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Hey, it's Ross Baden with Roleplaying Public Radio.

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We're playing Fist today.

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Freelance Infantry Strike Team. That's

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definitely a normal name. And

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I am not running this game. This

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is Thad is running the game and it's called Knee

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Deep.

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Wait, what? Yeah. Why didn't you? Oh, OK,

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fine. Surprise, motherfuckers.

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Yeah. No, that'll all

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right. We'll see how it turns out. I say, pretending that

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I didn't play in all of this. I tricked you.

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Um, anyway, yes, I am running this game.

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And our our ad hoc

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sell of the freelance infantry

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strike team is these

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chuckleheads who can introduce themselves and their characters,

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I guess, in alphabetical order by the

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current discord name.

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Hi, I'm Caleb, and

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I am going to play Cordyoseps Climber,

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aka Cordy,

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and I'm very excited to learn fist

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and climb very high so it can be eaten by

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a giant bird that doesn't exist. And

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what are your powers, Caleb?

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I have the power

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of self hypnosis of hypnosis

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and climber. So I have the

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ability to reroll any dice. I

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think.

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Yeah. Which is pretty cool. And

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then I can also climb real good. So

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I am a DARPA

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experiment to use the Cordyoseps virus

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fungus to make the perfect soldier. But

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when it turned out, I wasn't contagious. They discontinued

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the program. And now

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fist just motivates me by promising

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me if I kill those guys,

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I will get to climb something very tall and

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be eaten by a giant bird, which is

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motivating. So so your

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role you picked was wild card. So

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to advance, do you need to be

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eaten by a giant bird or just

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think that you have or I'm going

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to leave that up to the GM. All right. All

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right. I would tell you how I feel about that. But

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the other thing about being under hypnosis is I cannot

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talk. So yeah, that's

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mushroom headed character is just going

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to be. restricted to pantomime for this

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game. So are you are you made out

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of fungus or are you like a corpse possessed

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by fungus? I think it's just like a corpse possessed

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by fungus. I think it's just like I got I

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got mushroom brain and mushroom eyes Gotcha

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gotcha

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Otherwise, I just kind of stand there and drool

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and wait to be told to kill things It's like a swamp

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thing where you think you're a man, but you're really

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not. I mean that's for

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thinking too much about like questions

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of identity I'm thinking that's for Alan Morden very

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very mean bear Alright

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we got corgi character design definitely not

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stolen from the last of us original

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characters do not steal Yeah

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original fungus do not steal Hey,

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it's Russ Peyton I am playing carbon

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no clip

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my new character Who

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I tried to make the most Metal Gear name for

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essentially a real-life speedrunner. I

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randomly rolled my powers As

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is only right and good and

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I got a flight and teleport

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I can fly which I decided is telekinesis

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and I can teleport

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So I'm a real I I'm

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doing real-life

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Speedruns on my twitch stream until I got recruited

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by fist, you know Like speedrun try

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and give it the world record for going down the corner

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getting a gallon of milk and back And

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so yeah things like that and then they like oh well

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you could use this for

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Bersonary missions like awesome

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great. What does that mean? So

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my character only knows about streaming

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and social media and no Don't

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forget Ross that this is the nebulous retro

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present. Oh, yeah, so the Cold War

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is still going on So you're I'm fine with you being a

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live streamer But unfortunately in a very Ross

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twist you basically have to VHS

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record your speedruns and share

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them amongst a network of nerds Oh

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Okay.

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Oh, yeah, I also have a flare

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gun. So I'm feeling very

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great about carbon. No clue. Oh

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Alright next up. Oh

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wait Oh no,

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I changed an alternative.

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I took the old name from the previous game

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off and put the new name from the current game

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on.

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That's fair. Yeah, I keep

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not doing that. Even though our mutants game

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is over, I should probably change my name in here. Anyway, Bendy,

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yes. Hi everybody,

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I'm back. Your

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favorite contortionist slash sharpshooter.

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I am looking for more fist fun

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in more fist places. This is going

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to be great. I love my new team. I

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don't know what happened to my old team, but I love my

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new team. Alrighty.

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I guess less

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on that one. So hey, this is Aaron and

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I also will be playing a returning mercenary

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here, the eponymous android Red

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Blue. He was

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created as a synthetic

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defender, but

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his creators either were abandoned and

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betrayed somehow. Now he

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wanders taking jobs anywhere he can to basically

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enact justice as needed, especially since

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his other partner, possibly brother,

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Psycho Blast Man has gone missing. So

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we don't know where they might be. But

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also, as his

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powers might state, he's not

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only a synthetic man, but he has the hench and ability

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so he

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can pick on a much more statuesque

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form, which is actually a trade in here. So I'm

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very happy that that sentence came together

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the way I wanted it to. What is

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it that you're made of in your statuesque form? Because

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it gives you options. Oh yeah. So

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basically, it's absolutely metal. So

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it's metallic exoskeletons.

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So when you transform, you put on your metal gear?

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Is that what we're...

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Yeah. I think

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he does put on his metal gear. No, no,

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this is... No,

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it's basically

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the unlimited form. It's from my transformation device,

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the Violet and Limiter. Of course.

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Look, we all know that. Yes.

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Alright. I carry a guitar

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that's also a railgun because I can.

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Sick. OK, so

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this this ragtag group

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of mercenaries has been called to a

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briefing room at undisclosed fist

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location. And

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it is it is late in the day

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when you all come rolling in to

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this this sort of nondescript

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room in a nondescript building.

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The room contains a TV

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on a rolling cart, a harried

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looking young man wearing glasses, and

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there's a woman sitting in the corner wearing

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a wide brim gray hat. That's

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yeah, that's that's who is there. And

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there are some seats available

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with folders in front of them, except

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for one which just has pictures

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of birds in front of the

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chair.

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I climb on top of

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that one and reach very high into

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the very captain captain me. I

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go to all I go to all the chairs, teleport

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from each chair to chair to try and figure out what's the optimal

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one.

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Wait, what kind of speedrun is this? Is this a

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time time to end briefing? Are

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we looking for crates? Is it time to start to create?

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What are we having? I'll settle down.

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Fearless leaders going to come on the screen

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and tell us all of the stuff that we're going to be doing. Isn't

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that right? Red Blue is

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just quietly sitting there strumming dust

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in the wind as he's looking through the file.

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The the the young man

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in glasses next to the TV

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looks looks at his watch and sort

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of seems annoyed

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about something. But regardless,

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switches on the TV that

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upon the TV appears a phase that all of you

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are familiar with, if you can see or

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a voice that you're familiar with, if you can only

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hear or maybe kind of see through weird fungal

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powers. A person you only know

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as Ops, who is a grizzled

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veteran of some.

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thing nebulously important and dangerous

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in the past in his 50s

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or 60s.

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And through the sort of glitchy

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screen, he seems

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to,

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despite the TV not being connected to

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anything other than a power cord, seems

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to, and the complete lack of a camera in the room,

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seems to be perfectly aware of each of you

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and sort of nods to you individually. Is

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he wearing the eyepatch this time? Please tell me he's

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wearing the eyepatch. No, no eyepatch. Oh.

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Which is weird because you

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have seen him wear an eyepatch before. Anyway,

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Ops

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basically jumps directly to business. 24

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hours ago, Fist received what

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can only be described as a cryptic distress

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message that arrived inside

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of one of our most secure data processing

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facilities.

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He nods toward the folders in

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front of those of you who are interested in reading

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things. Okay. You

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start looking through it. I read this folder

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as fast as I can without learning

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anything. Well,

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there's not much to it. As a speedrunner, you got

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to have FAQs. There's

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not much to it. There's some aerial

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photographs of what appears to be a large warehouse

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and there is a

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photocopy of what appears to be a handwritten

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message that simply says they

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are experimenting on my people in

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capital block letters followed by

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a set of coordinates that if

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you look at the picture, it seems to connect

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to the building that the satellite photographs

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are photographs of.

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The coordinates point to what is

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ostensibly a small welding

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company about 20 miles west of

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Lawrence, Kansas, IZ

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joint and weld. We

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have very little information on this place

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and this would seem like a prank

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or an obvious trap if

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it wasn't for the fact that this message literally

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appeared on a strip of paper

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inside of a building. our most secure

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data clearing house location

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under the Gray Lady over there. The

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woman who ... Oh yeah, there was that woman

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sitting in the corner.

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That's weird. None of you really ... Anyway.

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Ah, she comes and goes. That's what she does.

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That's your thing. Yeah. She

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stands up and sort

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of ...

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Yeah, she stands up. Her appearance is very

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difficult to pin down, aside from

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the fact that she is a woman

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of some kind wearing a white brim gray

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hat. She

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indicates the picture of the message.

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This appeared

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out of literally nowhere between

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blinks in front of one of our agents

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in the secure

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data facility, and

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there is

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nothing traceable about

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it. The paper has no marks

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on it. There isn't any ink on

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the original. The paper is just a different

11:02

color where the message is. Some

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sort of

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anomalous property delivered

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this message to a place that no

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one should know about,

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and we need to assemble a team

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to essentially walk into what

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probably has to be

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a trap. And so you've been chosen

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for that task. Before

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we do go in this mission, are we certain that the psychic

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SPACS machine was destroyed as

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per request in the last mission?

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Nothing about this lines up with anything

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else in our files. And

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trust me, we've been looking very hard,

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but a breach of our

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top secret data facility has caused

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some other problems to come up. So while we

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are running down other leads, we

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need you to investigate this

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set of coordinates. And if

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it's a trap, you need to break that trap

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and find who ... screwed

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up my secure facility.

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Uh, question, question,

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question. Uh, the, the TV

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guy nods at you.

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Uh, is this an any% or is this a

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hundred percent?

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He blinks slowly.

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Uh, looks at the guy

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in glasses who was, uh, who

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has been like fidgeting with the, the,

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uh,

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TV cart a little bit to move it from behind

12:24

the gray lady. Uh, I

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think any percent. Any%.

12:30

Okay. Um, one break

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trap to fine.

12:34

Fine trap guy. Is that it?

12:37

Whatever information you can find

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that will lead us to who and

12:42

how this message was delivered

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to our facility. All

12:45

right.

12:46

Uh, there's very little, there's very little

12:48

backup to be had at the moment

12:51

because, uh, this is ops

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talking because well, our secure

12:55

facility is being scrubbed and

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moved to another location while we also

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don't know how unsecure it is. So,

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uh, speed is of the

13:05

essence and also no backup is

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available.

13:08

Uh, for follow up question,

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is there a leader board or is this new?

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He looks at the nerd guy.

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It's new. I may be a little bit

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of a sweet, sweet. It's new. Oh

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dude. We, we get, we get top number

13:22

one, no matter what. Uh, uh, hi

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five. I like how you have a translator

13:26

in the room. It's

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like, yeah, I didn't

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know I was going to need that, but I am glad the tech

13:33

support guys, he's got

13:35

like an earpiece on. It's like a kind

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of mustardy white, yellow, like

13:40

old electronics.

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Yeah. Phone call. Got any of his ear. Yeah. Yes.

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So we, we need you to be wheels

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up as soon as possible.

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Uh, this is a priority mission and,

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uh, you all are who is available

13:54

and who is going to get it done. Any other questions?

13:57

All that kind of answers mine. I was going

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to ask, are we. team

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awesome or are we team

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expendable? Because, you know, fist usually

14:05

sends two fists in at once.

14:09

I just want to know, are we the right fist or

14:11

are we the left? No operative

14:13

in our organization is expendable, soldier. You're

14:16

there to get the job done. Right.

14:19

That makes us team. Nevermind. Let's

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go. Woo hoo.

14:23

Uh, all right. Your,

14:25

uh, your information, uh, give the,

14:28

they will give you a, uh, essentially

14:30

a van that can get all of you to the location.

14:33

But, uh, otherwise in terms of gear,

14:35

they, the, everything is very spare. Uh,

14:37

it's sort of clear from the briefing that, uh, there's,

14:39

yeah, there's a lot going on at fist

14:42

because of a very weird and explicable breach

14:44

that, uh, doubled as an invitation

14:46

to this weird place, uh, in

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Kansas.

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Yay. I'm already ready to go. Uh,

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I, so I went, I'm, I'm top of the leaderboard for

14:54

prepping for the mission. Right.

14:57

I have my flare gun. Uh, the, the,

15:00

uh, the tech support guys sort of nods

15:02

vaguely as he's wheeling the, uh, the

15:04

TV out of the room.

15:06

Hell yeah. I'm going to wait in

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the plane and, uh, twiddle my

15:10

thumbs while I, while I do some stretches.

