Trash Planet contains themes of desperation and
poverty. We portray a comedic, absurd, and violent
world. For a full list of content warnings, please
see the episode description. So we see this vertebeast
shooting off into the trash piles, and the camera
cuts back to our merry crew. It's the same camera
move. We're seeing Lottie tearing down the side
of this, like, dome kind of area towards this
big, hulking, like, ripped -up piece of spaceship
that's hopefully gonna protect you from the trash
avalanche. If and when it comes, which you're
pretty sure it will, because you can hear that
whistling, you can feel it in the back of your
gut. Um, what are we doing, gang? It occurs to
you that... If and when the orbital drop happens,
your prize may be buried. I don't know. Like,
you could get to safety, you could try to get
your thing, you could try to do something about
the people coming after you, you could flash
back, you could create equipment, you could do
things of this nature. Uh, what are we doing,
gang? I think one of us could venture out and
see what the shiny thing is, if it even, you
know, we need to make sure it's what we want.
Okay, I think Emma would volunteer for that because
she at least has experience. So you're on a moving
speeder. Yeah, I'm jumping off and rolling. Okay,
this is important. How fast do we think this
speeder goes? This is going to determine this
for... The foreseeable future. So how fast would
you be driving on the crazy wasteland in your
bad, broken skimmer, right? Not fast. Under the
current context, I'd be trying to gun it. Okay,
yeah. I mean, does that mean 15 miles an hour?
Does that mean 40, you know? I'm picturing, like,
golf cart speed. Yeah. Ooh, okay. But like a
golf cart without its governor. So, like... Governor?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's like a reducer on it
to make sure that people don't speed on them.
It's true. I worked at a country club and they
had one cart that didn't have a governor. Those
things have some pain. Just whip it around the
course after it closes. It was great. Incredible.
Okay, so we're going to say golf cart speed.
So how fast is an ungovernable golf? It was probably
like, if I had to guess, maybe like 20 miles
an hour. I'd say I couldn't imagine it's more
than 30. Okay. So I'll tell you right now, the
skimmer you have is not fast compared to other
skimmers. Like the other one that you're watching
out a little further out, that one's faster than
yours. I think your skimmer, part of its qualities
is that it's just sort of a slow horse, you know,
like we're chugging along. But yeah, so it is
even 20 miles an hour, like rolling out of a
car at 20 miles an hour would kind of be an endeavor.
Do you want to make Lottie stop or what's your
move, Enla? Hey, Lottie, slow down for a minute.
I'm going to jump off and try and check it out
while you guys get to safety. OK. And Lottie's
slowing down. Are you going to make it to the
spot? I'm going to try. All right. Emma, what
is your move here? OK, so I don't have to pick
what to roll. Just describe what you're doing.
So. OK, so my goal is to try to like just kind
of get eyes on this package and make sure it's
what we need before it gets completely buried.
So. Are you physically, like, hurling yourself
and clawing bodily through the waist? Oh yeah,
I'm trying to get there as fast as I fucking
can. Okay. Because I know that the trash is moving
and there's an orbit thing, there's an orbit
piece coming in. So I'll tell you what, I am
going to give you, I'm going to take a dice away
because of these things that you've mentioned.
Yeah, orbital strike. Unless you can give me
a reason, unless you want to use some equipment
or spend some stress on it. Well, I mean, I grew
up like this. Is this a scramble? Yeah. Make
the pitch to make it desperate rather than taking
away a dice. Oh, OK. I like that. OK. So we're
going to call that desperate standard. So you'll
mark XP whether you succeed or fail. OK. Yeah.
Good call, Neha. I have two for scrounge. So
you said I lost one, but I also have experience
doing this since I've done this since I was a
kid. I revoked the losing one. OK. So then does
that mean if I also make it more desperate, does
it mean I get three? No, I don't think you can
if it's already desperate, right? That's what
I thought. You can't push yourself in a desperate
role. Okay, so you could push yourself for a
great reward, but that would take two stress,
right? Yeah, it would take two stress, or you
could push yourself to add a dice. If you just
want to add a third dice, you could add two stress,
take another dice. I'm okay with taking on two
stress, so I'll do three. I got a five, a three,
and a two. Okay. All right, so you succeed with
complications. This like stress is running through
your body like this thrum of being back in the
wasteland and feeling it all. ready to slip away
from under you at any second and you are scrabbling
up and over some stuff like something is careening
over and you like move with it and just sort
of like like you know spider crawl your way past
um crawling over trash really sucks i don't know
if you all been to a scrap yard recently it's
awful so um you're getting scratched up um and
you're just keeping your head down and moving
um and you get eyes on this shiny spot and you
see that it is indeed what looks like a big old
metal crate. It looks about four foot by four
foot by two foot. It looks heavy. It is a big
old rectangle. Um, it looks brand spanking new
and you're like, okay, like it looks like it's
slammed into the earth. It looks like it's pretty
deep in there. I say earth. It's slammed into
the trash. Um, so it is what you're looking for.
However, I'm not gonna be able to move it by
myself. Certainly not. Absolutely not. And it
is about 50 yards from your point of shelter.
And I'm going to tick the orbital drop unless
you resist. Yes, I would like to resist that.
Also, we are a little bit lucky, yes? Say what
now? According to our juice deck. We are a little
bit lucky today. So I'm feeling I'm feeling lucky
that maybe I won't get it Balancing changing
radiating chancing Yeah, I would accept luck.
I'll tell you what like I'm If you want to call
on the juice, I would allow you to do so However,
any one you roll at this point would incur a
juice burn that feel fair. That feels fair. Okay.
All right, so resisting yeah so a resist is to
take six stress and then subtract whatever you're
rolling all right a five and a two nice you take
one more stress um the orbital drop remains two
ticks away uh you're killing it and you may also
tick um acquire pod give it one more look eat
meat pod yeah hell yeah meat pod When you say
it like that it sounds kind of like my name Wait,
your name isn't meat pie. I've been calling you
that All right, so we've got endless scrabbling
off into the trash she spotted something and
how do you signal your buddies? I'm going to
start jumping up and down. Use the hand signs.
Start trying to use the hand signs and say. For
the viewers at home, Endless doing a beautiful
dance. It's really evocative. She sees two. I
definitely didn't go over that one. Two sleds,
I think. Is there sled? Do we need a sled? At
least someone was listening to my dissertation.
Take us like so close to making human contact.
What do you guys do on your skimmer? What's the
move? I think she needs help. For the viewers
at home, Enla is thrilled and happy. She also
has incredible hearing. Okay. I guess I gotta
go help her. So I'll tell you what, this would
be making a commitment to be going towards the
pod and away from the point of safety. Is that
cool? Yeah. Let's do it. Let's go for it. All
right, all right. Okay. We're risk takers. So
Lottie is guiding the skimmer over the wastes,
chug a lug and along. I don't know, what kind
of sound do you think it makes? Do you think
it's like a woo or like what is... It's like
the sound that the Jetsons like vehicles used
to make. It's like a little... It's that sound,
but without a muffler. That, but without a muffler.
