next big game is on Saturday.
It is Thursday, so you all had talked about possibly
checking out the lumber yard to see if there
was anything going on there and also checking
out some of the places that Omar is selling.
At this point, it really does feel like a Mean
Girls, Desperate Housewives, whatever Kardashian
kind of situation where you've got these. really
powerful moms in the PTA who there's no direct
evidence that they're making these other parents
disappear. But according to Hank, they tended
to cause problems if their kids were taken off
the court to let kids of lesser athletic ability
go up and play. These kind of things. Or if another
player was better than their kid, they might
try to get that kid taken off the court as well.
So that covers, I think, the good basis of what
happened in the last episode and where we're
kind of at. I need to know from the group, it
is Thursday night. Are we fast forwarding to
Friday night? Or are you guys going to go stake
out Bree's place tonight? Are you going to break
into the lumberyard tonight? the plan that is
a good question i think going straight for the
friday night meeting might yield more information
i'm sorry i missed that in the thing you also
looked at the interactions between brie summer
and tiffany on their texts and whatever and they
seem to have some kind of weird code exercising
see you at 11 tonight or some bullshit where
they're meeting in area that's like super industrial
or whatever that why would these people meet
there so yeah friday night was their next meeting
if you all want to fast forward to that point
we can norman was thinking that uh if we were
to find anything suspicious in the lumber yard
maybe going tonight would be better than splitting
up tomorrow night since we definitely want to
go to our The woman's meeting. I don't know.
I guess we're not going to find like a chewed
up body in a wood chipper, but I am curious.
Or maybe we will. Is that your friend in the
wood chipper? Yeah, I'm like, I am curious. Sorry,
I don't know what the reference was. It's Fargo.
Oh my God. Yeah, in Fargo. I haven't watched
it yet. They're shoving the guy's foot in the
wood chipper. Yeah, it's pretty gruesome. It's
awesome. Anyway, go ahead. I have to watch Fargo.
I've never seen it. Oh, it's amazing. It's great.
I want to. I just, I've never seen it. Yeah,
it's good. So perhaps we'd want to examine the
lumberyard tonight. If we can find a window where
there'd be just less people. Because I don't
know, they might have like Dobermans in the fenced
off yard or something. I don't know. How did
lumberyards work? No, I think it's a good idea.
Yeah. I think it's a good idea. So tonight, you're
going to go to the Lumberyard. Friday, you're
going to go to the meeting. And then Saturday,
you're going to go to the basketball game. All
right. Yes. Our dance card's full. Yeah, it is.
As you're leaving Lenny's, Yesenia, you get a
feeling like you're being watched. Okay. I just
kind of really quietly, like without really moving
my lips, you know, I just kind of go, guys, there
are eyes on us. And I just start looking around,
like, really casually. Can I see if I notice
any camera lens or something in a weird place?
Everybody give me an alertness roll. I have a
computer screen vision, apparently. You got blue
blockers on. Yeah, no. Poorly, so no. All right,
let's see how this goes. 30 under my 62. Okay.
I lost vision, I guess, because I got a 94. I
somehow just looked into the sun or something.
Some stick of dust got in your eye. Oh, God.
I rolled a... 56 over my 32. So apparently I'm,
you know, in a food coma from the Lenny's. We're
struggling. So Yesenia is the only one that kind
of you're looking around. This is more of a,
it's not an industrial area that you're in, but
it's definitely like next to a. shopping center,
like outdoor shopping mall kind of thing. And
there's a lot of businesses around, more like
offices. And one of the buildings nearby, probably
about five stories, you kind of catch a glimpse
of a figure just ahead, looking down towards
you, watching your movements. And I say, um,
just real cash, two o 'clock from my position.
The rest of you notice it when you look kind
of, when you nonchalantly look up at 2 o 'clock.