15:12

A plane. Oh, my character's heading

15:15

straight for that. Um,

15:17

weird question at least. That's where the birds live,

15:19

baby. That's right. Courtney. Do

15:22

we sell a note that, uh, we came

15:24

that, uh, they just

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will note that appeared.

15:28

They gave you, well, they gave you, uh, photocopies

15:31

of the note, but the note itself is being analyzed

15:33

by a team of fist

15:36

nerds.

15:37

Okay. Um, at least where we can

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see for the picture, like tactical to roll to see

15:41

if there's anything coming up that, that would

15:43

seem weird.

15:44

Uh, you can go ahead. Okay.

15:47

And that's just two dice right now. One for it and one

15:49

for the skill. Uh, 2d6. Yeah. 2d6.

15:51

Gotcha. All right. All

15:54

right. Uh, yeah, that's, uh,

15:56

let's see. That's a one and a six. So I forgot,

15:59

do we add these up? It's been a. Yeah. Add

16:01

up the dice. Add the dice

16:04

plus or minus whatever your your skill is. Okay.

16:07

So that will be eight. All

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right. I mean, from looking at the copy

16:11

you have, it is.

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It

16:14

if it you cannot tell

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if it was printed by a machine

16:20

or handwritten,

16:21

like you should be able to tell,

16:23

especially since you have robot brain. But

16:26

you can't like even in the

16:28

photocopy, it's it's

16:31

odd. Like you you

16:33

you find it actually it's not

16:36

in the same way, but it is sort

16:38

of

16:38

trying to figure it out. Slips off of your

16:41

brain in a way not dissimilar from

16:43

how looking at the oh,

16:45

hey, yeah, that that lady who is oh, I guess

16:47

she left to. Huh?

16:48

Again,

16:51

that's what she does. She comes and goes. That

16:54

won't be at least strange than nothing else, but but it's

16:57

I guess it's breaking my perception of reality,

16:59

at least like looking at an optical illusion. Yeah,

17:01

you can tell a tangible

17:04

but isn't. Yeah, because you succeeded.

17:06

You can tell you should be able to tell something

17:08

from this, but you can't even tell the most

17:11

basic things about it. It's that's

17:13

that and good. That's that's the robot

17:15

brain. No like.

17:20

Going to do the actual division problems until

17:22

my logic circuits reset themselves. OK,

17:25

well, unless anyone

17:27

has any other preparatory actions. Oh,

17:30

while he's busy resetting, I'm just going to

17:32

get the hand truck.

17:35

Put him on it and just wheel him to the plane because

17:37

yeah, we know this drill. All

17:40

right, yeah, there is there is a

17:43

small like.

17:44

Private plane that they use to drop you

17:46

off in an airfield near near Lawrence. And

17:49

from there you have a van

17:52

and the coordinates and

17:54

the the satellite pictures that you got in the

17:56

meeting and a map.

17:58

And that is what you have. OK. Off

18:00

we go. Who's driving?

18:05

I am so. Wait, are

18:07

we driving or we flying? Well,

18:09

you you flew to can't you you flew to

18:11

the city and it's about 20 miles to the west of town Okay,

18:15

we had an uber or something else waiting for us that we immediately

18:17

hijacked So now you have a van they

18:19

provided you a van and the the flight to the area.

18:22

Okay, so yeah I will I will drive

18:24

the van since I have the GPS located

18:26

or location already in my head So all

18:29

right, the actual trip there is uneventful

18:31

enough. It's you're not you're not being chased So

18:33

we're not gonna do a roll for the top of the van

18:37

in case

18:38

You could I mean

18:41

someone will have to convince you not to if you're you're

18:43

insistent on doing that. Yeah, I'm gonna try and do that

18:46

All right. Well, I mean it on the luggage rack. It

18:48

is just getting dark. So maybe it'll

18:51

be fine But also there is

18:53

a weird sticky guy Wanting

18:55

to ride on top of your van?

18:58

If we open a window, will that be a good enough compromise?

19:01

I don't know how you expect him to

19:03

respond to that Like pantomining

19:05

his his tongue is made of walnuts

19:08

man. I mean Yeah,

19:10

you you yeah Caleb can't talk you can

19:12

talk to him. Yeah Yeah,

19:16

he's he's very insistent about being

19:18

on the roof. It's it's

19:19

alright Well, if if he is riding

19:22

on the roof that will make it a somewhat

19:24

risky role Uh, you

19:26

could like put a tarp over him

19:31

Could I do another tactical role to see if I can I can

19:34

Chart away into town where it will draw the least

19:36

bit of suspicion. Yeah,

19:37

certainly. All right, let's try Creative

19:42

rooting

19:44

Well, yeah, I'm gonna tarp time. I can

19:46

get a tarp real fast. Oh, this

19:48

is not gonna be good for we're going straight

19:50

down Main Street Yeah, now you're just

19:52

like you're you're pretty sure that

19:55

since it's dark and and he's

19:57

sort of clinging to the top of the van the

20:00

You'll probably be fine.

20:03

Look, if there's anything that I have learned

20:05

from fisting around the world, it is that

20:07

as long as we have our logo on the side of the

20:09

van, nobody pays any attention. It'll

20:12

be fine.

20:13

Out of character.

20:15

If you live in Kansas and you've never seen

20:17

somebody surf a van, I mean, what are you doing with your

20:19

life? It's Kansas. Well,

20:24

it's not that they haven't seen it. It's

20:26

just that they haven't seen it with an active algae pile.

20:30

Well, whose fault is that? Certainly

20:32

not mine.

20:35

All right. So you are you

20:37

are heading to the location.

20:41

And yeah, in

20:43

after a fairly short ride.

20:49

You you do pass a cop. Because

20:55

you rolled very bad in terms of luck. Oh,

20:57

absolutely. Let's see. Oh, yeah. He

21:03

just keeps driving.

21:04

OK, so you have lucked out seemingly. Nothing

21:09

to see here, officer. We

21:12

got good energy for this. This is good. This is good. So

21:15

as you are approaching the location,

21:17

you have a few decisions

21:19

that you're going to need to make tactically is

21:22

what where you're going to park and how

21:24

you're going to approach.

21:26

It's it's a fairly sparse area. You're

21:30

you're you're rolling up basically

21:32

the

21:33

the welding company, as

21:36

far as you can tell from the aerial photographs, consists

21:38

of a large fenced in area containing

21:40

a fairly big sort

21:43

of warehouse ish, you know,

21:45

some small middle sized warehouse

21:47

building. And

21:51

nearby, there's not much aside from some

21:53

pasture land. There's a cemetery

21:56

off to the west. It's on

21:59

the north side of the road. road that says cemetery after the

22:01

West. There is like a road that

22:03

leads back to a farmhouse on the right,

22:05

but it's not

22:06

extremely close to where you're

22:08

going. And

22:11

that's that's about what you can tell from

22:13

overhead photos. OK, so

22:15

this is a new run, so we don't know

22:17

the optimal thing. So I

22:20

mean, we have to at least do it like we can't fuck

22:22

it up. So like otherwise we don't get

22:24

on leaderboard or we don't complete the mission. So

22:26

like we can that we don't have to

22:28

like, I mean, we just haven't figured

22:30

out the tech for this run, right? Yeah. So

22:33

we can take our time a little bit. We don't. But I mean,

22:35

you know, can't waste time. So maybe

22:37

we should split up and take different things and just

22:39

figure out what's going on.

22:41

And then like

22:43

do we have I mean, because this is a co-op mission, too. Do

22:46

we have radios or anything?

22:49

Yeah, I'll say you can

22:52

stay in radio contact with each other. OK.

22:54

I mean, I could take like I can look around

22:56

in the pastures and see what's going on there, see if there's

22:58

anything clickable. Or if it's just

23:00

like,

23:01

yeah,

23:04

I could just fly. Yeah, that's a good idea.

23:07

We know that Cordy's going to go up high because that's

23:09

what Cordy does.

23:11

Although, of course, it occurs to you that while Cordy can hear

23:13

you over the radio, you cannot in any way

23:15

get information from Cordy via the radio.

23:17

Wait, Cordy, can you can you can you like hit

23:20

the button when like

23:21

for like once for yes and twice

23:24

for no? Like

23:25

geek geek like that. Yeah,

23:27

sure. OK. I will just

23:29

already know Morse code. As

23:32

well as the plot requires. I

23:35

mean, Cordy has a creative of minus

23:37

two. So yeah.

23:40

OK.

23:41

So once or yes, twice for no.

23:43

I mean, it's a it's a I guess creative wouldn't

23:46

really be it. It would be it's a knowledge skill, so it

23:48

would be tactical. So I think that's a zero. So,

23:50

you know, maybe.

23:53

Yeah, just don't ask me to like give a speech. Yeah,

23:55

the project was canceled for a reason. Some

23:59

limitations.

23:59

that they ran up against.

24:02

I thought certain funguses were

24:04

able to have quantum entanglement as

24:07

communication. Is this not the same thing

24:09

with you?

24:10

I would be a one beep.

24:13

Cordy, are you going to squelch yes

24:16

or no on the radio for that one? Yes.

24:24

One beep, yeah.

24:25

Oh, then I just need to figure out a way

24:27

to literally integrate a spore

24:29

receiver into my cerebral matrix.

24:33

Well, I don't

24:35

know if you have cerebral matrix toolkit with you

24:37

today.

24:40

Anyway. Okay,

24:42

so Cordy and I go up high. We can

24:45

try to

24:46

enter through the upper vent

24:49

and shimmy our way in TV dinner style.

24:52

Well, we're still out. Yeah, so

24:55

you're starting outside the area. But

24:57

if that is your plan of egress, that can

24:59

work.

25:01

One of the things. Egress. Yeah, although

25:04

it will also be egress later too. One

25:06

of the things

25:08

that you do notice as you look around the area

25:10

is there is a guard post outside of the

25:12

perimeter of the fence area.

25:15

The fence you actually can't see through. It's

25:17

a chain link fence with

25:20

barbed wire at the top. But it also has sheet

25:22

metal put up along the inside of the

25:24

fencing to prevent people from seeing inside

25:27

the fence for some reason.

25:30

And the the guard post is on the outside.

25:33

There is a little light on. And if

25:36

you roll, I'll tell you if you see anything else.

25:38

Anyone keeping a lookout.

25:40

Okay. Unless anybody else wants to roll,

25:42

I can do another tactical. Why

25:46

don't you give it a shot? Don't worry, guys.

25:49

2d6. Yeah,

25:52

2d6

25:53

plus any bonuses or I'm in the crows

25:55

nest. I'm on the lookout.

25:58

I got an eight without adding. Anything

26:00

okay, you see there is a dude sitting

26:02

in the the guard shack and

26:06

With with an eight one of the things that you

26:08

you notice is there there are

26:11

You see at least two cameras one

26:14

is just above the guard shack pointed

26:16

off Sort of into the dark

26:19

doesn't really seem well placed from the direction

26:21

you would have to approach the guard shack or not Not

26:24

really. It's just kind of up

26:26

there like looking out You

26:29

see two there's one at each of the the south

26:31

corners that you can see of the The

26:34

perimeter fence, but both are just pointing out Kind

26:38

of away as far as you

26:40

can tell there is no camera covering the drive

26:42

up to the the vehicle

26:44

entrance of the fence

26:47

Okay, I can bluff past the

26:49

guards Okay, yeah

26:53

And once we get inside the

26:55

fence and we just spread out Okay,

26:58

I mean I can fly over but yeah,

27:01

I can't really take anybody with me So

27:05

that sounds good

27:06

Well, actually I'll just go ahead like

27:08

I'll fly above the guard check And so if

27:11

you can't bluff your way through I can ambush them.

27:13

Is it a guard shack or guard tower? Oh,

27:15

yeah, it's a shack. It is ground level just

27:18

a little outbuilding Probably

27:20

it does not appear to even be insulated. There's

27:24

There's a little box that we can see

27:26

Yeah, there's the the there appear to be

27:28

there's one at each corner of the exterior

27:30

fence both pointing outward But

27:33

there's a way to approach the compound without being

27:36

On camera for sure. Yeah, actually if you if

27:38

you strolled up to the main gate No camera

27:40

would see you as far as you can tell which you

27:43

know,

27:43

and we can immediately take them out if needed so

27:46

Okay, so I'll

27:48

fly above the the van as

27:51

they approach and just sort of you know

27:54

Me if anything happens I'll drop down Alright,

27:57

you hear a fingers in jealousy You

28:04

hear like a radio playing

28:07

in the guard shack.

28:09

Not much else. OK, so

28:12

I'm just going to walk right up to the guards.

28:14

I'm going to flash my fist ID.

28:17

And just say.