Yeah, every so often it just coughs and it sounds
completely human and you're like... Thank you,
yes. Uh, Lottie's just racing towards unlike
us. We're trying to save her from the Trash -a
-Lynch. All right. Drift, drift, drift, drift,
drift. Tank, we're going in a straight line.
We don't drift right now. No, you need to do
one of those cool things where you like drift
around and like pick her up at the same time.
Lottie, I got to tell you, you feel that shimmer
in the air and even through your mask, like you
can kind of taste it in your mouth. You're like.
I'm feeling lucky. I don't know. Spirit's kind
of moving here right now. Come on, Lottie, familiar.
So while Lottie is driving towards Enla, she
notices that the, um, this gamer is feeling a
little bit unbalanced to her and she realized
it's because it's actually perfectly oriented
and not unbalanced like it normally is. Um, so
she notices that it's behaving itself and starts
like accelerating and like really trying to take
advantage of that to go faster and get to Enla
end time. All right, what does it look like when
you grab her? Uh, Lottie does, like, a cool drift,
but she, like, overshoots, so she goes, like,
past Enla, and then... But that works out, because
Tank is on the passenger side, and he just, like,
yanks her, and then we take off. Whoa! It's a
cool stunt. We spent a lot of our budget for
this episode on this one stunt. No, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no! The ship, the ship, the meat
pod, the meat pod! We know where it is. We're
trying not to die. But it's gonna get buried.
Great, then the others won't find it. Okay, all
right, Blotty as you're zooming along you had
your cool guy moment and then you hear a And
you hear like the whole right side of the skimmer
drops and starts scraping on the ground So it's
not dead yet, but you have been significantly
reduced in speed and carrying capacity This thing
is call it a little bit busted Should this be
a clock? It should be we're gonna call this skimmer
health Skimmer health right now is at two out
of four But that's still better than getting
buried in trash, so she's still going despite
the awful sound. Okay, so now we're zooming to
the pod. Alright. Are we zooming to the pod?
No, I thought we were zooming to the safe spot.
Yeah. Oh, OK. All right. So you guys are zooming
along into the shelter. Do you want to make any
preparations or like just sort of let the orbital
drop happen and it just happens? I think we want
it to happen because we know the location and
we assume that this is inside this container
is the shipment we're looking for. Tank is just
going to be like eyes peeled just staring at
the spot. It's like, remember the spot. Remember
the spot. And he just watched on mode. He enters
a Slumdog Millionaire flashback, but it's of
the moment where he saw the spot two minutes
ago. Alright, so if you're gonna let this clock
expire, um, we are gonna hit an orbital drop.
So as you, like, come up under this, like, this
little V that is built out of this broken spaceship,
you can hear it creaking overhead already, and
you're like, ah, ooh, you know, like, it's maybe
the safest spot here, but it's not feeling great,
um, so you just hunker down. Enla, you've been
in orbital drops before. What do you do? in the
moments before it hits. These are not the fun
parts of living out in the upcountry. These are
not fun memories for Enla. So it's a little bit
traumatic and upsetting, but she's probably going
to be as far back into the V as possible in a
brace position. And as Emma... Fetal position.
Okay, so you're like curling into the bottom
of the speed of the skimmer. On my butt, you
know, kind of like when you were in like when
you did tornado drills and shit when you were
a kid. That's the vibe. Yeah. Okay. And as you
are like crouching down and you're like tucking
your head under your hands, you're getting ready,
you're remembering the way you were taught how
to survive these. And you just really fast, you
flash back to when you were a kid and your mom
was standing over your hand on your shoulder
and said, three, two... One and right on one
she knew exactly when it would hit and the whole
world shakes is an earth -shattering crash and
you Even in the midst of this, some part of you
is rational and you're like, okay, okay, so that
was about two miles out. Like, you've got a really
good sense for how close these things are. So
even from two miles, the whole pile, like it's
just metallic screeching and screaming and everything,
like gravity shifting. Lottie, I would like you
to make some kind of roll to control your skimmer.
You guys got to the safe spot, so I gotta honor
that. However, I am gonna call this desperate.
limited. You're trying not to fuck up your skimmer
more and you're trying not to get injured. So
you're gonna make a desperate roll here. What
would you like to do? Well, if I got something
physical like touch, it's not gonna be a great
roll. It's so crazy that you rolled so well despite
having like no skill at all. You're just zipping
along like whatever. Remind me the context again.
What exactly is Lottie trying to avoid? So imagine
that you're on a boat in the ocean and the big
wave is hitting you. Like you're trying to start,
you're trying to surf, you know, you're trying
to stay alive right now. So you're trying to
drive and you're trying to be in a good spot
and you're trying to go up against fate right
now. So whatever you think, it sounds like a
touch roll to me, but - That's to me. Yeah. I
don't know, unless you can make a strong argument
for something else, you know. Well, unless it's
a sentient one, I'm not going to be able to use
commands, so... Like Moses parting the trash!
I have an idea. I also have an idea, but go ahead.
Two ideas? I want to hear your idea first. I
was going to say, since we are all relatively
sheltered and with each other, we could try to
protect each other with a group action. Ooh!
Aww! Aw. Sorry. We are a team, after all. But
no, a group action care, if we are actively looking
out for each other's safety in this gravity wave.
I would allow that. Yeah. OK. I like that idea.
That's idea number one. Did you have something
to? The other idea was that Lottie hits the juice.
Well. Two good ideas. Honestly, there's no reason
we can't do both, also. Also. Let's do both.
All right. So who is leading this group action?
I can, but I'm going to do it in my weird religious
way. OK. Yeah, yeah. Tense. That actually sounds
about right. Like, you knew this was gonna hit.
You would have had a second to be like, okay,
well, here we go, you know? The Romans are very
independently minded, so this would not have
come to that. And they just immediately ditched
all you clowns. It's just like, goodbye. Sorry.
No, I think I would yell out, like, okay, the
wave is coming, so don't move against the earth.
The universe moves with us and through us. Don't
brace. Just go with the flow and watch each other's
backs. What the fuck does that mean? That means
don't don't stiffen your body let the more stiff
you are the more this wave is gonna hurt Loosen
up a little. All right. And then Lottie grabs
a vial of juice that she's got in her pocket
and hits it. Amazing. What color is this vial?
What does it look like? The juice inside is a
bright color, but you can only kind of tell because
you can sort of see it through the very dark
beer glass. Oh, yeah. It looks like that. Oh,
incredible. So it looks like there's a blue raspberry
drink in one of those. That sounds great, though.
God, there's something about a blue drink, right?
Mm -hmm. OK, what does it taste like when it
hits Lottie's tongue? Like a blue raspberry drink
that went bad. Lottie's just encountered so much
juice that she's like, you know, when somebody
gets really into like independent beers and it's
just the most atrocious shit in the world and
they're like, hmm, notes of cedar. You can just
really like taste all the way through it. I drew
the third of touch, the burnt offering. Okay.