Are they hooded? Are they like... It's hard from
this distance to see because it's like it's five
stories up. But yeah, it looks like they're wearing
some kind of hat, probably a baseball cap. You
see the brim. And we can't tell male, female,
tall, short. No, because they're just looking
over the edge of the building. down at you so
they're pretty well hidden except for just watching
they don't seem to be holding binoculars or anything
which for you is weird because they're just far
enough away that they should need them i want
to kind of walk down the street so that you know
pretending like we don't notice them but trying
to get a little closer so we can get a better
look okay let me see what their alertness tells
them Dick all. Okay. It was a night. They also
look into the sun. And maybe, I don't know, go
into the shop in the building that they're on
top of. Okay. They seem to be tracking you. And
then you disappear into the shop and like you
cross, you nonchalantly walk across the street.
You're looking around like you're looking at
buildings. You're like, Oh look, a plumbing store.
And then you're kind of going down the. the street
and you sneak into the place the owner's like
can i help you when you walk into the store are
we all in there or just yesenia well if you want
to be it's up to you i guess to make it look
normal we probably stayed in a groupish unless
anyone wanted to take off directly that's what
i was assuming but you don't have to i was thinking
about sneaking around the side Is there a fire
escape on the building? No, no, there's not a
fire escape, but you could go around back. They
could come out the back. Yeah, because I was
wondering if there's like an awning outside of
the store, if it's possible to like walk under
the awning so it looks like I walked in the store,
but actually circumvent the building. Sure, let's
do a stealth roll and see how that goes. Well,
we'll see if my dice hate me less on this roll.
I got a 35 under my 50. Excellent, so you're
able to sneak around back. Do I mark a thing
for that, too? Okay. Well, no, you only mark
when you fail. Oh, no, you only mark if you fail.
Okay, well, I did fail a roll, too. That's why
I was trying to remember which was which. And
make sure the two of you, for your alertness,
you mark it. Alertness. Robin, what about you?
Are you going to just stick with Yesenia, or
are you going to... I'm going to stick with Yesenia.
Because you might have to patch her up at some
point. Yeah, I'm a runner, not a fighter, Jim.
Although, yes, after previous engagements, I
feel like maybe... Maybe it's a good idea. What
I do is get my first aid kit ready. You've been
asking her for literally the last year to stop
wearing the target on the front of her shirts.
Maybe your undershirt shouldn't always be red.
It's my sidekick bullseye. It should always be
Kevlar at this point. What about Norman? Norman,
what do you want to do? Is this like a kind of
building? You said it was like there are multiple
shops, street level, and then there's like...
There's offices. Offices, right. Above, yeah.
So if there's like a nearby bench or something
near the store, because I don't even want to
go in that store, but I don't know what it is.
Don't care. I want to just sit and do the kind
of like casual scrolling on my phone, but keeping
an eye out in front of the store on street level.
There's probably a bus stop bench nearby that
you can do that on with no problem. So you're
going to stay out front. Yesenia and Robin are
going to go in. And Wanda has snuck around at
the back. Okay, so let's start with Yesenia and
Robin. The owner says, oh, hi, can I help you?
And it's just like a general store with like
food and, you know, snacks and stuff like that.
Oh, just looking around, thanks. What do you
want to do? You're in here now. I want to head
towards the back and see if there's roof access.
Distract the owner a little bit. Ask some questions
about some of the... Like, oh, do you have this
specific brand? Something, something. Okay, I'm
not going to make you roll for that. I'm going
to say that that's not a problem. Yeah, you see
that there is an employees -only door in the
back. There's no, like, just, here's the stairs.
You know, so you're figuring any access is behind
that door. Do you want to try to get through
it? Give me a stealth roll. You have combat boots
on, right? No, just kidding. Go ahead. 56 under
my 73. I am stealthy AF. All right. So you slip
in Robin, you notice this, you notice the suddenly
Yesenia is gone. And do you just keep chit chatting
or do you try to disengage and make your way
up there as well? I figured that was going to
be the plan. And that is why I was distracted
by odor. So it was like, so now I'm going to
try to get up there myself, I guess. Yeah, let's
make the same thing. You disengage. I mean, it's
a general store, so unless you're doing something
weird, they kind of go back to watching whatever's
on their little screen on their TV or whatever.