28:21

Federal inspection site

28:23

team were here to just take a look at the place.

28:25

Just let me in.

28:27

Alright, you going to give me a creative

28:30

on that one?

28:31

Yes, I will. That is

28:33

a nine. Alright,

28:36

so a nine. That's partial

28:39

success, right? Yeah.

28:41

That's he seems sort of very

28:43

surprised that anyone is here. Immediately

28:46

switches off the radio. He was listening to like

28:49

baseball or something and he

28:53

immediately starts scrambling for paperwork

28:55

and he's like there's this is routine.

28:58

We're supposed to surprise

29:00

inspection, but it's a routine surprise.

29:03

OK, that means there is nothing special

29:06

about this inspection other than the fact that

29:08

it is completely and totally unscheduled.

29:10

Don't tell anybody that

29:12

we are here because if they know

29:15

that ruins the surprise. I

29:17

mean, I gotta I gotta call up the office

29:19

man. It's procedure. You have queue clearance,

29:22

sir. I don't know

29:24

what that is. You

29:27

do not have queue clearance. No,

29:30

I was you would have it. So that I

29:32

have cannot call in until

29:34

after we are past the station. That's

29:37

the rules. That's the way that it works. The

29:39

rules are unpaid hourly minimum

29:41

wage for like

29:43

to do two things. Sit here and

29:46

call if something shows up not

29:48

on the schedule and you're not on the schedule.

29:51

Exactly, because it is a routine surprise

29:53

inspection.

29:54

I'm I look at minimum

29:56

wage for this, right? Do you really want to keep

29:58

your job? Yeah. Can I jump

30:01

through the window and just attack the car? You

30:03

absolutely can. I would like to.

30:06

All right.

30:09

I roll and I got a 10. OK,

30:14

well, you succeed. Are you

30:16

trying to kill him or knock him out? Knock

30:19

him out. Yeah. All right.

30:21

Then give me.

30:26

Oh, yeah, you don't have any weapons. What would that

30:28

get? Just give me a D6. Roll me a

30:30

D6. OK. Strown him in

30:32

spores. I rolled the two, but I can

30:35

reroll because I'm. No, that's fine. He's

30:38

he is not. Oh, yeah, you can. So go ahead.

30:40

If you want. That one's a

30:42

five. Yeah. OK. Yeah. No, he's out

30:44

immediately. Like you cold cock

30:46

him. Like he doesn't even hear the window shatter.

30:49

Like just boom.

30:51

Is he armed?

30:54

He he does have a like

30:57

not on him because he appears to

30:59

have like either not regularly

31:01

wear his belt unless he's maybe out

31:03

on rounds or something. But there is there

31:05

is a pistol like a

31:08

just a one D6 automatic

31:11

pistol, a semi automatic pistol in

31:13

a belt holster by the door.

31:15

All right. I take his gun, put

31:17

it in my pants and then go outside

31:20

and start trying to climb the shack. Yeah.

31:23

Yeah, you succeeded. So I will I

31:25

will summit the shack. What

31:27

was my ultimate objective? I'm

31:30

I'm in a way. All right. There's. Yeah. As

31:33

we get out because I need to investigate the shack itself.

31:35

I guess start pulling on your pants leg

31:38

if you have one.

31:40

Yeah,

31:42

there's no I have the radio.

31:44

No. Click, click.

31:47

I'm going to. I'm

31:49

looking around, by the way, if anything

31:52

approaches. So.

31:53

Really, really the

31:55

only. Oh, sorry. Was

31:57

someone searching the shack or were you just looking around?

31:59

to Shaq once I got him, got Cordy

32:02

down. I mean, aside from

32:05

his radio, a

32:06

calendar that has

32:09

intermittent like dates marked

32:11

as delivery.

32:13

There's

32:15

not much else. Oh, there. Well, there's also four

32:18

screens for security cameras that the

32:21

devil it shows that, yes, there are there are four

32:23

cameras each pointing out from the corners, just

32:26

sort of looking at pasture.

32:29

Like there. Okay, that's just the

32:31

pasture. Yeah, so they're

32:33

they're not really that none of them seem to be pointing

32:36

in a particularly useful way.

32:39

Hmm, at least odd.

32:40

So like they're

32:42

only here for show maybe or that's to. Oh,

32:47

wait, maybe maybe we have to visit those spots to

32:49

trigger some sort of scripted event. Anyways,

32:52

or maybe we need to maybe we

32:54

need to grab this guy's radio and

32:57

this roll of duct tape. Oh, he doesn't have

32:59

a radio.

33:00

Oh, he doesn't know the radio he's listening

33:02

to is like an AM FM radio. He doesn't

33:04

have a walkie.

33:06

Was there a phone in the booth or the shack?

33:08

There there is there is a landline

33:11

phone that does not have numbers on it.

33:13

OK, so that that's that's what we're calling

33:16

it in. OK, so we'll

33:18

just take that cable. Or

33:22

unplug it from the wall and unplug it from the phone.

33:25

Remove remove phone. Gotcha. Yeah.

33:29

Also, we're just going to tie that guy

33:31

down underneath his desk chair. Just,

33:34

you know, use that phone cord to tie his hands

33:36

together and just look. No, I know

33:38

easily.

33:40

I know he's out cold right now, but eventually

33:42

he's going to wake up. And when he does, we don't want him

33:44

to have the ability to call this in.

33:48

So with the with

33:51

the monitoring stations right now, is it connected to

33:53

any kind of computer? Or is it just basically just monitors

33:55

to now that this this this shack

33:57

has enough power to keep the like.

34:00

the cameras, the camera

34:02

screens on his radio is battery

34:04

powered and there's like one light bulb in

34:06

there. It is

34:07

Okay,

34:11

although I will say this right now It's just

34:13

given robot knowledge What would be possible to do a tactical

34:15

role to see if I could Splice the

34:18

feed into my own systems and see if there's any

34:20

other cameras going around in the closed circuit

34:23

Yeah, if you want if you would like to attempt

34:25

that So already do you see

34:27

anything on that roof? Well,

34:31

I can't see anything do I yeah I

34:35

thought I wasn't allowed on the roof. Yeah. All right Nope,

34:38

this is too basic. Unfortunately, they're using

34:41

a coax on here. So a force

34:43

not gonna cut again

34:45

So are those so the views

34:47

we're getting they're from cameras that are not on the

34:50

shack He said there's like one on like a couple

34:52

are on the shack But there's yeah, basically the at each

34:54

of the corners of the big square fence

34:56

around the the area The

34:59

shack is outside the fence You can't see in the fence

35:01

without going over it because they have for

35:03

some reason put

35:04

metal sheeting on the inside Okay,

35:07

and yeah, the cameras all point outward. They

35:09

all put they don't move. Okay,

35:12

I am going

35:15

to fly to one of the corners to where

35:17

the camera is pointed and Check

35:19

it out and see if there's anything weird or unusual Like

35:22

why is this

35:23

area being looked at because if they

35:25

were trying to like

35:26

Keep every if they're trying to like Check

35:30

for intruders coming from any angle that have more cameras,

35:32

right? Why so my theory is that

35:34

there's something?

35:36

Unusual about these places that

35:38

they want to keep an eye on them.

35:39

So yeah, all right.

35:42

I will fly over there and do that Okay,

35:44

give me a supposed tactical

35:47

for that Yeah,

35:52

ten

35:53

ten you see nothing

35:56

The cameras are just pointing at grass

35:58

and brush like There's like

36:01

there's a cut like the ones on the west side

36:03

like you can see it's dark now So

36:05

not you can't quite see you can sort of

36:07

see the edge of the cemetery in the distance But like

36:10

even that like there's not There's

36:13

there's nothing that you can see that

36:15

seems particularly remarkable. Okay, so

36:17

there's nothing moving There's no like

36:19

the the stuff that's nearby is far

36:21

enough away that like even if it shows up on the camera

36:24

it seems more background detail like the the

36:26

farmhouse in the the Northeast a

36:28

ways away or the Cemetery

36:31

to the the west. Okay.

36:33

Well,

36:34

all right, so it's just bad placement.

36:36

Oh Okay,

36:38

let's I think we should just head

36:41

on in Do we want

36:43

to go stealth or do we want to

36:46

go blatant? I

36:48

Mean, there's also a question of how are how are you

36:50

getting in because some of you can fly others? There's

36:52

there is a gate and there's a fence at a gate in the

36:54

way Oh the shack doesn't have a thing to open the gate

36:57

No, Shaq is entirely outside of the gate, but

36:59

there's no button like open gate or

37:01

anything like that No, not on the shack

37:04

again. It's it's just it's real

37:06

sparse What kind of lock is on the gate? Is it

37:08

just is it just padlocked or is it a

37:10

different type? Yeah, it seems to just be padlocked

37:13

I

37:16

know it's not there. I could just blast it

37:18

off with the probe with the rail again. So That

37:21

is a that is a choice. I can

37:23

climb things You can I

37:26

mean I also could transform to just break

37:28

it open but I don't want to do that yet since

37:30

it seems a Blatant

37:34

I should probably full that reserve until something else

37:36

happens

37:38

Is there a gap between the

37:40

two sides of the gate?

37:41

Yeah, it's there's a little bit of

37:44

room. Yeah

37:45

Okay, so I think we should all

37:47

just get through with using our special

37:49

fistic powers The

37:51

two that can go over which would be you know

37:54

our flyer and our climber

37:56

will just scale the fence I'll go through

37:58

the fence because any

37:59

Yeah, any of you can scale

38:02

the fence. If there

38:04

is barbed wire at the top, so anyone

38:06

who doesn't have like a unique way of getting over

38:08

it will have to roll a

38:12

reflexive to prevent hurting themselves.

38:14

Oh, and actually

38:16

I can also do it one more tactical role to see if

38:19

I can just lockpick it.

38:21

Yeah. All right. So. Thankfully,

38:24

my creators actually program

38:26

that and gave me well,

38:29

let's just go with inspector gadget. No one. No

38:31

one seems to be aware of you. So you do have plenty of time.

38:34

All right. Yeah. Yeah. If I can just

38:36

put a hand through my hips, I slips. So

38:38

just boop.

38:41

That's better. All right. That will

38:43

be nine.

38:45

Nine. OK, so it's not you. You don't

38:48

pick it, but you do break the lock open.

38:51

So, you know, you're not

38:53

going to be able to like lock it behind you to

38:55

make it look like no one came through here, but you can get

38:57

in

38:58

just out of sheer frustration. Finally, what?

39:01

Oh, master lock. Unsurprising.

39:03

Yeah, it's not again. Not

39:06

not really

39:07

super expensive. And

39:09

what do my fungal eyes see inside

39:11

the car? The

39:14

party.

39:16

I mean, inside of the fence is pretty

39:18

much bare up to the the

39:21

warehouse building, which is about

39:24

three, four stories tall. Like if it

39:26

had floors, but it's I mean, it seems

39:28

like a basically a huge barn

39:30

or a small warehouse, as far as you can tell from the outside.

39:33

On your end, sort of in line

39:35

with the gate entrance, there

39:37

is a loading dock sort

39:40

of

39:40

garage door entrance. A couple

39:42

of big ones there. And then there is a small

39:45

walkthrough door you can see on the the

39:47

sort of southeast corner facing, you know.

39:50

And up top there are there

39:52

are sort of some vents and and like

39:56

things along the upper edge, but there

39:58

there do not seem to be any windows

39:59

You can see. All right. Well,

40:02

I point at the roof and just

40:05

tab the radio. Yes. Yes.

40:08

Yes. Yeah. All

40:10

right. I am going. That's my

40:13

plan. Yeah. That's my

40:15

contribution. You cover that. I will.

40:19

I'll fly over the cemetery and get

40:21

a closer look. That's near the warehouse, right?

40:23

Yeah.

40:24

It's just off to the west a

40:26

little ways. Like I said, you could

40:28

see sort of the edge of it from

40:31

where the security camera was, but since it's nighttime,

40:33

it's not that. If

40:36

it was a full moon, you would see it pretty easily from

40:38

the place, but otherwise it's

40:41

a sort of rural cemetery

40:42

off the highway. Okay.

40:45

So it doesn't look like it's been used

40:47

or anything like that, or it's all

40:49

dusty and all.

40:51

No. From up in the air, you see the

40:53

cemetery. You see the highway that you came in

40:55

on runs east-west. You see some lights

40:57

in the distance from like a crossroad for

40:59

the sort of town that this

41:02

is attached to,

41:03

but otherwise not a lot going on. You

41:06

see like a ... You see vehicles on the highway

41:08

in the far distance, but yeah.

41:11

Okay. I'll join Cordy on the roof.