The verbs are burning, regressing and scorning.
Interesting. OK, so I think because we got the
juice active, any ones in this whole group action
are going to affect you. So you're at risk for
a juice burn. But if you wanted to try to use
that, if you wanted to try to put something on
this, put some English on the ball, as it were,
you are welcome to. I don't know. All right,
let's get this group roll going first. So care,
everyone who's in. Is Lottie part of this, or
is she focusing on driving? I think you can be
part of this, right? Yeah. Okay. I think I have
the worst caramuck. I have one. I have zero.
Oh no! Oh! Oh! I got a five. Five. I rolled bad,
finally. Oh, what'd you get? One. Yeah! I also
got a one. I burned myself. I got a two. Okay.
At least we passed. oof a doofa how many okay
so we have one pass right yeah so that means
we do pass it's just that um you're certainly
getting juice burnt right now uh let's i'm very
burned and he's very stressed wow what's your
stress at uh i had three stress with that okay
all right you're not dying yet uh do you have
the ability to roll a d12 right now or should
i roll for you eight incredible thank you All
right, I said it once this episode already. All
right, so Lottie, you're feeling that tingle
in the air. Someone puts their hands on your
back as you're driving. Who is it? Tank. Tank,
was this on purpose or no? Probably not. Nice.
Tank's just kind of like, loosen your body, arm
circles. You have a sudden flashback to, uh,
your - That asshole from earlier, Ludonza, like,
pelting you with ticks. You gotta stay loose,
man. You gotta be more relaxed. And he's just,
like, hocking them at you. It's like, you can
dodge a wrench, you can dodge a bowl, you know?
It's all that shit. Anywho, so this is Tank's
experience. And Connie is having a moment of
religious center. And Lottie, meanwhile, you
hit this juice, and you're like, come on, baby,
come on. You pull that slot machine, and what
you get is, like, a gurgle in your stomach. You
are hungry. You are now afflicted with a juice
burn that will keep you eating objects from your
card's grist list. Roll fortune to see if you
can actually digest them. If not, you incur damage
every time. Take plus one XP per session while
afflicted. Oh my god. I love that. So what's
on your grist list? Teddy bears. Scissors. Shoe
Farms, Ash, that's an easy one. And then Saint
Andrew's Cross. Oh shit, okay. Oh my god. This
is a cool card. Fortune roll? Yeah, fortune roll.
So that's going to be 2d6 take lower, right?
Or is it just 1d6? It's just 1d6, but it's up
to you if you want to... Sure, just roll one,
why not? Three. Three, okay, we're starting a
three clock on your juice burp. Okay, so it's
out of three? Yes, and I know that's not a round
number, but that's okay. We live anyway. We live,
we move. So in the midst of this care role...
Do the effects of hitting the juice still work
when you get burned or no? Think yeah, I think
that I'm gonna say like you have three roles
in which you can like apply this juice to something
and you can take that as a bonus dice and also
as like flavor while you're improvising because
of your successful role you the skimmer just
Horrible scraping sound the whole right half
is clanking down into the ground You are violently
tossed to one side, but the skimmer does not
incur additional damage. We're remaining at a
half full clock And nobody's gonna take damage
off of this However, you are going to have a
consequence. So, Tank, you have been focusing
so hard on that one spot, and it's so great because
you get to watch as it is immediately just obliterated
by rolling probably thousands of tons of trash,
right? It's just like the whole mountain just
kind of rolls down on top of it, and you're like...
Okay, like, like, it's under there. It's real
fucking deep. Look, what are we gonna do? Oh,
man, guys. You're not gonna like this. Yeah,
so you know where it is. Like, you've still got
it locked in, but it's deep in there. Yeah, so
orbital drop is done. That clock is over. What
are we doing, gang? We've got to approach, right?
We've got to get it out somehow. Tank, where
am I going? Hold on. That tasted horrible. Okay.
I wouldn't water my plants with that. You're
like, you know what would taste pretty good?
A pair of scissors, right? I think it's that
way. That way. For sure is that way. I go that
way. Okay, okay. You navigate the whole way there
with like one hand on your temple, like pointing
one hand on temple. Yeah, pretty cool. Like a,
what is it? Like a dousing rod? Incredible. Alright,
so you arrive at this spot. While you're here,
you also notice some shit skittering around real
deep. And you would immediately clock these as
VertiBeast. Like, they're totally normal. So
yeah, what are you guys doing? We gotta dig.
I guess we gotta dig now, guys. Just with your
hands? Like, what's the plan? Flashback. Ooh,
yes. So, to planning. And where we were all together
and I was kind of giving them a lowdown on what
it's like to be in the trash piles. Let's say
the box gets underneath a bunch of stuff. Like
we need a plan to make sure that we are able
to actually get this thing out, right? I imagine
it's heavy. I feel like we probably need some
sort of like... Like a wench for the skimmer?
A wench for the skimmer would be a great idea.
Or like some power suit. Halberd wanders through.
She's eating mozzarella just like off the log.
A wench, you know? I won't have you talking about
women this way! It's not like a barmaid. In my
establishment! You know the things you put on
your trucks? Dank, I don't want to hear about
your trucks ever again in my life, alright? You're
my beautiful boy. But I will strike you from
this establishment. It's like 6 .05 in the morning,
like this morning. Albert is so bleary eyed.
No more food? Yeah, like that could happen to
you. I don't, I don't want that. You've got to
respect women, Tank. She grabbed you by both
shoulders. Respect women! I respect women. Okay,
okay, okay. You can write on your character sheet,
you've learned to respect women. That's what
taught him? That is where Tank was at. That's
canon though, let's be real. We pop out of the
flashback, there was no other benefit, it was
just Tank learned how to respect women. No, kidding.
Sorry, continue the flashback. It's okay. Sorry,
I learned that I shouldn't refer to a mechanical
pulley system as that word. I have become a better
person. I'm so proud of you, Dang. Yeah, we need
a winch or a pulley. Sorry. We don't call it
that anymore. We need a mechanical pulley system
of some kind. in order for us to be able to lift
this heavy object and get it back here. Helper
gives you both a big thumbs up. She's like, progress
wanders away. Glad you feel accomplished. You
said if it's underneath stuff, how do we get
underneath that stuff? I've been looking at some
blueprints for some like... Magnetic gauntlets
that might be able to help us out like kind of
like superpower strength, but tank I think that
you might be the best person to wield them. Oh
That that sounds awesome If I made them would
you use like did you help them help us get cuz
like that way at least we'd be able to maybe
move some of this heavy stuff and like get Some
stuff out of the way if it got underneath all
right We smash cut to the cartoon world inside
tanks mind of like what he's gonna do with superpower
gauntlets What do we see just briefly? He's just
leaping over buildings. And landing in superhero
poses. And there's just crowds cheering. face
off against some nondescript evil villain guy
and I just like do like a like a iron man like
fist blast uh because in in tank's mind that's
how magnets work you can just blast things Women!