So let's make a stealth roll for you as well.
27 under my 41. Awesome. So you both slip in.
Yesenia, do you wait or do you just go up? It's
probably not that much time, if I'm being honest.
Yeah, I don't think I would wait because I don't
want to give them a chance. to get away so yeah
i head up and i'm i'm ready just in case for
anything okay so you got your gun out norman
i'd like you to make a persuade roll because
there is no acting so right i got 40 just letting
everyone know don't fall anyone okay 28 under
my 40 awesome so you're good you don't look like
you're looking around too much or anything like
that now wanda you're in the back So far, you
haven't seen anyone coming out the back door
yet. Yasunia and Robin, you make it up to the
top of this, you know, there's basically an access
stairway that goes up and has, you know, access
to each level. You finally get up to the top.
It's five flights. How do you want to go through
the door? I don't want to bust through. I just
want to, you know. Do you want to open it slowly
and kind of look through? Yeah. All right. You
see... Three figures. One is looking over the
edge of the building. The other two are kind
of sunken down, whispering to each other something.
Okay. Do they look Brie Tiffany Summer -ish?
They all have like hoods on and gloves and they
look like stereotypical. 1980s thugs or something
like that with, like, you know, hackers. Yeah,
ne 'er -do -wells. Hackers. They look like hackers
from the 90s. Like, they've got on the hoods
and the whole nine yards. But one of them's watching,
obviously, Norman below, and the other two are
whispering to each other. I'm going to come out
and point my gun and say, hands above your head.
Robin, where are you? Are you right behind Yesenia?
I figure I'm, yeah, just a cop. Like, I was talking
to the guy for a few minutes, like two, three
minutes, and then I came up and staying out of
the line of fire. I'm such a coward. I'm fine
with that. No, well, God. After everything you've
seen. No, you're the patch -em -up person. That's
called being smart. You swing the door open,
and you put your gun out and say, put your hands
up. They all slowly get up. They turn towards
you. And they go, the one who was looking over
the edge, where's Robin? He says to you. Get
on your knees. Put your hands over your head.
They start running towards you, full bore, on
all fours, snarling. Oh, well, that's shooting
time. All right. Actually, that's a resolve check,
because you were expecting summer. These are
not summer. That's whiplash. So give me a resolve
check first. I did not make my resolve check,
son of a biscuit. Oh no. While you're lucky,
you only take one point. You're just kind of
stunned, really, for just a second, but then
you start firing. How many shots per round is
your gun again? It's like three shots or something?
Something like that. Well, I'm going to say that
if you want to do three shots, you can. It's
just each shot to hit. The first one's at normal
level, the second one's at negative 20, and the
third one's at negative 40, okay? Because you're
not aiming, you're just going bam, bam, bam,
okay? So make three rolls and let me know how
they go. Okay, okay. First shot, my dice, I miss.
Okay, second shot. Second shot, so now it's second
shot I hit, and it's a 22, so that is a crit.
It is a crit. Huzzah. Third shot is a hit. Wow,
even with a negative 40, that's awesome. Yeah,
because my firearms is 80. It's really high.
It's really high. Yeah, and I rolled 89 on that
first shot. And then I did 22, and then I did
30. Your skill is a D10 for the pistol, correct?
Correct. So your critical hit... is going to
be max damage. So you do 20 points of damage.
Whatever this thing is just drops. You do a ton
of damage. You split its head open or something.
The second one, you hit roll a d10. I rolled
a 10. Oh, it too drops to the ground. The third
one beeps at you. Wanda and Norman and Robin,
all of you here. Gunshots, three real quick gunshots
from the vicinity where Yesenia is. Don't try
to say vicinity and Yesenia together. The Yesenity.