41:14

And well, I didn't say ... None of the doors

41:17

are like glass, right? I can teleport if I

41:19

have line of sight, so I can teleport. Yeah. You

41:22

don't have line of sight. The closest that you would be able

41:24

to be to getting line of sight is there are

41:26

some ventilation grating

41:28

along some of the

41:31

intermittently along the top edge

41:33

of the sort of walls on the outside

41:35

of the

41:37

warehouse. So if you pried one

41:39

of those open and looked in, you could teleport,

41:41

but there's not a way to ... Yeah,

41:43

you're talking.

41:44

Okay. Well, I'm going to head for

41:46

that grate.

41:46

Okay. Do you need help climbing

41:48

up? Because I think Cordy

41:50

has a row. Cordy would definitely be

41:53

right there with me. Like ... For,

41:55

let's see, Cordy, you get to climb essentially

41:58

for free, or no, with handholds.

41:59

So you can stick to smooth surfaces

42:02

if you roll reflexive successfully.

42:04

So

42:04

are there handheld? No. OK,

42:07

I will. I will climb them. Yeah. And

42:09

once he does that, he can lower the rope for Bendy

42:11

and red blue. Hmm.

42:14

But then I'll just with my reroll for hypnosis.

42:17

I got an 11. OK, yeah.

42:19

No, you're you're spider man. You're right behind me

42:21

as a spider man. Yeah. Yeah. You

42:24

got like a little harness dragging your rope behind you. Oh,

42:27

and yeah, you make it up with with no

42:29

difficulty.

42:30

OK. And my reflexive to follow on that

42:32

rope is an 11.

42:35

Oh, OK. Wow. We're we're just rolling.

42:38

Rolling, rolling, rolling. I just fly. I don't I don't

42:40

need to roll. It

42:42

saves time in your run. Exactly.

42:45

You get it. Rolling. So you down. Yeah. Well,

42:48

since I get to the roof first, I will start removing

42:50

the grate. We got to work on that.

42:52

All right. Are you doing

42:54

quick or quiet? Do

42:57

you really have to ask? Mm

42:59

hmm. Quick, of course. Because

43:02

all right. An option. OK, give me a forceful then.

43:04

All right. That

43:06

is that is not successful. That is a five.

43:09

OK, you you attempt to

43:12

to pry it open and the little

43:14

pry tool will just say you're using like a pocket

43:17

knife screwdriver. You it

43:20

slips out of your hands and it falls.

43:22

Damn. I. Yeah. OK. New

43:25

approach. Shit.

43:28

Well, this is obviously it's a co-op mission. We have to get the co-op

43:30

people to help out. All right. Red

43:32

Bull, transform become really strong

43:35

and open the great. Yeah, that's the best. Yeah,

43:37

his once in session transformation. Good idea. Yeah.

43:39

Yeah.

43:42

Like I think that's a terrible

43:44

idea. Well, we got to get this

43:46

great open soon. We're burning time here. It's

43:49

obviously the next way and the way to progress.

43:52

Looking at the grade itself, too, how is

43:55

it? Just bolted in?

43:56

Yeah, it's just screwed into place.

43:58

Screwed into place. Tactical

44:00

to see if I can get it open without a quietly

44:02

so all right if you're going for quiet.

44:05

Yeah

44:08

Driver hands nothing

44:10

not everything needs that

44:13

but

44:13

what happens when you run out of vodka?

44:15

Alright, that's

44:17

going to be a six Okay,

44:21

so you get it open

44:23

actually since especially since

44:26

um a Last

44:28

note wheels Yes,

44:30

it says no clip had already started a bit But

44:32

it definitely like see it may like

44:35

it makes a noise as it pops open You

44:38

can roll a reflexive to keep it

44:40

from to keep the great from falling in and

44:42

hitting the ground You've

44:46

already made a little bit of noise say if

44:48

you roll and succeed reflexive you can prevent making

44:51

a lot of noise

44:52

Can I make that reflexive roll

44:54

for him? Are you up there? Yes.

44:57

Oh then yes because

44:59

I've got a

45:01

Pretty good reflexive. I think that is a 10

45:05

Okay. Yeah. No you you catch it just

45:07

as it slips out of out of red

45:09

blues hands and

45:12

Yeah, you now have a great

45:14

great job

45:17

Nice Anyone who's up

45:19

at the the window third now? I guess the

45:21

now sort of window can see inside. It's

45:24

sort of dimly lit. It's got those kind

45:26

of like buzzing helium

45:28

lights that old gymnasiums tend

45:30

to have and Inside

45:33

you see a few things a

45:36

Very empty

45:38

Not there's no multiple

45:40

floors. There's nothing much

45:42

going on in here. It's a big generally hollow

45:45

space in the middle there's

45:47

what appears to be a a like

45:49

a concrete bunker

45:51

about half as tall as the the

45:54

inside of the the space and

45:57

Also

45:58

bunch of dudes around with rocks

45:59

rifles. No

46:03

one appears to have seen you

46:05

yet.

46:06

They're apparently like not the

46:08

noise of the original quieter noise

46:10

was not enough to grab anyone's attention. But

46:12

you do see about yeah,

46:17

about six guys

46:19

wearing sort of dark uniforms,

46:22

helmets with face guards, you cannot see anyone's faces.

46:25

And and all of them have rifles.

46:28

What are they like,

46:31

like set up in a circle around the bunker to guard

46:33

it like with their backs of the bunker or like what

46:35

are they doing?

46:36

Yeah, they're they're all sort of facing away

46:39

from the bunker. And

46:41

largely standing still.

46:45

Oh, okay. Do I see any movement

46:47

at all? Are they like statue still? No,

46:49

they're not statues still. Some

46:51

of them seem like a little like,

46:55

give me give me a let's see, what would

46:57

the perception role be in this? I always forget.

47:01

Give me either a creative or a tactical.

47:04

Plus one.

47:08

That is a eight.

47:10

Couple of these guys seem real tired.

47:13

Like there's a

47:15

kind of like

47:16

most of them seem real tired. There are only

47:18

a couple who don't seem to be a little bit

47:21

shaky. So

47:23

this bunker, does it look like there

47:26

is there a visible entrance to the bunker? Yeah.

47:28

Okay. Yeah, there is a vehicle sized

47:31

door on the south facing side

47:33

facing the loading dock area. There's

47:36

a big rolling door. It is closed at the moment.

47:38

Okay. And that is what

47:40

you see. Is there like a

47:43

control panel or like keypad

47:45

or big red button near it? Let's

47:48

see, you got an eight. So you do see a

47:50

couple of panels, like a panel panels

47:53

of some kind on either side of the door on the bunker,

47:55

but you don't see

47:57

you can't tell exactly what they are.

48:00

Also on the north side of the building,

48:02

the far side from where you are, there is

48:04

a little like in-built

48:07

room area. Like there's

48:09

sort of a long stretch where they've

48:11

constructed what appears to be either

48:13

one big long room or

48:16

perhaps like a series of rooms that

48:18

you can't see inside of from here that are sort

48:20

of thrown together by like you

48:23

can see like the studs and the sheet

48:25

rock. So it's not very solidly

48:27

built, but there is an area in the back that

48:29

is another room or other rooms that you can't

48:32

see into. Okay.

48:33

That's on the same like level

48:35

as the bunker. Yeah, yeah. Everything's

48:38

on the ground floor. There's nothing else up where

48:40

you are aside from more air vents and

48:43

lights.

48:45

Is there like air vents and lights? Okay.

48:47

So we're just kind of like looking at this from the roof

48:50

looking down through the open gate.

48:52

Okay. Okay. So

48:54

I

48:55

could teleport to that other area. So

48:57

none of the guards are actually,

49:00

do they have eyes on that other

49:02

section, not the bunker, but

49:04

the other like the long room?

49:06

They're wearing sort of darkened visors on

49:08

the, their helmets all have darkened visors so you

49:11

can't see their faces or what they're looking at. Okay.

49:13

But it would be in their field of vision if

49:15

they're- There are a couple who are, who you

49:18

would chance being seen by if you popped

49:20

inside the door. The door back there, the one door you can see

49:22

that leads into that area is open.

49:24

So you could pop in there, but you

49:27

would have to roll a reflexive to

49:29

do so and get out of the way quickly enough to try

49:31

not to get noticed. I do that immediately. All

49:34

right. So I'm going to

49:36

go in through the grate

49:37

and offer support.

49:40

Just kind of. See here,

49:42

I got a seven. So. Okay.

49:45

So a seven is a partial success. So

49:48

you bamf in there. You're in

49:50

that other room area and you sort of duck out of

49:52

the way. Let me see.

49:56

Okay. You, yeah,

49:58

that is what you do and you don't.

50:00

hear anything immediately. Okay. I

50:02

have my flare gun out and I have my

50:04

radio on just so they can hear

50:06

me. And I'm kind of whispering,

50:08

okay, just describing what I see.

50:11

But

50:11

that's what I'm doing. Okay. Yeah.

50:13

Okay.

50:13

You are in the, there appears

50:16

to be at least three rooms in this area. You're

50:18

in the sort of central long room, which

50:20

is sort of dim and full of

50:23

cots.

50:23

There

50:24

are just cots laying in here. There's

50:26

a room to the west to your left as

50:29

you entered here. And there's a room to

50:31

the east that you can't quite

50:33

see into. And there are three

50:37

dudes in cots. They

50:40

have not reacted to you.

50:42

Okay. Do they look like they're sleeping?

50:45

They're fully dressed and they still have their face

50:47

shields down. You cannot tell.

50:49

But they're lying on the cots.

50:51

Mm-hmm. Okay. Uh-huh.

50:54

Okay. So I

50:57

will attempt to, is

50:59

there anything else? Like, uh, if I

51:01

go past it, like you said, there's a long room.

51:04

So is there more that I haven't

51:06

seen yet?

51:07

Yeah. There's a, there are two exits from where you are not

51:09

counting the one that goes back to the main area. There's

51:12

one to your left that you're

51:14

in sort of a big middle area and there's

51:16

one area to each side.

51:18

Okay. So straight ahead of me are the dudes, right?

51:21

Or is there a dude in each of the areas?

51:23

Uh, what do you mean? Well, like where,

51:25

where are the three guys? Uh, the three people

51:27

in the car. They're just laying in on various

51:29

cots in the room that you're in. Oh, they're, they're right around

51:31

me. Okay.

51:33

Yeah. Okay. Nice. Yeah.

51:37

Right around you actually. Okay.

51:39

You hear

51:39

some like strained breathing.

51:41

Okay. I will sneak by them and

51:43

go to their room to the left.

51:45

Uh, to the

51:46

left. Okay. Um,

51:49

it's not locked. Okay. You, uh, you've,

51:51

there's, it's a supply room. There

51:53

are boxes of, uh,

51:55

seems like MREs mostly. Um,

51:57

also some adult dice.

52:00

for some reason and

52:04

ammunition. Okay. I

52:07

will hold and let

52:10

my T I will close the door and I'll

52:12

hold in the storage cloud for a second, whisper to my

52:14

team, what's going on? I can give them a chance to catch up

52:18

because we've got to complete the run first. We can't just, I can't

52:20

go too far ahead

52:21

and get cut off from support. Cause

52:24

we're going to have number one in the leaderboard no matter what,

52:26

as long as we complete it. So we've got to complete it.

52:28

We'll figure out the tech later, all right, on our next run.

52:32

So yeah, or unless

52:34

you want to need to keep scouting ahead. Yeah.

52:40

I think we can crawl at least red, blue, we'll start

52:42

to crawl in and kind of look around

52:44

to see, let's see if there's any other information

52:47

you can assess. I mean, your, your only

52:49

options as far as you can tell immediately,

52:52

actually now, give me a, give me a tactical role. Okay.

52:56

That will be eight.

52:59

Okay. There's very

53:01

few options for what you do when you get

53:04

inside here. You could drop down immediately

53:06

to where the dudes with the guns are. There

53:08

are some like

53:10

metal bracing beams across

53:12

the top. You could try to shimmy along

53:14

if you wanted to try and like

53:17

cross the room without being seen, but

53:19

that would be a pretty risky endeavor.

53:22

Or

53:24

if you're someone who can fly, but that guy already went through,

53:26

or if you can stick to walls, you could try and climb just

53:28

on the ceiling if you don't want to be seen

53:31

by anyone, but

53:34

that's, that's what you see. Actually

53:36

could, is it a possibility that,

53:40

that's like the Cordy could, that's like lower

53:42

me to the floor quietly and then come down?

53:45

If he lowers you to the floor, there are at least

53:47

two guys who will see you immediately.

53:49

Cordy can solve this if

53:51

you tell him there's a bird down there.