Pow! Okay. Wench no more! Camera cuts out of
Tank's beautiful crayon drawing and take his
smiling gently into the middle distance. So are
we spending the flashback on getting these together?
On the gauntlets, yeah. I'm gonna say that's
gonna be a pretty expensive flashback. I imagine.
Yeah. We need something. Yeah, I'm gonna say
that's like a four stress flashback. Is that
too much? We got a mechanical pulley system and
magical magnetic gauntlets. Where are you at
on stress right now? Six. Out of eight? Okay,
that's cool. We zoom in on the beat of sweat
on Endless Forehead as she is bent over her workbench.
Re -breather on, because there's no ventilation
at home because it's Trash Planet, baby. She's
welding deep into the night. She's fucking tired.
She's got circles under her eyes. The gauntlets,
when they are done, they look bad. Lottie, why
do they look bad? There wasn't enough metal to
make a complete gauntlet. So it's like a wireframe
gauntlet that only covers the pads and the palm.
Oh, hell yeah. And also, there's loose sparks.
If you get any two parts of it too close to each
other, they're just like... It's really scary
to be around. I'm doing the best I can. So, back
in the present, you produce these gauntlets.
What do you do? Alright, Tank. Like we talked
about... You gotta help get, move all this stuff
out of the way and then we'll use the pulley
to get this onto the skimmer. Cool, cool, cool,
cool, cool, cool. Yeah. Okay. I look at Tank
straight in the eyes and I'm like, Tank, I made
these gauntlets for you, but you have got to
be careful with them. Okay. Are you saying something
about how you're bestowing upon me a great power
and with that power comes great responsibility.
Yes. Yes. Halberd wanders by. She's eating the
mozzarella sticks. She's like, it's copyright.
We can't do that. All right. See you guys later.
Bye. Just in the middle of the trash pile. Just
walks by. Tank slips on the gauntlets. Crackling
with power. Like Vi from another copyright. Nobody
knows what show it might be. I don't know. It
rhymes with Vig of - Vegans? I don't know. Mundane.
Our favorite show, Mundane. And Dan just starts
ripping through where in his mind he remembered
the shiny pod being and just like throwing stuff
behind him and just straight up digging. Incredible.
Would you like to roll for me, please? I will
allow you a bonus dice on those gauntlets. We're
gonna call this Risky Standard. Scrounge? Sure.
With the bonus dice? That's a sex baby. Tell
you what though. That was a one wasn't it? It
was a one. You feel the incredible power of your
weird sparking gauntlets Just like ow like gently
kind of hurts a little bit, but it's like a it's
like an okay pain You know you're like yeah,
yeah, yeah Like when you when you put your tongue
on a 9 -volt battery. Oh delicious so tasty so
good That's a thing, but it's one of the most
unpleasant feelings in my life Tank is built
different, I guess. Take it to each their own.
Yeah. So that's one thing you feel. The other
thing you feel is, like, this is a juice shine
zone. So as we remember, the juice is vaporized
in the air. It is suffused in this area. And
you're just feeling it. You're just feeling fucking
lucky. Please roll for me or someone, maybe Maddie,
roll for me at D12. And you are going to incur
a juice burn here because Tank has rolled a one.
So even though that wasn't... His top result,
because it happened, because we're in a shine
zone, you still get a juice burn, baby. Six.
Six. This is the juice burn. Buddy, you stink.
You smell strongly of the grist items from your
card. Even through air filtration, it's noticeable.
So what are the grist list items on Moonshooter?
Suit, headstone, carbon, snakeskin, dice. Ooh.
Oh, no, that might be one. Snake Skin Dice is
one. It could be. It's not too separate. There's
no comma. So, OK, you're sniffing something like,
ooh, kind of heavy, intense, earthen, old, plastic.
It's not terrible, but it's also not noticeable.
You're going to smell like this for a minute.
Please roll for me 1D6. And we're going to start
a new clock. It's two. It's two. Pretty short
juice burn. All right. You're going to have this
active for two. You're at zero out of two on
clearing your juice burn. So does this mean I
get burned also for the group action? Because
I rolled a one during that. Shit, maybe. Yeah.
Well, we weren't in the shine zone there, were
we? I think we were, right? We never left it.
We never left. Yeah. So yeah. Please roll for
me. 1d12. 3. 3. They just almost keep this D12
roller open. Okay. So, we've got Enla and Tank.
I'm picturing Enla, like, kind of perched on
top of the skimmer, supervising as Tank is, like,
tearing through, looking like a fucking mongoose,
you know, just ripping through the earth. He's
burrowing. He's like, yeah, yeah! And Slotty
is on the skimmer, just kind of lightly vibrating,
just kind of feeling a weird hunger. And then
the camera pans over to Connie. And Connie...
Number three, disfigurement. Something visually
crazy happens to your body. So again, this is
a moon shooter card, so feel free to pull from
anything on, for the listeners at home, every
juice deck card has verbs and grist. So verbs
are things like, you know, defending, resurrecting,
transitioning. Grist are objects. So they are
just inspired, like to inspire your role play
and to inspire some trash you might find. So.
Connie, what do you think is going on with you?
I think my already existing blue juice burn is
glowing now. It's radiating. I like that. Super,
super noticeable. Impossible to hide at this
point. Oh, man. I think you just notice a light
above you, and you're like, what? You know where
the sun is. And you move to look, and the light
moves with you. And you're like, fuck, what?
And it is absolutely your old juice burn just
radiating out. Please roll 1D6 to determine duration.
Four. Four. Okay, we're at zero out of four on
Connie's juice burn. Great job, everybody. We
got three juice burns on deck. Incredible. On
the bright side, you're wearing a headlamp now.
On the bright side? Connie's had this for 30
seconds and has developed a complex. He was already
self -conscious about the blue before. Connie,
you look over and you notice that your good friend
Connie is glowing. Connie, are you all right?
No, I'm tainted this is awful Well, I mean it
I don't want to use that word but it was all
the part that was already taint tainted right
guess that's That does make it a bit nicer. I
need to get rid of this and we need to get out
of here as quickly as possible All right, we
flash back over. You succeeded on your scrounge
roll, right? I did. I got a six. So I am going.
Wait, you got a six on it? Yeah. Damn. We got
distracted by the juice burn, but yeah. Yes,
we did. So tick two on the find bullshit clock,
you know? So we have five out of eight. Okay,
so as your big old badger claws are ripping through
all this junk guitar picks and crushed up cans
and like swirly spirally plasticky bits crunching
under your hands, feels good. Feels good to dig,
you know? Every so often it just feels good to
dig a hole. This is life advice, folks. Anywho,
you conk into something that feels denser than
everything around it. A lot of the trash here
is old. It's been battered for a long time and
the juice is inherently corrosive. of stuff doesn't
stay in one piece long, just from being in the
atmosphere. It's terrible in Helica, it's a bad
place. But this thing is solid and heavy and
bright, and your little gauntlets just clip into
something very beautiful, very sturdy, very heavy,
and you're able to like, scrabble out the edges
of it. About four feet, big, big, big, big enough
to hide a body, and you're feeling a good feeling.