Yesenity's vicinity. That's like getting ready
for a mouth exercise. I know, like rubber baby
buggy bumpers. The third one's jumping at you.
Nails you unless you dodge. Why is my dodge so
low? Okay. Why do you dodge if you kill things
before they get to you? True. I do not dodge.
All right, so Robin, you're maybe like, let's
say, five feet behind on the stairs because the
stairs just go up and there's this little ledge
and then they go out. And suddenly... You see
Yesenia shoot three times and then she gets knocked
back down the stairs. I want Robin for you to
make, I'm going to say dex check because you're
to get out of the way quick enough to not get
smacked by the two of them. I'm not going to
make you make a dodge check. So let's start with
that. That is 61 under my 70. Well, okay. So
you're able to get out of the way quick enough.
Can Yesenia give me a... I'm going to say a luck
roll. Oh, okay. You want to get... You want to
get under a 50%. Oh, no. No, and I hate to say
it. No! Did you critically fail? It was a 99.
Yikes. Oh! Oh! Oh! We were joking about the med
stuff. We were joking. That hurt. These dice
are getting banished. You know, just so long
as I guess that's why I stay back. Yeah, that's
why you stay with her. I gotta be honest. Failure
forwards the story. Alright. Alright, so Robin,
you jump to the side and they careen down the
steps. and you hear this horrible cracking sound
at the bottom of the steps just just bad and
suddenly the creature rears up and its hood comes
off and it's this you remember the dog creature
with the snout and the whole nine yards from
the last operation it's one of these creatures
and it starts to try and choke yesenia who is
already knocked out and bleeding profusely from
her head what do you want to do robin and just
so i know for why this is going on what is wanda
and norman doing i'm looking for the quickest
way to get to the top of the building okay norman
okay so both of you are rushing up um I guess
I will use my unarmed combat to try to like smack
it in the back of the head, like kick it, kick
it in the back of the head to, to get it off
of her. Okay. If there's a crowbar or something
candy, I guess I could use that, but I'm actually
worse at melee weapons than I am just kicking
things. Okay. What about shooting things? Real
bad. When it comes to like a tier level of what
I can do, there's unarmed combat, there's melee
weapons, and then there's firearms. each of which
is like one point above what the base level skill
you get is. I will say this. I will give you
a plus 20 on your firearms, either as a melee
weapon to pistol whip or to shoot because this
creature is number one, days from falling down
the stairs a little bit. Number two, focused
on Yesenia. Okay. In which case I will shoot
it then. Okay, so give me a roll. I wore the
Kevlar. Who knew I needed a helmet? Oh my goodness.
You critically failed that. I know, it was bad.
I rolled a two. Wow. So you shoot this thing
in the head and it just slumps over and is no
longer with the world. Okay, and I immediately
holster my gun and go to render aid as is the
usual standard here. Standard operating procedure.
Yesenia, you took eight points of damage to your
head. You've got a fractured skull. Of course
I do. And blood coming out of all of the facial
orifices. It's not good. Did you like that scene?
Facial orifices. Just like all of them? Yep.
Both eyes, both ears, mouth. Just not good. What
is your move? What do you do? Because she's in
real big trouble. We got to take her to the hospital.
Did we all come in the same car, or are we a
little... It's up to you. I'm not going to force
you into it one way or another. Because I'm thinking
we might need to clean up the scene a little
bit. Maybe we can call in someone to do that
as we take her to the hospital. Okay, we need
to call in Agent Jackson or whoever. Yes. Yeah,
Agent Jackson. That's your handler. And... So
Norman and Wanda, if y 'all want to deal with
like things on the ground here and some damage
control while, while agent, whoever, um, while
agent Jackson arrives or possibly arrives, or
I take you sending it to the hospital. Fair.
Yeah. Sounds good. You call up Agent Jackson.