53:55

I mean, we could double team this on there and basically

53:57

just, yeah. Well,

54:00

I'll assume that the back and packet didn't. And. Sorry,

54:03

I was going to say, we'll assume the briefing packet did

54:05

include something about the bird motivation of

54:08

Cordy just to smooth things over. It's like

54:10

a political compass, like one vector

54:12

is height and then the other vector is

54:15

presence of bird.

54:16

And yeah, it's like, you

54:19

know, I'm a centrist. I'll go either way.

54:21

Yeah, yeah. It's the plane right now. It's like 40

54:23

to shoe bills down there.

54:26

OK. All right. I

54:28

attach my rope to a rafter and wrap

54:30

it around my waist. And

54:34

then I would like to climb directly over the bunker. OK.

54:38

So let's see. There

54:41

are handholds since there are those beams there,

54:43

so you can, since you have your

54:45

climbing power.

54:47

I think that's right. And then I'm just going to leap

54:49

directly from the roof, Cirque du

54:52

Soleil style, spinning out the rope

54:54

behind me, firing that guards pistol. Yeah.

54:56

Oh, OK. So yeah. Yeah.

54:59

All right. So you are which you

55:01

got. There are six guys on the floor. So

55:04

they're basically at the.

55:07

Let's see, there's.

55:09

Oh, how are they spread out?

55:12

Yeah, so basically there are two to the north

55:14

of the bunker. There's one on either side

55:16

and there are two to the or the yeah. And there's two to the south.

55:19

So who are you shooting at?

55:20

I guess I will start with

55:22

the ones furthest from where

55:25

Ross is set up and try

55:27

and say the ones near the front door and the rope.

55:29

Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. And while

55:32

he is flying at them, I am

55:34

going to disarm them.

55:36

Using my sharpshooter power of.

55:40

If you name a specific body part, possession

55:42

or component of something you're attacking with a ranged

55:44

weapon, you will always hit it, disabling

55:46

that part rather than dealing damage. So I'm just

55:48

going to shoot them in the gun hands so

55:51

that they drop the rifles.

55:53

As they're being shot at.

55:55

All right, well, you can do that to one

55:58

of them. So are you doing that to the one?

55:59

that Cordy is attacking or are you doing that to

56:02

the other one in the same south side

56:04

there?

56:06

The other one, the one that

56:08

Cordy's not attacking. Okay, we'll start

56:11

with Cordy then. Give me a,

56:14

I guess it would be tactical for shooting,

56:16

since it's aiming.

56:19

Actually it's reflexive for aiming. Oh, so yeah,

56:21

I'm sorry, reflexive. So said

56:23

the wrong thing. I'm

56:25

keeping an eye on the guys that

56:29

are on the cots. If they start to move and

56:31

act, I will. Gotcha.

56:34

Yeah, yeah. Okay, so yeah, give

56:37

me a reflexive for shooting first dude. Oh,

56:40

re-rolling that. Oh. And

56:44

I'm also gonna use my war die. Oh.

56:47

Damn. Well, that

56:49

one is 11.

56:52

Okay, yeah, no, you, so that's

56:54

1d6 for your pistol, so give me that.

56:57

That would be one damage. Oh

56:59

no. All right.

57:03

Yeah, you hit him. He takes one damage.

57:07

So the other one is immediately

57:09

disarmed.

57:10

So that's those two.

57:14

No clip is hiding and red blue,

57:16

what are you doing?

57:17

Now that Cordy has

57:19

one and one is disarmed, correct?

57:22

Yeah, Cordy has damaged one. Injured one.

57:25

Yeah. And towards the rest, yeah. Okay,

57:27

actually, yeah, because there

57:30

were only two in here, right? There's six. No,

57:32

there are six. There are six, okay. And

57:35

this point is gone loud, so yeah,

57:38

drop down into the vent and just open

57:40

up with, yeah, let the guitar unfold

57:42

into its rail gun. Yeah,

57:45

give him a few riffs. No, I know. Yeah,

57:47

good. Just find her in that one, so.

57:49

All right, that'll be a reflexive to aim.

57:52

Are you shooting at the same, the disarmed one? Are

57:56

you shooting at the hurt one or one of the other four?

57:58

One of the other four, so.

58:00

Okay, the one there are

58:03

two on either side and there are two that

58:05

are in the back closer to where no clip is. Yeah.

58:09

Oh, actually, I probably

58:13

wouldn't be able to see it here. But if

58:15

I didn't take the shot this turn, but waited one turn,

58:17

could I do tactical to see if there

58:20

is a

58:22

breaker box or that's

58:25

like a power fuse or something to see if I could knock

58:27

that out and drop it? I

58:29

mean,

58:30

if you want to take that risk, you can roll tactical

58:32

now and see if you see anything. Yep, I would prove

58:34

that and possibly hopefully get a bonus on the other shots

58:36

since I have no reflective.

58:40

All right. That's what

58:42

I would like to see. That's going to be 10.

58:46

All right. You you actually do see

58:49

a sort of a wiring hub up on the ceiling

58:51

that you think would kill the lights if you

58:53

shot it.

58:54

OK, so I will just work on aiming

58:56

that turn the next turn.

58:58

Also, don't forget, use your friends.

59:01

Do you know anyone who can't miss?

59:05

That's true. So I'll just point it out to the next

59:07

if anybody wants to take the shot. So.

59:10

I will do that.

59:12

Before we go back around no

59:14

clip, you you holding action in there? Well,

59:17

did they react to the shot?

59:19

You you do hear

59:21

some noise.

59:23

Like there's a little bit of like

59:25

muffled moaning and

59:28

like you they they

59:31

shift a little bit in bed,

59:34

but they don't. OK. Seem

59:36

to move. OK. They move without

59:38

moving like they they

59:40

they seem to have heard it but

59:42

are not getting up. OK, well, in that

59:44

case, I'm just going to teleport out of that place and

59:47

start shooting at the first card I see.

59:50

All right. Yeah, there

59:52

are two for your for your amusement. OK,

59:55

well, what is it to reflexive

59:58

for for firearms?

59:59

Seven. So I will

1:00:02

shoot him with my flare gun for another

1:00:05

four damage.

1:00:07

Okay, that guy drops.

1:00:11

That guy is just

1:00:12

immediately really

1:00:14

cool because everyone is looking at

1:00:16

you. Yeah. Oh, no. Like

1:00:20

that was bright. Like you can't see the faces

1:00:23

of the dudes behind their visors, but

1:00:25

you are now aware of the fact that unless

1:00:27

you, except for the guy who was literally

1:00:29

shot and the guy was disarmed, like the other three

1:00:32

are looking at you.

1:00:33

Oh, no.

1:00:34

I've definitely got to try and teleport

1:00:36

away as soon as I can. Yeah. Yeah.

1:00:39

Are they firing back? Yes.

1:00:43

So thankfully though, most

1:00:46

of them are going to be firing at someone else

1:00:48

other than you. But Cordy, you do have

1:00:50

the attention of the guy that you shot. So

1:00:53

give me a reflexive to not be

1:00:55

shot by him. Right.

1:00:58

And there's oh, that's not good. Got a five.

1:01:01

Even with your reroll?

1:01:02

Yeah. Okay. Got a one and

1:01:04

then I rerolled a one. Oh, some

1:01:07

kills. Took place rolling right there. Sometimes

1:01:10

it'd be like that.

1:01:11

All right. You take two hit points

1:01:13

of damage.

1:01:15

Ooh.

1:01:17

So yeah. And oh yeah.

1:01:19

Sorry. So let's see. Disarmed guy

1:01:22

is scrambling for his gun.

1:01:24

Ooh.

1:01:25

No, actually. Sorry. I was

1:01:28

wrong about that. Disarmed guy is going

1:01:30

running at no clip.

1:01:31

He's not picking

1:01:34

up his gun. He's just running

1:01:37

past where he dropped his gun at you. Oh,

1:01:39

okay. Okay.

1:01:41

And let's see. So now,

1:01:43

no clip. You are being fired upon by

1:01:46

three dudes.

1:01:47

Okay. I'm going to try and teleport

1:01:50

into cover. All

1:01:53

right. That'll be a risky teleport. If I

1:01:55

recall, if you screw that up, you drop something,

1:01:58

don't you? Or am I misremembering?

1:01:59

I mean, let's see, some of the sheet. Under fire.

1:02:02

Okay, yeah, no, plus tactical to avoid accidents.

1:02:04

So give me a tactical role to teleport

1:02:07

for cover.

1:02:08

Oh, and also tell me what cover you're going

1:02:10

for. Let's see,

1:02:12

I will go back up to the vent and

1:02:16

they won't be expecting that. Okay,

1:02:18

what's your tech role? Eight, actually,

1:02:21

yeah.

1:02:21

Eight? Okay, yeah, no, you bamf up there.

1:02:24

They all still

1:02:26

fire at where you were.

1:02:30

So and the other guy is still running at where you

1:02:32

were, although he will start to slow

1:02:34

down and do something else after this

1:02:36

round. But yeah, you've successfully eaten

1:02:39

up the attention of the rest of them.

1:02:40

Yay. So we

1:02:43

will circle back around to, I think, Cordy

1:02:45

was at the top, right? Or has Bindi and

1:02:48

Red-Blue acted this way?

1:02:50

Oh, no, well, this was the attack from the game. Okay,

1:02:53

okay, all right. So,

1:02:57

I believe it was Cordy. So it's Cordy. Yeah,

1:03:00

yeah, you hit the ground. I think, yeah,

1:03:02

Cordy, Bindi, and then Red-Blue. I

1:03:04

shoot at the one I shot before if he's still up.

1:03:06

All right, give me a reflexive. Ooh,

1:03:09

that was a three? Cool.

1:03:12

Wow. And with the re-roll, that's a four.

1:03:15

Yeah,

1:03:18

you realize that this gun is

1:03:20

jamming to shit. This

1:03:23

is not going well.

1:03:26

This is, what kind of bird is gonna be attracted to

1:03:29

the little noise of this tiny broken

1:03:31

weapon? You feel disgusted.

1:03:34

How would anything want to eat you? You

1:03:37

gotta make yourself attractive to

1:03:40

the bird that judges you from on high.

1:03:44

So that's what happens to

1:03:47

you, Bindi. What are you doing? You

1:03:50

were informed of the

1:03:52

electric hub up on the ceiling by

1:03:56

Red-Blue if you want to shoot at that or if

1:03:58

you want to do whatever else you are obviously.

1:03:59

free.

1:04:00

And you know, one bullet to that would do what

1:04:02

again?

1:04:03

It would probably darken the room for

1:04:06

everyone. OK. And

1:04:08

since we can see them and they've got those,

1:04:10

you know, dark, dark visors, it's going to be really

1:04:13

bad for them. So it does seem likely. Yeah.

1:04:16

Lights out. Bang.

1:04:19

OK, it goes dark.

1:04:21

Um.

1:04:23

Yeah, anyone without like.

1:04:27

Either a flashlight or some amount of vision

1:04:30

ability is going to have to roll

1:04:32

tactical to to

1:04:34

find what they were aiming

1:04:37

at. Well, there is some light. Remember

1:04:39

that dead guy with the flare and it's just. Yeah,

1:04:41

there is a flare going off on a dead guy. So

1:04:44

very cinematic. That is true.

1:04:46

It's like, yeah, it's like the end of Skyfall.

1:04:49

Yeah, you can see a couple of guys in the guys who

1:04:51

are closest to to where

1:04:54

no clip shot that guy are. You can see

1:04:56

their outlines. So it is less of a penalty

1:04:59

than one would think. So that was bendy red,

1:05:01

blue. Europe. Yeah.

1:05:02

Targeting one of the guys in the flare

1:05:05

light and firing. All

1:05:07

right. Can be reflexive.

1:05:09

All right. All

1:05:13

right. That one's going to go wide

1:05:16

on a six. Oh,

1:05:18

no, sorry, the five. Sorry. I have no point. Five.

1:05:21

Yeah. Shock goes wide.

1:05:24

The now that it is dark, you

1:05:26

do see the the guys that you can

1:05:28

see in the light turn towards you because you made a

1:05:30

noise.

1:05:31

So I can see all of their images like

1:05:34

fading as the positron, the light from

1:05:36

the positron, you go off.

1:05:38

They. Yep. And

1:05:42

I think no clips turn. OK.

1:05:46

Let's see. I will teleport

1:05:49

to taking a position blanking

1:05:52

behind all the guards. And so

1:05:54

I can take a pot shot at one. Now, if like

1:05:56

teleporting take up my action, I'm I'm I'm

1:05:59

fine with that. But like I.