Feels like treasure, baby. Feels like you dug
in the sand pit, you pulled up gold. Guys, guys,
guys! I found the meat pod. Throw me the pulley
system. Oh, OK. Incredible. Good job, Tay. Wow,
wow, wow. OK. The skimmer normally could lift
it no problem. The skimmer's kind of fucked up.
Lottie, what have you been up to up here? Like,
have you been spending, like, this has been some
time that's passing, right? So I think Lottie
probably would have been like the trash that
they're moving would have been going in the skimmer.
And then Lottie would be, like, moving it away
so that we can actually dig and it's not just
falling back in on us. Incredible. Yeah. And
while doing so, she found a stuffed animal, one
of the ones we mentioned earlier, and she is
now munching on it. Oh, man. OK, so you pop your
rebreather off and you can't breathe in the atmosphere
here. It's too corrosive. So you're just like,
like, you have to, like, hark a bite of this
teddy bear real fast and slam the mask back on.
And it's been a few seconds of back and forth
like that. Luckily, it takes a long. need a piece
of cotton. What are you doing? Juice burn. I've
had this one like three times. It's annoying.
Childhood memories. Have you burnt anything in
your lab recently? Me? I mean, I burn things
all the time. I use a solder. Wonderful, because
I'm feeling pretty hungry. Okay. I feel like
during this time while Tank, because Tank's gleefully
digging through trash. I think that Enla would
most likely be trying to do some care on the
skimmer to try to fix it, make sure that it can
withhold this giant thing that I know is there.
I like that, yeah. What do you want to roll?
I'm assuming, can I use care on a machine? Well,
what do you think? Tinker is made for that, right?
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, OK. I'll do Tinker then.
I was prepared to go for it, but Nihar's eyebrow
took me out. Nihar's eyebrow. We're going to
call this controlled standard in terms of risk.
So I got a three. Ooh, OK. All right, so. I'm
not good at Tinker. You do a real cool mechanic
move where you just go like, whoop, slide yourself
right under it. I don't know, I think that's
possible on a skimmer because it is hover technology,
but you just have to be very tough to withstand
being blasted by the bottom half of a skimmer,
which is active, so you are just sort of like,
ehhhh, like pummeled under there. It sucks, it's
bad. So you're kind of clanking around. You see
what the problem is, which it looks like it's...
been torn on some trash, like something got caught
somewhere, there's a big crack. It's a visually
obvious problem, and it's something that you
would feel comfortable fixing with more time,
with better equipment, maybe not in the middle
of a giant shifting trash pile. And on top of
this, you hear a sound like a thunderclap. It
is awful, and every hair on your body stands
up. Gunshot. Gunshot from far away. Big gun,
rolling off the hills, echoing on everything
metallic. For those who've never played in this
system before, guns are super, super serious
in the world of A -State. Consequences immediately
become worse. There's no casual way to play with
guns. None of our characters have guns. They're
very rare, they're very scary. So somebody is
gunning for you. You haven't been shot, but you
have been missed closely. You see like swooping
over this freshly fallen like trash avalanche
big mean skimmer long and low you see a couple
people hanging off of it you see a big big mounted
gun on the front and Like it is like warming
up firing at your feet like booming towards you.
What do you guys do? Speed it up Question am
I like In, like, a pit? I think you are at this
point, right? Okay, so I'm like, I'm a little,
like... Yes, I don't think you're an immediate,
like, target target. Yeah. There's a problem,
guys. I don't see anywhere to attach this...
It's just smooth. It's just kind of a smooth
rectangle. Oh, okay, fine. Inla jumps down there.
You've got to be resourceful in the Rovens, OK?
We've got this. So you wrap it around, and then
you wrap it around again. They made like a little
fake parcel. As long as you got a hook on the
end, we're good. And as she's talking, she's
doing it and showing him how to wrap around the
package. Oh, cool. Cool. You don't want to do
a group action? That sounds like a group action.
Yeah. Yes. Yeah. What do you want to call that?
I'm assuming this is touch. Sure. Four. Three.
Incredible. No one's? No one's. Incredible. All
right. So, Enla, with confidence and swiftness,
you get this cable wrapped around, around, again.
You're digging through trash. Your hands are
getting scratched up. You're really in the muck
of it with Tank down here, and you're both just
like, you know, like very small, crazy pit. It's
like backfilling all y 'all. You ever been in
a hole? Holes don't like to be holes, you know?
It's just coming right back down. It was getting
increasingly paranoid in the gunshot. Yeah, yeah,
this is brutal. Alright, so you've got this thing
hooked up and ready to go. What's happening up
top? Okay, um, are they, is that skimmer -headed
right for us? Yes. Oh, I didn't give you your
consequences. I'm gonna say, this is mean, unless
you resist, uh... Your skimmer like you're like,
okay hit it Lottie Lottie hits the winch and
it just pops the fuck off It's just it's like
goodbye It's just the thing on the bottom is
so much heavier than the winches equipped. I'd
be willing to resist that. Okay I'll I'll resist
since I'm down here. All right. All right. I
cannot resist anymore It's just a reminder for
listeners. This is a thing that could happen
and we are twisting the threads of fate to prevent
it from happening. But yes, continue. Oh, we
can share the stress with our trust, can't we?
Do you guys trust each other? I think so. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. It's on my sheet.
I'm looking at you suspiciously, but okay. It's
on my sheet. All right. She's my dealer. I trust
her. Gets me all my ingredients. Incredible.
We're going to flash back to that in a second,
but yeah. That is a six. Holy shit. Okay. So
tank. You strap it up, you winch it in. It's
kind of nice, honestly, because when you're playing
tickball, it feels like you can't do anything
right. And down here, they told you to dig a
hole and then you dug it. And then they told
you to strap up a box and then it was strapped
up and you're like... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh man,
like there's no strategy here. You just do it,
you know? So you're feeling fucking great. Get
it winched up, no problem. The winch strains
against the weight of the thing, but it catches
a lot of your on the skimmer. It goes like, and
like it sort of hunks backwards, but it rocks
crazily and it starts pulling. So this thing
is rising out of the ground a little bit. And
you look up at your buddy Lottie and you say,
what do you say? Finger guns. For the listener
at all, it was beautiful finger guns. And we
flashed back to the first time they met. And
from across a crowded room, Tank did finger guns.
And Lottie did finger guns back. And Tank said,
do you have any drugs? Lottie said, yeah. Thus
establishing their incredible relationship. Sorry
to take the wheel there. Just felt like we needed
it. Yeah, incredible. Okay. What are you guys
doing next? The skimmer is still advancing crazily
fast towards you. What's up? I'm going to use
two of my load on a large weapon. Oh shit. Okay.