She immediately starts dealing with the police
and with sending in a cleanup crew. While you're
waiting, we will say that you have a chance to
kind of look over these bodies. These are, you
know, these are ghouls. There are three of them.
She killed the two with the two shots upstairs
or on the roof. And the other one was done in
by Robin. These are going to be very new for
me. Yeah. Because I have not seen these before.
Yeah, so I forgot. Wanda, can I get a resolve
check, please? Yeah, I was kind of thinking you
were going to want me to roll one. Yeah, I was
so in it that I forgot. I want to roll under
still, right? Correct. Under or at? I got a 25
under my 50. All right, so I'm going to say you
still are going to... Because of your nature,
I'm going to say you still lose two points. Not
a lot, but this is a lot to take in. Because
they're wearing clothes and they look like dogs,
so you're thinking werewolf. Yeah, I kind of
hold onto Norman's arm for a second, and I'm
like, what the hell are those? Yeah, well, I
guess we'd call them, and I kind of roll my eyes,
ghouls. We have dealt with these before. In Telldale,
Idaho. So I guess if they're out here too, then
there's going to be quite a few more of these.
Yeah, it's no shame in getting your bearings
for a minute. It sucks. Is there a rundown on
weaknesses or anything else that I need to know
about these creatures? Oh, yeah, actually. And
I'll just send a file that I have. Yeah, I was
like, yeah. Yeah, Wanda would want to download
on everything. Absolutely. It's like, I actually,
I got you covered there. So yeah, everything
we know about it now, you know about it. Because
Norman would have documented all of that, including
the personal, his personal experiences too, with
the head bashing and the yuck and the eyeballs.
So, and some fire. With the hey, hey and the
ha ha. Yeah, you know how it goes. Yeah, it's
a weird world out there, huh? And I started,
if we're near one of the things, I'm just like
starting to do a glance over of like taking in
the clothes. If Wanda wants to also make a forensic
check. I was actually just about to ask if I
could roll forensics. And if you want to too,
Norman, you can. If you have forensics, you can.
I have a little bit so I can learn as I fail
this roll. I did not. I got a 93 over my 30.
So you're so shocked it's kind of hard to deal
with, but making Mark next to your thing. Yeah.
Uh -oh. Well, I got 20, so here we go. Oh, man.
And that is a 49. Oopsie -noops. Nope. All right,
so you're all looking around, and, you know,
Agent Jackson sends over a team to clean up and
to do their own forensics, and you'll get...
that information probably later on. Robin, you
rush Yesenia to the local hospital where they
actually are able to start getting her stable
and everything else. Now, here's the situation.
There is no way Yesenia is going to recover anytime
soon from this particular accident. So what I
would like to do is this is going to be a super
short episode. What we're going to do is while
Yesenia is in the hospital, Agent Jackson is
going to get another agent to come in as backup
to fill in for Yesenia so that you can continue
to do your investigation. And we're going to
say that Yesenia is on the sidelines why we're
doing all this, which means Michelle will have
to make a new character between now and next
week to introduce next week, which is the Delta
Greenway. It's specifically the Yesenia way.
Yeah, it really is. My new character is going
to be named Noenia. Noenia. Noenia is easier
to say. And then after that you get Maybe Anya.
And then just India. Scotland with your cats.
Exactly. I'm going to die. Stop. This is actually
a good place to stop because I don't want to
get too far into a whole nother section until
we, you know, until we get your new agent in
there. We will say that. agent jackson's able
to get a new agent in there uh within a few hours
from the accident And I think this is a good
point for those of you thinking of playing Delta
Green. It's almost a good idea to make two characters
at the beginning of a game just in case. So thank
you all so much. This definitely was not how
I thought this was going to end, but it definitely
is fun. Let's find out where you know where they
all are. But let's just reintroduce our people
as we go out. Let's start with Michelle. Hey,
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probably, I mean, that was bad. So we will talk
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