1:05:59

Basically tell her on the other end

1:06:02

of the warehouse like we're okay. No

1:06:05

Yeah, since it is a risky teleport you do have to roll

1:06:07

for it. Um, so that is tactical Yeah,

1:06:11

yeah tactical to avoid accidents Okay So

1:06:13

give me that first and then if you succeed then you'll

1:06:15

get shot and just so you know I do also my other

1:06:17

items that AR goggles that let me

1:06:20

see my enemies HP. So I guess I can

1:06:22

oh Yeah, in that

1:06:24

case, you notice something immediately

1:06:27

when you remembered to switch those on

1:06:30

These guys are really not doing well

1:06:33

like the the they

1:06:35

seem

1:06:36

Weaker than like most of them. There's

1:06:38

a couple the one that Cordy's fighting seems

1:06:41

in a little bit better shape but the others

1:06:43

they only have about like a hit point

1:06:46

or two a piece like they're

1:06:48

surprisingly fragile

1:06:51

Hmm Okay Well

1:06:55

that's according just drew the short straw

1:06:57

of fighting one of the strongest ones and the other strongest

1:07:00

one is the one who was Disarmed and is running around.

1:07:02

Yes for hit points Okay

1:07:05

well, that's well, I mean that's

1:07:07

Not great but better than the oh, there's

1:07:09

something with a giant HP pool and

1:07:12

the where I see you didn't see before

1:07:14

So that would have been it would have been terrifying.

1:07:17

Well that I will I will share that with

1:07:19

the game after the fight So anyways, I'm gonna teleport And

1:07:23

I got a 10

1:07:24

Okay. Yeah, you teleport just fine. You line up your

1:07:26

shot. So give me a reflexive to shoot.

1:07:28

Okay So which one are

1:07:30

you shooting this time? Well, it doesn't

1:07:32

matter cuz I roll a four.

1:07:34

So okay Well, you

1:07:36

gotta tell me which direction which direction

1:07:38

you're shooting. Which one are you shooting at? Probably

1:07:41

one of the weak ones Just

1:07:44

one. I'm basically all the way in the back. So whatever one

1:07:46

I could be right behind

1:07:48

Um, okay So

1:07:50

yeah Well, we'll say the one who that was just south of

1:07:52

the the one in the top corner that you shot You

1:07:55

miss and the flare goes all

1:07:57

the way to the other side lighting

1:07:59

up the air Right under the vent

1:08:01

where you guys came in from so now

1:08:05

The good news you can line up shots

1:08:07

sort of on both sides much easier now There's

1:08:12

other people can do that too,

1:08:14

so

1:08:15

there's that hey speaking of um Hey,

1:08:19

Courtney, yeah, yeah, you didn't

1:08:21

shot at again Give

1:08:23

me a reflexive That

1:08:27

one's an eight Okay, yeah,

1:08:29

no you you woof right out of

1:08:31

the way of that one like you're walking between raindrops

1:08:33

you're fine

1:08:36

Let's see so that guy

1:08:38

had his shot

1:08:41

The other actually, yeah the

1:08:44

The other guy that

1:08:47

was on the south side is running back towards his

1:08:49

gun now Or he's chasing

1:08:51

the flare that was fired. It's a little hard to tell

1:08:53

because it's both in the same direction

1:08:55

but he is running in that direction not

1:08:57

focused on any of you at the moment and

1:08:59

That leaves I believe

1:09:01

to yeah two other dudes

1:09:04

who are going to shoot at

1:09:07

Do one of them is gonna shoot

1:09:09

at Cordy again, sorry, buddy

1:09:12

Go

1:09:12

get a role for that. Yeah, give me another reflexive.

1:09:14

I Will keep that one

1:09:16

that one's a nine.

1:09:18

Okay. Yeah, you duck out of the way easy enough and

1:09:20

the other one is going to shoot at

1:09:24

Let's see who else is on the ground floor. I

1:09:26

mean I'm on the ground floor now

1:09:28

Okay. Yeah. Yeah, he's gonna the other guy is going to shoot

1:09:30

at you. So that's

1:09:35

Yeah, I got like a 13 oh, yeah,

1:09:37

then you ghost out of the way

1:09:41

All right, so that will bring us back

1:09:43

up to Cordy

1:09:45

That

1:09:47

one's a 10

1:09:48

Okay, there you go you you managed

1:09:51

to unjam it and

1:09:53

immediately like load the next round

1:09:55

pop What do you what do you do?

1:09:57

Yeah,

1:09:58

maybe Oh, I can

1:10:00

do five.

1:10:04

Oh yeah, he's dead. You

1:10:07

shoot him right through the head. That whatever that shield

1:10:09

on the front of the helmet is, it

1:10:12

ain't fucking bulletproof. So that guy

1:10:14

drops. So that is

1:10:17

two dead, one disarmed and running

1:10:19

around. And the

1:10:20

other... Having

1:10:23

your brain matter made of spores. That's

1:10:26

true. You're far more resilient. And

1:10:30

yeah, so next would be

1:10:32

Bendy. I

1:10:34

think I'm going to disarm another dude. The

1:10:36

one that's still alive and

1:10:38

trying to shoot at Kordy. Okay.

1:10:42

Yeah, you do that for free, right? Oh yeah,

1:10:44

I don't have to roll as long as... I don't damage

1:10:47

him, but I disable. So... His

1:10:49

gun flips out of his hand.

1:10:51

And at

1:10:54

the instant that the gun leaves his hand, he

1:10:56

starts running at... Well, he

1:10:58

was firing at Kordy, so now he's running at Kordy.

1:11:01

And it is

1:11:04

red, blue, I believe. Yep.

1:11:07

So how many are left now?

1:11:12

There are four left. Two

1:11:15

are disarmed, I believe. Okay.

1:11:18

I'm going to go ahead and aim for one of the other armed. So

1:11:20

I'm just going to see if I can at least pop off a shot. So...

1:11:24

Okay. Yeah,

1:11:29

that's actually much better. That'll be eight.

1:11:32

Alrighty, roll damage. Okay.

1:11:34

That will be six damage.

1:11:36

Jibs. Just bursts.

1:11:41

You center mass him,

1:11:43

and then there's no center mass anymore.

1:11:45

Yeah. Justice

1:11:48

dispensed. Yeah, there's

1:11:50

now three dead, two disarmed,

1:11:52

and I think one left with his gun.

1:11:56

So, yeah. No

1:11:58

clip.

1:11:59

OK, so is it just the unarmed guy left

1:12:02

now?

1:12:03

One of the one

1:12:05

of the stronger ones there were two is

1:12:08

one of the disarmed ones. He's the one who's running

1:12:11

toward the front. Looks

1:12:14

like he's going for his rifle, the one who's disarmed

1:12:16

initially.

1:12:18

OK, and then. All

1:12:20

right, I'm going to do. I'm going to I'm going to try and stun all this

1:12:23

fool. I'm going to try and teleport behind them, put

1:12:25

the flare gun to the back of his head and said, uh,

1:12:30

surrender is going to be nothing personal,

1:12:32

kid. So,

1:12:34

yeah, I will.

1:12:37

I'm going to try and get him to surrender so we can ask

1:12:39

him questions.

1:12:41

And I get a seven.

1:12:44

All right, you teleport there easily. He does not

1:12:46

respond to your speech at all.

1:12:48

OK, can I just shoot him?

1:12:51

Yeah, yeah, shoot him. All right.

1:12:54

Yeah, that's another 11. So,

1:12:57

OK, give me damage. That

1:13:00

is five.

1:13:02

Yeah, he's dead. You you tunnel

1:13:04

his head with a flare. Little bright

1:13:06

right next to your head, but you got eye protection. You're fine.

1:13:09

So there is, I believe, one disarmed

1:13:12

one left and one armed one

1:13:14

left, I think.

1:13:16

Sorry, I sketched my notes a

1:13:18

little rough there for a minute, so I might have lost someone.

1:13:23

But yeah, OK, so there's one

1:13:25

that is running for his actually

1:13:28

no, yeah, the disarmed one that is running towards Cordy,

1:13:31

who will not reach him yet.

1:13:33

And another one that is going

1:13:35

to shoot a no clip

1:13:37

because he keeps shooting flares, drawing massive

1:13:39

attention to himself.

1:13:41

So,

1:13:43

Cordy, he doesn't reach you this round, so

1:13:46

you're fine. There's just a dude running full

1:13:48

bore at you. And

1:13:50

and the other one is going to take a shot

1:13:53

at no clip. So give me a reflex.

1:13:56

That is a six, unfortunately.

1:13:59

Okay, so

1:14:04

you take two damage. Yeah. Damn,

1:14:07

there goes my no damage run. What

1:14:11

are they going to say about you on the BBS's? Look,

1:14:14

we're still researching the tech, all right?

1:14:17

This is a new run. Okay. All

1:14:19

right, we're back to the top. Cordy, you are up.

1:14:22

You are freshly bathed in the

1:14:24

blood of your enemies, which is sure to attract

1:14:26

premium bird. Yes. Do

1:14:28

rifles use do better damage?

1:14:31

Um, I don't

1:14:32

know. Looking

1:14:34

at the sniper rifle,

1:14:38

it is one D six plus two

1:14:40

versus the pistol, which is one D six. I will

1:14:43

say there is a one D six plus one. I

1:14:45

will say there is a possibility that it will, but

1:14:47

you have to pick up the weapon to it. Yeah, that's what

1:14:49

I was saying. If it was like worth it or not. But

1:14:51

yeah, I'll pick up the rifle. Then that'll be my turn.

1:14:54

Okay. Wow. This rifle is completely

1:14:57

not maintained. No wonder like

1:14:59

the, like these guys are in rough

1:15:02

shape. Uh, it's becoming clearer

1:15:04

and clearer that there is something wrong

1:15:06

with this place and these people, but yeah, this gun

1:15:08

is bad. It is worse than your pistol.

1:15:11

Oh man.

1:15:12

The minimum wage. I'm so judgy about

1:15:14

gun maintenance ever since the minimum wage

1:15:16

guy outside has a,

1:15:18

his, his fucking nine millimeter

1:15:21

is in far better condition than this. Uh,

1:15:23

this rifle, like this is some, this is some

1:15:26

not maintained remainder shit.

1:15:29

All right. Uh, I guess, yeah,

1:15:32

well that was my turn, right? Yeah. Yeah.

1:15:35

I always got really judgy

1:15:37

about gun ownership once. No, I know. It's, I,

1:15:40

once they told me that the, the bird was a member

1:15:42

of the NRA and

1:15:44

wanted to impress him.

1:15:45

Yeah. The bird would, would not

1:15:48

even laugh. Would not be worth derision.

1:15:51

Uh, how poorly this gun has been maintained.

1:15:54

Uh, all right.

1:15:54

Uh, so raptress association.

1:15:58

Um, it is bendy's turn.

1:16:01

There's one guy that hasn't been disarmed

1:16:03

yet, right?

1:16:04

Yes. Now he

1:16:07

has. All right. There are two disarmed

1:16:09

guys, uh, one who hasn't

1:16:11

done anything yet. And the other is going to

1:16:13

attempt to tackle or punch

1:16:16

or something. Cordy, uh, this next town

1:16:19

round. So, uh, red, blue, you are up.

1:16:21

Okay. Uh, yeah, we'll go ahead and

1:16:23

take another shot at one of the unarmed. All

1:16:26

right. You may reflexive. Yep.

1:16:29

All right. Uh, that one will go wide

1:16:31

for.

1:16:33

All right. Uh, which one are you

1:16:35

shooting at? Uh, give me, tell

1:16:37

me a North or South.

1:16:38

Uh, North.

1:16:40

All right. No clip. Give me a reflexive.

1:16:43

No, no.

1:16:46

Uh, I make that with an eight.

1:16:49

Okay. Yeah. Railgun shot, uh, goes

1:16:51

past where you are, sort of busts a wall open

1:16:54

and then the shrapnel sort of goes past you.

1:16:56

You're fine, but little rattled. Uh,

1:16:58

friendly fires on.

1:17:00

God. That is

1:17:02

why you know, it is now your turn.

1:17:04

Okay. So there's just one guy left now. Uh,

1:17:07

there's, there's two guys, but they're both disarmed. Okay.

1:17:10

Uh, I'm going to try the same thing. Teleport behind

1:17:12

them and try and get them to surrender. Okay.

1:17:15

And if not, uh, yeah, I make

1:17:17

that teleport with an eight. Okay. Um,

1:17:20

again, no response. Um,

1:17:22

okay. Uh,

1:17:24

back of the head, nothing personal kid.

1:17:27

Uh, and I just, yeah. Nine.