Yeah. What is it? It's not a thing I'm equipped
to use very well, but it's basically a weapon,
a makeshift hammer made from like rebar and concrete.
It's just basically a bit of building that's
on the ground, but you know, you can... dope
you'd shape it a little bit into a hammer i cannot
wield this thing very well but i like you know
do the swinging throw and try to hit some trash
to to like avalanche in their way or on top of
their skimmer while they're approaching okay
so i'm not directly throwing it at them i'm trying
to dislodge some of the stuff from the avalanche
so it blocks their path incredible okay use it
for advantage I don't know what I'd roll for
a thing like this. Wow. I could see either touch
or... Wreck. Wreck probably. Yeah, that does
sound like wreck. And I'm honestly gonna call
it Risky Limited. Unless you want to push it
somehow. I think Risky Limited is fine. I'm actually
going to push myself to get one extra dice though.
Okay. Because I was gonna fucking fail if I...
Okay, so that's a three. What does it look like
when it all goes wrong? Well, I mean, I'm doing
a swinging throw, so I think the big rebar club
thing controls me more than I control it. And
then I just let go and it just like careens through
the air doing nothing. It doesn't even really
look like an offensive move. It just kind of
looks like you picked up some trash on the ground
and like hucked it sideways. It's like, huh.
So I'm gonna say with your failure the giddy
girls are going to bear down on you and this
skimmer is not slowing And so they are just fully
going to crash into your skimmer unless you do
unless you resist I want to try to resist with
resolve Wait you share trust I do. Oh my god,
thank you. That's gonna save me. Jesus Christ,
okay. For the listeners, Neon Heart just rolled
a one, which would have been brutal. Yeah. Hey
Tank, how are you doing on stress, buddy? Oh,
not a care in the world, bro. Tank is so happy
right now. He's just like dug a hole and had
a good day. You wanna take three of these? You
wanna take three of these five? Tank just takes
like, psychic damage. Take remembers that like
all of us are mortal and it's like fuck fuck
no Like through our whatever antics, I think
we draw more of their attention So if they shift
their target away from our skimmer towards the
two of us, I know what we do. Oh, what do we
do? We do where you pretend like you're two sides
of the street and you're like you're holding
a string to make cars stop Holy shit! You're
looking down at a skimmer -mounted machine gun
and you're like, ah, the invisible string! No,
that's perfect and it's good. I think we're gonna
decapitate them. It's just enough Looney Tunes
logic to work. Like if we play that moment out,
Connie, what do you do? Like you see them, they're
not slowing down. You feel like they're just
gonna fucking crash into you. Like this looks
like a big tough skimmer. It looks like they're
not slowing down. You know what, you know just
what to do. Yeah, I think me and Tank make eye
contact. Tank's in the hole. You see the top
two inches of his head. Oh, but it's enough to
make that eye contact. And I think... Tank hopefully
climbs up enough that we can do the maneuver
of like, I like do this big exaggerated motion
of like throwing a rope. Tank pretends to catch
it. It's incredible memory. It's so beautiful.
It's so realistic. Did you study at the Clown
College? I did. I did. Yes. And you're like,
wait a minute, did they find string down there?
Where did the string come from? And then I just
wind up and pretend like I'm using all my strength
to pull it taut. Incredible. Okay, so instead
of just smashing right into you guys, the skimmer
drifts and banks and tries to break off just
outside, which brings the gun tilted the wrong
way. So that's great. You just did a great thing
there. However, they are pretty close to you
guys now. Uh, what are y 'all up to? What's the
move? Great job, y 'all. Yeah, I like that I,
uh, spent my load to get the unusual weapon that
I just threw the fuck away. Yeah, sometimes that
was the breaks, you know? It's cool. Alright,
what are we doing? This skimmer, the enemy skimmer
just, like, crashed to a stop, kind of, uh, long,
low, dark, um, couple people on board. They are
yards away, um, you hear shouting, you see big,
scary masks. Uh, what are y 'all up to right
now? We gotta get going! Yeah, but I don't know
if they're gonna be able to outrun us wherever
we go. Our skimmer is not in good shape and I
cannot fix it out here. You know who has a perfectly
good skimmer? Oh, I mean, it's true. I mean,
the Giddy Girl skimmer does look really nice.
It does, but we have to go through them to get
it. I don't know if you guys heard this earlier,
but they got guns! Well, the gun is now pointed
away from us. It's on a turret on the skimmer.
So it won't hurt us now. Was that the gun? Wasn't
there a different gun? There was also another
gun, right? I think I've only mentioned the one
gun. Forgive me if I made that unclear. Oh, OK.
I was picturing you like there's a sniper and
then also this mounted turret. There is a big
mounted turret gun. It is long and lean. And
that's the only gun we've seen so far. and also
like it being tilted away that's like they can
also tilt it back this is all happening in bullet
time so uh what is the move if we're gonna fight
them we need to fight them together it sounds
like we're gonna fight them a hundred percent
agreed and it seems like yeah i think the only
way we're gonna get this shipment out of here
is if they're gone and we take their skimmer
if we're gonna fight you guys should probably
hop in the ship and we should close the gap before
they turn around and shoot again good call audi
So just to recap, y 'all just like hustle and
skip your way back into your bad broken skimmer.
You have the crate on a cable winched to the
back of the thing. It's gonna hold. It's gonna
be okay, but it's down in the hole right now.
Like if you took off right now, it would be a
good few minutes of like, like, you know, just
pulling it up the side of the hole and then dragging
it behind you. So that's the situation. What
is the move? What are we rolling here? What are
we doing? I think since we have it and we have
the, we probably want to disconnect. the cable,
right? And then just close the gap. How far away
are they? We're going to call it 30 meters. But
again, that's bullet time. They can just turn
around. They're going to come towards you. If
this was D &D, they would have taken their turn
already, right? But you guys are driving this
action here. So what is the action you're doing?
So I see a couple options. We could either hop
into the hole to stop their gun from hitting
us dead on. or like force them to close the gap
or we could cut the cable or not cut the cable
but disconnect the cable and get closer we might
need to do that anyway if we're gambling on using
theirs instead yeah okay that's the play all
right as a free action you just hit the button,
chop the cable, it's just like a wild snake.
It just, and you hear a yip as, sounds like a
vertebeast got hit with it maybe, I don't know.
The meat pod is now wrapped up, ready to go,
cable disconnected. What are we doing? No actual
VertiBeasts were filmed, or her arm, the making
of this vodka. I would also agree none were filmed.
They're too fast. They're too fast, we just can't
get them on camera. Yeah, let's close the gap.