1:17:30

So I will

1:17:32

give me damage. Actually it won't matter. You

1:17:34

have a boy. Well, actually it might matter.

1:17:36

Can you give me a four?

1:17:38

Okay. Yeah. Now another, another like

1:17:41

canoe head

1:17:43

through. Um, all

1:17:45

right. And then that is the end of players'

1:17:48

turns. Okay. Dodging

1:17:50

that guy. All right. Yeah. Give me reflexive to

1:17:52

dodge. Oh, right. I got

1:17:54

a seven. Okay.

1:17:57

Yeah. You, uh,

1:17:58

he dives at you.

1:17:59

You sort of spin out of the way,

1:18:02

slip a little bit, and almost lose your footing.

1:18:05

And he goes... It's getting wet

1:18:07

down here. Yeah, he goes

1:18:09

sort of sliding to the ground. So

1:18:11

yeah, he whiffs.

1:18:13

And

1:18:14

that is the only enemy currently active. So

1:18:16

it's

1:18:17

up to you how

1:18:19

you respond, y'all. There's an unarmed

1:18:22

dude who is scrambling around.

1:18:24

He doesn't stop moving when he hits the ground. He crawls back

1:18:26

up and is crawling toward a gun

1:18:28

again.

1:18:30

If I can't walk up, just

1:18:33

immediately kind of put... Brace

1:18:35

him down on the floor. You

1:18:38

need to stop to answer our questions.

1:18:40

Give me a forceful to see if you

1:18:42

pin him. All right. That

1:18:47

will be six.

1:18:49

No, he

1:18:51

warms out of your grip. He is not

1:18:53

responding. He's not saying anything. He's

1:18:56

just... You actually do hear a little bit of

1:18:58

muffled, grunting, and he warms

1:19:01

out of your grip and is crawling toward the nearest...

1:19:03

Actually toward the rifle that the

1:19:05

Cordy dropped.

1:19:06

Cordy, tie up this bird.

1:19:09

Okay, I tie the guy up.

1:19:12

Give me a forceful.

1:19:14

All

1:19:14

right. I get a nine.

1:19:18

Okay, yeah, now you manage to subdue

1:19:20

him and tie him up in your rope.

1:19:22

I then take his helmet off.

1:19:25

Okay. There's a dude. He's

1:19:28

sort of looking around manically

1:19:31

and there is a ball gag in his mouth.

1:19:34

Okay. I take that

1:19:36

off and then start

1:19:38

trying to rub my head into his

1:19:40

mouth because I was told he was a bird. So,

1:19:43

yeah.

1:19:44

Well, around

1:19:47

Cordy's weird head, you

1:19:49

do hear him repeatedly saying,

1:19:51

Can't say.

1:19:54

Can't say.

1:19:57

That's all he says, but over

1:19:59

and over.

1:19:59

I teleport behind and say, Courtney,

1:20:03

that's too big to be a parrot, and he's talking, so it's not

1:20:05

a bird. I make a flappy motion

1:20:07

with my arms, and then, you

1:20:09

know, double-click no

1:20:12

on my radio. Okay,

1:20:15

I'm going to teleport back to that long room and

1:20:17

start checking the rest of that place out. Because

1:20:19

my theory is

1:20:21

whatever is here is weakening these people over time,

1:20:24

and those guards in there are too weak to actually stand up and

1:20:26

fight anyway.

1:20:27

Are you checking there? Are

1:20:30

you just checking the guys that are laying down? Yeah. Those

1:20:34

dudes are exhausted, to the

1:20:36

point of the edge of human

1:20:39

survival. The reason they are not getting

1:20:41

up is that they can't. You can see

1:20:43

them trying to, if you've ever seen

1:20:45

someone in elementary school just

1:20:48

fail at doing sit-ups. That's sort

1:20:50

of the way that they're trying

1:20:53

to sit up or move to reach

1:20:55

a weapon, they're just tapped.

1:20:58

They are, of course, all still wearing helmets,

1:21:00

and all of them are gagged.

1:21:02

Okay, I ungag one and be like, look,

1:21:04

I'll get you water after. Can't

1:21:07

say. Can't

1:21:09

say. Can't say

1:21:12

what? Can't say.

1:21:16

Like grab a water bottle from the storage room and

1:21:18

like pour some down his throat. Okay,

1:21:22

he does not appear to be swallowing that. You

1:21:25

are going to drown him. Okay,

1:21:27

I roll him over on the side so he can.

1:21:30

Water drains out of his mouth. He

1:21:33

doesn't have the strength to do anything

1:21:36

other than be moved. While he's doing

1:21:38

that, can

1:21:41

I go to one of the other ones who was unconscious or

1:21:43

who was knocked out and started looking through their tactical

1:21:45

vest to see if they have anything else written in there

1:21:48

or if it's just gear?

1:21:49

Well, I mean, everyone is dead except for the ones that

1:21:51

are sitting in the, that are exhausted in the room

1:21:54

and the one that you have tied up. So

1:21:56

there are four. Yeah,

1:21:58

I'll look at one of the other ones in the beds

1:22:00

Their gear, there's nothing

1:22:02

in anyone's pockets. Their

1:22:05

clothes are in very rough shape.

1:22:07

One of the things that you notice

1:22:09

as you're searching them is that they are, all of

1:22:11

them, wearing adult diapers. And

1:22:15

they are, yeah, they

1:22:18

don't have anything except the clothes on their

1:22:20

backs, the diapers, which are in

1:22:22

various states of full. And

1:22:25

the weapons that they are either carrying or that

1:22:28

are laying next to their beds.

1:22:30

Could this possibly be a result

1:22:33

of programming that like

1:22:35

literally they were brainwashed into being

1:22:37

these defenders and that's

1:22:39

like repeating this wrote statement.

1:22:41

You know, can't say I have thoughts

1:22:44

on that, but I couldn't say. Boo.

1:22:47

Let's see what else there is to be found in here.

1:22:49

Aside from these guys,

1:22:52

there's that pile of,

1:22:54

well, there's a couple of boxes of adult diapers

1:22:56

over there. I think we know where they are

1:22:58

going. Yeah, the storage room

1:23:00

that no clip looked in before has

1:23:03

those diapers, a bunch of MREs and ammunition.

1:23:06

And then there's the other room that he hasn't gone

1:23:08

in yet. Yeah, I'm going to take a look at that other room

1:23:10

now. Well,

1:23:12

I'm really glad I don't have a sense of self

1:23:15

or morally disturbed

1:23:17

by what we just did.

1:23:21

Yeah, if you if you're checking the other

1:23:23

room, it is a latrine in the barest

1:23:25

terms of that. There is a hole

1:23:27

dug into the northeast corner

1:23:30

into the dirt that is slowly

1:23:33

being filled with used adult

1:23:35

diapers and there is a bucket and

1:23:37

a hose and also

1:23:40

just a pile of gross

1:23:42

uniforms and a small box

1:23:45

full of unused uniforms. That

1:23:48

is what is in there.

1:23:50

Well, if we can get into the

1:23:52

unused uniforms, maybe that could be used.

1:23:55

I'm not touching that. That's

1:23:58

gross. Well,

1:24:01

in terms if we if we look and smell

1:24:03

like them, we may be able to pass, but

1:24:05

it's like pass without being noticed. I

1:24:07

don't I don't I don't care. I'm not

1:24:09

doing that. I'm going to look. What

1:24:12

was it? Was there a third room in this long section? Like there

1:24:14

was no there's the barracks

1:24:17

room, there's the storage room and there's the latrine. Okay.

1:24:20

You have been everywhere aside from that big bunker

1:24:22

in the middle. Yeah, the big sealed up bunker. Yeah,

1:24:25

probably check that out. Yeah, search the guard to

1:24:27

be search all the guards for like key cards or

1:24:29

like things

1:24:30

like that. Yeah. Well, yeah,

1:24:32

give me a what would

1:24:35

a search be, I guess, creative maybe or

1:24:37

eight.

1:24:40

Yeah. Now you you find a lot

1:24:42

of guns in the same condition

1:24:44

of disrepair as the the one that Cordy

1:24:46

picked up and they're not armored.

1:24:49

Their helmets are just to put

1:24:51

like a visor in front of their feet. Like they have

1:24:54

nothing.

1:24:55

Does anything display on that

1:24:59

visor?

1:25:00

Yeah, it's just it's just a smoked

1:25:02

glass.

1:25:03

Keep the face from being seen.

1:25:06

I climb atop the bunker.

1:25:08

You you are the lord of the bunker. Yeah.

1:25:12

All right. I'm going to mess with the control panel

1:25:14

and so I'm trying to open up the bunker. All

1:25:17

righty. There are there

1:25:20

are two control panels. They have the

1:25:22

kind of button that has a keyhole in it

1:25:24

on both of them

1:25:26

on either side. You have so

1:25:28

far as any of you have found there are no keys here.

1:25:32

Oh, OK, so we wait. How many

1:25:34

there's two keyholes? Yeah. OK,

1:25:37

so we need two keys and they're not here. OK, if

1:25:40

you if anyone wants to give me a

1:25:42

tactical or a creative, I'll

1:25:45

give it a call. I'll give a creative.

1:25:48

Eight sorry, seven for

1:25:51

tactical.

1:25:52

OK, seven. What did you get, Bendy?

1:25:55

I got a 10.

1:25:56

OK, between the two of you, the thing

1:25:58

that you realize is that.

1:25:59

This is stupid.

1:26:02

Like this, there wouldn't need to be

1:26:04

two key and button things

1:26:06

for this. It's like it was designed

1:26:09

by someone who just thought that having

1:26:12

two keys was like more

1:26:14

secure in like a

1:26:17

performative way or something. Like it's,

1:26:20

the other thing you realize is that this is a very cheap

1:26:22

setup. Like this is not an armored door.

1:26:25

We could force our

1:26:27

way through this pretty easily if we wanted to. I'm

1:26:29

just going to shoot the locks out, just bang bang.

1:26:31

All right, we can open the door now.

1:26:34

Yeah, give me a. Sharp

1:26:36

shooter.

1:26:37

Oh yeah, you can. OK, yeah, yeah. You blast

1:26:40

the sort of hinge locks on

1:26:42

that. And the door

1:26:44

can be opened. It's

1:26:47

a little heavy, so you do have to shove it up, because it's a big

1:26:49

garage door.

1:26:51

OK. Yeah, as

1:26:53

soon as the doors open, I scan it with my AR goggles,

1:26:56

make sure there's nothing that has

1:26:58

a big HP pool. There's

1:27:01

a big sort of platform with

1:27:03

railing around it and a little terminal with a

1:27:05

down arrow and an up arrow.

1:27:07

Is it at an angle? Is this

1:27:10

like an Akira for nuclear, or is

1:27:12

this straight down? Can't say.

1:27:15

Oh, shit, everyone

1:27:17

get on the elevator. We got to get the next zone loading.

1:27:21

But we can't it won't load until we're all

1:27:24

at the exit. Right,

1:27:26

right. Let's go in. You don't have object permanence

1:27:29

doesn't mean that places don't exist until we

1:27:31

actually go in there. No, you just got to understand the memory.

1:27:34

The system can only hold so much RAM. We

1:27:36

can't load multiple zones. This is an

1:27:38

open world. God, we're on a mission there.

1:27:40

I mean, sorry, red, blue. Nice.

1:27:45

Yeah,

1:27:47

so there's and also, Courtney, there's

1:27:50

probably a lot of birds down here. Really?

1:27:54

Yeah, probably. Yes,

1:27:57

we're on the street is. I

1:28:00

go into the subterranean birds. Yeah.

1:28:04

Ross, are you saying that bird is the word on the screen?

1:28:06

Yes, I am.

1:28:08

All right. All right.

1:28:11

We, we had, we,

1:28:13

I would all jump on the, uh, uh,

1:28:16

platform and I hit the down. Button.

1:28:19

Okay. Blackness.

1:28:21

Uh, it is dark immediately

1:28:23

in a way that is hard to describe.

1:28:26

Uh, you hear a sort of wind

1:28:29

sound or like something, like maybe a siren

1:28:32

in the distance, but it's not like

1:28:34

it's, it's, it's just, there's a weird

1:28:37

sense of openness and

1:28:39

void around you. And you hear

1:28:41

a voice that says,

1:28:44

sorry, don't

1:28:46

freak out. Okay. Panic

1:28:49

circuits rising. Can

1:28:53

I steal one of, uh,

1:28:56

carbon flares? Um,

1:28:59

I mean, I suppose you could try.

1:29:02

The voice is coming from behind you.

1:29:04

Why? I mean, if it's total darkness, I would like

1:29:06

to have a flare going so I could see what's going

1:29:08

on and a bird down here could see me. If

1:29:13

you ask for, if you sort of point at one of my

1:29:15

flares, I will, I will hand it to.

1:29:17

Yes. Uh, I light a flare. Okay.

1:29:20

Um, you can see each other in slightly

1:29:23

more detail. Actually it's a little weird. You could see each

1:29:25

other before, despite it being perfect blackness

1:29:27

around. That's

1:29:28

probably fine. Oh, that's

1:29:31

fine. Yeah. You see, you see each other much

1:29:33

more brightly. Uh, and, and a voice from

1:29:35

behind you, uh, it says, uh, thank

1:29:38

you for coming here. I'm

1:29:42

sorry. I was not clear

1:29:44

in the message, but you seem

1:29:47

like good people.

1:29:49

I, I, what do I see?

1:29:51

What is who? Oh,

1:29:53

that's a demon.

1:29:54

Uh, you see, uh, a,

1:29:57

a, a tall sort of spindly

1:29:59

creature. assembled out of charred

1:30:01

bone plate and bloody sinew, skinless,

1:30:05

eyeless, with exposed

1:30:07

teeth and nose bone, but no eye sockets

1:30:10

to speak of, a sort of wreath

1:30:12

of bone coming out the sides of its

1:30:14

head. And it has its hands raised in

1:30:17

a very like

1:30:19

hands up, don't shoot method.

1:30:22

And is just sort of regarding you, again

1:30:24

saying thank you for coming

1:30:27

so quickly.

1:30:30

Oh, cool. I think we just marked

1:30:32

up both mission parameters. But

1:30:35

I think this is open up the third one. So

1:30:37

is this an escort mission? Do we have to get you out of

1:30:40

here? Is that it?

1:30:41

No, this is my home here.

1:30:44

Well near it. A

1:30:47

little bit of a side transit

1:30:49

because I thought it would

1:30:51

be dangerous to drop you where

1:30:53

they would be waiting.

1:30:55

But they are experimenting on my

1:30:58

people. And I can't

1:31:00

do anything about it.

1:31:02

And you could. So

1:31:05

I sent you the message.

1:31:08

Other people, you mean other demons?

1:31:12

So this is like a rescue the hostage kind

1:31:14

of thing?

1:31:18

In a way, I suppose you could describe

1:31:21

it that way. I need you

1:31:23

to stop.

1:31:26

They sort of twitch and correct

1:31:29

themselves.

1:31:30

Someone needs to stop

1:31:32

the people,

1:31:34

the humans, who are

1:31:36

hurting my people.

1:31:39

And I asked, I sent a message

1:31:41

to the people that would help. And

1:31:44

that is you.

1:31:46

OK. But

1:31:51

OK. So where are these people we have to rescue?

1:31:53

Like there is only the warehouse right above

1:31:56

ground. And there's nothing at the cemetery.

1:31:58

The junk. of sorts.

1:32:01

You're already on the way. Pressing

1:32:04

the button put you on the path.

1:32:07

It just... I didn't want

1:32:09

you to go there unprepared. There...

1:32:15

Oh, it's... You may or may... Sorry.

1:32:17

Yeah, go ahead. You may or may not know things

1:32:20

about demons. Some of it is true, and

1:32:22

some of it is true-ish.

1:32:25

But someone from

1:32:27

your world is trying

1:32:31

to gain the power to enforce

1:32:35

contracts the way that

1:32:37

we do.

1:32:40

And I think you've already seen

1:32:42

the results

1:32:44

when people do that without

1:32:46

care. Oh, okay.

1:32:50

So, like, the guards up there, they had some sort

1:32:52

of contract. Yes. And

1:32:55

it was a bad contract. Okay. They

1:32:58

just lost all autonomy, didn't they? Whoever

1:33:02

wrote it either didn't

1:33:04

care about the consequences

1:33:07

or was profoundly

1:33:09

ignorant of what they would be, or

1:33:11

possibly both. And

1:33:15

contracting with

1:33:17

creatures like you...

1:33:20

It's not exactly unhealthy, but

1:33:23

it can be. And I would prefer

1:33:25

especially it not to be forced

1:33:29

on my people. Because

1:33:31

it is damaging

1:33:34

in ways that are difficult to explain

1:33:36

to those of your level.

1:33:42

Yeah, okay.

1:33:45

Yeah, that sounds like... Yeah.

1:33:47

Okay, so it's more like a save the world kind of thing.

1:33:50

Well,

1:33:51

it would save this part of my

1:33:54

world and I suppose...

1:33:57

Prevent the ones

1:33:59

from your... world from taking

1:34:02

that power with them.

1:34:05

So if you don't mind me asking who are the ones

1:34:07

who managed to acquire

1:34:10

this power or capture you?

1:34:12

I'm not captured. I simply cannot

1:34:14

go where they've built.

1:34:18

They have created a boundary

1:34:21

that I cannot cross.

1:34:24

And if you... Mmm... She...

1:34:27

They... It twitches again and

1:34:31

says, I cannot

1:34:34

destroy the boundary

1:34:38

symbols, runes, bracings

1:34:41

that they've created. But

1:34:44

if we destroy them, can you come in? I

1:34:46

would be able to. I would be able to

1:34:49

send

1:34:49

everyone back home

1:34:51

and move these pushers

1:34:54

out of my home and take

1:34:57

back my family.

1:35:00

Oh okay yeah yeah break the things got it okay.

1:35:02

Also if anyone wants to roll a creative

1:35:05

real quick.

1:35:06

I got it.

1:35:08

I'll handle this don't worry again. I

1:35:12

got a two. Really got a

1:35:15

ten? Bendy

1:35:17

you realize something each time they sort

1:35:19

of stop and catch themselves they're trying

1:35:21

very hard not to ask you

1:35:23

to do anything.

1:35:26

Like the when they keep correcting their

1:35:28

language it's to stop themselves

1:35:30

from making any offer of anything.

1:35:33

That's what

1:35:36

you notice and considering

1:35:38

the thing that they said about you know demons and offers

1:35:40

and contracts that seems

1:35:42

to be something that this demon does not want

1:35:45

to do which if you

1:35:47

think about it you got a ten so

1:35:49

yeah the message on

1:35:51

the slip of paper that Fisk received wasn't

1:35:54

a request for anything it was simply a

1:35:56

statement they are experimenting on my people

1:35:58

and a location.

1:36:00

So the creature is going out of its way not to

1:36:02

ask or offer anything. OK.

1:36:06

Oh, so contrast. I tap

1:36:08

Vindy on the shoulder, point

1:36:10

to the demon. And

1:36:13

make bird motions with my arms.

1:36:16

The demon shakes its head. I am not.

1:36:19

The demon shakes his head. I am not a bird.

1:36:22

It

1:36:24

can seemingly understand your

1:36:26

intentions as though you were communicating

1:36:28

out loud. I click the radio. No. Look

1:36:31

down, dejected. Yeah. Oh,

1:36:35

it's OK, Cordy. There

1:36:37

will be birds. That

1:36:39

I don't think there's anything that we

1:36:42

would have to ask, because now we know what

1:36:44

the source of this issue is.

1:36:46

And your other

1:36:48

members of minds can figure out a way

1:36:50

to modify it as needed.

1:36:53

So your your fungal friends

1:36:55

may need to be careful

1:36:57

because I'm sure there

1:36:59

are people who will offer them

1:37:01

what they want. Up

1:37:05

ahead,

1:37:06

people or demons. So be wary of

1:37:08

that.

1:37:10

So we just say so the answer is

1:37:12

to say no to all requests.

1:37:15

It would be safe

1:37:17

to to avoid that. Yeah. How

1:37:19

many signs are there?

1:37:20

Symbols, boundary things.

1:37:24

There should be.

1:37:27

Five. What do they look like? I

1:37:29

do not know, but they should

1:37:32

be near the source of the

1:37:34

head of of this. I don't

1:37:37

I don't know the the CEO.

1:37:38

I

1:37:41

think near near where his office is. OK,

1:37:43

that should be OK. And

1:37:46

can they is there a special way to break them or will

1:37:49

any amount of just regular violence do

1:37:51

it? Violence solves

1:37:53

many a problem regardless of what dimension

1:37:55

you're in. Yeah.

1:37:58

All right. Not a pacifist run. Got

1:38:00

it. Well, we already failed that one. Yeah.

1:38:03

OK. If we break these

1:38:05

symbols. You are

1:38:08

free. That is correct.

1:38:11

I'm free regardless of what happens,

1:38:13

but it's getting

1:38:15

the ones who are inside that

1:38:17

I'm concerned with.

1:38:19

They are there being.

1:38:23

They're there, they're having their powers

1:38:25

drawn from them in. What

1:38:28

I can only imagine are

1:38:30

unpleasant ways.

1:38:33

If we free your brethren,

1:38:35

your family, they shake their

1:38:37

head.

1:38:39

If

1:38:41

the symbols are destroyed.

1:38:44

I would be able to send everyone

1:38:46

home.

1:38:48

Those are two things that are important

1:38:50

to know. If the symbols are all

1:38:52

destroyed, I can send everyone home. Is

1:38:56

that the two things or is what else? Sorry,

1:38:59

that's it. OK. Yeah, great.

1:39:02

And which way was

1:39:04

it to go forward to find this place?

1:39:07

Ahead ahead. OK. Well,

1:39:10

by the way, do you have a name

1:39:13

or can I just call you Steve? You

1:39:16

may call me

1:39:18

Agla Agla.

1:39:20

Neat. OK, Agla. I'll

1:39:23

do that thing because I want

1:39:26

to do that thing, not because you have

1:39:29

made no request on that.

1:39:31

I think I got it. Yes, that is a thing that shall

1:39:33

be done. Yeah, OK. I

1:39:37

wish you all success in

1:39:39

your future endeavors. As

1:39:41

we was. Oh, man, don't you love it when they like

1:39:44

have a like a little narrative like a meta

1:39:46

commentary on the nature of like

1:39:49

quest design?

1:39:51

Like, that's really cool.

1:39:53

I knew my radio, no. Oh,

1:39:58

wait, you are there. If that it that's. It's

1:40:00

catchy, isn't it? You are outside

1:40:02

now. Well, I think there was some kind

1:40:04

of guest about that. Well,

1:40:06

you're sort of outside. It

1:40:09

is loud and bright all

1:40:11

of a sudden. You're

1:40:14

in what appears to be sort of a blasted wasteland.

1:40:18

And as things come into focus, you see a

1:40:20

few weirdly out of place buildings

1:40:23

in the blasted,

1:40:26

empty, rock-hewn landscape

1:40:28

under a loud sky. What

1:40:31

appears to be a partially

1:40:33

under construction and partially fully constructed

1:40:36

office park?

1:40:38

And a sign next to where you

1:40:40

have appeared says, coming

1:40:42

soon, infernal economic

1:40:45

zone.

1:40:46

Hmm. That seems

1:40:48

bad. God damn. It's

1:40:50

doom all over again. We

1:40:53

have to stop letting the capitalists in to

1:40:55

hell. Just keep trying to get in there,

1:40:57

though. The

1:41:00

way Carbon Noclip looks at things, this looks like

1:41:03

a modded doom level or

1:41:05

a quake level. I can just see

1:41:08

it. Everything's textured and pixelated.

1:41:11

Yeah, it's like playing Dusk or something. He's

1:41:14

like, yeah, that was the scans. All right. Yeah,

1:41:17

we've got to figure out the text later. We've just got to get

1:41:19

the rundowns.

1:41:19

We've got to figure out where the symbols are in the first place.

1:41:22

He said they were on

1:41:24

the CEO, right? So we should just go straight to the core.

1:41:27

That's probably where it is, right?

1:41:30

That makes sense. Right? Right.

1:41:33

OK. Yeah.

1:41:35

All right. I'm going

1:41:37

to look. We've got our goals. We just need

1:41:39

to get in, smash the symbols, get out. OK.

1:41:42

Actually, I'll just teleport to the roof of

1:41:44

the nearest building

1:41:45

and look around and kind of give everyone

1:41:47

like an update with the right. The nearest

1:41:50

one is there are sort of two completed

1:41:52

buildings and one sort of is

1:41:55

the skeleton of a building

1:41:57

that has been partially constructed a little

1:41:59

further too.

1:41:59

to, let's say, north,

1:42:04

though without any orientation in the sky

1:42:06

full of sound and fury, it's a little hard

1:42:09

to orient oneself.

1:42:11

But you see, you're

1:42:15

on the lower building, basically you see a

1:42:17

taller building that is clearly,

1:42:20

the one you're on seems to be more

1:42:23

judging from the sort of balconies