All right, let's do it. Are you going towards
them? I think so, I think the idea is getting
in range before the gun turns around. Oh shit,
okay. So that we can attack them, even though
they're pretty... big hitters okay they're hitters
and we're stressed out yeah what would you who
would like to lead this and who would like to
roll something here because this is gonna like
the way that combat works in a state is not blow
by blow it's kind of like big move by big move
so i would allow anyone who wants to take the
lead here to take the lead i'm gonna take the
lead okay do it tank tank what are we doing well
tank is uh he's gonna take off his mask and take
in a deep breath terrible bad really bad smell
bad time and just like inhale some of the juice
air oh yeah okay and then I'm also gonna use
my my belter ability so I can push myself to
perform near superhuman feet physical force or
engage a small gang on equal footing in close
combat yes yes hell yes okay so as soon as we
get close i'm gonna jump off and try to get onto
their skimmer and fight them holy shit okay that's
very beautiful and i'm into it okay quick important
question are you still wearing the gauntlets
Yeah, I wouldn't have taken him off. You wouldn't
have taken him off. He's gonna just take off
gauntlets. You feel that electricity crackling
in your hand. You're like, fuck yeah. So I'm
gonna give you both the bonus dice for active
juice, the bonus dice for the gauntlets. You
do have the disadvantage of you could incur another
juice burn if you roll any ones on this, but
you got two bonuses on whatever you're rolling
here. Okay. All right, so right now we are at
desperate standard. Pushing yourselves to stress,
right? Yes. So you're at five now? Uh, yeah.
Okay. Cool, cool, cool. Um, all right, Lottie,
would you like to, to boost this? No pressure.
It's a thing you could do. I can take stress
right now. I'm good on that. So probably. Okay.
All right. So you're going to give Tank one dice.
Um, you look over at your loyal customer and
an understanding passes between you. What do
you do to assist Tank in his charge? I think
as part of this, like the way Lottie is driving,
she like Tank. Presumably communicates his intent
a little bit and she kind of like tries to whirl
the skimmer around so that she like drifts Yes
She wants to jack up like the tilted side of
the skimmer like up facing them so that it's
like kind of like like I'm Coming over a wall.
It's like a thing for you to jump off of and
a shield for us. Yes Real cool guy moves. So
from the giddy girl's perspective They're sitting
at the bottom of this janky ass skimmer And this
big motherfucker. No, rewind. They see two motherfuckers
doing invisible. They don't know it's invisible.
They're like, oh, shit, we're going to get decapitated.
They've got a skid and slide. They immediately
thought it was like, oh, my God, a nanowire like
decapitate all of us. I also really love this
image of like when we do show up just like skimming
like this bottom is fucked up skimmer. It's like
about to fall apart. Can I stress enough that
it's going like 15 miles an hour? It's making
noise like a broke Jetsons car. So as it's turning,
it's now like almost basically on its side and
then out of nowhere leaps this beast with these
gauntlets. He looks like a tickball player. Blam!
Slams into it. Please make your roll. Holy shit.
So close. So close. But that is a six. Oh, my
God. OK. And importantly, no ones out of the
five dice I rolled. All right, so take, there
are three people on board this skimmer. There's
the pilot and two people on the back. I'm describing
it so that you can get, I'm gonna give you full
leeway here, because you just absolutely smoke
this. Like whatever you want to happen happens
here. You see the person driving the thing has
a mask that is like dripping with pearls. It's
really, really beautiful and crazy looking. You
see the person behind her is covered in smoke,
kind of scary looking. And you see the person
on the very back is in the smallest bikini you've
ever seen. I mean, that's female armor, right?
That's female armor. She's actually stronger
than all of the others. It's fine. It's fine.
In every video game, their tits are uncovered.
We're solving sexism with this one, boys. So
you come hurtling over this thing. What happens?
I'm going straight for the turret person and
just smashing my gauntlet into them. And then
I'm going to do the Iron Man move. hand out blast
backwards yeah okay to whom are any of them wearing
metal oh great question I think the first two
are yeah the first one absolutely the person
who's driving definitely has metal on big like
heavy flak suit kind of stuff the person behind
her has a lot of jewelry so I already hit the
the person with the turret right yep you got
her and then the other person I'm just gonna
like Do the Iron Man thing, but it pulls them
towards me. Oh, shit. And then I'm just gonna,
like, slam them into the ground. Or into the
back of the camera. I don't know if you've ever
been on, like... small speedboat where it's like
it's like a four -seater you know it's like all
those like plasticky big seats you just like
gong gong and you just like smash her into these
plastic seats and you're like oh Jesus he kind
of forgot about these metal gauntlets um it feels
crazy it feels so good like you're like all right
I'm strong as hell the one in the back goes Holy
shit! Um, and she is gonna try, like, the skimmer's
still moving, she's gonna try to tuck and roll
off the thing, um, to get away from you. Um,
so, you are now, like, in an instant, the situation
goes from, like, them and their big gun gunning
towards us into... There's no one driving this
thing. The skimmer is careening crazily, like,
off in the wastes. You have momentarily stunned
both of the ones. I don't think either of them
are dead or anything. You know, they're not unconscious,
necessarily. But you have absolutely, like, whipped
these two first people. And the third one has
touched and rolled. You guys see, at 15 miles
an hour, and someone's just like, oh! And then
it just slides off behind you, and you're like,
oh, god, you know? Well, can I chuck the other
two off and commandeer the skimmer? Okay, I think
this is gonna have to be a separate roll, right?
Because you kind of did the combat maneuver with
the first thing. So, yeah, it feels like a fight
thing. So the one who's under you in, like, flak
armor, she was dazed for a second and then she
comes roaring right back up and she's got, like,
a big metal thing that she's gonna try to hit
you with. That's another six. So we have this
nobody -esque scene where, you know, it's just,
oh, she comes swinging up. What do you do? And
then behind you, there's the other lady with
the, like, the smoke and stuff. She is also rustling
around. She's trying to go for your legs. You
take out both of them. What do you do? So, like,
as she's winding up in, like, swing, I, like,
duck under it and slip it like a boxer and just,
like, hit her with a left hook and knock her
off. And then I like - It's just a perfect, like,
sock puppet punch. It's like, donk, and she's
off the side of the skimmer. It's bonk bonk,
like rolling in the trash. Like, yeah. And then
dash up to the second one and just hit her with,
like, an uppercut. And I say, don't get me wrong,
I learn to respect women! I didn't say which!
Somewhere off in the room. Albert is like, do
I feel good? Do I feel bad? Did we learn? Did
we learn? Is this in? Is this feminism? What
did we do? Okay. So the second one, she has smoke
coming off of her skin in a really crazy way.
This is a juice burn. She's really cool. And
it doesn't matter at fucking all. thonker right
under the head and falls backwards off of the
skimmer and just clonks into the waist. Y 'all
weren't moving super fast, but it's fast enough.
If I fell out of a car at 15 miles an hour, I
wouldn't be happy. All that remains to you is
to control this skimmer that is now not piloted,
just sort of like wobbling through the waist.
Give me some kind of role here. Well, I would
say I did the breath of juice and it is balancing.
Oh my god. Okay, what does it look like when
you use the juice in this moment? I'll give it
to you because I don't think I gave you a juice
bonus on that last one. For a second, it's really
bumpy and the skimmer is kind of wobbling. And
for a second, it just is perfectly level. just
cruising along and I can just like walk up to
the front and get in the driver's seat. It's
like a sailor getting their sea legs where like
all of a sudden you're just like oh I get it
like like you just have this instant where you
can kind of feel the whole earth around you and
below you and all the trash rolling down the
hill and the pressure of the atmosphere down
on everything and you just calmly walk up to
the pilot's seat just straighten it out slow
it down no problem. Hell fucking yeah dude! I
genuinely thought you were saying me hard. The
only stuff you've got here to worry about, we
got a few more things at risk. You know, you're
in the wastes. You've got a couple of giddy girls
dazed and confused on the ground, but all things
considered, you're in really good shape to try
and wrap this up and get out of here. So what
are you guys doing right now? Question, what
happened to doink's burgery people? They didn't
get there fast enough. Their clock's still ticking
down. Yeah, the Vertabees got there and they
did not. This is the danger of working with Vertabees.
Yeah, yeah. Well, I think we might see them again
in a second. We're gonna start a four o 'clock
on getty girls, get back up to kick your asses,
because they're all like scratched up and not
in great shape on the ground. I'm gonna tick
that one. So that could be a consequence that
I move with. But what are you guys doing to get
out of here? You're just going to take their
nice skimmer away? Hell yeah. Sick. Tank looks
out and sees Enla. For the viewers at home, Enla
is doing an incredible, beautiful, interpretive
dance. It's really evocative. She did listen.
And Tank's like, all right, I can do that. and
drives the skimmer back over to the hole. Sorry,
I just needed to bring that back. Incredible!
It's super great for listeners, but, you know.
I know, I know, it's good. Yes, this, uh... Visual
gag that we keep doing. All right, you drive
this long, lean skimmer right over to the hole.
Um, feels good. This thing rules. Like, you realize
it's got a gun, and it also looks like the front
is, like, fortified so it can smash into stuff,
and you're like, oh, this is a real piece of
machinery right here. You're like, shit. It occurs
to you that... Like, Giddy Girls are kind of
above your weight class, and they're gonna be
really fucking mad about this. Probably really
soon, and probably in a very bad way. Like, the
thought occurs to you as you're driving up to
this hole. But anyway, I don't know, maybe that's
a later problem. Yeah, you guys are just roping
up the thing, attaching it. Anything else you're
saying to each other? What does it look like
when you guys meet up with Tank back at the hole?
Holy shit, Tank. That was incredible. Well, you
know, I've been training a lot recently. You
said like those gitty girls just flying off the
skimmer. That was insane. Yeah, I know. And the
thing is, like the captain doesn't see my talent.
I don't know. I've never played. I've never.
I don't really understand tickball, but like
I can't imagine that you're bad at it. Just don't
understand tickball. We're going to have a conversation
about this later. Okay, Connie. Yeah, okay. I
just I've never really been into sports. Robins
are pretty independent. Oh, it's... It's the
greatest sport. OK, well, maybe I'll watch it
for you. Listen, I haven't understood it for
like 10 years. It's still fun to watch. It's
just because of the beefy boys, isn't it? Maybe.
Special cut to Lottie in the crowd or the tick
ball game. She's got a big ice cream cone and
she's just smiling gently. A look of like total
non comprehension. That's just like one of the
players takes off his jersey and just like, oh,
yeah. Incredible. All right. We're winching up
the thing. We're getting ready to go. Is there
anything anyone would like to do? I am going
to tick the clock of Doink's Burgery getting
here. You hear another skimmer just like br -br
-br -br -br -br. You see that cool, crazy checkerboard
mask I spent a long time describing? She's just
like looking at this scene of Carter's like,
shit, shit! She's pretty far away though. Are
we stealing the skimmer? I mean, I... I mean
the meat and the skimmer well I feel like we
definitely need it to transport stuff but maybe
we could give the skimmer back after we're done
no no that sounds like the worst the worst way
I don't know like leave it there for him I don't
know when I was a kid you know one of the neighboring
families had this I had this really amazing mallet
that was really helpful for the fans. So, you
know, I would just steal it, use it and give
it back. And they never knew. So it was just
kind of a chill. Did you also beat the shit out
of their families? No, no. I feel like us returning
it is a no -go. It will not be interpreted in
that way. That's fair. But should we just, should
we just take the meat back on our skimmer and
we can bust this skimmer up a little bit so they
can't chase us? We have to seal the skimmer.
There's no way around it. Wait, wait, wait. What
if I just take the keys and toss them into the
waste? Tank, honey, they would still be without
a skimmer and very mad about that. I mean, they
could find it. They could find the keys. They
just gotta remember real hard where they put
them. I did it. We are depriving them of a skimmer,
whether that's to our benefit or not is up to
us. So I say we should do it for our benefit.
All right, I guess. Yeah, our skimmer is not
going to be able to carry this big box. I guess
the scream slice is heavily armed now. We might
need to be. We'll need to check for ammunition
because I don't think we have any of that. We'll
just look really intimidating. We won't actually
have any bite. All right, so y 'all are loading
up. You're swinging on board. You step on this
skimmer. Engine is purring. It sounds great.
It's not coughing like your old Flintstones thing.
Lottie, you look down at the puttering remains
of the Duvet Brothers bad skimmer. What is in
your heart as you look down at this thing? Relief.
Why, you piece of shit! This isn't like an old
10 -year car that Lottie's attached to or anything.
No, this is an upgrade. So you guys are hitching
up and getting out of there. Somebody make a
roll for Doink's Burgery not to catch up to you,
because otherwise that will happen. Just a fortune
roll? Uh, sure. I don't know. The thing is, I'll
roll if it's a fortune roll, because I don't
want any more stress. Yeah, just roll a fortune.
You've got pretty neutral luck. Incredible By
this point the Sun is blazing overhead it is
hot hot hot Sweats pouring down your body and
the wind is whipping through your hair. This
thing can hit maybe like whoa Is this 18 miles
an hour 20 miles an hour? Holy shit? That is
pretty thrilling if you ever been in some without
a roof like Jesus Christ Just blasting through
the waste tank is just on the back on the Uh,
the turkeys like pretending incredible. We're
seeing the crayon drawings just like populate
the landscape. and as you zoom away you're leaving
behind like sputtering after you there's another
skimmer there's a few bodies moving in the wastes
um you feel some kind of resentful energy rising
off these people but they can't catch you not
today the sun is blinding overhead the music's
pounding and just over the southern ridge we
see what looks like a big old silhouette i don't
know looks huge maybe 10 12 feet glinting in
the sun And then it just kind of moves away.
I don't know might worry about that later. We'll
see anyway You guys are tearing off back into
the city back into your life back into the grind
of fresco One successful mission in the books.
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